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Toastmasters schedules February meetings
Toastmasters Unleashed meets at 6 p.m. on the first and third Tuesdays of each month in the Infragistics Corp. at 2 Commerce Drive in Cranbury. The next meetings are Feb. 1 and Feb. 15. Toastmasters International is a nonprofit dedicated to effective oral communication. Members meet to deliver and evaluate prepared and impromptu speeches in…
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Softball tourney will benefit UFRSD schools
The Upper Freehold Regional Education Foundation will host the fourth annual Snoball Softball Tournament Feb. 12. The tournament helps raise funds for programs at Upper Freehold Regional School District schools. The event will feature trophies, prizes and giveaways. There will be three divisions — men’s, women’s and co-ed, with a $240 entry fee per team.…
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Project to memorialize children of Holocaust
The Butterfly Project is fluttering into the Monmouth County Library System. In an effort to memorialize the 1.5 million Jewish children lost during the Holocaust, the Holocaust Museum Houston in Texas is collecting 1.5 million handmade butterflies for a special exhibit in 2013. The public can help make butterflies 6:30-7:30 p.m. March 31 at the…
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Justin Feil
By: centraljersey.com As enjoyable as the New Egypt High wrestling team’s season was last year, Brad Schwarze wanted to be a bigger part of it. Then a freshman, Schwarze went 7-4 at 145 pounds. But he did not wrestle a match after Jan. 19 for the Warriors varsity. So he did not share in their…
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LAWRENCE: Ledger reporter rides ‘shotgun’ on snowplow duty
By Lea Kahn I always wondered what it would be like to ride around in a vehicle that costs $150,000 or so. When I was offered a chance to ride in such a vehicle last week, I jumped at it. I just never envisioned that vehicle to be a dump truck. But there I was…
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Linda Seida
By: centraljersey.com NEW HOPE – New Hope-Solebury High School graduate Devyn Rush is in Hollywood this week, thanks to a successful turn on "American Idol’s" season premiere last week when she impressed the judges with her voice. All three judges said they were wowed by her talent, if not her outfit. "That girl can blow!"…
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UPPER FREEHOLD: Local musician seeks to have Finnish citizenship restored
By Joanne Degnan, Staff Writer UPPER FREEHOLD Finnish-born cellist Elina Snell- man-Lang holds a 100-markka bank note from her homeland bearing the portrait of her great-great-grandfather and recalls the day she discovered she had unwittingly forfeited her Finnish birthright by becoming a U.S. citizen. ”I was so upset,” says Ms. Snellman-Lang, 47, of the…
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Medication assistance must be protected
By: centraljersey.com Pharmaceutical Assistance for the Aged and Disabled (PAAD) and Senior Gold help low-income older adults or those with disabilities pay for their prescription medications. A year ago, grappling with a terrible deficit, Gov. Chris Christie suggested cuts to these programs that would have increased the amount beneficiaries had to pay for their medications.…
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