Page 16 THE VILLADOM TIMES I • December 3, 2014 Wyckoff Wanderings Menorah Lighting & Chanukah Celebration set The Wyckoff Town Hall Menorah Lighting and Cha- nukah Celebration will be held Dec. 16 at 6 p.m. The community is invited to join Mayor Doug Christie and local officials for the festivities. In addition to the meno- rah lighting, participants will enjoy a live ice-carving of a six-foot ice menorah by Kristoff and Olaf, live music, hot Chanukah refreshments, glow giveaways, and a special fundraiser. For more information, or to help sponsor the event, call Chabad Jewish Center at (201) 848-0449 or visit www. chabadplace.org. Local artist attends Holiday Tree Lighting Local artist Janet Atkinson will join postal and com- munity officials on Dec. 5 for the Wyckoff Chamber of Commerce’s Holiday Tree Lighting event at town hall, 345 Franklin Avenue in Wyckoff. Atkinson created “The Ice Skaters” image that appears on one of the four newly issued Winter Fun holiday post- age stamps. The stamps will be available at the ceremony and Atkinson will be autographing memorabilia and dis- playing the original artwork for the stamp. (Rain date: Dec. 8 at 7:45 p.m.) Atkinson’s postage stamp is one of four new festive stamps that are on sale across the nation for the holiday season. A total of 400 million Winter Fun stamps have been printed and are available to grace holiday greeting cards and packages. Monday at the Movies slated The Wyckoff Public Library, located at 200 Woodland Avenue, presents free screenings of movies on Mondays at 2 p.m. A screening of “Christmas in Connecticut” (1945) is set for Dec. 8. A food writer who has lied in print about being the perfect housewife must try to cover her decep- tion when her boss and a returning war hero invite them- selves to her home for a traditional family Christmas. The film stars Barbara Stanwyck, Dennis Morgan and Sydney Greenstreet and is 102 minutes long. “Joyeux Noel” (2005), starring Diane Kruger, Benno Furmann and Guillaume Canet will be the feature pre- sentation on Dec. 15. On Christmas Eve, 1914, German, French and Scottish troops call a truce to the brutal Great War to fraternize and celebrate, incurring the wrath of their governments. Based on a true story. The film is rated PG-13 and runs 116 minutes. On Dec. 22, see “Black Nativity” (2013) starring Forest Whitaker, Angela Bassett and Jennifer Hudson. A street-wise teen from Baltimore raised by a single mother travels to New York to spend his Christmas holiday with his estranged relatives and embarks on a surprising and inspirational journey. The movie is rated PG and is 93 minutes long. “Hugo” (2011) starring Asa Butterfield, Chloe Grace Moretz and Ben Kingsley will be the film selection on Dec. 29. An orphan who lives in the walls of a train sta- tion in 1930s Paris becomes wrapped up in a mystery involving his late father and an automaton. The PG rated movie is 126 minutes long. New toddler class announced The Early Childhood Learning Center at Temple Beth Rishon will host Open House events on Dec. 8 from 9 to 10:30 a.m. and Dec. 11 from 7:30 to 8:30 p.m. to introduce its new class for the “young set.” The class, scheduled to begin in January, is for children who are over 15 months and walking. Sessions will be held from 9 a.m. to noon and parents may choose between two to five mornings. The children in this class will be in an environment where they will grow socially, emotionally and cogni- tively. Temple Beth Rishon is located at 585 Russell Avenue. For more information on the school or this new class, contact the school’s director at (201) 891-4466 or preschool@bethrishon.org. Santa will return to Wyckoff The Wyckoff Chamber of Commerce’s Santa Comes to Wyckoff and Annual Tree Lighting Ceremony will be held Friday, Dec. 5. (Rain date: Dec. 8.) All are invited to enjoy this special visit from Santa and Mrs. Claus, and the magic of the ceremony. The event will include refresh- ments and holiday music. Santa and Mrs. Claus will travel through Wyckoff on a fire truck, meeting and greeting children and their families at various locations. Santa’s first stop will be at the Cedar Hill Plaza at 4 p.m. He will be at the Wyckoff Shopping Center at 5:15 p.m., Main Street at 5:45 p.m., and the Mayflower Shopping Center at 6 p.m. He will travel through the Wyckoff Square Shopping Center at 6:45 p.m. and the Rock Ledge Plaza at 7 p.m. and then make a stop at Boulder Run Shopping Center at 7:15 p.m. Santa’s last stop of the evening will be at Wyckoff Town Hall for the ceremony at 7:45 p.m. This year, he will have the honor of unveiling the hol- iday postage stamp that that was designed by Wyckoff resident Janet Atkinson. Please note: Santa will not be getting off the truck at Main Street, Wyckoff Square Shopping Center, or Rock Ledge Plaza. Be sure to bring cameras to record this fes- tive annual event. For more event information, visit www.wyckoffcham- ber.com. Press releases for this column may be sent to editorial@villadom.com. Deadline is Wednesday at noon. School parking (continued from page 7) spaces in the lot on a daily basis, but no changes had been made. Last month, the borough council turned over 20 spaces on the recreation property behind the school to be used for staff parking during school hours, thus freeing up spots in the front lot for student use. Under the terms of the new directive, all students must register the car they will be using to drive to school in the MPHS main office. Both the student and a parent must sign the registration form. Students must also display a district-provided parking placard on the rear view mirror when parked in the lot for security purposes, and they may only park in designated areas. Student driving privileges will be revoked for failing to abide by the parking regulations set forth by school administration. This includes receiving a failing grade in any subject in a marking period, or for using their car to leave school grounds during the school day without per- mission. The administration reserves the right to suspend or revoke the driving privilege of any student who oper- ates his or her vehicle in an unsafe manner. School administrators said they will work with stu- dents in days to come to answer any questions and allevi- ate concerns during this transition period. “As with all school operations, administrators will also continually reflect and review the plan in its ongoing efforts to improve upon management systems and col- lect data which may be used in the future,” the school’s release said.