5 Things: Roslindale Village Holiday Wander Tonight

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1. Tonight is the Roslindale Village Holiday Wander - shop, eat and be local! Visit more than 25 of Roslindale’s unique shops and restaurants to take advantage of promotions, events and personal gift advising during the holiday season!
2. Here's a full list of every store participating tonight and what's in store if you visit.
3. Listen to a Pause for a Poem tonight from 6-6:45 p.m. at Sugar Baking Co & Restaurant, at 7:15-8 p.m. at Select Café you can listen to a holiday reading. Hosted by the Rozzie Reads group of the Friends of the Roslindale Library.
4. Tonight there will be Strolling Dickens characters - as in Charles Dickens - walking around Sugar Baking Co., brought to you by the Roslindale Public Library and Friends. 6-8 p.m. 
5. Enter your house in Patch's Deck the House contest to win $100,000 for the Boston Public Schools and $500 for your electricity bill.

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