DEARBORN HEIGHTS, Mich. (Michigan News Source) – Two Michigan businessmen stepped up and got the city of Dearborn Heights its traditional Christmas tree after the one they ordered from China had been delayed in travel, according to WXYZ.
Christmas spirit.
Nicholas Huff, part owner of Huff’s Tree Farm in Highland, and Dearborn Heights businessman Sam Hussein covered the $10,000 bill to get the Norway spruce to Dearborn Heights, WXYZ reported.
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“The Christmas Spirit! Local businessman Sam Hussein pays to cover costs for Dearborn Heights Christmas tree,” the Warren County Republican Party posted on X.
The city had planned a tree-lighting ceremony for Friday and the original tree wasn’t scheduled to arrive until Thursday. Dearborn Heights Mayor Mo Baydoun told the media it wasn’t enough time to do the event and it would have been cancelled if another tree wasn’t found.
“We ordered a fake tree from China. We actually just got an update that it’s on its way. It would be here by Thursday, but it would be too late for us to set this tree up and get it going,” Baydoun said.
“We still coexist.”
Baydoun referenced some of the controversies that have arisen in Dearborn Heights recently involving the Muslim faith.
In September, a video was released of a Muslim man at a Dearborn Heights event proclaiming that America and the West “must fall.”
That same month, the city released a photo of a police patch featuring Arabic script. After the story went viral, the city stated it was just an idea.
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According to the U.S. Census, 40% of the households in Dearborn Heights have English as the second language.
“With a lot of the hate that’s kind of going around and not realizing as an immigrant Muslim mayor, we still coexist and we still celebrate the traditions of Christmas, and so we’re able to bring that back to light and showing that this is a unified community and we’re going to stay unified and we’re going to stay working and loving and showing respect to all faiths and religions,” Baydoun told WXYZ.
