Friday, November 23, 2012
Did you decorate your house for the holidays this year? Enter our "Deck the House" contest and you could win $100,000 for your local school district and $500 to pay your electric bills!
We’re launching our annual Deck the House Contest to find the most over-the-top holiday decorations in America—the best “decked” house in the country—the one home so spectacularly decorated that everyone in town jokes your holiday decorations could rival Rockefeller Center’s. If this sounds like your house, upload a photo or video of your home to our contest page from Nov. 26 to Dec. 16. Starting Monday, enter the contest at http://deckthehouse.patch.com/contest/burrridge. Only residents of Patch towns are eligible to enter. We’ll select 24 regional finalists, and from them, pick one grand prize winner. Patch will pay up to $500 of the utility bill for each finalist, while our national winner will have $100,000 donated to his or her local …
Friday, October 28, 2011
What is wrong with you people? Please allow me to suggest five simple rules that will make all of our pumpkin fests more pleasurable.
As my lovely wife and I were enjoying a lovely evening stroll, I caught a bright orange glow out of the corner of my left eye. Turning to face the abomination, I sneered, “Would you look at that! Some overzealous Genevan already has their blanking Christmas lights up! Why, there oughtta be a law ... ” But before I could finish my inspired rant, my sainted spouse interrupted it with something even more terrifying than Christmas in October. When she said, “Those aren’t Christmas lights, you idiot. Those are Halloween lights,” I almost ran home to hide in the crawlspace. “Halloween lights!?” I exclaimed. “They can’t be Halloween lights because there’s no such thing as Halloween lights. Why, when I was a carefree young lad in Evanston, no one…
Thursday, December 9, 2010
Patch caught a glimpse of a true blue Christmas.
The bright blue lights bouncing off the snow near this Johnston Rd. home stopped Patch in its tracks Thursday night. Almost all the homes in this subdivision off County Line Road were alight with white, green, red and purple. As different cultures celebrate this holiday season, Patch will be on the look-out for the Clark Griswolds ("Christmas Vacation," anyone?) of Burr Ridge. We will share some of the best decorations we've seen around town and invite you to upload your own.
Bob McQuillan
7:33 pm on Friday, October 28, 2011
Jeff I can't believe you did it. You got 33 comments on a Halloween opinion column. How many did you think you would get? Fifty is in reach but you won't reach your record from the fire pit tirade. more ›