{"id":43559,"date":"2025-11-24T22:40:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-24T22:40:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/43559\/"},"modified":"2025-11-24T22:40:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-24T22:40:07","slug":"downtown-olyphant-will-host-kris-kringle-christmas-market-extravaganza","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/43559\/","title":{"rendered":"Downtown Olyphant will host Kris Kringle Christmas Market Extravaganza"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>The Queen City (borough of Olyphant) will hold its second Annual Kris Kringle Christmas Market Extravaganza 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 6.<\/p>\n<p>Children\u2019s events will take place indoors at Rescue and Restore Church, 120 Willow St., with a Petting Zoo at the corner of Nestor Chylak Drive and Susquehanna Avenue.<\/p>\n<p>The Christmas Train will arrive at 1 p.m. at the Queen City Train Station and a Christmas Parade begins at 2 p.m. at River Street and Lackawanna Avenue.<\/p>\n<p>Santa Claus will be the center attraction in the parking lot on Willow Street, with free photos, vendors and raffle baskets that include a variety of prizes including dinner at local restaurants, car washes, car cleaning supplies, spa visits, household items and more.<\/p>\n<p>The schedule for the day includes opening ceremonies at 10 a.m., free carriage rides 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.; free photos with Santa from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m.; Christmas Parade at 2 p.m.; children\u2019s activities all day, along with raffle baskets, a 50\/50 raffle and bicycle raffle. If you would like to donate a raffle basket please call Lauren Telep at 646-241-9443.<\/p>\n<p>Volunteers of all ages are needed for set up and clean up on Dec. 5, 6, and 7. Contact Kim Atkinson, Chairwoman, 570-892-0378 if you can help.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t&#13;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; The Queen City (borough of Olyphant) will hold its second Annual Kris Kringle Christmas Market Extravaganza 10&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":43560,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[178,180,179],"class_list":["post-43559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-scranton","tag-scranton","tag-scranton-headlines","tag-scranton-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43559","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43559"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43559\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43560"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}