In Town
Plainsboro Recreation offers summer camps and clinics including the Lenape Trailblazers Day Camp, programs with the park ranger for young outdoor explorers, teen adventure camp, and police youth academy. Sports clinics include one-week programs in basketball, soccer, football, softball, cross-training, and agility. Visit www.plainsboronj.com or call 609-799-0909.
Friends of West Windsor Library seek donations of new and gently-used books, CDs, DVDs, audiobooks, and videotapes, for the annual sale beginning Tuesday, April 26. Tax receipts are available. Bring donations to the librarians at 33 North Post Road, West Windsor. Call 609-799-0462 for information.
Friends of West Windsor Open Space family membership dues are $25 to $75. Send to FOWWOS, Box 73, West Windsor 08550.
Call for Entries
The Princeton Festival is holding a contest in conjunction with the summer production of “Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street” to find the best meat pie recipe. Entries must be postmarked by April 10. Three recipes will be chosen to be prepared at Communiversity on Saturday, April 23. Send recipes to Meat Pie Contest, the Princeton Festival, Box 2063, Princeton 08543. For information and specific entry criteria, please visit www.princetonfestival.org or call 800-595-4849.
Trenton’s Gallery 125 seeks submission in all media for its summer exhibit. Submitted work must be available for show and sale. Send a $10 check for up to five visuals (slides or CDs only) labeled with the title, media, dimensions, and date of work to Gallery 125, 125 South Warren Street, Trenton 08608. Deadline for submissions is May 3. Visit www.gallery125.com or call Nancy Hunter at 609-989-9119.
Donate Wireless
Verizon Wireless accepts no-longer used wireless phones and equipment for its Hopeline phone recycling program. Proceeds from the sale of equipment go to non-profit agencies and to purchase wireless phones for victims of domestic violence. Visit www.verizonwireless.com/hopeline.
Free CPR Classes
The American Heart Association offers free CPR training throughout New Jersey during the week of April 8 to 16. The classes are for laypersons to learn the basic lifesaving skills of adult cardiopulmonary resuscitation. Call 877-AHA-4CPR for location and to register.
Classes are also available through Princeton HealthCare System. Visit www.princetonhcs.org or call 609-497-4119.
For Kids
Maidenhead Studio announces summer painting, sculpting, and mask-making classes for children in kindergarten through sixth grade. The studio is at 11 Gordon Avenue, Lawrenceville. Call 609-896-2200.
Raritan Valley Community College is accepting applications for the Galileo Scholarship for the fall semester. Deadline is May 15. Open to new and current students, awards are granted to those interested in majoring in science, math, engineering, and technology. E-mail galileo@raritanval.edu or call 908-526-1200, ext. 8273.
Auditions
Yardley Players seeks men, women, and child actors for “Annie Get Your Gun.” Auditions are at Kelsey Theater, Mercer County College, Old Trenton Road, West Windsor, on Saturday and Sunday, April 16 and 17, noon to 5 p.m. Performances are July 21 to 30 at Washington Crossing Open Air Theater. Visit www.yardleyplayers.org and call Marge Swider at 215-968-1904 for audition appointment.
Count Basie Theater’s Youth Jazz Orchestra has auditions for musicians ages 12 to 18 on Saturday, April 2, at noon. The eight-week Saturday program featuring jazz music theory, improvisation, and big bad work, is $250 to $700. Visit www.countbasietheatre.org or call 732-842-9000.
Available
Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital offers a new support group for women who have survived a heart attack or other cardiac diagnosis. Meetings are first and third Thursday at 6 p.m. in New Brunswick. Call 732-253-3115 for information.
Volunteer
Crisis Ministry of Princeton and Trenton seeks teams of walkers for “Footprints,” the organization’s first walk-a-thon to fight hunger and homeless in Mercer County. The event kicks off in Kingston on Saturday, April 9, 9 a.m. rain or shine. For information visit www.thecrisisministry.org.
Middlesex County Public Health Department seeks residents to volunteer on Wednesday, April 6, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. to participate as simulated casualties in an international readiness exercise coordinated by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. Call 732-745-3100.
Scholarships
New Jersey Vietnam Veterans’ Memorial Foundation Scholarship offers two $2,”500 scholarships to graduating seniors who plan to further their education either at a college, university, trade, or technical school. For information visit www.njvvmf.org.
Nominations for Arts
Somerset County Cultural and Heritage Commission seeks nominations for the 2005 Excellence in the Arts Awards, honoring individuals and organization in fine and performing arts in Somerset County. Visit www.co.somerset.nj.us or call 908-231-7110 for information.
Sports
Garden State Baseball League seeks college teams and individuals to compete in competitive travel wood bat league. Coaches and instructors are also needed. High school ballplayers and teams for tournaments also needed. All levels accepted. Visit www.gardenstatebaseball.com or call 732-382-4610 for information.
For Seniors
55 Plus offers a trip to Steinway & Songs Piano Company and Museum of the Moving Image on Tuesday, May 24. A bus departs from the Princeton Jewish Center at 7 a.m. Lunch included. Cost is about $65. Call 609-737-2001.
