The City of Thorold is celebrating a local resident as this year’s winner of their annual Festival of Lights Contest. Each year, residents and business owners are invited to submit a photo of their decorated home or store front to enter the contest. Submissions are then uploaded to the city’s interactive lights map for residents to view and vote for their favourite. Nick Leuchin, who decorated his home on Barron Road has been selected as this year’s winner. Leuchin has lived in the city of Thorold his whole life and has resided at his current property with his wife, Darlene since 1966.Nick says it started 18 years ago when they welcomed their first grandchild to the family. They thought they’d put out a few sparkly things for her to see, but it just got bigger and bigger every year. He estimates that there are one hundred displays out on his lawn and says they are already beginning to think about what they will put up next year, adding they had traffic jams out front almost every night over the holidays. Nick will be presented with a certificate and prize next week.
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