Community Day, which is Lawrence Township’s annual celebration of itself and all the township has to offer, is set for Oct. 7.
The event will be held in Village Park from noon to 4 p.m., municipal officials said. Community Day will be held on the Bergen Street side of the park.
Community Day is intended to showcase the nonprofit groups and the businesses that call Lawrence Township home. It is a family friendly event that seeks to introduce residents to all the township can offer.
“It gives people a chance to see the different organizations in town,” Superintendent of Recreation Nancy Bergen said.
More than 100 nonprofit groups and businesses have signed up to take part.
The event also includes a touch-a-truck area, where children can examine a dump truck, a snow plow, a police car and a fire truck up close in the Bergen Street parking lot.
Representatives of the 100 or so groups and businesses will set up their booths along the asphalt path that winds through Village Park. The exhibitors include the Garden Gate Garden Club and the Rutgers Master Gardeners of Mercer County.
Also, the Lawrence Township Education Foundation, the Lawrence Township Community Foundation, the Lawrence Hopewell Trail and the League of Women Voters of Lawrence Township will have a booth.
Womanspace, the Lawrence Historical Society and the Lawrence Citizen Activists will each have a booth. Youth sports groups, including the Lawrence Little League, the Lawrence Township Junior Baseball/Softball Association, the Lawrence Hamnett Soccer Association and the Lawrenceville Swimming Association have signed up for booths.
Usborne Books & More, which is a children’s book publisher, will have a booth at Community Day. Arts and crafts vendors, such as Clancy’s Crafts, which makes doll clothing; Lea Joelle’s handmade craft planters, faux plants and fun home decor; and suzecreations, which offers jewelry, will have a booth, too.
And if all of that walking around makes visitors hungry, Rossi’s Deli and Grill, Deputy Dawg & Catering, and Best Darn Kettlekorn will have booths at Community Day.
