Middlesex County Vocational And Technical Schools Students To Help With Annual Winter Coat Drive

Winter coats for the homeless will be collected Dec. 29 to Jan. 5 in East Brunswick and New Brunswick, and Middlesex County Vocational and Technical Schools students are ready to clean them for distribution.

The annual Winter Coat Drive is being sponsored by East Brunswick Township, the East Brunswick Department of Recreation, Parks and Community Services, Integrated Medical Services, the Anshe Emeth Memorial Temple Youth Group and the School of Career Development on the MCVTS East Brunswick Campus.

Dry-cleaning students in the School of Career Development will prepare the coats, which will be delivered to homeless men and women on the streets of New York City on Jan. 18. The dry-cleaning will be supervised by teacher Thomas Grimaldi.

New or like-new winter coats – excluding leather and suede coats – may be dropped off at the following locations:

• East Brunswick Municipal Building, 1 Jean Walling Civic Center Drive, weekdays from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.

• East Brunswick Recreation, Parks and Community Services: 334 Dunhams Corner Road, weekdays from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m.

• Alternative Integrated Medical Services (AIMS Clinic): 150-A Tices Lane, East Brunswick, from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday, and from 9 a.m. to noon on Saturday.

• Anshe Emeth Memorial Temple: 222 Livingston Ave., New Brunswick, from 9 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. weekdays.

All of the sites will be closed on Jan. 1, and the municipal offices also will be closed on Jan. 2.

For more information, contact Shari Levy of the AIMS Clinic at (732) 238-2944.