First Friday “Hometown Holly Days” is Friday in downtown Warsaw.
The event is from 5 to 8 p.m., and downtown merchants will have holiday specials throughout their stores and restaurants.
People can enjoy a sleigh ride or horse-drawn wagon ride through the downtown and to Central Park to see the light display. The cost per person is either a can or box of food or a gift for “Toys For Tots.”
People can visit Santa and the Warsaw Breakfast Optimists’ “Santa House.” Attendees can see real reindeer and other animals by the Santa Clause House on the courthouse square. Hours are Friday night from 5 to 8 p.m., Saturday from 2 to 8 p.m. and Sunday from 2 to 4 p.m.
There will be a live nativity scene, an information center and hot chocolate sponsored by First Christian Church, Warsaw.
There will be a marionette puppet Christmas show titled “Christmas Fantasy” at the county annex building, formerly the First Christian Church building.
There will be free advanced tickets available at the Emporium, Courthouse Coffee, Reinholt’s, Crownover Jewelers and The Chocolate Shop. The show begins at 7 p.m. and lasts around 45 minutes.
There will be a cooking demonstration by the Warsaw Himalayan Salt Store. The event is titled “Cooking With Specialty Salts” from 5 to 8 p.m. in the Key Bank lobby, sponsored by Key Bank.
Lincoln and Leesburg elementary choirs will sing at the Key Bank lobby beginning at 6:30 p.m., led by Rebecca Crim, music teacher.
There will be visits from Oldies 98.3, who will play Christmas music, and the Lake City Bank truck also will be on hand.
There will be a bounce house, weather permitting. The Salvation Army will have their canteen and ring the bell kettles.
There will be kettle corn and fire pit smores sponsored by the Presbyterian Church youth group.
The Bowling Alley will show up with prizes, stocking stuffers and other bowling promotions for the holidays.
Kosciusko County Historical Society will have a bake sale and a Civil War Camp will be set up outside the Old Jail Museum.
There will not be a First Friday in January. The First Friday in February is “Fire & Ice” Feb. 3.
