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Beach Life Featuring Long Beach Island, Toms River and Seaside Park

Dec 2016

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Paint on Canvas or Wood Glass or Ceramics Crafting

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CANVAS • WOOD • GLASS & CERAMIC MOSAICS Canvas Painting $40 includes buffet NOV 21 6 pm - 8 pm 1822 Hooper Ave, Toms River, NJ 08753 Call Kim to reserve 609-549-1988

LBI Creative Minds KIDS WELCOME

Paint on Canvas or Wood Make Glass or Ceramic Ornaments $40 - Includes Buffet NOV 26 12 pm -2 pm Schooner’s Wharf, Beach Haven, NJ Call Kim to reserve 609-549-1988 Painting on Wood $30 - cash bar NOV 29 6 pm - 8 pm 597 Route 9 • Staffordville, NJ 08092 Call Kim to reserve 609-549-1988 Glass Ornaments $30 - cash bar DEC 1 7 pm - 9 pm 11 Kettle Creek Road, Toms River, NJ 08753 Call Kim to reserve 609-549-1988 Paint on Wood $30 - cash bar DEC 6 6 pm - 8 pm 205 Rt 72 West, Manahawkin, NJ 08092 Call Kim to reserve 609-549-1988

November 12th - Christmas Fantasy with Lights Parade & Grand Arrival of Santa Claus.

Park hours 2:00-9:00.

Parade starts at 4:30 • Santa Claus lights the park at 5:00.

Raindate: November 13th.

Parade features Fralinger String Band, Santa Claus, and storybook characters on floats, concludes with the lighting of the park by Santa.

Every operating day during the Christmas season until December 23rd - kids can meet with Santa and Mrs. Claus. Parents may take their own photo or purchase photos taken by us. Santa Claus lights the park every evening at 5:00pm until December 23rd.

All rides and snack bars are open during the Christmas Season We are closed Thanksgiving Day (November 24th), December 24th and 25th. We are open December 26th thru December 30th (no Santa or lighting of the park). See www.storybookland.com for complete list of hours of operation.

StoryBook Land 6415 E Black Horse Pike, Egg Harbor Township, NJ 08234

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Beach Life is owned by Lisa Ball and published by LivingLBI. All photos and materials are subject to copyright. BeachLife.Online Lisa@LivingLBI.com 609-848-1111 Sales: Kim 609-549-1988 Cheryl 609-954-6306 Beach Life Magazine prints 5 issues per year; May, July, Aug, Oct and Dec. Pick up your next copy at distribution bins located on LBI, Manahawkin, Lacey Twsp, Toms River and at the following visitor centers.

Garden State Parkway- Bloomfield Garden State Parkway- Union Hopatcong State Park- Landing NJ Turnpike- Woodbridge NJ Visitor Center- Elizabeth Jersey Gardens NJ Visitor Center- Rt 80 Columbia NJ Visitor Center- Liberty State Park, Elizabeth NJ Visitor Center- Newark Airport NJ Visitor Center- GSP, Montvale NJ Visitor Center- “Vince Lombardi Plaza” Round Valley Rec Center- Lebanon Spruce Run Rec Center- Clinton State Parks Service Regional- Annandale Stateline Lookout Park- Alpine Allaire State Park- Farmingdale Atsion Recreational Ctr- Vincetown Barnegat Lighthouse- Barnegat Light Bass River State Forest- New Gretna Batso Village- Hammonton Belleplain State Park-Woodbine Cumberland Tourism Assoc-Bridgeton Bulls Island Recreational Ctr- Stockton Cape May Ferry (Delaware)-Lewes, De Cape May Ferry (N Cape May)- Cape May Cheesequake State Park- Matawan Farley State Marina-Atlantic City Forked River State Marina- Forked River Garden State Parkway- Absecon Garden State Parkway- South Amboy Garden State Parkway- Forked River Garden State Parkway- Neptune Island Beach State Park- Seaside Park Lebanon State Park- New Lisbon Leonardo State Marina- Leonardo Monmouth Battlefield State Park-Freehold NJ Turnpike- Hammonton NJ Turnpike- East Brunswick NJ Turnpike- Cranbury NJ Turnpike- Hamilton NJ Turnpike- Cherry Hill NJ Turnpike- Hamilton NJ Visitor Center- Atlantic City NJ Visitor Center- Flemington NJ Visitor Center- I-295 Salem NJ Visitor Center- Jackson/Outlets NJ Visitor Center- Tinton Falls/Outlets NJ Visitor Center- GSP/Neptune NJ Visitor Center- Ocean View NJ Visitor Center- Trenton Parvin State Forest- Elmer Twin Lights State Park- Highlands Washington Crossing State Park-Titusville

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Christmas Island Easy Parmesan Knots Jake’s Branch Ocean County Parks Winter Waves Beach Shacks Cattus Island How to Play Dreidel Holiday Cookies Getting Through Winter Freezing Temps Sparkling Tinsel Satisfied with Christmas Welcome 2017

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Lyle Moraine wrote “Christmas Island,” in 1946, and the Andrews Sisters, backed by Guy Lombardo & His Royal Canadians, turned it into a million dollar seller the same year. The song also served as the title for Jimmy Buffett’s 1996 holiday album.

Happy Holidays CHRISTMAS ISLAND Let's get away from sleigh bells, Let's get away from snow, Let's make a break some Christmas, Dear, I know the place to go.

How'd ya like to spend Christmas on Christmas Island?

How'd ya like to spend the holiday away across the sea?

How'd ya like to spend Christmas on Christmas Island?

How'd ya like to hang a stocking on a great big coconut tree?

How'd ya like to stay up late like the islanders do?

Wait for Santa to sail in with your presents in a canoe.

If you ever spend Christmas on Christmas Island You will never stray for every day Your Christmas dreams come true.

How'd ya like to spend Christmas on Christmas Island?

How'd ya like to spend the holiday away across the sea?

How'd ya like to spend Christmas on Christmas Island?

How'd ya like to hang a stocking on a great big coconut tree?

How'd ya like to stay up late like the islanders do?

Wait for Santa to sail in with your presents in a canoe.

If you ever spend Christmas on Christmas Island You will never stray, for every day Your Christmas dreams come true, On Christmas Island your dreams come true.

How'd ya like to spend Christmas on Christmas Island?

How'd ya like to spend the holiday away across the sea?

How'd ya like to spend Christmas on Christmas Island?

How'd ya like to hang a stocking on a great big coconut tree?

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Lavallette

Easy Parmesan Knots Ingredients 1 tube (12 ounces) refrigerated buttermilk biscuits ( I used Pillsbury Golden Layers Refrigerated Buttermilk Biscuits) ¼ cup canola oil 3 tbsp grated Parmesan cheese ½ teaspoon garlic powder 1 teaspoon dried oregano 1 teaspoon dried parsley flakes Instructions Roll each biscuit into a 12-in. rope and tie into a knot; tuck ends under. Place 2 in. apart on a greased baking sheet. Bake at 400° for 8-10 minutes or until golden brown.

In a large bowl, combine the remaining ingredients; brush the warm knots with the mixture.

Yield:10 knots.

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Jake’s Branch Park

8.6 miles of trails including a kid’s trail with lots of “bug” fun. Climb the ant

hill, spin in the cocoon and climb through a caterpillar. In the visitor’s center you’ll find exhibits, live animals and displays. View treetops from the top of the tower.

Jake’s Branch Park is fun for the entire family. Charcoal grills and picnic tables makes it a great place for a party.

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Ocean County Parks Gull Island County Conservation Area 419 Broadway, Point Pleasant Beach NJ

Robert J. Miller County Airpark & Off Leash Dog Facility Mule Rd. & Pinewald Keswick Rd., Berkeley Twp. NJ

Beaver Dam Creek County Park 3430 Bridge Ave., Point Pleasant NJ

E.B. Leone Conservation Area Hooper Ave. & South Shore Drive, Toms River NJ

The Ocean County Golf Course at Forge Pond 301 Chambers Bridge Rd., Brick Township NJ 732-920-8899

Parks & Recreation Administrative Office 1198 Bandon Rd., Toms River NJ 732-506-9090 or 1-877-OCPARKS

Metedeconk River Conservation Area Lakewood & Brick Townships NJ

Cattus Island County Park 1170 Cattus Island Blvd., Toms River NJ 732-270-6960

Lake Shenandoah County Park and Sports Complex 660 Ocean Ave. & 300 New Hampshire Ave., Lakewood NJ

Riverfront Landing County Park 71 E. Water Street, Toms River NJ Mill Creek County Park 111 Chelsea Ave., Berkeley Twp. NJ

Ocean County Park & Off Leash Dog Facility 659 Ocean Ave., Lakewood NJ

Florence T. Allen Conservation Area 110 Chelsea Ave., Berkeley Twp. NJ

Patriots County Park 483 Bowman Rd., Jackson NJ

Jake’s Branch County Park Double Trouble Rd., Beachwood Borough NJ

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Berkeley Island County Park 399 Brennan Concourse, Berkeley Twp. NJ Eno’s Pond County Park 330 E. Lacey Rd., Forked River NJ Wells Mills County Park 905 CR-532, Waretown, NJ 609-971-3085 Lochiel Creek County Park (Future Site) Bay Shore Dr., Barnegat NJ Cloverdale Farms (Future Site) 34 Cloverdale Rd., Barnegat NJ A. Paul King County Park 2 W. Bay Ave., Manahawkin NJ Freedom Fields County Park 874 CR-539, Tuckerton, NJ Stanley H. “Tip” Seaman County Park 120 Lakeside Dr., Tuckerton NJ 609-296-5606 Ocean County Golf Course at Atlantis 261 Countr y Club Blvd., Little Egg Harbor Twp. NJ 609-296-2444

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Winter Waves

Freezing wind mixed with sand and salt water pummels your face. Winter is here and the waves have changed.

No longer do they calmly splash the beach while pushing happy children on their boogie boards. Now they are angry.

Warning us not to approach, they are loud and aggressive.

Get too close and you’ll be on the ground. Only the strong will survive.

Fisherman prepare with heavy waterproof clothing. Surfers wear winter wetsuits. We are still lured to the beach but now jackets, boots, socks and hats are required.

I miss hot sand between my toes. The sun is no longer burning my skin, Bathing suits and flip flops are tucked away for a long winter’s sleep. Summer is over. It is time to adjust to the harsh weather. I stand watching the waves crash with tremendous force to travel far up the beach and quickly race back to the ocean. Just amazing.

Early sunsets make me so sleepy. How I stayed up so late all summer long, I just don’t know!

I now have so much spare time on my hands. My store is open on weekends but all week I have very little to do.

Watching the moon rise, taking long walks and snapping photos fill my time.

I should love the winter but the cold ruins the fun of lazy days. I’d love to have this free time to lay on the beach but it is just too cold.

Moon rise in Beach Haven, photo by Lisa Ball Winter does have it’s advantages! The traffic lights are blinking and the speed limit is raised to 45 miles per hour.

Restaurants have plenty of tables for us locals to sit and eat. Supermarkets have parking spots close to the door. And holiday shopping is relaxing. The Jersey Shore is a wonderful place to visit in the winter. Hotel rates are lower so take a trip down the shore and relax.

-Lisa

Island Beach State Park Beach Shacks In 1945 the National Monument committee was formed.

This agency attempted to purchase Island Beach State Park for the National Park service. Despite the support of President Herbert Hoover, the agency was unable to secure funding for purchasing the land. The State of New Jersey eventually purchased the property in 1953 for the price of 2.7 million dollars.

Model A Beach Buggy Photos courtesy of Ed Steinberg In 1926, Henry Phipps, Andrew Carnegie's partner in Pittsburgh steel, purchased the Island Beach State Park property. He planned to create an exclusive summer resort and managed to have three homes built: the Ocean House, the Bay House and the Freeman House.

The stock market crash brought an end to his development ideas. Phipps died in 1930 and Island Beach was left under the watchful eye of the estate foreman, Francis Freeman.

In 1933 Freeman, his wife, and retired Coast guard captain, Joseph Tilton, created the Borough of Island Beach. Each assumed multiple roles: Freeman was Fire Chief, head of the Board of Education and Mayor while his wife was Borough clerk, Tax Collector, and Borough Registrar. Tilton and the two Freemans met twice a month to govern the borough. They also managed Phipps Barnegat Bay and Beach Company which issued passes to visitors and administered nearly 100 land leases. Freeman's rules were simple: “Leave the flowers and don't annoy the osprey.” When the state purchased the area the existing leases were honored with the stipulation that once the original owner dies the lease would revert back to the state.

During World War II the Island Beach State Park property was evacuated, except for the Freemans. They remained to manage the borough and a Coast Guard detail was assigned to patrol the area's beaches. In 1945 scientists from John Hopkins University came to Island Beach to test the world's first supersonic anti-aircraft missile. The test launch, as part of the Operation Bumblebee program, was a success and was important in the early development of rocket propelled weaponry.

When Governor Driscoll accepted the deed from Phipps' heirs, he stated: “Island Beach is unique. It is a jewel.

There is nothing like it anywhere on earth.” The park opened in 1959 under the Department of Conservation and Economic Development. It is currently managed by the Division of Parks and Forestry under the Department of Environmental Protection.

Island Beach is currently one of the most popular state parks in New Jersey and attracts approximately one million visitors every year. http://www.islandbeachnj.org/

Living in a beach shack is a romantic thought until you start thinking a bit deeper as to the reality of summer in a shack! Back in the early ‘30’s just after the depression, squatters would move right into these summer houses.

Owners had a tough time getting them out or getting rent money from them. Squatters would hunt and fish for food out of necessity. There were over 100 little shacks at that time. Many had outhouses and well water. Horseflies and mosquitoes were quite a nuisance.

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Athletes in Training offers Mommy and Me sports classes for ages 2-3 1/2, Little Stars classes for ages 4-6 and basketball clinics for ages 6 and up.

Our friendly coaches focus on the fundamentals of sports, hand/eye coordination and teamwork.

Make new friends and learn about a variety of sports in a fun and non competitive atmosphere.

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Feast of the Seven Fishes The Feast of the Seven Fishes is part of the Italian-American Christmas Eve celebration, although it’s not called by this name in Italy and is not a “feast” in the stricter sense of “holiday,” but a grand meal. Strictly speaking, Christmas Eve is a vigil or fasting day, and the abundance of seafood reflects the tradition of abstinence from red meat until the actual feast of Christmas Day itself.

Today, it is a meal that typically consists of seven different seafood dishes. It originates, however, from Southern Italy, where it is known simply as The Vigil (La Vigilia).

This celebration commemorates the wait, the Vigilia di Natale, for the midnight birth of the baby Jesus.

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Happy Hanukkah

Hanukkah begins Saturday, December 24, 2016 and ends Sunday, January 1, 2016

How to Play Dreidel

1. Any number of people can take part.

2. Each player begins the game with an equal number of game pieces (about 10-15) such as pennies, nuts, chocolate chips, raisins, matchsticks, etc.

3. At the beginning of each round, every participant puts one game piece into the center “pot.” In addition, every time the pot is empty or has only one game piece left, every player should put one in the pot.

4. Every time it’s your turn, spin the dreidel once.

Depending on the side it lands on, you give or get game pieces from the pot.

5. If you find that you have no game pieces left, you are either “out” or may ask a fellow player for a “loan.”

6. When one person has won everything, that round of the game is over!

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a) Nun means “nisht” or “nothing.” The player does nothing. b) Gimel means “gantz” or “everything.” The player gets everything in the pot. c) Hey means “halb” or “half.” The player gets half of the pot. (If there is an odd number of pieces in the pot, the player takes half of the total plus one). d) Shin (outside of Israel) means “shtel” or “put in.” Peh (in Israel) also means “put in.” The player adds a game piece to the pot.

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Driving down Church Road in the Silverton area, I spotted these wild turkeys just walking around. Hanging out by the church, I’ll just assume they are praying that they don’t end up as Christmas dinner!

Silverton Park is also known as Pirate Park!

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Toms River

Castle Park

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Cattus Island 1170 Cattus Island Blvd., Toms River, NJ 08753 732-270-6960 | 732-831-0406 www.oceancountyparks.org

Cattus Island Park is a 530 acres recreational park located in Toms River, New Jersey. Cattus Island is a park in the Ocean County Department of Parks and Recreation. Cattus Island is home to the Cooper Environmental Center, an educational center which displays collections of local wildlife including snakes, reptiles and aquatic animals. The center also provides educational programs and presentations to the public and organized groups

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Seaside Park

Flags cover the site of the recent pipe bomb explosion at Seaside Park. The device detonated in a garbage can at the start of the route of a Marine Corps charity race on September 18, 2016. Three

devices were wired together but only one detonated.

Thankfully, a delay of the race kept runners safe.

There were no injuries.

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How do kites fly?

There are four forces acting on a kite: tension, gravity, lift and drag. Tension is the force between the string and the kite. As you hold the string you’ll feel tension as the kite wants to fly away. Gravity is pulling the kite to the ground. Wind is what causes lift.

Air will pass over the top of the kite faster than air passing under the kite

causing the air pressure above the kid to be less than the pressure below the kite. This lower pressure will cause the kite to move upwards. Drag is air resistance on the kite. It is friction from the air. If the sum of lift and drag is greater than the sum of tension and gravity, the kite flies upward!

-Lisa

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Italian Fig Cookies

Manahawkin Italian Anisette Cookies

6 cups flour 6 tsp. baking powder 1 cup sugar 2 tsp. anise extract 6 eggs 6 tsp. melted crisco 1/2 cups milk Colored candy Jimmies

Ingredients 1/2 cup butter 1/2 Cup brown sugar 1/2 Cup granulated sugar 1 egg 2 cups flour 1 teaspoon baking soda 1 teaspoon baking powder 1/2 teaspoon salt 1/2 teaspoon ground cloves 1 cup chopped fresh figs 1/2 cup chopped walnuts

Mix dry ingredients. Make a well in the center, add all liquid and eggs. Beat eggs and liquids, pulling dry ingredients in the center until well blended. Knead dough. Place flattened balls of dough on greased baking sheet. Bake 400 degrees until edges are slightly brown. 7-8 minutes. Remove from oven and allow to cool.

Glaze them.

Preheat oven to 350 degrees F Cream sugar and butter Beat the egg and add to the butter/sugar mixture.

Sift dry ingredients.

Add the dry ingredients to the mixture.

Fold in the figs.

Fold in the nuts.

Drop cookies by tablespoonfuls onto a greased cookie sheet.

Bake for 15 to 20 minutes.

Glaze 1 cup sugar 3/4 cup water Mix sugar and water.

Boil for 8 minutes.

Pour over cookies.

Snickerdoodles

Egg Nog nog noun \ˈnäg\

Ingredients 1/2 cups butter (at room temperature) 1 cup sugar 1/4 cups sugar (+ 1 tbs cinnamon for dipping) 2 tablespoons milk 1 1/2 teaspoons cinnamon 1/2 teaspoons baking powder 1/4 teaspoons salt 1 3/4 cups flour 1 teaspoon vanilla extract 1 eggs

Definition of nog 4 cups milk : a strong ale formerly 1 cup sugar brewed in Norfolk, England 12 large egg yolks 1/2 cup bourbon, (optional) 1 cup chilled heavy cream Grated nutmeg, (optional)

Directions

Directions

In a large bowl, cream together butter and sugar until smooth. Add the egg and vanilla and mix until well incorporated. Stir in flour, baking soda, salt, and 1 1/2 tsp cinnamon. Mix until the dough starts to form. Add milk, if the dough is still crumbly, then add more milk at 1 tbs. at a time.

In medium saucepan, whisk milk and sugar over medium heat until sugar is dissolved, 1 to 2 minutes. In a large bowl, whisk egg yolks. Whisking constantly, pour hot mixture into yolks in a slow and steady stream.

Chill in the fridge for 30 minutes.

Return mixture to pan; cook over medium-low heat, stirring often, until thick enough to coat back of spoon, 20 to 25 minutes; do not let simmer. Quickly strain into a bowl. Stir in bourbon, if desired, and cream. Cool completely; cover with plastic wrap; refrigerate until chilled. Garnish with nutmeg, if desired.

In a small bowl, combine the sugar and 1 tbs cinnamon for dipping. Remove dough from fridge and roll into 1 1/2-inch balls. Dip in cinnamon sugar and place on baking tray. Lightly flatten. Bake at 375-degrees for 10-12 minutes or until golden brown.

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Barnegat When You First Bring Your Poinsettia Home Place it near a sunny window. To keep the poinsettia in bloom as long as possible, maintain a temperature of 65-75 degrees F. during the day. Water the plant whenever the surface feels dry to the touch.

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Cleaning sails with just a spray of water and a light brush will preserve them without harming their durability. Soaps are not recommended.

Dry sails indoors because UV rays are harmful to Dacron and nylon. Repair any torn spots. When storing sails, make sure that they will be protected from rodents. Dacron sailcloth is a favorite mouse snack, and they will chew little ragged holes all through your sail without a safeguard.

There are two good options to prevent this: first, suspend your sail bags from a height, like rafters of a garage. Or sprinkle mothballs inside your sail bag. For foolproof protection, do both.

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Serpico’s Ristorante located in downtown Barnegat, NJ serves the area’s best Italian cuisine, seafood, steak & chops. The pizzeria side of the house offers Ocean County’s best brick oven pizza available for eat-in, take-out, or delivery.

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Chicken cutlet topped with mozzarella cheese & our house marinara sauce over your choice of pasta One homemade 3oz. meatball served in our house marinara sauce over your choice of pasta

Chicken Marsala

Egg-dipped chicken sauteed in a white wine lemon butter sauce over your choice of pasta.

Your choice broiled or fried flounder served with rice.

Eggplant Parmigiana

Pasta filled with ricotta & mozzarella cheese topped with our house marinara sauce.

Flounder Francaise

Chopped clams sauteed in a red sauce (tomato broth) or white sauce (white wine, garlic & herbs) over linguine pasta.

Chicken sauteed with mushrooms in a marsala wine reduction. Served over your choice of pasta.

Floured & fried topped with shredded mozzarella cheese & our house marinara sauce. Served over your choice of pasta.

Ravioli stuffed with ricotta, mozzarella & parmesan. Served with our house marinara sauce.

Fresh flounder egg-dipped & sauteed in a white wine lemon butter sauce over your choice of pasta.

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Your choice of pasta served in hand crushed tomatoes, garlic, fresh basil & diced mozzarella.

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Combine crabmeat, 1/2 cup of bread crumbs, egg, mayonnaise, mustard, dill, lime and lemon juices and Worcestershire sauce. Shape into eight patties. Place remaining bread crumbs in a shallow bowl; dip each patty into crumbs to cover. Refrigerate for 30 minutes.

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Missing You,

Summer Just Another Brick Winter storms Ways to get shorter days Winter Solstice long dark nights, through winter

will I’ll be all right?

How I miss you, summer friend time flies fast but winter lasts

1. Sleep a lot 2. Take up skiing 3. Go to Florida 4. Binge watch netflix 5. Turn up the heat 6. Eat ice cream

Leaves will fall flakes will freeze my feet are cold the truth be told Need to see a little sign a bit of hope to help me cope

Wait What?

A purple flower just appears a sign of spring it’s time to sing My summer friend you’re back again with sandy toes lets take it slow.

Wednesday, December 21, 2016 The Shortest day of they year The first day of winter

Spring Equinox Monday, March 20, 2017 Equal day and night The first day of spring

No sun for 6 months?

At the North Pole, the polar night begins as the Sun sets around the Autumnal (Fall) Equinox in September. It lasts for about 6 months until the Sun rises again around the Vernal (Spring) Equinox in March when 6 months of Polar Day / Midnight Sun begin.

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Freezing Temps

Fresh water freezes at 32 degrees Fahrenheit but seawater freezes at about 28.4 degrees F, because of the salt in it. When seawater freezes, however, the ice contains very little salt because only the water part freezes. It can be melted down to use as drinking water.

Ocean water off of New Jersey stays pretty warm all winter because of the currents. Constant flowing water from warm southern surface water mixes with our colder water raising the temperature. The motion of the ocean helps keep the temperature around 40 degrees Fahrenheit in the winter.

The bay will freeze if the area is shallow and the air temperature is cold enough. Deep channels rarely freeze.

Snow Day

Snow on the beach is a spectacular sight.

Whiter than the sand, it covers the dunes in fluffy piles. Wind blows powdery snow into high drifts. Some areas have no snow at all yet other areas have swirled circular

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piles. One year the drifts were waist deep; fishing waders were needed to go for a walk! As much as I dislike winter, I do love the snow.

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Sparkling Tinsel

The frozen bay looks so odd. I always feel like I’m looking at a faraway place because I associate the beach and bay as a summer place.

It is almost magical to see the snow on the water with broken ice where the deep channel water keeps moving. Everything takes on a blueish hue and you can see your breath. It’s beautiful but also curious. How thick is the ice?

Will it break if I stand on it? I’ve heard stories that people walked across the bay in the winter.

But our winters never seem to get cold enough for that. Every once in a while, when it stays really cold for days, I get to watch ice sailing.

But it is not that often. Will it get cold again or has global warming forever changed our winter?

Christmas Tree Ornaments reached America around 1880.

F.W. Woolworth, an American retailer first sold imported glass ornaments in his shop.

Decorations also included cut outs of old magazines, cotton, wools and tinsel.

Tinsel made its first appearance in Germany in and around 1610. The early tinsels were made of real silver. Machines were invented to pull out silver into very thin strips. The Christmas tree was lighted with candles and tinsel both on the Christmas Day and Christmas Eve. Though silver is a durable metal, it got tarnished quickly with candlelight and the blackened tinsels were not a pretty sight.

Efforts were made to find a substitute. During this time Christmas trees were embellished with wafers, candies, fruits, paper flowers and hard cookies baked in various shapes.

During the 1800’s the hand cast glass ornaments became widely popular. Lauscha in Germany was the hub of glass ornaments production in Germany.

Later on silk, wool thread, chenille and stiff spun glass were used in Christmas tree ornaments.

The First World War disrupted natural commerce and necessitated the production of cheaper ornaments made with new technologies.

The introduction of injection plastic molding facilitated manufacturing of tiny figure miniatures.

Cell Phone Rings

to the tune of Jingle Bells

Driving through the snow, Heading for the bay, Over roads we go, Laughing all the way.

Songs on cell phones ring, Making spirits bright, What fun it is to laugh and sing, In the car tonight.

OH..cell phone rings, in the car, Lighting up so bright, O what fun our ringtones are, Down the shore tonight.

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THE JOY OF GIVING 6115 Long Beach Blvd.

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Satisfied this Christmas?

by Pastor Luke Fraser

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Island Baptist Church (IBC) held its first worship service just over 40 years ago in what was then, the Colonial Theatre in Beach Haven. Since 1976, IBC has remained committed to a solitary mission – proclaiming the Good News of Salvation offered through Jesus Christ. This Christmas, IBC aims to fill every seat with new attendees, each one eager to grow in their understanding of God’s will for their life. If that’s you, then IBC invites you to join them each Sunday at 10am.

Pastor Luke Fraser, IBC’s newly appointed zealous young preacher says, “This Christmas, my hope is to help people discover what the Bible says about being satisfied in life. It’s impossible to live a satisfied life, a life of total fulfillment where every thirst has been quenched, apart from knowing why you were put on this earth.” This pastor’s journey in life and search for truth might just sound a lot like yours. After years of searching for satisfaction, Luke Fraser found himself sinking deeper into depression, unsure of how to escape the nagging inner voice that kept urging him to give up trying. “For years I put on a façade,” says Luke. “From the outside looking in, you would never have guessed that I was starving to death. I looked like the epitome of health, success, happiness, etc. but inside, I was searching for something that could quench that deep inner longing.”

In a sermon from this past year, Luke asked his congregation, “Have you ever longed for something? I’m not talking about the feeling you get while sitting in church the morning you decided to skip breakfast, trying to hide the sound of your stomach growling, dreaming of the giant sandwich you plan to eat, counting the minutes until the service is over.

Nor am I referring to the anticipation you feel on Friday afternoons with one hour remaining before the weekend.

No, the state of mind I’m asking about is birthed out of a deeper place within the soul – the place where the most

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insatiable appetite is housed. Try as we may to satisfy this hunger and silence its growling with food, drink, money, sex, incessant entertainment, and more of the like, every human being ultimately finds this sort of endless pursuit to be in vain. Just ask Solomon, the wisest man that ever lived about what he discovered in his pursuit of the pleasures of this world – “Meaningless!

Meaningless!”…”Everything is meaningless!”

(Ecc.1:2). Through a personal inner-agony brought about by living the life of a counterfeit, a fake, an inauthentic person, and reaping the consequences of such a life, I’ve discovered along with Solomon, that the endless pursuit of the fortunes offered through the “American Dream” leave a man empty, even if he should find himself stubborn enough to acquire it. For much of my young-adult life, I pursued lesser “treasures” only to discover their worthlessness. At the end of the path leading to the plain, unsatisfying, subordinate pleasures of the American Dream, waits God, offering Himself in the Person of His Son as the ultimate object of our affection. He alone is capable of satisfying our deepest inner cravings. King David expressed this exact sentiment most succinctly when he wrote, “As the deer pants for the water brooks, so my soul pants for You, O God” (Ps.42:1).

Pastor Luke says that his personal passion is to help people who’ve misplaced their sense of value. “My heart yearns to point others to discover the supreme treasure of knowing Jesus as the ultimate object of their desire.

I want to lead others to discover what I have found. I thirsted deeply for answers, for love, for conviction.

Earthly treasures cannot quench that deeply-rooted thirst that dwells within every human soul. Only when one drinks from the fountain of life can that thirst be quenched. – Jesus is the fountain of life. Faith in anything else is hopeless and all other pursuits offer nothing but false hope.” Luke quotes Jesus Himself who said, “I am

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the bread of life; he who comes to Me will not hunger, and he who believes in Me will never thirst.” – John 6:35 Island Baptist Church loves LBI. Their sincere desire is to see hope rise this Christmas as they open their doors to residents of Beach Haven and the surrounding townships. The church choir has been preparing for a Christmas Eve performance followed by refreshments and a time to connect with others in the church.

At age 38, Pastor Luke Fraser delivers vibrant, passionate Gospel messages week after week to a people hungry for God’s Word. “You’ll be amazed at how friendly these people are,” said Luke, “come see for yourself!” Year-round Sunday services are held weekly at 10am. The church is located at 215 3rd St. in Beach Haven, just around the corner from Fred’s Beach Haven Diner. For more information, and to listen to Pastor Luke’s sermons, please visit the church website – www.hopeoflbi.com

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