Rumson’s Deane-Porter School will hold its fourth annual Student Art Exhibition on Monday, 6:30-8:30 p.m. Over 400 artist will have work on display as part of Youth Art Month. The students will showcase their own interpretations of work by such famous artists as Monet, Matisse, Van Gogh and Mondrian. All are welcome to attend. For more information, please call the school at (732) 842-0330.
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Rumson-Fair Haven Regional High School music students have been selling seat cushions for $3 a piece at all home wrestling competitions and basketball games in preparation for the April Azalea Festival in Norfolk, Va. The proceeds will go toward financing the trip.
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A resolution supporting the installation of a traffic signal at Prospect Avenue and Harding Road was approved at a Feb. 26 Red Bank Council meeting. The intersection has been the site of many motor vehicle accidents and serves as a bus stop as well.
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A model boat show will be held by the Garden State Model Boaters from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. on March 7 at the Monmouth Beach Cultural Center, 128 Ocean Ave., in Monmouth Beach. The show will feature model boats made by members whose shipbuilding ranges from ocean liners to tugs, from majestic windjammers to speedy runabouts and from battle cruisers to cabin cruisers. The group holds regular meetings on the third Tuesday of the month at 8 p.m. at the Spring Lake Heights Community Center.
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A program on the music of Ireland will be presented by Paul Pugliese at the next meeting of the Woman’s Club of Little Silver at 1 p.m. on March 10. Admission is free and the public is invited. Refreshments will be served. The meeting will be held at the Woman’s Club building, now owned by the borough, at Church Street and Rumson Road in Little Silver.
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Back by popular demand, the Little Silver Garden Club will hold a "Creative Judges- Creative Designs" session at its next meeting at 9 a.m. on March 11, at the former Little Silver Woman’s Club building on Church Street at Rumson Road. Garden members and NCSGC judges Astrid Drangeid, Joan McGrath and Lorna O’Hara will demonstrate new, different and creative floral designs. The competitive floral design for the month of March is "Down Under." The exhibitor will stage and underwater design made of all fresh plant material on a card table. For membership information, call Marie Cutaia at (732) 842-7169.
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A free lecture on the "5 Secrets to Permanent Weight Loss" will be held at 7 p.m. March 16 in the Sea Bright Library. The speaker will be Dr. Tyler M. Richards. To register, call (732) 229-1649.
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The Monmouth County Cotillion Committee will present the students in this year’s program in the committee’s annual fashion and talent show at 2 p.m. March 7 at Asbury Park High School on Sunset Avenue in Asbury Park. The students will be modeling clothes from area stores. Some also will be showcased in the talent portion of the show. Tickets are $5 and can be purchased at the door. All proceeds from the show will go toward scholarships that will be given out on April 24 at the 54th cotillion at Convention Hall in Asbury Park.
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An exhibition, "Children’s Art: Water, Water Everywhere," will open at the Monmouth Museum on the campus of Brookdale Community in Lincroft on March 14 and run through April 8 in celebration of Youth Art Month. The exhibition has been organized by Helene Boedart, art educator in the Long Branch elementary school system. The marine motif of the Museum’s Wonder Wing provided the theme for the exhibition. The young artists were asked to interpret the water theme in any way they chose working with various materials. In addition, Boedart plans to supervise a group of student artists in the execution of a mural at the museum employing the H2O theme.