New Year's Eve Celebrations. What does your town drop/raise?

me | 12/31/2008 | me

[AGreatPer]

Dropping or raising some symbol on New Year’s Eve is a tradition around here and many other places. Following is a partial list of events scheduled for this year in the surrounding communities in Southcentral, PA.

Harrisburg will drop a strawberry. Nobody knows why.

Hummelstown will drop a Lollipop. Years ago there used to be a manufacturer in town.

Lebanon will drop a bologna. Lebanon is the home of Seltzer’s Lebanon Bologna.

Cleona will drop a pretzel. Shuey’s Pretzel company is one of the first in the US and they still make them.

York will drop a White Rose. York is known as the White Rose City.

Lancaster. Lancaster will drop a Red Rose. Lancaster is known as the Red Rose City.

Red Lion will drop, what else, a Lion.

Shippensburg will drop an Anchor. No one knows why.

Hershey will raise a Kiss. (They should raise a pinnate with a lot of jobs going to Mexico.)

Mechanicsburg will raise a Wrench.

Dillsburg will drop a Pickle.

Somewhere north of here they drop a sled (I forget where). That is where American Flyer sleds were made.

Hanover drops a Potato Chip. Utz Potato Chips are made there.

So, what does your community or surrounding communities do?

[AGreatPer]

CNN has this on now - red high heel drop with drag queen Sushi

[SlapHappyPappy]

SHIPpensburg will drop an Anchor. No one knows why. I bet I can figure out why.

[pa_dweller]

Harrisburg will drop a strawberry. Nobody knows why.

I think that started when they opened Strawberry Square downtown.

I guess the state of PA dropped governmenatal secrecy last night with the activation of the open records law. /sarc