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Volunteers helped hang the winter decorations downtown Sunday morning. For more than 50 years the decorations have brightened Whitefish. (Heidi Desch/Whitefish Pilot)

Volunteers helped hang the winter decorations downtown Sunday morning. For more than 50 years the decorations have brightened Whitefish. (Heidi Desch/Whitefish Pilot)

Volunteers helped hang the winter decorations downtown Sunday morning. For more than 50 years the decorations have brightened Whitefish. (Heidi Desch/Whitefish Pilot)

Volunteers helped hang the winter decorations downtown Sunday morning. For more than 50 years the decorations have brightened Whitefish. (Heidi Desch/Whitefish Pilot)

A lineman from Flathead Electric Co-op helps hang the winter decorations Sunday morning on Central Avenue. (Heidi Desch/Whitefish Pilot)

Volunteers helped hang the winter decorations downtown Sunday morning. For more than 50 years the decorations have brightened Whitefish. (Heidi Desch/Whitefish Pilot)

Volunteers helped hang the winter decorations downtown Sunday morning. For more than 50 years the decorations have brightened Whitefish. (Heidi Desch/Whitefish Pilot)

Volunteers helped hang the winter decorations downtown Sunday morning. For more than 50 years the decorations have brightened Whitefish. (Heidi Desch/Whitefish Pilot)

Volunteers helped hang the winter decorations downtown Sunday morning. For more than 50 years the decorations have brightened Whitefish. (Heidi Desch/Whitefish Pilot)

Volunteers helped hang the winter decorations downtown Sunday morning. For more than 50 years the decorations have brightened Whitefish. (Heidi Desch/Whitefish Pilot)

by Whitefish Pilot
| November 19, 2017 10:59 AM

Volunteers helped hang the winter decorations downtown Sunday morning. For more than 50 years the decorations have brightened Whitefish. (Heidi Desch/Whitefish Pilot)

Volunteers helped hang the winter decorations downtown Sunday morning. For more than 50 years the decorations have brightened Whitefish. (Heidi Desch/Whitefish Pilot)

Volunteers helped hang the winter decorations downtown Sunday morning. For more than 50 years the decorations have brightened Whitefish. (Heidi Desch/Whitefish Pilot)

A lineman from Flathead Electric Co-op helps hang the winter decorations Sunday morning on Central Avenue. (Heidi Desch/Whitefish Pilot)

Volunteers helped hang the winter decorations downtown Sunday morning. For more than 50 years the decorations have brightened Whitefish. (Heidi Desch/Whitefish Pilot)

Volunteers helped hang the winter decorations downtown Sunday morning. For more than 50 years the decorations have brightened Whitefish. (Heidi Desch/Whitefish Pilot)

Volunteers helped hang the winter decorations downtown Sunday morning. For more than 50 years the decorations have brightened Whitefish. (Heidi Desch/Whitefish Pilot)

Volunteers helped hang the winter decorations downtown Sunday morning. For more than 50 years the decorations have brightened Whitefish. (Heidi Desch/Whitefish Pilot)

Volunteers helped hang the winter decorations downtown Sunday morning. For more than 50 years the decorations have brightened Whitefish. (Heidi Desch/Whitefish Pilot)

Volunteers Sunday morning hoisted up the garland punctuated with red bells, snowflakes and wreaths that have become an iconic winter scene in Whitefish.

The lighted garland was strung cross the streets signaling the beginning of the holiday season. The decorations are a tradition that have brightened town for more than 50 years.

A group of dedicated volunteers have been repairing, replacing, improving and hanging and taking down those same decorations every winter season.

The nonprofit Whitefish Shines takes donations for the materials to keep the tradition alive. To donate to the decoration project, Whitefish Shines, P.O. Box 695 Whitefish, MT 59937.