Holgate resident Jeff Lipman and a friend were on one of their end-to-end Island bike rides a couple years ago, when – all the way up in Barnegat Light – he spotted a wooden toy box out on the curb, ready to be picked up with the trash. Lipman inspected the item and imagined that, with a touchup, it could have a second life as a different kind of toy box: a sand-toy box for kids heading to the beach on the south end of LBI.

BUCKETS, SHOVELS AND SO MUCH MORE: (Left to right) HTA members Doug Kimball, Jim Batistick, Mary Ellen Marta, Al Marta, Nick Dottino, Maureen Newman, Dolores Regan, Matthew Newman and Barbara Cahn gather at a Holgate beach entrance after filling and installing their beach toy boxes. (Supplied Photo)

According to Art Levy, a trustee of the Holgate Taxpayers Association, “The two rode back home to Holgate, and Jeff jumped in his truck and headed back up to Barnegat…