White
Hall will be donating 15 to 20 more Christmas street lights to Monongah as that
community replaces them with newer lights. White
Hall donated seven in 2015 for Monongah’s first Christmas street lights.
Monongah,
with Councilwoman Susan Staron Sanders, Class of
1971, heading the committee, already has 39
Christmas lights, including the one I purchased several years ago across the
street from my Church Street childhood home. My light is a pearl in a shell,
representing Christ’s Resurrection from his tomb.
Susan
told me “I’m over the moon and so very grateful. I’ll have close to 60
Christmas street lights. Wow!”
Wow,
indeed.
And even
more if others in Monongah or from Monongah purchase additional lights for the
2022 Christmas season!
Susan
and her committee have fundraising events all year to put up and take down the
lights and pay for the electricity that light up the Christmas street lights
that can be seen by astronauts in space. That’s north of $4,000 a year. Bake
sales. Auctions. Bazaars. Anything to keep this remarkable situation going and
growing. A permanent legacy to Susan and Monongah.
Tina
Ailstock, Mereca Savonarola, Valerie Aldridge and Connie Warash were on Susan’s
first Christmas Lights Committee shortly after White Hall donated its lights to
the town.
The
Charge of the Light Brigade in 2022:
President - Susan Sanders
Vice President - Carolyn
Tice
Secretary - Chelsea
McCann
Treasurer - Linda
McCullough
Alternates Chuck Tice -
Josh Scritchfield
Volunteers Teena Field
Ailstock - Rae Ann Carter - Amanda Hawkins - Robert Hawkins - Judy Cain Turner
- Marsha Fluhardy - Sheila Runyan – Beth Campbell -- Bill McCullough (who helps
wife Linda with the cooking at fundraising events).
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