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Bowling team sets clothing, toy drive
The Sayreville War Memorial High School boys Bombers bowling team, the 2009 New Jersey state champions, will conduct a Used Clothing/Toy Drive noon-3 p.m. Oct. 17 at the Sayreville Emergency Squad, 776 Washington Road. Items sought include men’s, women’s and children’s clothes, shoes and belts; handbags; linens; stuffed animals and hard toys. All fabric items…
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House-decorating contest under way
The Sayreville Recreation Department is sponsoring its annual Halloween House-Decorating Contest for Sayreville residents. Telephone registration deadline is Oct. 22. Judging will take place Oct. 27. For more information and to register, call 732-390-7092 or 732-390-7096.
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Old Bridge Elks slates Polish Dinner
Old Bridge Elks Lodge No. 2229 will hold its annual Polish Dinner 6:30-9 p.m. Oct. 23 at the lodge, Old Amboy Road. Cost is $12 per person and includes a meal featuring homemade Polish delicacies. For more information and to reserve, call Joe Barlik at 732-251-0049.
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Dinner to benefit children with cancer
Prodigal Foundation Inc. will host an all-you-can-eat Spaghetti Dinner 4-8 p.m. Oct. 23 at the Hungarian American Citizens Club, 95 Port Reading Ave., Woodbridge. Prodigal Foundation is a nonprofit organization dedicated to helping Middlesex County children affected by cancer. The dinner will include salad, Italian bread, spaghetti, meatballs, sausage, cake and ice cream, coffee and…
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Fundraisers
Oct. 16 • Dinner-Dance, sponsored by Township With A Heart Inc. (TWAH), Old Bridge, 7-11 p.m., at the Friendly Sons of the Shillelagh, 15 Oak St., Old Bridge. Buffet dinner, complimentary tap beer, wine, soda. Music by Rock-N-Rhythm. Tickets cost $65, advance sale only; call 732-710- 0087. TWAH is a private nonprofit organization created to…
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Fundraiser hopes to ease burden of breast cancer
Women invited to enjoy complimentary salon, spa services at Avanti with $25 donation BY AMY ROSEN Staff Writer Avanti Day Resort is the kind of place a woman goes to feel better about herself. Now Avanti, named national Salon of the Year by Salon Today, is doing something to help many women who are fighting…
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Dogs’ day in the park
Left: Terry Wojtaszek of Sayreville gets a smooch from Hera at the “Pucker With a Pooch” table at Bark in the Park, an event held Oct. 3 in Kennedy Park. The borough’s Recreation Department held the event in recognition of Responsible Dog Ownership Day. Above: Merry emerges from the obstacle course tunnel.
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Library event asks: Are we human, or are we vampire?
BY JACQUELINE DURETT Correspondent SOUTH AMBOY — Tweens and teens will face a choice at the Vampire Mystery program at the Sadie Pope Dowdell Library: Whether to live as a vampire or a human. That choice is the end result of the Oct. 22 program, which is open to those ages 10 to 14. “They’re…
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Photo
Nathan Langer of East Brunswick, who portrays Tevye in the Main Street Theatre Co.’s production of “Fiddler On the Roof,” is surrounded by three of his daughters, (l-r) Liat Perelmanm of Plainsboro, Maggie Bera of Sayreville and Lauren Sodono of Colonia. Performances will be at 8 p.m. on Saturdays and 2 p.m. on Sundays from…
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