Cranford Calendar

Nov
23
Mon
2020
Thanksgiving Food Drive for Cranford Family Care @ The MAX Challenge of Cranford
Nov 23 all-day

THE MAX Challenge of Cranford will be partnering with Cranford Family Care to assist their “Neighbors Helping Neighbors” initiative! We are excited to be accepting donations for our 2020 Food Drive 🥫 🏡
➡️ To schedule your drop off at our studio email [email protected] or text 9088385331
➡️ Drop-offs MUST be scheduled due to COVID-19 safety and capacity regulations.
➡️ From Wed Nov 12th – Friday, Nov 20th Cranford Cares is asking for donations of
🥞 Pancake mix
🍯 Condiments (ketchup, honey, mustard, mayo, etc)
🍽️ Children’s snacks🧃🍿 🥨 🍪
➡️ From Monday, November 23rd through Wed November 25th, we will be accepting
🥔🍠 Fresh potatoes
🍅🥑🥦🥬🥒🌶️🌽🥕 Fresh produce
All to donate to local families in need for Thanksgiving!

Cranford Community Thanksgiving Service – Cranford Clergy Council will honor Kathy Willis @ By Requests or Virtual Event
Nov 23 @ 7:00 pm
Cranford Community Thanksgiving Service - Cranford Clergy Council will honor Kathy Willis @ By Requests or Virtual Event

Cranford Community Thanksgiving Service

An Interfaith Service of Gratitude

St. Michael’s Church

Monday, November 23 at 7:00p.m.

The Cranford Clergy Council will honor Kathy Willis for her years of service as Director of Cranford Family Care

Due to COVID restrictions, the sanctuary can only hold 150 people. If you would like to attend, you must contact the Parish Office, at 908-276-0360, and leave a message with your name and phone number, or email the same to [email protected] for contact tracing purposes. When you arrive at the service on the 23rd, you must wear a face covering the entire time. You will give your name to the person at the table in the vestibule to check-in. The ushers will assist in seating you, keeping attendees at a proper social distance from one another.

In honor of Kathy’s service, please consider bringing nonperishable food pantry items as a donation to Cranford Family Care.

There will also be a donation box in the vestibule. A collection is always taken at this service to go towards the High School Senior Scholarship for Service.

We hope you can join us in celebrating Kathy’s gift of service to Cranford, as well as joining our friends and neighbors in giving thanks for all we share as a community.

For any questions, please contact Cindy Hannen at [email protected]

We will live stream the service on the

St. Michael Facebook Page

www.facebook.com/stmichaelcranford

Nov
24
Tue
2020
Thanksgiving Food Drive for Cranford Family Care @ The MAX Challenge of Cranford
Nov 24 all-day

THE MAX Challenge of Cranford will be partnering with Cranford Family Care to assist their “Neighbors Helping Neighbors” initiative! We are excited to be accepting donations for our 2020 Food Drive 🥫 🏡
➡️ To schedule your drop off at our studio email [email protected] or text 9088385331
➡️ Drop-offs MUST be scheduled due to COVID-19 safety and capacity regulations.
➡️ From Wed Nov 12th – Friday, Nov 20th Cranford Cares is asking for donations of
🥞 Pancake mix
🍯 Condiments (ketchup, honey, mustard, mayo, etc)
🍽️ Children’s snacks🧃🍿 🥨 🍪
➡️ From Monday, November 23rd through Wed November 25th, we will be accepting
🥔🍠 Fresh potatoes
🍅🥑🥦🥬🥒🌶️🌽🥕 Fresh produce
All to donate to local families in need for Thanksgiving!

Nov
25
Wed
2020
Thanksgiving Food Drive for Cranford Family Care @ The MAX Challenge of Cranford
Nov 25 all-day

THE MAX Challenge of Cranford will be partnering with Cranford Family Care to assist their “Neighbors Helping Neighbors” initiative! We are excited to be accepting donations for our 2020 Food Drive 🥫 🏡
➡️ To schedule your drop off at our studio email [email protected] or text 9088385331
➡️ Drop-offs MUST be scheduled due to COVID-19 safety and capacity regulations.
➡️ From Wed Nov 12th – Friday, Nov 20th Cranford Cares is asking for donations of
🥞 Pancake mix
🍯 Condiments (ketchup, honey, mustard, mayo, etc)
🍽️ Children’s snacks🧃🍿 🥨 🍪
➡️ From Monday, November 23rd through Wed November 25th, we will be accepting
🥔🍠 Fresh potatoes
🍅🥑🥦🥬🥒🌶️🌽🥕 Fresh produce
All to donate to local families in need for Thanksgiving!

Feb
6
Sat
2021
Drive-Thru Food Collection @ Cranford United Methodist Church
Feb 6 @ 10:00 am – 2:00 pm
Drive-Thru Food Collection @ Cranford United Methodist Church
We’re having another drive-thru food collection in the church’s parking lot. If you can spare some groceries, there are a lot of families in need out there. Put the food in your trunk, drive up, pop your trunk and volunteers will remove your grocery bags…no contact needed. Modeling generosity to our kids by helping other families in need is a win-win. If you’d like to volunteer, come join us at 10 am.
Responding to specific requests from Cranford Family Care and St. Joseph Social Services, we are asking for bags of non-perishable and also some fresh produce such as bags of apples, oranges, onions, and potatoes.
Mar
6
Sat
2021
Drive-Thru Food Collection @ Cranford United Methodist Church
Mar 6 @ 10:00 am – 2:00 pm
Drive-Thru Food Collection @ Cranford United Methodist Church
Join us for the next Drive-Thru Food Collection event from 10 am to 2 pm in the church’s parking lot, as the pandemic rages on and our neighbors are still struggling to keep food on the table.
Place your bags of non-perishable food in your trunk, drive up, pop your trunk and volunteers will remove them, no contact needed! Your food donations will be delivered to Cranford Family Care (https://www.facebook.com/CranfordFamilyCares), St. Joseph’s Social Services, and other local organizations serving families in need. Last month we delivered 8 vans loaded full to the brim!
Here are examples of especially needed items: Cooking oil, tuna, boxed milk, spices, salt, pepper, tea and coffee, sugar, flour, crackers, soup, cereal, canned vegetables, rice in 1-2 lb. packages (not large bags), cake mix and frosting, dish detergent, soap and paper goods.
There is also a special need for bags of fresh produce, for example, apples, onions, potatoes, sweet potatoes, ginger, garlic, celery, jicama, beets, and other hardy fresh produce.
Can’t make that date? There are bins placed outside the entrance to the church off of the parking lot where donations can be dropped at any time.
Mark your calendars for the next two food drives: April 10 and May 8. Same time, the same location.
Apr
10
Sat
2021
Cranford Town-Wide Garage Sale @ Cranford, NJ
Apr 10 @ 9:00 am – 4:00 pm

The Cranford Town-Wide Garage Sale is scheduled for Saturday, April 10, 2021, from 9 AM to 4 PM, rain or shine. All garage sale hosts are required to follow the current health guidelines regarding masks and social distancing.

All registered garage sale hosts will have their address and highlights of what they are selling included on the TOWN-WIDE GARAGE SALE participating homes list that will be published on Friday, April 9 on both our website and Facebook page. No names are included in the listing.

The registration fee is $25. All proceeds from this event go to Project Homes’s mission of helping families remain in the community by working through Cranford Family Care to distribute funds to those in need.

Online registration will be open until April 6, 2021. Mail-in registrations must be postmarked by April 2, 2021. A completed registration form and a $25 check made payable to Project Home of Cranford should be sent to P.O Box 724 Cranford NJ 07016.

https://www.projecthomeofcranford.org/2021-townwide-garage-sale

Drive-Thru Food Collection @ Cranford United Methodist Church
Apr 10 @ 10:00 am – 2:00 pm
Drive-Thru Food Collection @ Cranford United Methodist Church
Join us for the next Drive-Thru Food Collection event from 10 am to 2 pm in the church’s parking lot, as the pandemic rages on and our neighbors are still struggling to keep food on the table.
Place your bags of non-perishable food in your trunk, drive up, pop your trunk and volunteers will remove them, no contact needed! Your food donations will be delivered to Cranford Family Care (https://www.facebook.com/CranfordFamilyCares), St. Joseph’s Social Services, and other local organizations serving families in need. Last month we delivered 8 vans loaded full to the brim!
Here are examples of especially needed items: Cooking oil, tuna, boxed milk, spices, salt, pepper, tea and coffee, sugar, flour, crackers, soup, cereal, canned vegetables, rice in 1-2 lb. packages (not large bags), cake mix and frosting, dish detergent, soap and paper goods.
There is also a special need for bags of fresh produce, for example, apples, onions, potatoes, sweet potatoes, ginger, garlic, celery, jicama, beets, and other hardy fresh produce.
Can’t make that date? There are bins placed outside the entrance to the church off of the parking lot where donations can be dropped at any time.
Mark your calendars for the next two food drives: April 10 and May 8. Same time, the same location.
May
8
Sat
2021
Cranford Drive-Thru Food Collection @ Cranford United Methodist Church
May 8 @ 10:00 am – 2:00 pm
Cranford Drive-Thru Food Collection @ Cranford United Methodist Church

Cranford United Methodist Church will host its next Drive-Thru Food Collection event on Saturday, May 8th from 10 am to 2 pm in the church’s parking lot. Many of our neighbors are still struggling to keep food on the table.

Place your bags of non-perishable food in your trunk, drive up, pop your trunk and volunteers will remove them, no contact needed! Your food donations will be delivered to Cranford Family Care, St. Joseph’s Social Services, and other local organizations serving families in need.

The church’s parking lot is next to the Cranford Library, 201 Lincoln Ave East.

Here are examples of especially needed items: Cooking oil, tuna, boxed milk, spices, salt, pepper, tea and coffee, sugar, flour, crackers, soup, cereal, canned vegetables, rice (one or two pounds), cake mix, and frosting, dish detergent, soap and paper goods.

Also needed: fresh produce, for example, apples, onions, potatoes, and other hardy fresh produce.

Can’t make that date? There are bins placed outside the entrance to the church off of the parking lot where donations can be dropped any time, 24/7.

Last month, several vans full to the brim with food were delivered to Cranford Family Care and St. Joseph’s and we thank you for helping make it happen!

Please spread the word by letting your neighbors know about this event.

Drive-Thru Food Collection @ Cranford United Methodist Church
May 8 @ 10:00 am – 2:00 pm
Drive-Thru Food Collection @ Cranford United Methodist Church
Join us for the next Drive-Thru Food Collection event from 10 am to 2 pm in the church’s parking lot, as the pandemic rages on and our neighbors are still struggling to keep food on the table.
Place your bags of non-perishable food in your trunk, drive up, pop your trunk and volunteers will remove them, no contact needed! Your food donations will be delivered to Cranford Family Care (https://www.facebook.com/CranfordFamilyCares), St. Joseph’s Social Services, and other local organizations serving families in need. Last month we delivered 8 vans loaded full to the brim!
Here are examples of especially needed items: Cooking oil, tuna, boxed milk, spices, salt, pepper, tea and coffee, sugar, flour, crackers, soup, cereal, canned vegetables, rice in 1-2 lb. packages (not large bags), cake mix and frosting, dish detergent, soap and paper goods.
There is also a special need for bags of fresh produce, for example, apples, onions, potatoes, sweet potatoes, ginger, garlic, celery, jicama, beets, and other hardy fresh produce.
Can’t make that date? There are bins placed outside the entrance to the church off of the parking lot where donations can be dropped at any time.
Mark your calendars for the next two food drives: April 10 and May 8. Same time, the same location.
Apr
1
Sat
2023
Cranford Jaycees 2023 Free Easter Egg Hunt @ Orange Avenue School
Apr 1 @ 10:00 am – 10:30 am
Cranford Jaycees 2023 Free Easter Egg Hunt @ Orange Avenue School
Join us for our annual free Easter Egg Hunt on Saturday, April 1st at 10:00 am SHARP behind Orange Avenue School for children ages 0-12. There will be separate fields by age group.
This event is free courtesy of the Cranford Jaycees. Please bring non-perishable food items to donate to Cranford Family Care.
The Easter Bunny will make an appearance!
Apr
2
Sun
2023
Cranford Jaycees Pancake Breakfast @ Cranford VFW
Apr 2 @ 7:30 am – 12:00 pm
Cranford Jaycees Pancake Breakfast @ Cranford VFW
Our annual pancake breakfast is back at the Cranford VFW with eggs, sausage/bacon, coffee, juice, and of course pancakes (with optional chocolate chips). $10 for adults, $5 for kids, or $25 for a family. Get your tickets at the door.
The Easter Bunny will be there, along with face painting, a Guess the Jelly Bean contest, and, new for 2023, a photo booth. There’s also a raffle to win a Blackstone flat-top grill.
Proceeds benefit Cranford Family Care.