Clinton Township Newsletter

4 J u l y 2 0 1 4 www.ClintonTwpNewsletter.com Lic # 01587A 1262 Rt. 22 W Lebanon, NJ 08833 Phone (908) 236-6878 Fax (908) 236-7125 After Hrs. (908) 797-5091 www.clinton-autobody.com o r C h a d a S h J o i n S t o g e t h e r t o d o " t i k k u n o l a m " ( t h e w o r k o f r e p a i r i n g t h e w o r l d ) Nearly two-thousand years ago Rabbi Tarfon said: "You are not obligated to complete the work, but neither are you free to desist from it." (Pirke Avot) In May, more than 180 members and friends of Or Chadash joined to- gether to do "Tikkun Olam" (the work of repairing the world). "Mitzvah Day" is an annual event taking place at Or Chadash–a capstone event of Or Chadash's programmatic year. Chef Rachel Reuben of Food Fix Kitchen and winner of The Food Network's "Chopped" graciously donated her garage kitchen in Lebanon and her tremendous talents to Or Chadash as she guided us in the preparation of 48 meals for clients of Jewish Family Service of Somerset, Hunterdon and Warren Counties. The prepared meals included chicken soup, matzah balls, turkey meatloaf, mashed potatoes and mandelbrot. Jerry Starr, Executive Director of JFS said: "Thank you for helping to prepare meals for our neediest clients. These meals will be delivered to many of our seniors including some holocaust survivors who can use these healthy nutritious meals." Karen Monroy, CEO of Ability2Work said "Or Chadash's volunteers get an A+. The children and adults worked tirelessly to complete the tasks. We loved welcoming Or Chadash to Baker's Treat and look forward to many more opportunities to work together." Working in teams, fourteen children and adults spent Sunday morning at Baker's Treat in Flemington to organize a storage room and transplant seedlings to planting beds. Additionally, Or Chadash members created 25 looped potholders which were donated to Baker's Treat. The potholders will be used as thank you gifts for Baker's Treat donors. Outdoor and offsite Mitzvah Day activities included completing trail and trash maintenance on Or Chadash's northbound neighbor and our newly adopted Hunterdon County Parks trail --the Arboretum; providing landscape and general barn maintenance at a member's farm; participating in the Raritan Headwaters Association Stream Clean Up; and entertaining the residents of Rolling Hills Care Center, guided by Cantor Kathy Gohr's amazing guitar skills and our Or Chadash choir. Back at Or Chadash, activities included preparing peanut butter and jelly sandwich bags for Samaritan Homeless Interim Program (SHIP); collecting and delivering non-perishable items to the Clinton and Flemington Food Pantries; creating tie- dye napkins for a 60's summer picnic for the residents of Independence Manor; baking cookies for Hunterdon Youth Services on Sandhill Road, creating (de)stress balls for students; creating paracord survivor bracelets for "Operation Gratitude"; and general synagogue exterior maintenance, spreading mulch and trimming bushes and important interior maintenance including cleaning light fixtures and polishing the silver.Or Chadash also hosted a New Jersey Blood Center blood drive. For our youngest Mitzvah Day participants, using a story from the PJ Library collection, All About Me, by Molly Bang, we learned how we can repair the world using different parts of our body. After we read the story we created artwork for the residents of Independence Manor. Or Chadash is a member of The Big Tent, and the Union for Reform Judaism (urj.org) and is located at 149 Foothill Road, Flemington, NJ 08822. For more information, please visit us online at: www.orchadash-nj.org. "To the world you may be one person, But to one person you may be the world." – Anonymous" G od B less A m eri ca ! l o C a l r e a l t o r p u b l i S h e S n e w S l e t t e r o n r e a l e S t a t e m a r k e t C o n d i t i o n S Joe Peters' newsletter shows how long it is taking to sell a house in Clinton Township and other areas of Hunterdon County plus a breakdown by price point. There's also an update on the factors affecting our local real estate market. Read the full version at www.jpeters.com. If you're thinking about buying or selling a house in 2014, give Joe Peters a call at 908-238-0118. w e d n e S d a Y e v e n i n g v o l l e Y b a l l Community Volley Ball is being held again this year at Lebanon Reformed Church, 100 Brunswick Ave. in Lebanon Borough through Aug 27. We meet weekly on Wednesdays from 6:30-8:00 pm on the church lawn. All ages and abilities are welcome to play or watch. For information, contact Robin Giordano at: 908.399.5016. "I look forward to a great future for America – a future in which our country will match its military strength with our moral restraint, its wealth with our wisdom, its power with our purpose." – John F. Kennedy t r i n i t Y & f a r S i o u , l l C Trinity & Farsiou, LLC, a full service litigation law firm founded in Flemington, provides legal services throughout New Jersey with the vision to serve its clients with honest and efficient representation. Trinity & Farsiou, LLC specializes in the following areas: Personal Injury, Employment/Labor, New Jer- sey Anti-Bullying Act, Insurance Defense, Criminal Defense, Municipal Court, Consumer Protection and General Civil Litigation. At our law firm, we greatly value our client relationships. We are commited to providing expert services with compassion, and to building personal relationships with our clients. With over 33 years of combined legal experience, our hands-on attorneys, Joseph F. Trinity and Steven D. Farsiou are genuinely interested in helping our clients. In order to achieve the best possible resolution for your case, we are proactive in identifing and anticipating issues and always involve you in the decision-making process. We work diligently on your behalf from start to finish. Trinity & Farsiou, LLC, 47 Maple Avenue, Suite 7, Flemington, 908.824.7265. www.trinityandfarsiou.com.

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