indianrocksbeach.com<\/a>, or call city hall at 727-595-2517.<\/p>\nBelleair Bluffs<\/p>\n
Although the 2024 special events were not affected by the storms due to the city\u2019s size, location and elevation, this year the Bluffs\u2019 holiday schedule has been tweaked to provide a more streamlined experience for organizers and for revelers.<\/p>\n
The annual Bluffs Christmas tree lighting is scheduled for Friday, Dec. 5, from 6-8 p.m., while Christmas at the Plaza, a shop-and-sip event designed to spur holiday shopping and dining at the adjacent Belleair Bluffs Plaza, moved to Thursday evening from 6-8 pm to ease area congestion, according to officials.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe Plaza event is now on Dec. 4,\u201d City Administrator Debra Sullivan said during the Nov. 17 city commission meeting. \u201cWe used to do it together, but they were both so well-attended that it became unsafe with traffic. It was too congested. So, visit them on December 4 and us on December 5.\u201d<\/p>\n
Sullivan also noted that the snow slide, a major cause of congestion in the past, has been replaced with a hayride.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019re having tractor-driven hayrides that will seat 20 people,\u201d Sullivan said, calling the snow slide a vendor-driven nightmare for event organizers.<\/p>\n
City Clerk Alexis Silcox said the sign-up for Santa to deliver gifts to kids\u2019 homes on Dec. 23 is underway at city hall through Monday, Dec. 15.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf you would like to have Santa come deliver gifts to your children at their residence starting at around 4 p.m., come and sign up and bring your gits to city hall,\u201d Silcox said, noting to \u201cmake sure your gifts are properly labeled\u201d to include the delivery address, phone number, and child\u2019s name and age on the package.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe Largo Fire Department does that for us,\u201d Sullivan said. \u201cIt\u2019s one of the many wonderful things they do.\u201d<\/p>\n
Largo<\/p>\n
Largo\u2019s Old Fashioned Christmas Parade is such an ingrained tradition that the 20-year-old event sponsored by the local Rotary Club has its own Facebook page with more than 1,500 followers.<\/p>\n
While the long-running procession has experienced hiccups in recent years, including its first-ever cancellation due to inclement weather in 2023, this year\u2019s parade, scheduled for Saturday, Dec. 20, starting at noon in the West Bay Drive downtown district, promises to be another crowd-pleaser.<\/p>\n
\u201cMark your calendars and check out our sponsors!\u201d read a Nov. 12 post on the event\u2019s popular Facebook page. \u201cWe are excited to announce that we are at capacity for the 2025 Old Fashioned Christmas Parade!\u201d<\/p>\n
Largo\u2019s Old Fashioned Christmas Parade is special because it combines community pride with colorful pageantry, featuring high school athletes and local dance troupes, city officials and business owners riding in monster trucks, classic cars and modified Jeeps. Sometimes Mayor Woody Brown even rides a bicycle.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is such a great event for our community, seeing all the smiles on everyone\u2019s faces,\u201d Brown said in December 2022 as he took a break from patrolling the parade route on his bike.\u201cIt\u2019s what Largo is all about.\u201d<\/p>\n
For more information on Largo\u2019s Old Fashioned Christmas Parade, visit the event\u2019s Facebook page or largo.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The 2025 Atlantic hurricane season concluded Nov. 30, and Mother Nature showed mercy on the Sunshine State and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":68768,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[29246,32794,28779,1186,27392,4085,202,204,203,199,201,200],"class_list":{"0":"post-68767","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-st-petersburg","8":"tag-belleair-bluffs","9":"tag-christmas-parade","10":"tag-christmas-tree-lighting","11":"tag-holidays","12":"tag-indian-rocks-beach","13":"tag-largo","14":"tag-st-pete","15":"tag-st-pete-headlines","16":"tag-st-pete-news","17":"tag-st-petersburg","18":"tag-st-petersburg-headlines","19":"tag-st-petersburg-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68767","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=68767"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68767\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68768"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}