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Essex County blood drives

New Jersey Blood Services, a division of New York Blood Center, will conduct the following blood drives in Essex Coun-

Events

ty: Friday, Jan. 27, from 1 to 7 p.m. at the First Congregational Church, 40 S. Fullerton Ave. in Montclair; Monday, Jan. 30, from 1 to 7 p.m. at the Knights of Colum- bus 2346, 150 Chestnut St. in Nutley; Sunday, Feb. 5, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Maplewood Civic House, 124 Dunnell Road in Maplewood; Thursday, Feb. 9, from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. at Rutgers Law School’s Center for Law & Justice, 123 Washington St. in Newark; Tuesday, Feb. 14, from 1:30 to 7:30 p.m. at Notre Dame Church, 359 Central Ave. in North Caldwell; and Monday, Feb. 20, from noon to 6 p.m. at the NJIT Campus Center, 150 Bleeker St. in Newark. To donate blood or for information on how to organize a blood drive, visit nybloodcenter.org.

NIAA grand marshal dinner

Nutley Irish American Association will hold its Grand Marshal Dinner on Saturday, Feb. 4, from 7 p.m. to midnight at the Brownstone, 351 W. Broadway in Paterson. For more information as the date approaches, visit nutleyirish.com.

St. Patrick’s Day Parade

ALL BETTER, TEDDY — Newark’s 29th annual Three Kings Day Celebration was held Jan. 6 at the Essex County College Gymnasium. The event was hosted by state Sen. M. Teresa Ruiz, Mayor Ras J. Baraka and the Newark Municipal Council. At the event, Clara Maass Medical Center in Belleville hosted a teddy bear clinic to help children get more comfortable for their next doctor’s office visit, in addition to providing health information for parents.

The Nutley St. Patrick’s Day Parade will be held Saturday, March 4, with Mass first at 10 a.m. at St. Mary’s Church, 17 Monsignor Owens Place in Nutley. The parade steps off at 1 p.m. at Holy Family Church, 28 Brookline Ave. in Nutley.

A post-parade party will run from 3 to 7 p.m. at Nutley Parks & Recreation, 44 Park Ave. in Nutley.