B6 Cowichan News Leader Pictorial
Friday, November 22, 2013
Experience Downtown Duncan
HEART OF COWICHAN
Wafting through the air will be another familiar seasonal aroma of chestnuts roasting on a fire. Follow your nose to find the chestnut barrels throughout the downtown, offering complimentary bags of these traditional tasty tidbits. While munching away on hot chestnuts, watch in delight as children intuitively move to the musical stylings of The Smiley Family Band on City Square Stage & to hip hop shake it up, there’ll be another highly entertaining local band; Subterranean! Not to be forgotten is the incredibly popular Hay Ride. Every year Providence Farm provides a wagon for plenty of fun & hilarity as you take a ride around town spreading even more Christmas cheer and laughter! While you’re in City Square be sure to explore the collection of Christmas trees that have been donated and decorated by local businesses and service organizations in a desire to add their community presence and a little sparkle at this time of year. If you have to wait in the cold, why not warm your insides both figuratively and literally with homemade goodies and delicious hot beverages from our local non-profit fundraising groups, while you and your family await the dramatic entrance of Santa as he arrives on the roof at City Hall at 6:30 p.m. Kids won’t want to miss their chance to sit with Santa afterwards and tell him their most magical Christmas wishes! It doesn’t matter where you are downtown, the best seats in the house will be in the Square for what is sure to be a crowd pleasing display of explosive light and colour, with our annual fireworks display following Santa’s lighting of the tree. This wonderful community event is sponsored by the Merchants of Downtown Duncan. It’s a downtown that is anything but ordinary!
Christmas Past Comes Alive! at the Museum The Cowichan Valley Museum is celebrating the holiday season with their 8th Annual Christmas Past Comes Alive! Event, from 5:30 pm to 7:45 pm, during Duncan’s Christmas Kick Off. The magic of the past is brought to life with Historical Society members in ‘living history’ displays. They will be donned in pioneer costumes, and ensconced throughout the museum, as they demonstrate the traditions of an old-fashioned Christmas. ‘Mrs. Castley’ will be concocting a Christmas pudding, and she might invite you to give it a stir for good luck, but make sure you stir it
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