With the turkey and pumpkin pie a fading memory, we turn our attention to a busy December, filled with the traditional shopping, wrapping and celebrating, along with a full slate of local activities to keep us all busy.
Belle Plaine’s annual holiday kickoff takes place Saturday and Sunday. “A Christmas Homecoming” offers a wide variety of activities for all ages, including lunch with Santa, Santa’s workshop and a free movie for the kids, a cookie walk, incentives for local shoppers including free gift wrapping, a Belle Plaine Buck rebate for local purchases and a raffle for $100 in Belle Plaine Bucks, a cookie walk, horse drawn wagon rides, tree lighting ceremony, an international dessert time at the Belle Plaine Area Museum, soup supper at Christ United Methodist Church and the annual “Prelude to Christmas “ community concert at the church Sunday night.
A complete schedule of events can be found on our “news” tab on this site and will be updated later this week.
The first week of December is traditionally the start of full scale activities in winter high school sports. The 13th-rated Plainsman girls basketball squad hosts Sigourney tonight (Monday). The boys will be on the road at North Tama, where fans can either pay the regular admission or enter by bringing three canned goods for the North Tama food drive. The girls and the boys travel to North Mahaska on Tuesday and the wrestlers open action that night at Gladbrook-Reinbeck North Tama with Don Bosco.
Friday night, the the basketball teams are at BGM, a change from the original schedule. On Saturday, the Belle Plaine wrestlers host several teams in the annual Plainsman Invitational.