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Five Things to Do in Collingswood This Week: 2/18/13 to 2/23/13

This week: the Collingswood junior women's club, gardening and GMO-Free food tips, a free concert from She Hates Me plus Frugal Ladies Night. Check out the top events in town!

Tuesday, Feb. 19 at 7:30 p.m.—Collingswood Public Library "The Collingswood Juniors engage in various charitable efforts throughout town, as well as promote health awareness and women's and family issues through speakers and projects. Please contact Jodie Farrow (jodie.farrow@yahoo.com) with any questions."  Wednesday, Feb. 20, 9 a.m.-noon—Camden County Environmental Center "For those who are interested in becoming a Master Gardener as well as those who have questions about their gardening issues...There is no charge." 856-216-7130 ext. 40005 or email njgarden@camdencounty.com for more information. Thursday, Feb. 21, 7-8 p.m.—Collingswood Public Library "Together we study the impact of the genetically modified organisms (GMOs) that are in …

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Collingswood Businesses Partnering Up in the Post-Christmas Daze

The garland's come down, and the summer dollars are months away. So what are borough businesses doing to drive traffic in the winter?

Look around your favorite Haddon Avenue shops these days, and you might be surprised at what’s in their inventories. It’s not that they’re carrying anything unusual. But they are carrying more and different items, sharing more products among themselves, and fitting out their displays with products from their neighbors.  Like that mint green dress that perfectly matches the swing-arm lamp in the window of Dig This? Surprise, it’s from Frugal Resale (whose monthly ladies night is catered by neighbors at Casona and The Candy Jar). Picking up a bottle or two of olive oil at Blue Moon? You might also go home with a handmade dipping tray produced by local artist Eric Wolff. This kind of cross-promotion helps sustain the flow of business in the …

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Aaron Kuhn

12:24 pm on Monday, February 11, 2013

Collingswood has a parking map here: http://www.collingswood.com/getting-here , but it doesn't have the kiosks on it With you on the hours though. I love Collingswood and know lots of folks there (including Reed) but I would find myself so often trying to go to a store and finding it closed that I kind of just gave up trying to shop downtown.   more ›

Five Things to Do This Week

Five Things to Do in Collingswood This Week: 11/26/12 to 12/1/12

This week in Collingswood you can: catch a meaningful film, learn how to be a better listener, share fellowship and suds, help the needy and help yourself to some new duds!

Monday, Nov. 26 at 6:30 p.m.—Collingswood Public Library Bob Pileggi will present on the fundamental aspects of mindfulness, and how learning to be "more present to ourselves and the other person we’re speaking with" can help us "more compassionately and effectively say what we really mean, and how we can listen more effectively to others."  Patch's own GLBTQ blogger Robb C. Sewell wrote more about this event here. Tuesday, Nov. 27 at 7 p.m.—Collingswood Public Library Collingswood Movie Club is led by Patch cinema blogger Robert Castle, who hosts a monthly presentation and discussion of meaningful movies on the fourth Tuesday of every month in the Collingswood Public Library. This month's selection is the 1991 Richard Linklater film, …

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I Am Collingswood: Morgan Robinson

In our latest weekly feature, the owner of Frugal Resale dishes about small-business philanthropy, body image, and her hidden fashion superpower.

Welcome to "I Am Collingswood," our newest recurring feature here on Patch. Each week, we'll chat up the movers and shakers in town about who they are, what they're up to, and why Collingswood is the place for them to do what they love best. If you know someone who should have their moment in the sun here in this space, send us a note. To kick things off, we chatted with Morgan Robinson, the owner of Frugal Resale, wife to husband Eric, and mom to sons Angus, Porter, and Quinn. Morgan comes from a nonprofit background, and tries to infuse her own business with that giving spirit. Patch: You've set up Frugal to be a business with a conscience. What are some of the ways in which your store tries to help? Robinson: We give 2 percent of all …

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