The second annual Hometown Christmas Celebration in downtown Junction City will be Friday, December 7th.

Activities will range from live musical performances and an Astra after school theater program performance at the C. L. Hoover Opera House to a visit by Santa Claus at the Bartell House. There will a live nativity scene, Christmas caroling, a young artists display, scenic horse drawn carriage rides, plus treats ranging from cookies to hot chocolate.

Santa Claus will visit the Bartell house from 6-9 p.m., while at the Opera House the 1st Presbyterian handbell choir will perform at 5:30, the JCHS Singers at 6, the Geary County Children’s CHoir at 6:30 and there will be an Astra program at 7:30. That latter event is an after school theater program involving Junction City Middle School students.

There will be multiple Grinch themed activities at the Dorothy Bramlage Library all day from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m., popcorn and the movie How the Grinch Stole Christmas at 4 p.m., the First United Methodist Church bell choir will perform at 6:45, 7:15 and 7:45 p.m.

Horse carriage rides will be provided from 5-9 p.m. with pickup on the west side of the Opera House.

There will be a live nativity scene at the First United Methodist Church from 5-8:30 p.m. and a Winter Wonderland at the Junction City Little Theater Annex from 5-9 p.m., and a Young Artist Art Display from 5-9 p.m. at the library and at the Bartell House.