The Connection Bridgewater-Somerville Edition Dec 2015/ Jan 2016

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THE BRIDGEWATER-SOMERVILLE CONNECTION

DEC 2015/JAN 2016

PUBLISHER

Robin Fand

908-903-1799 • Fax 732-667-8488 •

Connectionsnj@gmail.com

OFFICE MANAGER

Anna Petro

PRODUCTION, THE CONNECTORY &

SOCIAL MEDIA COORDINATORS

Donna Reina, Jody Varvaro

PRODUCTION ASSISTANT

Alyson Marks

ADVERTISING EXECUTIVES

Shavaun Gliksman, Patty Herman, Alicia Singman

CONTRIBUTING WRITERS

David Cozza, Patricia Diesel, Gary Fisch, Lidia S. Gabinelli,

Carolyn Hanson, Prachi Jain, Tatiana Javier, Joanne Kleinle,

Amy Kover, Deborah Link, Ellyn Mantell, Dr. Michael Osit,

Rachna Patel, Peak Medical, Linda Seigelman,

Dr. Vincent Sferra, Andrea Strauss, M.D. F.A.C.S., Jill Stolz

TABLE OF CONTENTS

The Bridgewater-Somerville Connection has a circulation of

over 31,000, mailed to residents in Bridgewater, Martinsville,

Branchburg, Somerville, Raritan & Hillsborough with

Bonus circulation to the business community.

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RBF Consulting LLC • P.O. Box 4081 • Warren, NJ 07059

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THE C NNECTION

Bridgewater-Somerville Edition

Happy Holidays to all of our loyal readers! We are delighted to present a fabulous issue of The Bridgewater-Somerville Connection just in time for the most joyous time of the year. With that in mind we have included several wonder- ful sections in the magazine to help you focus on Holiday shopping, Dining for the Holidays, Shop Somerville as well as our regular sections, Home Sweet Home, Spotlight on Seniors, Spot- light on Hillsborough, Health & Wellness, Redis- cover Bound Brook and our Community Calendar. In addition, we are thrilled to highlight the following businesses in this edition: Kaleidoscope Hair and Body Artistry, Adornments, Kumo Asian Bistro, Somerset Hills Memorial Park, Prince Martial Arts Adademy, Complete Dental Care/Precious Smiles Dental, Chill Cryotherapy, Warren Oral Surgery, Larken Associates, Mail- box Business Center, Bridgewater Overhead Doors and Able Consulting & Training. We hope you enjoy these articles as well as the many other in- teresting editorials in this issue, some written by local professionals and business owners in our community. As always and especially this time of year we remind you to SHOP LOCAL and support the small busi- nesses in our area that work so hard to provide qual- ity goods and services to all of us! Local artist, Bulgarian born, Milena Filipova, adorns our front cover with an oil on canvas entitled, “Fall Still Life.” She has accomplished an amazing amount in her 28 years. In addition to her extensive talent and training as a fine artist, Milena also owns an art gallery called Gold Dust Treasures in Jersey City. She features her paintings in the gallery, as well as home accessories and “treasures” as the name depicts. Visit the gallery’s facebook page to view her selection of items and her current work on display. Milena has a very impressive bio on page 8, please read about her journey. Look for our FUN contest in this issue: SPOT THE FAKE! Somewhere in this issue is a fake ad. Find it and email us at Spotthefake@theconnections nj.com. Please use the subject line: FAKE and include the answer, your name, town and phone number. The Winner will be chosen randomly from a list of those who entered the correct answer and will re- ceive a prize from a local business. Good luck and have fun SPOTTING THE FAKE! We encourage you to visit our website and read our ON-LINE editions, view YouTube videos on many of the digital ads and click directly on the ad to visit our advertisers’ websites. Visit the CONNEC- TIONS YOUTUBE CHANNEL which features videos from local advertisers at www.youtube.com/user/ ConnectionsNJ in addition to viewing them on their digital ads! Our Digital Magazines can also be viewed on your smart phone and iPad. We are only a “touch” away! www.theconnectionsnj.com . Looking for a Physician, Caterer, Dentist, Fitness Expert, Home Im- provement help and much more? Check out The CONNECTORY, our ON-LINE Business Directory, which is growing every day with new businesses joining featuring their respective contact information. www.connectory.theconnectionsnj.com Like us on Facebook at The Connection Maga- zines and follow us on Twitter @ Connectionsnj. We work to keep you updated at all times! And NOW you can follow us on INSTAGRAM @Connectionmag to see pictures of people you know in your local community who stay “Connected!” STAY CONNECTED TO YOUR COMMUNITY WITH THE CONNECTION MAGAZINES THIS HOL- IDAY SEASON AND REMEMBER TO SHOP LOCAL! Sincerely, Robin Fand, Publisher SCAN THIS CODE TO VISIT THE CONNECTORY

Milena Filipova

........................................Page 8

Kaleidoscope Hair and Body Artistry

...Page 18

Adornments

...........................................Page 20

Kumo Asian Bistro

.................................Page 23

Somerset Hills Memorial Park

...............Page 29

Prince Martial Arts Academy

................Page 34

Complete Dental Care/

Precious Smiles Dental

......................Page 44

Chill Cryotherapy

...................................Page 52

Warren Oral Surgery

.............................Page 54

Larken Associates

..................................Page 60

Mailbox Business Center

.......................Page 62

Bridgewater Overhead Doors

...............Page 64

Able Consulting & Training

...................Page 72

Medical Minutes - Peak Medical

..............Page 10

HOLIDAY CHEER SECTION

..............Pages 12-21

Wine Barrel Column

.................................Page 14

DINING FOR THE HOLIDAYS SECTION

..Pages 22-26

Big Apple Bites Column

............................Page 24

Slice of Life Column

..................................Page 26

SPOTLIGHT ON “SENIORS”

.............Pages 28-32

Health Hotline - Fellowship Senior Living

..Page 28

Senior Corner Column

..............................Page 30

SHOP SOMERVILLE

..........................Pages 36-38

Children’s Corner Column

........................Page 43

HEALTH & WELLNESS SECTION

......Pages 44-58

Health Hotline - Natural Green Spa

........Page 47

Health Hotline - Andrea Strauss,

M.D.

.....Page 48

Health Hotline - Dr. Vincent Sferra

..........Page 50

Organize That Column

.............................Page 56

Family Adventures Column

......................Page 57

Creative Corner Column

...........................Page 58

SPOTLIGHT ON HILLSBOROUGH

....Pages 60-62

HOME SWEET HOME SECTION

.......Pages 64-71

Real Estate Corner Column

......................Page 70

REDISCOVER

BOUND BROOK SECTION

..Pages 72-73

COMMUNITY CALENDAR

................Pages 74-75

SPOT THE FAKE!

E FAKE!

Somewhere in this Magazine is a

FAKE AD.

Spot it and send your answer, name, city and phone number to:

Spotthefake@theconnectionsnj.com

Subject Line: FAKE

More than 200 people took part in our

Spot The Fake

Ad Contest

in the September issue. Congratulations

to everyone who “spotted”

Jack It Up!

The winner,

selected randomly from a list of all those who entered

and provided the correct answer, is

Breanne Pizarro

of Bridgewater.

The winner received a gift certificate to

Efingers

in Bound Brook.

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