Saturday, May 24, 2008

Mark Your Calendars!

June 7th: Spring Cleanup at the Clubhouse, 9am. Please rsvp to Sandy Geddes. We need all the help we can get!!! Raindate: June 8th.

June 8th: Farewell Party for the Lacis’. 4pm at the Clubhouse. RSVP’s a must to Vicki Williams, 973-540-9691. Please bring a nice bottle of wine and an appetizer to share.

June 10th: PCC Board Meeting at the clubhouse. 7:30 pm

July 19th: Annual PCC Family Picnic

September 27th: Progressive Dinner

Mid October: Fall Plant sale

October 31st: Kids Club Halloween event

November 1st: Italian Night

December 21st: Kids Club/Santa Visit

NOTE: Parents!! We need help for the Kids Club activities. With so many little ones living in Puddingstone now, this is a great way for them to interact with their little neighbors! Please contact Vicki Williams to volunteer. Without volunteers, no activities for the kids will be planned.

Saturday, December 15, 2007

Santa Comes to Puddingstone

Santa will be visiting the Puddingstone Neighborhood on Sunday December 23rd about 10:45 am. Starting at 9:30am, all children in the neighborhood will be able to have breakfast, decorate cookies and make a holiday ornament. Please bring gifts to wrap, which will then be donated to Morristown Memorial Hospital. Contact Dominique Geddes (973-656-0322) for the 2007 Children's Wish List from the hospital. This event is open to all neighbors!!

PCC Annual Meeting

Please mark your calendars for the 2008 PCC Annual Meeting on Sunday, January 13th, at 3:00pm, at the Clubhouse. Refreshments will be served. All residents of Puddingstone are welcome to attend the meeting, and hear about 2007 year in review, and what is in store for 2008. Please plan on attending!!

Wednesday, November 7, 2007

PCC Happenings:
In early October, we held a Plant Sale to benefit the Kids Club of PCC. We raised over $1200!!A large number of neighbors participated by sending a fall mum to other neighbors. Plants were from Cerbo's nursery in Parsippany. Thank you to Julie Arnold and Amy Redpath who picked up the plants with Vicki Williams, and to Julie, Amy, Ellen Falk, Margaret Semezko, Lucinda Crain, Dominique Geddes and Ron Borillo who delivered the plants to all neighbors. Nice work everyone!

On October 20th, a Beer Tasting Party was held at the clubhouse, organized by Ron and Nancy Borillo. Margaret Close picked up all the beer from a micro-brewery near Princeton. A wonderful time was had by all, and the event raised $400 for the PCC. Great Job!

The children of Puddingstone ushered in Halloween with a pizza night at the clubhouse. The little ones were adorable in their costumes! (Hopefully I can learn how to include pictures on this blogsite). Afterwards, they went trick-or-treating around part of the neighborhood.

November 3rd was the evening of our annual Italian Night, organized by Barbara Lupinacci and her sister Pat Dohne. They are our specialists for this event, and do a great job pulling it all together! Homemade lasagnes, chicken, gnocchi with broccoli rabe. polenta, salads, vegetable side dishes, and desserts were tried by about 42 neighbors of all ages. Also, we sampled delicious Italian wines. We look forward to this event every year!!































Sunday, September 2, 2007

Parsippany Planning Board Meeting

On September 10th, at 7:00pm, there will be a Public Hearing of the Parsippany-Troy Hills Planning Board to discuss the construction of a communications antenna support structure at the Morris County Fire and Police Academy. The planning board has invited our neighborhood, to listen in on this courtesy review. Attendees will be able to make comments. Meeting will take place at the Municipal Building at 1001 Parsippany Rd.

Monday, August 27, 2007

What is Puddingstone?

Puddingstone is rock made up of a mixture of different, irregular-sized grains and pebbles held together by a finer matrix, usually formed from quartz sand. It is found in different varieties and in different areas. But the purple-based stone found in Morris County is rare and has never been found anywhere else in New Jersey. The plum or purple tint in the stones comes from iron oxide materials; flecks in the stone are white quartz pebbles. Geologists say the stones are a glacial deposit, a sedimentary rock that has been slightly metamorphosed by heat and date from the Devonian period, 350 million to 400 million years ago. They are believed to be a remnant of an ancient mountain range. (Courtesy of the Daily Record, August 23, 2007)