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Office Supply, $50; Bluefield 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 donatedvarious supplies and Stateside con tributed 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 holiday project, has said most downFnday. November 22, 1996 A-3town merchants will decorate their store windows with white lights as part of thefestivities, and the Bluefield Garden Council will be doing its luminaries project on Dec. 15.The tree at Chicory Square also will be decorated with different color lights.The festival is planned for the Thanks giving weekend and continuing through the first of the vear.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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