Many contributed to wonderful holiday season in Albion

Photos by Tom Rivers: Ashley Jackson, left, and Michelle Waters from Tree House decorated a light pole on Main Street in a candy theme. They are shown on Dec. 5. Waters said driving around Albion with her 5-year-old daughter and seeing the decorated posts made the holiday season more fun. “It feels like something from the Gilmore Girls.”

Editor:

So that’s a wrap, Christmas is over. Or is it? That is not the end of it my friends!

Look how beautiful our village looked this year with a few lights and lots of community members!

We have Christmas trees lit up on the Orleans County Courthouse lawn. All the light poles have been decorated by families who adopted a light pole for Christmas. They are all different and all of light poles are beautiful. All of them designed with love!

We had Christmas caroling every week with hot chocolate and cookies offered at Hearth and Home real estate. Our last caroling event was at Hospice. Never have I had the feeling of true Christmas as I have had this year.

Some of the churches in our historic Courthouse Square opened their doors for the Hometown holiday. I wasn’t aware of the beauty that is right there. The stained glass, the art, the warm welcome feeling you get when you walk into these wonderful places of worship.

There was a fantastic Tea with Mrs. Claus, complete with sweet treats, some presents, and some wonderful stories about the big man himself – like did you know meatloaf and mashed potatoes are his favorite food after his long trip? You even got to take home a beautiful antique tea cup.

Then there also was Christmas Rock painting  at the Hoag Library, some great gifts were made while munching cookies and listening to Christmas music at this fun event! A fantastic residential light decoration contest, I’m happy I wasn’t a judge for that as there are so many homes that look totally amazing! Way to step it up Albion!

There was also a window decoration contest for the businesses. But there is more, lots more to do to make our community a destination for holiday fun! Next year it will be bigger than ever! Bring Christmas back to Albion is so proud of all of you for making this happen. We are starting the planning for next Christmas already. Come and hear some of the plans for Christmas 2024. We have our first meeting of the year at the Hoag library on Monday, Jan. 8 at 7 p.m.

We need you. Please come join us! I can’t help feeling that Charles Howard is smiling as he looks down on us from the heavens above. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to all.

Lori Laine

Kent

Mike and Faith Smith from the Orleans Koinonia Kitchen decorate a Christmas tree for the OK Kitchen. The tree included ornaments listing the many organizations and sponsors that volunteer and support the kitchen located at Harvest Christian Fellowship.