MELVILLE HERALD RY CHRISTM MER AS! • Local kids enjoying last year’s Love Community Event. This year’s show is on today (Saturday December 8). LOVE will be in the air when the Southcity Church holds Melville’s biggest outdoor event, the Love Community Christmas Event, today (Saturday, December 8, 2012). Organisers expect around 6000 to rock up for an evening of fun and activities culminating in carol singing at 7pm. The pre-show entertainment starts at 5pm with free kids’ activities, including rides, face- painting and balloons. Food and non-alcoholic drink will be available, so take a picnic rug, your voice and some Christmas cheer and share in the love. The alcohol-free event is sponsored by Lotterywest, Melville city council and local businesses. and remember to shop locally! HRISTMAS shopping in Fremantle is Cr Josh Wilson, who heads up council’s a hands-down winner over crowded, economic development committee, loves Freo’s diversity and the opportunity to shop and graze. soulless suburban shopping centres, “Freo is the alpha and omega of shopping— Csays Fremantle Chamber of Commerce CEO especially at Christmas—because our stores are Tim Milsom. diverse and distinctive, and. .Fremantle is a “You get a better experience. .and if you can’t lovely place to walk around.” fi nd that special something. .you can at least have Browsing is interspersed with coff ee and cake a beer overlooking the water,” he says. at cafes, he says. A last-minute Christmas shopper himself, he “Until it’s time for a spot of post-retail reckons Kailis (for pearls) or the eclectic Blue refl ection over a cold craft beer—or champagne if Buddha will be his fi rst ports of call. you’ve really excelled.” Fremantle councillor Andrew Sullivan kicked He’ll be heading to New Editions, Wear2 and off the Love Freo–Shop Freo campaign last year, so the funky South of the Border, “where you can it’s no surprise he’ll be shopping locally again. walk in on your gift quest utterly clueless and “Freo is defi nitely the place to fi nd interesting, walk out with some nifty stuff and three or four unique, arty and sometimes quite quirky presents.” tricky people crossed off your list”. The south ward councillor and Greens candidate Local Greens MLC Lynn MacLaren reckons in next year’s state election will trawl through with a wide variety of shops in walking distance, funky shops in Atwell Arcade for pressies for the locals are “spoilt for choice”. hard-to-buy-for, while Eat Drink Cook and the She’ll be heading to the Oxfam Shop and Home Provedore are sure to have the just-right- checking out the goodies at the Kings Square something for family and friends. markets. “If Santa thinks I’ve been good enough this year “My partner Sarah is hoping I will fi nd some he could get me a new bike from Captain Walker’s jewellery at Mabu, or a scarf from Cocoon,” she • Tim Milsom at The Corner Store—one of many funky local fantastic new shop in Paddy Troy Mall,” he said. says. shops where you can buy interesting gifts. 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