Clinton Township Newsletter

2 0 n o v e m b e r 2 0 2 3 W W W . C L I N T O N T W P N E W S L E T T E R . C O M Happy The Garden Club of Hunterdon Hills Wednesday, November 15 Lebanon Township Fire Department Banquet Hall, 528 West Hill Road, Glen Gardner, NJ 08826 The Garden Club of Hunterdon Hills invites anyone in the northern Hunterdon County area who shares an interest in gardening, horticulture, agriculture and conservation to join us!. GENERAL MEMBERSHIP MEETING 9:30 am: Coffee 10:00 am: Business Meeting 11:00 am: Program: HOLIDAY FLORAL DESIGN with Speaker: Chris Ondrak Owner of the Gilded Lily Florist in Flemington, Chris Ondrak has been designing with flowers for forty years. A member of the American Institute of Floral Design, he has designed for the Philadelphia Flower Show, Macy's Easter Show and presidential inaugurals. The program will present creative ideas for holiday floral decorations. FLORAL DESIGN: "Holiday Glow" – Wreath design composed of green plant material for surrounding a candle. Ribbon may be used but should not dominate the design. Enliven your holidays with many festive ideas for bringing flowers into your home. Floral design is open to all. All are welcome to attend! Meetings are held on the fourth Wednesday of every month from September through June with the exception of November and December. We contribute floral arrangements to many notable community services throughout the year. For specific information about our club, visit: www.GardenClubHunterdonHills.com or email us at: info@gardenclubhunterdonhills.com This November we visit with a fantasy icon who we hope will inspire little girls to look far beyond the glitter ~ and ~ we celebrate an iconic practice of service, which brings out the best in us. First of all, there is the currently ever-present BARBIE. While she had not yet been "born" while most of us were girls, she was a BIG presence in the lives of many of our daughters. And she continues with a mighty fury in the lives of our little grands. This blonde bombshell - a vision of perfection - hit the ground running as a fantasy dream queen and her wardrobe, car, house, kitchen, spa, and on and on and on, made for Holiday Wish List terror for many of us. And Mattel, knowing a good thing when they had it, came up with a boyfriend and places to go with him (the beach being a big one). However, Mattel's greatest stroke of genius within the Barbie realm was the inclusion in their repertoire, Barbies of all races and ethnicities and impairments and eccentricities. BRAVO to Mattel for that!! You'll see all of this come to life in a spectacular production directed by Greta Gerwig. She pulls out all the stops. (GG was the director of the latest cinematic version of Little Women, which we screened at WF a while ago. The updated vibe and the visual beauty of that film were memorable.) This time she has taken on another classic of sorts and reels us right into that pink and sparkly world. Brilliantly, the story reveals itself on two levels. One for our little granddaughters to ooh and ahh over and another for their mommies and grannies to say "yes! finally! thank you!". Its message of female empowerment comes through loud and clear for us big girls and is served subtly but definitively to our little ones. And that is what makes this movie very worthwhile. Barbie Luncheon, Thursday November 2, at noon. Dillon Library (2336 Lamington Rd, Bedminster, NJ 07921). Admission is $20. By our Luncheon on November 16, we'll be getting close to Thanksgiving and the start of yet another Holiday Season in the United States. As in times past, the holidays tend to make us look within, to assess our lives and hopefully to recognize with gratitude all the goodness that surrounds us. To that aim, WF dedicates our program of November 16 to VOLUNTEERISM, to those generous people who give freely of their time for the benefit of others. From within our own WF community and beyond, we have assembled a panel of volunteers who will share the story of their commitment to better our world by their sense of duty, to relate what volunteering means to them and what it has contributed to their own lives. It is sure to be an enriching and inspiring afternoon. Celebrating V o l u n t e e r i s m L u n c h e o n , T h u r s d a y November 16, at noon. Dillon Librar (2336 Lamington Rd, Bedminster, NJ 07921). Admission is $20. Happy November, Evelyn w o m E n ' S f o r u m : S h a r i n g w i S d o m For questions or to register for our programs please contact us at: womensforumusa@gmail.com "True forgiveness is when you can say, 'Thank you for the experience.' " ~ Oprah "Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for." ~ Epicurus h u n t E r S h E l p i n g t h E h u n g r y The Hunters Helping the Hungry Program (HHH) originally started to assist hunters who could harvest more deer than they could use personally. Over the years their mission has expanded: 1) HHH continues to pay butchering costs for hunters who are able to take more deer than they can use. 2) HHH supports various municipal/private property owners that pay for the butchering process directly while they attempt to reduce deer populations on their property. 3) HHH sets aside a portion of the Department of Agriculture grant(s) to support and pay for butchering of deer taken by farmers and their agents during depredation hunts. Through support from their friends at the NJ Farm Bureau working with the NJ Dept. of Agriculture, all of the efforts of HHH ultimately help the food bank system in New Jersey and those families less fortunate. HHH was developed by three hunters during the 1997-1998 hunting season to help provide needed protein for local food banks while addressing the overpopulation of deer in our community. Ten deer (approximately 500 pounds of venison) were donated that first season. State Federation of Sportsmen Clubs, United Bowhunters of NJ, with the support of the NJ Division of Fish and Wildlife and support of the NJ Health Department, have kept the initial efforts moving forward. Many individual hunting clubs also support this program. HHH is a non-profit 501-(c)3 organization. A small group of volunteers sit on the board of HHH and receive no compensation for their efforts. board members. Find out more at: www. HuntersHelpingTheHungry.org.

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