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Originally Posted by bike42

Places in the Xmas parade are competitive -- you don't just sign up. You have to have something clever/beautiful/unusual/fun or whatever to stand out and get selected to participate. Start coming up with ideas!

Unfortunately, The Villages' powers-that-be choose to totally ignore TOTV and we have not been given any reason why. Notice, you never see any TOTV pictures and/or events that are so popular with TOTV posted in The Villages Daily Sun. Never!!

This first came about when our TOTV Owners (Jan et al) wanted to put a TOTV ad in the Sun and were refused and when questioned why, no response or reason was offered them. That rationale seems so unfathomable considering all of the "positives" abounded by TOTV in this development that have obviously increased sales tremendously. Would be interesting to know just how many peeps have purchased in TV because of the great publicity via TOTV members having expressed their happiness moving here and to encourage "wannabe's" to come share the "paradise."

I do hope that your plans survive for TOTV to be a part of the Christmas Parade and good luck! This commentary is shared with you without malice toward anyone....merely to inform you of what I had experienced some years ago here and it continues, obviously unnoticed by most. In this case, I do hope that I am mistaken.