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Support small businesses this holiday season While the holiday season is important for small businesses every year, now is the time to support small businesses more than ever.

Here are ways you can help.

Shop in person.

If you’re healthy and comfortable visiting local stores, consider making the trip instead of buying online from the big e-commerce sites for at least some of your gifts. After all, many of our small shops offer unique items you won’t find on the big websites.

Shop small businesses online.

Many small businesses increased their e-commerce capabilities to generate revenue over the last year. Those concerned about shopping in person this season should explore the delivery and curbside pickup options available at locally-owned small businesses. Even businesses that have not traditionally been allowed to deliver, such as breweries and wineries, have been able to do so since the pandemic began.

Buy local gift cards.

Gift cards take the guesswork out of holiday shopping, and they’re easily shipped or emailed to loved ones. That’s a significant benefit during the holiday season, especially when delivery times are expected to be lengthy. Gift cards to local businesses simplify shopping, support small businesses and help shoppers avoid potential delivery delays.

Order holiday meals.

Save yourself the time prepping and cooking this year’s holiday feasts by ordering from a local restaurant. If the restaurant does not deliver, chances are you can pick up curbside. Even if there are some homemade culinary traditions you don’t want to give up, consider ordering part of the meal, such as dessert from a local bakery.

Share your experience.

Word-of-mouth is vital to small businesses at any time and can be especially valuable. On social media, share information about the lengths local small businesses have gone to in regard to safety measures, order fulfillment and their delivery and pickup efforts. This could encourage neighbors and friends to follow your lead and provide support to local businesses this holiday season.

Holiday music by Amy Coldren, flute; Meghan Michaels, handbells; Ashley Simms, trombone; and Lisa Allen, piano. Free.

Time: 12:15 p.m.

Location: Frederick Presbyertian Church, 115 W. Second St., Frederick Contact: frederickpresbyterian.org

Candlelight Tour of Historic Houses of Worship

Virtual event continues through Dec. 27. This tour celebrates Frederick’s tradition of religious diversity, local history, and the holiday season.

This is a free virtual presentation and is a great opportunity to peek inside some of its most beautiful buildings.

Time: Your time Location: online Contact: visitfrederick.org

Holiday Train Display

Christmas and holiday trains running, a sale table for those who would like to purchase a little something extra for their own train collection, raffles and more. Also open Dec. 18 and 22. Free admission.

Time: 5 p.m.

Location: 21 E. Main St., Thurmont Contact: facebook.com/ events/904106373832588

United Steam Fire Engine Co. #3 Santa Run

Riding through neighborhoods with Santa on board the fire engine. Dec. 15: Prospect Hall Apartments, Jefferson Place, Jefferson Technology Park, Robin Meadows neighborhoods.

Dec. 16: Farmbrook and Kingsbrook. Visit Facebook page for updates.

Time: 6 to 8:30 p.m.

Location: Select Frederick area neighborhoods Contact: ufc3.org or 301-600-1711 CONT. ON 12

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Handcrafted honeycomb earrings and necklaces

By LAUREN LAROCCA llarocca@newspost.com

Brian Slagle’s fascination with honeybees started when he met an old beekeeper in Savannah who kept an observation hive in his dining room.

“I just became obsessed,” Slagle remembers.

“Then I read ‘The Life of the Honeybee,’ and it blew my mind … that there’s this power greater than ourselves that tells the queen bee what to do and when. Lately, it’s been all I can think about, this connection between spirituality and honeybees.”

While playing around with sheets of perforated steel that resemble honeycomb patterns, Slagle, a longtime sculptor in Frederick, realized he could make jewelry from it. Within a week, he had a small company up and running, with orders coming in for his honeycomb earrings and necklaces.

The pieces are handmade in downtown Frederick with polished steel and come in a handful of variations and price points.

His grandfather, an architect and jeweler, was one of his earliest inspirations.

“I would sit in his shop for hours and watch him polish gemstones and make stuff,” he said. “I found an old box where he had instructions to make this really fancy king’s chain bracelet, so I made one of those for my wife. I feel like I’m full-on sitting in his shop when I was 6 when I’m sitting in my shop now. It’s kind of come full-circle. … The jewelry thing is definitely in my bones somewhere.”

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Santa’s Scout Activity Kit

By PATRICK KERNAN pkernan@newspost.com

It’s been a busy year for Michelle Budd.

The last time the News-Post spoke with her, she had just debuted Santa’s Scout, a cuddly toy reindeer who finds the homes of good children on Christmas Eve for Santa.

Since then, Santa’s Scout has won awards and received some national recognition, and Budd, who is based in New Market, said she’s working on the next steps for the project.

Budd’s toy creation grew out of a story her family told when she was a child about a reindeer who scouts out locations for Santa’s sleigh.

She made this idea tangible when she authored a children’s book about Santa’s Scout, which comes packaged with a plush version of the character and a light-up star to put in the window to attract Santa’s attention.

The toy kit debuted on the market last holiday season, and Budd said the response has been incredible since then.

“We’ve received quite a bit of recognition,” she said while at the Pennsylvania Christmas and Gift Show in Harrisburg.

Perhaps the biggest recognition was Santa’s Scout winning a Mom’s Choice Award.

According to the Mom’s Choice Awards’ website, the organization gives awards of excellence to toys and other products designed specifically for children, as judged by a panel on a variety of criteria.

“It’s a very select submission group that gets chosen, so that was a really big deal for me,” she said.

Santa’s Scout was also featured by a number of media outlets, in addition to the NewsPost, which Budd said helped drive a large number of sales, and the toy also made an appearance at the Maryland Christmas Show, held at the Frederick County Fairgrounds in the final weeks of November.

“We’ve had the chance to touch thousands of kids and families,” she said.

Budd, in some ways, thinks the pandemic may have caused people to want a new tradition like Santa’s Scout. She thinks people

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The Santa’s Scout package comes with a children’s book, a light-up star and a cuddly stuffed reindeer. want a safe “home activity” to do with their children to keep the magic of Christmas going. “I’ve had people tell me it brought back the magic for their kids,” she said.

Budd has big plans for the toy, including getting it into brick-and-mortar retail shops and more projects with the character of Santa’s Scout.

For now, Budd said she’s thrilled by the response, saying it makes her speechless. “It’s hard to express. It’s truly gratifying on so many levels. It means a lot to me to bring joy to

families during such a hard time. When you can talk to people and realize how influential it’s been, it’s very gratifying.”

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Holiday recipes yum. yum. yum.

Winter Cocktail Recipes

by McClintock Distilling

By LAUREN LAROCCA AND CHRIS SANDS

Try these winter cocktail recipes created by McClintock Distilling’s Alex Zahorchak with McClintock spirits.

Matchstick Bourbon Whiskey, Forager Gin, Oro Vodka, Spiced Pear Cordial and Reserve Gin are available for purchase at the distillery, located in downtown Frederick at 35 S. Carroll St. McClintock also offers free delivery within a 30-mile radius of the distillery, which includes most of Frederick County, as well as parts of Washington and Montgomery counties.

Gimlet En Fuego • • • • •

Muddled Jalapeño Oro Vodka 3 oz Lime Juice 1/2 oz Simple Syrup 1/2 oz Ginger Lime Cordial 1/2 oz

TO PREPARE: Combine all ingredients into a shaker.

Muddle jalapeno with ingredients.

Add ice and shake. Strain into a martini glass. Garnish with jalapeno slice.

Spiced Garden • • • •

Grapefruit Juice 3 oz Spiced Pear 1/2 oz Forager Gin 1 oz Cranberry Juice 2 oz

TO PREPARE: Combine all ingredients into a rocks glass with ice. Stir together and enjoy.

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Reserved Fall • Reserve Gin 1 oz • Spiced Pear 1 oz • Club Soda 3 oz

TO PREPARE: Place Gin and Spiced Pear into a rocks glass with ice. Fill with club soda to the top.

How to approach hosting the holidays this year To the relief of many, the upcom- and public health agencies to reing holiday season figures to feel consider their mask guidelines. more normal than it did a year ago. Families need not wait for governThe COVID-19 pandemic forced ment-issued mandates to help relfamilies to celebrate the 2020 hol- atives ease their anxiety about variiday season in quarantine. Long- ants of the virus. Hosts can explain time family traditions like big gath- to family members that if anyone erings might have been shelved in on the guest list expresses concerns 2020, but the successful rollout of about the virus that they will ask various vaccines has put such cel- everyone else to wear masks while celebrating indoors. Anyone unebrations back in play in 2021. willing to Though it would be comply can great to imagine a 2021 Hosting small celebrate holiday with COVID well in the rearview mirror, gatherings this outside or stay home the spread of potentially holiday season and visdeadly variants of the viit after conrus and the relatively high can protect cerned relnumber of unvaccinated atives have unvaccinated adults and children could gone home. make hosting the holidays family members, a bit tricky.

• Stick to Here are some strateincluding small the great gies hosts can employ to outdoors. children. make this holiday season Public both special and safe. health agencies like the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention • Host small celebrations and the World Health Organization instead of one large one. Families have noted the virus is consideraccustomed to gathering en ably less likely to spread outdoors, masse during the holiday season as researchers have learned fresh may benefit by hosting a small air disperses and dilutes the virus. gathering or two instead of one So celebrating outdoors this holibig one. This can be especially day season can provide a measure important if families include a of protection for family members lot of unvaccinated people. who are not vaccinated.

• Ask guests to wear a mask if The 2021 holiday season should anyone is concerned. The debate mark a welcome return to norabout masks is ongoing. While the malcy for many families. Howvast majority of mask mandates had ever, holiday hosts may still need been lifted in the spring of 2021, to implement some safety meaconcerns about the Delta variant sures to protect their friends and families. prompted government officials A special supplement to The Frederick News-Post • December 2021 • SHOP LOCAL FOR THE HOLIDAYS 7

Giving unique gifts for the holiday season

TikTok made you buy it A selection of viral, gifty finds

By LEANNE ITALIE AP ENTERTAINMENT WRITER

Look no further than TikTok and its pandemic-expanded ranks for unique holiday gifts, from the hot Halara athleisure dress to a miracle cleaning paste called The Pink Stuff, worthy of any neat freak’s Christmas stocking. The short-form video platform was a hit for millions during quarantine times, and the hashtag TikTokMadeMeBuyIt endures. The hashtag has been viewed more than 5.6 billion times, driving TikTok to boost its direct shopping tools. There’s something for everybody down that yellow brick road for the holidays.

THE PINK STUFF

The basic ingredients in this all-purpose cleaning paste are baking soda, quartz, sodium silicate and soap, lending an abrasive feel. It’s a stocking stuffer extraordinaire for uber-cleaners and the rest of us who don’t want to break a sweat. Fans on TikTok are most impressed by its muscle on built-up greasy things. There’s a bathroom foam cleanser and multipurpose spray cleaner as well. Best part: It’s only $8.15 on Amazon for 17.6 ounces.

THE ALMOND COW

Plant-based everything is the rage, and that’s everpresent when it comes to milk. This carafe requires nuts to be thrown into the base, water to be added, a button to be pressed and voila, 5 to 6 cups of frothy almond milk.

It automatically separates the milk from the pulp. Users can add coconut, dates or whatever extra ingredients they like. It takes just a minute with no mess and easy cleanup.

The milk lasts three to five days in the fridge. The magic extends to cocktails, creamers, dressings, soups and more.

It goes for $195. Available on Almondcow.co.

THE MOBOT

Speaking of hydration, another water bottle called the Mobot doubles as a BPA-free massage foam roller for aching muscles. They’re constructed from recycled stainless steel in sizes with catchy names: Big Bertha at 40 ounces, Grace at 27 ounces and the Firecracker at 18 ounces. There are some fun patterns and colors, including the fruity style called Juicybot. Actress Lucy Hale never leaves home without one. Prices range from $39.99 to $59.99.

Buy at Mobot.com. Also available on Amazon and Nordstrom.com.

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THE CIRKUL

Created by two former football players at Dartmouth who wanted to improve their hydration, the Cirkul water bottles and their flavor cartridges allow users to ramp up or tone down the taste with the turn of a dial. Cartridges come in more than 40 no-sugar, no-calorie, all-natural flavors, including ice coffees and teas. The bottles are customizable in a range of sizes in BPA-free plastic and stainless steel. $30 for a 22-ounce plastic bottle and four cartridges.

Available on drinkcirkul.com.

THE HALARA

Nothing says viral quite like the sporty, ultra-popular Halara dress, specifically the tank-top version that comes in a range of colors and sizes up to 3X. It’s called the In My Feels Everyday Dress-Wannabe, and it includes attached shorts and handy pockets. It’s super soft and stretchy.

The brand followed up with the In My Feels Everyday Chill Dress-La La Land, a version with a midi slit skirt. The tennis-looking original sells for $49.95. The newer one goes for $44.95. Both are available on Halara.com.

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THE POP ITS

TikTok drove hordes to scoop up silicone toys with bubbles that make a popping sound. While not as satisfying as bubble wrap itself, people went crazy for them as the fidget toy trend spread last summer. Warning: The noise may be annoying in class now that schools are back in session.

They come in a variety of shapes and sizes, and from numerous companies. Some experts believe kids with ADHD, anxiety, autism and other disorders can benefit from these and other fidgets. The company that makes the Pop Its! brand is coming out with Star Wars, Marvel and Disney characters in time for the holidays at $9.99 each. Look for them at Target, Walmart and Amazon.

THE WORK ROBE

With so many people still working from home, toponly dressing remains a thing.

The WorkRobe, as thousands of TikTokers have noted, just makes comfy sense. It’s a belted women’s robe that looks like a Zoom-worthy top in three styles: button-down collared, cross-over blouse and cowl neck. It even has cuffs. There are black, white and gray options. The robe sells for $70. Shop at Myworkrobe.com.

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Giving book lovers holiday gift guide

Take advantage of the pandemic book bump with a holiday gift

By LEANNE ITALIE AP ENTERTAINMENT WRITER

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n this world, there’s a book for everybody. Take advantage of that sentiment during the holiday shopping season. Book sales have thrived during the pandemic after initial concerns that it might hurt the publishing business. Come the holidays, some new nonfiction might hit your gifting sweet spots.

Dressing the Resistance: The Visual Language of Protest through History

self-rule. The British authorities banned it, throwing fuel on the fire. $27.50.

Princeton Architectural Press.

BY CAMILLE BENDA From ancient Roman rebellions to the Black Lives Matter movement, dress has empowered the powerless to express dissent. Benda, a costume designer and dress historian, tells the story in more than 150 images, photos and paintings with loads of context in text. Take the simple topi hat, a khadi cloth envelope style popular during India’s fight for

The Christmas Owl

BY ELLEN KALISH & GIDEON STERER WITH ILLUSTRATIONS

BY RAMONA KAULITZKI This delightful Christmas tale is the true story of a little owl dubbed Rockefeller. The young, Saw-whet owl was found stuck in the branches of a towering Norway spruce grown in upstate New York and cut as Rockefeller Center’s holiday

tree last year. Uninjured but hungry, she spent a brief stint in a Saugerties rehabilitation center before she was set free. Kalish is executive director of the Ravensbeard Wildlife Center in the Hudson Valley town. $15.49. Ages 4-up.

Little, Brown Books for Young Readers.

Patient Zero: A Curious History of the World’s Worst Diseases

BY LYDIA KANG & NATE PEDERSEN Disease outbreaks. How do they start? How do they spread? How do

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we overcome? Those are questions for the times but certainly nothing new.

This book explores all that came before COVID-19: plague, yellow fever, mad cow disease, typhoid and more.

Who was Typhoid Mary? She was an asymptomatic, transient home cook who infected hundreds, if not thousands. Where did the N95 respirator mask begin? With Sara Little Turnbull and the fibrous molded padding for bras she came up with for 3M. $24.95.

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In the Weeds: Around the World and Behind the Scenes with Anthony Bourdain

BY TOM VITALE Bourdain’s longtime director and

Giving book lovers holiday gift guide producer shares stories and secrets from more than a decade of globetrotting with the beloved and complicated foodie/adventurer. There was the time Bourdain raved about a Hong Kong restaurant’s Peking Duck, only to be told he was devouring suckling pig.

And a stop in Namibia, when the warthog anus he ate hit his stomach hard.

Bourdain killed himself in a French hotel room in 2018. $30. Hachette Books.

Sharing the Wisdom of Time

BY POPE FRANCIS AND FRIENDS Soon to be a four-part documentary series on Netflix, this book is a collection of personal stories of grandparents and elders the world over, including filmmaker Martin Scorsese. There’s a survivor of Auschwitz, a blind basket weaver in Kenya and a centenarian midwife in Guatemala. The pope said in a statement: “Our society has silenced the voices of grandparents. We pushed them out of the way.” During one of his daily prayer sessions, Pope Francis received an inspiration: to shine a light on the vital role of grandparents and other elders, according to the publisher. Loyola Press. $21.98.

Unprotected: A Memoir

BY BILLY PORTER Bullied at school, sexually abused by his stepfather, Porter tells his truth of growing up gay in Pittsburgh. He was criticized by his church and sent to therapy to fix his effeminacy at age 5.

The Emmy, Grammy and Tony winner details his HIV-positive diagnosis in 2007, and his struggles with shame and trauma through the decades.

“There is healing in Sharing. There is healing in the truth,” Porter told GLAAD’s Anthony Allen Ramos in an interview. $19.69. Abrams Press.

Fantastic Fungi Community Cookbook

EDITED AND WITH ESSAY BY EUGENIA BONE, RECIPES BY THE FANTASTIC FUNGI COMPANY With plant-based lifestyles all the rage, this book contains more than 100 ways to prepare mushrooms, from appetizers and mains to des-

serts and drinks. Chaga chocolate chip cookies, anyone? The book follows the path set by Louie Schwartzberg’s award-winning documentary, “Fantastic Fungi: The Magic Beneath Us,” and is driven by the fans who sprang up. $37.50. Insight Editions.

Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls: 100 Real-Life Tales of Black Girl Magic

EDITED BY LILLY WORKNEH WITH A FOREWORD BY CASHAWN THOMPSON, WHO ORIGINATED THE #BLACKGIRLMAGIC HASTAG IN 2013 The latest in a series for children ages 6-up, this book highlights the contributions of 100 barrier-breaking Black women and girls through generations. Amanda Gorman, Naomi Osaka and Ava DuVernay are included. So is Sanité Bélair, who at 15 fought in the Haitian Revolution and paid with her life in front of a firing squad. $35. Rebel Girls.

The Highlights Book of Things to Draw

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The folks that bring you Highlights magazine have provided a fun artist’s primer for kids ages 7-up. The journal-style book has 175 how-to creative projects and activities, from learning how to incorporate texture to drawing shadow art. Similarly, there’s “The Highlights Book of Things to Write,” with imaginative prompts like: “You find a talking tree.

What does it say about the view?” $14.99 each. Highlights Press.

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along, very begrudgingly, Izzy meets all the colorful characters workS’mores with Santa ing at the food kitchen, helping to Advance registration required for this spread a little holiday cheer to the family event. Register to reserve a fire less fortunate in the neighborhood. pit for your family. $22 per family.

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Time: 3 to 8 p.m.

Time: 6 p.m.

Location: Rose Hill Manor Park, Location: Way Off Broadway Dinner 1611 N. Market St., Frederick Theatre, 5 Willowdale Dr, Frederick Contact: 301-600-2936 Contact: 301-662-6600 or wayoff broadway.com

Irish Christmas in America

Produced by Sligo fiddler Oisín Mac Diarmada, the hugely popular Irish Christmas in America show features top Irish music, song and dance in an engaging performance rich in humor and boundless energy. $35.

Time: 7:30 p.m.

Location: New Spire Arts Stages, 15 W. Patrick St., Frederick Festival of Lights, Contact: 301-620-4458 or newspirearts.org sponsored by Friends Meeting School Holiday greetings, carols and inspirational message. Free.

Time: 7 p.m.

Location: City Hall courtyard, 101 “Door to Bethlehem” N. Court St., Frederick Join Mary and Joseph on their journey Contact: 301-600-CITY or to Bethlehem as they search for shelter. celebratefrederick.org A guide will lead you and your family throughout the grounds of the Seton Christmas Bluegrass Concert Shrine where you hear and see how First Fruits, a bluegrass gospel band, many in our day reject the coming will be playing for a ChristmasChrist. Also on Dec. 18. $6 per person. themed evening Coffeehouse.

Time: 5 to 8:30 p.m., new walk Coffee, sodas, snacks will be availevery 15 minutes able for purchase. Freewill offering.

Location: National Shrine of Saint Time: 7 to 8:30 p.m.

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“That Christmas Spirit”

Santa Claus rides in a carriage along North Market Street.

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Dinner 6 p.m., show at 8 p.m. As college freshman Izzy is planning a fun-filled holiday vacation with her friends, plans become upended at the last minute. With no where to go, she heads to her favorite aunt’s to spend Christmas. Little does she know, her aunt always volunteers at St. Paul’s on Christmas Eve. Tagging

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“A Christmas Carol”

A live theatrical play. Experience the beloved holiday story with a message that never grows old. Also 7:30 p.m.

Dec. 18, 2 p.m. Dec. 18 and 19. $24, $20 for ages 62+, $12 students and kids.

Time: 7:30 p.m.

Location: Weinberg Center for the Arts, 20 W. Patrick St., Frederick Contact: 301-600-2828 or weinbergcenter.org

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“A Civil War Christmas: An American Musical Celebration!”

station. Donations welcome. Also open Dec. 25 and Jan. 1.

Time: Noon to 5 p.m.

Location: Mount Airy Volunteer Presents the personal stories and Fire Co., 702 N. Main St., struggles of historical characters including Mary Todd Lincoln, free Black Mount Airy Americans and Walt Whitman among Contact: 301-829-0100 them. Pay-what-you-can admission.

Holidays in Fredericktowne Also Dec. 18, 20, 21, 22 and 23.

Frederick is known as a town of Time: 7:30 p.m. places of worship, why else would Location: New Spire Arts, 15 W. we be called “the Clustered Spires”?

Patrick St., Frederick So which one was first? How did the Contact: 301-305-1405 or earliest German Fredericktonians esptheatre.org celebrate Christmas, or Hanukkah?

“No Virginia: A Grown-Up How did the African American Holiday Farce” community celebrate Kwanzaa? Take For mature audiences. Tiffany a guided walk and find out. Free. hopes she can get a Santa to come Time: 2 p.m. to the Christmas party she’s throw- Location: Heritage Frederick, 24 E. ing for her daughter, all the while Church St., Frederick juggling a meddling mother, an Contact: for tickets – eventbrite. irritating ex-husband, an ardent com/e/holidays-in-frederickex-boyfriend, and a potential bliztowne-tickets-168991041755 zard! Proof of vaccination, masking A German Christmas Service required. Also Dec. 24.

The story of the Nativity and “Stille Time: 8 p.m.

Nacht,” as well as a brass choir. Free.

Location: MET, 31 W. Patrick St. Time: 3 p.m.

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Christmas”

Way Off Broadway’s original stage adaptation. In this telling, a little boy named Tyler learns all about the magic of Christmas from none other than Santa Claus himself. 11:30 a.m. lunch, show at 12:30 p.m. $21 person.

Time: 11:30 a.m.

Location: Way Off Broadway Dinner Theatre, 5 Willowdale Drive, Frederick Contact: 301-662-6600 or wayoffbroadway.com

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Time: 6 p.m.

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Holiday Homecoming with the Frederick Symphony Orchestra

Seasonal music by Delius, Prokofiev, Herbert and Handel. There will be a performance by the Frederick Adventist Academy Handbell Choir, and FSO String Principals Alyssa Boxhill, H. Lee Brewster, and Andrew Nixon will be featured in Vivaldi’s Concerto for 3 Violins. showtix4u.com/event-details/58823 for tickets. $20 adults, $15 students.

Time: 7:30 to 9:30 p.m.

Location: Frederick Seventh-day Adventist Church, 6437 Jefferson Pike, Frederick Contact: 301-685-3585 or fredericksymphony.org

MSO in Concert: “Home for the Holidays” Concert

Also 3 p.m. Dec. 19. In-person tickets are available for both performances. The Sunday performance will also be streamed on MSO Live!

For more information, visit watch. marylandsymphony.org. $24 and up.

Time: 7:30 p.m.

Location: Maryland Theatre, 21 S. Potomac St., Hagerstown Contact: 301-790-2000 or marylandsymphony.org

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Dec. 21

Frederick Children’s Chorus “Messiah” Sing-Along

A Frederick holiday tradition since 1994, director Judith DuBose will conduct a forty voice chorus, twenty-piece orchestra, and four soloists through select choruses and arias of “Messiah” by G. F. Handel. The audience is invited to join the chorus for select numbers. Copies of the full vocal score will be for sale in the lobby. $30, $25 for ages 62+ and students.

Time: 8 p.m.

Location: Weinberg Center for the Arts, 20 W. Patrick St., Frederick Contact: 301-600-2828 or weinbergcenter.org

Dec. 22

Songs of the Season

Holiday music by Janice Jackson, soprano; Nancy Beith, piano. Free.

Time: 12:15 p.m.

Location: Frederick Presbyertian Church, 115 W. Second St., Frederick Contact: frederickpresbyterian.org

Dec. 31

Middletown Valley Bank Krumpe’s Donut Drop 2022

In the square of Downtown Hagerstown, complete with fireworks and This fun-filled breakfast will include live music from DJ Sidekick, free coffee, donuts and hot chocolate.

With Bike Doctor Frederick. Approx- a visit from Santa. $8 per person.

Time: 5 to 7 p.m. imately 4-mile ride through Freder- Time: 9 to 11 a.m.

Location: Nancy H. Dacek North Location: The Maryland Theatre, ick. Prize for Best Dressed Bicycle.

Potomac Community Recreation downtown Hagerstown Riders are to donate a gift card to Center, 13850 Travilah Road, Contact: mdtheatre.org/donut-drop CVS, Walgreens, Target or Walmart Rockville or 301-790-3500 to be used by Heartly House to help

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