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’Tis the season, after all
Posted: Friday, Nov 21, 2008 - 03:23:18 pm EST
By LAURA EASTER - Register News Editor
The City of Mt. Carmel’s focus will turn next week from leaves to trees...
’Tis the season, after all.
City Commissioner Mike Witters reported this week the city leaf collection routes have been running on schedule, as a pair of crews covers portions of the city daily to rake in fallen autumn foliage stacked at the curb by local residents.
But they are expected to fall behind on their routine routes next week, as one of the trucks is pulled from the task to focus on what comes after Thanksgiving.
Witters told the regular meeting of the Mt. Carmel City Council the city street department will begin next week hanging Christmas decorations above various Market Street intersections. While the work helps usher in the holiday season, it comes at the cost of slowing up the annual leaf season effort.
Witters pointed out this happens every year, when it’s time for the large Christmas trees to come out of their crates. And every year, he says, he gets phone calls from residents whose leaves weren’t collected on the right route day.
“This is the way it always is,” he says.
CHILI FOR THE CHILLY
Some festive decorating isn’t the only thing on the city’s Christmas list. Commissioner Jack Emmons announced the Wabash County Senior Citizens is making plans to host a community soup and chili luncheon the same day as the Wabash County Chamber of Commerce’s Christmas Parade on Dec. 6. More details on that event are expected in the near future.
And the city council had kind words for everyone involved in the city’s Community Christmas Tree plans this year. A Christmas tree is be placed at Veterans Park — next door to the Senior Citizens center — and local school children have been invited to decorate the ornaments provided to them, then visit the corner of 3rd and Market streets to put those ornaments on the tree after the Christmas parade ends on Dec. 6.
This year’s Christmas Parade steps off at 10 a.m. Saturday, Dec. 6, on Market Street.
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