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Giant Menorah Lighting: December 9, 5 p.m., Senter St!
A giant Menorah lighting will take place on Sunday, December 9 at 5 p.m. in front of the New Castle Community Center at 10 Senter Street in Chappaqua.
Each year, all are welcome! Bring your family and friends to participate in the lighting and in Chanukah arts and crafts, music–and also to enjoy chocolate “gelt” and an overall great
Chanukah spirit. A unique Chanukah themed Magic Show will follow this event!
“In these difficult times when the forces of darkness seem so strong, we remember the story and victory of Chanukah and add an extra measure of light,” stated Rabbi Yosef Butman of the Chabad of Armonk/Chappaqua. “We give strength to the menorah’s universal message of light over darkness, freedom and liberty over oppression, doing all we can to increase our acts of goodness and kindness, making this world a better place for all people.”
This will be the 10th year Chabad has hosted the outdoor Menorah lighting in Chappaqua.
http://www.chabadacp.org/templates/articlecco_cdo/aid/1356365/jewish/Chanukah.htm
The Chappaqua-Millwood Chamber of Commerce is pleased to report that the Town Board has agreed to free 3 hour parking on the streets and in non-commuter parking lots during the holiday season.
It will commence on Mon, Dec 10th & end on Mon, Dec 31st. There will be burlap bags put over the parking signs which will note the free 3 hour parking.
Please Support our Merchants & Shop Local!
The third annual KenKen Tournament will take place on Saturday December 8 at 10 a.m. in the Chappaqua library. Spots are limited so please register at the Chappaqua library or at http://www.chappaqualibrary.org. The tournament is free and open to all ages.
Tournament sign-in begins at 9:15 AM.
KenKen is a mathematical grid puzzle developed by Japanese math teacher Tetsuya Miyamoto, as an instruction-free method of training the brain. In 2008, Bob Fuhrer, a Chappaqua resident and owner of the company Nextoy brought the puzzles to the attention of Michael Harvey, an editor of The Times (London). Harvey, impressed with what he calls its “depth and magnitude”, arranged for publication of such puzzles, starting in March 2008. The New York Times followed suit and KenKen now appears in more than 100 newspapers in the United States, as well as numerous international publications. The name derives from ken, the Japanese word for cleverness.
For more information, please visit www.kenken.com
Sitting down on November 25 to write this one day to go with my “deadline to the printer,” and my mind drifts back to less stressful days–you know, the ones pre-Hurricane-Sandy? It might be easier to think of this past fall as one characterized only by the storm’s profound disruption and destruction to so many communities. I prefer to recall, or at least not forget, an especially vibrant and full of promise fall in New Castle–the likes of which I haven’t witnessed since first moving to Chappaqua in 1996.
It began with an unprecedented attendance on Community Day in September. Under balmy skies, visitors enjoyed everything from the Rotary’s always delish hot dogs to impromptu dance performances, while merchants, town officials, and non profit organizations alike had their precious annual chance to acquaint residents and visitors to their wide array of goods, goals and services. So, ok, the politicians were out politicking too. Democracy at work! And another major election day, here and gone.
In October, the community stepped out en masse yet again to enjoy a rollickin’ downtown, first time ever Chappaqua-Millwood Chamber-sponsored Fall Festival complete with an apple pie contest (won by Chappaqua’s Teresa Shen) and hay rides. The turnout, on yet another beautiful fall day was good fun and also good business. It was as if a years’ long mantra from our merchants, from the town–and from local media too– to “shop local” was finally registering widely.
And now, post storm, as we slowly recoup and consider Sandy’s lessons, the community’s unabashed enthusiasm for all things local seems to already be recapturing the fall’s earlier promise …as evidenced by a brisk “Small Business Saturday” turnout on Nov. 24 in towns here and across the country. And so.. as colder temperatures and frosty mornings kick in, the odds for a “winning winter,” this issue’s overall theme, is already lookin’ darn good…a tree lighting, a holiday stroll and the Chappaqua Orchestra’s annual concert and sing along at the Bell School kick off a holiday season and, soon, a New Year that always carries renewed hope for peace and harmony.
Enjoy the wide array of stories and profiles in this issue. It wasn’t an easy one to “sell” while everyone was smarting from Sandy. Behind the scenes here, my metal gets tested sometimes! I’m glad to report that I’m still up for the challenge! All my best,
Grace
