Making the Season Bright Orinda welcomes the holiday season with the annual lighting of the East Bay Hospice Tree of Lights. This year marks the 30th year that Trees of Lights have been lit, to comfort members of the community who have incurred a loss of a loved one, and to raise funds to support Hospice East Bay's patient care services. The young voices of the Orinda Children's Choir, directed by Ron Pickett, with students from all four Orinda elementary school and Orinda Intermediate School, graced the welcoming of the holiday season prior to the lighting of the Tree of Lights and the arrival of Santa on a fire engine. -S. O'Doherty