Laura Mann, Promotion of the City Coordinator was very pleased with the Parade of Lights and Christmas Tree lighting event on Saturday night.
This year the parade had 21 units. She said some of the participants were new this year and some are regulars that return each year for the event. The theme this year was “The Music of the Holidays”.
This is the seventh year for the Parade and Lights and Mann said she was impressed with the floats that were created for the event.
This was the third year the event was hosted on Shop Small Saturday instead of the Friday night after Thanksgiving. The idea to move it to Saturday was to help the local downtown merchants. Discover Plymouth hosted a scavenger hunt during the day and the Marshall County Museum opened extended hours and had the trains running upstairs for the families to enjoy.
The city’s Tree Lighting took place on the Michigan Street Bridge since the new apartments block the view of the tree from River Park Square. Mayor Senter said in two years the tree in River Park Square should be big enough to hold the event in the park.
Following the tree lighting the light and music show in River Park Square was turned on. It will run non-stop from 6 p.m. to 10 p.m. each night through December 31st.
