{"id":6610,"date":"2022-12-05T05:48:48","date_gmt":"2022-12-05T05:48:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ehsfalconnews.org\/?p=6610"},"modified":"2022-12-05T05:48:49","modified_gmt":"2022-12-05T05:48:49","slug":"tree-lighting-ceremony-brightens-the-holiday-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ehsfalconnews.org\/index.php\/2022\/12\/05\/tree-lighting-ceremony-brightens-the-holiday-season\/","title":{"rendered":"Tree Lighting Ceremony Brightens the Holiday Season"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ehsfalconnews.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/1F85DEEF-A3D3-4E4D-ACB0-6161A1D795D4-768x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6615\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.ehsfalconnews.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/1F85DEEF-A3D3-4E4D-ACB0-6161A1D795D4-768x1024.jpeg 768w, http:\/\/www.ehsfalconnews.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/1F85DEEF-A3D3-4E4D-ACB0-6161A1D795D4-225x300.jpeg 225w, http:\/\/www.ehsfalconnews.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/1F85DEEF-A3D3-4E4D-ACB0-6161A1D795D4-1152x1536.jpeg 1152w, http:\/\/www.ehsfalconnews.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/1F85DEEF-A3D3-4E4D-ACB0-6161A1D795D4-1536x2048.jpeg 1536w, http:\/\/www.ehsfalconnews.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/1F85DEEF-A3D3-4E4D-ACB0-6161A1D795D4-570x760.jpeg 570w, http:\/\/www.ehsfalconnews.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/1F85DEEF-A3D3-4E4D-ACB0-6161A1D795D4-scaled.jpeg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">The community Christmas tree shines after Thursday&#8217;s lighting ceremony at Veneta Elementary School. (Photo by Ariel Stafflund \/ Falcon News)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The Fern Ridge community celebrated a Tree Lighting Ceremony on Thursday at Veneta Elementary School.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The seventh annual event started with an introduction by Mayor Keith Weiss, then the 25-foot-tall noble fir Christmas tree was lit up, starting the festivities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Choirs from the different schools performed, starting with the elementary schools.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Despite temperatures near 32 degrees, about 400 people attended the festivities, including kids, teens, adults and even some dogs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Many families took pictures with the large tree and bright lights.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Santa also was there, arriving with two of his elves on a firetruck. Many children got in line to greet him and get a candy cane.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There was also hot chocolate available thanks to the Kiwanis.\u00a0The local Scout troop had a tent for accepting food and toy donations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hundreds attend the festivities at Veneta Elementary School<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":42,"featured_media":6633,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-6610","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ehsfalconnews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6610","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ehsfalconnews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ehsfalconnews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ehsfalconnews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/42"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ehsfalconnews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6610"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.ehsfalconnews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6610\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6634,"href":"http:\/\/www.ehsfalconnews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6610\/revisions\/6634"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ehsfalconnews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6633"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ehsfalconnews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ehsfalconnews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ehsfalconnews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}