Santa Claus came to town last week to make spirits bright at tree lightings in Mid Queens.<\/p>\n
At top right, the St. Stan\u2019s Performing Arts Players were among those who raised their voices to spread cheer at the Maspeth Chamber of Commerce\u2019s annual event Dec. 5. Above left, guests could greet Saint Nick himself in Maspeth Memorial Square.<\/p>\n
At top center, City Councilman Bob Holden posed for a photo with Girl Scouts from local troops, who helped provide festive music at Middle Village\u2019s event Dec. 5, sponsored by the Middle Village Chamber of Commerce, Queens Chamber of Commerce and Middle Village Residents Association. Santa was available for photo ops.<\/p>\n
At right and far right, the Kiwanis Club of Glendale\u2019s event was Dec. 7. Kids sang carols, sipped hot cocoa, received gifts and, of course, met Santa.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis community makes the season special,\u201d Holden said on Facebook.<\/p>\n
\u2014 Stephanie G. Meditz<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Santa Claus came to town last week to make spirits bright at tree lightings in Mid Queens. At…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":68217,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[23267,2606,35406,2608,2609,9,24,63,122,5807,124,123,20055],"class_list":["post-68216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","tag-bob-holden","tag-glendale","tag-kiwanis-club-of-glendale","tag-maspeth","tag-middle-village","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-queens","tag-queens-chamber-of-commerce","tag-queens-headlines","tag-queens-news","tag-tree-lighting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68216","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68216"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68216\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68217"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}