Page 12 THE VILLADOM TIMES I • November 5, 2014 Area NJBG Wreath Making Workshops to be held this month Participants from a prior year’s NJBG Wreath Making Workshop show off their handiwork. This year, two hands-on work- shops will be held Nov. 22. (Photo courtesy of NJBG.) Two hands-on Wreath Making Workshops will be held at the New Jersey State Botanical Garden Carriage House Visitor Center on Saturday, Nov. 22. Sessions will begin at 10 a.m. and 1 p.m. These workshops are an annual tradition at NJBG. Each year, participants learn how to assemble and deco- rate holiday wreaths using a variety of fresh and dried plant materials. Each person will make two wreaths, one to take home and one for use at NJBG’s Holiday Open House. All mate- rials are provided, but workshop participants should bring clippers, gloves, and any special ribbon or decorations they might wish to use. The fee is $25 for NJBG members and $30 for non- members. This popular program regularly sells out, so make reservations early. For tickets and more information, visit www.njbg.org or call (973) 962-9534. NJBG is located on Morris Road in Ringwood. The New Jersey Botanical Garden is open daily from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. (to 6 p.m. in the winter). Admission to the garden is always free; parking is free in the autumn, winter, and spring. Originally assembled from pioneer farmsteads of the 1890s, the NJBG has a venerable history. In 1922, Clarence McKenzie Lewis, an investment banker and trustee of the New York Botanical Garden, purchased the property and original Victorian mansion from Francis Lynde Stetson. Over the next three decades, Lewis built the current 45- room Tudor manor house and transformed Skylands into a botanical showplace, engaging prominent landscape archi- tects to design the grounds and collecting plants from all (continued on page 25) Chamber hosts business card exchange The Ho-Ho-Kus, Midland Park and Waldwick cham- bers of commerce are making a concerted effort to take a piece of the pie on Thanksgiving weekend and are launch- ing their Small Business Saturday program with a business card exchange and networking hosted by the Waldwick Chamber on Wednesday, Nov. 5 at the Village Grille, 71 Crescent Avenue in Waldwick. Shop Small Business Saturday is being celebrated throughout the area on Saturday, Nov. 29. Local businesses are offering special promotions for goods and services to consumers, and many specials are extended through the month to entice them to “SHOP SMALL” – “SHOP LOCAL”. The program was launched by American Express in 2010 in an effort to bring attention to small businesses in our local communities. The Midland Park Chamber is offering a “passport” promotion, with consumers being invited to visit partici- pating businesses and getting their “passports” signed to enter in a prize drawing, to be held at From the Top Music Studio on Prospect Street at 4 p.m. that day. Businesses are offering specials in goods and services as well. In Waldwick, Pascack Community Bank at 64 Crescent Avenue, is hosting an open house that morning from 9 a.m. until noon, offering hot drinks and munchkins. The Ho- Ho-Kus Chamber will be announcing its offers in the coming weeks. Information about participating merchants and their offers may be found on the chambers’ websites. A business need not be a chamber of commerce member to participate. The business kick-off event on Nov. 5 will be held from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. and is free for chamber mem- bers. The cost for non-members is $15. Appetizers will be provided and there will be a cash bar. RSVP to info@waldwickchamber.com. According to the Second Annual Small Business Con- sumer Insights Survey customers spent an estimated $5.7 billion at small, independent businesses on Small Busi- ness Saturday in 2013. Continue the trend: Shop, dine and choose the services of your local businesses on Nov. 29 and every day.