After Christmas tree burns in fire, tradition continues at Calafia State Beach

After Christmas tree burns in fire, tradition continues at Calafia State Beach

Debbie Sheldrake held up a wooden surfboard ornament, a memento hung on the seaside Christmas tree last year by a woman who lost her young son. The edges of the small surfboard were charred black, evidence of the blaze someone set that destroyed the community tree at Calafia State Beach days before Christmas 2023. But unlike dozens of other ornaments lost in the fire, this one survived and once again hangs on the branches of what has become a st…