It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas around V.A.

| November 16, 2021

Public Works hard worker Tyler puts the snowflake/star on the top of the city Christmas tree.

Mary Jane Farmer, all photos and narrative, more photos at bottom of this short article. 

Van Alstyne is beginning to get that Christmas holiday feel, what with the city’s Public Works Parks Department having put up lights around various places and, Tuesday, beginning to raise the city’s Christmas tree in Dorothy Fielder Park. Also, many residents and businesses are getting into the swing of it, installing their outside decorations.

They won’t be able to finish it Tuesday (today), because the final Music in the Park, featuring the great Hannah Hokit, will kick off at 6 p.m., and the Chamber hopes to fill the park. So, PW will have all remaining branches, trailers, and equipment moved by then, and pick this project up when their schedule next permits it.

The city’s Christmas tree is being built again around the Dorothy Fielder Park fountain.

And there are those who believe, and everyone understands, waiting until Thanksgiving to accomplish these projects. There are others who believe in keeping Christmas throughout the year. And all those beliefs are respected.  But for Public Works, there just so many days to get these done, in addition to their many other daily chores.

The Christmas Tree will remain unlighted until the official tree-lighting ceremony beginning at 6:30 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 4, and will again be plush with all the ceremony, music, joy and fellowship brought in times past by the Chamber of Commerce and the Van Alstyne is Christmas Town committees.

The Christmas parade is scheduled to step off at 2 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 11, and on Dec. 18, from 5-8 p.m., the Public Library will host Santa’s Workshop. More details on those events later.

Visitors to downtown may have already noticed that the Public Works has also installed the trees in the park with lights, put up the lighted, giant snowflakes across from the Post Office, and added other Christmas items throughout town. And they aren’t through yet!

Construction next door to the Dorothy Fielder Park, where the new Central Social District Park and its concrete parking lot is going in.

Public Works hard workers Patrick, Justin, Jerry, and Afton work on assembling the top of the city Christmas tree prior to adding it to the tree over the water fountain.

Justin (Public Works Director) i the red shirt is flanked by hard workers Will and Clay.

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