Holiday Festival

Weekend Events

The first weekend in December is always busy in Newtown, and this weekend looks to live up to tradition. Stories and descriptions of this weekend’s events — which kick off with the lighting of Newtown’s Christmas Tree at Ram Pasture on Friday — can be found within this week’s Newtown Bee. An outline of the weekend’s events is offered here:

Friday

*22nd Annual Tree Lighting Ceremony, Ram Pasture, Elm Drive at Hawley Road, 6:30 pm.

*Seventh Annual “You Can Never Have Enough Christmas” Boutique, St Rose of Lima Parish Hall, 46 Church Hill Road, 6:30 to 10 pm; 426-1014.

Saturday

*46th Annual Rotary Pancake Breakfast, Edmond Town Hall’s Alexandria Room, 45 Main Street, 8 am to 1 pm, $5 adults, $3 ages 10 and under.

*Annual Garden Club Greens Sale, Newtown Meeting House, 31 Main Street, 9 am to 1 pm (also book signings with Sydney Eddison, 10 am to 1 pm); 270-1108.

*Winter Faire & Holiday Sale, Housatonic Valley Waldorf School, 40 Dodgingtown Road, 10 am to 3 pm; 364-9881.

*Farmers Market & Café, St John’s Episcopal Church, 5 Washington Avenue, 10 am to 5 pm; 270-1820.

*“You Can Never Have Enough Christmas” Boutique continues, St Rose of Lima Parish Hall, 46 Church Hill Road, 10 am to 7 pm; 426-1014.

*NUMC Monthly Pasta Dinner, Newtown United Methodist Church’s Rauner Hall, 92 Church Hill Rd, 5 to 7:30 pm; 426-9998.

*Sandy Hook Tree Lighting, Sandy Hook Center, 5 to 6 pm; 270-1820.

*NUMC Coffee House, Newtown United Methodist Church’s Rauner Hall, 92 Church Hill Road, 7:45 to 10:30 pm; 426-9998.

Sunday

*Final day “You Can Never Have Enough Christmas” Boutique continues, St Rose of Lima Parish Hall, 46 Church Hill Road, 8 am to 2 pm; 426-1014.

*21st Annual Newtown Holiday Festival, on and immediately around Main Street, 11 am to 5 pm; 426-8103.

*Friends of Booth Library Holiday Emporium, C.H. Booth Library, 25 Main Street/Route 25, Newtown, 11 am to 5 pm; 426-4533.

*Lessons in Advent and Carols, Trinity Episcopal Church, 30 Main Street, 2 pm; 426-9070.

*Newtown Choral Society Holiday Concert, Newtown Meeting House, 31 Main Street, 4 pm; 426-3769.