Candy Cane Lane surpassed $200,000 in donations for MACC Fund
Candy Cane Lane surpassed $200,000 in donations for MACC Fund
The annual holiday lights display Candy Cane Lane surpassed $200,000 in donations for the MACC Fund. Organizers think 2020 had something to do with the generosity.
WEST ALLIS, Wis. - The annual holiday lights display Candy Cane Lane surpassed $200,000 in donations for the MACC Fund. Organizers think 2020 had something to do with the generosity.
The Friday after Thanksgiving, Candy Cane Lane flips the switch and lights up several blocks in West Allis. Just a family-friendly, happy, joyous event, said Becky Pinter, President and CEO, MACC Fund.
Here’s a brief history of Candy Cane Lane from its website:
In December,1984, a wonderful group of neighbors living in West Allis, Wisconsin, joined together to collect donations for the MACC Fund Midwest Athletes Against Childhood Cancer, Inc., in honor of a neighbor’s child diagnosed with cancer. The neighbors worked in concert in decorating their homes and encouraged visitors to make a small donation as they drove through the festively enhanced neighborhood. All of the money raised went to supporting research, treatment, and the eventual discovery of a cure for childhood cancers and related blood diseases.
The group chanted “Black lives matter” and “Black children matter” while marching through the streets holding signs and at least one participant was dressed as Santa Claus.
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This story truly means that 2020 has jumped the Shark but this time Fonzi did not survive.
Thankfully for him.
The nonsense that this year has given rise to is mindboggling unless you have watched any season of the Jersey Shore to which then you could have predicted this coming years ago. This leads me to the movement knows as “Black Lives Matter” (don’t all, but I digress) which has made a mark for itself this year by protesting here there, and everywhere. No matter where they are, this group reserves upon itself the right to protest and cause disruption for the cause.
The people in West Allis, Wisconsin have a lovely holiday tradition.
They have a neighborhood they’ve dubbed “Candy Cane Lane” from just after Thanksgiving to just after Christmas. Everyone decorates up a storm so it’s quite the sight to see, people come from all around just to visit.
But it’s not just the decorations. Visitors are encouraged to donate to childhood cancer research and blood diseases as they drive through the area, for Midwest Athletes Against Childhood Cancer (MACC). They raised $121,000 last year and have raised almost a few million since they started in 1984.
So you would think that’s the last thing that anyone would want to disrupt.
Dec 19, 2020
Last night ( 12/18 ) Black Lives Matter showed up to Candy Cane Lane in West Allis ( suburb of Milwaukee ).
For 35 years, Candy Cane LaneIt is a neighborhood Christmas lights display that collect s donations from the community for the MACC Fund – which stands for Midwest Athletes Against Childhood Cancer, Inc.
Sources on the scene said that some of the protestors not only violated traffic laws, but shouted expletives at families who live in the neighborhood. Check out the video below.
Most of them also appear not to be following COVID protocols.