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Moorestown Christmas Tree Lighting: Photos

CORRECTION: Monday's tree lighting at the Community House was not the town's first. Moorestown used to hold a community Christmas tree lighting at Perkins Center for the Arts. Patch apologizes for the error.
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Hundreds of Moorestonians gathered on the front lawn of the Community House Monday night for the town's community Christmas tree lighting

Attendees spilled onto the walkways and sidewalks around the Community House to take in the festivities—which included music from the Moorestown High School Madrigals and a reading of “Elf on the Shelf” by local entertainer Chuck Gill—and get a glimpse of the tree.

George Schulmann, president of the Community House Board of Trustees, remarked that the crowd was bigger than organizers had anticipated.

The 20-foot Norway spruce—the same tree used at Rockefeller Center (though theirs is bigger)—was donated by the Palko family, in honor of Patricia Palko.

CBS3 did a live broadcast of the event, with meteorologist and Moorestown's own Kathy Orr anchoring the broadcast and providing the countdown to the tree lighting.


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