12/07/2025
🎅✨What an amazing turnout!✨🎅
Thank you all for braving the cold weather and making our first Santa’s Jingle Jubilee a HUGE success!
This was the BEST parade to date! The floats, the vehicles, the people - it was fantastic and so much fun!
THANK YOU to Don Archdale Big Horse Vineyards for bringing Santa 🎅 and Mrs. Claus 🤶 to town with your beautiful carriage and horses. It truly made the night magical! ✨
THANK YOU to The City of Canton - Illinois for all of your hard work after the big snowstorm we had. Moving the mounds of snow around the square and allowing us to host the Santa Parade and Santa House. THANK YOU to Clinton Shaffer for moving the Santa House to the square and to Carol Kohler for always being so helpful with our event. Also, THANK YOU to DJ Johnson for helping us remove ice and snow from the parking lot to make it safe for our event.
THANK YOU to MidAmerica National Bank for sponsoring the train rides on the 40 & 8 Train. 🚂
THANK YOU to Encore Dance Academy, LLC for all of your performances during Santa’s Jingle Jubilee. You did an awesome job as always! 👏
THANK YOU to The Breathing Tree hosting the Kids Yoga Workshop.
THANK YOU to the CHS Key Club for volunteering to help with the make & take reindeer food. THANK YOU to Rock Valley Physical Therapy Central Illinois for donating to the reindeer food making station.
THANK YOU to Eats - Canton IL for setting up on the square. The hot chocolate and gourmet pretzels were delicious!
THANK YOU to Princess Creations Cakes, The Sweet Shoppe, and Georgia Rae's for your special business hours during our event.
THANK YOU to the Canton Area Chamber of Commerce with your help promoting our event.
THANK YOU to Canton Walmart for the gift card donation which allowed us to purchase candy canes for the Santa House.
THANK YOU to our Santa and Mrs. Claus, we couldn’t do this without you! 🎅🤶
THANK YOU to ALL of the participants who joined us in the parade this year:
City of Canton Police Department
Beta Sigma Phi
Whitney Coker - Parade Marahal, Queen of Friendship Festival Pageant
Encore Dance Academy
Canton Park District
Lincoln LSS / Lincoln Elementary
Little Miss Friendship Pageant
Friendship Festival Pageant Princess
Humane Society of Fulton County
CHS Dance Team
Girl Scouts of Fulton County
Canton First Church of the Nazarene
CHS Cheerleaders
MidAmerica National Bank & Buzzy Bee
Early Head Start
Canton McDonald’s
Reliable Cab
40 et 8 Train Voiture 812
Heritage Woods
Bankert’s Service
Kinsel Trucking & Excavating
Copperas Creek Fire Department
Canton Fire Department
Big Horse Vineyards
From the bottom of our hearts, THANK YOU from the Canton Junior Women’s Club
- Erin, Emily, Lacey, Harley, Shauna, and Kayla 🩷