Niagara Falls Local Lights Up the Holidays
December 28, 2009
 More than 70 volunteers from Niagara Falls, N.Y., Local 237 helped brighten the holidays by assembling and wiring this year’s United Way Holiday Lights of Niagara display.
The festive seasonal attraction features more than 50 holiday displays and thousands of colored lights.
“This is a terrific tradition, and a great thing for the city,” said Business Manager Russ Quarantello.
The IBEW has worked on the annual event for more than three decades and took the lead on the project over the past few years.
Union electricians, retirees and their families -- including wives, husbands and children -- volunteered their time to build the displays. Each volunteer wore a bright orange sweatshirt emblazoned with the IBEW’s fist and lightning bolt logo and the slogan, “Lending a Hand…Our Way.”
The volunteers also provided expertise to repair damaged items after vandals hit the display in early December.
The event is free of charge to the public for the first time in its history, thanks in part to a donation from the local.
“We live in this community and we work here,” Quarantello said. “It feels so good at sunset when the lights come on and you can see what we’ve done for the community.”
The displays will be lighting up the city through New Year’s Eve.
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