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There are a lot of impressive holiday-lights shows around the metro area, enough to keep Pepco raking in the dough through New Year’s. But the Gaithersburg “Winter Lights Festival” is something special, and not because of the usual suspects—the grazing deer, polar and teddy bears, marching toy soldiers, and such. It’s the fact that during your 3.5-mile drive through this wooded winter wonderland, you can listen to a program cassette narrated by News 4’s entertainment maestro Arch Campbell (serving suggestion—clip the above photo and tape it to your dashboard). No one does this sort of spiked-eggnog blather better than Arch; if you don’t have a tape deck in your car, don’t even bother. From 6-10 p.m. weekdays, 6-11 p.m. Saturday & Sunday (closed Dec. 25—Bah! Humbug!), at Seneca Creek State Park, 11950 Clopper Rd., Gaithersburg. $10 per car. (301) 258-6300. (Eddie Dean)