Ogle County Newspapers / oglecountynews.com • Friday, December 25, 2020
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LOCAL HISTORY
Christmas festivities are coming via Zoom this year C hristmas is just around the corner and usually Krista, our daughter in Wisconsin, would be baking the Christmas cookies. They always were a work of art placed on her tiered cookie holder. I would make the eggnog and the slush punch from Carol Hammer’s recipe. Others came with candy and assorted snacks. We all gathered on the day after Christmas, sang and played MCAHNY which is like a Christmas bingo. Then we would have pizza and take pictures. It was always a big day with all the family together. Last year with four new babies it was a bit different. This year it really will be different. We will do the whole thing by zoom! No Christmas cookies, eggnog or slush punch and the family will be gathering each at their own homes. We will gather by zoom and even play MCAHNY which stands for Merry Christmas and Happy New Year. Our cards have been sent over the Internet so we are ready. We even will attempt to sing. We are not the only family facing a different kind of Christmas gathering. What unique ways are you planning in your family? With the vaccine practically at our doorstep we do not want to do something silly. So we are enjoying a few family members at a time. Steve came this week for a couple of days and
COMMENTARY Betty Obendorf Polo Historical Society
we drove around to see the Christmas decorations in Polo and Dixon. Always great to see the family members anytime. We are also enjoying the decorations in the neighborhood It is nice to see the candles in every window in the McGrath House shining through the trees. We have wonderful memories of parties there at Christmas with Jim and Gina Cole. Recently I went on the Internet and found another º with the original box and certificate that had come all the way from Germany around 35 years ago. It had a nice account of the history of Hintz Mueller-Blech. This ornament had ended up on a farm in the state of Ohio. Wendy collects all sorts of vintage things she can sell on the Internet. She uses the money to help take care of animals she has saved. She finds them along the road and other places where people have dumped them. She brings them back to health and then she will find a new home for these abandoned animals. I enjoyed reading all about her on her
Here is just a small sampling of Inge-Glas ornaments made in Germany. website. One never knows where vintage items will come from or who has saved them through the years. I also have a nutcracker coming from somewhere and should arrive any day. I am focusing on something new to put on my tree rather than think about what we will not have this Christmas.
HOLIDAY EVENT
“Parking Lot Caroling” a hit
If you can’t bring the people to church for a Christmas tradition, you can at least bring them to the parking lot to sing. That’s exacly what the Pine Creek Christian Church did on Sunday when the church on West Penn Corner Road hosted “Parking Lot Caroling”.
Families and friends showed up for the afternoon event to sing along from the comfort of their own vehicles. 3D Sound provided the technology to transfer music to each visitor’s vehicle radio. Twenty-seven vehicles took part in the 2 p.m. event.
Michael Krabbenhoeft/mkrabbenhoeft@shawmedia.com
AT LEFT: Lyle Hopkins hands a bag of Christmas cookies and a program to a driver during the “Parking Lot Caroling” event Sunday afternoon at Pine Creek Christian Church. ABOVE: Carolers follow along during the playing of “Joy to the World”. A total of 27 vehicles full of carolers attended the socially distant event which was designed to prevent the spread of the coronavirus.
