Children can learn about Impressionism this winter

Millstone Township Community Education is offering winter session classes in January and February.

Instructor Debra Stasiak, artist and certified teacher, will teach homeschoolers, ages 6-15, how to paint famous Impressionist masterpieces from Renoir: artist's son, Jean, drawing (Jan. 17), and Van Gogh: Wheat Field with Cypresses (Jan. 24). Classes are held from 10:30-12:30 p.m. at the Millstone Township Community Center, 465 Stagecoach Road, Clarksburg. The cost is $22 per each two-hour session.

Mrs. Stasiak will also introduce young artists, ages 4-5, to Impressionism. Acrylic paints will be used, so old clothes are needed. The cost for the class is $10. "Monet Water Lily Pond" on Jan. 24 and runs from 1-2 p.m.

For more information about these classes and other programs for adults and children being offered during the months of January and February, contact Barbara Schulze, Community Education, 732-446-6802 ext. 17 or schulzb@millstone.k12.nj.us.

Perimeter ads will offset

cost of Millstone map

The Millstone Township Open Space and Farmland Preservation Council is working with the Millstone Township Committee and its recreation commissioners to produce a Millstone Township street, open space and park map. The map will be mailed to all township households in March as part of the resident mailer. The map will include contact information for the municipal government, Board of Education, fire commissioners and other township organizations. In order to offset the costs of production, the council is selling ads that will go around the perimeter of the map. Any profit from the map will go directly to the township's open space fund. Information about advertising on the map is available from Kathy Naugle, the open space secretary, at k-naugle@millstone.nj.us, or (732) 446-4249 (ext. 103).

Local club to give tour

of The Garden In Winter

Master Gardener Walter Cullerton will give a tour of "The Garden In Winter" at the Jan. 11 meeting of the Allentown Garden Club. Cullerton, a member of the American Hosta Society and past president of the Conifer Society, will show how to see and appreciate the garden in a new way via a slide presentation.

The meeting will begin at 7 p.m. at the Allentown Methodist Church on Church Street (next to LaPiazza). The club meets the second Thursday of each month at the church. Beginners and experts alike from the surrounding area are invited to attend and welcome to join. For more information, contact president Jennifer Elder Brady at (609) 581-0462 or visit the club's Web site, www.allentowngardenclub.org.

Millstone Warriors to host 'Comedy Night'

The Millstone Warriors will host "Comedy Night" at the Clarksburg Inn on Jan. 20 at 7:30 p.m.

The night will feature two comedians, appetizers and a cash bar. The cost per person is $25 and proceeds will go to the Millstone Warriors. For more information call James Heely at (732) 333-4985.