This is the first time they've had this happen for one of their magical Christmas evenings, MacKenzie said this week. Usually they'll have a table set up in the beautifully decorated Victoria Hall foyer on the big evening to sell tickets up to the last moment. This year, however, their 21 tables of eight are all spoken for.
No one seems to know why this year's holiday event is such a smash success, but it is the beautiful 159-year-old heritage building that will benefit.
Long-time Volunteer MacKenzie is proud of the organization that has fundraised for the preservation and enhancement of Victoria Hall since 1975, with house tours, fashion shows, the How Does Your Garden Grow lectures series and the Speakers Forum series that brought figures of timely interest to local audiences.
The results have been almost $400,000 raised for the wonderful heritage building to provide a long list of improvements that includes work on the clock tower, the elegant grand piano and the blinds for the Concert Hall, the foyer floor, and assistance to the Art Gallery of Northumberland on the third floor west when they were doing their renovations.
