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Atlantic Highlands
Chamber of Commerce
Holds 2021 Summer
Classic Car Show
The Atlantic Highlands Chamber of Commerce 2021 Summer
Classic Car Show Presented by Resources Real Estate will be held
on Saturday, June 19 from 10 am to 4 pm. The event will take
place along First Avenue, the main business district. The rain date is
Saturday, June 26.
Event sponsors include Presenting Sponsor Resources Real Estate;
Platinum Sponsor Food Circus Super Markets, Inc.; Gold Sponsor
Fastrak Oil & Lube; and Bronze Sponsor 1st Constitution Bank.
The car show will feature more than 150 exquisite automobiles.
All years, makes, models and classes are welcome including domes-
rod, custom and trucks.
Resources Real Estate Broker and Senior Partner Tom McCormack
noted, “We love the town of Atlantic Highlands, we truly do, and this
makes our job selling homes and businesses here so much easier. We
and knew that the AHCOC Classic Car Show would provide the perfect
party atmosphere for our celebration and to share the many things
that we love about the town with prizes and gift cards promoting our
fellow businesses. It’s going to be a great day.”
The event is free to spectators and is family friendly. DJ entertainment
will be provided by Walter Cooper of Soundz Unlimited. Local
restaurants and food trucks will offer a variety of delicious fare, and
local businesses will welcome the public with special sales and promotions.
Vendors will display unique merchandise for sale in Veterans
Park. The event, produced by Lori Anne Oliwa, offers an excellent
opportunity to see the diversity of small businesses located in the
seaside enclave of Atlantic Highlands.
day of the event. There will be goodie bags for all registered vehicles
along with trophies, prizes and awards, since the show will be judged.
Vehicle registration is available at AHChamber.org. For more
information on any aspect of the event including car registration,
vendor space, sponsorship or donations of prizes and gift certificates
for the goodie bags, contact Lori Anne Oliwa by phone at
(732)757-7443 or by email at info@atlantichighlands.org or Lori-
Anne@TheWriteAngles.com.
Two Local Actors
Present Night of Theater
to Open Conversation
about Race
BY SHANNA O’MARA
On Friday, June
25 and Saturday,
June 26, Black
Fox productions will
present a night of outdoor
music, poetry and
theater at the T. Thomas
Fortune House in Red
Bank. The production
company was founded
by Patrick Monaghan
and Joshua Cox who
met last summer at a
National Association
for the Advancement
of Colored People
(NAACP) meeting. Monaghan, of Little Silver, and Cox, who grew up in
Neptune and Red Bank, are both actors who were inspired to use their
passion on the stage to spark dialogue about racial injustice in the U.S.
“I wanted to do work that told a story of people who didn’t look like
me and didn’t have my life experience,” Monaghan, who is Caucasian,
said. “I made the decision in July 2020, right after the killing of George
Floyd that I needed to search out purpose in my personal life and not just
could help serve, and Josh was there. We both wanted to do art, and it was
kind of a serendipitous thing.”
Cox added, “At the meeting, Patrick and I were talking about progressive
events and things we could do as a community to move forward. I
suggested that we do a night of theater. I wanted to hold a conversational
part, so we could talk about it and come together to pitch different ideas.”
At the Lounge Night of Theater, works by several artists of color will
be featured. The production was made possible by a partnership with the
NAACP of the Greater Red Bank Area and the NJ Social Justice Remembrance
Coalition. The main event that weekend will be a production of
“Blackface,” a short play written by Mya Alexice. Poetry by nationally recognized
and published poet Jay Délise will also be read, and live Neo Soul
music will be performed by John Payne.
“The most important aspect of this is to create conversations that we
be open and honest with each about how we feel about one another, how
we feel about the race relations, how we feel about police brutality, how
we feel about the actual play,” Cox said. “I want it to be an open and completely,
brutally honest conversation.”
For more information about the event and to purchase tickets, visit
Eventbrite.com.
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