Holidays around the world
Kids can travel the world without leaving Waco in the city’s Holidays Around the World program, available December 13, 14, 19 and 21 at three community centers: Bledsoe-Miller at 300 N. Martin Luther King Jr Blvd., Dewey at 925 N. Ninth St. and South Waco at 2815 Speight Ave.
Interactive exhibits featuring holiday traditions from around the world, including cultural crafts, activities and fun facts, will be available. Kids can pick up a free passport at any of the three community centers and then stop by each center to visit the countries featured in each location.
Participants earn an exclusive ornament after completing their journeys at each site.
For hours at each site and more information, visit https://fb.me/e/2c1gIRlfz.
Home Quilters Guild
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The Homespun Quilters Guild will meet Monday at 6:30 pm at New Road Church of Christ, 3100 S. New Road. Visitors are always welcome.
end of year dance
Geneva Hall, 740 S. Connally Drive in Elm Mott, will host a New Year’s Eve Ball on December 31. Doors open at 5 pm Johnnie Bradshaw and Out of the Blue Band, featuring Andy Thomas, will perform starting at 7:30 pm. at midnight
Bar and kitchen open at 5:30 pm Tickets are $20 at the door with advance tickets $15, available at the Geneva Show from 5-8 pm Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday.
For more information, call 254-715-5695.
Christmas lunch NARFE
The Waco Chapter of the National Association of Active and Retired Federal Employees will host a complimentary Christmas luncheon Thursday at noon at Casa de Castillo, 4820 Sanger Ave. All members are cordially invited to attend.
The sale of fruit cakes continues
The First Methodist Church Men’s Prayer Group is selling fruitcakes and pecan halves from the Collin Street Bakery on the corner of Cobbs and Lake Air Drives.
Hours are 10 am to 4 pm on Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday. All proceeds benefit local charities.
WATCH NOW: Waco’s annual fruitcake sale, hosted by First United Methodist Church Men’s Prayer Group, begins Friday, November 18, 2022 in a vintage Airstream trailer located at Lake Air and Cobbs Drives. The sale, which includes nuts by the pound and Collin Street Bakery fruitcakes, continues through December 24 or until all fruitcakes are sold. The hours are from 10 am to 4 pm every day, except Wednesday and Sunday.
Sale of pecans from the Lions Club
Members of the Founder Lions Club of Waco are selling one-pound bags of shelled walnut halves from 1-5 p.m. Wednesdays and Thursdays, and 1-6 p.m. Fridays at the Lions Den, 1716 N. 42nd St.
For more information, call 254-776-5341.
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