Last Sunday evening, at least a hundred people flocked to a road median on West Garfield Boulevard and South King Drive to celebrate the Washington Park neighborhood’s first tree-lighting ceremony in recent memory. The ceremony was hosted to shine a bright spot in a year marked by the coronavirus pandemic and social upheaval throughout the country, but it also represented the evolution of a neighborhood that has banded together through ups and downs, resident and Washington Park Chamber of Commerce CEO Donna Hampton-Smith said.
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