Kent’s annual Winterfest will run from 2 to 7 p.m. on Saturday, Dec. 2 at Town Square Plaza, Second Avenue and Smith Street.<\/p>\n
The free event features a parade through downtown at 4:30 p.m. and the tree lighting at 5:30 p.m. Other activities include musical performances by local students, food trucks, community booths and local crafts people. Santa will be present, too.<\/p>\n
The event is sponsored by the city of Kent, the Kent Lions Club, Kent Station and Kent Downtown Partnership<\/p>\n
Winterfest<\/strong><\/p>\n Town Square Plaza<\/strong><\/p>\n Stage s<\/strong>chedule<\/strong>:<\/p>\n • 2:30-3 p.m.<\/p>\n Kentridge High School Band<\/p>\n • 3:15-3:45 p.m.<\/p>\n School of Rock – Kent Station<\/p>\n • 4-4:30 p.m.<\/p>\n Spotlight Dance Center<\/p>\n • 5:30 p.m.<\/p>\n Tree lighting<\/p>\n • 6-6:45 p.m.<\/p>\n Kent-Meridian High School Music Department<\/p>\n Craft v<\/strong>endors<\/strong>:<\/p>\n • Veronicas Northwest Arts<\/p>\n • Ever Hines<\/p>\n • Full Moon Rising Bodycare<\/p>\n • Nice Rice Shop<\/p>\n • Forest Fairy Bakery<\/p>\n • Giggly Chick<\/p>\n • Oddlee Enuff<\/p>\n Community booths:<\/strong><\/p>\n • Kent Parks Planning & Development<\/p>\n • Kent Police Department<\/p>\n • Kent Fire Department<\/p>\n • YMCA<\/p>\n • Indian American Community Services<\/p>\n • Kent Bicycle Club<\/p>\n • School of Rock<\/p>\n • Impact Public Schools<\/p>\n • Kent Historical Museum<\/p>\n • Mayweather Boxing\/Fitness (parade only)<\/p>\n Winterfest <\/strong>Parade<\/strong><\/p>\n 4:30 p.m.<\/p>\n Route starts at West Saar Street and Second Avenue; heads west on Saar to First Avenue; goes east at Meeker Street; goes north on Second Avenue to Ramsay Way and into Kent Station for finish near Fourth Avenue<\/p>\n Santa a<\/strong>rrival<\/strong><\/p>\n Approximately 3:30 p.m.<\/p>\n • Bring your camera to take a picture with Santa<\/p>\n • Drop off your holiday wish list in Santa’s mailbox<\/p>\n • Bring your own (include your mailing address if you want Santa to write you back), or fill out a postcard in Santa’s tent (postcards are available onsite).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Annual event features music, crafts, vendors, food trucks at Town Square Plaza <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":212,"featured_media":66058,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,7],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-66057","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-home","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66057"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/212"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66057"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66057\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66058"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66057"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=66057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}