Carolers to serenade Menlo Park Carolers to serenade Menlo Park (December 21, 2005)

Carolers will tour Menlo Park on a horse-drawn wagon, singing Christmas tunes for anyone within earshot to enjoy, on Thursday, December 22.

Jeanne Williams of Williams Ranch in Woodside is lending an antique wagon and two Clydesdale horses for the carolers to use.

The group formed thanks to the efforts of Marla Stark, a Menlo Park resident who says she has enjoyed caroling all her life.

Ms. Stark grew up in the Central Valley, and caroled with her father, five aunts and 26 cousins. Her family would pile in horse-drawn grape gondolas and wagons, and visit local hospitals and convalescent homes, caroling along the way.

Ms. Stark plans to get a large group of carolers to several sites in Menlo Park.

The wagon of carolers will leave the Menlo Circus Club in Atherton at 6 p.m., and sing at or outside Peninsula Volunteers Crane Place, Canaan Health Care Center, fire station No. 6 on Oak Grove Avenue, the Glenwood Inn, and possibly Menlo Center.

The horses will also pull the wagon of carolers down Santa Cruz Avenue.

For more information, and a detailed route of the wagon's path, call Marla Stark at 324-3774 or e-mail m_stark@pacbell.net.

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