{"id":65102,"date":"2025-11-26T00:01:06","date_gmt":"2025-11-26T00:01:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/65102\/"},"modified":"2025-11-26T00:01:06","modified_gmt":"2025-11-26T00:01:06","slug":"gingerbread-festival-to-benefit-echo-west-texas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/65102\/","title":{"rendered":"Gingerbread Festival to benefit ECHO West Texas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) &#8211; ECHO West Texas will host the Gingerbread Festival on December 16 from 4 to 9 p.m. at the Lubbock Civic Center.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The event benefits ECHO West Texas, a local nonprofit that serves as a coordinated system of care for families experiencing homelessness. Every ticket purchased directly supports their mission and helps provide resources for more families this holiday season<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The family-friendly event will feature a gingerbread house competition where local businesses compete to be judged by local celebrities. Other activities include pancakes with Santa, a holiday market with local small business vendors, photos and festive d\u00e9cor throughout the venue, giveaways and raffles, and special appearances with fun activities for all ages.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Three ticket types are available. The Santa\u2019s Workshop Ticket costs $50 and includes full entry plus a gingerbread house kit and access to the candy and decorating bar. Pancakes with Santa tickets cost $20 and include a meal with Santa and full access to watch the competition and shop the marketplace. The Festival Market Pass costs $5 and provides access to shop and enjoy the holiday market.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Tickets can be purchased by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.givesignup.org\/TicketEvent\/GingerbreadFestival\/Register\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.givesignup.org\/TicketEvent\/GingerbreadFestival\/Register\">clicking here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The event is sponsored by Slaton Bakery and produced in partnership with ECHO West Texas and Mo Productions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2025 KCBD. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) &#8211; ECHO West Texas will host the Gingerbread Festival on December 16 from 4 to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":65103,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[33897,2038,33899,33898,6540,696,66,168,170,169,223,2097],"class_list":{"0":"post-65102","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-lubbock","8":"tag-echo-west-texas","9":"tag-families","10":"tag-gingerbread","11":"tag-gingerbread-festival","12":"tag-homeless","13":"tag-homelessness","14":"tag-local","15":"tag-lubbock","16":"tag-lubbock-headlines","17":"tag-lubbock-news","18":"tag-news","19":"tag-nonprofit"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65102","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65102"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65102\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65103"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}