National Take Your Family to School Week at Merchantville School is February 18th - 21st. Each day, from Tuesday through Friday, an exciting opportunity to engage will be offered by the PTA and/or Merchantville School. Please join us for this fun week of events. Everybody loves Breakfast for Dinner! Join Merchantville School families on Tuesday, February 18th, for "Pancakes and Pajamas", sponsored by Amy's Omelette House. Wear something cozy, bring a board game, and enjoy. Enjoy classroom visitations on Wednesday, February 19th then, continue the family fun at Family Literacy Night hosted by the teachers, faculty and staff on Thursday evening, February 20th. Top off the week with "Spirit After Dark", a night of relay races, games and fun!

Congratulations! You and your family have made it more than halfway through the school year and it's time for a celebration. Merchantville a School celebrated the 100th day of school on Thursday, 2/13.  Students dressed as 100 year old people and wore 100 items on their shirts to show they are 100 days smarter. Many schools have started throwing 100 Days of School parties to mark the occasion, especially in kindergarten, when kids are learning how to count to 100. The day celebrates the number 100 with an art or math project showcasing the collection of 100 items. 

The Pennsauken HS Alumni Association we needs your help. They need basket donations for their Alumni "Let's Bowl for Scholarships" Night, Saturday, March 28th at Pinsetters. If you would like to donate, make a basket or volunteer to help get donations please email us at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.. It's going to be a great night with friends, family, baskets and 50/50 to raise money for scholarships. The event runs from 4:00-7:00 p.m. and includes shoes and 3 hours of bowling. Get your $13 tickets in advance through 3/14/20. After this date the ticket price will be $15.

Cafeterias and kitchens in county buildings will soon begin filling recycling containers instead of dumpsters thanks to a pilot program to lessen the environmental impact of facilities owned and operated by the county approved by the Freeholder Board. Proposals are currently being accepted to find a vendor who will collect food waste generated during meal preparation and transport it to local composting and food recycling sites. Mass production county kitchens produce thousands of pounds of food waste during preparation, however, potato skins, banana peels and other organic materials can be recycled and reused. The county is looking for a vendor to supply bins to store food waste then, collect and deliver it to sites where it can be reused as animal feed or recycled via composting or anaerobic digestion.

Minnesota just allocated nearly a million dollars in incentives for people to transform their lawns into bee-friendly wildflowers, clover and native grasses. The state is asking citizens to stop spraying herbicide, stop mowing so often, and let their lawns re-wild into a more natural state. The goal is to provide food sources for pollinators of all kinds, but will specifically aim at saving the rusty patched bumblebee, a fat and fuzzy species on the brink of extinction that seems to be making its final stand in the cities of the Upper Midwest. Citizens living in rusty patch bumblebee zones are eligible for grants up to $500, while people living in zones of secondary and tertiary importance to bees are eligible for $350 and $150 respectively.

Whether you live in a city, suburb, or on land in the country, this essential guide for the backyard homesteader by Kris Bordessa will help you achieve a homespun life–from starting your own garden and pickling the food you grow to pressing wildflowers, baking sourdough loaves, quilting, raising chickens, and creating your own natural cleaning supplies. In National Geographic's Attainable Sustainable's beautifully illustrated pages, makers will find an indispensable home reference for sustainability in the 21st century. This book will teach you how to nurture a healthy relationship with the natural world from growing some of your own food—even if you live in an apartment to embracing home food preservation, from canning to fermenting and pickling.

Extended hours for Valentine's Day continues through Saturday. Enjoy this featurette from FYI Philly. Aunt Charlotte's Candies was beyond excited to find out that it's also being featured nationally as part of ABC's Localish programming. WOW! Check it out and please share it with friends and neighbors.Aunt Charlotte’s Candies is filled with delicious candies, beautiful giftware, cuddly stuffed animals and much, more so come in and get a sweet treat for your special Valentine. Open Wednesday, 2/12 from 9:30 a.m. to 8:00 p.m., Thursday, 2/13 from 9:30 a.m. to 9:00 p.m. and Friday, 2/14 from 9:30 a.m. to 8:00 p.m.

You might need a spoon for Equilibrium’s MC2 now pouring at The Blue Monkey Tavern. Succulent juices and chewy hop resins make this an imperial IPA to drool for with its hazy tangerine color, releasing bright tropical notes of mango, pineapple, and apricot. This DIPA (Double IPA) has double the amount of hops, and more malt to counteract and is Equilibrium Brewery's tribute to the amazing relationship that energy and mass are balanced, proportional to the speed of a photon squared. Equilibrium Brewery, Middletown, NY combines research and inspiration to balance drinkability with massive flavor.

Congressman Norcross will host a Census Job Fair at Pennsauken Library on Friday, February 14th from 2:00-4:00 p.m. Every 10 years, the U.S. Census Bureau is responsible for conducting the nationwide census. The Census Bureau is recruiting to fill important temporary positions to help make the 2020 Census an accurate and complete count. Completing an accurate census supports funding for Medicaid, school lunch programs, community development grants, road and school construction and medical services. General Census FAQs.

For several years, the county has found a 21st-century way of getting around the seasonal barrier. It prepares and provides various plants and vegetables to nonprofits and county groups through the use of a hydroponics greenhouse that needs no soil, as well as a traditional greenhouse at its Lakeland Campus - allowing for heads of lettuce to be grown in as little as one month from plant to harvest, with the fastest batch growing in just 12 days. Through the Office of Sustainability, master gardeners and staff use advanced growing techniques to provide nonprofits and other organizations such as The Cathedral Kitchen and The Philadelphia Zoo lettuce, cherry tomatoes, herbs and more items throughout the year.