Stock Picks by Local Business Men Net $34,000 for Melanoma Foundation
Three local men formed a team in the Portfolios with Purpose (PwP) competition, finished first place in the Novice class, and raised more than $34,000 for American Melanoma Foundation. Team members Jonathan Herman, COO of Preferred Home Health Care & Nursing Services (PHHC), Eatontown; Mitchell Weitz, Hoboken, who works for Barclays, a multinational banking and…
The Lakewood Shuttle Takes Route
After nine years of planning, the Lakewood Township Community Shuttle or “L,” a public transportation system, finally began rolling through Lakewood on March 17. As part of its mission to increase mobility and reduce carbon emissions in Lakewood, Lakewood Township is providing the L bus service with vehicles that came from a Federal Transit Administration…
Your First Mud Run – A Family Event with a Little Mud Thrown in Vendors and Sponsors Needed
The Foundation of Specialty Hospitals, 500 River Avenue, Lakewood, is sponsoring Your First Mud Run, a family event (ages six and up) and obstacle race with a little mud thrown in, on Sunday, May 17 at 1075 Stephenson Avenue, Oceanport (formerly Ft. Monmouth). Check-in begins at 9:00 a.m. and the first Run Waves begin at…
Compassion Art Project Deadline ReSet for May – A Chance to Pay Forward $1000
If have an opportunity to teach or talk to children about compassion at home, in school, or in your places of worship, join Rotem Dental Care, Toms River, in a local initiative to make the world a better place through compassion. Rotem Dental Care is extending the deadline to submit art boards drawn or painted…
Assembly Republican Leader to Speak at Ocean ELC Meeting
Jon Bramnick, the Assembly Republican Leader, will discuss important issues pertinent to business Friday, March 20, 2015, from 8:00 to 9:30 a.m. at the monthly meeting of the Ocean ELC (Employees Legislative Committee), Clarion Hotel & Conference Center, 815 Route 37 West, Toms River, N.J. ELC meetings, open to the public, are designed to inform…
OHI Joins World Read Aloud Day 2015
OHI (Ocean Health Initiatives), a federally qualified health center (FQHC), will celebrate the power of words by participating in World Read Aloud Day, March 4, 2015, at its Ocean County sites. Bilingual OHI employees will be reading an assortment of children’s books at various times throughout the day to patients in the waiting rooms at…
Preferred Home Health Care Hires Director of Nursing for Its Brick Office
Mary Barbes, Whiting, N.J., has been named the director of nursing of the Brick Township office of Preferred Home Health Care & Nursing Services (PHHC), with headquarters in Eatontown. As the director of nursing, Barbes is responsible for directing the staff and clinical supervisors, overseeing patient care services in the home, and making sure all…
How to Prevent People from Pushing Your Buttons – March JSAHR Meeting
What is the real reason people get angry? How can we prevent others from making us angry? Learn three simple steps to avoid blowing up and what the best option is for controlling anger. Janet Pfeiffer, an international speaker and award-winning author, will present “How to Prevent People from Pushing Your Buttons” on Thursday, March…
Dispensing Health and Education Is a Spray Away!
A germophobic and his childhood friend came up with a unique idea, formed a new company to market it, and have placed more than 250 of their products in doctors’ waiting rooms in New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, and Connecticut in less than a year. Lakewood residents Joe Hirsch, the CCO (chief creative officer)…
New 18-Inch Sewer Main Provides Needed Relief to Sewer System in Lakewood
A new 18-inch sewer main was completed and put into service this January on Vine Street, Lakewood, as part of the Vine Street – Phase 2 Sewer Main project. The new sewer main was installed by New Jersey American Water to help relieve the over-capacity stress on the existing sewer main along the US Route…