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Pendleton dad sets up dazzling lights

A Pendleton dad spent 250 hours putting up his Christmas lights this year.

PENDLETON, N.Y. -- We're celebrating Western New York by getting you into the holiday spirit. Many neighborhoods have dazzling displays of Christmas lights that attract families year after year. Friday night, we found a dad in Pendleton who spent hundreds of hours putting up his lights this year, and he wants to share his love of Christmas with Western New York.

"Basically, it took me since January I've been working on this thing," says Jason Brosius.

Jason spent 250 hours putting up his lights this year. Jason has lived on Ridgeview Drive West in Pendleton for three years. Each year, his light display gets bigger and brighter.

"Every night, my kids go to bed by 8 o'clock, my wife goes to bed at 8 o'clock, and this has been my hobby, my project since," he says.

This year, Jason added the lights outlining his house.

"The lights are tuned to a radio station, an FM radio station, I think it's 89.5. I sequenced five different songs to it. And, the music goes with, or the lights go with the music, and it's pretty cool. People sit out here and watch it, and it's pretty neat," says Brosius.

This is the only home in the neighborhood with lights set to music. Jason programs every light bulb himself.

"On that tree over there, I wrapped the tree. There are eighty strands of one-hundred LEDs. And then, there are about five-hundred lights on the house, and then, there's eight-hundred on the left tree over there," says Brosius.

Next year, he wants to add lights to the lawn. The show runs from 6 to 10 every night. Jason hasn't gotten his electricity bill yet, but for him, it's all about sharing his love of Christmas.

"It's just joy I get out of people, and Christmas spirit, and the other day actually I just got a thank you note from a little girl thanking me saying this is the best light show she's ever seen. And, she wrote me a handwritten letter. I put it up on my fridge next to my kids' stuff, so I don't know, it's pretty cool," says Brosius.

Jason's brother, Jake, is one of the volunteers behind North Tonawanda's Christmas Caroling Trailer. Each Saturday, it goes through neighborhoods and singers collect food for the North Tonawanda Food Pantry. Their goal this year is to collect 75-hundred items.

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