{"id":17241,"date":"2014-11-25T09:06:58","date_gmt":"2014-11-25T16:06:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/?p=17241"},"modified":"2020-04-14T16:10:27","modified_gmt":"2020-04-14T22:10:27","slug":"uccs-to-kick-off-50th-celebration-during-festival-of-lights-parade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/?p=17241","title":{"rendered":"UCCS to kick-off 50th celebration during Festival of Lights Parade"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure style=\"width: 960px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\" alt=\"\" width=\"960\" height=\"640\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The UCCS float during the 2012 Festival of Lights<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The UCCS Alumni and Friends Association, in cooperation with the Gallery of Contemporary Art, will provide free cocoa, cider and treats for alumni, students, faculty and staff during the Dec. 6 Colorado Springs Festival of Lights Parade at GOCA 121, 121 S. Tejon.<\/p>\n<p>During the parade,\u00a0UCCS will debut a new float to honor the university&#8217;s 50th anniversary year in 2015. The float was designed by Steve Tragesser, associate professor, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department, and built by a team of UCCS students led by Stephen Cucchiara, assistant director, Office of Student Activities.<\/p>\n<p>According to Jennifer Hane, director, Alumni Relations, celebrating the university&#8217;s 50th anniversary at the Festival of Lights was an obvious choice.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;While our anniversary technically isn\u2019t until January 2015, we wanted to kick-off celebrations with alumni, current students, faculty and staff, as well as the Colorado Springs community,\u201d Hane said. \u201cThe UCCS float is a staple in the annual parade, and what better way to celebrate than being surrounded by friends and family?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Refreshments will be available in GOC 121 beginning at 5:30 p.m. while the parade begins at 5:50 p.m. Gifts will be available for the first 300 attendees.<\/p>\n<p>Those who wish to attend the event must\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/secure.www.alumniconnections.com\/olc\/pub\/UCOC\/event\/showEventForm.jsp?form_id=183041\">register by Dec. 1<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>The UCCS Alumni and Friends Association, in cooperation with the Gallery of Contemporary Art, will provide free cocoa, cider and treats for alumni, students, faculty and staff during the Dec. 6 Colorado Springs Festival of <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/?p=17241\" title=\"UCCS to kick-off 50th celebration during Festival of Lights Parade\">(More)<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":9128,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[343],"class_list":["post-17241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all","tag-50th-anniversary"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/399207_10151134265335718_1037592888_n.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1mBpJ-4u5","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17241","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17241"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17241\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":121067,"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17241\/revisions\/121067"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9128"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}