Weehawken Recreation to hold baseball tryouts
Tryouts for the Cal Ripken League will take place on Saturday, March 5 and Saturday, March 12 at Daniel Webster School, 2700 Palisade Ave.
Minor League tryouts, ages 8 to 10 (players must be 8 years old by May 1, 2011 to be eligible), will be held from 1:30 p.m. to 3 p.m. and Major League tryouts, ages 10 to 12 (players must be 10 years old by May 1, 2011 to be eligible), will be held from 3 p.m. to 4:45 p.m.
For further information, please call the Recreation Dept at (201) 319-6061 or email at recreation@weehawken-nj.us.
Tryouts for the Babe Ruth League will take place on Sunday, March 6 and Sunday, March 13 at the Weehawken High School Gym from 2 p.m. to 3:30 pm for boys ages 13 to 15 (players must be 13 years old by May 1, 2011 and cannot turn 16 after May 1, 2011, to be eligible).
Tryouts for girls’ softball, ages 10-16, will take place on Sunday, March 6 and Sunday, March 13 at
Daniel Webster School, 2700 Palisade Ave.
Tryouts will be held for 10 & Under from 1 p.m. to 2:30 p.m., for 12 & Under from 2:30 p.m. to 4 p.m., and for 16 & Under from 4 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. Players must be the above ages by Dec. 31, 2010.
All players must wear sneakers and bring a baseball glove. Players must bring their birth certificate and proof of residency.
For further information, please call the Recreation Dept at 201-319-6061 or email at recreation@weehawken-nj.us.
Park United Methodist Church hosts benefit concert
Park United Methodist Church, 51 Clifton Terrace, will host a concert benefitting the medical missions of Archangel Airborne in Haiti on March 5 at 2 p.m. The concert will include original works by Archangel Airborne President and Founder Stuart Douglas Hirsch, guitar and vocals; Charu Suri, piano and organ; Matthew Minucci, trombone; and other musical guests.
Baked goods and refreshments will be available at intermission.
For more information and tickets, contact Archangel Airborne at www.archangelairborne.org or call Matthew Minucci at (646) 234-8484. Tickets will also be sold at the door. Suggested donation is $25.
Archangel Airborne is a not for profit 501(c)(3) organization of aviators, clinicians, and multidisciplinary specialists whose mission is to provide medical, logistical, and consultative support to areas in need of restabilization while honoring the cultural diversity and dignity of the people we serve.
CASA seeks community volunteers
Are you interested in helping children in the foster care system? Hudson County CASA is currently recruiting volunteers to advocate for the best interests of abused and neglected children. CASA works through trained community volunteers to ensure that needed services and assistance are made available to children while helping to move them toward safe and permanent homes.
CASA (Court Appointed Special Advocates) and its volunteers speak for children in court, serve as fact-finders for the judges, and safeguard the interests of the children while they are in the foster care system.
Information sessions regarding the program and the role of its volunteers will be held on Tuesday, March 8 from 6 pm. To 7 p.m. in Room No. 400 of the Hudson County Administration Building at 595 Newark Ave., Jersey City.
Hudson County has nearly 700 children in foster care. Most have been removed from their homes for abuse or neglect.
For further information, please call (201) 795-9855, e-mail mveenhof@hudsoncountycasa.org, or visit the website at www.hudsoncountycasa.org.
Correction
A caption that ran in several of our editions last week with a story about accreditation for the county’s psychiatric hospital inadvertently labeled a photo of Freeholder Doreen DiDomenico, who chairs the freeholders’ Health Committee, as County Health and Human Services Director Carol Ann Wilson.
NJ Blood Services seeks volunteers
NJ Blood Services, which supplies blood products and services to 60 hospitals throughout the state, is in need of volunteers to work blood drives. The blood service volunteer is an integral member of the collection team whose task it is assist donors with registration, escorting and canteen duties, and to watch for post donation reactions. Volunteers should have the ability to relate to the public, perform different jobs as needed, and have the willingness to follow the rules.
For additional information contact R. Jan Zepka, manager of Community Relations, at (732) 616-8741 or rzepka@nybloodcenter.org.
NJMC announces First-Sunday-of-the Month Walk
NJMC and BCAS will hold their First-Sunday-of-the-Month Walk free two-hour walk on Sunday, March 6 at 10 a.m. at Mill Creek Marsh in Secaucus. They’ll meet at Mill Creek Marsh at 10 a.m. (directions are on meadowblog.net in the left-hand column), or you can also meet them at the visitors’ parking lot at DeKorte Park in Lyndhurst by 9:30 a.m. and we can carpool. The walk is run by the New Jersey Meadowlands Commission and the Bergen County Audubon Society. Check meadowblog.net for last-minute weather updates. You will have to sign a standard liability release for this event. To RSPV, contact Don Torino of the BCAS at greatauk4@aol.com or (201) 636-4022.