Wednesday - December 1: With freezing temperatures and a little snow on the ground a group of volunteers got Wellsville ready for the Christmas Light-up Night. Sponsored by the Wellsville Area Chamber of Commerce, a 20' tall Christmas tree donated by Gary Lyle, was put up in the 4th Street Square. Wellsville Village employees cut the tree down and installed in the square last week. Chamber member Brian Wallace hand crafted a stand to hold the tree.
Yesterday members of the Wellsville High School Science Club, the Wellsville Volunteer and Village Fire Departments and Chamber members got the tree decorated using newly purchased LED C9 Lights and the attractive memorial bulbs. The colorful bulbs are between the size of a grapefruit and a volley ball. Each bulb is tagged with the name of a person being remembered.
Chiefs Bill Brown & Bill Smith, from the Fire Departments, were on hand with the aerial truck for the high spots. Science Club members helping were Alex Schmidbauer, Kaylee Smith, Katie Buchanan, Ryan Dalrymple, Miles McGinnis, Cherokee Hall, Jo-Hanna Andrews and Elektra Eckelrode. Science Club Advisor Cindy Earich also lent a hand. The decorating party was under the direction of Chamber President Allmon with his right hand man George Crews. Chamber President-elect Diana Spencer was in charge of the hot chocolate. There was even press coverage with reporter Mike McElwain and photographer Patty Schaeffer on hand.
Light-up night is scheduled to begin Saturday, December 4, at 6 PM. Students from both Garfield Elementary & Daw Middle School will be on hand singing Christmas Carols. The Chamber will have a photographer on hand to get free pictures with Santa. Allmon added anyone wanting to include their pets are welcome.
It's been awhile since we last had a community tree for the holiday season. Except for a little bit of gasoline and a couple of man hours it didn't cause the Village an extra cent. The Chamber purchased the new decorations. As Allmon noted it was a "complete team effort right down the line".
See ya Saturday...
ole nib
4 comments:
The tree looks beautiful, good job Chamber and friends. Thank you.
Good job Randy, your team did a wonderful job. Keep it up. 1st xmas tree in Wellsville in 30 years.
1st xmas tree in Wellsville in 30 years. This is not a true statement, there has been a tree at the gazeebo almost every year until the last couple of years.
I remember the trees in the Gazebo, and a big Turkey one year at Thanksgiving.
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