Local residents are stepping up to help keep the Celebration of Lights alive.
Organizers announced earlier this month the display would not go ahead this year due to a lack of financial and volunteer resources.
Since then, Board Director Bill Suisham says a number of businesses, community groups, sports teams and schools have come forward offering to help.
He says they would like to return to the early days of the annual event, when different groups and businesses sponsored and maintained individual displays.
Suisham says there's a renewed hope we could see perhaps a slightly scaled back display this year.
"From the response I've been hearing, there is a chance," says Suisham. "It might not be everything, but basically if many of these displays get that kind of support, we'll definitely try to do everything we can in our power to put them in and they might not be perfect, but at least it's a starting point."
The Celebration of Lights has run over the Christmas holiday's for 32 years. Suisham says $20,000 is needed to put on the full show every year.
An information meeting is being held Wednesday evening at 6:30pm at the Royal LePage offices on Christina St. North.
Those interested are asked to reply on the Sarnia-Lambton Celebration of Lights Facebook page.
