hi richard roberts here in the village of any show it's fun to be back with with us back in the studio again you know the last few shows that we did we did some live remotes out of the country store at the at the open restaurant both restaurants  society had their christmas party right there in the village and so we're warming up for what's going to happen on on friday night in addition to lighting the tree and they'll be just a carnival atmosphere going on they'll be some hot hundred twenty six and we want to try to get all the students together former alumni staff teachers anyone that would like to come out to celebrate that ninety years of the finish school and that's happening this friday night no we didn't send out formal invitations to that and it may not be like a class reunion like you would get an invitation from but it's a school reunion so if you if you'd gone there or taught there since you got done watching this program here today call your friends or classmates and come on out friday night we'll have a hot sausage for them to purchase hotdogs funnel cakes homemade funnel cakes walking talk o's again just tour the campus there of the school in the village of in asia right there wright's church and a man from the north pole will be there santa himself we've added that for for this friday night coming up and  school a clinic a hospital and of course agencies that that help feed the poor in the poverty areas there of appalachia in beverly kentucky these local crafters authentic folks  pack everything up in a tractor trailer and tour the country weather coming back to be an issue that such a grand response last year during our light up night that they are coming back again for this weekend so it's friday saturday and thirty on friday night if you come at six o'clock you can you know maybe get your spot near the fires will have a couple fireplaces out there that warm yourself by been but we're also looking for good weather this is the fourth year grand ole opry show live christmas at the grand old opry and so will have some of the famous opera stars there impersonators from these folks i'm still looking for a steel guitar player if you have a steel guitar player in your family  at at the church seventeen for three hundred eight fifty seven eighteen we're looking for a steal player to do some great patsy cline christmas tunes but that be from seven thirty day thirty well also on all the classmates that come to the school reunion been issued at that time back in the school was built back in the early twenties it was built without an auditorium and without a gym the gym was downstairs and if if you saw the gym today it really is about the size of your living room  perhaps in your home so if they did any large assemblies they took it right next door to right methodist church and so that's what we're going to do this this friday night musical program seven thirty to eight thirty and it's just  great great music some sing a longs all christmas tunes and also honor all the the classmates that are coming back from the venetian school reunion that just takes care of friday saturday morning from nine to eleven is come every week in the building trying platforms there they're painting scenery they're painting small figurines and the whole third floor of the school is a train set up so gosh maybe six different displays upstairs and so that opens friday night again and will continue on saturday and sunday so you get a chance to see the christmas version of all the train displays and all the hard work that the folks in the their organization put together every week of the year and so will help celebrate that with them there's a nativity show going on next door at the church in the titties from all around the world i think we have forty five of them this year and so again it's just something you come to the village eat breakfast there little pancakes and sausage you can go upstairs see the trains shop at the authentic crafts see the nativity s and then stop at the open or the country store for lunch  on your way out and so we've got everything right there in the village now that saturday night go to sunday sunday the fourth in addition to what we've already talked about is a soup and stroll over the right house the right house and the museum of western expansion if you haven't been it really is a just a gem of the community that maybe not many know about if you're not into history it will celebrate its two hundred first anniversary this next year so the right two hundred years old it was one of the original settlements in peter's township before there was a peters township when peter's township was still part of the state of virginia the right jacob and enoch wright were settling in a log cabin the facsimile behind that home here that dates back to the seven hundred sixty s and so we're talking about this great great colonial history well in on sunday for eight dollars and you get all the soup you want to eat the hundreds but recipes from there up there at the cabin and it's just a great time if you hadn't had a chance to be a part of we are certain take it's an advance for that vent but you can also just come to the door and that's  the right house for soup and stroll and a colonial christmas this sunday or sunday december the fourth and at the same time redbird missions are still going on there come visit the trains so lots of lots of things going on and that's just this weekend or the whole month of december once we light the tree it'll stay on for the entire time it is the tallest living christmas tree in washington county so if you if you want to come out and see that it's not artificial it's not made of you know anything else but real pine come out in visit that in our village other events on the eleventh this would be the sunday the eleventh that morning is the children's best little christmas pageant ever right there at rides again a historic church that goes back to the eighteen hundreds that get that congregation and you know when you come to the village that's what makes it so unique i mean the school ninety years old the home i live in right beside about ninety three years old the church right next to that about ninety six years old and so that whole part of the central part of that settlement built back  in the one nine hundred twenty s but every all of those buildings go back even earlier to the original church the original house and then go right up the street to the country store you know goes back again you know back into the eighteenth hundreds tubas a thing for a number of years they do to christmas concerts and one of them is on on the eighteenth and you want to come in see them it's wonderful on the evening of the eighteenth in chapel hill  which is right on the other side of nottingham township over and right outside of mango park that edwards united methodist church is another time for great the tip see for you to experience there if you've ever wanted to be in a christmas program if you've ever wanted to be a part of a christmas program and you never had a chance to we want to give you a chance to do that now there may be a rehearsal involved but we don't want to leave anybody out of contagion some great great stories over the years that i pastored in different communities that  folks have come at at the last minute and in you know you say well gee you know we can do this for you the church can provide you with something that you need but i tell you what i need to play mary tonight in a christmas pageant and and this is you know true story and this woman was homeless and she went back to where she was staying came back with you know th in a number of weeks but then she says well actually i see you every day and i'm thinking what are you talking about she was looking up there at the television right there before you going to the basketball courts and there they were on a community t v the last village of an shows and that kind of said well you know any that kind of update our things the things that we're doing for the winter time that are coming up and lots and lots of opportunity if you also you know as a suburb of  city of pittsburgh if you haven't had a chance to go downtown to market square to the winter garden a p p d place my bluegrass group will be playing down there on december the ninth it's a friday night the children's choir from edwards will be there and  will the dempsey town ramblers and we're looking forward i think it's the fifteenth year we've played down there but it's if you've never had a chance to go santas from all over the world you know and they tell you a little bit about each one a great big train display gingerbread house competition there from all over the pittsburgh area and then the open market there at market square that they just started about five years ago that's you know that any kind of fun to do in a village nation that's kind of like a long range goal for us here at christmastime is to create an outdoor village that you can come and buy a craft not just from redbird in kentucky but also from local crafters to be thinking  outside and go shopping in an open air territory and that's where the fun begins so lots of things going on in in december once we light the tree on december the second it will stay window display two years ago when macy's closed downtown i was coming through there and heard it on the radio about the closing sale and i had forgotten all about and i love going downtown shopping as many of you maybe grew up in the pittsburgh area did and then you because we used to get down there every year for christmas and and and then in the middle of the summer too but i was walking by and saw these these figures in the large display that was just pieces all around and but you could tell that they were paint d all in the same color and as i walked around and was looking at these other displays and i looked at i remembered seeing this is a window display when it was kaufman's and so i put all the pieces together had to gather from all over that third floor and said you know i want to buy them all and i said ok sarah now we've got a big piece though it's nine feet are you going to get it out of there said well i'm an optimist get it let me get em go home and get my pick up and so i went back down and picked them all up anyway we're going to reassemble it out on in the village of any show and so we'll come out and see that it's vintage kaufman's it's not animated but it is you may remember this this famous window christmas festivities lots of other christmas things going on in the area i know if you go down in august they're having a go their light up night i think is the same as also this weekend actually it's already happened i think  there's a big thing going on down there i think they have a thousand in the tiffany's and one of the churches down there a little the ditty sets from small to large they'll be displayed in first methodist church down there this weekend so if you talking about doing the right house of soup and strolled there's entirely too much loathing in the ten by twelve post office several of our citizens taco petitioning to have the nuisance abated so if you've ever been to the post office   the address is seven eighty eight venetia road and you can call us at seven two four three four eight fifty seven eighteen and leave a message there and we'd be glad to get back to you  we would kind of like to know if you are coming for the princess breakfast on december the third kind of give us a heads up how much pancakes and sausage to buy that would be great but on friday the day before just come on we'll  have plenty of sausage and potato pancakes the folks in the open are bringing their famous potato pancake recipe and they'll be there with potato cakes we've got funnel cakes grandma bring in a funnel cake maker and it's going to be just a great great family time and maybe start a new tradition again this is the fourth year so if you're if you're looking to start a new traditions be caroling around the big tree the last community i was in we went christmas caroling out into the community as a we were walking it was in town area this would be like walking in one of the suburbs of peter's we've got the one home that was about eight of us and the high school student came to the door and she said what do you guys doing and says for christmas carol and she said really since i don't think people actually did that says i've never seen that happen before and i says yeah yeah i've been doing it all my life and she says wow i just thought they did that on television so and i will be doing christmas caroling on december the second and and maybe that's down in the village of an issue for light up night but also out into the communities too for the whole month of december again if you've ever wanted to go christmas caroling and no one's ever asked you or you play the steel guitar you play any instrument and you want to be a part of some kind of holiday celebration and no one's ever asked you call us and  seen any other programs and previous to that we were hoping that we could get some of the other teams and if you're out there if you're on peters township baseball a little league association and you want to bring some lights down put some lights and some of the trees  around the field there in the little hot that little snack bar please do the soccer association that has the grasshopper fields right there in the village you want to put some lights up in the trees that outline that beautiful soccer field there don't ask for permission just come down and put them up we'll run you an extension cord and and so we can have the lights even brighter than before it all started four years ago we just went with a dream that that that i'd had a about the having this great big i had this forty foot christmas tree right behind me let's do something with it and and a couple of folks from the church say ok we'll come help you and we collected lights and  so it's been going on for four years we've got twice as many license on it as it was for the first year it's going to be a great night no rain and it's going to be you know kind of in the thirty's which is pretty warm for western opportunities for christmas caroling christmas program you want to do a solo this friday night on december the second you know you've got a song you want to saying come on in and see me and we'll plug in or plug into the program so much talent that we've seen in peter standards and just since just since we've been here one of the cameraman that i don't think is here today but the came out and did some of the remote shoots and then have it right here going on in peter's township is just extraordinary and those are the same folks that are putting on all that rehearsal time also take time to do cameras and do the fine work here at in in peter's township in especially in the initiator area we meet the fourth monday of every month and again soup and stroll is one of our big fundraisers that kind of keep that two hundred year old house the right house open the museum of western expansion if you never been there there's just some some great great artifacts up there on the second floor of mining exhibit that you know this part of western pennsylvania in particular and  that i mean it's built to scale and you see that on that display and you think man oh man you know what a great history and what great traditions that were born in the in the mon valley here and that and that we are a part of to just enjoy the weekend and every weekend in the village of in the ship for the month of december i hope to be back at the first part of january will do an update for the winter events that are going on and we'll have  and do activities they'll be there with south park pet rescue will also be there on friday night with pets to be adopted and also with a list of things that you can bring to support those folks they do a great great job of pet rescue not only in this area but around the country they fly and rescue pets and bring them back to be adopted so south wales pet rescue is also part of a friday night the summer the second if you have any more questions and you need any more information seven two four three four eight fifty seven eighteen i'm richard roberts thanks for going on the great adventure to the village