{"id":137587,"date":"2025-11-13T13:13:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-13T13:13:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/137587\/"},"modified":"2025-11-13T13:13:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-13T13:13:09","slug":"community-pride-over-beacon-of-light-sculpture-in-wednesfield","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/137587\/","title":{"rendered":"Community pride over Beacon of Light sculpture in Wednesfield"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Jay Baso, owner of Elegant Frames and Mirrors and chair of Wednesfield Business Alliance, helped co-ordinate community involvement in the design. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He said: &#8220;I am hugely proud to have been involved in this project and would like to take the opportunity to thank all those involved.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;The sculpture represents all the things that are great about Wednesfield. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It&#8217;s a beacon of positivity for all to see and will hopefully be loved and cherished for generations to come.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Councillor Chris Burden, cabinet member for city development, jobs and skills, said: &#8220;The Wednesfield community has once again come together to create a fantastic sculpture that does the town proud and signifies all its best qualities and history.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;The council was delighted to play a supporting role in helping secure funding for the sculpture and I&#8217;d like to thank our landscape architect and the highways team for working hard with the community to deliver this.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jay Baso, owner of Elegant Frames and Mirrors and chair of Wednesfield Business Alliance, helped co-ordinate community involvement&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":137588,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[307,304,305,306,308,93,61,60],"class_list":{"0":"post-137587","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arts-and-design","8":"tag-arts","9":"tag-arts-and-design","10":"tag-artsanddesign","11":"tag-artsdesign","12":"tag-design","13":"tag-entertainment","14":"tag-ie","15":"tag-ireland"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137587","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=137587"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137587\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/137588"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}