City crews put up Christmas decorations downtown on Tuesday. |
Christmas season arrives in Antigo with a roar, parade, chili on Dec. 2 Nov. 4, 2009 Christmas is in the air—and on the lamp posts—in Antigo today.
City crews installed the city’s festive snowflake decorations this week along Superior Street and Fifth Avenue and at lunchtime today big snowflakes were falling.
And the city’s official welcome to Santa is one month away.
Antigo will welcome the big red guy with its traditional nighttime parade on Wednesday, Dec. 2 with a theme “I’ll Be Home for Christmas.”
The parade will kick off at 6:30 p.m. from the St. John Church parking lot and proceed west on Fifth Avenue through downtown, ending in the St. Hyacinth Church lot.
Deadline for entries is Nov. 13 to the Antigo/Langlade County Chamber of Commerce. There will be prizes for clubs and organizations, business and commercial, and family or group entries.
Santa will be drawn to town by the festive floats and also by the smells of cooking meat and spices wafting into the area as the chamber hosts the 12th annual chili cook-off that takes place throughout the day on Dec. 2.
There will be divisions for traditional and roughneck chili with cash prizes. Deadline for entries is Nov. 30.
The cooks will begin preparing their masterpieces at 8 a.m. along Fifth Avenue, with sampling beginning at 5 p.m. The winners will be announced prior to the parade at 6 p.m.
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