Halfway To St. Patrick's Day Party Sunday In Woodbridge

WOODBRIDGE, NJ — The Woodbridge American Irish Association will host a Halfway to St. Patrick’s Day Woodbridge Community Appreciation Day party this Sunday.

This will be held from 1 - 5 p.m. Sunday in the Woodbridge American Irish Club pub at the back of the Acacia Center at 95 Port Reading Avenue. They will have a tricky tray that will benefit the CHOP intensive care unit in memory of Laney Grace Stoeckel.

This year, their event will honor youth leaders of Woodbridge Township. Honorees are:

Woodbridge Girl Scout Brownie & Junior Troops #85307: Aria Cortes, Bella Ferreira, Bria Muller, Catalina Herits, Gabriella Tobia, Bella Rodriguez, Lia Lombardi, Olivia Lombardi, Olivia Jaramillo, Sofia Saber, Victoria Almeida, Victoria Tobia & Victoria Yellin

Girl Scout Cadette Troop # 85302: Bella Jaramillo, Kenzie Saber, Myra Pachauri & Olivia Almeida. Leaders: Melissa Pugliese & Crystal Jaramillo

The Girl Scouts participated in the town-wide Park Clean up on Public Lands Day to help keep the community beautiful. Together, the girls made a much-needed food donation to St. Cecelia’s Food Pantry, via the St. Vincent DePaul Society. After learning of the great need for baby food donations, they collected and made donations of different baby food items to the Inspire Family Life Center. In the winter, the Scouts made greeting cards to send to a rehabilitation facility, sending thoughts of encouragement. The scouts collected monetary donations to purchase Girl Scout cookies, which were donated to the St. Cecelia's Church Food Bank and Ronald McDonald House. The girls also brought smiles to the families staying at the Ronald McDonald house in New Brunswick by creating thoughtful goodie bags for the children.

Girl Scout Troop # 83590, Current Troop Members: Alice Nolan-Musgrove, Penelope Tomlinson, Lacey Tomlinson, Valentina Pujols, Camila Pujols, Victoria Rivera, Olive Shahady, Avni Pure, Elena Mejias, A’myah Weeks, Ariel Weeks, Gianna Pisapia, Daniela Orlando, Ava Mentzel, Madelyn Carragino, Alina Hegde, Molly Travis. Leaders: Marley Nolan and Lisa Tomlinson.

Comprised of 18 girls in grades 3-6 from Woodbridge and Carteret, the girls attend schools in Woodbridge including Mawbey St. School, Ross St. School, Woodbridge Middle School and St. James School. The troop is focused primarily on outdoor activities and community service. Every year with cookie sales our troop sets aside 30% of our earnings to give back to the community. Our community service has included multiple food pantry donations, donations to the Woodbridge Animal Shelter, creating recycling posters, park clean-ups, planting flowers around the Covid memorial, and cleaning up and planting at the memorial honoring the victims of the 1979 drowning.

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Eagle Scout Troop 143 Alexa Broadwell (attending Kean, works at Olive Garden and also recently graduated the Auxilliary Police Academy).

Eagle Scout Troop 143 Elliot Rubin (going to trade school for HVAC)

Eagle Scout Troop 143 Sam Rubin (attending Middlesex College and working at Wegmans)

The American Irish Association of Woodbridge is a civic organization that meets monthly, sponsors the Justin McCarthy Scholarship, maintains the Charlie Shaughnessy Park, visits our Menlo Park Veterans Home, Tools Around Town, puts up handicap ramps, etc.