Solon: Sandy Seiger lights Chabad Center's menorah every year

Every year at Chanukah time, the Chabad Center of Solon puts up a 15-foot-tall menorah on its Harper Road property.

On the first night of Chanukah, during a holiday celebration, the Chabad center sends members up in a cherry picker to light the menorah's first two candles.

However, on every other night, just one Chabad member, Sandy Seiger, lights the menorah's candles -- and he doesn't have a cherry picker to make it easy.

"He does a fabulous job, no matter how cold the weather," said Miriam Greenberg, wife of Chabad center Rabbi Zushe Greenberg.

For more on this story, see the Dec. 18 Solon Sun.

Solon: Radio talk show host Dennis Prager speaks to 350 at Chabad Jewish Center

Everyone has a moral obligation to be happy -- or at least to act that way.

Dennis Prager, a nationally syndicated radio talk show host, delivered that message Sunday to about 350 admirers at the Chabad Jewish Center of Solon.

"I have declared war on the chronically unhappy," Prager said. "You annoy us."

The audience roared with laughter, as they did frequently during Prager's lighthearted presentation.