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November 25, 2009

UCO invites community to WinterGlow

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  • PHOTO PROVIDED The University of Central Oklahoma invites the community to its annual holiday kick off celebration, WinterGlow, from 6-9 p.m., Dec. 1. The free event includes the lighting of Central� historic Old North, which is now lit, along with the university� other holiday displays, using energy efficient LED lights.

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EDMOND — The University of Central Oklahoma invites the community to kick off the holiday season with its annual WinterGlow celebration on Tuesday evening. The evening includes three hours of free outdoor and indoor festivities planned for the whole family.

The evening will begin at 6 p.m. with the lighting of Old North, holiday carols performed by the St. Elizabeth Ann Seton Elementary School choir, comments from Edmond�s Mayor Patrice Douglas and more.

Immediately following the lighting ceremony, the celebration moves to the UCO Nigh University Center, where holiday festivities continue until 9 p.m.

Activities include face painting, caricature artists, games, s�mores by the lake, hot cocoa stations, cookies, Santa�s Workshop craft area and holiday entertainment provided by a string quartet from UCO�s School of Music. Free pictures with Santa will be taken by Taylor Made Photography with the donation of a new and unwrapped toy for the Edmond HOPE Center.

This year the Nigh University Center ballrooms will be transformed into Dr. Seuss� Whoville, said Mikey Shellabarger, WinterGlow�s student chairman. �We�ll have a ton of carnival-like games in addition to snowless snowball fights, a giant parachute and karaoke.�

At a Whoville Hair Salon, he said, children can have their hair styled to look like a Who.

Through a partnership with Blue Star Mothers, WinterGlow participants can send cheer to American soldiers serving overseas as a part of the �Holiday Letters to the Troops� activity.

Kay Robinson, director of campus activities, said, �We�re very excited to do another event that brings the UCO students and the Edmond community together.� Robinson said WinterGlow attracts mostly families with young children because of the many children�s activities planned.

�We get a lot of people, at least 1,000, to join us on campus over the three hours of WinterGlow. We always have a lot of people and always can welcome more. We take over the entire Nigh University Center,� Robinson said.

Shellabarger led a council of 10 students who began working on the 2009 WinterGlow in December 2008. �WinterGlow is all student-based,� he said.

�UCO prides itself on character, civility and community,� Shellabarger said, �and hosting this event for the holidays gives back to the community and allows the community to see what the university has to offer.�

WinterGlow was initiated in 1997 by UCO President W. Roger Webb. For the second year, UCO will use LED lights on Old North and other campus holiday light displays, which use 10 percent of the amount of electricity of traditional holiday lights. The initiative is a part of the university�s efforts to expand its campus-wide, eco-friendly green efforts.

FOR MORE INFORMATION, visit www.uco.edu/winterglow or call Campus Activities and Events at 974-2363.

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