Kids to sell refreshments during parade
Published 10:52 pm Friday, December 9, 2011
It’s going to be a cold Christmas parade this year. Don’t you wish there would be a hot chocolate stand along the route?
Here’s some good news for parade spectators — some local children have decided to sell hot chocolate, apple cider, cookies and brownies on Saturday night and use their proceeds to buy gifts for names on the Angel Tree.
“Me and Kayleigh wanted to make money and help people,” said 6-year-old Alyssa Manning.
Alyssa and friend Kayleigh Williams, 9, were talking about the parade when they hatched the plan, said Alyssa’s mother, Jenna Hubbard.
“This is something the kids came up with,” she said. “It’s teaching them a lesson — you work, you get the money, you buy something and you donate it to someone else. They’ve told a lot of people about it.”
Alyssa’s cousin Trevor Hubbard, also 6, will be helping out, as well as potentially some other children from the neighborhood.
“I really want to do it because I want to be nice and help other people,” Alyssa said. “I was thinking about giving them some clothes.”
Alyssa will help her mother and father bake cookies and brownies and prepare the beverages on Saturday morning. They plan to set up the stand somewhere near the train station on North Main Street, where the reviewing stand will be. Every item will cost $1.
The parade begins at 7 p.m. and will march up Western Avenue from the Riverview neighborhood, turn right onto North Main Street, turn right on West Washington Street and turn right again on Henley Place, disbanding at the municipal center parking lot.