Holidays in the Heart of the City

Schedule of Events

5:45-6:00pm: Lighting Ceremony at the Water Treatment Plant featuring Santa Claus and the Saginaw Youth Choir begins at 5:45 pm with lights going on at 6:00 pm

5:30-8:30pm: Food vendors offering hot dogs, pizza, popcorn, mexican cuisine, coffee, hot chocolate and more

5:30-8:30pm: Visit the Japanese Tea House (with Origami, Tea Ceremony demonstrations and hot matcha tea for sale)

5:30-8:30pm: Open house at The Montague Inn with a Live Nativity performed on the front lawn by Nouvel Catholic Central High School

5:30-8:30pm: Open house at the Mexican-American Council with music, vendors and Mexican Sweet Bread

5:30-8:30pm: Free admission to the Saginaw Children's Zoo ($2.00 carousel rides - ticket sales stop at 8:00 pm) ZOOletide wreath raffle

5:30-8:30pm: Andersen Knrichment Center - WSGW Cookie House Competition, Hoyt Library Story Time and READ Association book giveaway

5:30-8:30pm: Downtown Saginaw Farmers' Market "Holiday Market" on the Andersen Enrichment Center lawn

5:30-8:30pm: Borchard Park in Old Town Saginaw - Santa, Castle Museum Cookie Hut, Christmas Movies

5:30-8:30pm: Special Events in Old Town Saginaw - Business Specials, Holiday Lights, Window Displays

5:30-8:30pm: Holy Cross Lutheran Church - Court St. - Music, children's crafts, free cookies, hot cocoa and bake sale

5:30-8:00pm: Free horse-drawn wagon rides on Ezra Rust sponsored by Frank N. Andersen Foundation, start at Andersen Center

5:30-8:30pm: Complimentary transportation over the Court St. Bridge provided by First Student

6:00-7:30pm: Michigan Avenue Baptist Church concerts performed by the Saginaw Strings and the Saginaw Area Concert Band

7:00-8:15pm: Holy Family Catholic Church - Presents Sacred Music in the Grove (donations of new hats, gloves and scarves for infants to teenagers will be collected at both concerts)

5:30-8:30pm: Saginaw Fire Department Experience - aerial fire truck, fire safety house, s'mores on Court St from Michigan to Hamilton

8:30 FIREWORKS from Ojibway Island