Residents will gather for Marlboro Day fun

BY TALI ISRAELI Staff Writer

BY TALI ISRAELI
Staff Writer

MARLBORO -The 23rd annual edition of Marlboro Day will provide an afternoon of carnival favorites including rides, games, food and entertainment.

Marlboro Day will be held on Sept. 10 from noon to 5 p.m. at the municipal complex, Wyncrest Road. The rain date for the event is scheduled for Sept. 17.

A free shuttle service will be provided to transport residents to the event from the Marlboro Recreation Community Center, Wyncrest Road; Marlboro Middle School, Route 520; Marlboro Elementary School, School Road West; and the Marlboro library, Wyncrest Road.

During the event, children will have the opportunity to play in nine inflatable rides and enjoy several mechanical rides. The games and activities for the day include a speed pitch booth, pony rides and craft vendors. The vendors will be selling everything from jewelry and incense to sunglasses and baby blankets.

Food vendors will be selling items such as shish kebabs, wraps, Italian food, chicken fingers, funnel cakes, fried Oreos and cotton candy.

Funny Factory Productions will be providing a circus show which will feature circus acts and magic tricks. The shows will be at 1 p.m., 2:15 p.m. and 3:30 p.m.

Noble Productions will provide live entertainment throughout the afternoon. The event will feature DJ Jay Levine, the Noble Dancers, several vocalists and three emcees – Lonny Narson, Eddie (E. Lo) Lopez and Jay Z (Zustra).

The DJ company will also be giving away party favors and will provide hip-hop dance lessons and karate demonstrations.

Noble Productions will be selling raffle tickets for a grand prize of a flat-screen television and a second prize of a DVD player; other prizes will include T-shirts, restaurant gift certificates and movie theater gift certificates.

Narson, the owner of Noble Productions, said 100 percent of the proceeds from the raffle tickets will go to the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society.

According to the society’s Internet Web site, the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society is the world’s largest voluntary health organization dedicated to funding blood cancer research, education and patient services. The mission of the society is to cure leukemia, lymphoma, Hodgkin’s disease and myeloma and to improve the lives of patients and their families.

Representatives of Project SOS (Support Our Soldiers) will have a booth at Marlboro Day and will be selling beaded jewelry. Proceeds from those sales will help Project SOS purchase telephone calling cards, which will be given to wounded American servicemen and servicewomen.

In addition, Project SOS is still seeking donations of quality of life items that will be sent to American troops. Quality of life items that may be dropped off at the booth include shampoo (small bottles only), deodorant, toothpaste, lip balm, granola bars, sucking candy, pens, paper, playing cards, etc.