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─Photo courtesy Cassidy Haugh Cassidy Haugh brought snacks and other food to officers in Brick. By Judy Smestad-Nunn BR ICK - Cassidy Haugh, 25, has found a way to give back to local police departments after receiving help from them when she totaled her car last July. It was 4 a.m., and the Brick resident had just come off a double shift as a supervisor at the Wall Township Wawa when she hit a deer on
Route 70. “The police were there within seconds,” Haugh said, “and if we need the police during overnights at Wawa, like when kids get into fights, they’re also there in seconds.” A couple of weeks later, she brought the Wall Township police officers some snacks to thank them for their
quick and k i nd re sponse in the aftermath of her accident, from which she walked away uninjured. Haugh has relatives who work in law enforcement, including her father Wayne, who is a detective in Robbinsville, and her uncle, Eric Haugh, who is a cop in Brick. (Eric Haugh and fellow of-
ficer John Alexander were recently lauded for saving a drowning woman in the Metedeconk River on August 15). The Wall Police officers were surprised and happy to receive the snacks, so Haugh did the same for the Manasquan Police Department, who sometimes (Police - See Page 10)
Remembering The Shark Attacks Of 1916
By Patricia A. Miller BEACH HAVEN - It was a ver y hot and humid day on July 1, 1916 in Beach Haven, much like it probably was up and down the entire Jersey shore. It was so uncomfor table that Philadelphian Charles Epti ng Va nSa nt , 25, a
graduate of the 1914 class of the University of Pennsylvania, couldn’t wait to get into the ocean water. He was t r aveli ng w it h h i s physicia n father and two sisters on a train to escape the city heat. Charles headed for the Beach Haven bathing beach as soon as they ar-
rived and began playing with a dog. But the dog didn’t want to go out too far, so Charles ended up by himself. Shor tly af ter, residents and v i sit o r he a r d wh a t they thought was Charles still playing with the dog. But he wasn’t playing. He was being bit-
ten by what appeared to be a shark. He began shrieking close to shore. By time he was moved to the beach, h e w a s n e a rly u n conscious, according to Richard D. Fernicola’s book “Twelve D ays of Te r r or,” a frightening account of five shark attacks in July 1916 along the
Jersey Shore that left fou r men dead a nd one teenager injured. VanSant was one of the ones who died. He lost portions of both his legs and bled to death at the Engleside Hotel in Beach Haven. His death was the first of four. Four men died over the next few days (Shark - See Page 13)
August 29, 2020
Students Research Our Impact On Barnegat Bay
By Judy Smestad-Nunn BRICK - The local environmental organization, Save Barnegat Bay, runs an annual student grant program that provides a hands-on learning opportunity for undergraduate students who are chosen to conduct field research. The students normally have a live presentation of their findings, but due to the coronavirus health crisis, they recently presented their research in a Zoom meeting format. Save Barnegat Bay and its collaborating partners offer a $1,000 grant to each accepted team project student and $1,500 to each accepted independent project student. Executive Director of Save Barnegat Bay Britta Wenzel said the grant program was started in 2007 by the late Paul “Pete” McLain, a wildlife biologist and conservationist who had a vision and a passion for the conservation of Barnegat Bay. This year eight students were chosen as grant recipients: three who studied the Sedge Island Marine Conservation Zone behind Island Beach State Park to look at the biodiversity, and five students who studied the water quality in Toms River. In the first of two team presentations, Jason Kelsey, who is an instructor at MATES (Marine Academy of Technology and Environmental Science), mentored the Sedge Island team. He said they have been studying the area for 10 years and said that having a long-term data set was one of the goals of the project. The three-student team included Kate Killian, who is a student at Stevens Institute of Technology and is studying naval engineering; Brady Nichols, who attends Bowdoin College and is studying biology; and Sarah Quigley, who attends Berry College where she is studying biochemistry. Normally, the team does ten non-consecutive days of sampling, and they look at areas in the conservation zone and areas right outside the conservation zone. Tice’s Shoal, which is a popular spot for boaters to congregate, was their focus for the outside of the conservation zone. While recreational activities are allowed in both zones, such as birding, kayaking and recreational fishing, commercial fishing and the use of personal watercraft are not allowed in the Sedge Island (Barnegat - See Page 9)
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