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SPRING TWP., Pa.\u00a0\u2013 A holiday tradition is up and running for its 37th year in Berks County. It’s the “Holiday Lights at Gring’s Mill.”<\/a><\/p>\n

“Can’t go wrong with the weather. You got the beautiful moon tonight, and the lights are gorgeous,” said Dave Ray, Schuylkill County.<\/p>\n

It’s a pathway of lights, music and the magic of Christmas.<\/p>\n

“This is our opening night of our annual holiday lights event,” said Dan Roe, assistant director of parks and recreation for Berks County.<\/p>\n

At Gring’s Mill, memories are made.<\/p>\n

“This is the best place to come to during the wintertime. It’s so much fun. You can even take pictures with Santa Claus over there. You can listen to music; the guy sings different songs. Sometimes they sing Spanish, if I’m correct, and it’s amazing,” said Anthony Aguirre, a visitor.<\/p>\n

For 37 years, the event has brought holiday magic and lights to Berks County.<\/p>\n

“There’s a couple new things to see,” Roe said. “We have a new train; that’s probably the highlight of the new displays, and with the musical entertainment, every night’s a little bit different with the performances.”<\/p>\n

People from near and far take part in the tradition.<\/p>\n

“It’s festive. You get people outdoors, and you get history\u00a0\u2014 the local history. It brings people to the area. And families, I see kids; it brings everyone together,” Ray said.<\/p>\n

This season is all about love, family and remembering to count your blessings.<\/p>\n

“My dad loves me, and mama loves me, and uncle loves me,” said Azrael Adames, a visitor.<\/p>\n

Even though the snow is melting off the ground, visitors say the event makes it feel like the North Pole.<\/p>\n

“I just tried a snowman, and to make the arms more realistic, you put sticks, and then put a ball down, and add another stick and put snow on it, and it looks like actually has arms. It’s amazing.” Aguire said.<\/p>\n

Open until Dec. 23, visitors can come take pictures with Santa and make memories that will last a lifetime.<\/p>\n

“Usually we’ll have anywhere from 2, 3, 4, 500 people a night with good weather. So those numbers do add up for us over the course of the month,” Roe said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SPRING TWP., Pa.\u00a0\u2013 A holiday tradition is up and running for its 37th year in Berks County. It’s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":51884,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[29470,29471,128,130,129],"class_list":["post-51883","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-dan-roe","tag-gring","tag-reading-city","tag-reading-city-headlines","tag-reading-city-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51883","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51883"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51883\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51884"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}