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'Bells, boots, and buggies' is theme for Christmas parade

By LESLIE LA FOY

Christmas committee chairman

While it may be just a tad early to publicly admit to having begun your shopping for next Christmas, it isn't at all too soon to put Peabody's 2007 Christmas Parade on your calendar.

Saturday, December 8, 2007.

Mark it in red, circle it a couple of times, and start making plans to come out to celebrate the season with friends and family in true Peabody fashion.

Building on the successes of last year's event, the parade committee has chosen "Bells, Boots, and Buggies" as this year's theme and is already hard at work planning a day-long series of artistic, musical, and cultural activities designed to appeal to both the area's young and the young at heart.

Of course, many of the specific details are still in the development stage, but even at this early date, you can plan on another spectacular parade. And, as always, great food.

There will be Kansas artists displaying and selling their unique creations. The crafts and games for the children will be supervised so that parents can slip away to do some leisurely holiday shopping.

We're planning to have music . . . lots of music. And, new this year, dancing. (Polish up those cowboy boots! And maybe plan to attend the session with the dance instructor for some two-step and boot-scootin' pointers.)

In the evening, between dance sets, your family and friends can pile into the buggy for a ride around Peabody to view the Christmas lights and decorations.

And speaking of decorations . . . One of the goals of the parade committee is to purchase holiday banners for the downtown light poles. Last year's generous support of the wreath auction put us on the path to seeing it done and we plan to do the auction — with a twist — again this coming Christmas.

In the meantime, though . . . well, glacial patience isn't one of the committee's virtues and we'd like to have some banners up this year so that you can "oooh and aaah" over them on your buggy ride around town.

To that end, we're designing and making a queen-sized quilt to be given away at Peabody's annual Fourth of July celebration. We hope you'll support this holiday banner fund-raising effort.

Of course, if you'd like to support the event with a donation of your time and talents, the committee would love to have you join us.

Contact Kristen Hooper, Main Street Director, at 983-2174 or shoot her an e-mail at pmsa@peabodyks. com.

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