[SustainableTompkins] volunteers needed Sunday for LED holiday lights installation on Commons

[Deb Eichten]

 I can come down for  for the 2-4PM shift as I need to be at work at Ten
Thousand Villages at 4 PM anyway.

Deb


On 11/9/07, GayNicholson at aol.com <GayNicholson at aol.com> wrote:
>
> Hello ST and Hub Friends,
>
> I've been working with the City of Ithaca and the Ithaca Downtown
> Partnership to replace the pavilion lights on the Commons and the
> holiday  lighting on
> the downtown lamp posts with energy-efficient LED lights.   Thanks to a
> generous grant from MEGA (Municipal Electric and Gas Alliance, our  local
> nonprofit
> energy aggregator), we have on hand enough LED light strings for  the
> pavilions
> and 50 lamp posts.  This should save about $4500 a year in  electricity
> costs
> for the City (the pavilion lights are on all year).
>
> Now all we need is some help putting them up!  The city's
> electricians  are
> overbooked with other projects related to the Aurora Street and
> parking  garage
> projects.  In order to free up their time to get the pavilion  project
> done
> this fall, I offered to try and find volunteers to take on the lamp  post
> project.
>
> We need volunteers this Sunday between 10 am and 4 pm on the Commons.
> Come
> for a two-hour shift or come for longer.  Our task will be to wind
> the  LED
> strings up the lamp posts along with fresh pine boughs (and I think
> some  bows).
> The IDP will provide supervision and materials and a sturdy  ladder.  We
> have 3 volunteers so far and need 9 more to cover 2-hour  shifts of 10-12,
> 12-2,
> and 2-4.
>
> It should be decent weather on Sunday, so I hope you can help me out and
> spare a couple of hours to set up this demonstration of how easy it is to
> shift
> to energy-saving options.  If you can help us for a short time,
> please  email
> me or give me a call and let me know when you'd be able to make it.
>
> many thanks,
> Gay
>
> ----------------------------------------------------
> Gay  Nicholson, Ph.D.
>
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> 607-279-6618  (cell)
>
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> Lansing, NY  14882
> gaynicholson at aol.com
>
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