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June 25, 2016
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Volunteers Expand Caregiving Mission To Howell
–Photo by Jennifer Peacock and Caregiver Volunteers of Central Jersey The ribbon cutting for the opening of Caregivers in Monmouth County featured local officials and the group’s volunteers. Among the services the group provides is therapy dogs to give comfort in visits to local seniors. By Jennifer Peacock They had to come. Caregiver Volunteers of Central Jersey, operating in Ocean County, opened a new office in Freehold to answer increasing demands for services for the elderly in Monmouth County. Though they opened their doors in March, they held an opening ceremony and ribbon cutting in June at St. Robert Bellarmine Roman Catholic Church,
where their office is located. This office will currently serve Howell and Freehold seniors. “For us, we’re going to have a lot more people going on more appointments because at the senior center, although we do appointments, the time frame is extremely limited,” Melanie Decker, Howell Senior Center director, said. She and Howell Business Administrator Jeffrey Mayfield attended
the ribbon cutting. “We have a 2- to 3-hour window, and it’s not even every day that we can bring people for appointments. The other problem is people have to wait an hour sometimes after their appointment is done. So, for the last two months since [Caregiver Volunteers] has been open, we’ve already been referring people. They’ve been doing their assessments and taking people. So it (Volunteers - See Page 4)
“Pitching The Past” At Allaire
FARMINGDALE – The Historic Village of Allaire is hosting the 1864 version of baseball on June 25. The Monmouth Fur nace Base Ball Club, based at the village in Allaire State Park, will take on another vintage team, the Chesapeake Nine from Baltimore, at 1 p.m.
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Players wear long-sleeve shirts with cravats and use old-fashioned wood bats. The annual “Pitching the Past” event will be at the site of the 1898 spring training camp of Brooklyn’s major league team. The Monmouth Furnace team has members from their teens into their 70s. The ball club regularly plays other vintage
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teams throughout the mid-Atlantic states. The Historic Village at Allaire, once an iron-producing factory town, is a non-profit living-history museum with costumed guides and preserved 19th-century buildings. It is at 4263 Atlantic Ave., off Exit 98 of the Garden State Parkway and off Exit 31-B of Interstate 195.
Local Officials Pause, Remembering Orlando Tragedy
By Charles Daye HOWELL – With a moment of silence and a call for an end of living in fear, officials began the recent meeting of the township council reflecting on the national tragedy in Orlando and its horrific shooting. Mayor William Gotto started the meeting with a moment of silence for Orlando. “Pray that at some point in our future we are going to get the right people who are going to be able to come together and solve some real problems in this country. So that people are going to be able to feel protected when they go to churches, schools, clubs and any place we can gather as American citizens and not feel that we have to be unprotected and live in fear,” said Gotto. The Mayor went on to praise the Howell Police Department. “We are always a society that has to be vigilant and we have some of the finest officers that anybody will have the privilege of being protected by,” said Gotto. The meeting saw the swearing in of officers for Howell’s police force. Patrolman Raymond Tillotson Jr. was sworn in to his position, with a ceremony at the meeting that saw Police Chief Andrew Kudrick and some policemen were in attendance. Before introducing Howell’s newest officer, Kudrick made it a point to address what happened in Orlando and echo the Mayors sentiments. “As the Howell Township Police Department we stand behind Orlando, especially the LGBT community,” said the police chief. He said that these
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