Category: Suburban Calendar
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Community Bulletin Board SCORE will sponsor franchising seminar
Community Bulletin Board SCORE will sponsor franchising seminar Service Corps of Retired Executives (SCORE) Chapter 14 and Raritan Valley Community College (RVCC) will co-sponsor a free franchising seminar from 7-9 p.m. on Nov. 28 at the Fleet Bank Building, Franklin Boulevard, Somerset section of Franklin. Instructor will be Jack Armstrong, president of Franchising Network of…
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Clerks will retire in 2002
Staff Writer By jennifer dome SAYREVILLE –– Two longtime employees of the borough clerk’s office have announced their retirements. At a Nov. 13 meeting, the Borough Council accepted the retirements of both Municipal Clerk Gladys Rzepka and Assistant Municipal Clerk Joan Lehocky. Rzepka has been working for the borough since 1963, according to Acting Business…
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Band parents offering tickets to Devils game
The Sayreville War Memorial High School Band Parents Association is selling tickets to the New Jersey Devils vs. Edmonton Oilers hockey game, set for 7:35 p.m. on Dec. 20 in the Continental Airlines Arena, East Rutherford. Cost is $34 (box office price: $52) for second-level seating. Payment is due by Dec. 6. For more information…
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Texas Road homes with dry wells will get public water
Staff Writer By sue m. morgan Texas Road homes with dry wells will get public water OLD BRIDGE — Township Business Administrator Alayne Shepler announced at the Nov. 8 Township Council meeting that 11 Texas Road residents whose wells have dried up will be hooked into the municipal water system within eight to nine weeks,…
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E.B. church sets bazaar, cookie walk, wreath sale
Aldersgate United Methodist Church, 568 Ryders Lane, East Brunswick, will hold a Christmas Bazaar, Cookie Walk and Wreath Sale from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Dec. 8. Ready-to-give containers will be available to fill with an assortment of homemade cookies offered at $5 per pound. The church’s youth fellowship groups will sell holiday greenery.…
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AARP slates 55 Alive
program for Nov. 28, 29 East Brunswick AARP Chapter No. 4855 will offer a 55 Alive driving program from 9 a.m. to noon on Nov. 28 and 29 at the East Brunswick Senior Center, Jean Walling Civic Center. Cost is $10. The public is welcome. Spaces are limited. Insurance companies offer discounts to AARP 55…
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Holiday Merchant Mart
scheduled for Nov. 24 St. Peter’s Episcopal Church, 505 Main St., Spotswood, will host a Holiday Merchant Mart from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Nov. 24. A portion of the proceeds from the event will go to World Trade Center disaster relief efforts. For information, call (732) 521-3729.
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For drug education, most schools use DARE DARE officials admit program’s weakness may lie in its long-term effects on drug prevention
Staff Writer By alison granito For drug education, most schools use DARE DARE officials admit program’s weakness may lie in its long-term effects on drug prevention “DARE to keep kids off drugs” DARE has become an educational institution and a household name, garnering the lion’s share of government drug education dollars and maintaining a presence…
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DARE program reaches students on many levels Kindergarten program stresses safety, establishes rapport with police officers
Staff Writer By jennifer dome DARE program reaches students on many levels Kindergarten program stresses safety, establishes rapport with police officers Staff Writer ‘H PHOTOS BY FARRAH MAFFAI South River Patrolman John McKenna explains to the kindergarten class of Corpus Christi School, South River, that the buddy system is like having invisible handcuffs around your…
