Category: Suburban Calendar
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Gasoline card will go to blood donors
The Spotswood Public Library, 548 Main St., will sponsor a blood drive from 4-7:30 p.m. on Jan. 24. The Blood Center of New Jersey will conduct the drive.Abloodmobile will be on location in the library parking lot. All donors will receive a $15 gas card as a thank-you gift. Free cholesterol screenings also will be…
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Uniform Sale to benefit patient-care services
The Raritan BayMedical Center Perth Amboy Auxiliary will sponsor a Uniform Sale from 7 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Jan. 23 in Centennial Hall A and B at the hospital’s Perth Amboy division, 530 New Brunswick Ave. A complete line of lab coats, pants, tops, scrubs, shoes and more will be available for purchase. A…
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Winter weather safety guide available online
The New Jersey State Police Office of Emergency Management has created a Web site that provides information on a variety of winter topics, including stormrelated information, free of charge. The Winter Weather Safety Guide can be accessed by going to the Web site www.state.nj.us/njoem/plan/winter.html.
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Abduction prevention to be topic at seminar
Tiger Schulmann’sMixedMartialArts of East Brunswick will conduct a free Abduction Prevention Seminar for Children from 4:30-6 p.m. on Jan. 18 at Tiger Schulmann’s of East Brunswick, Loehmann’s Plaza, 23, Route 18. The seminarwill focus on teaching children basic abduction-prevention skills through a combination of real-life situation skits and through lectures about avoidance of strangers and…
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Tickets available for St. Mary’s Casino Night
St.Mary of Ostrabrama Church, South River, will hold a Casino Night from 6-11 p.m. on Jan. 19 at Knights of Columbus Hall, 88 Jackson St., South River. The event will feature casino/carnivallike gambling for prizes (New Jersey law does not permit gaming for cash at casino nights), music and dance. Homemade Polish food will be…
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‘Eleanor Roosevelt’ to appear in Monroe
TheAlisa Chapter ofHadassah,Monroe, will present Rene Goodwin of theAmerican Historical Theatre in “Eleanor Roosevelt Part II: TheWarYears” at 7:15 p.m. on Jan. 21 at the Jewish Congregation of Concordia, Concordia Shopping Center, Monroe. When the Roosevelts began their second term in the White House, they faced the challenges of a falling economy, growing unrest due…
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Children’s survival event coming to Cheesequake
“Lost in the Woods: A Children’s Survival Program” is set to begin at 1 p.m. on Jan. 20 at the Cheesequake Park Interpretive Center, 300 Gordon Road, Old Bridge. Information will be offered on a ninepoint plan to assist children if they become separated from their group while hiking. The program is open to ages…
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Curtain to rise on ‘Charlotte’s Web’
Villagers Theatre, a nonprofit center for the performing and cultural arts located at 415 DeMott Lane, Somerset section of Franklin, will present its Kidsvill production of “Charlotte’sWeb,” adapted by Joseph Robinette from the book by E.B. White, at noon and 3 p.m. on Saturdays and noon on Sundays, Jan. 26-Feb. 3. The Kidsvill series is…
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Pelican offers lift tix to blood donors in Jan.
Pelican Pool and Ski Center, 393 Route 18, East Brunswick, is offering a free ski lift ticket to anyone who donates blood. Participants must donate blood at any hospital or blood bank and show Pelican Pool proof of doing so by Jan. 31 in order to receive the lift ticket. The tickets are good at…
