Oakham Christmas Lights Switch On, Karen-bryn Carter Neehuis Rutland Times Comment

Each Year Oakham Town Council Spend Over £16,000 on Christmas lights

Each year there is little improvement.

Each Year the Town Compliments it's self on a job done well.

I seriously believe they are death dumb and blind when it comes to listen

to public opinion.

At this weeks meeting I made a public deputation passing on public 

comment, "the music and singing was good the lights and tree are crap"

thinking they might understand plain English.

After the meeting the Deputy Mayor Alf Dewis said no one speaks to me

and I lie. Lets hope he reads a residents comment posted on the Rutland

Times Web Page.

The Story that has been provided is not accurate, it says Mulled Wine 

was provided at the Whipper Inn, Not true it was sold illegally under

the council gazebo by the tree. Of the Town Council don't mind 

they have no licence to lose and won't incur a fine, that may be dished

out to the Whipper Inn.

The paper also refers to the bent tree calling it the Rotary Tree it has 

not been the Rotary Tree for two years now, the town council gives

them the money and the gift it back to the town? No one knows

how much this years tree cost, looking at the mess I would suggest

there was no contribution from the Rotary and if they did they should 

ask for a refund.

The company who subcontract the hanging the lights are robbing our town each year!

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Karen-bryn Carter Neehuis

2:04 PM on 27/11/2014

Can honestly say the Christmas lights and tree look terrible this year if not the worse ever.....no lights on the tree at the library ,no lights across the road down mill street...no lights further up the top end of town leaving it looking cold and off putting to visitors, when my children were you her we use to come down to see the lights and look forward to,the start of them going across the road from the no garage but now nothing perhaps you should have thought about the towns people a bit more your not really going to bring people to the town for shopping etc when it looks so dismal, perhaps you should take a leaf out of Melton Mowbray or Stamford lighting it feels really Christmassy in these places but not here it looks like the town just couldn't be bothered we seem to be getting less and less ,if it's a case of money shortage the. You should have got a poundland in Oakham you could have got more lights from there for less money..just a thought...the lights are a special part of Christmas for small children what a let down