CHRIS KELLY ASA Demo Team member Matt Wilhelm of Chicago freestyles for the crowd at Monmouth Park’s Family Funday Sunday.
St. Dorothea’s Guild, Eatontown, will sponsor a "Christmas in July" luncheon and gift auction at noon on Sunday, July 27, at the Old Orchard Manor, 54 Monmouth Road in Eatontown. Tickets cost $25 if prepaid by July 19, and $28 afterward. For tickets or more information, call (732) 542-5559, (732) 542-6091 or (732) 842-8713.
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The Search Day Program of Ocean Township is holding a special fund-raising event July 25 at the Old Orchard Country Club in Eatontown. The black tie optional dinner-dance will feature gift and silent auctions, a 50/50 raffle and more. Tickets cost $100 each and can be obtained by calling Priya Mattson at (732) 493-5099.
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Big Brothers-Big Sister of Monmouth County, Eatontown, has started a Cars for Kids’ Sake campaign to raise money for at-risk children in Monmouth County. It asks anyone who has decided to get rid of a car to consider donating it to them. The donors may be able to take the fair market value as a charitable contribution for income tax purposes since Big Brothers-Big Sisters is a qualified nonprofit organization. To arrange to donate a car, call (800) 859-6526. To get involved with BBBS, call (732) 544-2224.
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Long Branch Mayor Adam Schneider and council members David Brown, Dr. Mary Jane Celli, Anthony Giordano, and John "Faz" Zambrano will serve dinner to several ladies at the home of Jene Van Brunt in West Long Branch on July 19 from 8-10 p.m. Van Brunt is hosting the dinner for the women who were the gift recipients in a silent auction at a fund-raiser for the Joel Optatut Cardiopulmonary Rehabilitation Center at Monmouth Medical Center.
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Sickles Market in Little Silver is hosting its fourth annual Blues Festival, in celebration of the blueberry, from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturday. Sickles, 1 Harrison Ave., just off Rumson Road, noted that the state of New Jersey is the second-largest blueberry producing state in the country, producing more than 40 million pounds of cultivated blueberries each year.
Activities for children at the festival will include the "Bee Lady" with her bee hive from noon to 2 p.m., face painting from 10:30 a.m. to 4 p.m., and a blueberry pie eating contest for kids at noon and 2 p.m. Sickles employees will compete in the annual employee blueberry pie eating contest at 4 p.m.
There also will be blues music by Holly Baines and Sauce from 10:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m., and by Barbara King from 2-5 p.m.
Sickles will offer special prices on blue foods — blueberries, blue potatoes, blue cheese and blueberry pies, tarts and muffins — and blue plants, flowers and gift items. For more information, call Sickles Market at (732) 741-9563.
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Artwork by Megan Heath Gilhool, North Long Branch, is on exhibit at the Sea Bright Public Library through July 31.