Santa returns to tree lighting

Santa Claus, who is arriving on a fire truck, hot chocolate, and the Dr. John C. Wickwire Academy choir, will add to the festivities. Children may visit with Santa inside the Astor Theatre.

Conserve Nova Scotia and Nova Scotia Power Inc. will be there as well to exchange incandescent Christmas lights for LED lights.

Children’s fun day will take place Dec. 1 at the Girl Guide Hall in Liverpool, beginning at 11 a.m. Registration is upstairs at Liverpool Home Hardware.

Included are crafts, lunch, games and activities.

Queens County Daycare workers and Liverpool Regional High School Key Club members are helping by volunteering their time.

Families can also watch the movie, “Unaccompanied Minors” at the Astor Theatre; this is a food bank fundraiser organized by the Region of Queens (see article in this section.) The movie begins 2 p.m. with the doors opening at 1:15 p.m.

Santa photographs will take place 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. Dec. 8 at Memory Lane.

The South Queens Chamber of Commerce is once again sponsoring and organizing many of the events, as the organization did in the past.

Christmas events did not stop in Liverpool, however, thanks to Reynolds Pharmasave and its staff.

Chamber co-chair Bruce Inglis would like to thank Mark Reynolds and staff for providing Christmas events during the chamber’s absence.

Chamber members have decided to stick with the recurring themes, plus add a few events and activities of their own, said Inglis.

Margo Walsh-Leaman has volunteered to help prepare the Christmas events.

Walsh-Leaman spoke of the “caught in the act program,” which Inglis dubbed their “crazy new program.”

She said the intention is to celebrate local business by randomly catching people in the act of shopping locally.

Those people will receive a Christmas gift just for doing so.

They could be walking down the street, “it could be anywhere,” she said.

The “caught in the act program” will take place throughout the Christmas season along with caroling.