Carlinville Christmas Market’s “Christmas at the Beach” dinner/auction set for July 26

CARLINVILLE, ILL. -- Shorts. Flip flops. Colorful Hawaiian shirts. Good food. Margaritas and beer. Free souvenirs. Comedian Chris Barnes. A Mike Crabtree auction. Now that’s how to celebrate summer . . . and help raise money for the 19 th annual Carlinville Christmas Market in December.

The Carlinville Christmas Market Foundation (CCMF) will host its second annual summer fundraiser at the Carlinville Elks Lodge on Saturday, July 26. The cocktail hour and the silent auction start at 5:30 p.m., followed by dinner at 6:30. After dinner, popular comedian Chris Barnes takes the stage for his upbeat, high-energy comedy act that has won him non-stop laughs and applause at comedy clubs, colleges, and conventions across the United States.

Pictured: Comedian Chris Barnes

Around 8:30, Mike Crabtree takes the stage to keep the laugh momentum going in his unique style and to open the bidding for the live auction. All items to be auctioned are donated to the Christmas Market by generous merchants, businesses, and individuals in the Carlinville area. Continue...

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Be a Part of the 19th Annual  Christmas Market Arts & Crafts Festival

• 8,000 to 10,000 visitors       
• Intimate town-square setting
• Arts, crafts, and selected foods
• Juried standards; hand-made preferred
• Prime locations in heated tents
• Easy access to booths for set-up
• Lower booth fee for early applicants

The Carlinville Christmas Market has drawn thousands of visitors each of the last 18 years. We invite you to join us for the 19th and enjoy the Small Town Holiday Magic that earned us the Illinois Governor’s Home Town Award in 2007.For details and an application, contact Debbie Zilm at
mainstreetbridal@frontiernet.net.

Carlinville Christmas Market selects 4 area charities

CARLINVILLE, ILL. -- The Carlinville Christmas Market Foundation (CCMF) announced that it has selected four Macoupin County charities to receive a percentage of any profits that result from the December 2008 Christmas Market. They include the Carlinville Food Pantry, the Gillespie Food Pantry, the Girard Food Pantry, and the Macoupin Center for the Developmentally Disables (MCDD).

“We received written requests from 11 organizations and chose these four because they represented the greatest number of people in need from throughout the county,” said CCCMF spokesman Rich Minster. “We would like to help all 11, but if we do have profits to share, we want to present each organization we’ve selected with a respectable amount of money. Continue...