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A child hugs Santa Claus at last year’s Light Up the Night Christmas Tree Celebration in Olustee Park. (FILE)

Lee Gober (from left), First United Methodist Church administrator, stands with Miss Columbia County Stephanie Green and Herbie and Dr. Lily Brannigan, Kada’s Promise senior ambassadors, after the church and Green donated several teddy bears, blankets and quilts to the organization on Wednesday afternoon. (TONY BRITT/Lake City Reporter)

The nativity celebration at The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints at a prior season’s celebration. (COURTESY)

The surgical team who performed the first vascular surgery at HCA Florida Lake City Hospital. Left to Right: Cheryl Beckman, Dr. Elmer Croushore, Morgan Lawson, Sonia Sanchez, Jacquelyn Feagin, Taylor Fraley and Kathryn Bower. (COURTESY)

Tossing dirt to celebrate the construction of a new private fiber network for the school district were: Cindy Forsyth (from left), Jay Duval, Denise Weybrew, Hope Jernigan, Todd Widergren, Dana Brady-Giddens, Patrick Mitchell, Keith Couey, Cherry Hill, Jesus Pena, Billy Merchant and Oliver Landow. (TONY BRITT/Lake City Reporter)

Lake City Attorney Clay Martin speaks during Monday’s City Council meeting. (MORGAN MCMULLEN/Lake City Reporter)

Keith Hudson (right), a Columbia County School Board member, offers construction workers a personal ‘Thank You’ for their work on the new Eastside Elementary during a topping-off ceremony and luncheon at the building on Tuesday morning. (TONY BRITT/Lake City Reporter)

Lauren Rushing, a project manager with NUE Urban Concepts, concluded her presentation on mobility fees to the Lake City Council at Monday’s workshop. (MORGAN MCMULLEN/Lake City Reporter)