Community Bulletin Board
Pride in Milltown Day scheduled for Oct. 1

The ninth annual Pride in Milltown Day will be held from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Oct. 7 in Borough Park, JFK Boulevard and Violet Terrace, next to the community pool. Rain date is Oct. 8.

The event, sponsored by the Milltown Revitalization Committee, is designed to promote community spirit and awareness of local businesses and service organizations.

This year's highlights will include:

+ The Party Dolls in concert;

+ a magic and illusion show with George Reiger Jr.;

+ contests and prizes;

+ all-day food court;

+ Community Pride Fair - nonprofit community groups serving Milltown are invited to promote their activities, free of charge, at an information table;

+ Business Expo - local businesses serving Milltown will promote their products and services (exhibitor's fee is $25);

+ Arts and Crafts Fair - area vendors will display and sell their creations (exhibitor's fee is $10);

+ Classic Car Show - juried competition with prizes, trophies and giveaways to entrants ($10 registration in advance, $15 on day of event);

+ morning cleanup - volunteers will meet at Borough Hall at 8:30 a.m.;

+ family activities including a pet-show contest, home-run derby, basketball contest, egg toss and more;

+ giant slide and other attractions;

+ child identification program.

For more information, call Patty Murray at (732) 249-6493.

Residents invited to sell at Jamesburg Yard Sale

Jamesburg residents will sell their "treasures" during the annual Jamesburg Fall Communitywide Yard Sale scheduled for 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Sept 16. The event, which will take place rain or shine, is co-sponsored by the borough of Jamesburg and the Jamesburg Civic Association.

Residents may sell in their own yards or rent table space at Buckelew Park. There is a $2 registration for all residential yard-sale participants. The fee will help cover the cost of advertising, signs and maps. All registered home addresses will be listed on a yard-sale flier/map that will be distributed throughout Jamesburg prior to the sale. The fee at Buckelew Park is $12 ($2 registration fee, $10 table/space fee). The table/space fee benefits the Jamesburg Historical Association.

Registration forms are available at Jamesburg Borough Hall, from various Jamesburg merchants, and online at www.jamesburg.info or www.JamesburgHistory.com. Forms must be returned by Sept. 13 for a listing in the sale map/flier.

For more information, call (732) 521-2040 and leave a message.

Discussion to focus on full ADA compliance

The Monday Morning Advocacy Network of Middlesex County will hold its next meeting from 1-3 p.m. on Sept. 18 in conference room 3 at the East Brunswick Public Library, Jean Walling Civic Center Drive

Topic will be "How We Can Make Middlesex County Fully and Completely Accessible." Issues to be discussed will include how to work with managers and landlords in making stores and other businesses accessible and compliant with the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) by removing barriers; addressing and working with code-enforcement officers and ADA coordinators; and working against "excuses" that businesses make to hinder making accommodations. Other topics, including legislative updates and updates on accessible parking, also will be be discussed. Guest speakers will be announced.

Plans will be outlined for a contest, sponsored by the Monday Morning Project, to find the most accessible county. Upcoming accessibility tours will be discussed.

To reserve and for more information, call Anita at (732) 727-7791 or e-mail aclavering@netzero.com. For audio/visual accommodations, call David at (732) 549-0879.

Middlesex County Area Transit consumers should call (800) 221-3520 if they need a ride to the meeting. NJ Transit Access Link consumers may call (800) 955-2321 and ask for the 811 bus route.

Alborada to perform in 'Sephardic Connection'

The Monroe Township Cultural Arts Commission will present the Alborada Spanish Dance Theatre in a new production of "The Sephardic Connection: The Story of the Spanish Jews" at 3 p.m. on Sept. 17 at the Richard P. Marasco Center for the Performing Arts, Monroe Township High School, Perrineville Road.

The performance will celebrate the cross-cultural influences of the Sephardic Jewish culture and Spain, Morocco and Turkey. The Sephardim, a Jewish population indigenous to Spain in the Middle Ages, made many contributions to Spanish music, dance, architecture, literature and culture. In 1492 the group left to reside in Turkey, Morocco and other countries.

Accompanied by the Daughters of Sophia Tribal Dance Troupe, The Noga Group (Sephardic musicians), Middle Eastern dancer Ramsey and cantorial singer Laurie Fechter, the Alborada dancers will explore the links between the Spanish Sephardim and Sephardic Jewish cultures elsewhere.

Tickets, which are $12 for the general public, $10 for patrons, free of charge for students, are available in advance at the Monroe Township Senior Center, 1 Municipal Plaza, at the Monroe Township Community Center, 120 Monmouth Road, or at the box office prior to the performance.

For more information, log on to www.alboradadance.org or call (732) 255-4071, or log on to www.MonroeTownshipCulturalArts.com or call or (732) 521-4400, ext. 134.

The program has been made possible in part by the Middlesex County Cultural and Heritage Commission and the New Jersey Council on the Arts/Department of State, a partner agency of the National Endowment for the Arts and the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation.

Alborada also will perform "The Sephardic Connection" at 8 p.m. on Sept. 16 at Ocean County College Fine Arts Center, College Drive, Toms River section of Dover. Tickets cost $17 in advance, $20 at the door, $17 for seniors; group discounts available. For more information and to reserve, call the box office at (732) 255-0500.

Children's story times set at Monroe Library

Registration will begin at 9:30 a.m. on Sept. 12 for a variety of children's story times at the Monroe Township Library, 4 Municipal Plaza.

"Baby Time," a rhyme and play time for children ages 6-12 months with a caregiver, will be offered at 9:30 a.m. on Mondays beginning Oct. 23.

"Toddlin' Tots," a program for youngsters ages 12-18 months and a caregiver, is set for 10:30 a.m. on Mondays beginning Oct. 23.

"Wee Folk," a story time for youngsters ages 18-24 months and a caregiver, is planned for 9:30 a.m. on Tuesdays beginning Oct. 3.

"Terrific Twos," for children ages 24-36 months accompanied by a caregiver, will be available at 9:30 or 10:30 a.m. on Tuesdays beginning Oct. 5 and 9:30 a.m. on Wednesdays beginning Nov. 1.

"Preschool Story Time," open to children ages 3-5, will be offered at 10:30 a.m. or 1:30 p.m. on Tuesdays or Wednesdays beginning Oct. 3 and 4.

"Starlight Express," an alternative to daytime story time for ages 3-5, is planned for 7 p.m. on Tuesdays beginning Oct. 3.

"Evening Tales," a nighttime story time for children ages 6-8, is set for 7 p.m. on Thursdays beginning Oct. 5.

For more information and to register, call (732) 521-5000.

Zimmerli Museum sets exhibits through 2007

The schedule for current and upcoming exhibitions at the Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum, 71 Hamilton St., New Brunswick, is as follows:

+ Technical Detours: The Early Work of Moholy-Nagy Reconsidered - Sept. 1-Oct. 31;

+ Abraham Joel Tobias: Sculptural Paintings of the 1930s - ongoing beginning Sept. 1;

+ Word and Image in Late 19th-Century Paris - Sept. 1-Jan. 28;

+ Inviting Words Into the Image: Contemporary Prints From the Rutgers Archives for Printmaking Studios - Sept. 1-Jan. 28;

+ By Its Cover: Original Art for Children's Books - Sept. 1-Feb. 4;

+ Precolumbian Ceramics - ongoing beginning Oct. 14;

+ Two Masters of Lithuanian Photography: Antanas Sutkus and Rimantas Dichavicius - Sept. 30-March 25;

+ Visual Experiments of Russian Avant-Garde Artists, 1910s-30s - Oct. 14-March 25;

+ Visual Experiments of Soviet Nonconformist Artists, 1970s-80s - Oct. 14-March 25;

+ Toulouse-Lautrec and the French Imprint: Fin-de-Siecle Posters in Paris, Brussels and Barcelona - Nov. 16-Feb. 18;

+ Japonisme: Selections From the Collection - ongoing;

+ Selections From the Henderson Collection of American Stained Glass Design - ongoing;

+ Individuals: Selections from the Dodge Collection - ongoing.

For more information, call (732) 932-7237, ext. 611, or log on to www.zimmerlimuseum.rutgers.edu.

Monroe to honor 9/11 victims and families

The township of Monroe will host a 9/11 Community Candlelight Memorial Service beginning at 6:30 p.m. on Sept. 11 at the Memorial Tree Park, Prospect Plains and Half Acre roads.

Clergy and lay people of all faiths will take part in prayer, speeches and song to honor the individuals who died during the 9/11 attacks and their families. The tree park is the site of the Sept. 11 Memorial, dedicated in 2002, which bears the names of Monroe families touched by the tragedy.

Admission is free of charge. The community is invited to attend. Parking will be available along Prospect Plains Road. Handicapped parking will be available in the tree-park parking lot.

The American Flag Memorial will display 2,977 flags in remembrance of those who perished on 9/11. The display will be open to the public from Sept. 8-12.

For more information, call Shannon Cenci at (732) 605-9440.

Registration slated for new, returning artists

The Suburban Artists Guild of Central New Jersey (SAG) will hold open registration for old and new members at a meeting set for 1 p.m. on Sept. 8 at the East Brunswick Public Library, Jean Walling Civic Center.

The event will be a welcome-back luncheon for returning members and an introduction for new members. A show-and-tell of summer artwork by guild members will conclude the meeting.

The panel, which offers programs including hands-on sessions and demonstrations by professional artists using various media, is aggressively seeking new sites in which to show members' paintings.

For more information on the Sept. 8 general meeting or to renew membership, call Allie Skislak at (732) 257-0031.

Curtain will rise on 'Dial M for Murder'

Villagers Theatre, a nonprofit center for the performing and cultural arts located at 415 DeMott Lane, Somerset section of Franklin, will present the thriller "Dial M for Murder" by Frederick Knott at 8 p.m. on Fridays and Saturdays, 2 p.m. on Sundays, Sept. 8-24.

Tickets cost $16, with discounts available for students and seniors. Reservations may be made by calling the box office at (732) 873-2710. Directions and more information about "Dial M for Murder" and future productions

at the theater may be found by logging on to www.villagerstheatre.com.

The program is made possible, in part, by funds from the New Jersey State Council of the Arts/ Department of State, a partner agency of the National Endowment for the Arts, and administered by the Somerset County Cultural and Heritage Commission through the State/County Partnership Local Arts Program.

Imperial Band to bring 'The Stripper' to S.R.

The Imperial Band will present a concert titled "The Stripper" from 2-4 p.m. on Sept. 10 at the Imperial Music Center, 48 Appleby Ave., South River.

Lunch will be served from noon to 2 p.m. For more information, call (732) 238-0310.

Vendor space available for Sp'wood Family Day

Vendors are sought for the Spotswood Drug and Alcohol Alliance sixth annual Spotswood Family Day set for noon to 4 p.m. on Sept. 17 at Spotswood High School, Summerhill Road.

The event will feature crafts, games, drawings and door prizes. The Spotswood Police Department will hold a bike rodeo. The Cruisin' Knights Car Club will sponsor a classic car show. Admission will be free of charge.

Vendor spaces cost $20 each; space will be free of charge to organizations for display only.

For more information and to reserve, call Dawn at (732) 251-4743.

Philomusica to schedule tryouts by appointment

The Philomusica community choir seeks central New Jersey singers with good reading skills to participate in the choir's Dec. 2 and 3 concerts, "Renaissance to 20th-Century Music by Byrd, Victoria, Poulenc, Sweelinck and Burt."

Open-rehearsal auditions are set for 7:30-10 p.m., by appointment, Sept. 11, 18 and 25, at the Unitarian Society, 176 Tices Lane, East Brunswick.

For more information and to make an audition appointment, call

(888) 744-5668 or e-mail info@philomusica.org.

Tuesday-Night Dinners to begin at Sons of Italy

The Order of the Sons of Italy in America, Sgt. John Basilone Lodge, will begin its weekly Tuesday-Night Dinners at 6:30 p.m. on Sept. 12 at the Imperial Music Center, 48 Appleby Ave., South River.

Dinners, cooked fresh and featuring a different menu each week, will include homemade soup, salad, a main course, dessert, coffee and tea. Cost is $9. Opening-night entree will be penne with sausage.

For more information, call (732) 238-0310.

Level Club seeking vendors for yard sale

Vendors are sought for the Level Club of South River semiannual Giant Yard Sale set for 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Sept. 9 at the Masonic Temple, 120 Old Bridge Turnpike, South River. Rain date is Sept. 10.

Rental cost is $15 for a space and table, $10 for space only.

For more information and to reserve, call Robert Szegeti at (732) 390-5732.

Identity theft to be topic at Bagel Talk

Congregation Beth Ohr, 70 Route 516, Old Bridge, will sponsor a Bagel Talk event titled "Identity Theft and Consumer Awareness" at 9 a.m. on Sept. 17.

Guest speaker will be Jay Allan of the New Jersey Department of Public Affairs. The community is invited.

For more information, call (732) 257-1523.

College will conduct understudy auditions

Middlesex County College will hold understudy auditions for women's roles in Neil Simon's "I Ought To Be in Pictures" from 5-7 p.m. on Sept. 5 in the New Studio Theatre on the college's Edison campus. Females 15-18 and 29-35 are invited to try out.

The play will be presented at 8 p.m. on Oct. 6, 7, 13 and 14 and at 2 p.m. on Oct. 15.

For more information, call (732) 906-2589.