Monticello Live

Saturday, the Monticello area Chamber of Commerce held a Ribbon Cutting event to help celebrate the Grand Opening of Edward Jones/Yukiko Bivens.

This business is located at 109 Westgate Drive, Apt C, behind Patrick’s Spee-D-Lube.

Business
1. Monticello Realty,
2.tie Polar Express
2. Hope & Co.
3. The Woods

Nonprofit
1. tie VFW
1. Senior Citizens Center
2. Girl Scouts

Schools
1. Kim’s Dance Factory
2. Monticello Dance Academy
3. MHS Family & Consumer Sciences

Religious
1. LDS Church
2. Kennedy Blvd. Church of Christ

Mainline Health Systems received a grant from the Delta Dental foundation to add dental services to the Drew Central School District. They grant provided funding to purchase equipment and supplies.

On Friday,  they celebrated with a floss cutting.

The executive Director of the Delta Dental foundation was there,  Sharon Lanier.

Friday, at noon, the Monticello Chamber of Commerce held a ribbon-cutting at Breaker for their grand reopening.

City Council member Clarissa Pace read a proclamation from Mayor Jason Akers honoring them for being the last remaining Breaker drive-in, of the national chain.

Pace, on behalf of the local NAACP chapter, then honored Larry Reese and his family, for being the longest running black owned business in the community, at the event, as well.

Award, winners, and photos are posted below.

Our Over-All Winner (with a perfect score from all judges) was:
#36 Church of Christ “It’s Beginning To Look A Lot Like Christmas”
Business
1. #17 Hope & Company
“Santa Claus Is Coming To Town”
2. #39 Union Bank
“Candy Cane Lane”
3. #13 Monticello Realty
“Sleigh Ride”

NON-PROFIT
1. #45 Monticello SR Center
“Hark The Herald Angles Sing”
2. 19 Junior Auxiliary
“Penguin James Penguin”
3. #57 VFW
“Merry Christmas Soldiers”

Schools
1. #25 Kim’s Dance Factory
“Winter Wonderland”
2.(tie) #9 UAM Ambassadors
“Hot Chocolate” (Polar Express)
2. #56 Drew Central FFA
“Blue Christmas”

Religious
1. #36 Church of Christ
“It’s Beginning To Look A
Lot Like Christmas”
2. #54 Morning Star
“White Christmas”
3. #32 Pauline Baptist Youth
“Rudolph The Red Nosed Reindeer”

Santa Train will take place around the Square, beginning around 4:00 PM.