Finishing touches added to the Tridge

Brand new LED lights illuminate the Tridge on Monday, Nov. 27, 2017. The lights have the ability to change color for special occasions and holidays. (Katy Kildee/kkildee@mdn.net)

Brand new LED lights illuminate the Tridge on Monday, Nov. 27, 2017. The lights have the ability to change color for special occasions and holidays. (Katy Kildee/kkildee@mdn.net)

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Brand new LED lights illuminate the Tridge on Monday, Nov. 27, 2017. The lights have the ability to change color for special occasions and holidays. (Katy Kildee/kkildee@mdn.net)

Brand new LED lights illuminate the Tridge on Monday, Nov. 27, 2017. The lights have the ability to change color for special occasions and holidays. (Katy Kildee/kkildee@mdn.net)

Finishing touches added to the Tridge

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The Tridge is still in the processof getting fully lit in time for Christmas.

The 108 newly installed LED lights are still in the process of being programmed so they can change color, said Midland City Parks Supervisor Bart Heil last week during a Parks and Recreation meeting. A controller for the lights was defective, so the city is waiting for the manufacturer to send a new one, he said.

In the meantime, what city staff did was manually switch one of the arch's lights to red, one to green and one white.

Some people are worried the lights might be too bright, Heil said, but once they have a computer controller they can be easily adjusted.

"If we do decide it's too bright, we can certainly turn it down," Heil said.

The new controller could arrive as early