Getting into the Christmas spirit

Times-Herald photo by Lisa Goudy

Brenda Mackenzie (left), member of the Moose Jaw Amateur Radio Club, helps Jenna Mohr, 9, (centre) and Emiley Mohr, 5, (right) talk to Santa at the North Pole using short wave radio at the Western Development Museum on Saturday.

Published on November 24, 2012

Lisa Goudy

Stacey Mohr usually does all of the Christmas shopping, but on Saturday her young daughters had a chance to do some of their own.

The Western Development Museum (WDM) hosted its annual kids secret shopping and short wave to Santa event on Saturday. The event gave kids under the age of 10 a chance to secretly shop for gifts without their parents and with the help of a shopper helper volunteer.

“It’s neat because you just put the names down and they can pick whatever they want. I usually buy the gifts for everybody else so this is their one thing that they get to do for Christmas,” said Mohr. “I’m a big Christmas fan. So I like everything about Christmas … It just kind of kicks off the Christmas season.”

WDM manager Kathy Fitton said the purpose of the annual event is to give kids the chance to pick out gifts without their parents, which is normally difficult for children to do.

“They can go through and do all of their Christmas shopping. Everything gets wrapped up by the wrappers so that once they walk in and walk out, nobody else has to see what they bought so they can keep it quiet,” said Fitton. “We want to make sure that children have an opportunity to do some shopping on their own.”

Another part of the event was the chance kids had to tell their requests to Santa up at the North Pole using short wave radio with the help of the Moose Jaw Amateur Radio Club. The Girl Guides of Canada also had a local fundraiser breakfast with Mrs. Claus and a bake sale at the event.

For more information, see an upcoming edition of the Times-Herald.

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