Woman’s Club Celebrates Valentine’s Day and Heart Healthy Day

The Woman’s Club of Vineland held its February meeting on the 14th. All the members wore red to celebrate Valeninte’s Day and Heart Healthy Day. Speaker Gloria Rivaveneira, a dietitian from Inspira, talked about eating healthy to benefit your heart. She provided the club women with information about eating healthy portions by dividing the plate […]

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Weekly Update: Masking, Red to Yellow Visitation, Connecting Loved Ones

Excerpted from February 14, 2022 message to the community, inspirahealthnetwork.org/covid19 We have 6.6 million New Jerseyans fully vaccinated, and 2.8 million boostered. We are really seeing continued decrease in hospitalizations. It goes up and down, so I’m not ready to call victory yet, and obviously we do worry five, seven, 10 days after Super Bowl

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Animal Rescuer Authors Book, Hosts Two Book Signings This Weekend

At The Funny Farm, one of the largest animal rescues in the Northeast, many different animals live together and roam freely, and the odd and unlikely friendships that develop reveal lessons of kindness and cooperation. Laurie Zaleski shares the inspiring story of how it all started in Funny Farm: My Unexpected Life with 600 Rescue

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Ride-Along Recruits

The City of Vineland, in partnership with Rowan College of South Jersey and the Cumberland County Department of Workforce Development, has launched a new program that will pay recruits while training for a career as an emergency medical technician (EMT). According to city officials, the program was developed to address a growing need locally and

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Word of Mouth

One of the challenges for businesses in this modern day and age of communication is “getting the word” out and the best way—or ways—to do it. We have a lot of great businesses on The Ave that deal in a wide variety of products and services. Some are well-known and others, whether they are new

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Membership Counts

In this space, I often write about special events held around our county in the areas of entertainment, art, and history. This week I’d like to tell you about memberships in a few nonprofit organizations that bring you wonderful events through the year. If you’re an outdoor person, consider joining Citizens United to Protect the

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Sustain & Serve Program to Offer New Round of Funding Early Next Month

Last week, the New Jersey Economic Development Authority (NJEDA) announced that it will open applications for a new round of Sustain & Serve NJ funding early next month. The announcement follows approval of enhancements to the program today by the NJEDA’s Board. The NJEDA’s Sustain & Serve NJ program provides eligible entities with grants up

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NJ Parents Have Mixed Feelings as State Plans to Lift School Mask Mandate

This story is being republished under a special NJ News Commons content-sharing agreement related to COVID-19 coverage. Link to story: whyy.org/articles/murphy-to-end-nj-school-mask-mandate/ New Jersey’s statewide school mask mandate will end on March 7, Gov. Phil Murphy announced last Monday, marking the end of a controversial pandemic restriction. “Early March traditionally means the weather starts to warm

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