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Parade, Santa Claus And More In Christmas Festival In Jay Today
November 28, 2009
Santa Claus is coming to Jay today, part of an all-afternoon and early evening Christmas festival and parade.
From noon until 7:00 tonight, the Christmas festival will feature over 30 Christmas gift vendors with baskets, pottery, jewelry, children’s clothes, games, homemade cakes, boiled peanuts, peanut brittle, homemade honey and more. There will also be carnival type games for the children.
Santa Claus will be in the town’s Christmas parade at 2 p.m., and the jolly old elf will visit with children after the parade. Photos with Santa will be available for a small charge. There will be prizes, including a $300 first place prize, for the best float in the parade.
There will be live music, from gospel to country to dance. Entertainment will include everything from the Bluegrass sounds of Sons of the Pines to the North End Stompers to Elvis Presley.
Proceeds from the Santa photos and vendors will be used by the Jay Historical Society toward refurbishing their museum building.
Admission to the festival is free. Events take place in downtown Jay along Commerce Street.
The entertainment scheduled is as follows:
- Noon: Sons of the Pine
- 1 p.m.: Robbie McCurdy
- 2 p.m.: North End Stompers
- 3 p.m.: The Lunsfords
- 4 p.m.: The Calloways
- 4:30 p.m.: C.J. Penton
- 5 p.m.: Elvis Presley
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I think it’s really great that Jay still has it’s annual Christmas parade, but, I think that a better job could have been done to detour traffic and that better detour signs or routes put up to avoid confusion. I had to travel from Century to Berrydale to work and almost didn’t make it to work on time, even though I left my house an hour and a half before I was supposed to be at work. I gave myself the extra time because I didn’t know the direction of the detours. And apparently, neither did the traffic control officers (SRCSD). Maybe next year someone could post signs. It would help those of us not familiar with the area.