Help get Hill City in the holiday spirit

Hill City’s Old Tyme Christmas is a popular event to kick off the Christmas season, with a festive old-fashioned home-town parade with lighted floats and community spirit. The event typically takes place the Friday after Thanksgiving. This year, the downtown merchants committee is asking for community members to get in the holiday spirit a little bit earlier. 

Committee chairman Pete Stach is asking for community help to sort, test and hang 75,000 lights on 43 of the street light poles in downtown Hill City.

The lights are currently in storage at the Hill City Visitors Information Center. 

“Since we have the lights, thanks to Carl Doaty,” said Stach, “we want to decorate downtown.” 

The committee is looking for help in various forms. Volunteers are needed to sort and test lights ahead of time, groups to help hang lights leading up to the event and adult supervisors to help direct youth volunteers. 

“There’s a lot of energy in the youth here, and they’ve helped us tremendously,” said Stach. “I know they’ve got the energy, we just need that energy directed toward 75,000 lights.”

“Hill City is just a Hallmark type of town for this kind of thing,” said Stach. “People love this community anyway. Let’s give them a really good excuse to come up here.”

“In my heart, it’ll be just magical,” Stach said.

Volunteers can contact Stach at 605-209-8413 or email at postalh209@hot

mail.com.