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All About Starlight Shopping By Jan Tees, BIA Events Coordinator jantees@hotmail.com

For the past 15 years the Campbell River Downtown Business Improvement Area (BIA) has held an event called Starlight Shopping which marks the beginning of the holiday season. This year the event is scheduled for Friday, November 28th when Downtown will come alive! Shoppers Row, Tyee Plaza, 11th Avenue and Pier Street businesses will decorate their windows and stores. Most stores are open until 11:00 pm offering special promotions, hot mulled cider, hot chocolate, cookies or appetizers to name a few – a thank you for choosing to shop Downtown. Entertainment in Spirit Square will feature Heartland, Shoo Shoo the Clown and Captain Thunderpants, Town Crier. Keep nice and toasty next to the roaring fire pit. Pacifica Ukes, the Salvation Army Brass Band, Job’s Daughters, the Girl Guides, Magical Faces, Party Mamas and Detailed Face Painting will liven up Tyee Plaza with music, face painting, taffy pulling, hot chocolate and cookie decorating. Children will enjoy pictures with Santa, free glow sticks, reindeer antlers, colouring books and candy canes. The tantalizing aromas of beef shawerma, falafel, hamburgers and fries, mini-donuts, Kettle Korn and candy floss will fill the air.

Message from the Chair of the Campbell River Downtown BIA Soon our streets will be filled with the festive sounds of citizens, young and old, enjoying the magic of the Big Truck Parade and Starlight Shopping. There is something very special about the people who help make this a great event and there is something very special about the combining of the great trucks who move our goods and services around, with the joy and spirit of our Christmas and winter season. This event is for all of the people in and around the city to enjoy with friends and family. Thanks to the hard work and dedication of people like Jan Wade, our city gets to enjoy this wonderful event. This years event promises to bring in more than 50 big trucks all lighting the night sky with their decorations. All of the Truck owners and those who help decorate these mechanical giants deserve a huge thank you and we hope that it is as much fun for them as it is for us. It is through this kind of community spirit that this city will thrive now and in the future. It is through this kind of community spirit that your children and your grandchildren will decide to stay and make this their home as you did. Please come out to support this grand effort and support the volunteers and local merchants who help make this the gift it is to you. Best of the Season, John Wheat Chairperson of the BIA

Take a stroll over to the Art Gallery and learn how to create home-made Christmas cards. Wander along Shoppers Row and enjoy the Christmas lighting of red and green set off by white snowflakes plus the beautiful Christmas windows. A quick hop across the street from Spirit Square and you can enjoy a free children’s concert by thee Kerplunks at the Tidemark Theatre. Kicking off the evening is the much anticipated, ever popular Big Truck Parade sponsored by 97.3 the Eagle! There is nothing like watching these rolling works of art - the parade is magical. This year, we have 50 participants taking the time and making the effort to become involved. We have trucks of all description antique fire trucks, dump trucks, semi trailers, crane trucks, tow trucks, a school bus, cement mixers and trucks towing boats. One entry this year is decorated with 15,000 lights!! Starting at 5:00 from the bottom of Rockland Road and the Island Highway the trucks will travel along Highway 19A and finish at Tyee Plaza at approximately 6:00pm. Intersections at Rockland Road, 1st, 2nd , 3rd , 5th , 6th, St. Ann’s, 10th, 11th and 13th will be temporarily closed so PLEASE SELECT AN ALTERNATE ROUTE.

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It’s the most wonderful time of the year for Campbell River’s downtown business community. If you’re thinking Starlight Shopping, you’d be correct. Campbell River’s unoﬃcial kick oﬀ to the holiday season, Starlight

Shopping, has been a tradition for local families for nearly 15 years. This year’s extravaganza takes place Friday, November 28. It’s a night where downtown shop owners will oﬀer deals and savings to entice people to shop local. It doesn’t hurt that

Santa and Mrs. Claus stop by too. For Jan Wade, the Secretary Event Coordinator of the Downtown Business Improvement Association, it’s the busiest night of the year. “It’s the biggest business day of the year,”

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deal of eﬀort into stringing the lights and decorating their trucks. “Some of the guys will take a week to 10 days,” Wade said. “They really put in a lot of work and it’s not inexpensive either.” A crowd favourite is always the cement truck from Cumberland Ready Mix which last year boasted 12,000 Christmas lights and a rotating drum.

Wade said this year she hopes to secure over 50 trucks for the parade which leaves the Island Highway and Rockland Road at 5 p.m. and finishes up in Tyee Plaza at 6 p.m. A select few trucks will remain on display in the shopping centre’s parking lot. Entertainment in and around Spirit Square will kick off at 5 p.m. with the first 300 kids receiving glow

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