United Way campaigns
provide food, gifts
     United Way of Monmouth County assisted in distributing 50 food boxes over the holiday season to three local food pantries, including the Samaritan Center in Englishtown.
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Women’s club program to
focus on feathered friends
     The GFWC Molly Pitcher Woman’s Club of Freehold Township will meet Jan. 20 at 10:30 a.m. in the Garden Room, Day’s Inn, Route 9 north, Freehold Township.
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Jewish Federation offers
‘Moms Mornings’
     Mothers of young children gathered at the Manalapan office of the Jewish Fed­eration of Monmouth County recently to engage in a guided discussion about "the December dilemma.
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Kilgore Scholarship
available to N.J. students
     The New Jersey Press Foundation, West Trenton, has announced the application deadline for its Bernard Kilgore Memorial Scholarship is Feb. 15. The $5,000 college journalism scholarship is open to New Jersey high school seniors who work on student newspapers.
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Datebook
     • Adoptive Parents Support Group, Jan. 16, 7:30 p.m. at St. Mary’s Roman Catholic Church, Route 34 and Phalanx Road, Colts Neck. The group is for anyone who has been touched by adoption or is interested in adoption.
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Datebook
     • "Paying for College" is the topic of a discussion to be held Jan. 14 and 21, 7 p.m., at the YMCA Community Center, 41 Center St., Freehold Borough, in cooperation with Fairleigh Dickinson Univer-sity and the Education Funding Consul-tants Association.
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Volunteer drivers needed
for cancer patients
     The American Cancer Society is offering licensed drivers the opportunity to fight cancer from behind the wheel. The Road to Recovery program seeks volunteer drivers to provide transportation for cancer patients.
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     MIGUEL JUAREZ staff The Swimming River Reservoir in Middletown is a frozen reflecting pool on Saturday after several days of frigid temperature.
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Public invited to King
observance Jan. 19
     The Second Baptist Church, Freehold, will hold a Martin Luther King Jr. community observance Jan. 19 at noon. The guest speaker will be the Rev. Brian McCormick. The church is at 133 Throckmorton St. All are welcome.
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Temple offers adult
education courses
     Congregation Sons of Israel, Manalapan, will sponsor a series of lectures by Rabbi Robert Pilavin and Rebbitzin Maxine Pilavin. Admission is free.
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Y announces capital campaign
     FREEHOLD TOWNSHIP — Jacque Preston, chairman of the board of the YMCA of Western Monmouth County, announced that Frank G. Abate and Abraham S. Opatut have agreed to co-chair Phase I of a three-phase, $10 million capital campaign program that the YMCA will be initiating.
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For the Record
     An article in the Jan. 7 News Transcript incorrectly quoted Marlboro Councilwoman Patti Morelli as saying that Republicans have a problem with two zoning board members who approved the construction of homes on land zoned for residential use.
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Yesteryear
100 years ago
     An amazing incident to the onlookers, but not to those who participated, happened last Friday. Dr. A.R. Wiley started to make a professional call and near the Presbyterian Church, Allentown, attempted to pass Thomas Lewis.
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Conservation district offering scholarships
     Freehold Soil Conservation District will award three $1,000 college scholarships in 2004.
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