The Keith McHeffey 3-Mile Fun Run, actually a 3.2-mile race, will begin at Donovan’s Reef on Ocean Avenue in Sea Bright at 11 a.m. on Sunday. Registration starts at 10 a.m. The annual St. Patrick’s Day race sponsored by Donovan’s Reef has been held in McHeffey’s name since the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center on Sept. 11, 2001. McHeffey, an equity trader at Cantor Fitzgerald, died that day. The proceeds fund scholarships for students at Rumson-Fair Haven High School, which McHeffey attended.
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A young piano virtuoso, 12-year-old Benjamin Michael of New Providence, will perform at 2 p.m. March 28 at the Presbyterian Church on the Hill, Cold Indian Spring Road, in Ocean Township. Ben first began to play under the tutelage of his father, Mark Michael, and now studies with Herbert Burtis of Red Bank. Mark Michael also studied with Burtis some years ago.
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The Monmouth County Board of Chosen Freeholders has authorized participation by the county with the Department of the Army in the installation of a traffic signal on Hope Road, at Corregidor Road, in the Charles Wood area of Fort Monmouth in Eatontown and Tinton Falls.
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An inspiring traveling exhibition from the Smithsonian, featuring photographs from the National Archives that celebrate the past 100 years of American life, is coming to the Monmouth Museum at Brookdale Community College in the Lincroft section of Middletown. The exhibit will open April 20 and run through June 6. Images in the exhibit, "Picturing the Century," range from the Wright brothers’ first flight, to construction of the Empire State Building, and from Omaha Beach to the Persian Gulf, and include breathtaking views of the American West, scenes of Rural America and emotion-filled portraits of urban blight.
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An exhibition, "Children’s Art: Water, Water Everywhere," will open at the Monmouth Museum at 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 water theme.
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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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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 upcoming Azalea Festival in Norfolk, Va. April 22-25. The proceeds will go towards financing the trip to Norfolk.
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The Garden Club of Fair Haven will present Garden Education Day March 13 from 9:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Fair Haven Youth Center, Fisk Avenue, Fair Haven. The free event will include exhibits on bulbs, roses, water gardening, integrated pest management, cuttings and perennials. Master gardeners will conduct soil testing, and lecture topics will include garden photography and garden plants. For more information call Jan at (732) 530-9345 or Debbie at (732) 741-3506.
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The American Red Cross 2004 Charity Ball will be held at 7 p.m., March 13, at the PNC Bank Arts Center in Holmdel. The black-tie event will honor the Stavola family — all the brothers involved with operation of the Stavola companies and their spouses — with the prestigious Clara Barton Humanitarian Award. Tickets are $200 per person; proceeds will help the Red Cross provide immediate emergency service to victims of disasters in Monmouth and Ocean counties. To make reservations, call (732) 493-9100.