To kick-off the holiday season, the St. Paul Regional Family & Community Support Services (FCSS) invites the community to its annual Christmas Tree Lighting at the UFO Landing Pad, with events also set to take place at the nearby museum on Dec. 1 from 7 p.m. to 8 p.m.
ST. PAUL – To kick-off the holiday season, the St. Paul Regional Family & Community Support Services (FCSS) invites the community to its annual Christmas Tree Lighting at the UFO Landing Pad, with events also set to take place at the nearby museum on Dec. 1 from 7 p.m. to 8 p.m.
FCSS Director Lynn Smid says the annual event will be a little bit different this year. In the past, Timbits and hot chocolate were handed out at the landing pad, but this year, it will be served just outside the St. Paul Museum.
The event is free, and people can also park around the museum, before walking down to the UFO Landing Pad, take a walk, take pictures of the Christmas tree and the glowing inflatables. If the parking lot at the museum fills up, people also are free to park around the Recreation Centre.
“It’s very much a little bit more interactive [this year],” says Smid. “They can hang around a little bit more and enjoy the lights,” she says, explaining that in previous years, the Christmas Tree Lighting was more of a drive-by event where people picked up their Timbits and hot chocolate before driving through to admire the lights.
«This is just a great opportunity to start off the Christmas season with your family,” says Smid, and if they have never been around the museum, it also gives them the chance to check it out quickly, and “just enjoy being together.”
The partnership with the museum will also allow for more shelter in case it becomes too cold outside.
Smid asks the community to watch the weather since cold winter temperatures have been experienced in the past, making it not ideal to host the event.
«But, I think, as far as I know, it looks like our temperatures are going to hold, so it should be good to go,” says Smid.
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