{"id":54900,"date":"2024-11-27T09:19:55","date_gmt":"2024-11-27T14:19:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/?p=54900"},"modified":"2024-11-27T09:19:56","modified_gmt":"2024-11-27T14:19:56","slug":"downingtown-christmas-tree-lighting-saturday-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/?p=54900","title":{"rendered":"Downingtown Christmas tree lighting, Saturday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-20106\" src=\"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Santa-at-Tree.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"282\" height=\"300\" \/>Downingtown Good Neighbor Christmas, Inc. presents our annual Downingtown Christmas Tree Lighting Ceremony this Saturday, November 30, at 6pm. The event takes place in Kerr Park at the Log House field below the Christmas Tree.<\/p>\n<p>There will be holiday music provided at the concert gazebo, a face painter, small craft and games for the kids, letter writing to Santa, along with cookies and hot chocolate. Of course, the evening would not be complete without Santa arriving by firetruck at 6:45pm to light the Christmas Tree with help from our friends at Aardvark Animal Hospital, our Double Diamond Christmas Tree Sponsor.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDowningtown Good Neighbor Christmas, Inc. is proud to display our 20-foot artificial lighted Giant Everest Christmas Tree with a three-foot lighted star on top. The tree, which is professionally decorated sits next to the Log House on Lancaster Avenue and at the entrance to Kerr Park, providing our community a beautiful sight for the holidays,\u201d said Dianne Plaugher, co-Chair of Downingtown Good Neighbor Christmas.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>\u201cNext up after the tree lighting is our Christmas Parade to be held on Saturday, December 14th at 3 p.m. We have outstanding bands, floats, walking and marching groups, and much more. And of course, the arrival of Santa to end the parade\u201d, said Plaugher.<\/p>\n<p>If that\u2019s not enough, Downingtown Good Neighbor Christmas is sponsoring a \u201cBusiness Storefront Decorating Contest,\u201d with cash prizes for 1<sup>st<\/sup>, 2<sup>nd<\/sup>, and 3<sup>rd<\/sup> place. Register your business at www.dtownchristmas.com. The contest is limited to Borough businesses.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFundraising is an important part of our Christmas celebration which would not be possible without support from our community. We are grateful and proud of our businesses and individuals who helped us raise a near record $25,000 so far this year!\u201d, said Plaugher.<\/p>\n<p>Visit www.dtownchristmas.com for additional information on the Tree Lighting and Parade.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Downingtown Good Neighbor Christmas, Inc. presents our annual Downingtown Christmas Tree Lighting Ceremony this Saturday, November 30, at 6pm. The event takes place in Kerr Park at the Log House field below the Christmas Tree. There will be holiday music provided at the concert gazebo, a face painter, small craft and games for the kids, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":54899,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[14207,1387],"class_list":["post-54900","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community","tag-christmas-tree-lighting","tag-downingtown"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54900","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=54900"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54900\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54901,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54900\/revisions\/54901"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/54899"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}