Holiday Chocolate 2025
The Holiday Chocolate takes place in conjunction with Parchment Wassailing on Wednesday, December 3rd from 6:00 to 8:00 p.m. Scroll down for details including Wassailing locations and trolley stops.
The Holiday Chocolate is held at the Parchment Community Library. The event begins at 6:00 with Mayor Rob Britigan lighting the holiday train in front of the library. Mrs. Claus will give you a candy cane when you enter the library. Listen to holiday music while you enjoy cookies and hot chocolate (while supplies last) from the Parchment Garden Club. Purchase tickets for the Friends of the Library Holiday Raffle until around 7:30 p.m. The raffle drawing will take place at 7:40. (You don’t need to be present to win.)
Music Schedule: 6:00-6:30 p.m. Parchment Community Choir; 6:30-7:00 p.m. Mall City Voices; 7:10-7:40 p.m. Kalamazoo Recorder Players
Parchment Wassailing will take place during the same time. Printed maps are available at the library; here’s a link to the map in Google Photos. The trolley runs 5:50-8:10 p.m. only, starting and ending at Dollar Tree / Save-a-Lot. For last-minute updates, visit the Parchment Wassailing Facebook page.
Wassailing Stops and Trolley Stops:
1. Redmond Funeral Home: Hot cocoa & create a remembrance ornament [Trolley Stop]
2. Trinity Temple [Trolley Stop]
3. Harding’s Market [Trolley Stop]
4. Parchment Schools: Watch for marching carolers throughout town! At the middle school, there will be cookies, punch, a photo booth, and kids crafts! Sunrise Kiwanis will be there with treats.
5. Lewis C. Howard Inc.: Festivities begin at 5, before regular trolley service. Decorated trucks, carnival games, indoor inflatable attractions, cookie decorating, poinsettia/wreath giveaway, and more! [Trolley Stop]
6. Geno’s Pizza: Pizza slices [Trolley Stop]
7. Iconic Cuts
8. Blackwater Tattoos & Piercings
9. Biggby Coffee
10. Parchment United Methodist Church & Live Nativity: Cider, donuts, and organist playing carols inside the church. [Trolley Stop]
11. Parchment Service Center
12. Family Life Church: Hot cocoa and popcorn
13. Kalamazoo Mounted Police: Watch for officers (and their beautiful horses) riding around town!
14. Parchment Community Library: Mayor Britigan will light the holiday lights at 6:00 pm. Basket Raffle with the Friends of the Library (Prize drawing at 7:40 pm) and the 29th Annual Holiday Chocolate (cocoa & cookies) with the Parchment Garden Club. Music by the Parchment Community Choir, Mall City Voices, and the Kalamazoo Recorder Players. [Trolley Stop]
15. The Parchment Fire Truck: will be parked in front of the Public Works garage next to the back of the library, with tours of the truck, treats, and fire hats for the kids.
16. Ty Kelley State Farm Insurance
17. The Fountains: Vendor/Craft Show & The Lunchbox food truck with food for purchase
18. Advia Credit Union/YWCA: Santa and ornament crafts [Trolley Stop]
19. Dollar Tree: Cookie decorating and hot cocoa
20. Save-a-Lot [Trolley Stop]
