Lake Country Calendar, December 24, 2014

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December 24, 2014

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Voting in Lake Country may be a different experience next time a municipal election comes around. ...............................

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Letters Both local and away readers of the Lake Country Calendar have strong opinions about the pending deal to buy a decommissioned track from CN Rail. ......................

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Fatality Another fatal road collision has renewed calls for barriers to be installed to divide lanes of Hwy. 97 as it runs alongside Duck (Ellison) Lake. ...............................

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Flyers ■ Home Depot ■ Jysk ■ Save On Foods ■ Shoppers Drug Mart ■ Staples

KEVIN PARNELL/LAKE COUNTRY CALENDAR

THE Christmas display at Doug Rupp’s home on Chase Road is hard to fit into one photo.The display has 22 blow-ups like this airplane flying Santa.

Tradition lives on with a seasonal drive-by KEVIN PARNELL When it comes to Christmas displays, you’d be hard pressed to find a home with as cool a setup as Doug Rupp’s annual display on Chase Road in Lake Country. On his roof and spilling down to his front

lawn he has 22 Christmas blow up characters, amidst a candy cane lane, a carousel, teeter totter and a porch swing. Some 20,000 lights cast a glow that can be seen as you approach Rupp’s home which, over the past 15 years or so, has become a fixture for young and

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old in Lake Country to enjoy the festive season. “It’s beautiful,” says one passer-by from the comfort of their vehicle, kids strapped safely in the back, even though people are encouraged to take a walk through the candy cane lane and drop off a donation for the

SPCA. It all began as a project for his two daughters, now in their mid20s, with one of them making sure the tradition continues by bringing a grandchild by for a nightly visit, entrenching Rupp as one of the coolest grandpas in the land.

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“I just started decorating for my girls growing up,” said Rupp in between greeting visitors to his yard. “Now I have all this stuff so I just keep doing it. The kids who come here to look—they really enjoy it. Their eyes are wide open. They don’t know where to look. By

the time they leave they have gone through it three or four times.” A truck driver by trade, Rupp wouldn’t guess what he has spent on the elaborate Christmas light display over the years. Each year he

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