{"id":327,"date":"2015-12-14T14:47:18","date_gmt":"2015-12-14T20:47:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/crenshawcochamber.com\/wordpress\/?p=327"},"modified":"2019-03-02T15:22:33","modified_gmt":"2019-03-02T21:22:33","slug":"christmas-tree-lighting-and-annual-christmas-parade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crenshawcochamber.com\/?p=327","title":{"rendered":"Christmas Tree Lighting and Annual Christmas Parade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Thursday, December 3, 2015, the Chamber Board of Directors hosted the 6th Annual Tree Lighting in downtown Luverne.\u00a0 Festivities included singing by the Crenshaw School choirs led by Mr. Jim Head, hanging of ornaments decorated by kindergarten children from all four Crenshaw County schools.\u00a0 President Don Nix counted down to the tree lighting performed by Mrs. Sandy Walker, the 2015 Citizen of the Year.\u00a0 Hot chocolate and fellowship kept the parents and children and local residents busy.\u00a0 Downtown merchants remained open until 7:30 p.m. for shopping convenience.<\/p>\n<p>On Saturday, December 5, 2015, the Chamber hosted the Annual Christmas Parade.\u00a0 The parade lasted over an hour and many beautiful floats, marching groups, queens from all four schools and individuals kept the parade watchers entertained.\u00a0 All participants in the parade are asked to donate toys for DHR Toy Drive and the boxes were full!\u00a0 Over 136 motorcycles brought up the rear of the parade and they contributed toys also.\u00a0 The Chamber thanks all who participated for a wonderful event.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Thursday, December 3, 2015, the Chamber Board of Directors hosted the 6th Annual Tree Lighting in downtown Luverne.\u00a0 Festivities&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,12,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-327","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christmas","category-festival","category-parade"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crenshawcochamber.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/crenshawcochamber.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/crenshawcochamber.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crenshawcochamber.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crenshawcochamber.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=327"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/crenshawcochamber.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":330,"href":"https:\/\/crenshawcochamber.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327\/revisions\/330"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crenshawcochamber.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crenshawcochamber.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crenshawcochamber.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}