Beach Haven School students contribute to time capsule that will be installed in new borough hall

Photo via Beach Haven School
Beach Haven School children, staff, parents
and town officials listen to a student read a
letter he wrote for the time capsule.

Beach Haven School students had the chance to predict what their lives might be like 25 years from now when they wrote letters and poems to their future selves. But the task wasn’t just a school assignment. Their items have been placed in a time capsule that will be sealed in a wall of Beach Haven’s new municipal building, which is being built after the former building suffered severe damage from Superstorm Sandy.

“Twenty-five years from now the time capsule will be opened, and hopefully many of today’s school students will be there to read their letters and poems,” said Beach Haven Mayor Nancy Taggart Davis, who attended the ceremony with Jim White, borough council president, on April 22. “As mayor I reflected on what can happen in 25 years and how different the world was 25 years ago and what changes might take place 25 years from now.”

Two children from each grade read their poems aloud and placed them in the time capsule during the event.

“It was a lovely and meaningful event attended by all the students, their teachers, principal, superintendent as well as some parents,” Taggart Davis said.

Bids for the construction of the two-story, Victorian-style municipal complex are expected to come in on Thursday, May 12, said Taggart Davis. The building should be completed sometime in 2017. The 17,600-square-foot facility will accommodate administrative offices, emergency management and the police department.

— Kelley Anne Essinger

This article was published in The SandPaper.