Santa Claus admires three colorfully lit trees during First Friday, Dec. 1. The Haines Women’s Acapella Group provided cheer with Christmas carols. Free fresh cotton candy was provided. A large crowd attended the lighting, the first in recent memory, that took place in the lot at Third Avenue and Main Street. Kyle Clayton photos

Stuart DeWitt and daughter Lora Lai, 2, eat cotton candy
and watch the inaurgural lighting of the tree on the corne
r of Third and Main Street. The Haines Women’s Acapella
Group sang Christmas carols. Kyle Clayton photo.