12/07/2025
Thank you to everyone who entered into the parade last night! Your entries make it magical! Over 40 parade floats was amazing π€©
Thank you Sara Sanchez for 10 years of organizing this amazing event! Through pandemics and tough times, you showed up and brought the Christmas magic to our community. You always show up and do the work. And you are so so so appreciated for everything you do for our community. The memorial table to all lost and to Cory was very special and heart felt π
Thank you to all the others who helped make the event amazing! Katie DeVries for logistics(permits to porta potties), Lisa Marie Benavides for emotional support, speakers support, set up and clean up (all on her Birthday!) Diane Devries for helping decorate the town, Christian for parade organizing, Mary Oliver-Friedrich and Ray Friedrich for always showing up for the hard part, Clean up crew, and getting the extra trash cans donated to help keep the town clean. Thank you Northshore Firefighters for hosting Santa! Thank you Tanya Noble for helping with announcements. Thank you Tony Arroyo for the space and electricity and me bugging you about decorations! And everybody else not named thank you!!
Stole the pictures mostly from Amy Fowler s post in Upper Lake Connect, as in my true fashion, didnβt take a single picture! Thank you! π