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The UW-Whitewater Community Optimist Club is sparking some holiday cheer by serving a hot breakfast accompanied by Santa Claus and others from the North Pole.

The Optimist Club will be hosting their annual Breakfast with Santa event on Sat. December 8, 2018, from 8:00a.m.-10: 45 am at Esker Hall—which is located Northwest of Starin Park at the corner of Prairie Street and Lauderdale.

With an admission of $5 for adults and $1 for children, come for a breakfast of French toast, sausage, donut holes, and coffee, milk, and orange juice. Enjoy a morning filled with music, activities, and a special visit from Santa, Mrs. Claus, Frosty the Snowman, and many elves. Opportunities for printed and online photos will be available.

The holidays also bring about a time of giving, so we invite participants to bring new and unused hats, scarves, mittens, socks, underwear and gift cards to hang on Santa’s Mitten Tree.  All items will be donated to children of the Whitewater Unified School District.

Keep warm with a cup of hot cocoa during the Parade of Lights from 5 to 8 pm on December 7 in Downtown Whitewater.  Proceeds support the art programming at Studio 84 for people with disabilities.

Also, join Studio 84 for their 2nd Saturdays event on December 8 from 10 am to 4 pm.  The special project for the month is holiday ornaments.

Help support the Whitewater Rotary Clubs Community Fund by purchasing a Holiday Fruit Basket. At $17 each, Holiday fruit baskets are a great gift idea for family, friends, teachers, clients, customers, and employees. Baskets will be filled with the highest quality oranges, apples, grapefruit, and pears available. Orders are due by December 12 with delivery on December 19. Pick up an order form at Premier Bank, First Citizens State Bank, and Davis Duehr Dean.

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Downtown Whitewater will again host the Parade of Lights on December 7, 2018.

The evening will begin at 4 pm with a holiday market featuring outdoor vendors at the 4 corners of 1st Street and Main Street along with other downtown retailers who are open for holiday shopping and dining. We invite all members of the community to support local small businesses by joining us downtown for holiday shopping or dinner with friends and family on this festive evening.

Children’s activities will feature an opportunity to visit Santa, hosted and sponsored by First Citizens State bank at their downtown location at 207 W Main Street from 4 pm to 6 pm. After visiting Santa don’t forget to join Stories by the Fire also located within the bank. Do you want to build a snowman? Pick up a quick and child-friendly activity at Dales at 155 W Main Street sponsored by the Whitewater Kiwanis Breakfast Club! The fun doesn’t end there, you’ll find more take and make crafts and an in-person craft inside Quiet Hut Sports also sponsored by the Whitewater Kiwanis Breakfast Club.

All your downtown exploring will leave you wanting to warm up because this is Wisconsin, so make sure to stop by our s’mores firepit right outside the Discover Whitewater offices at 150 W Main Street. We’ll have the Selfie Sleigh available again this year as well as Christmas music to sing along while you await the parade’s arrival! And don’t miss some of the downtown decorations generously sponsored by Premier Bank. The parade route will run from Whitton Street along Main Street downtown to the intersection of Main Street and Whitewater Street where it rounds the corner and ends at Cravath Lakefront Park.

“There’s just something magical about being downtown on a cold winter evening watching a holiday parade filled with lights, surrounded by friends, family, and community members. It reminds me of just how special Whitewater is,” Katie Nass a member of the executive board and volunteer for Downtown Whitewater, Inc says. Pile on the layers if the forecast looks chilly and join us in celebrating the holiday season with this year’s parade theme “A Very Merry Christmas”! We can’t wait to spend an evening with you! Don’t miss the Chili dinner and cookie decorating at Living Word Fellowship that is free and open to all at 7 pm.

Downtown Whitewater, Inc. is a volunteer-driven organization spearheading a community effort to re-energize and enhance our historic downtown. We are community advocates and volunteers who share a passion for Whitewater. We bring people from all walks of life together to celebrate Whitewater’s history and traditions, to care for our downtown neighborhood, and to inspire confidence and investments that are flowing toward an economically vibrant, engaging and exciting place in the heart of Whitewater – a place we love, a place we’re proud to call home, and a place where future generations can grow and take pride in calling their own.