Great Falls Optimist Club
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Krop's Crops Donates Percentage of Christmas Tree Sales To Great Falls Optimist Club Again This Year Once again this year, Krop’s Crops is donating a percentage of their Christmas tree sales to the Great Falls Optimist Club. Since 1991, the Krop family has supported the local Optimist Club with generous donations that help fund the organization’s many child-centered programs and activities. They are also donating trees to needy families who are unable to purchase them. Located at 1110 Georgetown Pike
in Great Falls, Virginia, the family-owned and operated business offers pre-cut
and cut-your-own trees as well as hand made wreaths, roping, poinsettias and
other plants, gift and centerpiece baskets, lights and bows. Santa Claus makes
himself at
The Krops raise Scotch and White Pines, Douglas and Canaan Firs, Norway and Blue Spruce for people to cut from their 16 acres, and also sell pre-cut Fraser and Douglas Firs grown in Pennsylvania and North Carolina. The Optimist Club does a lot of good for the community,” he continued. “Their hearts are in the right place, doing things to help kids, and we like being a part of that. It has been a wonderful affiliation.”
 “I’ve been assisting Larry Krop
with tree sales for the past seven years,” said George Hersey, a member of the
Optimist Club for 16 years. “It’s great fun watching families come out to pick
out a tree, especially when it’s snowing. They usually have a fire going
in the wood stove when it’s cold out, and they have hot cider on weekends so
people tend to congregate around that to warm up after traipsing around the
fields looking for the perfect tree.”
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in a giant sleigh on weekends, weather permitting. Hours are daily from 10 am
until 7 pm, “or until we have helped the last person load his tree on top of his
car,” says founder Larry Krop.