ZALESKI, Ohio — The Zaleski Volunteer Fire Department will bring Santa Claus to town next month, with a firetruck parade through the village and a stop at the firehouse for photos, gifts and hot chocolate.
Santa is scheduled to arrive Dec. 12, riding through town aboard a department fire engine before the parade parks at the Zaleski firehouse at 6 p.m. so he can meet children, the fire department said in a Facebook post. Volunteers dressed as elves will hand out gifts and serve cookies and hot chocolate to families who come out for the visit.
The department asked residents to bring their children for photos with Santa and the engine.
Zaleski, a village of about 230 people according to the 2020 census, was platted in 1856 and named for Peter Zaleski, a Polish-born official of the Steubenville and Indiana Railroad. Incorporated in 1875, it grew quickly as a center of iron production and timber harvesting tied to the nearby Hope Furnace and the Hocking Canal. The village now borders the 28,000-acre Zaleski State Forest, Ohio’s second-largest state forest, and sits near the Moonville Rail Trail, a hiking and biking path built along a former rail line.
The information contained in this story was obtained from the Zaleski Volunteer Fire Department.
