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City Ready for Holidays

Photo by Craig Howell Weirton Mayor Harold Miller discusses plans for today’s tree lighting festivities, set to begin at 6 p.m. at the intersection of Main Street and Pennsylvania Avenue. The evening will include distribution of the first batch of this year’s Success in Unity ornament, pictured, which represents Scotland.

Final preparations are under way as Weirton plans to light up the night today, which will help to kick off holiday festivities.

Mayor Harold Miller on Wednesday reminded residents of plans for this year’s community tree lighting ceremony, which is set for 6 p.m. at the intersection of Main Street and Pennsylvania Avenue.

This is the third year for the tree-lighting event, which Miller said was inspired by celebrations in Weirton from years before.

“It’s been so popular. I get more calls about this than anything else in the city of Weirton,” he said.

As part of the festivities, there will be musical entertainment provided by the Cove Chimers, Kelsey Ohler, Striplight Community Theatre and De Ja Vu. There also will be hot chocolate, cookies and popcorn provided by Granato’s Deli, and grilled cheese sandwiches and jelly beans from Renaissance Weirton.

It will be capped off with the lighting of the tree and a fireworks display.

“It started out as just the tree, and it’s grown every year,” Miller said.

The evening also will see the first distribution of this year’s Success in Unity ornament, organized by Renaissance Weirton and sponsored by Nathan Mazur of USI Insurance Services.

The ornament, the second in a planned series, represents Scotland, with images of a Scottish countryside and a thatched roof cottage, a highland cow with a wreath of thistle around its neck and a border of the official Scottish Tartan.

Sponsors for the evening are Iannetti’s Garden Center, which donated the tree in memory of Nick Iannetti; Granato’s Deli; USI Insurance; the city of Weirton; Thrasher Engineering; Guida Law Offices; Assure America; Gurrera Law Offices; First Choice America Community Federal Credit Union; Nick’s Auto Sales; Frontier Group of Companies.; Law Offices of Dittmar Taylor and Makricostas; ArcelorMittal; and Bubba’s Wings.

Miller said plans to decorate Cove Commons for the holidays, with caroling from Stiplight Theatre to be held at 5:30 p.m. every Friday through Christmas, were to begin Friday.

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