{"id":606071,"date":"2025-12-01T22:02:15","date_gmt":"2025-12-01T22:02:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/606071\/"},"modified":"2025-12-01T22:02:15","modified_gmt":"2025-12-01T22:02:15","slug":"wallyford-gala-king-and-queen-to-switch-on-festive-lights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/606071\/","title":{"rendered":"Wallyford: Gala king and queen to switch on festive lights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  The Christmas parade will leave Wallyford Miners Club at 6.30pm, accompanied by Preston Lodge High School Pipe Band.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  It will make its way to the mining memorial stone, where gala king Cameron Howie and gala queen Maja Gorecka Drozdz will carry out the official Christmas tree switch-on. The Rev Andrew Agnew, of Wallyford Community Church, will be in attendance at the ceremony.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  There will be the chance to meet Santa at Wallyford Community Church after the parade.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  A spokesperson for Wallyford Community Council, which organises the festive lights, said: \u201cOur community has done an amazing job this year with fundraising all year to allow us to have the lights on Salters Road the same as\u00a0last year.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;We cannot guarantee this will continue for years to come, but we have all worked hard to allow it to happen this year.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Christmas parade will leave Wallyford Miners Club at 6.30pm, accompanied by Preston Lodge High School Pipe Band.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":606072,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8816],"tags":[748,1102,4884,712,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-606071","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-edinburgh","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-edinburgh","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-scotland","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/606071","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=606071"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/606071\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/606072"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=606071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=606071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=606071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}