{"id":6548,"date":"2018-11-06T09:40:03","date_gmt":"2018-11-06T17:40:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/?p=6548"},"modified":"2018-11-06T09:44:55","modified_gmt":"2018-11-06T17:44:55","slug":"community-christmas-tree-sought-for-downtown-yakima","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/community-christmas-tree-sought-for-downtown-yakima\/","title":{"rendered":"Community Christmas Tree Sought for Downtown Yakima"},"content":{"rendered":"

The search is on for Yakima’s Community Christmas Tree.<\/span><\/p>\n

The City of Yakima and the Downtown Association of Yakima (DAY) are asking area residents to consider donating a tree from their property for the annual holiday festivities in Downtown Yakima.<\/span><\/p>\n

To nominate your tree as the Community Christmas Tree, call Cally Price, the Assistant to the City Manager, at 575-6040.<\/span><\/p>\n

“It’s an exciting opportunity for someone to make a prominent contribution to the holiday season in Downtown Yakima,” said Mayor Kathy Coffey. “I appreciate those willing to have their trees considered for such an important honor.”<\/span><\/p>\n

Crews will arrive to remove the tree by Monday, November 19th<\/span><\/sup>, and it will be installed at Millennium Plaza. T<\/span>he official tree lighting ceremony will be Sunday, December 2nd<\/span><\/sup>, at the conclusion of Downtown Yakima’s annual Holiday Lighted Parade. The parade starts at 6:00 pm.<\/span><\/p>\n

Volunteers along with the crew from DAY will be hanging lights on trees in the Plaza area prior to the parade and lighting ceremony.<\/span><\/p>\n

“It needs be an evergreen, preferably 15 to 25 feet tall,” said John O’Rourke, Operations Manager for DAY. “It has to be in a location that we can access with a crane and get a truck to it.”<\/span><\/p>\n

If property owners nominating a tree are unsure about its dimension or about access to it they can call O’Rourke at <\/span>952-8052.<\/span><\/p>\n

The selected tree will be removed at no cost to the owner.<\/span><\/p>\n

Community Christmas Tree Sought – News Release<\/a><\/p>\n

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The search is on for Yakima’s Community Christmas Tree. The City of Yakima and the Downtown Association of Yakima (DAY) are asking area residents to consider donating a tree from their property for the annual holiday festivities in Downtown Yakima. To nominate your tree as the Community Christmas Tree, call Cally Price, the Assistant to<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6548","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6548"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6548\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6553,"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6548\/revisions\/6553"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}