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Show off your holiday spirit with decoration contest | Community
Do you get into the holiday spirit and go all out decorating your house? If so, and you live in the city of Long Lake, why not try to win a prize for your holiday spirit? The city of Long Lake is having a Long Lake Christmas Home Decorating Contest for residents. The event was last held in 2018. The Long Lake Garden Club and City of Long Lake are sponsoring the event and the deadline for submitting entries is Wednesday, Dec. 15 at 3 p.m. To enter (City of Long Lake residents only), and for contest rules, go to the city’s website at longlakemn.gov and click on the links…
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Inspired by family, Costa Mesa Realtor re-creates citywide holiday contest from 1960s
Kendra Fisher was clearing out the garage of her grandparents’ Costa Mesa home during the pandemic, when she discovered a box of trophies and Daily Pilot newspaper clippings that shed light on a lesser-known part of her family history. From 1959 well into the ’60s, John and Rosalie O’Brien were recognized as the winners of a citywide holiday decoration competition, even nabbing top prizes in an “Inter-city Yule Contest,” for large-scale displays that would have families lining up around the block just to get a glimpse. “My grandpa was super creative — they built a train set and a huge rocket — people knew he was going to do something…
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Meet the winners of The State’s Halloween Decoration Contest
All the bones have been counted and the most fiendish Halloween decorator has been chosen by The State’s readers. The State asked readers this October to submit photos and vote for the spookiest and kookiest decorations in the Midlands. We saw skeletons come to life, witches convening and spiders crawling up houses. Cemeteries were built and ghosts and ghouls haunted the front lawns of many Midlands houses. One home was even transformed into a giant mouth with an ever-watchful eye. But only one could reign as the most devilish. Here are the decorations that rose above the rest in The State’s 2021 Halloween decoration contest. FIRST PLACE The Skeleton Wedding…
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Green Springs home wins decorating contest
Environmentally friendly Springs property wins household decorating contest CLYDE —The Clyde Halloween Committee declared the winners of the Halloween Property Decoration Contest. Initially position went to Chris and Sheila Potter, 103 Ken Lee Travel, Inexperienced Springs, for their distinctive awareness to detail Halloween topic. Next place went to Don Brown, 124 E. St., Clyde, for the Ghoul’s Pumpkin Patch Factory, and third location to Brad and Emily Extremely, 101 Tara Travel, Clyde, for a one of a kind Creepy Carnival with the help of Affinity Weddings and Events, Home Garden USA. The contest was open to citizens in the Clyde-Inexperienced Springs University District. Other entries were 505 S. Major St., 126 E. Cherry…
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Winners of National Day home decoration contest light up Dhahran area
DHAHRAN: The celebrations for the 91st Saudi National Day ongoing this 7 days with festivities in educational institutions, properties, malls and other areas across the Kingdom. Lots of neighborhoods marked the anniversary of the founding of the nation, which is celebrated every calendar year on Sept. 23, in stunning fashion, with residences and corporations adorned with lights, flags and decorations in the classic Saudi colours of environmentally friendly and white. A person of the oldest known residential places in the Kingdom, the Saudi Aramco compound in Dhahran, went a stage even more by holding a National Day decorating contest, in which the occupants of far more than 50 homes took element.…
