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Friday, December 14, 2012

Two Days Left to Win $100,000 for Scotch Plains-Fanwood Schools

Did you decorate your house for the holidays this year? Enter our "Deck the House" contest and you could win $100,000 for your local school district and $500 to pay your electric bills!

We’re launching our annual Deck the House Contest to find the most over-the-top holiday decorations in America—the best “decked” house in the country—the one home so spectacularly decorated that everyone in town jokes your holiday decorations could rival Rockefeller Center’s. If this sounds like your house, upload a photo or video of your home to our contest page from Nov. 26 to Dec. 16. Enter here! Only residents of Patch towns are eligible to enter. We’ll select 24 regional finalists, and from them, pick one grand prize winner.  Patch will pay up to $500 of the utility bill for each finalist, while our national winner will have $100,000 donated to his or her local school district. Our contest is right around the corner, so now’s the …

Tuesday, December 11, 2012

Advent and Christmas Worship and Classes at Willow Grove Church

Willow Grove Presbyterian Church offers worship and adult classes during the month of December.

  In the season of Advent when Christians prepare their hearts and homes for Christmas, Willow Grove Presbyterian Church invites the community to worship and to adult classes during the month of December. Sunday morning worship services at 10:00 am include Christmas carols, a time for children, lighting the Advent wreath, classes for all ages and special music.  Rev. Cynthia Cochran-Carney will be preaching a series of sermons based on the book “God is in the Manger:  Reflections on Advent and Christmas” by Dietrich Bonhoeffer.  Childcare is provided for young children.  After worship there is a time for refreshments.   On Sunday, Dec. 16, the children and youth of the church will present a modern Christmas pageant at 10:00 am.  The story …

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