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Budgerigar/parakeet event coming to E.B.
The Tri-State Budgerigar (Parakeet) Society will sponsor its 25th annual Budgerigar Show 7 a.m.-4 p.m. Aug. 15 and 16 at the 4-H Youth Center Log Cabin, 645 Cranbury Road, East Brunswick. Birds must be entered by 10 a.m. Aug. 15, 9 a.m. Aug. 16. The event, which is sanctioned by the Budgerigar Association of America,…
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Volunteers to make pillows for youngsters
SmileAMile, a volunteer program to help sick children, will meet to make pillows for local hospital pediatric departments noon-3 p.m. Aug. 9 at the South River Library, 55 Appleby Ave. Individuals ages 12 and above are invited to attend. Basic sewing skills are helpful but not necessary. For more information, call 732-254-2488 or log on…
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Fish-ladder report to be topic at meeting
The results of the Fish Ladder Feasibility Study in the Lawrence Brook will be reported at a meeting of the Lawrence Brook Watershed Partnership set for 7 p.m. Aug. 18 at the Milltown Senior Center, Violet Terrace. The public is invited. Primary speaker will be Kate Boicourt of the Hudson River Foundation. The feasibility study,…
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Founder of Garmany, Red Bank, dies suddenly
Laureano O. Garmany Laureano O. “Larry” Garmany of Colts Neck passed away peacefully on July 25 at the age of 62. He was surrounded by many who adored and cherished him in a love-filled hospital room of the Jersey Shore Medical Center, Neptune. Larry was born in Vazquez, Oriente, Cuba, and fled his native country…
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Thomas Edison Center seeks volunteers
The historic Thomas Edison Center at Menlo Park is seeking adult volunteers to assist in many of its programs at the center on Christie Street in Edison. Opportunities are available for docents to greet and guide visitors through the facility, assist with the museum’s programs, and help with historic interpretive material. The Thomas Edison Center…
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Talk to shed light on Jewish Nobel laureates
The Brandeis National Committee, Middlesex Chapter, will offer a Jewish Heritage Museum of Monmouth County program titled “The Faces of Genius” 1 p.m. Aug. 18 at the East Brunswick Public Library, Jean Walling Civic Center. The presentation will honor and highlight the private lives and contributions of 10 outstanding Jewish-American Nobel laureates. Admission is free…
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Staged readings set for ‘Sisters in Pain’
Jemma Nigh Productions will present two upcoming staged readings of “Sisters in Pain,” a satirical play by Monroe author Myra Danon. The schedule is as follows: Aug. 13 — 7 p.m., Monmouth County Library Headquarters, 125 Symmes Drive, Manalapan; Aug. 14 — 2:30 p.m., Monroe Township Senior Center, 12 Halsey Reed Road. Audience…
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Library workshop offers teens insight into business world
By MICHAEL NUNES Staff Writer EAST BRUNSWICK — What will be the next big Facebook partnership? Will it be Direct TV? eBay? Groupon? If it is, then the teens participating in the East Brunswick Public Library’s Aspiring Business Leaders workshop saw it coming. “For not having gone to business school or college, some of these…
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Golf outing to benefit Spotswood H.S. team
Spotswood High School’s Hole in One Club’s sixth annual golf outing will be held Aug. 17 at the Rossmoor Golf Club, Monroe. The outing will support the school’s varsity golf team. For more information or to reserve, call 732-416-0100.
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