Downtown Port Angeles merchants keep the late-night oil burning tonight

PORT ANGELES – Sales, treats and Santa will be available tonight.

More than 45 Port Angeles stores and shops, most of them downtown, will stay open until 8 p.m.

There will be sales, special discounts on merchandise, drawings for door prizes and holiday candy at many of the stores for people who come in between 5 p.m. and 8 p.m.

And Santa will be downtown tonight, too – seated with one of his elves at The Toggery, 105 E. First St.

Parents should bring their children – and a camera.

Hot cider will be served from First Street Haven’s Christmas Room next to The Toggery.

Music by Double Exposure – husband and wife DJs – will be heard throughout the downtown.

Betsy Reed Schultz, owner of The Tudor Inn Bed and Breakfast in Port Angeles, organized this event, the fourth annual “Shop-‘Till-You-Drop Night.”

Staying open until 8 p.m. will be Baby Grand, Retroville, Odyssey Bookshop, E-Z Pawn, Athletes Choice, Relax Station, Michael Anderson Gallery, Captain T’s Custom Stuff, Country Aire Health Foods, Twisted, Cottage Queen, The Toggery;

Zenzizi, Branded, McLeans Shoes, The Blue Dolphin Unlimited, Brown’s Outfitters, Art Supplies Unlimited, Sound Bike and Kayak, Family Shoe Store;

Raven’s World, Northwest Fudge, Chique Antiques, Chique Antique Mall, The Mouse Trap,  Fiddleheads, Beckett’s Bike Shop, Weisfield’s Jewelers

Necessities and Temptations, Udjat Beads, Unique Treasure’s Mall, Quilted Strait, Port Book and News, Maurices, Pacific Rim and Hobby;

Bay Variety, Matay Lunch and Latte, P.A. Antique Mall, Water’s West, Olympic Stationers, What’s in Store, Gottschalks and  Waterfront Art Gallery.

In addition, five stores outside of downtown will also be open until 8 p.m – and there will be a free shuttle bus to and from those stores:

Something to Crow About, 1017 E. Front St.; Franni’s Gift Expressions, 1215 E. Front St.; The Ragged Edge, 522 E. 8th St.; The Gifting Place, 333 E. 8th St. (8th and Peabody); Past Tyme, Present Tyme, 205 E. 8th St.

Shuttle van pickups will be in front of the downtown Christmas tree at First and Laurel streets.