{"id":5392,"date":"2019-12-06T11:27:38","date_gmt":"2019-12-06T17:27:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elktonky.com\/?p=5392"},"modified":"2019-12-06T11:27:38","modified_gmt":"2019-12-06T17:27:38","slug":"christmas-in-elkton-and-parade-saturday-december-14","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elktonky.com\/es\/events\/christmas-in-elkton-and-parade-saturday-december-14\/","title":{"rendered":"Christmas in Elkton and Parade Saturday December 14"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 12pt;\">Visit historic Elkton, Kentucky this year for a down home Christmas celebration. On Saturday, December 14, 2019, the city of Elkton and our local businesses invite you to Elkton, Kentucky to help us celebrate &#8220;Christmas in Elkton.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 12pt;\">Join us in the quiet little town of Elkton and visit our unique gift shops, boutiques and local eateries. Many local businesses will have open house, special sales, and other activities throughout the day. Also, be sure to stop in the Welcome Center in the Historic 1835 Courthouse to warm up with free refreshments.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/elktonky.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/10259071_10153937336823690_3074999635654447392_o.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4575 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/elktonky.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/10259071_10153937336823690_3074999635654447392_o-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/elktonky.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/10259071_10153937336823690_3074999635654447392_o-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/elktonky.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/10259071_10153937336823690_3074999635654447392_o-1024x681.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/elktonky.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/10259071_10153937336823690_3074999635654447392_o-768x511.jpg 768w, https:\/\/elktonky.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/10259071_10153937336823690_3074999635654447392_o.jpg 1504w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Following a morning of shopping around town, the Elkton Christmas parade will start at 2:00 PM, which leaves Todd County Central High School on South Main Street then heading north towards Public Square, exiting the Square on West Main Street and ending at the Milliken Memorial Community House. The parade features floats and entries from local businesses, schools and churches. Please note traffic will be blocked to Public Square starting around 1:30 PM until all festivities are over.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 12pt;\">The Grand Marshalls of the parade this year were selected to honor veterans of World War II currently living in Todd County. Those honorees and their branch of service are Bryan Blount, Army; Carmon Crafton, Navy; <a href=\"https:\/\/elktonky.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/DSC_2850.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4625 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/elktonky.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/DSC_2850-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/elktonky.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/DSC_2850-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/elktonky.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/DSC_2850-683x1024.jpg 683w, https:\/\/elktonky.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/DSC_2850-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/elktonky.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/DSC_2850-1024x1536.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/elktonky.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/DSC_2850-1365x2048.jpg 1365w, https:\/\/elktonky.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/DSC_2850-scaled.jpg 1707w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a>Bill Addison, Air Force; and Henry Malone, Navy. The city of Elkton is proud to honor these heroes for their service to our country.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 12pt;\">Immediately following the parade at about 3:00 PM, Santa Claus will visit with everyone at the Milliken Memorial Community House located at 208 West Main Street. There will be free digital pictures with Santa Claus and free refreshments until 5:00 PM. Also, sponsor B.R. Knuckles Insurance will be giving away goodie bags!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 12pt;\">Other sponsors of this year\u2019s event include the City of Elkton, Bruce Rager Upholstery, El Torito Mexican Restaurant, Elkton Bank and Trust Co., Five Star, Jessie\u2019s Heating and Air, Pennyrile Rural Electric, and United Southern Bank.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 12pt;\">For more information about \u201cChristmas in Elkton,\u201d please visit www.elktonky.com or call the Welcome Center at 270-265-7070. <\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Visit historic Elkton, Kentucky this year for a down home Christmas celebration&#8230;.<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/elktonky.com\/es\/events\/christmas-in-elkton-and-parade-saturday-december-14\/\">Leer m\u00e1s &quot;<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":368,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_price":"","_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_header":"","_tribe_default_ticket_provider":"","_tribe_ticket_capacity":"0","_ticket_start_date":"","_ticket_end_date":"","_tribe_ticket_show_description":"","_tribe_ticket_show_not_going":false,"_tribe_ticket_use_global_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_global_stock_level":"","_global_stock_mode":"","_global_stock_cap":"","_tribe_rsvp_for_event":"","_tribe_ticket_going_count":"","_tribe_ticket_not_going_count":"","_tribe_tickets_list":"[]","_tribe_ticket_has_attendee_info_fields":false,"footnotes":"","_tec_slr_enabled":"","_tec_slr_layout":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5392","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-events"],"featured_image_src":"https:\/\/elktonky.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/ChristmasInElktonLogo21-e1348846008449.jpg","blog_images":{"medium":"https:\/\/elktonky.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/ChristmasInElktonLogo21-e1348846008449.jpg","large":"https:\/\/elktonky.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/ChristmasInElktonLogo21-e1348846008449.jpg"},"ams_acf":[],"ticketed":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elktonky.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5392","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elktonky.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elktonky.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elktonky.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elktonky.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5392"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/elktonky.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5392\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elktonky.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/368"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elktonky.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elktonky.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elktonky.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}