Watercolorist at Gourgaud, New Jersey Symphony Orchestra, local band heads to Europe and more.
By: Lorraine Sedor
The First Presbyterian Church of Cranbury is re-instituting the Friday Bread Program beginning today (Friday) and will conduct the program twice monthly on the first and third Fridays. Janet Pape, who is coordinating this ecumenical effort, would like to invite anyone who is interested in participating and receiving bread products to stop into the church kitchen between 8:30 and 9:30 a.m.
The Bread Program resumed after a six-month hiatus while the program was between coordinators. Janet would like to point out, however, that during that time period, John Frisch and Warren Perrine continued to pick up donated baked goods from area bakeries and delivered them to a food bank in Hightstown every Friday.
Participating donors include Tiger’s Deli, Super Fresh in Plainsboro, and Stop ‘n Shop in Concordia Shopping Center. Janet invites anyone who would like to volunteer to call her at (609) 395-0467.
The PHS Studio Band performs tonight (Friday) from 7 to 10 p.m. in the PHS cafeteria. Admission is $5 at the door, and proceeds benefit the band.
The Gourgaud Gallery’s featured artist this month is Bill Hogan. A watercolorist and sketch artist, Mr. Hogan is a graduate of the School of Visual Arts in NYC. Mr. Hogan was an illustrator while serving in the Army and later went on to earn his masters of fine art in painting.
Using his talent both as a teacher and editorial cartoonist, Mr. Hogan has had numerous exhibitions and is in the collection of the Newark Museum, among many others. An artist’s reception will be held this evening from 6 to 8 p.m.
The gallery will be open daily from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. and on Sundays from noon to 3 p.m. Mr. Hogan’s work will be on display until Friday, Feb. 27.
Folks with children who will be around on Sunday, Feb. 15 may enjoy a New Jersey Symphony Orchestra family concert to be performed at the West Windsor-Plainsboro High School North. The program will include a performance of "The Shoe Bird," based on a fable by Eudora Welty, with music and libretto by Samuel Jones.
The program is geared for children ages 7 to 12 and will beperformed at 2 p.m. Tickets are $9 and $14. For more information call (800)ALLEGRO (255-3476) or visit the NJSO Web site at www.njsymphony.org.
"My Name, a Living Memory" by Giorgio van Straten is a book recently donated to the Cranbury Public Library by Anna Drago. The novel is based on the true saga of van Straten’s family from the Napoleonic era through World War II.
The author was the recipient of the 2000 Zerilli-Marimo Prize for Italian Fiction sponsored by New York University and is Anna Drago’s cousin.
Quentin Smith and fellow members of the band Vaux are very excited to have just signed a new contract with Atlantic Records. The group is eagerly anticipating its first European tour, which will start in mid-February and last a month, taking them from Scandinavia to Spain and ending in Ireland, with concerts almost every night in a dozen countries in between.
For more information, see them on their Web site at www.vauxrock.com. Quentin, the lead singer in the band, is the son of Dale and Joan Smith of Maplewood Avenue.
Save the date: The Historical Society’s spring pot luck supper meeting will be held on Friday, March 19. The featured speakers will be representatives of HPAC, the Township’s Historic Preservation Advisory Committee.
Residents can contact Ms. Sedor by phone at (609) 655-3386, by fax at (609) 655-1613, by e-mail at [email protected] or by mail at 32 Evans Drive, Cranbury, N.J. 08512.