By Rebecca Dopp
Times-News Correspondent

The annual Christmas Light Parade in Nephi is in the works.
Debbie Zirbes, parade committee chairman, and her daughter Jennifer informed the Nephi City Council about the plans for this year's festivities.
The proposed date for the event is November 24, the Saturday after Thanksgiving. The theme this year is "Light up the World".
"What we are trying to do is get a cost of what we are going to do and see if you'll still budget the same as last year," D. Zirbes said.
The committee last year had planned to run two color ads in the newspaper, but only did one. She needed to check on the prices and decide what to do.
She said that they also needed to get more glow sticks.
"We handed out all but two tubes last year," she said.
The glow sticks provide safety for the parade-watchers. If you see a glow stick bobbing around, you know that it's attached to a child, she said.
Usually, she received monetary donations from local businesses, but she wasn't sure how it will go this year and wanted to know if the council could help offset the cost if she does not get the $636 for 2,400 glow sticks.
Prize money was spread around over several categories.
"Last year you gave us prize money to $1,250," she said. "I wasn't sure if you would still do that."
Kent Park, council member, suggested that for the school groups maybe instead of a monetary prize, a party or a dance could be offered as their prize.
Other items that the committee also needed to be considered were about 30-11x13 posters, use of the city's copy machine, envelopes and postage, and the billboard sign located at the Nephi City building.
"They [the sign shop] may or may not pay to have that recoated as part of the parade donation," she said.
She also wanted to know if the council wanted to line the floats around the perimeter of the park during voting. Also, did they want to provide hot chocolate again?
"I think last year the Lion's and the Kiwanis Clubs did that," she said. "It did bring people over to vote."
As for the voting, she said that they received about 1,700 votes and said some people take it quite seriously.
"We get people writing on the back, tallying numbers, it's interesting to look at the votes," she said.
She jokingly, yet with a hint of seriousness, asked if the city council was going to enter a float this year. She said it is a fun experience.
She reported that the parade entries have gone down each year. The first year there were 36 floats, the second 27, the third 26, the fourth 24, and last year there were 23.
"It feels bigger because they [the floats] are getting bigger and have more lights, but actually there are less entries," she said.
Zirbes is always looking for those who would like to enter in the parade from school groups and families to church groups and businesses.
"We need people to participate," she said. "I've never had one from Levan and only a couple from Mona."
So, get your floats built now while the weather is still nice and enter it in the light parade, November 24.