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Mayor Frank G. Pelzman and Local Rotary President Tom Cornell

WHEN: Thursday - Oct. 7 - 12 noon

WHERE: Cameo Banquet Center – 800 Rahway Ave. – Woodbridge

Gift Symbolizes Township, Club Commitment to Public Health

Woodbridge Township hopes a look at the past will keep the community's eyes fully focused on the future.

As part of its worldwide centenary celebration, Rotary International is encouraging local Rotary Clubs to make a permanent improvement to their community. The Rotary Club of Woodbridge-Perth Amboy has announced it will erect a vintage, early 20 th -century Town Clock in front of the Municipal Building on Main Street in Woodbridge.

The clock will be 10 feet high, tall enough to be seen from the nearby train station and other downtown vantage points. Yet it will represent more than another aesthetic addition to the town's vibrant Main Street corridor.

“We hope this fundraising effort for the clock will generate publicity for Rotary's global drive to eradicate polio from the Earth by March, 2005,” says Rotary Club of Woodbridge-Perth Amboy President Tom Cornell .

“We welcome the Rotary's generous gift of a Town Clock,” says
Mayor Frank G. Pelzman . “Besides its link to the Township's historical heritage, it will stand as a visible reminder of our present-day public health efforts.”

The Woodbridge Health and Human Services Department's regular outreach programs include child health conferences for mothers, infants and babies, STD clinics, i mmunization clinics and a wide range of year-round public health education activities such as the Mayor's Health Expo taking place Oct. 23 at The Club at Woodbridge.

The clock is also a testament to longtime Rotarian and Woodbridge community leader, the late Bud Costello. “ I can't think of a better way to pay tribute to an individual who worked so hard to improve all our lives every day of the year,” says Councilwoman Patricia Osborne , a member of the planning committee.

Donors may support the installation of the Town Clock by sending their donation to the Rotary Club of Woodbridge-Perth Amboy, P.O. Box 201, Woodbridge NJ 07095. For a gift of $250.00, donors will receive a personalized, working miniature replica of the clock. The Club will recognize donors of $500.00 or more with a miniature clock and by placing their name or other commemoration up to thirty characters on the base of the clock. Donors may reserve an entire side of the clock's base (30 lines) for a donation of $7,500.00.