Weekend Planner: How to Get the Most Out of This Weekend

This may be Warren's biggest weekend—from fundraising projects to youth groups to school events, there's just so much to do.

So here's our helpful guide to getting the most out of the weekend. Make your plans and enjoy everything.

Today: Start your day off with a visit to , which opens today at 10 a.m. The boutique will be open today and tomorrow from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., and Sunday from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. You can shop for art, crafts, locally-produced honey and other fresh products.

Take your younger family members to 's Science Fair, which opens at 6 p.m. They'll get ideas for their own science fair projects, and probably learn a thing or two.

Then head over the Generosity Rocks event at —it's a fundraiser for the Children's Specialized Hospital and . From 5 p.m. to 6:30 p.m., little ones can enjoy face painting and entertainment, which will be followed by 10 local bands performing.

Don't worry about dinner—you can get some food at Generosity Rocks.

Your weekend is off to a great start already—you've helped support a student-led fundraising for an indisputably worthwhile cause, and enjoyed the miracles of science through the eyes of youngsters...but you're just getting the weekend started.  

Saturday: Round up your hazardous household waste—stuff like outdated pesticides, antifreeze, transmission fluids, brake fluids, wet-cell car batteries, motor oil (2-gal. maximum), ammonia-based cleaners, gasoline, kerosene, oil-based paints, pool chemicals, propane tanks and rechargeable and button-cell batteries, thermometers, compact fluorescent light bulbs, fluorescent lights and old thermostats—and take it all to the DPW on Bardy Road, where Somerset County will collect it and dispose of it safely. You can drop off material from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m., and while you're there...

Swing by the and take in a bit of Warren Baseball Softball's Pitch Hit and Run, a competition sponsored by Major League Baseball. Watch tomorrow's varsity leaders try to earn a berth in the next round of the competition. The competition starts at 9 a.m., and should be over by about noon. Patch will be there, too—stop by and sign up for our newsletter and receive a free reusable water bottle.

Just enough time to head to , slated for 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. You'll find bargains galore, and know you're helping support the PTO's efforts to support classroom projects and events at the school. Any items unsold will also go to a good cause—the items will be donated to help .

Don't make dinner plans: tonight, dine with the Boy Scouts of Troop 228, who will be srving up heaps of spaghetti for everyone from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. at . You'll get to meet the people behind many of the improvements you've seen around town, including the nice paver bricks at the ballfields where you enjoyed the kids in the Pitch Hit and Run competition earlier.

Want to enjoy some live music after dinner? has been holding a series of events in , and will feature live jazz by Seed of the Sun, a leading Israeli jazz ensemble tonight at 7:30 p.m. 

Sunday: Speaking of the Temple's events, a fun one ends the weekend and the celebrations of Mountain Top School: the rescheduled Touch-a-Truck event, which will be at Mt. Horeb School at 11 a.m. Bring your littlest ones by to climb, jump and enjoy large trucks of all kinds—fire trucks, dump trucks, ambulances and semi-trucks. It's free and loads of fun!

Let's review: shop, cleanup, baseball, yard sale, spaghetti, jazz and trucks.

There you go... the weekend is complete. You'll probably feel uplifted, after helping support so many local groups, but that's OK. It's back to work on Monday.