Thank you! The Christmas parade committee would like to thank all the sponsors and volunteers for their help in making the 52nd annual Abbotsford Christmas parade a success. A small group of people spend months building, fixing, moving floats, making, repairing, organizing, and filling costumes. We are a small group to take care of 48 floats and over 300 costumes and we’re always looking for more people willing to get involved. Thanks to the 400 volunteers we depend on to show up the night of the parade in costumes, and pushers and pullers to put on one of the best Christmas parades in Wisconsin. Thank you to those who show up hours before the parade to help pull out floats and put them away and those who help hand out costumes and put them away starting before noon and getting home after midnight and coming back the next day to put in a full day reorganizing costumes and floats. Thanks to the three announcing crews for keeping us entertained. Thanks to those who help with crowd control and the police officers who keep the crowd safe. Thanks to our emergency service crew who attended to an emergency during the parade and for the crowd’s patience during the delay. Thanks to the city workers who move bleachers and barriers. Thanks to those who donate time, money, material, labor, and space for floats, prizes, generators, tractors, trucks, 4 wheelers and UTVs that allow us to do this year after year and continue to make improvements and upgrades to this wonderful event. We appreciate all the help we get from volunteers in the surrounding communities. We had volunteers from Abby, Colby, Dorchester, Unity, Curtiss, Owen, Stetsonville, Medford, Athens, Stanley, Mauston, Altoona, Edgar, Marathon, Wausau, Minn. and Ill. filling costumes. Thanks to all who came to watch the parade. It makes it all worth it to see your smiling faces and to touch your hands and give you hugs. We do it for you and we are so glad you come out each year no matter what the weather is like to enjoy it. A Big Thanks to our Raffle Prize donors Nicolet Bank, Loos Machine, TP Printing, Tristar Printing, Abby Bank, Maurina-Schilling Funeral Home, Smith Bros. Meats, Forward Bank, Cherokee Garage, RCU, Baumgartner’s Lumber & Material, WKEB-WIGM K99 Radio, Century 21 Dairyland Realty, Abby Pizza Hut, and First City Dentistry. Thanks to all the poster raffle sponsors who purchase tickets. If you are interested in being a part of next year’s parade or on the planning committee let us know. Contact the AbbyColby Chamber at 715-223- 8509. Kris O’Leary, Christmas Parade Chairman Kevin Flink, Jenny Jakel, Donna Dowden, Diana Sosa, Yennifer Parra Garcia, Shelly and Dave Bender, Maria Garcia. 145823 Thank you! The Christmas parade committee would like to thank all the sponsors and volunteers for their help in making the 52nd annual Abbotsford Christmas parade a success. A small group of people spend months building, fixing, moving floats, making, repairing, organizing, and filling costumes. We are a small group to take care of 48 floats and over 300 costumes and we’re always looking for more people willing to get involved. Thanks to the 400 volunteers we depend on to show up the night of the parade in costumes, and pushers and pullers to put on one of the best Christmas parades in Wisconsin. Thank you to those who show up hours before the parade to help pull out floats and put them away and those who help hand out costumes and put them away starting before noon and getting home after midnight and coming back the next day to put in a full day reorganizing costumes and floats. Thanks to the three announcing crews for keeping us entertained. Thanks to those who help with crowd control and the police officers who keep the crowd safe. Thanks to our emergency service crew who attended to an emergency during the parade and for the crowd’s patience during the delay. Thanks to the city workers who move bleachers and barriers. Thanks to those who donate time, money, material, labor, and space for floats, prizes, generators, tractors, trucks, 4 wheelers and UTVs that allow us to do this year after year and continue to make improvements and upgrades to this wonderful event. We appreciate all the help we get from volunteers in the surrounding communities. We had volunteers from Abby, Colby, Dorchester, Unity, Curtiss, Owen, Stetsonville, Medford, Athens, Stanley, Mauston, Altoona, Edgar, Marathon, Wausau, Minn. and Ill. filling costumes. Thanks to all who came to watch the parade. It makes it all worth it to see your smiling faces and to touch your hands and give you hugs. We do it for you and we are so glad you come out each year no matter what the weather is like to enjoy it. A Big Thanks to our Raffle Prize donors Nicolet Bank, Loos Machine, TP Printing, Tristar Printing, Abby Bank, Maurina-Schilling Funeral Home, Smith Bros. Meats, Forward Bank, Cherokee Garage, RCU, Baumgartner’s Lumber & Material, WKEB-WIGM K99 Radio, Century 21 Dairyland Realty, Abby Pizza Hut, and First City Dentistry. Thanks to all the poster raffle sponsors who purchase tickets. If you are interested in being a part of next year’s parade or on the planning committee let us know. Contact the AbbyColby Chamber at 715-223- 8509. Kris O’Leary, Christmas Parade Chairman Kevin Flink, Jenny Jakel, Donna Dowden, Diana Sosa, Yennifer Parra Garcia, Shelly and Dave Bender, Maria Garcia. 145823
He may be still brightly lighted, but the Santa figurine atop the Scout building in Gilman’s Village Park, is a bit singed on the backside, after someone built not one, but two fires in the fireplace, the chimney of which is where the figure is stationed. Before someone stokes a blaze, they’re asked to consider the Christmas decorations on, and around, the stone building. GINNA YOUNG/THE STAR NEWS
SUBMITTED On Dec. 21, members of the Whittlesey Lions visited Country Gardens. Santa stopped by to wish everyone on his nice list a Merry Christmas. Here, resident Phyllis Widmer visits with Santa.
GINNA YOUNG/THE STAR NEWS Grant Bub, Taylor County broadband program manager, spoke Dec. 10, to residents of Gilman, about what services are currently provided to the area and which ones are still coming in the next few years. There’s a distinct lack of internet services to the rural spots, which the county and private companies are working to address.
UW-EXTENSION Registration is now open for “Save a Calf, Save a Cow” workshop program sponsored by Extension Clark, Marathon, and Taylor Counties. Register by contacting the Taylor County Extension office at 715-748-1413.
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