Good news for The Gift of Giving, the Light show extravagance at Bluffton's Blaze of Lights. The show has found a home for off-season storage.
"Storage space is not plentiful due to the unusual height of 14 feet and 55 foot length," Ropp Triplett told The Icon recently. "Colonial Surface Solutions has been storing the display for the last couple years, free of charge. Last year their facilities became filled with their business requirements, which is great - what Bluffton needs. As a result there was no room for the display. A search for a suitable place has been going on ever since."
Triplett said that Tom Langhals and Gene Heitmeyer of Colonial saw the predicament and went back to the drawing board to figure some way to accommodate the display.
And they did, even though it meant usage of an overhead crane to maneuver the display in place. After all our snow, getting the display out of its snow bound home was no small chore.
Don Snyder ploughed it out and then Owen Ziessler, Mike Rhonemus and Jeff Gillen finished the moving job to Colonial.
"All of this done in the interest of helping the community. We salute Colonial and all those who went the second mile to help," said Triplett. "This is the type of thing that makes Bluffton such a great community."
