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A Community Bulletin

The Princeton Community Democratic Organization will host an open mic presidential primary discussion and straw poll on December 9, at 7:30 p.m., at the Suzanne Patterson Senior Center, located behind Princeton Borough Hall at the intersection of Route 206 and Nassau Street. Audience members will be given the floor for up to two minutes each to discuss their choice for president. PCDO membership is not required to take part in the event. Those interested in speaking should sign up at the beginning of the meeting and will speak in a rotating order according to which candidate they support with campaign representatives speaking first. The straw poll ballot box will close after the last speaker finishes. An official PCDO endorsement vote will take place at the group’s annual membership meeting in January. Refreshments will be served. For more information, go to www.princetondems.org.

The Rotary Club of Princeton will host a fund-raiser Monday, December 10, from 5 to 7 p.m. at the Nassau Inn that will support the club’s literacy program, which goes to benefit Princeton schools. The event, which will take place at the Nassau Inn’s Prince William Ballroom, will take the appearance of a Swedish Lucia celebration, a medieval festival where winter darkness is brightened by Saint Lucia, the Queen of Light. Students from the Swedish School of New Jersey will perform and sing traditional holiday songs in Swedish. Swedish fare will also be served. Tickets are $25 each and can be purchased at Charles Schwab at 132 Nassau Street. For information, visit www.princetonrotary.org.

The Princeton Gentlemen’s Society Foundation donated $1,000 to the Princeton Recreation Department for a proposed skateboard park in Princeton Township. The Foundation’s Vice-President and Director, Thomas Zucosky of Princeton, who is also a member of the Recreation Department’s joint board, arranged for the grant with Recreation Department executive director Jack Roberts. The foundation, a tax-exempt non-profit, makes grants to Princeton area organizations supporting youth sports and elderly residents. (LA)

Several members of US 1 Poets’ Cooperative have been nominated for Pushcart Awards for work in this year’s issue of US 1 Worksheets (volume 52). The poets are Rachel Bunting for her poem “Carnival,” Taylor Graham for “A Winter Too Many,” Jean Hollander, for “To my brother,” Carolina Morales for “In the city where I lived,” Jill Stein for “Siblings,” and Elaine Terranova for “Dialogues of the Carmelites.” Volume 53 of US 1 Worksheets will be published in March.

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