Since this is the month of the Christmas tour, if I wrote the Above & Beyond that managed to recognize everyone who helps out with the tour, the newsletter would have to be 20 pages long. Carrie Doyle, our Ways and Means chair, wrangles hundreds of volunteers to make the tour happen. An incredible amount of work goes into managing the tour, so thank you to the:
- homeowners
- folks who answer the phones & handle the tickets
- guides
- train museum volunteers
- volunteers at the houses
- greeters and volunteers at Calvary Church
- folks who handle the luminaria
- bundlers and hangers of greens (shout out to the crew of the show Manhunter who hung some of the greens this year because of their filming on Beech Ave)
- maker of 50+ holly pins for the tour guides
- hosts and volunteers for the volunteer party (very meta)
- booklet designer (Thanks Greg!) and the folks who solicited ads and grants from local businesses
- folks who cleaned up the streets and the neighbors who moved their cars
We literally couldn’t have done it without you! (Hope you had an awesome time at the volunteer part at Mitchell & Elaine’s).