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─Photo By Bob Vosseller Pickle ball courts like this one in the Ortley Beach section of Toms River Township may be coming to recreational areas of Jackson Township in the future. By Bob Vosseller JACKSON – Township officials turned their attention to Jackson’s recreational facilities during a recent meeting noting a need for more football fields within the com munit y and pavilions, bathrooms and an amphitheater for Johnson Memorial Park. Gerald DeFelicis, se-
nior project manager of planning at Colliers Engineering made a present at ion to the governing body about his firm’s evaluation of existing parks. “We took a step back and looked at all the changes since 2010, and in relation to the growth of the town we looked at your needs.” He said by state law this needs
to be reviewed every 10 years. The conclusion of the evaluation was that the township “did a very good job at meeting the recreation needs of the residents.” DeFelicis said “a lot of the recommendations made in the 2010 plan have been enacted. There was a discussion of having more neighborhood parks,
you built those so a lot of what you set out to do have been achieved. I worked with the Jackson Pathfinder group they were very helpful - and with the County Land Trust - who were also very helpful. It is all positive.” DeFelicis noted that with Jackson’s population growth was rapidly (Plan - See Page 4)
Polar Bear Plunge: Big Crowds And Bigger Donations
By Bob Vosseller SEASIDE HEIGHTS – It wasn’t the worst d a y of t h e w i n t e r to r un into ice cold o c e a n wat e r but it clearly gave a chill to around 6,300 people during this year’s Polar Bear Plunge. The plungers had a reason for f reezing a nd it wa s t o s up -
port Special Olympics New Jersey. Whether they wore costumes like Vikings or Leprechauns - or simply bathing suits - when 1 p.m. ar rived they ran into the 40-degree water and endured the frigid 32-degree February weather. Their mission was t o r aise money for
t h e Sp e c i a l Oly m pics which suffered a shortfall last year when the event went vir t ual due to the C OV I D -19 h e a l t h crisis. H e a t h e r A n d e rson, the president and chief executive of f i c e r of S p e c i a l Olympics NJ was on the scene to see the
r e newe d e ne rg y of the live event. “It is great to be back in Seaside Heights with ou r ma ny sponsor s and the law enforcement community. It is an army of humanity here that support our athletes.” She noted that 26,000 young people pa r t icipate i n Spe -
cial Oly mpics New Jersey programs and they par ticipate for free. Eighty-two cents of each dollar raised goes directly to those programs for children and adults with intellectual disabilities.” The effort more than reached its $2 million fundraising goal (Polar - See Page 4)
March 5, 2022
Jackson Is Going Green With New Committee By Bob Vosseller JACKSON – Township officials moved to form a Going Green Committee for the community during a recent council session. Township Recycling Coordinator Irina Darrar brought it up to council members last year. “I did some research on this idea and found other towns in our area that had Going Green Committees included Toms River, Howell, Freehold Wall and Neptune. They already had these Going Green Committees or Green Teams,” Councilman Nino Borrelli said. “According to SustainableNewJersey.com about 81% of New Jersey towns and cities participate - that is 463 municipalities out of the 564 municipalities in our state. Why not Jackson? Why don’t we try this out by launching a Going Green Committee as most New Jersey municipalities have done already,” he said. He noted the size of Jackson which is the third largest municipality in the state and the environmental resources it has. “The main focus of this Going Green Committee will be looking for ways to save our town money through grants and other possible means and protect our environment in Jackson at the same time. “We’ll need residents who live in our town and who work for the township to serve on this committee. It will include up to two members of the township council, a mayor’s designee, a planning board designee, an environmental commission designee, a Shade Tree Committee designee, a Jackson Pathfinders designee, an MUA (Municipal Utilities Authority) designee, Board of Education designee, Chamber of Commerce designee and such other resident volunteers to include a total of 15 members,” Borrelli said. Rova Farms Councilman Alex Sauickie noted that during their prior meeting, the Council had (Green - See Page 5)
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