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Aaron Maybin<\/p>\nPublished:\u00a0November 19, 2025 at 6:02 PM<\/p>\n
Light Up the Beach illuminates Fort Lauderdale with 50,000 holiday lights <\/p>\n
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. \u2014 Crews were busy Wednesday preparing for one of Fort Lauderdale\u2019s most cherished seasonal traditions: Light Up the Beach, an annual holiday celebration designed for the whole family.<\/p>\n
Workers set up bounce houses for children while food trucks and local vendors lined the beachfront. One of the event\u2019s biggest draws \u2014 Santa Claus \u2014 is also expected to make an appearance, taking his seat in a decorated chair along the shoreline.<\/p>\n
The celebration features more than 50,000 holiday lights stretching along the beach. A Christmas tree, a menorah and a towering 20-foot inflatable snowman named Olas \u2014 positioned near Las Olas Boulevard and South Fort Lauderdale Boulevard \u2014 are set to anchor the display. <\/p>\n
City officials said they anticipate a large crowd as residents and visitors kick off the holiday season.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe hope everyone walks away with some holiday spirit,\u201d said Todd Stilphen, the city\u2019s community program manager. \u201cIt\u2019s kind of hard, being in South Florida, to get in the spirit. But when they see everything we have here tonight \u2014 the arts and crafts, the vendors \u2014 I hope they can just get into the holiday spirit.\u201d<\/p>\n
The event begins at 5:30 p.m., with the lighting of the displays \u2014 including Olas the snowman \u2014 scheduled for 6:30 p.m. A concert will follow at 7 p.m.<\/p>\n
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Aaron came to Local 10 from Milwaukee, Wisconsin, where he worked as a weekend morning anchor and reporter at WITI-TV.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published:\u00a0November 19, 2025 at 6:02 PM Light Up the Beach illuminates Fort Lauderdale with 50,000 holiday lights FORT…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":53351,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[249,251,250],"class_list":["post-53350","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-lauderdale","tag-fort-lauderdale","tag-fort-lauderdale-headlines","tag-fort-lauderdale-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53350","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53350"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53350\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53351"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}