By: Lorainne Sedor
Children who participated in the Cranbury Library’s Summer Reading Club may pick up their certificates at the circulation desk. As usual, the Summer Reading Clubthis year was a huge success: 150 participants up from 125 last year read 2,650 books, 505 more than last year’s 2145!
Mr. Z offers much appreciation to the boys and girls of Cranburyfor being such great readers and to their parents for being so supportive. Mr. Z extends a special thanks to Applegarth Golf Center and Cranbury Pizza for their generous contribution of prizes to this year’s game, as well as to the Cranbury Public Library Board’s president, the ever-creative Ginny Swanagan, who devised this year’s great and super-popular game.
Additional support for the Summer Reading Club was provided by the Friends of the Cranbury Public Library.
Also, Mr. Z would like to invite young collectors to exhibit their finds in the library’s exhibit case. Rock collections, fossils, stamps, bottle tops, whatever you’ve collected over the summer or over the years can be turned into a short-term exhibit. Please phone the library at (609) 655-0555 to discuss exhibit ideas with Mr. Z.
The Historic Preservation Advisory Committee has been made aware of a pre-1776barn in town that may soon be lost to Cranbury history. In the hope that this significant, though ailing, structure might be saved, HPAC is asking anyone who may be interested in acquiring the barn for sale and relocation to another site in Cranbury to contact the owners, Ron & Linda Howarth at (609) 655-2098.
The Cranbury Historical and Preservation Society’s house tour is just 6weeks away on Saturday, Oct. 11 from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
As in recent years, the Friends of the Cranbury Public Library will host a fundraising luncheon that day from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m., available through advance ticket purchase only.
Please contact M. Paul, 3 Westminster Place, Cranbury to purchase tickets for either or both the house tour and luncheon. Tickets are$10 for the luncheon and $15 for the tour if purchased in advance.
Please make all checks payable to the Cranbury Historical and Preservation Society and include a self-addressed envelope. Please note that luncheon tickets will be available for purchase only through Sept. 10. House tour tickets will be available on tour day at a cost of $20 per ticket.
The Cranbury Museum will be open on Saturday, Sept. 6 from 10 a.m. to 3p.m. as part of the Cranbury Day festivities. The event will feature music, refreshments, homemade ice cream and the silhouette lady, Ruth Grabner.
Everyone is invited to visit this town treasure and enjoy the day. Ruth Grabner will be able to create silhouettes of your children, grandchildren, friends or yourself for a fee of $20 per sitting. To arrange an appointment with the Silhouette Lady, please call Karen Kelley at (609) 655-5946.Each appointment only takes about 15 minutes.
Calling all peach pie bakers! This coming Cranbury Day, the Cranbury Lioness Club will be sponsoring its second annual pie baking contest. Last year’s contest featured apple pies. This year the challenge will be baking the perfect peach pie. All pies should be delivered no later then 11:30 a.m. to the Lioness table outside the Methodist Church on School House Lane.
The judging will take place at noon by three local Cranbury resident judges. The pie must have the name, address, and phone number of the contestant attached to the pie plate. The names of first-, second- and third-place winners will beposted on the easel near the pie judging table just as soon as the judges have tasted all the entries.
The judging will be based on the firmness, crust and overall taste of the pie. Once the judges have made their decision, the pies will be available for sale by the slice. All the money raised by the club is donated to local and national charities. Lioness spokesperson Marie Deynotes that "Cranbury has many excellent bakers and this should be an exciting event to see who will enter the contest and who the winners will be."
Also on Cranbury Day, the Lioness Club will have many interesting books for sale that were contributed by a family from Rossmoor. Everyone is invited to come to the pie judging contest, buy a slice of pie to eat while looking through the used books for sale and purchase a treasure or two from the flea market table.
During the month of September, the Gourgaud Gallery in Cranbury Town Hall will feature the photographic artwork of Cranbury artist Jim Gerberich.
The art photos, in both color and black and white, are both live and still life portraiture as well as scenes from Cranbury, New York, and around the country.
The exhibit, titled Excerpts, will be on view in the Gourgaud Gallery through Sept. 26 from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday through Friday and on Sundays from noon to 3 p.m. In addition, there will be a First Friday artist’s reception on Sept. 5 from 6 to 9 p.m.
Garlands of Grace invites women of all ages to an informal conversation in the word. The group will be using the book, "Becoming a Woman of Freedom." The fall session begins the second week of September.
For details please phoneElyse at (609) 395-9659.
If you haven’t already ordered your book sox, locker shelves and magnetic locker baskets, it’s not too late. You may buy them on the first two days of school, Sept. 4 and 5, at lunch in the cafeteria, and after school in the library and at the walkers’ door.
Get the school year off to a good start, get organized and support the eighth-grade class!
Residents can contact Ms. Sedor by phone at (609) 655-3386, by fax at (609) 655-1613, by e-mail at lwsedor@comcast.net or by mail at 32 Evans Drive, Cranbury, N.J. 08512.