The next two days will offer plenty of opportunities for holiday laggards to shop for gifts, stock the pantry, or fill the beer fridge.
Although nobody should have trouble finding alcohol during the holidays with recent changes to who can sell, Cambridge Beer Store locations and LCBO outlets are keeping the lights on longer this year and will only be closed Christmas Day and New Year's Day.
Local craft breweries are an option too.
Grocery stores in town are closed Christmas Day but many are open the rest of the week under modified hours.
The Cambridge Centre Zehrs, for example, is closing its doors at 6 p.m. on Christmas Eve and will open them again for regular hours Boxing Day.
Check online for your favourite store's holiday hours.
Like most retailers, Cambridge Centre mall will be open from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Christmas Eve for that essential last minute shopping.
On Boxing Day, shoppers eager to use their gift cards, can join the masses at the mall starting at 10 a.m.
Check retail websites of your favourite stores for their hours before lining up for deals.
The mall is closed Christmas and New Year's Day but open New Year's Eve from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
City-run facilities will have modified hours over the holidays.
Cambridge City Hall offices will be closed December 24 at noon and won't reopen until Jan. 2 at 8:30 a.m. The same holiday hours apply for cemetery and fire administration offices.
Community Centres
Ted Wake Centre
- December 24: Closes at noon
- December 25 – January 1: Closed
- January 2: Regular Schedule
David Durward Centre
- December 24: Closes at noon
- December 25 – January 1: Closed
- January 2: Regular Schedule
William E. Pautler
- December 24: Closes at noon
- December 25 – January 1: Closed
- January 2: Regular Schedule
Cambridge Centre for the Arts
- December 24: Closes at noon
- December 25 – January 1: Closed
- January 2: Regular Schedule
Allan Reuter Centre
- December 24: Closes at noon
- December 25 – January 1: Closed
- January 2: Regular Schedule
Pools
W.G. Johnson Centre
- December 24: 7 a.m. – noon
- December 25 – 26: Closed
- December 27: 6 a.m. – 10 p.m.
- December 28: 8 a.m. – 4:00pm
- December 29: 8 a.m. – 4 pm
- December 30: 6 a.m. – 10 p.m.
- December 31: 7 a.m. – noon
- January 1: Closed
John Dolson Centre
- December 24: 6:00am – 12:00pm
- December 25 – 26: Closed
- December 27: 8:30am – 7:00pm
- December 28: 9:00am – 3:30pm
- December 29: 10:00am – 7:30pm
- December 30: 8:30am – 9:00pm
- December 31: 6:00am – 12:00pm
- January 1: Closed
Arenas
Duncan McIntosh
- December 24 – 26: Closed
- December 27 – 30: Regular Programing and Booking
- December 31: Closed
Dickson Centre
- December 24 – 26: Closed
- December 27 – 30: Regular Programing and Booking
- December 31: Closed
Galt Arena
- December 24 – 26: Closed
- December 27 – 30: Regular Programing and Booking
- December 31: Closed
Karl Homuth
- December 24 – 26: Closed
- December 27 – 30: Regular Programing and Booking
- December 31: Open until 11:00am
Hespeler Memorial Arena
- December 24 – 26: Closed
- December 27 – 30: Regular Programing and Booking
- December 31: 10:00am – 10:00pm
Cambridge Farmers’ Market
- December 28: 7:00 am – 1:00 pm
Cambridge Public Library
All Cambridge Public Library locations
- December 24 – 26: Closed
- December 27 – 30: Regular Hours
- December 31: Early closing at 4:30pm
- January 1: Closed
For details and individual location hours, please visit ideaexchange.org.
Region of Waterloo
Regional Administrative Offices (Waterloo, Kitchener, Cambridge, and airport administrative offices) will be closed Wednesday, December 25, Thursday, December 26 and Wednesday, January 1.
Welcome Spaces will be closed December 25, 26 and January 1.
Home child care is operating as specified by your provider. Offices will be closed December 25, 26 and January 1. For urgent issues, call 519-575-4400 and ask for Home Child Care.
Warming spaces at 150 Main (Cambridge) and 150 Frederick (Kitchener) will be open seven days a week from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., including Saturday, Sundays, and holidays.
Grand River Transit will operate winter holiday service December 23 to January 5. Check the GRT website for full details.
GRT Customer Service Centres at 105 King St. E., and Ainslie Street Terminal, are closing early on December 24. All Customer Service Centres are closed December 25, December 26 and January 1.
MobilityPLUS service will operate. For customers with subscription trips, those trips will be automatically cancelled. MobilityPLUS customers can rebook those trips seven days in advance by calling 519-744-2241.
Curbside waste: There will be no curbside waste collection on December 25 and January 1. During these two weeks, some collection days move by one day:
- Wednesday collected on Thursday
- Thursday collected on Friday
- Friday collected on Saturday
For two weeks after Christmas Day, we collect natural Christmas trees (which we chip into mulch).
Cambridge and Waterloo transfer stations will be closed for residential access on December 25, 26 and January 1.
Region of Waterloo Library holiday hours:
- December 24: Regularly open branches will be open from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.
- December 25-26: All branches closed.
- December 31: Regularly open branches will be open from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.
- January 1: All branches closed.
Seniors’ Services administration will be closed December 25, 26 and January 1.
Sunnyside Wellness Centre will be closed December 25, 26 and January 1.
Community Alzheimer Day and Dinner programs and Young Onset Dementia Association will be closed from December 24 to January 1.
Seniors’ Services Overnight Stay Program will be closed from December 24 to January 1.
Schneider Haus will be closed December 24 to 26, December 31 and January 1.
Ken Seiling Waterloo Region Museum will be closed December 24 to 26, December 31 and January 1.
McDougall Cottage Historic Site is closed for the season and will re-open on Family Day.
Public Health Clinics will be closed December 25, 26 and January 1.
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