Good Evening,
Tonight I will be telling you about our Annual Craft Show and Christmas Celebration in our small town. I am in charge of the Craft Show which starts tomorrow morning at 8 a.m. It lasts all day with 2 local youth groups serving the lunch and dinner. This is done every year on the first Thursday in December. All of the merchants in town hold a drawing in each of their stores and the winners are drawn tomorrow at noon. In order to get your prize you have to go to the store and pick it up. Then in the afternoon the restaurant serves pizza and pop to all of the children from kindergarten thru 6th grade. They get to watch a movie while they are eating their pizza. We have carriage rides in the evening and Santa comes around 5 p.m. After dinner is served then everyone goes to one of the local churches for services and Christmas carols. We started doing this in 1989, the December after I opened the bakery. The first year, we had a snow storm and got 4 to 6 inches of snow. It wasn't as big as it is now because just a few of the merchants participated and now all of the merchants in town participate. It is a wonderful time for everyone.
This is just one of the things that we do here in Northwest Missouri throughout the year in our small town of Oregon.
Happy Holidays to Everyone!
Sandra Justice
Annie's Accents Bakery
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Now that sound like fun. What a great way to bring a community together. One of the smaller towns here started a first Saturdays flea market type thing and several events revolving around that.
It really brings the community together, along with pulling in a few outside people.
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