LANA hosts 24th annual holiday home tour

JACKSON, Tenn — The Lambuth Area Neighborhood Association, LANA, hosted their 24th annual holiday home tour. The tour included a weekend of events to kick off the holiday season. Families and friends skipped breakfast Saturday morning and went straight to dessert at the first ever LANA Christmas Cookie Classic race and food challenge.

President of LANA, Jenci Spradlin said “We’ll have 4 cookie checkpoints that the runners will stop at along the 2k race route.. at each stop they’ll have to eat a cookie and once they eat a cookie they’ll get a sticker and then they’ll move on to the next cookie checkpoint until they get back to the finish line.”

Some participants came all the way from Martin to join the fun.

“We saw it on Facebook and we just thought it would be a really fun thing to do we love to dress up, and walk, and eat cookies.” Participant, Dorothy Bell said.

Funds from the Cookie Classic will be used to benefit a special place in the downtown area.

“The neighborhood association we pay the insurance and do maintenance and stuff on the dog park so this event is about the dog park and the other events are to help us do other things other improvements we do in the neighborhood.” Spradlin said.

The next stop for many was the annual holiday luncheon, held at the Chandelier Café.

LANA member, Jennifer Greer said “We had about 55 people who’ve signed up for the luncheon this year and their having a great time.”

Attendees were also able to sign up for a silent auction to take home holiday goodies. The main attraction ending the day was the home tour. Houses throughout midtown Jackson were decorated inside and out. Homeowner, Brandon Bailey said this was his first time opening his doors to the community.

“I think really just to be apart of what the community is doing help support the neighborhood and gave us a good excuse to show off our house and welcome our neighbors.” Bailey said.

Organizers said the holiday home tour was their biggest fundraiser of the year. The fun isn’t over yet tours will continue Sunday from 1 to 5 p.m.