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We are so very close to Christmas.  If you have young children, you know focus is non-existent in their lives right now.  Our kids are in their 20s now, but I vividly remember trying to get them outdoors,  to do anything to burn up that nervous energy.  I remember being young and my dad telling us that Santa needed a cleared runway in our backyard to land his sled.  So out we went with shovels and worked for hours making sure the runway was spotless.  Didn’t really think that one through I guess.

If your kids are still in Santa mode, you are in luck.  If you remember a few weeks ago, Chisago City had to cancel their tree lighting festival due to frigid temps and dangerous wind chills.  They are happy to announce that this Sunday the lighting festival is back on.  You and your family are invited to Moberg Park in downtown Chisago City at 4:30pm.  You will find a petting zoo, live reindeer, cookies and hot cocoa, a snowman building contest and our favorite horse drawn trolley rides around town.  Santa will make his grand entrance and then take your children’s lists as well as be on hand for photos.  

It was a bummer that the festival was cancelled, but I think it’s wonderful they are hosting Santa this Sunday.  See you there.

If you are like us, we love to take in a Christmas service at a local church. Sometimes we go to a late-night Christmas Eve service.  There are a bunch of ads for Christmas services at local churches on page 8 in this paper. You can certainly find a church or time that works for your schedule.

Just because there is ice on the lakes, doesn’t mean the fishing has stopped.  We love to run photos of fish caught locally.  If you catch one you are proud of, by all means send it to us here at the Press so we can run it in the paper. 

You can email it to [email protected].  Make sure to let us know if it was caught locally (don’t worry we won’t give your honey hole location away).

Thanks to all who have donated hats and mittens and gloves for the homeless.  We will not be making our next donations trip for one week yet, so if you have been meaning to donate winter clothing, please do so soon.  Again, all of the clothing you donate goes directly to the homeless and is not sold on a store shelf.  

There are some wonderful thrift stores in our area that do some amazing things for our community, but this is just another avenue for you to give your surplus items. 

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