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King Komments:Bring A Little of the Heartland to White Plains
Posted on Monday, December 02 @ 21:48:05 EST by jfbailey
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WPCNR KING KOMMENTS By White Plains Councilman William King. December 2, 2002:The Councilman went home for Thanksgiving to good old Wheaton, Illinois, and files this report on a Thanksgiving downtown promotion for White Plains.
I was back in the Chicago area over Thanksgiving, where I grew up. Wheaton is like White Plains. Wheaton is the county seat of DuPage County right outside of Chicago and has tall apt. buildings near the train station, single family homes everywhere else, and a downtown that is probably 3-5 years ahead of ours, with all nice stores, home grown plus chains including Starbucks, etc.
Anyway, they have a tradition going now that is very popular - a night-time holiday celebration the day after Thanksgiving. We missed a little parade they have (probably like the one in White Plains that is on a Saturday late morning) but they also have high school kids dressed up in various character costumes standing in front of stores that gets the little kids excited (they had Barney, the Grinch, Cinderalla, Blue from Blue's Clues, someone dressed up as a large slice of pizza in front of a Pizza restaurant, Darth Vader, etc. ... everybody but SpongeBob Square Pants). Cinderella was actually inside a jewelry store, maybe because it was so cold but it also drew people into the store, including us.
Central Park Carriages in White Plains?
They also had horse-drawn carriage rides where they suggested a donation and a free hot chocolate stand (that ran out of hot chocolate). The carriages, which we waited a half hour for, went around a loop maybe 4 blocks in 5 minutes.
It was a relatively inexpensive way to create some local excitement - people came from all around as Wheaton's event has drawn attention, such that other suburbs are copying them. We should copy Wheaton and then other towns in Westchester will copy us.
Councilman William King
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