Kids are running around wide-eyed, Santa and Mrs. Claus are available for photographs, and scads of local businesses have created Christmas trees in Opportunity Village’s Magical Forest. Everyone’s glowing with the holiday spirit—a little passenger train runs through the forest of pines in the parking lot-turned-winter wonderland, and people are sipping hot cocoa and singing with Alvin and the Chipmunks for a good cause: All proceeds benefit people with disabilities.

So just as you’re getting your pure Christmas love on, you lean back and look at the Review-Journal’s tree, and there, on a high branch, is an ornament made of a shrunken R-J page with the headline “Serial rapist gets life in prison.” Hmm. Thankfully, children seem more interested in the Clark County Fire Department’s miniature fire house, where they can pull a rope and ring a fire bell, and in the Dunkin’ Donuts tree, which is festooned with boxes of doughnuts, and in the Harrah’s tree, which is populated by Peanuts characters, and which has Lucy’s booth: “Psychiatric Help, 5 cents.”

There’s some great community love going on here: The Academy of Nevada Ballet Theatre has a clever tree decorated with ballet shoes, and Republic Services has a cool tree covered with recycled plastic bottles turned into ornaments, and the bartenders’ union, Local 165, has a mannequin of a bartender standing with a bottle of champagne.

Plus, you can climb into one of the service vehicles on display, such as a fire truck—don’t forget to get your Deputy Firefighter sticker—or the ambulance, where the medic will say, “’It’s your one free ride!” Whew.