Light-Up Night includes daytime activities
Anyone looking to get into the Christmas spirit while visiting a charming town may attend the We Believe Light-Up Night on Saturday in East Brady.
Situated along the Allegheny River just outside the northeastern corner of Butler County, East Brady is offering activities throughout the day before revelers are serenaded with holiday music at a 5 p.m. tree lighting in Veterans Park.
Toni Henry of the East Brady Development Corporation said the event adds new features each year, and this year’s addition is the cookie crawl from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Henry explained that participants buy cookie passports for $5, then have the “document” stamped at each of 10 businesses involved, where they will receive a bag of three cookies.
A raffle basket will be auctioned in the evening using the passports.
Allegheny Hills Retirement Residence at 421 Kelly’s Way from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. will offer $5 sloppy joe lunches, a rummage sale, 50/50 raffle and will sell jars of Ice Jam Jam, a spreadable confection that is a play on the ice jams seen on the river in the winter.
East Brady United Methodist Church, 418 Kelly’s Way, will hold a crafter’s fair from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. as well.
A bonfire, as well as wine, beer and food will be available from noon to 3 p.m. at Bridgeview Crossings.
Mortimer’s Music and Antiques will hold an open house from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. at their shop at 304 Third St.
There is no admission charge for any of the activity sites, Henry said.
At 4 p.m., free popcorn, coffee and cocoa will be served in the parking lot at Farmers National Bank, 433 Kelly’s Way, where photos with Santa and Mrs. Claus also will be available.
The main event will be at 5 p.m. at Veterans Memorial Park, where three cone trees will be lit during a Christmas carol singalong.
Henry said cone trees are not actual trees, but instead are diagonal strings of lights in the shape of a tree.
Three “trees” will be illuminated in either red, green or white lights.
Henry likened the day and evening of We Believe Light-Up Night to an event that would appear in a holiday movie on the Hallmark Channel.
“It’s a feel-good event,” she said. “People turn out and smile, and the trees are so pretty.”
