Colours will light up the riverfront trail until January 4.
“Light up Riverview is a holiday campaign that we run in the town of Riverview to engage residents and businesses. It kicked off with the Mayor’s light launch, where all of the lights along our Riverfront Trail are lit up. So for the next six weeks, people can enjoy walking along the trail and enjoying the lights,” Mayor Andrew LeBlanc told our newsroom.
The event began nine years ago as a tree lighting at Town Hall, and it has grown from there. Now thousands come to walk the riverfront trail in December.
“It’s been a really great one to engage our community. The Town of Riverview is all about bringing people together. Whenever we can have an event or a festival or something that brings our community together, we really thrive on that. But Light Up Riverview is also bringing people from out of town, from out of province. We’ve even had people from across Canada who have come to see the lights along the trail, and that’s something that we’re really proud of. We’re really proud that Riverview has been put on the map,” LeBlanc added.
Some of the additions this year include a rain glow pattern for one of the trees. The Higgs Brook Covered Bridge was also recently replaced, and new lights have been added to it as well.
The lights run from the Honourable Brenda Robertson Bridge to the Gunningsville Bridge.
The public is invited to walk the trail every night through January 4.
Concerns were raised about the theft of copper wiring from the display a couple of years ago, but LeBlanc says they decided to switch to aluminum and haven’t had a problem since then.
“We have had some inclement weather over the last couple of years, and a lot of the time when the lights are out, people assume it is vandalism, but more often than not, what we are getting is the outlets short-circuiting due to wet weather, which we have had more of the last couple of winters,” LeBlanc added.
