Nov. 30, 2023, Edition

The 48th Annual Handmade Holiday Crafts Fair This Weekend

Santa Rosa Recreation and Parks welcomes more than 90 local artisan vendors and thousands of community members to the Handmade Holiday Crafts Fair this Saturday and Sunday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Finley Community Center. This annual shopping extravaganza is one of Santa Rosa’s most longstanding and beloved holiday traditions, dating back to the mid-1970s. It offers unique, local, handcrafted holiday gifts, and a free ride on Rosie the Trolley to the Holiday Open House at Luther Burbank Home & Gardens. Entry is $5 for both days and children 12 and younger are free. FIND OUT MORE

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What to Do

• Join the Santa Rosa Police Department for Cookies with a Cop this Saturday, Dec. 2, from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the Santa Rosa Plaza. LEARN MORE
  
  
• Participate in the Santa Rosa Safe Routes to School Program Task Force meeting tomorrow, Dec. 1, from 10:30 a.m. to noon, in person at the Santa Rosa City School District or via Zoom. LEARN MORE
  
  
• Join us at Oaklake Green Park on Saturday, Dec. 9, from 9 a.m. to noon for a Park-A-Month volunteer workday. VOLUNTEER

Did You Know?

Fun Winter Camps Keep Kids Active Over School Break

The holidays are here, and Santa Rosa Recreation & Parks has developed camps to help keep kids active and engaged with fun and active activities. Camp participants can practice sports and team building with All Sports Winter Basketball Camp, learn fencing or archery at Fencing Adventure Camp and Archery & Sword Adventure Camp, or create holiday gifts at Hand Sewing Camp. VIEW CAMPS