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Here’s how to submit your child for the Telegraph’s 2020 Children’s Christmas Tree

100 children from around Middle Georgia adorn The Telegraph’s 2018 Children’s Christmas Tree.
100 children from around Middle Georgia adorn The Telegraph’s 2018 Children’s Christmas Tree. The Telegraph

Every Christmas Day, as our gift to the community, the Telegraph prints the “Children’s Christmas Tree.”

We will continue the tradition again this year. To submit your child for the Christmas tree, please fill out this form by 5 p.m. Nov. 30.

The rules are as follows:

  • The child must be between 2 and 6 years old as of Dec. 24, 2020.
  • The child must live in Middle Georgia.
  • The child cannot have been on the Children’s Christmas Tree previously.

  • Those who send in more than one request per child will be disqualified. If more than one child in a family is eligible, please complete one form per child.

Applications will be reviewed and 100 children, plus 20 alternates, will be randomly selected from the submissions. Accepted applicants will receive an email by Dec. 4 with more instructions. Because of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Telegraph will not photograph children. Instead, accepted applicants will need to email a photo of their child.

Email Caleb Slinkard at cslinkard@macon.com with any questions. But do not email applications. Applications will only be accepted through the Google form above.

Caleb Slinkard
The Telegraph
Caleb Slinkard is the Georgia Editor for McClatchy, running the Macon Telegraph and Columbus Ledger-Enquirer newsrooms. Previously, he led newsrooms for the El Dorado (Ark.) News-Times, the Norman (Okla.) Transcript and the Greenville (Texas) Herald-Banner. He’s a graduate of Texas A&M University-Commerce and has taught journalism classes and practicums at the University of Oklahoma and Mercer University.
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