Christmas on the Square 2012 set for Saturday, December 1

By LENNY C. LEPOLA

News Assis­tant Man­ag­ing Editor

This year’s Vil­lage of Sun­bury 31st Annual Sunbury/Big Wal­nut Area Cham­ber of Com­merce Christ­mas on the Square cel­e­bra­tion, sched­uled for Sat­ur­day, Decem­ber 1, is only a few short days away, but it’s not too late to plan a float or other parade entry for the pop­u­lar Big Wal­nut area Christ­mas gala.

Spon­sored by Sun­bury Urgent Care, the 5 to 8 p.m. Christ­mas on the Square will fea­ture a 5:30 p.m. Lighted Christ­mas Parade (parade stages at 5 p.m. at Bur­rer Drive), Vis­its with Santa, Horse & Car­riage Rides, Boy Scout & Girl Scout Activ­i­ties, Christ­mas Craft & Gift Fair, Ohio Wildlife Cen­ter Live Ani­mal Encounter, and a Hol­i­day Open House for Local Mer­chants around Sun­bury Vil­lage Square.

The day kicks off with a 9 to 11 a.m. Break­fast with Santa at Sun­bury United Methodist Church. SUMC will also host a 5 to 7 p.m. Feast of St. Nick­laus Oys­ter & Chili Supper.

NBC News Chan­nel 4’s Mindy Drayer will serve as parade announcer; and the 2012 Christ­mas Parade Grand Mar­shall will be VFW Post 8736 Com­man­der Jerry Jodrey, 2012 All-State Com­man­der and 2012 All-American Commander.

The parade will fea­ture shop­ping carts for parade spec­ta­tors to fill with non-perishable canned and boxed food items for the Big Wal­nut Friends Who Share Food Pantry. Every­one is invited to bring food items to the parade and help parade orga­niz­ers fill the Friends Who Share Food Pantry at this crit­i­cal time of the year.

Parade reg­is­tra­tion is rec­om­mended. Visit < SunburyBigWalnutChamber.com/News > to reg­is­ter a float for the lighted parade.

There will be Granville Horse & Car­riage rides around the Square fol­low­ing the parade for dona­tions until 8 p.m.; and the Annual Tree Light­ing cer­e­mony will be held on the north side of the square at 7 p.m.

A Sun­bury postal truck will be parked near the Toshi Memo­r­ial Gazebo at the south­west cor­ner of vil­lage square to pick up let­ters to Santa and rush them straight north to the pole. Write your note to Santa, drop it at the mail truck, and Santa will receive it by Mon­day — guar­an­teed by the United States Postal Ser­vice and your friendly Sun­bury Postal Workers.

The Myers Inn Museum and Gift Shop will be open from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. for his­tory brows­ing and early hol­i­day gift shop­ping; and the Lex Cen­ter for Per­form­ing Arts will fea­ture art works by Big Wal­nut High School stu­dents from 5 to 8 p.m.

Mem­bers of Sun­bury Hal­ter & Sad­dle 4-H Club will host a dog exhibit near Sun­bury Town Hall; and there will be Hol­i­day craft mak­ing inside the Vil­lage of Sun­bury Munic­i­pal Building.

Live musi­cal per­for­mances will be fea­tured on Vil­lage Square near Vet­er­ans Memo­r­ial; and inside Sun­bury Town Hall Drayer and The Grinch will have spe­cial Christ­mas sto­ries to please chil­dren of all ages.

While you’re there, drop a new, unwrapped Christ­mas gift, non-perishable food item, or check in the Sun­bury Vil­lage Coun­cil col­lec­tion box for Friends Who Share (make checks payable to Big Wal­nut Friends Who Share).

For a more infor­ma­tion visit the Sunbury/Big Wal­nut Area Cham­ber of Com­merce web­site at < SunburyBigWalnutChamber.com >, or email the cham­ber office at < chall@sunburybigwalnutchamber.com >, or call the cham­ber office at 740–965-2860.

Posted by Gary Henery on Nov 20 2012. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS Feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.