The Christmas Tree is back in all its glory. As many of you may have
read, on Saturday at 8am we discovered the lights on the ground, fallen
off or pulled off who knows. This meant we could not restore properly
so when the switch on happened the tree looked like it was wearing a
skirt! However, Jon Wright, Property maintenance from Bognor Regis to
the rescue!! BIG THANK YOU. They had spent one and half days putting
all the lights up, leaving everything looking beautiful and were
dismayed to hear what had happened so they returned today and restored
the tree, in their own time, free of charge! There are some very kind
people in this world
Who are the 'low life' who hate Waterlooville so much that they don't want festive lighting in the precinct? The volunteers from the Events team have spent a lot of money and time to try and make Waterlooville look festive but having seen what some 'people' think about it makes you wonder why we bother. Today we went to change the batteries in the tree lights as some were not working. The reason was that the battery casings had been torn/cut off so the lights no longer worked. Councillor Mike Sceal went into the tree by Nat West to locate a connection further up and managed to connect another casing in the tree, but the lights in the tree by Lloyds bank could not be fixed. If you see something untoward or if you see the lights not working let us know. We had hoped to put battery lights in all the trees in Waterlooville precinct next year but if they are to be vandalised is it worth it??