Northern Lights Festival Switched On

Thursday, November 29, 2007 09:17 PM

Entrance gate at the top of Connaught Hill. Click on photo for brief video of some of the displays.

The first Northern Lights Festival in Prince George is now underway on Connaught Hill.

Hundreds of thousands of lights on static and animated displays are there to be enjoyed.

The Festival organizers wantd to create a winter wonderland, and have prvided traditional scenes, like tumbling snowmen, to dinosaurs in the snow.

The Festival was created by City Centre Ventures, and will operate thorugh to the 11th of January.

While the cost to take in the displays is $10 per car, you can get a discount ticket for $8 dollars at participating downtown businesses like The Northern , Plateau Clothing, Waddling Duck, JJ Springer, The Willow Basket and Tourism Prince George.

After taking in the light show on the top of Connaught Hill, visitors are welcome to head to the Civic Centre for free hot chocolate and a free skate on the rink.

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Posted on Thursday, November 29, 2007 09:17 PM in News by 250 News

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Comments

Posted by: seamutt on November 29 2007 11:27 PM

Who gets the money?

Posted by: realitycheck on November 29 2007 11:45 PM

I'm guessing it funds the Olympics.

Posted by: owl on November 30 2007 7:59 AM

Much of it the same as any private enterprise ....

The companies who the lights are rented from ...... and the people who work to put the lights up and take them down ... as well as the people who planned the entire thing, other than any volunteers who have worked on putting the project together.

A privivate company would probably have a 10 to 20% profit margin planned with a fairly high contingency given that this is the first try at this and one never knows how many will actually pay to see the lights.

I am assuming that if any money is made, it will go back to feed the next year's festival and possibly grow it.

I am not sure why some people have this notion that this thing is going to be a cash cow.

Posted by: Harbinger on November 30 2007 6:37 PM

G.S.T. on this dough?