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LAURA FEDAK PEDULLI/Standard-Times special The children at the Boys & Girls Club created floral shapes from plastic bottles and decorated them with glitter for the Wareham Village Association?s Christmas on Main Street parade.

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By LAURA FEDAK PEDULLI

December 08, 2012 12:00 AM

WAREHAM ? It was a party of glitter, paint and cardboard at the Boys & Girls Club this week as youngsters prepared for the Wareham Village Association's Christmas on Main Street parade.

Event activities hosted by participating businesses are scheduled for 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. today, and a scavenger hunt will take place as planned, but the parade has been postponed to 3 p.m. Sunday because of inclement weather expected today. Unlike previous years, the parade will not end at the Town Hall for a tree lighting but at Tremont Nail Co. at Main and Elm streets.

"The parade will entirely be on Main Street this year," association President Anthi Frangiadis told selectmen recently. The community walk will include a number of floats from local groups, including the Boys & Girls Club.

In preparation earlier this week, preteen members of the club began cutting and shaping a globe out of cardboard for their parade float.

This year, the club's new logo is "Cuckoo Goes Green," as its members plan to partake in various environmental community projects between now and June. Fitting the environmental theme, younger club members with glitter- and paint-covered hands also created decorative ornaments made entirely from recycled materials that were donated to the club.

The children created floral shapes from plastic bottles and relished the explosion of glitter and paint as they readied their ornaments for display.

"It's messy but fun to paint! I've got glitter all over myself," said an ecstatic MaKenna Vary, 10, one of 50 children ages 7-13 that are members of the 4-year-old Wareham club. As a longtime member of the club, she added "It is special to me."

"I enjoy that we do a lot of activities," added Rani Baptiste, 8, also well engaged making ornaments. Matt Mobilia, 9, was working on ornament number six as he playfully flicked paint from his latest creation.

The ornaments originally were planned for the Wareham Town Hall holiday tree lighting, but the tree died this year, so the group decorated their own tree at the club, which is across the street and behind the Town Hall.

"This year there is no big ceremony," said selectmen's secretary Shirley Oldfield, but she added that the municipal maintenance department did light two smaller trees on the property.

The Boys & Girls Club tree, however, will be up and trimmed for viewing soon, according to Russ Buckley, senior resource development officer for the Boys & Girls Club of New Bedford/Wareham.

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