Kansas City Renews Holiday Tradition
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Updated: 10:04 AM Nov 28, 2008
Kansas City Renews Holiday Tradition
"American Idol" champ David Cook helps usher in the holiday season at Kansas City's Country Club Plaza.
Posted: 9:32 AM Nov 28, 2008
Reporter: Associated Press
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"American Idol" champ David Cook helps
usher in the holiday season at Kansas City's Country Club Plaza.

Thousands lined the streets last night as Cook and his niece
flipped a switch, turning on more than 250,000 lights.

Cheers erupted from the crowd, and fireworks lit the sky. Cook
was joined on stage with other musicians to sing Christmas music.

The Plaza lighting tradition began in 1925 with one strand of 16
lights over a single doorway, and the first actual lighting
ceremony took place five years later.

About 200,000 people usually turn out to watch the Thanksgiving
Day tradition.

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