NESTLÉ DRUMSTICK BRAND SEEKS DYNAMIC YOUNG HEROES – If you know a selfless child or teenager who has made a difference in the lives of others, here’s a way to reward their dedication and determination. The Nestlé Drumstick brand is celebrating young people who have accomplished amazing things – both large and small. Until September 15, adults can nominate outstanding kids as part of the Nestlé Drumstick Heroes Contest. Fifty winning kids will be awarded the ultimate summer celebration, complete with enough Nestlé Drumstick sundae cones and a fun-filled party package to host an unforgettable event for up to 50 family and friends.Entries will be judged on the child or teenager’s accomplishments, as well as the originality and creativity used to achieve their goals. Contest entry forms are available to download at http://www.drumstick.com. Submit your story (150 to 500 words), along with the completed entry form, describing why the child deserves to be honored as a Drumstick Hero. Adults over the age of 18 may nominate children between 6 and 17 years of age who are residents of the United States. Official contest rules are available online. All entries must be received by September 15. Winning children will be notified by phone and/or mail.
The Hunterdon County Mental Health Board invites interested persons to a Public Hearing regarding the State of New Jersey, Division of Mental Health and Addiction Service’s plan to redirect Hunterdon County Adults under 65 years from Hagedorn Psychiatric Hospital to Greystone Park Psychiatric Hospital.
Persons from the state will be available to present their plans and hear public comment on Thursday, September 2, 2010, from 6 to 8 pm at the Hunterdon County Rt. 12 Complex, Building #1 Assembly Room, 314 Rt 12, Raritan Township.
It is the policy of Hunterdon County to provide reasonable accommodations for persons with disabilities, with advance notification of need. Persons requiring accommodations must call Kay Strain at (908) 788-1253(Voice/TDD), 5 days prior to the meeting date.
For more information, please call Cathy Zahn, Mental Health Planner, Hunterdon County Department of Human Services, P.O. Box 2900, Flemington, NJ 08822 (908) 788-1372 or e-mail czahn@co.hunterdon.nj.us.
The Rutgers Master Gardener Helpline provides advice to the gardening public as one of the many volunteer efforts of the Rutgers Master Gardeners of Somerset and Hunterdon Counties. This
unique sevrice is provided by new graduates of the Master Gardener program along with experienced, certified Master Gardeners of the Rutgers Cooperative Extension. The Helpline’s trained Master Gardener volunteers answer Hunterdon residents’ garden and landscape questions at 908-788-1735 from 9 a.m. to 12 p.m. Monday through Friday and from 12:30 to 3:30 p.m. Monday and Wednesday. Gardeners with questions may also visit the Rutgers Cooperative Extension office at 4 Gauntt Place off Route 31 just north of Hunterdon Medical Center in Raritan Township during those hours.
Calvary Episcopal Church in Flemington NJ http://www.calvary-episcopal.com/ will resume regular Sunday worship schedule on Sunday, September 12th. The Sunday worship schedule is 7:30AM, 9:00AM and 11:00AM.
Jo Coudert, who lives in Califon, NJ, has her tenth book coming out this month from Harlequin Press.
The Dog Who Healed a Family is a collection of animal stories that previously appeared in major magazines, including the Reader’s Digest, McCall’s, and Woman’s Day. All of the stories are true and share a common theme of the love and caring that can exist between people and animals as varied as a parrot, a goose, and a javelina.
Coudert’s previous books include Seven Cats and the Art of Living and The Ditchdiggers’s Daughters, a New Jersey First book. She is also the author of four plays produced off-Broadway and over one hundred magazine articles.
The NJDEP’s Division of Fish and Wildlife has issued a Special Wildlife Management Permit to control feral hogs in Deer Management Zone 25. Hunters do not need a separate permit to pursue hogs in this zone. They need only have their regular hunting licenses and deer permits necessary to hunt deer during the applicable seasons. Feral hogs may be harvested anywhere in the zone. Free-ranging feral hogs of either gender and any age are legal game while deer hunting during the Fall Bow, Permit Bow, Six-day Firearm, Permit Muzzleloader, Permit Shotgun and Winter Bow seasons, provided the hunter has not reached the bag limit for the deer season which is open and for which the hunter has the required license and deer permits. For more information on the hunting of feral hogs visit http://www.njfishandwildlife.com/news/2010/feralhogs10.htm.
Readington Rockets fastpitch softball will hold tryouts for their 14U, 12U & 10U teams dates as follows: 14U on 8/31; 12U on 9/1; 10U on 9/2. One tryout will be held for all levels on 9/8. Rain date for all dates is 9/9. The Rockets softball program consists of play in a fall development league, indoor winter training, spring 2011 training and tournament play and summer 2011 league and tournament play. Eligibility is as follows: 14U born in 1996 or later; 12U born in 1998 or later; 10U born in 2000 or later. TAll tryouts will be held at Hillcrest Park on Hillcrest Rd in Readington. Registration begins at 6 pm and tryouts begin promptly at 6:30 pm. Players should bring glove, cleats, bat and batting helmet. Bats and helmets will be available if needed. For more information call Readington Recreation at 908-534-9752.
Marines of Detachment 927 will hold a membership drive and fundraiser on Saturday and Sunday August 21 and 22, 2010 at the Super Wal-Mart in Flemington and Wal-Mart in Whitehouse Station from 9-5. Funds raised for this event will go to assisting Marine Corps League Detachment 927 and assisting local charities in Hunterdon County. For more information, please call Mark Paradis at 908-236-8464 or go to our web site at http://www.hcmcl.org.
PRE-SCHOOL FOR FOUR YEAR OLDS ~ SEPTEMBER 2010 ~ Applications now accepted! A full-time, certified, district teacher and full-time classroom assistant(s) teach our programs. A speech therapist is available in the classroom several days per week to enhance the speech skills of all students. A certified school nurse attends each day.
Preschool programs implement the State recommended Creative Curriculum, which prepares students for a successful transition into Kindergarten. Students must be 4 years old by October 1, 2010 and must be toilet trained. Programs meet 5 days/week and follow the district calendar. Students DO NOT need to reside within the school district. Parents are responsible for providing transportation and paying tuition to the
Board of Education at a rate of $300 per month for 10 months. Copper Hill School – 9:30—11:45 a.m. Barley Sheaf School – 11:45—2:00 p.m. Parents seeking to enroll their child should call: Flemington-Raritan Regional School District, Department of Special Services, (908) 284-7680.
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Join Jim Rose on Wednesday, September 8, 2010 at 7:00 pm at the Hunterdon County Library on Route 12 to learn how meditation can help you deal with stress, anger and conflict in your life.
Stress, anger and conflict are part of life in today’s world, but you don’t have to live with them 24/7. [...]
Thirteen young people in grades six through eight competed in Teen Café’s Second Annual Teen Idol Talent Show on Wednesday evening, August 4 at the North County Library in Clinton. More than sixty family members and friends, as well as Teen Café participants, filled the library’s meeting room as twelve individual acts; including guitar and [...]
Don’t miss out! The smartest card in your wallet can save you money in addition to providing access to books, music, employment resources, computers, homework help, research, movies, gaming and training. September is Library Card Sign-up Month, and the Hunterdon County Library system, in conjunction with the Flemington Free Public Library and area businesses, encourage [...]
Bring a chair or blanket and join us by the outdoor stage of the Hunterdon County Library, Rt. 12, Flemington for two great local rock bands in August.
The BassBoards will perform on Wednesday, August 4th at 6:30 pm. The BassBoards come to you from Central New Jersey delivering a wide variety of classic rock [...]
At the North County Branch Library at 65 Halstead Street in the Town of Clinton, on display in August are paintings from the imagination of Keith Dinsen. A lifetime Whitehouse Station resident, Keith Dinsen discovered his artistic leanings in October 2004 when his desire to record celestial images in the night sky demanded a more personal [...]
As the library lights dim on Wednesday, August 4, at 7:00pm, Teens will perform their special talents at North County Library Teen Café’s 2nd annual Teen Idol talent contest. The night promises to be full of surprises as young people take the stage to show off their stuff in Clinton. Prizes from local sponsors will [...]
The Hunterdon County Photography Club is having a first-time exhibit at the North County Branch Library in Clinton through July.
The group has about 20 dedicated amateur photographers and a few pros. They meet once a month, have a central topic of discussion (such as modeling, exposure, gear, lighting, etc.), give out an assignment [...]
The Friends of the Hunterdon County Library present “Wayback Whensday,” a night of fun for the whole family at the Hunterdon County Library, Rt. 12 Flemington, on Wednesday, July 21 at 6:30 pm (rain date: Thursday, July 22). Travel with us back to the 1950’s! There will be a DJ spinning 50’s music that you [...]
Teen Café offers the following summer programs for area young people going into grades 6 thru 9 at the North County Library Branch, 65 Halstead St., in the Town of Clinton. Teen Cafe programs run from 7 to 8 p.m. For information or to register contact Youth Services Librarian Ann-Louise Taylor, 730-6834 or via e-mail at altaylor@hclibrary.us.
Early June programs at the North County Branch Library in Clinton, NJ include Flute Meditation with Kala Devi, Fishing in Hunterdon County with Manny Luftglass, Meditation: A Spiritual Solution to Stress, Anger and Conflict and an evening with vocalist Marlene Verplanck.
“Water Your Mind” this summer with good books. Hunterdon County Library’s Adult Summer Reading Club will begin on Memorial Day, May 31, and run through Labor Day, September 6. Gather up a bunch of those books you’ve been wanting to read, commit to reading a certain number of them, join the library’s club, and start watering [...]
Licensed Leadership Coach Neil Cooper of Cooper Leadership Coaching, will be at the North County Branch Library in Clinton on Thursday, May 13 at 7:00 pm to walk you through a process that develops a personally effective style of leadership that positively influences and changes not only yourself, but also [...]
The North County Branch of the Hunterdon County Library will present John Manfreda at 7 p.m. on Thursday, May 6 for a seminar on estate planning, and Sparta artist Doris Schwint will appear at 2 p.m. on Saturday, May 8 for a watercolor demonstration seminar.
Join us at the Hunterdon County Library, Rt. 12 Flemington, on Wednesday, May 5 at 7:00 for a concert featuring two pianists at one piano. Music from Mendelssohn, Holberg, Grieg, Lambert and Bernstein will be performed.
Husband and wife team Carolle-Ann Mochernuk and Paul Keuter are well-known for their 4-hand piano in the New York-New Jersey metropolitan [...]
Join us on Sunday, May 2, 2010 at 2:00 pm at the Hunterdon County Library, Rt. 12 Flemington, as we welcome Susan McLellan Plaisted, a food historian and owner/operator of Heart to Hearth Cookery based in Bucks County, Pennsylvania. Susan will present an 18th Century Bill of Fare. Seasonality was the key word in what was placed [...]
Flemington Girl Scout Troop 80915 will present “Cultural Interactive: Greece” for children ages 6-10 at the Hunterdon County Library on Saturday, April 24, from 1:00-4:00 pm. This program consists of fun, hands-on learning activities designed to expose children to Greek culture, including a puppet show, Greek alphabet BINGO, kid-friendly [...]
Travis Wetzel will perform an Earth Day Concert at the Hunterdon County Library titled “Music For Our Surroundings” on Thursday, April 22 at 7:00 pm. The concert will feature folk, jazz, bluegrass, Native American, and Celtic music.
Travis Wetzel has five albums featuring his contemporary fiddle music, mandolin, guitar [...]
The Hunterdon County Library is celebrating National Library Week (April 11-17) with the following programs. National Library Week has been sponsored by the American Library Association since 1958 and involves libraries around the country. It is a time to celebrate the contributions of our nation’s libraries and librarians and to promote library use and support.
Classical pianist and actress Mary Greenberg presents “The 200th Birthday Celebration of Felix Mendelssohn and Frederic Chopin,” a “Play in Concert” at the Hunterdon County Library on Sunday, March 28 at 2:00pm.
Mary Greenberg is on the piano faculty of Westminster Conservatory of Rider University in Princeton, New Jersey. As a [...]
Alice Oldford and Sue Dziamara, authors of the book “You Can Get There From Here,” present “Hiking the Trails of Hunterdon County” at the Hunterdon County Library on Wednesday, March 3 at 7:00 pm.
Part of the Skylands Region, Hunterdon County is bounded on the west by the [...]
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