Yes, it’s RFH reunion season.
RFH reunions always involve a lot of partying, gab festing and celebrating. After all, that’s what reunions are for, right?
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Scene Around: Fair Haven’s Rice Associates Honored by River Rats
Longtime Fair Haven-based, family-owned marine construction firm, Rice Associates, was recently recognized by River Rats, the borough’s 71-year-old non-profit educational sailing club, with what has been dubbed the Beacon of Light Award.
Grow with Grace: Get Cooking with Your Tomato Avalanche!
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Here’s the deal. if you have a garden, then I know you have tomatoes …and you know you have tomatoes. The question is: What do you do with all of them?
Retro RFHers’ Donovan’s Party Time
Photo/Lisa Mazurek D’Amato
Yes, it’s reunion season. It’s also this RFH Class of ’78 editor’s birthday season. Ahem. So, there’s no better time to take you back again to a hoot of a 25th for the RFH Class of ’78 at an iconic spot in its original little-shack- on-the-beach form — Donovan’s Reef.
Before Sandy, a “DO” at Donovan’s meant something entirely different for RFHers reuniting. Rather than a symbol of “We can do it. We can rebuild.” it was more like a simple “Let’s do the Donovan’s thing!”
Focus: A Night Out with Fair Haven’s Finest
As tradition of decades has had it across the country, last night was National Night Out.
Retro ‘Night Out’ Mayoral Dunkin’
Photo/Elaine Van Develde
Reprise … in honor of the best of National Night Out times …
Every year there’s a Fair Haven National Night Out. Tonight’s that night.
It’s a night, celebrated on the national level, designed to familiarize residents, from kids to seniors, with police and other emergency responders in town. That Night Out is always the first Tuesday in August. So, Tuesday it is in Fair Haven. There are plenty of Night Out memories to recall, but this featured one is a classic from 13 years ago.
There are games, demonstrations, looks at emergency equipment, food, smiles and handshakes — and a dunk tank.
Scene Around: River Rats Reunited; Sailing on in Mayor’s Cup
— Photo/River Rats
A little bit of sun shone through overcast skies when a couple of Fair Haven River Rats were reunited as youth sailors sailed through fair winds and choppy waters recently to participate in the longtime borough maritime tradition, the Mayor’s Cup.
Retro Sea Bright Beach Clubbing
Sometimes ya just have to go clubbing … in Sea Bright … before the age of 10.
After all, what good Rumson kid didn’t? Not many, if any. And back in the summer of ’69, little Claire Hurd was one who went clubbing … to Sea Bright Beach Club, of course, with the best of them. It was just the way Rumsonites rolled in the summer. Still do.
Grow with Grace: Squashed, ‘Bored’ and Herbal
Welcome back to Grow with Grace!
As your garden starts to hit its stride, tomatoes are beginning to ripen, cucumbers are coming in, peppers are producing, and if you planted zucchini, your kitchen is probably starting to fill up. Midseason is when the garden really begins to reward us—but it’s also when some of its biggest challenges start to appear. Let’s dig in!
Scene Around: Honoring a Fair Haven Heartstring Anchor
Familiar face. Familiar place. Sometimes that familiar face is an anchor to a place many call home. Call it a heartstring tug-and-hold.
Old News: ‘Damn Yankees’ of RFH Summer Theatrics
Leave Lola and the devil out of it. Whatever RFHers want, RFHers get …
And, back in the summer of ’75, they wanted summer stock theater. And they got it — a brutally fun load of it crammed into five dramatic dancing, singing, acting weeks among RFHers.
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Scene Around: Punk Rocking and Book Talking with RFH Alum Rossi
The punk rockin’ Rumson-raised chef and author known as Rossi came back home again to Jersey talk and joke about her latest memoir The Punk Rock Queen of the Jews.
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