Weekly Music Therapy At Manchester’s Regional Day School Really Sings

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MANCHESTER – Each week, Hannah from Mosaic Music Therapy visits Regional Day School students for fun, engaging and beneficial music therapy sessions.

“Music Therapy has had a positively profound effect on our students,” said Lisa Michallis, Principal of Regional Day School.

“Although our teachers are always exposing students to rhythms, basic hand-held instruments and various genres of music, the addition of Ms. Hannah’s techniques brings the students joy and confidence in a different way.”

Music Therapy has been proven to increase

Photo courtesy Manchester Schools social, cognitive, communication, fi ne and gross motor skills as well as improve the mental and physical help of individuals with special needs. It is fun, engaging, stimulates the brain and brings people together. Music Therapy is not only promoting music and movement, but it also promotes language, exposes students to different cultures and customs, some classes are even able to write music and perform for the staff and their families. The students at Regional Day School love their Music Therapy and the school is proud to bring this experience to their students.

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Residents: Continued

From Page 1 were surprised when residents appeared at their meeting and disclosed they lived onsite year-round.

The revelation resulted in a delay in the transfer of the property and a holdup of the $7.4 million offer made to Surf and Stream owners. Manchester Township contributed $1.5 million for the purchase of the land.

Ocean County Deputy Director Gary Quinn confi rmed the proposed sale fi nally closed in mid-December 2022. A portion of the seller’s funds is held in escrow until all of the structures on the property are demolished.

Despite approximately ten months of time to fi nd new homes, a number of people stayed until the bitter end. Unfortunately, the search for alternative housing still hasn’t panned out for some.

“Eddie,” 36, asked that only his first name be used to tell his story – admitting his embarrassment in a somewhat shaky voice. Eddie planned to sell the small camper he shared with his school-aged daughter. Unfortunately, the sale fell through, and Eddie’s old home got left behind when he departed Surf and Stream on November 18th.

Eviction proceedings resulted in deadlines and promises that property owners wouldn’t attempt to collect rent campers stopped paying after notice of the sale. Eddie figured he’d fi nd a place for him and his daughter –it still hasn’t happened.

“I think I’m up to paying $700 in apartment application fees and the background checks that go with them,” shared Eddie, who works two jobs. “Some are telling me I don’t make enough money to even qualify to put in an application. Others want three times the rent to get started, and that’s for an $1,800 unit.”

“I keep telling them I can swing it, and they say things are tighter because of COVID,” Eddie continued. “I’m not getting callbacks for any of the houses I’ve tried to get, including for seasonal rentals.”

Recently, Eddie came across a group outside the county’s social services system that said they would pay some of his rent. However, it’s still up to him to fi nd a place.

In the meantime, a trusted babysitter has been kind enough to let Eddie’s daughter live with her. The local school understands the situation, and the young girl remains with her same elementary school friends.

When darkness falls, Eddie searches one of a couple of regular parking lots to pull his sedan in for the night. But he can’t wait for the day he isn’t sleeping in his car or taking advantage of an inexpensive gym membership that allows him to shower daily.

Marie Cicalo and her husband, Anthony, were a bit luckier than some of the other campers. They moved to Surf and Stream because Marie had aspirations of ultimately owning a campground. Marie worked for the property owners until they announced the sale and fi red her.

Marie continues to keep track of her former campground neighbors. She knows at least a few have moved in with relatives and others landed apartments. She worries about Eddie and a couple of guys she knows who live in the woods. Marie also expressed her resentment at the number of new squatters who took advantage of a bad situation.

Although the Cicalos were able to leave the campgrounds and purchase a one-family home, Marie felt a deep commitment to her neighbors. Saying she understood the owners had a right to sell, Marie still hoped they would do something for the people who needed to leave. As a result, Marie became the lead plaintiff in a lawsuit seeking relocation funds on behalf of those who needed assistance.

Toms River Attorney Kevin Starkey took on the plight of the dislocated residents at no cost to them. An Ocean County judge directed Starkey to file his claims with the Department of Consumer Affairs, subsequently transferred to the Office of Administrative Law. A ruling remains pending.

Barry Bielat, spokesperson for Surf and Stream, submits the property owners have already helped what he calls the campers. He said that only three or four actually asked for assistance. Between money not paid during the COVID rental moratorium and notice of the sale, Bielat estimated he and his partners lost over $1 million in back rent and utilities. He claims they received less than $20,000 in COVID relief funds.

“Approximately 130 campers were evicted for non-payment,” said Bielat. “We have not gone after back rent and gave all campers the opportunity to remove their RVs with approximately 60 left for us to remove.”

Visitors will one day come to appreciate the open space preserved for recreational enjoyment. It remains home to an assortment of colorful ducks, geese, and other splendid creatures of nature.

VA Clinic:

Continued From Page 1 gun fire, he led his forces on their mission to disable 155-mm cannons that were aimed to keep invaders off the beaches. It was necessary to take out those guns before the rest of the forces came to shore. However, the guns had been moved. Lomell spotted markings in an area that looked like something heavy had been moved through there. He followed the trail and disabled the guns, saving countless lives.

Months later, the Rangers would be ordered to take Hill 400, a strategic location in Germany. Many had failed but the Rangers charged and caught the enemy by surprise. They held the hill for the rest of the day, though only 25 of them survived. Lomell suffered a concussion and injured his arm in the battle.

He would be wounded again during the Battle of the Bulge. Tom Brokaw has a chapter dedicated to him in “The Greatest Generation.”

Lomell settled in Toms River. He was an attorney and businessman, as well as a member of the board of education and trustee of the Ocean County College Foundation. He passed away in 2011. This wouldn’t be the first thing named after him; a connector road at Garden State Parkway exit 83 is called “Lomell Lane.”

The Brick facility was named after James J. Howard, who represented the 3rd District in Congress from 1965 until his death in office in 1988.

He is known for highlighting the dangers of faulty M16 rifles used in Vietnam. He is also responsible for creating the 55 mph speed limit and establishing the drinking age at 21. His name also adorns housing in Fort Monmouth and the portion of Interstate 195 in New Jersey.

Timeline

It took many years to even get to this point.

Currently, veterans travel to Brick’s James J. Howard Outpatient Clinic for their needs. They have complained that the facility is understaffed and that it doesn’t have enough parking. Also, some of them have to travel up to East Orange for certain services.

Towns vied against each other to entice the VA to set up the clinic in their location, but ultimately the Toms River site was chosen. There were the expected bureaucratic setbacks and red tape along the way.

The new building will be about twice the size, measuring 68,000 square feet. It will neighbor the county’s new social services building when that’s completed. There is also a bus stop and other amenities nearby.

Hill estimates that it could open spring of 2024.

FD Stonewater, of Arlington, VA, is the developer. Smithgroup, an architectural, engineering and planning firm; Harvey Cleary builders; and T&M Associates, an engineering company, will also be involved.

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