Friday, January 17, 2025
The town of Lakeview takes holiday season very seriously! The Lakeview Civic Association usually does a tree lighting for their townsfolk. That remains one and the same.
However, this year, the LCA partnered with the NAACP to give their community members more joy, more gifts, and more culture. For those who don’t know, NAACP stands for the National Association for the Advancement of colored people. Lakeview has its own chapter in the NAACP.
Those organizers, mixed with the town’s own make sure the event went off without a hitch. They gave away hot chocolate, gift bags, s’mores, Christmas necklaces, headbands, and much more. There was a Caribbean food truck, parked outside, for profit, of course. But pretty much everything else was being given away as a donation.
There were heartfelt performances, mostly by children that live in the area. There was one performance done by two men, donning Greek letters. They had Santa Claus dressed up, waiting by the tree and walking around and greeting others. The Lakeview fire department was present, and they brought their truck. Even Lakeview person of the year in 2024, Mike Joyce was there in his ex-chief uniform.
