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Mill Creek MetroParks schedules winter celebration
TweetYOUNGSTOWN — Mill Creek MetroParks will hold a winter celebration Dec. 5 through Jan. 3 at the Davis Education & Visitor Center in Fellows Riverside Gardens.
The Visitor Center is open Tuesday through Sunday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
The event — Winter Celebration 2009 - Home for the Holidays – includes a display of holiday decorations and seasonal plants, as well as “Grandma’s House.” Visitors can look inside Grandma’s house to see what’s cooking and what’s under the tree. The house is meant to evoke a feeling of a simpler time.
Children can play a life-size version of Candyland, a Hasbro game, using giant gingerbread men as playing pieces. Other activities in Candyland include a visit to Gramma Nut’s House, a lolly ring toss at Princess Lolly’s, and a craft activity at Mr. Pop’s Candy Shop.
Area elementary and high school students created the murals used as a backdrop in the Candyland game.
There will also be an eight-foot poinsettia tree and more than 40 holiday trees created in partnership with local community organizations.
For more information, call (330) 740-7116.
Comments
Do you mean a Christmas open house?
Yes, it is a CHRISTMAS celebration, with CHRISTMAS trees and CHRISTMAS decorations. What's with the "holiday" crap. Metroparks wasn't so politically correct when it was handing out a $100,000.00 bonus to the former director!!
Don't get your undies in a bunch. There are other religions that have holidays at this time of the year, it is not exclusively a Christian holiday time of the year.
Hey Viewpoint, does this mean there will be no Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, Eid al-Adha, or Festival of Lights this winter?? Will all these celebrations be called "holiday events"?? Or is it just the Christians who must disguise their holiday to prevent offending a minority?
Vinglass, I never suggested that Christians cannot refer to this holiday season as Christmas. I am more tolerant perhaps than are you. Your bold capital letters in your previous post would cause a reader to believe that you are claiming sole possession of this holiday period. Those who celebrate other religious events during this time frame are not claiming everyone must refer to it as whatever their clebration might be called. So why then should you? Tolerance of others beliefs might be more representative of a true Christian spirit, or do you disagree?
A call to Riverside and I was assured that this particular event is a "traditional Christmas" theme. But they don't want to refer to it as such so as to avoid controversy....Tolerance also means that Christians should be allowed to have their celebration without the fear of offending anyone..
On their website, the official name is: "Winter Celebration, Home for the Holidays" Because this takes place from the beginning of December until the beginning of January, and because some activites - like the "Gardens by Candlelight" - aren't necessarily related to Christmas, "winter celebration" makes more sense to me.
If it makes some of you feel better, they are also having an event called "Old Fashioned Christmas at the Mill." on November 28th and 29th.
BTW, Bing Crosby first sang "Happy Holidays" in 1942. Did he coin the phrase, or was it already an acceptable holiday greeting 67 years ago?
city_resident, is this a trivia question? Bing Crosby certainly did not compose "Happy Holidays", The composer was Irving Berlin, Bing sang it in the movie "Holiday Inn". By the way, the lyrics refer to Christmas several times and also to Santa Claus, so the "happy holiday" being referred to is Christmas. But what does this have to do with anything??
Thanks for the clarification vinglass. I only have so much patience with Google.
Feel free to ignore my last two paragraphs. At first glance, this looked like it was becoming another "Merry Christmas" vs. "Happy Holidays" debate.
Merry Christmas.Who buys most of the presents this time of the year that benifit the businesses selling them ?And they want to call it holiday instead of Christmas.Don't bite the hand that feeds you . What if the Christmas folks quit buying presents ?