Smiling Faces Fill Town of Liberty for Sunday’s Christmas Parade (View Video Here)

December 5, 2021
By: Dwayne Page

The Town of Liberty was filled with many smiling faces Sunday afternoon for the annual Christmas parade.

Spectators lined both sides of West Main Street along the parade route from Salem Baptist Church to the reviewing stand near the Liberty Community Center anxious to view the sights and to catch a glimpse of Santa.

This year’s Liberty parade featured a showcase of holiday themed floats, vintage automobiles, horseback riders, Mr. and Miss DeKalb County Michael and Tara Hale, the DCHS Fighting Tiger Band, special entries from local businesses and utility companies, ATVs and motorcycles, emergency vehicles including the DeKalb County Fire Department’s Liberty Station, Smithville-DeKalb County Rescue Squad, State Representative Terri Lynn Weaver, and more including the star of the show, Santa Claus.

After the parade, awards were presented to the best entries and drawings were held for prize giveaways.

The Mt Pisgah Free Will Baptist Church took 1st place for their float entry. Second place went to Salem Baptist Church.

In the category vintage automobiles/tractors, Billy Joe Cripps won 1st place for his 1956 Chevy. Second place went to Josh Miller and Ray Miller for their 1931 Ford Coupe.

In the entry for small kids, Alexis Reynolds took 1st place and 2nd place went to Molly Carpenter and Family.

Ty Curtis took both 1st & 2nd place for pet entries.

December 5, 2021
By: Dwayne Page

Fiddle Dee Dee on Broad again presents Fiddle Dee Dee on Broad Gospel Hour Sunday night, December 5 from 5-6 p.m. on WJLE.

The program airs once a month, on the first Sunday night of each month, from 5-6 p.m. featuring recorded local talent performing gospel music.

Sunday night’s program will showcase the music of Elizabeth Wright and the Webb Sisters.

Tune in the first Sunday night of each month for the Fiddle Dee Dee on Broad Gospel Hour from 5-6 p.m. on WJLE AM 1480/FM 101.7

WJLE is proud of our partner sponsors of religious programs each week and hopes you will tune in often and let them know you listen.

*7:00 a.m. Saturdays: Amazing Facts: A 15-minute program featuring Joe Crews presented by the Smithville Seventh Day Adventist Church.

•Got A Minute?: 60 second message presented by the Smithville Church of Christ with Dan Gulley-Twice a day Monday-Friday each week (various times morning and around noon).

•Cross Connection sponsored by the Upper Helton Baptist Church featuring Jimmy Arms: Monday-Friday at 11:55 a.m. each week

•Morning Devotion: A 5-minute daily devotional by a different minister each week Monday-Saturday at 7:25 a.m.

The following are weekly sponsored Sunday programs:

•7:30 a.m.: Royce Moore of the New West Point Freewill Baptist Church (The Way of Life Ministry)

•8:00 a.m. Elders Joseph and Ricky Arnold for the New Bildad and Mount View Primitive Baptist Churches (The Firm Foundation)

•8:30 a.m. Outreach Baptist Church with Nathan Thomason (The Outreach Pulpit)

•9:00 a.m. The Keltonburg Missionary Baptist Church (Only Through the Blood)

•9:30 a.m. LOCAL NEWS

•9:35 a.m. Trent Colwell of the Smithville Church of the Nazarene (The Living Word)

*10:00 a.m. Jason Wheeley with the Old Fashion Missionary Baptist Broadcast

•10:30 a.m. Bobby Thomason of the Covenant Baptist Church (Fountain of Faith Ministries)

•11:00 a.m. Worship Services from either the Smithville Cumberland Presbyterian (Isaac Gray) or Smithville First United Methodist (David Lunsford) Churches

•12:00 NOON: LOCAL NEWS

*12:30 p.m.: House of Prayer with Zachariah Murphy

*1:00 p.m.: Truth that Transforms with Aaron Wright

•1:30 p.m. The Preaching Ministry of Toy Lawson of the People’s Pentecostal Church

•2:30 p.m. Billy Hale of the Christ Pentecostal Church of Brush Creek (The King is Coming)

•3:00 p.m. Prophet James Ferrell of the Church of Jesus Christ (The Word of the Lord)

•4:00 p.m. LOCAL NEWS

•4:15 p.m. Royce Curtis of the People’s Missionary Baptist Church

•5:00 p.m. Fiddle Dee Dee on Broad Gospel Hour (1st Sunday)

•6:05 p.m. Gospel music sponsored by Cantrell’s Furniture and Appliances

•9:05 p.m. LOCAL NEWS

Listen each week on WJLE AM 1480 and WJLE FM 101.7 and LIVE Streaming at www.wjle.com.

December 5, 2021
By: Dwayne Page

‘Twas a merry and bright Saturday night in downtown Smithville as thousands of spectators celebrated the arrival of the holiday season during the Smithville Christmas Parade and Christmas on the Square.

(View 100 photos of the Smithville Christmas Parade and Christmas on the Square on the WJLE Facebook page)

Although it was cloudy, temperatures were mild for a December day and the rain held off. Many parked along the route to see the show as the parade motored from the New Life Connection Center down Congress Boulevard before turning onto Don Cantrell Street by City Hall into the Public Square. Others gathered downtown to get a closer look as the parade passed by and to scoop up some candy tossed to them by Santa and other participants. After the parade, many people stayed in town to shop and to enjoy all that Christmas on the Square had to offer including LIVE model window displays at several businesses, a reception by local public officials at the courthouse and city hall who served up refreshments, a pet photo shoot with Santa by the DeKalb Animal Coalition at the law office of Gayla Hendrix, a fun photo booth at the courthouse, and a visit with Santa at Justin Potter Library

DeKalb Funeral Chapel won 1st place for their entry. Second place went to the New West Point Free Will Baptist Church. Hurricane Marina took 3rd place. First Bank won the Spirit Award presented by the Smithville Business and Professional Women’s Club. Honorable mentions for the Spirit Award were Bee’s Body Boutique “Through Thick & Thin” and the DCHS Fighting Tiger Marching Band.

Mr. and Miss DeKalb County Michael and Tara Hale were the Grand Marshals of the Parade.

The parade was sponsored by the Smithville Fire Department.

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