Heralding the holidays

Mountain Lake Christmas in the Park decorating gets start ahead of snow forecast

Volunteers began decorating Mountain Lake City Park on Saturday, November 8 for Christmas in the Park 2014 with old and new lights, along with holiday accents – ahead of weather forecasts of approaching snow. It is just the initial work done to brighten up city park (a gift to the City of Mountain Lake from the St. Paul and Sioux City Railroad – today the Union Pacific – under the requirement that the square block remain as a park). The decorating tradition heralds the approaching Christmas and New Year holidays.

Following are a few photos – courtesy of Mountain Christmas in the Park – of the first steps taken in setting up the display.

 

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SCOTT WINTERS, LEFT and Dean Janzen, right, begin city park’s decorating process by bringing out the arches and checking the lights wrapped around each.

 

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CRACKING OPEN the new boxes of Christmas lights are Diane Harder, left, and Cassondra Harder, right.

 

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PAUL HARDER, LEFT and Dean Janzen, right, decorate city park’s Gazebo.

 

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SCOTT AND BRITTANY Winters reach new heights as they wrap strings of Christmas lights around the entrance arch to Mountain Lake City Park.

 

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CHRISTMAS IN THE Park has lit up Mountain Lake City Park now for 25 years – and Brittany Winters, pictured above, continues the tradition.
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