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Thursday, November 30, 2017
Its a Greater Orange Holiday
Greater Orange
open holiday season
OPA and Plaza Tree
lighting, Santa Tour, and 20th Villa Park Dry
Land Boat Parade
Saturday December 2nd
The Christmas
holiday season’s official Greater Orange kickoff for 2017 will be in Orange Park Acres (OPA).
The OPA will open the Greater Orange Holidays with its Community Tree Lighting
at the corner of Orange Park Blvd Santiago Canyon
The OPA will kick-off the holiday season with a down-home
tree lighting complete with caroling, candy canes, home-baked cookies, hot chocolate,
coffee and kids crafts.
OPA will be collecting donations for Love Bugs Rescue (www.lovebugsrescue.org) and gifts for Operation Santa Claus to provide Christmas presents for foster children and children in needy families.
23rd Annual Plaza
The City of Orange Plaza Tree Lighting
Ceremony and Candlelight Choir Procession kickoff celebrates 23
years of tree lighting ceremonies in the Historic Old Towne Orange Plaza
At 5:15 p.m. we will officially light our tree for the
season, which will then become the backdrop for a 350-voice choir candlelight
procession orchestra, led by Greater Orange legendary musical director Michael Short.
The 2017 guest
narrator for the holiday evening will be former Orange County Supervisor Bill
Campbell.
The whole family is invited to this free event to enjoy good cheer, photo opportunities with Santa, and family fun activities including crafts, carnival games and a moon bouncer.
As always, refreshments will be sold by local non-profit
groups for a nominal fee, which goes to support their works in the community.
The traditional local kick-off to the holiday season starts
at 3:30 p.m., as Santa Claus comes to the Old Towne Plaza
The center piece of the event-the official tree
lighting-will take place at 5:15 p.m. with the traditional candle light
choir procession.
In case of rain please call the official Orange Special
Events Hotline for details: 714-744-7278.
Santa to Tour Villa Park December 9th
before heading back to the North Pole
Few people outside Villa Park may know that Santa and Mrs. Claus keep their Southern California vacation residence right here in Greater Orange at the Claus Villa in Villa Park.
Each
year before making the final push towards getting ready for that Christmas Eve
world tour, the Claus family spends a weekend at their Villa
Park
This
year’s Santa's annual tour (with some locally famous very large elves) is
Saturday December 9, 2017 from 8:00 am- 3:30 pm.
Along
with the scheduled stops, Santa has been known to drop by or stop along the
route where ever there is a gathering of believers.
For
more information contact the Villa
Park City
Hall
The
Annual Santa Tour is sponsored by the Villa Park Foundation.
For
more information CLICK ON: Santa Tour
20th Anniversary of
Sunday Dec 11th
Being
land-locked never bothered many in Greater Orange, especially in Villa
Park
This year's 20th Annual theme is "Decades of
The
flotilla sails through the backwaters of Villa Park, starting at 5:00 pm from Villa
Park High
School
The
Great Villa Park Inland Boat Parade is sponsored by the Villa Park Foundation.
For a map and more information CLICK ON and scroll to the
bottom: VP Boat Parade
