Weather: Rain showers early becoming more intermittent for the afternoon. High around 80F. Chance of rain 50%.Humidity 73%
-Forest park area expected to have power restored by tomorrow according to memo sent to residents
9:00 pm Live shiur Rav Simcha Bunim Cohen Halacha Lemaaseh hilchos shabbos HERE
8:30 pm Lakewood 3285 without power, Jackson 1,932 Toms River 3124, Howell 7,377
Power restored at 14th and Hope Chapel area
7:45 pm 5,268 still out of power in Lakewood
-Forest park area still out of power
-Township Committee today authorized spending $1 Million + for a new communications tower which will improve radio communications for all the paid and volunteer first responder agencies in Lakewood. The tower will be built in the Public Works yard. (Reporter Moshe)
-Lunch Box distribution:
Klausenberg behind Evergreen 5pm Yeshiva Ktana 6:00 pm Tashbar 7:30 pm
-5:00 pm JCPL update customers without power: Lakewood 4522, Jackson 2706, Toms River 4874, Howell 8310
-Bde: 24 youngerman father of 1 drowned in the Kineret in EY
-Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis rescinded an order requiring people traveling from New York, New Jersey and Connecticut to the Sunshine State to quarantine or isolate for 14 days
- NJ 411 new cases of coronavirus, 8 additional deaths
-7 New Positive covid19 cases in Lakewood 2 deaths totals 2708/194
1:00 pm Lakewood 4789 Customers W/0 Power, Jackson 3933, Toms River 6,056, Howell 10,371
-Fireworks show tonight at Blueclaws stadium beginning at 9:30 pm and the show is more than double a show (both in length and height) that follows a typical BlueClaws game.
-Gourmet Glatt south open, NPGS Jackson location is open
- Out of state Utility workers from Indiana Michigan power gathered in Howell and are being dispatched by JCPL to Lakewood & Jackson (NJ12)
-Check the Eruv: Many Eruvin have been damaged and wires down during the storm additionally those that rely on electric wires should check it too. Some poskin are of the opinion that after a severe storm there are no more chazakos to rely on the kashrus of existing eruvin and they must be checked.
-10:00 am JCP&L Affected Customers: 349,395
-NJ residents without power booking hotel rooms many sold out
-Hotels in NJ cancelled weekend retreats and gatherings amid new restrictions of indoor gatherings
-Lakewood township committee meeting today 5:30 pm
-NJ officials say most will have power on by Friday it was not just the lines that run down streets and carry electricity to homes and businesses that suffered damage. “The transmission system has also been damaged considerably
-6:30 am: JCP&L: 39,463 customers in Ocean county without power Lakewood 5,469, Jackson 3784, Toms River 7695, Howell 7902
-Lunch Shabbos Box distribution:
Yeshiva Ktana 6:00 pm
Tashbar 7:30 pm
At Public schools locations by Gelbsteins 9:00 am Menu: Rye bread, Bakery fresh cake, Deli pastrami, Hot dogs, Kugel, Milk, Grape juice, Mango, Cucumber pickles, Cherry tomatoes, Pizza
love that 'most will have power'. Who will be included in the minority? What about them? Most have power already, but the rest of us are seriously suffering
ReplyDeleteLike most people werent in danger of corona.
DeleteHello, here is a message for all of you that have power, or those that have the monster generators in their large houses.
ReplyDeleteHashem gave you an opportunity, now you can use it. Have you called your neighbors to offer them to bring their freezers over? Have you invited some families to sleep in your air-conditioned home? To spend the hot afternoons there? To cook for Shabbos? To use your washing machine?
Many people will rather suffer in silence than ask for assistance, but when it is offered by you, they won't feel so embarrassed.
The opportunity is about to be lost, and you can justify the great gift Hashem gave you. Don't squander it!
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DeleteDeadline to apply for the PPP loan is August 8. Call 732-305-0148
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ReplyDeleteNo, other districts should also open up their schools. Closing schools is a definite detriment to society, whereas the danger to the teachers is a tiny chance.
DeleteYour questions are ludicrous. The parents have no choice, and you are talking about the legality of their actions?! Have you no heart? They have no choice, they need to work. And if they need to work, their children will either be home alone, or be taken care of in large groups by family members. Of course public policy should be driven by their needs. Why should DYFS be their spokespeople, when they are unelected?
You are in the minority because everyone from the outside understands that you are wrong. Most readers and commenters here do not have children in the public school system, yet almost everyone here believes that your risk is too small to be relevant.
And from a Torah standpoint, the possuk tells us ואליו הוא נושא את נפשו, that a person does risk his life for his parnossa. You are no different.
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ReplyDeleteOf course his concern is sickness more than death, because many many more get sick than die. The chances of any individual's death of covid 19 is still tiny, even if you read about many deaths in the news.
DeleteThe reason they are not relying only on educators is because you have "negious".
ReplyDeleteThis is from the American association of pediatrics website:
"Why students should go back to school–safely
The AAP guidance is based on what pediatricians and infectious disease specialists know about COVID-19 and kids. Evidence so far suggests that children and adolescents are less likely to have symptoms or severe disease from infection. They also appear less likely to become infected or spread the virus.
Schools provide more than just academics to children and adolescents. In addition to reading, writing and math, children learn social and emotional skills, get exercise and access to mental health support and other things that cannot be provided with online learning. For many families, school is where kids get healthy meals, access to the internet, and other vital services."
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DeleteHow do you know that no other district puts 27 kids in a classroom?
DeleteThere are many over burden school district in NJ.
Read this article in The Atlantic
ReplyDeletehttps://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/08/im-nurse-teachers-should-do-their-jobs-like-i-did/614902/
Here are some of the highlights:
"Instead of taking the summer to hone arguments against returning to the classroom, administrators and teachers should be thinking about how they can best support children and their families through a turbulent time. Schools are essential to the functioning of our society, and that makes teachers essential workers. They should rise to the occasion even if it makes them nervous, just like health-care workers have."
"So I can understand that teachers are nervous about returning to school. But they should take a cue from their fellow essential workers and do their job. Even people who think there’s a fundamental difference between a nurse and a teacher in a pandemic must realize that there isn’t one between a grocery-store worker and a teacher, in terms of obligation. People who work at grocery stores in no way signed up to expose themselves to disease, but we expected them to go to work, and they did. If they had not, society would have collapsed. What do teachers think will happen if working parents cannot send their children to school? Life as we know it simply will not go on"
"Teachers signed up to be a positive adult presence in children’s lives, and to help them grow up with their peers, at school, away from home. We need them to follow through, even though it’s a challenge. It’s going to be hard; it’s going to be stressful; it’s not going to be perfect. “I can’t think of one time that there was actually hand soap in the men’s bathroom,” my husband told me. That’ll have to change, hopefully for good. The point is that everyone is going to have to go above and beyond. But teachers are smart and adaptable. They can do this.
In the days before I first took care of COVID-19 patients, I discovered a deeper fear. Beneath my panic over exposing myself to the disease, I was also afraid that the work would be too difficult, too fast-paced, too chaotic: I was afraid I would fail. When I came to the hospital, I discovered that solidarity, flexibility, kindness, and a willingness to learn would be integral elements of nursing through a pandemic, and I knew I wouldn’t fail—the skills I had were the very reason I had been called upon to do this work. The same is true of teaching through a pandemic."
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DeleteIt's not just front line workers, most people have gone back to work. This irrational fear of teachers was hyped by the teachers union who somehow felt that de-funding the police was also integral to the education of children.
DeleteTeachers somehow have the expectation of getting paid even when they don't work, there is no other profession where this exists. Teachers unions may have done more damage to this country than any other single group.
Look at every state with Fiscal problems, and it all boils down to unfunded pension obligations. The public unions (the most powerful of which being teachers) decide the election with their bloc vote, and get their elected puppets to promise them things which are not affordable.
People who are concerned about massive school board deficits in Lakewood and across the state, should realize that much of the lack of funding is because the state has been lead to the verge of bankruptcy by public unions
Also, I thought you felt it was time to retire.
ReplyDeleteSo why in point 4 are you threatening to sue the BOE, which in turn is threatening all of us because we fund the BOE with our tax dollars.
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Deletethe township is borrowing another 20 million dollars after raising taxes and it will have to be paid back over 5 years by raising more taxes this is insane.
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DeleteChicanos Drive, right off of 14th Street, has many residents still without power. JCP&L, don't forget about them!
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