Like parang, sor­rel and black cake, Han­nah Janoura's Christ­mas Bazaar is now con­sid­ered a sta­ple of the yule­tide sea­son. For the past 22 years Janoura has been host­ing the fund-rais­er at the ball­room of the Hilton Trinidad and Con­fer­ence Cen­tre, which has now been ex­tend­ed to the Sa­van­nah Ter­race in or­der to ac­com­mo­date the over 80 ven­dors of­fer­ing their prod­ucts for sale, pa­trons, and the crowd of chil­dren who at­tend the func­tion just to see the guests of hon­or San­ta and Mrs Claus. "Every crease of the ball­room is tak­en. The crowd for San­ta has got­ten big­ger, and we had to get the ad­di­tion­al space be­cause we want the line of chil­dren go­ing to San­ta to get their present to flow freely," Janoura ex­plained.

The event takes place on Sun­day from 10 am to 5.30 pm, and will dis­play an ar­ray of prod­ucts and ser­vices. Christ­mas dec­o­ra­tions, food, jew­el­ry, clothes, toys etc. There will al­so be face paint­ing and a range of fun ac­tiv­i­ties for the chil­dren. While Janoura ad­mits that plan­ning the event is a lot of work, she says her re­ward comes in the re­ac­tion of the chil­dren in at­ten­dance when St Nick makes his grand en­trance, and the con­tri­bu­tion she is able to make to the chil­dren at the Princess Eliz­a­beth Home and the La­dy Ho­choy Home. "I en­joy do­ing this, es­pe­cial­ly when San­ta ar­rives and the chil­dren go in­to a fren­zy. I just love the con­fu­sion," she chuck­led. "The pro­ceeds are used to pur­chase wheel­chairs for the chil­dren at the Princess Eliz­a­beth Home and the La­dy Ho­choy Home," Janoura ex­plained.

• For fur­ther in­for­ma­tion call Han­nah Janoura at 625-2524/7.