Youth Villages (YV) is a private nonprofit organization dedicated to helping emotionally and behaviorally troubled children and their families live successfully. It helps more than 30,000 children and families each year. It provides therapeutic foster care services to children in states custody, many of whom are seeking adoption.

There are many youth in foster care needing stable, supportive, and loving homes. Youth Villages is seeking to partner with local churches, businesses, and organizations who have a desire to help youth and strengthen families.

Youth Villages would love to provide informational materials at your location, or partner to promote your business and the need for foster/adoptive parents in the community. Every little bit helps! Even allowing YV to post on your social media may help a youth find their forever family. YV has professional recruitment tools, including a QR information code, and short videos that you can upload to social media sites and use for your bulletins.

With your assistance, a child can find a family. Help raise awareness; kids need loving and stable families. Youth Villages thanks you for your support and looks forward to hearing from you!

Learn how families with Youth Villages are making a difference in the lives of children, at
https://www.youtube.com/user/youthvillages/videos

Drive through Discovery Park of America’s 50 acre park and see over a million twinkling lights!

$10 per car, $25 per passenger van and $50 per bus
Closed Thanksgiving Day, Christmas Eve and Christmas Day

Click the “LEARN MORE” tab below for details.

Also:
PLAN YOUR HOLIDAY PARTY
The “Let It Glow” light show is the perfect venue for a safe office holiday party for your department, company or organization. Discovery Park provides a mask-friendly environment with a lot of room to socially distance inside the museum. With access to several venue spaces, including Dinosaur Hall, The Cooper Tower, Sabin’s Cafe and other options, your guests can experience the magic of Christmas on display. Catering packages can include simple cookies and hot chocolate or more elaborate hors d’oeuvres, and the park’s party planners are ready to work with you to create a fun, yet safe way for you to thank your team or clients for their hard work during a difficult year.


Here are a couple of ideas:
“Let It Glow” Light Show Ticket Package – $8 per ticket (save $2 off the rack rate)
Discovery Park will provide you with tickets for you to hand out to employees or customers. Each ticket admits one car into the light show – you can select the night, or leave it open and let them attend with their family when they would like. Discovery Park will design the tickets with your information and get them printed and to you to distribute.


“Let It Glow” Light Show PLUS Pre or Post Show Gathering – $18 per person;
Gather at Discovery Park at a predetermined date and time and invite your guests.
The park will provide a caterer who can work with you on a simple menu of cookies and hot chocolate or something more elaborate (food and beverage not included in $18 price).
Your guests can leave the gathering together and caravan through the light show at the same time.

Note: Masks are required while at Discovery Park, and it follows all recommended health and safety guidelines.

Reach out to Lauren Jones at ljones@discoveryparkofamerica.com or 731-885-5455, ext. 7 for more information and to book your holiday gathering or purchase discounted tickets to the light show.

The City of Jackson, TN is inviting members of the community to help decorate the city Christmas Tree that will stand outside of Jackson City Hall. The community is to thank our frontline and essential workers for their work during the COVID-19 pandemic. The event coincides with the “Christmas Love for Frontline and Essential Workers,” parade theme.

They are asking that all ornaments be light-weight (ornaments will be hanging from the tree), non-breakable, and no larger than 8 inches in circumference or 8×11. Ornaments must also be weather resistant. Please attach a durable hanging wire to the top of the ornament so that it can be secured to the tree.

You can deliver your decorated ornament to the front lobby of City Hall located at 101 E. Main St. between the hours of 8:00 AM and 5:00 PM, Monday through Friday before November 25, 2020. A Christmas box will be located in the lobby for collecting unique ornaments.

“We want our community to visit Downtown Jackson during the holiday season,” said Gayle Gilbert, Community Relations Liaison. “Downtown will have dazzling light displays, decorated store windows, and the Santa Claus house in addition to the tree outside city hall.”

For more information contact Gayle Tacker-Gilbert at ggilbert@jacksontn.gov

During the Christmas season, Falcon Ridge is open for families to choose and cut their Christmas Tree right from our farm.  Enjoy a tractor-drawn wagon ride to the back of the farm and find that perfect tree.  There are several varieties to choose from including Leyland cypress, Murray Cypress, Virginia Pine, Yellow Pine and Blue Ice. New trees are planted each year to ensure that there are trees to harvest year after year.   There will also be pre-cut Fraser firs to purchase, as well as, fresh wreaths and garland.  Start a family tradition this year and get your tree from Falcon Ridge!

Open Saturdays and Sundays. Appointments required on weekdays.