Vol. 17 - No. 26
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—Photo Courtesy Donner Family (Above) Hannah Donner has made it her mission to turn the ceiling of the K. Hovnanian Children’s Hospital at Jersey Shore University Medical Center into a work of art with decorated ceiling tiles. (Right) You can paint your own ceiling tile as part of Donner’s project. There is a $10 fee to participate, which is donated to the hospital. By Kimberly Bosco at the wheel while driv- Airpark, near the scene little less nebulous, she MANCHESTER – ing, crossing over Route of the accident. realized, “I was pretty Hannah Donner knows 530 in Whiting and colFor a while after this, sad.” that your life can change liding with a tree. “It was my senior year things were a bit of a in an instant. of high school and I “My airbags did not blur for Donner. After experiencing a deploy and because of “I actually cannot pin- was stuck on my couch, nearly fatal trauma, the this, I broke nearly all point exactly my first missing senior trips, 21-year-old Manchester of the bones in my face,” memory after the ac- couldn’t drive, and of resident has since found she said. “Aside from cident. That is a very course I couldn’t play her calling in promoting this, I had a brain bleed foggy time for me,” she volleyball,” something positivity in patients. that hurt especially, in my tentorium, dam- explained. Donner has made it her age to my lungs, I lost Once she recovered Don ner told Jersey mission to turn the ceil- teeth, bit all the way enough to leave the Shore Online. ing of the K. Hovnanian through my bottom lip, hospital, Donner spent She spent a lot of time Children’s Hospital at and I broke my talus her days the same way: wondering what any Jersey Shore University and fibula bones in my she woke up, crawled person might wonder Medical Center into a right leg.” downstairs, relaxed on after having experiwork of art with decoDonner went into the couch, and went to enced a traumatic incirated ceiling tiles. cardiac arrest and was the doctor’s or physical dent of that magnitude: On September 23, airlifted to the hospital therapy. “Why did this happen 2016, Donner fell asleep from Robert J. Miller As things became a (Student - See Page 4)
| November 23, 2019
More Resistance To Monmouth Commerce Project
By Bob Vosseller HOWELL – A massive construction proposal in the township again faced criticism during a packed Planning Board meeting on Nov. 7. The meeting, which ran from 7 to 10:30 p.m., featured a large turnout of residents who gathered to hear the latest testimony concerning the 1.2 million square foot project. The Monmouth Commerce Center project includes the construction of a warehouse complex on 100 acres of county forest land. The proposal by the Monmouth Commerce Center LLC also includes roads and parking lots on 100 wooded acres south of Randolph Road which runs into Route 547. The property owners are Lawrence Katz and Felix Pflaster. The applicant is being represented by Adam Faiella and Meryl Gonchar of Sills Cumis and Gross, of Newark. Township zoning permits warehouses in the special economic development zone in the south-central region of the community. Despite the promise of a large tax ratable to the township and hundreds of additional jobs, opponents of the plan have cited environmental, traffic (Project - See Page 4)
Ribbon Cut On Rebuilt Homeless Shelter
By Bob Vosseller OCEANPORT – Monmouth County will soon have a new homeless shelter to provide aid for those in need. Members of the Monmouth County Board of Chosen Freeholders took scissors to a large red ribbon on a brisk November morning at its Fort Monmouth location. “We have an obligation to help our Monmouth County residents who may not be able to help themselves due to a number of circumstances,” said Freeholder Director Thomas A. Arnone, liaison to the Department of Public Works and Engineering. (Ribbon - See Page 5)
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