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Holiday festivals, parades, Christmas concerts, Hanukkah celebrations, Bethlehem walks and community events to celebrate the season are coming to North County.
CARLSBAD
Holiday concert: Features Christmas songs performed by the Seaside Singers from 1:30 to 2:30 p.m. Dec. 13-14 at the Carlsbad Senior Center, 799 Pine Ave. The 35-member vocal group will perform ongs such as “Hark the Herald Angels,” “White Christmas Medley,” “Amen! Go Tell It On The Mountain!” and “O Holy Night.” The choral group is directed by Jeff Sell, with accompanist Violeta Petrova and Mark Phelps on bass. Free admission. For questions about joining the choral group, call (760) 602-4650.
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Riley Sipes was a junior at Wichita’s North High School last spring when the COVID-19 shutdown closed schools and canceled prom and other activities.
She had already bought her dress a smokey blue spaghetti-strap number that shimmers in the light. The phrase, “All dressed up and nowhere to go” had never seemed so fitting.
“It’s definitely been weird,” Sipes said. “I’m still disappointed that I missed out on so many of the traditions that North High has in place.”
But prom is back this year for Sipes and many other Kansas high-schoolers. Though the COVID-19 pandemic is still a concern, school districts are finding ways to host the teen rite of passage while still adhering to public health recommendations.
The Kansas City metro area continues to reopen as more and more of the population gets the COVID-19 vaccine. What you need to know: The Kansas Department of Health and Environment said Monday the state has 304,719 confirmed cases of COVID-19, and there have been 4,938 deaths since the outbreak started. Overall the state said 34.2% of the population has been vaccinated with at least one dose. Kansas is now only updating COVID-19 data on Mondays,.