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By JIM TERRYof the Daily Telegraph staffthe Bluefieid Holiday Festival of Lights -set to begin Thanksgiving Day - has received nearly $2,700 in contributions, plus some donations of supplies for the event, members said Thursday.The committee on Thursday conducted its final meeting before the festival begins 3§j||:; \ £The session was held at the Bluefieid Youth Center.Member Dallas Fowler, the city’s assistant street superintendent, said workersvirtually have completed fabrication of large “Happy Holidays” signs to be installed at various points in the city.The signs, about 36 inches in overallheight (with 18.5 inch legs) are about 15 feet long, Fowler said. The signs will fea ture red lights.Workers will begin installing lights, the signs, various seasonal decorations and related items soon, officials said Thursday.All the lights - most of them at City Park - will be turned on the evening of Thanksgiving Day.The decorations include a large fabricated archway at city park, “snowflakes” to be located on both sides of the road leading from the archway to a bridge in the park, a waving Santa, some decorated trees inside the park, reindeer and a sleigh, an American flag and other items.An old steam engine in the park also has been decorated.OlucfirlD Pails (TrlrflrapbFriday November 22, 1996 A-3■ The decorations include alarge fabricated archway at city park, “snowflakes” to be located on both sides of the road leading from the archway to a bridge in the park, a waving Santa, some decorated trees inside the park, reindeer and a sleigh, an American flag and other items.City Treasurer Charlie Cromer, who is keeping tabs on funds collected for the project, listed the contributors to date. They were:Royal Jewelry, $50; Four Sixty Plaza, $25; Grubb Photo, $25; Americo Mariotti, 3106 Cumberland Road, $20; SouthernOffice Supply, $50; Bluefieid Beautification Commission, $1,000; Moose Club,$1,000; Mrs. D.E. Cruise, 242 Ridgecrest Road, $100; Citizens Builders Supply Co., $300, and Frances Davidson, 220 Oakdell Ave., $100, for a total of $2,695.Cromer said State Electric donated various supplies and Stateside contributed some rolls of ribbon.Donations are tax-deductible.Other areas to be decorated for the project include the old Ridge Runner train at the park, a tree near the Food Lion store on Cumberland Road, and railing and a flagpole at the East River Mountain Overlook.Committee member Beth Andrick, Main Street Bluefield's executive director who is in charge of special events for the holidav oroiect, has said most downtown merchants will decorate their store windows with white lights as part of the festivities, and the Bluefieid Garden Council will be doing its luminaries pro-The tree at Chicory Square also will bedecorated with different color lights.The festival is planned tor the Thanksgiving weekend and continuing throughthe first of the year.Committee members believe the project, if properly planned, supervised and funded, has a potential similar to the annual Festival of Lights at Oglebay Park in Wheeling The festival attracts hundreds of thousands of tourists and visitors each year.Officials in charge of that festival say they expect about a million visitors this year. .
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Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Bluefield, West Virginia, US
Fri, Nov 22, 1996
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