DECKING DOWNTOWN
HEIDI DESCH | Hagadone News Network | UPDATED 5 years, 4 months AGO
Dawn Oehlerich holds up a snowflake attached to the garland as volunteers work to hang the winter decorations downtown Sunday morning. (Heidi Desch/Whitefish Pilot)
Volunteers hang the winter decorations downtown Sunday morning. (Heidi Desch/Whitefish Pilot)
A lineman from Flathead Electric Co-op attaches garland to a light pole downtown Sunday morning. (Heidi Desch/Whitefish Pilot)
Trinity Workman holds a section of garland Sunday morning downtown. (Heidi Desch/Whitefish Pilot)
Volunteers hang the winter decorations downtown Sunday morning. (Heidi Desch/Whitefish Pilot)
Volunteers hang the winter decorations downtown Sunday morning. (Heidi Desch/Whitefish Pilot)
Dan Fischer holds one end of garland as volunteers hang winter decorations downtown Sunday morning. (Heidi Desch/Whitefish Pilot)
Volunteers hung the winter decorations downtown Sunday morning. (Heidi Desch/Whitefish Pilot)
Mike Muldown lets go as a section of garland is lifted Sunday morning near Depot Park. (Heidi Desch/Whitefish Pilot)
Josh Gansel, with the City of Whitefish, attaches a lantern to a light pole on Central Avenue downtown Sunday morning. (Heidi Desch/Whitefish Pilot)
Heidi Desch is features editor and covers Flathead County for the Daily Inter Lake. She previously served as managing editor of the Whitefish Pilot, spending 10 years at the newspaper and earning honors as best weekly newspaper in Montana. She was a reporter for the Hungry Horse News and has served as interim editor for The Western News and Bigfork Eagle. She is a graduate of the University of Montana. She can be reached at hdesch@dailyinterlake.com or 406-758-4421. | November 24, 2019 10:52 AM
Whitefish was decorated for the winter season on Sunday morning.
Volunteers strung lighted garland punctuated with red bells, snowflakes and wreaths throughout downtown signaling the beginning of the holiday season. The decorations are a tradition that have brightened town for more than 50 years.
A group of dedicated volunteers have been repairing, replacing, improving and hanging and taking down those same decorations every winter season.
The nonprofit Whitefish Shines takes donations for the materials to keep the tradition alive. To donate to the decoration project, Whitefish Shines, P.O. Box 695 Whitefish, MT 59937.
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