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VOL. 45, NO. 49
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Christmas lights fundraiser comes with offer of help THE LITTLE RED CHURCH LIGHT DISPLAY DONATIONS BOX WAS STOLEN LAST YEAR. THIS YEAR THE ORGANIZER IS ASKING ANYONE IN NEED TO REACH OUT
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LAND OF SWEETS: The sugar plum fairy (also known as Michelle Harrison) offers a young Light Up Bowen participant
candy Saturday evening as nutcrackers watch on. The sugar plum fairy gathering was a new part of this year’s Christmas kickoff festivities. Hundreds of islanders and visitors paraded down Trunk Road admiring the thousands of lights and decorations lighting up the cove. See more photos on pages 8 and 9.
This year’s number is 55,000. For the third year running, Yvonne McSkimming has donated thousands of lights to adorn the Little Red Church in a foodbank fundraising spectacle. Every night, 55,000 lights flicker on at the Bowen landmark and appreciative locals can leave money in the sturdy red mailbox by the yard entrance. In its first year, the initiative raised $2,500. Last year, the cash donation box was stolen and the money never recovered. This year, McSkimming is asking anyone desperate enough to consider stealing the box to reach out for help instead. “I’ll give you whatever you need,” she says. “I’ll even do it anonymously. “We’ll give you the help, just don’t take the money.” McSkimming says that the money raised through the display aids island people who need a little help over the holiday season. She wants islanders needing a little extra support to “feel loved; feel that someone cares about them.” McSkimming says that there had been discussion of installing a security camera at the Little Red Church but instead someone will empty the donations box every night and the box itself is chained to the fence. “If they’re going to steal it, they’re going to need to steal the fence,” she says. The fence that is too coated in lights. The light display took two and a half weeks to set up. Noah Pryce-Jones and some of his Home Farm Gardens crew, along with McSkimming, her son and other volunteers painstakingly covered the church and its grounds. CONTINUED ON PAGE 6
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