SUNDRE – Sundown in Sundre, the community’s annual holiday shop local event that also includes some activities at the Sundre and District Museum, offered some deals that were hard to resist.
Along the way, people who on Friday, Dec. 6 were making their rounds to see what they might find as they worked through their Christmas shopping lists also had a chance to take photos with Santa, buy some cookies with proceeds supporting the Sundre and District Historical Society, as well as bid on a variety of festive holiday wreaths that might have tickled their fancy.
The Festival of Wreaths is coordinated by the Sundre and District Chamber of Commerce in tandem with local businesses and hosted at the museum, with this year’s proceeds going to the Sundre Nutrition for Learning Society. A little more than $500 was raised, said Sarah Henn, the chamber’s executive director.
“Unfortunately, we did not have the same number of wreaths submitted as last year, but we are still grateful for the generous donations,” said Henn, expressing appreciation to everybody who participated to help raise funds for the Sundre Nutrition for Learning Society whose volunteers deliver a food program at the local schools.
The cookie sale and photos with Santa brought in a respective $280 and $370 for a combined total of $650, said Carrie Couch, the museum’s executive director, who expressed gratitude for all of the volunteers, from the bakers to a local photographer and everyone else in between.
Cookies that did not end up selling were donated to residents at the Mountain View Seniors’ Housing lodge, the Sundre Nutrition for Learning Society as well as the volunteers who pitched in to make it all possible, said Couch.
