POTSDAM -- Potsdam residents may have noticed “giving trees” springing up in local businesses recently.

Those wishing to participate in the annual Potsdam Holiday Fund campaign can take a tag from one of the giving trees, purchase a gift appropriate for the listed child’s age and gender, fill out the tag with a description of the present, and return it to the tree.

Participating businesses are Garner Funeral Home, Harris Medical, Scoopacinnos, St. Mary’s Church, Pizza Hut, Trinity Episcopal Church, Canton-Potsdam Hospital, Price Chopper, University Bookstore, Village Diner, Willow Tree Florist, Adirondack Audiology, Adirondack Credit Union, Ebens Hearth, Kinney Drugs, United Methodist Church, Sugar Shack, W. Stockholm Village Market, NBT Bank, Save A Lot, Pizza Hut, SUNY Becky’s Place, SUNY Potsdam Bookstore, Barstow Motors, Church of the Nazarene, Community Bank, Mead Westvaco Paper, NCC Systems, North Country Savings Bank, Plumley Realty, Potters Industry, the Potsdam Museum, Key Bank, Time Warner Cable, North Country Fellowship Church, Potsdam Humane Society, Hairodynamics, Northern Music & Video, Clarkson Student Center, Potsdam Ponderosa, Seacomm Credit Union, Sears, Today’s Hair, Total Image Salon and Jazzercize.

Visit potsdamholidayfund.org for more information.