Category: Sentinel-EBS Calendar

  • Dining event to aid Sayreville pet shelter

    Texas Roadhouse of Old Bridge, Route 9 in the Gateway Shopping Mall, will host a benefit for the Sayreville Pet Adoption Center (SPAC) 3-10 p.m. Jan. 16. Diners should present an event flier from SPAC. The restaurant will then donate 10 percent of all proceeds to the shelter. A free appetizer “bounce-back” coupon also will…

  • Gluten-free demo set for Jamesburg library

    The Friends of the Jamesburg Public Library will sponsor a Live & Love Gluten-Free Food Demonstration on Jan. 20 at 6:30 p.m. The food-tasting demo will be held at the Presbyterian Church of Jamesburg, 175 Gatzmer Ave. Local resident Patricia Hetzell will discuss celiac disease and offer samplings of gluten-free recipes she has prepared to…

  • Team to sponsor Used Clothing Drive

    The championship East Brunswick Baseball League (EBBL) 12U Travel Team will hold a Used Clothing Drive 8 a.m.-noon Jan. 21 at the EBBL Complex, Dunhams Corner Road. Items sought include wearable and usable clothing for men, women and children; shoes, belts, handbags, etc.; linens (bedding, curtains, towels, etc.); stuffed animals; and hard toys. All items…

  • Registration open for E.B. garden plots

    East Brunswick residents are invited to join the award-winning East Brunswick Community Garden. Gardeners grown their own vegetables, herbs and flowers on leased plots and enjoy produce from the garden’s shared area. Registration is now open to new gardeners for 2012. The cost is $10 per plot, and there is a limit of one plot…

  • S.R. Office on Aging sets events, programs

    The South River Office on Aging/Senior Center, 55 Reid St., offers a variety of activities 9:45 a.m.-3 p.m. Mondays-Fridays. The January schedule is as follows:  fitness room, Mondays-Fridays, 9:45 a.m.-2:30 p.m.;  membership photo identification cards, daily, noon-2 p.m.;  light-chair exercise classes, Tuesdays and Thursdays, 10 a.m.;  haircuts, Wednesdays, 10 a.m.-2 p.m.;…

  • Civil War discussion group to meet Jan. 10

    The Gen. G.W. Taylor Civil War Round Table, a discussion group for those interested in the American Civil War, will meet on Tuesday, Jan. 10 at the Red Mill Museum Village, 56 Main St., Clinton, at 7 p.m. in the upstairs meeting room. The program will feature Buster Keaton’s “The General,” a silent movie focused…

  • JFVS sets computer, job, financial classes

    Jewish Family and Vocational Service of Middlesex County (JFVS) will offer upcoming computer-training classes, job-readiness training and a financial-management workshop at the JVFS office, 32 Ford Ave., Milltown. “Microsoft Word,” “Excel and Power Point,” “Beginner Computer” and “Simple Start for QuickBooks” will meet once or twice a week for a total of 12 hours for…

  • Photography contest under way in M’town

    The Milltown Historical Society and the Milltown Public Library are conducing the second annual Milltown Photography Contest . Applications and more information are available at the library. Photographs must be of Milltown and taken inMilltown, no matter the subject, be no larger than 8-by-10 inches and either framed or mounted on mat board 8.5-by-11 inches.…

  • Talk to shed light on college admissions

    Barbara Wichinsky, a former director of guidance and an independent consultant, will present a program titled “College- Search Process 101” 7 p.m. Jan. 9 at the East Brunswick Public Library, Jean Walling Civic Center. Wichinsky will discuss how to select a college, the admissions process, confusing terminology and more. The program is free of charge…