Everything Planned This Weekend, Next Week In Woodbridge

WOODBRIDGE, NJ — Here's everything planned this weekend, Jan. 3, 4 and 5, in Woodbridge:

First, if you want to join a gym, Woodbridge's Community Center and The Club at Woodbridge have joiner fees waived all during January. Call The Club at 634-5000 or the Center at 596-4000 and stop in for a tour.

See Willie Nile at Avenel Performing Arts Center at 7:30 p.m. Saturday and Loudon Wainwright III playing Sunday at 3:00 p.m. For tickets call 732-314-0500 or email boxoffice@avenelarts.com.

On Friday night there will be a Youth Night New Year’s Party at the Acacia Center from 6:00 to 9:00 p.m. for Woodbridge middle school students with food, music and a photo booth. Registration required on Community Pass.

Saturday is a Preschool Open House at Kidsports at The Club at Woodbridge from 9:00 am to 1:00 p.m. for children 3-5 which also includes before care and after care. Saturday is also the Children’s Clothes Closet from 9:00 am to 1:00 pm at the First Presbyterian Church of Woodbridge.

On Tuesday, the Colonia Library has Crochet and Coloring at 6:00 p.m. and on Wednesday at 3:30 p.m. they have a Do-It-Yourself Book Snowflake class.

The Woodbridge Youth Leadership Council has a presentation called “Incorruptible Us” on Wednesday at the Acacia Center at 6:00 pm to spread awareness about the pitfalls of tobacco use among teens.

The Woodbridge Mobile Health Unit will be at the Fords Library Monday 10:00 am to Noon then the Colonia Library 1:00 to 3:00 pm, the Evergreen Senior Center Wednesday 10:00 am to 2:00 pm, the Woodbridge Community Center Thursday 10:00 am to 2:00 pm and outside Bob’s Discount Furniture at the Wegman’s strip mall Friday 10:00 am to 2:00 pm.

The Woodbridge Township Youth Services Division is collecting aluminum pop tab rings through Earth Day on April 22 and they can be dropped off at any Senior Center or Youth Center. The Division, along with our Health Department, is sponsoring an anti-vaping poster contest so contact youthservices@twp.woodbridge.nj.us for more details.

Also, Woodbridge's Martin Luther King Jr. ceremony will be held on Mon., Jan. 20, at 6:00 p.m. at the Acacia Center at 95 Port Reading Avenue and is sponsored by the Independent Club of Colonia and the Human Rights Commission with keynote speaker Reverend Neva Lawson of the First Baptist Church of Woodbridge.

Check out the Winter Reading Challenge that runs through the end of February at any of the four Woodbridge libraries.

And Woodbridge's Have-A-Heart Food Drive 214 challenge has started where businesses or individuals can bring 214 pounds of food or $214 to the Health Center, Community Center or Town Hall by February 14.