{"id":41703,"date":"2022-12-15T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-12-15T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thelandmark.com\/?p=41703"},"modified":"2022-12-15T06:00:00","modified_gmt":"2022-12-15T11:00:00","slug":"sterling-lights-up-for-holidays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devcherryroad.com\/news2\/2022\/12\/15\/sterling-lights-up-for-holidays\/","title":{"rendered":"Sterling lights up for holidays"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"byline\"><b>By Danielle Ray <\/b><br \/>\n        <i>Landmark Correspondent<\/i><\/div>\n<p>STERLING \u2014 A merry band of elves and Santa Claus himself handed out cookies and hot cocoa to the people who stopped by the Sterling Senior Center Dec. 2 to kick off the town\u2019s Holiday Light Tour.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI love being able to greet and speak to everyone; it\u2019s more personal,\u201d said Recreation Department Director Shari Gonsorcik of the idea behind the drivethrough event.<\/p>\n<p>Her husband, Andy, and town resident Heidi Grady helped to give out goodies to the steady stream of vehicles that snaked through the parking lot, including one that had a cute puppy sticking its head out the window.<\/p>\n<p>Santa handed out the list of participating residences as he stood near the garage bay, where the Sterling Strummers were spreading holiday cheer from inside. The ukulele musicians treated visitors to cheerful holiday standards, including \u201cRudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer\u201d and of course \u201cMele Kalikimaka (Merry Christmas),\u201d \u201c\u2026the thing to say on a bright Hawaiian Christmas day.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>They all enjoyed chatting with those who came through. Andy, whose wife good naturedly referred to as \u201cMr. Recreation,\u201d remarked that there were many families and that \u201cyou see a lot of grandparents with their grandkids.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The crew donned festive holiday hats and handed out cups of hot cocoa to the excited children and their caregivers, along with delicious cookies baked by Meadowbrook Orchards. You could hear people calling out \u201cThank you!\u201d as they drove away to take a tour of the town\u2019s most festive homes, the true embodiment of the holiday spirit. For the Holiday Light Tour list and bonus local sights, visit sterling-ma.gov\/recreation- department\/pages\/ holiday-light-tourcookie- kick-off.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> STERLING \u2014 A merry band of elves and Santa Claus himself handed out cookies and hot cocoa to the people who stopped by the Sterling Senior Center Dec. 2 to kick off the town\u2019s Holiday Light Tour.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":41709,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_gspb_post_css":"","_sitemap_exclude":false,"_sitemap_priority":"","_sitemap_frequency":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41703","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devcherryroad.com\/news2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41703","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devcherryroad.com\/news2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devcherryroad.com\/news2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devcherryroad.com\/news2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devcherryroad.com\/news2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41703"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devcherryroad.com\/news2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41703\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devcherryroad.com\/news2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41709"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devcherryroad.com\/news2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devcherryroad.com\/news2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devcherryroad.com\/news2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}