America's Largest Christmas Bazaar
Held at the Portland Expo Center, the Christmas Bazaar is an annual event that has been a Portland holiday shopping tradition for 31 years. The show features 1,000 booths of a variety of interesting and diverse items ranging from beaded jewelry to dog beds. Booths are staffed and owned by the local small business owners. About 450 booths are juried handcrafted items including jams and jellies, jewelry, little girls' tutus, ornaments, apparel, and some really clever ideas turned into really cool things. The rest of the show includes non-handcrafted gift items such as hair accessories, ornaments, antique baskets from China, candies, popcorn, barbeque sauces, Tupperware, handbags, collectibles, selected imported products, kitchen tools, fleece and a whole lot of holiday shopping ideas. Always held over Thanksgiving weekend AND the weekend after.
because largest Christmas bizarre hits Portland this weekend at the Expo Center. And that's where we find Cor Harlan this morning with a look at what's new this year. Cor? Oh, there's going to be so many things new here. I am with in the sleigh here with the three organizers of the show here and Ken and Jenny. I was really unaware that Starbucks made actual drinks with vodka and Kahlua in them. But these girls have found a way to get Starbucks to do the right thing and make those drinks so they didn't want to talk on TV. They didn't even really want to be on TV. But I forced them to in the sleigh So they're a bucket of monkeys, Okay, today is the second weekend actually of the Christmas bizarre here at the Expo Center in North Portland. This is Matt Toby with me with the Portland Police Sunshine Division. How you doing this morning? Doing great. Thanks for five, five, 20 or so as good as can be expected, I guess. Right. That's what I can do. Yeah. So admission today is $8 or a donation to the Sunshine Division. That's pretty, what sort of a donation threshold are we looking for people to get in? Just a couple cans of food. A couple cans, but And so we would love to have any protein is great, any canned item that you have, anything that's non perishable that we can It'd be fantastic. So downtown or you have a location over there in North Portland and one out in Southeast. Give me a th What your primary mission is at the Sunshine Division? So our primary mission is really emergency food relief and connection with the police bureau. It's been almost 97 year tradition with the bureau. Police officers have the opportunity to connect with our community with food. And we can do that 24 hours a day. That's what really makes Sunshine Division unique. And that connection with the bureau is super tight. We've done a lot of work there with We have 900 booths here in two exhibit halls at the Expo Center for the next couple hours. We'll be visiting around here with some of the vendors here at the largest America's largest Christmas Bazaar last weekend, final weekend to get everything that fits under a Christmas tree here at the Expo Center this weekend. Jenny again. Have you found anything for your wife, Amy or your kids while you've been there? That's a tough question. That's a no. The answer would be no. All right. Thanks a lot, Cora.