Merry Christmas! The yard decorating contest was a huge success. So many lights and airborne wiggles throughout the town. The winners have been declared: first place, Jim and Shantel Higgins; second place, Ora Rathbone; third place, Roger and Nancy Holcomb. Honorable mention includes Jonathan and Candy Burden, Bessie Mortensen, Kevin and Denise Roche, and Joe and Julie Shinkle.
A big thank you to the efforts and to the fun the above group has given to the community this year. Be sure to take a drive around and enjoy the displays.
The Santa Box located at the firehouse has been busy â keep it full. Thanks to those helpers also, and to all of you, for watching over neighbors and including them in your fun.
The Santa Box is pictured on Main Street in Johnstown. (Photo submitted)
JOHNSTOWN After a dozen years of acting as Santa Claus for kids in the Johnstown community, local businesswoman Evamarie Mraz is ready to let someone else give it a try.
“I’ve absolutely enjoyed it,” the saintly volunteer said Wednesday. “The kids are resilient.”
Mraz, assisted by her family, has answered the letters of little children placed in the red Santa Box in front of her downtown A&E Sportswear store  The embroidery shop is located at 25 West Main St.
She said that for the last 12 years the letters to Santa that have been put in this mailbox, she has answered.’