Community Corner
Charity League Presents Poway Holiday Home Tour
This week's Poway Gives Back includes enchanted homes, local heroes and artificial snow.
GET IN THE HOLIDAY SPIRIT
The Poway Chapter of the National Charity League will present the Poway Holiday Home Tour on Saturday from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Three Poway homes will be featured benefitting the Poway Unified School District After School Homework Club, Poway Senior center and the Gayle Kennedy Memorial Scholarship Fund. Enjoy refreshments and entertainment on your tour. Tickets are $25. Get all the details on its website.
HOLDING OUT FOR A HERO
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Dedicated to helping local children, the Kiwanis Club of Poway is hosting a unique event called Holidays with Heroes. It will take place at the Poway on Dec. 7 from 5–8 p.m. A select group of Poway youngsters will shop the store for family gifts with the help of an adult hero: firemen, policemen, sports celebrity, military person and other volunteers. When the buying is done the kids will wrap gifts, decorate cookies, sing and dance, visit with Santa and more. Here's the link to Poway Kiwanis' website. Volunteers are needed to organize and participate.
SPONSOR WINTERFEST
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We mentioned it a couple of weeks ago. The city of Poway is putting on an event called Winterfest at on Dec. 16-19. The city still needs sponsors to support the artificial ice rink that will be built for the event. Arts and crafts, a one-day snow hill, entertainment and other family-friendly activities will also be featured. For sponsorship details contact Greg Sundberg at (858) 668-4676.
MUSIC FESTIVAL RESCHEDULED
The Poway Music Festival, hosted by the Patch, postponed due to rain a couple of weeks ago, has been rescheduled for Sunday, Jan. 8. The six-hour music festival is free but volunteers will collect donations for the nearby Jean McLaughlin Women’s Center for Health and Healing. Stay Patched-in for a new lineup of bands to be announced in the coming days.
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