Clinton Township Newsletter

1 3 a u g u s t 2 0 1 9 g o o d n e w S h o m e f o r w o m e n ' S 1 6 t h a n n u a l h a r v e S t f e S t i v a l & c r a f t f a i r The Good News Home for Women will be holding its 16th Annual Harvest Festival & Craft Fair on Saturday, September 14 from 8:30 am - 4:30 pm on its spacious grounds located at 33 Bartles Corner Road in Flemington. The Harvest Festival will feature fun activities for the entire family including face painting, pony rides, music, games, prizes, vendor shopping and refreshments. Sparkee, the Somerset Patriots Baseball Team Mascot will be making a guest appearance. Officers from the Hunterdon County Sheriff's Office will also be present and making identification cards for children through their Child Ident- A-Kid Program. Below are some of the vendors attending the Harvest Festival: • CB Handcrafted Wire Jewelry • Color Street • Creative Crafts • Fun to Create, LLC • Jack's Knacks • Jewelscent • Leopard Print Slimes • Life in Crochet • Mary Kay • Paparazzi Accessories • Party Lite • Pink Moon Gifts for the Goddess • Scentsy • Sonya LaTorre Art • Touchstone Crystal by Swarovski • Valken Pens • Wagging Tails Delights • World Vision USA • Young Living Admission is free. All proceeds will benefit the Good News Home for Women, a short and long-term residential treatment center for women with chemical dependencies. We offer a holistic approach for healing the total women; mind, body and spirit, through a faith-based, comprehensive program without regard to race, religion or ability to pay. Your support will make a difference in the lives of the women we serve. Please visit our website at: www.GoodNewsHome.org for more information on our event and volunteer opportunities. We welcome you to join us for an afternoon of fun and unification of our community and we thank you in advance for your support! e x c i t i n g t h i n g S a r e h a p p e n i n g a t h u n t e r d o n c o u n t y p a r k S ! Join us on our Family Fun Scavenger Hunt to spend some quality time with loved ones. Families will work together to solve a series of nature riddles around Echo Hill Park. Each family will receive a map to guide them to clues that will lead to tokens. The first to collect all their tokens wins! Upon completion of the hunt, we will share what we have found and reward our winners. The event will take place on August 20 from 5:00 to 6:00 pm. Ages 4 and up (must be accompanied by adult). $3 per child, adult attends for free. Don't be scared… join us for an Evening Bat Walk to learn about these fascinating flying mammals, their importance in our communities, and the work being done to conserve them here in the Garden State. Bats may have a reputation for being spooky or fearsome, but they are some of the most amazing and beneficial animals to people! After a slideshow from NJ Division of Fish and Wildlife biologist MacKenzie Hall, we'll head outside to watch for bats over the fields and pond at nightfall with the help of an acoustic bat detector. Event will take place on August 21 from 7:00 to 9:00 pm at Echo Hill. Ages 8 through adult. $3 per person. Did you know that one brown bat can eat over 1,000 mosquito- sized insects in just one night? Learn a little bit about bats and also work to assemble bat boxes together at our Build A Bat House Workshop. Wood will be pre-cut and screws will be provided. Please bring your own Phillips screwdrivers. Limit one box per family. Event will take place on August 27 from 7:00 to 8:30pm at Echo Hill. Ages 8 through adult are welcomed. $40 per box. Registration for these programs is required and is first-come, first- served. For a registration form, download one from our website at: www. co.hunterdon.nj.us. Click on " Parks & Recreation." For more information call the Parks Division at: 908.782.1158. "Deep summer is when laziness finds respectability." ~ Sam Keen

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