Annual Holiday Tree Lighting on Friday

Mayor Al McWilliams will host his eighth annual holiday tree lighting ceremony at 6:00 PM this Friday, December 2, on the steps of City Hall.

The event is a holiday high point for the city's youngsters, with a visit from Santa, gifts and refreshements.

This year's program will feature a musical selection by students from Emerson School and a dance selection by students from the Plainfield Performing Arts Center.

Plainfield High School's ROTC will lead in the Pledge of Allegiance and Bishop Herbert Bright will deliver the invocation.

Mayor McWilliams will deliver the final Holiday Greetings of his second term, and he and mayor-elect Sharon Robinson-Briggs will jointly light the tree.

The tree, planted in memory of Webster Sandford, husband of longtime community activist Barbara Sandford, was planted this year and replaces an earlier tree that had become unsightly.

With the arrival of Santa on a Fire Division truck, the proceedings will move indoors, past the tree in the City Hall lobby, with children getting an opportunity to sit on Santa's lap and have a photograph taken. Gift bags will be distributed and refreshments served.


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