Category: Examiner Calendar

  • Amanda’s Easel program honored by freeholders

    The Monmouth County Board of Chosen Freeholders declared May as Amanda’s Easel Art Therapy Awareness Month, with leaders from the Friends of Amanda Foundation and 180, Turning Lives Around, Hazlet, advocating on behalf of the award-winning program. On May 13, 180 Executive Director Anna M. Diaz-White, Amanda’s Easel Art Therapy Coordinator Cindi Westendorf, 180 Community…

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    JEFF GRANIT staff “Abby” Abilheira, 6, Millstone, deputy mayor Elias Abilheira’s son, tries to see if an American flag is transparent at the Millstone Memorial Day parade Monday.

  • ‘VetSignia’ stickers available for veterans

    A small group of retired veterans has designed "VetSignia" window stickers for men and women who served in the U.S. Armed Forces. The metallic film stickers measure 2-by-4 inches, are black on silver, and show military service and conflicts. Stickers are available for World War II, Korea, Vietnam, Persian Gulf, Overseas Expeditionary Campaigns, and Peacetime;…

  • Summer youth programs offered in Millstone

    Summer youth programs offered in Millstone Millstone Community Education will offer a variety of half-day mini camps for children during the month of July. Camps range from science camps, "mad science" machines and detective science, "sciensational" fossils, rocks, or robots, to art camps including drawing, painting, illustrating and theater, as well as just plain fun,…

  • Vendor spaces available for JCC fashion show

    "A Passion for Fashion" is the theme of the Jewish Community Center of Western Monmouth County’s fall fashion show. Bernstein’s Fashions Ltd. will showcase their fall fashions Oct. 14 at the Grand Marquis, Old Bridge. The event will also feature a boutique for accessories, an ad journal and raffle prizes. Proceeds will benefit the JCCWM,…

  • Volunteer drivers needed for cancer patients

    The American Cancer Society is offering licensed drivers the opportunity to fight cancer from behind the wheel. The Road to Recovery program seeks volunteer drivers to provide transportation for cancer patients. Volunteers will be asked to drive cancer patients to and from life-saving cancer treatments. Volunteers are essential to improving quality of life for cancer…

  • Reunions planned for local high school alumni

    Reunions planned for local high school alumni Reunions Unlimited Inc., Englishtown, is planning the high school reunion celebrations for the following local high school classes: Freehold Township High School, class of ’85 on Dec. 31, 2005, and class of ’94 on June 26, 2004; Howell High School, class of ’79 on Nov. 26, 2004, and…

  • Personal watercraft, boat safety course offered

    Personal watercraft, boat safety course offered "Personal Watercraft and Boating Safety," a basic safe boating/personal watercraft course, will be offered by Millstone Township Community Education. The course is the approved class for the mandatory certification that all individuals need to operate personal watercraft and for anyone born on or after Jan. 1, 1979, to operate…

  • Vendors, entertainers sought for ‘Freedom Fest’

    The Allentown Presbyterian Church is organizing the second annual "Freedom Fest" scheduled for June 28-July 3 at the Upper Freehold Regional School complex, Route 539, Allentown. This event will feature the famous midway of Amusement of America, food by local restaurants and the Upper Freehold Regional PTA, entertainment, craft vendors and special events. Food and…