Reporter's note: The Chinook Area Chamber holds an informal competition each year to select the best Christmas yard light display. In an email to the "Journal," Chamber President Heather DePriest listed the three top displays and noted, "The competition has no prizes, just bragging rights." And she thanked all the local residents who put up some fantastic decorations this year, that help make the season just a little more festive.

First place went to Ken and Teri Pelesky, whose house is on the 500 block of Missouri, second place was awarded to Chuck and Kathie Mereness, at the corner of East N...