Speaker 1: Callaroga Shark Media. Hi there, I'm Johnny maclub five Good
News Christmas Stories. Today, it's the ninety third annual Hollywood
Christmas Parade. Your Grand Marshal actor Luke Wilson. You know
Luke from films like Legally Blonde, An Old School and Idiocracy.
Luke Wilson will lead the parade and make its way
down Hollywood Boulevard at six pm today. If you can't
make it tonight, it'll be on the CW network on
December twelfth. Luke Wilson said, I'm honored to serve as
the Grand Marshal of this year's Hollywood Christmas Parade, joining
an esteemed list of Hollywood legends, and I'm excited to
support Marine Toys for Tots to bring joy to children
to need this holiday season. Anthony Anderson was named the
Parade's Humanitarian of the Year for his work with various
nonprofit organizations. Parade organizers specifically called out his work in
organizing the Anthony Anderson Celebrity Golf Classic. Anderson said, I'm
so thrilled to be honored with the Humanitarian Award for
this year's Hollywood Parade. This is a tremidous honor, and
I'm so thankful to be acknowledged from my charity work
by such a respected establishment in the Hollywood community. The
paride will be hosted by Eric Estrada and Laura Mackenzie,
co hosted by Elizabeth Stanton and Montel Williams. Appearing in
the parade ventriloquist Terry Fates were not sure how that
works in a parade, but sure. The parade will travel
three point two miles on a U shaped route, starting
at Arrange Street in Hollywood Boulevard, traveling east on the Boulevard, Divine,
south on Vine to Sunset, West on Sunset back to
Orange Street. The praide's been held every year since nineteen
twenty eight, except during that beskie World War II, and
in twenty twenty there was that annoying pandemic. It was
first held in nineteen twenty eight and was known as
the Santa Claus Lane Parade. The first Grand Marshall in
nineteen thirty two is comedian Joe E.
Speaker 2: Brown. The USPS has kicked off Operation Sanna once again.
They could use a little help. The program requires people
to adopt letters from individuals or whole families, then by
the presence mentioned in the given letters. Those who adopt
letters should ship gifts no later than December thirteenth. You
got to get moving. This year, USPS is placing a
special emphasis on adopting family letters, including a new way
to do it as a team to help insure letters
from the same household or adopt it and fulfilled together.
Go to USPS Operation Santa dot com to learn more.
In Moxville, they open up the holiday season with the
tenth ANNUALSWA was the night before bed Race. Sixteen teams
made a mad dash down Main Street. Race announcer Justin
Blue kept the crowd cheering. He hosted some tricycle races,
a rock paper scissors contest, and partner wheelbarrow races. The
fastest team just for fun they won two hundred bucks.
The runners up, Chad Pack, collected one hundred twenty five dollars,
and in third place the Green Metals Baptist Church Green
Metals Mission Ie seventy five bucks. Another one hundred dollars
total package prize went to the Moxville Dentistry Tooth Ferries
for having the best overall appearance and a combination of
bed decoration, message and costumes. In Philadelphia, the Christmas Village
is open. You'll find that in Center City. Admission is free.
Visitors can stroll through Love Park and City Hall to
enjoy holiday food, drinks, and local shopping no admission price.
It's now in its eighteenth year. The village features a
thirty foot German Christmas pyramid, which lights up today. New
treats this year include loaded baked potatoes that alone might
make me make the drive down from Jersey, sweet churls,
and festivecraft cocktails served in ornament shaped glasses at the
Snowflake Cocktail Bar. There's also a Festival of Trees with
nearly two dozen beautifully decorated evergreens, one hundred and twenty
vendors on sites selling handmade gifts and holiday foods. Families
can enjoy a double deck carousel, a ferris wheel, a
children's train, traditional German dishes, hot chocolate, apple cider, and
the beer garden fill the Reindeers there Sanna's there Friday
through Sunday. On December fourth, eleventh, eighteenth you'll find thirsty
Thursday drink specials. It's one of Phillyse biggest holiday traditions
and a great place to get in the Christmas spirit
and if you're looking for my wife, she's watching Christmas movies.
Some of them may possibly include just like a Christmas movie.
Marley Collins stars as Emily, a cynical workaholic who gets
zipped by faulty Christmas lights. Oh No. Following the misapp
she decides to turn up the Christmas spirit in her
small town, finding herself cast as a lead and a
wildly cheesy Hallmark movie, We've Gone Meta. I love it.
How about twenty twenty threes? Meet me at the Christmas
train parade? You see, after Charlotte's son Benny learns of
an old Christmas tradition, he tries to make it happen.
What is the tradition? A Christmas train connects four towns? Interesting?
You'll find that on Real One and Royally Yours This
Christmas Prince James mistakes Neve for a wealthy hotel guest
and falls in love with her, not realizing she's a
single mother and the hotel housekeeper. You'll also find that
on Real One Entertainment. Those I your five good news
Christmas stories for today. Ho Ho Ho