Staff photo by Clay Schuldt Candice Stadick sets up one of the many Christmas Trees at the Brown County Fairgrounds.

NEW ULM — Volunteers worked Friday to set up the free drive-thru Santa event at the Brown County Fairgrounds.

The event is from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 19, at the Fairgrounds. Anyone is welcome to drive through a see the winter wonderland display that will feature Santa Claus, live reindeer and even a friendly Grinch.

Brown County Fairground Board President Anna Covington said the event had a lot of support from the community. Volunteers were at the fairgrounds all Friday placing Christmas decorations and light. Several local businesses had donated items to make the event possible. Hacker’s Greenhouse had donated 70 trees to help create a Christmas forest on the fairgrounds.

There is currently no snow at the fairgrounds but Covington said they will have a snow machine going during the event. If the temperatures remain cold enough visitors to the event could be treated to a snowfall.

This is the first year Brown County Fairgrounds has done a Christmas event and Covington is confident it will go over well.

“We want to continue this in the future,” she said. “We have a million cool ideas but we can’t do them all this year.”

Covington said the event is free to visitors. Guests are asked to enter through the Franklin Street gate and drive-through to the fairgrounds and exit on the 12th North.