Lights to lift winter gloom
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Feilding's Kowhai Park will be ablaze during the school holidays for this year's Fantasy in Lights Spectacular.
Fluorescent light images will be hung from trees, after five volunteers spent the past three months adding to images from previous years.
Event organiser Helen Worboys said many of the images were sourced from old children's colouring-in books, which everyone involved enjoyed looking through.
The images were constructed on frames using light tubing and lots of creative flair, she said.
One of this year's new images will feature a lit-up Piggity-Wiggity Jiggity Jig a children's book character by Palmerston North author Dianna Neild, who will be at the event's final night, reading from one of her books.
The three Saturday nights will be themed: July 4 a school lantern procession, July 11 a teddy bears picnic, and July 18 storytelling and disco.
About 15,000 people were expected to attend over the two weeks, Mrs Worboys said.
"The good thing is, rain, hail or shine, we run it ..."
"It's just a cool thing to do in the middle of winter," she said.
Money raised by the Makino Rotary Club and Feilding Promotion event, now in its fourth year after taking a rest in 2008, would be invested back into the project for additions like the underground power installed this year.
The event is open from 6pm to 8pm every night from July 4 to July 18.
Entry prices are: adults $10, children $2 and a family pass $20. The organisers advise everyone to wear warm clothes and sturdy footwear.
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