Okotok's Holiday Light Up!

Chilly November night in Okotoks Again the Okotoks Holiday Light Up committee invited 18 Wheels of Christmas to be a part of their street festival. This is our 4th year in Okotoks and it never gets tiring it only gets better and better. This year the 18 Wheels trailer was pulled by Mark Rosenau and his unit 1015 and what an entrance they made. This was the inaugural event with our new look for the trailer wrap (thank you Rosenau Graphics, Cypress Stake and Lath) our new lights courtesy of Grote and installation by Ron Lewin and his crew. Once the trailer was parked, the doors opened and everything set up to go the people started flocking to us. We had sold over $700.00 in save-on-food hampers, collected more than 10 food bank boxes (2 vans were needed to deliver them to the food bank) and $1,900.00 in cash donations all of which was given to the Okotoks Food Bank before we left. Parts of this community along with High River were devastated by the June flooding we found it absolutely amazing to have this level of generosity from the residents of Okotoks. No wonder the ice-sculpture has an angel as part of the display. If the pictures look a little fuzzy, we did a whole lot of shivering down there but it was all worth it !!