UPDATED: Officials to Power Holiday Lights on Town Common Sunday

Poor weather conditions have forced the annual Holiday on the Common to move indoors today.

The Natick Community Senior Center on East Central Street will now host the event from 2-5 p.m.

Residents can still bring new, unwrapped toys for Toys for Tots.

The First Congregational Church will still host its Alternative Holiday Fair from 3-5 p.m. There will also be a Living Creche, with a bin for donations to the Natick Service Council.

The Chabad Center of Natick will conduct a Menorah Lighting at 4:30 p.m. at the Common.

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Enjoy hot chocolate, characters, sit with Santa, and trim the tree.

From 2:30 to about 5:30 p.m. on Sunday, the annual Holiday on the Common will take place. Donate an unwrapped toy to Toys for Tots and you can sit with Santa and have a photo emailed to you by photographer Lou Glass from Paradise Photo and Video. 

Residents can enjoy free hot chocolate and cookies. Ornaments can be decorated and placed on the town tree. There will also be a representative from the Natick Service Council collecting canned goods to help fill the food pantry. Town officials will speak at 4:45 p.m., followed by the lighting of downtown.

A few yards away, near the bus shelter, the Chabad Center will conduct its annual Menorah Lighting at 4:30 p.m. to celebrate Hanukkah. Hot chocolate and latkes will be available.

Across the street, First Congregational Church will stage its Alternative Holiday Fair from 2-5 p.m. (approximate). 

Don't forget to bring a new, unwrapped toy for Toys for Tots, and a nonperishable food item for the Natick Service Council Food Pantry.

Sunday's forecast calls for partly cloudy skies with temps in the high 30s; in case it rains, the Holiday Lighting portion will be held at the Community Senior Center.

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Stroll Natick Center and enjoy festively decorated Holiday windows. Merchants who choose to participate in the contest will be judged by a panel and the winner announced in the new year. This is the second annual Holiday Window Contest. The winner will get to showcase the trophy in their establishment for 2014.

Contest runs through Dec. 31.

Deadline for participating merchants to have their windows decorated is Nov. 30. 

Participating merchants:

• Five Crows - 41 Main Street
• H. Brandt Jewelers - 31 Main Street
• RENEW Arts & Industry/One80 Visual - 19 South Main Street
• Strike Up The Band - 5 Washington Street
• Stucchi Jewelers - 3 Main Street
• The Frame Shop & Gallery - 5 Main Street