Category: Tri-Town Calendar
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VERONICA YANKOWSKI Bridget Coulahan, 4, puts all of her effort into drawing a perfect picture at the fourth annual Sidewalk Chalk Art Contest in Howell. The Oct. 19 event at the Aldrich Plaza shopping center was sponsored by the Howell Township Community Alliance.
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Child identification packets available
Child identification packets available The Jackson Police Department offers free child identification to all Jackson children. The process takes about 10 minutes to complete and families receive two ID cards, digital fingerprints and a digital photograph. The information would be provided by the family to law enforcement agencies in the event a child is missing.…
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Free breast cancer screenings in Howell
Free breast cancer screenings in Howell Women’s Surgicare of Howell, 600 Candlewood Commons, will be offering free breast exams to women 35 years of age and over. These exams will be offered Wednesdays between 3-5 p.m. Interested residents should call (732) 367-6200 or 1-800-468-4655 to make an appointment. Adult open gym offered at Lakewood school…
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Jackson library to offer free computer classes
Jackson library to offer free computer classes The Jackson library, 2 Jackson Drive, will be offering the following free computer training classes during October: • Oct. 19, 10 a.m. or 2 p.m., Raton Basico (basics in Spanish); • Oct. 25, 10 a.m. – Mouse Basics; • Oct. 26, 10 a.m. – E-mail Basics; • Oct.…
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FARRAH MAFFAI Bingo is scared and hides under Dottie Presberger as the Rev. Richard C. Wrede offers a prayer during the blessing of the animals at All Saints Episcopal Church, Lakewood, Oct. 6. The blessing is in commemoration of St. Francis of Assisi, the patron saint of ecology.
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JERRY WOLKOWITZ Pupils at the Crawford-Rodriguez School, Jackson, react with glee on Oct. 11 to the surprise news that reading specialist Theresa Licitra has been named the winner of a national education award.
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For the record
The article "Group Pans Use of Trailers for Bilingual Classes" that appeared in the Oct. 10 Tri-Town News had an incorrect dateline. The meeting of the Coalition of Advocates for Public School Students from which the story was reported took place in Lakewood.
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History of blacks in N.J.
to be topic of program History of blacks in N.J. to be topic of program On Oct. 23 at 7 p.m. the Lakewood library will host a presentation by Giles R. Wright of the New Jersey Historical Com-mission. Wright’s seminar, "The Black Historical Presence in New Jersey," is a discussion of the three factors that…
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JERRY WOLKOWITZ Former National Football League great Rosey Grier speaks to students at Jackson’s Crawford-Rodriguez School on Oct. 11 about the importance of learning. Grier was on hand to help present teacher Theresa Licitra with a $25,000 National Educator Award from the Milken Family Foundation.
