Have You Seen Santa?
Well, we do have a Santa Crawl coming up on Dec. 9 to benefit the Ronald McDonald House (see pg. 63), but evidently some wanted to get an early start.They’ve been seen wandering around the pages of this issue. Help us find them. Using the subject line “I Found Santa,” email the four pages you find the Santa graphic above (don’t count this one) to Contact@TSNPub.com by Dec. 12. Three of you will be chosen from correct submissions to enjoy lunch on us.
Congratulations to last month’s winners Roberta Sullivan, Michael Dinsmore and Matthew Brennan. They found the books on pages 28, 29, 48, 49.
Holiday Festival of the Arts
Nearly 150 regional artists and artisans will ring in the season December 16-17 at the inaugural Brandywine Holiday Festival of the Arts at the Chase Center on the Wilmington Riverfront. The event will bring indoors many of the painters, jewelry makers, potters, photographers and fabric artists who have made the Brandywine Festival of the Arts a top draw for area art lovers.
Heading an impressive lineup of exhibitors will be noted Wilmington painter and folk artist Eunice LaFate, a native of Jamaica who settled in the city 40 years ago and now operates her own gallery on Market Street. LaFate will be the festival’s featured artist.
In addition to artists, the festival will feature food vendors, live music and entertainment, face painting and other children’s activities. Children and Families First, a Delaware nonprofit focused on helping children, youth and families, will be a co-sponsor of the event and share in the proceeds from festival admissions.
Admission is $5 with children under 12 who are accompanied by an adult admitted free. Parking is also free. Visit BrandywineHoliday.com.
Ted’s Celebrates 21st Anniversary with Cocktails for a Cause
Ted’s Montana Grill, a national restaurant with one Delaware location (Newark), is hosting a dine-in fundraiser to benefit Children of Restaurant Employees (CORE) – a non-profit organization that provides financial relief for food and beverage employees who are unable to work due to health or natural disaster.
Through Dec. 31, 2023, Ted’s will offer two new hand-crafted cocktails featuring Tito’s vodka — an espresso martini and a huckleberry mule. All proceeds from the two cocktails will be donated to CORE (Children of Restaurant Employees). Ted’s is located at 3194 Fashion Center Blvd. in the Christiana Fashion Center. Visit TedsMontanaGrill.com.
The Perfect Stocking Stuffer
Is there a lover of words among your friends and family? If so, The War on Words is the perfect Christmas gift, and not just because the tidy paperback fits nicely into that stocking above the fireplace.
In contains a collection of Bob Yearick’s Out & About columns of the same name, which have been a popular staple of the magazine since 2007. In the book’s 88 pages, you’ll learn about, among other things, dangling modifiers, redundancies, double comparatives and double superlatives, and, of course, misplaced apostrophes.
For your copy, go to the Hockessin BookShelf, 7179 Lancaster Pike, Hockessin, or contact Bob directly at RYearick@comcast.net.
High School Basketball National Showcase Returns
Slam Dunk to the Beach/Hoophall East, one of three tournaments in the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame Hoophall Regional Series, returns to Cape Henlopen High Dec. 26-29.
The tournament annually features some of the top high school basketball players in the country, with more than 70 former Slam Dunk participants moving onto the NBA, including recent players Donte DIVincenzo (Salesianum graduate), Luke Garza, Jonathan Kuminga, Mohamed Bomba, Cam Reddish, Immanuel Quickley and Colin Gillespie.
“We look forward to returning to Lewes right after the holiday season and bringing local and national talent all together at Hoophall East,” said John L. Doleva, President & CEO of the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame. “We are thankful to have the support of the local community each year, and we hope they enjoy some exciting basketball right in their backyard.”
In addition to local participants, the tournament will feature teams from Arizona, Missouri, Maryland, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Virginia and Washington, D.C. For schedule and tickets, visit SlamDunktotheBeach.com.
