Clinton Township Newsletter

2 3 f e b r u a r y 2 0 1 9 h A R V E S T F A M I l y S u C C E S S C E N T E R I N T R o D u C E S F R E E h o M E W o R k C l u B ! The Harvest Family Success Center (FSC) is introducing Homework Club! The mission of the Hunterdon County Family Success Center (HCFSC) is to strengthen and empower individuals and families through family-centered activities, educational workshops, and access to resources needed to maintain healthy relationships. By offering an opportunity such as the Homework Club program to our families, we will make learning fun, and arguing over homework completion at home a thing of the past! Does your child need help or encouragement while completing their school assignments? Join us every Thursday anytime from 3:00 to 5:00 pm and let our high school tutors help them. Our teen volunteers can assist your child in everything from the basics of learning to read all the way up to Algebra 1 and 2! The students have a snack and join a teen volunteer for one-on-one help with their homework, projects, and reading work. It's fun, it's free, and best of all your kids will love it! This club is geared to engage children in grades 1-7. This club is completely FREE We hope you will join us for this fun event! Harvest is located at 87 Park Ave., Flemington, NJ, 08822. Call Harvest FSC with questions, or to register with Penni Trionfo at: 908.237.0465. About the FSC: The Harvest Family Success Center (FSC) is a statewide network administered by Hunterdon Prevention Resources (HPR) with funding from the New Jersey Division of Family and Community Partnerships. The mission of the FSC is to provide a welcoming family-friendly environment to all county residents in order to strengthen and empower individuals and families through collaborative family-centered activities, educational workshops, and access to resources to acquire knowledge and skills needed to maintain healthy family relationships. For more information about the FSC, contact us at 908.237.0465, visit our web site at: www.hcfsc.com or Like us at: www. facebook.com/hcfsc. The FSC helps families thrive, not just survive! C A u S E A N D E F F E C T , C h A N G I N G C l I M A T E I N N j Dr. Krassi Lazarova, Associate Professor of Physics at Centenary University, will speak at the February meeting of the South Highlands Group of the Sierra Club. Dr. Lazarova was born and raised in Bulgaria. She received her Masters of Science degree in Physics with a concentration in Meteorology from the Sofia State University (Bulgaria) in 1993. Her Master's thesis was on the stability of the atmosphere and its relation to distribution of air pollutants. She received her PhD in physics at Drexel University (Philadelphia, PA) in 2001. Her primary research focus was on numerical modeling of air quality. Her thesis enabled the modeling community to use small scale diagnostic meteorology input in air quality models, thus achieving more accurate local scale air quality forecasts. While working at the Mid-Atlantic Division of EPA, she was instrumental in creating the DCM (Decision Consequence Model) allowing the agency to run virtual scenarios of pollution release and study the consequences of the release on the air quality. In 2002 she completed a post-doctoral appointment with the Air Quality Modeling group at the University of Houston (Houston, TX) where she helped establish the modeling capacity of the group. Please join us for this unique opportunity to hear from an expert on February 6 (Wednesday) at the North County Branch Library in Clinton at 7:00 pm. The program is free and open to the public! P A R T N E R S h I P F o R h E A l T h S T R E S S T I P S F o R F E B R u A R y This month, we will focus on a tangible activity you can do to increase your happiness and sense of well-being: express gratitude. Gratitude is simply the grateful or thankful appreciation we feel for something we receive. What we receive can be a physical object, like a birthday gift or it may be something we can't actually touch but just feel, like appreciating a beautiful sunset. In positive psychology research, gratitude is associated with greater happiness and less stress, both leading to improved wellness and health. It may feel uncomfortable to practice focusing on gratitude at first, but research shows this mental state gets easier with use. • Consider keeping a gratitude journal where you write down those things you are thankful for on a daily or weekly basis. • Write thank you notes to people in your life whom you appreciate telling them how they have positively impacted you. • If writing is not for you, take time to mentally think about those people or things you appreciate on a daily basis and soon, feeling gratitude will become a habit and a better sense of well-being will follow. www.health.harvard.edu/healthbeat/giving-thanks- can-make-you-happier Victor A. Rotolo is a long-time resident of Clinton Township and the founder of Rotolo Karch Law. Call Rotolo Karch Law today: 908.534.7900 to discuss any legal situation confronting you. Your half- hour consultation is free of charge! Their attorneys and staff are ready to serve your legal needs. Rotolo Karch Law • 502 US 22 West, Lebanon, NJ 08833. www.RotoloKarchLaw.com T h E h I G h C o S T o F A D u I We all love to get together for the Super Bowl and have a good time, myself included. For the past several years, over 100 million people reportedly watched what has become known as this country's most popular sporting event. Even though we are all having a good time, always remember – Don't Drink and Drive! If you are in an accident causing someone injury and you have been drinking alcohol, you are most likely going to jail. Even if you're lucky enough to avoid an accident, the consequences of drunk driving are stiff. One of the most frequently asked questions by people facing DUI charges is whether or not they'll lose their license. The answer is, more than likely, yes. In New Jersey you do face a license suspension if convicted of a DUI/ DWI, the terms of which depend on your number of offenses and your BAC level at the time you were ticketed. First-time offenders with a BAC between .08% (the legal limit in most states) and .10% can lose their license for three months. If their BAC is at or above .10%, the suspension ranges from seven months to one year. A second offense committed within 10 years of the first offense carries a two-year suspension, while subsequent offenses carry a 10-year suspension and jail time. Remember, New Jersey doesn't offer conditional licenses for DUI/ DWI offenders, so you'll have to find transportation alternatives for work or school. And, when your suspension period ends, your license isn't automatically reinstated. You have to apply for reinstatement. Make no mistake – DUIs come at a high cost. Be sure your celebration plans for the Super Bowl or any occasion include arrangements for getting home safely. Enjoy Super Bowl LIII! – Victor Rotolo T h E F R I E N D S o F T h E h C l I B R A R y Do you love the library like we do? The Friends of the Hunterdon County Library (FOHCL) is always looking for new members and support. Visit: www.hclibrary.us/friends.htm for more information, or email: fohclfriends@gmail.com.

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