Glenview, Northbrook briefs: Traveling sukkah; Glenview Winter Wear Drive
Lubavitch Chabad rolls out traveling sukkah
Sukkot, the Festival of the Booths, is a seven-day Jewish holiday celebrated by eating in a sukkah, a temporary structure covered with vegetation or bamboo that commemorates the time Jews spent in the desert and the clouds that surrounded them.
This year Sukkot begins on Friday evening and lasts until nightfall on Oct. 6.
Rabbi Meir Moscowitz of Lubavitch Chabad of Northbrook is rolling out a traveling sukkah, constructed in the back of a pickup truck to bring the holiday to the people.
Moscowitz plans to bring Sukkot to shopping centers, offices and senior residences, where people may not have access to a sukkah booth. He'll have a light snack available to celebrate the holiday, as well as the "Four Species" of plant life - palm, willow, myrtle and citron fruit - to create a Sukkot blessing.
"Bringing the sukkah to the streets enables so many more people to participate," Moscowitz said. "The traveling sukkah will bring holiday joy to hundreds."
Winter Wear Drive
The Glenview Community Winter Wear Drive will be held Oct. 9-19.
The drive is a collaboration between Glenview District 34, District 34's Parent Teacher Association, Glenbrook South High School's Titans Helping Titans, the Debra Gelfand Children's Foundation, and Youth Services. Donations of new and like-new winter coats, mittens and gloves, hats, and scarves are sought to provide to those in need.
Drop-off locations are at Youth Services, 3080 W. Lake Ave.; Glenbrook South's lobby, 4000 W. Lake Ave.; Attea Middle School, 2500 Chestnut Ave.; and Lyon School, 1335 Waukegan Ave.
On Oct. 18, the annual Stuff the Bus event throughout the village also will accept winter clothing.
Donations can be made online at tinyurl.com/GVWinterWear.
Park district receives arts grant
The Northbrook Park District has received a $9,600 matching grant from the Illinois Arts Council Agency to help fund performance arts programming for all age groups, including the Northbrook Theatre Youth Company and Northbrook Community Theatre.
The park district has received IACA grants every year since 2019. To qualify for the grant, organizations must show their programs and activities have artistic, educational and cultural value for the areas they serve.
Upcoming park district performing arts productions include:
• "SpongeBob the Musical: Youth Edition," an all-singing, all-dancing stage show that puts the spotlight on the power of optimism, Oct. 24-26.
• "A Christmas Carol: A Live Radio Play," in which the Charles Dickens classic comes alive as a live 1940s broadcast complete with vintage commercials, Dec. 16.
• A series of one-day workshops that will give a behind-the-scenes look at the magic of makeup for theater.
For more information, visit nbparks.org.
Last day of farmers market
The Northbrook Farmers Market will host its 15th end-of-season celebration on Oct. 11. The market runs 7 a.m.-1 p.m. in the Meadow Plaza parking lot, Meadow Road and Cherry Lane.
Closing Day and Li'l Pumpkins will offer free on-site pumpkin decorating from 9 a.m.-noon for children 2-6 years. The event is sponsored by NorthShore University HealthSystem.
Northbrook Community Nursery School volunteers will help with the decorating supplies, and children are welcome to wear Halloween costumes.
For more information, visit NorthbrookFarmersMarket.org.
Tesla groundbreaking
The official groundbreaking ceremony for the Tesla dealership at 1200 Skokie Blvd., Northbrook will be held Oct. 4.
The Northbrook village board approved the zoning and an economic incentive agreement for Tesla to open a 48,000-square-foot sales, service and delivery center at that location on March 14.
Village President Kathryn Ciesla and representatives from development partners Focus and Fort Union will attend the groundbreaking.
Nominations open for top Northbrook businesses
Nominations are being accepted through Nov. 21 for the 2024 Northbrook Chamber Business Awards.
The awards will honor businesses in five categories: business of the year, corporate citizen, individual chamber volunteer, emerging business and franchise of the year.
Nominations must be for chamber members in good standing. They will be reviewed by a committee with winners notified in January. The annual awards celebration is tentatively scheduled for March 11, 2024.
For a nomination form, visit northbrookchamber.org/2023/09/26/business-award-nominations-open.
For more information, contact chamber Executive Director Kathi Quinn at kathi@northbrookchamber.org.