By Will Tuell

For the third year in a row, the Wesley Foundation announced that its popular Christmas tree festival designed to raise funds for area youth enrichment activities, has raised over $100,000. Foundation spokesman Dean McGuire said in a post on the group’s Facebook page Dec. 10 that Team Wes was “incredibly humbled” by the support some fifty tree donors, thousands of attendees, and the broader Machias area business community has shown since four-year-old Wesley Keeton, the son of Kate and Lee Keeton of East Machias, died in an ATV accident in 2013.