Christmas Volunteers Ready for Busy Holiday Season

As the community looks forward to Thanksgiving and the wonderful holiday season that surrounds the celebration of Christmas, the thirty or so elves that run Christmas Island Style and its multiple events continue to plan and prepare for a month of wonderment and joy for the Marco Island Community. Wanda Burson, who is the Chairperson of the all-volunteer committee, is looking forward to a very festive and busy Christmas Season.

The organization has seen one of its major fundraisers fall victim to a busy hurricane season as the Wayne Purvis Christmas Golf Outing had to be canceled due to Hurricane Helene. “Many of those foursomes and hole sponsors graciously donated their support back to the charity,” said Sandi Simms Ramage, who has chaired the event for the last several years.

This last weekend the Ho-Ho-Ho Lets Raise Some Dough fundraiser at Marco Lutheran Church was a continued great success said Allyson Richards who chairs that event. “We can’t help but thank all of those who contributed to the success surrounding that event. Our business community and the residents were certainly a driving force in that regard,” said both Sims-Ramage and Richards.

The group has also sold sixty of the seven-foot-tall angels that adorn the streets and lawns around the island. “Our volunteers have been very busy delivering those angels that were ordered over this last year. We should be ready to finalize the remaining deliveries as soon as they arrive over the next couple of weeks,” commented Barb Dasti who coordinates that effort and serves as treasurer of the group.

All of the Christmas Island Style Events can be found on the group’s website at www.christmasislandstyle.com, as well as application forms for the street and boat parades. There are no application fees for participation in any of those events, or for admission to them.

As well as visiting the CIS website, the Coastal Breeze News will be listing all of the events within the newspaper’s weekly calendar of events.