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27/07/06
27/07/06
27/07/06
It was a very simple idea. Preparing a new issue of Field Notes, our magazine-style newsletter (this one focuses on Environmental Education), the NJFO’s supervisor, Cliff Day, wanted to include an essay written by a student. We decided that the best way to accomplish this was to hold an essay contest with the Stafford Township Intermediate School Nature of Learning program in Manahawkin, New Jersey. The Nature of Learning is a program, designed by the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation, that allows field stations of the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service to partner with individual schools to promote Environmental Education.In consultation with The Nature of Learning’s lead teacher, Ms. Cathy O’Leary, we decided to broaden the contest and include more categories and recognition. This, we reasoned, would provide more motivation, reward more students for participation, and garner stronger support for The Nature of Learning’s goals. One of the features of the Stafford Nature of Learning program has been its partnership with HOFNOD (Hooked On Fishing—Not On Drugs)sponsored by the Future Fishermen Foundation. Every year, the entire fifth grade (over 300 students) from the Intermediate School is involved in this program, so the Environmental Art Contest (as we came to call it) targeted the fifth grade, asking the students to respond to their HOFNOD experience with an essay, a poem, or a multi-media illustration.For two days, Wednesday and Thursday, the 17th and 18th of May, fifth-graders were immersed in activities at the school and at Lake Manahawkin that focused on fishes and fishing. They had a few days to formulate their reactions in essay, poem, or illustration; by Friday, May 26, their efforts were delivered to the NJFO, and the staff began to pore over them. Somewhat to our surprise, there were more poems and illustrations than essays, and many of the entrees were excellent. Thus, selection of the “winners” became more enjoyable and more challenging at the same time. Together, several NJFO staff members pared the entrees down to a group of finalists. Then a panel of three judges (also from the NJFO) rated the finalists in each category. On Thursday, June 15, 2006, NJFO’s Jim Cramer and Gene Nieminen attended the awards assembly at Stafford Township Intermediate School. Leaders O’Leary and Ms. Debbie Seitz, initiator of the HOFNOD program at the school, assisted Dr. Cramer in presenting the awards. What had begun as a means of acquiring a student essay for the Environmental Education issue of Field Notes became a very effective tool for integrating environmental education into the total curriculum of Stafford Township Intermediate School.
27/07/06
27/07/06
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, New Jersey Field Office and Atlantic County welcomed its partners to a dedication ceremony on May 23, 2006 to celebrate the construction and opening of the Great Egg Harbor River Fish Restoration Project. The dedication ceremony was attended by partners, cooperators, interested public, and the media. This unique restoration project was initiated in the spring of 1998 as an idea to provide fish passage throughout the Great Egg Harbor River drainage. In Spring 2000, this fishway project was transformed from idea to commitment when the landowner, Atlantic County and the Township of Hamilton, agreed to proceed with the work. The Great Egg Harbor River Fishway Restoration Project provides fish passage at the Lake Lenape Dam for migratory fish. .... continued ... ... Great Egg Harbor River Fish Restoration Project Dedication Ceremony ...
24/07/06
24/07/06
Welcome to Hackensack Night Life ( NightLife ), RMC
An Inter - City Cultural Communications website program between the cities of Dallas, Texas and Ithaca, New York. The focus of which is to exchange cultural information via the internet medium about the nightlife, dance, theatre life, art, artist, entertainment, accommodations, restaurants, and dance scene.
The second stage is to include the regional communities under the sociocultural and socioeconomic influences of New York City. This add depth, and brings the online user into the very national environment of each selected city within the growing network of Night Life ( NightLife ), RMC. More importantly, it allows a greater field of participation from the community online users to convey their interests and contributions to this cultural democracy initiative.
The selected region communities of New York City are :
Riverhead .
Minola .
White Plains .
New City .
Jersey City .
Hackensack .
Stanford .
There is more to come in the specific cultural areas which each city interculturally shares.
Yours,
Mr. Roger M. Christian
Ithaca, New York