This Christmas Eve, Dec. 24, 2,000 luminaries will light up the streets of Matlacha. This 40-year tradition began in 1985, thanks to Yvonne Roach who organized the event. <\/p>\n
At 2 p.m., neighborhood Santa\u2019s elves were set to gather at the Green lot at 11681 Island Avenue to assemble the luminaries. The luminaries will then e delivered throughout the streets by volunteers. <\/p>\n
At dusk, neighbors will be lighting the candles. For further merriment, please turn Christmas music 106.3 FM on your outside radio.<\/p>\n
The Luminary Committee will also have a 7-foot Christmas tree placed mid-Island Avenue to enhance celebrating the 40 years.<\/p>\n
This annual Christmas Eve celebration is a success with the help of all that have contributed toward the purchasing of materials, making and delivering the luminaries. The Luminary Committee extends a special thank you to John and Cheryl Honc for the donation of sand and to Mr. Green for the use of his lot.<\/p>\n
The Christmas festivities will also feature a \u201clive\u201d nativity setting hosted by CW Fudge Factory at 4548 Pine Island Road, N.W., with 6 p.m. and 7 p.m. showings.<\/p>\n
For more information, please call the Luminary Committee chairperson at 814-404-0378.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This Christmas Eve, Dec. 24, 2,000 luminaries will light up the streets of Matlacha. This 40-year tradition began…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":95582,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[209,211,210],"class_list":{"0":"post-95581","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cape-coral","8":"tag-cape-coral","9":"tag-cape-coral-headlines","10":"tag-cape-coral-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95581","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=95581"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95581\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/95582"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}