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Fair Helps “Green Up” Your Chatham NJ Home

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Green Fair Coming to Your Chatham HomeWhether you are already living a “green” lifestyle or want to learn more about ways you can be more eco-friendly, you’ll find a number of tips, tricks, and resources at The Green Fair of the Chathams this weekend!  On Saturday, September 22nd, you’ll find plenty to do, see, and learn for greening up your Chatham NJ home from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. at Reasoner Park, on Fairmount Avenue, and Railroad Plaza North.

Themed, “What You Can Do to Live a Greener Lifestyle,” the fair is set up as as how-to event to help all residents who live in Chatham NJ gain information.  If you feel your life is “too busy” to be green, this is definitely the place to go this weekend.  Fair organizers suggest walking or biking to the event, unless you live far enough away to take the train.

Several interesting events can help you to clear the clutter in your Chatham NJ home, when you attend the fair.  A community shredding/recycling project will be held and confidential documents can be micro-shredded anytime between 10 a.m. and 1 p.m. at the Railroad Plaza North.  Also, if you have a need to donate items from your home in Chatham NJ, you’ll find them put to good use at the Fair, as well.  Residents can donate “gently used” furniture and building materials to the Habitat for Humanity ReStore, at Railroad Plaza North, and used bicycles are welcome, too.  Used books can also be swapped at the event or donated to the Chatham Library, giving you more opportunities to build your community in your green efforts.

Even children enjoy the green experience found in the hour-long show provided by Rizzo’s Reptiles, at 11:30 a.m. However this event is open to any age and enjoyment will be had by all as a local community band plays, food booths are attended, and free filtered water (if you bring a water bottle) and yoga classes are by Powerflow Yoga (in the morning 9:30 a.m.).  Vendors and the nearby Farmers’ Market will have plenty to offer attendees, too.  This “green” day is sure to be great and will have you feeling better about you and your efforts toward helping the environment and will continue rain or shine.  Plan to attend!  You can also find out more about living a “green” lifestyle by visiting the Chatham Township Envitonmental Commission online.

 

Chatham NJ Home Owners Encouraged to Recycle

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Chatham NJ home owners recycleThe Chatham Borough is encouraging (or rather pleading) with residents who live in Chatham NJ to join in their newly launched recycling efforts. In a recycling challenge issued by SC Johnson Green Choices on July 1st, communities were asked to have residents register and check in weekly on their recycling habits. Chatham NJ home owners have from now until December 31st to gauge their progress and provide a change for Chatham to win a $100,000 community sustainability grant.  Help Chatham NJ win!

Register Your Chatham NJ Home Efforts

Click here to register and get started. Now is a fantastic time to start new habits as school is just beginning and schedules are being adjusted. In the coming weeks you are likely to see an increase in the amount of paper that you can recycle, too, as Chatham NJ teachers send reminders home with your students. That alone may give you cause to get a jump on recycling! You can also find even more ideas on recycling after registering on the Recyclebank website. Chatham NJ officials will be notified on January 15, 2013 if our recycling efforts place us as a Potential Community Winner and the official determination will be announced on March 1, 2013.

Live in Chatham NJ & Dine Out in Style

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Living along the Midtown Direct, we’re blessed that NYC is only 30 minutes away. We have choices to make when it comes to good food. We also have some incredible chefs moving in our direction. So keep your options open and find a place near where you live in Chatham NJ  where you can feel like it’s a celebration and be home in 5 minutes.

Like, maybe, Restaurant Serenade?

The atmosphere is sophisticated but not stuffy and inviting for cocktails or dinner at the bar.

The mood in Serenade is much like its name: romantic, relaxing, and worthy of a date for any occasion.

The food, the atmosphere, the service . It all the traces back to one thing: the chef.

Chef James Laird built his steady but popular restaurant on his interest in the culinary arts. As a graduate from the Culinary Institute of America, James left the US to increase his talent and experience in Europe, under the careful eyes of renowned chefs Georges Blanc and Alain Pic. And increase he did.

As a kitchen official of many different restaurants including Lespinasse, The River Cafй, and Aureole, he continued to fine-tune his talent, finally moving on to a sous-chef position at the highly acclaimed Ryland Inn in New Jersey. He’s left traces of his amazing talent wherever he’s been, From “Extraordinary” ratings (an equivalent of four stars) to descriptions of “soft and subtle love songs” (talking about his divine cuisine of course!). But he’s found his happiness in Serenade, a restaurant “among the Garden State’s most rewarding dining destinations.”

Where can I find this heavenly place? Glad you asked.

The  restaurant is located close by, if you live in Chatham NJ, and is worth the commute no matter where you live in New Jersey.

I am constantly searching to find and recommend places for my clients and welcome any reviews YOU may have coming from your  New Jersey home..

So, go on, make a reservation! Although it’s just one of many amazing dining experiences near your home in New Jersey, it is a special one.

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