Pictured: Christmas Shopping starts early
The Hope-Hempstead County Chamber of Commerce hit a home run this Saturday with the first ever Hope Holiday Market, being held at the Fairpark Coliseum. The event marked the beginnings of the local Christmas shopping time period. The shoppers present enjoyed getting to walk around to the dozens of booths and setups to browse through a wide variety of unique homemade goods. The market also included special performances from Elite Cheer & Tumbling, Danctastics, and the HPS Cheerleaders. From 1 pm – 4 pm, kids could come and get pictures with Santa as well. Outside of the Coliseum, there were several food trucks for attendees to choose from, while kids were greeted with a nice set of bouncy houses to play in, and a bucking bull to challenge themselves on their rodeo experience.
While at the market, we went and spoke to Executive Director of the Hope-Hempstead County Chamber of Commerce Christy Burns about the event:
Reporter: Where did the idea for this come from?
Christy: “Well, we love getting to do something for the community, so we thought it would be a great idea to have something where people can come to get their holiday shopping started.”
Reporter: How long did y’all work on getting this together?
Christy: ”
Reporter: How do you think the market turned out?
Christy: “It turned out great! It’s just our first time having this of course, and we had fifty vendors and hundreds of people that came. So we are very happy with this opening turnout, and we will definitely be looking forward to running it back next year.”
Pictured: Attendees find tasty eats outside of the coliseum
Pictured: Bouncy house attracts lots
Pictured: Crowd begins to gather to watch the Danctastics dance show
Pictured: Danctastics dance team shows their skills!
