November 16, 2011 THE VILLADOM TIMES IV • Page 23 Mahwah Minutes Learn to knit Carolyn Epstein will offer a workshop, “Knit One, Drop In,” for beginner and advanced knitters on Saturday, Nov. 26 at 3 p.m. at the Mahwah Public Library, 100 Ridge Road. Crocheters are also welcome. Beginning projects will be simple baby hats and scarves. Instruction will be available. Finished projects may be donated to Save the Children or to U.S. troops. Participants are asked to bring size eight knitting needles to the workshop. Yarn will be provided. No registration is required. History of Women Artists scheduled Anne Swartz will offer “A History of Women Artists from the Medieval to the Modern Eras” on Tuesday, Nov. 15 at 7 p.m. at the Mahwah Public Library, 100 Ridge Road. The program provides a broad overview of female artists during Medieval, Renaissance, and modern times, including Hildegard of Bingen, Artemisia Gentileschi, Rosa Bonheur, and Georgia O’Keeffe. Swartz will offer a discussion on why women did not play a major role in art until the modern period. This program is free. No registration is necessary. Seats are available on a “first come” basis. This program is offered through the Horizons Speakers Bureau of the New Jersey Council for the Humanities, a state partner of the National Endowment for the Humanities. Group to discuss Pope Benedict’s book “Not by Bread Alone,” a spiritual book discussion group, will meet on Sunday, Nov. 27 at 5 p.m. at Panera Bread, 1300 Route 17 in Ramsey. This month’s selection is “Jesus of Nazareth: From the Baptism in the Jordan to the Transfiguration” by Pope Benedict XVI. In his first book written as Benedict XVI, the pope seeks to salvage the person of Jesus from recent “popular” depictions and to restore Jesus’ true identity as discovered in the Gospels. Through his brilliance as a theologian and his personal conviction as a believer, the pope shares a rich, compelling, flesh-and-blood portrait of Jesus and incites readers to encounter, face-to-face, the central figure of the Christian faith. This event is sponsored by the Church of the Immaculate Conception in Mahwah. For more information, contact Jennifer Edwards at paicc@yahoo.com or (201) 327-1276. Free rabies clinic available The Mahwah Board of Health will hold its annual free rabies vaccine clinic on Tuesday, Nov. 29 from 6 to 8 p.m. The clinic will take place at Mahwah Fire Company #1 on Miller Road. Dogs on leashes are welcome from 6 to 7:30 p.m. (No retractable leashes, please.) Cats in carriers are welcome from 7:30 to 8 p.m. For more information, call the Mahwah Health Department at (201) 529-5757, and select option two. Celebrate the season with the Mahwah Chamber On Dec. 14, the Mahwah Regional Chamber of Commerce will host its Holiday Luncheon from noon to 2 p.m. at the Sheraton Mahwah Hotel, 1 International Boulevard in Mahwah. During this festive annual event, the Chamber will Brownies gain ‘Safety Sense’ honor its selected Citizen of the Year, Company of the Year, and Organization of the Year. Music will be provided by Select Strings of Mahwah High School, under the direction of Wendy Campbell. The doors will open at 11:45 a.m., and the program will begin promptly at 12:15 p.m. This year’s event sponsor is SERVPRO of Northeast Bergen County, and the corporate sponsors are Bergen Mahwah Brownie Troop 4401 recently took a tour of the Mahwah Police Department as one of four activities to earn their Safety Sense ‘Try-It.’ Health &Life and MyBergen.com. This event is the Chamber’s largest luncheon of the year. Over 250 attendees are expected to join this celebration. Event organizers encourage everyone to attend with their staff members and make this holiday celebration their own companies’ holiday event. Register online for this event at Mahwah.com. For more information, call the Chamber office at (201) 529-5566. he doesn’t follow his grandfather’s instructions and goes into the meadow. On Nov. 27, the Sunday Concert Series will continue The Great American Songbook with a Tribute to Sophie Tucker. This performance will feature Maggie Worsdale and Rocky Tucker at the piano. The sophisticated, classic cabaret show will feature standard, Broadway, jazz, novelty, and vaudeville songs. Worsdale will also offer some of the stories behind these old songs. The library is located at 100 Ridge Road. For more information, call (201) 529- READ. This was the township’s first municipal election held in November. Previously, the township’s municipal elections were held in May because the governing body is non-partisan. Candidates do not run for municipal election under the banner of any political party. In 2009, the New Jersey Legislature passed a law that permits towns operating under the 1981 Non-partisan Elections Law to pass an ordinance to change the municipal election. Last year, the township council adopted an ordinance to move the municipal elections, which are held every two years, from May to November to coincide with the county, state, and federal elections. Thanksgiving (continued from page 9) movie snacks, and drinks. The Classic Wind Quartet will present a Holiday Family Concert, “Sergei Prokofiev’s Peter and the Wolf,” on Saturday, Nov. 26 at 2 p.m. The program will use flute, clarinet, oboe, bassoon, French horn, and a narrator to tell Prokofiev’s fanciful tale of a boy who meets a wolf when New mayor (continued from page 3) local government service. “I really enjoyed serving the Township of Mahwah for the past decade. It has been a privilege and an honor but now it is time to move on to other things,” he said. He said he was not sure if his support for the retail mall hurt him in the election, but he was surprised by the referendum vote because he thought the mall rezoning would have passed by a large margin.