Things To Do November – December 2012 in Fairfield County | Arts & Culture

November 26 through December 12th  The Fairfield County Council on Aging Senior Angel Tree program again this year. The program returns for its third year to provide adopted seniors with a Christmas that’s just a little brighter.  The Senior Angel Tree will be put up the week of November 26 and the gifts for the adopted seniors will be delivered on December 20th.  The majority of seniors placed on the Angel Tree are current participants in at least one of the Council on Aging’s services, but any senior 60 or older can have their name placed on the tree. The Senior Angel Tree ornaments will contain the “wish list” of items the seniors would like to receive for Christmas, such things as personal grooming items, word search puzzles and household items.  Other Senior Angel Tree ornaments will be “Meal Angel” ornaments and will give adopters the opportunity to contribute $25 to the FCCOA’s Meals on Wheels program as their gift to seniors. During the period that the lights of the Senior Angel Tree are shining, anyone may come in to the Council on Aging, located at 210 East Washington Street, between the hours of 8:30 a.m. and 4 p.m. Monday through Friday of the days of the program, and adopt a senior by taking an Angel off the tree. If you can’t make it during those hours, you may make prior arrangements to get a Senior Angel Tree ornament to adopt by calling the FCCOA at 803-635-3015.  People wishing to adopt seniors will chose an angel ornament, shop for their particular angel and will be asked to bring the gifts, with a $35 suggested limit, back to the Senior Center.  The presents, wrapped as the donors choose to wrap them, should arrive back at the Council on Aging offices during the weeks leading up to the December 20th delivery date. If you are a senior who would like your name added to the Senior Angel Tree (names will be kept confidential and you will be assigned a number,) or if you know of a senior you’d like to see adopted, you are invited to call the FCCOA at 803-635-3015 and have a name placed on the Senior Angel Tree list.  Please consider taking part in the Senior Angel Tree program and make those lights on the Christmas trees shine just a little brighter for Fairfield County seniors.

November 23 – December 24 - – Annual Shop Fairfield First promotion. Annual promotion by local merchants to shop in Fairfield County stores first, before going outside the county.  For each sale of $25 at a participating merchant, the customer will receive a bright pink ticket.  Customers must collect 3 tickets to enter in the weekly drawing of $50 cash.  Drawings will be on Fridays at 3 PM at the Chamber office.  Winners will be notified by phone. Pictures of winner and the store merchant will be taken for publication in local newspapers.

November

November 22 – Thanksgiving.  County offices, including the Chamber will be closed Thursday & Friday. 

November 23 – Shop Fairfield First begins. Annual promotion by local merchants to shop in Fairfield County stores first, before going outside the county.  For each sale of $25 at a participating merchant, the customer will receive a bright pink ticket.  Customers must collect 3 tickets to enter in the weekly drawing of $50 cash.  Customers may enter as often as they have 3 tickets.  Drawings will be on Friday’s at 3 PM at the Chamber office.  Winners will be notified by phone. Pictures of winner and the store merchant will be taken for publication in local newspapers.

November 23rd and 24th – Fall Harvest Night Ride - Ride to Midnight at Carolina Adventure World.  Come join us and Celebrate the Thanksgiving Season!  Welcome Center restaurant is happy to announce we will be open Black Friday and have added some new items, we are now making fresh Hunt Brothers Pizza & Wings everyday!  Also serving Breakfast Pizza daily    REMINDER: Open Thanksgiving Day  Seasonal hours begin November 4, 2012   8:00 AM to 5:00 PM

November 25.  Santa North Pole Express.  Annual rides with Santa.  Rides at 9:30, 11:30 AM; 1:30 & 3:30 PM.   For prices, times and to order tickets on line go to  www.scrm.org. Located at  110 Industrial Park Rd  Winnsboro. For more information contact the Chamber of Commerce at 803 635-4242.

November 29 – Winnsboro Rotary Club  barbecue at Gordon Memorial United Methodist Church from 5-7 PM.  Tickets can be bought in advance for $12.50 from any Rotary club member.  Includes fried chicken, hash and rice, green beans, corn, a roll and sweet tea.  502 5th St.  Eat in or take out.

November 30 –  Drawing for Week 1 winner of Shop Fairfield First promotion.  Drawings will be on  Friday’s at 3 PM at the Chamber office.  Winners will be notified by phone. Pictures of winner and the store merchant will be taken for publication in local newspapers.

November 30 - Fairfield Memorial Hospital Foundation Presents 

Gifts and Jewelry Show  11:00 to 7:00 pm Fairfield Memorial Hospital (former lobby).  Browse our gift selections and do some early Christmas shopping.  Questions?   Please call 803-272-6471

December

December 1 - Fairfield Memorial Hospital Foundation Presents

Gifts and Jewelry Show at The Cornwallis House Tea Co.  141 South Congress  St  11:00 am  to 3:30 pm  What a wonderful way to spend a Saturday!  Come and have lunch at The Cornwallis House Tea Co. and browse our gift selections and do some early Christmas shopping.  Questions?   Please call 803-272-6471

December 1  Santa North Pole Express.  Annual rides with Santa.  Rides at 9:30, 11:30 AM; 1:30 & 3:30 PM.   For prices, times and to order tickets on line go to  www.scrm.org. Located at  110 Industrial Park Rd  Winnsboro. For more information contact the Chamber of Commerce at 803 635-4242

December 2 – Ridgway Christmas Parade.  3 PM. Contact Ridgeway Town Hall 803 337-2213.

December 2 – Annual Christmas Open House Fairfield Historic Museum. The Fairfield County Museum and the Fairfield County Historical Society invite the public to the annual Christmas Open House at the Museum .4 – 7 PM  Special exhibits, refreshments provided by the Historical Society.  A collection of Tim Wilkes’s Victorian silver and majolica ceramics will open the Museum’s new display space on the second floor, and antique piano expert, Tom Strange, will perform on and talk about the museum’s 1854 Newman and Brothers piano.  Tom will present a selection of period music on the Museum’s piano with an accompanying presentation on the history of the square parlor pianos of the Nineteenth Century.  In addition, guests will be regaled with the beloved performances of our community’s own musical talents.  Scheduled are the Johnson family’s string and pipes quartet, Brian Ogburn’s bagpipes (perhaps also his silver flute), Kerry Matthews’s soprano tones, and the contemporary sounds of Jeanie  Roundy, Lynn Douglass, Sue Miller, and others who make up the “Halfway There” performers.  Other musicians not yet announced will join the lineup.  Lastly, it wouldn’t be Christmas without the annual sing-along around the piano involving everyone capable of vocalizing to bring in the season!  Local garden clubs have decorated in historical period Christmas theme.  231 S Congress St. 803 635-9811.  Free

December 7 - Drawing for Week 2 winner of Shop Fairfield First promotion.  Drawings will be on Friday at 3 PM at the Chamber office.  Winners will be notified by phone. Pictures of winner and the store merchant will be taken for publication in local newspapers.

December 7, 8 & 9.  “Another Pine Tree Christmas” .  Special Christmas program presented by Pine Tree Playhouse.  Friday & Saturday at 8 PM, Sunday at 3 PM.  $5 per person. Call 803 635-6847 for reservations.

December 7 – First Friday in Ridgeway.  Stores open late and running Christmas specials.  Ridgeway business district 100 block S Palmer St.

December 8 -  Santa North Pole Express.  Annual rides with Santa.  Rides at 9:30, 11:30 AM; 1:30 & 3:30 PM.   For prices, times and to order tickets call 803 712-4135.  The museum is located at  110 Industrial Park Rd  Winnsboro. For more information contact the Chamber of Commerce at 803 635-4242.

December 9 – Winnsboro Christmas Parade, Craft show & Tree Lighting.  Parade starts at 3 PM.  Must  register for the parade or for vendor space.  Contact Connie Shackelford at Town of Winnsboro 803 635-3333, ext. 106.  Chamber has copies of parade registration form, call 803 635-4242.

December 14 - Drawing for Week 3 winner of Shop Fairfield First promotion.  Drawings will be on Friday at 3 PM at the Chamber office.  Winners will be notified by phone. Pictures of winner and the store merchant will be taken for publication in local newspapers.

December 14, 15 & 16.  “Another Pine Tree Christmas” .  Special Christmas program presented by Pine Tree Playhouse.  Friday & Saturday at 8 PM, Sunday at 3 PM.  $5 per person.  Call 803 635-6847 for reservations

December 15.  Santa North Pole Express.  Annual rides with Santa.  Rides at 9:30, 11:30 AM; 1:30 & 3:30 PM.   For prices, times and to order tickets call 803 712-4135.  The museum is located at 110 Industrial Park Rd  Winnsboro. For more information contact the Chamber of Commerce at 803 635-4242

December 21 - Drawing for Week 4 winner of Shop Fairfield First.  Drawings will be on Friday at 3 PM at the Chamber office.  Winners will be notified by phone. Pictures of winner and the store merchant will be taken for publication in local newspapers.

December 24 – Christmas Eve.  Shop Fairfield First Ends.

December 25 – Christmas Day

December 28 – Final Drawing for weekly winner of Shop Fairfield First Drawings will be on Friday at 3 PM at the Chamber office.  Winners will be notified by phone. Pictures of winner and the store merchant will be taken for publication in local newspapers.

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