Fog Blog: Christmas Stories Log: Saint John Harbour Lights Campaign:

HARBOUR LIGHTS CITY MARKET SHOW RAISES......$54,000 AND A TOTAL OF $150,000 RAISED SO FAR!.........A hearty breakfast, live Christmas music and comical predictions for 2020 kicked off the day Friday for hundreds of people in Saint John, all while raising more than $54,000 in support of food banks in southwestern New Brunswick.It was CBC Information Morning Saint John's Christmas at the City Market live broadcast show, as part of the 23rd annual Harbour Lights campaign.The 2019 campaign has raised nearly $150,000 so far for the 15 food banks that serve Sussex to St. Stephen, with 11 days to go.People started to line up outside the market at 4 a.m. — about two hours before the doors officially opened — in hopes of snagging one of the 2019 Harbour Lights mugs, hand-crafted by David Eastwood of Clay Design Inc., in Central Hampstead.There was a limit of two per person and the $30 mugs sold out by 6:40 a.m., but near the end of the show a woman offered up one of the coveted mugs for live auction and it went for $75.