City officials recognized the creators of the Nutcracker Village as being “a positive force for the revitalization of Steubenville.”
Mayor Jerry Barilla issued a proclamation during Tuesday’s meeting celebrating the Nelson family “for what they’ve brought to the city,” saying it’s had an astronomical impact on “who we are as a city, how we’re looked at as a community and just the fellowship of people experiencing something good for Christmas.”
“They’ve been doing it, I think, eight years, and it’s grown,” Barilla said. “This year was one of our blockbuster years; we had a multitude of people come from everywhere, and everyone I spoke with from out of town thought it was exciting — they think (we have) a lovely town, a charming town, with a lot of history to it. They were just tickled pink to be in Steubenville.”
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