The JACKSON Times
Vol. 21 - No. 16
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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 Communiwe were around each other. We ty 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)
Columbus Day Parade Canceled
By Bob Vosseller SEASIDE HEIGHTS – The Columbus Day Parade will not be held this year. With great regret, Parade Chairman Michael A. Blandina made the announcement earlier this month. Like so many other autumn events held around the county, the 29th Annual Ocean County Columbus Day Parade and Italian Festival was canceled due to fi nancial shortfalls brought on by the coronavirus pandemic. The event would have been held from October 9
to October 11 on Grant Avenue in the borough. “I was really hoping we could go forward,” Blandina said. “We have been unable to conduct fundraisers or seek sponsors that normally provide the committee with the $120,000-plus needed to support the three-day festival and parade. We had one fundraiser earlier in the year and held our spring raffle.” The parade featured f loats, bands, antique cars, contests, clowns and other (Parade - See Page 10)
Council Introduces Open Space Ordinance
By Bob Vosseller JACKSON – The Township Council introduced an ordinance to acquire 48 acres of property for open space land preservation during its latest meeting. The land known as Sunnybrook Estates will be taken off the housing development market if the measure is adopted and sale takes place. Residents of the community applauded the move. “This council has been very forthcoming concerning open space. It is probably our top priority and we’ve been talking about it since the beginning of the year,” Council President Alex Sauickie said. “We did some last year and we promised we’d do more this year,” he noted saying the ordinance introduced concerns residential property “that would have otherwise been additional homes in town which if it moves forward will be preserved with open space funds.” He said the town already has an open space preservation fund and that it would not impact the township. There is more than $5 million in this account. In other news, Mayor Michael Reina noted that this year marked the 19th anniversary of 9/11. “Given what is going on now in our country it looks like these attacks are getting worse with domestic terrorism. I think (Council - See Page 8)
Town Recognizes Child Cancer Awareness Month
By Bob Vosseller JACKSON – Against the backdrop of children going back to school, and the struggles that entails, the Township Council recognized September as “Child Cancer Awareness” month. Councilman Steven Chisholm read a proclamation saying, “cancer affects thousands of children each year and is the leading cause of the death by disease of U.S. children under the age of 15, killing more children than AIDS, asthma, cystic
fibrosis, diabetes and muscular dystrophy combined. Childhood cancer spares no one.” The proclamation added, “it affects kids from every socio-economic, ethnic and geographic class and the causes of most pediatric cancer are largely unknown and not strongly linked to lifestyle, unlike adult cancers. Two thirds of children treated for childhood cancer will develop long lasting chronic conditions resulting from (Child - See Page 8)
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