Howell Women's Club will host casino night
      The Howell Women's Club will sponsor a Casino Night March 21 at the Woodlake Country Club, New Hampshire Ave., Lakewood. The ticket price of $55 includes a buffet dinner and $50 in chips. There will be 50 prizes from $50 to $250 as well as the club's 2009 Super 50/50 drawing. Doors open at 6:15 p...
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Howell library to host prom dress exchange
      The Howell library, 318 Old Tavern Road, will host a prom dress exchange event March 7 from noon to 4 p.m. To participate in the library's "Sweet Seconds" prom dress event, drop off a dress March 7 and receive a ticket that can be exchanged for another gown at no cost.
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Chinese New Year will be honored at library
      The Chinese New Year will be celebrated at the Monmouth County Library Headquarters, 125 Symmes Drive, Manalapan, Jan. 24 at 1:30 p.m. Of all the traditional Chinese festivals, the New Year is perhaps considered to be the most elaborate, colorful, and important.
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Manalapan PASS & SEPAG raise funds
      Persons Associated With Special Services (PASS) in Manalapan has announced that its Kids Stuff/Entertainment fundraiser enabled the organization to provide the 105 special education teachers in the school district with $175 each for classroom supplies.
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Bake-off will benefit camp for ill children
      The Noontime Optimist Club of Freehold will conduct a bake-off to benefit Camp Quality Children's Cancer Camp on Feb. 28 at CentraState Medical Center's Star and Barry Tobias Ambulatory Campus, West Main Street, Freehold Township. Junior high students will compete from 9:30 a.m. to noon, high scho...
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Optimists will host basketball tourney
      The Sunrise Optimist Club of Freehold will sponsor its annual Kylie Pinheiro Memorial Hot Shot Basketball Tournament, March 8 at the YMCA of Western Monmouth County, 470 East Freehold Road. The event is open to girls and boys in grades four through nine and includes T-shirts for all participants a...
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Church hosts 'Souper Bowl of Caring' Feb. 1
      A "Souper Bowl of Caring," sponsored by the youth of the Colts Neck Reformed Church, will be held on Feb. 1 at the church, 72 Route 537 West, Colts Neck. Following the 9:15 a.m. and 11 a.m. worship services, the youth will be collecting a canned good or a $1 donation to benefit Open Door, a food p...
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      • 12th District Legislators Sen. Jennifer Beck, Assemblyman Declan O'Scanlon and Assemblywoman Caroline Casagrande will hold mobile office hours on Jan. 21 at the Monmouth County Library Headquarters, 125 Symmes Drive, Manalapan, from 5:30- 8:30 p.m.
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