{"id":32043,"date":"2013-11-27T11:00:53","date_gmt":"2013-11-27T17:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=32043"},"modified":"2013-11-29T07:34:58","modified_gmt":"2013-11-29T13:34:58","slug":"community-christmas-tree-lighting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=32043","title":{"rendered":"Community Christmas Tree Lighting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jamestown (CSi) &#8212; Jamestown\u2019s Community Christmas Tree was officially lit for the season, Wednesday evening, at the Jamestown Civic Center, starting with the ceremony at 5:15 \u2013p.m.\u00a0 Over 50 people attended. Photos for CSi by Matt Sheppard.<\/p>\n<p>[easyrotator]erc_75_1385601525[\/easyrotator]<\/p>\n<p>The event featured Christmas carols and songs, a history of the tree and a Christmas message by Deacon Tom Geffre, chaplain at Ave Maria Village.<\/p>\n<p>Coffee, hot chocolate and hot cider was served along with cookies, courtesy of the Main Street Downtown Association.<\/p>\n<p>The tree was cut down and moved from the Jeff Schmidtt home located at 2015 \u2013 5<sup>th<\/sup> St. N.E. City Forester Doug Wiles says the tree is 50 feet tall before being placed in the holder in front of the Civic Center. He says the tree weighs 9,800 pounds.<\/p>\n<p>The tree cutting and trimming done by the city street department crew, the moving by Scherbenske and Son and the tree lights and decorations done by the Jamestown Fire Department.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jamestown (CSi) &#8212; Jamestown\u2019s Community Christmas Tree was officially lit for the season, Wednesday evening, at the Jamestown Civic Center, starting with the ceremony at 5:15 \u2013p.m.\u00a0 Over 50 people attended. Photos for CSi by Matt Sheppard. [easyrotator]erc_75_1385601525[\/easyrotator] The event featured Christmas carols and songs, a history of the tree [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":33245,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32043","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-featured","category-jamestown"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32043","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32043"}],"version-history":[{"count":28,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32043\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33269,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32043\/revisions\/33269"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/33245"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}