Category: Sentinel-NBS Calendar

  • Holiday Boutique under way at museum

    The 2009 Holiday Boutique at the Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum, 71 Hamilton St., corner of George Street, on the campus of Rutgers University, New Brunswick, will be open through Dec. 23 during museum hours, 10 a.m.-4:30 p.m. Tuesdays- Fridays, noon-5 p.m. Saturdays and Sundays, and 10 a.m.-9 p.m. Dec. 2. Specialty items include limited…

  • Alzheimer’s caregiver meetings Dec. 5, 17

    Alzheimer’s Association, Greater New Jersey Chapter, will hold a caregiver support group meeting 7 p.m. Dec. 17 at Oak Woods Senior Housing, 700 Woods Lane, Monmouth Junction section of South Brunswick. For more information, call the helpline at 1-800-883-1180.

  • Local filmmakers to appear at library

    The Old Bridge Public Library, Route 516 and Cottrell Road, will host a free screening of short movies by local filmmakers at 1:30 p.m. Nov. 28, including Marla Cukor presenting “The Masquerade,” a neo-noir thriller; Jamal Hall presenting “Strivin’,” in which an inner-city youngster has a dream and will have to overcome lifechanging obstacles in…

  • Toys for Tots drive will begin Nov. 27

    The U.S. Marine Corps Reserve (USMCR) will collect new, unwrapped toys for its Toys for Tots program every Saturday and Sunday, Nov. 27-Dec. 20, next to the Santa Claus display at the Menlo Park Mall, Edison. Cash donations also will be accepted. For more information, call Eddy Androvich at 732-698-2347.

  • S.B. library holding teen poster contest

    The South Brunswick Public Library is holding “Make Waves at Your Library,” a poster contest for summer reading, Dec. 1 – March 30 for students grade six through 12. The winning poster will be used for the library’s Teen Summer Reading Program for summer 2010. Entries should be no larger than 11 x 17. For…

  • School seeks vendors for Holiday Bazaar

    Madison Park School, Harvard Road, Parlin section of Old Bridge, is looking for vendors for its annual Holiday Bazaar set for 5:30-8:30 p.m. Dec. 5. Table-rental cost is $20. Space is limited. To reserve, call 732-588-5548 or email jul7478@optonline. net.

  • Alternative gift market Nov. 22 in S.B.

    Community Presbyterian Church, 57 Sandhills Road, Kendall Park, will hold its annual alternative gift market 10:30 a.m.-1 p.m. Nov. 22. Through purchases, shoppers can provide food for children in Lebanon and Palestine, training and care for AIDS victims in Chad, supplies for new mothers and infants in Guatemala, training for advocates to end child servitude…

  • Entries sought for S.B. film, video festival

    South Brunswick Public Library, 110 Kingston Lane, Monmouth Junction section of South Brunswick, seeks student filmmakers ages 14-24 for the 2009 South Brunswick Student Film & Video Festival. Participation is free and entries are due by Nov. 30. The festival is Dec. 12. For an entry form or guidelines, visit www.sbpl.info/teens.

  • Byron Foundation slates fundraisers

    The Byron Foundation, a support and advocacy group for people with disabilities established in the memory of North Brunswick resident Byron Goundrey, who passed away in April 2007 following complications from spinal muscular atrophy, will hold fundraisers in the near future to support its cause. There will be a T-shirt sale, the details of which…