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SANTA CLAUS IS COMING TO TOWN!
Scenes from the 2016 Santa Claus Parade. Santa never forgets to stop by and say hello to the families of Whitehorse! PHOTOS: Archbould Photography
The Yukon’s newest updated COVID regulations came the same day as this year’s Winterval Festival Santa Parade was finally announced. announced.
F e l i x an d S c o tt to g e th e r h a v e 2 5 y e a r s o f p ow e r f u l ex p e r i e n c e selling over a 1000 p r o p e r ti e s .
Though this year’s parade was originally supposed to take place on Main St and involve community members gathering together to watch it, it was an easy pivot to rehash the 2020 parade plans of having the parade travel through multiple Whitehorse neighbourhoods for a second year, according to CSR Management president and director of innovation, Anne Lewis. “We had that backup plan ready to
go,” said Lewis. “It was a pretty fast switch for us.” Because typically, the Santa Parade being on Main St brings locals to the area and in turn supports the small businesses in downtown Whitehorse, Lewis said it was difficult to have to make alternate plans for the second consecutive year, but ultimately, the Santa Parade will still serve its purpose of kicking off the Christmas season in
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the Yukon. “As always, it’s an exercise in just being positive and proactive,” she said. “We were pretty excited to be able to head back to Main St, but we had a really amazing parade last year, going to as many neighbourhoods as we could get to in a two-hour period.” In the interest of maintaining cont’d on page 10 ...
