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Roseburg, Oregon, Holiday Events Guide — Thursday, November 28, 2013
Youth, jail inmates string together Festival of Lights GARRETT ANDREWS The News-Review
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Old Glory is seen at the 2012 Festival of Lights. The 2013 display runs nightly HolidayJan. Events Special x5 through 1 at River Forks Tab Park ad: west 4.92 of Roseburg.
t’s the largest Christmas display between San Francisco and Seattle, according to the man who spends three months each year setting it up and tearing it down: retired businessman Jack Reilly, the head volunteer. “We outdo Portland even,” he said. “There’s nothing else like this. It’s absolutely amazing.” The Festival of Lights is an annual drive-through display that is a fundraiser for the Rotary Club of Roseburg. The display, in its 21st year, features more than 500,000 bulbs on more than 90 animated displays synced to music, across a 1.5-mile route.
It begins tonight and runs through New Year’s Day. As always, kids get free candy canes. The whole enterprise is even more impressive, Reilly said, when you consider the whole thing is built by a handful of volunteers — about a dozen Wolf Creek Job Corps students, Reilly and his brother-inlaw Michael Zuelzke, and, this year, about a half-dozen Douglas County Jail inmates on work release. Usually a dependable source of eager workers, the Job Corps this year was hampered by sequestration-caused budget cuts, and thus didn’t accept new students during half the year. The project would have been in pretty bad shape if
IF YOU GO... WHAT: Umpqua Valley Festival of Lights WHEN: 5:30 to 9 p.m. Sunday through Thursday; 5:30 to 10 p.m. Fridays, Saturdays and holidays through Jan. 1 WHERE: River Forks Park, Roseburg COST: $10 per car or $1 per bus passenger INFORMATION: umpquavalleyfestivaloflights.com
not for one teacher, Reilly said. “He pretty much handed over his whole welding class because he knew we were desperate,” he said. Jail inmates used to handle all setup and design Turn to LIGHTS, page 7
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