WASILLA — Passersby on the Parks Highway will be seeing some new and unique lights by Wasilla Lake this week.
On Thursday, Dec. 3, Rabbi Mendy Greenberg of the Mat-Su Jewish Center and a volunteer from Chessed Alaska, a Jewish education group, met Wasilla Public Works employee Lynn Follett at Wasilla Lake to erect a nine-foot-tall metal menorah with electric lights.
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