400 watch Fat Albert light up in Boardman Park


December 4, 2011 at 6:45p.m.

400 watch Fat Albert light up in Boardman Park

By DAVID SKOLNICK

SKOLNICK@VINDY.COM

BOARDMAN

“Ho, ho, ho” met “hey, hey, hey” at Boardman Park’s Community Christmas Tree Ceremony.

This was the park’s first Christmas lighting ceremony with a tree — an 11-foot Fat Albert Colorado Blue Spruce. For the past 15 years, the park has organized a holiday light display.

The Fat Albert cartoon character’s catch phrase is “hey, hey, hey.” While he was there in tree-spirit only, Santa Claus visited Sunday’s event, arriving on a township firetruck to the delight of many in the crowd of about 400.

Read the full story Monday with photographs from the event in The Vindicator and on vindy.Com.