{"id":13005,"date":"2014-12-04T14:37:57","date_gmt":"2014-12-04T19:37:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tripcentral.ca\/blog\/?p=13005"},"modified":"2020-06-22T16:36:06","modified_gmt":"2020-06-22T20:36:06","slug":"festival-trees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tripcentral.ca\/blog\/festival-trees\/","title":{"rendered":"Festival of Trees"},"content":{"rendered":"

To raise funds for BC Children\u2019s Hospital, the Festival of Trees transforms lobbies across the province into holiday wonderlands. Communities come together and vote on their favourite tree, sponsored and decorated by local businesses or individuals. If you\u2019re visiting one of these cities this holiday season, be sure to stop in for a look to join in the celebration and support the cause!<\/p>\n

VANCOUVER<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"Vancouver<\/a><\/p>\n

Vote Until January 5, 2015 at the Four Seasons Hotel Vancouver<\/a> and Pacific Centre Mall. Last year, over $148,000 was raised with more than 1,000 votes on 41 trees.<\/p>\n

Fill out a voting envelope on-site and make a donation to BC Children\u2019s Hospital, text WISH to 41010 to give $5 and vote for your favourite tree, or vote online through each individual tree\u2019s fundraising page.<\/p>\n

VICTORIA<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"Victoria<\/a><\/p>\n

Vote until January 6, 2015 at The Fairmont Empress<\/a>. Last year, over $205,400 was raised with more than 20,000 votes and 73 trees.<\/p>\n

Donate to vote on-site or online. Every $2.00 raised by the tree is counted as one vote.<\/p>\n

The Festival of Trees is also hosted in the following British Columbia communities: Sooke, Naniamo, Port Alberni, and Osoyoos.<\/p>\n

Learn more at www.bcchf.ca\/fot<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

To raise funds for BC Children\u2019s Hospital, the Festival of Trees transforms lobbies across the province into holiday wonderlands. Communities come together and vote on their favourite tree, sponsored and decorated by local businesses or individuals. If you\u2019re visiting one of these cities this holiday season, be sure to stop in for a look to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":13008,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":""},"categories":[3551],"tags":[],"modified_by":"Amanda Stancati","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tripcentral.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13005"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tripcentral.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tripcentral.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tripcentral.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tripcentral.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13005"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.tripcentral.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13005\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22041,"href":"https:\/\/www.tripcentral.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13005\/revisions\/22041"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tripcentral.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13008"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tripcentral.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tripcentral.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tripcentral.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}