By Peg Traino
The next Mansfield Township Committee meeting will be held on Wednesday, March 25, at 7:30 p.m. The meeting will be held in the Mansfield Township Municipal building located on East Main Street. For more information please call 609-298-0542.
The next scheduled recycle pick up for Mansfield Township is Monday, March 30.
The next Mansfield Township Board of Education meeting will be held on Monday, March 30. The meeting will begin at 7 p.m. in the Mansfield Township Elementary School which is located on Mansfield Road East. The meeting will take place in the Media Center. This meeting will include a public hearing for the 2009/2010 school budget.
The 71st Annual Field Day festivities will be held on Saturday, June 13. The parade will start at 1 p.m. followed by activities in the Municipal Park. This year, the theme for the parade is “Our Talented Town.” This is a talented town and hopefully, our residents and friends will share their many talents: dancing, singing, playing instruments, crafts, woodworking, cooking, needlecraft, photography, painting, etc. A talent show will be held in the park. Talents can be displayed on tables in the park. More information will be forthcoming for registration for the talent show as well as reserving tables to display talents. Now you have time to prepare for our big day. Get ready with your talent.
Adults as well as youth are needed for planning and organizing the parade and the field activities. Please show your interest in your community by joining the Special Events Committee. The next meeting is Thursday, April 9, at the Municipal Building at 7 p.m. All are welcome! If you cannot attend but would like to share ideas or help in any way, please call 298-0542, Extension 19.
The PTSC and FFA Chapters of Northern Burlington are doing a community service project and cleaning up litter from Mansfield Road East on Saturday, April 4, from 10 a.m. to noon. All interested community members and students are invited to help. Meet in the HS parking lot at 10 a.m.
The PTSC is sponsoring a Spring/Summer clothing and more drive again. It is early, but we wanted to get the word out early to save your clothing, linens, coats, towels, stuffed animals and shoes for our drive to be held late May. Put items in large trash bags and we will have a week for drop off. Look for more info to follow. All proceeds go towards our scholarship fund.
Lourdes Wellness Center, located in Homestead Plaza in Columbus, is offering a course titled: Quitting for Good: An all-natural approach to stop smoking. This is a five-week series that includes four acupuncture treatments, five hypnotherapy sessions, behavioral modification tools and group roundtable. The cost is $195. The course will be held from Monday March 23 -April 20. Call (609) 324-8458 to register.
The Memorial Day Committee which, in the past was a part of the Historical Society is now the Mansfield Veteran’s Association. The Association is responsible for presenting the Memorial Day Service in May and helping to maintain the small section of the park which contains the Veteran’s Memorial Gazebo. This includes planting flowers, watering the flowers, painting the bell stand, and setting up for the Service in May. The Association could use some new members to help with this year’s program. Currently, someone is needed to design the program for the Memorial Day Service. The guest speaker and soloist have been reserved for this year. We need people to help set up, give out American flags, etc. This service will take place on Sunday, May 17. Anyone interested in joining or just helping out for the day should please contact Laverne Cholewa at 609-298-5756.
Mansfield Township School District has begun its kindergarten registration process. For eligibility of enrollment, a child must be 5 years of age on or before October 1, 2009. If you know of a child in the district who is eligible for kindergarten, please contact Beth Pigott at (609) 298-2037, Ext. 2010.
If you have a child between the ages of 3 and 21 who resides in Mansfield Township and has a disability or is exhibiting a developmental delay with language, motor, cognitive, adaptive, emotional, social or behavioral skills call the Child Study Team at 609-298-2037, ext. 2110, or contact them via Child Study Team, Mansfield Township School District, 200 Mansfield Road East, Columbus, N.J. 08022.