Page 12 THE VILLADOM TIMES II • November 27, 2013 The Kennedys to perform Family gathers school supplies for Morocco The Kennedys (Photo courtesy of Steve Moore.) The Society Café Concert Series offers a series of acoustic singer/songwriter, folk and Americana concerts at the Unitarian Society of Ridgewood. Wine, dessert, and coffee, all provided by local vendors, are available before the shows and during inter- mission. The next concert will be on Saturday, Dec. 7 and will feature the folk, rock, coun- try, and secular gospel music of husband- and-wife team The Kennedys. Their reviews include the following: • “Byrdsy jangle, boy-girl harmo- nies…irresistible” - Rolling Stone Maga- zine • “Unabashed, hook-laden pop” - Vil- lage Voice • “More hooks than Marilyn Monroe’s closet” - Chicago Sun-Times Wine and dessert will be available at 7 p.m. when the doors open. The concert will begin at 8 p.m. Advance tickets are $20 and can be purchased via PayPal on the Society Café website, www.societycafeconcertseries. com. Tickets will be $25 the night of the concert. For any booking inquiries or informa- tion about the series, contact Mark Meding at m.meding@att.net. The Unitarian Society of Ridgewood is located at 113 Cottage Place in Ridgewood. Visit www.uuridgewood.org or call (201) 444-6225 for additional information. Maria Nadel and her helpers, Sammy and Sasha, will be taking on a new project in the early days of December: col- lecting school supplies for a new school in a small village in Morocco. Having just collected school supplies and funds for a small rural school in Panama with consid- erable success, the Nadel family took a vacation to Morocco and discovered that another small rural school needed basic sup- plies. “There is this small village in Morocco, about eight kilometers from another town, Asilha, that we visited on our last journey,” Maria Nadel told Villadom TIMES. “It’s called Briech. Two young ladies in their twenties are starting a preschool in a room that right now has only Sasha Nadel visits a small community outside of Asilah, a blackboard. My dear Morocco friend Maurice Valarino from Gibraltar is running the project and crafty stickers -- anything that comes to is bringing donated furniture over from your mind when thinking preschool, and not heavy because of the luggage weight Spain. “I will be headed down to Morocco limitations.” Bins will be set up in front of two again at the end of December and would like to bring as (many) school supplies Ridgewood addresses -- 361 Gilbert as we can collect: items like crayons, any Street and 660 Spring Avenue. Dona- kind of pens and colored pencils, glue tions by check at these addresses are also sticks, coloring books, and picture books acceptable. with no words, wall posters, maybe some J. KOSTER