Cashing in
     Millstone Elementary School teachers Jennifer McPartland and Meghan Olah accept a $3,105 grant from the Millstone Township Foundation for Educational Excellence during a recent Board of Education meeting.
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Millstone Elks Lodge has fish on menu for Dec. 5
     The Millstone Elks Lodge 2613 sponsors Friday night charity dinners. The dinners are served from 6-8 p.m.
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Local choir to perform benefit concerts
     The Community Christian Choirs will perform four concerts titled "Where Is the Child?," a celebration of contemporary Christian holiday music.
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‘Conference for the Jewish Woman’ Dec. 14
     The second annual "Conference for the Jewish Woman" will be held Dec. 14 at the Ramada Conference Center in East Windsor. The event will include lectures and discussions on relationships, nutrition, parenting, feminism and other topics.
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Holiday workshops on tap
     
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Optimists honor CentraState volunteers
     In a ceremony held recently at Applewood Estates in Freehold Township, the Noontime Optimist Club of Freehold honored the 75 CentraState Healthcare student volunteers and their director, Joan Nealon, with a proclamation from Freehold Township declaring Youth Appreciation Week.
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Tree lighting, caroling, slated in Allentown
     The holiday committees are in full swing for the Women
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School seeks pet food, supplies for shelter
     The seventh annual "SPCA Holiday Drive" sponsored by the Monmouth County Vocational School, Freehold Township, is under way.
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     CHRIS KELLY staff Matt Bonder sings with False Awakening at a remembrance concert, sponsored by Friends of John Petrella, at Black Bear Lake Camp in Millstone Nov. 29.
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Holiday Gift Shop
Dec. 6 at local school
     The Millstone PTO Holiday Gift Shop will be held in the Elementary School this year on Saturday, Dec. 6, next to the cafetorium. The Holiday Gift Shop will be open from 10 a.m.
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Event to raise funds for Petrella scholarship
     An event to benefit the Scholarship Fund for Struggling Students is planned. The scholarship was established in memory of John W. Petrella Jr., an Allentown High School student who died last month.
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Monmouth sheriff makes free gunlocks available
     Monmouth County Sheriff Joseph Oxley has created an online reservation list for registered gun owners who are interested in acquiring free gunlocks.
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‘Operation Sleighbells’ now under way
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Auditions
     N.J. Repertory Theatre, North Brunswick, will hold auditions for ages 7-12 for "You
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Come together...
     PHOTOS BY CHRIS KELLY staff Solo artist Amy Lydenmalkoff (top) and Sean Graney of False Awakening (bottom) performed at a concert, sponsored by Friends of John Petrella, in Millstone Saturday.
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Allentown resident wins in holiday contest
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Salvation Army launches online giving programs
     The Salvation Army, Union, has announced two new on-line giving programs available on its Web site, www.salvationarmynewjersey.org. "Angel Giving Tree" and "Ring2Help" will allow residents to support the less fortunate during the holiday season.
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Pilgrim program
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Poster, bumper sticker contests on ‘Living Soil’
     "The Living Soil" is the theme of the 2004 Conservation Poster and Bumper Sticker contests. The contests are open to students from Monmouth and Middlesex counties.
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     GLORIA STRAVELLI Shanelle Booz of Asbury Park works on a career assessment test during an orientation session at the Brookdale Community College Learning Center, Long Branch.
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