Our Christmas Festival and Craft Fair, always a popular event on the Lochaber calendar will be on Saturday 29th November.
The Lochaber Times is again partnering Lochaber Rotary in a colouring competition to select the Two Little Elves to chum Santa on his sleigh, pulled by reindeer, from Cameron Square to the Nevis Centre. The parade will head off at 11am led by Lochaber Pipe Band and the Ben Nevis All Stars. Entry details for the colouring competition were lublished in last week’s Lochaber Times and have been circulated to primary schools across Lochaber.
This promises to be a great day out for all the family, with Santa’s Grotto, the Bouncy Castle and the Centre’s Soft Play area for all children. Admission charge will be £3 for adults, which includes a raffle ticket for a Christmas hamper and children go free. Children under 12 entry to Santa’s Grotto and the Bouncy Castle is £5.
The Centre’s main hall will display a wide range of crafts including jewellery, pottery, leatherwork, cards & calendars, artwork, woodwork, wax melts, knitting, crochet and fabric items. There will be a selection of food produce ranging from seafood, preserves, cheese and baking. For the first time local distillers will be showcasing their products. Adults will be able to move freely in and out of the hall throughout the day if they show their ticket.
This year our Whisky Raffle returns with a difference – it will be a Whisky or Gin Raffle! The winner has the choice of prize between either six bottles of malt whisky or six Lochaber gins. The £5 ticket price reflects the value of the prize, around £350.
The malts are: Cragganmore, Dalwhinnie, Glenkinchie, Lagavulin, Clynelish and Talisker. The Lochaber gins are: Bealach, Devil’s Staircase, Fassfern Mulled Christmas, The Fort William, Nc’Nean Organic Botanical and Strontian. Only one prize; either the six malts or the six gins!
The Buskers’ Corner will again bring music to welcome you to the foyer and set the scene. The programme is being put together at present but at least Lochaber Community Wind Band, Music Shed, Kilmallie Singers and Showstoppers will be there with, for the first time, Caol Primary School Choir.
Thanks are due to Ferguson Transport and Shipping, the Lochaber Times, Highland Council, Lochaber Housing Association Property Services, Police Scotland, BEAR Scotland and Robert Wilson.
Lochaber Rotary President, David Mee, said: “This is always a good fun day and there’s no better place to be, so I hope to see you there!”