Celebrate the Holidays in Whatcom County
Celebrate Christmas in Lynden on Dec. 4 with the Elf on the Shelf Scavenger Hunt and the Northwest Lighted Christmas Parade on Front Street. Join Downtown Lynden’s Elf on the Shelf Scavenger Hunt from 11 a.m. until 5 p.m. for fun and prizes. The elves are back and running wild, visiting businesses all over Lynden. Can you find all of the elves? Join in on the fun at the Elf on the Shelf Scavenger Hunt and win one of three prizes valued at more than $300 each. First 500 participants get free antlers. Then at 6 p.m., welcome in the holiday season with the annual Northwest Lighted Christmas Parade, presented by community sponsor Edaleen Dairy. Spend time with friends, family and other loved ones as a menagerie of cars, pickups, trucks, floats, wagons, and farm equipment light up Front Street. The parade starts at the Fairway Shopping Center, at Front and 18th streets. The parade then heads east on Front Street into downtown Lynden where it ends at 3rd Street. page
Call the Lynden Chamber of a personalized letter to Santa. Commerce at 360-354-5995 for That letter can be delivered to more information. the park’s one-room post office for delivery to the North Pole. Olde Fashioned Christmas, Letter templates are available Christmas Stroll both return to at FerndaleHeritageSociety.com Ferndale or on page 13. The letters need Ferndale’s Olde Fashioned to have their names and a legible Christmas and Lighted Christ- mailing address to help Santa remas Stroll are back. turn them. Ferndale’s Olde Fashioned Shoppers of all ages find inexChristmas event returns this year pensive trinkets for their loved with “The Lights and Sounds of ones at the Parker House cabin, Christmas” as its theme. Each which is now the general store. cabin will be decorated accord- The stately Shields House ofingly. fers baking scents, and the FosThe event is set for 4 to 9 p.m. ter house will showcase a huge Dec. 3-4. working model train display. The The event won’t look quite like log church offers quiet reflection it has in years past. After touring time. Draft horses will greet visiPioneer Park’s cabins, visitors tors in the Barr Barn. will head into Pioneer Pavilion Admission is $5 for adults and where children’s crafts, refresh- $3 for children. ments, music and a visit with Santa will be set up. Lighted Christmas Stroll While inside buildings, guests For the second and third weekwill keep socially distanced and ends of December, Pioneer Park face coverings are required per will be open from 5 to 8 p.m. state guidelines, the heritage soThe event features a stroll on ciety press release states. the board-stamped concrete While visiting Pioneer Park’s sidewalks to view the cabins cabins, children can tour the from outside, as well as Christone-room schoolhouse to write mas music and costumed volun-
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teers. Letters to Santa will also take place at the Lighted Christmas Stroll, and kids are encouraged to pre-write their letters. Hot beverages will be available for purchase, and a photo booth will be created at the Barr Barn. Admission to the stroll will be free, and the stroll will take place from 5 to 8 p.m. Dec. 10-11 and 17-18. Pioneer Park is home to 15 historic log cabins and is located at 2004 Cherry St. in Ferndale. For more information, call 360-384-6461 or visit ferndaleheritagesociety.com. Bellingham The Holiday Port Festival is a free, family-friendly event held the first weekend of December at the Bellingham Cruise Terminal. This is one of the Port’s signature events for the community and includes the Holiday Port Quest, an online Gingerbread house display, and the Lighted Boat Parade Viewing • From 2-6 p.m. Dec. 4, the Holiday Port Quest is a fun and festive treasure hidden throughout
2021 Christmas Activity Guide & Songbook
