The Big Blue Bug will be more like the Big Blue Firefly this evening. But the seasonal significance will be very much about the winter holidays, not the hot summer nights.
The 16th annual holiday lighting of that only-in-Rhode Island symbol of pest control is slated for 5 p.m.
Some 5,200 energy-saving LED holiday lights, donated by Benny's, will adorn the visible-from-the-highway bug known as Nibbles.
Teny Gross, executive director of the Institute for the Study and Practice of Nonviolence, and a group of neighborhood children will do the ceremonial lighting honors, according to a news release.
Providence Fire Chief George Farrell, Gross and the Providence Streetworkers will visit 25 Providence homes to deliver gifts and "fire safety common sense."
At each stop, they will donate:
* The 1st Edition Nibbles Woodaway Holiday Ornament.
* A universal twin-pack of smoke detectors - donated by Benny's.
* A gift certificate to Stop & Shop.
* A "plush toy."
The lighting ceremony is slated to happen atop the New England Pest Control building roof, 161 O'Connell St., Providence.
-- projo.com staff writer Michael P. McKinney
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