White Springs rings in Christmas with festival, parade

Jason Futch reporter2@riverbendnews.org The Town of White Springs and its residents gathered for the annual Christmas on Bridge Street festival. The event, hosted by Suwannee Hardware & Feed, included various vendors and Ugly Sweater and Chili Cook-Off contests. The festival was capped off by the annual Christmas parade, which started at the Bailey Ogburn ball fields and ended at Stephen Foster State Park. The Ugly Sweater Contest featured several entries. Tyler LeBlanc took first place in the Ugly Sweater Contest, while Sonia LeBlanc and Pearl Hadden took second and third place, respectively. The sole entrant of the chili cook-off contest, Gary Blevin, took home the first-place tro