Waukon’s Lighted Holiday Parade gets the holiday season off to a shining start ...

The annual Lighted Holiday Parade held in Waukon Saturday evening, December 6 brightened up the beginning of the holiday season in more ways than one as approximately 30 entries made their way through the city streets, starting down Allamakee Street from the Allamakee County Fairgrounds to Main Street and then traveling up West Main Street to the First Presbyterian Church. Temperatures hovering in the low 20s and the threat of a Winter Weather Advisory snowstorm didn’t influence the large crowd into “ducking out” on flocking to the parade route or prevent numerous individuals from walking the route or riding comfortably on this year’s entries, as evident in the photo above taken at the stoplight intersection by Standard Assistant Editor Joe Moses. A video of the complete parade can be found on The Standard’s Facebook page at The Standard Newspaper, Waukon.