VALDOSTA — Easter Seals of South Georgia will host a Holiday Open House at its new Suite A, 610 N. Patterson St. location from 2-4 p.m. Thursday. The celebration will begin with a ribbon-cutting conducted by the Valdosta-Lowndes County Chamber of Commerce.

Gay Ways To Survive Easter (RainbowNetwork.com)

The season of the disturbingly cutesy rabbit, the overpriced and over-packaged egg and the chocolate-induced migraine is upon us once again. Gay people have traditionally escaped this most heinous of holidays by going on a four-day bender, but there are better ways of avoiding the worst of it.

Lighting ceremony to kick off holiday festivities at Capitol (Arkansas News Bureau)

LITTLE ROCK - Holiday festivities at the state Capitol will kick off Saturday with the annual lighting ceremony, according to the secretary of state's office.

Schedule of Holiday Events (New Haven Register)

Bridgeport, Downtown Cabaret Theatre Children's Company presents "The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus," through Dec. 28, noon and 2:30 p.m. Saturdays and Sundays, $15, Downtown Cabaret Theatre, 263 Golden Hill St., (203) 576-1636.

Holiday cheer for troops (The Ocala Star-Banner)

BELLEVIEW - Jackie Walker put her crafty instincts to work for U.S. troops by gathering a group of stamping friends from around Marion County to assemble stationary and Christmas cards for the soldiers in Iraq.