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Christmas is for kids … Yarraman mums Sue Kirkland, Karina Webb and Rochelle Moss were happy to show Alec, 7 months, William, 3, and Thomas, 7 weeks, what the festive season was all about<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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One of Yarraman’s two new Christmas Trees in the Recreation Area<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

December 12, 2018<\/strong><\/p>\n

Many Christmas Carnival organisers are nervously eyeing the sky this week worried that Tropical Cyclone Owen could put a dampener on their Friday and Saturday celebrations.<\/p>\n

But when the Yarraman Progress Association (YPA) braved the weather on Saturday, they were rewarded with rain not long after Santa distributed the presents.<\/p>\n

Ironically, Yarraman hasn’t had a Christmas Carnival for the past few years because of rain.<\/p>\n

After the town’s annual Yuletide event was washed out four years in a row, the YPA decided to axe it and move Yarraman’s festive season celebrations to New Year’s Day instead.<\/p>\n

That event has gone very well over the past four years, YPA president Joe Stimpson said.<\/p>\n

“But this year we decided to hold a Christmas Party as well because a few people pointed out we didn’t have anything on for kids.”<\/p>\n

The relaxed three-hour get-together was held at the Yarraman Recreation Grounds on Saturday afternoon.<\/strong><\/p>\n

A focal point was the first outing of one of the town’s new Christmas Trees.<\/p>\n

This year the YPA put together $3000 to acquire a pair of the trees, which can be easily assembled and disassembled.<\/p>\n

The tree towered over the crowd, heralding the start of Yuletide festivities despite the storm clouds gathering ominously overhead.<\/p>\n

Towards evening, Santa arrived in a gaily decorated sleigh (towed by a truck, not reindeer) and was quickly mobbed by hordes of eager children, all keen to meet the jolly gentleman and see if he’d brought them a present.<\/p>\n

Santa was more than happy to oblige, dispensing gifts to a seemingly neverending stream of eager young admirers.<\/p>\n

Soon afterwards, the sky began spitting rain and within a short time this had turned into a steady downpour.<\/p>\n

But no one seemed to mind.<\/p>\n

Guests who wanted to stay sat under the tents arranged in the reserve or moved to the sheltered canteen.<\/p>\n

Yarraman’s next Yuletide celebration will the annual Community Christmas Carols service at the Yarraman Memorial Hall in Browne Street on Friday, December 21, from 7:00pm to 8:30pm, followed by supper.<\/p>\n

The YPA’s next outing will occur be the town’s family-friendly New Year’s Day celebrations at the Recreation Reserve between 5:00pm and 9:00pm, with live music, a licensed bar, food and children’s entertainment.<\/p>\n

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Kay Ezzy and Jenny Walker helped organise the Yarraman Christmas Party<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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It wouldn’t be a party without music, and Frank Hodgkinson and Tania Paul from Wild Horse FM 99.7 kept the music pumping all afternoon<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Santa’s arrival in a bright red sled energised the children, who quickly mobbed the man in red<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Soon afterwards, Carole Verden helped Santa distribute sackfuls of gifts to queues of fans before the rain started to fall<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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