Last weekend was Winchendon’s Festival of Lights.

My volunteer position was as a greeter at The Breakfast with Santa. It was mostly traffic direction and helping one of the vendors carry her boxes up to the craft fair.

The dining room stayed full for most of the morning, and Santa was kept busy taking pictures with the kids and handing out candy canes.

Ms. Grinch also put in an appearance.

While the breakfast was going on downstairs at The Toy Town Senior Center, The great hall upstairs was hosting a craft fair.

My daughter Melanie is on The Parks and Recreation Committee which hosted the whole day.

The town wide Cookie Crawl started at 9 A.M. and went until 2 P.M. Area business provided cookies that could be gathered in these boxes.

The town held a gingerbread house competition and a letters to Santa time. Then the whole night was capped off with the tree lighting at Grout Park on our local Bike Path.

How does your town or family ring in the holidays?