Whiting Student Wins Award For Gi ed Children

code to allow the robot to communicate with him in real-time, due to mathematical equations on command, including a sensor that allowed the robot to recognize color through code. Blake even made the robot dance!

Blake’s teacher recognizes him as an extraordinary student and proudly submitted him for this award and recognition. Congratulations to Blake on this achievement!

Photo courtesy Manchester Schools

WHITING – Congratulations to Blake Cortez, a fi fth-grade student at Whiting Elementary School who has won the Academic Award from the National Association of Gifted Children for Grades 3-5!

Blake is a part of the school district’s Gifted and Talented Program and was involved in the Passion Projects during their Gifted and Talented class period. Students were challenged to find a project that they were passionate about and demonstrate it to their fifth-grade classmates. Blake created a LEGO robot with a motor. He then created

Blake’s family shares that he is an 11-year-old from Whiting. He enjoys learning about coding and engineering, playing baseball, hanging out with his friends, visiting Puerto Rico, and traveling to different places around the world. He is always looking to make a new friend and is super charismatic. He is beyond his years and loves to study and learn as many new things as possible. When he was younger, he wanted to become a brain surgeon and learned all of the parts of the brain by 6 years old. Now he wants to learn how to build different types of technology and create artificial intelligence. He maintains amazing grades while participating in sports and having a ton of friends. He aspires to go to college and become an engineer and use those skills to create something revolutionary and become an entrepreneur.

Java With John March 27 At e Barn

MANCHESTER – Manchester Township School District’s Superintendent of schools

John Berenato will be hosting the next Java with John event on March 27. These events are an opportunity for parents and community members to meet with the superintendent, ask questions and provide feedback about the school district.

The next Java with John event will be March 27 at 6 p.m. This Java with John will be hosted a special location, taking place at The Barn located at 1330 Route 70 in Whiting. The event will be open to all Manchester parents and community members.

Crestwood Village 3 Travel Club

WHITING – Crestwood Village 3 Travel Club still have openings for the following trips. Call Rose Kantenwein at 732-4085441 to make your reservation while there is still room on the bus.

Resorts Casino in Atlantic City: February 28. Price - $35. Trip includes round-trip transportation including driver gratuity and a Casino Bonus of $20.00 Slot Play. Casino bonuses are subject to change without notice. Valid Government issued ID required to receive Casino Bonus. Gather at Unity Hall, 250 Schoolhouse Road, Whiting, at 8:45 a.m. and return at 5:45 p.m.

Trip to Algonquin Theater - HEL-

LO DOLLY: May 12. Price - $55. Trip includes round-trip transportation on a 29-passenger bus, show ticket and bus driver gratuity. Only folding walkers can be accepted. Sorry, due to space limitations, no wheel chairs can be accommodated on the bus. There are only 29 tickets, so don’t be disappointed. Get your tickets now. Gather at Unity Hall at 6:15 p.m. and return 12 a.m. Deposits will only be refunded if trip is cancelled. Tickets for trips will be on sale on Monday mornings at Unity Hall, 250 Schoolhouse Road Whiting, from 9 to 11 a.m. Make all checks payable to CV3 Travel Club.

Fish And Chips Dinner

WHITING – St. Elizabeth Ann Seton Church, 30 Schoolhouse Road, Whiting, invites all to join on March 9, 4 p.m. for a Fish and Chips dinner (by Thistle of Lyndhurst) in the Parish Center.

Dinner includes fish & chips or chicken tenders, coleslaw, dessert, iced tea, lemonade, tea and coffee.

Tickets, $20 for adults and $10 for children 9 and under, are available in the Parish Office Monday to Friday 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. and must be purchased in advance. No walk-ins! Tables of eight or more can be reserved, all tickets must be purchased at the time of reservation. Last day to purchase tickets is March 3. Take out will be available with pre-purchased tickets. For more information, call the Parish Office at 732-350-5001.

Barn: Continued From Page 1 establishment – a restaurant where the profits will be used to provide free meals to those in need.

“During the course of our journey we have had quite a bit of setbacks including a pandemic that shut down the world and yet we still keep our eyes focused on bringing this social enterprise vision to the community,” she said.

The Barn is associated with Inspire-NJ. A social enterprise is defined as a business with specific social objectives that serve its primary purpose. Social enterprises seek to maximize profits while maximizing benefits to society and the environment, and the profits are principally used to fund social programs. After more than a year of delays involving township requirements and state environmental issues, Donahue received some good news just before the new year.

“The good news is that we got approval from the New Jersey Pinelands Commission on the Friday before Christmas. Talk about a Christmas miracle. We are finishing up with our final inspections with the Health Department and all that. We are looking at doing a friends and family opening at the end of February,” she said. “The date is to be determined,” she added. She had a firmer date for a soft opening on March 9 with a grand opening March 17. “After all this time and all this money. As we were tallying up everything, professional fees alone are close to $45,000.”

“In my world, every one of those dollars could have been used towards free meals from the Food Pantry, so it was a little disheartening but the Barn doors will opening, very soon and we are very excited about it,” she added. The process began in November of 2019. “That is when I started talking to the owners of the building and on March 9, 2020 he gave me the keys to the building and shortly thereafter we started the process and then we had the Covid crisis and no one was working,” she added.

“We tried to get all the donations in line and we are blessed to have such tremendous supporters getting those donations in line, getting products delivered, refrigeration and other things but we got it all through,” she said. Donahue said, “it is going to be an incredibly fun place to be. There is nothing quite like what we are doing. What I need people to understand is that while we are a non-profit and we are in service to those in need, this restaurant is a for profit entity. Every dollar of profit though, will go back directly into our programming, which will allow us to continue the feeding programs for our seniors, the military and the veterans with the food pantry and the meal delivery service that we are planning on.”

The operation will have a tremendous number of volunteers according to Donahue. “We are asking everyone now to let us know about their staff availability. We will need, for lack of a better word, ambassadors in the restaurant and once people are seated, one of our volunteers will go up and explain what we are and what we do which is important.”

“As a social enterprise you have to constantly be reenforcing that as it is how we are going to stay alive,” she added.

Interested volunteers can reach out to Donahue by e-mailing Info@Inspire-NJ.org. “We are getting ready. We are excited to be able to move a lot of meals out of here. People here in Whiting need a place to go that is safe, reasonable and the services we are going to provide. I am bringing in my community partners. There will be quite a few non-profits now - everything from home repairs to facility assistance and organizations linked to The Barn,” she said.

Reviewing some history of what The Barn once was, Donahue said that back in the 1960s, there was house on the property. It was purchased by a Toms River resident and in the 1970s it burned down. The owner rebuilt it to an actual horse farm that was dismantled and brought in from Pennsylvania and reassembled on site.

“It was a restaurant and bar and then it became Harrison’s and then it became The Cranberry but it got to the point where nothing was making it here. At one time it was a motorcycle repair shop and after that folded the place was vacant for a long time,” Donahue said.

The Barn will offer up Jersey favorites like pork roll egg and cheese on a kaiser roll, Reuben sandwiches and Banging Burgers. It will also feature Kohr’s Original Frozen Custard bar that will serve up “those orange cream shakes only found at the Jersey shore and the best part is that eating here will not only become your favorite spot to get delicious quality breakfast, lunch and dinner food at a reasonable price, but eating here also helps to support local programs,” Donahue told The Manchester Times www.Angelic.health

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