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APTV President & Wife Honored

Heera Sidhu and his wife Josephine [shown if featured photo] were honored this week by the Asbury Park City Council for their volunteer service to the community.

Sidhu, who served as APTV board president, helped transform the municipal access channel into a station offered an array of municipal news and feature programming. His wife is most known for leading the dog beach cleanup charge and promoting the city via social media.

Parents of two children, the couple recently moved to Ocean Township.

Exhibit No. 9 Holiday Party

A Wine and Cheese Holiday Celebration will be offered at Exhibit No 9 Gallery + Studio for Contemporary Art from 7 to 11 p.m. Saturday.

Held against the backdrop of multimedia urban artist Linda Zacks’ current stopgofastslow exhibit, the event is being held as a grateful thanks to friends, patrons and clients, owners Tom and Lois White said.

Zacks is known for creating work that depicts a collision of daydream and experience revealed through the figurative and abstract. The show will run through Jan. 29.

Exhibit No. 9 Gallery is located at 550 Cookman Ave. For more information, click here. 

Holiday At The Tower This Weekend

The Asbury Tower Chorus’ Holiday Concert will be held 6:30 p.m. Friday inside the Grand Arcade at Convention Hall, located at 1300 Ocean Ave Arcade.

Asbury Tower is a senior living community that affords low-income residents age 62 and older the choice of one bedroom and efficiency apartments and a host of amenities, including a beauty/barber shop, convenience store, community room, library, thrift shop, and TV lounge.

Free Soup Saturday, a no food waste recycling/swap event will run from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 a.m. Participants bring 2 cup containers and utensil if they plan on eating in. Offered by the resident soup makers, the event is held in the community room.

At 2 p.m the Sunday, the Asbury Tower Chorus gives an encore Holiday Concert in the community room.

Asbury Towers is located at 1701 Ocean Ave.

Help Not Handcuffs Joins Global Call

Asbury Park based Help Not Handcuffs has joined a global coalition calling for the International Criminal Court [ICC] to intervene in crimes against humanity in the Philippines.

In an open letter to ICC Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda, close to 100 organizations and individuals call for an investigation as the Philippines threatens withdrawal from the international court.

To learn more and view the open letter can, click here.

Organizations and advocates who wish to add their names to the open-letter can do so by emailing info@HelpNotHandcuffs.org. The letter will be updated and transmitted to the Office of the Prosecutor on a rolling basis.

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