{"id":75222,"date":"2025-11-30T05:51:50","date_gmt":"2025-11-30T05:51:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/75222\/"},"modified":"2025-11-30T05:51:50","modified_gmt":"2025-11-30T05:51:50","slug":"bakersfield-celebrates-holiday-season-with-tree-lighting-and-teddy-bear-toss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/75222\/","title":{"rendered":"Bakersfield celebrates holiday season with tree lighting and teddy bear toss"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 The community of Bakersfield came together for the 9th annual tree lighting ceremony in front of Dignity Health Arena in downtown. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"The community of Bakersfield came together for the 9th annual tree lighting ceremony in front of Dignity Health Arena in downtown. (KBAK\/KBFX)\" class=\"ImageEmbed_image__qZBo_\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/948785ba-4e14-4329-91c0-8da0294e575e-Image78.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The community of Bakersfield came together for the 9th annual tree lighting ceremony in front of Dignity Health Arena in downtown. (KBAK\/KBFX)<\/p>\n<p>The festive event featured appearances by Santa and Mrs. Claus, along with treats and live music. <\/p>\n<p>Eyewitness News Morning Anchor and Weatherman Aaron Perlman emceed this year&#8217;s celebration, adding to the holiday cheer.<\/p>\n<p>Immediately following the event, the Bakersfield Condors hosted their annual &#8216;Teddy Bear Toss&#8217; inside the arena. <\/p>\n<p>The first goal by the Condors was scored just minutes into the game, prompting the toss. All the toys collected will be donated to local kids in need. <\/p>\n<p>Eyewitness News sponsored the event, with Aaron Perlman also in attendance. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 The community of Bakersfield came together for the 9th annual tree lighting ceremony in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":75223,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152],"class_list":{"0":"post-75222","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bakersfield","8":"tag-bakersfield","9":"tag-bakersfield-headlines","10":"tag-bakersfield-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75222","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75222"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75222\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/75223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}