Special Holiday Edition Through music and language, a student grasps keys to success p. 2 School safety panel calls for more counselors, fewer random searches p. 5 Curtain Call — Darkside: A powerful meditation on the search for Goodness p. 9
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December 6 - 12, 2018
Children plying at the Wilmington Waterfront Park Winter Wonderland over the weekend of Dec. 1-2. Photos by Jessie Drezner
Visitors are treated to period entertainment, museum tours and decorated holiday splendor. In years past, a Queen Victoria era reenactor would receive guests for the two days and Jolly St. Nick would pose for photos with the children. This year, nearly 4,000 visitors enjoyed a walk through of the decorated mansion, trolley rides to the Drum Barracks, children’s crafts and more. Then there’s the Wilmington Christmas parade with locally constructed floats and participants drawn from the immediate civic community such as schools, faith communities, social service organizations, civic
Winter Wonderland has become a fixture in Wilmington over the past 11 years. The Banning Museum transports guests to Christmas in the Victorian era, back when Los Angeles was smaller and its thoroughfares were filled with horses and buggies, and women were wearing big hoop skirts, and men actually practiced gentlemanly manners. For more than a decade, the Port of Los Angeles has trucked in 20 tons of snow to Bayview Park, then the Wilmington Waterfront Park for children, mostly younger than 12, to play in.
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