What started out as a simple project years ago with only a few hundred Christmas lights has now grown into an elaborate display of nearly 140,000 holiday lights, animated scenes, and a display which awes everyone who visits their home in Hudson.

From left, Lieutenan Robert Tousignant and Officer Joseph Hoebeke thank Marc and Gail Mousseau, Paul and Claudette Roy and 7-year-old Haille Mousseau for their $2,650 donation to the CHIPS program.

"The complex and intricate arrangement of the lights takes the two families three weeks to complete," commented Paul Roy. "Each year it gets bigger and bigger."
This year the Roys and the Mousseaus accepted donations from those who visited their display and have decided to donate those proceeds to the CHIPS (Children of Hudson Interacting with Police Services) of the Hudson Police Department.

The website for the Hudson Police Department describes CHIPS as, "Children of Hudson Interacting with Police Services is a charitable organization which is dedicated to fostering improved relations between the children of our town and our police department. Since 1990 CHIPS, which consists of a committee of police officers, business people and concerned citizens, has endeavored to fund and produce programs which allow our town's police officers to meet and socialize with Hudson's children and their parents."

Due to the hard work and efforts of these two families, their Christmas light display raised $2,650 for the CHIPS program. This generous donation will be used to continue the activities of CHIPS with Hudson's youth.

Currently, CHIPS sponsors a tee-ball team for youth baseball, participates in the sponsorship of two to three students from the Memorial Middle School to attend the annual trip to Washington, D. C., as well as off set the costs of their annual Fright Night.
Selectman Ken Massey, Chairman, stated that these two families were "a credit to the community, and that the town is very appreciative. This is why a community is made up of people, not things."