{"id":21183,"date":"2022-12-14T12:10:19","date_gmt":"2022-12-14T18:10:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsleaderonline.com\/?p=21183"},"modified":"2022-12-14T12:10:21","modified_gmt":"2022-12-14T18:10:21","slug":"city-of-mckenzie-celebrates-the-season-with-mistletoe-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsleaderonline.com\/city-of-mckenzie-celebrates-the-season-with-mistletoe-christmas\/","title":{"rendered":"City of McKenzie celebrates the season with Mistletoe Christmas"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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STATE CHAMPIONS – McKenzie High School 1A state football winners rode in the parade.\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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GRAND MARSHAL – The Grand Marshal was the 2022 girl\u2019s basketball team that was Class 1A state champions\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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CHRISTMAS MUSIC – The McKenzie Band provided Christmas music.\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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SECOND PLACE – Headstart took second place in the parade entries.\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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FIRST PLACE – Genia\u2019s Dance took first place in McKenzie\u2019s parade.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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SANTA – Here comes Santa Clause right down Santa Claus Lane.\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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THIRD PLACE – The Waters of McKenzie tied for third place with The Beating Hearts parade entry.\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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CARRIAGE RIDING – Emmy and A yla Courpeele and their mother, Hailey, take a ride in the carriage.\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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REINDEER FUN – Chad Kirk has his photo made with his daughter Layla and Lilly Kirk and a reindeer.\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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YUM – Presley Shipp fees her year old brother Will Shipp at the Beta Phi Sigma breakfast with Santa On the right is Addie Brown.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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BEATING HEARTS – The Beating Hearts float tied for third place with The Waters.\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

shirleyNANNEY<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Editor<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The City of McKenzie celebrated all weekend with the Mistletoe event that included the parade on Saturday afternoon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The celebration began Friday afternoon with opening ceremonies. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The crowd on Friday may have been affected by the fact the high school football team was playing in the Blue Cross Bowl in Chattanooga.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On Saturday there were horse drawn carriage rides and real live reindeer that pictures could be made with.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There were pop up shops and food trucks where delicious foods of all kinds could be purchased.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On Saturday morning at the First united Methodist Church, Beta Sigma Phi sponsored Breakfast with Santa that is always a big hit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Children eat breakfast foods with relatives and then visit Santa where photos are made and activities are provided.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At one of the tables, eight-year-old Presley Shipp was helping feed her year old brother Will Shipp, who was enjoying every bite. They were accompanied by their parents, William and Ashley Shipp At the same table was Addie Brown, 8, who is the daughter of Marty and Kia Brown of McKenzie.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Near the city park where the reindeer were located, Lindsey McFadden of Huntingdon was waiting in line with her two children, Natalie, 16, and Silas, 4, to have their photos made.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThis is the first time we have been to Mistletoe Christmas,\u201d said Lindsey. \u201cWe\u2019re excited to see Santa and the reindeer.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Eighteen month old Layla and 3-year-old Lilly Kirk, daughters of Chad and Anastasia Kirk of McKenzie, were having a good time as their dad was having his photo made with them near a reindeer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Emmy and Ayla Courpeele of McKenzie, and their mother Hailey  were happy to be going for a horse drawn carriage ride.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The parade got underway as the police, and fire trucks made it to the downtown area with sirens blaring. There were floats, a band, beauty queens, vehicles and Santa.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The parade winners of this year\u2019s event were first, Gina\u2019s School of Dance \u201cDancing Thru the Snow\u201d; second, McKenzie Headstart\/ Early Headstart; and  third, The Waters of McKenzie, and Beating Hearts Help Center.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe are overjoyed with the tremendous amount of support for the community to make the parade a success. We are looking forward to seeing everyone again next year,\u201d said Jennifer Sims, parade coordinator.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

shirleyNANNEY Editor The City of McKenzie celebrated all weekend with the Mistletoe event that included the parade on Saturday afternoon. The celebration began Friday afternoon with opening ceremonies.  The crowd on Friday may have been affected by the fact the high school football team was playing in the Blue Cross Bowl in Chattanooga. On Saturday…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":21127,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[243,306,247,240],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsleaderonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21183"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsleaderonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsleaderonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsleaderonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsleaderonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21183"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsleaderonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21183\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21184,"href":"https:\/\/newsleaderonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21183\/revisions\/21184"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsleaderonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21127"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsleaderonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsleaderonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsleaderonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}