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Friday, January 18, 2013

Manalapan Rainbow Academy to Open Early Spring

The child care and education center will be located within the Towne Point Plaza.

Rainbow Academy, an early education and child care center, will open in Manalapan Township this spring within the Towne Pointe Shopping Plaza on Route 9 South. The Director of the Rainbow Academy in Manalapan, Kristen Frank, of Toms River, has worked in this business for almost eight years and is passionate about working with children. Frank is a certified teacher with a degree in Psychology who was the Assistant Director of the Rainbow Academy in Manasquan. There are 14 Rainbow Academy locations throughout New Jersey, but this is one of the first franchises of the business to open. Rainbow Academy takes children from six weeks old up through pre-kindergarten. Some Rainbow Academy locations offer kindergarten and Frank said that if she …

Wednesday, January 16, 2013

Giving Back, Paying Forward: Woman Collecting Blankets For Tiny Heart Patients

Collection sites throughout Monmouth County, including Rainbow Academy in Manalapan Township

Christopher Olivadotti was just 2 days old when he had his first open heart surgery. There would be three more before he was out of toddlerhood. Christopher is a survivor. He’s now 9-years-old — one of the lucky ones who survived a complex and rare heart defect called Right Hypoplastic Right Heart syndrome, a condition where the right side of the heart is underdeveloped. There is a small tribute to his strength that lays at the foot of his bed, his mother says. It’s a quilt, a small hand-made token of admiration from a stranger moved to acknowledge the fight for a lifetime undertaken by an infant she, or he, had never met. The blanket was given to Christopher upon leaving the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, where the young boy …

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