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Focusing on Today’s Rural Environment
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PHOTOS BY AMY KYLLO
Beth Vitse (left) and Kathryn Wade decorate the gazebo Nov. 13 at Sylvan Park in Lanesboro. This is the inaugural year of the Lanesboro Legion Lights display.
Visitors experience the historic cabin transformed into Santa’s house, an ice fishing them.” themed area, a bedecked gazeWhether it is volunteers bo, trees decorated by each of wrapping greenery in the the grades at Lanesboro Public gazebo, the Lanesboro boys’ Schools, a love themed shelter basketball team moving picnic and more. tables, volunteers meticulousJo Anne Agrimson is on ly wrapping light displays for the food committee for the two hours or a local welder crafting special events at Lanesboro Ledisplays in metal, each aspect of gion Lights. Agrimson, a rural the luminescent event has been resident who lives touched by community. about 10 miles
Lanesboro Legion Lights display brings holiday magic BY AMY KYLLO | STAFF WRITER
LANESBORO — As a small host of volunteers prepared for the inaugural Lanesboro Legion Lights display which began illuminating Lanesboro’s Sylvan Park Nov. 27, their expectation for the display was that it would bring holiday enchantment. Lanesboro Legion Lights is a community-based light display powered by collaboration from inside and outside city limits with donations of time, talent and money. “It’s going to be magical, like you’re in a Hallmark Christmas
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movie,” said Anne Happel, the fundraising coordinator for the event. Volunteers are important to the event for fundraising, creating displays and heading events. Kathryn Wade, a Lanesboro resident, headed up planning this event. “I cannot tell you how cool it is to have such amazing volunteers,” Wade said. “I don’t know how to fully thank
from Lanesboro, said volunteers are on the same page and working hard. “No one person has all the talents and skills to complete what needs to be completed,” Agrimson said. The first event Agrimson worked on occurred Nov. 30. It featured s’mores at the fire pits and candy canes for the children.
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Lights twinkle in the darkness Nov. 30 at the Lanesboro Legion Lights in Sylvan Park in Lanesboro. The light display will be lit from now until New Year’s Day.
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