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For the Holidays CHRISTMASA HOLLY JOLLY GOLDEN TRI NGLE
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Adellya’s CHRISTMASA HOLLY JOLLY GOLDEN TRI NGLE The Washington
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November 20th - December 20th, 2015 Built in M embers of the Washington Kiwanis AM’ers have projectfjdksaljfdsljf
brought to you by the Live Animal Christmas Play 1900 with a remodeled interior. The real visions of sugarplums dancing in their heads as
highlight of this location is not the Christmas draws near. They want to make sure that By Linda Wenger
Join Us in Downtown Washington house, it’s the dream garage/man cave. some of the area’s children who may not have a
for the most festive weekends of bright Christmas really can have a visit from St. Nick. The JOURNAL
Built in 1865 the
the year! house has underwent several transfor- Lonny Milligan has been in charge of the AM’ers Secret Santa project many years. At first he said he has chaired
mations over the years. The red & green the committee for 10 to 12 years, but realized later in an interview that it has been much longer than that.
Friday, November 20th colors of the house inside and outside
make it a perfect "Christmas" house. Lonny has partnered with the Washington County Public Health Department’s Family Connection to buy gifts
Holiday Shop & Stroll 5-8 pm and toys for the children in the program, along with a good supply of basic groceries.
A real gem newly
Join your favorite stores for some constructed on the SE side of town. Sher- The confidentiality of the children and families benefiting from the project is protected. Lonny makes sure
pre-holiday specials & treats! ry's style follows a contemporary trend any identifying information is blacked out with permanent magic markers
with many blacks, whites, and grays.
Friday, November 27th “We don’t know the names. The only thing we know about the kids — we know their ages, we know
Built in 1866, it's whether it’s a boy or a girl. We know the sizes that they wear and then also a preference of toys. Sometimes
Lighting Ceremony & one of the oldest remaining brick build- the preference for toys, we can’t do because we are on a limited budget for each person,” Lonny explained.
Lighted Holiday Parade ings & can actually be seen in the 1868
Birds Eye View of Washington. My deco- Once the wants and wishes are known, 10 to 15 people show up at a large, local discount store to shop
5-7 pm rating style is shabby chic, on a budget! for the children. “It takes a couple of hours to do it,” Lonny estimated.
Santa’s House Open 7-9 pm
Local ag consulting business assisting farmers But it is not just the adult AM’ers who help shop; there are volunteers from the Washington
*Downtown Stores open until 6 pm* with DNR compliance. It has a unique eclectic
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AM’er Lonny Milligan (right) will be assisted this year by nonperishable food items for the Secret Santa project. They’ve held
AM’er Holly Mueller. Lonny has been chairman of the Secret food drives at the middle school.
Santa project for more than a dozen years.
“We also take donations,” Lonny said.
Middle School’s Builders Club who do a lot of the shopping. The Some AM’ers accept food donations in their place of business.
Kiwanis AM’ers sponsors the Builders Club. Last year there were “Then, if there’s not enough, we go out and supplement the food.
about 40 middle-schoolers in the Builders Club. What we do as a club then is we purchase a sack of apples, a sack of
oranges, flour, sugar, breakfast cereal, (and) celery.”
Shopping teams are organized. An adult supervises two or three Once the shopping is done, it’s time to wrap presents, and that can
Builders Club members as they pick out clothing, a book and a toy be a lot of presents as the club has purchased gifts for 45 children or
for the Family Connection children. Lonny gives the teams a list of so in any given year. There never seems to be enough volunteers who
the sizes of clothing each child in a family wears. The list may specify help wrap presents, but those who do show up have fun. Laughing,
what type of clothing is needed in addition to the sizes. The middle- club secretary Pat Smith said that he ends up with all kinds of paper
schoolers know how to shop for a bargain and they thoroughly enjoy cuts. He said the wrappers devise little competitions to make the
doing the shopping. wrapping go faster or, really, to laugh out loud and outdo each other.
“A couple of days before Christmas, we make phone calls and we
The Builders Club has also been involved in collecting make sure somebody is going to be there. A lot of times there’s an
address change and we need to make sure that’s there. But there
again, 10 to 15 people get together. It takes a couple of hours to
(deliver the gifts.)”
Lonny said that a couple of years ago one of the AM’ers dropped
off presents for two families instead of just one.
“When he realized what he had done, he said, ‘the looks on those
kids’ faces when I took the presents in — there was no way I was
going to walk back into that house and say you have to give half of
the gifts back.’ So he went and bought gifts himself to replace them,”
Lonny remembered.
Two of the AM’ers’ newest members have volunteered for the
Secret Santa project for the past three or four years. They are Erin
Almelien and Tracy Shriver. They became official members this
summer. They have also officially volunteered to be on the Secret
Santa committee.

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