Eye on the East Bay: PG&E comes to rescue of Antioch tree lighting PG&E TO THE RESCUE: Downtown Antioch's Christmas tree lighting wouldn't have been quite so delightful earlier this month without the last-minute intervention of some hard hats and bucket trucks. An electrician who had volunteered to string lights around the approximately 60-foot tree at City Hall earlier in the week became backlogged in his work, and two days before the living decoration was supposed to be ready for prime time as part of Antioch's "Holiday De Lites" festivities, it was still lacking much of its bling. An officer of the Celebrate Antioch Foundation -- a nonprofit that brought the Christmas parade back this year after the recession forced the city to withdraw its financial support for the event in 2010 -- got on the horn to Pacific Gas & Electric Co., which sent several trucks along with six workers to the site that Friday morning. The crew had the job done in about 90 minutes, festooning the tree with LED lights, silver bells and some ornaments made from recycled DVD discs and vinyl banners cut up to resemble snowflakes. Without the utility company, residents would have seen a trimmed-down tree, said Diane Gibson-Gray, who helped with the decorations. "We would have lit up the tiny little lights that we had and said, 'Sorry,' " she said. Read More http://www.mercurynews.com/my-town/ci_27168254/eye-east-bay-pg-e-comes-rescue-antioch