Annual Christmas City ornaments available

Bethlehem’s Citizen’s Christmas City Committee issues a new ornament annually, 200 limited edition collectible Bethlehem Christmas Trellis ornaments are now available for sale. Buyers can have them custom engraved with a name or a message. Proceeds will fund setting up the city’s Christmas tree and the tree lighting ceremony.

The committee hangs about 100 of the ornaments on the Christmas City Trellis in Payrow Plaza. The trellis is a popular outdoor exhibit featuring musical chimes with the ornaments dangling from them. When the display comes down, you take your ornament home as a keepsake.

This year’s ornament highlights a Bethlehem holiday tradition that dates back hundreds of years to the city’s Moravian roots, window candles.

Ornaments are $15 each. You can purchase at visithistoricbethlehem.com or by visiting the Bethlehem Chamber of Commerce office at 74 West Broad Street, Suite 240.

The Citizen’s Christmas City Committee of the Bethlehem Chamber will unveil this year’s display during a tree lighting ceremony and concert 5 p.m. Nov.18.

The trellis display will remain up at Payrow Plaza through early January.