2021-06-26 - The Manchester Times by Jersey Shore Online

The MANCHESTER Times Vol. 27 - No. 11

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By Sydney Kennedy LAKEHURST – Last summer, the annual L a ke h u r s t Bi c ycl e Rodeo did not come to Lake Horicon due to pandemic-related restrictions. It was a breaking of tradition for Detective Madelyn Waltz and Lt. Iain James. One year ago, Waltz missed out on what she enjoys most about the Bicycle Rodeo: talking to the children and seeing smiles on their faces. Which, according to Waltz, “makes the sweat all worth it.” Despite an overcast weather forecast, the sun shined over the Bicycle Rodeo and blue waters of Lake Horicon. James said they hoped to see a large turnout at this year’s event. “We did what we could,” James said. According to Waltz, local donors supplied four bicycles to be raffled off to attendees, and the Lakehurst Police Department purchased (Rodeo - See Page 4)

Manchester Mayor Might Become Superior Court Judge By Bob Vosseller MANCHESTER – Mayor Kenneth Palmer has been nominated to serve as a Superior Court judge, but he would have to step down as mayor if he is chosen. Gov. Phil Murphy nominated Palmer on June 10. The mayor’s name is on a list of nominees submitted by Murphy to the New Jersey Senate Judiciary Committee. The governor is working to fill judicial vacancies across New Jersey and Palmer’s receipt of a “notice of intent to nominate” is part of that process. That process also involves Palmer’s application and an interview which will be reviewed by members of the judiciary committee. Should he be approved, Palmer’s nomination will then be presented to the full state Senate for approval. Murphy is a Democrat and Palmer is a (Judge - See Page 7)

Police Chief Retiring

−Photo courtesy Lisa Heath Carter raced in the 5 and under class of the Lakehurst Bike Rodeo. He came in 1st place and got a medal and a bike.

COVID Report More Positive Than Past

By Stephanie Faughnan TOMS RIVER – As the liaison to the Ocean County Health Department, Commissioner Gerry P. Little has delivered his share of bad news since officials began reporting COVID-19 updates last March. For a long while, the focus was on documenting numbers – both positive cases and coronavirus-related deaths. Then, fast forward and Little’s report included acknowledging the difficulty in securing sufficient COVID-19 vaccine allocations.

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During the height of the virus, health department oﬃcials gave daily reports of positive test results in excess of three digits. It also was not uncommon for individual municipalities to document more than 100 cases in one day. Hospitals in Ocean County went on divert several times. Nursing homes became overrun with COVID-19 outbreaks. And – thousands ultimately lost their lives to the novel coronavirus. In a county with more than a third of

residents over 65, the struggle hit close to home. The next battle was locating enough vaccines for those considering it as an option. When Little delivered his COVID-19 report at the most recent Ocean County Commissioner’s meeting, the first thing he did was remark on the smiling faces he saw from the dais. County directors concerned about crowding meetings returned to the meeting room for the first time in (Positive - See Page 7)

By Bob Vosseller MANCHESTER – With great regret, Mayor Kenneth Palmer reluctantly informed the Township Council that Police Chief Lisa Parker will leave the department after 32 “exceptional and honorable” years on June 30. Palmer, who took office as mayor just a few months prior to Parker being sworn in as chief in March of 2015 said during the council meeting, “it is with mixed emotions that I recently accepted the retirement paperwork

for Chief Parker.” When she was sworn in as chief, she spoke with excitement and pride about the township’s police force calling it one of the most well-respected law enforcement agencies in the state - and that she was proud to become the next leader of the department. During the last six years, she oversaw the township’s new full-time EMS program which began in March 2020 and the beginning of the paid fire department this year. (Chief - See Page 7)

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Rodeo:

Continued From Page 1 six more to bring their total up to ten bicycles. Two bicycles would be raﬄed to each age group. Wawa donated refreshments and the Dollar General donated toys. All attendees were welcome to enjoy free drinks and food under the early summer sun. “It’s good for the community,” Kristin Butts, a Lakehurst resident, said. Butts brought her four children to the event. “They’re very excited.” This year’s event was Butts’ second time attending the Bicycle Rodeo with her family. Two of her children won the races in their age groups and one of her children won a bicycle at a previous year’s event. The event, according to Councilman Brian DiMeo, is “an opportunity for the kids to get out.” DiMeo is the head of Lakehurst Youth and Recreation, the co-hosts of the Bicycle Rodeo alongside the Lakehurst Police Department. “It’s special to me because it’s community driven,” said Michele DiMeo, a committee member of Lakehurst Youth and Recreation.

In addition to enjoying and practicing safety on bicycles and enjoying refreshments and toys, attendees may also develop connections or become familiar with the Lakehurst Police Department. They may, according to James, recognize members of the police department and say “hi” after attending the Bicycle Rodeo. Before attendees - who are aged pre-k to grade eight - participate in races within their age groups, they park their bicycles under a tent for a safety inspection. By going through a checklist of safety measures that ensures the entire bicycle is safe, tires are inspected and supplied air if they are too low, and brakes are examined. The inspectors will even notify parents if their child’s bicycle is too large or small for their child. Helmets, which are required to be worn by all riders, are also evaluated for fit. Following safety inspections, riders participate in an agility course. As James explained, riders will demonstrate at multiple stations their ability to maneuver their bicycles. For example, they will ride in a straight line, turn in tight areas, and use or learn how to use turn signals. Afterwards, riders will race one another

−Photo by Sydney Kennedy A rider’s bicycle is inspected for safety before the agility course and races begin. within their age groups. Winners are awarded medals. The return of the annual Bicycle Rodeo

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Continued From Page 1 Republican. Palmer said of the opportunity, “I am truly humbled to be considered for the Superior Court position and thankful to Governor Murphy for moving my name forward. Presiding as a judge has always been my dream job and if fortunate enough to be confi rmed, I will strive to make sure each litigant gets a fair shake at justice.

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Continued From Page 1 ages. Most assembled felt comfortable with removing their masks. “We have to thank our health department for this massive response,” said Little. “Overnight, we only had 19 new confirmed cases, which brings the total to 65,804.” Only eight municipalities throughout the county reported at least one case on the day of Little’s report. Lakewood led the list, followed by Toms River and Jackson,

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Continued From Page 1 Parker started her career on May 1, 1989 and rose to serve in various assignments in bureaus of the police force. She also started several different programs for the

The Manchester Times, June 26, 2021, Page 7 “If confi rmed I will have to resign as mayor. It has certainly been my honor to represent the residents of Manchester and lead the wonderful employees. I do love Manchester Township, the town I grew up in and where I will continue to raise my kids.” The 48-year-old attorney owns and operates his owns the Law Oﬃces of Kenneth T. Palmer, PC. Manchester was his home town and he graduated from Tulane Law School in 1997.

Palmer served a judicial clerkship with Superior Court Judge Donald F. Campbell in Ocean County for 12 months. He later became an associate attorney for six years at the law firm of Finley & Buckley, PC in Atlanta, Georgia but returned to Ocean County in 2004 where he opened his own law oﬃce. He took the oath of oﬃce as mayor of Manchester Township in January of 2015. His tenure as mayor includes serving in that role during the pandemic of 2020-21 and helping to

launch the township’s full-time Emergency Medical Services program that started in March of 2020. The mayor has also been involved in recent months with the development of the township’s full-time fi re department program that will supplement the services of its volunteer fi re companies. He has frequently used social media as an added means to communicate with the public and respond to their questions concerning the township.

which each documented three confirmed cases each. “Long-term care facilities had six of the cases,” Little added. “For comparison purposes, there was a time that fifty nursing homes in the county that had an outbreak.” Testing sites are seeing less traﬃc in comparison to the number previously swabbed at the direction of Ocean County health oﬃcials. Only four people showed up for COVID-19 tests last Tuesday. According to Little, over 247,926 Ocean County residents are fully vaccinated. This

accounts for 49 percent of county residents over the age of 18. Ocean County authorities arranged for additional vaccination sites throughout the county, including sessions at the Ocean County Fire Training Academy on June 28. In addition, many libraries have taken on vaccine schedules. The numbers have already increased in the week since Little’s report. Of the 510,000 Ocean County residents considered eligible for the vaccine, nearly 284,000 received at least one dose of the vaccine. Over 252,000

are now fully vaccinated. Mortality statistics offer a dark picture of COVID-19 devastating impact in Ocean County. Lost lives currently total 2001, with Lakewood, Manchester, and Toms River all reporting more than 300 who succumbed to the virus. Little said that vaccines are available in several locations throughout the county, including the RWJ Barnabas Healthcare Arena, Southern Regional High School, and a drive-thru clinic at Ocean County College.

department. “I hope everyone will have a chance to thank her for her service and she has without a doubt left the Manchester Township a better place than which she found it. We were fortunate to have her over the years serving not only as a police oﬃcer but every

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through the pandemic through her leadership. I am eternally grateful to her for that and for many other reasons.” She will be passing the reigns of leadership to Capt. Robert “Bobby” Dolan, a 29-year veteran of the township police department as the next chief.

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Cops: Lakewood Home Used To Deal Cocaine

By Chris Lundy LAKEWOOD – Police arrested two people for using a home in Lakewood to distribute cocaine. The arrests come after a month-long investigation which ended with a search of a home in Lakewood on June 8. The address was not provided by police. Inside, they found about 10 grams of cocaine, “a large quantity of materials indicative of illegal drug distribution,” a digital scale, and $4,700 in cash. Taishaun Cosme, 26, of Brick, was charged with Possession of Cocaine with Intent to Distribute in a Quantity less than One-Half Ounce; Possession of Cocaine; and Possession of Drug Paraphernalia. Janice Rivera, 33, of Lakewood, was charged with Possession of Cocaine with Intent to Distribute in a Quantity less than One-Half Ounce; Possession of Cocaine; and Possession of Drug Paraphernalia. The investigation was performed by the Ocean County Prosecutor’s Oﬃce Narcotics Strike Force and Lakewood Township Police Department Street Crimes Unit, and the Lakewood Township Police Department Special Response Team.

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SPOTLIGHT ON GOVERNMENT Correspondence & Commentary From Your Local, County, State & Federal Officials

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Chris Smith WASHINGTON, D.C. − Two heavily-traveled bridges on Route 33 and Route 35 - both nearly a century old - and improvement projects for Freehold Borough and Middletown Township, cleared their first hurdle as they were approved by the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure (T&I) on the way to a likely floor vote, announced Rep. Chris Smith (R-4th), who sponsored each of the projects. Smith worked extensively with state and local oﬃcials to propose and insert prioritized local transportation projects into the INVEST in America Act, a federal surface transportation reauthorization bill. The bill must pass the full House and then be considered in the Senate. “Working with state and local oﬃcials, we carefully identified and reviewed these projects to address road safety hazards and ease travel for New Jersey drivers,” Smith said. “Both bridges would replace old spans that are structurally unsound and should have been replaced years ago. Route 33 and Route 35 are

two of the heaviest-traveled state highways in my district and many travelers will continue to use these bridges for many years, making these roadway improvements necessary and reasonable investments.” “Monmouth County is continually growing, which results in putting more strain on our aging infrastructure. The Route 33 Bridge in Millstone Township and the Route 35 Bridge in Wall Township are both structures that are continually utilized by our growing number of residents and visitors,” said Monmouth County Commissioner Director Thomas A. Arnone. “We pride ourselves on putting the safety of these residents and visitors at the forefront of our improvements much the same as Congressman Chris Smith. Therefore, we could not be more grateful to Congressman Smith for spearheading these much-needed improvements in Monmouth County.” In Monmouth County, Smith’s requests led to four projects added to the transportation bill: The Route 33 Bridge Over the Millstone River Project: Sponsored by New Jersey Department of Transportation (NJDOT), the Route 33 Bridge Over the Millstone River replacement project will substitute a dangerous structure with a modern, safer span. The current bridge, built in 1926, has been deemed

structurally deficient. The estimated cost of the project is $4,550,000, with 80 percent, or $3,640,000, covered by Smith’s request to the T&I Committee. The Route 35 Bridge Over the North Branch of Wreck Pond: NJDOT is the main sponsor of the Route 35 Bridge Over the North Branch of Wreck Pond replacement project. The current bridge which has been deemed structurally deficient and functionally obsolete, was constructed in 1931, and is used by thousands visiting the Jersey Shore. The estimated project cost is $4,665,000, for which Smith successfully sought from the Committee the maximum 80 percent federal share, $3,736,000. The Koleda Park Improvement Project: Middletown Township, sponsor of the project, would convert a vacant lot into useful community space. The project includes a driveway for the adjacent elementary school to improve traﬃc flow and pedestrian safety at a nearby intersection. A properly maintained, ADA-compliant parking lot on the site will reduce the need for visitors to park on neighborhood streets, offering better safety for those visiting the area for recreation at nearby recreational sites. Middletown has agreed to meet the 20 percent local sponsor match. Expected to cost $1,000,000, Smith requested the maximum 80 percent of the funding, or $800,000. The Freehold Borough Parking Improvement

project: This project would help alleviate the limited parking facilities in the historic town, which is seat to the county government. It increases the number of parking spaces from 54 to 67, upgrading the heavily-used parking lot while also providing green space and reduced stormwater runoff. ADA-compliant curb ramps and crosswalks will be installed to allow increased accessibility. Parking will serve nearby county government service buildings, oﬃces and small businesses such as restaurants. The local sponsor, the Borough of Freehold, is prepared to meet the 20 percent local match. Anticipated to cost $697,145, Smith requested the maximum funding of 80 percent, or $557,716. “Freehold Borough is the county seat of government, and many who have driven to Freehold know all too well about the limited parking. The parking project would improve access to local shops, eateries and oﬃces,” Smith said. Smith said the Koleda Park Improvement Project will make for much safer parking and walking for the many people who visit the popular park. “The project would make the Koleda Park area much safer for the children and families who frequent the lake, ponds and other recreational sites,” Smith said. “It will give drivers - and their passengers - much safer options for off-street parking and walking to their destinations.”

Senator Slams New Flood Insurance Hikes

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Bob Menendez, chair of the Sandy Task Force and the leading voice in Congress for sweeping reform to the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP), pressed the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) during a hearing before the Senate Banking Committee to be honest about the real impact of Risk Rating 2.0 on f lood insurance policyholders, the vast majority of which will face annual premium hikes. Despite their spin that Risk Rating 2.0 will deliver signif icant savings for policyholders, FEMA conf ir med du r ing questioning f rom Sen. Menendez that eight-in-ten NFIP policyholders will actually see their premiums rise. “The Senator’s r ight,” said David Maurstad, FEMA’s Deputy Associate Administrator for Federal Insurance and Mitigation Administration. “Eighty percent of policyholders will see their policies go up.” “I think what I find even more frustrating is that we call Risk Rating 2.0 ‘Equity in Action’ when I think this new rating system is anything but equitable,” said Sen. Menendez. “The more and more expensive this insurance becomes, the less the pool that will exist and the premiums will continue to go up as there are less

people in the pool, not to mention the ratable losses for communities across the nation, when you can’t sell the property at the end of the day because you can’t afford flood insurance… There’s a real impact for a very large number of people and it’s not only the impact, it’s the size of the impact.” The senator cited Keansburg, a largely blue collar, working-class community on Raritan Bay in Monmouth County with a median income of $52,000 that was devastated by Superstorm Sandy, in which 90% of its nearly 2,000 NFIP policyholders will see rate hikes under Risk Rating 2.0. “Under Risk Rating 2.0, 90 percent of policyholders in Keansburg would be seeing premium increases in the first year and the increases continue to compound in years to come,” Sen. Menendez pointed out, making the case that hardworking families will bear the cost of steep premium hikes. During his testimony, Maurstad misstated that all 217,000 NFIP policyholders in New Jersey will see premiums cut by an average $85 a month. In reality, FEMA’s own data shows 80 percent of New Jersey policyholders will see premium increases, with hundreds facing annual hikes over $1,000 and with no end in sight.

Sen. Menendez also pressed Maurstad on other areas to find cost-savings with the NFIP instead of putting an outsized

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MANCHESTER – The Manchester Township Senior Services Department will be distributing six $5 Farm Market Vouchers to purchase Jersey Fresh Produce for Low Income Seniors, who are 60 years of age or older. They will distribute vouchers on a first come-first serve basis until all vouchers have been distributed. The following locations will distribute vouchers: Manchester Senior Services Oﬃce, 1 Colonial Drive (between Townhall & Library): June 29 from 9:30 to 11:30 a.m. Whiting Volunteer Fire Company, Cherry St. & Rt 530: June 30 from 9:30 and 11:30 a.m.

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WHITING – Crestwood Village 5 Travel Bocce Club presents the following upcoming trips: Montreal & Quebec City & Ottawa: October 2 to 8; seven days, six nights. $750 double. Foxwoods & Mohegan Sun Casino: October 4 to 6; three days, two nights. $280 double.

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WHITING – They’re back and working on trips for 2021! The Meadows of Lake Ridge have announced “Yesterday Once More” at Caesars Casino trip on September 29. A tribute to ABBA, the Carpenters and many more. Package includes: $25. Slot

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Mayors’ Association To Hold Annual Scholarship Golf Outing

OCEAN COUNTY – The Ocean County Mayors’ Association will hold the annual scholarship golf outing on August 26. As a companion fundraiser, they are once again having a 50/50 raﬄe. They have 100 tickets which are $100. each. The winner will receive $5,000 if all tickets are sold or 50 percent of the proceeds, you do not need to be present to win. This has been a sold-out raﬄe over the years.

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Cash Calendar Raffle To Be Held

WHITING – St. Elizabeth Ann Seton Church is sponsoring a “Cash Calendar Raff le” which will run through June 2021. Each day a predetermined cash prize of $20, $50 or $100 will be awarded. Even if you win once you are still eligible for all the remaining days.

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Eagle Scout Builds New Goose Enclosure At Popcorn Park Zoo

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Concert Fest 2021 Line-Up Announced

MANCHESTER – Manchester Township And Recreation Department proudly present “Concert Fest 2021” at Harry Wright Lake, Whiting. July 14: 5 p.m. – WJRZ; 6 p.m. – Julian & Dominque; 7:30 p.m. – AM Gold. July 28: 5 p.m. – WJRZ; 6 p.m. – Jukebox Legends; 7:30 p.m. –Shirley Austin Reeve. August 11: Atlantic City Headliner Gerard Esposito at 6 p.m. appearing

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AROUND THE JERSEY SHORE 4-H Members Win State Art Contest Awards

OCEAN COUNTY – Ocean County 4-H members recently competed in the New Jersey 4-H Animal Art Contest held virtually. 4-H members from throughout the state exhibited more than 225 entries in the 2-D Art, 3-D Art, Photography, and Video divisions within five animal categories - 1) Dog, 2) Equine, 3) Livestock (beef, dairy, goats, sheep, and swine), 5) Small Animals (rabbits, gerbils, hamsters, guinea pigs, herpetology, and poultry) and 6) Other (alpacas, llamas, wildlife, and cats). The Ocean County participants for the 2021 NJ 4-H Animal Art Contest were: • Isabella Andreacci, a member of the D.O.G. club, in Dogs, Photography • Gianna Buckney, a member of the Wise Quackers club, in Small Animals, 2-D Art • Gianna Buckney, a member of the Wise Quackers club, in Dogs, 2-D Art • Julia Buckney, a member of the Wise Quackers club, in Other Species, 2-D Art • Addison Gerhard, a member of D.O.G. club, in Dogs, Photography • Kyra Huebner, a member of D.O.G. club, in Dogs, Photography, won Best in Division – Senior • Maura O’Brien, a member of Fantastic 4-Her club, in Other Species, Photography

• Maura O’Brien, a member of Fantastic 4-Her club, in Dogs, 2-D Art “We are proud of the accomplishments of the 4-H members from our county! The virtual New Jersey 4-H Animal Art Contest provided an opportunity for 4-H members to engage in creative activities and showcase their art and photography skills on a state level.” Amelia Valente, Ocean County 4-H Program Associate said. The 4-H Youth Development Program is part of Rutgers, New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station - Cooperative Extension. 4-H educational programs are offered to all youth, grades K-13 (one year out of high school), on an age-appropriate basis, without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, ancestry, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, disability, atypical hereditary cellular or blood trait, marital status, domestic partnership status, military service, veteran status and any other category protected by law. For more information about the Ocean County 4-H Program call the 4-H oﬃce at 732-349-1227 or visit the New Jersey 4-H website at nj4h.rutgers.edu.

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This summer’s Paddle for the Edge event will take place from July 3 to August 1. Volunteer paddlers can spend just a few hours on the water anytime during these dates to record some basic information for this shoreline study. Interested? Visit barnegatbaypartnership. org/protect/restoring-barnegat-bay/volunteer/paddle-for-the-edge for information about how to register and receive a link to a virtual training video. After completing training and a Knowledge Check, volunteers will be assigned a section of shoreline to paddle during the collection dates. If you have questions or need additional information, email Shannon at Paddle4TheEdge@gmail.com

Non-Profits, Vendors Wanted For Beach Ball-A-Palooza

OCEAN COUNTY – The 9th Annual Beach Ball-A-Palooza is rapidly approaching. This premier event hosted by the Ocean County Parks and Recreation Department draws a large crowd of all ages. This event will include games, sports demonstrations, music, crafts and limited boat tours. Jimmy and the Parrots, who were named best “Trop Rock” band in the country will highlight the evening.

Non-profit groups are invited, free of charge, to use this event as a fundraiser by providing various activities, food or organizational information. The county will also be accepting food and craft vendors for a small fee. This year’s event will take place on July 23. The party runs from 4 to 8:30 p.m. If you are interested in participating, contact Victoria at 732-506-5951 or email VWagner@co.ocean.nj.us.

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New Jersey Wind Symphony Returns To The Great Auditorium

NEW JERSEY – The New Jersey Wind Symphony (NJWS) will open the Summer Stars Classical 2021 Concert Series at the Great Auditorium at Ocean Grove on July 1 at 7:30 p.m. The series, led by Gordon Turk, Artistic Director, features nationally known ensembles and soloists. The NJWS is one of the premier wind ensembles in the United States with musi-

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AROUND THE JERSEY SHORE Going Back In Time With A Man Who Designs Dinosaurs

By Bob Vosseller JACKSON – Resident Bruce Mohn has been sculpting since he was 2 years old and his passion has taken him to present a prehistoric showcase for a number of educational venues. Mohn is someone who could design his own Jurassic Park and, in many ways, has done just that for museums and universities. “My mom discovered that if she sat me down with a lump of clay, I would be engrossed for hours, which was a wonderful thing for a mom with four children,” he said. “I’ve always been interested in animals of all kinds and a number of my early sculptures were of dinosaurs.” When his mother once brought home a pound of “Sculpey” shortly after it was introduced in the early 1970s, Mohn’s interest only intensified. “Sculpey is a plastic clay-like material that is easily sculpted and can be baked hard in a regular oven, which means your creations last forever, unlike typical plasticine clay, which can be reshaped over and over again, but isn’t so great for playing with in the dirt.” Mohn developed a great interest in science fiction and puppetry in his teens and 20s and thought that “knowing something about anatomy might improve my skills at making believable aliens.” “I enrolled as an art major at what was then Stockton College (now university) and began taking higher level biology courses to learn about anatomy and along the way, Roger Wood, one of the biology professors told me I could obviously handle the work and encouraged me to switch majors,” he said. “Stockton’s art program was infamous for their graduates working as cab drivers, but the biology program was a whole different thing, with a number of graduates going on to prestigious university and museum employment,” Mohn added. Mohn got an internship at the Smithsonian’s Vertebrate Paleontology Preparation Laboratory in 1992 and learned how to remove fossil bones from their rocky matrix and prepare them for study, how to make molds and casts and how to mount skeletons for exhibit. Later that year he designed an independent study course in dinosaur reconstruction and Dr. Wood introduced him to the then-director of the Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia, Keith Thompson. Thompson “invited me to show my work at a fossil weekend event. While there I met Bob Walters and Paul Sorton who became respectively my agent and my instructor into the finer points of sculpture. Through Bob, I got my first paying gig as a dinosaur artist in residence at the Academy and worked alongside Paul making sculptures for the Academy’s Lost World show.”

“That was in 1993 and I’ve been doing it ever since. It’s been mostly a side job, but sometimes a very lucrative side job. I’ve had some years when I made more as a dinosaur artist than I did at my day job,” Mohn said. He added, “these days I mostly do work for museums, universities and private collectors. My work is in 22 museums around the world. It’s been featured in books, magazines and television, but not yet in any movie.” How To Make A Dinosaur Mohn shared the techniques he uses in his museum work. “I’m best known for making three dimensional reconstructions of the skeletons of small dinosaurs, early birds and pterosaurs. Because of their small size and delicate bones, it makes more sense to sculpt models of the bones than to prepare them out of the rock which would also destroy delicate impressions of feathers and skin,” he said. “When possible, I obtain high quality casts of the actual fossils and use those as references and to pull measurements from. I supplement that with full sized enlargements of drawn reconstructions of the skeletons and refer to other more complete specimens to fill in missing parts,” he added. Mohn said each bone is made as accurate as possible and each joint made as a working joint so that the skeleton can be mounted in any position the living animal could assume. “I taught myself how to use a variety of tools, including brazing rigs for making metal armatures, grinding and engraving tools for doing sculpture too fine to be done by hand and amassed a collection of sculpting tools, dental tools, (and I) made tools to do the work,” Mohn said. He noted that “sculpted life reconstructions start in a similar fashion. I make an enlarged drawing to the size of the piece to be done, then prepare a metal armature. I make a fairly accurate model of the skull and then add taxidermy eyes, musculature and skin, much like forensic reconstruction, but in this case, the dead have been dead for millions of years and I have to rely on comparisons with the anatomy of living animals to suggest the musculature.” “When I started, very little was known about the skins of dinosaurs, beyond a few impressions of scales from some larger species. Today we know that many of the carnivorous dinosaurs had feathers and possibly some of the herbivorous dinosaurs as well,” he said. “I bulk out my metal armature with crumpled aluminum foil and then cover that with a layer of Sculpey, making a rough model of the animal’s body, pulling measurements from the drawing and transferring them to (Dinosaurs - See Page 24)

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AROUND THE JERSEY SHORE B.E.A.T. Center: Five Years Of Turning Lives Around

By Chris Lundy and Bob Vosseller TOMS RIVER – It’s been five years, and it’s been a good start. Partners of The B.E.A.T. Center recently celebrated their fifth anniversary as a hub for community services. B.E.A.T. stands for Bringing Everyone All Together, and it’s a fitting title. It’s a collaboration between Fulfill, the Peo−Photo Provided By The B.E.A.T Center And Fulﬁll’s ple’s Pantry (which is People’s Pantry now run by Fulfill), and The B.E.A.T. Center in Toms River is celebrating five years JBJ Soul Kitchen. of operation in providing delicious meals to those in need. Singer and JBJ Foundation Chairman Jon Bon Jovi said, “when Center was founded in 2016 on Hooper we conceptualized The B.E.A.T. Center Avenue in Toms River. at our kitchen table, we could never have During its first year, the partners projected imagined the impact it would have on the the center would serve families in need with community.” $5 million in food, job training, and other “We look forward to continuing our mis- support services, with $5 million more sion to serve those in need with dignity each additional year. The B.E.A.T. Center (B.E.A.T. - See Page 38) and respect,” Bon Jovi added. The B.E.A.T.

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WYO (Write-Your-Own) private insurance companies and freezing interest payments on the program’s debt to be reinvested in mitigation efforts. Maurstad confirmed that every $1 spent in mitigation saves the NFIP $6 in claim payouts after a flood. “I like anything the federal government can do 6-to-1 at the end of the day,” Sen. Menendez responded. Sen. Menendez renewed his call for sweeping reforms to the NFIP as the program is due to expire in September without reauthorization from Congress. He is currently working towards introducing new, bipartisan NFIP reform legislation built upon legislation he led in the last Congress with Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-La.). The National Flood Insurance Program Reauthorization and Reform (NFIP Re) Act of 2019 tackles systemic problems with flood insurance, lowers the cap on annual premium increases to ensure policies are affordable for homeowners, puts the NFIP back on solid fiscal ground, and reframes the nation’s entire disaster paradigm to one that focuses more on prevention and mitigation to spare the high

cost of rebuilding after flood disasters. Last month, Sen. Menendez questioned exper t wit nesses du r i ng a Ban k i ng Committee hearing on the need to make the NFIP more affordable, to revamp its broken claims process that left many Superstorm Sandy survivors holding the bag, and to invest more in mitigation efforts to reduce risk and the ultimate cost to rebuild after a flood. Sen. Menendez first exposed the problem of widespread lowballing of f lood insurance claims during Congressional hearings he chaired in 2014, and then successfully pushed FEMA to reopen every Sandy flood insurance claim for review, which compensated Sandy victims with more than $260 million in additional payments they were initially denied. Sen. Menendez authored the Superstorm Sandy Relief and Disaster Loan Program Improvement Act, which extended and expanded access to federal disaster loans through the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA). His Homeowner’s Flood Insurance Affordability Act was signed into law in 2014 to address skyrocketing rates many Sandy survivors were encountering. In 2013, he shepherded the original $60 billion federal Sandy aid package through Congress.

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OCEAN COUNTY – Are you troubled by someone else’s drinking? Al-Anon Family Groups may be able to help you. Call their 24-hour hotline for local meeting locations at 856-547-0855.

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AROUND THE JERSEY SHORE OCC Expands Cybersecurity Program

TOMS RIVER − The Ocean County College (OCC) Cybersecurity curriculum has adopted two partner courses for the fall 2021 semester. Each is designed to prepare OCC students for valuable industry certifications. The first is CompTIA’s Security+ (SY0601) course, which is delivered via their CertMaster Learn™ System and includes lab exercises. It will be complemented by two lectures a week, using CompTIA presentation materials. This will be delivered as OCC’s redesigned “CSIT 200 Information Security Fundamentals” course. The second is EC Council’s Certified Ethical Hacker version 11 (CEHv11) course, which has been fully integrated into OCC’s Canvas Learning Management System. It consists of two modules per week, including lectures, labs, reading assignments, student summary essays, discussion topic, a short quiz, and additional links and resources. This will be delivered as OCC’s new “CSIT 240 Certified Ethical Hacking: Tools and Techniques” course. Upon completion of each of these courses, successful students will have the option of obtaining practice test packages and exam vouchers through academic partner discounts, or for qualified students, via subsidies through OCC. “With the rash of cybersecurity breaches in the news today, credentialed cybersecurity professionals are a valuable commodity,” says Jon Weiss, college lecturer II, Computer Science. “Our curriculum here at OCC is designed to prepare our students to fill these roles by leveraging the best training from our recognized certification provider partners.” Specifically in New Jersey, from April 2020 through March 2021, employers advertised more than 11,100 job openings for cybersecurity workers, according to

Coast Guard Auxiliary Offering Boating Safely Class

BRICK – The United States Coast Guard Auxiliary, Flotilla 16-05 located in Brick will be offering a 1 day About Boating Safely class on June 27 from 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the American Legion Hall, Unit 129 located at 2025 Church Road in Toms River. This is a comprehensive course in the essentials of Safe Boating with instruction by certified Coast Guard Auxiliary instructors. Students upon successful completion will receive their NJ State Boating Safety Certificate. The cost for materials is $55. For registration and information, call 732701-7849 or email 0531605@5nrdivision16.net.

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Continued From Page 16 the sculpture with plotters. This ensures that the animal is accurately proportioned,” he added. Mohn sometimes make a rough sculpture of the skeleton before adding the muscles, baking the sculpture between layers so that he is always working on a hard surface. A final thin layer of Super Sculpey is then

spread over the muscle layer and embossed with latex skin molds. He either makes up his own mold or makes them from the skins of modern reptiles that have similar scale patterns as the known dinosaur skins. “I’ve pulled scale stamps from a variety of sources including lizards, turtles and snakes and on one occasion, from a nineteenth century Bible,” he added. As to his typical week Mohn said, “I have a 9 to 5 job that I can rely on to pay the bills

between artwork. Occasionally I have had artwork that paid well enough that I could just do that for a year. Generally, when I’m on assignment for a museum, I’m also on deadline, so I will work long hours to get the work out. Each job is different, so I can’t really say there is a typical pattern.” Every Dino Tells A Story Working in such a unique and artistic field, Mohn has had a few humorous incidents

over the years. “Part of my job is restoration work. I was restoring and mounting the cast foot bones of a T-Rex one time and was painting that in my front yard. A car drove by and then backed up very slowly and stopped while the occupants gawked.” He also recalled when he was restoring a 120-year-old Japanese giant spider crab from the Rutgers Geology Museum shortly after moving into his new home. “This is an actual specimen and had become quite fragile over the years it had been on display to the point that it was falling apart. “I got the job of hardening it and strengthening it so that it could last another 100 years or so on display. It is a huge specimen with an arm span of 11 feet and a carapace as big as my chest. I was working on one of the claws (six feet long) in my backyard when my new neighbor looked over the fence and gasped. “Is that a crab?” I wasn’t sure how that was going to proceed, but he and his wife came over and took pictures,” Mohn said. Mohn said he’s enjoyed his times working in public view. “One day I was finishing up the restoration of the legs of the mastodon skeleton at the Rutgers Geology Museum and was trimming excess paint from between the toes. A little boy wanted to know what I was doing and I told him I was giving it a pedicure.” How Real Is “Jurassic Park?” As to watching films like the “Jurassic Park” franchise or any version of King Kong, “I’ve never seen an accurate depiction of a dinosaur on film, not even the shows that were made for television, such as “Walking with Dinosaurs.” It is always amazing to me that while the studios will hire excellent paleo artists as consultants, they never use them to do the actual work,” Mohn said. He added, “the dinosaurs made for Jurassic Park were designed by Mark “Crash” McCreery, who as far as I know never had any training in paleontology and never checked his work against real material. His T-Rex is one of the finest depictions of that species I’’ve seen cinematically, but it still has inaccuracies. “His velociraptor and his triceratops, though, bear very little resemblance to the actual animals. It’s diﬃcult for me to watch one of these movies and suspend disbelief, even when the writers include an out, by noting that the animals aren’t direct clones and so might not look like real dinosaurs at all (a quote from Jurassic World),” Mohn said. “Technically, we see dinosaurs every day, because birds are a type of dinosaur. And even the extinct ones, we’ve seen their skeletons and in some cases the impressions of their skins, scales and feathers. There are several lovely dinosaur mummies on exhibit at the American Museum of Natural History,” Mohn said. “Their bodies were buried in fine grained mud and then the flesh was replaced by stone over time, the scales and wrinkles of the hide preserved by the natural mold that had formed around their bodies. In some spectacular cases, even the shapes of their bodies and muscles are preserved. There (Dinosaurs - See Page 29)

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Hobbyists Fill The Sky With Remote Controlled Plane

By Chris Lundy BERKELEY – From the highway, you could see the cars parked behind the abandoned Beachwood Shopping Center. Fr om t he ne a r by neig hb orh o o d s , yo u c o u ld h e a r t h e bu z z i ng of e ng i n e s . Bu t it wasn’t until you went down an old road into Johnson’s pit that you saw the spectacle. Back there, just off the parking lot behind Spirit’s, was a runway about 700 feet by 30 feet t hat ha d been paid for by the Pine Barren Modelers RC Club. A few planes were on deck, waiting their turn to take off. The remote controlled pla ne s wou ld c ome t o l i fe, speed down the r unway and lift into the air. T h is wa s t he club’s op e n house. There were probably 200 or so people who came out t o t he eve nt (a nd some b r ou g ht t h e i r d og s). B u r gers and hot dogs were being grilled. People sat out under tents, giving it a feeling like a local fairground. There was even a vendor selling planes and equipment. Richard Bombedier, the president of the g roup, said the f ield is insured and each of

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Continued From Page 24 are even two dinosaurs that include impressions of their internal organs,” he said. As to a dinosaur’s true color, “we didn’t know anything about dinosaur color until relatively recently. It seemed like something that we just couldn’’t possibly ever know. We are slowly peeling back even that layer,” Mohn said. He noted that “one of the small carnivorous dinosaurs was covered with hair-like feathers, that they were reddish in color and the tail was striped. Another is known to have had very dark, possibly black feathers. A recent armored dinosaur fossil is known to have had a reddish top side, but more of a cream-colored underside. Chemistry and various wavelengths of light have been employed to reveal those secrets. “It’s reasonable to assume that the extinct dinosaurs had patterned skins. Some of them may have been brightly colored, if only during the breeding season. I tend to follow the model of large animals today when coloring the larger dinosaurs, subtle camouflage and more grays and browns. Some artists add gaudy colors, but I’m guessing that dinosaurs with horns or spikes relied more on their shape for display than for color. In the end, who really knows?” Mohn asked. Mohn’s most diﬃcult job “was probably restoring the Japanese giant spider crab. It had deteriorated to the point that much of its limbs were about the consistency and thickness of cardboard tubes. I had to harden them with washes of cyanoacrylate glue and resin and fiberglass, build an internal support armature and then paint it. That ended up taking about a year.” One of Mohn’s most rewarding jobs was building a huge diorama for the Delaware Museum of Natural History. “That included four 1/10th scale dinosaurs, a crocodile, a turtle and thousands of plants and trees, including three giant redwoods. The entire job took about a year to complete and required the skills of a cabinet maker, a muralist and me to produce. It was on exhibit for twenty years, but sadly has been dismantled.” Mohn got assignments through agents for a number of years. “They had been in the business for decades and mostly worked as illustrators. They would occasionally get sculpture requests and passed those on to me and Paul Sorton. In recent years I have become suﬃciently well known that I’m contacted directly.” He is a member of the Society of Vertebrate Paleontologists and as such, his work is seen by museum professionals and they contact him when they want a job done. “I’ve also been contacted by people who see my work online. Often they have no idea what it might cost. Sometimes they can afford it, but a lot of times I have people expecting that they can get an original piece of artwork for maybe $50. I have to gently explain the economics to them and that’s why most of my clients are museums and universities.” As to his own favorite dinosaur, the seven-year resident of Jackson said, “that’s changed over the years. Triceratops and stegosaurus were big favorites for years. Brachiosaurus is another favorite but prob-

The Manchester Times, June 26, 2021, Page 29 ably my absolute favorites are the elegant dromaeosaur species, the most famous of those being velociraptor. “I should note that the animal depicted in the movies bears no resemblance to the actual velociraptor and in fact bears no resemblance to any of the real dromaeosaur species. Michael Crichton, the author of ‘Jurassic Park’ started the trend of calling dromaeosaurs ‘raptors.’ No paleontologist called them that. Raptors are birds of prey,

not dromaeosaurs.” Mohn said. Mohn added, the real velociraptor is not much more than seven feet long and only about three and half feet high. “While that may seem rather underwhelming, a living velociraptor would be attention grabbing. We know they were covered with feathers and might even have been capable of gliding. They weren’t the fastest dinosaur species, but could have easily outrun a human if they were somehow resurrected in

the present day.” His work and knowledge were both put on display when he was a guest at his niece’s grade school in Manchester and his nephews’ high school in Pennsylvania, where he guest lectured to the art classes for a day. “I was invited to lecture at a grade school in Toms River and briefly had some sculptures on view at the Ocean County Library. I’ve also lectured at Rutgers and in scientific venues,” he said.

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Business Owners: Help Wanted We Need Workers

By Bob Vosseller TOMS RIVER – The problem of finding workers these days would seem to be harder than you’d expect even as the summer season fast approaches. That is why Ocean County Commissioner Joseph Vicari asked a prominent business owner to share his story during a recent meeting of the Ocean County Board of Commissioners. Joe Leone Introna, a noted caterer and Italian food store operator in Point Pleasant Beach spoke about a worker shortage that is not only impacting his business but one he fears will impact the upcoming tourism season and the county’s economy. Vicari told Jersey Shore Online.com prior to the meeting, “You can’t cheat the system. If you are unemployed that is one thing, but you can’t find a loophole. Some people are

collecting money from the state and also working under the table and collecting money. You can’t do that. You have to play by the rules. Legal is legal, illegal is illegal. You just can’t do that.” “This is very important to us because it hurting our industry. It is hurting our food business and in the long term we are going to see inflation like we have never seen before. What is going to happen next year at this time?” Vicari asked. Introna said during the public comment period of the meeting, “I am absolutely shocked about how small businesses are being hurt and I consider myself very blessed. What I feel we are being faced with is a labor crisis. I do a lot of catering so I’m driving around and everywhere I see business owners providing incentives like signing on if you work for three months

like at Wawa or McDonald’s going up to $16-$17 an hour. We are able to pay a bit more than your regular deli and I am a few dollars above the minimum wage because you get what you pay for.” “What is surprising to me is the other businesses like landscaping, the laundromat, the pizzerias and it is everywhere. We’re putting help wanted notes everywhere. People are filling out the applications but not showing up. That has been extremely frustrating,” Introna added. “When you are paying an individual with a salary of $65,000 a year, a recruiter to come in to actually recruit new team members and people are actually not showing up.” “I’m trying to bring awareness to everyone in the state including our governor. I see press conferences by Governor (Phil) Murphy and the Labor Department and

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Senior Christian Gentleman - N/S Looking to rent private room and bath. July, August. Manchester/ Lakewood area. Will return calls 732-730-3426. (27)

Part Time Helper - 8hrs. per week in Jackson Wire Forming Shop. Leave message with good time to return call, 732-928-4605. (27)

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Moving Sale HUGE MOVING SALE - Furniture, Dishes, Tools, Pictures, More. June 26 -27. 9am-5pm, 221 Sprucewood Drive, Brick. (28)

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Items Wanted COSTUME/ESTATE JEWELRY Looking to buy costume/ estate jewelry, old rosaries and religious medals, all watches and any type of sterling silver, bowls, flatware candlesticks or jewelry. Same day house calls and cash on the spot. 5 percent more with this AD. Call Peggy at 732-581-5225. (t/n) $$$ WANTED TO BUY $$$ Jewelry and watches, costume jewelry, sterling silver, silverplate, medals, military items, antiques, musical instruments, pottery, fine art, photographs, paintings, statues, old coins, vintage toys and dolls, rugs, old pens and postcards, clocks, furniture, brica-brac, select china and crystal patterns. Cash paid. Over 35 years experience. Call Gary Struncius. 732-364-7580. (t/n) Cash - Top dollar, paid for junk, cars running and nonrunning, late model salvage, cars and trucks, etc. 732-928-3713. (17) CASH, CASH, CASH! - Instant cash paid for junk cars, trucks, vans. Free removal of any metal items. Discount towing. Call Dano 732-239-3949. (t/n) Vinyl Records Wanted - Paying cash for LP albums. Rock, Jazz, Blues, Reggae, Metal. Very Good Condition only, Call Rick 908-616-7104. (30) U s e d G u n s Wa n t e d - A l l types: collectibles, military, etc. Call 917-681-6809. (t/n) Entire Estates Bought - Bedroom/dining sets, dressers, cedar chests, wardrobes, secretaries, pre-1950 wooden furniture, older glassware, oriental rugs, paintings, bronzes, silver, bric-a-brac. Call Jason at 609-970-4806. (t/n) CASH PAID!! LP records - stereos, turntables, musical instru-ments, guitar, saxophone, CD’s, reel tapes, music related items. Come to you. 732-804-8115. (29) Advertise in the main sections of Micromedia’s weekly newspapers. Your ad will be seen by thousands. Our skilled team of account executives can work with any budget. Call 732-657-7344 ext. 206 for more information.

Counter Staff Needed - Lessee seeks to hire 2 individuals to work Saturday hours at SixFlags location. Immediate employment, great pay, additional days and positions available. 908-240-9694. (27) Home Health Care Company Now Hiring RN’s, LPN’s and CHHA in Ocean & Monmouth Counties! Flexible scheduling. Work in your community. Weekly pay. Career advancement. Comprehensive benefits. Call 732-505-8000 today. (t/n) Senior Living Community Cook/Dishwashers/Maintenance Technician/Restaurant Servers/Bus Drivers/Lifeguard (Indoor Pool). 1700 Rt. 37 West ∙ Toms River, NJ 08755. Call or email for details 732-341-4825 info@Silverwoodsliving.com. (t/n) Full/Part Time Residential Cleaner Wanted - Experience Preferred. Competitive hourly pay. Must have their own vehicle - Ocean County vicinity. Mike 908-216-2400. (26) Certified Home Health Aides Needed for Ocean County area. Hourly and live-in positions avail. P/T and F/T. Call CCC at 732-206-1047. (t/n) IMMEDIATE JOB OPENINGS We are hiring Certified Home Health Aides − CHHA. Licensed Practical Nurse − LPN. Registered Nurses − RN. Direct Support Professional − DSP Fill application on-line at Sabahomehealthcare.com or call us at 732-797-0700. Please send resume to ssalu@sabahhc.com. (t/n) Needed Female Live-In-Aid/Companion - (24/7) No experience needed. For a 57 year old disabled veteran, very light duty in exchange for private bedroom and bath, all utilities, cable, phone and food are included, plus a small weekly salary. Some perks for long term, must have drivers license. At my covid safe home in Holiday City, Toms River. Please call 201-306-6839. (26) HIRING NOW!! Looking for outgoing, positive, and engaging teachers to join our Toms River – Route 70 Goddard Family. We are primarily hiring teachers for our elementary school aged children to foster a learning environment in which these children can continue to do their elementary school work. This would include helping them with worksheets, zooms, google classrooms etc. Some of the great perks of being a part of the Goddard Family include a benefits package, paid time off, holiday events and free food and Goddard swag. Call today to inquire about this job posting and start as early as next week! We can be reached through phone at 732-363-5530 or email at TomsRiver2NJ@GoddardSchools.com.

Services Car Service - 24/7. Doctors, shopping, airports, hospitals, cruise, shops, Atlantic City, family functions, NYC accomodations for large groups. Call for reasonable rates. Kerry 732-606-2725. (19) Pet Sketches - Professional artist will create beautiful pencil drawing of your pet(s) suitable for framing. Reasonable rates. Senior discount. 551-265-3062. (24)

Handyman Service - Carpentry, masonry, painting repairs large and small. 40 years experience. Call Jim 732-674-3346. (39) Computer Tutoring for Seniors – Retired, “Microsoft Certified” instructor. Very Reasonable rates. Very patient with slow learners. I’ll teach you in the comfort of your home on your computer. I can trouble shoot your slow computer! I also teach iPhone and iPad. I set up new computers at less than half the price the retailers charge. Windows 10 specialist. I can also build a beautiful small business website at a fraction of the going rates. Special Projects always welcome! Tony 732-997-8192. (t/n) Bobs Waterproofing - Basement and crawlspace waterproofing. Mold testing, removal and prevention. Family owned. Fully licensed and insured. Call Bob 732-616-5007. (t/n) Roofing Repairs Etc. - Roofing, siding, windows. Repairs on small jobs. Utility shed roofs replaced. Prompt service. Insured. Gutters cleaned. Call Joe Wingate 551-804-7391. (16) Two great new offers from AT&T Wireless! Ask how to get the new iPhone 11 or Next Generation Samsung Galaxy S10e ON US with AT&T's Buy one, Give One offer. While supplies last! CALL 1-877-373-0131. (t/n) Life Alert. One press of a button sends help FAST, 24/7! At home and on the go. Mobile Pendant with GPS. FREE First Aid Kit (with subscription.) CALL 877707-2722 FREE Brochure. (t/n) Nor’easter Painting and Staining, LLC - Interior and exterior. Decks, powerwashing. Affordable. Senior discounts. References. No job too small. Fully insured. 732-6910123. Lic #13VH09460600. (19) ALLAmerican Home Health Aides Experienced experts in the field of trauma and recovery. Holistic approach to healing-nutrition, physical therapy, and quality of life improvements. Hourly or live in. Honest, hardworking, etc. Includes housekeeping, rides to doctors/ pleasure. Skip the rest, come to the best. 732-664-3605 (t/n) APlus Home Improvements - Over 30 years experience. No job too small. Give us a call. Fully licensed and insured. 908-278-1322. Senior Discounts. Now offering 10% off of any job over $1,000. (23) SUMMER GARDENING SERVICES - Plant Health Care, Vacation Watering, Containers, Repotting, Beds & Borders, Trimming, DIY Help. Experienced, Reasonable. Joseph 732-232-8144. (30) Cheap Painting Done Rite Free estimates. Fully insured. 38 years experience. 732-506-7787 cell 646-643-7678. (37) Anyone Interested in Having Their Home Cleaned? - Contact Diane 845-762-9952. Free estimates. Honest and reliable. (26)

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Continued From Page 31 said. “Governor Murphy made a comment that people were in carnage and were in desperate need of government services. Maybe they are but I was raised that work is survival, have fun, enjoy what you do but in the end its survival. If your family is in carnage, are you going to wait for a government check to come in? There are good hardworking people out there but they are getting tired and they are saying I am working for $900 a week and you have kids 21 years old that is gaming the system and making $24 an hour sitting at home.” “Regardless of the industry, there is an apparent lack of individuals that are willing to work. Jobs are available, but they remain unfilled,” Introna said. He noted some applicants expressed an interest in accepting a job offer if they got paid in cash in order to continue to collect state unemployment. “I understand what he’s saying,” Brick resident Sam Foster said. “I was looking for part-time work and got a job at ShopRite as a cashier. They were desperate. They kept on asking me to put in more hours but after a while, I couldn’t do it.” Vicari remarked that Introna’s efforts have attracted the attention of some media outlets and business organizations across the State. “Tourism is a $5 billion industry in Ocean County and annually results in more than

40,000 jobs.” “Every tourism dollar spent in Ocean County circulates seven times. It’s our economic engine and if we cannot fill many of those jobs, we will feel the adverse effect on our businesses and the economy for years to come,” Vicari added. John Crisafulli heads the Central Ocean Business Association that formed four years ago and includes six communities in Ocean County. He told the Board, “Business owners are offering incentives, bonuses, and yet people are not showing up for job interviews even after making an appointment to do so.” Crisafulli’s organization has hosted meetings with elected oﬃcials on all levels of government to express their concerns. “We will continue to bring this message to our elected leaders and to the community,” Crisafulli said. “This pandemic has created enough harm to our businesses. We want our businesses to be able to move beyond the virus and go successfully forward. We can’t do that without a workforce.” Director of the Ocean County Board of Commissioners Gary Quinn said, “our businesses, and especially our small businesses, are the heart and soul of our economy. We have worked with them throughout the pandemic, assisting with grant opportunities so they can keep their doors open. As we see state regulations associated with the pandemic lifted, we want all of our businesses to thrive.”

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Greetings from Mayor Vaz

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Barnegat Bay from Seaside Heights. Your neighbors in Seaside Heights take very seriously our responsibility as stewards of a phenomenal collection of recreational opportunities for our neighbors and for people who aren’t blessed to live near the ocean. I invite you to enjoy these pages and be reminded of the many opportunities we provide you to enjoy our beautiful ocean front. We look forward to welcoming you. Anthony E. Vaz Mayor

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Seaside Heights was born to be New Jersey’s foremost seaside resort. Whether you’re here for a day, a weekend, or a summer, you’ll find plenty to enjoy and create new memories. Mix and match for a great day. Splash in the sparkling waters. Breathe the fresh ocean air. Feel the sand between your toes and the sun refreshing your soul. Swim on a sizzling summer day. Stroll The Classic American Boardwalk.

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The food scene in Seaside Heights is as diverse as the many other opportunities for enjoyment in the oceanfront resort town. Food from traditional boardwalk grab-and-go to fresh seafood and casual sit-down offerings are an important element of any resort community. Seaside Heights is no exception. The impact of the COVID pandemic has shuff led Seaside Height’s dining scene somewhat. But, many favorite restaurants and stands are back at full stride, some have moved to new spaces,and new soon-to-be-favorites are opening. Klee’s, Spicy, and Hemingways have for years headlined the list of favorites for those preferring a leisurely sit-down meal. Two new casual, but sumptuous restaurants, Hooks and Drifters, have opened on the Boulevard. The Ocean

Club restaurant is opening in the new The Pier at Seaside on the oceanfront. And new grab-and-go stands on the Boardwalk abound. Boardwalk outdoor dining has grown steadily, also, as the pandemic era initiative to assist restaurants with space restrictions became so popular that the Borough has continued it. For pizza and cheesesteak fans, there are numerous restaurants throughout town that compete to be the best in their specialty. And, of course, for those seeking to satisfy their desire for sweets, providers of ice cream, frozen custard, and other delights abound. Visit exit82. com/restaurants/ for more information.

These five new residences on Hancock Avenue are typical of the fast-paced residential development in Seaside Heights. In the midst of a nationwide real estate homes built and sold in the half-million boom, Seaside Heights is continuing range with over 100 new units proposed. growth of new home construction that Most of the new homes are sold before began before the nationwide boom. being built. According to Michael Loundy, the owner According to Loundy, Seaside Heights of Seaside Realty, people re-discovered originated as a town with a lot of small Seaside Heights as a compact ocean and seaside cottages. Between the impact of bayfront town with a desirable lifestyle Superstorm Sandy and changes in lifea few years ago. The investment in new styles, many of those cottages are have homes has accelerated since then. outlived their useful lives and are being Recently there have been at least 40 new replaced with more feature-full homes.

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A SPECIAL ADVERTISING SECTION PROVIDED BY YOUR FRIENDS IN SEASIDE HEIGHTS.

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FROM $649,900 Two Bayfront recreation areas provide additional enjoyment options for visitors to Seaside Heights. Two bayfront recreation areas overlooking floor with bay views. the beautiful Barnegat Bay are enjoyable Sunset Beach is north of Rt 37 on the features that people might tend to not assobayfront. This area provides a sandy beach ciate with Seaside Heights. The town is one with shallow water that is ideal for families of the few on the Atlantic that is so compact with small children. The area also has hosts that it is just a short walk from enjoying the a classic Stewart's Root Beer, a sit-down ocean to delighting in the bay. restaurant, a boat launching ramp, kayak The southern recreation area is on Rt 35 rentals, a dock for fishing and crabbing, and a south of Rt 37 on the border of Seaside livery operation that rents boats for a fishing Park. This area features a dock for fishing and crabbing. and crabbing, as well as a livery operation The beach is protected by lifeguards in seathat rents personal watercraft and pontoon son, and a beach badge is required. Parking boats. Dock Outfitters manages the southis free. Sunset Beach is a popular place from ern area and offers a well-stocked tackle which to enjoy beautiful sunsets. shop as well as a café that features a second https://exit82.com/bayfront/

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within town to larger space. Two examples: PJ’s Place, a popular seafood restaurant recently moved from its location on the Boulevard to larger space on Ocean Terrace, by the Boardwalk. Heavy Reel Brewing, the popular micro-brewery, took advantage of the pandemic hiatus to move to much larger space a few blocks north of its prior location. Major construction on commercial projects continues on the Boardwalk and Boulevard with more planned. Seaside Heights considers itself a YES town and invites potential investors to meet with town leaders to explore creative projects. Visit exit82.com/business/ for more information.

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Enjoy Lots of Free Events

There are many ways to get wet and cool in Seaside Heights, The Breakwater Beach water park with numerous water activities join the ocean and bay as refreshing and enjoyable options.

Amusement games from classic midway wheels to skill games like the Frog Bog delight all ages on the Seaside Heights Boardwalk and Casino Pier.

Fireworks, massive kite spectaculars, and lots of music events provide a fantastic schedule of free events for visitors to Seaside Heights. A full schedule of entertainment and events has returned to Seaside Heights. There are typically events held throughout the year, both by the town and by outside organizations, and following last year’s pandemic restrictions the rebound this year is phenomenal. Starting July 1 there is an abundant schedule of entertainment, most of it free, to add to your enjoyment of Seaside Heights. Come for an event and then enjoy a great variety of food, shopping, arcade play, Casino Pier, and The Classic American Boardwalk. Or, if you are planning to visit Seaside Heights, check to see what additional free entertainment is available for your

pleasure. Fireworks return July 4 and every Wednesday until just before Labor Day. The Kites in the Heights Tuesday Evening kite shows continue to grow in popularity. And this year, the Bubble Storms that children enjoy so much will again join the kite shows. Music events are plentiful, including a number of tribute concerts on the beach featuring the music of music legends such as Styx, Yes, and Billy Joel. There is too much to cover in a short article, so we encourage you to look for the event schedule page elsewhere in this section and to visit exit82.com/events/ regularly for the most current event and entertainment information.

Seaside Heights honors the dedication of those who keep our country safe through their service in our armed forces. That gratitude is shown through free beach access and discounts at Seaside Heights businesses for active duty and retired military personnel. The Borough of Seaside Heights offer s free access to the beach for active and retired military personnel and their dependents (spouses, civil union partners, and children) with a valid form of Military ID. The business community also provides

discounts for active and retired military personnel, with a valid form of military ID, on amusements, food, retail, lodging, and parking. Military-friendly businesses are indicated by the “Military Discounts Available” sign displayed in their front windows. Details of offers for active-duty and retired military personnel are available at https://exit82. com/military-friendly/ The Borough of Seaside Heights thanks you for your service.

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2021 Seaside Heights Events

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7:00 - 9:00pm 9:30 - 10:00pm TBD 7:00pm 7:00pm

Boardwalk Beach Hiering Sand Lot Carteret Stage

AUGUST 1 2 3 3

Sunday Monday Tuesday Tuesday

Tuesday

Movies on the Beach Tom & Jerry 8:30 - 10:30pm Concert Stiletto & The Saxman 7:00 - 9:00pm 2 for 1 Beach Day ALL DAY Kites in the Heights 4:00 - 7:00pm Mr. Ray’s Wonders Kids Music that Rocks! 7:00pm

Carteret Beach Franklin Stage ALL BEACHES Carteret Beach Carousel Pavilion

4 4 4 5 7 7 8 9 10 10 10 11 11 12 13 13 15 16 16 17 17 17 18 18 19 20 22 23 24 24 24 25 26 27 27 28 29 30 31

Wednesday Wednesday Wednesday Thursday Saturday Saturday Sunday Monday Tuesday Tuesday Tuesday Wednesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Friday Sunday Monday Monday Tuesday Tuesday Tuesday Wednesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Sunday Monday Tuesday Tuesday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Friday Saturday Sunday Monday Tuesday

Beach Volleyball Clinic, Great American Volleyball Big Joe Henry Variety Show Fireworks Ray Anderson’s David BowieTribute Band Concert Arts & Crafts by the Sea Rock N Roll Chorus Concert Movies on the Beach - The Lion King Concert Jukebox Legends Dad & Me Beach Day Kites in the Heights Ron Albanese’s Kiddie Rock N Roll Comedy Show Big Joe Henry Variety Show Fireworks Styx Tribute Concert by Return to Paradise Broadway Meets the Beach Monster Energy Concert Movies on the Beach - The Secret Life of Pets 2 2 for 1 Beach Day Concert Jullian & Dominique Friend & Me Day Kites in the Heights Miss Jolie Children’s Music Big Joe Henry Variety Show Fireworks Crosby, Stills and Nash Acoustic Guitar Williams Honor, Jersey Shore Country Movies on the Beach Raya & The Last Dragon Concert Gerard Esposito Dog Royalty Days Kites in the Heights Ron Albanese’s Kiddie Rock N Roll Comedy Show Fireworks Tribute Concert Splintered Sunlight Grateful Dead Broadway Meets the Beach Bad Fish Concert Matthew Piazzi & the DeBonairs Movies on the Beach Moana Concert - Joey Arminio & The Family Kites in the Heights

6:00-8:00pm Sunset Beach 7:00 - 9:00pm Boardwalk 9:30 - 10:00pm Beach 7:30 - 9:00pm Beach 11:00-7:00pm Boardwalk 7:00 pm Carteret Stage 8:30 - 11:00pm Carteret Beach 7:00 - 9:00pm Franklin Stage ALL DAY Beach 4:00 - 7:00pm Carteret Beach 7:00pm Carousel Pavilion 7:00 - 9:00pm Boardwalk 9:30 - 10:00pm Beach 7:30 - 9:00pm Beach 7:00pm Carousel Pavilion TBA 8:30 - 11:00pm Carteret Beach ALL DAY ALL BEACHES 7:00 - 9:00pm Franklin Stage ALL DAY Beach 4:00 - 7:00pm Carteret Beach 7:00pm Carousel Pavilion 7:00 - 9:00pm Boardwalk 9:30 - 10:00pm Beach Carousel Bldg 7:30pm Beach stage 8:30 - 10:30pm Carteret Beach 7:00 - 9:00pm Franklin Stage 9:00am - 5:00pm Boardwalk 4:00 - 7:00pm Carteret Beach 7:00pm Carousel Pavilion 9:30 - 10:00pm Beach 7:30 - 9:00pm 7:00pm Carousel Pavilion 7:00 pm 8:30 - 10:30pm 7:00 - 9:00pm 4:00 - 7:00pm

Carteret Stage Carteret Beach Franklin Stage Carteret Beach

Fireworks 9:30 - 10:00pm RV Rally Family Motor Coach Association ALL DAY TWC Event TBA Jersey Pizza Crawl Wine Festival (Disco 54 concert TBA) TBA Wine Festival (Super Trans concert TBA) TBA Little Walk for Brain Cancer TBA Antique Car Show Vintage Auto Club of OC 9:00am - 3:00pm Charity 5K, Little by Little, Inc. (Haiti Benefit) 8:00-12:30 Cheap Thrills Motorcycle Show & Swap (Hershey) 10:00-10:00 7th Annual Rock the Farm Tribute Festival 12:00-10:00pm St. Jude’s Walk TBA

Beach North Bayfront

SEPTEMBER 1 8-13 9-13 11 11 12 12 12 19 24-26 25 26

Wednesday Wed - Mon Thurs - Mon Saturday Saturday Sunday Sunday Sunday Sunday Fri-Sat Sat-Sun Sunday

Boardwalk Boardwalk/Beach Boardwalk/Beach Boardwalk Bay Blvd/Grant Boardwalk 1415 Boulevard Grant Parking Lot

FALL AND WINTER Oct 2 Oct 9 Oct 24 Dec 31

Saturday Saturday Sunday Friday

Car Show Bring ‘Em Out Promotions 4 x 4 Beach Take Over Jeep Rally Seaside Half Marathon First Night

Seaside Heights offers a tremendous variety of activities and events available for your enjoyment in Seaside Heights. Schedules change for various reasons and we suggest that you visit www.exit82.com/events/ for the most recent information.

ALL DAY

Bay Blvd/School Hiering Lot/Beach

12:00-5:00 pm

Arcades

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B.E.A.T.:

Continued From Page 17 exceeded all projections. Within five years, the partners provided food and services valued at more than $30 million by serving nearly 10 million meals to their community and $7.7 million in benefits and other social services. During the height of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, the JBJ Soul Kitchen provided more than 4,600 grab-and-go meals serving only those in need and 1,000 more meals delivered and served to community partners. Between Fulfill’s food distribution center, JBJ Soul Kitchen and Fulfi ll’s People’s Pantry, more than half a million meals were distributed from The B.E.A.T. Center to the community during the height of the pandemic. More Than Food The B.E.A.T. is a one-stop shop, said Linda Kellner, interim co-CEO and Director of Development for Fulfill. The food at the People’s Pantry or the Soul Kitchen satisfies an immediate need. But while they are there, they can avail themselves of long-term help. They can sign up for food stamps, for example. There are staff who show them how to get affordable health insurance or do their taxes for no cost so they get the refunds they’re entitled to. They work to stop the causes of hunger so that people can be self-suﬃcient. For example, the culinary training center has graduated 103 people who have found steady employment and a living wage. “B.E.A.T. gave us a physical footprint in Ocean County,” she said. It was important to have a location for all the various groups to operate out of. The synergy of them working together can help the whole person instead of just one aspect of someone’s life. The building was also a distribution point for the crisis boxes. Each one can provide a family of four with enough food to last four days. These went to individuals and also to area nonprofits, senior centers, schools, veteran organizations, municipalities, and pantries throughout Ocean County. “The impacts of the pandemic will last beyond the virus itself,” she said. A lot of families lost one or more sources of income, she said. Restaurants, school districts and more have been laying off staff. People have had to leave their health care jobs because they or someone in their household has medical issues that would be serious if they got COVID. Before the pandemic, they were servicing 200 households a week. Now, it is more than 900. “Hunger has no face. It could be me. It could be you,” she said. We need to get rid of the stigma against people in need, she said. This stigma has done such harm. People don’t want to give help because of this. The poor are looked

down upon or forgotten. People are also too embarrassed to ask for help because of the stigma. Something like food stamps help because the only person who sees them is the cashier. Families can shop for what they want or need, and it gives them a feeling of choice. “Fulfill works very, very hard to help people get things they need in a dignified way,” she said. Currently, the organization is feeding 215,000 people, including 70,000 children. Fulfill has served 3.5 million more meals since the coronavirus crisis affected the Jersey Shore. These 215,000 people are split evenly between Ocean and Monmouth counties. These counties have a total population of about 1,200,000 (600,000 each). So that means roughly one in six people are in need in Ocean and Monmouth. The Fulfill FoodBank, formerly known as The FoodBank of Monmouth and Ocean Counties was feeding 136,000 people prior to the pandemic including 50,000 children. Fulfill Board Chair Lauren Holman said Fulfill has been in operation for more than 30 years. “We were there to provide food and comfort during economic storms, Superstorm Sandy, and now the pandemic,” Holman said. “During the current coronavirus crisis, the demand for food has grown 40%. We expect the demand to grow as more businesses close and families exhaust their savings. Fulfill feeds children, seniors, veterans, and the working poor,” she added. Fulfill serves pantries, shelters, and soup kitchens, provides hot meals for children after school, and sends food home for those same children over the weekend. The organization has earned a 4-star rating from Charity Navigator for more than ten consecutive years. This distinction means Fulfill, a 501 (c)3 charitable organization, outperformed most charities in America in areas of eﬃciency, fiscal integrity, and effectiveness. Holman added, “95 cents of every dollar donated to Fulfill goes directly to feeding the hungry in our community.” How To Help If you are interested in helping, these groups are always looking for volunteers and donations. Visit their websites like FulﬁllNJ.org or jbjsoulkitchen.org to learn how to help. Some volunteers hand out food, answer phones, work the Monmouth County garden, or provide free professional services or coaching. Need Help? If you are in need of assistance, you can visit the B.E.A.T. center during their normal operating hours, found online at the above websites. Fulfi ll operates a list of known food pantries and soup kitchens in the area. You can just text Find Food to 888-918-2729.

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Omarr’s Astrological Forecast For the week of jun 26 - jul 2

By Jeraldine Saunders

ARIES (March 21-April 19): Using charm and easygoing ways can make the going easier. Your career ambitions could take second place behind your hopes and dreams for your family. Focus on making your loved ones feel special this week. TAURUS (April 20-May 20): With positive thinking you can be an inspiration to others. Your network of contacts should be there to support you whenever the going gets tough. Well-researched information can help you reach your goals this week. GEMINI (May 21-June 20): You’ll likely prove to be a wily adversary when challenged to a battle of wits. Don’t offer someone assurances that encourage their wishful thinking. Focus on building a nest egg. CANCER (June 21-July 22): Call in favors in the week ahead. Friends and well-wishers will probably be happy to lend a hand so you can work toward making dreams come true. A chance to greatly improve your circumstances might arrive early in the upcoming week. LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Make your mark without ruffling anybody’s feathers. Avoid personality conflicts by waiting for someone to approach you rather than making the first move. Be philosophical and tolerant of other viewpoints in the week ahead. VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Get by with a little help from your friends. If you stick to the facts, you should fit in with any group that gathers to discuss mutual interests. Use sound business tactics for the greatest financial success in the

week ahead. LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): In the upcoming week you might make your working conditions more comfortable and earn a few gold stars from the boss. You probably have a sense of how things ought to be and can effectively improve your surroundings. SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): As the week unfolds, you may be blessed with unexpected support that helps you achieve your career goals. If you demonstrate your affection and give loved ones the benefit of the doubt, you can grow closer. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): In the week to come, your vision of how things should be may be altered. You could be bombarded by unexpected changes that you should accept with good grace. By accepting something new, you may improve the outcome. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): The results will likely be in direct proportion to the effort you put forth. Co-workers and clients should respect you when you offer practical solutions. Your partner or a loved one can offer the best advice. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Persistence and a strong work ethic will bring abundance faster than betting on lucky numbers. When it comes to handling your money, you may experience more than your usual share of good luck through intelligent planning. PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): It’s never too late to be your best. Embrace an opportunity that arrives in the week ahead, as it can lead to a higher level of contentment. Romantic meetings can sustain your highest expectations.

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