Andrew and Jie Hayes, shown here, hosted their second annual harvest picnic at Washington Well Vineyard, raising funds for UFAR to combat riverblindness and for SAVE, the animal shelter. More than 200 people enjoyed the music, food, and fun — even grape stomping!

At left, Laura Brinkerhoff, president of Brinkerhoff Environmental, the largest woman-owned environmental service company in New Jersey and Margaret Van Dagens, owner of J&M Marketing Communications, at the Jasna Polana for a lunch sponsored by the United Way to raise money to supply books to needy pre-schoolers along the Route 1 corridor. The September 26 lunch was the first event in a series of fund raisers to encourage reading readiness in pre-schoolers, organized by the Women’s Leadership Council of the United Way.