| Courier News Online - PISCATAWAY: See antique valentines at Old Towne Village
Middlesex County Cultural and Heritage Commission and East Jersey Olde Towne Village, 1050 River Road, will host Valentines Day and spring events in February and March. These programs are funded in part by the Middlesex County Cultural and Heritage Commission, Middlesex County freeholders, New Jersey Historical Commission, a Division of Cultural Affairs in the Department of State, and New Jersey State Council on the Arts/Department of State, a partner agency of the National Endowment for the Arts.
Sunday, the village will present the slide-lecture Antique Valentines 1860 - 1930, with collector Ilse Vliet.
Beginning at 2 p.m., the lecture will detail the history of the valentine, and how this holiday and its accompanying tokens of love have evolved through the centuries.
BF Avery unique in collection
"I like the oddballs," said the 88-year-old tractor collector, his eyes on his three-wheeled, deep red 1946 B.F. Avery tractor. The tractor was the only B.F. Avery among the 51 antique tractors on exhibit Saturday at Sandburg Mall, where the Maple City Antique Tractor Association is having its annual Mall Tractor Show. The show continues today. Most of the tractors are John Deere, International Harvester or Ford. A few were Allis-Chalmers, which is the brand of the first tractor Page's family owned. .
Swing with your sweetheart Saturday at museum in Bartow
The third annual Sweetheart Swing will take place at the Polk County Historical Museum in Bartow from 6 to 10 p.m. Saturday. The event is modeled after at 1940s canteen party, and participants are encouraged to come dressed in swing or military-inspired garb. Cost: $12 per person or $20 per couple. Details: www.polk-county.net or 863-534-4340.
'Tony n' Tina's Wedding'
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Antique found negative of red tide
San Jose, Antique (2 February) -- With reports of red tide occurrence in Sorsogon Bay and the government on top of the situation in containing it, Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources Provincial Director Rosemary G. Nacisvalencia said that Antique province is negative of red tide as of press time and no cause for alarm for Antiqueos. Nacisvalencia explained that red tide likely occurs or thrives in polluted coastal waters usually appearing when there is a shift in weather conditions resulting to rise in temperature, which is conducive to growth of micro-organisms known as dinoflagellates making shellfish unsafe for human consumption. In some parts of the country, four municipalities in the vicinity of Sorsogon Bay are now under a state of calamity. Latest reports show that nine persons have died while around 100 persons got ill because of red tide.
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