"Weaverville- the Brightest spot between Redding and the Coast"
Lighting Historic Main Street with old fashion Edison lights
As we approach a Dark and Cold- Wet Winter, many people had expressed a hope that the Arts Council and friends would kindly install lights (knowing that we have hung Christmas lights for the past 4 years). The historic buildings bedecked in light is truly MAGICAL.
Strictly speaking, hanging lights is not actually in our job description, but loving our community is. Elevating the beauty and livability of our community is important to our Arts Council. So, we did what we all do- we invited our buddies from other businesses and organizations to belly-up to the bar for a Sarsaparillas, and asked for help. The Historic Weaverville Car Show and car club, High Country Cruisers, share our desire to support our historic town and joined the team. The Weaverville Chamber of Commerce always lends a hand. Travis Finch of Velocity Communication is quick to provide his service to promote the community wellbeing and offered to bring 2 bucket trucks to help install the lights. In recognition of the Arts Council’s support of most activities in our county including volunteer labor in their car show, the Historic Weaverville Car Show made a large donation to the cause.
With a reliable team and the needed funding, we obtained permission from each business and building owner and created a plan of how to hang 25 strands of Edison-style lights along 912 feet of store fronts.
Four 70 year old artists, 2 car guys, and 2 bucket trucks along with several business owners and volunteers, joined in with ladders, screw guns, coffee and muffins and we hung 1 mile of old fashioned L.E.D lights to make Weaverville the brightest spot between Redding and the Coast.
We are so thankful to live in a community where people of all ages come together to support a good cause.
Strictly speaking, hanging lights is not actually in our job description, but loving our community is. Elevating the beauty and livability of our community is important to our Arts Council. So, we did what we all do- we invited our buddies from other businesses and organizations to belly-up to the bar for a Sarsaparillas, and asked for help. The Historic Weaverville Car Show and car club, High Country Cruisers, share our desire to support our historic town and joined the team. The Weaverville Chamber of Commerce always lends a hand. Travis Finch of Velocity Communication is quick to provide his service to promote the community wellbeing and offered to bring 2 bucket trucks to help install the lights. In recognition of the Arts Council’s support of most activities in our county including volunteer labor in their car show, the Historic Weaverville Car Show made a large donation to the cause.
With a reliable team and the needed funding, we obtained permission from each business and building owner and created a plan of how to hang 25 strands of Edison-style lights along 912 feet of store fronts.
Four 70 year old artists, 2 car guys, and 2 bucket trucks along with several business owners and volunteers, joined in with ladders, screw guns, coffee and muffins and we hung 1 mile of old fashioned L.E.D lights to make Weaverville the brightest spot between Redding and the Coast.
We are so thankful to live in a community where people of all ages come together to support a good cause.
