Holiday events help attract shoppers to QC area stores

By: Dave Thompson|December 8, 2025

|5 min read

Penny Smith, owner of Crafted QC, holds a Christmas tree ornament Saturday, Dec. 6, during the Christmas in LeClaire celebration. CREDIT DAVE THOMPSON

As holiday shoppers visited Aunt Hattie’s Fanciful Emporium Unique Gift Shop in downtown LeClaire on Saturday, Dec. 6, many of them stopped for a moment to try a free sample of Glogg – a spiced punch.

“As corny as it sounds, we say it ‘tastes like Christmas,’” Wayne Walley, one of Aunt Hattie’s owners, said as he…

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