KV Winter Lights

12/09/2025

All our efforts each year are for YOU! ❤️

We want you to enjoy a magical moment with your family and friends. 👩‍❤️‍👨

We want you to enjoy being a part of this community. 🏫

We want you to have somewhere to go to make special memories that you'll treasure forever. 🫶

We hope you enjoy this year's magical trees and giant gift 🎄

With love,

12/09/2025

A special THANK YOU to our friend Michael McClaskey! We appreciate your support! 🎄🎁🎀

Sponsorships are still available‼️

Technically, we fundraise year-round ... This helps us plan for the upcoming year's light displays ✨

12/09/2025

Your floats were amazing! Thanks for helping make Christmas so magical for our community!!

📣 Announcing the Float Contest Winners from the Fourteenth Annual Parade!

🥇 First Place: Crown Power & Equipment
🥈 Second Place: Hazel Creek Church
🥉 Third Place: The Crossing Church

💙 Congratulations to the winners, and THANK YOU to all of the incredible entries that made this year's parade the best yet!

12/09/2025

Yes! But let's not just romanticize about it ... Let's do it!!

As people were arriving for the parade and lighting ceremony last night, I noticed a girl being pushed in a stroller. When she came upon the Kirksville square and saw thousands of Christmas lights all around, her eyes grew bright and she let out a single, joyful "WOW!"

I always find this event inspiring as it is only made possible because of people working together. Out of a sense of community, local pride, sharing of time, monetary donations from many, and a willingness to work hard, we come together as Kirksville and pull off something quite amazing for all of us. While local governments and entities play a role, so too does a large team of volunteers and sponsors. Most importantly, the occasion only works because thousands of people visit downtown to enjoy it.

Growing up, my family's favorite holiday album was "Christmas with Ronnie Milsap." On track nine, he notes that "If we would all keep sharing like we do on Christmas day, Christmas feelings wouldn't really ever have to fade away. There'd be so much love in this world, enough for everyone. Christmas would never be over, why it's only just begun." Indeed.

What else might we achieve together as a community if we could rally the same sense of common purpose, sharing of time and treasure, and commitment to one another? We already do so much collectively throughout the year to move the experience along for all who live here, but I cannot help and think of what else we could do if we only rose to the same spirit of generosity and common purpose that we do in downtown Kirksville for Christmas. Just imagine what more we could accomplish together.

"Wow" is right.

12/03/2025

A special THANK YOU to our friend Julie Smith! We appreciate your support! 🎄🎁🎀

Sponsorships are still available‼️

12/03/2025

A special THANK YOU to our friend Sean Jacob! We appreciate your support! 🎄🎁🎀

Sponsorships are still available‼️

11/28/2025

Thank you to our sponsors on the Nice List:

🎄Platinum Sponsors🎄
City of Kirksville Tourism Partnership Program
Highway 63 Insurance
TCEC Foundation

🎄Gold Sponsors🎄
David Goring, Adair County Prosecuting Attorney

🎄Silver Sponsors🎄
Ameren Missouri Company
Kirksville Toyota
Sherry Darling Law
K-REDI
Donna Murff
Mark Twain Behavioral Health
Show-Me Coatings, LLC
Bonzai Japanese Cuisine
Kiwanis Club of Kirksville

🎄Bronze Sponsors🎄
Sharon Swehla
Kirksville Optimist Club
Ratliff Law Group, P.A.
Union Temple Church
Jennifer Walston
Mother’s Home Club
Infinite Joy Photography
Hidden Treasures Consignment & Retail
D&Js Screen Printing & Embroidery
Stanton Contracting
Mid-Mo Pumping, LLC
Todd + Angela Caraway
Outback Welding & Machining
James O’Donnell
Lawson Construction, LLC
Sonja + Rich Harden
Vorhees Plumbing & Drain Services, LLC
Shirley Riley
Tracy Hunter, Adair County Recorder of Deeds
Mark Whitney
Marilyn Romine
Rentschler Home
Leann Gleason

🎄In-Kind Sponsors🎄
Tri-County Electric Cooperative MO
D&Js Screen Printing & Embroidery
United Rentals
Brighter Days
Vivid Expressions, LLC
Scooter’s
Cook, Long, + Cashatt Families
Kent Bryant, Adair Co. Assessor
City of Kirksville & Adair County

🎄KVWL Partnerships🎄
Princess Emporium

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11/28/2025

Everything planned for Saturday, Nov. 29 has been POSTPONED until Saturday, Dec. 6!!

Same time, same place! Please join us for the Kiwanis Christmas Parade, Tree Lighting Ceremony, Merry Market, and MORE next Saturday!

🚨 POSTPONEMENT: Out of an abundance of caution, and in light of a declared Winter Storm Warning, the fourteenth annual Parade has been POSTPONED to Saturday, December 6th, 2025, at 5:30 pm, in .

💛 We realize that this rescheduled date may not work for some, and for that, we sincerely apologize. However, we want to ensure that our event is safe for everyone, as much as possible! We hope that you are all able to join us for the rescheduled date on Saturday, December 6th, 2025!

11/26/2025

A special THANK YOU to our friend Leann Gleason! We appreciate your support! 🎄🎁🎀

Sponsorships are still available‼️

11/26/2025

A giant THANK YOU to our friends at Rentschler Home! We appreciate your continued support! 🎄🎁🎀

Sponsorships are still available‼️

11/26/2025

A giant THANK YOU to our friend Marilyn Romine! We appreciate your continued support! 🎄🎁🎀

Sponsorships are still available‼️