The MANCHESTER Times Vol. 25 - No. 52
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April 11, 2020
−Photo Provided by the Manchester School District Students join Sarah Stevenson of Mindfulness Educational Services during a lesson about mindfulness held at the Ridgeway Elementary School. prior to the implementation of COVID-19 pandemic restrictions that have currently closed the school district’s facilities. By Bob Vosseller MANCHESTER – Like many school districts throughout the state, the township’s elementary and middle schools have incorporated social emotional learning into daily instructional practices. This is being done in an effort to address mindfulness practices
and character development, and to support st udents in mak ing positive and constructive decisions. To share some classroom practices with parents, the district held a Family Mindfulness Night for middle and elementary school students and their families at the Ridgeway
Elementar y School, before schools were closed to prevent the spread of COVID-19. Guest presenter Sarah Stevenson, from Mindfulness Educational Services, shared the research that supports the importance of bringing mindfulness into classroom practices and presented strategies
to support students at home. Stevenson presented a slide presentation which shared some ala r m i ng st at ist ics about student stress. She told parents that one in five children in a given year will show signs or symptoms of a mental health disorder.
By Bob Vosseller MANCHESTER – Members of the Township Council held their fi rst virtual meeting on March 30, replacing their cancelled meeting of March 23. The meeting was held with a computer program/app called Zoom, due to the outbreak of COVID-19. This was needed because of the social distancing required during the current public health crisis. Last month, Gov. Phil Murphy banned gatherings of more than 10 people which has caused municipalities to find other means of conducting business. The Council each reported in remotely, preparing for the virtual event 60 minutes earlier to make sure everything was ready for council interaction and public participation. Council members introduced an ordinance that prohibits excavating on roads that have been recently paved. A public hearing about this will be held on April 20. No permits will be issued on streets improved within three years’ time unless the applicant can clearly demonstrate that public health or safety required that the proposed work be permitted or unless an emergency condition exists. Also approved was a waiver of water connection fees to some residents in the Pineland Park section of the township. There were 30 homes that need to be hooked up and which had wells dug when there was no water capacity during that period of time. Council President Samuel Fusaro explained (Council - See Page 4)
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Local Man 3-D Prints Masks For Doctors
By Chris Lundy TOMS RIVER – Whenever there’s a big problem, everyday people often step up to the challenge. Wherever COVID-19 has struck, there has been a shortage of personal protective equipment for first responders. Globally, the story is the same: as the numbers of infected rise, so does the demand for masks, gowns, and other necessities among the medical community. Township resident Eric Mewengkang, is part of a group of people who have been using their 3-D printers to make masks for medical professionals. These masks are a plastic shield that drops down from
the forehead and creates a kind of splash guard for the wearer. They are not to be confused with the N95 respirator masks that look like surgical masks and filter out particles from the air. His group is made up of people from all over the world. There are about 8-10 people who collectively print about 200 masks a day. A 3-D printer builds an object one layer at a time until it’s complete. In this case, it is literally building a plastic object one tiny layer at a time until it’s real. The printer is told what to make by giving it a design file. That file is open source, meaning that people share the file and make
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changes to it to fit people’s needs. They might get feedback like “it’s too tight on the straps,” and then they make the necessary adjustments. He estimated that this group has spent hundreds of thousands of hours fine-tuning the process. The first ones took four hours to print. Now, they can be done in 30 minutes, he said. He dropped them off to some doctors at Community Medical Center in Toms River and they loved them. It snowballed from there. Now, he’s getting requests from doctors and nurses all over the state and even from Rhode (Masks - See Page 9)
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