The
holiday spirit is beginning to show along the Elmwood Strip as the Elmwood Village Association and business owners begin to hang decorations.
The
Elmwood Village Association has hung up wreaths from the corner of Forest Avenue
and Elmwood Avenue all the way to Allen Street.
Ashley
Smith, the community engagement manager at The Elmwood Village Association, has
been the one in charge of these decorations for the past three years.
“For the wreaths, we try to get
them up the week before Thanksgiving which for some people is a little like ‘Hey, aren’t you pushing it?’ “ she said. “No one said anything negative to us this
year and it kind of helped, I think, that we got all of that snow right
afterwards because it was like 'Yeah, it’s winter' or 'Yeah,
those have to go up'.”
Smith
said it doesn’t make financial sense to hire a cherry picker to hang the
wreaths, so she takes a ladder and hangs each wreath herself.
Aside
from the wreaths, businesses will contribute by decorating their stores for the
holidays. Those between West Ferry Street and Lafayette Avenue are known to
collectively decorate the trees in front of their stores with Christmas lights. By Ryan Gilliam and Nicole Montanino
