Help for Essex County Homeless Next Week

All-day event in Newark will provide homeless with information on social services

  Homeless residents in Essex County will get a helping hand next Wednesday at the sixth annual Project Homeless Connect Day, an one-stop, all-day event aimed at educating the less fortunate about social services and other programs available to them. Hot meals and free haircuts will be available to those who attend the event, which will be held at the Branch Brook Roller Skating Center at Clifton and Seventh avenues in Newark from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Health screenings, public assistance, as well as mental, emergency, educational, veterans and employment services will also be offered. The event is a collaboration between Essex County and more than than 50 faith- and community-based organizations. "On Jan. 25, our roller skating rink will be …

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Novel Concepts

Writer finishes novel in a month; Girl Scouts create birthday party bags for homeless children; Charter Review Committee seeks input

South Orange writer Deborah Gaines, who was featured in About Town earlier this month, has written the required 50,000 words in November to have finished the NaNoWriMo challenge of writing a novel in a month. And today she'll post the last chapter of her Young Adult Novel Air Born online. For the last month, she's pounded the computer keys and drafted the 21 chapters of her novel online as she goes, pre-edited, and sought feedback from readers – a brave writer, indeed! The novel's fan page on Facebook has nearly 250 fans from not only South Orange and Maplewood, but  from other states and as far away as Israel, Mexico, Colombia, New Zealand, Canada, Indonesia and Sri Lanka. And she only knows about 35 of those fans. "The Facebook page got …

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