Christmas Stories - Luke Wilson and The Hollywood Christmas Parade

0:03 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

1:33 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. 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.

2:16 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.

2:59 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.

3:56 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