Giving Back

In September, three of our Cadettes in Troop 20322 completed their Silver Award, which is the highest award a Girl Scout Cadette can receive. The Silver Award recipients are Chloe Bekhit, Victoria Cutalo and Alexandria Eustice. Our Cadettes decided to focus their project on childhood literacy. They assisted with different events at the library, made decorations for the children’s section of ...

WEST ORANGE, NJ - Breaking the Chain Through Education (BTCTE), a New Jersey-based organization dedicated to the eradication of child slave trafficking in Ghana, will feature a rescued teen at its Fifth Annual Fundraising Dinner on Thursday, November 15 from 6:00 to 9:00 pm at the Wilshire Grand. [Tickets are available through the website: https://www.btcte.org]

Founded by Evan Robbins, a ...

The Verona Woman’s Club, Junior Woman’s Club of Verona, and Juniorettes are sponsoring a Share Your Light Night fundraiser.  Share Your Light Night will raise funds to support social and charitable work in our community.  You can support their community work by purchasing luminary kits, sand filled small white paper bags with candles, that can be placed along front ...

The Verona Juniors are getting into the Halloween spirit with Boo Fest, a Kids Costume Dance Party. 

Boo Fest will take place Saturday, Oct. 27, from 9:00 to 11:00 a.m. at the H.B. Whitehorne Middle School gym (Entrance located behind Terry’s Pharmacy). Admission is $5 per person (kids under 1 are free) and includes bagels, beverages, music and pumpkin craft. Prizes ...

LIVINGSTON, NJ – Livingston’s Shining Stars program, an adaptive after-school program for individuals with special needs that is open to local families in Livingston and surrounding communities, has officially kicked off its new season. In her second year as Livingston’s first-ever full-time adaptive recreation coordinator, Jennifer Quirk is looking forward to ...

LAVALLETTE, NJ — A New Jersey State Police helicopter flew overhead and members of the United States Coast Guard floated nearby as hundreds celebrated the grand opening of a playground recently built in Lavallette Beach in memory of Livingston resident Brendan Tevlin a little more than four years after he was fatally shot in West Orange.

Firefighters and other volunteers from across the ...

Juniors Seek Donations to Help Food Drive Succeed

VERONA, NJ - The Junior Woman’s Club of Verona will kick-off this year’s Verona Fights Hunger Week on Sunday, October 14, 2018.  The town-wide food drive will run through Saturday, October 20, 2018.  

Verona Fights Hunger Week is a town wide supersized food drive that brings together local businesses, ...