{"id":30814,"date":"2025-11-19T12:37:55","date_gmt":"2025-11-19T17:37:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/?p=30814"},"modified":"2025-11-19T12:37:56","modified_gmt":"2025-11-19T17:37:56","slug":"decatur-to-kick-off-holiday-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/2025\/11\/19\/decatur-to-kick-off-holiday-season\/","title":{"rendered":"Decatur to kick off holiday season"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>By BOB SHRALUKA<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>WZBD.com<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The upcoming weekend will officially kick off the holiday season in Decatur with two days of events, including the annual Christmas Tree Lighting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Decatur Main Street will hold its annual Downtown &amp; Around Christmas Open House on Friday and Saturday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The tree lighting festivities are also scheduled for Friday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A total of 28 businesses are participating in this year&#8217;s open house, most of them in the downtown area; among others are some 13th St. businesses, the hospital and Highway 27 Landscape Supply north of the city.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"400\" height=\"328\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wzbd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Tree-lighting.jpg?resize=400%2C328&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-30815\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wzbd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Tree-lighting.jpg?w=400&amp;ssl=1 400w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wzbd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Tree-lighting.jpg?resize=300%2C246&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Participating merchants will be offering sales, refreshments, and holiday treats.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Punch cards will be available at each individual store for the chance to win a door prize.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Decatur Chamber of Commerce will host a Holiday Raffle to benefit Decatur Main Street. Prizes are $1,000, $750, $500, and $250.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tickets are $20 each and available from any Decatur Main Street board member.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Santa will be in his Santa Shack on the Madison St. Plaza from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Main Street&#8217;s new holiday decorations will be on display for the first time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>LIGHT UP: Santa will be back in his shack from 4 to 6 p.m. Friday as part of the tree lighting ceremonies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Free carriage rides will be offered from 4:30 to 6:30, and entries in the gingerbread house contest will be available for viewing from 4 to 8 p.m. in the Hive Art Gallery.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The tree lighting is scheduled for 6 p.m., followed by a toy giveaway.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Festivities will also include live caroling throughout the evening, and soup and drinks will be available for purchase from Decatur Church of God members.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By BOB SHRALUKA WZBD.com The upcoming weekend will officially kick off the holiday season in Decatur with two<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":30815,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[17,14,15],"class_list":["post-30814","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community","tag-community","tag-decatur","tag-featured"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wzbd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Tree-lighting.jpg?fit=400%2C328&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30814","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30814"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30814\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30816,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30814\/revisions\/30816"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30815"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}