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For five months, a thrift shop in Selma called Selma Roots has made the old Sears building on Citizens Parkway, its new place to call home.

For the Holiday Season, Selma Roots has gotten the whole shop including the entry doors decked out in holiday cheer, just before the Christmas season.

Store owner Betty Oldroyd of Selma Roots said right now, the store is having its 20 percent off sale and said seeing the building come fruition, has been a dream of hers for over 20 years.

“It been a long drawn-out process,” Oldroyd said. It really has, it takes a lot a of volunteers and to run this, dream or vision I had, was for people in the community to come and work here while earning money and for me to show them different ways they can take stuff and turn it into money.”

Oldroyd said all weekend the store’s sale will go on and the store hours on Saturday are from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. and Sunday, Dec. 8th from 1 to 6 p.m. From 1 to 3 p.m., there will be coffee, cocoa and cookies and pictures with Santa.

Selma Roots is filled with clothes, décor household items including 20,000 other festive things that Oldroyd said are ready to go out the door for the holiday season.

Like Oldroyd’s shop Selma Roots, other community members within the city are having events this weekend as well.

The Selma-Dallas County Historic Preservation 46th annual holiday house, 662 Mcleod Avenue, is going on continuously from Monday Dec. 2 to Sunday, Dec. 14 from the 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. and on Sundays from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m.

Reflections Coffee Shoppe is another business in the area hosting its holiday brunch on Saturday, Dec.7th from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. at 1014 Water Avenue.

Gallery 905 is hosting their Santa Cookie Decorating Workshop with Susan Youngblood also on Saturday, Dec.7 at 10 a.m. at 905 Water Avenue. The admission is $20 to attend and to sign up visit www.ArtsRevive.com.

Lastly, on Sunday, The City of Selma is hosting its annual Christmas Parade that will start at 4 p.m. and conclude around 8 p.m. This year’s theme is “Let your light shine.”

For more information and upcoming events, visit the City of Selma’s webpage.