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East Oregonian/Hermiston Herald
HOME FOR THE HOLIDAYS
Wednesday, November 22, 2017
Milton-Freewater and friends spread Christmas joy
Bob Moon’s Light Show
•Dec. 1-28; 5-9 p.m.
•804 Jacquelyn St.
Free. Synchronized display with
music.
Christmas Magic Parade
•Friday, Dec. 1; 6 p.m.
•Main Street
“Season of Magic”
•Saturday, Dec. 2; 2-4 p.m.
•Arts Portal Gallery, 508 N. Main
St., Milton-Freewater
www.facebook.com/artsportal-
gallery
Free. Holiday-themed art exhibit
opening.
Tate’s Christmas Frenzy
•Sunday, Dec. 3; 10 a.m.-3 p.m.
•Umapine Mercantile, 51604
Highway 332
www.facebook.com/
events/188370218401715
Free. Holiday vendors and food
available for purchase.
13th annual Christmas Open
House
EO file photo
Snowmen have a snowball fight set to the song “Frosty the Snowman” in Bob Moon’s Christmas
lights display in Milton-Freewater.
Contributed photo by April McKenna
Christmas shoppers take in some of the offerings during the 2016
Athena Holiday Bazaar at the Athena Elementary School. This
year’s bazaar takes place Saturday, Dec. 2, and features goods from
more than 50 vendors.
Helix’s annual Christmas tree
lighting ceremony is Dec. 7 at 6
p.m. Organizer Cindy Wood said
the event draws as many as 50 town
locals, depending on the weather.
To ease the chill, there’s free soup
starting at 4:30 p.m.
The tree lighting coincides with
the opening of high school basket-
ball season. The ceremony has an
invocation, Christmas carols and
free cookies after the lights turn on.
“It’s quite lovely,” Wood said.
The Weston Chamber of
Commerce sponsors an annual
Christmas lighting contest that
culminates with a community party
the eventing of Dec. 15 Chamber
president Tim Crampton said they
load a trailer with bales of hay and
hook that to a snowmobile.
“We drive around town and look
at all the Christmas lights,” he said,
and afterward folks meet at the
city’s Memorial Hall for hot cider,
hot chocolate and cookies. And
if enough folks come, he said he
would be more than happy to hook
up two trailers.
Crampton added the night
usually includes a children’s
Christmas party, but those details
have yet to be worked out.
Morrow County ushers in holidays with lights and music
By JAYATI RAMAKRISHNAN
EO Media Group
There will be plenty of events
for Morrow County residents
looking to celebrate the holidays
come December.
In Boardman, the Christmas
light show will start Dec. 1 at the
SAGE Center, 101 Olson Rd.,
and will run nightly throughout
the month. The light show will
be accompanied by Christmas
music, which can be heard from a
car radio at station 106.9 FM. The
SAGE center will also be hosting a
Holiday Bazaar on Dec. 1.
The Community Christmas
Lighting event will be at the
SAGE Center on Dec. 6. At 6 p.m.,
Boardman mayor Sandy Toms will
give a short welcome, followed
by a skit of the Living Nativity
and some local students singing
holiday songs. After the lighting,
visitors can enjoy refreshments
and get photos with Santa Claus.
On Dec. 9, the Boardman
Kiwanis Club will host its annual
Christmas with Santa from 8 to
11 a.m. at the Boardman Senior
Center, 100 Tatone St. There will
be crafts, games, and a visit from
Santa, as well as a pancake break-
fast for $3.
Also on the 9th, Santa will drive
down Boardman’s Main Street in a
Christmas-decorated semi truck to
Community Thanksgiving
•Thursday, Nov. 23; 4-6 p.m.
•First Christian Church, 518 S.
Main St.
www.facebook.com/MiltonFree-
waterChristianChurch
Free. Everyone welcome to en-
joy the meal with turkey and all the
trimmings.
By PHIL WRIGHT
EO Media Group
Milton-Freewater aims to grow
into its wreath of Christmas tradi-
tions.
The small northeastern Oregon
town boasts an annual Christmas
parade, a neighborhood with a
synchronized light show and an
open house at the historic Frazier
Farmstead Museum. And last year
more than 20 vendors participated
in the first North Main Street Magic
Crawl.
Jennifer Konrad is the new exec-
utive director of the Milton-Free-
water Area Chamber of Commerce.
She said this year’s crawl is Dec.
14, 5-8 p.m. and includes most of
the businesses on North Main as
well as 15-plus other vendors.
Businesses from the long-es-
tablished Saager’s Shoe Shop to
the burgeoning Arts Portal Gallery
to the increasingly popular Fringe
Salon & Boutique are participating.
Konrad said the vendors will be
inside downtown shops, and treats
such as hot cider and coffee will be
available.
She said the crawl provides
publicity for local businesses
while offering an array of goods
for Christmas shoppers. The town
offers up plenty more holiday
happenings almost to the end of
December.
Neighboring towns churn out
their share of Christmas cheer as
well.
The Athena Holiday Bazaar is
Saturday, Dec. 2, 9 a.m. to 3 p.m..
at the Athena Elementary School,
375 S. Fifth St. Organizer Katie
Vorhauer Zmuda said the event has
more than 50 vendors and will fill
the whole school. Fellow organizer
April McKenna said they are full
and cannot accept any more appli-
cations.
This is the bazaar’s eighth
year and the third at the school.
McKenna said the first year drew
25 merchants. Zmuda said the
school provides more space and is
handicapped accessible. She added
the event has become so popular
they no longer have to advertise for
vendors.
Milton-Freewater
the SAGE Center, where people
can visit with Santa and enjoy hot
chocolate from 6 to 10:30 p.m.
In Heppner, there are several
events going on to celebrate the
holidays. Starting Nov. 20, busi-
nesses around Heppner will have a
“Rewards Cards” program, where
shopping at local participating
merchants will allow customers to
collect cards, and enter them into
drawings for prizes. Prizes will be
awarded at Heppner’s Community
Christmas event on Dec. 14 at the
Morrow County Fairgrounds at 6
p.m.
Heppner’s Parade of Lights will
take place Thursday, Dec. 7 at 5:30
p.m. Those interested in being in
the parade can get an entry form at
City Hall. Participants need to be
at the city park by 5 p.m. the day
of the parade to line up.
At the Celebrate Heppner
Christmas Community Event
on Dec. 14, a spaghetti dinner
will begin at 6 p.m., prepared by
the track and cross country team
parents. Tickets will be limited to
the first 200 people. From 6 to 7
p.m., people can take photos with
Santa and his elves. The evening
will end with a raffle.
The city of Irrigon will be
holding its Christmas tree lighting
on Sunday, Dec. 3 at 4:30 p.m., and
their annual Giving Tree program
starting Dec. 17.
•Friday, Dec. 8; 6-8 p.m.; Satur-
day, Dec. 9; 11 a.m.-4 p.m.
•Frazier Farmstead Museum,
1403 Chestnut St.
www.facebook.com/frazierfarm-
stead
Free. Features a vintage chil-
dren’s activity on Saturday.
Christmas Cookie Walk
•Saturday, Dec. 9; 11 a.m.-2 p.m.
•Neighborhood Senior Center,
311 N. Main St.
www.facebook.com/
events/494581524243795
Free. More than 25 varieties of
homemade cookies and candies
created by MacHi culinary arts de-
partment to benefit senior center
fundraiser.
North Main Magic Crawl
•Thursday, Dec. 14; 5-8 p.m.
•North Main Street
www.facebook.com/
events/1067492220049434
Free. Features fun, food, wine/
beer, vendors, lights holiday magic
and Santa.
Boardman
Community Thanksgiving
Celebration
•Thursday, Nov. 23; 1:30-4 p.m.
•Boardman Senior Center, 101
Tatone St.
Free. Begins with praise service,
meal served from 2-4 p.m. For de-
liveries or to volunteer, call 503-724-
8823 or 541-481-5511.
Christmas Light Show
•Begins Dec. 1; nightly
•SAGE Center, 101 Olson Road
www.visitsage.com
Free. Light show accompanied
by Christmas music (tune into 106.9
FM on car radio).
Boardman Christmas Light-
ing
•Wednesday, Dec. 6; 6 p.m.
•SAGE Center, 101 Olson Road
Free/ Includes living nativity,
carolers, pre-school choir, refresh-
ments and Santa Claus.
Breakfast With Santa
•Saturday, Dec. 9; 9-11 a.m.
•Boardman Senior Center, 100
Tatone St.
www.facebook.com/
groups/189060918220675
Cost. Presented by Kiwanis
Club of Boardman, features a pan-
cake breakfast, mule wagon rides,
children’s activities, goodie bags
and picture with Santa.
Heppner
Artifactory Holiday Bazaar
•Saturday, Dec. 2; 9:30 a.m.-
2:30 p.m.
•St. Patrick’s Parish Hall, 525
Gale St.
Parade of Lights
•Thursday, Dec. 7; 5:30 p.m.
•Heppner City Park line-up
Free. Before and after the pa-
rade, enjoy the Heppner Downtown
Merchants Open House.
Heppner Celebrate Christ-
mas
•Thursday, Dec. 14; 6 p.m.
•Morrow County Fairgrounds
Cost TBA. Spaghetti dinner, raf-
fle, Santa and elves. For more infor-
mation, call 541-676-5536.
Irrigon
Irrigon Christmas Lighting
Photo contributed by Julie Gisi
A child visits with Santa Claus at a Boardman holiday event last year.
•Sunday, Dec. 3; 5 p.m.
•Irrigon City Park
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Free. Cookies and cocoa served
and Santa will visit. People urged to
bring a non-perishable food item to
donate for those in need.
Enjoy those precious
moments with friends
& family
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