N.J. Health Care Network to Meet July 10
The monthly meeting of NJ Health Care Network, a free organization for anyone in the health care industry, including those who provide ancillary products and services, is Tuesday, July 10, 2018, from 8:30 to 10:30 a.m. at Arbor Terrace Shrewsbury, 864 Shrewsbury Avenue, Tinton Falls, N.J. 07724.
The NJ Health Care Network provides an opportunity to build relationships among health care professionals, market events, and promote business. Meetings take place in a different New Jersey county each month.
For more information about NJ Health Care Network, email Lisa Gallicchio, director of community relations for Preferred Home Health Care & Nursing Services, Eatontown, at lisa@preferredcares.com, call 732-547-9886, or visit www.njhcnet.com for the monthly location and member events.
Membership is free; however, register to take advantage of member benefits, such as posting to Health Care Network’s website all health care and marketing events, news, training information, employment listings, and access to a member directory.
Peter Mayer, Lead Guitarist and Vocalist for Jimmy Buffett’s Coral Reefer Band, to Perform in Lakewood for Cancer Benefit
Coastal Jersey PHC* is presenting a fundraiser “Making Strides Against Breast Cancer,” an evening with Peter Mayer, lead guitarist and vocalist for Jimmy Buffet’s Coral Reefer Band, and Brendan Mayer on Saturday, July 14, at 7:00 p.m. at the Lakewood Elks Lodge #1432, 711 W. Kennedy Boulevard, Lakewood, N.J. 08701.
Tickets cost $45 and include entertainment and a barbecue dinner. Doors open at 4:00 p.m. Send checks made out to CJPHC-PM, P.O. Box 4038, Brick, NJ 08723 or www.itickets.com/events/399825.html. Other entertainers include Suburban Relics with guest Boomer Blake, Magic Twangers, and Nicky Fabbz.
For more information, contact Art Chikofsky, Toms River, event chairman, at phyrestar113@gmail.com 732-929-1708.
*The terms Jimmy Buffett, Margaritaville, Parrot Head(s), Parrothead(s) Parrot Head Club (PHC), Parrothead Club and PHC are registered trademarks of Margaritaville, Inc.
PrimeTime Center in Brick Celebrates Its Grand Opening
If you are high school graduate with developmental disabilities, what’s next for you? Where can you go? Who can help you? Seven years ago with those questions in mind, Ruth Reinhard, Jean Stack, and David Mock discussed the lack of quality adult services for these adults. Out of their research PrimeTime Center was born, a day habilitation program with an emphasis on independent living and actual community experiences that are designed for adults with developmental disabilities.
Today PrimeTime Center employs about 40 staff members, and services 200 participants throughout New Jersey. When they began in the summer of 2012, PrimeTime Center had a staff of four and three participants. Recently PrimeTime Center celebrated the grand opening of its third location at 485 Brick Boulevard, Brick, New Jersey.
Celebrating the opening of the Brick PrimeTime Center, organized by the Brick Chamber of Commerce, was Brick Mayor John Ducey; Jean Stack, an owner of PTC; Ruth Reinhard, the PTC executive director; Dave Mock, PTC director; Brick Councilman Paul Mummolo; Brian Mirsky, VP of Brick Chamber; PTC Supervisor Catie Broglia; Blanche Stetler, PTC parent liaison; and Katie Steelman PTC assistant supervisor.
The other PrimeTime Center New Jersey locations are 60 High Street, Carteret, and 240 Broad Street, Eatontown. Eligible adults can apply for PrimeTime Center services through the Division of Developmental Disabilities. Transportation is provided to and from the program for participants who live within a five-mile radius.
For more information about the Brick site, call (848) 241-5700 or email office@primetimecenter.org Visit www.primetimecenter.org
About PrimeTime Center: The mission of PrimeTime Center is to help participants live life to its fullest by practicing independent living skills, such as meal planning, shopping, money management, travel training, housekeeping and using appropriate computer applications and digital tools to solve real life problems. Visits to local restaurants, shopping centers, theaters, museums, financial institutions, and other community-based instruction trips are incorporated into the daily schedule. In addition, participants can take advantage of local community volunteer opportunities.
PrimeTime Center, approved by the Division of Developmental Disabilities (DDD) and Medicaid, provides programs for adults with developmental disabilities throughout New Jersey. Services for PrimeTime clients include acquiring skills for independent living; functional language arts and math instruction; community-based instruction; training in consumer skills, socialization, and self-advocacy; volunteerism; communication skill building; recreational opportunities; physical fitness, and field trips. PrimeTime Centers are open Monday through Friday, 9:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m., all year except for traditional holidays.
Gallicchio Named to Board of Jewish Family Services
Lisa Gallicchio, Howell, N.J., the director of community relations for Preferred Home Health Care & Nursing Services, Eatontown, has been appointed to the Board of Directors of Jewish Family Services of Middlesex County (JFS), a nonprofit organization whose mission is to provide effective social services, counseling, and advocacy through responsive, innovative programs in order to help individuals and families who live in Middlesex County and the surrounding area.
Gallicchio is founder and executive director of the state-wide New Jersey Health Care Networking Group. She is a board member of Caregiver Volunteers of Central New Jersey and the Lakewood Chamber of Commerce, which honored her as “Citizen of the Year 2011.” She is also a member of the N.J. State Chamber of Commerce and an advisor of the Educational Committee for Lakewood High School.
Gallicchio served as a past board member of Howell Chamber of Commerce, and was a chairwoman of both the Emmanuel Cancer Foundation Crystal Gala and the Circle of Life Golf Outing.
Gallicchio graduated from Rutgers University with a B.A. in Liberal Arts, with a concentration in Labor Management. She also received an A.A. (Associate of Arts degree) in Business Administration from Brookdale Community College.
JFS, founded in 1979, is a full-service agency that helps more than 20,000 members of the community, regardless of religious affiliation. In response to the needs of the community, JFS provides programs and services for seniors and the elderly; counseling for individuals, groups and families; assistance for immigrants and refugees by offering legal, educational and social services; other services that include educational, vocational, career, and training services for employers and job seekers; adoption services; and an essential needs program to assist families in crisis.
About Preferred Home Health Care & Nursing Services: Since 1993, Preferred Home Health Care & Nursing Services (PHHC), 45 Main Street, Eatontown, N.J., has provided a wide range of medical and non-medical home health care services from pediatric to geriatric care throughout New Jersey and Pennsylvania. PHHC is accredited by CHAP (Community Health Accreditation Program), an accrediting organization for the home health care industry.
Preferred works collaboratively with physicians, hospitals, nursing homes and facilities to ensure a smooth transition to one’s home. In-house services include skilled nursing care for infants, children, adults, and seniors; personal care services, including bathing, grooming, dressing, feeding, etc.; private duty nursing services; and at-home physical therapy, among others. All of the care can be provided in-house and is coordinated by registered nurses, with clinical supervision available 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
New Jersey locations include corporate headquarters, Main Street, Eatontown; South Orange; Robbinsville; Toms River; Galloway; Elmwood Park; North Brunswick; Wyckoff Road, Eatontown; and Mt. Laurel. Pennsylvania locations include Bala Cynwyd, Allentown, and Bensalem. Visit Preferred at PreferredCares.com for more information.
For more information about Preferred Home Health Care & Nursing Services, contact Lisa Gallicchio, director of community relations, at lisa@preferredcares.com or call 732-547-9886 or visit PreferredCares.com
Lakewood Middle School Students Donate $200 to the Strand Center for the Arts
Students from the Lakewood Middle School (LMS) donated $200 to the Strand Center for the Arts, 400 Clifton Avenue, as their way of giving back to their community. Students wear a navy polo and khaki pants each day to school, according to dress code policy of the Lakewood school district. To raise money, students decided to “dress down” on a designated day and pay a $1.00 donation. The “Dress Down Day” raised $200, which the students donated to the Strand on their recent visit.
Richard Goldstein, the principal of the Lakewood Middle School, said that the dress code policy is one that students and their parents feel is important. “When I first became principal,” Goldstein said, “I sent out a survey asking parents and students if they wanted to end the dress code policy. The results were overwhelmingly in favor of keeping the dress code policy because it eliminates clothing competition among the students.”
According to Goldstein, students wanted to donate to the Strand because they have an interest in the performing arts. In a recent competition in Music in the Parks* at Great Adventure, the LMS students took home two awards: the Band was rated Superior and the Chorus was rated Excellent!
Accompanying the band, chorus, and orchestra students to the Strand for the check presentation were Principal Goldstein; Andrew Fodor, LMS band and orchestra director; and Rachel Resignato, LMS choral director. Accepting the check on behalf of the Strand Board of Directors were Fran Whitney, operations manager of the Strand; and Lori Davis, Strand front house manager.
*Music in the Parks (Wikipedia) is a day-long or two-day festival for student choral, orchestral, and band ensembles, held annually across the United States. Music groups perform before adjudicators who rate the ensemble in the morning, and then spend the day at an amusement park. The day culminates with an awards ceremony. Awards can be given to either a single player or a whole ensemble.
Michael Scecchitano of Beasley Media Group Wins Two Awards at NJ Ad Club
The celebration of the 50th Anniversary of the NJ Ad Club and the Jersey Awards given June 6, 2018, at The Grove in Cedar Grove, N.J., turned out to be a special night for Michael Scecchitano, production director for 100.1 WJRZ, Beasley Media Group! Michael Scecchitano received a First Place award for the Best Radio Campaign—Bum Rogers Crabhouse – Paulie The Pirate AND First Place award for Best Radio 60-second radio spot for World Insurance – Covfefe.
Matt Knight, program director and “On-air Afternoons” for 100.1 WJRZ, said, “Mike is the backbone of WJRZ. There isn’t anything he can’t do. He’s the ultimate team player and the level of work he produces is worthy of the awards and honors he’s received. I couldn’t be happier that he’s a part of our staff. He deserves this recognition and I know this is not the last time he’ll add hardware to his awards mantle.”
Herb Barry, Interstate Outdoor, and Terrie Carr, Beasley Media Group, co-emceed and presented 289 awards and trophies in front of more than 350 guests to corporations, agencies, designers and nonprofit groups with style and good humor.
The judging of over 550 entries was held on March 24 at Berkeley College in White Plains, N.Y. and included 19 advertising, marketing, and public relations professionals from Westchester County and New York City who selected the winners for First Place, Second Place, Certificates of Excellence, and Best of Show.
ABOUT BEASLEY MEDIA GROUP: Beasley Media Group, LLC is a subsidiary of Beasley Broadcast Group, Inc. (NASDAQ; BBGI), which owns and operates 63 stations (45 FM and 18 AM) in 15 large and mid-size markets in the United States. Approximately 19 million consumers listen to Beasley radio stations weekly over-the-air, online, on smartphones and tablets, and engage with the Company’s brands and personalities through digital platforms, such as Facebook, Twitter, text, apps and email. For more information, visit www.bbgi.com.
Lakewood Black Hawks to Hold Golf Outing June 29 to Raise Funds for Local Groups
The Lakewood Black Hawks, a local organization dedicated to the betterment of Lakewood and its surrounding communities, will hold its 20th Annual Golf Outing at the historic Lakewood Country Club, 145 Country Club Drive, Lakewood, on Friday, June 29, 2018.
Each year, The Lakewood Black Hawks sponsor a golf outing to raise funds for scholarships to graduating Lakewood High School seniors; American Legion, Boys’ and Girls’ State candidates; Lakewood Historical Society projects; Lakewood Elks Special Needs Children’s programs, Lakewood Middle and Elementary School programs, and emergency support for local children and families in need, among a host of other charities.
Registration and a lunch menu “Dirty Water Dogs” on the Green begin at Noon, followed by a 1:00 p.m. Shotgun Start. The format is a Scramble or Best Ball from tee to green. Applebee’s of Howell will host dinner at 6:00 p.m. at the American Legion Post #166, Route 9 in Lakewood, N.J.
The fee for each golfer is $125 or $500 for a foursome and includes greens fees, golf cart, gift bag, dinner, and prizes. Winning foursomes, those with Closest to Pin and Longest Drive will receive awards. Many other gifts and prizes will be raffled off.
Title sponsorships and gift donations are still available. Contact John R. Barron at regalgs94@aol.com or call 732-657-7778 for sponsorships, gift donations, or more information.
A Concert and Fireworks to Celebrate the Fourth of July in Lakewood Is July 3
Lakewood Township and the Department of Recreation are sponsoring a celebration of Independence Day, known as the Fourth of July, with traditional fireworks and music on Tuesday, July 3, beginning at 7:15 p.m. with a concert by the Wilbur Wittemann Patriotic Band at the All Wars Memorial Amphitheater, near Lake Carasaljo, off Route 9, on North Lake Drive. The All Wars Memorial Amphitheater is also marking its 50th anniversary since it was built in 1968.
Fireworks are scheduled for 9:15 p.m. and can be viewed from North Lake Drive or directly across the lake on South Lake Drive where bleachers will be set up. Feel free to bring a lawn chair.
Shuttle buses, which will run continuously, will be available starting at 6:30 p.m. at the Municipal Building parking lot between Third and Fourth streets or at the Department of Public Works on New Hampshire and Cedar Bridge avenues.
Three Business Professionals Join the Board of Central Jersey Blood Center
Central Jersey Blood Center (CJBC), Shrewsbury, N.J., a community-based, nonprofit blood collection and distribution organization serving New Jersey residents for more than 50 years, recently elected three members to its Board of Trustees: Allison Wilson, Brick, Assistant VP at the Kearny Bank, Long Branch; Mary Twomey, Aberdeen, VP of Clinical Resources Management, RWJ Barnabas Health System, Oceanport; and Trenton Beriont, Red Bank, president and CEO of TIE Consulting, a firm that develops custom programs, applications, and multi-channel marketing strategies for companies.
“We are delighted that local professionals are volunteering their talents to help CJBC achieve its mission of providing a reliable supply of safe blood products to New Jersey hospitals and patients,” said Jeff Bahary, chairman and a long-term board member.
“The availability and safety of blood products affects everyone,” said Pascal George CEO, “so the contributions of community leaders with such varied background will enhance our understanding of and participation in our local environment.”
The mission of The Central Jersey Blood Center (CJBC) is to save lives by providing safe, high quality blood products and services to patients in need. Central Jersey Blood Center currently services over 20 local hospitals and holds blood drives throughout New Jersey.
Blood donations can be made at one of three donor centers: Howell, Toms River, and Shrewsbury. For more information, visit www.cjbcblood.org or contact Alyssa Drown, CJBC marketing director, at 518-569-1841.
Donor Centers:
Shrewsbury (732- 842-5750) Monday, Wednesday, and Fridays 7:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m.; Tuesday, 7:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m.; Thursday, Noon to 8:00 p.m.; Saturday, 7:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m., and Sunday 7:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m.
Howell 4068 Route 9 South, Howell Plaza Shopping Center (732 901-0720) Monday and Wednesday, Noon to 8:00 p.m.; Thursday, 8:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.; Friday and Saturday, 7:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. Closed Tuesdays and Sundays.
Toms River: 1256 Indian Head Road & Route 9 South, Indian Head Shopping Plaza (Next to Pathmark), (732-349-3110) Monday, Noon to 8:00 p.m.; Tuesday, 8:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.; and Saturday, 8:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m.
Lakewood 2018 Summer Recreation Programs Begin – Pre-Registration Required
PRE-REGISTRATION DATES
June 25 and 27 at Lakewood Municipal Building from 10:00 a.m. to Noon
June 26 and 28 at Lakewood Municipal Building from 6:00 to 8:00 p.m.
July 3 at Lakewood Band Shell on North Lake Drive from 6:00 to 8: p.m.
Registration forms on line at www.lakewoodnj.gov. Return to local public schools/DPW
NO CHILD WILL BE ADMITTED TO ANY PROGRAM WITHOUT PRE-REGISTRATION
Instructional Band Camp: This three-week program from June 25 – July 13 at Lakewood High School, Monday – Friday from 9:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. is designed for students in grades 4 -12. The Instructional Band Camp is an excellent opportunity to start a new instrument. The camp features group rehearsals and sectionals for all wind, string, percussion instruments, and beginners’ lessons. Music videos and free lunches are included. Fee: $5.00 for Lakewood residents; $100 non-Lakewood residents. Pre-registration required. Contact the Lakewood Recreation Office (732-905-3405, Ext. 6017) or Wilbur Wittemann at www.lakewoodjazz.com.
Free All-day Camps Begin July 2: Five camps with free lunches are available to all Lakewood children ages 5-13, Monday through Friday from July 2 to August 10 from 9:00 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. No camp on July 4. Parents can register at the following playgrounds: John Patrick Sports Complex, Clifton Avenue School, Larry D’Zio Park, Pine Park, and Rev. Clayton Park. Each site is staffed with experienced adult supervisors who have designed a variety of enjoyable activities for your child. On days of inclement weather the playgrounds will be closed. Listen to WOBM for closing information. A parent must sign a camper in and out at a site. Fee for out-of-town residents is $100.
Co-Ed Soccer: Learn to play soccer with instruction and games, Monday, Wednesday, and Friday at the John Patrick Sports Complex, July 2 to August 10 for Lakewood children ages 4 to 12 years old. Fee: $10 registration fee, first child, $5.00 each additional child
Ages 4 to 6 from 6:00 to 7:00 p.m.
Ages 7 to 9 from 7:00 to 8:00 p.m.
Ages 10-12 from 8:00 to 9:00 p.m.
Students who attend Middle School and High School from 9:00 to 10:00 p.m.
Girls’ Volleyball – Beginner and Advanced: Learn to play volleyball. For children in First Grade and up, Tuesday and Thursday, 6:30 to 8:30 p.m., starting July 5 in the Lakewood High School gymnasium. Fee: $5 registration
Wrestling: Learn the skills and techniques of wrestling for children in grades 1-12, Tuesdays and Thursdays, 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. in the Lakewood High School wrestling room, starting July 5. Fee: $10 for the first child and $5 for each additional child. Fee is $25 for out-of-town residents.
For further information, call the Lakewood Recreation office at 732-905-3405 or visit www.lakewoodnj.gov.