Notes

St. Luke's United Methodist Church on Broadway will hold a Vacation Bible School for ages 4-17 Aug. 14-18, 6-8:30 p.m.

The church will also hold its Peach Festival and Kids Karnival Aug. 19 from 1 to 6 p.m.

For more information, call (732) 222-1341.

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The Second Annual Ray Licata Memorial Long Branch Ocean Swim will take place Aug. 20 at West End Beach.

The one-mile ocean swim and the fun swim are held in honor of Licata, who died in August 2004 after collapsing on West End beach following an ocean swim

Registration for the event will begin at 6:30 a.m. the day of the swim, and the fee is $15 for the one-mile swim and $10 for the fun swim. The one-mile swim will begin at 8 a.m. and the fun swim will follow.

Last year, the memorial swim raised enough money to donate $10,000 to the City of Long Branch for the purchase of a defibrillator, jet ski and an all-terrain vehicle.

Funds raised at this year's event will also support swimmer safety at the Long Branch shore.

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The Long Branch High School Class of 1941 will hold its 65-year reunion on Oct. 18 from noon to 3 p.m. at Branches in West Long Branch.

The cost of the event is $33.50. For more information, call (732) 542-2431.

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Asbury United Methodist Church (UMC), 61 Atlantic Ave., Long Branch, will hold a "gigantic garage sale" Aug. 26 from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the church (rain date Aug. 26).

The sale will feature furniture, household goods, tools, small electronics, baby items, lamps and other items.

Registration is due by Aug. 25 for the choir clinic's "Fundamentals of Music and Voice" class Sept. 9 from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Attendees will learn to read notes, recognize and sing intervals, ear training, dynamics, breathing and other fundamentals. Lunch will be served.

Registration is $15. For more information on the above, call the church office at (732) 229-5544.

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Monmouth University's Woodrow Wilson Hall will again be the venue for the Fort Monmouth Economic Revitalization Planning Authority's next gathering.

The public is invited to attend the next meeting of the 10-member panel which is scheduled for 4 p.m. next Wednesday inside the downstairs meeting room at Wilson Hall.

Members of the public will be allowed to address the authority after its regular business is concluded.

Wednesday's meeting will mark the third in a series for the authority, a public/private partnership set up last spring by state legislation.

By the order of Gov. Jon S. Corzine and the N.J. State Legislature, the authority has been designated as the entity to oversee future economic development of Fort Monmouth after the 89-year-old U.S. Army base is shuttered by the Pentagon in September 2011.