Saturday, May 18: Breakfast With the Angels From 8:00 to 10:00 am, please join COA for a delicious flapjack breakfast at the Applebee's Restaurant on Rt. 33 in  Hamilton, NJ!  The modest price of $8 per person will entitle you to all the flapjacks, sausage, coffee and orange juice you can consume, all delivered by friendly volunteer Angels! This is an important fundraiser for COA, since COA receives $5.50 of each ticket.  To help us plan, please purchase your ticket/s in advance. To purchase your tickets online now, click here. Your name will be on a VIP list and your table will be waiting for you when you arrive. For online ticket purchasers only, one party will be chosen at random to receive their breakfast for free, and will be refunded their entire purchase up to 10 tickets.    *******************   Immediately after the breakfast, join COA at the A.I.R. (Attitudes in Reverse) 5K walk and run at Mercer County Park East Picnic Area. There will be pony rides, face painting, a community butterfly release, AKC Canine Good Citizen testing, Bright & Beautiful Therapy Dog evaluations, Doggie Demos, Blessing of the Animals and many other activities for pets. COA will have a table in the vendor area, spreading the word about addiction help.  A.I.R. helps prevent student suicide. To learn more about this important organization, click here. Wanted: Vendors for Rockfest on June 22 On Saturday, June 22, City of Angels will host its 5th annual Rockfest at Mercer County Park, East Picnic Area. Last year, this free live music event drew more than 1,000 people and this year's Rockfest will be even bigger & better! Rockfest 5 will include a car/truck/motorcycle show, Barbeque Grill-Off with Wounded Warrior judges, children's games & amusements, Magic Matt the Magician, Rhythmania drum circles, great food and much, much more. Vendors are invited to set up tables with information about their products and services in the Exhibit Area. Cost is $150 (for profit) or $75 (not for profit). All vendor tables must be booked in advance; to reserve your space, please click here to issue payment and in the "Purpose" line, note that this is a payment for a vendor table at Rockfest 5. You will receive a confirmation via email. Food vendors please contact cityofangelsnj@hotmail.com. Thursday, May 2: Volunteer Meeting Have some extra time? Want to make a difference? City of Angels needs you! We are now planning several major events for later in 2013 and need people to help with event planning, promotion, staffing and other critical tasks. Come to the volunteer meeting at 6:30 pm on Thursday, May 2 at the Dwier Center (392 Church Street, Groveville, NJ) and find out how you can get involved. Pizza from Family Nest Italian Restaurant will be served, and maybe a few other goodies.... If you would like to volunteer but can't get to the meeting, contact COA's Director of Volunteers, Lynn Cranstoun, at lcwolflady@optonline.net.  COA's Kevin Meara on NJTV's Due Process If you missed Kevin Meara discussing New Jersey's Good Samaritan Law on NJTV's Due Process last week, the link is now online. To watch the show, click here.  Dwier Center Detour   For the next nine months, the bridge over Route 130, immediately in front of the Dwier Center, will be closed for construction. Here are the directions to go around the mess: At the five-way intersection by Picerno's Gas Station and the old fashioned clock, proceed straight onto South Broad Street instead of taking the right onto Church Street. Go straight on South Broad for about 1/2 mile, then turn right onto Main Street. Continue another 1/2 mile, then take a right onto Church Street. You will see Family Nest Italian Specialty Restaurant on the righthand corner. Dwier Center will be on the right, just down the road. For questions about alternative routes, contact cityofangelsnj@hotmail.com.

Tidbits   COA hosts support group meetings for both addiction sufferers and their families every day of the week at the Dwier Center (392 Church Street, Groveville, NJ). This includes 12-step meetings, a new Thursday night veteran's support group, Saturday night self-injury support group, Sunday night Spirituality Meeting, and the popular Sunday morning family support group, The Breakfast Club. To check out our online calendar, click here.     For directions to the Dwier Center, click here.      The COA website now offers an Addiction News Feed with the latest studies, reports, new and other info on addiction. It's updated in real time with the top 30 articles. To read the feed, click here.  New videos are up on the COA YouTube channel. To watch, click here.      Join COA's Pinterest community! To visit the boards, click here.          Keep current on COA activites - join the COA group on Facebook!  COA news is posted first on Facebook, and this page often has photos not available elsewhere. Click here to visit.   City of Angels NJ, Inc. is a non-profit organization that provides many services to addicts and their families including interventions, recovery support, Family Program, counseling services and more. All of our services are provided at no charge.