Greater Fall River Re-Creation hosted a Christmas Celebration on December 2, 2012, at the Veteran's Memorial Auditorium at 72 Bank Street that featured free photos with Santa and Red Sox mascot, Wally the Green Monster. The event also included cookie decorating, holiday tattoos, crafts and live entertainment by a variety of characters, including a ten-foot tall drummer. Agencies, including HealthFirst Family Health Care, Stanley Street Treatment and Resources, and Katie Brown Educational Program were on hand with information. Also included in the fun were free train and horse-drawn wagon rides in the adjacent parking lot. The event followed the 2nd Annual Jingle Run and the Children's Holiday Parade and tree lighting the day before in downtown Fall River. Click here for a video of the event and here for photos of last year's First Day Family Festival at Kennedy Park. Click here for photos and video of the Jingle Run held the day before and here for the Holiday Parade.  For more information contact Greater Fall River Re-Creation Executive Director Grace Gerling at 508-679-0922..
 

(Top row, left) Seven-year-old Dakota Garcia runs to her mother as she waits in line to get into the Veterans' Memorial Auditorium to see Santa Claus. (Top row, center) Greater Fall River Re-Creation Program Director Jamison Souza prepares to take a picture of the staff just before the Celebration begins. (Top row, right) A ten-foot drummer greets people as they file into the gymnasium to line up for pictures with Santa. (Row two, left and right) Boston Red Sox mascot, Wally, poses for photos while Madison Andrade, 7, and Sarah Coelho, 9, get their photo taken with Santa. (Row three, left) Darshual Viveiros demonstrates a craft project for Sedrick Playton and Shalynn Woicik. (Row three, rigtht) Nine-year-old Jadyn Deanunciacao has a holiday tattoo applied to her arm. (Bottom row, left) Jake Formisano and Daimien Thompson staff the raffle table. (Bottom row, center) Jade Nieuwenhuizen of SSTAR's Project Assist plays a game. (Bottom row, right) People enjoy a ride in a horse-drawn wagon from Side Hill Farm in Hopkinton, RI.