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This page and the links from it are for the 2009 Challenge and
are being left here for historical and reference purpose only.
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Challenge Stats The 2009 Challenge
stats are in, thanks to Laura Portée, Challenge Co-Chair, who
spent hours compiling them! Thank you, Laura! Overall, the stats show
that the Challenge was a success, despite the back-to-back nor’easters
that blew through the state that weekend.
Highlights of the stats are as follows: 1. 1,733 people started the New Jersey Lighthouse Challenge® 2. 1,359 participants completed the Challenge 3. Participants came from 22 states, the District of Columbia and 1 foreign country (Canada) 4. 112 participants completed the Dual Challenger (Maryland and NJ) 5. 53 participants completed the Triple Challenger (Long Island, Maryland, and NJ) 6. Nearly half of the participants had participated in the Challenge before and many heard about it through word-of-mouth or on the website. We thank all those participants and volunteers who donned their foul weather gear and made our 10th Anniversary Challenge a success! |
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A Note
to Our Challenge Participants - Past, Present & Future
Regarding the Future of the New Jersey Lighthouse Challenge® From the Challenge Co-Chairs, Doreen Berson and Laura Portée Last December, we gave our resignations as Co-Chairs of the Challenge. While it has been immensely fulfilling to coordinate the Challenge and to see and hear your enthusiasm for the event, we now have personal obligations that demand our time. Additionally, after many years of volunteering for this event, we want to get involved in other aspects of the New Jersey Lighthouse Society (NJLHS). In spite of advertising for a new Chair with a “Help Wanted” plea, we have not received any response. Based on this as well as the fact that it is more difficult to find volunteers (to both prepare and help out for the Challenge weekend), it was unanimously decided at the quarterly meeting of the NJLHS Board of Directors on August 8, 2009, that NJLHS will not plan a Challenge next year (2010). This does not mean that NJLHS won’t ever present the Challenge again! It means that we’re going on hiatus to give all of the volunteers a break from Challenge preparation and the Challenge weekend routine. This break will also (hopefully) provide the time for another person(s) to step forward to chair the event as well as determine whether the next Challenge will be in a different format in an effort to make it more appealing to those of you who have taken it year after year. This decision makes our 10th Anniversary celebration even more special as it is possibly the last Challenge in its current format. Thank you for your participation for each Challenge event. Without it, the Challenge would not have achieved the success it did. We look forward to celebrating with you this very special year of New Jersey’s Lighthouse Challenge! Sincerely, Doreen Berson and Laura Portée |
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What
is the New Jersey Lighthouse Challenge® ? The New Jersey Lighthouse
Challenge® is a
not-for-profit event presented by The New Jersey
Lighthouse Society, Inc. for the purpose of raising public awareness of
lighthouses in general and At each site visited, participants of the
Challenge receive a complimentary souvenir depicting that particular *
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Join us is celebrating the 10th Anniversary New Jersey Lighthouse Challenge® To commemorate the 10
years of Lighthouse
Challenges in New Jersey, we have
added “bonus”
Currently a private
residence, Ludlam’s Beach lighthouse is in the process of a transfer of
ownership and
For additional challenge information, we
invite you to
view the following:
Directions to Challenge
Lighthouses
and Museums (.doc format) (.pdf format)
History of the New
Jersey Lighthouse
Challenge® or e-mail us at challenge@njlhs.org. Thanks for
visiting the New
Jersey Lighthouse Challenge® page. Doreen Berson & Laura Portée, Challenge Co-Chairs |
News from the Co-Chairs!
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 Laura & Doreen |
| Be a Volunteer! Have you done the Challenge and are now looking for a different Challenge experience? Try Volunteering! Volunteer Sign-up Forms
Choose the version that's best for you!
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Lighthouse Challenge Photo
Gallery 2009
NJ Lighthouse
Challenge® |
Other Lighthouse Challenges & Festivals:
+Triple challenge participants with New Jersey * Dual challenge participants with New Jersey |
Grants, Sponsorships & Awards
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Recipient
of
2009 NJ Travel & Tourism Marketing Sponsorship Grant  Supported in part by a grant from New Jersey Department of State, Division of Travel and Tourism |
Winner
of 2008 NJ Governor's Excellence in Tourism Award  |
Recipient
of 2008 Ocean County Tourism Promotional Matching Grant  |
Rhino Rollover
©2009 NJLHS