The market is abuzz with excitement! We have celebrity guests on Saturday and
special activities. In the pavilion, Elsa and Anna will be on hand to pose so
bring your camera! These royal sisters
are real sisters out of costume – Brooke and Bethany Montgomery – and make
perfect princesses.
Just across the aisle we’ll have a quartet of
carolers from MSSU. And over at the depot west of the market, the Polar Bear
Express will be pulling out 10 and 40 minutes past the hour.
Stewart’s Bakery is serving breakfast –
scrambled eggs, biscuit and gravy, two sausage patties, and hash brown
casserole for $5 or a giant cinnamon roll for $3. Both include coffee or orange
juice.
Two of our farmers have such bumper crops of
lettuce that they are running a sale tomorrow. Braker Berry Farm will have
green butterhead, red butterhead and green leaf lettuce on sale for $2 a head. 417
Produce will have bibb and butter lettuce on sale – buy 2 and get 1 free or buy
3 and get 2 free. Because it’s just harvested this lettuce typically lasts a
week if properly refrigerated. Make a habit of enjoying a healthy green salad
every day and you might not even have to make that annual New Year’s resolution
in January!
We’ll have a full pavilion tomorrow. The
Troyers are back so that means Lance will have dog biscuits for sale – and his
dad Hector will have beautiful fresh produce.
Cook’s Berry Junction will give out tastes of
their honey butter and flavored honeys tomorrow.
Girl Scout Troop 70391 will sell their handmade craft gifts. This
is actually a learning experience for the girls in entrepreneurship but I’m
told their work is charming. Mende Staggs of Apple Road Farm returns to the
market with pralines. Mende is teaching a class in the kitchen on making
old-fashioned cream candies dipped in chocolate at 2 pm tomorrow in the market
kitchen. Call Mende at 417 529-5715 to register and get a list of ingredients
to bring. The class is $30 per person.
For an article about the Christkindlmarket in
the Globe last week I was asked, “when did you first think of this?” I answered that I’d been daydreaming about
more Christmas activities in Webb City for decades. And yes, Jiminy Cricket,
dreams do come true!
The Polar Bear Express is back after being
shut down for three years by park construction. This event which began in 2009
will run in three different modes this month. On the mornings of December 3, 10
and 17, it runs in conjunction with the market. The 15 – 20 minute ride through
the park is accompanied by a reading of the book The Polar Express. The library
provides a book for each seat so readers can follow along. Tomorrow I get to
read for the first rounds, then extraordinary educator Ann Foos takes over for
the last three rounds. (If you would
like to be a reader, just give me a call at 417 483-8139. To be a streetcar
volunteer, call Jerry at 417 850-1721.) The tickets are free.
Day of tickets are available at the depot (until we run out). Advanced tickets
are at the market information table in the pavilion.
The night-time version of the Polar Bear
Express is operated by the parks department and it features a light show as it
goes through the park on Friday and Saturday evenings through December 17. Tickets
are $1 and are available at city hall until sold out.
On weekdays the Express is busy with school
fields trips. The first and second graders of Carterville, Webster, the Truman
schools will be riding the trolley and reading the books.
The Chamber of Commerce hosts Cookies and
Cocoa with Santa next Saturday at 2 pm at the Route 66 Event Center. Tickets are $5 per child. Since there are only 50 tickets
this event may already be sold out. Check with the Chamber.
The Chamber is also the place to
get tickets for the Christmas double feature at the Route 66 Movie Theater – A Charlie
Brown Christmas and How the Grinch Stole Christmas. The movie starts at 6 pm on
Tuesday, December 13, and tickets are $5 each. The chamber number is 417-673-1154.
The Webb City Christmas Parade begins at 6:30 pm on December 14th.
And the Christkindlmarket is open every Saturday from 9 to noon
through Christmas Eve. Yes, I think Webb City has added just a few Christmas activities
since I daydreamed about it twenty years ago. Come join the festivities. (above - and guess who's coming NEXT Saturday?!)
