Watertown, NY- April 16, 2015 WPBS-TV, Watertown, NY presents the 7th Annual PBS Kids Neighbor Days Character Breakfast, May 9th from 8am-10am at the Watertown Elks Lodge #496, located on Bradley Street in Watertown, NY. Join WPBS, along with Cookie Monster, Hooper, Woofster, Clifford the Big Red Dog and Curious George for breakfast and story time! Each child will also receive a PBS Kids “goody bag”.
Breakfast starts promptly at 8am, with character visits to each table. At 9am, there will be photo opportunities with each character and at 9:30am a local author will read a story. Children will also be able to pick up their “Daniel Tiger Neighbor Days” card and donate a sweater as part of our #bemyneighbor campaign. For more information on the “Daniel Tiger Neighbor Days” campaign visit wpbstv.org/neighbor.
Admission for Character Breakfast is $15 for adults and $10 for children. Character Breakfast is an Operation Yellow Ribbon Event offering military discounts; please present your military ID at the door. Military ticket prices are $13 for adults and $8 for children. Purchase tickets and view the complete breakfast menu, online at wpbstv.org/characterbreakfast. Seating is limited so buy your tickets soon! Bring your smiles and cameras for this exciting event! PBS Kids merchandise will be available for purchase.
This event is sponsored in part by the Watertown Elks Lodge #496 and Jefferson Dental.
Immediately following the breakfast, parents and kids can make their way over to the Ready, Set, Fun Neighbor Days at the Bruce M. Wright Memorial Conference Center located at 1291 Faichney Drive, Watertown, NY. This event is WPBS’s largest kid’s event. Admission is free with the donation of a canned good donation. Each year, over 1000 pounds of food is donated to a local food bank through WPBS-DT’s Ready, Set Fun! For more information about Ready, Set, Fun and a list of scheduled events for the day, please visit wpbstv.org/readysetfun.
WPBS-TV is a non-profit public television station serving approximately 650,000 households throughout Northern New York and Eastern Ontario. WPBS-TV’s mission is to educate, entertain and inform our two-nation audience through superior local and national content and media engagement in order to enhance the lives of those it serves. More information about WPBS is available at www.wpbstv.org, or by following WPBS on Twitter and Facebook.
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