Community Corner
About Town: Borough-Wide Birthday Party, 'Pray and Play,' and the Bird Count
Patch columnist Mike Prasad gives a rundown of what has Fanwood residents talking.
Borough Birthday Bash
Fanwood residents 80-years-old and better are invited to a community-wide birthday party on Feb. 28 at 10 a.m. in the recreation building. Local businesses are being solicited to contribute items for gift baskets to be raffled off. For more information, contact Pat Hoynes by calling 908-322-8236, ext. 121, or emailing phoynes@fanwoodnj.org.
Temple Sholom Young Families to “Pray and Play”
invites families with children ages 4 and younger its Shabbat "Pray and Play" next Saturday, Feb. 26. The 30-minute interactive service will start at 10 a.m. and feature music, maracas, puppets and parachutes. It will be followed by a free bagel brunch in the temple’s playroom. For more information, call 908-889-4900 or email sholom@sholomnj.org.
Two Days Until the Backyard Bird Count
While you kick-back this President's Day Weekend, consider joining tens of thousands of volunteers at all levels of birding experience across the country in counting birds for the "Great Backyard Bird Count."
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The count, led by the Audubon Society and Cornell Lab of Ornithology, is a “citizen science” project that invites people from all over North America to count birds in their backyards, parks and open spaces and enter their tallies online at www.birdcount.org. These reports create a real-time picture of the location of birds across the continent and contribute valuable information for science and conservation. For more, visit http://www.birdsource.org/gbbc/.
To learn about the event in Fanwood, call 908-322-8236 or email fanwoodec@fanwoodec.org.
