Christmas Stories - Santa to visit Green Bay's Lambeau Field

0:03 Callaroga Shark Media. Hi there, Johnny Mack with five good news Christmas stories. Today in Compton, it's the seventieth annual Compton Christmas Parade. Seventy years that's pretty impressive. The parade starts today at eleven, starting at Bullets Road. It'll complete at Alameda. We're gonna just say Compton City Council, Compton Unified School District, bands, Compton Cowboys and car clubs will be involved. Santa is gonna make an appearance, and the celebration continues afterward at Wilson Park. Your Grand Marshall today two time Grammy nominated multi platinum rapper, producer, entrepreneur, and Compton native Jason the Game Tailor. The mayor said, the Compton Christmas Parade is a celebration of our city's unity, culture and pride. As we mark this seventy year milestone.

0:51 We're honored to welcome The Game, one of Compton's own, to lead this year's parade and help us celebrate the spirit and strength that made our city so special. The Game said, coming, It's just where I'm from. It's made me who I am, shape my music and drives everything I do. It's the fire behind every bar and why I keep grinding and giving back. Meanwhile in Green Bay, Santa He's busy, but he's got that magic sled. He can get places pretty quickly. Between one and three, Santa Claus will be at lambeau Field. Families are invited to have their photo taken with Santa Claus. Photos will be captured from the North End zone platform of the lambeau Field Bowl. Packer's staff will assist fans with photos. No professional photographer, They'll use your own phone. That's actually better, right, Like they're not gonna like hook you up for like, hey, you gotta pay twenty five dollars for this photo. Nope, use your own device. That's pretty cool. To learn more of VI is it packers Hof and tours dot com.

1:37 So in the middle there that's Packers hof a n D tours dot Com. Some more Christmas books if you're looking to have something to read or perhaps by present for your wife. I'm just saying. Some of the top picks include Winter Street by Ellen Hildebrand, a classic Nantucket set family saga full of holiday dysfunction and charm. How about Good Spirits by BK. Borson, a paranormal twist on a Christmas carol featuring a ghost who falls in love. By the way, I'll promote on the Christmas pop up channel, We're rerunning from two years ago our ghost podcast Ghost Scary Stories. We did the twelve Ghosts of Christmas and we're rerunning those on the Christmas pop Up Channel, So check out that podcast feed. Christina Lauran wrote in A Holiday's Daze, a witty time loop romance about second chances.

2:22 Becker Freeman's The Christmas Orphans Club is a heartfeld New York story of found family and friendship. Lori Gilmour is the Christmas Tree Firm, tells us of a small town love story trapped in a snowstorm. Hey, do you have one of those old ugly sweaters and you want to wear it to work? Well, the United Way has come up with Ugly Sweater Day. It's Friday, December nineteenth. Here's what you do. You pay your boss five bucks to where your ugly Christmas sweater to work. Employeers are asked to notify the United Way that they're participating by Friday, the twelfth. United Way director jan Ita says, in twenty twenty three, we brought back ugly Sweater Day. I was excited to think, you know, maybe make five hundred, six hundred bucks. I was blown away three hundred and seventy participants and eighteen hundred dollars for our campaign. In twenty twenty four more people three hundred and seventy five and it raised twenty one hundred and seventy three dollars. Wanita says, this is a definitely fun, beneficial event for the United Way, and we love getting the pictures of the various individuals and groups. Ugly sweaters was a trend in the nineteen fifties.

3:21 It went away for a while, and it came back in the eighties, then it went away again, then it came back in two thousand and one when for some reason, ugly sweaters came back around. When eighty says, life is actic around the holidays, everyone's asking for help as well. This event is simple fun for participants to share with coworkers' families and even churches. It's a chance to be silly with low investment, only five bucks per participant. Here's some more gift ideas for you. This list is for people who want their house to smell expensive all right. Number one the tomato vine candle for people who wish they lived in a greenhouse. That's right, it's Cobos tomato vine soy candle, which told it smells like you just brushed past tomato plants in July. Green, leafy and a little earthy. You'll find that one at Barnes and Nobles.

4:05 That'll run you around thirty three bucks. How about a literal snowball that you set on fire. It's Costa Bodhis Snowball Votive Campbell holder. It's a classic Scandinavian glass that looks like a snowball. You can find that on online retailers including a Bloomingdale's an Amazon. That'll run you around forty five bucks. How about a hand cream that smells like tomato leaves and geraniums. It's Norfolk Natural Livings geranium and tomato leaf hand cream. Good for gardner's cooks or anyone whose hands are wrecked but hates floral Grandma sens eighteen to twenty two bucks. You'll find that at Norfolk Naturalliving dot com. Perhaps I can interest you in some bath salts that look and smell like a Gothic Italian holiday. That's right, it's the Ambra nera bath salts, rich amber spice in a very dramatic packaging. You'd put some in the tub. Suddenly you're in a moody Sicilian palazzo having feelings.

4:55 That'll run you eighteen to twenty five bucks for smaller packs if you want to make back forty five. You'll find that at Ortigia Cecilia's US website and retailers like Beauty, Habit and one more The Please let Me Sleep until January bath. It's Neil Yord's Beauty Sleep foaming bath. We're told it's lavender e herbal and design to knock you gently towards actual rest. Well, you don't want to fall asleep in the bathtub. I'm not sure what we're doing here, John ag to twenty five bucks. You'll find it at Neil Jord's US website. We're told it will give you you survive this year. Go lie in hot water energy. But again, do not fall asleep in the bathtub. That would be terrible. Knows your five Good News Christmas stories for today. Have an awesome day.