Fleet amassing. To bring cheer to tri-county kids whose prospects may have been bleak for a Santa visit.
“What all the commotion? “No chimney, no problem”
HOUSTON, Minn. — Weather permitting, a caravan of police and emergency vehicles, their lights ablazin’, will be pulling up unexpected at select households to hand out holiday gifts to wide-eyed children. It’s the annual Bluff Country Hidden Heroes caravan arranged every year by Sergeant Chris Frick of the Houston County sheriff’s office. If roads are too sick, the event will be put off to another day, Frick said. The project has raised $9,000 with a golf tournament, a raffle and solicitations to buy the gifts for chidren recommended by local school officials. The caravan typically 18 or 19 vehicles, makes its rounds in Fillmore, Houston and Winona counties. The event is an ongoing spectacle household to household.. In just a little over a minute at each stop 35 people jump out, Santa too, with gifts. Then, like Dasher, Dancer, Prancer, Vixen, Comet and Cupid Dunder and Blixen, and Rudolph too, they’re gone. And to all a good night. On the distribution list: Households around Brownsville, Caledonia, Dakota, Eitzen, Hokah, Houston La Crescent Money Creek, Mabel, Newburg, Nodine Rushford, Spring Grove, and Wilson.
Frick. Hidden Heroes his pet project.