Delayed a week by weather, volunteer firefighters put on Red Banks annual Fire Prevention Fair in the White Street Parking lot Sunday to educate the community about the importance of fire safety. In light of Fire Prevention Week, the event featured drop-and-roll exercises, above, a fire hose display for kids, informational handouts and free food. And oh, the ever-popular stove-fire extinguishment, below. (Photos by Rebecca Desfosse. Click to enlarge)
More than 150 kids showed up at the Community YMCA in Red Bank Saturday for ‘Kids in the Kitchen,’ a health fair that featured games and activities, including hula-hooping, above, and instruction on how to grow herbs and vegetables, right. The Junior League of Monmouth County participated. (Click to enlarge)
The Fair Haven Firemen’s Fair continues for three more nights, and the weather forecast is pretty smactacular for the run.
redbankgreen reporter Stacie Fanelli was there for opening night last Friday to capture the swirl of colors and delights. Here’s a selection of her pix.
Enjoy the Labor Day weekend, all!
A 1940 GMC/Sealand firetruck, formerly owned by the Fair Haven volunteer fire department and immaculately refurbished by Dale Bennett of Burdge’s Garage in Little Silver, returns to the Fair Haven Firemens Fair tonight, when the host firehouse welcomes firefighters from all over.
David Wilt with police outside his Rumson residence, below, during his arrest Monday. (Click to enlarge)
By JOHN T. WARD
Police arrested a 20-year-old Rumson man outside his mother’s mansion Monday afternoon and charged him with burglarizing a Fair Haven home less than an hour earlier.
redbankgreen was on the scene at Evergreen Drive when authorities took David Wilt into custody on Evergreen Drive at about 4 p.m., shortly after authorities in both towns went on alert for a black pickup truck on a report of a break-in.
There’s still a month to go before the Fair Haven Firemen’s Fair kicks off its annual eight-day swirl of food and rides, but preparation of more than 150 gallons of homemade clam chowder for the event got underway at the firehouse Monday night.
Shucking and chopping completed, a crew of volunteers gets down to cooking the chowder Tuesday night, after which it will be frozen until the fair, which starts August 26.
More pix after the jump. (Photos by Stacie Fanelli. Click to enlarge)
Scenes from the annual Red Bank Fire Prevention Fair put on by the town’s volunteer firefighters in the White Street municipal lot Sunday. Photos by Peter Lindner. (To enlarge the photo display, start it, then click the embiggen symbol in the lower right corner. To get back to redbankgreen, hit your escape key.)
Views of the setup at the Fair Haven Fire Department for the fair that runs through Saturday, September 5. (Click to enlarge)
Swirling rides and music to match. Chowder. Conviviality.
The annual small-town tradition known as the Fair Haven Firemen’s Fair gets underway tonight, staking its usual claim to the week leading up to Labor Day.
Tonight, that is, as long as Danny keeps his distance.