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2020 HOLIDAY GREETINGS
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At top: The Standard Process float proceeds through the Christmas parade route during last year’s event in the Village of Palmyra; Whitewater’s First United Methodist Church performed its annual Christmas cantata, called “Holy Light: A Candlelight Service of Carols,” last year. Above: Barb Athas delivers a solo during Whitewater’s First United Methodist Church Christmas cantata. Top left: Youngsters, from left, Ben Crone, Lucy Davis, Maya Davis, Melody Smith, Cason Boudreau, Carley Bodreau and Sanibel Fox-Simes — showcase their vocal talents. Bottom left: Some residents created their own mini parade consisting of pooches in last year’s Palmyra Christmas parade.
ON THE COVER: The holiday season kicked into high gear in Palmyra with the annual Christmas parade through downtown last December. The guests of honor, Santa and Mrs. Claus, stay warm during their ride along Main Street. SUBMITTED PHOTO Holiday Greetings
ON THE COVER: The Parade of Lights last December launched the holiday season in downtown Whitewater. A host of businesses offered treats and other activities. (From left) Ayden Pint-Anderson, Jaykob Sleman and Brady Stoker hopped into the Selfie Sleigh at the corner of Main and First streets. FILE PHOTO Holiday Greetings
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Above: Visitors enjoyed s’mores during last year’s annual Parade of Lights celebration in downtown Whitewater. At right: A festive tree stands on its own inside Turner Museum during last year’s Christmas parade in Palmyra. TOM GANSER Holiday Greetings
The Palmyra Lions Club Fisheree float traverses through town during the Christmas parade in the village last year. FILE PHOTO Holiday Greetings
Aaliyah Nelson says hello to Mrs. Claus during the annual University of WisconsinWhitewater/Community Optimist Club’s Breakfast with Santa celebration last year. Far left: Two children shared Santa’s lap at First Citizens Bank during Whitewater’s Parade of Lights event last year. TOM GANSER Holiday Greetings
FILE PHOTO Holiday Greetings
The annual Parade of Lights helped kick off the holiday season in downtown Whitewater last year. A host of businesses offered treats and other activities. The parade entries included one with a host of animated characters TOM GANSER Holiday Greetings
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Above: The Squidy’s float passes through the Christmas parade route in last year’s annual event in Palmyra.
SUBMITTED PHOTO Holiday Greetings
At left: The annual University of Wisconsin-Whitewater/ Community Optimist Club’s Breakfast with Santa celebration brought in many community volunteers in last year’s event. Santa shares a special moment with student volunteers from Whitewater High School. TOM GANSER FILE PHOTO Holiday Greetings
Bottom left: Members of the Palmyra Lioness Club prepare to serve visitors during last year’s annual Christmas parade in Palmyra. SUBMITTED PHOTO Holiday Greetings
Bottom right: Dozens of visitors warmed up during a chili dinner at Living Word Fellowship in last year’s annual Parade of Lights event in downtown Whitewater. TOM GANSER FILE PHOTO Holiday Greetings
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May the light and love of His blessings shine upon you and your family this holy season and beyond. We appreciate the gift of your kind patronage.
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Parade of Lights 2019 Members of Scout Pack/Troop 173 greets attendees during last year’s annual Parade of Lights event in downtown Whitewater. TOM GANSER FILE PHOTO Holiday Greetings
Yes Virginia, there is a Santa Claus Editor’s note: Eight-year-old Virginia O’Hanlon wrote a letter to the editor of New York’s Sun, and the quick response was printed as an unsigned editorial Sept. 21, 1897. The work of veteran newsman Francis Pharcellus Church has since become history’s most reprinted newspaper editorial, appearing in part or whole in dozens of languages in books, movies, and other editorials, and on posters and stamps. Dear Editor: I am 8 years old. Some of my little friends say there is no Santa Claus. Papa says, “If you see it in THE SUN it’s so.” Please tell me the truth; is there a Santa Claus? Virginia O’Hanlon 115 West Ninety-Fifth Street
VIRGINIA, Your little friends are wrong. They have been affected by the skepticism of a skeptical age. They do not believe except (what) they see. They think that nothing can be which is not comprehensible by their little minds. All minds, VIRGINIA, whether they be men’s or children’s, are little. In this great universe of ours man is a mere insect, an ant, in his intellect, as compared with the boundless world about him, as measured by the intelligence capable of grasping the whole of truth and knowledge. Yes, VIRGINIA, there is a Santa Claus. He exists as certainly as love and generosity and devotion exist, and you know that they abound and give to your life its highest beauty and joy. Alas! How dreary would be the world if there were no Santa Claus.
It would be as dreary as if there were no VIRGINIAS. There would be no childlike faith then, no poetry, no romance to make tolerable this existence. We should have no enjoyment, except in sense and sight. The eternal light with which childhood fills the world would be extinguished. Not believe in Santa Claus! You might as well not believe in fairies! You might get your papa to hire men to watch in all the chimneys on Christmas Eve to catch Santa Claus, but even if they did not see Santa Claus coming down, what would that prove? Nobody sees Santa Claus, but that is no sign that there is no Santa Claus. The most real things in the world are those that neither children nor men can see. Did you ever see fairies dancing on the lawn? Of course not, but that’s no proof that they are
Christmas joy! Whitewater’s First United Methodist Church performed its annual Christmas cantata, called “Holy Light: A Candlelight Service of Carols,” last year. Director Christine Hayes leads the group during one of the services. TOM GANSER Holiday Greetings
not there. Nobody can conceive or imagine all the wonders there are unseen and unseeable in the world. You may tear apart the baby’s rattle and see what makes the noise inside, but there is a veil covering the unseen world, which not the strongest man, nor even the united strength of all the strongest men that ever lived, could tear apart. Only faith, fancy, poetry, love, romance, can push aside that curtain and view and picture the supernal beauty and glory beyond. Is it all real? Ah, VIRGINIA, in all this world there is nothing else real and abiding. No Santa Claus! Thank God! He lives, and he lives forever. A thousand years from now, Virginia, nay, ten times ten thousand years from now, he will continue to make glad the heart of childhood.
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