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More Christmas open house events set for this Saturday
Hoskins in the Flat’s Morgan Ward, left, and owner Mollie Farrar assist customer Gayle Brown, with her pup Rosie, as Cindy Glass, right, waits her turn during last Saturday’s Historic Downtown Clinton Christmas Open House event. Hoskins will have its own special open house event this Saturday, Nov. 8. (photo:G. Chambers Williams III )
Anderson County Farmers Co-op at 110 S. Charles G. Seivers Blvd. in Clinton will hold its annual Christmas Open House from 9 a.m. to noon.
Hoskins in the Flat on Market Street will hold its own Christmas Open House, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.
The Farmers Co-op will have Christmas decorations and holiday merchandise on display, and there will be refreshments, door prizes and live music.
Children will be able to visit Santa inside the store.
Last weekend, shoppers came from all over the region for the Christmas Open House sponsored by the Historic Downtown Clinton Merchants Association.
That group also has another Christmas event planned for Saturday, Dec. 13.
On that day, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., the merchants will hold their Holiday Market, which includes the brick-and-mortar stores, along with street vendors, food trucks and more.
Also that Saturday, from 1-4 p.m., the merchants will sponsor the annual Cookie Crawl, featuring free cookies and other refreshments in the stores, along with visits from Mr. and Mrs. Santa Claus and The Grinch.