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Quote of the Issue:

Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it.
                                                    -William Arthur Ward, college administrator, writer (1921-1994)

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A WORD OR TWO FROM ME
by Karen E. Jarosz
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Hope your Thanksgiving was pleasant and you did not overstuff yourself. I have to keep looking at the calendar to believe it is December. I feel like it was just summertime yesterday! Time sure does fly. Before this holiday season flies into a New Year be sure to take out some time to enjoy the holiday offerings and take a break from the hustle and bustle to enjoy the true meaning of the season ~ being with loved ones. Please feel free to email me and let me know if you particularly enjoyed something and do not forget to check out our sponsors for great gift ideas for the upcoming holidays!!!
Until December 15th, let your heart be light!
Karen

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LOCAL HAPPENINGS AND EVENTS
by Karen E. Jarosz
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December 1 to 31 - Enjoy the Holiday Dinosaur Light Show from 5 pm to 9 pm at 54 Hollywood Avenue in Farmingdale. Call (732) 938-6281

December 4 - The Archaeology of Ancient Ireland which explore Ireland's history before history will be presented at 6:30 pm at Brookdale Community College located at 765 Newman Springs Road in Lincroft. Call (732) 224-2315 or go to www.brookdale.cc.nj.us

December 4 - Scrooge an annual Christmas musical extravaganza which helps to raise money for local children in need will be presented by Spring Lake Theatre Company located at Third & Madison Avenues Spring Lake. Showtimes are 2 pm and 8 pm. Call (732) 449-4530 or go to www.springlaketheatre.com

December 5 & 6 - The Pirates of Penzance will be presented at 8 pm at the The Jersey Shore Arts Center located at Main Street & Main Avenue in Neptune. Call (732) 988-1007

December 5 to 7 - Journey to Bethlehem - A Christmas Drive-Through will be held from 6 pm to 9:30 pm. It will include living Scenes with live animals. It will be held at Old Tennent Presbyterian Church located on Tennent Road between Rt. 522 & Craig Rd. in Manalapan. Call (732) 446-6299

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December 6 - Enjoy the Sounds of the Season from 11 am to 4 pm. There will be entertainment, costumed carolers, visits from Santa Claus, and horse-drawn carriage rides on Main Street and in Riley Park in Bradley Beach. Call (732) 946-2711 or go to www.bradleybeachonline.com

December 6 - Asbury Park Holiday House & Shop Tour will be running from 2:30 pm to 6:30 pm. View treasured Victorian homes, historic buildings and shops. For details contact Stage Door Canteen at 721 Cookman Ave. or call (732) 502-5749 or go to www.cityofasburypark.com

December 6 - The Presbyterian Church at Shrewsbury, Sycamore Avenue, will hold a Very Dickens Christmas bazaar from 9:30 am - 2:30 PM. Items for sale will include gifts, handmade crafts, beautiful greens arrangements, poinsettias, home baked goods, as well as jewelry, books,nearly new toys, and more. Featured will be crafts from SERRV. All these crafts are made by Christian crafters in third word countries and all proceeds are returned directly to the crafters. Children can have pictures with Santa. Have your purchases wrapped while you enjoy coffee and donuts or lunch. All proceeds are dedicated to local, national and international mission projects. Call 732-842-3570 for information.

December 6 - The Belmar Chamber is sponsoring Free Photos with Santa. Also featured will be a cider and cookie sale by the Brownies/Girl Scout troop, a drawing for gift certificates and a surprise gift. Entry requires proof of purchase that day from any participating Belmar merchant. There will be musical entertainment throughout the day. It is all happening at 9th and Main St. at Pyanoe Plaza. (Weather permitting, no rain date.) Come on out to shop, say hello and enjoy! It will run from 2 pm to 4 pm. For details email c21schlossbach@monmouth.com

December 6 & 7 - Christmas Express at Pine Creek Railroad located at Allaire State Park will run from 11 am to 4 pm. Ride the train with Santa. For tickets call (732) 938-5524 or go to www.njmt.org

December 7 - Join us on musical journey to the birth of our Savior at the first annual Christmas Cantata at the Church of the Ascension on Brinley Ave in Bradley Beach. All are welcomed at this program featuring the Ascension Music Ministry at 4PM in the Church. While admission is free, donations for the Music Ministry will be appreciated! For directions, call 732-774-0456.

December 7 - The Messiah and More will be presented by the Garden State Philharmonic at 3 pm at Church of Saint Bonaventure, 103 Washington Avenue in Lavallette. Tickets are $20 for general admission. Discounts for students and seniors are offered. Start the holiday season with a song in your heart! The GSP Chorus presents its annual performance of Handel's Messiah (Part the First) dressed with favorite wintertime classics. Anthony LaGruth, Artistic Director & Conductor. To purchase tickets for the Holiday Series Concert tickets before they sell out, please phone the Philharmonic Office at 732-451-0064, e-mail gspmusic@earthlink.net , or visit our office in person at 150 Brick Boulevard in Brick. All proceeds support LIVE music by the Garden State Philharmonic

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Lone Keep Internet Celebrates Its 15^th Year

Jersey Shore Area, NJ, December 2, 2003 – Imagine 15 years from now. Where will you be? What will you be doing? 15 years is quite a long time. It's a long time for a band to be together making music or for a couple to be married. Both are a challenge in today's world. Yet that is how long Lone Keep Internet has been gallantly serving the Jersey Shore.

Lone Keep Systems, as it was known in 1988, came about when President and CEO, Richard M.J. Jarosz, felt the need to share his computer expertise with small businesses in the shore area. At the time Lone Keep Systems offered individuals computer training on various programs and set up computer systems for businesses that were beginning to utilize computers for record keeping. In addition Lone Keep Systems offered a Microsoft Works course in the evenings through the Toms River adult school program. It was quite successful and Lone Keep Internet was on its way.

Then in the mid 1990's the computer world saw changes. "Our clients brought us the net," states Richard M.J. Jarosz, President of Lone Keep Internet, Inc. "We had businesses approach us with a need for access to the web and create web sites. They wanted to know if Lone Keep Systems could handle their new needs." Always up for a challenge and willing to grow, Lone Keep Systems evolved into Lone Keep Internet, Inc. The company changed direction and began offering clients internet access as well as web site design. Long time clients were excited to be able to update and expand their business yet still maintain their relationship with Lone Keep Systems, who had been servicing their computer needs for years already. At the same time the Jersey Shore Community Information Bulletin, an email newsletter about local events, was launched to reach out to residents.

Soon the question was raised. What good is a website if no one knows about it? Promotion on the web became the next challenge Lone Keep Internet would take on. Websites were now becoming faster to download and more animated with programs such as Flash. Placement in search engines was becoming key. With training and the hiring of new staff Lone Keep Internet proudly introduced its promotional division, Towne Crier and more recently, ShoreGuide.Info. Both are designed to promote businesses in primarily Monmouth and Ocean counties.

Ever changing and growing are the words to describe Lone Keep Internet, Inc. Dedicated and helpful are the qualities that define the staff of Lone Keep Internet, Inc. "We are in the business of solving people's technical frustrations whatever that may be to each individual or business," states Karen E. Jarosz, Vice President and Editor of the Jersey Shore Community Information Bulletin.

A challenge? Yes, but this long time Jersey Shore business is here to stay and is up to the challenge. If you have a technical challenge that Lone Keep Internet, Inc. can help you with, give us a call at 732-988-4044 and we will be happy to assist you in easing the frustration. Or visit anyone of our website:
http://www.lonekeep.com
http://www.towne-crier.com
http://www.shoreguide.info

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December 8 - 'Twas the Night Before Christmas presented by Theatre IV will run at 10 am and again at 11:30 am at the Algonquin Arts Theatre located at 173 Main Street in Manasquan. Call (732) 528-9211 or go to www.algonquinarts.com

December 11 & 12 - Enjoy a Victorian Holiday Festival of Houses & Inn Tour with a Miniature Doll House Show. It will run from 10 am to 5 pm in Ocean Grove. Call (732) 774-1391 or go to www.oceangrovenj.com

December 11 - The Monmouth University Music Ensemble and Chorus will perform Gloria by Antonio Vivaldi along with several holiday favorites including a suite of Christmas pieces arranged by Stan Kenton, an African song O Sifuni Mungu, a Ladino Chanukah song Ocho Kandelikas and the spiritual Mary, Go Tell It! at the historic Wilson Hall. This night of music is certain to invoke the holiday spirit in all who attend. Admission is $15 for adults and free for children under age 12. Tickets can be purchased at the door at 7 pm (cash or checks only). The show begins at 8 pm. Tickets can also be purchased in advance from the Department of Music and Theatre Arts at the Lauren K. Woods Theatre. For more information call 732-571-3442.

December 12 - Freehold Comcast Holiday Concert Performance will include a medley of classical & traditional holiday music and will begin at 8 pm at Freehold Borough High School located on Broadway Ave in Freehold. Call (732) 462-3584 or go to www.freeholdcenter.com

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Over 200 items available, steak burgers, chicken, veal, pork baby back ribs, shrimp, Brazilian lobster tails and seafood. We even carry Omaha Brand at 30% less plus there is never a delivery charge.

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December 13 - Christmas Lantern Tours will be given from 5 pm to 8 pm at Historic Allaire Village located on Allaire Road in Wall. Call (732) 919-3500 or go to www.alllairevillage. org

December 13 & 14 - Christmas Express at Pine Creek Railroad located at Allaire State Park will run from 11 am to 4 pm. Ride the train with Santa. For tickets call (732) 938-5524 or go to www.njmt.org

December 14 - Story Hour with Linda Ambler at The Monmouth Museum from 2 to 3 pm at Brookdale Community College in Lincroft. Call (732) 747-2266 or go to www.monmouthmuseum.org

December 14 - A Winter Wonderland Youth Orchestra Concert will be presented at 2 pm at Toms River High School North. Tickets are $6 for reserved seating. The Garden State Philharmonic Youth Orchestras present a concert of classical and holiday music performed by student musicians. Leslie Hollander, Donald Spaulding, Katherine Swierczewska, Conductors. To purchase tickets for the Holiday Series Concert tickets before they sell out, please phone the Philharmonic Office at 732-451-0064, e-mail gspmusic@earthlink.net  or visit our office in person at 150 Brick Boulevard in Brick. All proceeds support LIVE music by the Garden State Philharmonic

December 14 - Christmas in Leipzig, Part II will be presented at 3 pm by the Shrewsbury Chorale Luther Memorial Evangelical at Lutheran Church, 818 Tinton Ave. in Tinton Falls. Call (732) 542-2151 or go to www.shrewsburychorale.org

December 14 - Holiday Fantasia, a program of song, dance, fun and a special Christmas "Gloria," will be held at 4 pm at the Paramount Theater at Convention Hall on the boardwalk in Asbury Park. The program will showcase a collaboration of Pacific Encore Performances, the Kathleen Barnett Traveling Dance Troupe, and the Monmouth University Chorus and Orchestra. Tickets are $20 each, or $10 each for seniors, students and children. For tickets and information, call Pacific Encore Performances at 732-222-6731.

December 14 - The Shoemaker & the Christmas Elves Kids' Club presented by Theatre IV at the Algonquin Arts Theatre located at 173 Main Street in Manasquan. Showtimes are 1:30 pm and 3:30 pm Call (732) 528-9211 or go to www.algonquinarts.com

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Triple Play! Contest
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Win $120.00 worth of Jersey Shore Community Information Bulletin advertising!

This contest is very easy to enter.
1. Take a close look at the Local Links and Local Events in this issue.
2. Find which one of the ads/names/website addresses appears three times.
3. Send an email to tripleplay@lonekeep.com with a copy of the Local Link or Event that appeared thrice in this issue of the Jersey Shore Community Information Bulletin.
4. In the subject line, write: "December 1st"

That's it! "Triple Play" is fun to play and easy to enter. Read the Local Links and Events and find the Triple Play!

Send your entries to tripleplay@lonekeep.com before December 8th. The winner's ad will appear in three (3) issues, a $120.00 value.

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If you enjoy this newsletter could you please go the the link below (at Alexa) and review the ShoreGuide.Info.  This site is the one that really supports this newsletter. Thanks.
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Jersey Shore Coupons has the latest in coupons! We are always looking for more to add to the page.

Nominations are now open for the 35th Annual NCCJ Jersey Shore Chapter Humanitarian of the Year  Awards. The award will be presented at our Annual Humanitarian Awards Dinner on Tuesday, April 20, 2004 at the Robert B. Meyner Reception Center at the PNC Bank Arts Center in Holmdel. Contact: Linda Tondow, NCCJ, 732-745-9330 or LTondow@nccj.org

Five frogs are sitting on a log, four decide to jump off; how many are left? Five, because there's a difference between deciding and doing. What have you always wanted to do in your life. Everything that happens to you happens by Law and not by accident, coincidence or chance. Can you spend a few minutes a day to control the direction of change in your life and become happier and healthier. You are made in the likeness and image of a Power that knows no limitations, no incurability. There is so much hope for you if you will just open up your life and focus. Decide to do something today www.greenfieldswellness.com

Businesses looking to meet other business people willing to help grow your business call Richard at 732-988-4044. Please serious inquiries only!

Nicotine Anonymous Support Group meets Thursday nights at 8 pm in the Belmar Presbyterian Church on E Street. Contact person Sheila K. at 732-280-9895

Remember to send in your submissions to JerseyShore@lonekeep.com and to let us know what you want to see.

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From Local Readers
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From: fkagel@freeholdcomputer.com
December 19, 2003.   Brookdale Community College Campus,  Lincroft, NJ. BCUG will commemorate its 25th Anniversary by looking back at twenty-five years or more of personal computing, starting with the first computer kits and including the introduction of the IBM PC in 1981. The anniversary presentation will recap the meteoric rise of online communications from the early days of electronic bulletin boards to today’s Internet. For further information and directions, go to www.bcug.com or www.freeholdcomputer.com/bcug or contact Fred Kagel, club historian, at (732) 577-0606.

From: eamcomm@worldnet.att.net
Join us on musical journey to the birth of our Savior at the first annual Christmas Cantata at the Church of the Ascension in Bradley Beach. All are welcomed at this program featuring the Ascension Music Ministry on Sunday, December 7 at 4PM in the Church. While admission is free, donations for the Music Ministry will be appreciated! For directions, call 732-774-0456.

From: indygarrison@comcast.net
I volunteer for the Monmouth County SPCA. A group of us volunteers have created a new 2004 "New Beginnings" calendar, featuring some of our happiest adoptions. I was wondering if you would include the following blurb advertising this fundraiser. We were able to get local businesses to sponsor the production of the calendar, so every penny made goes directly to the animals. We are very excited! If you want, you can read more at www.monmouthcountyspca.org/calendar.htm

From: Richard.Kirk2@us.army.mil
Magic the Gathering Tournaments at Shore Area players homes every other Monday. Anyone interested email me for time and place.

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LINKS OF INTEREST TO THE JERSEY SHORE
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Neptune First Aid Squad
   http://members.aol.com/ogemerserv/neptfas/neptfas.html

Belmar First Aid Squad
   http://www.belmar.com/history/firstaid.html

Eatontown Volunteer First Aid Squad
   http://www.monmouth.com/~eatontown/services/fa/

Ocean Grove Fire Dept First Aid Squad
   http://members.aol.com/ogemerserv/ogfas/ogfas.html

CRW Creative Works
   http://www.crwcreativeworks.com/

Monmouth County Historical Association
   http://www.monmouth.com/~mcha/

Ocean County Historical Society
   http://www.oceancountyhistory.org/

Monmouth County History
   http://home.infi.net/~jceres/history/wr31a.html

Monmouth County Library System
   http://www.monmouth-oel.org/monmouth_county_library_system_h.htm

Monmouth County 9/11 Memorial
   http://monmouthcounty911memorial.com/

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