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COMING EVENTS
1.
February Membership Meeting, Tuesday,
February 21st, 7:30PM, Milltown
Senior Center, 60 Violet Terrace, Milltown. Annual Reports for 2011.
Speaker to be announced.
2. Winter
Nature Walk - a weekend day in February - Details to be
announced.
3.
East Brunswick Community Day at the Mall, Sunday, March 4th,
11AM to 4PM, Brunswick Square Mall. LBWP is planning to have a
table at this event as usual.
4.
Winter Farmer's Market, Saturday, March 10th, 10AM to 2PM. East
Brunswick Community Arts Center. LBWP will have a table at
the event with our organic home and garden products. Also
see D below.
5. Film,
"Rescuing the River" Film
and Discussion about the decline of the Raritan River and the efforts
to restore it, Thursday, March 22nd, 6:30PM, Perth
Amboy YMCA Theater, 357 New Brunswick Avenue, Perth Amboy, 08861. LBWP
will have a table at this event. See more details at F.
6. Conference
of Lawrence Brook Watershed Communities to discuss planning for Storm
Water Control and Mitigation. Organized
by LBWP. Planning in progress. Volunteers needed to organize.
7. Conference
re Future Plans for Preserved Farms in the Lawrence Brook Watershed. Organized
by LBWP. Details being worked on. Primary focus will be on the North
Brunswick Pulda Farm.
Environmental Issues
a.
The Association of New Jersey Environmental Commissions (ANJEC)
has requested that we support the following environmental
initiative.
ANJEC
has joined with Environment New Jersey and other environmental
organizations in urging voters to email local legislators today
and urge them to block Governor Christie’s decision to withdraw
New Jersey from the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI).
RGGI
reduces health threats to children and families by setting
concrete limits on power plant pollution, forcing polluters to pay
for their emissions and using that money to fund pioneering clean
energy initiatives.
Please
email
your local legislators today and urge them to defend our air and
health. In the coming weeks, environmentalists will launch a
coordinated effort to mobilize a surge of public support for this
critical clean air program. We will keep you updated about this.
Thanks for speaking out.
Sandy
Batty,
Executive Director
ANJEC
www.anjec.org
P.O.
Box 157
Mendham NJ 07945
973-539-7547
b.
State Plan Hearings (Information provided by ANJEC
www.anjec.org)
The
State Planning Commission will be conducting six public hearings
to receive testimony on the draft Final State Strategic State
Plan: New Jersey's State Development and Redevelopment Plan. This
document is supposed to guide growth and conservation in New
Jersey. For a copy see
http://nj.gov/state/planning/docs/dfplan_proposed.pdf
Each hearing will start at 6:00 p.m. with a presentation, the
Public Hearing will be 7:00 p.m.
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Monday,
Feb. 13, Richard Stockton College, Campus Center Theatre, 101 Vera
King Farris Drive, Galloway, NJ 08205-9441
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Thursday, Feb. 16, Offices of Government Service, Gloucester
County Clayton Complex, Building A, 1200 N. Delsea Drive, Clayton,
NJ 08312
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Thursday, Feb. 23, North Jersey Transportation Planning Authority,
One Newark Center, 17th Floor, NJTPA Conference Room, Newark, NJ
07102
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Monday,
Feb. 27, Frelinghuysen Arboretum, Haggerty Center, 353 East
Hanover Avenue, Morris Township, NJ 07962
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Tuesday, Feb. 28, Monmouth University, Bey Hall, 400 Cedar Avenue,
West Long Branch, NJ 07764-1898
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Thursday, March 1, Rutgers University EcoComplex, 1200 Florence
Columbus Road, Bordentown, NJ 08505
In the
event of inclement weather resulting in a canceled hearing, the
following dates have been reserved: March 6, 2012 at 6:00 p.m.
Rutgers University, Civic Square Building, College Avenue Campus,
Special Events Forum Room, 33 Livingston Avenue, New Brunswick, NJ
08901 and March 21, 2012 at 10:00 a.m. State House Annex,
Committee Room 1, 125 West State Street, Trenton, NJ 08625.
Written
comments to the State Planning Commission can be sent at any time
up to 30 days after the last public hearing.
Environmentally-Related Events in the Area.
A. Friends of the East Brunswick Environmental Commission:
Lecture
by David Wheeler, author of
"Wild New
Jersey: Nature Adventures in the Garden State".
Wednesday, February 2nd, 2012, 7PM-9PM.
Will be held at the East Brunswick Cultural Arts Center, 721
Cranbury Road. This is adjacent to Heavenly Farms and the soccer
fields. Can also be approached from Dunham's Corner Road.
See the link for information on the event: http://www.friendsebec.com/apps/calendar/showEvent?calID=4946876&eventID=141733519
This link provides information on his book: http://rutgerspress.rutgers.edu/acatalog/Wild_New_Jersey.html
B.
EARTH
Center invites you to Birdcount, Rutgers
Master Gardeners of Middlesex County invite you to take
part in the
“Great
Backyard Bird Count”
on
Sunday, February 19th, 11AM-2PM
in Davidson’s Mill Pond Park. Master Gardeners will offer hot coffee
and light snacks for bird counters within the park at the EARTH
Center, home to Middlesex County’s Extension office. The event will
be held simultaneously with the Audubon Society and Cornell University
Labs "Great Backyard Bird Count". Please bring your own binoculars and
field guides and dress appropriately for outdoor hiking. Please let
the organizer know you are interested in attending by emailing
evans@AESOP.Rutgers.edu.
The EARTH Center is located in Davidson’s Mill Pond Park, 42 Riva
Ave, South Brunswick NJ. Beginning birders, and experts are
encouraged to attend. The start time is not formal; rather, the
Master Gardeners encourage people to use the park of over 300 acres
(including wooded trails and open fields), for their count. For
more detailed information visit
www.birdsource.org/gbbc/ The
EARTH Center’s educational displays include a huge demonstration
vegetable garden, hard-scaped herb garden, water-conserving rain
garden and a home compost display area. Visitors can also find out
more by calling 732-398- 5262. Tours are available. Rutgers
Cooperative Extension offices throughout New Jersey are
cooperatively funded by; the County Board of Chosen Freeholders,
Rutgers University- New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station and
the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
C.
Middlesex County 4-H
“I Love 4-H” Spaghetti Dinner Benefit,
Sunday, February
26th, 2012, 4PM-8PM
at the County 4-H Center, 645 Cranbury Rd., East Brunswick. Proceeds
will go towards much-needed repairs of the Middlesex County 4-H
Center.
Ticket price: $8 per person which includes dinner and dessert. There
will also be a 50/50 and live entertainment for a portion of the
evening by local
“soul-jazz”
band, the Hub Kings. Space is limited so be sure to reserve a seat.
Built in 1988, Middlesex County’s 4-H Center is a log cabin that
serves as headquarters to many of 4-H’s Youth Development Clubs and
programs. Not only is it a hub of activity during the Middlesex
County Fair, but programs such as “Explorations Week” in the summer,
Favorite Foods Festival and 4-H Open House during the fall and
winter take place at the center. Says
Abbie Kesely, 4-H Program Assistant and Milltown resident who grew
up in the Middlesex county 4-H program, “The 4-H Log Cabin really
mirrors the 4-H program itself by being a place for kids to meet new
friends, build self esteem and gain life skills.” To
RSVP, or for more info, call 4-H Office at 732-398-5261 Further
info at www.co.middlesex.nj.us/extensionservices
D. Winter
Farmer's Market, Saturday, March 10th, 10AM to 2PM. East
Brunswick Community Arts Center. 721 Cranbury Road East Brunswick.
Local farm products and related items. Sponsored by Friends of the
East Brunswick Environmental Commission. Please bring cloth carrier
bags for produce. See
www.friendsebec.com
E.
16th
Annual NJ Land Conservation Rally, Saturday March 10th, 8AM to 5PM,
Brookdale Community College, Lincroft, NJ. 32 Educational Workshops,
16 Round tables, 2 Field Trips. See
www.njconservation.org/rally Phone (908) 234-1225
F.
Film, "Rescuing the River" Film and Discussion about the decline of
the Raritan River and the efforts to restore it, Thursday, March 22nd,
6:30PM,
Perth Amboy YMCA Theater, 357 New Brunswick Avenue, Perth Amboy, 08861
Free parking in front at the Municipal Parking lot. To reserve a
seat, send an e-mail to
perthamboykayak@hotmail.com or
RescuingRiver@aol.com by March 18th.
The Lawrence Brook
Watershed Partnership is an all-volunteer watershed 501(c)3 nonprofit
working to protect the environment in the Lawrence Brook watershed
communities of South Brunswick, North Brunswick, East Brunswick,
Milltown, and New Brunswick, Middlesex County. The public is invited
to all public meetings and to participate in the important volunteer
work of watershed protection.
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