Christmas Parade A BIG SUCCESS

I was very pleased with the turn out for the first reintroduction of the annual Hillsboro Downtown Christmas Parade! We had beautiful weather, many great participants, and a large crowd of enthusiastic on lookers. The Snow Princess candidates looked lovely and raised a nice amount of money which will go to help fund the Christmas lights downtown.

Santa rode into town on a Fire Truck and was accompanied by Mrs. Clause, as well as one of his Reindeer who was posing for photos at the Red Rooster Inn. He later retired to his wonderland on the Plaza and met with MANY eager young folk. Plus the kids had a great FREE party at the Escape and the Orpheum showed two FREE showings of "Polar Express", courtesy of the Hillsboro Chamber of Commerce.

Thanks again to everyone on the 2000 & Beyond committee for your hard work! This town is lucky to have such dedicated people willing to give of their time to help the community.

I have so many ideas for next year! I hope you do too!!!

Thanks,
Terri Miller