RESIDENTS EMBRACE HOLIDAY SEASON.Byline: Daily News LANCASTER -- Antelope Valley This article is about the Los Angeles County region. For the census-designated place in Wyoming, see Antelope Valley-Crestview, Wyoming. The Antelope Valley residents begin celebrating the holidays this weekend in a big way: a downtown Lancaster street festival; parades in Lancaster and Rosamond; plus a Christmas creche display during which visitors can join in a sing-along version of ``The Messiah.'' Lancaster Boulevard businesses will welcome shoppers and holiday revelers from 5:30 to 8 tonight for the annual Hospitality Walk on the blocks between 10th Street West and Sierra Highway Sierra Highway is a road in Southern California, United States. It runs from Tunnel Station near the north limit of the City of Los Angeles, where it intersects with San Fernando Road and Foothill Boulevard, as well as Interstate 5, and continues north to Mojave, mostly paralleling , offering hot chocolate and cookies, hay rides, and Santa Claus Santa Claus: see Nicholas, Saint. Santa Claus jolly, gift-giving figure who visits children on Christmas Eve. [Christian Tradition: NCE, 1937] See : Christmas Santa Claus at the Western Hotel Museum. At 10 a.m. Saturday, Lancaster's annual Christmas/Holiday Parade will roll along the boulevard with 22 marching bands, plus more than 120 other entries including floats, car clubs and youth groups. The parade begins at 10th Street West and runs east to Sierra Highway. In Rosamond, the 11th annual Christmas parade will feature floats and vehicles decorated with lights at 6 p.m. Saturday. The event begins with a performance by the Tropico Middle School choir and band at 5:30 p.m. on Diamond Street south of Rosamond Boulevard, with the parade running along Diamond Street. At the annual Christmas Creche Art and Music Festival hosted by The Church of Jesus Christ Church of Jesus Christ may refer to:
The four-day creche festival, which opens tonight, contains more than 1,100 nativity scenes. They include one made from coal in West Virginia West Virginia, E central state of the United States. It is bordered by Pennsylvania and Maryland (N), Virginia (E and S), and Kentucky and, across the Ohio R., Ohio (W). Facts and Figures Area, 24,181 sq mi (62,629 sq km). Pop. , one made from volcanic ash See under Ashes. See also: Ash from Mount St. Helens, an Apache nativity scene with Yaqui, Hopi and Navajo wise men, a fiber-optic musical creche, and a cross-stitched scene that took 14 years to make with beads and gold thread on five fabric panels. The festival's high point is a sing-along at 5 p.m. Sunday when the audience joins in singing the chorus parts to Handel's ``The Messiah,'' accompanied by an interdenominational in·ter·de·nom·i·na·tion·al adj. Of or involving different religious denominations. interdenominational Adjective among or involving more than one denomination of the Christian Church Adj. orchestra and organists. The festival runs from 4 to 9 p.m. today, noon to 8 p.m. Saturday, noonto 7 p.m. Sunday, and noonto 6p.m. Monday at the the LDS LDs See: Liquidated damages East Lancaster Stake Center, on Avenue J at 27th Street East. Admission is free. A chorale chorale (kōrăl`, –räl`), any of the traditional hymns of the German Protestant Church. The form was developed after the Reformation to replace the plainsong of the earlier service and as a means of congregational participation in festival at 7 tonight will feature choirs from Antelope Valley, Highland, Lancaster, Littlerock, Palmdale, Paraclete, Knight and Vasquez high schools. CAPTION(S): 3 photos Photo: (1) Rachel Dunn, 17, left, and her mother, Lee Ann Dunn, of Lancaster work on creches Thursday at the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints in Lancaster. The Christmas Creche Art and Music Festival, featuring more than 1,100 nativity scenes, opens tonight. (2 -- 3) Cindy Fassett of Lancaster holds tiny figurines from Africa, left, from her collection of creches at the Christmas Creche Art and Music Festival. Ivy L. Clay's nativity scene, right, made of volcanic ash from Mount St. Helens, is also on display. Jeff Goldwater/Staff Photographer |
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