INDIANAPOLIS — For more than 60 years, Circle of Lights has marked the start of the holiday season in Indianapolis. Each year, volunteers with IBEW Local 481 help illuminate Monument Circle and the Soldiers and Sailors Monument.
It takes 52 light strands, each with nearly 5,000 lightbulbs to light up the Soldiers and Sailors Monument for this holiday tradition. Volunteers with IBEW Local 481 woke up bright and early Saturday to string up all 7,984 lights.
“I’m going to have 200 to 300 people show up, volunteer to do it,” said Jeff Wheeler of IBEW Local 481. “We’re hoping to have it done in five or six hours.”…