An Oskaloosa tradition is coming up.  The annual Lighted Christmas Parade downtown will be held Saturday night (12/5) from 6-8pm.  But because of coronavirus concerns, the parade will be different this year…as Oskaloosa Main Street Director Jessica Reuter explains.

“It will be a drive-through downtown lighted Christmas display.  So people will drive through it like they would the Rivers Parade.  Painting With Lights will be on and the floats and entries will be set up downtown.  The spectators will drive through the route.  But we’ve had to pull back on the amount of participants we can have on the floats.”

Reuter says there also won’t be any activities downtown on Saturday night.  And because of Governor Reynolds’ restrictions on public gatherings, there won’t be a Merry Little Downtown Christmas in Oskaloosa on Friday (12/4), as originally planned.