Holiday Faire is this Saturday, Dec. 5.

Pony rides and a bounce house, crafts and activities will be there for the children. Santa Claus will be collecting wishes and posing for “Selfies with Santa” at In the Wings Studio of Dance.

Thirty-five vendors will be selling gifts and holiday food, coordinator Wade Jones of Mountain Memories said. The fun starts at 10 a.m. and lasts throughout the day.

The National Weather Service predicts a comfortable 59 degrees and no rain.

There will be Christmas carolers on the street and holiday music, with a warming tent for hot cider. Dress in your cozy coat and get into your cheeriest Christmas-Hanukkah-Holiday spirit.

Businesses along Mt. Pinos Way will be participating in the scavenger hunt and “ChamBEAR Bucks” game sponsored by the Chamber of Commerce. The Girl Scouts will light their Community Christmas Tree in the La Sierra parking lot at 5:15 p.m. The Festival of Lights Parade will start after that.

If you have a group that wants to join in the fun, you are welcome to jump into the parade up until its launch, Jones said.
That bearded elf in the red suit from the North Pole will anchor the parade as grand marshal.

Holiday Faire and the Festival of Lights Parade are Frazier Park traditions that hit hard times last year, but they are back with a tremendous team for 2015.

Kevin and Sherri Lundin of the Frazier Park Car Club (which also produces the Ridge Route Run), Rachel Unell, Terry and Militsa Brennan plus Deborah Turner of the Mountain Communities Chamber of Commerce, and much of the board of the Mountain Memories Association (which produces Fiesta Days) including Wade Jones, Valerie Fletcher, Cat Whitelock, plus Tammie Goddard, Ellen Langsfeld, J.J. Garcia, Kaylene Fitzgerald, Shane Lazare and Neenach’s Richard Chapleau have created a resourceful team.

“I want to express gratitude for these three organizations that came together to work as a whole. It was a collaboration and we’ve done amazing things,” Jones said.

“I think the parade will start growing again next year. We are showing people we mean business and we are going to keep the Holiday Faire and Festival of Lights tradition going. I’m proud to be part of it,” he added. “See you Saturday!”

Photo captions:

Some of the Holiday Faire team (clockwise from left) Kevin Lundin (in yellow), Sherri
Lundin, Militsa Brennan, Tammie Goddard, Valerie Fletcher, Wade Jones, Shane Lazare, J.J. Garcia, Richard Chapleau , Kaylene Fitzgerald, Ellen Langsfeld, ChamBEAR, Rachel Unell and Cat Whitelock

Floats by Chatterpillar Toys & Gifts are a highlight of the Holiday parade.

David Stenstrom has sometimes been deputized to help Santa for Holiday Faire.

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