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Issue 908 - Wednesday, November 17, 2021
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Christmas parade with a difference Volunteers spruce up floats SEE INSIDE
Santa is on his way to Mount Gambier and tickets for the NF McDonnell and Sons Santa’s Boulevard are now available. Mount Gambier City Council’s events team, the Mount Gambier Christmas Parade Advisory Group and many volunteers have been
planning the COVID safe drive by static Christmas spectacle to be held on Haig Drive at the Valley Lake in place of the annual Christmas Parade which has been shleved for a second successive year due to COVID restrictions. Santa’s Boulevard will include 14
revamped Christmas floats, lights, decorations and Christmas music in the Valley Lake precinct over five nights from Thursday, November 25, to Monday, November 29, between 7pm and 10pm. “Many of the floats have been repainted and freshened up in
preparation for the event City of Mount Gambier events team leader Xarnia Keding said. The Christmas event is ticketed this year to enable traffic control and to ensure that wait times are reduced.
DECK THE HALLS: Event volunteers Mike Scutter (left), Alan Liptrott and Greg Muller on the revamped Pirates Arrr Us float. See inside for full story