{"id":13087,"date":"2016-11-29T13:10:18","date_gmt":"2016-11-29T12:10:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/?p=13087"},"modified":"2016-11-29T13:11:24","modified_gmt":"2016-11-29T12:11:24","slug":"ballymoney-enjoy-our-town","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/2016\/11\/ballymoney-enjoy-our-town\/","title":{"rendered":"Ballymoney &#8211; Enjoy our town!"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Unique shops and quality customer service make Ballymoney a great place to visit this Christmas.<\/h1>\n<p><strong> <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/press34.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-13088\" title=\"press\" src=\"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/press34.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"209\" \/><\/a>Everyone is invited to \u2018Enjoy Our Town\u2019 as the festive spirit starts to build.<\/p>\n<p>The Naturally North Coast and Glens Artisan Market pays a visit to Castlecroft on Friday 2<sup>nd<\/sup> December from 11am to 3pm offering a fantastic array of local art, craft and food produce.<\/p>\n<p>Look out for Santa as he takes up residence on Church Street. Santa\u2019s House will be open each Saturday from December 3<sup>rd<\/sup> &#8211; 17<sup>th,<\/sup> from 2pm- 4.30pm and there\u2019ll be reindeer to feed in Castlecroft also. \u00a0A selection of buskers will be on hand each Saturday to entertain, so make sure you wear your Christmas jumpers as you may receive a prize, all of which has been organised by Ballymoney Chamber of Commerce.<\/p>\n<p>Julienne Elliott, Economic Development Officer for Town Management said: \u201cSaturday 3<sup>rd<\/sup> December is also \u2018Small Business Saturday\u2019 and Ballymoney has a wealth of independent local businesses. I would encourage everyone to think about using your local small business providers on this day but also right throughout the year.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Street entertainment will be on offer from 1pm \u2013 3pm on Saturday, December 10<sup>th<\/sup> and December 17<sup>th<\/sup>. Look out for surprise characters Dora and Fireman Sam, Olaf, Minion and Penguin as well as balloon modelling and glitter tattoos to keep the little ones entertained.<\/p>\n<p>For further details on all events in the Ballymoney area and the rest of the Causeway Coast and Glens Borough pick up your free brochure from various outlets or visit <a href=\"www.causewaycoastandglens.gov.uk\/christmas\">www.causewaycoastandglens.gov.uk\/christmas<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/press35.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13090\" title=\"press\" src=\"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/press35.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"382\" height=\"257\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Unique shops and quality customer service make Ballymoney a great place to visit this Christmas. Everyone is invited to \u2018Enjoy Our Town\u2019 as the festive spirit starts to build. The Naturally North Coast and Glens Artisan Market pays a visit to Castlecroft on Friday 2nd December from 11am to 3pm offering a fantastic array of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/2016\/11\/ballymoney-enjoy-our-town\/\">Continued<\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13087"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13087"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13087\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13092,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13087\/revisions\/13092"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}