{"id":773,"date":"2013-12-02T12:00:46","date_gmt":"2013-12-02T17:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.purlsheetmetal.com\/blog\/?p=773"},"modified":"2013-12-02T12:05:08","modified_gmt":"2013-12-02T17:05:08","slug":"20th-annual-madera-light-parade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.purlsheetmetal.com\/blog\/20th-annual-madera-light-parade\/","title":{"rendered":"20th Annual Madera Light Parade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The 20<sup>th<\/sup> Annual Madera Light Parade is scheduled for Thursday Dec 5,2013.\u00a0 The light parade is an annual tradition in Madera that kicks off the Holiday Season with a spectacular Christmas celebration of lights.\u00a0 The event is hosted by the Madera Kiwanis Club and the Downtown Association.<\/p>\n<p>The light parade began 20 years ago as a procession of tractors and farm equipment down Yosemite Avenue in Madera, Ca.\u00a0 It was a great way to celebrate the end of the harvest and kick off the Holiday Season. \u00a0Today, the parade route continues down Yosemite Avenue and still includes tractors &amp; harvesters as well as fire trucks, cars, semi trucks, flatbed trailers and just about anything else.\u00a0 There is only one qualification to enter\u2026each vehicle must have a minimum of 100 lighted Christmas lights.\u00a0\u00a0 Madera residents line the streets of Yosemite Avenue and cheer for their favorite entries.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.purlsheetmetal.com\/\">Purl\u2019s Sheet Metal &amp; Air Conditioning<\/a> will be entering the parade again with their fleet of antique fire apparatus decorated and loaded with Purl\u2019s Sheet Metal employees and families.\u00a0\u00a0 It is a great evening for us to bbq hot dogs, drink hot cocoa and sing some Christmas carols. \u00a0 The Purl\u2019s Sheet Metal &amp; Air Conditioning fleet includes, 1979 Crown Fire Coach Pumper, 1951 American LaFrance Pumper &amp; 1948 American LaFrance Aerial Ladder Truck.<\/p>\n<p>The parade begins at 6pm and also offers tickets to the wine stroll through downtown businesses with appetizers and wine tasting from more than 15 local Madera Wineries. \u00a0Contact the Madera Chamber of Commerce for tickets.<\/p>\n\n\t\t<style type=\"text\/css\">\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 {\n\t\t\t\tmargin: auto;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-item {\n\t\t\t\tfloat: left;\n\t\t\t\tmargin-top: 10px;\n\t\t\t\ttext-align: center;\n\t\t\t\twidth: 33%;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 img {\n\t\t\t\tborder: 2px solid #cfcfcf;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-caption {\n\t\t\t\tmargin-left: 0;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t\/* see gallery_shortcode() in wp-includes\/media.php *\/\n\t\t<\/style>\n\t\t<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-773 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.purlsheetmetal.com\/blog\/20th-annual-madera-light-parade\/img_8516-copy-2\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.purlsheetmetal.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/IMG_8516-Copy-2-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-774\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-774'>\n\t\t\t\tPurl&#8217;s Sheet Metal family next to one of the decorated trucks.\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.purlsheetmetal.com\/blog\/20th-annual-madera-light-parade\/img_8524-2\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.purlsheetmetal.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/IMG_8524-2-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-775\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-775'>\n\t\t\t\tPurl&#8217;s Sheet Metal family ready to join the parade.\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.purlsheetmetal.com\/blog\/20th-annual-madera-light-parade\/img_8540-2\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.purlsheetmetal.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/IMG_8540-2-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-776\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-776'>\n\t\t\t\tEnjoying some BBQ!\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><br style=\"clear: both\" \/>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 20th Annual Madera Light Parade is scheduled for Thursday Dec 5,2013.  The light parade is an annual tradition in Madera that kicks off the Holiday Season with a spectacular Christmas celebration of lights.  The event is hosted by the Madera Kiwanis Club and the Downtown Association.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[71,77],"tags":[167,166,165,159,161,163,160,170,117,162,168,169,164],"class_list":["post-773","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-community-involvement","category-happy-holidays","tag-1948-american-lafrance-aerial-ladder-truck","tag-1951-american-lafrance-pumper","tag-1979-crown-fire-coach-pumper","tag-20th-annual-madera-light-parade","tag-christmas","tag-downtown-association","tag-holiday-season","tag-madera-ca","tag-madera-chamber-of-commerce","tag-madera-kiwanis-club","tag-madera-wineries","tag-wine-tasting","tag-yosemite-avenue"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.purlsheetmetal.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/773","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.purlsheetmetal.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.purlsheetmetal.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.purlsheetmetal.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.purlsheetmetal.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=773"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.purlsheetmetal.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/773\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":779,"href":"https:\/\/www.purlsheetmetal.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/773\/revisions\/779"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.purlsheetmetal.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.purlsheetmetal.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.purlsheetmetal.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}