A few people contacted me about tonight’s Christmas tree lighting tonight at 6 pm, as there weren’t many details about it on the internet. Turns out it’s being organized by the District Church, a new church in Columbia Heights. Here’s more about it from them:
Just wanted to let you know that it’s been us at The District Church who’ve been working with the city to organize the Christmas tree (and lighting) at the Columbia Heights Plaza. We just started a church in the neighborhood a couple months ago, and thought it’d be a perfect location to bring folks together for some good ol’ Christmas/holiday cheer!
The reason you haven’t seen much publicity anywhere is that we’ve been working to make sure that it was lined up first–the plan is to distribute fliers and postcards around the area this weekend.
As mentioned, the tree will be on the Civic Plaza, at 14th/Park/Kenyon. Personally I think it’s a neat idea, but you could make an argument that this is a religious emblem, which I think some folks on PoP said — your thoughts?
