The Aberdeen Easter Miracle Tree will be filled with over 5,000 easter eggs by the beginning of May. (Facebook/Aberdeen Easter Miracle Tree)

By Angie Rolheiser

Easter Tree

Aberdeen’s Easter Miracle Tree tradition continues for fifth year

Mar 12, 2020 | 12:00 PM

Since 2016, the upcoming spring season has meant the hanging of Easter eggs on a tree in Aberdeen.

The Aberdeen Easter miracle tree committee is selling eggs that will be put up on a tree on Main street in the community.

Spokesperson Stephanie Gray said the Easter tree is becoming a bit of a tourist attraction as it gains attention each year.

“As far as we can tell there is no other Easter tree in Canada or even North America from all of our researching so we try to get the word out because it is not really a common thing,” Gray said.

Gray added she knows of one lady from Ontario that made a point of visiting the tree while doing some travelling.

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“She actually arranged for her flight to stop in Saskatoon and quickly drove out to Aberdeen to look at the tree and then continued on with her flight,” Gray said.

More and more stories like that are starting to pop up and more far-away people are sponsoring the tree as well.

The Easter tree comes from a European tradition where an outdoor tree is decorated with Easter eggs. The Aberdeen Christmas miracles committee decided that they would begin an Easter tree in Aberdeen as an effort to bring in funds for their Christmas hampers at a different time of year.

The goal for this year is to sell 5,200 eggs that will be hung up by the beginning of April and will stay up until May.

“Last year we added 1,000 more, I think it started with 900 and then the second and third year were around 3,000, last year was about 4,000,” Gray told northeastNOW.

Sponsorship for the eggs come mostly from the Aberdeen area but also from around the province as well as a few from other provinces.

Eggs are typically sold for $1 each or there are mini-eggs called the children’s eggs that go two for $1.

“This normally brings in a couple thousand dollars for our Christmas hampers,” Gray said.

The Aberdeen Christmas miracles hampers are not typical hampers. The committee takes into consideration what each individual family might need around the holidays and then customizes them.

The group is also active throughout the entire year and steps up when a family or individual is in need of some help and the hampers are typically distributed anonymously.

The Easter eggs are currently for sale and can be purchased through the group Facebook page.

Different egg colours represent different areas and groups.

Gold Miracle eggs represent the town of Aberdeen and its resident’s, council, and staff. Glow in the Dark is dedicated to students, teachers and staff at the school.

Orange is for the RM of Aberdeen while Pink is for service groups such as fire, first responders, the church, the hall, parks and rec.

Blue represents clubs including dance, hockey, curling, broomball, seniors, tae-kwon do, etc.

Purple is local business people and green is for outside of Aberdeen which would be around the province, the country and the world.

Pastel colours are memorial eggs and the mini pastel are the children’s mini eggs.

The group will begin hanging eggs on the tree this Sunday and will hang them throughout the month until all 5,200 are sold and have gone up.

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angie.rolheiser@jpbg.ca

On Twitter: @Angie_Rolheiser