A gift for Christmas: Donations pour in for Haley’s new golf cart
Smiling, Haley Christmas rides again.
She will ride soon, anyway. Because York County will not stand for somebody tiffany jewelry stealing a golf cart from a lady with cerebral palsy.
The story of the theft of "Bye-bye," Haley's golf cart, ran in Thursday's Herald. It was snatched last week from her family's yard in Lesslie. The cart remains missing.
But by Thursday afternoon, Haley Christmas was at Andy's Used Golf Cars in Rock Hill, deciding whether she wanted pink or blue.
Showing Haley and her father the options was a guy with working man's gear oil on his hands and tears running down his face named Andy Clabough. A man who heard about the theft and heard from his customers who wanted to donate and strangers who wanted to donate, and without anybody asking, he offered to build a new cart for free.
"Blue!" squealed Haley.
"Blue it is!" called out Clabough.
Before Thursday, Andy Clabough had never heard of Haley Christmas. Yet, before 8 a.m., calls were coming in to Clabough with offers to help.
A guy named Wayne Logan who took his electric cart there for service offered up his cart, no strings attached. Since silver key rings Haley needed gas, Logan just said, "Put a sign on mine and sell it and use the money for Haley."
Clabough decided right then and there that this girl was going to get a cart, if he had to pay for it himself.
"I never had a morning like this in my whole life," Clabough said. "This is about the most amazing thing I ever saw. I come to work today, and I found out that people care so much more about a little lady who had her golf cart stolen than anything else.
"Hit me right in the gut, it did. Been crying all day."
Clabough took an old plastic jar that once held pretzels and made it into a collection box. People called and offered to bring in cash. One guy offered $400.
A lady named Frances McEntee, who before Thursday never heard of Clabough or the Christmas family, started e-mailing and calling friends and fellow parents at St. Anne Catholic School to raise money because she could not sit idly by after reading of this dastardly deed. The school forwarded the e-mail to hundreds.
"I went to the dentist; the hygienist gave me $5 for Haley, and the dentist wrote a check," McEntee said. "Anybody I talked with wanted to help."
A guy named Henry Eldridge from Tega Cay came in to Clabough's shop to get some work done on his golf cart and dropped in a big bunch of money without ever meeting Haley Christmas.
"No way is somebody going to take away Haley's wheels," Eldridge said. "Thieves don't win. Haley wins."
By 1 p.m., the jar had fivers and ten-spots and C-notes. A C-note is a $100 bill. Clear plastic jars with c-notes look silver necklaces great.
Finally, better than a thousand dollars to help get another cart to replace the one that had cost about $5,000 three years ago when it was bought. Clabough thought he was on his way.
But Clabough didn't have to pay for a new cart. Paul and Jeryl Christmas, Haley's parents, didn't have to pay, either.
A lady named Nicki Nash whose kids go to that St. Anne school made one phone call to her boss, Founders Federal Credit Union president Bruce Brumfield. Brumfield needed about two seconds to say: "Do what you gotta do; get that girl a golf cart!"
Paul and Haley Christmas came over to the shop to meet Clabough, who sure was getting no other work done Thursday as he fielded phone calls and dropped money in the jar and cried like a baby.
Nash stopped in and told Clabough the cart builder these simple words from behind a huge grin almost as big as Haley's grin: "Do what you gotta do. Make it happen."
All agreed that Founders would pay for the base cart, and the donations would pay for the extras to make Haley Christmas' golf cart the best cart any girl who likes to sit at the side of the road waving and smiling at strangers ever rode in. And this one will have a security system to make sure it isn't stolen.
These strangers turned friends decided if the stolen cart turns up, it will be donated in Haley's name to a charity that needs a cart to get another disabled person around. If there is extra money after the cart is finished, it will go into a foundation or scholarship in Haley's name to help someone else with cerebral palsy.
"My daughter's been smiling all her life. She's 27 years old, but this might be the best day she ever had," said Paul Christmas bangles, Haley's father.
Haley gave out as many hugs at that golf cart shop as there were people to accept them. Clabough got his hug and that golf cart mechanic just about floated.
Clabough needs a couple weeks to put together this custom cart. It will have special tires and taillights. A radio/CD player, and roof, and special backseats for Haley's friends and family. A cover to keep out the rain. A gas engine for plenty of get-up-and-go. There will be hubcaps to shine and mirrors to see where she's been.
But no headlights. Haley's glowing smile will light the way to wherever she may go.
Christmas items for sale at holiday bazaar
Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church, 1801 Skylyn Drive, will hold its Christmas tiffany and co bazaar from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. today.
Christmas decorations, handmade items and baskets, canned and baked goods, and some vintage items will be sold. The church also will serve a lunch of homemade vegetable soup and corn bread. Takeout will be available.
The church is just beyond Mary Black Hospital. Call 583-6463.
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No, Virginia, Christmas Is Not Here Yet
The autumn leaves, red and yellow and brown, are tumbling from the trees, tiffany resigned to their fate. Weekends are full of football and the scritching of rakes. Lazy squirrels are still munching on moldering jack o' lanterns left over from Halloween. In other words, it's beginning to look a lot like Christmas.
Disney released a new version of the Dickens Scrooge story last week, timing it so that "A Christmas Carol" will be lucky to be in distribution past Thanksgiving Day.
Starbucks has already retired its white cups for the duration, replacing them with cranberry-colored, snowflake-flecked seasonal substitutes. Wal-Mart is just one of the retailers already Kringling away like crazy, running television ads with Andy Williams crooning "It's the most wonderful time of the year!" Who knew that the weeks between Halloween and Thanksgiving were the hap-happiest season of all?
The day after Thanksgiving used to be the official launch of the commercial rings Christmas season. Now Sears is running "Black Friday" specials all through November.
Given half a chance, retailers would probably try to get their plastic garlands hung just after Labor Day. (Ho-ho-ho, it's back to school!) But we've been spared that particular encroachment, thanks to a holiday that has proved capable of standing athwart the relentless forces of Christmas-creep -- Halloween. Once a quaint bit of Americana built around the simple pleasures of costumes, candy-grabbing and petty vandalism, Halloween has become a marketable and profitable holiday, putting many official holidays to shame. If only Presidents Day had some sort of free-candy angle.
In contrast to Halloween's stalwart ability to keep Christmas from jumping the queue, Thanksgiving has lost its cultural muscle. The early advent of the Santa season may have less to do with the red-and-green imperative than with the weakness of Turkey Day. What happened to this quintessential American holiday?
Lydia Maria Child's ode to going over the river and through the woods to grandmother's house is a good place to start in decoding Thanksgiving's decline. First, there is the anachronistic attention given to grandmother. Thanksgiving is one of the few occasions left, in our fanatically kinder-centric culture, to honor the elderly. Picture the famous Norman Rockwell illustration "Freedom From Want" -- at the Thanksgiving table grandpa and grandma have pride of place. No wonder the day gets short shrift.
And then there is all that over-the-river-and-through-the-woods business, which in our day means a choice between stripping for the nice TSA agent or creeping along I-95. Thanksgiving is the official holiday of planes, trains and automobiles. What the modern travel experience lacks in charm it makes up for with sheer bracelets ordeal. And what's the payoff for all this effort? A chance to make small talk with in-laws.
The Food Network may be the only institution in America unapologetically boosting the holiday. For weeks, the cable channel's programming is packed with turkey tutorials, stuffing suggestions and investigations into the mysteries of cranberry sauce. But Food Network's programming is less an indication of popular enthusiasm for Thanksgiving than a measure of the fear the holiday engenders. Hostesses know that they will be judged on the juiciness of their turkey, the cooking of which is an exotic undertaking chanced but once a year. And the result must be achieved while juggling a half-dozen side dishes, all the while making the above-mentioned small talk.
None of which would be so daunting if the day meant more to us. Could it be we've lost our capacity for gratitude? A successful harvest occasioned thanks back when it was all that stood between us and a long, cold, hungry winter. But now we're divorced from the seasonal rhythms of the farm, where the harvest is celebrated as the payoff of all the year's labors. Even in the midst of this Great Repression we enjoy perpetual plenty. What resonance does a cornucopia have to people who have come to expect ripe blackberries in February? If anything, we should be more grateful, but that's not our nature. Anything we struggle for, we hold dear; anything that comes easy, we take for granted.
Not only don't we celebrate the astonishing abundance that is our good fortune, we whine and moan cufflinks about how it makes us fat. Lydia Maria Child's poem ends, appropriately enough, with dessert: "Is the pudding done? / Hurrah for the pumpkin pie!" A version for our time would read, "Is the pudding sugar-free?" And if that weren't enough to squeeze the pleasure from the day, no modern Thanksgiving is complete without a college student home from school, lecturing the family on the cruelty of meat. (To which the only appropriate response is: "Does that mean you don't want the drumstick?") That same sophomore is also likely to bemoan the grim fate of the Native Americans who made the strategic mistake of helping the Pilgrims avoid starvation. In some circles, Thanksgiving is second only to Columbus Day as an occasion for grieving.
There will be plenty of time next month for all the secular manifestations of Christmas: shopping, trimming the tree, shopping, mugs of frothing Tom & Jerry, shopping, and watching Ralphie get his Red Ryder BB-gun and Clarence get his wings. Oh, and yes, shopping. But before we break out the ornaments and dust off the Vince Guaraldi soundtrack, let's make the most of autumn and its particular pleasures. Jump in a pile of leaves. Savor the waning daylight. And go ahead. Week after next, eat that second slice of pumpkin pie -- just be thankful for it.
BRITISH PUBLIC URGED TO HELP FORCES BY REFRAINING FROM SENDING CHRISTMAS PARCELS TO TROOPS IN AFGHANISTAN
The Office of Ministry of Defence issued the following press release:
As the season of good will is nearly upon us, the British public are being urged to help tiffany and co the forces as much as possible by refraining from sending Christmas parcels to troops in Afghanistan.
Soldiers serving in theatre are literally being overwhelmed by support from the British public who generously post unsolicited parcels, putting a massive strain on the Forces Post Office in Camp Bastion, resulting in packages from friends and family taking longer to reach the intended recipients.
Many of the parcels are addressed to chaplains who have long left theatre, but whose legacy continues. The intention is that the current generation of padres will distribute the parcels to troops on the front line.
Padre Richard Downes, who is the British chaplain at Camp Bastion, said:
"The Enduring Families Free Mail Service enables families and close friends of Service personnel to send packages out to theatre. While such unsolicited parcels are without doubt popular with recipients, the all-important personal mail from soldiers' families becomes significantly delayed.
"Occasionally the perceived needs of recipients have become somewhat confused, as one chaplain discovered to his dismay when he opened a welfare parcel addressed to him personally, but which contained amongst other things a glossy pin-up calendar!"
Padre Richard Downes
Only a small fraction of the unsolicited parcels make it to the front line, the rest are processed by silver key rings staff in Camp Bastion and the contents held in storage in welfare rest areas and churches until they can be sent on.
Some of the contents, including toiletry items, lie untouched for months at a time and one chaplain reported that he had 70 brand new toothbrushes in the back of his church in a Forward Operating Base (FOB).
In response to the growing problem, the Ministry of Defence is working with the forces charity SSAFA to enable generous members of the public to donate money to the charity as an alternative to sending parcels.
The Operational Welfare Fund is focused on providing support direct to the front line and enables commanders on the ground to bid for those items which they know will boost the troops' morale.
Padre Downes said:
"The postal service puts on a massive extra push at Christmas and put extra flights on to get the stuff here. But getting the mail out to the FOBs also takes longer, as mail must fit in around operational transport priorities.
"I thank the British public for their support but I would ask that they keep the pressure off the postal system over silver necklaces the Christmas period. The British military are a generous bunch and the troops will always share with those whose parcels may have been held up."For more information please contact: Sarabjit Jagirdar, Email:- htsyndication@hindustantimes.com.
Vendors at the venerable Southern Christmas Show say shoppers seem a bit more willing than last year.
As the Southern Christmas Show kicked off its 42nd season this week, early returns tiffany jewellery are leaving merchants optimistic -- but still wary of the economy beyond the red, green and glitter-bedecked hub of holiday spirit.
"A lot of exhibitors came into this show a little apprehensive about what it was going to be like, and I think they're finding their sales are as good or better than last year," said David Zimmerman, president of Southern Shows, producers of the event, which opened Wednesday. "That's what we're hearing, at least."
Another good gauge of sales, Zimmerman said Friday evening, is looking to see how full the package check area in the lobby is, and what's being sold. "It's as full as ever," he said.
With its loyal, intent shoppers, the event at the former Charlotte Merchandise Mart is arguably more recession-resistant than much of the rest of the retail landscape. The show's 700 vendors tend to generate sales results above the general holiday retail trend because they draw a self-selected crowd from across a wide geographic area, said Southern Shows CEO Joan Zimmerman.
Nonetheless, the show also speaks to the power of offering a distinct shopping experience, with rings the power to lure buyers even amid economic uncertainty. It attracts about 100,000 visitors per year, and attendance so far this year is up compared with the same days last year, David Zimmerman said. This year, the show is running for 12 days -- ending Nov. 22 -- instead its usual 11.
At the booth for A Taste of West Virginia, which sells products from over 50 West Virginia agribusinesses, sales on Thursday were up 8 percent over the same day last year, and the trend was continuing Friday, said Cindy Martel, marketing specialist with the state's Department of Agriculture. The booth is not expecting a big increase for the year and would be happy to be on par with 2008, she said. "We're definitely holding our ground," she said.
The producers, she said, were concerned about what 2009 would bring. And the economic climate has forced them to plan and track their businesses more carefully, she said.
Shoppers are focusing on the fundamentals and stocking stuffers, Martel said, and the busiest categories so far have been specialty condiments and honey. People have also been redeeming about 10 percent more coupons this year, compared with 2008, she said. "They're still buying impulse treat items, but not as many," she said.
Several merchants said that though they'd seen sales fall at other shows this year, the trend seems to be improving. Business at home shows was particularly off, said Ken March, the owner of Florida-based Helmut's Strudels, a 32-year presence at the Southern Christmas Show.
March said he was anxious given the N.C. banking climate, and that he knows business can flatten out anyway after years at the same show. But he expects to be up about 15 percent this year tend to be a reliable indicator.
"I think (shoppers) are realizing the hurricane has passed," he said. "I don't think people give up on Christmas bracelets."
"We're die-hard," joked Pam Thomas of Lenoir, who traveled to the show on Thursday with a group of friends, most of whom have been going to the show together for 20 years. Around dinnertime, they relaxed on a bench near the cafeteria, bags at their sides.
"This is to get us in the Christmas spirit. ... I brought my spending money today, and I'll worry about the rest later."
Thomas said she wasn't planning to cut back her Christmas Show spending. On Thursday, she bought two decorative wall signs, a variety of food and two "splat balls" for grandchildren -- toys designed to be thrown and go "splat," albeit neatly.
But, she said, the rest of her shopping season may be affected. Her husband recently found out that he won't receive a Christmas bonus this year at the trucking company where he works, after getting them for the last 38 years.
Sitting next to Thomas was Tracey Carriker of Morganton, who'd bought a cookie jar, jewelry and a UNC Chapel Hill snowman. Next up: A pimento cheese stop. Though the group's usual challenge is figuring out how best to pack the trunk, Carriker said, this year she isn't buying as much for herself, while still looking for family and friends.
At Rita's Special T's, which sells colorful shirts and jackets, sales dropped in 2008, but results at the Charlotte cufflinks show are up over the same days last year, owner Rita Beard said. Based in Florida, she hopes to be up 10 percent over last year.
Shows that she's attended elsewhere this year, including in recent weeks, she noted, have been down.
Still, where people used to buy two or three jackets, Beard said, they now buy just one. And she lowered the price on a popular set to $40 from $49.
"We had to adjust to what the economy is going to allow you to sell your products for," she said.
Supermarkets unwrap record offers in battle for Christmas shoppers
Supermarkets are embarking on record levels of promotions as they battle to persuade tiffany and co cash-strapped shoppers to part with their money in the crucial run-up to Christmas.
At the checkouts of the big supermarkets, 35 per cent of all sales by value are on promotion, compared with 26 per cent a year ago, according to Nielsen, the market research group.
Mike Watkins, a senior manager at Nielsen, said this was a record high for promotions. "Typically promotions peak around the end of November every year. They peaked a long time ago and are remaining high," he added.
Supermarkets are ramping up offers, often part-funded by their suppliers, as they fight the effects of falling food price inflation, which means they must work harder to drive sales. They are also expanding rapidly into areas such as clothing, entertainment and electronics in an effort to capture a bigger slice of these markets.
Judith McKenna, finance director of Asda, has predicted this year will be the "most competitive Christmas for a decade".
Asda is expanding its promotional offerings this year, with deals on toys and electronics as well as on food.
Tesco said it was concentrating on delivering products for clear low prices such as pound(s)1, silver key rings pound(s)2 or pound(s)3. But this week alone it was running 3,200 promotions in its stores and more than 250 half-price offers.
"Whether you call it a promotion or a price cut, it is going to be a bumper Christmas for consumers being able to buy food more affordably," said one person familiar with the retailer.
Wm Morrison has in recent weeks been offering half-price deals on meat and fish among its promotions. From Monday it will begin a "price crunch week", with further Christmas offers.
J Sainsbury, which has also been running a series of offers, said its level of promotions was about the same as last year, at 30-33 per cent, just below the industry average, but higher than two years ago, when the proportion of sales on promotion was about 20 per cent.
Tesco, Sainsbury and Morrison are slugging it out with loyalty or voucher schemes.
Angus Maciver, Morrison's group marketing director, said: "This year we have seen more investment in silver necklaces promotions but at the same time big investment in loyalty. Both have gone up."
Even Marks and Spencer is promoting its party food and champagne, while Waitrose, its upmarket rival, will run 40 per cent more offers this December than last.
"The food market has become far more promotional than it has been for many years, and I don't see that Christmas could possibly be any less so," said Richard Hyman, strategic retail adviser to Deloitte.
Some retail watchers are sceptical at the overall value of the promotional bonanza to consumers, amid concerns supermarkets may be putting up prices of other goods to compensate.
It has also raised fears among analysts and investors that the promotional war will infect other parts of the high street.
According to a survey of 100 retailers by PwC, the professional services firm, about half of high street shops were offering discounts or promotions, such as three products for the price of two. This is a similar level to last year, when the economy was lurching downwards.
However, executives and analysts hope the heavy discounting and one-off sales days seen last year will be avoided. "Against bangles last year when there was a bloodbath, you would expect less discounting and clearance," said Tony Shiret, analyst at Credit Suisse.
Retailers are considering whether to pass on the higher rate of value added tax on January 1, when it returns to 17.5 per cent from 15 per cent, or absorb this cost themselves.
Operation Santa stuffs Christmas stockings for soldiers
Army Maj. Brandon Crull of Peoria returned just two weeks ago tiffany jewellery from a year's active duty in Iraq. He's still adjusting to being home and introducing himself to his son, born while he was overseas.
But he came with his family Saturday to tell those ready to stuff Christmas stockings for Operation Santa what those stockings might mean to their recipients.
It's the simple things, soap and toothpaste, things that come in handy and mean so much, Crull told the crowd gathered to help the Decatur chapter of Operation Santa, adding that sometimes it can be difficult in a combat zone to get the kinds of items the stockings hold.
But it's also the letters from children and the project's symbolism of the patriotism of the people of Central Illinois that count as well, he said.
"The kids write off-the-wall things, and they are phenomenal," he added.
Crull, who serves with a Army Reserve unit based in Darien, said he'd silver necklaces only been gone two weeks last year when his sister, Julie Hensley, started the Decatur chapter.
"I didn't expect it," he said.
Last year, with just six weeks to work, Hensley said they were able to supply the Peoria-based group with 1,260 stockings. This year, the number was 6,600 stockings, made and stuffed to be shipped to active duty military personnel.
Jennifer Albright said she brought 72 stockings she and her mother, Shari Bowen, made in honor of her cousin serving active military duty. Darla Zinn brought another 70 she had made, honoring the service of her son, former Marine Tyler Zinn.
"I'm an experienced box shipper," Zinn said.
And Sherry Gant of Mount Zion said she came just to help stuff, though she has a nephew who just bangles completed boot camp with the Marines.
This year, not only did the group expand its goal, but it added canine stockings. Crull said different breeds of dogs serve alongside the engineers in a variety of capacities.
"I can't believe the job they have done," said Gary Crull of Weldon, father of Hensley and of Brandon Crull. "I just couldn't be prouder of this," he added, noting that the Decatur chapter's contribution made 20 percent of the total number of stockings that will be shipped.
"We're so proud of Decatur, so proud," said Lori George, who co-chairs the Decatur chapter with Hensley. "(Items) to stuff are still coming in.
"We're already planning next year," George continued. "If Decatur can do over 6,000,rings let's shoot for 10,000 (stockings)."
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Easton tree takes bough for Christmas in Rockefeller Center
The 76-foot-tall Norway spruce that was set up early Thursday morning in tiffany and co New York City's Rockefeller Center has hometown roots.
The towering tree, which will be the centerpiece for the midtown Manhattan landmark's Christmas festivities, was cut down Wednesday on the North Park Avenue property of Maria Corti.
About 160 neighbors, relatives and the curious turned out for the operation, joined by dozens of staffers from Rockefeller Center, who were handing out green sweatshirts, red scarves and breakfast treats. The activity turned usually placid North Park Avenue into a beehive of activity, with about 60 cars parked on the street and police officers directing traffic.
"I called Rockefeller Center last spring, thinking that I had a possible tree for tiffany pendants Christmas," Corti said, adding that she moved into the ranch home only about a year ago. "They suggested that I send in a picture of the tree with someone in the picture for proportion. So, that's what I did."
"I thought: 'That would be the end of that,' so to speak, because I'm sure a lot of people write in thinking that they have a tree worthy enough for Rockefeller Center."
Corti, a fifth-grade teacher at Cider Mill School in Wilton, said that within a few days she was contacted by David Murbach, Rockefeller Center's gardens manager.
"Actually, it is a tough job," Murbach said when asked how he goes about finding the perfect tree. "It's one in a million. You think that there are
a lot of good trees around, but they're not perfect like the ones that we need tiffany earrings. We look for perfection."
Murbach said that he goes aloft in a helicopter to find trees. From the chopper, Murbach said that he spotted the Corti spruce from miles away.
"I was hoping that it was someone else's tree, because then I'd have one for next year," he said.
About 10 a.m. Wednesday, the lumberjacks' buzz saws fell silent and the tree was lifted off its stump and lashed onto a 115-foot tractor-trailer flatbed for the trip to New York City.
A flock of grade school children immediately descended on the stump to count the rings.
"Forty-three!" confidently announced Kate McKinnon, an 11-year-old student at West Rock Middle School in Norwalk. "I counted twice." She was with her 6-year-old sister, Claire, and both said that they would be sure to see the tree after it's decorated.
The next step is to decorate it with 30,000 lights. The tree-lighting ceremony will take tiffany key rings place at 7 p.m. Dec. 2, and it will be broadcast live on WNBC-TV, Channel 4.
The tree is the second from the region in two years to be chosen. In 2007, a Norway spruce from Shelton got the distinction.
Tree timeline Historical milestones for Rockefeller Center tree: 1931: Workmen on a muddy construction site put up the first Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree. At the time of the Depression, the workmen placed the tree in the middle of a construction site. 1933: First formal Rockefeller Center tree-lighting ceremony takes place. Tree is decked with 700 lights in front of the 8-month-old RCA Building. 1936: Two trees, each 70 feet tall, were erected. For the first time, the lighting ceremony included a skating pageant on the newly opened Rockefeller Plaza outdoor ice skating rink. 1942: Three trees were placed on Rockefeller Plaza, one decorated in red, one in white and the other in blue to show support for troops in World War II. 1949: Tree was painted silver to look like snow. 1951: The center's tree lighted for the first time on national television on the Kate Smith Show. 1966: The first tree from outside the United States was erected. It was given by Canada, in honor of the centennial of its confederation. 1980: For 50th anniversary of tree lighting, a 70-foot-tall Norway spruce came from the grounds of the Immaculate Conception Seminary of Mahwah, N.J. Bob Hope participated in the lighting. 1999: The largest tree in tiffany necklaces Rockefeller Center history, 100 feet high, from Killingworth, Conn. 2007: For the first time, the tree is lit with 30,000 energy-efficient LEDs. Hundreds of solar panels atop one of the Rockefeller Center buildings help power the new LEDs.
ST. CLAIR COUNTY COMMUNITY COLLEGE TO PRESENT ‘A CHRISTMAS CAROL’ ON STAGE
The St. Clair County Community College issued the following press silver jewelry release:
St. Clair County Community College's Theatre Discipline in December will present A Christmas Carol: A Ghost Story of Christmas in the college's Fine Arts Theatre.
Performances will be at 7:30 p.m. Friday, Dec. 4; 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 5; and 2 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 6.
The play is written by Charles Dickens and adapted by Michael Wilson. Tom Kephart is director.
The play tells the classic tale of Ebenezer Scrooge and his Christmas bangles Eve journey with three ghostly spirits.
Tickets are $5 for students and seniors age 60 and older and $7 for adults. Tickets are available at the door or by calling (810) 989-5513 between 8:30 a.m. and 4 p.m. weekdays.
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Joel Badley Marysville
Samantha Bogumil Kimball Township
Robert Croy Croswell
Cassie Farrugia Clyde Township
Kelsey Hernandez Marysville
Rachel Kearney Port Huron
Mallorie Krul Kimball Township
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Rae Ann McVeigh Kimball Township
Kami Misch Emmett
Donald Parker Port Huron
Zach Parkhurst St. Clair
Ryan Silver Yale
Angie Stoecklin Columbus Township
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Erin Blaylock Marysville
Owen Day Port Huron
Courtney Harris Kimball Township
Delany Lemke Marysville
Wesley Spain Marysville
Marisa Spain Marysville
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HIGHLANDS UNIVERSITY MADRIGAL CHOIR PRESENTS ‘CHRISTMAS NOW!’ CONCERT NOV. 22 IN ILFELD
New Mexico Highlands' Madrigal Choir presents a "Christmas Now!" concert tiffany Nov. 22 at 3 p.m. in the university's Ilfeld Auditorium, 900 University Ave.
The concert will feature the university's women's choir performing English composer Benjamin Britten's Ceremony of Carols along with two Christmas songs by Santa Fe-based composer Linda Rice.
In the second half of the program, the men in the university's madrigal choir will join the women to perform Misa Criolla, a folk mass based on Latin American rhythms and traditions composed by Argentinean composer Ariel Ramirez.
The program ends with the madrigal choir singing two lively Christmas pieces by rings Welsh composer William Mathias.
The director for the concert is Andre Garcia-Nuthmann, the university's choral director and Department of Music.
Accompanying the madrigal choir will be music professors Linda King on piano and Edward Harrington on bass. Other accompanists include Roberto Capocchi on guitar, and Ralph Marquez and Michael Campbell on percussion.
The members of the Women's Choir also sing in the Madrigal Choir, including Karliz de Marco bracelets, Nicole Robinson, Christel Garcia, Betty Thompson, Margaret Loehr, Victoria Evans, Tiffany Neeley, Linda Castillo, Christine Jordan and Ardys Otterbacher.
The men in the Madrigal Choir include Devin Barad, Thomas J. Jefferson, Richard Lindeborg, Marcos Sedillo, Joseph Chavez, Michael Hatlee, Josh Lindsey and John Loehr. Tickets are $10 for the general public, and $5 for Highlands' faculty and staff, seniors 65 and older, and children under 10. All Highlands' students with ID are free, along with other students with school ID.
For more information, contact Jane Quintana at 505-454-3359 or Vick Evans at 505-454-3135.For more information please contact cufflinks: Sarabjit Jagirdar, Email:- htsyndication@hindustantimes.com.