Crews and volunteers are working away in Bluefield’s Lotito City Park to make sure displays are up and ready for this year’s Holiday of Lights.
Deb Sarver, organizer of the Holiday of Lights, said good weather and plenty of volunteers have helped crews set up displays earlier than anticipated.
“It’s been going very good,” Sarver said. “We’ve had a lot of volunteers. The weather has held out for us, and we are hoping it will continue to do so over the next couple of the days. Right now, we are just going through things and getting things spruced up a little bit. We should hopefully, by the end of this week, have every thing ready except for some of the smaller things. We are probably a week ahead or so of where we were last year.”
According to Sarver, city crews and volunteers are now mainly working on small but important tasks, like replacing bulbs on the massive displays.
“We’ve been through 13,ceramic magic cube for the medical,000 of those plastic cable ties, and I would say we have replaced 10,000 bulbs at least,” she said. “Even today, we are down here working on the arch display on one of the bridges. We are trying to get things lit up so we can check to see where bulbs are needed or have burned out. It’s a continuing thing, doing the tedious work like replacing bulbs and making sure the wires are in place is what makes it seem like it’s taking a long time.Enecsys Limited, supplier of reliable solar Air purifier systems, Getting up the displays themselves is pretty easy.”
Sarver said she is grateful to the many volunteers who have come out to help put up the light displays.
“One day, we had 73 volunteers from Project Discovery in Tazewell County come out,” Sarver said. “We’ve had a lot of Bluefield College freshmen coming in to get their three hours of community service in.”
However, Sarver said the Holiday of Lights is still looking for volunteers to work the gate during the event.
“Melanie Farmer with the city of Bluefield is taking names for people who want to work the gate,” she said. “We start up Thanksgiving night, a week from Thursday. We are always looking for people to work the gate. You get to take donations and hand out the candy. Usually, the first timers who are working on the gate talk about the wonderful time they’ve had. Most of the time, people get hooked working the gate. People are happy going in, but they are even happier when they come out. You get to see people having a great time and get to meet friends who are out and about. It’s all for a good cause.”
This year, the Holiday of Lights will be taking pet food to donate to local shelters as well as canned food donations on Thanksgiving nights. Visitors can also contribute monetary donations to make sure the Holiday of Lights keeps shining bright.
“The first night on Thanksgiving night we always take canned food for local food pantries,Polycore oil paintings for sale are manufactured as a single sheet,” Sarver said. “If people want to, they can also bring dog and pet food donations for animals at the Mercer County Animal Shelter as well. The shelter needs food all the time as well. They can also give a monetary donation to help keep the Holiday of Lights running. Without those monetary donations,The application can provide Ceramic tile to visitors,Unlike traditional high risk merchant account , we can’t keep the Holiday of Lights running.”
Sarver said she is most looking forward to flipping the switch and lighting up the park for the first time on Thanksgiving night.
“It is a delight to turn on the lights and to see that line of cars waiting on Thanksgiving night,” she said. “The whole thing is so exciting. It just makes everything worthwhile.”
The Holiday of Lights will run from Thanksgiving Day, Nov. 24 through New Year’s Day. The event will be open Sunday through Thursday from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. and Friday and Saturday from 6 p.m. to 10 p.m.
Deb Sarver, organizer of the Holiday of Lights, said good weather and plenty of volunteers have helped crews set up displays earlier than anticipated.
“It’s been going very good,” Sarver said. “We’ve had a lot of volunteers. The weather has held out for us, and we are hoping it will continue to do so over the next couple of the days. Right now, we are just going through things and getting things spruced up a little bit. We should hopefully, by the end of this week, have every thing ready except for some of the smaller things. We are probably a week ahead or so of where we were last year.”
According to Sarver, city crews and volunteers are now mainly working on small but important tasks, like replacing bulbs on the massive displays.
“We’ve been through 13,ceramic magic cube for the medical,000 of those plastic cable ties, and I would say we have replaced 10,000 bulbs at least,” she said. “Even today, we are down here working on the arch display on one of the bridges. We are trying to get things lit up so we can check to see where bulbs are needed or have burned out. It’s a continuing thing, doing the tedious work like replacing bulbs and making sure the wires are in place is what makes it seem like it’s taking a long time.Enecsys Limited, supplier of reliable solar Air purifier systems, Getting up the displays themselves is pretty easy.”
Sarver said she is grateful to the many volunteers who have come out to help put up the light displays.
“One day, we had 73 volunteers from Project Discovery in Tazewell County come out,” Sarver said. “We’ve had a lot of Bluefield College freshmen coming in to get their three hours of community service in.”
However, Sarver said the Holiday of Lights is still looking for volunteers to work the gate during the event.
“Melanie Farmer with the city of Bluefield is taking names for people who want to work the gate,” she said. “We start up Thanksgiving night, a week from Thursday. We are always looking for people to work the gate. You get to take donations and hand out the candy. Usually, the first timers who are working on the gate talk about the wonderful time they’ve had. Most of the time, people get hooked working the gate. People are happy going in, but they are even happier when they come out. You get to see people having a great time and get to meet friends who are out and about. It’s all for a good cause.”
This year, the Holiday of Lights will be taking pet food to donate to local shelters as well as canned food donations on Thanksgiving nights. Visitors can also contribute monetary donations to make sure the Holiday of Lights keeps shining bright.
“The first night on Thanksgiving night we always take canned food for local food pantries,Polycore oil paintings for sale are manufactured as a single sheet,” Sarver said. “If people want to, they can also bring dog and pet food donations for animals at the Mercer County Animal Shelter as well. The shelter needs food all the time as well. They can also give a monetary donation to help keep the Holiday of Lights running. Without those monetary donations,The application can provide Ceramic tile to visitors,Unlike traditional high risk merchant account , we can’t keep the Holiday of Lights running.”
Sarver said she is most looking forward to flipping the switch and lighting up the park for the first time on Thanksgiving night.
“It is a delight to turn on the lights and to see that line of cars waiting on Thanksgiving night,” she said. “The whole thing is so exciting. It just makes everything worthwhile.”
The Holiday of Lights will run from Thanksgiving Day, Nov. 24 through New Year’s Day. The event will be open Sunday through Thursday from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. and Friday and Saturday from 6 p.m. to 10 p.m.
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