“This is a gift,” said John S. Walker. The gift that Walker refers to is serving as the resident advocate at the New Jersey Veterans Memorial Home at Vineland. A typical day for Walker begins with making rounds in the home’s resident neighborhoods, conversing, and interacting with residents and their family members. Walker spends an […]
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Rowan College of South Jersey (RCSJ) and the Cumberland County Campus Educational Foundation hosted a Community Garden event in celebration of Earth Day on April 22. Students from the college’s Adult Center for Transition (ACT) played a key role in the event and in the Community Garden throughout the semester. ACT, according to Michael Lemon,
Attention, all you fans of chrome, fins, and muscle cars. It’s the big 30, when Cruise Down Memory Lane, one of The Ave’s truly iconic events, comes to The Ave on Saturday, June 11 (rain date, June 12). It’s back in the summertime this year and in its customary time slot of 5 to 9
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Tracing the folk songs written or performed in South Jersey during the early 20th century hasn’t been a common practice but, in 1983, Dorothea H. Lewis did just that for the Vineland Historical Magazine with an article entitled “Music of the Pine Barrens of New Jersey.” Lewis identifies two pieces credited to local musicians that
As social media continuously proves to be an effective tool for reaching target audiences, more brands are choosing to use social media platforms for their online video advertising. Instagram has specifically become a convenient host for short form videos, livestreams and temporary stories. Here are a few ways to optimize your videos for Instagram. 1.
The start of summer is fast approaching, and AccuWeather meteorologists have pulled back the curtain to reveal what weather people across the country can expect in the coming months. Summer has been on the minds of AccuWeather’s long-range forecasters for weeks, and a team of meteorologists, led by Senior Meteorologist Paul Pastelok, has put together
June is gun safety month. May is mental health awareness month. I’m not sure it would matter much to combine the two but it certainly couldn’t hurt. At this point anything is worth a try. I say that a few days out from another school shooting that left 21 dead and a couple weeks out
Throughout their lives, Steven and Ben Maiers, twin brothers, and Rowan College of South Jersey (RCSJ) baseball players, have been teammates on and off the field. That is until Fall 2021 when they embarked on their higher education and athletic journeys. They both ended up at the same school, but on different campuses and different
If you read articles about birds you possibly know a great deal about hummingbirds. With their ability to fly both backward and forward they attract a lot of attention and “buzz”—or possibly “hum”—for such a tiny species. In this piece and next week’s column, I’d like you to learn something you did not already know.
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If you’re going to see Jose Feliciano at the Levoy Theater in Millville this Friday, expect to hear “Light My Fire.” Feliciano’s jazz-infused cover of The Doors’ classic has become a classic in its own right since its release in 1968, garnering two Grammys—Best New Artist of the Year and Best Pop Male Performance. But
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