Yourself a merry little Christmas, that your heart be loud. And now all our troubles will be out of.
Yourself a merry little Christmas, make the youth hide gay.
And now all our troubles will be miles away
Once again as in all of these happy golden days of your faith
The friends who were dear to us, gathered near to us from small years
Here's the old baby, here's
shining star upon the high of
Mary.
And again, as in olden days, happy golden days of youth.
Faithful friends who have been us.
Welcome everyone to the 2021 Mochina Christmas parade.
My name's Jim Richmond and I'm here with Melissa Martini, the village clerk.
Yeah, I'm standing in for drugs, my teeth is missing.
Nice, yeah. Well, you know what?
Yeah, I've rather worked with you than drugs anyway.
So, uh, well.
It's getting better now.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
So, here we go.
We're kicking it off.
Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.
Most of the guys, um, not being able to release the club.
I'm leading the parade.
First up is the Knights of Columbus.
Over 100,000 lives have been saved by the Knights of Columbus.
Through your donations to Knights of Columbus,
They've been involved in donating donation machines.
That is very loud.
Mokina Fire Department has brought out a couple of their trucks in the ambulance
with all the lights and the sirens.
More fire trucks coming.
They're just lagging behind.
I think we've got about two or three more of those three.
Yeah, playing some great Christmas music tonight.
Yes,
a perfect night for our Christmas parade.
We've had cold nights, rainy nights, snowy nights, so yes, this is by far the best.
And the crowd is, this is probably the most people I've ever seen out here, too, so.
This is under the parade route, it is three people's eat,
it's more of a local emergency
services.
Now that the whole parade route is blinded and deaf, we'll carry on.
We'll carry on.
Next up should be the village of Mokina.
They've got a truck and a trailer and on there is it looks like they're throwing out candy again. This is a good sign. This is a good candy is good. Candy is always good.
What do we got on there?
Quite packed tonight on the...
See trusty angler.
Who else is on there?
John Thomas I guess
one of our best dive angler
trusty angler
There's a whole lot of family in front
Oh looks like Matt is up there too
with his family so
quite a few folks from the village of Moquina
and the children are scattering for the candy
this is perfect
You know this year there is a Moquina community calendar
that was produced by the Moquina Chamber of Commerce
you can pick those up for free
I think they're free
I believe so
What's the
at the chamber office the village hall at FNBC Bank and trust and at Burkots. Looks like it's
got a bunch of things in there a bunch of information so I'll stop by and pick pick pick one up and use
it throughout the 2020 year so here's my residence too. Barb Dameron handing out candy bar getting ready to
She will be deeply missed.
Yes, yes.
I think she's been 35, 37 years.
35 years, I believe it is.
But the good thing is, is a village we've, you know,
succession plan.
We have her replacement in place.
And they're working together already.
Working together already.
So it'll be good.
Here comes the Grinch.
Alright.
This is the Mokkewein Public Library with the Grinch.
We got the Grinch was having a little bit of fun with one of the attendees so everybody's
got lights on.
The Village Front Street here is well decorated with the snowflakes and the lights and
the ornaments and we're going to have the Christmas tree lighting here in a little bit so.
The public works department did they put a ball in the lights against you?
Yep, they take care of all this and we've got the snowman and the snowflake at each
of the front streets. So we have a Christmas street passing out candy. Oh there you go. I believe
this
is still part of the library.
Also too, just want to thank our police department and the
Asda folks for getting everything set up and keeping everybody safe as well as public works.
Putting up the barricades, getting the lights all done, having the streets all ready and
blocked off on that. So thank you to public works, Asda and the Mokina Police Department coordinating
with the village so. And don't forget the cameraman, they come out early and set up our
phone in the cameras. Channel 6, Tim and his crew so thank you. Very good. Good catch
Melissa, thank you. You're welcome. Another Christmas tree.
And Daniel's here too, so good
to have the unofficial mayor of Mokina here. Right? Daniel, you got your, uh, Daniel for
mayor T-shirt honor. No? Okay. All right.
See, he's coming up next. State representative
Anthony Deluca.
Yep.
He should have a truck and some folks walking.
I can see a sign from here.
So state
representative Deluca is here in the parade
passing out candy.
And paper candy.
Yeah.
Can never get enough candy.
The kids, that's for sure.
Representative Deluca, thank you very much.
We all produce a candy cane.
Thank you very much.
Good to see you.
Thank you.
So
after Deluca is the Mokina Girl Scouts.
There's a lot of them when they all get their lights on.
A great program for girls.
This is Service Unit 741 out of Mokina.
If you're interested, go to www.mokinagirlscouts.com.
Some people, their favorite time of year is Christmas, some people with summer, mine is
Girl Scout Cookie Time.
Girl Scout Cookie Time, of course.
I've never buy enough boxes of coffee.
Most people buy them by the box you buy them by the case.
Yes I do.
Good job Melissa, thank you.
And you weeks look like work if they go.
Of course they go.
Hey girls.
I never have enough.
Hello.
Way to go Girl Scouts.
Thank you for joining the parade.
Thank you.
Fun fact.
All right, fun fact.
First Girl Scout cookie sale was in 1917 in the German Oklahoma.
There you go.
Were they homemade cookies?
I do not know that.
Sorry, Tim, you can have that out of it, but that was a good fun fact, Melissa.
Look last night during a game of Whits and Wagers.
There you go, there you go.
Still more Girl Scouts.
Enjoying a beautiful evening here on Front Street, downtown Mochina.
We got a lot of the businesses that led up.
The streets are lit up, and just lots of people.
You know what we probably should do is just make a quick note of some of our sponsors here
of the parade. Okay. The parade of light sponsors are the Mokina Lions Club, Krasinski
and Associates Counseling, leading solar solutions, Shannon Insurance. Okay, and the 3D light
refraction glasses, sponsors this year are Angel Drone Solutions, Nita Hand, Handingman
Services, RJ Graham Plumbing and TSS Photography Mokina. I think what you should do is you should
Where are those glasses and let's see how they look. Let's get Tim to get Tim to cut in a picture here of those glasses from our sponsors.
Yes, these are.
Fashionable.
Excellent. Very nice. Very nice.
Happy holiday.
Happy Easter.
They're looking for lights.
You see all the sparkles on the lights now, right?
Yes, I do.
Excellent.
I get it now.
Alright.
You really need to try these on because you can see snowmen in the trees.
I can see snowmen in the trees.
All right, I'll try them on okay. I am finally understanding the concept I got the concept now, but here's the only bad thing though
Is you're not supposed to be eating your candy cane while we're doing the announcing
Do
you see the snowman in the tree or is it just me? Oh, yeah, I can see the snowman
Very nice, it's
all blurry though. I need my glasses just to see
Oh, it does work if you have glasses too, so this is perfect.
And if you shake your head back and forth, you might do a little dance.
Alright, looks like we've got, is this possibly more Girl Scouts?
Yes, the brownies are pulling up the end of the troops here.
The Girl Scouts always do a great job of representing here in the parade and coming out
and a great organization for
young girls my daughter was a Girl Scout for years
she used to love this that's a great program yeah it's on her camp she used to
go to again back to the cookie sale back to that world there seems to be a
common theme with you in your old scout it's cookies cookies all right don't come
knocking on my door at a weak moment yeah to
see them all out here though yep absolutely
Absolutely. Absolutely.
Who do I have coming up after the Girl Scouts, Melissa?
It should be GearHead's Automotive. They are a family owned and operated automotive repair business.
With years of experience making sure our customers cars are fixed with top notch quality.
Excellent. They've got a truck and a float going on here. Looks like they've got candy possibly.
More candy more candy. You never have enough candy in the front.
Next
up, we've got Fortress, wellty parties. It's a craft room, game room, princess dress-up room, pamper room, and lunch room. The host children's parties. They're located just off of the grain's road.
$9,700 on $197.3, $101.
We do have a website, Fortress Relty Parties.com.
You can reach them also at 708-7100-049-049-4.
We've got the bridge and we've got an old thing going on here.
A lot of Disney princesses too.
Absolutely.
Up
is the Moquina Blaze Travel Baseball.
The Moquina Blaze is the official boys travel division
of the Mokina Baseball and Softball Association, which provides annual baseball activities for
over 1500 players in the Mokina and Lincoln Way area. The Mokina Blades features both
part-time and full-time, well-traveled baseball teams from seven years old to 14 years old.
Mokina Baseball Softball as well as the Blades offer a lot of opportunities for young men and women
to get out there and work on their sports and athletics and just get out there and enjoy
some fresh air. So great programs here in our community.
Next up is
EFR Fire and Safety Services.
Donald Roberts, our service technicians are fully licensed to ensure to service our customers.
You'll benefit from a full inspection of your fire prevention equipment and receive high quality
industrial fire extinguisher replacement parts for any and all necessary repairs.
Located right here in Moana.
They have worked on the Christmas fest in the parade.
I want to say 25. Oh, there she is. Debbie, how many years have you been working on this?
25 years at least? 25 plus years.
25 plus years. You want to sit down here for a few minutes?
The art of entertaining children for a full day on a Saturday from day early in the day to late at night.
So
we have more horns but we don't know who it is yet.
I've never seen a small car with so many Christmas lights on it.
And a tree coming out the right side.
If everything's right this should be leading solar solutions.
And Fox leading solar solutions provides leading energy solutions to increase energy efficiency and bring us all closer to a clean energy.
Leading solutions is an innovative is innovative and clean energy solutions for all our clients energy needs while increasing their energy efficiency.
They need to be charging.
Yes,
this is this.
Lyndon Oaks, Behavioral Health, offers mental health and substance abuse services in
Mokina, including outpatient services for issues including, but not limited to anxiety,
depression, mood disorders, and addiction.
All right, and next up we should have Shine FM, Shine FM strives to build relationships
that influence people for Christ and create personal connections using music
and experience. Shine FM. Looks like they've got a mascot up there. Big Tiger.
Big Tiger and of course there's candy. That's got to have candy.
Lots of elves handing out candy today. The kids are loving it.
So who should be up next Melissa? What do you think?
Next up is on the list is granite mountain
That looks like it could be granite mountain. It's a truck
Float a car and walkers instead. It should be so
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Proudner top chemistry and foreign
They have quite a few elves along with them today. Yes
You
need to reach Granamon, they can be reached at 7-7-9-803-3624.
They do have random sports and marble countertops.
As well as flooring too.
as well as fluorine too.
I'm Kevin.
Kevin, it's nice.
Nice.
After that, we've got, it looks like a UPS truck.
UPS is a store that's offering
shipping, packaging, printing, and other services
plus office supplies.
Nice.
How often does this UPS truck show up in your neighborhood?
At my house?
Oh, my house, my house, my house, my house,
my house, my house, my house, my house, my house, my house.
I'm not wondering what's being delivered, you know, that's a sign.
That's a sign.
They have a huge inflatable ranger next to them in the passing future, writing shotgun.
Yeah.
I wonder if that truck is full of packages or is it empty?
If it's full of packages, we got a lot of people upset about it.
We will be safe.
It's like it's empty.
It's empty.
They got their job done today.
Excellent.
Who's up next?
I don't know what to tell you about that but they got porta-potties on the back.
Now we're in the crate apart.
We've got a safe bathroom and we've got a driver's truck.
The rest of us are right here.
New way disposal.
They take care of all of our refuse needs here as well as the recycling and electronics recycling.
They've been doing it for a long time.
And if you have any electronics that need to be recycled you can just call their dispatcher
and they will come out and pick it up during regular garbage day so very
Christmas
together we'll build a better community we found and power the
American funders.
Well here we go this is always a fan favorite a parade
attendee favorite it's the Mary mixer from Ozinga's. Ozinga's provides quality
the bulk materials and diverse concrete solutions delivered where you need it and when you need
it with their extensive network of on a retro gas powered truss, a great organization
here in our town,
a lot of Ozinga, yes, a great showing by Ozinga, they're always very helpful
to not only our community about the surrounding communities a very good family
good organization go
ball could see a old
playing trail right on the Wolf
Road as well as a yeah
I think I think we take a breather you
have to finish with
more than a hundred of ambulance and healthcare got
quite a few ambulances here
oh really
trying to get his powers to get into
That's
like Daniel knows everybody here so next up is Chicago Plums is residential commercial and new construction plumbing services
They can be reached at 708 428 4600 or 815 463 1900
Thank
you for being part of our parade this year
to
a home veterinary services?
Um, that's a sight and smell of chaotic veterinary clinics
throw your pet into a tizzy.
You and your furry companion can wait,
stress-free in the comfort of your own home
and receive exceptional care
where they feel the safeness.
So it is a mobile veterinary clinic.
Mobile veterinary.
Nice idea.
That is a very good idea.
I have a little van here
with a bunch of inflitables on top
of animals.
Oh my God!
And Kim!
Bonus points for the candy.
Oh number 708-522-9901.
Yeah.
I can't believe the dog that's walking there is so calm.
It has so calm.
It might be shaking, laying on the ground.
Especially after all those ambience is there.
Yeah.
We've got a couple of dogs going.
Yeah.
Very nice.
And just
about the time the band is coming, so it is the train.
So, in
junior high school marching band, they do a lot of hard work and there's always a crowd pleaser.
The Volkina Junior High Marching Band led by Karen Bucin.
Let's listen in.
Junior High Marching Band, great job boys and girls.
A young men and women who was at the better way.
Absolutely.
absolutely now I think here is the big part of the parade the moment we've
been waiting all the moment we've been waiting for it's all yours Melissa the
the most popular fire.
Yeah, but land was on the back end of Santa Claus.
Yeah.
What parade, what Christmas parade would be complete unless you have the land, Santa Claus?
Santa Claus.
That's it.
2021 Christmas parade is in the books.
It was a great time.
Everybody, they can pick up their muthfulkina community calendar.
Uh, at the, uh, it's produced by the Mosque Chamber of Commerce. You can get it at the Chamber Office. Village Hall, FNB Bank, and trust as well as at Burkuts. And we should probably thank the sponsors once again, uh, the part of light sponsors where they're Mosque Alliance Club, who's in key and associates counseling, leading solar solutions and shantahan insurance, as well as our 3D light reflection glasses, the sponsor angle drone solutions, need a handyman service.
R.J. Graham plumbing as well as TSS photography and here in Mochina so thank
you Melissa for your time today filling in and look forward to seeing you
next year you know you're always welcome back so always welcome back and
everybody have a safe holiday season yep a great thanksgiving and a Merry
Christmas and a Happy New Year so thank you from Front Street Mochina probably
one of the best days we've ever had for Christmas grade 2021 thank you very
Thank you very much.
Better not cry, better not pow, I'm telling you why
Santa Claus is coming to town
He's making a list and checking it twice
Going to find out who's naughty and nice
Santa Claus is coming to town
He sees you on your sleeve
He knows when you're awake, he knows if you've been bad or good, so be good for good and safe.
Oh, you better watch out, better not cry, better not pow down, tellin' you why.
Sadder closes comin' to time, a kid's
in girl and boyland.