PORT ANGELES — Sales, treats, music and Santa will be available as part of “Shop ‘Til You Drop” tonight.
Almost 50 Port Angeles stores and shops, most of them downtown, will stay open until 8 p.m.
There will be complimentary gifts, sales, special discounts on merchandise, drawings for door prizes and holiday cocoa, hot cider and cookies at many of the stores for people who come in between 5 p.m. and 8 p.m.
Shoppers can also enter a drawing at participating stores for a prize of $500 in Downtown Dollars, which can be used like cash at many downtown businesses.
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.
Participating stores will have special brown bags with big red bows for purchases.
Live music, too
Music by Double Exposure — husband and wife DJs — will be heard throughout the downtown.
There will also be music by Lyn Peterson and the Phatt Kattz at the waterfront’s Necessities and Temptations gift shop — along with free “beer and beans,” according to owner Edna Petersen — and singer Charlie Ferris will be performing at Wine on the Waterfront on the second floor of The Landing.
The Landing also has the Santa in Sand display on its first floor.
Bring a can of food for the Port Angeles Food Bank to gain entrance to the holiday sand sculptures.
Betsy Reed Schultz, owner of The Tudor Inn Bed and Breakfast in Port Angeles, organized tonight’s fifth annual “Shop-‘Til-You-Drop Night.”
Co-sponsors are the Port Angeles Downtown Association and Port Angeles Regional Chamber of Commerce.
In addition to stores downtown and at The Landing mall, four 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, which are:
Something to Crow About, 1017 E. Front St.; Franni’s Gift Expressions, 1215 E. Front St.; The Gifting Place, 333 E. Eighth St. (Eighth 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, at Gottschalks and in front of the Christmas tree next to the Port Angeles Regional Chamber of Commerce Visitor Center, 121 E Railroad Ave.
Also tonight, the Chamber of Commerce will hold its December holiday after-hours business mixer from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m.
The mixer is at the Visitor Center.
It is open to chamber members and their guests.
Beverages and appetizers will be provided.