(KNSI) – Fifteen decorators will turn this year’s Zonta Christmas House into a winter wonderland in just a matter of hours.
Chair Debra Kellerman says they have already taken a peek at the room they’ll be sprucing up, but they can only begin the night before.
“We let them into the house Thursday night, the 16th, from 4:00 to about 7:00. Most of them will have it done by then, but we also open it Friday morning for any fine tuning or extra little things that they want to do. They all have to be done by noon on Friday.”
Kellerman says last year’s crowd, the first post-COVID house, was down a bit from what they used to draw pre-pandemic. She expects at least a thousand people to tour the home on November 17th and 18th. The home this year is at 22807 Rausch Lake Road. Tickets are $20. It is the Zonta Club of St. Cloud’s largest fundraiser of the year.
The proceeds help the organization further its mission to aid women. Kellerman says, “The majority of the money goes to Anna Marie’s [Alliance]. We also fund Terebinth Refuge, which is for human trafficking victims. We also fund Crisis Nursery.”
Tickets are available now online or at nearly two dozen locations in the area. You can buy them at the door as well. The home is open to the public on the 17th from 3:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. and on the 18th from 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.
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