TEXT: Brandon Escobar, a service technician with Yesco, mounts a candle onto a giant menorah before a lighting ceremony. Rabbi Shea Harlig, of the Chabad Jewish Center of Southern Nevada, Las Vegas Mayor Carolyn Goodman, Jonathan Jossel, CEO of the Plaza hotel-casino, and Patrick Hughes, President and CEO of Fremont Street Experience, were on hand for the first night of Hanukkah which was marked with the lighting of a 20-foot Grand Menorah on Fremont Street in downtown Las Vegas on Tuesday, Dec. 12, 2017. CREDIT: Bill Hughes/Las Vegas News Bureau