Waterloo Planning Tree-Lighting Party

Article by Dave Kurtz | KPC News | November 11, 2020

WATERLOO — The town of Waterloo will welcome the holiday season with a tree lighting ceremony Dec. 5 at 5:30 p.m. in Francis Thomson Memorial Park on Van Vleek Street.

“We will ask businesses, churches and families to place trees in the park and decorate them,” then light them in the ceremony, said Town Manager Pam Howard.

The event will feature visits with Santa Claus, cookies, hot chocolate and caroling.

It should help make up for missing the town’s annual late-night party to watch the lighted Canadian Pacific Holiday Train pass through on the Norfolk Southern railroad tracks.

“We’ve had a lot of feedback about people missing the Holiday Train this year,” Howard told the Town Council at its meeting Tuesday night in the Waterloo Depot.

Canadian Pacific has canceled the train’s two-nation tour because of the COVID-19 pandemic. The railroad is asking people to donate to their local food banks, Howard said.

The town’s most recent holiday celebration, Treats before Dark on Halloween night, was a success, Howard reported. She said the sponsor, Nucor Building Systems, passed out 250 treat bags in 45 minutes.

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