Newtown Family Will Donate Holiday Lights Cash Prize To Hospital

NEWTOWN, PA — A Newtown home featured in 94.5 PST's Holiday Light Display contest has won the day!

"We are blown away by their attention to detail in the stunningly beautiful display, which had thousands of votes," the radio station said of 301 Matthews Lane, which claimed top prize among hundreds of initial entrants in New Jersey and Pennsylvania.

Hillary Moskaitis' family has been decorating their Wrightstown home for 12 years. This year, their festive display featured 100,000 lights.

"Our extra large family of 11 children of various ages are simply delighted as are we their parents, with the news of this honor that we’ve received," Moskaitis wrote in an email to Patch. "We have enjoyed displaying Christmas lights and greeting every season of the year with as much beauty as possible for all four seasons."

The family will receive $1,000 in prizes: $500 in cash and a $500 shopping spree at Michael's Jewelers.

Moskaitis said the family plans to donate the full cash portion to the Children's Hospital Of Philadelphia Department of Gastroenterology, which has been a valuable resource to them personally and to other community members.

Moskaitis thanked her community for voting in the contest, writing, "We want to thank everyone in our own community as well as many neighboring communities that have voted for us and who have come by to share in our Christmas joy and have spread the spirit of Christmas right along with us."

She also shared a message of hope and cheer amid the difficulty of a pandemic holiday.

"Our holiday has been joy filled as we have all remained healthy and even though some of us had to gather from a distance due to Covid restrictions our hearts are never apart at any time of year especially at Christmas," Moskaitis wrote.

See other finalists in the PST Nation contest here.

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