Coffeyville Community College - 2007 Red Raven Holiday draws a large crowd



Red Raven Holiday draws a large crowd Coffeyville Community College (CCC) hosted its second annual Red Raven Holiday on Friday, Nov. 16 with over 400 visitors walking through the winter wonderland of campus. Over 20 campus and community groups contributed to the kick-off of the holiday season. With thousands of lights and a dozen great holiday activities, this event is fast becoming a community favorite especially for those young at heart. A hayrack ride brought visitors through snow globes to the entrance of the Holiday. A large live reindeer posed near a sleigh with visitors while everyone had a chance to pet two baby reindeer. The emergency medicine department lit up two vehicles and gave away food. The Coffeyville Technical Campus brought over a small wooden church for children to explore along with their own set of lights. The living nativity scene returned with the help of the agriculture department. Those students also built a house for Santa where hundreds had their photos taken with the jolly red fellow. Gingerbread became a theme for a number of areas as the student government group put together a house, the bookstore had a life-size gingerbread house and men and Chartwells food service created a huge real gingerbread house. Chartwells was also the area to wait for a chance to decorate your own gingerbread cookie. The Native American club had a life-size teepee and a fire pit for roasting marshmallows. The cheer team walked around in packages while Staff Management handed out goodies. The student services department lit up their end of campus while offering free hot chocolate. Visitors could purchase holiday t-shirts from the Business Professionals of America. A creative snow-globe complete with a Red Raven Softball player made up the center of main campus along with a huge Christmas tree donated by the horticulture students. The softball team offered free popcorn and face painting as well. The baseball team added to their growing holiday carnival. The Relay for Life team offered Chicken and Noodles and many visitors took advantage of the horse-drawn carriage rides. The choral and instrumental music concert sold out with music fans packing the theatre. The theatre students went caroling around the entire event. This event will continue to grow in the future and is fast becoming a favorite community event of many. To see all the photos from the evening visit redravens.smugmug.com.	Atlantis tells Santa what she wants for Christmas. This magnificent gingerbread house creation took weeks to make by the Chartwells food services department. Features included green coconut grass, rice crispy treat trees and cookie crisp shingles. Coffeyville Community College President, Dr. Don Woodburn and his wife, Cathy, take a ride on the reindeer sleigh. One young visitor asked when the sleigh would be flying in the air.
Visitors posed by the Student Government gingerbread house.	Molly meets Prancer, the baby reindeer. Coffeyville’s own Fawn Creek Reindeer brought the creatures to the holiday event.
Shepherds from the Living Nativity Scene periodically walked through the crowds and introduced the animals to visitors.	A Red Raven Softball player paints Mackenna’s face. The team offered this to all young visitors free of charge.
One young visitor concentrates on creating the perfect gingerbread cookie during the Red Raven Holiday. The cookie decorating was free and visitors had a chance to win gingerbread house decorating kids.