Parade ushers in the Christmas season

Jennifer Romano, the parade’s founder and committee member, hopes the recent renovations to the house along with having the parade back for the fifth year will help keep the tradition alive for decades to come.

Organised by the Egmont Lions Club, more than 20 floats paraded down Devon St for the event.

After Dec. 10, advance reservations will be required in order for children to visit Santa. “The running deer won’t have Santa driving them”, she said, but they’ll run anyway. Completed forms, along with the $10 entry fee, should be sent to: Cabot Christmas Parade P.O. Box 1101 Cabot, AR 72023.

“Not even the weather can slow down the holiday spirit”, said Sarah Hautala, the general manager of WJIL/ WJVO.

But he isn’t the only jolly old elf who will be in the area for the holidays. “This is like the beginning of Christmas for me”, she said. “Several business decorate and it lets us ring in the holiday season”.

Mall managers backpedaled on the axed “welcome Santa” parade after The Post called Monday for comment, promising to reinstate it next year. The digital age has also allowed Santa to take bookings online – for the past three Santa seasons, Town Center has offered online appointments, said Ruth Rosenquist, spokesperson for The Noerr Programs, which provides the Santa photo experience for Town Center.

“Took my 17 month old daughter to Liverpool one on 13/11/15 to see the lights being switched on”, wrote the mother as a description on YouTube. When we asked Lilly and her little brother, Alex, why seeing Santa is so fun- they had some good reasons.

“It’s a little bit different environment instead of just meeting Santa Claus”.

It’s come and go at the guests’ leisure, with volunteers manning the home, once occupied by one of Wichita Falls’ founding fathers, Frank Kell, and his family.

Along with asking for a Baby Alive doll, she is also going to ask that Santa brings her brother rocks instead of the Xbox he wants.

The event was open to all businesses, organizations, churches, schools and public officials who marched toward the Ottawa Municipal Building parking lot where Santa Claus was waiting to take photographs with children.

“To see the look on kids’ faces, they’re so overawed and they hang on every word you say and they go away and they’re just beaming you just can’t buy that feeling”.