{"id":53325,"date":"2023-12-05T09:31:24","date_gmt":"2023-12-05T14:31:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/?p=53325"},"modified":"2023-12-05T09:31:25","modified_gmt":"2023-12-05T14:31:25","slug":"coatesville-announces-slate-of-holiday-events","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/?p=53325","title":{"rendered":"Coatesville announces slate of holiday events"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_18972\" style=\"width: 360px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-18972\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-18972\" src=\"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Christmas-in-Coatesville-Pavilion-of-Trees.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"350\" height=\"263\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-18972\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Coatesville plans a number of events this month to celebrate the holidays.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The City of Coatesville continues its season-long Christmas in Coatesville festivities with the 5<sup>th<\/sup> Annual Pavilion of Trees and City of Coatesville Tree Lighting ceremony at Gateway Park, 22 Lincoln Highway in Coatesville, on Saturday, December 9, from 4:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m., with the tree lighting at 6:30 p.m. Visit <a href=\"https:\/\/christmasincoatesville.com\/\">ChristmasInCoatesville.com <\/a><\/p>\n<p>Guests are invited to attend the free, family-friendly event where they can stroll through Gateway Park, which each year, magically transforms d into a winter wonderland amidst twinkling lights and dozens of community-sponsored Christmas trees. \u00a0Entertainment for the entire family includes live holiday music, food trucks, , hot chocolate, a kids\u2019 station, and a visit from the jolliest of all elves, Santa Claus! New this year, the Pavilion will feature a Pop-Up Market to shop for stocking stuffers and gifts from local vendors.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The Pavilion of Trees is presented by Elite Therapy Solutions in the name of community spirit and goodwill. Each tree will express the creativity and imagination of a business, organization or individual sponsor that will decorate the tree and take part in a friendly competition for three top monetary prizes, ranging from $500 to $1500, that will be donated on the sponsors\u2019 behalf to the local charity or non-profit of the sponsors\u2019 choice. Remaining proceeds will be donated to Coatesville Parks and Recreation. \u201cThe annual event has become a favorite City holiday tradition, and I hope the community will come out to this and other wonderful Christmas in Coatesville activities!\u201d says Patrick Kinzeler, Owner and Director of Administration, Elite Therapy Solutions.<\/p>\n<p>A new Christmas in Coatesville event is the Made in Coatesville Holiday Market, a Coatesville 2<sup>nd<\/sup> Century Alliance initiative that features local merchants, light refreshments, kids\u2019 activities and more. Shoppers are welcome December 8 &#8211; 9 and 15 &#8211; 16 at 228 East Lincoln Highway, Fridays from 4 p.m. to 8 p.m. and Saturdays from 11:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. And don\u2019t forget to dine in Coatesville\u2019s newest restaurants, and shop many other downtown retailers before Christmas day.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe City Public Works Department has been busy putting up decorations along Lincoln Highway to wish everyone a happy holiday season!\u201d says Roberta Cosentino, Assistant Coatesville City Manager. \u201cWe invite residents and visitors to gather with family, friends and neighbors to shop and dine at our local stores and restaurants. My wishes for the City are for everyone to enjoy a warm and safe holiday, and that we carry our strong sense of care and community into the new year so that we may all prosper together.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe tree lighting and special events throughout the holiday season represent the spirit, hope, and blessings of the City of Coatesville, as we continue to grow together as a community,\u201d says Linda Lavender-Norris, City Council President.<\/p>\n<p>For more City of Coatesville events, visit <a href=\"https:\/\/www.coatesville.org\/calendar\/\">Coatesville.org\/calendar\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The City of Coatesville continues its season-long Christmas in Coatesville festivities with the 5th Annual Pavilion of Trees and City of Coatesville Tree Lighting ceremony at Gateway Park, 22 Lincoln Highway in Coatesville, on Saturday, December 9, from 4:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m., with the tree lighting at 6:30 p.m. Visit ChristmasInCoatesville.com Guests are invited [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":53324,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[1259,7763],"class_list":["post-53325","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community","tag-coatesville","tag-holiday-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53325","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=53325"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53325\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53326,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53325\/revisions\/53326"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/53324"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}