Community Corner
South Orange is Celebrating, About Town
Getting ready to Celebrate South Orange -- plus wedding cakes, green grocery stores and a bit of nostalgia.
It’s pretty much all about Celebrate South Orange this week, as our fair village gears up for the biggest and splashiest bash of the year on Saturday, June 11.
On the schedule are games, music and dance, arts and crafts, the Sloan Street Market, a Sloppy Joe Eating Contest and a health fair (presumably where contest entrants should head directly after competing). The day will culminate in a festive and delicious community supper. Patch will be bringing you more details about specific events throughout the week.
An event this huge only succeeds when people pitch in. What will volunteering get you? A nifty T-shirt, an opportunity to win a super-fancy ISI Twist & Sparkle Beverage Carbonator from – and the chance to be right smack in the middle of all the action and fun. Visit here to sign up.
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In other news this week:
It’s sweet(er) dreams for this cake boss
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South Orange resident and cake baker extraordinaire Paula Tosonotti recently expanded her business, , to a larger space in Union.
“Now we have a light and spacious area dedicated to wedding cake and specialty design consultations, plus a space for small group classes on the art of cake decorating,” said Tosonotti. Future plans include children’s cake decorating birthday parties. Cake Fiction’s new location is 2709 Morris Avenue, on the corner with Liberty Avenue.
Some recent Cake Fiction creations include a Gaudí-inspired mosaic wedding cake for a party at , a Topsy Turvy cake for a bat mitzvah party at the , and a Craftsman Toolbox cake delivered to Soho in NYC.
Eden Marketplace takes a green step in the right direction
The store recently stopped sending out paper editions of their weekly circular. “We’ve taken a fresh look at what steps we could take to further our commitment to the environment and ways to be a greener,” says manager Bruce Walzcak. Shoppers can view the circular each week at www.edengourmet.com.
Those were the good old days
The will present a free screening of the 1956 film “The Eddy Duchin Story” on June 8 at 1 p.m. The movie tells the life story of the famous pianist and bandleader of the 1930s and ‘40s. For more info, visit www.youseemore.com/southorange.
