All Posts Tagged With: "Santa Claus Parade"
Greater Kingston Nighttime Santa Parade
Santa Claus is coming to town! The parade will begin at Novelis at Princess and Bath and will end at Ontario Street with Santa himself bringing up the rear. The parade will consist of over 50 beautifully decorated floats and 5 marching bands. Head down to Market Square after the parade for carol singing and [...]
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Weekly Poll: Whine About Winter
It’s the hap-happiest season of all. Despite weeks of unseasonably snow-free scenery, yesterday we were treated to our first, real snow fall of the season. This morning I awoke ready to show off my famous shovelling skills, yet I was pleasantly surprised to find that our sidewalks and driveway had been blanketed by a measly [...]
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Friday Foto
Too soon? After this week’s debate about Christmas lights I wasn’t sure if this was the right picture for this week but then I realized that tomorrow is the Downtown Santa Claus Parade and I just added a bunch of Christmas craft sales to our calendar…so I’ve given in. Given in to the lights and [...]
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Santa Claus Parade and Food Collection
For eighteen consecutive years, volunteers from Trinity Presbyterian Church walk the parade route in their Santa hats and bright green vests collecting your donations but they can’t do it alone! Please help get the word out to everyone attending the parade this year in order to ensure that everyone in Kingston has food to feed [...]
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Amherstview Santa Claus Parade
The Amherstview Lions Club will be collecting cash or food donations for this holiday season. For more than twenty years, volunteers from Trinity Presbyterian Church walk the parade route in their Santa hats collecting your donations. Please bring your donations and help spread the word!
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Holiday Gift-a-Way
Our neighbours to the south will soon be enjoying Thanksgiving, and then taking part in the busiest shopping day of the year, which is ominously referred to as Black Friday. While Canadian cross-border shoppers will likely fill the ranks, I am thankful that Black Friday hasn’t really caught on in Canada, yet. That said, with [...]
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Friday Foto
Tomorrow night, some time between the Fat Goose Craft Fair and Kyra and Tully’s CD Release Party, swarms of children, young and old, will converge on lower Princess Street in hopes of catching a glimpse of jolly old Saint Nic. As a part of the Santa Claus Parade, floats, lights, candy, and other trappings of [...]
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Santa Claus Parade
The Santa Parade is Kingston’s official kickoff to the holiday season! Many magical floats will spread holiday cheer all the way down Princess Street. Thousands of the young and young at heart are expected to line the street to catch a glimpse of the one and only Santa Claus. This year, Downtown Kingston! is happy [...]
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Santa Claus Parade Food Bank Float
Six thousand people a year in the Kingston community depend on the help of the Partners in Mission Food Bank and this number is growing. Please help fill their shelves this holiday season by bringing a cash or food donation to the Downtown Kingston Nighttime Santa Claus Parade. For seventeen consecutive years, volunteers from Trinity [...]
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Holiday Caption Contest Winner
Due to the ongoing pounding of Snowmaggedon, and the general ridiculousness of the silly season, we are a bit late in announcing the winner of our Holiday Caption Contest. It gives me great pleasure to announce that barbj8′s comment: “the children grew despondent, realizing that the stranger they had sent for cappucinno was never coming [...]
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