LOCAL resident and DJ, Ken Bruce, has accepted an invitation to turn on Thame’s Christmas lights and launch a whole weekend of exciting festive activities.
Ken, who lives in Towersey, is a long-standing and popular radio presenter, currently hosting his own show on BBC’s Radio two.
Initial plans for the town’s Big Christmas event, being organised jointly by Thame Town Council, 21st Century Thame’s Economic Group and local church groups, are well under way and will include a Christmas shopping event on the Sunday (December 3) with street entertainment and the French market from Thame’s twin town, Montesson, who will be selling french galettes, wine and other local produce throughout the weekend.
The lights will be turned on this year on Friday evening, December 1, but the weekend’s celebrations will begin at lunch time with a special carol service for office workers. The emphasis this year is on involving the whole community so the very popular tea party for the elderly of the town will be repeated between 2-4pm in the town hall chamber.
The Crendon Morris Men and Haddenham Hoofers will be performing in the town centre over the weekend and it is hoped that the donkey-led nativity pageant that was so popular last year, will be repeated.
The final programme for what promises to be an event to attract both locals and visitors to the town, will be published once the Christmas Working Group has finalised its plans.
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