MCVTS dry-cleaning students will assist in annual winter coat drive

MCVTS dry-cleaning students will assist in annual winter coat drive

New or like-new winter coats -- excluding leather and suede -- will be collected from Nov. 8 through Nov. 15 at East Brunswick Township offices and other locations and then dry-cleaned by students in the School of Career Development on the East Brunswick Campus of the Middlesex County Vocational and Technical Schools.

The collection hours at the township municipal complex, 1 Jean Walling Civic Center Drive, will be Monday through Friday, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., and at the Recreation and Parks Department, 334 Dunhams Corner Road, Monday through Friday, 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Township offices will be closed Nov. 11, Veterans Day.

Other collection sites are the Raritan Valley YMCA, 144 Tices Lane, Monday through Friday, 5:30 a.m. to 9 p.m., and Saturday and Sunday, 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m., and Anshe Emeth Memorial Temple, 222 Livingston Ave., New Brunswick, Monday through Friday, 9 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.

The eighth annual Community Coat Drive is supported by the East Brunswick Education Association, the Educational Support Professional Council, the East Brunswick Public Schools, East Brunswick Mayor Brad Cohen, Public Works Director Daniel Losik, Marc Coleman, coordinator of the Department of Recycling and Solid Waste, which provides containers for the collection sites, and Aquagem Media Group.

Coats will be distributed Dec. 23 through Jan. 18 by Lunch Break, a nonprofit that serves the needy, to students at the Job Corps site in Edison, to clients of the Rescue Mission of Trenton, Woman’s Awareness, EBEA Bear Necessities Clothing Den, and to other local people in need. The youth group of Anshe Emeth Memorial Temple in New Brunswick will distribute coats to homeless men and women in New York City on Jan. 17.

For more information, contact Shari Levy of Aquagem Media Group at (732) 995-2313.