The Quail Brook Senior Center at 625 New Brunswick Rd. is offering a “Gentle Yoga” class for people aged 60 and over. This eight-week class will run from 1:30-2:30 p.m. on Tuesdays, May 5, 12, 19, 26 and June 2, 9, 16 and 23. Advanced registration is required by Tuesday, April 28, and the cost of the eight-week session is …

Members of Girl Scout Troop 66339 have set two events to raise money for an upcoming trip to Costa Rica. The 19 scouts will hold car washes from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. on May 9 and May 23 at the Burger King in Rutgers Plaza, Easton Avenue, and a Multi-Family Mega Yard Sale from 7:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. …

Anytime Fitness in the Franklin Court Shopping Plaza on Hamilton Street is celebrating its first anniversary throughout May by offering free outdoor exercise classes. Called “Free Workout Saturdays,” the classes, designed for people at every fitness level, will start at 10 a.m. in the plaza’s overflow parking lot.

A group of township Girl Scouts visited the Willow Creek Rehabilitation and Care Center April 18 to get hands-on lessons in physical and occupational therapies. The scouts – about 23 from various troops in the township – spent the day performing exercises and learning about the equipment used in different therapies.

The Franklin Township Soccer Club started its 2015 recreation division season April 18 with games at Middlebush Park and Samson G. Smith School. The club, which boasts about 1,000 players, will run for the next 10 weeks, although no games are scheduled for Memorial Day weekend, said Rich Seamon, an executive board member.

The cast of “Annie Jr.”, running at Franklin Middle School through April 19, is using the performances as fundraisers for the Franklin Township Food Bank. The idea for the fundraiser was spurred by the Franklin High School cast of “Jekyll & Hyde,” which raised $3,000 for the food bank over five performances earlier this year.

Hundreds of members of the Jain Center of New Jersey paraded down Cedar Grove Lane April 18 top honor some of their fellow members who have participated in a year-long fast. Jainism is an ancient Indian religion that stresses nonviolence and vegetarianism. There are about 1,800 members of the Jain Center, which opened in 2008.

The Franklin Township PBA Local 154 held its first wine tasting fundraiser April 17 at the Imperia on Easton Avenue. Lt. Darrin Russo, one of the event’s organizers, said it was created as a way to raise more money that the PBA local would then give to township organizations.

To the rest of the world, they’re police officers, but to Maria Ducos, they’re more than that. “They’re not officers, they’re my angels,” Ducos said in speaking about township police officers Nicholas Gambino and Deyo Swartz.

One man was suffered smoke inhalation April 17 in an early-morning fire in a Reler Lane apartment. The unidentified 35-year-old man was taken to Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital in New Brunswick for treatment, police said.