1000 Islands River Santa Festival
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This is the 4th annual 1000 Islands River Santa Festival!!
It's ALL about the KIDS! ALL Kids, any kids, any believers! Santa, River Santa for River kids. 12 and under all get a gift. A real gift, a good gift, delivered by the real deal. The Santa they know and love and believe in... River Santa. There is no social structure in Santa's world. Santa wants to see all his believers. Please bring ALL the kids out to witness the arrival of Santa by boat along our beautiful St Lawrence river.
River Santa arrives in the Village of Alexandria Bay, NY by boat with a USCG escort on Saturday morning December 15th bringing gifts for all children 12 and under along the St Lawrence River Valley from Ogdensburg to Cape Vincent and inland.
There will be hay wagon rides and face painting as well as hot chocolate and cookies. Animated creatures will roam the streets making the children smile. There will be warming stations and tents.
Fun for the whole family. Stores will be open for eating and shopping in the village.
The event is growing each year and the smiles that we are able to bring are both priceless and necessary!
Christmas is more than just toys and River Santa knows that
River Santa also donates monies that are collected in excess of what is spent on gifts to the 5 area school districts for their 'backpack programs'. These programs assure that when needed children are sent home with food in a discrete backpack so they are not going hungry while away from school. This part of the River Santa program is the part that shows that Christmas is so much more than shiny paper and toys.
Your donations last year provided plenty of gifts, yes. Your donations last year also allowed River Santa to donate $1700 to each of 5 school districts for the purchase of food to go directly into these backpacks and to go home with those children who most needed to be fed. You did a tremendous amount of good with your donations. Thank you. Let's do it again!.
Please donate. If we all do a little, it will assure that this new tradition of caring and giving will continue.
"We make a living by what we get. We make a life by what we give" - River Santa
Organizer
alexandria bay chamber of commerce
Organizer
Alexandria Bay, NY
