{"id":11058,"date":"2019-12-06T19:22:13","date_gmt":"2019-12-06T19:22:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/?p=11058"},"modified":"2019-12-06T19:22:13","modified_gmt":"2019-12-06T19:22:13","slug":"christmas-parade-outdoor-market-this-saturday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/?p=11058","title":{"rendered":"Christmas Parade, Outdoor Market this Saturday"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_11062\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11062\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11062\" src=\"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/46304978771_9a0adbf56f_k.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"397\" srcset=\"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/46304978771_9a0adbf56f_k.jpg 600w, https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/46304978771_9a0adbf56f_k-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/46304978771_9a0adbf56f_k-405x268.jpg 405w, https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/46304978771_9a0adbf56f_k-60x40.jpg 60w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-11062\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Students from Los Fresnos CISD bring regional culture to last year\u2019s annual Christmas parade. Photo: LFCISD<\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong>by Tony Vindell\/LFN<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>As the most wonderful time of the year is now here, Los Fresnos gets ready to celebrate the holiday season under a \u201cMagic of Christmas\u201d theme.<\/p>\n<p>So a parade, festival and outdoors market will be held this Saturday, Dec. 7, beginning at 6 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>And as usual, Santa Claus will highlight the evening full of activities for people of all ages.<\/p>\n<p>Val Champion, executive director with Los Fresnos Area Chamber of Commerce, had said the annual event keeps getting bigger and better.<\/p>\n<p>He said the parade generally has more than 40 entries and a team of three judges review each category and award prizes to the top three.<\/p>\n<p>It starts at Second Street and Arroyo Boulevard and ends at Memorial Park where a Christmas festival and the monthly Under the Stars Artisan Market will be held.<\/p>\n<p>Champion said new this year is live music provided by the Texas Showdown Band.<\/p>\n<p>Other activities include free train rides, a bouncer, obstacle course and wall climbing.<\/p>\n<p>For more information, please call the chamber at 956-233-4488.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11069\" src=\"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/LFS_112919_A008.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"1157\" srcset=\"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/LFS_112919_A008.jpg 600w, https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/LFS_112919_A008-156x300.jpg 156w, https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/LFS_112919_A008-531x1024.jpg 531w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Tony Vindell\/LFN As the most wonderful time of the year is now here, Los Fresnos gets ready to celebrate the holiday season under a \u201cMagic of Christmas\u201d theme. So a parade, festival and outdoors market will be held this Saturday, Dec. 7, beginning at 6 p.m. And as usual, Santa Claus will highlight the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":11062,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11058","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11058","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11058"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11058\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11070,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11058\/revisions\/11070"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11062"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}