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AT THE BLUE EARTH PLAZA
MANHATTAN, KANSAS
In accordance with local ordinances,
The Festival of Lights Online Illumination Celebration
will be aired Friday November 27th, 2020 at 7pm on Facebook Live!
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The grand display can be enjoyed from November 27 through January 1st. Please practice social distancing and personal safety measures, or view from your car and tune your radio to 88.1FM to watch the lights dance to music! Plus drop a letter in Santa's mailbox and expect a reply!
THE FESTIVAL OF LIGHTS IS BROUGHT
TO YOU BY LOCAL BUSINESSES
FOR THE GREATER MANHATTAN COMMUNITY
Whoville, Inc. is a group of local Manhattan business owners and community leaders who love to give back. They formed a not-for-profit collective in order to create the Festival of Lights.
Their mission is to bring our community closer together by providing curated events and magical displays that are open to the public throughout the holidays. The Festival of Lights has been embraced by Manhattan for eight years now and has become a place to create family traditions and lifetime memories. The Festival of Lights is fully funded annually by generous local individuals and businesses.
IT ALL STARTED WITH AN IDEA...
It was springtime in 2013, tulips blossoming, trees swaying in the wind...and the foundation at the south end of Manhattan freshly settled. Poyntz Avenue was shaping up with new businesses opening and just beyond, the town had expanded to include a diverse array of new opportunities for our community: The Discovery Center, Hilton Garden Inn, Blue Earth Place, Candlewood Suites and Fairfield Inn anchored the newly named Blue Earth Plaza, and in 2014 were followed by Radina’s Bakehouse, CivicPlus and the Holiday Inn Express & Suites.
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It was longtime local businessman, Colin Noble, who first had the vision to inaugurate the area with a grand holiday tree in Blue Earth Plaza. He called upon Brad Everett & Gwyn Riffel to expand the idea, wherein Wade Radina joined, ultimately forming Whoville, Inc. It was this group of leaders, together with Ward Morgan and June Schnittker of Master Landscape, Inc. who caused a simple idea of a holiday tree to expand into Manhattan's Festival of Lights! And so the overarching goal in one short year has grown into a commitment by this group and many more to hold an annual event at the beginning of the holiday season to bring our community together in celebration.
Be part of something spectacular!
Master landscape, inc.
Kansas Pro Sound
Candlewood Suites
Charlson & Wilson Insurance Agency
CivicPlus
Fairfield Inn
Foley Equipment
Heineken Electric
Holiday Inn Express & Suites
Hy-Vee
KS StateBank
kstate CREDIT UNION
Steel & Pipe Supply Company
Thomas Outdoor Advertising
4
Calling Birds
$5,000+
3
french hens
$2,500+
Tri City Fence
Community First National Bank
BriggsAuto.com
Hayden & Kohlmeier Orthodontics
Holiday Display Services
Home Depot
JNT company
Midwest Concrete Materials
Palmer Law Group LLP
Radina's Bakehouse
Redi Systems, Inc
WTC
Site Box Storage
JS Sign & Awning
Bayer Construction Company, Inc.
Capitol Federal Savings
Central National Bank
City of Manhattan
ERA High Pointe Realty
Holiday Inn at the Campus
Insomnia Cookies
Jerry & Belinda Snyder
Landmark National Bank
Manhattan Chamber of Commerce
Manhattan Parks & Recreation Department
Manko
Meraki Rouse Home Design
2
turtle doves
$1,000+
Santa's
helpers
$50+
The Mercury
AJ's NY Pizzeria
Bob & Tracey DeBruyn
Christian & Associates Real Estate
Coldwell Banker Real Estate Advisors
Commerce Bank
Pepsi
Bourbon & Baker
Harry's
Tallgrass Taphouse
Charlson & Wilson Bonded Abstracters
Downtown Manhattan, Inc.
Jason "The Grinch" Disberger
Arthur-Green LLP
Murdock Manhattan
Seaton, Seaton & Dierks
Gary & Elaine Gordon
Jayson & Elizabeth Cyr
Manhattan Fire Dept
The Garcia Family
Haven Realty Group a KW One Legacy Partner
5
GOLDEN RINGS
$10,000+
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