Volume 12, Number 48
cheshirecitizen.com
Thursday, December 2, 2021
Holiday activities are plentiful in December By Joy VanderLek The Cheshire Citizen
their letter answered personally. Carolyn Dudeck and Wondeline Rivera, Cheshire Junior Women's co-presiHoliday activities in Cheshire are get- dents, oversee the operation. The ting underway with a wide variety of group answered more than 500 letters ways to celebrate the season. in 2020. This year, Santa mailboxes are conveniently placed at R.W. Hines The Cheshire’s Junior Women’s Hardware and the Cheshire Public LiClub is again hosting a Letters to Santa brary. The group asks that letters be program to make sure every child gets
dropped off with a self-addressed, stamped envelope. In order for Santa to send a timely response, letters should be dropped off no later than Dec. 14.
lighting the Christmas tree on the green. Additionally, CJW adopts a family each holiday season. The club is a 501(c)3 non-profit and manages a number of outreach projects throughout the year.
The Cheshire Junior Women’s Club also holds an annual holiday essay con- Santa and his entourage of elves will test. The winner receives the honor of
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Hanukkah celebrated at area Jewish congregations By Jessica Simms Special to the Record-Journal
With Hanukkah beginning at sundown on Sunday, Nov. 28, area synagogues were prepared to host in-person and online events for their congregations.
Yale University Hillhouse Professor Daniel Esty gave a talk on the Glasgow Climate Summit at the First Congregational Church, Nov. 15. From left: Dr. Anne McNulty, Esty and Karen Schnitzer. McNulty and Schnitzer are part of the First Church Environmental Justice Team. Joy VanderLek, The Cheshire Citizen
Yale expert recaps the Global Climate Summit By Joy VanderLek The Cheshire Citizen
A former commissioner with the state’s Department of Energy and Environmental Protection, Esty The First Congregational Church serves as director of the Yale Cenof Cheshire recently hosted a pre- ter for Environmental Law and sentation on the 2021 Global Cli- Policy and is co-director of the mate Summit held in Scotland. Yale Initiative on Sustainable FiThe program was led by Yale Uni- nance. versity Hillhouse Professor Daniel Esty, who presented at the GlasThe Nov. 15 program, “The World gow event.
Steps Up: A Report from the Climate Change Front Lines in Glasgow,” was co-sponsored by Cheshire Creation Care, a partnership of First Congregational Church, Temple Beth David and St. Peter’s Episcopal Church. Dr. Anne McNulty, chair of the See Summit, A2
Jodi Harris, director of congregational learning and engagement for Temple Beth David in Cheshire, said there will be Zoom events again this year due to how popular they were last year. “Each night of Hanukkah at 6 p.m. on Zoom we’re doing candle lighting, which is cool,” Harris said. “It’s just a nice way ... people being in their own cozy homes but communally lighting candles, so everybody can have their menorah and everybody does the prayers together and then we just say, ‘Have a good night.’” Another popular Zoom event from last year that is happening again is the bedtime story for children. At 7 p.m. on the first night and the last night of Hanukkah, the rabbi or Harris will read a good night story. Along with Zoom events, Harris said they will do some in-person events again this year. There will be a latke cooking demonstration, activities held at religious See Hanukkah, A6