{"id":14240,"date":"2022-12-16T12:09:25","date_gmt":"2022-12-16T18:09:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/?p=14240"},"modified":"2022-12-16T12:09:43","modified_gmt":"2022-12-16T18:09:43","slug":"christmas-parade-and-fun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/?p=14240","title":{"rendered":"Christmas Parade and Fun"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Los Fresnos residents prepare for the big Los Fresnos Christmas parade. The photo was taken by the Los Fresnos Chamber of Commerce.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Emilio Flores
Los Fresnos News<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On Saturday, December 3, the Los Fresnos Chamber of Commerce organized its annual Christmas parade and festival. The event was enjoyed by many and brought together the City, organizations like HOSA and Communities in Schools, Boys & Girls club, local businesses, Rodeo, and more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n


At the end of the parade and during the Christmas Festival celebration, the Mayor, Alejandro Flores, handed out trophies to the first, second, and third-place winners with respect to their category. They had contestants for four categories: the best floats, the best band, the best Drill Team or Dancers, and even parade horses. The winners were announced and given trophies that evening at Memorial Park.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Lopez-Riggins Elementary Dance Team member beside Los Fresnos Mayor, Alejandro Flores. Photo was taken by the Los Fresnos Chamber of Commerce.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Los Fresnos elementary Conjunto band. Photo was taken by the Los Fresnos Chamber.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Los Fresnos elementary Conjunto band. Photo was taken by the Los Fresnos Chamber<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Liberty Memorial Middle School band. Photo was taken by the Los Fresnos Chamber.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n


The Festival, as mentioned, was at Memorial park and had Live music by The Texas Showdown band, an obstacle course, a train ride, a bouncer, a rock climbing wall, and some fun things from individual\u2019s booths.<\/p>\n\n\n\n


The entire Christmas parade & festival is a great endeavor that Val Champion, the Los Fresnos Chamber Director, says takes everyone coming together to accomplish. From Parade judges to volunteers, to vendors! They all are vital to making such an event possible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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About 700 goodie bags were provided by the Los Fresnos Chamber of Commerce, Students from HOSA helped pack all the goodie bags and direct kids in getting there picture<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Children get the chance to take a picture with Mr. & Mrs. Clause. Photo was taken by the Los Fresnos Chamber of Commerce.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n


What makes these festivals come together are the people that spend hours into making it happen. The Chamber of Commerce is the main hub for all planning when it comes to these events, in addition, they provide all the different blow-up houses, the rock climbing wall, the Train ride, and all other rentals.
Mr. Champion wanted to bring special attention to the volunteers from Communities in Schools and HOSA kids. Champion shares they had 15 volunteers help with supervising the festival being sure kids were being safe while still having fun. He thanks Aurora Brito with HOSA and Leticia Pereira with Communities in Schools.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Texas Showdown Band performing at the Los Fresnos Christmas Festival. Photo was taken by the Los Fresnos Chamber of Commerce.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Emilio FloresLos Fresnos News On Saturday, December 3, the Los Fresnos Chamber of Commerce organized its annual Christmas parade and festival. The event was enjoyed by many and brought together the City, organizations like HOSA and Communities in Schools, Boys & Girls club, local businesses, Rodeo, and more. At the end of the parade and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":14241,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,11,10,1],"tags":[67,113],"class_list":["post-14240","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-events","category-lfcisd","category-local","category-news","tag-featured","tag-local"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14240","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=14240"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14240\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14249,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14240\/revisions\/14249"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/14241"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}