The BERKELEY Times Vol. 30 - No. 7
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South Toms River, Beachwood To Share Street Sweeper
August 3, 2024
Local Organization “Paddles” To Keep Waterways Clean
By Alyssa Riccardi JERSEY SHORE – Local volunteers are municipalities. This using their kayaking By Chris Lundy their government. SOUTH TOMS RIVSouth Toms River means that the towns skills to clean Jersey ER – South Toms River Mayor Oscar Cradle will split the remaining Shore waterways – one and Beachwood will said “We are very grate- 25% of the cost, and paddle stroke and one share a grant that will ful for the State of New then share the use of piece of litter at a time. lead to the two towns Jersey to assist munic- the street sweeper. St roke You r E co, BREAKING NEWS South Toms River Paddle for the Planet sharing a street sweeper. ipalities in a creative @ Large vehicles like way, allowing us to Councilman Sam Fen- brings people together that cost six figures, provide a service to our nell, who chairs the in the NJ waterways by which is a bigger hit on residents that otherwise Department of Pub- vessel (kayak, canoe a small town budget. would be too costly for lic Works Committee, and/or paddle board) jerseyshoreonline.com Therefore, officials said a budget of our size. said “T he Boroug h to remove any kind a Government they were trying to fig- Not only did the state of South Toms River garbage or trash that Page 7 ure out a way to obtain provide funding for us has not had a street does not belong. the sweeper without the but it also provided us sweeper since the early St r oke Yo u r E c o Photo courtesy Lynn Brotherston taxpayers feeling the with the opportunity 2000s. It is very dif- founder Lynn BrothVolunteers jump into their kayaks and paddle burden. to get to work with our ficult and very costly e r s t o n i s a n a v i d Community through waterways to clean up trash. The towns jointly ap- neighbors in Beach- for a town our size kaya ker and paddle News plied for, and received, a wood. They were a to be able to operate boarder who star ted Pages 9-11 The group ventures into local $299,242.50 grant from fantastic group to work and maintain our own the initiative back in 2021 during the lakes, rivers, streams, and parks the Local Efficiency with and we hope for street sweeper. This COVID-19 pandemic. Achievement Program. future opportunities to grant provided us with “I started it as a meet up group. I to clean the polluted waterways. Dr. Izzy’s LEA P is processed work together to better the ability to work with was going out by myself and I would Some popular locations include Beachwood and pro- see a bunch of garbage. I thought Deal Lake in Asbury Park, Forge Sound News through the State De- our communities.” partment of CommuniThe state will provide vide residents with a somebody has to do something about Pond in Brick, Lake Shenandoah Page 12 ty Affairs. It provides funding for 75% of a street cleaning service this,” Brotherston said. “Then I was in Lakewood, and Shark River in direct money to incen- project up to $400,000 that will run once a posting meet ups online and it just Neptune. Brotherston explained tivize shared services as long as that proj- week allowing us to transpired from there. My first clean how these waterways constantly Inside in an effort to encour- ect is a shared service clean the whole borough up I think we had about 20 to 25 had trash floating in them. The Law “It’s littering. It might be a age towns to streamline between two or more within a month.” people; it was awesome.” Page 16 lot of fishermen. It’s also a lot of dumping,” Brotherston said. “Forge Pond for i nst a nce, if you’re driving down Route 70, people just chuck their garbage right out their window. If you have a storm, or even a breeze, and the wind is going to push all the garbage into the parking lot area.” By Stephanie Faughnan “Combatting Hate” series, “It’s a trickle-down effect. It’s going to TOMS R I V ER – T he offered a stark reminder of go into a sewer system, then come out the haunting echoes of World the horrors inf licted upon other side into our waterways,” BrotherWar II reverberated through millions during one of histoston added. the Toms River branch of ry’s darkest chapters. If you don’t have a kayak or vessel for the the Ocean County Library Both women, now residents water, don’t worry. You can still volunteer as Holocaust survivors Gela of the same Toms River sewith land clean-ups. Buchbinder and Mona Gins- nior village, were mere chilPhoto by Stephanie Faughnan “My goal is to collect enough donations burg shared their harrowing dren when the world erupted to get a truck and a trailer with at least 6 Holocaust survivors Gela Buchbinder and Mona Ginsburg experiences with over 100 into chaos. Their stor ies, to 10 kayaks. That’s where I want to take shared their experiences at a recent presentation at the Toms stunned attendees. wh ile dif ferent i n det ail, (Clean Up See Page 4) (Holocaust - See Page 4) The event, the fourth in the River branch of the Ocean County Library.
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