The Week Ahead: Water Flushing, Wizard of Oz, Common Council Meets

Summit Patch gives you a look at news and events in the week ahead. For more events, be sure to check our calendar and feel free to add your own.

Monday

• NJ American Water has scheduled water flushing in Summit today through March 30th. Click here for more information.
• The middle school's 8th grade baseball team begins practice today on Wilson Field from 3:30 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.
• The Summit High School Wind Ensemble Festival start today through Thursday.
• Mayor Ellen Dickson will receive the Woman of the Year Award tonight at at dinner sponsored by the Summit Business and Professional Women (BPW) organization.
• Summit Taxpayers Association meets in Room 118 of the Summit Middle School at 7:30pm. On the agenda is a comparitive look at 2012 city and school board tax rates. RSVP to Ed Vant if you plan to attend: edvantjr@aol.com.
• Summit Zoning Board meets to discuss variances on a swimming pool, patio and shed construction on a Madison Avenue property. The meeting takes place at 7:30 p.m. in City Hall.
• Summit Environmental Commission meets at 8p.m. in the Large Conference Room at City Hall.

Tuesday

• The Summit Common Council meets at 7:30 p.m. A resolution for a $30,000 Animal Control Services contract is on the agenda.

Wednesday

• Summit Housing Authority meets in the Janet Whitman Room at 7p.m.

Thursday

• Tying the Communities Together - Chamber Annual Serivce Awards Dinner 6:00 PM - 9:30 PMRegister Online 

President’s Award—The Honorable Jordan Glatt, Former Mayor of Summit

Public Service Award—The Honorable Jon Bramnick, Assemblyman

Public Service Organization—The Summit Area YMCA

Silver Service Award—Karen Olson, Family Promise 

Dinner takes place at the Grand Summit Hotel. Reception - 6 p.m. Dinner 7p.m. Contact Joe Steiner for tickets price and more information 522-1700. 

• Body & Psyche in Modern and Contemporary Art at the Visual Arts Center from 7:30p.m.-9p.m. is the next in the center's Thursday Salon Series. 

Presented by Anne Swartz, Professor of Art History, Savannah College of Art and DesignMuch of Modernist art centered on the re-definition of the body in space, both in its representation and in the ways that artists like Duchamp, Bourgeois, Pollock and Gorky produced art. Anne Swartz will address the transparency of the process and its relationship to the artist’s body via the work of several 20th century artists who explored their autobiographies in their art.Free to the public, seating is limited and reservations are required. Please call (908) 273-9121 or reserve online: http://www.artcenternj.org/Learn/Lectures---Special-Programs/Salon-Series.aspx 

Friday

• The Wizard of Oz student musical debuts Summit middle school on Friday  at 7:30 p.m. with shows Saturday and Sunday at 2 p.m.