December 2020
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Fire Company Volunteers Offer New Holiday Fundraiser
Ho ho ho! Santa Claus is coming to town.
The North Branch Volunteer Fire Company will be launching a fundraiser named Operation Santa this month. The fire company has teamed up with Santa Claus to go around the North Branch section of town and deliver gifts to children as a way to raise funds for NBVFC. For $50 per household, Santa will come to your house, escorted by North Branch firefighters, on a firetruck with lights and sirens. Santa will deliver a gift directly to your front porch for your children and stick around for pictures.
Poster Contest Marks Branchburg’s 175th Birthday
To register, you can email santa@nbvfc.org and receive a registration form. Once you’ve selected a date, you’ll need to wrap a present and drop it off at the firehouse to be delivered to your children. The deliveries will take place during the full month of December. You must live in the North Branch section of town in order to participate in this fundraiser. COVID-19 suggestions and directives will be accommodated. Please note that this will not replace the existing fundraiser where the fire company takes Santa down every street. That fundraiser will take place over the weekends of Dec.
11 and 18. Follow @NBVFC49 on Facebook for updates. NBVFC serves the residents of Branchburg and Bridgewater Townships. With 50 active volunteers, the company responds to over 700 calls per year providing 100% volunteer fire protection. Fundraising efforts like this one are always genuinely appreciated to ensure your local fire company continues to operate at the highest and most effective level possible to protect your families and property. —Submitted by Tom McCartney, President, North Branch Volunteer Fire Company
Branchburg Rotary, in coopera-
tion with the Rotaries in Somerville and Bound Brook, ran the largest Rotary Food Drive ever in Somerset County on Oct. 24. Forty three volunteers staffed donation sites at the ShopRites in Branchburg, Bound Brook, Somerville and Hillsborough. The citizens of those towns showed their generosity by donating more than 22,000 pounds of food for the Somerset County Food Bank Network. Pictured are Branchburg Rotarians. - Submitted by Kathy Feigley
VAN DOREN
Poster Contest winners, from left, are Katie Updegrove, Shreya Patro, Adriana Widomski, and Joseph Keck. In the background are Greg Bonin, Township Administrator, and Township Committee members Brendon Beatrice, Mayor Tom Young, and James Schworn.
By Bernard Rosario Branchburg Township Communications Committee The Branchburg Township Communications Committee sponsored a contest for the best poster to commemorate Branchburg’s 175th Birthday, which fell on April 5 of this year. Branchburg students grades 3-5, 6-8 and 9-12
were asked to create original artwork in the form of poster drawings that depicted their view of how this milestone inspires them. Congratulations to the winners of the Communications Committee’s 175th Birthday Art Competition, and thank you to all the students who participated and to the Branchburg School District for
supporting the effort. The following students were recognized at the Oct. 26 Township Committee Meeting: Grand Prize - Katie Updegrove; 1st Place - Joseph Keck; 2nd Place Shreya Patro; 3rd Place - Adriana Widomski.
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