Youth to hear offenders on drug, alcohol abuse       South River Parks and Recreation will host a Project P.R.I.D.E. presentation at 9:30 a.m. on Aug. 1 in the cafetorium at South River Middle School, 3 Montgomery St. The event, presented by the New Jersey Department of Corrections, will bring minimum-custody offenders from a state-... More ... Artists' fading vision to be topic of lecture       The Middlesex County Cultural and Heritage Commission will present "Eye of the Beholder," a free visual-arts lecture with Phyllis Rakow, at 6:30 p.m. on July 17 at East Jersey Olde Towne Village, 1050 River Road, Piscataway. Rakow will offer information on how the creative process... More ... Farm to Table slated at EARTH Center       Elijah's Promise Culinary School will host its annual Farm to Table event at 6:30 p.m. on July 16 at the Middlesex County EARTH Center, home to Rutgers Cooperative Extension of Middlesex County, in Davidson's Mill Pond Park, South Brunswick. More ... Environmental panel to sponsor nature walk       The Lawrence Brook Watershed Partnership (LBWP) will host a 1 1/2- to 2-mile nature walk from 10 a.m. to noon on July 14 at Keystone Park/Joseph P. Chagnon Wildlife Area, East Brunswick Participants should meet in the parking lot on Emerson Street, which is the first right turn f... More ...