🌱 Patch AM: Why Asbury Park’s public works chief just earned a safety award

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In today's newsletter:

• Why Asbury Park's public works chief just earned a safety award
• How an Asbury Park author took West Side stories nationwide
• How Jon Bon Jovi's new lottery game could benefit Asbury Park

Also on today's calendar: Mathis House Speakeasy Dinner Show Pop-Up Speakeasy Jazz Night Dinner and 9 more events.

Today's riddle: What do you call a paper airplane that can't fly? 🤔 (Answer below!)

Weather forecast:

• Wednesday: Sunny; breezy in the p.m., with a high of 69 and low of 57 degrees.
• Thursday: Sunshine and pleasant, temps: high: 78, low: 57.
• Friday: Sunny and beautiful, with a high of 72 and low of 57 degrees.

📰 News we're reading

• Asbury Park Public Works Director Receives Award for Leadership (thecoaster.net) — Asbury Park residents should know their public works director, George Phipps, just earned a statewide risk management award for making worker safety a daily priority. City leaders say his focus on training, accountability, and hazard awareness has strengthened the department's safety culture and better protects both employees and the community they serve.
   

• Asbury Park Author Kelly Walker Edwards Takes Her Story to iHeartMedia's 'Building Black Biz' (TAPinto.net) — An Asbury Park native author is taking stories of the city's West Side and her family's local history to a national audience through iHeartMedia's "Building Black Biz" podcast. Kelly Walker Edwards, an Asbury Park High School graduate, has self-published eight books, many rooted in neighborhood memories that document Black life at the Jersey Shore and preserve a vital part of the city's past.
   

• NJ Lottery launches Jersey Legend scratch-offs with Jon Bon Jovi (app.com) — Asbury Park residents can look forward to a future JBJ Soul Kitchen at the Mercy Center's new Main Street headquarters, thanks in part to proceeds from the New Jersey Lottery's new "Jersey Legend" Jon Bon Jovi scratch-offs. While the launch event took place in Red Bank, city officials have already amended a local redevelopment plan to allow the restaurant, which will expand food support services in the neighborhood.
   

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🗓 Upcoming Events in Asbury Park

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★ Featured events ★

Friday October 9
• Mathis House Speakeasy Dinner Show Pop-Up Speakeasy Jazz Night Dinner →
  Mathis House a Victorian Bed & Breakfast and Tea Room, 600 Main St, Toms River
  7:00 pm
Friday October 16
• Midnight Masquerade Murder Mystery Dinner Show →
  Mathis House a Victorian Bed & Breakfast and Tea Room, 600 Main St, Toms River
  7:00 pm
Saturday October 24
• Harvest Victorian Afternoon Tea →
  Mathis House a Victorian Bed & Breakfast and Tea Room, 600 Main St, Toms River
  11:00 am

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Other local events

Thursday October 8
• Sheer Terror, Direct Order '82, Burn Kit, Guess Again →
  Wild Air Beerworks, 801 2nd Avenue, Asbury Park
  6:00 pm
• DAVE EAST →
  House of Independents, 572 Cookman Avenue, Asbury Park
  8:00 pm
Friday October 9
• Wellness Committee →
  City Manager's Conference Room, City Hall, Asbury Park
  1:00 pm
• Wonder Bar - with Cold Hill opening →
  Wonder Bar, 1213 Ocean Avenue North, Asbury Park
  7:00 pm
Saturday October 10
• Cycling for The Center: Ride to Support Housing, Health and Hope →
  Center In Asbury Park, 806 3rd Ave, Asbury Park
  8:30 am
Saturday October 17
• Great Futures Gala →
  Wave Resort, 110 Ocean Ave, Long Branch
  7:00 pm
Sunday October 18
• The TANJ Youth Arts Festival →
  , Asbury Park
  10:00 am
Sunday October 25
• Wave of Hope for SSADH Grand 15th Annual Benefit →
  Columns, 601 Ocean Ave N, Avon-By-The-Sea
  12:00 pm
• Brookdale Community College Fall Open House →
  Brookdale Community College, 765 Newman Springs Rd, Middletown Township
  1:00 pm

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• Muller Insurance — (201) 659-2403
• Brookdale Community College — (732) 224-1857
• Mathis House Bed & Breakfast and Victorian Tea Room — (732) 818-7580
• RoBeans — (732) 947-6323
• The NJ Paddock Car Storage Facility INSURED — (732) 278-3255
• Blossom (Divorce) Coaching, LLC — (201) 903-0240

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💬 Chatter

What your neighbors are talking about on social media

• I just found a cat here in the yard at my office - 1508 Main Street, Asbury Park, across from McDonalds and 7-11.
  A grey striped tabby, looks young. It was crying, seemed hungry. I gave it food and water. Has a collar, but no tag on the collar. Well-groomed and… (Nextdoor Asbury Park)
• Hi, I have been searching for an xl, xxl, or any suggested size training crate that could fit our 9 month rescue fur baby.
  If anyone could help please message us thank you we'd appreciate it and be so thankful. (Nextdoor Steiner / Sylvania)

• Disabledperson, Inc posted a job opening for Stocking Team Associate at Walmart in Neptune, New Jersey in Neptune. Apply here.
• CVS posted a job opening for Store Associate in Oakhurst. Apply here. You can search for other jobs near Asbury Park here.

🗞 Nearby News

Ocean Grove

• In Perfect Balance (healthandlifemags.com)
• Hair Loss, Identity and Remission: Life After a Lymphoma Diagnosis at 29 (curetoday.com)
• Followup re: restoration of 118 Main Avenue—formerly the OG Memorial Home (blogfinger.net)

Belmar

• OCHS boys, girls cross country teams win divisions at Shore Coaches Invitational ‣ Ocean City Sentinel (ocnjsentinel.com)
• Kevin William Hunt (starnewsgroup.com)
• Toms River Welcomes Eight New Police Officers (jerseyshoreonline.com)

Howell

• Where To Pick Pumpkins Near Howell This Fall — And How To Carve Them (patch.com)

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-- The Patch AM Team

P.S. The answer to today's riddle: "What do you call a paper airplane that can't fly?" — Stationary (Thank you David H. for sending it in!)
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