Another Successful Year for Marshfield Rotary Winter Wonderland
Wednesday, January 2nd, 2019 -- 9:00 AM
(WDLB) -Marshfield's annual holiday light display has gone dark for another season.Longtime volunteer Dennis Boucher (boo-SHAY) threw the switch for the final time on New Year's Eve, one of the slowest nights of the year for the Rotary Winter Wonderland display in Wildwood Park featuring more than one-point-five million lights. Korey and Suzanne Boyd of Spencer and their four children took in the light display on its final night. Hunter Boyd said he appreciated the effort of those who put it all together.
Korey said they try to get out to the light display every year. The holiday light display is used each year to collect donations for 30 area food pantries in central Wisconsin. Boucher said donations had eclipsed the 57-thousand mark in the final hours of operation Monday night.
The Rotary display enjoyed its single-biggest food donation night on December 15th, when 68-hundred items came in. 47-hundred items came in on Dec. 8. 43-hundred donations were collected on the Saturday before Christmas.
The Rotary Winter Wonderland has provided over a half-million food items since its inception in 2006. Volunteers will be needed later this month to take down the lights. Take-down dates have yet to be determined, and depend on the weather. Individuals 12 years old and older are preferred. For more information, visit www.rotarywinterwonderland.com.
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