Issue 5 - North Canton City Schools - sparcc

FEATURES
light up the holidays
PHOTOS BY SHANNON PIFER
Holiday light guide 2003
If you’re looking for light displays more extravagant
than those found within the confines of
North Canton, but still a reasonable drive from
your home, check out the following popular
locations:
The Cleveland Metroparks Zoo hosts a
winter event, Zoolights, during the month of
December from 6-9 p.m. The park is illuminated
with Christmas lights and is lined with several
indoor facilities housing zoo animals. Cost of
admission is 5 dollars. Visit www.cleveland
zoo.com for more information.
Lakewood, near Cleveland, holds an annual
lighting festival.
Carrollton holds a light display featuring
more than 10,000 lights, ice skating and an enchanted
forest. Visit www.carrollcounty
ohio.com for further details.
The Geauga County Fairgrounds has a light
display open for viewers to drive through during
the holiday season. Visit holiday
deelights.tripod.com for more information.
12! The Viking Views! 12.19.03
Holiday cheer shown
through colorful
light displays
! North Canton homes on Radford
(above) and Stayman (left) are lit up for
the holidays. Many people choose to
decorate their houses with festive lights
to brighten up the season. Families also
enjoy driving around to see the various
lights. For information on light displays
outside of the area, see the holiday light
guide 2003 below.
his family keeps their Christmas tree up
and decorated from one Christmas to the
next. As for their outside decorations,
the Flicks put up icicle lights on their
porch and white lights on their bushes,
and, according to Flick, “usually keep
BY SARA BARR Staff Writer
them up way too long.”
North Canton residents will travel Sophomore Jessica Bender and her
down the icy roads of the town under the family don’t go as far as to keep their
dim light of the moon this December with house sprinkled with Christmas spirit
their frosted faces shielded from the bitter
through the blazing months of summer,
night by bulky scarves, snuggly-fit but do embrace the warmth of the holi-
hats and... sunglasses? That’s right: sunglasses,
day on Christmas Eve. Bender and her
to protect their eyes from the vi-
family pile into a 15-passenger van with
brant Christmas lights illuminating North their cousins and drive around “for
Canton’s neighborhoods.
hours” singing Christmas carols and looking
Marking the end of the all-you-can eat
at Christmas lights.
Thanksgiving holiday, Christmas lights “It’s really exciting,” she said of the
spark the beginning of the winter holiday,
tradition. “It’s a time to get closer to my
according to senior Heather Josif. family.”
Josif says that driving around neighborhoods
Christmas lights also bring senior
to look at lights “gets [her] in Amber Snyder’s family together during
the mood for Christmas.”
the holiday season.
Senior Kristan Piero says that Christmas
“My dad takes me out and we have a
lights are an important part of Christ-
great time drinking hot cocoa and remi-
mas celebrations everywhere.
niscing of the past Christmas years,” she
“I love the feeling of everyone coming said.
together and getting into the holiday According to Snyder, you don’t need
spirit,” she said.
to stray from the neighborhoods of North
Christmas spirit lights up senior
–Compiled by Sara Barr Kenny Flick’s house all year round, as
"See HOLIDAY, p.13