Around The Town Craft Some Cuttlebone Jewelry
Location Cloverdale Farm County Park Address 34 Cloverdale Rd, Barnegat, NJ 08005 Phone 609-607-1861 Date Mar 23, 2019 Time 10:00 AM - 4:00 PM Rick Marshall, metal smith will teach you how to saw, finish and color metal resulting in several unique pieces. No experience required. Please have $40 in exact change to cover instructor fees and material costs. Call 609-971-3085 to register.
DJ Don Karaoke at Lighthouse Tavern Location Lighthouse Tavern Address Rte. 9, Waretown Phone 609-693-3150 Date Mar 26, 2019 Time 8:30 PM Live entertainment.
P.H.O.B.I.A. Support Group
Location St. Stephen’s Church Address 367 Rte. 9, Classroom #4, Waretown, NJ Email phobiaanxietygroup@gmail.com Phone 609-713-2963 Date Mar 27, 2019 Time 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM The group meets every Wednesday evening.
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MEALS ON WHEELS EARNS CAUSEWAY’S 50TH ANNIVERSARY GRANT Kaitlyn Strohmeier
Paws for Reading at the Barnegat Library
In Celebration of The Causeway Family of Dealerships 50th anniversary, we will be embarking on a yearlong campaign - Causeway’s 50 Golden Acts of Good - to help our neighbors and positively impact Ocean County.
Get Your Knit On: Knit Night
Anchoring this campaign will be a Grant Giveaway program, through which Causeway will award a $10,000 grant to one Ocean County nonprofit every month, from January through November of 2019, culminating next December with the award of a New Ford Transit Connect Van.
Location Barnegat Branch of the cean County Library Address 112 Burr St, Barnegat, NJ 08005 Phone 609-698-3331 Website www.theoceancountylibrary.org Date Mar 29, 2019 Time 3:30 PM Practice reading alongside gentle, beautiful therapy dogs. Location Little Egg Harbor Branch of the Ocean County Library Address 290 Mathistown Rd., Little Egg Harbor Twp, NJ Phone 609-294-1197 Website www.theoceancountylibrary.org Date Apr 03, 2019 Time 6:30 PM All are welcome.
Exit 82 Theatre Presents ‘Rumors’
Location Exit 82 Theatre Address 73 Main Street, 2nd Floor, Toms River, NJ Date Apr 12, 2019 Time 8:00 PM A play by Neil Simon. At a large, tastefullyappointed townhouse, the Deputy Mayor of New York has just shot himself. Though only a flesh wound, four couples are about to experience a severe attack of Farce. Gathering for their tenth wedding anniversary, the host lies bleeding in the other room, and his wife is nowhere in sight. His lawyer, Ken, and wife, Chris, must get “the story” straight before the other guests arrive. As the confusions and miscommunications mount, the evening spins off into classic farcical hilarity! For tickets and more information visit exit82theatre.com.
Flea Market, Come and Sell!
Location Forked River Presbyterian Church Address 131 N Main St, Forked River, NJ 08731 Website www.forkedriverpres.org Date April 13, 2019 Time 9:00 AM to 2:00PM Rent a table for $20 or rent two tables for $35. Early bird prices, of $15 for one table and $25 for two tables, are available if your registration form is postmarked by April 1st. We provide: 6 foot tables, publicity throughout the area, town permits, and parking. Refreshments, breakfast sandwiches, and lunch (including chili) will be available for purchase. A Home Baked Dessert Table will be featured. Also available are beautifully hand crafted items for the season, books and games, jewelry, toys, household items, and vendors’ wares. Call the Church Office at 609-693-5624 weekdays between 9 AM and 1 PM for a registration form. Space is limited so register early. Deadline to register is Wednesday, April 10th. We are located at 131 North Main Street (Route 9) where EVERYONE is welcome!
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We are proud to announce our March $10,000 grant winner, Meals on Wheels of Ocean County. Did you know? Ocean County is home to more than 162,019 senior citizens. Of those, 20,050 are 85 years of age or older. (2013 U.S. Census. American Fact Finder) Members of the 85+ age group are estimated to have three times the risk of losing their independence and seven times the chance of entering a nursing home compared to people 65 to 74 years of age.
Causeway presenting the grant award to Meals on Wheels of Ocean County (From left to right) - Jennifer Maier Sales, Joe Stroffolino Director of Adverting and Marketing, Jim Sigurdson Executive Director of Meals on Wheels of Ocean County, Ginny Haines Ocean County Freeholder, Dave Wintrode President Causeway Family of Dealerships.
I got to sit with Jim Sigurdson, the Executive Director of Meals on Wheels of Ocean County. Meals on Wheels is a home delivered meal program for Ocean County residents who are; 60 years of age or older, homebound, unable to prepare their own meals and have no one available to assist them with meal preparation. Jim discussed the importance of Meals on Wheels and having paid employees. Jim stressed the fact that Meals on Wheels is more than just a food delivery service. They are the eyes and ears for the community. Every time a meal is delivered to a home, the driver must hear or see the senior in order for them to receive the food. Drivers are absolutely not allowed to just ring the bell and leave the food on the door step. By doing this, they are able to make sure the recipient is doing ok. These delivery drivers become so accustomed to seeing these seniors every day that they not only build a trusting relationship, but can tell when something is not right. If a delivery driver feels that the senior is a little off then they immediately let someone know so that a loved one or doctor can check on them.
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Meals on Wheels pay their employees instead of using volunteers because these seniors depend on the food arriving to their homes every day. The hassle of scheduling volunteers to drive these major routes every single day would not be feasible. There is too much risk involved.
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and provide at least one-third of the daily dietary recommendation set by the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Nutrition education and counseling are also provided under this program. Please note: we do not provide meals for special diets. Eligibility Criteria:
The demand for Meals on Wheels is extremely high, and increases each year. As a result, we Besides providing a nutritious meal, Meals on carefully review each case to ensure our limited Wheels plays an important role in helping these resources go to those who need it most. In order to qualify, you or your spouse seniors maintain their must be: independence for as long YOU CAN HELP END SENIOR as possible. If they weren’t HUNGER IN OCEAN COUNTY! • Age 60 or over home, they’d most likely Adopt-A-Senior • Housebound, i.e. be in state-run nursing $40 - Feeds five seniors for one day, or incapacitated due to facilities, at a far more one senior for an entire week. accident, illness or frailty considerable expense to $160 - Provides a full month of meals for taxpayers. By keeping • Unable to prepare one senior. seniors at home, Meals on meals safely, or lack the $2,080 - Will provide one senior with Wheels saves New Jersey knowledge and skills to daily meals and the ability to live taxpayers millions of prepare meals independently and with dignity for a year! dollars every year. • Lacking support from (As a thank you we offer the opportunity Read Up on Meals on family, friends, neighbors, for a card acknowledging the benefactor Wheels of Ocean County health aides or other to be sent. Recognition will also be Below! caregivers to help secure provided on the sponsor page of our regular meals website). Our Mission… $2 A Day Club • Spouses of home We are driven by the bound older individuals passionate belief that senior 80% of the cost of making and providing if an assessment indicates citizens deserve to lead a meals to our homebound seniors is that receipt of Meals On raised through our fundraising endeavors happy, healthy and above Wheels is in best interest of but we are in need of 20% more to all, meaningful lives. From ensure all our clients get a hot meal. By the senior forty years of experience, providing $2.00 per day you will help we know the best way to • Disabled dependent us ensure no homebound senior goes accomplish this: by doing child who resides with an hungry. everything we can to keep older, eligible individual Sponsor A Vehicle them in the environment History: where they’re most A contribution of $45,000 will allow us to comfortable…at home. purchase one Meals on Wheels delivery 1973 - Meals on Wheels vehicle. The sponsoring company or of Ocean County is started Meals on Wheels - for individual will have their name adhered by St. Andrew United Our Seniors, There’s No to the vehicle for the life of the vehicle. Methodist Church. Senior Place like Home Recognition will also be provided on the citizens in the Toms River sponsor page of our website. To our seniors and their area were served lunch in families a home is far more Call us at (732)-367-1400 or visit our the Old Fellowship Hall website: www.csimow.org to make a than a bunch of rooms by an all-volunteer staff of donation. – it’s a memory gallery. congregation members. Each room layered with 1974 - Meals on decades of memories…powerful reminders of the Wheels of Ocean County receives a $130,000 grant people and places that give their lives meaning. No hospital, nursing home or facility can ever replace from Ocean County. On February 1st, we began home. It’s why our work is so critically important. preparing and serving meals from St. Francis Meals on Wheels allow elderly home bound seniors Church on Long Beach Island. At the same time, to continue living in the environment of their choice we began our first Meals on Wheels program. – at home. By the end of 1974, Meals on Wheels of Ocean County was operating three On-Site Meal How Meals on Wheels works Centers: St. Andrew, St. Francis and Lakewood. We deliver hot, nutritious meals to our seniors’ In just our first year of operation, we had 8 fullhomes Monday through Friday and for our most time employees, and nearly 1,800 registered adult frail and vulnerable, weekends and holidays. All participants. We were serving an average of 275 our menus are approved by a qualified nutritionist, continued on page 3