The City of West Columbia is hosting the 12th Annual Christmas Tree Lighting at 6:30 p.m. on Friday (Dec. 2.) It’s at the West Columbia Municipal Complex on the corner of North 12th Street and Jarvis Klapman Boulevard.

The program will include Christmas carols, greetings and the lighting of the West Columbia Christmas Tree. Student choirs from Pineview Elementary School and Brookland-Cayce High School will perform holiday classics, as well as, the River Bluff High School Steel Drum Band. Radio and television personality Joe Pinner will serve as master of ceremonies. Pastor Dow Welsh from Holland Avenue Baptist Church and Reverend Kenneth Taylor of Turner Memorial AME Church will be guest speakers at the event.