Members of Lansford Alive made an upsetting discovery earlier this week when attempting to hang their traditional multicolored lights in Kennedy Park.

They found over a dozen strands broken, some missing wires and others with lights detached from their sockets. The vandalism probably took place late last year, members guessed, when the lights were off but not yet removed from the park.

Hanging the lights is part of the borough’s “Christmas in the Park” preparations. And with the event fast approaching, as of Monday, it looked like Lansford’s festivities next week were going to be dimmer than in years past.

“We won’t be able to purchase new ones,” Chris Ondrus, president of Lansford Alive, told BRC news.

Then a Palmerton business stepped in to help.

The president of Mount Medix, which sells taxidermy products, saw a news report about the broken lights and reached out to Lansford Alive. The local businessman, who wished to remain anonymous, said he decorates his home with lights every year for the holidays.

For all the work Lansford Alive does for the borough, he added, they should be able to brighten their hometown, too.

On Wednesday morning, Lansford Alive received 20 new multicolored sets of lights, courtesy of Mount Medix.

“Lansford Alive and the town received an early Christmas present,” Ondrus wrote Thursday in an email to the Times News.

“There are good people out there,” he added.

Lansford’s tree lighting ceremony is scheduled for Nov. 30 starting at 5 p.m.