District Learns From “Nourish The Future”

TOMS RIVER – This March, farmers from across America came together at the Commodity Classic, America’s largest farmer-led agricultural experience. On site was Nourish the Future, a national education initiative developed by science teachers to inspire a network of educators to foster critical thinking, connect students to modern agriculture, and provide sound science-based resources that meet teachers’ and students’ needs in the classroom.

Among those in attendance were Intermediate South teacher and Nourish the Future national teacher leader Jessica Kurtz, as well as district educator and New Jersey Teacher of the Year Christine Girtain.

“Educating our students about the critical need of food sustainability should be an integral part of every teacher’s classroom,” said Kurtz.

Most teachers (and students) are unaware of what is happening in the farming world, despite the fact that farmers are feeding and fueling a growing world. Farmers want and need the public to understand aspects of modern farming, and that the industry

─Photo courtesy Toms River Schools needs talent to fill important jobs of the future. Agriculture is a vital partner in engaging students with STEM concepts in ways that directly and indirectly impact their lives. Not only does teaching ag-based curriculum in the science classroom inspire students to solve real-world science issues; reaching students is critical to address the job gap in agriculture-related careers, many of which are going unfilled.

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History: Continued From Page 6 been elected to an unprecedented four terms.

The Courier - a weekly publication - was able to get in the news of his death in its edition the next day. In a page one article which ran on April 13, 1945, the headline banner read: “Franklin Delano Roosevelt whose long and colorful career as President of the United States came to a sudden end yesterday at 4:35 at Warm Springs, Ga.” A large headshot picture of the deceased war time leader accompanied the headline. There was no accompanying news report - apparently due to the paper’s production deadline.

In the next week’s edition on April 20, the Courier ran an editorial entitled “A Severe Blow” and stated “whether you agreed with him or not, Mr. Roosevelt was admittedly of world stature. The sudden and untimely death last Thursday of Franklin D. Roosevelt, 32nd President of the United States, saddened the Nation and shocked the greater part of the world.”

In that earlier April 13 edition, a news article entitled “V-E Day Plan Ready Here” was run. “The Clergy Club of Toms River has planned a V-E (Victory in Europe) celebration … a mass meeting will be held in the auditorium of Toms River school on the night of the day when victory is announced.”

The war in Europe would end in May - but

Franklin Roosevelt would never live to see the day.

1968: Martin Luther King

Rev. Martin Luther King was shot and killed in Memphis, Tennessee on April 4, 1968. He was in that city to support striking public works employees.

King was a revered religious and civil rights leader since the 1950s, who, in 1963 delivered the “I Have a Dream” speech on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial - one of the great orations in American history.

By the 1960s, Ocean County had several newspapers. The Ocean County Sun was one of them and it ran an editorial in its April 11 edition and called Dr. King “one of our great Christian leaders.”

Quoting Alexis de Tocqueville - a French diplomat who toured the young United States in the nineteenth century - the Sun said “When America ceases to be good, America ceases to be great. That is the lesson of Martin Luther King’s life.”

Abraham Lincoln, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Martin Luther King, and the men of the Akron: this month, April, in history. Let us remember them all.

J. Mark Mutter is the retired Dover Township and Toms River Township Clerk. He was a member of the Dover Township Committee for three terms and served as Mayor in 1993 and 2000. He chaired the township’s 225-year anniversary committee in 1992, its 250-year anniversary committee in 2017, and its Constitution bi-centennial committee in 1987. He is writing a book on the history of Toms River.

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