2018 Christmas Activity Guide and Songbook

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Christmas Activity Guide and Songbook Activities................................................................................................... 3-4 Deck The Halls..............................................................................................5 Holiday Crafts.......................................................................................... 6-7 Away In A Manger........................................................................................8 Jingle Bells.....................................................................................................9 Joy To The World.........................................................................................10 Silent Night.................................................................................................11 Last Year’s Lighted Parade Photos..............................................................13 What Child Is This?.....................................................................................14 Angels We Have Heard on High....................................................................15 God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen......................................................................16 We Wish You A Merry Christmas..................................................................17 Hark! The Herald Angels Sing.......................................................................18 Holiday Recipes.........................................................................................19 O, Come Have A Look At............................................................................20 Look There Is The Steamer............................................................................20 Nicholas I Beg Of You..................................................................................21 Bright Decembermoon...................................................................................21 O Come All Ye Faithful................................................................................22 Christmas Tree Directory..........................................................................23

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Communities alive with holiday activities Get ready! It’s that time of year full of the spirit of the holidays. From music to lights, festival to gala, take your pick among a boundless variety of activities, and then go out and enjoy!

EVERSON & NOOKSACK • Santa and his elves come to town on Friday, Nov. 30. Bring the family and join in the Winter Festival at Everson City Park, starting at 6 p.m.

The first 175 kids get goodie bags, there is free hot chocolate for all, and Cramer Classics provides free wagon rides. Also, vendors will sell (cash only) hot dogs, baked goods, Christmas wreaths.

• The 35th annual Silver Tea, hosted by Friends of the Everson McBeath Community Library, is at 2 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 2, in the library, 104 Kirsch Dr. • The Elenbaas Country Store at 302 W. Main St. again hosts a live nativity scene and open house with wagon rides.

It’s all on Friday, Dec. 7, from 5 to 7 p.m.

LYNDEN • “It’s a Wonderful Life,” the musical rendition, is the holiday show through Dec. 9 at the Claire vg Thomas Theatre, 655 Front St., Lynden. This is the timelessly uplifting story about small-town George Bailey and his family. Stage times are 7:30 p.m. on Nov. 23, 24, 29, 30 and Dec. 6-8 and 2 p.m. Nov. 24, 25 and 30 and Dec. 1 and 9. Tickets for adults $14, students and seniors $12. The theatre box office is open from 1 to 3 p.m. Tuesdays through Fridays, or call to 360-354-4425; online at www. theclaire.org.

• The Lynden Choral Society performs Handel’s “Messiah” twice — at 7 p.m. Friday, Nov. 30, and at 2 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 1 — in Third Christian Reformed Church, 514 Liberty St. The Starry Night Orchestra ac-

Floats passing out candies to the crowd during the popular Lighted Christmas Parade in Lynden is a real treat. companies, and the soloists are soprano Katie VanKooten-Weeda, tenor Ethan Neff and bass Charles Robert Stephens. A $20 donation is suggested.

• Open to all, the holiday pancake breakfast of the Lynden Community Center, 401 Grover St., will be on Saturday, Dec. 1, from 8 to 10:30 a.m. Adults $6 adults, children $3. Enjoy all the flapjacks you can eat before starting your day of shopping in Lynden.

• Ebenezer Christian School again hosts its wreath and bake sale from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 1, in the North County Kids Place on the east side of the Fairway Center.

• Free cookie decorating is open to all ages from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. or until the sugar cookies run out! This is at Hats Off T-Shirts & Engraving Inc., 408 Front St. #101. Of course, you can eat the cookie after you’re done decorating.

• Continuing all the fun on Saturday, Dec. 1, Elf on the Shelf is a scavenger hunt sponsored by the Lynden Downtown Business Association from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. The goal is to find all 12 hidden elves in order to be entered into a gifts giveaway.

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Enter at any of the participating businesses for rules and clues, then walk the shops downtown to track down the Elf on the Shelf. Meanwhile, a real life-size elf will be roaming around on Saturday passing out free reindeer antlers to the first 300 participants!

There will be a new Elf on the Shelf mailbox for entries.

This is free and open to all ages. One winner will be declared at the end of the day Dec. 1 while a second, with the contest continuing, will be announced on Facebook at 6 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 8.

• Dutch patron saint Sinterklaas visits the lobby of The Inn at Lynden, 100 Fifth St., from 2 to 4 p.m. He gladly poses for pictures with all comers. Free.

• The annul Spaghetti Feed of the Lynden Firefighters Association runs from 3:30 to 6:30 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 1, at Lynden Fire Station 75, 215 Fourth St. This is by donation, with all giving a boost to the firefighter chefs.

• Get an early seat for the parade and watch the Lynden Line Dancers kick to some fun Christmas music at 5 p.m. in front of the announcing trolley at Sixth and Front. Active now for eight years, this group helps a combat veteran

rehab program called Heroes and Horses.

• The ever-popular Lighted Christmas Parade starts at 6 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 1, rolling east from the Fairway Center into downtown.

Grab your jackets and chairs and watch.

Now in its 28th year, this is a unique dazzling display of lights on vehicles and floats that certainly brightens up everyone and everything along the Front Street route.

The business and organization entrants, showing off their creativity, compete for top honors in several categories. Usually vendors are part of the scene.

• At the Jansen Art Center on Saturday, Dec. 8, enjoy Art Jingle, a variety of options starting at 1 p.m. There’s live Christmas music in the Piano Lounge, the Northwest Ballet doing the Nutcracker Suite on the dance floor, and gift-making classes headed up by Kids Do Art! Sign up a child for one of four classes (ceramics, ornaments, notebook binding, jewelry) for $25. Then get free gift wrapping in the Gallery Shop for any studio or shopped item. For more details and to sign up, visit https://www.jansenartcenter. org/art-jingle/. page

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Mr. and Mrs. Claus pass out candy canes at the Ferndale Chamber of Commerce’s annual tree lighting and caroling event last year.

SUMAS • Christmas in the Park is the vintage holiday event for Sumas. Presented by Sumas Chamber of Commerce, this is in City Park the evening of Monday, Dec. 3. Horsedrawn wagon rides are offered from 5 to 8 p.m.

The tradition brings a Christmas tree lighting and Santa arriving arriving on a fire engine at 6:30 p.m. There’s hot chocolate and goodies for the kids, and a Nooksack Valley High School chorus sings.

• On Saturday, Dec. 22, the holiday-decorated homes of Sumas will be judged. There are prizes for the contest’s top three winners.

OTHER • The annual Holiday Festival of Allied Arts of Whatcom County is through Dec. 24 at 1530 Cornwall Ave., Bellingham. See the affordable work of over 100 artisans, every day 10 a.m. to 7 p.m.

Details: www.alliedarts.org.

• Fairhaven Winterfest begins the Friday after Thanksgiving with a Holiday Art Walk and the arrival of Father Christmas, and continues through Dec. 22. On each Saturday in Bellingham’s historic Fairhaven District, page

enjoy horse-drawn wagon rides, visits with Santa, a Find the Elves Treasure Hunt, a Holiday Market and a special lighting in thousands of glittering orbs.

• Deck the Old City Hall is Nov. 23 through Dec. 30 at the Whatcom Museum, 121 Prospect St. Appreciate garlands, wreaths, sparkling lights and more than 20 themed, decorated trees. Certain days feature visits with Santa and Wally the Museum Mouse.

• Olde Fashioned Christmas in Ferndale is the weekend of Nov. 30 to Dec 2.

Families can share in the joys of Christmas past, as volunteers of the Ferndale Heritage Society meticulously decorate the 12 historic log cabins in Pioneer Park. Kids can write letters to Santa in the oneroom schoolhouse and mail them in the one-room post office. Hours are 5 to 9 p.m.

Friday, 1 to 9 p.m. Saturday, and 1 to 5 p.m. Sunday. $4 for adults, $3 for children.

• Holiday Harbor Lights in Blaine is Friday, Nov. 30, and Saturday, Dec. 1. A Homemade Arts and Crafts Christmas Bazaar is hosted at 674 Peace Portal Drive. The Blaine Library, 610 Third St., hosts a winter book sale. Sat-

urday brings a Holiday Lights Obstacle Dash Run/Walk at 3 p.m., a community tree lighting and caroling at 4:30 p.m., and visits with Santa at H Street Plaza and the Pizza Factory at 5 p.m. A lighted boat parade in Drayton Harbor can be viewed from 6 to 7 p.m. Saturday.

• The Santa Train “Polar Express” is fun nighttime activity four weekends from 5 to 9 p.m. at Miniature World Family Fun Center near Birch Bay. Dates are Nov. 30-Dec. 2, and Dec. 7-9, 14-16 and 1923. The Forest of Imagination changes into a magical wonderland full of over one million lights brightly twinkling for this 20-minute train ride.

Be sure to dress warmly! At the end of the 20-minute ride, Santa awaits for pictures and treats. Cost $13.95 teens and older, $9.95 for kids.

• “The Nutcracker” is performed by Northwest Ballet at the Mt. Baker Theatre Dec. 1-2 in a style like the original version in St. Petersburg, Russia in 1892. Times are 7:30 p.m. Saturday and 2 p.m. Sunday. Tickets $10-$35.

• OPUS Performing Arts and Bellingham Arts Academy for Youth do a fun rendition of “The Nutcracker” at the Mt. Baker Theatre at 7

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p.m. Wednesday, Dec. 5, and Thursday, Dec. 6. Tickets $20 general, $12 pre-teen.

• The Holiday Port Celebration Dec. 7-9 at the Bellingham Cruise Terminal features an amazing Gingerbread House (really gingerbread everything) Competition. See holiday creativity at its finest. Also, local bands, choirs and dance troupes will perform, and horse- and tractor-drawn wagon rides are offered. Hours are noon to 8 p.m. Friday, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Saturday and Sunday.

• “A Charlie Brown Christmas” is presented Dec. 7-9 and 14-16 at the BAAY Theatre. In this story, materialism gives way to love and generosity. Stage times 7 p.m.

Fridays, 2 and 7 p.m. Saturdays, and 2 p.m. Sundays.

• “O Christmas Tea: A British Comedy” is at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Dec. 12, only at the Mt. Baker Theatre.

London’s three-time Impresario award-winning comedians James & Jamesy return with their outrageously funny and brilliantly inventive Christmas comedy.

• It’s White Christmas with the Whatcom Symphony Orchestra is at 3 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 16, in the Mt. Baker Theatre, a family-friendly concert including holiday classics and an acapella “Silent Night” rendition by elementary students. Tickets start at $15.

• The Homes for the Holidays self-guided tour benefiting Bethany Christian Services is from 1 to 5 p.m.

Saturday, Dec. 8. Tickets $20, available at Surroundings in Lynden and at the featured homes: Laura Faber, 1943 Feather St.; Jim and Laurie Baron, 455 W. Badger Rd. of Lynden; Luke and Bonnie Kaemingk, 5930 Hoag Lane, Everson; and Bill and Rikki Handy, 5455 Papetti Lane, Bellingham.

• The Noel Ensemble of harp, flute, strings and percussion is at the Jansen Art Center, Lynden, at 3 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 15. Tickets $25.

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Deck The Halls

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BODE’S PRECAST INC.

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MERIDIAN EQUIPMENT CO., INC. 5330 Guide Meridian • Bellingham 360-398-2141

KIDS COUNTRY SCHOOL

Preschool & Daycare • 6:30am-6pm M-F

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Salt Dough Ornaments • 2 Cups Flour • 1 Cup Salt • 2 Tbsp Cooking Oil Mix ingredients in a bowl. Slowly add between 1/2 to 2/3 cup water while mixing.

Knead the dough until it is soft and smooth.

Add food coloring. Use cookie cutters to cut out shapes. Punch a hole in the decoration. Bake in oven at 250 degrees for about 2 hours until dry and hard. Once cool you can add a bow or a ribbon to make an ornament or a decoration for gift boxes.

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Thread the needle and make a large knot about 6 inches from the end of the thread.

Sew a garland of popcorn and cranberries, in any pattern you like. Place a knot after the last piece.

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Elf on the Shelf Scavenger Hunt for Fun and Prizes!

December 1-8

The Elves are back and running wild, visiting businesses all over Lynden!

Can you find all 12?

Join us for a FREE scavenger hunt for all ages and WIN A PILE OF GIFTS! Sponsored by

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Away In A Manger

NORTHWEST SURVEYING & GPS INC. 407 Front Street • Lynden • 360-354-1950

MT. BAKER TOPPERS

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Male A Capella Barbershop Chorus www.topperschorus.org • 360-384-4432 page

VAUGHN HAGEN CPA PS

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Jingle Bells

NORTHWEST ELECTRIC

JOHN & JANE SCHOUTEN

7511 Hannegan Rd. • Lynden 360-354-7021

Schouten Construction • Lynden • 360-354-2595

THE LYNDEN TRIBUNE

FERNDALE READY MIX & GRAVEL INC.

113 Sixth Street • P.O. Box 153 • Lynden, WA 98264

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Joy To The World

PRECISION MACHINE AND MFG., INC. 733 Van Wyck Road • Bellingham 360-733-1081

LYNDEN PRINT CO.

113 Sixth Street • P.O. Box 153 • Lynden, WA 98264

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LOUIS AUTO & RESIDENTIAL GLASS Lynden • 360-354-3232 Bellingham • 360-734-3840

EAGLE CONTRACTING

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Silent Night

May your holiday season be filled with joy!

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What Child Is This?

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Angels We Have Heard on High

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God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen

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We Wish You A Merry Christmas

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Hark! The Herald Angels Sing

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Peppermint Eggnog Holiday Punch A peppermint twist on a holiday classic. Ingredients are 1:1, so its easy to adjust batch size for fewer guests.

1 quart Eggnog 1 quart vanilla ice cream 1 quart ginger ale 1 tsp Peppermint Extract Soften ice cream and add to eggnog, mix until smooth. Stir in ginger ale and peppermint. Serve chilled and garnish with whip cream and crushed candy cane. Serves 12.

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O, Come Have A Look At... (O, kom er eens kijken...)

Look There Is The Steamer (Zie ginds komt de stoomboot...)

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Nicholas I Beg Of You...

(Sinterklaas Kapoentje...)

Bright Decembermoon... (Zie de maan schijnt...)

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O Come All Ye Faithful

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O Christmas Tree Directory 3 TRIPLE-E Tree Farm U-Cut Christmas Trees

5607 Elder Road, Ferndale 360-380-4549 Open Dec. 1st - Dec. 15th Sat. & Sun. 9am to Dusk Mon.-Fri. 3pm to Dusk Douglas Fir $30 Limited in tree stock over 12 feet Hand Saws Available • Candy Canes

OPEN ONE WEEKEND ONLY! Friday, November 30, 9-5 Saturday, December 1, 9-5 Closed Sunday

U-cut & We-cut available.

Noble, Frasier, Nordmann and Douglas Fir. Fresh garland and custom wreaths.

Live animal nativity!

Coffee, Hot Chocolate, Donuts & Gifts for Sale Saws, shaking & baling available.

Entrance by Red Barn. www.StoneyRidgeFarm.com

360-595-1019 OPEN FRI. AFTER THANKSGIVING 9AM-DARK!

U-Cut, Pre-Cut & Potted Trees

OPEN NOV. 23 - DEC. 22 WWW.ALPINEMEADOWSTREEFARM.COM

River’s Edge U Cut Open Daily Starting Nov. 23, Until Sold Out (9 am til Dark)

Wagon Rides Dec. 1, 2, 8 & 9

• Cocoa & Coffee Café • Trees Brought In From The Field • Wreaths • Live Trees • Saws • Tree Stands • Help Loading On Your Car • Nobles, Grands, Frasiers, Douglas Firs, Nordmann • Garlands • Free Candy Canes • Largest Selection of Nobles in Whatcom Co. Go east on Mt. Baker Hwy; (Rt. 542) to Macaulay Rd. & follow the signs!

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Warm wishes for a wonderful

Holiday Season!

8631 Depot Rd. • Lynden • 354-2101

Art Jingle DECEMBER 8, 2018 11:00 AM - 5:00 PM

11:00 - 5:00 PM Studio Sales Local art and free gift wrapping in the Gallery Shop 12:00 PM - 3:00 PM

Celebrate the joyous season with us!

Shop for unique holiday gifts or children can create one of their own.

Live Christmas music in the Piano Lounge 1:00 PM - 3:00 PM Kids Do Art! gift making classes for $25 Ages 6-14 3:00 PM

LEARN MORE AT: jansenartcenter.org/ArtJingle

Northwest Ballet’s Nutcracker Suite Tickets: $15 adults, $12 seniors & students

321 Front Street, Lynden, WA 98264 • 360-354-3600 • jansenartcenter.org page

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