Sunday, January 13, 2013
The Marconi Road facility has rallied the community, Committeeman Jeffrey Foster said
Plans are afoot to improve Wall’s first dog park as community members are lining up to support the Marconi Road facility. Committeeman Jeffrey Foster on Wednesday said that he was targeting the springtime for a push to improve the new facility, which opened late last year. But some improvements will not have to wait that long. Foster said doggie bags, used to clean up after dogs who use the park, should be available before then. And Township Administrator Jeffry Bertrand said some of the brush and downed trees from Hurricane Sandy will be cut into chips and will line the two fenced areas of the park, which is located between Brighton Ave. and Monmouth Boulevard, near Camp Evans. A local chapter of the Girl Scouts of America have committed …
Tuesday, August 9, 2011
Wall High coach and summer instructor Chris Doyle makes tennis memorable through fun
Chris Doyle has his own style. And it is formidable. The 29-year-old Wall High School coach, who runs the Recreation Department’s Tennis lessons, manages somehow to effortlessly combine a frenetic, gale-force energy into a gentle, focused touch not seen this side of Mr. Roger’s Neighborhood. You feel it immediately. Every child in the six-week summer tennis program – which runs through Aug. 12 – is greeted on approaching the Old Orchard Park tennis courts, by name, as though each was his own niece or nephew who he had not seen in months. His approach is calculated, Doyle says, to turn up the fun to 11, so that when kids who have been through the program start to decide which sport they want to pursue, they remember how much fun tennis was…
Friday, August 5, 2011
Wall Township Recreation day camp closes after six weeks
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Friday, August 5, 2011
Kids Play Camp, the Wall Township Recreation Department’s summer day camp, wrapped up the season today with an outdoor party at West Belmar School, the camp’s summer headquarters. Music, dancing, limbo and bounce houses were the main attractions as the six-week camp held its last day for the throngs of campers in kindergarten through eighth grade who have come for the day, the week or for the entirety of the program, which began in June. “In the 15 years I’ve been doing this, this has probably been the most successful season yet,’’ said Hillary Addonizio, one of the camp’s two directors. “When you hire counselors and staff and you get things going you just hope that it all comes together and when it gels, it’s great.’’ Addonizio said the …
Katelyn
11:14 am on Thursday, February 7, 2013
I hope that setting up by August includes dog park rules. The little children running around there are getting trampled and last time they were fighting over my little dog. The parents do not care and I know if they dropped my dog they would not cover the vet bills. I hope that you are considering the safety of the people and their dogs as you make improvements. I think putting the doggy bags out… more ›