HOLIDAY OF LIGHTS TOUR LIGHTS UP THE NIGHT

Holiday lights will blaze throughout the city tonight, the first night of Cape Girardeau's first outdoor decoration tour and competition.

Laurel Adkisson, marketing coordinator for the Cape Girardeau Convention and Visitors Bureau, said 20 judges from the Cape Girardeau Chamber of Commerce were out Monday to view more than 200 decorated areas. Winners were selected from throughout the city.

Bus tours through part of the city are planned tonight, Friday and Saturday and again Dec. 19, 20 and 21.

Tickets, which cost $1, are available in advance at The Fantastics in the Plaza Galleria, and The Body Shoppe at West Park Mall.

Tickets may also be purchased at the bus, but Adkisson said some tours are close to being sold out.

Buses will leave from Plaza Galleria and West Park Mall at 7 p.m. and return at 8:30 p.m.

Adkisson said that the bus tour is designed for viewers to see a concentration of lighting displays on a route suitable for a school bus to travel in an hour and a half.

But not all the winning decorations are on the route. Adkisson suggested people might want to include some of the winning decorations in other parts of the city on their routes when they take self-guided tours.

The chamber divided the city into seven sections for other beautification activities, and the Holiday of Lights winners were selected in each of the sections.

Judges selected two residential winners and one non-residential winner for each section.

Winners and honorable mentions in the 1991 Holiday of Lights competition are listed below.

126 S. Louisiana, Kim Baker.

1428 Whitener, Mark and Susan Matthews.

2256 Kingsway Drive, Ken Voepel Insurance.

1016 S. Sprigg, Rodger Reed

215 Koch, Jim Smithwick.

2001 William, Boatmen's Bank.

2815 Independence, Darrell and Paula Huggins.

611 LaPetite Court, Gary Stroder.

2558 Independence, Bloomin' Balloons.

1315 Ashland Hills, Frank and Debra Braxton.

611 Red Bud Circle, Glen Cook.

97 N. Kingshighway, The Crossroads.

1852 Rampart, Kevin and Kim Groves.

1662 Westwood, Walter and Wanda Wright.

1816 LaMesa, Bill and Susan Gosche.

1537 Parksite, Richard Bollwerk.

1820 Perryville Road, Westminster Presbyterian Church.

1117 N. Main, Randy Huebel

510 Johnson, Amos and Erma Harmon.

43 S. Main, Hutson Furniture.

Honorable mentions and other suggested driving areas:

5 S. Henderson

41 N. Sprigg

1529 New Madrid

1432 William

1635 Themis

637 Highland Drive

211 S. Hanover

1408 Bessie

325 S. Spanish

620-624 S. Ellis

618 Louis

423 Silver Springs Road

106 Farrar Drive

609 Mt. Auburn

2625 Hopper Road

3810 Valley View

1717 Grandview

2528 Marsha Kay Drive

2329 Kent Drive

2536 Ford Drive

2624 Melrose

2218 Lombardo

1526 Mississippi

1723 Lyndhurst

1718 Surrey Lane

1717 Bertling

1515 Amblewood Drive

1722 Crestwood Drive

1918 Briarwood Drive

1125 Mahy

2013 Cambridge

1516 Price

1548 Lexington

1945 Robinhood Circle

423 Themis

1652 N. Spanish

For more information about the bus tours, contact the Cape Girardeau Chamber of Commerce at 335-3312.