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40th Annual Ocean County Teen Arts Festival March 24 - April 7, 2017 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM Jay and Linda Grunin Center for the Arts Gallery College Drive, Toms River, NJ
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8th Annual Live Auction and Dinner March 25, 2017 5:00 PM King of Kings Church Route 9 Manahawkin, NJ
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Irish Night March 25, 2017 6:00 PM - 11:30 PM Albert Music Hall 131 Wells Mills Road Route 532 Waretown, NJ
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Sunday Monthly Birding Walk March 26, 2017 9:00 PM - 10:00 AM Cloverdale farm 34 Cloverdale Road Bamegat, NJ 08008 www.oceancountypark.org
Event: Attracting Hummingbirds and Butterflies to Your Garden Date: March 27, 2017 Time: 1:30 PM - 4:00 PM Location: Stafford Branch - Ocean County Library 129 N Main Street, Manahawkin, NJ 08050 www.theoceancountylibrary.org Event: Date: Time: Location:
Free Income Tax Prep March 27, 2017 9:00 AM - 2:00 PM St. Mary’s of the Pines Parish Center 100 Bishop Lane, Manahawkin, NJ
Event: “Allison Stella” at Plantation Date: March 29, 2017 Time: 5:30 PM Location: Plantation 80th St & Long Beach Blvd Harvey Cedars, NJ Event: Date: Time: Location:
Open mic with Jimmy Brogan March 30, 2017 8:00 PM - 11:30 PM Tuckerton Beach Grille 1000 South Green St Tuckerton, NJ
Event: Girl Power Dance Party Date: March 31, 2017 Time: 3:30 PM Location: Long Beach Island Branch - Ocean County Library 217 S Central Ave, Surf City, NJ 08008 Event: Date: Time: Location:
Matt Fisher Mar 31, 2017 8:00 PM The Arlington 13th St & Long Beach Blvd Ship Bottom, NJ
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SHAMROCKS FOR THE SHORE 5K/10K The Causeway Family Sponsors and participates
By Joe Stroffolino-Editor Causeway Family Sponsors and participates in the SubFreezing edition Manahawkin-2017 marks my 3rd year running in the 5th annual Shamrocks for the Shore 5K. (The race was originally named Shamrocks for Sandy to raise funds for Super storm sandy victims.) The last two years I would call the weather normal for the second week of March. It was overcast and in the upper 40’s to low 50’s, still pretty chilly in my book, but tolerable. This year was completely different. Originally I looked at the 15 day forecast and it was calling for normal 40 to 50s temps. Then as the days crept closer the forecast changed drastically! Snow was being forecasted and temps in the low to mid 20’s at race time! I really despise the cold weather, let alone running in it. Now what? Well maybe they will cancel due to sub-freezing temperatures? Apparently they don’t cancel runs based on temperatures. I would have to get myself mentally and physically prepared for my first super cold weather 5k. I made a trip to TJMAXX and found some great cold weather running gear all in the clearance section! I felt confident that I would be warm enough during the 3.1 mile run.
From left to right: Erin McGee, Sam Calafiore, Ryan Purul, Gillian Purul, Wallace Moore, Randy Evans, Julian Cimino, Terry collins, Rob Libutti, Amanda Calafiore, Chad Scanlon, Kevin Meade, Heather Dodds, Andrew Battaglino, Dan Uccellini, Rae Magee, Joe Stroffolino, Ryan Ehrhart, Lorraine Aiello, Pat Magee, Maureen Gogarty, Deirdre Lipowski, Antonio Brito.
On the Sunday morning, after moving our clocks ahead an hour, I arrived at the Stafford Township Municipal building. When I looked at the temperature reading in my car at 7:45am it read 21 degrees. Ok no problem I’m prepared! I stayed in my car as long as possible and let the heated seat sink in a bit more. I exited the warmth and adjusted to the sudden 50 degree drop. I did some warming up and a quick 10 minute run as well. At 8:30, along with 97 other brave and committed souls I took off at the starting line. I crossed the finish line 28:32 later giving me third place in the Men’s 50-59 year age bracket. I conquered my fear of this extra frigid morning run.
Causeway Medal winners From left to right: Joe Stroffolino, Lorraine Aiello, Rob Libutti, Julian Cimino, Alex Howley, Andrew Bataglino, Chad Scanlon and Terry Collins(missing)
That was my story. There are many other more amazing performances from this year’s Shamrocks for the Shore run. This is also the third year that the Causeway Family entered as a team and our first year as a sponsor! This year Causeway had 23 team members participate! In all Causeway had 8 team members win medals. Chad Scanlon took first place overall with a scorching time of 17:43! Chad is currently training for a 50 mile Ultra-Marathon. Alex Howley finished in second place overall with an amazing time of 20:41. Another impressive performance was from Julian Cimino who finished 1st in his 20-29 age group with a time of 22:40. Andrew Battaglino finished in third place in the 20-29 group as well. Rob Libutti logged his personal best running an impressive 24:41 and finishing first in his 30-39 age group. In
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the “Old guys” category, age 50-59, Terry Collins and yours truly finished 2nd and 3rd place respectively with times of 27:42 and 28:32. Last but not least Lorraine Aiello finished in second place in her 60 plus age group. My favorite story from last year is still my favorite this year. Taking third place overall was Jessica Abbott with an incredible time of 20:55! Why so incredible you ask? Well Jessica is only 8 years old. I’m convinced she is a future Olympian! Her 8 year old male counterpart Jonathon Mandell clocked a still impressive time of 24:39! Congratulations to all the participants and finishers of this year’s race! In the 10K the top finishers were Thomas Smith with an impressive 41:04 in first place, Shaun Cronen finished 2nd in 51:50 and in 3rd place Dominic Boeta with a time of 51:39. There were 38 total 10k participants.