Once again, we’re assembling an online map of the biggest and brightest displays of Christmas lights around Salem — and the rest of Western Virginia.

On the list this year: Jimmy Holt of 1438 Antrim Street.

Among the features there: Penguins! Well, not real ones, of course.

Display times: 5:30 pm til 9:30 pm

You can see all the submissions so far on our online map.

Want to add yours? We have the submission form on the Datasphere, our site for searchable data.

We also have tips for taking great photos of Christmas lights from photographer Eric Brady of The Roanoke Times.

Wing I.T. Photo Arts shares this gallery of Glenvar High School’s winter sports teams.

Goooooo, Highlanders!

We’ll post the Salem High School winter sports photos when they become available.

Do you have photos from your kids’ winter sports games? If you do, and would like to share them here and in an upcoming print edition of So Salem, email them as attachments to news@sosalem.com or use our handy “SHARE” form.

Here’s a photo of Glenvar Middle School’s wrestling team.

Tonight, they have a match vs. Hidden Valley Middle School – we’ll have photos from it later.

Photo: Kneeling, from left: Killian Kerr, Patrick Maloney, Cody Shelton, Noah Webb, Bradley Wiley. Standing, Christian Walters, Tyiler McCarver, Daulton Palmer, Zach Beard, Cody Luper, David Williams, Coach Brent Hudson.

The Wolverines lost a close game, 38-34, to Hidden Valley Middle School last night, Monday, November 28.

We also have photos from the girls game.

Photos by Miranda Beck

Rod Dixon shares this photo gallery of the Andrew Lewis vs. Hidden Valley middle school boys basketball game on Monday, November 28.

Hidden Valley won 38-34.

For info about the photos, contact roddixon@cox.net

Andrew Lewis’s Lady Wolverines fell to Hidden Valley 29-20 last night, Monday, November 28. HVMS earned a lead early on in the game, and held it, despite ALMS’s attempts to catch them.

Photos by Miranda Beck

If you have winter sports photos, we’d love to share them here, too. Just email them to news@sosalem.com or use our handy “SHARE” tool.

Laura Reilly, Salem’s Farmers Market Manager, shares this update on this Saturday’s Ye Olde Salem Christmas:

“At the Farmers Market we will have over 40 vendors with holiday greenery, winter vegetables, delicious baked goods, savory treats, pet treats, salsa, as well as hot donuts, cheese and eggs, and of course honey!  The crafters will include beautiful scarves, blankets, jewelry, hair accessories, wooden crafts, photography, and so much more.  It really is going to be  great day, and I am excited that the weather is going to cooperate.”

The lighting of the Salem Christmas Tree and parade are this Friday, Dec. 2.

Breakfast with Santa, The Gingerbread Festival, and Ye Olde Salem Christmas are this Saturday, Dec. 3.

For a detailed list of this Friday and Saturday’s events, click here.

We also have a sneak peek of the Gingerbread Festival here.

This is the final week of the “Santa to a Senior” gift program for seniors in need, sponsored by Home Instead Senior Care. Green Ridge Recreation Center is celebrating its first year of program participation and has already received over 50 gifts.

Program director and Home Instead Senior Care franchise owner Betsy Head is exited by the overwhelming response from gift donors. “We appreciate the generosity of the folks of the Roanoke Valley and the participants at Green Ridge, especially in their first year! The program touches the lives of thousands of seniors across the Valley. These are the basic necessities of life, but the human touch is really what brings the joy and makes a difference in people’s lives.” Betsy estimates that over 4,000 packages will be collected this week to go to seniors in need.

Today’s Daily Deal on roanoke.com is at Skin Fit Esthetics in Salem.

For details, or to sign up for e-mail alerts about future Daily Deals, see dailydeal.roanoke.com.

Happy Halloween is one of my favorite holidays. I decorated inside and outside of my house. I have mums, pumpkins, black cat toys, talking witch, talking monster man, and scooby doo. On my uniform I had crafts made by Ms. Parks, who is one of my residents, she made a ghost, a black cat, a pumpkin, a witch, and a VT turkey craft for me. also I had a giant inflation of a black-widow spider lying in my yard. My son, Jerry Wu and I wore our AVATAR costumes. Of course, my beautiful garden with all different flowers blooming as celosia cristata(雞冠花), tropicana black, roses, hibiscus, mums with colorful fall leaves. I just like them.
Hally Halloween to everyone!

Submitted by Annie Lin