Township Times

Weekly edition

News for the next week...

07/02- Recycling Center - 9 AM to Noon

07/04 - Independence Day - Municipal Offices Closed

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Each week we will include a fun fact or historic tidbit about our great hometown

Summer memories

swimming in the river above the falls at Powerville

If you have any old photos or newspaper articles about Boonton Township that you would like to share please let us know

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Congrats to all Township graduates

from the Township Committee

and Staff

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Fireworks

presented by TerrAscend

Saturday, July 23rd (rain date Sunday, July 24th)

RVA Fields

There will be 5 food trucks, beer garden -sponsored by PBA Local 392, DJ, bounce houses and plenty for the kids to do.

Bring your pop-up tent and lawn chairs and enjoy an afternoon with your family ending with a fireworks extravaganza at dark.

There is no admission fee and the event is open to all.

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Tournament of Champions

2022 Champs

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Book Club

Monthly meetings on the second Tuesday of every month at 7pm in Town Hall

Next meeting is July 12th

For July 12 at 7pm we will meet in Town Hall is discuss:

People We Meet on Vacation

by Emily Henry

really liked it 4.00 · Rating details · 498,020 ratings · 53,678 reviews

Two best friends. Ten summer trips. One last chance to fall in love.

Poppy and Alex. Alex and Poppy. They have nothing in common. She’s a wild child; he wears khakis. She has insatiable wanderlust; he prefers to stay home with a book. And somehow, ever since a fateful car share home from college many years ago, they are the very best of friends. For most of the year they live far apart—she’s in New York City, and he’s in their small hometown—but every summer, for a decade, they have taken one glorious week of vacation together.

Until two years ago, when they ruined everything. They haven’t spoken since.

Poppy has everything she should want, but she’s stuck in a rut. When someone asks when she was last truly happy, she knows, without a doubt, it was on that ill-fated, final trip with Alex. And so, she decides to convince her best friend to take one more vacation together—lay everything on the table, make it all right. Miraculously, he agrees.

Now she has a week to fix everything. If only she can get around the one big truth that has always stood quietly in the middle of their seemingly perfect relationship. What could possibly go wrong?

For August 9 at 7pm we will meet in Town Hall is discuss:

Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China

by Jung Chang

4.26 · Rating details · 104,368 ratings · 6,546 reviews
The story of three generations in twentieth-century China that blends the intimacy of memoir and the panoramic sweep of eyewitness history—a bestselling classic in thirty languages with more than ten million copies sold around the world, now with a new introduction from the author.

An engrossing record of Mao’s impact on China, an unusual window on the female experience in the modern world, and an inspiring tale of courage and love, Jung Chang describes the extraordinary lives and experiences of her family members: her grandmother, a warlord’s concubine; her mother’s struggles as a young idealistic Communist; and her parents’ experience as members of the Communist elite and their ordeal during the Cultural Revolution. Chang was a Red Guard briefly at the age of fourteen, then worked as a peasant, a “barefoot doctor,” a steelworker, and an electrician. As the story of each generation unfolds, Chang captures in gripping, moving—and ultimately uplifting—detail the cycles of violent drama visited on her own family and millions of others caught in the whirlwind of history.

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GREEN TEAM

Green Team meetings will resume in September

enjoy your summer!

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Save the Date

Tri-Town National Night Out

sponsored by

Boonton Police Department

Boonton Township Police Department

Mountain Lakes Police Department

PBA Locals #212, #392, #310

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Tuesday, August 2nd

RVA Fields

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News from our Health Officer

Public Health Nurse Office Hours

Our Public Health Nurse office hours are generally on Thursday mornings from 9AM to 10AM. If you would like to confer with our nurse, Cindie Bella, RN, BSN, REHS, MAS,

she can be contacted at

973-631-5491 or cbella@co.morris.nj.us

The Public Health Nurse serves as a vital resource to our community for health-related referrals such as COVID tests and vaccines or weigh loss management.

Blood pressure screenings are done during office hours - no appointment is necessary.

Good idea to call beforehand to verify hours for the week. Stop by during office hours for more information.

Weekly Coronavirus Update

The cumulative number of cases in Boonton Township as of the start of community transmission in Morris County of COVID-19 in early March 2020 now stands at 1024 since June 23, 2022.

For health related information visit the Morris County Public Health website at: https://health.morriscountynj.gov/coronavirus/#cases for up-to-date data and information.

Go to https://www.morriscountynj.gov/Residents/Health/Coronavirus to find vaccination and testing sites in Morris County.

If you have any questions, call the County COVID Hotline at 973-829-8250.

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Sunday Morning Adult Softball

10:00 AM- Noon at RVA Fields

All welcome

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BOCCE BALL

THURSDAY EVENINGS 6:00 PM

weather permitting

LEONARD PARK

all are welcome to join us

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Rockaway Valley Garden Club

The Rockaway Valley Garden Club generally meets the 2nd Tuesday of each Month.

Meetings begin at 10: 00 am and are held at the Boonton Township Municipal Building, 155 Powerville Rd.

Guest are always welcome, and we encourage you to come join us to see what we are all about.

Check us out at our website: www.RockawayValleyGardenClub.org or on our Facebook page.

Any questions can be sent to our email address: info@rockawayvalleygardenclub.org

This and all meetings are open to the public and are free to attend.

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https://mtlakes.cr3.rschooltoday.com/public/getclass/category_id/-1/program_id/10

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Boonton Township Recreation

registration remains open until June 30th

Summer Recreation Camp 2022

Six Weeks: July 5th - August 12th - $125 Per Week

Week of July 5th - July 8th $100 (No camp July 4th)

Monday to Friday 9:00am-12:00pm Held at RVS

Fun Fridays at RVA Fields

Spots are limited. Please do not wait to sign-up.

Out of town residents may sign up for $150 per week.

Camp will be held in large open areas: gyms, playground, field and Leonard Park.

Campers must bring their own snacks and water bottles.

Social distancing guidelines will be followed.

Small grade level groups will rotate to various stations.

Offered to children entering Kindergarten-Fifth Grade

Preschool Camp- Ages 3 and 4 (Must be potty trained)

Sport Camp- Grades 4th and 6th

Please complete the attached registration form along with the COVID Acknowledgement Form.

All camps are on one registration form this year.

Please submit the forms for each camper and make checks payable to: Boonton Township Recreation. Forms can be mailed to: Boonton Township Recreation, 155 Powerville Road, Boonton Township, NJ 07005.

You will receive additional information upon receipt of your application.

Any questions contact Kristin Groeneveld at: recdirector@boontontownship.com or 973-946-9914

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Boot Camp is back at RVA Fields

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In search of old Boonton Township photographs

for display in the Municipal Building

we can certainly arrange to reprint your photograph if you cannot donate it to the Township

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from the Boonton Township Fire Department

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A Message From the Boonton Township Police Department

BTPD REMINDS ALL RESIDENTS TO "BESMART"

The "BeSmart" campaign is designed to help parents and adults normalize conversations about safety, and take responsible actions that can help prevent child injuries.

For more information about this valuable program please visit www.besmartforkids.org

STAY CONNECTED WITH…

BOONTON TOWNSHIP’S EMERGENCY ALERT SYSTEM

TOWNSHIP RESIDENTS ARE URGED TO REGISTER

This notification system allows residents to receive e-mail, text message, and/or other alerts regarding emergency notifications and other important messages regarding our community. With this program, you can choose to receive alerts by whatever method of communication you prefer.

Visit www.btpolice.org and click on the “emergency notifications” tab on the right side of the page. Follow the instructions to be redirected to the "Alert Boonton Township" registration page. Once redirected, ensure you are on the page for Boonton Township New Jersey and follow the step by step instructions on the web page to create an account and receive emergency alerts for Boonton Township.

"Alert Boonton Township" also automatically signs you up for Smart911 which provides you and your family with a potentially life-saving resource. Smart911 is a free emergency 911 component which helps our emergency dispatchers better assist you during an emergency. This service also allows residents to create a safety profile which can include any information they would like to share with first responders during an emergency.

FOLLOW THE BOONTON TOWNSHIP POLICE DEPARTMENT ON FACEBOOK!

Type in @BOONTONTWPPD IN YOUR FACEBOOK SEARCH BAR OR IN MESSENGER TO FIND THE POLICE DEPARTMENT PAGE

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