Deadline Here to Sign Up for Lighted Christmas Parade

A reminder that today is the final day to sign up for the 2024 Lighted Christmas Parade through downtown Effingham.

The parade will take place on Saturday evening, December 7 as part of the annual Downtown Effingham Hometown Christmas.

The Hometown Christmas on the 7th will be presented by HSHS St. Anthony's Memorial Hospital. The event will include horse-drawn carriage rides, tractor train rides, live reindeer, and Christmas and Disney characters.

Scheduled events will include downtown Christmas shopping from 10am to 3pm, Lunch w/Santa at Joe's Pizza and Pastafrom 11:30am to 3pm, and Santa's Workshop in the heated tent in the City parking lot from 3 to 5pm. The parade will begin at 5pm at Beanstalk Boutique and head east on Jefferson to 4th Street, and north on 4th to Santa's House.