{"id":9411,"date":"2018-12-07T19:15:29","date_gmt":"2018-12-07T19:15:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/?p=9411"},"modified":"2018-12-07T19:15:29","modified_gmt":"2018-12-07T19:15:29","slug":"christmas-parade-festival-and-artisan-market-this-saturday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/?p=9411","title":{"rendered":"Christmas Parade, Festival and Artisan Market This Saturday"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_9420\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9420\" class=\"size-full wp-image-9420\" src=\"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/38105023384_35d0dabc25_k.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"397\" srcset=\"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/38105023384_35d0dabc25_k.jpg 600w, https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/38105023384_35d0dabc25_k-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/38105023384_35d0dabc25_k-405x268.jpg 405w, https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/38105023384_35d0dabc25_k-60x40.jpg 60w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-9420\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cheerleaders from one of the LFCISD elementary schools pose for a quick photo before marching in last year\u2019s parade. Photo: LFCISD Flickr page<\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong>by Tony Vindell\/LFN<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>The 2018 Christmas parade is ready to roll this Saturday in Los Fresnos.<\/p>\n<p>The annual event will start at 5 p.m. and will end at 6:30 p.m. this year under a \u201cSong of Christmas\u201d theme.<\/p>\n<p>Val Champion, executive director with Los Fresnos Chamber of Commerce, said the parade is held with the participation of the whole community.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone willing to be a part of such celebration is urged to contact the chamber by calling 956-233-4488.<\/p>\n<p>After the parade, the monthly Under the Stars Artisans Market will follow at the city\u2019s Memorial Park.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-9419\" src=\"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/27044679269_c1ff2d8965_k.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"397\" srcset=\"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/27044679269_c1ff2d8965_k.jpg 600w, https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/27044679269_c1ff2d8965_k-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The market has just completed its first year since it was launched in October 2017.<\/p>\n<p>Dozens of vendors, entertainers and school groups have been participating in the outdoors market that has become one the city\u2019s main attractions and it has been giving people something to do on a Saturday of each month.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-9424\" src=\"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Untitled-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"598\" srcset=\"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Untitled-1.jpg 600w, https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Untitled-1-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Untitled-1-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Untitled-1-50x50.jpg 50w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Tony Vindell\/LFN The 2018 Christmas parade is ready to roll this Saturday in Los Fresnos. The annual event will start at 5 p.m. and will end at 6:30 p.m. this year under a \u201cSong of Christmas\u201d theme. Val Champion, executive director with Los Fresnos Chamber of Commerce, said the parade is held with the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":9420,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9411","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\/9411","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=9411"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9411\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9425,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9411\/revisions\/9425"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9420"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}