Alexandria Township Website

Please click on the following link for details on the Winter Storm Warning for our area. It will begin at 4PM this afternoon (Tuesday, February 9th) and will be in effect until midnight EST Wednesday night. Click here: Winter Storm Warning Details

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            The Hunterdon County Board of Agriculture administers the Clifford E. and Melda C. Snyder Scholarship LOAN Fund. Mrs. Snyder was a teacher and her husband was a farmer and leader in the agricultural community for many years. Mrs. Snyder continued the family interest in agriculture until her death in 1987. The Loan Fund was established under the terms of her will to make interest free loans to students pursuing careers in agriculture and related fields such as agricultural research, food science and veterinary medicine. The minimum loan is $2,000 per year. There is no set maximum loan amount.
           Applicants must be high school graduates who resided in Hunterdon County for at least five years immediately prior to graduation. Recipients may be enrolled in a two or four year college or a vocational/technical institute anywhere in or outside the United States.
          The Hunterdon County Board of Agriculture accepts applications and makes the loan award. Since 1998 the Board has awarded $380,500 to forty-five students. The Bank of America Trust Department administers the Fund. Loan repayment begins after students have completed their course of study.
           Applications are due by April 30, 2010 to be considered for loans for the school year beginning September, 2010. Applications are available by writing to: Snyder Scholarship Fund, Hunterdon County Board of Agriculture, PO Box 2327, Flemington, NJ 08822 or by calling Mr. John Hargreaves, Executive Director at 908-534-9236 or Judy Canard, Secretary at 908-782-5473. Applications are also available on web sites maintained by Hunterdon County and individual high schools.

H1N1 Prevention

The only portals of entry are the nostrils and mouth/throat.  In a global epidemic of this nature, it’s almost impossible not coming into contact with H1N1 in spite of all precautions.  Contact with H1N1 is not so much of a problem as proliferation is.

While you are still healthy and not showing any symptoms of H1N1 infection, in order to prevent proliferation, aggravation of symptoms and development of secondary infections, some very simple steps, not fully highlighted in most official communications, can be practiced (instead of focusing on how to stock N95 or Tamiflu):

1.  Frequent hand-washing (well highlighted in all official communications).

2.  “Hands-off-the-face” approach.  Resist all temptations to touch any part of face (unless you want to eat, bathe or slap).

3.  *Gargle twice a day with warm salt water (use Listerine if you don’t trust salt).  *H1N1 takes 2-3 days after initial infection in the throat/nasal cavity to proliferate and show characteristic symptoms.  Simple gargling prevents proliferation.  In a way, gargling with salt water has the same effect on a healthy individual that Tamiflu has on an infected one.  Don’t under estimate this simple, inexpensive and powerful preventative method.

4.  Similar to 3 above, *clean your nostrils at least once every day with warm salt water.  *Not everybody may be good at using a Neti pot, but *blowing the nose hard once a day and swabbing both nostrils with cotton swabs dipped in warm salt water is very effective in bringing down viral population.*

5.  *Boost your natural immunity with foods that are rich in Vitamin C.  *If you have to supplement with Vitamin C tablets, make sure that it also has Zinc to boost absorption.

6.  *Drink as much of warm liquids (tea, coffee, etc) as you can.  *Drinking warm liquids has the same effect as gargling, but in the reverse direction.  They wash off proliferating viruses from the throat into the stomach where they cannot survive, proliferate or do any harm.

On Wednesday,  January 6, 2010, there will be a reorganization meeting to be held at 7pm in the Alexandria Middle School Library. The meeting will be followed by a 7:30pm Board of Health meeting and a 7:35pm Township Committee Meeting. All of the meetings are open to the public. An agenda will be posted shortly before the meeting.

Please visit http://www.co.hunterdon.nj.us/fluinfo.htm for information concerning the flu. This site includes information including, but not limited to, vaccine information, clinic locations, and FAQs.

The Alexandria Township Historic Preservation Commission is sponsoring a history book club. The program will feature books about early America, including recent and critically acclaimed titles. For more information call Peter Leitner at (908) 735-9359 or at leitnerp@yahoo.com. Open to all.

For more information on the Historical Society, check out their website.

At the October Environmental Commission meeting, members and the public listen to a talk from DEP representative Steven Spayd; a Hydro geologist with the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection. Steven spoke about water quality, the Private Well Testing Act (PWTA) and the impacts of data from 2002-2007 for Alexamdria Township.

For more information, check out the Environmental Commission’s website.