WELCOMING COMMITTEE. Elmo, Olaf (from "Frozen") and Winnie the Pooh greeted the hundreds of townspeople who turned out for the ninth annual Holiday Lighting Festival sponsored by the Reading–North Reading Chamber of Commerce. (Bob Turosz Photo)

WELCOMING COMMITTEE. Elmo, Olaf (from “Frozen”) and Winnie the Pooh greeted the hundreds of townspeople who turned out for the ninth annual Holiday Lighting Festival sponsored by the Reading–North Reading Chamber of Commerce. (Bob Turosz Photo)