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Volume 64 Issue 49
Wednesday, December 5, 2012
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Christmas has begun in Princeton
Highway rescue delivered Santa to down town Princeton on Saturday Lisa Carleton lisa@similkameenspotlight.com
This past weekend kicked off the festive atmosphere to the Christmas season in Princeton. On Friday, the Crimson Tine players opened with a play entitled ‘A Christmas Story.’ Performances will take place this upcoming Friday and Saturday if you missed it this past weekend. The downtown core grew busy with the annual Light Up and Santa’s Visit festivities which began at 4 p.m., on Saturday. Mayor Armitage opened the celebration with a welcome and thank you to the Chamber of Commerce and the Christmas Light Up committee for their work to bring the event to the community. Lori Thomas, Chamber manager and emcee for the light up introduced the Sparks, Brownies, Princeton Highland Dancers and the Laurie Thomas’ Baptist Church Youth Choir who all sang and danced their way into the hearts of all those present. The special and most awaited guest of the evening was escorted to the gazebo in Veterans Square by a candlelight walk (organized by Stephanie Mintzler) with New Beginnings members and friends lead by the RCMP. Santa’s chariot this year was the Princeton Extrication Society truck (Highway Rescue) driven by elves, Doug Pateman and Glen Oliver.
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Lisa Carleton/Spotlight Santa arrived atop the rescue truck at Veterans Square on Saturday. He was greeted by many children who were all very excited to tell him they had been very good this year. With the help of the Princeton Ambassadors, Santa gave each child a goodie bag prepared and donated by the Princeton Senior Citizens.
Giggle all the way to Christmas Lisa Carleton lisa@similkameenspotlight.com
A classic Christmas film is brought to Princeton audiences in live performance format courtesy of the Crimson Tine Players. The film is based on short stories based on the book “In God We Trust, All Others Pay Cash,” by Jean Shepherd. It was later produced as a play by Philip Grecian. A Christmas Story is a hilarious tale of young Ralphie Parker, played by Dayton Wales who is convinced that a certain gun would be the perfect Christmas present, while all others in his life object saying, “You’ll shoot your eye out.” On opening night Friday, Nov. 30 Wales took a tumble off the stage (the snow bank) much to his surprise, scaring the
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bejeebers out of the audience, cast and crew. With incredible dedication to the performance and a little in-character assistance from The Old Man, an obsessive turkey crazed character played by Josh Herzog, Wales (Ralphie) rose to the occasion and continued on. Let’s meet the rest of the characters… Ralph - the adult Ralphie Parker, is played by Adam Gullason who narrates the story based on childhood memories. Gullason also plays the Christmas tree salesman and the wild frontier guy. Hillary Riel plays Mother, a modest, down to earth woman with a few surprises up her sleeve.
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