[URL]http://www.sltrib.com/travel/ci_3142623[/URL][TITLE]Celebrating near home[/TITLE][DESCRIPTION]  Article Last Updated: 10/22/2005 02:35:21 PM - Spanish Fork Festival of Lights  Spanish Oaks Golf Course  801-798-5000 - Christmas lights turned on at Temple Square in Salt Lake City (Except Sundays) - Christmas Lights  Thanksgiving Point  888-672-6040 - Holly Days in Vernal  includes parade and lighting of Dinosaur Gardens  435-789-6932 - Festival of Trees  South Towne Expo Center  Sandy - Heber Creeper Polar Express  435-654-5601 - Festival of Lights Parade  Roosevelt  435-722-4598 - Helper Christmas ...  [/DESCRIPTION]:::[URL]http://www.hammondstar.com/articles/2005/10/24/top_stories/news07.txt[/URL][TITLE]Ponchatoula Christmas lighting program needs new leaders (Hammond Daily Star)[/TITLE][DESCRIPTION]PONCHATOULA ? The city of Ponchatoula is in need of an organization or an individual to coordinate the annual Ponchatoula Christmas lighting program this year, according to Mayor Bob Zabbia.[/DESCRIPTION]:::[URL]http://asia.news.yahoo.com/051024/3/29fyb.html[/URL][TITLE]Nasdaq CEO sees SEC exchange approval by Christmas (Reuters via Yahoo! Asia News)[/TITLE][DESCRIPTION] WASHINGTON, Oct 24 (Reuters) - Nasdaq Chief Executive Robert Greifeld on Monday said the electronic stock market expects its application to become an exchange to be approved by Christmas and take effect in the first quarter of 2006.[/DESCRIPTION]:::[URL]http://www.pcw.co.uk/vnunet/news/2144508/footballing-robots-kick[/URL][TITLE]Robo-soccer kicks off for Christmas (Personal Computer World)[/TITLE][DESCRIPTION]The world's first multi-player robot football game is set to launch exclusively in the UK in time for the lucrative Christmas market. Dubbed Mr Soccer , the hi-tech football game features radio-controlled robots.[/DESCRIPTION]:::[URL]http://www.salisburypost.com/area/365148089863029.php[/URL][TITLE]Operation Christmas Child needs everyone's involvement to be a success[/TITLE][DESCRIPTION]  During the week of Nov. 14  the fellowship hall of Memorial United Methodist Church in Kannapolis will be filled with thousands of shoe boxes.  [/DESCRIPTION]:::[URL]http://www.chattanoogan.com/articles/article_74699.asp[/URL][TITLE]Chattanooga Boys Choir Has 43rd Annual Singing Christmas Tree (The Chattanoogan)[/TITLE][DESCRIPTION]This year?s Singing Christmas Tree program, ?A Child?s Christmas,? will recall Christmas from the perspective of children, including traditional carols, contemporary holiday favorites, and selections from the motion picture Home Alone.[/DESCRIPTION]:::[URL]http://www.bentoneveningnews.com/articles/2005/10/24/news/local_news/02.txt[/URL][TITLE]Christmas Food, Toy meeting set on Monday night (Benton Evening News)[/TITLE][DESCRIPTION]Planning for the Benton-West City Ministerial Alliance Christmas Food and Toy Project continues. A meeting is scheduled for 7 p.m. Monday, Oct. 24, at the St. Joseph Catholic Church in Benton. You are welcome to attend.[/DESCRIPTION]:::[URL]http://www.starcourier.com/articles/2005/10/24/regional_news/rgnl5.txt[/URL][TITLE]Group to sell Christmas greens (Kewanee Star Courier)[/TITLE][DESCRIPTION]The Stark County Fine Arts Network is currently holding their annual Christmas greens and poinsettia fundraising sale. The holiday items are being sold this year by the Toulon fifth graders and the students from both the Stark County Junior and Senior High Schools.[/DESCRIPTION]:::[URL]http://www.middlesborodailynews.com/articles/2005/10/24/news/120parade.txt[/URL][TITLE]Nov. 10 is deadline to register for Christmas parade (The Middlesboro Daily)[/TITLE][DESCRIPTION]MIDDLESBORO - Plans for the Middlesboro Christmas Parade are coming together. With less than six weeks left before the big event, the Middlesboro Downtown Association is stepping up the pressure for area participants to register as soon as possible.[/DESCRIPTION]:::[URL]http://www.prweb.com/releases/2005/10/prweb301360.htm[/URL][TITLE]A Happy Christmas for Food Allergy Sufferers[/TITLE][DESCRIPTION]  wheatanddairyfree.com is a new service offering a wide range of products for food allergy sufferers with the convenience of home delivery.   This month they launch their Christmas Aisle which will transform the Christmas experience for many allergy sufferers.  They offer wheat and gluten free mince pies  Christmas cakes and Christmas puddings amongst other lovely Christmas treats. [PRWEB Oct 24  2005]  [/DESCRIPTION]:::[URL]http://icnewcastle.icnetwork.co.uk/eveningchronicle/eveningchronicle/tm_objectid=16287305%26method=full%26siteid=50081%26headline=jill%2dchosen%2dfor%2dbig%2dswitch%2don-name_page.html[/URL][TITLE]Jill chosen for big switch-on[/TITLE][DESCRIPTION]  Tv favourite Jill Halfpenny will be lighting up Tyneside this Christmas. As well as bringing magic to Newcastle's Theatre Royal in her role as Fairy Godmother in the Christmas panto  the Strictly Come Dancing star will be switching on the city's Christmas lights.  [/DESCRIPTION]:::[URL]http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,173323,00.html[/URL][TITLE]Prejudice Is Prejudice[/TITLE][DESCRIPTION]  When my new book "The War on Christmas" came out last week  I opened up an e-mail address ? ? to get information from you about the annual suppression of Christmas that has been occurring at a greater and greater frequency over the last few years. This is the stuff that you see in the news and might think odd: Santa fired  Christmas trees banned  Christmas carols forbidden and some even worse  like the colors ...  [/DESCRIPTION]:::[URL]http://www.tiscali.co.uk/news/newswire.php/news/reuters/2005/10/24/business/retailersdreamofanearlychristmas.html&template=/money/feeds/story_template.html[/URL][TITLE]Retailers dream of an early Christmas[/TITLE][DESCRIPTION]  LONDON (Reuters) - Christmas comes but once a year  but  retailers are doing their best to make it come earlier and last  longer than ever before. Following a tough year that has seen a host of profit  warnings from some of the top names on the British high street   this holiday season   a time at which many retailers make the  bulk of annual profits   will be more crucial than ever  before.  [/DESCRIPTION]:::[URL]http://www.herald-democrat.com/articles/2005/10/24/life/life02.txt[/URL][TITLE]SCP to hold auditions for ?A Christmas Carol' (Herald Democrat)[/TITLE][DESCRIPTION]The Sherman Community Players will hold auditions for Charles Dickens' holiday classic, ?A Christmas Carol,? Monday and Tuesday at 7 p.m.[/DESCRIPTION]:::[URL]http://www.kirotv.com/news/5163713/detail.html?rss=sea&psp=news[/URL][TITLE]White House Christmas Tree From Grays Harbor County (KIRO 7 Seattle-Tacoma)[/TITLE][DESCRIPTION]SATSOP, Wash. -- The White House Christmas trees will come from Grays Harbor County. Chief White House usher Gary Walters selected three noble firs last week from the Northwest Plantations farm near Satsop. They'll go to the Oval Office, Executive Mansion and Camp David.[/DESCRIPTION]:::[URL]http://www.newsday.com/entertainment/tv/ny-ettel4482519oct25,0,348472.story?coll=ny-television-headlines[/URL][TITLE]No trick - Christmas treats[/TITLE][DESCRIPTION]  It's beginning to look a lot like...You know. The decorations in the stores.  [/DESCRIPTION]:::[URL]http://news.independent.co.uk/business/news/article321701.ece[/URL][TITLE]Protest forces Asda Christmas discount U-turn[/TITLE][DESCRIPTION]  The chief executive of one of Britain's biggest supermarket chains has been forced to reinstate a Christmas discount for his 140 000 employees after a highly unusual rebellion. Some employees at the US-owned Asda group were so angry about the decision to withdraw the discount they contacted bitter rivals Tesco to ask if they would offer the same price cuts.  [/DESCRIPTION]:::[URL]http://www.infosyncworld.com/news/n/6256.html[/URL][TITLE]SDA II slated for Christmas by T-Mobile - infoSync World[/TITLE][DESCRIPTION]  SDA II slated for Christmas by T-Mobile By J?rgen Sundgot  Monday 24 October 2005 Finally confirming the upcoming launch of its MDA II smartphone  T-Mobile slates the launch of the Windows Mobile device for this Christmas alongside the MDA Vario communicator.   mobile network operator has pushed back the launch of its T-Mobile SDA II smartphone several times.  [/DESCRIPTION]:::[URL]http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,3455514a6026,00.html[/URL][TITLE]British retailers dream of an early Christmas (Stuff)[/TITLE][DESCRIPTION]LONDON: Christmas comes but once a year, but retailers are doing their best to make it come earlier and last longer than ever before.[/DESCRIPTION]:::