2947 days ago

Christmas in Taradale

Linda from Raureka

Taradale businesses are celebrating Christmas in Taradale and you are invited !!

Gloucester Street and the Lee Road carpark will come alive with entertainment, displays, giveaways, market stalls and loads of FREE children’s entertainment for the day.

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Come on down and enjoy some of the great activities with the family;

• Santa will arrive in style and be escorted down Gloucester Street then be in the Lee Road carpark from 10am to 12noon - make sure get a photo and put your Christmas order in.
• FREE Parking
• FREE Face-painting
• FREE Bouncy Castle
• FREE candy floss with the team from ASB Bank Taradale
• Balloon Animals and fairy wonderfulness with Fairy Rosebud
• Giant Bubbles with Bubbles in the Bay
• All our wonderful Cafés and Restaurants will be open and offering plenty of yummy treats to satisfy the celebratory mood.
• Entertainment from the Napier Pipe Band , Sounds of Hawkes Bay Chorus and more.
• Meet the gorgeous ponies from Pony Hire Meeanee Road.
• Get some early Christmas shopping with loads of Market stalls in Gloucester Street including hand crafts, gifts, Soy Candles, jewellery, gift baskets, plants, Christmas raffles, Lions Christmas Cakes, shop special tables and much much more.
• The Christmas Shoppe is open in the Taradale Town Hall from 10am – 4pm with Santa visiting from 12noon – 1pm.

While in town make sure you take a stroll up Gloucester Street and take-a-look at the Wooden Christmas Tree Community Art Project and enter the People’s Choice award. Thirty-nine gorgeously decorated Wooden Christmas Trees will be on display giving Taradale a real festive feel, thanks to the schools, individuals and artists who decorated them. By voting for your favourite you could WIN $100 of Resene Vouchers for yourself and $200 worth of Resene Vouchers for the favourite school.

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