Samuel flips the switch on his Christmas lights
Residents checking out the lights at Jimmy Samuel’s home.
Inset: Jimmy Samuel with wife and the two young girls who turned on the lights Social Share
by Katherine Renton
Across the country, houses are lighting up with colourful Christmas lights in an effort to bring cheer to a hard year, but 80-year-old Jimmy Samuel is on a whole other level in the “lighting up” game.
Jimmy Samuel (left) with assistant Ashanti Ackie
Samuel, who has 16 years’ experience with lighting up, and has won the Nine Mornings Lighting Up competition several times – has once again flipped the switch on his lights this Tuesday, December 15.
Amid COVID, Jimmy Samuel lightS UP
Jimmy Samuel missed a year of lighting-up his home but he returned in 2020 with an even bigger bang.
By: Kenville Horne•
Personal health challenges prevented Jimmy Samuel from lighting up his Rillan Hill home in 2019, but not even the COVID-19 pandemic was going to cause a repeat of last year.
Samuel has been lighting up his home for some sixteen years. For him, it is a labour of love, an undertaking aimed at bringing joy and splendor to the community during the Christmas season.
He has won the coveted award for Best Lit Private House on four occasions, a testimony, he said, of his hard work.