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SNAPPED: Giant Menorah Lighting at Miner’s Park

Rebecca Brenner

by Rebecca Brenner
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Giant Menorah Lighting in Miner's Park, sponsored by Historic Main Street and Chabad Lubavitch of Park City. Rabbi Yudi Steiger and Mayor Nann Worel

Giant Menorah Lighting in Miner's Park, sponsored by Historic Main Street and Chabad Lubavitch of Park City. Rabbi Yudi Steiger and Mayor Nann Worel Photo: Randi Sidman-Moore

PARK CITY, Utah — A giant menorah now glows in Miner’s Park after Tuesday night’s community lighting, sponsored by Historic Main Street and Chabad Lubavitch of Park City, led by directors Rabbi Yudi Steiger and Devori Steiger.

Giant Menorah Lighting in Miner's Park, sponsored by Historic Main Street and Chabad Lubavitch of Park City. Rabbi Yudi Steiger and Mayor Nann Worel lighting the menorah
Park City Mayor Nann Worel lights the giant menorah in Miner’s Park during a community Hanukkah celebration Tuesday night as Chabad Lubavitch of Park City director Rabbi Yudi Steiger, right, addresses the crowd. Photo: TownLift//Randi Sidman-Moore

After the community gathered, Mayor Worel lit the menorah on Main Street, marking the start of the celebration.

Giant Menorah Lighting in Miner's Park, sponsored by Historic Main Street and Chabad Lubavitch of Park City. Rabbi Yudi Steiger and the PC Fire Department
Park City Fire District firefighters pose with Chabad Lubavitch of Park City director Rabbi Yudi Steiger (second from left) in front of the lit giant menorah in Miner’s Park during Tuesday night’s community Hanukkah celebration. Photo: TownLift//Randi Sidman-Moore

Following the lighting, the Park City Fire District arrived with a ladder truck.

Giant Menorah Lighting in Miner's Park, sponsored by Historic Main Street and Chabad Lubavitch of Park City
Park City Fire District’s ladder truck stretches over Main Street as families gather in Miner’s Park for the Giant Menorah Lighting on Tuesday night in Old Town TownLift//Randi Sidman-Moore

Firefighters ascended above the crowd and showered toys and gelt—chocolate coins—onto the eagerly waiting children below.

Giant Menorah Lighting in Miner's Park, sponsored by Historic Main Street and Chabad Lubavitch of Park City. Toys and gelt thrown off the ladder of the PC Fire Department
Children look up as toys and gelt — chocolate coins — are tossed from Park City Fire District’s ladder truck during the Giant Menorah Lighting in Miner’s Park on Tuesday night. The community celebration was sponsored by Historic Main Street and Chabad Lubavitch of Park City. Photo: TownLift//Randi Sidman-Moore

The event brought warmth, lights, and a little joyful chaos to the park — a festive pause in the middle of the season’s bustle.

Rebecca Brenner

Rebecca Brenner's work has been featured in Time, the LA Times, Tin House, The Rumpus, and others. She has lived in Park City for twenty years, now with her two children and wild cattle pup. She is a member of Leadership Park City class 30, the Park City Community Foundation’s DEI cohort, founder of Mindful. Summit County, and a board member of Summit Pride. Her debut memoir, Paper House, will be published with Wayfarer Books in Fall 2025.

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