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Get those lights untangled and start decorating your floats, cars, bicycles, wagons, whatever for the annual Electric Light Parade.
Thanksgiving, Black Friday, Shop Hometown Small Business Saturday and Giving Tuesday are here. Spend wisely and give generously to your favorite charity. The Turkey Bowl Softball games between Hayden and Ray have been cancelled. Maybe next year.
There is just one week until the Electric Light Parade and Winter Festival which will be held Saturday, Dec. 3. The theme is Homemade Country Christmas. For the younger generations everything has been available. Electronics galore, from computers to every kind of phones, even the availability of fruits, nuts and candy. For the generation of those 60 and older we remember the brown bags given out at school or Church pageants filled with an apple, orange, walnuts and some kind of Christmas candy (peppermints, ribbon candy, or if you were lucky maybe a piece of chocolate). Tree decorations were paper chains, popcorn or cranberry chains and lots of tinsel so the limited number of lights really shone.
There were always plays at school and Church. Those were the days when religious themes were allowed in school. A visit from Santa was the best treat and if you were lucky enough to live in an area where there was snow that made it feel all the more Christmas.
Use your imagination and decorate your float following the theme of a Homemade County Christmas. Sounds easy enough. Be sure to pick up an application at the Chamber office. This is a very important step in order to place the floats in order and a short sentence about the float so the Master of Ceremonies can announce your float as it passes. The Parade line up is at the area by the Teen Center with smaller floats lining up in front of Kearny Town Hall and larger floats will line up on Jamestown starting at 5:00 pm with the parade starting at 6:00 and ending at the GKI. Since it is dark at 5 p.m. it is hard to have to write last minute notes for the MC, therefore it is important to have a legible script ready at parade lineup.
Uptown on Alden there will be vendors with their homemade items which make great gifts. Menudo and posole will be sold in front of the Chamber office. There is no charge for the parade entries nor for the vendors. Just let Angela know at the Chamber office for vendor space.
Alden will be closed between the Bank and Ace as soon as the parade ends so the children will be safe as they rush to visit with Santa and Mrs. Claus.
One of the most memorable and inspirational events of the season is the Love Light and Luminarios on Monday, Dec 19. If there is a love one you want to remember, purchase an angel. At the ceremony the name will be read and the angel hung on the tree. Luminarios will be available for purchase from Junior Chamber members in honor of or in memory of whomever. The luminarios will be lit just before the Love Light ceremony.
Have a very merry Homemade Country Christmas from the Copper Basin Chamber Board members.
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