Weekly Roundup: Tabernacle Committee decrease in spending, LRHSD Storm Robotics, Seneca doughnut day
Catch up on what happened this week in Tabernacle.
Tabernacle Township Committee discussed a decrease in spending
At last week’s meeting, the Tabernacle Township Committee tabled the vote on the proposed 2018 municipal budget, as members of the committee discussed decreases to the budget to avoid a tax increase this year.
According to officials, the budget reductions discussed were to take $35,000 out of the capital improvement fund, $10,000 from workers compensation insurance due to Tabernacle Rescue Squad’s offer to pay for its insurance coverage, $5,000 from garbage and trash removal, $10,000 from public buildings and grounds, $6,000 from fire department expenses and $5,000 from aid to volunteer ambulance companies (insurance coverage copayment and deductible balance billing payments, non-coverage payments and charity care payments provided to Tabernacle residents).
Lenape Regional High School District Storm Robotics competing at world FIRST Robotics Championship by Zane Clark
For the first time since 2013, the Lenape Regional High School District’s Storm Robotics team will compete on the world stage at the FIRST Robotics Championship in Detroit from April 25 through April 28.
FIRST Robotics Competition is the international organization that oversees high school robotics competitions throughout the world.
Through FIRST, high school students build robots specialized to compete in games where the robots must complete specific, varying tasks each year, such as hanging on bars, picking up blocks, moving balls or flying discs into goals, balancing on beams and more.
With nearly 40 students from Lenape and Cherokee high schools on the Storm Robotics team, students can serve in capacities such as mechanical work, software design, electrical wiring or business and marketing.
Seneca High School community service club hosted ‘Doughnut Day’
To celebrate all of the great philanthropic endeavors that take place throughout the year, Seneca High School’s community service club chose to recognize all of those who volunteered throughout the year with “Seneca Doughnut Day” on April 20. The event is took place in the morning, and the community service club students helped to pass out over 1,200 doughnuts and water to all of the students and the staff before the start of school. As the students got off the bus, they were greeted with tables set up with doughnuts and water to start their day.
