Each hunter that brings a deer to the Timberdoodle Flats Check Station of the Kinzua Quality Deer Cooperative (KQDC) during the 2019 firearms deer season will receive a raffle ticket for a new deer rifle and a blaze orange KQDC hat, while supplies last.

For more information visit Facebook.com/TheKQDC

Come have a great time with staff of the Pfeiffer Nature Center at the nature craft table in the Portville Library. All ages will enjoy creating these fun crafts using items which come directly from nature herself.

Santa Claus will be visiting and there will be lots of other library craft activities going on too!

This activity is free and open to the public. Pre-registration is not required. Minors must be accompanied by an adult.

For more information contact Pfeiffer Nature Center Administration Office at (716) 933-0187 or visit www.pfeiffernaturecenter.org

Snakes are an animal people seem to love or hate, but regardless of which category folk's fall into they are curious about them. Join the staff of the Elk Country Visitor Center to have all your snake questions answered and meet the live snakes they have at the center.

For more information call the Elk Country Visitor Center at 814-787-5167.

Pennsylvania has a long list of furbearers whose pelts made a large impact on the lives of trappers and settlers. Join the staff of the Elk Country Visitor Center to learn all about these curious creatures and their behaviors.

For more information call the Elk Country Visitor Center at 814-787-5167.

Have breakfast with Santa at Beefeaters, catch "The Polar Express" free of charge at the Main Street Movie House, build a Gingerbread Man at Little Fabric Garden, visit "Storyland" at On The Side Books and enjoy Horse Carriage Rides & Ice Skating on Main Street. Plus discounts from many of our retailers.

For more information visit www.bradfordpa.org  

Finish up your holiday shopping at this market with over 100 vendors. Enjoy a Chinese Auction, Soups On, Weebulls Pickles, What's Poppin' NY, Finger Lakes Fudge Company, God's Country Creamery and Backdraft BBQ. There will be a wrapping station. Stuff your own stuffed animal at the Stuffing Station.Take photos with Santa from 11 am to 2 pm. Have your caricature drawn by artist Eric Jones from 11 am to 2 pm. 

 
This event is FREE, family friendly and open to public attendance.

For more information contact the Smethport Area School District at (814) 887-5543 or visit www.smethportschools.com.

Santa will be in the cab of the Pennsylvania Lumber Museum’s Shay locomotive to listen to your holiday requests. Take an instant pic with St. Nick, and make a special ornament for your tree. Cookies and hot cocoa will be served in the museum program room and shop a holiday bazaar of local artisans.

More info: (814) 435-2652
lumbermuseum.org/events/

Elk are interesting animals. Do you have questions about these large mammals? Then bring your questions and join the staff of the Elk Country Visitor Center as they explain all about the elk's mysteries.

For more information call the Elk Country Visitor Center at 814-787-5167.

Escape rooms are all the rage these days and the staff of the Elk Country Visitor Center has designed their own! Think you have what it takes to escape? In this FREE escape room the elk biologist Molly Werner has gone missing and needs you to help search her office for clues to her whereabouts.

The program will run every half hour from noon until 2 p.m. and is free of charge.

Pre-register by emailing KECAConEdSp@windstream.net or by calling (814) 787-5173.

Steve Appleby will be presenting a special 75th anniversary program on the Battle of the Bulge. Doors open at 6:30 p.m. and program begins at 7 p.m. Program is Free to the public, donations welcome.

More info: 814-225-2220
info@eldredpaww2museum.com

Christmas is upon us! Join the staff of the Elk Country Visitor Center and let your creativity shine as you work on some fun Christmas crafts.

For more information call the Elk Country Visitor Center at 814-787-5167.

Join the Pennsylvania Game Commission's North Central Educator to enhance your next hike in the Pennsylvania Wilds. You will learn to identify signs left behind by some of Pennsylvania's most common animals. At the end of the program, make your own plaster cast of an animal track and take it home (while supplies last.)

For more information call the Elk Country Visitor Center at 814-787-5167.