I can turn my christmas lights off now?!..

We would also like to thank the Earth Day
Society with thier "lights out for the environment" program without whom we would not be able to hold these pretty light competitions.

We have had the winter lights on every night. Winter ends in a couple of weeks. Then it will be time to put on the SpringLights.

We need to start a SpringLights Celebration across Canada... since it is not as dark in the spring, it should be a less energy consuming event. Should be able to get a "green" award and a "smart" award.

Q. How can you tell you come from small town Canada?

A. You take part in the WinterLights Awards.

So why is it called Winterlights? Should that not be Christmas lights, I believe it originally was. I guess we were offending someone by calling it Christmas lights. Anyone know who we were offending? Well I have Christmas lights and will always call them Christmas lights. So who ever thinks we are offending someone by calling our lights at Christmas, Christmas lights, well I am offended they are now called Winterlights. "Stupid is as stupid does".

Nobody cares what you call your lights. And yes, to the people of PG, turn your lights off now. If you don't have a calendar, it's March.

My neighbour doesn't "still" have his Xmas lights up. He just "put them up early" this year.

My neighbourS, as in several of them, had Olympic lights on ... red and white ... along with flags lit up ....

Light is actually a very traditional way of celebrating something, or commemorating something ..... just think of it....

lighting candles at a vigil....

an audience waving lights in tune to a nostalgic piece of pop music .....

fireworks ..... its the light, not the sound that is important ....

laser light displays .....

"search lights" at major events, such as were used in Vancouver leading up to and during the Olympics .....

Thai festival of lights in November when they float lights on the river in banana leaf vessels ...

Indian Diwali .... 5 days in October/November ... celebrating victory of good over evil ....

When I cam to PG the Xmas lights were on for a few weeks .... then there came darkness ... along come Marid Gras, Snowgolf, Winter Carnival, wahtever you want ot call it and its current sorry remnants and the lights eventually came back on again in parts of the city .... not the Candy Cane Lane kind of lights, but simply houses lit up with strings of light ......

kind of a nice thing when it gets dark at 5pm .......

I think we should hold a "Pothole Festival". ......and the winner is .... wait for it....PRINCE GEORGE!!! Yeaaaaaaaaahh!

Oh Denaljo, I like the way you think. lol

"Light is actually a very traditional way of celebrating something, or commemorating something "

As for as Christmas lights in March go, the only thing that people might be celebrating or commemorating is their laziness.

The reaction with airborne Formaldehyde gives the lights an unearthly glow during the night....

When I get around to it,I am going to start to organize a Procrastinators Awards Night.

Another award for Tim McEwan

Can we submit photos of potholes in PG and maybe win a prize (cash) for the best pot hole of the week? If the pot hole pics are awesome enough maybe they can get world wide attention and maybe embarrass Dan the man and the folks down at city hall how crappy they(pot holes) are?

The pothole pics can have award categories.
Examples:
1. Highest vehicular casualty
2. Looks like a puddle but isn't
3. Longest living pothole ( I've seen one that is at least two years old)

Could be fun. Post them on flikr, or have Ben start a link for us to post the pics to.

You see the problem here; when you report a pothole on the city web site, the cops drive by and bust a grow-op not realising the bright lights were for the Winter Lights Festival.

What's wrong with leaving Christmas lights on all year? I think it's a great idea. Looks nice & pretty & bright. I leave all my outside lights on all night long to hopefully deter break-ins and also for safety. In the winter, it's still pitch black outside when the paper boy delivers the newspaper so I leave the lights on for him too. I can't think of any reason why anyone would care if there are still lights left on all year round. You're not paying their hydro bill. They are.

"What's wrong with leaving Christmas lights on all year?"

Um, because Christmas is in December. It cheapens the whole idea of having lights up. They are nice to look at during the Christmas season. For the rest of the year, it looks tacky.

Xmas lights may inhibit certain proselytizers from knockin' on yer door. Same with Halloween stuff left around. A mix of Christ and the occult, would mix up any alternative religious organizer.

Mr. PG wants to control when people have decorative lights outside their houses, but really does not give a hoot about enforcing the quality of road maintenance......

I am glad someone has his priorities straight .... LOL....

Since when did I say I wanted to control people's Christmas lights? I couldn't care less if people leave their lights up. It looks tacky, but there's not much I can do about it.

And another mis-quote, I didn't say I didn't 'give a hoot about enforcing the quality of road maintenance', just that people should drive to the conditions, regardless of road conditions.

Do you have a problem with reading comprehension?