Morning Update: Holiday Extravaganza Tonight at Evergreen

What’s Happening Today
• Holiday Extravaganza is Friday, Dec. 2, from 5 to 9 p.m. The night features an array of vendor and craft tables, a children’s holiday shop, children’s craft table, Moccia’s pizza/hoagies/salads and snacks, bake sale, games, face painting by the Art Club and a concert by the Evergreen chorus at 6 p.m.
• will host , chef and author of Scoop it, Chop it, Cook it, Dec. 2, from 5 to 7 p.m.
• of the mansion from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
• “” at the Gallery, 10 a.m. to 8 p.m.
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Mark Your Calendars
• Collegeville Main will be hosting a Christmas Tree Lighting Festival on Dec. 3 at 4 p.m. at the Trail Parking Lot at Third Avenue and Main Street. A 5K Jingle Jog will begin at 3:30 p.m. at the Collegeville Station (Third Avenue) Registration: www.u2canrun.org
• Cookies with Santa at 11 a.m. Dec. 3 at the
• The is giving you face time with author and Judy Schachner – Dec. 4 at 2 p.m. RSVP by calling 610-454-0640.
• Trappe Today and Tomorrow is hosting the first-ever tree lighting at the Speaker’s House, Dec. 7, from 6:30 to 8 p.m. Park at the shopping center and be safely escorted across Main Street. Singing, music, and cookies and refreshments the boy and girl scouts will be selling refreshments. Santa will also attend.
• Santa Claus is coming to the Friday, Dec. 16, from 7-9 p.m. and Saturday, Dec. 17, 10 a.m. – 2 p.m. Kids can visit and get their pictures taken with the man in red!
and Masonic Child Identification Program (Masonichip) representatives will also be in attendance. Parents can get individual child identification packages free.
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Today in History
From History.com
• Philadelphia nurse overhears British plans to attack Washington (1777)
• Napoleon crowned emperor (1804)
• McCarthy condemned by Senate (1954)

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