Upcoming Meeting
March 19th
Lebanon’s Winter Wonderland (the group) will meet at the Lebanon Fire Department training room on Thursday, March 19th at 6PM.
All members and those interested in what is going to happen to the display and group are most welcome.
Meetings last about an hour.
Thank you for a wonderful 2025!
Watch for upcoming announcements concerning 2026.
Santa took a night off from making toys to come out and greet many a surprised visitor to Lebanon’s Winter Wonderland. Thanks Santa! It was great to see you.
(Rumor has it he wants to come back again in 2026. We will let you know!)
You Never Know Who Will Come Through!
Santa and some helpers were at the gate on Saturday, December 6. As happens on many nights, not only children and adults come out to see the lights, but so do many of our four legged friends.
All are welcome!
Images courtesy of Bill B.
Mother Nature Rules!
Sunday night, December 28, brought a WHOLE HECK OF A LOT OF WIND.
So much so that we lost power to the park and could not open.
The resulting “aftermath” was a bit “extreme”.
Our entrance canopy was destroyed and several props found themselves on the ground – including heavy matrix panels.
But all has been cleaned up, checked out, and ready for our last three nights.
Rick passed from this world on Thursday, 10/23/2025.
Click image to view Rick on “In Your Neighborhood”
Click here to view Rick and Tim Ezel “In Your Neighborhood”
Rick’s Obituary is on Meredith Funeral Home’s Website. (Click to view)
In Memory of
Rick Schmitt
Fireman, Township Supervisor, Retired SLM Supervisor. Father, Grandfather, Husband, Friend.
Founding member of Lebanon’s Winter Wonderland.
You will be missed!
Tradition, Plus Much More
All of the wooden cutouts are lovingly maintained by making sure that all the paint gets a touchup and all physical fasteners are up to the task of holding the props correctly.
A great number of the props were actually created by our elder members as well as many volunteers from surrounding communities.
The majority of members of Lebanon’s Winter Wonderland have been with the project since the beginning (or very near). We are still intent on putting up a quality display for the people of the area who make us a part of their holiday tradition.
Over and over again we hear from folks coming through the gates, “we come every year”. Some come several times a year.
2026 will be our 19th display year!
Lebanon’s Winter Wonderland (LWW) was brought together in 2007 (as “Christmas in the Park”) and began with our first display in 2008 with hand-made cutouts and some pretty big lighted displays. (The Train and Original Waving Santa among them.)
A new Waving Santa has joined our display and today we include all those other cutouts and wireframe displays and a whole lot more! We added the animated light show in 2012. Improvements to all areas in the display have been made each and every year since.
All of this is possible because of all our volunteers (we are ALL volunteers) and the donations given at the gate each night.
THANK YOU ALL!
More Hands,
Easier Work,
Better Display
Happy To See You ALL!
A GREAT BIG THANK YOU to all that have visited our display this year!
Thanks to you we are able to continue our mission to make our display even better!
You are WONDERFUL!
We are looking!
Fact – Our display is growing and getting better every year. (Just ask those that have seen it lately!)
Fact – Our numbers are getting smaller due to folks “ageing out”. (Still members, but not able to come out and help with setup or tear down.)
Fact – If new members don’t join us, we will have to shut the display down. (Nobody wants this, but…)
Please consider joining us in our quest to provide a great display to the children and adults that come out to view it each year.
(Some – several times each year!!!)
Thank You!
Thank you to all our volunteers!
The greatest blessing we get is when people volunteer to help us. Starting with setting up the display during October and November, to being a greeter, to dismantling and storing the display in January.
Our volunteers are GREAT!
Without you, this would not happen.
THANK YOU. THANK YOU. THANK YOU.
Thank You for All The Donations!
To all of you who toss a few dollars into the donation buckets – THANK YOU VERY MUCH!
We were recently asked, “who sponsors all this?” Answer – We have no corporate sponsor. Our sponsors are all the folks who donate as they enter the display each year. To each and every one of YOU! –
THANK YOU!
The funds that you give have two purposes:
1. Help us pay the bills. Electric (as you can imagine, we do have an electric bill), rental of the park, and insurance (among other things).
2. Help us to expand the display. As many have noted, “there are so many new things each year.” This is true. We have been able to take the funds from previous years and get more and better items to include in our display.
The really good news is that thanks to donations, this year’s display IS so much better!
Join Us!
A Small Group with Big Results
Did you know that we are a very small group of individuals, dedicated to bringing a holiday display to the Lebanon area year after year?
Did you also know that each and every one of us who call ourselves “LWW (Lebanon’s Winter Wonderland)” are ourselves VOLUNTEERS? That is correct. No one is paid. In this way we turn any and all donations we receive back into the display itself.
We are always looking for others to join us, but now it is getting critical. We meet monthly on the third Thursday of each month from January through September. October through December we are working in the park. Our meeting place is the Training Room at Lebanon’s Fire Hall, with meetings starting at 6PM and usually lasting about an hour. Feel free to drop in.
Interested in Joining? Having some fun?
We are looking for new LWW members – Join Us!
We meet the third Thursday from Jan thru Sept in the Fire Dept. Training Room. 6 PM.
Also, if you would like to know more, give us a call (618) 660-7621.