december christmas caroling in cliftonjordan lescallett - best group of elves taylor miller - best...
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This year’s Christmas Caroling parade in Clifton onDecember 1 was a huge success! We had 31 horses thisyear, plus a group of children and parents leading us insong – thanks to Pat Little for organizing her choir group.Many people volunteered and I thank each and everyone of you. Mary Flowers handled the trailer parking—next year we will give her an assistant! Barbara Larcomdid a great job with Registration/waiver signing, as didour many side walkers, and general helpers: Sue England,Sally Rood, Nancy Bennett, Joan Kersh, Dan Sassi, andall the parents of our darling children riders. Special thanksgo to Meg and Steve Holman, who roped off the churchparking lot early in the day, which saved me an extra tripinto Clifton. Thank you all for giving your assistance soour event could run smoothly and efficiently. CorisseVaughn brought the delicious selection of cookies again,which were much appreciated by all. Our excellent judgeswere Suzanne Clark, her daughter Liz, and Becky Cullen.They accomplished the judging in record time and hadeveryone back at their trailers before dark. Good jobladies!
The horses were decorated with tons of creativity,Christmas spirit, and bells, lots of bells! We had a lovelysunny day and probably one of our largest crowds ever.
Here are the winners of our costume contest:
Ben Kosters - Bravest Wiseman
Mary Kosters - Most Sparkly Angel
Jenny Della Santina - Sweetest Angel
Riely Holman and Katie Pearson - Best Angel Wings
Bailey Foster, Sandra Zimmerlie, Maddie Bacino andJordan Lescallett - Best Group of Elves
Taylor Miller - Best Snowman
Ann Miller - Best Gingerman
Elle Kime - Best Snowflake
Nicole Parra, Taylor Holman, Kelsey Herrity - Ms.Santa and her Elves
Erin McFarland - Best Candy Cane Costume
Brenna McFarland - Best Mrs. Claus
Veronica Johnson, Vanessa Johnson, Dagmar Johnson -Best Jingle Bells Trio
Jeannie Jirucha, Jana Lee Sponberg, Sue Wakefield -Best Carolers
Karen Behan - Most Beautiful Christmas Spirit
Beth Giorgiani - Best Use of Garland
Jane Palmer - Best Poinsettia
Jean Voss - Greatest Christmas Tree
Pat Little - Best Horse Angel
Cindy Smith - Best Behaved Rudolf
Laura Smith - Best Scottish Christmas
And last, but not least, following in the rear of the groupas always, our ever handy “pooper scoopers” HamptonHorse Feathers, who were awarded Best Use of a Shoveland Fork!
Thanks to one and all for making this a great event. Youwere all so helpful, I might even consider chairing thisevent next year!
DECEMBER CHRISTMAS CAROLING IN CLIFTONBy Jeannie Jirucha
January 2008 Page 11
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