The open house will include cookies and cider along with Santa’s work shop and Santa’s house at the old Hibbard’s store at 102 N. Main. Bring your camera as there will be an opportunity to take Christmas pictures with Santa from 7:00 to 8:00 p.m.

There will be special sales that day including a number of "red light specials." Locations and times will be posted on the information window at the old Hibbard’s building. Check out all local merchants and take advantage of their holiday sales to finish your Christmas shopping in record time.

Santa Claus will arrive in a flash of fireworks at 6:30 p.m. A drawing will take place at 7:00 p.m. that evening at a "mingle and jingle" with local merchants as lucky recipients receive items donated from area businesses.

For those wanting to give to the Fireworks Fund, Citizens Bank of Kansas, The Peoples Bank, Hibbard’s and the Chamber office, located at My Happy Place at 103 N. Main, are accepting donations for the December fireworks.

Cindy Brungardt, Executive Director of the Medicine Lodge Area Chamber of Commerce is looking for anyone in the area who would like to entertain those attending the open house with song or dance. She can be contacted for further information at 886-3417.