The Downtown Hazleton Alliance for Progress is teaming up with several organizations to offer holiday events on December 4^th that the public can participate in safely. This includes a Holiday Night Market starting at 5PM which will feature a limited number of vendors hosted by the Hazleton Art League inside the new Hayden Family Center for the Arts (31 W. Broad St.) to ensure social distancing, as well as an outdoor market surrounding the art center for those who want to do their shopping outdoors.

On Wyoming Street across from Frankie’s Pizzeria and Manuel’s Empanadas, Hazleton UNICO will be hosting Santa and Mrs. Claus for family photos with hot cocoa. “We are Hazleton” (City Council members) will be selling blue peace poinsettia flowers. There will also be several outdoor food vendors. All that Dancin’ and Voice by Angela students will perform, as will MPB Community Players, who will sing some old fashioned Christmas carols.

The Greater Hazleton Chamber of Commerce will be hosting their annual Holiday Mixer outdoors (for Chamber members and their guests) from 4-6 PM in the new CAN DO Community Park, which is nearing completion on the corner of Broad and Laurel Streets (35-47 W. Broad St.). Children from Immanuel Christian School (ICS) choir will be singing outdoors in the park, as will musicians playing traditional Latin music.

The Downtown Hazleton Alliance for Progress will be selling “I’m Just Here for the Food” t-shirts at the new Welcome Center (15 W. Broad St.) to promote the five new food trails launched last week. Food trail passports and passport holders will also be available for free. Anyone who brings in a receipt showing a First Friday purchase of $25 or more from any downtown eatery, retailer, or Holiday Night Market vendor can return it to the Welcome Center at the end of the evening for a free “Downtown Hazleton on the Rise” coffee mug. A map of downtown retailers and holiday promotions will also be available from the Welcome Center.

To register as an outdoor market vendor, visit www.downtownhazleton.org or contact Krista Schneider at or 570-455-1509 x 109. To register as an indoor market vendor, contact the Hazleton Art League at 570-455-3333 or email Ali McKittrick at . The cost to participate as a vendor in the outdoor Holiday Night Market is $30 plus a doorprize donation. Vendors must bring their own setup and heater, if desired. Electric is available if requested. Doorprize drawings from each vendor will take place at 8:15 PM at the CAN DO Community Park (must be present to win). To purchase tickets for the Chamber’s Holiday Mixer ($5), contact Leann Fallabel at or call 570-455-1509 x 104.