UPDATE: 9/2/2021. The Wine Festival has been POSTPONED

 

 

 

Join us on September 18, 2021 as we "Sip Away Again"!

This year's Wine Festival will benefit the Washington Township Police Department's Community Caretaking Program, by outfitting a special community outreach vehicle. The Department is planning to expand its outreach activities by equipping a van to be used for activities such as holiday meal deliveries to those in need, neighborhood ice cream giveaways, and picnic-like events.  The Department has acquired a used van for this purpose.  The Rotary Club of Washington Township Foundation has committed to raising funds for the purchase of refrigeration, storage and other needed equipment for the vehicle. 

 

Let's do something on World Water Day - March 22!   The 2020 theme of World Water Day is about water and climate change and how the two are linked. Learn more about World Water Day.   This picture is Salvador Rico's daughter doing a River Clean Up from 2018, and appeared on the cover of the Mexican Rotary magazine.

WE ARE PROBLEM-SOLVERS

WE ARE OPPORTUNITY-CREATORS

Slogan: At this time, none whatsoever! It used to be "The Garden State," but with large-scale industrialization and housing developments going up all over the state, the slogan raises questions with out-of-staters. When newly elected Governor Corzine sponsored a contest for a new state slogan in 2005. The announced winner was "New Jersey, Come See For Yourself!" (The preferred entry from my sources is: "I'm From New Jersey; Ya Gotta Problem Widdat?"). There was little enthusiasm for the winning entry, so a professional advertising firm has been asked to come up with a slogan.

 

The Campbell Soup Company provides us with today’s speaker Anita Shaffer.

 

 

New Jersey Trivia for the week:

 

• NJ is a peninsula 
• NJ is the only state in which all counties are classified as metropolitan areas 
• NJ has the most diverse ecosystem of any state: mountains, seashore, farmland, forests and wetlands. 
• NJ is 11th in population (8.9 million people in 2012) 
• NJ is 46th in size with 8,224 square miles (166 miles top to bottom, 57 miles across) 
• NJ has the highest population density in the US (1,189 people/sq. mile), more densely populated than most of the world's nations

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The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.

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Princeton was the nation's capital in 1783 and Trenton was the nation's capital in 1784 even though the state didn't ratify the constitution until December 18, 1787 and there was no President until April 30, 1789.

There were 13 students here from Boston College over their spring break to work on putting a roof on a house for Habitats for Humanity. Talk about service above self!

Our speaker is a woman of many talents. Jan Giel is in her ninth year as the Student Registration, Data and Information Manager for the Washington Township Public Schools. In this capacity Jan oversees a staff of five and coordinates all the public relations efforts of the school district. She is responsible for the writing and dissemination of all press releases, photographs and publications and serves as the point person for all print and electronic media requests. She oversees all the programming on WT-TV a community cable station for which she and her staff produce weekly programming highlighting the achievements of the district’s students and staff. In addition to her public relations efforts Jan also oversees the central registration office, handles the placement of homeless, foster care and charter school students and serves as the district’s homeless liaison. She is responsible for resolving district residency and truancy issue.

 

Chris Waldron, our speaker today, spoke to us last fall as you will recall. He was employed by the Philadelphia Zoo as a Zookeeper, Curator of Carnivores and Primates and Director of Sustainability. His degree from Penn State is in Wildlife and Fisheries Science. Chris is also an instructor at the Animal Behavior Institute an online accredited program for those seeking a career in Animal Husbandry. His topic today is moving large animals. The old way they used to move large animals was to dart them, but the problem with that was the animals would get stressed out and with their adrenalin so high it would take a ton of drugs to knock them out. So they try to do it in a voluntary manner by training them with treats to come close and lay on a scale and then they draw blood from their tails and this is all done while the animal is relaxed. If they did need to sedate them it was much easier to do while the animal is in a relaxed state. Some of the animals needed to be transferred to other zoos while the Philadelphia zoo was being overhauled. They needed to check them out for diseases before they ship them to other zoos. All of the training they did allowed them to easily get the animals into crates and move them in and out of the exhibits whenever they needed to.

 

 

This story is from Happynews.com

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