This holiday season marks the 30th anniversary for Love Lights, a heartwarming tradition for many area families. Thoughts and memories of loved ones fill our hearts during the holidays, and Love Lights are a special way to honor them. Bright lights illuminate evergreen trees at the front entrance as a symbol of those thoughts and memories. Lights are available to honor the memory of a loved one; to honor a loved one; and to recognize military service past and present.

A fundraiser for the Volunteers of Watertown Regional Medical Center, Love Lights has a long and valued history of supporting health outreach programming for community populations in need. Proceeds from the 2016 Love Lights campaign go to the volunteer-sponsored community programs of Reach Out and Read and Poison Prevention. These programs focus on literacy and health and wellness of our youth.

Donations for Love Lights are gratefully accepted through the month of December.

Here are the Love Lights honorees for 2016. The names are also displayed on a poster in Harvest Market.


SALUTE TO A SOLDIER

Thomas Goering
David Johnson
Tony Kaercher (US Navy)
SSgt. Jared Lafler & family (US Army)
Samuel Neumueller (Navy)
Donald Rubadeau
Scott Rubadeau
SSGT Nathan Vandenberg


IN HONOR

Jim Abplanalp
 All Volunteers Everywhere
 Ken Bachler
 Pat Bachler
 Allen Bergmann
 Judith Bergmann
 Brienna Braunschweig
 Anne & Tom Caine
 Angela Fischer
 Joann Goergen
 Luke Goering
 Nick Goering
 Annalese Hesse
 Jillian Hesse
 Kenneth Huehn
 Marlene Huehn
 Daniel Ireland
 James & Bobette Ireland
 Kenneth & Jackie Ireland
 Mark & Joyce Ireland
 Patrick & Lynn Ireland
 Aiden Jasper
 Jordan Jeanson
 Joseph Johnson
 Dan Klein Family
 Chole Olivia Kletsch
 Connor Peter Kletsch
 Alan Peters
 Glenn Peters
 Sharon Peters
 Joshua Prenot
 Tammy Prenot
 William Prenot
 Carol & Scott Quest
 The Quirk Family
 Blake Riedl
 Allen Rose Family
 Calvin Rose Family
 Todd Rose Family
 Bryce Rothschadl
 Caden Rothschadl
 Mark Rubadeau
 Caitlyn Schroeder
 Megan Schroeder
 Dale W. Schweitzer and Kathryn
 Kate Skaggs
 Sheila Strunz
 Kathy & Tom Temperly
 Annalynn Terwilliger
 Paytin Terwilliger
 Alana Wegner
 Chloe Wegner
 Duncan Wegner
 Hudson Wegner
 Lillian Wegner
 Marlaino Wegner
 Mary & James Wendt
 Harvey Ziemer
 Jean Ziemer


IN MEMORY

Frank Adams
 Genny (Ott) Adams
 Judy (Deick) Adams
 Leona (Kuckkan) Adams
 Lois Adams
 Robert Adams
 Wally Adams
 Edward J. Agathen
 Mary Agathen
 Marilyn Bachler
 Eric Bahr
 Cindy Baker
 Moose Balian
 Moose Balian
 Moose Balian
 Justin Behl
 Marian Beisner
 Marion Beisner
 Ashley Kay Borchardt
 Clarence Borth
 LaVerna Borth
 Jason J. Bredow
 June “Grams” Brier
 Nikolas Brom
 Rick Bulman
 Arlene Buske
 Lyle Buske
 Robby Buske
 Gerard DeBaets
 Daryl Degner
 Daryl Degner
 Daryl Degner
 Irene Fendt
 Ted Fendt
 Frank R. Fenz
 Joyce Fenz
 Gary Fontaine
 Wally Fredrick
 Lorraine Gallup
 Russell Gallup
 Dolores Groehler
 Hilbert Groehler
 Jerry Groth
 Lois Gruel
 Kristi Haeger
 Kristi Rhodes Haeger
 Russell “Buck” Hanke
 Alice Hartmann
 Elmer Hartmann
 Mark Harvey
 Steven Harvey
 Wendy Heiman
 Michaela Rose Hill
 Herbert Hoppe
 Joseph Houdek
 Richard Houdek
 Jan Hoy
Norma Huehn
 Norma Huehn
 Walter Huehn
 Walter Huehn
 Raymond Ireland
 Nicholas Iverson
 Georgianne Jaeger
 Nancy Sue Jilek
 Sharon Ann Jilek
 John Kaercher
 Kay Ann Keeser
 Keith Klein
 Scott Klein
 Ed Kleinsteiber
 Olivia Renee Kletsch
 Jeanne Klien
 Gary Klopstein
 Mr. & Mrs. S. Kosanovich
 Georgiann Kropf
 Ken Kropf
 Tod Kropf
 Anna Krueger
 Arthur F.  Krueger
 Matt Krueger
 Percy Kuehl
 John Kuehl (brother)
 Harvey Kuehl (father)
 Lester W. Kuerschner (father & WWII vet)
 Julia I. Kuerschner (mother)
 Gertrude Kuester
 Roman Kuester
 Lori Larsen
 Kristin Liss
 Roy Lundsten
 Verona Lundsten
 Joe & Dolores Magarich
 Ken & Sue Magarich
 Selma Mathwig
 Laurie McEvoy
 Janet L. Meyer
 Charles Miller
 Caitlyn Jo Mohr
 Mary C. Moravec
 Donald Neff
 Douglas Neff
 Earl Neff
 Vera Neff
 Wesley Neff
 Evelyn Nehls
 Myron Nehls
 Joshua Nimm
 Lorraine Peirick
 Raymond Peirick
 Alice Peters
 Henry Peters
 Mr. & Mrs. S. Petrov
 Vickie Plasil Feucht (Daughter)
Paul Radloff
 Fran Raether
 Palmer Raether
 Terry Raether
 Jim Riederer
 Dolly Riedl
 Mary Riedl
 Merlin Riedl
 Norbert Riedl
 Angeline Roethle
 Fredrick Roethle
 Grace Roethle
 John Roethle
 Mary Roethle
 Mary T. Roethle
 Lester O. Rose
 Sylvia Rowoldt
 Eleanor Schelling
 Stuart Schelling
 Clarence Schmeling
 Leona Schmeling
 Blanche Schroedl
 Joseph Schroedl
 Susan (Harvey) Schubert
 Arthur Schultz
 Rose Schultz
 Arnold Schumann
 Chip Seeber
 Kathy Shearier
 Gilbert Shekey
 Minnie Shekey
 Harold & Ann Smith
 Tom Smith
 Christopher Snow
 JoAnne Steffen
 Kari Ann Sterwald
 Tony Straseske
 Louie Strunz
 Mary Strunz
 Warren Timm
 Louise Vogel
 Ray Vogel
 Byron Wackett
 Elda Wackett
 Robert Wackett
 Ralph Wedl
 Fred Wegner Jr.
 Evelyn Werner
 Ruben Werner
 Eva Wicker
 Robert Wicker
 Don Wille
 Harvey Winchel
 Martha Winchel
 Ione Winkelman
 Roy Winkelman
 John Zgonc
 Reenie Zirbel
 Shawn Zuehlke
 Jamie Zulli
 Lauren Zulli
 Pvt. Dean M. Zwieg
 Merlin L. Zwieg


CORPORATE SPONSORS

Koplin Excavating & Grading Inc.
Maas Brothers Construction (Bronze)