QuickChek, a convenience market chain, has opened a new store at 483A Route 79, Marlboro. QuickChek stores provide one-stop shopping, offering a variety of grocery and market items, including fresh baked goods from an in-store bakery and customer service provided by locally hired team members. QuickChek stores offer touch-screen technology which allows consumers to create custom-made oven-toasted subs, sandwiches, wraps and salads. The new store will be open 24 hours a day and feature a Q Café. Additional amenities include no-fee ATMs; indoor seating for 13 and outdoor seating for eight; eight fueling stations; and 48 parking spaces. The store will employ 30 people, most of whom live locally. QuickChek will donate 25 cents for every sub, sandwich and wrap sold in the store from Oct. 27 through Nov. 26 to the Marlboro Junior Mustangs Wrestling program.
Peter Grandich of Freehold, founder of Trinity Financial Sports and Entertainment Management Company, Manasquan, has been appointed to the Board of Directors of Catholic Athletes for Christ, a national nonprofit organization based in Alexandria, Va.
Reformed Church Home, a skilled nursing, rehabilitation and assisted living community in Old Bridge, has been named a winner in the 2015 McKnight’s Excellence in Technology Awards competition.
Kate Shepard, executive director and administrator at the home, announced that implementation of the EarlySense continuous monitoring system earned the home a certificate of merit in the Dignity Through Technology category, which recognizes long-term care communities that have harnessed technology to improve the level of dignity for their residents.
Continuous, contact-free monitoring of rehabilitation residents with the EarlySense System enables the clinical team at Reformed Church Home to provide care at the bedside before a potential adverse event occurs.
Reformed Church Home is the first long-term care community in New Jersey to employ the EarlySense System.
Submissions were judged by an independent panel sponsored by McKnight’s Long-Term Care News, a business news magazine serving the institutional long-term care field.
Barry Fisher, president of the Manalapan Business Association and Ace Home Improvements of Manalapan, made a donation to Make A Wish of New Jersey. Make A Wish of New Jersey was in need of a glass privacy wall at its Monroe Township location. Fisher initiated donations from the members of the Manalapan Business Association and personally donated more money so the wall could be fully funded and built.
The Goddard School, Morganville, earned the Circle of Excellence Award from Goddard Systems. This is the eighth year in a row the school has achieved this award which is given to the top Goddard Schools in the country out of 430 schools.