Local Chanukah celebration
Posted Dec 5, 2010 05:54:35 AM.
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The second annual Chanukah in the Square happens this afternoon Uptown Waterloo.
It kicks off at 4:30 with the Rohr Chabad Centre for Jewish Life, a Waterloo-based Jewish community centre lighting a 16 foot menorah at Waterloo Public Square.
Rabbi Moshe Goldman of the Waterloo Chabad tells 570 news, the ceremony will feature The Regional Chair, Mr. Ken Seiling, Peter Braid, MP for Kitchener-Waterloo, Elizabeth Witmer, MPP, Mayor Brenda Halloran, Mayor Carl Zehr and Councilman Jeff Henry.
Following the menorah lighting ceremony there will be some Chanukah related activities like singing and dancing and feasting on traditional Chanukah foods like latkes and donuts.
Weather permitting the ice rink will also be open.
