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Friday, November 18, 2011

Willow Grove Holiday Tree Lighting Celebration Scheduled

Township commissioners praise Kiwanis Club for selecting a more energy efficient artificial tree.

The tradition of a Holiday Tree Lighting ceremony will return to Upper Moreland on Nov. 27, in large part through the efforts of the Kiwanis Club of Old York Road. But instead of the township’s traditional real tree, an artificial LED tree will be installed. The township commissioners approved of the holiday tree lighting ceremony at the commissioners regular meeting, which took place earlier this week. “I’m very glad to see that it’s an LED tree, because it’s very energy efficient,” Ward 3 commissioner Donna Parsell said at the meeting. According to the Kiwanis-supplied documents, which the township commissioners reviewed before the vote, an artificial LED tree is over 70-percent more energy efficient than a tree lit with conventional …

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