Port Royal Christmas, Dec. 6, 2019 (full size gallery)
This event in its 15th year is a combination of a pizza dinner, raffle, and a visit with Santa plus gifts provided after the visit. It is also a cooperative event between 3 churches, Parks and Rec., Town of Port Royal, the merchants, Caroline’s Promise and the Fire Department – and, of course, Santa. St. Peter’s provided the pizza and helped serve it. The children are the real stars.
The crowd was larger (probably 125) with relatively mild weather. The dinner featured pizza ,chicken nuggets and packaged goodies. There were a series of at least 10 door prizes sponsored by the town of Port Royal with gifts from Port Royal merchants. This year the outside Christmas Tree lighting was omitted and replaced by several songs from the children – “Santa Claus is Coming to Town”, “Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer” after the dinner