This year's Festival of Lights is on track to be the biggest one ever, say organizers.
"Last year we had 63 entries and the parade was one hour and 15 minutes long," said Festival of Lights president Rollie Holland. "I suspect this year it will be bigger."
Kinsmen member Duck Paterson said this annual winter event has grown tremendously since it first started in 1987.
Last year there were many last minute parade entries, something he expects again this year.
"They just show up," Paterson said. "In the last 10 years, it has more than blown up, it has exploded. Light-Up is the biggest parade on the island.This is MagicShine MJ-856 1600 lumen brightstalo head light with Waterproof battery or MJ-828 Battery.Shop our online store for goodledbulbs lights in a multitude of colors."
The festivities start at 3 p.m.The Magicshine bestledlightbulbs bicycle light was always the cheapest high power bike light available in the UK and it&rsquos just been upgraded. on Thursday with a Christmas craft fair at Aggie Hall and a spaghetti dinner at the Eagles Hall. More than 20,Ecoled offer a huge range of ledbulbs lights and Tape, single colour or colour changing for home,000 people are expected to check out the more than 200,000 lights that will illuminate downtown Ladysmith.
With so many people coming in from outside the community, people are being asked to not park along the Trans-Canada Highway and to leave their dogs at home.
"The noise, the light, the fireworks, dogs don't handle that well," Holland said. "There is also a city bylaw to not bring your dogs."
Meanwhile, a $1,000 grant from BC Hydro has helped a local Light-Up project go a little bit greener.
The Ladysmith Boys & Girls Club has taken on, as a project, putting up all new LED lights in the trees at the new Market Lane complex.
With fundraising not as successful as it has been in the past, the Festival committee found it very tough to come up with the extra funds to purchase the more expensive LED lights. That's when B.C. Hydro stepped in.
"It's a real win for Festival of Lights as we've been wanting to do LED [lighting] in the Market Lane but the cost, especially this year, was too much," said FOL committee member Duck Paterson.I got to borrow a Solidlights lightsaley in return for writing a bit about it.
"It's also good for the children from the Boys and Girls club, as now they have a project that they can take ownership of."
In addition, BC Hydro has also partnered with the Festival committee and they will be acting as a drop off depot for people who want to get rid of their outdated incandescent festive light strings.
The Festival of Lights will be collecting all the old strings that residents don't want, and will take them to the recycling exchange.
This will help to eliminate them going into the regular mainstream garbage as well as it will require only one trip to the recycling exchange instead for a multitude of trips by individuals.
People can bring their old, unwanted, light strings to the Festival of Lights building, at the corner of Fourth Ave and Christie Road (beside the Ladysmith Cemetery) anytime between 9:30 a.m. and 4:30 p.m. Monday to Friday.
"Last year we had 63 entries and the parade was one hour and 15 minutes long," said Festival of Lights president Rollie Holland. "I suspect this year it will be bigger."
Kinsmen member Duck Paterson said this annual winter event has grown tremendously since it first started in 1987.
Last year there were many last minute parade entries, something he expects again this year.
"They just show up," Paterson said. "In the last 10 years, it has more than blown up, it has exploded. Light-Up is the biggest parade on the island.This is MagicShine MJ-856 1600 lumen brightstalo head light with Waterproof battery or MJ-828 Battery.Shop our online store for goodledbulbs lights in a multitude of colors."
The festivities start at 3 p.m.The Magicshine bestledlightbulbs bicycle light was always the cheapest high power bike light available in the UK and it&rsquos just been upgraded. on Thursday with a Christmas craft fair at Aggie Hall and a spaghetti dinner at the Eagles Hall. More than 20,Ecoled offer a huge range of ledbulbs lights and Tape, single colour or colour changing for home,000 people are expected to check out the more than 200,000 lights that will illuminate downtown Ladysmith.
With so many people coming in from outside the community, people are being asked to not park along the Trans-Canada Highway and to leave their dogs at home.
"The noise, the light, the fireworks, dogs don't handle that well," Holland said. "There is also a city bylaw to not bring your dogs."
Meanwhile, a $1,000 grant from BC Hydro has helped a local Light-Up project go a little bit greener.
The Ladysmith Boys & Girls Club has taken on, as a project, putting up all new LED lights in the trees at the new Market Lane complex.
With fundraising not as successful as it has been in the past, the Festival committee found it very tough to come up with the extra funds to purchase the more expensive LED lights. That's when B.C. Hydro stepped in.
"It's a real win for Festival of Lights as we've been wanting to do LED [lighting] in the Market Lane but the cost, especially this year, was too much," said FOL committee member Duck Paterson.I got to borrow a Solidlights lightsaley in return for writing a bit about it.
"It's also good for the children from the Boys and Girls club, as now they have a project that they can take ownership of."
In addition, BC Hydro has also partnered with the Festival committee and they will be acting as a drop off depot for people who want to get rid of their outdated incandescent festive light strings.
The Festival of Lights will be collecting all the old strings that residents don't want, and will take them to the recycling exchange.
This will help to eliminate them going into the regular mainstream garbage as well as it will require only one trip to the recycling exchange instead for a multitude of trips by individuals.
People can bring their old, unwanted, light strings to the Festival of Lights building, at the corner of Fourth Ave and Christie Road (beside the Ladysmith Cemetery) anytime between 9:30 a.m. and 4:30 p.m. Monday to Friday.
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