Communities gear up for a weekend of holiday festivals

By LYNN GREENE ( Contact )   Friday, Dec. 2, 2011
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Communities gear up for a weekend of holiday festivals and parades.

Communities gear up for a weekend of holiday festivals and parades.

(A complete list of area parades and events is HERE.)

WILLIAMS BAY — Joey Coleson has a mission: “My whole life I wanted to go Christmas caroling.”

For the past three months, Coleson has been thinking how to get other people to do it with her. So, she helped organize Williams Bay’s holiday celebration.

The village of Williams Bay will host Hometown Holidays in an effort to promote a small-town Christmas season. The festivities began Friday with the inaugural lighting of the Festival of Trees, a collection of 15 decorated trees at the corner of Walworth Avenue and Geneva Street.

At 6:30 p.m. each Friday through Dec. 23, the trees will be lit and a different group of people will be recognized, from the village’s service providers to community organizations. And then anyone who wishes to participate will gather at the trees to go caroling through the downtown business district ... CONTINUED




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