City of Cupertino, CA Cupertino Holiday Traditions, 6 Dec 2019

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From YouTube: Cupertino Tree Lighting Ceremony 2019

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Cupertino begins the holiday season with the annual Tree Lighting Ceremony, recorded December 6, 2019 at the Quinlan Community Center.

Comments are provided by Cupertino Mayor Steven Scharf and Assistant Director of Parks and Recreation Christine Hanel. Special holiday musical performances provided by Business Casual A Cappella. The event also includes a special visit from Santa.

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You hear me I'm, christineandal assistant, director of Parks and Recreation and I'd like to welcome or welcome you all to the 2019 tree lighting events. This is our entertainment here. Let's give a round of applause for business-casual.

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On behalf of the city of Cupertino, our council, our Commission's, our city manager, Deborah thing and all the city staff we'd like to thank you for coming out tonight and for taking part in this annual tradition, I.

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Would like to thank those of you that brought items of food and donated toys for the West Valley Community Services Agency. They greatly appreciate your generosity. I would like to take this opportunity to acknowledge our City Council and, if you look around, hopefully they can give away over here to the left of the stage we have honorable honorable mayor, Stephen, sharp.

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In the back of the room, we have Vice Mayor Darcy ball.

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I'm, not sure of the others have arrived yet, but we have councilmember Ling chow.

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Councilmember John Willie's in the back of the room, councilmember rod sinks. Are you here we appreciate all of them. They do a phenomenal job. We also have our wonderful city manager, Deborah thing in the back of the room and I'd like to acknowledge our Parks and Recreation commissioners, chair parks, Erick, commission, Nisha, Tom, babe, Gopal, Kumar, Robin, Mina's, Zoo, Helene, Davis and Carol Stanek. Thank you. If you're out there in the crowd, we appreciate all you do we also have planning Commissioner Kitty more in the back of the room. Thank you and I hope.

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I haven't missed any others, but if you are here, we appreciate you coming out tonight next I'd like to introduce our mayor, Steven sharp I.

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Good evening, I think maybe, instead of tree lighting, all the kids would rather go home and do more homework. Is that true, who wants to go, do more homework instead of the tree? Lighting raise your hand.

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No one. Oh I see one person that wants to do more homework.

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Well, this is always an exciting event. Last year, I think we had it outside, but in case of rain we moved it inside I, don't see Santa Claus arriving yet I don't see a chimney, but I think I think around. Here he comes in through the air conditioner because there is no chimney in this building. So look he might come in through that vent up there, I'm not sure I.

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See him yet he may have to come.

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By car anyway, thank you all for coming and thank you for my fellow City Council members and our city manager, Deb Fong. This is her first tree lighting as city manager, so she's really excited about it.

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Okay, okay, so I was going to give a 45-minute speech, but someone told me I'm not allowed to do that so I'm going to turn it back over to Christine. Thank you.

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And now business casual.

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First century holidays.

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I would like to acknowledge one of our Santa's elves over here Carol's Stanek, Parks and Rec Commissioner. You want to give a wave okay, tonight's event kicks off the holiday season here in the city of Cupertino. I would like to acknowledge our amazing Public Works Department. We could not do this event without their help.

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Public Works Department the tree division in particular, pains the lights on the tree and, believe me, this is not an easy task, especially with the weather we've been having this past week. The Public Works facility division helps us with the inside large tree. That's displayed right here in that lobby of the Quinlan community center. Let's give a round of applause to our public works department.

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Okay, we've really hoped tonight you enjoy the planned activities.

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Besides the tree lighting tonight we will have cookies and hot chocolate. How can I get a thumbs up who likes cookies? In our chocolate?

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We will have arts and crafts activities.

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We will have a special movie shrimp, the halls who likes shrek the halls I like that one wait, a minute wait, a minute. Everybody stop I need everybody's attention. I need everybody's attention. There is something missing from this list. We have cookies and hot chocolate. We have crafts, we have a movie, we have the tree lighting.

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Where's Kelsey Kelsey, we Cheryl why I thought. Why isn't Santa on the list? Oh my gosh I hope we didn't forget. We have been so busy with all the decorations. We might have forgotten about Santa.

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I know this is the problem right: okay, here's the good news, because I'm a mom I have his phone number okay, this time of year, I keep that phone number on speed, dial, hey right here! This is the right mom. Does every mom in the audience have Santa on speed dial at home right because in December you have to behave right, Wright's, mom's, okay, let's see if we can call up Santa and make sure he's planning on coming by for a visit.

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Uh-Oh it's ringing, Shh I can't hear I can't hear with all this chatter, hello, hello, mrs. Claus, mrs. Claus. This is Christine from the city of Cupertino is Santa. There I need to talk to him. This is very, very important. Okay, hi Santa is that you are you eating cookies, okay, anyways Santa. We have our tree lighting tonight and I was reviewing the agenda and you're not on the agenda, so I thought I'd, better, call you and make sure you're gonna be here, because I think I have a million children here right.

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Has anybody counted all right? Maybe it's two million there's, probably two million children in the building and they're waiting for you. So we hope you could make it Cupertino wants to see you tonight.

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Okay, he said he's on his way.

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Okay, so he has a ways to get here. He's got to get those reindeer hooked up on the sleigh right, so maybe what we can do is maybe business casual has a song that they can sing that might lure Santa our way, so he doesn't get lost. What do you think business casual? Can you help us out? You guys can do this. You've got this.

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Santé, there's a big storm coming tonight and we were worried you weren't gonna, make it I, know: okay Santa. This is what we need from you tonight. We need your help lighting our tree, and we have this handy, handy, dandy, light switch right up here on the stage that Santa's gonna help turn on the lights mayor come on up. We need your help. This is a big job for Santa.

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Okay, now before we do, the light switch I need help from everybody in the audience. We're gonna do a countdown we're gonna start with 100 right we're gonna start with ten nine.

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Yeah the lights on outside.

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We have two trees, one outside you can enjoy and one inside. Thank you so much mayor sharp. We couldn't have done it without you.

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Just a few announcements, please listen and I don't want any pushing or shoving. We have to be very careful due to our weather predictions for tonight. We've moved all of our activities indoors.

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Hot chocolate and cookies, we'll be down in the Cupertino room.

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Arts and crafts will be in the craft room Shrek, the halls will be activity, room which is at the end of the hall and Santa will be in the social room.

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Special thanks to all of you for coming out tonight. Please stick around enjoy the festivities. Thank you special thank you to business, casual for the musical entertainment and thank you to everyone who donated to West Valley Community Services, on behalf of the city of Cupertino, Happy, Holidays and much peace and joy to you all. Thank you.