WM Tree Lighting Tonight

WM Tree Lighting Tonight

Community invited to kick off the holiday season

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Worthington Park will again be the center point to switch on Christmas lights across West Memphis. The festivities begin at 6 p.m., with Santa set to make a special visit a half hour later. Photo sessions with Santa follow the lighting.

Concessions benefiting the Crittenden County Boys and Girls Club will be sold, too.

Lights ring the park with a four story tall decorated northern spruce standing in the center next to the boys club. LED lit figures stand in the back of the park will add to the sight and now sounds to the setting.

A new team of lighted reindeer will sing Christmas tidings as a quartet. West Memphis Convention and Visitors Bureau Executive Director Jim Jackson said the new displays in the park and around the city enhanced the holiday presentation and elevated the presentation to a new plateau.

“I’m really excited about the singing reindeer,” said Jackson. “There are four reindeer at four feet tall.

There will be wireless speakers in the trees.

They’ll lip sync Christmas songs and the little kids ware really going to like it.”

New displays will be found all around the city.

Main Street West Memphis and the city A & P Commission worked together to get lights up on light poles through the city. Main Street has covered Broadway to 14th. The A& P authorized the CVB to place brand new 6-foot tall LED snow flakes on every other pole along Missouri Street and Ingram Blvd. The alternate poles are flagged with festive banners celebrating the season and the city. All the pole decorations will be lit beginning Tuesday night as well.

A big new display is also set for the east end of Broadway at Martin Luther King Blvd. The trip to see it was promised as worthwhile part of cruising the city to see all the new light displays.

An impressive new state of the art light display will debut and nestle into the Martin Luther King Jr.

Commuter Park. A two story tall LED tree will spread the Christmas message catching the eye of those using the service road

and the Interstate interchange.

“Its RGB LED,” said Jackson. “That’s red, green, blue. You can color mix those into any color. The lights can be programed to make words and you’ll see love and peace messages on it because of where it is and for what Dr. King stood. I think it will also give a cool reflection off the pond out there.”

That commuter park display has the capacity to sync to music which will be considered as an enhancement

next year.

By John Rech