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September 19, 2020
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COVID Caused Changes In Hospital Operations By Bob Vosseller NEW JERSEY – Howell resident Nicole Jackson serves as the Interim Director of Patient Care at Community Medical Center in Toms River. She is another frontline fighter in the continuing war on the coronavirus. She told this newspaper about how medical professionals have had to change operations at work – and how they had to change their habits at home – in the wake of COVID-19. In her hospital role she oversees the workflow and what the nurses do. Also, she makes sure that procedures are being followed, and helps make new policies as more information about the virus emerges. That includes all the new rules that came about since the pandemic conditions began back in March. “We had to adjust everything. The way we triage patients coming into the hospital and the way we treated patients while they ─Photo courtesy Community Medical Center were in the hospital. Even how Nicole Jackson, Interim Director of Patient Care at Community we were around each other. We Medical Center, is one of the many health care professionals had to constantly watch each other involved on the front line the COVID-19 pandemic. and keep ourselves safe,” she said. Jackson noted, “we had to protect ourselves and our families when we went home. Everything changed in a matter of a week or so. We knew we had to change things and we started to think about what we could change to make it a better experience for everybody coming in: nurses, staff, family members. When you work in the ER it is like the front line of care.” (COVID - See Page 4)
County Officials Issue Updates On Election Day
By Bob Vosseller FREEHOLD – County officials recently provided an update on the November 3 general election. Monmouth County Clerk Christine Giordano Hanlon advised voters that major changes have been made to the November 3 General Election process, due to a new State law signed by Governor Phil Murphy. For the first time in the state’s history, the General Election will be conducted
primarily by mail-in ballots. All registered and active voters will automatically receive mail-in ballots for voting in the 2020 General Election without the need to submit a vote by mail application, per the State mandate. Per state law the mail-in ballots will be sent to voters on or before October 5 and only a limited number of polling places will be available for voters on Election Day, where only paper provisional ballots will be (Voting - See Page 12)
Officials Preserving 30 Acres
By Bob Vosseller HOWELL – Township officials approved the preservation of a 30-acre tract of land on Fort Plains Road as open space. The governing body recently finalized the purchase of the property through the passage of a capital ordinance that was introduced by Councilman Thomas Russo last month. During the latest council meeting those present voted in the affirmative for the measure. “This is one of those purchases where the land is buildable and it is worth the money to purchase,” Councilwoman Pamela Richmond said last month. Through the ordinance, Howell would appropriate $1,060,000 to purchase the land from the United Talmudical Academy. The ordinance allows for any grant money that the township receives to be applied toward the cost of the purchase. Funds in Howell’s Open Space and Recreation Trust Fund are available for the sale. In other news, Council members recently voted on a resolution providing for a special insertion of revenue in the 2020 budget of the township involving the awarding to Howell the amount of $93,357 from the United States Department of Justice Community Policing Development micro grant. The subject of music at the township’s Sunday Farmers Market was discussed earlier in the summer. There was a concern that musical (Land - See Page 2)
Pound The Pavement For Pancreatic Cancer Goes Virtual
By Bob Vosseller NEPTUNE – Monmouth County Board of Chosen Freeholders, Freeholder Director Thomas A. Arnone and the Neptune Township Committee will present the seventh annual Pound the Pavement for Purple 5K Run/2 Mile Walk in a virtual format. Arnone, who is the co-founder of the race, said he was “pleased that the event will be moving forward with the seventh annual Pound the Pavement race this year, even if
it means moving it to a virtual platform.” “Our friends and loved ones fighting this disease need our support now more than ever and we find it important to continue raising funds for pancreatic cancer research,” Arnone added. According to the Pancreatic Cancer Action Network, it is estimated that more than 57,000 Americans will be diagnosed with pancreatic cancer this year, which calculates (Pound - See Page 14)
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