Category: Sentinel-EDM Calendar
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Metuchen to hold Memorial Day parade
Metuchen will hold its 81st Memorial Day parade onMemorial Day,May 26. The parade will begin at 10 a.m., rain or shine, at Pearl Street parking lot. It will end at Memorial Park with a brief ceremony, featuring keynote speaker Capt. Frederic Primich, Medical Corps of the U.S. Naval Reserve. The Rev. Mark McCreary of Second…
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Project Child Find helps kids with special needs
The Edison Public School District provides evaluation service to resident children ages 3-21 who appear to have significant problems in communication, social-emotional or learning areas, through Project Child Find. Evaluation services are available to preschoolers; highly mobile students with disabilities, such as migrant and homeless students; and to students who may be disabled even though…
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H.S. girls wanted for summer engineering camp
Middlesex County College is looking for participants to attend a summer camp program for high school freshman girls. TechXporation, is a four-week program in which teen girls design, develop and construct a working model of a fairgrounds ride, visit a theme park to better understand how amusement park rides work and learn from women who…
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Arts society to display members’ works monthly
The Edison Arts Society, Raritan Center Business Park, 340 Raritan Center Parkway, has initiated an ongoing gallery of member artists. A variety of individual work is represented, changing monthly. During April, Lois Nagy-Hartnack, an art educator at Iselin Middle School, exhibited nine of her latest works, acrylic and watercolor, in a representational style. The work…
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Strongman contest to benefit leukemia society
LIFT Strong Fundraiser, to benefit the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society, will be held at noon May 10 at the Underground Strength Gymnasium, 160 Talmadge Road, Edison. Local athletes from Middlesex County, including high school and college athletes, will participate in a strongman contest. The fundraiser, run by Zach Even-Esh is in honor of Alwyn Cosgrove,…
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Parents group to sponsor clothing drive May 10
The J.P. Stevens Choir and Orchestra Parents Association is sponsoring a clothing drive at the high school on Grove Avenue, Edison, on May 10 from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Useable clothing, shoes and accessories including handbags, belts, scarves, and hats, as well as soft household items such as bedding, curtains, tablecloths and towels, and…
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Support group offered weekly in Edison
The Jewish Family and Vocational Service of Middlesex County, 515 Plainfield Ave., Suite 201, Edison, offers a support group for newly separated or divorced adults at 7:30 p.m. every Wednesday. For more information, call (732) 777-1940.
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St. Joe’s 13th annual golf classic set for May 19
St. Joseph High School, 145 Plainfield Ave., Metuchen, will celebrate the 13th anniversary of the Brother Bernardine, S.C., Memorial Golf Classic on May 19 at the Forsgate Country Club, Monroe. Ernie Feist of Monroe Township, a 1976 graduate of St. Joe’s, is general chairman. Proceeds will benefit the students at St. Joe’s by providing scholarships,…
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Thrift store open at Methodist church
The Thrift Store at Wesley United Methodist Church, 5053WoodbridgeAve., Edison, is open Wednesdays 9 a.m. to 1 p.m., Thursdays 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. and 6-8 p.m., and Saturdays 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. The store features knick-kncaks, toys jewelry and clothing for adults and children. For more information, call (732) 738-0232
