Downtown lighting gets more IBEW help
By Max Showalter, Journal and Courier
With her new job keeping her downtown every day, Lafayette city clerk Cindy Murray can hardly wait for Christmas to arrive, so she can get a good look at the holiday lighting and other decorations that are planned near city hall.
Murray was in attendance Thursday when Larry Spencer, assistant business manager with Local 668 of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, presented a $5,000 check to the Downtown Business Center.
The money will be used to help pay for the purchase of decorative lighting that will be used year-round on Main, Columbia and some other downtown streets, and to help cover the cost of replacing bulbs in the holiday lights.
"I'm excited about seeing the lights," Murray said. The DBC "is such a fun group to work with. I feel like I have a new little family down here."
The donation was provided by IBEW Local 668 and its local contractor counterparts from the National Electrical Contractors Association.
"Nearly 100 volunteers from IBEW and the associate contractors will install the holiday lights" on Oct. 30, DBC president Doug Anderson said. "We appreciate their help in making our downtown a festive atmosphere."
Members of Local 668 have been putting up and taking down the Christmas lights since 1950, and Spencer said it is never hard to convince union members to volunteer for the project.
How to help
Donations to the decorative downtown lighting program, or the holiday lighting project, can be sent to Downtown Business Center, 200 N. Second St., Lafayette, IN 47902. Call the DBC at (765) 742-2313.
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