Lisa Huang tries to seize her 2-year-old son, Ryden, so the household can take an image with Santa on the Tree Lighting Celebration in downtown Mountain View on December 5, 2022. {Photograph} by Magali Gauthier.
Final night, Downtown Mountain View stuffed with cheers as string lights flashed across the branches of a tree in entrance of metropolis corridor. Close by, a gaggle of kids squealed as their flip to fulfill Santa Claus approached. The Miramonte Faculty Bell Choir performed a vacation tune within the chilly night time on a stage arrange on the nook of Castro and Mercy streets.
Recreation Supervisor Kristine Crosby stated the December 5 festivities are a part of Mountain View’s annual Group Tree Lighting celebration, an occasion that has solely grown in dimension and recognition for the reason that Pandemic. He has labored with town and helped set up the occasion for the previous 4 years, however has lived in Mountain View for the previous 14 years and participates within the annual custom, he advised The Voice whereas working on the occasion.
“Our enrollment at occasions has skyrocketed for the reason that pandemic,” Crosby stated. “Folks actually need to regroup.”
A lit vacation tree sparkles on the tree lighting celebration in downtown Mountain View on December 5, 2022. {Photograph} by Magali Gauthier.
With tree lighting now a purely out of doors occasion, Crosby stated final yr town closed further blocks on Castro Road and a part of Mercy Road for the primary time to unfold the custom on the streets. The closure of the streets this yr has given method to a “World Large Trip” prepare trip that could be very widespread with the little ones.
“We had been so profitable final yr that we did it once more,” Crosby stated of the road closures.
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