Mayor to light up Salem Friday
By LARRY SHIELDSArticle Photos
SALEM - The downtown area will have a slightly different look this holiday season with light blue snowflakes added to white ones normally installed on street lights.
Salem Area Chamber of Commerce Executive Director Audrey Null said they decided to add a little variety this year.
The Salem Retail and Business Association will be lighting up the downtown at 6:30 p.m. Friday when Mayor Jerry Wolford turns the switch on the snowflakes and the Christmas Tree in front of the chamber's building.
Null said this is the first year the mayor has been enlisted for such duties.
That will kick off a Christmas open house that begins with music from the community choir comprised of members from local churches and led by the First Friends Church of Salem.
There will also be horse-drawn carriage rides from 6 to 9 p.m., hot chocolate and coffee courtesy of the Real Life Assembly of God and cookies courtesy of the retail and business association.
"There will be a general sing-along when the tree is lit," Null said.
The open house will continue from 10 a.m. until 5 p.m. Saturday with holiday specials, carriage rides, and "Veggie Tale" movies running at Tri-County Church of
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God on South Broadway Avenue from 10 a.m. until 2 p.m. Saturday, sponsored by the Lion and Lamb.
There will be trolley rides on Saturday from 11 a.m. until 3 p.m. to the Salem Community Center Holiday Bazaar Extraordinaire, The First Presbyterian Church Christmas Bazaar and Salem's east end.
The Chamber of Commerce tree was planted in 2005.
Larry Shields can be reached at lshields@salemnews.net
