WATCH NOW: Village rekindles Twelfth Night celebration with caroling, bonfire and hot chocolate
PLEASANT PRAIRIE — The village rekindled its love for warmth of community winter gatherings with its annual Twelfth Night tradition at the RecPlex Wruck Beach Pavilion Thursday night, Jan. 6, 2022.
About 150 people turned out for the event, coordinated through the Pleasant Prairie Convention and Visitors Bureau and the local historical society.
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Tommy Aikens, left, with wife McKenna and children Parker, 4, and Emery, 6, of Pleasant Prairie attend the village’s annual Twelfth Night celebration, which included the Christmas Tree bonfire at Wruck Beach Thursday. Residents brought more than 100 trees to be disposed of via bonfire following the holidays, village officials said. About 150 people turned out for the event, coordinated through the Pleasant Prairie Convention and Visitors Bureau and the local historical society. More photos from the event can be found online at kenoshanews.com
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Families turn out to enjoy the annual Twelfth Night celebration at the Wruck Beach Pavilion of the RecPlex in Pleasant Prairie Thursday night, Jan. 6, 2022. More than 150 people attended the event.
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Dan Petitte, left, the inaugural honorary holiday "cheer meister" for Pleasant Prairie's annual Twelfth Night celebration assists Trever Schoenfeld, a fire-medic with the village fire department with the lighting of the bonfire Thursday, Jan. 6, 2022.
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Michelle Williamson, left, Pleasant Prairie Convention and Visitors Bureau executive director stands alongside Dan Petitte of Pleasant Prairie, who was dubbed the honorary inaugural holiday "cheer meister" for the village's Twelfth Night celebration on Thursday, Jan. 6, 2022.
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A crowd gathers to sing Christmas carols around a bonfire that includes more than 100 Christmas trees disposed of safely with the help of the Pleasant Prairie Fire Department during the Twelfth Night celebration on Thursday, Jan. 6, 2022. Caroling was led by volunteers from the Church of Jesus Christ Latter Day Saints,
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A village firefighter accepts a last-minute Christmas tree donation for the bonfire during Pleasant Prairie's Twelfth Night celebration, Thursday, Jan. 6, 2022.
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While the crowd looks on, flames shoot into the air as more than a 100 Christmas trees provided fuel for a bonfire during the Pleasant Prairie's Twelfth Night celebration Thursday night, Jan. 6, 2022.
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A Pleasant Prairie firefighter drags another tree into the bonfire during the village's Twelfth Night celebration Thursday Jan. 6, 2022.
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A village firefighter stokes the pile of Christmas trees that provided a bonfire with brilliant illumination and warmth amid temperatures in the single digits during Pleasant Prairie's Twelfth Night celebration on Thursday, Jan. 6, 2022.
Pleasant Prairie is inviting residents and visitors to the annual Twelfth Night Holiday Tree Bonfire at 5:30 p.m. on Tuesday, Jan. 6 at the Donald Wruck Beach Pavilion, 9999 Steinbrink Sr. Terrace, in Prairie Springs Park on the west side of Lake Andrea.
