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Come 'Home for Christmas' in Kings Mountain

If you are looking for a fun way to celebrate the Christmas season this December, Kings Mountain has a great opportunity for you. For the first time ever, the Kings Mountain Main Street Program (KMMSP) and Special Events Department are offering a month-long celebration called "Home For Christmas," which includes a parade, a "Winter Wonderland" festival, a downtown holiday market, carriage rides, a fantasy light show and Santa's workshop.
The festivities will begin with the city's Christmas parade on Saturday, Dec.1, 2018, at 3 p.m. The Winter Wonderland festival will begin after the parade at Patriot Park. The festival will feature candy stations, a life-sized snow globe, inflatables, performances, a reading of T'was the Night Before Christmas by Mayor Neisler and an appearance by Santa himself.
On the Saturdays following the parade and kickoff events, the Downtown Holiday Market will take center stage. The market will be located in the Cherokee Street parking lot on the following Saturdays in December: December 8, 15, and 22, from 5:30 - 8:30 p.m. each day. Along with a wide variety of holiday crafts and gifts, the market will also include carriage rides, Christmas carolers, the Kings Mountain Fantasy Light Show and a Santa's Workshop on Railroad Avenue.
"We are also very excited about the addition of some special Christmas lights that the city will be rolling out this year," says Christy Conner, special events director for the City of Kings Mountain.
"The city acquired the Christmas lights from Grady and Katy Costner from the Midpines community in Kings Mountain. They both passed away, and their family allowed the city to acquire the lights," says Conner. "We will plan to have these very special lights on display in their honor this year and for many years to come."
For more information about
any of the planned events
associated with the Home For Christmas celebration, visit
www.kingsmountainchristmas.com.

By April Hoyle Shauf, Special to Community First Media


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