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The GaslightSouth Orange This holiday season, get artistic: Seasonal Events The Gaslight is published 10 Shop The Baird! times yearly for ■ Tree Lighting the residents & Do you want another stuffed gallery exhibits and business bear dressed in your favorite sports special programs Enjoy local choirs, a visit from Santa, community of South Orange gear? Or a giant tin of caramel pop- offered throughout hot chocolate and cookies at the Holiday Tree Lighting sponsored by the South Orange Village. corn to tempt you off your diet? the year. Chamber of Commerce. The ceremony starts Of course not! So, this holiday Hours are noon to at 6 p.m. on Thursday, Nov. 30, in front of November season, give what you’d like to get: 8 p.m. daily, 76 South Orange Avenue. 2006 gifts with style! Admission is free. Plenty of new artisans will be Preceding the four- ■ Village Aglow featured in Pierro Gallery’s 13th day sale will be the Meet your neighbors by the pond at annual Crafts at The Baird, taking kick-off preview sale Meadowland Park for Village Aglow. More place Thursday through Sunday, on Wednesday, Dec. than 500 luminaries will grace the pond and Dec. 7 to 10. 6, from 7 to 9 p.m. walkways for six hours on Sunday, Dec. 10. From the practical to the artisti- For a $5 admission The fun will begin at 4 p.m. with a visit from cally sublime, there’s something for fee, previewers Santa, followed by seasonal music, cookies, everyone on your list. Choose from will have first dibs hot chocolate and the lighting of the lumi- contemporary art quilts, jewelry, on artistic buys naries at 5:30 p.m. A short fireworks display ceramics, hand-painted silks, wood while savor- will begin at 5:45 p.m. Inside and woven pieces, glass and wood ing a festive ■ ornaments, metal wall sculptures, evening of S. Orange Illumination ‘07 hand-made paper journals and sta- hors d’oeu- On New Year’s Eve, South Orange ■ Beth El cele- tionery. vres and Productions will stage its five-year-old tradi- brates its 60th The sale is Pierro’s major annu- conversa- tion of creating a luminous pathway into the ■ al fundraiser; buyers help support tion with coming year. If you did not receive a flier Three local about the wax-paper-bag-and-candle lumi- theater companies the artisans. offer December ▲ naries, there’s still time to join the fun. stage productions Call for an order form at (973) 761- Adena Traub heads 5970, or send e-mail to soproductions@ ■ SOPAC launches optonline.net. Be sure to leave your name, its inaugural sea- Main Street South Orange address and phone number. ▲ son Adena Traub has town events the nonprofit is known ■ PBS’ David been elected for. Brancaccio speaks president of the Traub, her husband Matt (who New parking lot at CHS on Nov. 15 Main Street serves on the redevelopment com- coming ■ Marilyn Lehren South Orange mittee) and their son Jonah have Now that demolition of the named Villager of Board of lived in South Orange for three the Month former Gulf gas station at Valley Directors. She years. and Third streets is complete, succeeds Rob “South Orange is a wonderful the Village will be turning the Fisch who held community and I am thrilled to be site into a much-needed parking the position for five years. working with such a great group of lot. More than 50 spaces will be Traub is a professional event people to make it an even better created for a variety of uses. planner with a long list of corporate place to live and work,”she said. The construction work will go clients. Fisch will remain on MSSO’s out to bid later this fall.The start For the last year, she chaired board, co-chairing the design com- date will be weather-dependent. ▲ Main Street’s promotions committee, mittee. ▲ which develops many of the down- 1. Village Web site FLYING SHIP offers new features PRODUCTIONS (973) 378-7754 REGISTER FOR PRESCHOOL A search engine, better access & KINDERENRICHMENT ■ to public documents and individual Winter (973) 378-7754 • http://www.thebaird.org department pages have been added Wonderland – to the Village Web site: www.south- Sunday, Dec. 3, at 1 p.m. Applications for 2007-2008 Kinder- orange.org. Join modern-day Alice as enrichment and Preschool at The Baird will The search engine, located in she searches for the real be accepted Jan. 22 to 25.A random draw- the upper right corner of the home meaning of the holiday ing of applications will determine who page, offers simple and advanced season. This multicultural holiday musical registers for the space-limited programs. search options, in current and based on Lewis Carroll’s classic is recom- Details and applications are on The Baird archived files. mended for ages 3 to 11. Tickets are $8. Web site. A new weblink interface access- The Baird Preschool program combines es public documents. Simply click educational and recreational activities. the “public documents” section of DREAMCATCHER Small classes are offered twice weekly for the “government” drop-down menu (973) 378-7754, x2228 • www.DreamcatcherRep.org two-year-olds, three days a week for three- on the home page, then search by year-olds, and five times a week for four- word or phrase. ■ A Very Special (Holiday) Special and five-year-olds. Individual department Web - Friday and Saturday, Dec. 8 and 9, at 8 p.m. Kinderenrichment is available to South pages are being updated. Residents Enjoy the kind of holiday specials they used Orange children who will be entering should check back frequently to see to make, with seasonal songs, comic sketch- kindergarten in the local school district the additions. ▲ es and improv. Catch the spirit of good old- next fall. Playful learning reinforces the fashioned fun with this affectionate send-up kindergarten experience. Morning and of television's traditional holiday shows. All afternoon sessions will be offered, two and tickets are $15. Call (973) 378-7754, x2228, three times a week. Beth El celebrates or visit www.DreamcatcherRep.org. a mighty milestone PIERRO GALLERY It was 1946 when 20 families PENNY PRETZEL PLAYHOUSE OF SOUTH ORANGE began gathering at the home of (973) 378-7754 hardware store owners Stanley and (973) 378-7754, x3 • www.pierrogallery.org Jennie Beck to hash out plans for a ■ Super Circus Stuff with Mr. local house of worship and religious Fish, Thursday, Dec. 28, at 2 p.m. Mr. Fish, Paintings Emerge school. The fledgling synagogue held also known as John Lepiarz, blends circus Through Nov. 26 its first High Holiday service in that skills, magic and music to amaze and amuse Four artists -- John Day, Sue Jin Jo, year in rented space at the old children, adults and occasionally cats. (You Judith Kalina, and Neil Korn -- use layered Masonic lodge, at Prospect Street have to see the show!) Mr. Fish has per- surfaces, rich colors, and at times, groping and Irvington Avenue. formed in the ring of Big Apple Circus and forms, to represent a personal expose. At first, with no rabbi or cantor, theaters across the U.S., Canada and Asia. Visiting hours are Friday to Sunday, 1 to congregants conducted their own Tickets are $8 each. 4 p.m., or by appointment. services for as many as 250 worship- pers, including many from neighbor- ing towns. Now on its 60th year, home still used today. It was dedicat- Members reflect proudly on Congregation Beth El, has grown to ed in April 1949 in a ceremony being a driving force in creating the 525 families, many of whom gath- attended by Governor Alfred annual South Orange-Maplewood ered on Nov. 3 and 4 to celebrate the Driscoll. Interfaith Holocaust Memorial synagogue’s proud history and 6 By 1953, a more elegant sanctu- Service; Voices in Harmony, a com- bright future. 0 ary was added and The New York munity interfaith vocal ensemble; Within a year of organizing, the 6 Times heralded its contemporary and last year’s rally for Israel. They new congregation began planning 0 architecture and “richness of expres- also host a Holocaust survivors for a permanent building with sion.” group and support a local food prayer space, a Hebrew school, a 6 Beth El’s rabbis have included pantry. library and community room. They 0 Theodore Friedman for 16 years, To everyone at Beth El from the found a 60,000-square-foot site on 6 Jehiel Orenstein for 35 years, and Village of South Orange, congratula- Irvington Avenue and raised 0 now Rabbi Francine Roston and tions on your 60th anniversary! ▲ $250,000 to build the permanent years Cantor Perry Fine. 2. The South Orange Gaslight,November 2006 SHU HAPPENINGS Multicultural Film and Lecture Series Each free presentation begins at 6:30 p.m., in the Beck Room of Walsh Library. Call (973) 761-9385. David Brancaccio, SOPAC launches • Nov. 13 – NYU cinema studies Professor Ed Guerrero, “The Burden of host of the PBS weekly news magazine NOW, its inaugural Representation.” will speak Wednesday, Nov. 15, on “The • Nov. 20 – Film, “Brokeback Death of Journalism and Why It Matters to season Mountain.” Our Community, Our Country, Our World.” • Nov. 21 – Film, “Broken Flowers.” The South Orange Performing Arts Center will The 7:30 p.m. presentation at Columbia • Nov. 27 – Film, “Lone Star.” launch its inaugural season with “Music of Two Worlds,” • Dec. 4 – Film, “Control Room.” High School is sponsored by the South a fundraising gala on Thursday, Nov. 16, featuring a global Orange Maplewood Adult School.