RAIN SHORT-CIRCUITED 7 OF MONONGAH'S CHRISTMAS STREET LIGHTS ... AGAIN AND AGAIN

 Rain, rain, go away

So Monongah’s Christmas street lights

Can shine on Christmas day!

 

No matter how hard Susan Staron Sanders and her Christmas street lights committee tried, “There are a few that we just could not get turned on for Christmas,” the Angel of Thomas Street reports.

Actually, all 64 street lights were sparkling and brightening the skies but, as Susan explained:

“They were all lit for a while till the rain started which trip the plugs (on 7 of the Christmas street lights). Ryan from Rogers Electric came back out 3 tmes to turn them back on free of charge. (When the rain darkened the lights again) we could not keep asking him to do that.”

Boy, this sure is an example of raining on Monongah’s parade!

Susan continued:

“I promise you we tried but know this, next year will be bigger and better. This was a huge experience for us with 22 extra lights (for a new total of an astounding SIXTY FOUR Christmas street lights!).

“We thank you for being so kind and understanding. It was hard on all of us.”

Seven street lights that didn’t get lit up this holiday:

Candle – Walnut Street

 Reindeer - Upper Traction Park

 Frosty – Thomas Street, Susan Sanders’ light  

Reindeer - Shooting Star - Cook Brothers new apartment complex

Tree - Lyndon Ave

Holly - Lyndon Ave

Shaver Street - Angel & Tree

My pearl in a seashell on Church Street next to my childhood home dodged a bullet and lit up U.S. 19, Church and Thomas streets.

This is a great tradition that has been bestowed upon Monongah, but it’s costly, too.

Like $1,570.55 for 24 Faceplate kits to hang the newly acquired Christmas street lights on.

And $3,271.94 to Mon Power to pay for the electricity.

If you can help out, send your donations to:

Susan Sanders
Monongah Christmas Lights Fund
Post Office Box 9051

Monongah, WV 26554.

The name on the check should be to:

Monongah Christmas Light Fund

Astronauts in space will continue to see Monongah lit up every Christmas if you do.

This Charge of the Lights Brigade, as I like to call it, started in 2015 when White Hall replaced 7 of their old street lights and donated the old lights to Monongah. Susan took over from there, and in 7 years it’s up to 64 Christmas street lights in Monongah in 2022.

Maybe Susan and Monongah should consult McAdenville, North Carolina, which has fewer than 700 residents (nearly 300 less than Monongah) but is known as Christmastown, USA because it has lit up the town for more than 60 years with red, white and green lights, including more than 375 trees adorned with lights.

 

Bernville, Pennsylvania, a 2-hour drive from Philadelphia, has more than ONE MILLION bulbs lit up. But it doesn’t say how many Christmas street lights displays, like the angels and other symbols on Monongah’s streets, are in Bernville.

 

Santa Claus, Indiana has a 1.2-mile-long Christmas lights display.

 

As E.T. would say, the Monongah Christmas street lights light up my heartlight!

 

And I say to Susan what Keys said to Elliott in the E.T. movie: “It’s a miracle. And you did the best that anybody could do.”

 

Monongah is SO lucky to have The Angel of Thomas Street, Susan Sanders, who also is the town’s councilman!