{"id":59850,"date":"2018-12-21T06:06:38","date_gmt":"2018-12-21T11:06:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/huntsville.dopperonline.ca\/?p=59850"},"modified":"2018-12-21T06:58:11","modified_gmt":"2018-12-21T11:58:11","slug":"video-46000-lights-12-holiday-songs-and-a-whole-lot-of-christmas-spirit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/doppleronline.ca\/huntsville\/video-46000-lights-12-holiday-songs-and-a-whole-lot-of-christmas-spirit\/","title":{"rendered":"Video: 46,000 lights, 12 holiday songs, and a whole lot of Christmas spirit"},"content":{"rendered":"

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It’s worth the drive to Novar, they said. They were right.<\/p>\n

When Doppler readers told us that a house just over the railway tracks in Novar was a must-see for the holidays, we had to take a look. We weren’t the only ones. When we arrived, several cars were already stopped along the side of the road to watch the show of lights\u201446,000 of them\u2014which is timed to a variety of Christmas tunes.<\/p>\n

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It wasn’t long before homeowner Greg Smith appeared with a basket adorned with green lights, offering the candy canes within to everyone who stopped for a look.<\/p>\n

He and his wife Pam do it to spread some Christmas cheer, he says. They’ve been decorating their home for the holidays for about 15 years, but it wasn’t until about seven years ago that they stepped it up. A lot.<\/p>\n

It takes a long time to pull the decorating together. The Smiths get it started themselves and then they have a day in November when about 30 friends from their church\u2014the Allsaw Pentecostal Church near Minden\u2014show up for a blitz to do the final set up.<\/p>\n

“People love it,” says Greg, who some will recognize as the Portage Flyer’s chief engineer at Muskoka Heritage Place. “We get busloads. Muskoka Landing had two busloads this year, Chartwell had a bus, Fairvern usually brings a bus up. Last year we had somebody who proposed here. We get a lot of people.”<\/p>\n

That’s no surprise. Each of about a dozen songs provides a different show, controlled by a computer program. A combination of LED, RGB Pixel, and standard incandescent lights provide a variety of effects including a towering animated Christmas tree that displays both images and text. There’s music playing quietly outside, and thanks to a low-power FM transmitter you can also sit in your car and tune in to the music.<\/p>\n

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At this home in Novar, you can tune in to 90.3 FM to listen to the Christmas music timed to the light show<\/p><\/div>\n

Get a sneak peek of the show in the video below, or head to Boundary Road in Novar to see it live.<\/p>\n