Friends of Linden Animal Shelter Announces:

Adopt-A-Cat-Month

Adopt a cat

this June

June is Adopt-A-Cat Month, the time of year when shelters around the country are inundated with litters of kittens in desperate need of loving homes.

Cats are great pets and have a lot of positive affects on humans. According to The Berlin Longevity Institute, cats can add as much as 10 years to their owners’ lives.†Picking up a cat has a nearly instantaneous calming effect on humans, causing blood pressure to drop and the heart rate to slow.

The estimated population of homeless cats in the United States (70 million) is almost equal to the number of owned cats (75 million).†Throughout the spring and summer, animal shelters across the country are full with kittens. Tragically, about 71 percent of these animals will be euthanized because there are not enough loving homes.

Improve your life with a cat’s companionship, and combat the tragedy of overpopulation! Visit your local animal shelter to adopt a cat in June or any time of year that works best for you.

Friends of Linden Animal Shelter is an all volunteer, non-profit, no-kill animal rescue. For more information, please call (908) 474-8450, or e-mail us at FOLAShelter@aol.com or visit us on the web at http://www.linden.petfinder.org.


Beth Ahm wraps in burkas

Arthur Petrosemolo visited children at Temple Beth Ahm Preschool June 1 to tell them about his trip to Afghanistan last year to assist Steve McCurry. They took pictures and worked with children for the charity Imagine Asia, which helps provide school supplies and basic needs to children in rural Asian communities. Beth Ahm school children contribute tzedakah money every Friday when they celebrate Shabbat in the classroom. The children collected $236 for Imagine Asia. In February, they raised $50 for purchasing trees in Israel.

Arthur Petrosemolo demonstrates for the Temple Beth Ahm Preschool how the people of Afghanistan wear a burka for protection from the sand.

The children of Temple Beth Ahm Preschool collected tzedakah to help children in rural Asian communities. Here, they present Arthur Petrosemolo, who came to tell them about the Afghanistans, with a check for the charity Imagine Asia.


Perfect day for golf and tennis

On May 21, the JCC of Central New Jersey continued its tradition of springtime fun in the sun by hosting its 12th annual Golf and Tennis Outing. The event raised more than $28,000 for numerous JCC programs and scholarships.

The Golf and Tennis Outing was chaired by Barry Friedman, Sandra Kenoff, Marc Klurman, Jeff Mayerson , Robin Plattman, Craig Ratner, Gary Riveles, and Brian Shlissel. The board of trustees liaison was Scott Lazar.

Participating this year were 85 golfers and 15 tennis players. After the day’s sporting activities were concluded, 110 guests attended a lavish dinner. Golfing and the dinner were held at the Shackamaxon Country Club in Scotch Plains; the tennis games were held at Kramer Manor Courts in Scotch Plains. The JCC of Central New Jersey is located at 1391 Martine Avenue in Scotch Plains . The JCC of Central NJ is a constituent agency of the United Way and the Jewish Federation of Central NJ. Financial assistance is available for membership and various programs.

East Brunswick kids

in documentary

"We Are Your Voice," the culmination of a special oral history project in which East Brunswick public school students talked with survivors of the Holocaust, will be telecast on EBTV throughout June and July. Showings of the 36-minute film are scheduled for Tuesdays at 10 a.m. and Thursdays at 9 p.m. The documentary was part of a program aimed at teaching students about the consequences of bigotry and hatred. The project was funded by a grant from the East Brunswick Education Foundation.

One hundred and sixty students from Susan Pomerantz and Stephanie Margolies’ gifted and talented classes at Hammarskjold Middle School, along with 16 juniors and seniors in Niel Olufsen’s advanced video production class at East Brunswick High School, worked together on the project in May of 2005. The younger pupils interviewed eight survivors at length to learn their personal stories of horror, hope, and survival against overwhelming odds in the concentration camps. The high school students were given 75 hours of tape, which took them nearly two years to edit.

EBTV can be seen by East Brunswick subscribers to Comcast Cable on Channel 3. The municipal access television station is a department of the East Brunswick Public Library. For more information about EBTV, please call (732) 390-6780 or log on to www.ebpl.org/ebtv. To learn more about the oral history project, please contact the schools’ Community Relations Office at (732) 613-6706.