By Kellen Olshefski
Editor
While a glow is visible over the treetops at night just north of Elkhorn, it’s nothing to be concerned about. In fact, it’s something to celebrate.
For his sixth year, Kevin Strickhouser has returned with his annual Christmas light show, known as Strictly Lights.
What started with five control boxes after watching a video on Youtube about six years ago, Strickhouser, who runs a musical light show at his home at W5355 Highway ES in Elkhorn, has continued to grow his show year after year due to the high traffic and compliments received from area residents.
Running it every night from dusk until 10 p.m. on week nights, sometimes 11 p.m. on the weekends, Strickouser said he plans to run the show through at least the first week of January again. Passers-by can tune in to 88.5 FM to hear the music the lights are programmed to.
This year, Strickhouser has added a few new items, enhancing the experience even more. He said for this season he’s added four more arches, something he’s received a lot of compliments on in the past and also a second mega-tree, like the one positioned in front of garage last year.
Additionally, Strickhouser said back with popular demand, he’s included the fences down the length of the driveway, something he had a couple of years ago and attendees of his annual light show told him they missed. However, with the time and money to switch them over to LED lighting, a project he initially undertook with last years show, they’re back and in full force.
“I had a lot of people say they missed them and loved them, so we brought those back,” he said. “These fences were the number one thing that everyone said, where did those go, you’ve got to put those back.”
In this year’s show, Strickhouser said he has around 250,000 lights running, though that’s not a concrete figure.
“I kind of stopped counting,” he said.
With an additional 13 or 14 more control boxes, Strickhouser said his show is now comprised of more than 800 channels, meaning he has more than 800 extension cords running to each of the elements in his lawn.
