Peninsula College welders win at tree festival

Peninsula College welding department won Best of Show at the 2014 Olympic Medical Center Foundation’s Festival of Trees.

January 7, 2015 12:28 pm
Peninsula College welding department students — pictured here on tour of the Platypus Marine facilities — take a few moments to show off a tree created by two of their classmates.
Peninsula College welding department students — pictured here on tour of the Platypus Marine facilities — take a few moments to show off a tree created by two of their classmates.

Peninsula College welding department won Best of Show at the 2014 Olympic Medical Center Foundation’s Festival of Trees.

It all began with a welded tree local business owner Petersen of Necessities and Temptations saw while attending a concert on the college campus. It was a tree crafted by P.C. welding students, specially decorated with welded ornaments.

“I flat out fell in love with their creativity and talent,” Petersen says.

She approached Bruce Skinner, OMC Foundation’s executive director, and asked if she could sponsor a tree by the welding students for the foundation’s Festival of Trees.

The tree took top honors and was sold for $3,000 to Marty Marchant, director of sales and marketing at Platypus Marine.