{"id":132666,"date":"2025-11-13T08:41:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-13T08:41:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/132666\/"},"modified":"2025-11-13T08:41:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-13T08:41:07","slug":"community-pride-over-beacon-of-light-sculpture-in-wednesfield","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/132666\/","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":132667,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[442,498,499,500,501,156,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-132666","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-artsdesign","tag-design","tag-entertainment","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132666","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=132666"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132666\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/132667"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}