CHRISTMAS ACRES
The Christian Needs Center will be receiving a boost from this year’s Christmas Acres donations. Rob Scheitler says donations totaled an estimated $15,500. A snowstorm, then bitter cold, and in the last week of December, rain, caused fewer opportunities to turn on the lighted displays. Scheitler says rain tends to overload their circuit breakers, and bitter cold curtails electricity usage. Donations totaled 27-thousand dollars last year, and 42-thousand in 2020. All cash donations are given to the Christian Needs Center of Le Mars. Scheitler says they continue to receive other donations. These include street decorations from area towns, or private displays from other parts of the area. These are added on each year to the Christmas Acres display. Visitors come from all over Iowa and surrounding states to see Christmas Acres. Scheitler says next year’s tentative opening will be November 17.
