Parma Holiday Lights Contest Is On Again This Year

Last year's winner at 10700 Sharon Drive.

The City of Parma will conduct its Holiday Lights contest again this year. Hundreds of residents voted last year, and the contest continues to grow. This year rules (see below) have changed slightly. The entire process – nominating and voting – is left up to residents. The process, from nominations to announcing the winners, will take the entire month of December. Winners are expected to be announced on Dec. 31.

Last year’s winner was 10700 Sharon Drive in Ward One.

Here’s how to participate this year:

City of Parma Holiday Lights Contest – Official Rules

1. Beginning Dec. 1, until Dec. 15, any home in the Parma City limits can be nominated by any person. Nominations can be sent by e-mail to HolidayLights@cityofparma-oh.gov, by U.S. mail to Holiday Lights Contest, 6611 Ridge Road, Parma, OH, 44129 or dropped into a ballot box at City Hall.

2. On Dec. 17, the top two vote-getters in each of Parma’s nine wards, plus the next 12-highest nominated properties regardless of Ward – 30 houses in all - will be announced as finalists. Those addresses will be made available on the City’s Facebook page, Twitter, the City’s website, and posted in City Hall and the Donna Smallwood Activities Center.

3. From Dec. 17 through Dec. 28, votes can be cast for any of those 30 nominated properties. Votes can be cast by e-mail to HolidayLights@cityofparma-oh.gov, by U.S. mail to Holiday Lights Contest, 6611 Ridge Road, Parma, OH, 44129, or dropped into the ballot box at City Hall. FULL NAME AND ADDRESS must accompany every vote. Votes that do not contain name and address information will be invalid and WILL NOT BE COUNTED.

4. Voters may vote for more than one property, but not for the same property twice - one vote per property per person.

5. Winners – an overall Grand Prize Winner, second place, third place, and winners in each Ward – will be announced on Dec. 31.

Jeannie Roberts

Communications Director for the City of Parma

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Volume 6, Issue 12, Posted 10:54 AM, 12.02.2014