Magic in Manila: Harry Potter event in Humboldt County California

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It's called Magic in Manila: A Free Harry Potter Festival for 
Children of All Ages. Kids and adults are urged to come in costume.

This Saturday, December 9th from Noon - 4 p.m. at the Manila 
Community Center, in Manila, CA. 

To get to Manila, take US-101 to Eureka (south from Oregon; north 
from San Francisco). From Eureka, you go to 255 North, and go over 
all the bridges over the beautiful water. Then you turn right on 255. 
Soon there will be a sign for Peninsula Blvd.,
turn left (you can only turn left) and take Peninsula Drive to the 
Center, 1611 Peninsula Drive, it's on the left.

The event is sponsored by the Manila Community Center and 100 Fires 
Books (100Fires.com)

Here's the scoop:
HOGWARTS BANQUET.
There will be a free Hogwarts banquet for kids -- served around 3 p.m.
Barbequed chicken, rice, salad, soup, bread, cookies, ice cream, 
coffee, cider...LOTS of food, and MCC does a wonderful job with its 
meals.

GOBSTONES, and other crafts and games for children.

CHARMS CLASS. 
The magician performance with Shantaram the Magician will be at 2 p.m.

OWLS AND NEWTS.

There will be Harry Potter quizzes throughout the day.  We'll start 
with kids Kindergarten through 2nd grade, and then get older and 
older, ending with a set of FIENDISH questions that we hope no one 
will be able to answer. For the first four quizzes, there will be 
small prizes (J.K. Rowling's book Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find 
Them)
If we have time, we will have discussions of such burning issues as --
 Is Snape really evil, or Will Harry and Ginny get back together?

SORTING HAT 
Put your raffle ticket into the sorting hat, and hope it gets picked.
There will be a free raffle -- children 8 grade and under eligible to 
enter for two refurbished Macintosh computers loaded with children's 
games and educational programs (no internet access). We may also be 
raffling off some new books.

IN THE LIBRARY WITH MADAM PINCE.
There will be readings of the Harry Potter books.

100Fires Books (100fires.com) will be giving away used books for 
children, and will be selling a wide variety of social change 
oriented books for adults and children - as well as all the Harry 
Potter books, all the audio tapes and all the videotapes - and some 
great children's books (they are guaranteed to please, as they were 
selected by my own children). 

For more information, please call Susan McGee at 707-441-1434 or 
email me at SusanGSMcGee at ...