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From the Citizen
Through Sunday, the happiest place in the Lakes Region is Christmas Village at the Laconia Community Center.
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Christmas Village opens in Lake City
Article Date: Friday, December 5, 2008
Laconia City Manager Eileen Cabanel receives the key to Christmas Village from Village Mayor Judy Morgan on opening night, Thursday. Looking on are Elf Ernie 'Tinsel' Bolduc, Morgan, Cabanel, Elf Armand 'Twinkie' Bolduc, Laconia Police Sergeant Sharon Cavanaugh and City Councilor and Village Elf Bob Hamel.
(Alan MacRae/for The Citizen)
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Through Sunday, the happiest place in the Lakes Region is Christmas Village at the Laconia Community Center.
The 33rd annual Christmas Village opened Thursday with hundreds of visitors coming to see the Jolly Old Elf, Mrs. Claus and an extensive cast of characters including Rudolph the Red-nosed Reindeer, Frosty the Snowman and The Grinch.
Admission is free. Everyone enters the community center basement where Laconia police officers and other volunteers will do face- and fingernail-painting, play games for prizes and help visitors make their own take-home Christmas ornament.
Elves will later lead groups upstairs and through the brightly and colorfully-lit village. There are free cookies and soft drinks while Polaroid photos with Santa are just $3.
Laconia's holiday spectacular was instituted by Dick Tapply. The city's one-time parks and recreation director, he borrowed the idea from his father, "Wink," who began Santa's Village in Bristol which celebrates its 54th anniversary next week.
Christmas Village will be open from 6 to 8 p.m. this evening and from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m. on Saturday and Sunday. Senior citizens and persons with handicaps who may require more time to go through the gymnasium may visit Christmas Village from 10 to noon on Saturday and Sunday.
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