{"id":914,"date":"2017-08-29T18:33:21","date_gmt":"2017-08-29T18:33:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whatsupwindsor.com\/?p=914"},"modified":"2017-08-29T18:37:14","modified_gmt":"2017-08-29T18:37:14","slug":"local-man-sells-family-christmas-lights-to-city-for-jackson-park-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/whatsupwindsor.com\/?p=914","title":{"rendered":"Local man sells family Christmas lights to city for Jackson Park project"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/whatsupwindsor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/tangled-lights.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-916\" src=\"http:\/\/whatsupwindsor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/tangled-lights-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"http:\/\/whatsupwindsor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/tangled-lights-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/whatsupwindsor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/tangled-lights.jpg 422w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Windsor, ON &#8211; Alan Cole, aged 42, of Windsor is one of the first people to benefit from City Council&#8217;s decision on Monday night to spend $3 million on a massive holiday lights display at Jackson Park this year.\u00a0\u00a0 Cole spent the morning looking thru his Christmas ornaments and lights and found a 25-foot long string of lights.<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I took them right down to city hall and sold them for $14,000&#8221; an excited Cole told gathered media on Tuesday &#8220;I didn&#8217;t even have to untangle them&#8221;.\u00a0\u00a0 Councilman Frank Edwards explained the purchase &#8220;We&#8217;re going to need a lot of lights and we&#8217;ve got\u00a0three million dollars to spend so I thought why not keep this local and support local entrepreneurs like Mr. Cole?\u00a0 So I went ahead and bought his lights.\u00a0\u00a0 The price might seem a little high but the city will get the benefit of these lights for years to come&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Once Mr. Cole&#8217;s lights are untangled\u00a0and put in place he said\u00a0he plans to visit them at Jackson Park once the entire display is set-up.\u00a0 As for his new windfall he plans to use the money to re-pave his driveway &#8220;It&#8217;s got some cracks and holes in it so I&#8217;d like to get it repaired&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Windsor, ON &#8211; Alan Cole, aged 42, of Windsor is one of the first people to benefit from City Council&#8217;s decision on Monday night to spend $3 million on a massive holiday lights display at Jackson Park this year.\u00a0\u00a0 Cole &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/whatsupwindsor.com\/?p=914\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-914","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weekly-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/whatsupwindsor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/914","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/whatsupwindsor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/whatsupwindsor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/whatsupwindsor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/whatsupwindsor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=914"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/whatsupwindsor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/914\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":922,"href":"http:\/\/whatsupwindsor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/914\/revisions\/922"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/whatsupwindsor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/whatsupwindsor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/whatsupwindsor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}