Christmas Traditions

4. Put it on the shelf to make sure your kid stays on Santa’s Nice list
5. How Clay Center Elks get the toys they distribute for those in need (two words)
8. The church that lets you take a trip to Bethlehem every other year
10. The Dispatch’s office Christmas tree is filled with ornaments made out of this
11. The Clay County Museum once invited people to view neighbors’ Christmas decorations in this tour
12. The shape of lighted decorations that PU puts up on poles in the downtown
13. Lutherans always have this on the first Thursday of December (two words)
15. The Courthouse Square is filled with 100 of these Christmas icons
17. The time that Catholics hold all-night adoration

1. An organization that once raised money by selling Christmas candy and cookies
2. You have to go to Utility Park to see these
3. This gift filled with candy and chocolates counts down to Christmas
6. Santa first arrives in Clay Center in this, year after year, for more than 20 years
7. First name of the woman you can buy Christmas candy from year after year
9. The family that for decades has made their house into “a Christmas card for the community”
12. Where Santa’s Clay Center workshop is located, and where kids can tell him their last-minute Christmas wishes
14. A gift that usually gets re-gifted
16. For some, Christmas would not be Christmas without this yuletide beverage