{"id":109976,"date":"2018-11-28T08:17:51","date_gmt":"2018-11-28T13:17:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=109976"},"modified":"2018-11-28T08:28:14","modified_gmt":"2018-11-28T13:28:14","slug":"christmas-lighting-ceremony-set-for-friday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2018\/11\/28\/christmas-lighting-ceremony-set-for-friday\/","title":{"rendered":"Christmas lighting ceremony set for Friday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>VW independent\/submitted information<\/em><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_58421\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-58421\" style=\"width: 350px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-58421\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Christmas-tree-lighting-12-2014.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"350\" height=\"225\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-58421\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><strong>Van Wert Mayor Jerry Mazur officially turns on the lights in Fountain Park during the 2014 Christmas tree lighting ceremony while Santa Claus watches.<\/strong> <em>VW independent file photo<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The holiday spirit is coming to downtown Van Wert this Friday, November 30, as Main Street Van Wert celebrates the start of the holiday season with its \u201cA Very Merry Main Street Christmas\u201d ceremony, starting at 6 p.m. that evening in Fountain Park.<\/p>\n<p>The event will include the official Christmas tree and park decorations lighting ceremony at 6 p.m. that evening. The event also includes musical entertainment from Weston Thompson before the lighting ceremony, while Brewed Expressions and Truly Divine will provide hot chocolate and Christmas treats to warm up local residents who come out for the event.<\/p>\n<p>Following the ceremony, youngsters and their families can walk down to the YWCA of Van Wert County to participate in that organization\u2019s ever-popular Gingerbread Junction event. Space is available for gingerbread house decorating sessions at 7 and 8 p.m. Cost is $15 and those wanting to participate need to pre-register by calling the YWCA at 419.238.6639.<\/p>\n<p>Gingerbread houses\u00a0will be provided to each participant, as well as all the items needed to decorate each house.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VW independent\/submitted information The holiday spirit is coming to downtown Van Wert this Friday, November 30, as Main Street Van Wert celebrates the start of the holiday season with its \u201cA Very Merry Main Street Christmas\u201d ceremony, starting at 6 p.m. that evening in Fountain Park. The event will include the official Christmas tree and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-109976","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-26 04:13:42","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109976","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109976"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109976\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}