The 8th annual Grass Lake Festival of Lights brought the community holiday music, a jolly Santa, and a lot of cookies.
GRASS LAKE, MI – The eight annual Grass Lake Festival of Lights brought the village holiday music, a jolly Santa, and a lot of cookies.
“It’s a community coming together.” said Sara Cobb-Starrett, in her second year as the event leader. “We’re a small community and so many people know each other. It’s like bumping into friends at every door step.”
The theme this year was Santa’s Fairy Forest.
In the morning, there was breakfast with Santa at the Grass Lake Fire Department, 1222 E. Michigan Ave. Then local businesses baked 350 cookies to hand out to participants and hosted arts and crafts in their buildings.
Sarrah Giorgi, 8, and Damien Guthrie, 10, visited the festival for the first time. Their favorite thing about the day was the fairies distributed at the Grass Lake Senior Center. They showed others on a wagon ride the ones they had selected.
In the afternoon, Santa was at the Fairy Forest before the parade. Twenty-five different groups were to participate in the lighted procession.
A lighting of the tree was to follow. Santa was expected to choose a child to activate the lights on a big pine tree at the Whistlestop Depot on E. Michigan Avenue.
“This is a really cool event.” Nicole Frambes said during her first visit to the festival. She thinks it will be something her grandchildren will never forget.
