{"id":1370729,"date":"2024-11-19T08:37:16","date_gmt":"2024-11-19T14:37:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1370729"},"modified":"2024-11-19T23:12:16","modified_gmt":"2024-11-20T05:12:16","slug":"troup-native-cooper-reid-lights-city-christmas-tree","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1370729","title":{"rendered":"Troup native, Cooper Reid lights city Christmas tree"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"TROUP — The City of Troup gathered together for \u2018Holiday in the Country\u2019 and to watch the second annual Christmas Tree lighting on Monday, according to our news partner KETK. The 30-foot-tall Christmas tree is now officially lit, kicking off the Christmas season in downtown Troup. It was a special night because the honorary tree lighter is Troup native, Cooper Reid. The family was asked to be the honorary Christmas tree lighters last year, but couldn\u2019t make it due to Cooper\u2019s condition. Now, it\u2019s one year later and he is greatly improving. In 2022, he was injured during a homecoming football game and since then, he has been on a journey to recovery since surviving a brain injury.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe were very honored and happy that we would be here this time, this year. Last year, I don\u2019t know that Cooper would have been able to even light the Christmas tree on his own, so I think that God worked it out just the right way, so that he was ready to do it on his time,\u201d said Susanne Reid, Cooper\u2019s mother.<\/p>\n

“It\u2019s been a slow process, but I mean, you know, there\u2019s good days and there\u2019s, you know, bad days and there\u2019s steps forward and steps back as usual in all cases,\u201d said Reid.<\/p>\n

When the tree lit up, like the smile on Cooper\u2019s face, everyone couldn\u2019t help but gleam of joy.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m just blessed in my heart. It makes me it feels really good like to just be able to see him and happy makes me happy and he was looking forward to this,\u201d said Reid.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s not all, \u201cHoliday in the Country\u201d had to offer, the entire community came together to shop local.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re not quite the little one horse town. Some folks make us out to be. We have some wonderful shops and businesses for people to not only feel their Christmas list, but also buy their groceries, get their feed and seed, but also buy some clothes and some really nice gifts,\u201d said Suzanne Loudamy, City of Troup.<\/p>\n

The city bought their tree last year and began a new tradition of having an honorary lighter.<\/p>\n

City officials said they will continue to have people who\u2019ve impacted this community do the honors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

TROUP — The City of Troup gathered together for \u2018Holiday in the Country\u2019 and to watch the second annual Christmas Tree lighting on Monday, according to our news partner KETK. The 30-foot-tall Christmas tree is now officially lit, kicking off the Christmas season in downtown Troup. It was a special night because the honorary tree … Continue reading Troup native, Cooper Reid lights city Christmas tree<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":1370732,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2024\/11\/troupChristmas-225x190.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1370729","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-07 09:57:57","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2024\/11\/troupChristmas-225x190.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1370729","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1370729"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1370729\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1370734,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1370729\/revisions\/1370734"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1370732"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1370729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1370729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1370729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}