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The winners have been announced in the 2023 Sedalia Christmas Light Contest. Xi Beta Upsilon, a chapter of Beta Sigma Phi in conjunction with the Mayor Andrew Dawson and the Sedalia City Council selected the three winners from a field of colorful contenders for the best in town in the 43rd annual outdoor lighting contest.
The history of Christmas trees goes back to the symbolic use of evergreens in ancient Egypt and Rome and continues with the German tradition of candlelit Christmas trees first brought to America in the 1800s.