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Celebrate the Season with the 2007 Holiday Port Festival and Gingerbread House Contest
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
November 9, 2007
Contact: Ann Grimm
Port of Bellingham
(360) 676-2500 Celebrate the season with the 17th Annual Holiday Port Festival
December 7 - 9 at the Bellingham Cruise Terminal [Bellingham, Wash.] The Bellingham Cruise Terminal will be in its entire holiday splendor, beautifully decorated, and the Holiday Port Festival will fill it with music, dancing and gingerbread houses December 7 - 9, 2007.
The Port of Bellingham invites everyone to enjoy this fun community event, which is free of charge and open to all. Music groups and dance performers from around Whatcom County take center stage each day of the festival filling the building with the sights and sounds of the season. During the three-day festival, more than 1,100 local performers will help ring in the season.
You won't want to miss the 12th Annual Gingerbread Houses Decorating Contest and Silent Auction which will be featured this year at Holiday Port. The contest is free and anyone of all baking abilities is encouraged submit an entry and use their imagination! Creatively designed and beautifully decorated ginger-structures will be on display-all made by local families, students, professional bakers and local businesses. Many of the entries are donated in a silent auction throughout the Holiday Port Festival. Auction proceeds will go to the Mt. Baker Chapter of the American Red Cross. Contest entry forms for the sugary masterpieces will be accepted through December 3. Entry forms and rules are now available in all Port offices and at the Port's website www.portofbellingham.com under the calendar section.
• Santa Claus will arrive each day and then settle in for the traditional photo taking.
• Free horse and wagon rides will be available on Saturday and Sunday.
• The Whatcom Children's Museum will offer free art activities on Saturday and Sunday.
• The Bellingham Yacht Club's Lighted Boat Parade will sail past the Bellingham Cruise Terminal between 5:30 p.m. and 7 p.m. Saturday.
• Free gingerbread cookies and apple cider will be served throughout the Festival. The Holiday Port Festival is presented by the Port of Bellingham and sponsored by BP Cherry Point Refinery, Bellingham Travel and Cruise and KAFE Radio.
Event Hours:
Friday: Noon - 8 p.m. Saturday: 11 a.m. - 6 p.m. Sunday 11 a.m. - 5 p.m.
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