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The Kenai Chamber of Commerce and Visitor Center hosted the annual Christmas Comes to Kenai on Nov. 28, 2025. The beloved event began over 40 years ago, and this year over 1,000 attendees enjoyed hot chocolate, fireworks, pictures with Santa and shopping. Photo courtesy of the Kenai Chamber of Commerce

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Christmas Comes to Kenai and Soldotna Turkey Trot kick off a month full of holiday festivities

The weekend’s holiday festivities drew folks from all over the Kenai Peninsula.

A poster for the Seward Chamber of Commerce's New Year's Eve Fireworks Display. (Provided by Seward Chamber of Commerce)

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Seward to celebrate holidays with fireworks, decorating contest

Fireworks are set for Dec. 31 at 8 p.m.

Clarion Sports Editor Jeff Helminiak harvests a newsroom Christmas tree from the Kenai National Wildlife Refuge near Arc Lake outside of Soldotna, Alaska, on Dec. 3, 2023. (Jake Dye/Peninsula Clarion)

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Christmas tree harvesting available around Kenai Peninsula

Trees may be harvested until Christmas Day

Rose Burke, center left, is celebrated for winning the U.S. Capitol Christmas Tree essay contest by Connections Homeschool Principal Douglas Hayman, right, at the Kenai Municipal Airport in Kenai, Alaska, on Friday, Nov. 1, 2024. (Jake Dye/Peninsula Clarion)

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Connections student to light U.S. Capitol Christmas Tree

Rose Burke, 9, won the U.S. Capitol Christmas Tree essay contest and will travel to Washington D.C.

Photo by Jeff Helminiak/Peninsula Clarion Spruce trees are dusted with snow on Dec. 22, 2020, in the Kenai National Wildlife Refuge near Soldotna, Alaska. Some areas of the refuge are open to harvest of holiday trees for non-commercial uses beginning Thanksgiving.

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Christmas tree cutting on refuge opens Thanksgiving

Tree cutting will be open until Christmas Day

Coast Guardsmen and state employees load the Together Tree bound for the Alaska Governor’s Mansion on a truck on Nov. 29, 2021 after the Coast Guard Cutter Elderberry transported the tree from Wrangell. (USCG photo / Petty Officer 2nd Class Lexie Preston)

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Governor’s mansion tree arrives in Juneau

No weather or floating lines could stay these Coast Guardsmen about their task.