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August 17, 2006
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Brielle flips under
pressure from public
Inlet 75th anniversary
event set for Tuesday
Council to give up health benefits
By Erin Scott
resolution that will eliminate the benefits
BRIELLE — There literally was not an to elected officials effective Dec. 31. The
empty seat in the house on Monday night move will immediately save the taxpayers
as residents crammed into the borough of Brielle $66,486 annually.
council chambers to watch as a local
During the public portion of the
grassroots organization presented the meeting, Forrest Road resident Daniel
governing body with a petition, asking that Fallon, who said he was representing the
the voters be allowed to decide in Brielle Taxpayers Association, presented
November via a referendum if the council the petition to council. The petition that
should continue to receive
the group circulated
free health benefits.
around the borough had
What came as a shock to
895 signatures on it
“It is clear to us entering the council
many of them, though, was
that the move was initiated that the residents meeting, Mr. Fallon said,
by the mayor and council
and gained 11 more by the
of Brielle would time he presented it to the
and not the Brielle
Taxpayers Association, the like to see us end council Monday night for
group that had been
a total of 906 signatures.
this program.”
collecting signatures to put
Their efforts were
that question on the ballot.
warmly received by the
Thomas “Tucker” Nicol crowd, which showed its
“Tonight the council, at
my direction, is taking
Mayor of Brielle approval with a thunderous
action to rescind the ability
round of applause.
of elected township
“On behalf of the
officials to access benefits paid for by the taxpayers association, I’d like to thank
taxpayers of Brielle,” said Mayor Thomas every single one of you for signing and I’d
“Tucker” Nicol, who read from a prepared like to thank the council for actually
statement.
seeing the light and hopefully more people
He added that the current council did can keep coming to the meetings,” Mr.
not initiate the practice, which has been Fallon said.
common in the borough for more than two
After the meeting, Schoolhouse Road
decades, and that other communities in resident Bill Brannick, who was also
Monmouth County “have operated in active in circulating the petition, said he
exactly the same manner as we have done.
was “very happy council realized it was
“We have operated in this way openly the will of the people” by approving the
and without any attempt to disguise it nor elimination of benefits.
keep it a secret,” said the mayor.
Jack and Lynn Baatz, of Aileen Road,
Mayor Nicol also cited the study who were also involved with the petition
conducted by the council’s ad hoc drive, jointly said that they felt the move to
committee that found the practice of eliminate the benefits “was the right
accepting the benefits was “both legal and decision.”
justified.”
Members of council also agreed that it
But with that said, Mayor Nicol added, was the correct choice to make, despite
“we cannot ignore the fact that many of the fact that the benefits had always been
our residents are opposed to this program.
available.
“Regrettably, this issue has created ill“I don’t think any of us went into this
feeling in Brielle and now threatens to position for the benefits. They just have
interfere with the good will and neighborly always been there,” said Council President
way in which our community and its Ann Scott, who has been a member of the
governing body have always operated,” council for 26 years.
Mayor Nicol said.
“I understand fully how people have
He added that council’s primary duty “is felt,” she added. “It would be wrong for us
to govern our town in the best way to continue [accepting benefits].
possible and to continue to keep Brielle Hopefully, we’ll continue to be a nice,
one of the finest communities in New happy town working together.”
Jersey.
Councilman Frank Garruzzo offered a
“It is clear to us that the residents of similar opinion.
Brielle would like to see us end this
“Obviously, it’s in our best interests to
program,” said Mayor Nicol, who added listen to the community and what they
that part of the council’s responsibility is have to say,” said Councilman Garruzzo.
to listen to what the residents tell them and “I think it was in the best interest of all
then act upon their concerns.
involved to put that on the agenda.”
“By the action we are taking tonight, it
He also said it was a misconception for
is our intention to accede to the wishes of residents to assume that the council
our residents and to reassure them that our members were able to receive health
duty remains –– first and foremost –– to
them,” he concluded.
See BENEFITS, PAGE 43
The council unanimously approved the
LAUREN PARKER, The Coast Star
Gary McTighe [from left] Deputy Coordinator of the
Monmouth County Prosecutor’s Office, Office of Emergency
Management, helped work out logistics for the upcoming boat
parade set for next Tuesday to celebrate the 75th Anniversary
of the Manasquan Inlet. Assisting with the planning was
Manasquan Tourism Commission Chairman Ray Summers and
Brielle Councilman Tim Shaak.
By Cheryl Harvey
MANASQUAN — With the lighted
and decorated boat parade to celebrate the
75th anniversary of the Manasquan Inlet
just days away, the Manasquan Tourism
Commission is going over last minute
plans with local, county and state officials
involved with the festivities.
On Tuesday, Aug. 22, the day of the
event, the Manasquan Police will close
the streets to vehicular traffic from
Whiting and Third avenues and Whiting
and First avenues down to and including
Riverside Drive. This closure will be in
effect from 4 to 11 p.m.
Ray Summers, chairman of the
Manasquan Tourism Commission,
suggests that patrons arrive early that
evening for the best available parking.
There will be $5 parking available in the
Pompano Avenue parking lot off Third
Avenue near the Fisherman’s Cove.
There are roughly 35 boats registered
so far for the boat parade and applications
are still available. Those interested may
visit The Coast Star at 13 Broad St. or the
Point Pleasant Beach Borough Hall at 416
New Jersey Ave. for a registration form.
“We understand that many of the boat
owners are planning unique and
spectacular displays for the contest,” Mr.
Summers said. “Some people have been at
work for over a month on their boats —
all eyeing the top prize.”
Mr. Summers was referencing a ride in
the Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield blimp
that will be given to the overall winner of
next Tuesday’s boat parade and contest.
One unique watercraft that is entered in
the parade is the “Cigarette,” a boat built
in 1930 which has recently been restored.
The 75-foot Nevins is owned by Jenny
and Betty Bass and is docked at the
Riverfront Marina. The boat was used for
commuting and this summer will be the
first time that it has run in 40 years. The
captain of the boat, Ed Gensinger, said,
“The boat once served as a very rich
man’s limo, bringing passengers from
Long Island to New York.”
The Manasquan Water Taxi will also be
in the parade, as will the Jamaica II from
Bogan’s Basin, along with several dozen
other boats from throughout the state.
The celebration begins at 5 p.m. on
Tuesday with band concerts on both sides
of the inlet. Full Circle, a local
Manasquan favorite, will be playing, as
will Reggae Plus, featuring reggae by
Theo Jackson, and Ed Austin, of Point
Pleasant Beach.
Entertainment for children will be
provided, as well as tasty food on both
sides of the inlet. The Spring Lake and
Brielle Rotary will offer cold drinks and
See BOAT PARADE, PAGE 40
From tragedy grows
the bond of ‘family’
By Nora Walsh
AVON-BY-THE-SEA
— Johann Schneider, 63,
the owner of Schneider's
restaurant on Main Street,
here, recently served a
cup of hot coffee to a
woman he has come to
love with his whole heart.
But the heart that he loves
her with is not the one he was born with.
It is the heart of her son, Staff Sgt.
Robert Seitz, whose tragic death brought
them together.
The miracle that happened after has
made them family.
Each year more than 7,000 donors
make it possible for 19,000 organ
transplants to occur due to multiple
organs coming from one donor. And
each year, an average of 4,500 people
are waiting for a heart transplant — only
one-half will ever receive a heart.
Mr. Schneider was one of the lucky
ones.
He became ill in the
summer of 2000 and
could barely finish a full
sentence without having
to catch his breath. He
went to a cardiologist who
told him that a virus was
attacking his heart and he
would need a transplant.
Mr. Schneider went to the University
of Pennsylvania Hospital where he spent
several weeks on an IV pump and was
put on a waiting list for a transplant.
Five months later, Mr. Schneider's
condition began to worsen and he
returned to the hospital.
"The waiting list is based on who is
sickest and I knew I was running out of
time. I was lying in a hospital bed with
mixed emotions, I really wanted to
survive, but I knew if I was going to
Mother of heart
donor becomes
a part of
recipient’s life
See DONOR, PAGE 42
ANDREW RUGGE, The Coast Star
Johann Schneider recently spent some time with Brenda Seitz,
the mother of Staff Sgt. Robert Seitz. Sgt. Seitz wanted to be an
organ donor, and upon his accidental death at the age of 39, his
heart was transplanted to Mr. Schneider.
PAGE 2
THE COAST STAR, THURSDAY, AUGUST 17, 2006
Brielle
Volunteers honored
for battling blazes
By Erin Scott
While their dedication and service is appreciated year round,
members of the Brielle Fire
Company and First Aid Squad
were specifically recognized by
the borough on Monday for the
services that they performed during the first week of August.
In a three-day span, members of
the two volunteer organizations
responded to a structure fire in
neighboring Manasquan off of
East Main Street, a serious blaze
in Wall Township at Allied
Building Products on Route 34,
and a fully engulfed house fire on
Holly Hill Drive, said Councilman
and Fire Chief Tim Shaak.
During an official presentation
for the fire company and first aid
squad, Mayor Thomas “Tucker”
Nicol issued a proclamation praising the volunteers’ actions on
Wednesday, Aug. 2 at the house
fire on Holly Hill Drive.
Brielle Police Chief Michael
Palmer said the fire damaged
approximately 70 percent of the
house. The cause of the blaze has
not yet officially been determined.
“Members of the Brielle Fire
Department, Brielle First Aid
Squad and Brielle Police
Department demonstrated their
personal valor in combating a
house fire despite excessive temperatures,” the proclamation stated. “Their action demonstrates the
commitment and dedication of the
volunteers and police officers to
the citizens of Brielle.
Mayor Nicol then declared
Monday, Aug. 14 as Brielle Fire
Company, Brielle First Aid Squad
and Brielle Police Department
Appreciation Day throughout the
Borough of Brielle.
He added that it was designated
as such so that residents could
“recognize and appreciate the vital
services provided to the borough
by these volunteer groups.”
The mayor then turned the presentation over to councilman and
Fire Chief Shaak.
“The members of the fire company and first aid squad that you
see before you worked in excess
of eight hours on Monday [July]
31 in temperatures 95 degrees or
better, hadn’t even had a chance to
rest and two days later, when temperatures were over 100 degrees,
were called to another serious
house fire,” he said.
“I can be honest with you, I’ve
been volunteering for this fire
company for 23 years,” said Chief
Shaak, “and never once have I
experienced a stretch that horrendous.”
He added that the members of
the three organizations were all
going to be issued a citation bar
for their service during the events.
Members of the fire department
receiving citation bars include:
Fire Chief Tim Shaak, Assistant
Fire Chief Michael Johnston, Jr.,
Lieutenant Daryl Schambach,
Lieutenant Scott Dreher, Fire
Police Captain Jim Stenson, Fire
Police Lieutenant Tom Condon,
Fire Police Sergeant Andew Kile,
Fire Police Officer Ed Convery,
Fire Police Officer Jim Csogi, Fire
Police Officer Keith McEligot,
Fire Police Officer Karen Smith,
and firefighters James Abbott,
Brielle
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Osteoporosis
Prevention Seminar
ERIN SCOTT, The Coast Star
Members of the Brielle Fire Department and Brielle First Aid Squad were recently honored for
battling area fires by Mayor Thomas Nicol. At the presentation were [back row, from left] Jim
Stenson, Scott Callahan, Richard Schwarz, Jr., Scott Dreher, Karen Smith, Jim Langerberger, James
Abbott, Quintin Danish, [front row, from left] Mike Johnston, Jr., Cheryl Shaak, Tim Shaak, Andrew
Kile, Jeff Grossinger and Tom Condon.
Mike Dennison, Mike Conroy,
Jeff Groezinger, Joe Harriman,
Joe
Kerrigan,
James
Langenberger, Mark McGovern,
Mick Petrulla, John Roland, A.J.
Roppoli, Joe Roppoli and Richard
Schwarz Jr.
Members of the first aid squad
receiving citation bars include:
Ralph
Condolucci,
Stacy
McGovern, Jeanne Jacobus and
Cheryl Shaak.
Detective Sergeant James
Stewart, Ptl. David Buckle and Ptl.
John Liebfried of the Brielle
Police Department will also
receive citation bars for their
efforts.
“Once again thank you very
much for your dedication and your
service to this town,” Councilman
Shaak said.
Flag Football
Recreation picnic marks the
end of another summer camp
By Erin Scott
More than 200 parents and children attended the Brielle
Recreation picnic celebrating the
last day of “wreck” at the Brielle
DWI checkpoint in Brielle
Saturday night
As a part of the statewide “You
Drink, You Drive, You Lose” program, which runs from Aug. 18 Sept. 4, members of the Brielle
Police Department will be conducting a DWI checkpoint on
Saturday, Aug. 19 for all drivers
traveling southbound on Route 71
in the borough, said Chief
Michael Palmer.
The checkpoint will be set up
from 8 p.m. until midnight in the
municipal parking lot. Drivers
will receive a sobriety check and
literature on drunk driving, he
added.
Brielle was one of 19 towns in
the state to receive a $3,000 grant
from the state Division of
Highway Traffic and Safety to
conduct the sobriety check, Chief
Palmer said.
Elementary School on Friday,
Aug. 4, said Rick Trimble, the
program’s director.
Nearly 150 children attended
the program, which ran five days a
week, daily, he said.
The summer’s calendar was
filled with arts and crafts.
Courtney Thibeault and her assistant, Ashley Edwards, scheduled
daily events that ranged from tiedying T-shirts to creating sand art
to crafting Christmas ornaments
during Christmas in July on the
25th.
Kim Pellerito and George
Thibeault organized the athletic
programming which included
street hockey, basketball, soccer
and tennis clinics. They also had
teams compete in wiffleball,
lacrosse and flag football tournaments against neighboring towns.
Brielle Team Four won the
annual inter-recreation tournament in flag football on July 13
and Brielle Teams 2 and 3 placed
first and second in the second
annual inter-recreation wiffleball
tournament on July 17, Mr.
Trimble said.
The children also participated
in basketball, stickball and track
and field tournament and meets at
Sea Girt and Spring Lake Heights,
Contours Express of Brielle,
the only local women’s circuit
training gym featuring weightbearing equipment, is helping
fight the effects of osteoporosis
by providing their members the
most effective equipment to build
bone density.
They will host a free osteoporosis prevention seminar on
Thursday, Sept. 14 at 1 p.m. and 7
p.m. featuring guest speaker Dr.
Michelle Lehotay of Adio
Chiropractic Center.
Please call 732-528-5595 to
reserve your place, as seating is
limited.
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Mr. Trimble added.
Bubbles the Clown also made
her appearance and twisted up balloon animals for the children on
July 28. She also painted creative
tattoo art on them, he said.
Recreation participants also
went on weekly trips as part of
this year’s summer recreation
schedule. They attended a
Philadelphia Phillies game, went
bowling at Ocean Lanes and hit
the links for some miniature golf
in Point Pleasant Beach.
Other special events included
twice-weekly volleyball action in
Green Acres Park, which the children asked for, said Mr. Trimble.
There was also a baseball card
trade in day for the boys, an
American Girl doll day for the
girls, a crazy hat day, an annual
pet show and a watermelon “chow
down” on Independence Day.
In addition, children participated in “the usual recreation fare of
scavenger hunts, Frisbee tosses,
nok-hockey, musical chairs,
Simon Sez and Hula Hoop contests,” said Mr. Trimble.
The highlights of the summer,
though, according to Mr. Trimble,
See PICNIC, page 34
Referees are needed for flag
football season on Sundays from
noon - 2 p.m. The season starts on
Sunday, Sept. 10 and ends Oct.
22.
Coaches for 3rd/4th grade as
well as 5th/6th/7th/8th grade are
also needed.
Please contact John Devereux
at 732 223 5936 if you are interested.
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Donor Awareness
Fund-raiser
On Friday, Sept. 29, there will
be an organ donor awareness
fund-raiser on the River Queen. It
will be sailing out of Bogan’s
Basin at 7:30 p.m.
There will be a three-hour dinner dance including open bar
while at sea. A 50-50 and gift auction are also scheduled for the
cruise.
The cost of the event will be
$75 per person and attendance
will be limited to 140 people.
Checks should be made
payable to “Brielle Fundraiser for
Gift of Life.”
For more information, please
call Rick or Mary Lou Bolger at
732-528-7188.
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Garden Club
The Bayberry Garden Club of
Brielle is always looking for new
members.
If interested in joining, please
call the membership chairman at
732-458-6373 for more information.
THE COAST STAR, THURSDAY, AUGUST 17, 2006
Brielle
Resident raises concern over noise ordinance, construction
By Erin Scott
An ordinance to amend the
borough’s current noise regulations that was introduced during
the work session of Monday
night’s Brielle Council meeting
sparked concern from Cedar Lane
resident Mary Burke during the
public portion of the meeting.
According
to
Borough
Administrator Thomas Nolan, the
ordinance would amend the language of the existing noise ordinance to exempt federal, state or
county construction projects from
being subject to the noise restrictions. The current ordinance in
Brielle states that no construction
can begin before 8:30 on weekdays.
The ordinance, which will be
up for a public hearing and final
vote on Monday, Aug. 28, concerned Mrs. Burke, who has been
upset over the noise caused by the
ongoing construction of a new
bridge on Route 70.
During his committee report,
Councilman Tim Shaak said construction of the bridge was back
on schedule, according to Project
Supervisor Rob Harms. He said
earlier that the state shutdown
had put the project behind schedule, but Mr. Harms said the construction is moving along and by
next spring, cars could be traveling over part of the new bridge.
“This is really a much-needed
improvement to our infrastructure,” said Councilman Shaak.
But Mrs. Burke’s opinion was
not swayed by the progress of the
project.
“Not only did the state take my
property, but they’re disrupting
my quality of life,” she said in
reference to the construction.
In response to her comments,
Mr. Nolan explained the new
ordinance would allow the borough to negotiate a start time
with the individual contractors
who are working in the borough.
He asked Mrs. Burke to keep in
mind that the construction she
was referring to was for a major
traffic artery and it is for the
greater good of the public for the
project to be completed as soon
as possible.
Mr. Nolan added he had spoken with Mrs. Burke’s husband
who agreed that 7 a.m., the normal start time for most construction jobs, according to Mr. Nolan,
was acceptable.
Mrs. Burke said although they
may not be working before 7
a.m., the workers start their
equipment at 6:30.
Mr. Nolan said he hoped to be
able to have some type of dialogue with contractors to reach a
mutually acceptable solution.
He added that if the noise problem caused by equipment starting
before 7 a.m. indeed has not been
resolved, he would reopen talks
with Harms Construction and the
New Jersey Department of
Transportation.
In other news from the meeting:
• Andrew Crow, of Union
Lane, raised concerns over the
procedures followed by workers
if residents were not home when
they appeared for revaluation. If
residents are not home, the workers leave a blue card with contact
information to reschedule an
appointment, but they are still
going on to property to take exterior measurements, he said. That
information was not published in
the Brielle Bulletin, he added,
and presents liability and security
problems for the property owner.
“We’ll address that with the
appraisal company,” said Mayor
Thomas Nicol.
• Councilwoman Ann Scott
discussed the new Recycling
Enhancement Act, which requires
all counties in the state amend
their solid waste management
plan. She said she met with representatives from the county to
review their proposed amendments. The county plans to mandate additional recyclables,
require separate trash and recycling containers for businesses
and public places and to increase
penalties for non-compliance, she
said. She further stated Brielle is
“pretty much” in compliance
with all those proposals, but there
will be some changes in store,
which she would keep the residents informed of.
The
councilwoman
also
reminded residents there is a limit
to the amount of yard waste they
can set out for pickup at any time.
The items should fit into a 4-by6-by-6-foot container so it will fit
into
the
bucket
loader.
Landscapers and residents have
been abusing the privileges, she
added.
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She finally reminded residents
that there were only 17 more days
until leaves would be collected.
• Lois Hansen, of Summit
Place, asked the council consider
increasing garbage pickup to
twice a week in the summer since
some of her neighbors ended up
with maggots in their garbage.
Mayor Nicol said the council
currently could not break its contract with its trash contractor,
which will expire in December
2007. It was his personal opinion
to have pick up twice a week year
round, he added.
He said he would schedule a
meeting to review the contract to
see if they would be able to add
services.
• Councilman Richard Bolger
expanded on an resolution that
was authorized for emergency
repairs for a well on Old Bridge
Road.
He said Department of Public
Works
Superintendent
Bill
Berkhart noticed the need for
repair and avoided a “potential
disaster” by spotting the problem.
Mr. Tom Nolan said while the
well should be in excellent condition now for the next 10 years, he
recommended adding $5,000 to
the capital improvement budget
annually for well maintenance.
At the end of the decade, there
will be $50,000 on hand for the
well in case it needs further
repairs.
“It’s a lot easier to come up
with $5,000 per year than it is to
come with the $46,000 [for the
emergency repairs] we have to
come up with now,” Mr. Nolan
said.
Finance
chairman
Frank
Garruzzo said he would take the
proposal back to the finance committee.
Councilman Bolger also recommended the borough join the
Manasquan
Watershed
Commission after being asked by
the environmental commission to
do so.
He said it was a good idea for
the borough show support for the
commission with requires a
“minimal annual fee” for members to join. The councilman said
he would write up a report and
submit it for the next meeting.
• Councilman Paul Nolan
reminded residents of the 75th
Anniversary Manasquan Inlet
Boat Parade that will take place at
7 p.m. on Aug. 22.
There will also be an anniversary celebration at
the
Riverhouse in Brielle at 6:30 on
Aug. 24, he said. Tickets will be
available through Councilman
Nolan at 732-528-5108.
• Councilman Shaak reported
that after the fire to a trailer at the
Brielle Motor Court on Route 71
last month, he and the code
enforcement officer toured the
grounds. Their visit resulted in
three citations for the owner this
month, including two for property maintenance and one for harboring an unregistered vehicle.
• Councilman Leonard Lenzen
reported the average response
time from the police department
is approximately one minute after
a call comes in.
For the month of July, there
were 412 cases, he said. Of those,
there were 26 adult arrests,
including 14 DWI arrests, and
one juvenile arrest for unlawful
taking of a motor vehicle. There
were no domestic violence
offenses, he added.
• Dean Varygiannes, of
Brainard Place, asked that the
council look in to enforcing laws
for bicyclists in the borough.
Councilman Lenzen said he
would speak with Chief Michael
Palmer about the matter.
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THE COAST STAR, THURSDAY, AUGUST 17, 2006
Manasquan
Big Sea Day draws hundreds for day of fun in the sun
Leggett’s, River House Fireworks close out event
By Corinne Busicho
Bright sunshine, blue skies and
cool breezes were the perfect setting for the 19th annual “Big Sea
Day” event that took place last
Saturday at the Manasquan
beachfront.
Beginning at 8 a.m. and running all day long, well into the
evening, Big Sea Day offered
many activities for a variety of
interests including a surfing and
boogie board contest, fishing contest, art show, children’s beach
games, sand castle contest, body
surfing contest, pie eating contest,
and a fireworks display sponsored
by Leggett’s and The River House
to finish out the day.
The fishing contest, sponsored
by the Manasquan Fishing Club,
gave approximately 80 anglers the
opportunity to compete for various prizes for the best catches off
of the inlet.
The fishing contest event has
been taking place for the past 12
years, according to fishing club
member Joe Bayer.
Fishing club member Bob
Sharp commented on how it was
the first year cownos rays were
caught in the inlet.
Mr. Bayer described the
cownos ray as the “biggest and
most unusual fish,” measuring 57
inches, caught by Louis Castro of
Hammington Township, making
him the first place prize winner.
The other rayfish were caught by
Melvin Soto, of Hammington,
Vinny Torn, of Brick Township,
and Fred Priscoe, of Toms River.
Mr. Bayer added that a total of
five rays were caught during the
event, along with seven fluke, one
bluefish and one sea robin. The
other winners included Jack
Skinner, of Mountainside catching
a
bluefish;
James
Worthington, of Fairless Hills,
Pa., Christian Zimmy, of West
Orange, Dylan Synosky, of
Greenbrook, Tom Coopey, of
Howell, Peter Davis, of Vernon,
Mike Hahn, of Manasquan and
Jim Donechie, of Brielle, all
catching fluke; Jim Swift III [a
perennial
winner],
of
Lawrenceville, with a sea robin.
Jim’s sister, Kelsey, and parents,
Jim and Claire, were also present.
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Community Bible
Study Memorial for
9/11
LAUREN PARKER, The Coast Star
Maddie, 8, and Kevin Monaco, of Manasquan, worked together on their sand creation at Big Sea
Day’s Sandcastle contest.
On Monday, Sept. 11 at 7:30
p.m. all are invited to a 9/11 Five
Year Memorial Service and introduction to CBS, a national, multi
church-, inter-denominational
Bible study. Meetings take place
at the First Presbyterian Church
gym, Virginia Ave. every Monday
7:30- 9 p.m., September through
May. This year’s study is the
Gospel of John. For information
call Vic Papanu at 732-223-1302
or Maura Kennedy at 732-9740247.
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Mrs. Swift explained how her
children have been fishing since
they were 2 years old. Mr. Swift
said the contest was “a great event
the fishing club puts on.”
Brielle resident Judy Hilla
explained how she and her children, Cary, 9, and Jay, 3, were
bike riding and decided to check
out the contest. John Campo, 9,
also joined them. All three children said the fishing was “a lot of
fun.”
Cindy Driscoll, of Wall
Township, has been coming to the
fishing contest for the past three
years. “It can’t get any better than
this — gorgeous weather and
watching the beautiful boats come
in,” she said while relaxing at the
inlet.
Mr. Bayer stated how the
youngest angler, P.J. Skinner,
from Mountainside, won a $10
cash prize donated by an anonymous grandmother. “They [fishing contest participants], came
from as far away as Virginia,
North Carolina and the Philippine
Islands,” Mr. Bayer added.
Fishing club member Bob
Shocody felt the contest drew “a
nice crowd.” Tom Grasso, a Wall
Township resident and “Over the
Rail Gang” member, said “[The
contest] is a fun event that gives
everybody a chance to see people
you haven’t seen in years that
come to the event; Joe Bayer
should be commended for the
excellent job he does.”
Cash prizes and merchandise
from local merchants were given
out to the winners. Some of the
merchandise included, fishing
rods, poles and reels, a framed
print of Fisherman’s Cove,
Manasquan, as well as gift certificates to local restaurants.
Big Sea Day visitors interested
in showing their creativity
through sand sculpture could do
so at the sandcastle contest, sponsored by the Manasquan Tourism
Commission, which brought 170
participants to the sand equipped
with pails, shovels, and a popular
trend of spray bottles filled with
colored water to enhance their
creations.
Categories were determined by
age groups consisting of those 1
to 7 years old, 8 to 14 years old,
15 and older, and a family catego-
ry.
Piscataway residents Barbara
Panebianco and daughter, Kelly
Panebianco, age 11, entered in the
family category, building what
they described as “a free flowing
castle, complete with several layered peaks, stairways, and intricate secret passage ways.”
Visiting relatives in Manasquan
for a long weekend, Mrs.
Panebianco said, “We were really
looking forward to Big Sea Day.”
As first time contestants, Mrs.
Panebianco said, “the competition
is stiff, but it is a lovely day we’re
enjoying.”
“We had great competitors and
it was a lot of fun,” Kelly added.
Participants could be seen
feverishly running to and from the
surf, filling up buckets with water
to wet the sand down for their
sand projects. Jarrod Pane, 8, with
his father, Charlie, of Florham
Park, worked on a pirate ship
including waves made blue with
food coloring. Jarrod excitedly
nodded yes to his dad when asked
if he was having fun.
Creative juices were flowing
with the variety of castles that
could be found on the beach. The
Liscoff and Diubaldi families of
Manasquan
constructed
a
“Manasquan sign.” Also visible
on the beach was a pirates treasure chest with skeleton, a butterfly, turtle, scuba diver, sting ray,
mermaid, pizza, Mr. Potato Head,
and a hot dog complete with dried
yellow marigold petals and seaweed, symbolizing mustard and
relish.
Judges included Jim Coakley,
Penny
Hamilton,
Toni
McChesney, Cara Caldwell,
Councilman George Dempsey,
Cheryl Harvey, Kristin Belger,
Anthony Arlauckus and Ashley
Wilson.
Winners were:
In the 1 to 7 year old category,
Julianne Pisacane came in third,
Brianna Pisacane won second,
and Grace O’Boyle took first; in
the 8 to 14 year old category,
Nicole Place came in third, Bryan
Glinsky came in second, and first
place went to Megan Gallagher;
Brandon Glinsky took third,
Megan Young nabbed second and
Samantha Danesa won first in the
15 and older category.
The Ramando’s came in third,
the Dizio family took second, and
the Devereux’s won first in the
family category. Tim Driscoll
earned a special creativity award.
The winners were announced by
Manasquan Tourism Commission
member Jim Coakley, who stated,
“everyone did a great job.”
Shoppers browsed the work of
artist June Coles of Sea Girt who
displayed her paintings and drawings for purchase during Big Sea
Day. Ms. Coles has been selling
her artwork at the event for the
last 10 years, sponsored by the
Manasquan Artist group. Mona
Kirk of Manasquan assisted with
sales. Both women felt the business came in waves with patrons
stopping by in between events.
The art included themes of the
beach, floral design and children.
Body art came in the form of
temporary tattoos available to
children by the Manasquan Beach
Improvement
Association
[MBIA]. Designs included,
Mickey and Minnie Mouse,
Batman,
Scooby-Doo,
and
Spongebob Square Pants, among
others.
Noel Hood, chairman of Big
Sea Day, said it was a “big success.” “It was an absolutely beautiful summer day and we had one
of our biggest turnouts ever,” he
stated, attributing the large
crowds to the beautiful weather.
Mr. Hood was also amazed at the
distances people had traveled for
the event. “We had visitors from
as far as Georgia and Virginia,” he
said.
Mr. Hood also explained the
popularity of the pie eating contest. It was the third year of the
event. “The pies now are larger
[from the Macaroon Shop] than
the pies we used to get from the
former Ritz bakery,” he added.
Mr. Hood said that in speaking
with Michael Bauer, chairman of
the squan recreation department,
both thought the pie eating contest drew twice the turnout than it
had in past years.
There were five age groups in
the pie eating contest. In the six
and under group, Gavin Goss
came in first, followed by
Madaline Allan-Rahill, 4, of
Orono,
Maine
and
Lilia
Gerstmyer, 3, of Freehold. In the
7- to 9-year-old group, Ian
McNamara, 9, of Brielle came in
first, Nora Boyle, 8, of Brielle,
came in second and Collin
Brantner, 9, of Farmington, Conn.
came in third. In the 10- to 13year-old
group,
Chelsea
Amoroso, 13, of Manasquan, took
first, followed by Bryan Glinsky,
13, of Linden, in second, and
Jillian Diroma, 12, of Manasquan,
in third. In the 14 to 17 age group,
Jeremy Kaplan, 15, of Leonia,
took first, in second place was
Steve
Franzetti,
15,
of
Manasquan, followed by Mike
Zapiccai, 16, of Manasquan. In
the 18 and older group, Adam
Mayers, of Hoboken, came in first
place, followed by Vin Martinelli,
24, of West Orange and in third
place, Joe Rahill, 31, of
Washington,D.C.
A fireworks display, sponsored
by the Manasquan Tourism
Commission,
Leggett’s
in
Manasquan and The River House
in Brielle, lit up the sky to round
out Big Sea Day.
Ceres named
officer, shareholder
of law firm
Monica
J.
Ceres,
of
Manasquan, recently became an
officer and shareholder of the law
firm of Giordano, Halleran &
Ciesla, P.C.
Ceres, of the firm’s Planned
Real Estate Development and
Leasing Practice Areas, concentrates her practice primarily to
Community Association Law,
Land Use and Development Law
and Commercial Real Estate
Leasing.
Ceres received her law degree
from
Catholic
University
Columbus School of Law in
Washington, D.C., where she also
served as member of the Catholic
University Law Review.
Class of 1986
Manasquan High
School Reunion
The class of 1986 will celebrate
it’s 20th year reunion at Martell’s
Tiki Bar on Thursday, Aug. 31.
For more information please call
Liz Janda Hickey at 732-2236744
or
email
her
at
ihickey@linksins.com with your
contact information.
~
Manasquan Chamber
of Commerce Ornament
now available
Manasquan
Chamber
of
Commerce 2006 Christmas ornament is now available. This year’s
ornament is honoring the 75th
anniversary of the Manasquan
inlet. Ornaments will be available
at
specific
merchants
in
Manasquan. Please call 732-2921577 for a list of locations or call
Anne Summers at 732-223-8303.
~
O’Neill’s Charity
Golf Outing
O’Neill’s will host a charity
golf outing slated for August 21 at
Woodlake Country Club in
Lakewood. Sponsors are still
available. For more information
call Jim O’Neill at 732-996-0583.
~
Book Fair at
Manasquan Library
On Aug. 28, 29, 31 and Sept. 1
there will be a end of summer
reading book fair at the
Manasquan Public Library from
10 to 3 p.m. and 7 to 9 p.m.
~
The Stacy Book
Discussion Group
The Stacy Book Discussion
Group meets the second Tuesday
of each month throughout the
year at the Manasquan Library at
7:30 p.m. to discuss books suggested by members of the group.
The group will be discussing
“The Great Gasby” by F. Scott
Fitzgerald for the month of
September.
~
VFW Post 1838
Invites public to
attend Picnic
On Aug. 19 the Manasquan
VFW Post 1838 will host its
Annual Picnic on Saturday,
August 19th at the Post Home, 30
Ridge Avenue, starting at 12 p.m.
Admission is $12 for adults and
children under 12 are free.
~
Garage Sale
On September 2 at 82 Church
Street Travis Gasner, a student at
Manasquan High School will be
holding a garage sale. All proceeds will go to the Keep a Child
Alive campaign that offers people
the opportunity to provide lifesaving AIDS medicines directly to
children and families with
HIV/AIDS in Africa. The sale
will last from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. If
you are interested in donating an
item to be sold please e-mail
Travis at tjg225@optonline.net.
To learn more about the cause
visit keepachildalive.org.
THE COAST STAR, THURSDAY, AUGUST 17, 2006
Manasquan
The surf was up for the Coast Waves swim team
By Cheryl Harvey
Surfing has become a popular
sport, especially here at the Jersey
Shore where every summer, thousands of children and adults hit the
water with their boards to enjoy
the thrill of riding in the ocean’s
waves. This past Thursday, the
Monmouth Coast Waves, a group
of athlete swimmers with special
needs, took to the ocean to participate in a surf clinic organized by
Manasquan
Recreation
at
Pompano Avenue Beach.
Jackie Bauer, of Manasquan,
and also a member of the recre-
ation commission who helps run
the swim team for special needs
athletes at the Atlantic Club pool,
thought that a surf clinic would be
a great idea for the swimmers.
Mrs. Bauer was the former
aquatics director at the Atlantic
Club and also a collegiate swim-
mer at Florida State University.
She decided to start a swim team
for special needs children after
teaching her daughter Shannon,
who was born with Down syndrome, to swim.
She said that she first took her
daughter in the water when she
was four months old and she loved
it. “After she was a couple of years
old she had a great feel for the
water and was very comfortable”
said Mrs Bauer, who decided that
she wanted to get involved again
in instructing swimming activities.
She soon started a swim team for
athletes with special needs.
Mrs. Bauer said that there are
25 children on the swim team and
they practice from January
through April. The summer program meets twice a week and it
gives children the opportunity to
participate in the surf clinic where
many skilled surfers around the
area volunteer their time to help
give lessons of instruction.
Mrs. Bauer said that they had
10 children from the swim team
come out to learn and they were
all enthusiastic. Mrs. Bauer’s son,
Austin Aronsson, 19, a graduate
of Manasquan High School,
helped to support the surf clinic
and recruit other instructors.
Justin
Taylor,
20,
of
Manasquan, also helped to
instruct the swimmers in the water
along with Jimmy Oldselt, 17, of
Wall, and Christine Barth.
Inlet/Outlet Surf Shop loaned
the surf clinic some surfboards
and Mike Brown, the former manager of Inlet/Outlet Surf Shop,
volunteered to help instruct the
kids on the basics of surfing along
with Jack Myers of Dragon
Optics.
Mrs. Bauer said the children
were all pretty comfortable since
they have been practicing in the
water for a while now. They all got
to take home a t-shirt that said
Inlet Outlet Surf School and
Manasquan Recreation. “The kids
really had a blast,” said Mrs.
Bauer. Anyone interested in finding out more about the swim team
for athletes with special needs or
would like to volunteer, they can
contact the Atlantic Club or
Manasquan Recreation.
LAUREN PARKER, The Coast Star
The surf was up for Charles Miller at the surf clinic for athletes with special needs last Thursday
at the Pompano Avenue Beach.
Long Blue Line, Big Blue
Booster raffle tickets on sale
The
Long
Blue
Line
Scholarship Fund is selling raffle
tickets to help send several
Manasquan High School athletes,
of any sport, to college.
This year, the Long Blue Line
and the Big Blue Booster Club
will be combining their Super
50/50 with the Big Blue Booster
Club.
Tickets are $100 each and only
400 are being sold.
The first prize is $10,000 and
there will be two second prizes of
LAUREN PARKER, The Coast Star
Kelly Turton celebrates catching a wave during a surf clinic for athletes with special needs, which
was held in the borough last Thursday.
Gilardini Ceramica Italiana Opens
ANDREW RUGGE, The Coast Star
Mayor Richard Dunne [from left] came to celebrate the ribbon cutting for the grand opening
of Gilardini Ceramica Italiana on Main Street with owners Laura Gilardini and Bill Pasko along
with VicePresident of the Manasquan Chamber of Commerce, Bill Sepe.
Honoring A Supporter Of Tourism
LAUREN PARKER, The Coast Star
Gee Gee’s owner Fred Bryant [left] was recently presented a plaque by Councilman George
Dempsey in appreciation of his continuous financial support of the Manasquan Tourism
Commission.
Megan
Holloway Fort
earns Ph.D.
Megan Holloway Fort, the
daughter of Diane and John
Holloway, of Manasquan, recently graduated from the Graduate
Center of the
City of New
York.
She
received her
Ph. D. in Art
History.
Mrs. Fort
is employed
by
the
Metropolitan
Museum of
MEGAN
Art as an
HOLLOWAY A m e r i c a n
FORT
painting
researcher.
She attended Manasquan High
School and graduated from the
Lawrenceville School in 1991.
$5,000 awarded.
The drawing will be held on
Dec. 16 at the annual cocktail
party at O’Neill’s Bar & Grill in
Manasquan.
All donations are tax deductible.
For more information, call Vic
Kubu at 732-223-3173, Kim Read
at 732-223-8632, or Wendy
Callahan at 732-223-5898.
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THE COAST STAR, THURSDAY, AUGUST 17, 2006
Manasquan
Artists celebrate anniversary of inlet with Main Street displays
By Cheryl Harvey
Opening night of “a strolling
art gallery” was a special night
for the artists, shop owners and
those whose joint efforts succeeded in bringing together the
community and a number of talented artists in celebration of the
75th anniversary of the inlet.
Artists, merchants and art viewers came out to celebrate the
opening night of “a strolling art
gallery” which featured over 45
artists and nearly 100 pieces of
artwork which will be on display
in the windows of the shops on
Main Street and the Algonquin
Arts Studio through Aug. 28.
The smell of incense lingered
out from Landmark Books as
violin music played by Bill Lee
set a relaxing mood for a
strolling art gallery. Art viewers
had a chance to meet the artists
personally as shop keepers welcomed the artists into their shops
with a reception that included
wine, cheese and fruit. Strollers
on Main Street could view the art
that depicted scenes that captured the history and beauty of
the inlet, as well as talk to the
artists who created these works
that remind viewers of the wonderful memories that the inlet
holds for locals as well as for visitors who have spent their summers near the inlet.
Many of the art pieces depict
scenes from Fisherman’s Cove as
it once stood, an old bait shop on
the inlet whose location has
served as a place for both fishing
and selling bait since the 1940s.
Today the area is a passive recreation area operated as part of the
Monmouth County Park System.
The former bait shop has been
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renovated and is now used for
local group meetings. Former
president of the Manasquan
River Group of Artists, Mona
Kirk, of Manasquan, worked on
the committee that organized the
gallery. She was also was one of
the artists to show her work. She
pointed out a red truck that is
hidden in her painting of
Fisherman’s Cove displayed in
the Algonquin Arts studio. The
painting captures Fisherman’s
Cove as it once stood. Mrs. Kirk
said that she has had people want
to buy the painting just because
of their memory of the red truck
always parked on the street.
Margaret Patterson, who is
also a member of the Manasquan
River Group of Artists and part
of the committee that helped to
organize the event, said that the
idea to have a strolling art gallery
came from Margaret McChesney
who owns the Squan Custom
Frame Shop on Main Street. Ms.
McChesney experienced a similar art walk while visiting
Connecticut and thought that it
would be a great idea on Main
Street. Applications to participate in the art show were distributed back in April and they had
more than enough responses,
said Ms. Patterson.
Ms. Patterson, who also displayed her art in the show, was
proud to note that one of the
youngest artists to apply to submit art was in fact one of her art
students. Ten-year-old Sarah
Conboy, of Point Pleasant, displayed her art — showing scenes
from the inlet and beach — in the
window
of
toy
store
Quinnderella’s on Main Street.
Mrs. Patterson said that Sarah is
a confident young artist and has
an excellent eye for her age.
Artist Ruth Vail also displayed
her work in the show. Mrs. Vail is
100 years old and a charter member of the Manasquan River
Group of Artists. Mrs. Patterson
says that Ruth is really an icon in
Manasquan. She says that she
can remember admiring her art
LAUREN PARKER, The Coast Star
Mona Kirk, of Manasquan, is a member of the committee that helped organize the strolling art
gallery. Her painting of Fisherman’s Cove which captures the building in its original form is displayed in the Algonquin Arts Studio on Main Street in celebration of the 75th anniversary of the
Manasquan Inlet.
when she was a young girl.
Landmark Books displayed art
by local artist Stephen Zorochin,
of Manasquan. Mr. Zorochin said
that he was drawn to Landmark
Books, especially as an artist,
because of the “bohemian atmosphere” that the shop offers with
its couches and artwork displayed throughout the store.
President of the Manasquan
River Group of Artists Joanne
Pisapia also displayed her art in
the show. Mrs. Pisapia has been a
licensed realtor for 20 years and
starting painting in the 1990s.
Her painting “Seaspray” is displayed at Jesse on Main Street.
She said that many of the artists
in the show were members of the
Manasquan River Group of
Artists.
Manasquan Mayor Richard
Dunne was one of the community members that attended the art
stroll. He said he thought it was a
great idea and hopes that it will
turn into something that can continue over the years to bring
artists and the community
together.
LAUREN PARKER, The Coast Star
Margaret Patterson, of Manasquan, is a member of the committee that organized the art show. She helped to host the reception in the Algonquin Arts Studio for the artists, including herself
who participated in Manasquan’s first ever “strolling art gallery.”
Children Came Out To Play At Big Sea Day
LAUREN PARKER, The Coast Star
Many children participated in this year’s Big Sea Day, which included games like tug of war,
potato sack races and a pizza eating contest.
Ed Lyons Memorial Scholarship Winners
Photo Courtesy of Bob Monaco
Elks Exalted Ruler Bob Monaco [from left] and Tim Lyons present the Manasquan High
School class of 2006 recipients of the Ed Lyons Memorial Scholarship sponsored by the Elks to
Richard Brand, Mike Falciani, Eric McLaughlin, Liz Spinosa, Owen Boyle, Kathleen Woods,
William Geiger, Meg Wallace, Shane Gandolfo. Gene Hesler, Elks Scholarship Committee
Chairman and Jackie Lyons also presented the awards.
THE COAST STAR, THURSDAY, AUGUST 17, 2006
Manasquan
Public hearing for athletic
field project set for Aug. 29
By Cheryl Harvey
The public hearing for the proposed Manasquan High School
athletic field project is set for
Aug. 29 at 7 p.m. in the media
center of the high school.
Manasquan
Board
of
Education
member
Kevin
Monaco said the final plans will
be available for public viewing
on Monday at the Board of
Education office. He said that the
public hearing will be dedicated
to a presentation and overview of
the final plans for the multi-purpose athletic field project. The
referendum for the project is set
to go to the voters on Sept. 26.
At the Tuesday night board of
education meeting, the board
voted to approve the following
district personnel to the board of
education:
• Amy J. Boss, of Wall, as a
high school mathematics teacher
for the 2006-2007 school year at
a salary of $42,900.
• Elizabeth A. Wall, of Brielle,
as a high school mathematics
teacher beginning Sept. 1, 2006
to Jan. 2007 at a pro-rated salary
of $44,900 as a replacement for
Kristy Gerdea who will begin her
maternity child care leave of
absence on Sept. 1, 2006.
• The board accepted the resignation of Jennifer Papetti, high
school Spanish teacher, effective
when a replacement is available
or her 60-day obligation is completed.
• The board accepted the resignation of Jose Vergara, chess
club advisor at Manasquan High
Showing Off Her Skill
School.
• The board approved the following non-paid volunteers for
the 2006-2007 football season:
Bruce Bresnahan, Jeff Keane,
Brian Lee, Luke Sinkhorn,
William Graybush, Richard
Gerlach, Edward Kirchenbaum,
Arthur Otchy and Barry Sullivan.
• The board approved the voluntary transfer of Teresa
Trumpbour to elementary school
art teacher.
• The board approved the voluntary transfer of Maureen
Gilroy to elementary grade two
teacher.
• The board approved the
appointment of Cindy Pokler as a
elementary
school
science
teacher for grade 6 for the 20062007 school year at $43,500.
LAUREN PARKER, The Coast Star
Kayla Hegarty, 10, of Manasquan, does some serious digging at the sand castle contest at Big Sea Day.
Manasquan Police Dept.
reports recent activity in boro
Manasquan Chief of Police
Daniel Scimeca has reported the
following activity in the borough:
• On Aug. 7 , a male, 16, of S.
Jackson Avenue, was charged
with theft, receiving stolen property and terroristic threats by Ptl.
Adam Pharo at Mallard Park.
• On Aug. 8, David Willis, 37,
of Belmar, was charged with
contempt of court by Ptl. Thomas
Morton on Curtis Avenue.
• On Aug. 7, a male, 16, was
charged with theft by Ptl. Keith
Stopera at Mallard Park.
• On Aug. 7, a male, 16, was
charged with theft and possession of stolen property at Mallard
Park by Ptl. Stopera.
• On Aug. 3, a male, 16, of S.
Jackson Avenue, was charged
with disorderly conduct on
Taylor Avenue by Special Officer
Agustin Alvarado.
• On Aug. 3, a male, 16, of
Lake Como, was charged with
disorderly conduct on Taylor
Avenue by Special Officer
Alvarado.
• On Aug. 8, a male, 17, of
Brant Lake, N.Y. was charged
with underage possession and
consumption of alcohol on
Ocean Avenue by Special Officer
Michael Cook.
• On Aug. 8, Leonard Spera,
37, of Belleville, was charged
with contempt of court on Main
Street by Ptl. Michael Stoia.
• On Aug. 14, Jeffrey Alpaugh,
41, of Oldwick, was charged
with contempt of court by Ptl.
Gregory
Restivo
at
the
Manasquan Police Department.
• On Aug. 13, Sarah Carey, 29,
of Middlesex, was charged with
contempt of court on Route 71
by Ptl. Restivo.
• On Aug. 12, Darren
Lindstrom, 18, of Brick, was
charged with driving while intoxicated [DWI] on Union Avenue
by Ptl. Michael Tischio.
• On Aug. 5, Wanda Rios, 48,
of Hackettstown, was charged
with DWI on East Main Street by
Special Officer Matthew Nuzzo.
• On Aug. 12, Lynne Triolo,
41, of Clifton, was charged with
DWI on Stockton Lake Blvd. by
Ptl. Thomas Morton.
• On Aug. 12, Sean Conley,
23, of Wexford, Pa., was charged
with lewdness on Third Avenue
by Special Officer Cook.
• On Aug. 12, Jesse Carrajat,
21, of Brick, was charged with
disorderly conduct on First
Avenue by Special Officer Brian
Schank.
• On Aug. 11, Courtney
Kennedy, 18, of Cedar Avenue,
was charged with contempt of
court on East Main Street by Ptl.
Stopera.
• On Aug. 7, Joseph Capasso,
31, of Yonkers, N.Y., was
charged with burglary at the
beachfront by Special Officer
Sean Norek.
• On Aug. 7, Ptl. Pharo investigated terroristic threats on East
Main Street.
• On Aug. 5, Ptl. Pharo investigated criminal mischief on
Euclid Avenue.
• On Aug. 1, Special Officer
Bryan Macartney investigated
the theft of a bicycle at the
Manasquan Train Station.
• On Aug. 5, Special Officer
Macartney investigated the theft
of a bicycle on North Jackson
Avenue.
• On Aug. 8, Ptl. Smith investigated the theft of a bicycle at
Main Beach.
• On Aug. 7, Ptl. Stopera
investigated criminal mischief
and the theft of a flag on
Wyckoff Avenue.
• On Aug. 5, Ptl. Pharo investigated the theft of a bicycle at
Mallard Park.
• On Aug. 9, Special Officer
Michael Jones investigated the
theft of a wallet at the beachfront.
• On Aug. 13, Special Officer
Norcia investigated criminal mischief at First Avenue.
• On Aug. 13, Special Officer
Macartney investigated criminal
mischief at Stockton Park.
• On Aug. 5, Special Officer
Norek investigated a theft of a
bicycle at Mallard Park.
• On Aug. 12, Special Officer
Macartney investigated a theft of
a bicycle on Ocean Avenue.
• On Aug. 11, Special Officer
Macartney investigated a theft of
bicycle at Riddle Way.
• On Aug. 11, Ptl. Stoia investigated the theft of a canoe on
Brielle Road.
• On Aug. 10, Ptl Restivo
investigated terroristic threats on
Euclid Avenue.
• On Aug. 10, Ptl. Stoia investigated harassment on Lakewood
Road.
PNC Bank Wall Captures Manasquan
LAUREN PARKER, The Coast Star
Barbara Santoro, the Vice President Branch Manager of PNC Bank in Manasquan, posed next
to an original mural by Ruth Vail painted on the bank wall depicting scenes from the
Manasquan area. Prints are available for sale at the PNC Bank on Main Street in Manasquan.
The mural will soon be covered with Plexiglas in an attempt to control its deterioration.
Fun Times At Big Sea Day
LAUREN PARKER, The Coast Star
Caroline Fulton, 6, of Allenwood, decorated her sand creation for Big Sea Day’s sand castle contest in Manasquan.
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THE COAST STAR, THURSDAY, AUGUST 17, 2006
Lake Como
Lake Como Police receive new salary contract
By Matt O’Brien
The Lake Como Council adopted the new police department
salary guide contract at Tuesday’s
meeting that included a roughly
4-percent annual pay increase
starting this year and expiring in
2010.
Councilman Douglas Witte,
who offered the ordinance, has
said the deal between the municipality and police department has
been finalized after two months of
the council’s negotiating committee trying to hammer out a new
contract with the police union.
A representative of the Lake
Como Police union could not be
reached for comment by press
time.
The upper steps of the salary
guide provide the three Lake
Como
Police
Department
sergeants with $86,976 for the
first year; $90,455 in the second
year; $94,525 in the third and
$98,779 in the final year of the
contract. The lone captain will be
making $89,554 in the first year
and $101,707 by 2010.
Step one, or “academy level,”
in the salary guide provides
$30,000 in pay for such officers,
though Councilman Witte said the
department has no police officers
at that experience level. About all
nine of the department’s officers
are being paid at the top levels of
the salary guide.
An officer making a step 10
salary — the final step before
ranking officers’ pay — would
earn $82,883 in the first year;
$86,198 in the second year;
$90,077 in the third year; and
$94,130 in the final year of the
new deal.
According to borough administrators, the old police salary contract, which expired in June,
accounted for about 34 percent of
the $2,831,473 2005 municipal
budget. Borough Administrator
Louise Mekosh said that percentage did not include health insurance, contributions toward pensions and department operating
expenses.
A recent state initiative that
encourages municipalities to
share or merge services, including
police, was established to provide
residents some measure of property tax relief. Thus far, the policy
has caught the attention of the Sea
Girt and Spring Lake Heights
police departments in the immediate area who are hosting very preliminary discussions on such a
merger. Also, officials in Belmar
are looking to institute a regional
police force, although they had no
cost savings estimates or any
detailed information about the
plan.
Last week, Mayor Lawrence
Chiaravallo stated he was
opposed to shuffling the Lake
Como Police Department into a
regional force, as proposed by
their neighbors to the north.
However, the mayor reversed
course Tuesday night and said he
would support the measure if it
would save taxpayers money and
guaranteed residents received the
same level of protection.
“I told [Belmar Mayor Kenneth
Pringle] that since you are the one
getting this off the ground that I
am behind you 100 percent if it
saves taxpayers money” and they
get the same level of protection,
Mayor Chiaravallo said.
Before giving absolute support
to
the
measure,
Mayor
Chiaravallo added that he had
several stipulations and questions
that needed to be answered: each
business administrator from every
town has to be involved in the
process; how much each taxpayer
would save; what formula would
be used to determine how much
resources each town devotes to
the regional force; who would
negotiate contracts with the police
union; salary parity among all
officers; and that the proposal be
placed on the ballot for the voters
to decide.
Mayor Chiaravallo said from
his conversations with Mayor
Pringle the regionalization plan
could take about a year to gain
momentum.
Councilman Witte said that
Lake Como officials looked into
merging their police department
with either Belmar, Wall
Township or Spring Lake about
three to four years ago. However,
that proposal was met with resistance from some residents and
was subsequently dropped from
the council’s agenda. Since then,
the council has not held talks
about merging the police force
with another municipality, until
now.
Board rejects three-lot subdivision for 17th Ave.
By Matt O’Brien
The Lake Como Planning
Board recently shot down a
request by James and Jennifer
Policastro to subdivide their property on 17th Avenue into three
lots.
The Policastros went before the
board last month seeking permission to subdivide the land into
three parcels, so each house on
the property would stand on its
own lot. It was the couple’s plan
to then sell off each home.
After hearing a flurry of critical
remarks from the board, the applicants and their professionals
decided to revise the plans and
reapproach the board on Monday
evening.
Throughout the planning board
meeting, the Policastros’ attorney,
Jack Ungar, wrangled with neighbors and tried to convince the
board that turning the houses over
to individual owners was beneficial for Lake Como, as opposed to
the units being rented year-round.
Despite those efforts, board members were reluctant to approve its
20 bulk variances.
“We look to see why what you
are proposing is better than what’s
there now,” Chairman Mark
Fessler said before casting his dissenting vote. “I don’t see where
this is a betterment for the community.”
Mr. Ungar played down the
project’s technical hurdles by stating that “all the applicants [were]
simply trying to do is draw lines”
to subdivide the property. The
property lines would then activate
the numerous variances that
entailed backyard, sideyard setbacks and other bulk-ordinance
infractions.
Acknowledging that some of
the board members would shy
away from granting 20 variances
out of fear of setting precedent,
Mr. Ungar said in reality that each
lot only required about six variance requests — the same exact
six requests for each lot.
“We are asking the same thing
three times,” he opined.
Echoing July’s response to
such comments, Mr. Fessler
explained the proposed property
lines would trigger certain fire
and construction code violations,
making the borough liable.
Slightly changing tact from last
month’s meeting, Mr. Ungar
attempted to demonstrate that
members were confined to jurisdictional limitations on such an
application, citing a 15-year-old
New Jersey Supreme Court case,
Urban vs. Manasquan Planning
Board, to prove his argument.
The attorney, using the court
opinion in the Manasquan case,
said the board was unable to
“force” new zoning laws on the
Policastros’ 66-year-old houses.
He further illustrated that houses and lots in that part of Lake
Como shared similar characteristics to the Policastros’ property.
“[But] this neighborhood has
been changing for the last 15
years for the better,” board member Ken Shinn said. “There is no
upgrade with this application.”
Mr. Fessler agreed and added
that if the property lines were
approved there would be too
many restrictions on the future
homeowners to make any significant upgrades to the property.
The Policastros and their professionals said earlier that no
upgrades would be made to the
houses.
To rebut Mr. Ungar’s legal
argument, Board Attorney Adam
Schneider said the board did have
jurisdiction to determine if the
application was “the best plan
possible for that property.”
Concerns over the variances,
lack of structural upgrades, neighbors’ resistance, parking issues
and fire and construction codes
proved too much of an uphill battle for the Policastros.
The board voted 7-0 to reject
the application.
Council silently adopts pay-to-play ordinance
By Matt O’Brien
The Lake Como Council adopted
its pay-to-play ordinance without
any discussion during Tuesday
evening’s meeting, which has fulfilled one of the Democrats’ campaign promises stretching back to
last year.
The 15-page ordinance essentially places restrictions on campaign
contributions by entities — whether
it be an individual or a business —
to a municipal committee, local
candidate or incumbent. Perhaps
the toughest measure in the new
law is laid out for “professional
vendors,” hired by the borough,
who will be prohibited from contributing any amount of money to a
campaign.
The maximum amount other
vendors, individuals or businesses
who negotiate or submit bids to
provide the borough with services
or goods, may contribute is set at
$300 and the most a borough vendor can contribute to a county campaign may not exceed $2,500 to
each party, the ordinance states.
Councilman Brian T. Wilton, the
author of the ordinance, said at a
previous meeting that the measure
was similar to other municipalities
that have implemented pay-to-play
laws tougher than the state version,
which was passed in early January.
“New Jersey residents now will
have a greater measure of assurance
that state policy will be directed by
the needs of the people, not the
wishes of a few well-heeled state
contractors,”
Assemblywoman
Linda R. Greenstein [D-14], a bill
sponsor, said of the state law when
it was adopted.
Helping To Replenish The Blood Supply
ANDREW RUGGE, The Coast Star
Sayreville resident Matt Fitzgerald stopped by the Lake Como Borough Hall during the
Central Jersey Blood Center’s recent blood-drive. Shamera Trotman, of Lakewood, drew blood
for the Central Jersey Blood Center.
Another provision in the Lake
Como law states any council members who have accepted campaign
contributions from local businesses
will have to recuse themselves from
taking action on the governing body
that would impact that business.
Borough Attorney William
Gallagher has explained that anyone has a right to make donations
and ask for donations to help support political campaigns. He added
that limits, such as the $300 limit
the Lake Como Council has implemented, would ensure no “egregious” amount of money would
considerably advantage one candidate over another.
At the suggestion of Borough
Administrator Louise Mekosh at a
previous meeting, the ordinance
was amended to apply to those
companies or individuals who provide, or offer to provide, the borough with goods or services worth
$1,000 or more. By placing the
$1,000 threshold in the ordinance
the borough hall staff will have to
verify the eligibility of individual
vendors to ensure those parties have
not violated the law previously.
Prior to Ms. Mekosh’s recommendation, the ordinance required
every business be verified no matter
the value of services or goods rendered to the borough. She said the
office would be extremely busy
checking each business even over
the smallest of purchases.
Councilman Wilton agreed, saying he did not want to place an
“undue burden” on borough hall
office staff.
The ordinance also allows any
vendor or other professional 30
days to take back a contribution it
has given to an incumbent or candidate if the amount has exceeded the
legal limit of $300.
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Lake Como
Council anticipates popular Lake Como Day
By Matt O’Brien
The borough council is already
preparing for Lake Como Day, slated for Saturday, Oct. 7.
Council President Michael Ryan
said the traditional celebration has
evolved into a “sophisticated” event
that has required the assistance
from the borough’s tourism commission, police department, public
works and numerous volunteers.
Hundreds of people are expected
to come out and enjoy its many
attractions, entertainment and food,
though Councilman Ryan was
mum on some of those details.
Mayor Lawrence Chiaravallo
recalled many years of volunteering
at Lake Como Day where he would
serve up countless hot dogs for people. It was to the point “where I got
sick of seeing them,” he cracked.
Councilman Ryan said he will be
meeting with residents James
Chappelle, George and Ronell
Giresi, Ken Shinn and others in the
near future to plan Lake Como Day.
In related tourism commission
news, Councilman Brian T. Wilton
said the group approved the purchase of a Welcome to Lake Como
sign that will be erected near the
Sunrise Deli building on Main
Street.
He added the sign will be similar
looking to the ones near the railroad
tracks.
The Lake Como Tourism
Commission will be expending 50
percent of its budget on ads.
Councilman Wilton said the commission will probably be purchasing an ad in New Jersey Monthly
magazine and will include the borough’s web site address to augment
its advertisement strategy.
In other news from Tuesday
evening’s meeting:
• The council introduced an ordinance that would allow the borough
to increase the municipal budget
cap from 2.5 percent to 3.5 percent
over the previous year’s final appropriations.
• The council adopted an ordinance that will allow handicapped
parking only in front of 411
Wildwood Place.
• The council passed a resolution
that approved a budget appropriation. There was a deficit in certain
budget appropriation reserves in the
2006 spending plan and surplus in
other appropriation reserves. It
made sense to transfer money from
the surplus items to the deficit
items, Borough Administrator
Louise Mekosh explained.
• Borough hall released its annual tax collector’s report. Among
some of its reported achievements
was that the tax office set up an
electronic file program to establish
better communications with title
search companies while eliminating
foot traffic in borough offices.
Part of the report revealed that in
the third and fourth quarter of 2005
the borough collected $2,254,022
and in the first and second quarter
of 2006 officials collected
$2,122,215.
• Councilman Douglas Witte said
the borough has been unable to talk
with
a
Department
of
Transportation officials thus far
regarding state approval for making
19th Avenue a one-way street. Ms.
Mekosh will continue to attempt to
reach out to a department official.
He continued with his committee
reports stating he expects in the
next three to four weeks that permit
stickers and signs indicating permit
parking on Redmond Avenue will
be implemented.
• Councilman Ryan said he
received a letter from the
Monmouth County Planning Board
informing local officials that the
county is not meeting its required
“numbers” for recycling waste.
The state is expected to make
changes in the law regarding waste
management, specifically recycling
food and bulk waste.
Councilman Ryan added to his
committee reports that he wanted to
thank borough resident Ryan Kelly
for organizing a recent blood drive.
All the donors received free T-shirts
during the drive.
Survey on future of Main Street underway
ordinance and created the Main
Street Development Commission to
hold public discussions and gather
input from residents to develop
alternatives to that ordinance.
“The team is exploring other
development options as well as
what has worked in similar towns.
It may be able to give the borough
some direction for municipal officials to pursue to find public and
private funding for Main Street
improvements,” said Main Street
Commissioner Joe Cavaluzzi.
The team anticipates spending a
total of up to 750 hours on research
and report preparation.
The Main Street Development
Commission meets at 6:30 p.m. on
the first and third Tuesdays of the
month. All of the meetings are open
to the public and the commission
encourages residents to attend
meetings and express their concerns and ideas.
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“We also will be surveying business
owners along Main Street. A separate survey will seek information
from visitors to Lake Como on the
types of businesses they would find
most attractive.”
The Rutgers’ team also is conducting Internet research, interviewing local businesses and
municipal officials and conducting
research in comparable towns to
help Lake Como officials identify
and address the strengths and weaknesses of the borough’s downtown
district.
The team is examining the current and potential impact of the
mixed-used ordinance adopted at
the end of 2004 on borough infrastructure, appearance and economics.
The borough council has placed
a temporary moratorium on development from 16th to 18th avenues
to reconsider the impact of that
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the week of Aug. 21.
Residents who fill out the survey
may mail it to town hall or drop it
off in the mailbox at the Lake
Como firehouse.
Whether they choose to fill out
the survey they receive in the mail
or fill it out online, residents may
fill out only one survey.
The Rutgers team will collect the
completed survey during the week
of Sept. 10. The team will present
its analysis of the survey results in
late September or early October.
Residents are not required to
identify themselves in the survey.
However, those who do identify
themselves will be placed in a raffle
for a gift certificate at Taste Buds, a
borough restaurant on Main Street.
All information will remain confidential.
“We hope to have a sample of
about 300 residents,” said Mansi
Daptardar, the MBA team leader.
Fresh Blood
LAUREN PARKER, The Coast Star
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Not only did borough resident Ryan Kelly help organize Central Jersey Blood Center’s recent
blood-drive in Lake Como, but he was one of the donors, as well.
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The Lake Como Main Street
Development Commission has
announced the start of a survey of
borough residents about the future
development along Main Street
from 16th to 18th avenues.
A team of Rutgers University
MBA candidates that is part of the
Rutgers Business School Team
Consulting Program is conducting
the survey for the borough. The
team of seven graduate students, all
of whom have completed their
course work for their MBAs, is
working with the Main Street
Development Commission to come
up with guidelines for the planning
board and borough council to consider in developing a mixed-use
development plan for the two-block
area. The Rutgers’ team is conducting its research under the supervision of Adjunct Professor Len
Black.
“This is an opportunity for residents to have a say in determining
what Main Street will look like for
generations to come,” said
Councilman Douglas Witte, a
member of the Main Street
Development Commission. “The
survey questions explore what
types of businesses and services
residents feel would best serve the
town and it will help guide us in
addressing critical issues such as
building density and parking.”
The Main Street Development
Commission has identified density
and parking as the two most critical
issues the borough must address in
writing an ordinance to govern
downtown development.
Survey forms will be distributed
in several ways.
The survey currently is available
online. Residents may go to
www.lakecomonj.org for a link to
Survey Monkey, the independent
online polling company that will
collect and correlate the results for
the team from Rutgers to analyze.
Or, they can go directly to survey at
www.surveymonkey.com/s.asp?u=
607062439844. The survey also
will be distributed by mail during
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Spring Lake Heights
Stickball game
reunites rec players
By Corinne Busichio
Cheers of “safe!” and “out!”
followed by laughter and the
crack of the bat were the sounds
that could be heard emanating
from Allaire Road Park this past
Saturday as former recreation
department players reunited for
an afternoon of “Alumni stickball.”
The event was organized by
Spring Lake Heights Mayor
Elwood Malick, and former
Spring Lake Heights recreation
department
member
Bart
McInerney. Mr. McInerney had
worked with the rec department
for approximately 17 years. He
and Mayor Malick felt the game
was a great way to reunite players, young and old, to play a game
“they loved so much.” Mr.
McInerney remembers the kids as
“die hard” players. “They would
play any time, in any type of
weather,” he recalled.
One team consisted of the former recreation department players, now in their 20s, that played
as children, versus former council
members that had been affiliated
with the children and the game in
years past, according to Mr.
McInerney. “It’s the young
against the old,” Mayor Malick
jokingly commented.
Mr. McInerney explained that
during the 1980s and 1990s,
stickball was the popular summer
recreation activity enjoyed by the
children and teenagers and was
the main focus during the summer
program offered by the recreation
department.
Mr. Malick fondly recalls,
“when the kids were younger, the
joke was [they] couldn’t beat the
council
members.”
Mr.
McInerney added that, “trips were
jokingly promised to such places
as the Bronx Zoo and Action Park
if the kids won, [with the understanding that a win was not likely
playing adult council members].”
“We’re having a great time;
haven’t seen the kids in a while,
since they went off to college,”
Mr. McInerney explained. He
added that a few were still in
school, but the majority have
recently graduated college. “They
are nice guys, doing well,” Mr.
McInerney stated.
There was a lot of reminiscing
and laughter between players
talking about “the good ol’ days.”
Close friendships and lots of
memories were shared among the
players during Saturday’s event.
Mr. McInerney commented on
how, in those days, there were not
the strict regulations and releases
that are in effect now regarding
children playing sports.
Stosh Gepp, 22, felt it was a
“great day; good times and a lot
of laughs.” Mr. Gepp remembered
playing stickball with the rec
department between 1992 and
1998.
The players jointly thanked
Mayor
Malick
and
Mr.
McInerney for putting the day’s
event together, describing them as
the “backbone of the stickball
reunion.”
Mr. McInerney explained that
this is the first year of the stickball reunion game and he hopes to
make it an annual event, feeling
that “word of mouth will bring
even more players out next year.”
To keep the reunion trend
going, Mr. McInerney discussed
planning reunion trips to the
Monmouth Park Race Track
sometime in September, and also
had ideas for trips to Shea and
Yankee stadiums to take in a ball
game sometime in the future.
Mr. McInerney said, “It’s great
to keep in touch,” and said he was
looking forward to more reunions
soon.
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Heights
Community
Calendar
To submit a calendar listing or
Spring Lake Heights news story,
e-mail bokeefe@thecoaststar.com
Car Wash
LAUREN PARKER, The Coast Star
Spring Lake Heights resident Brennan Gordon took a swing
during the borough recreation alumni stickball game held last
Saturday afternoon in Allaire Road Park.
Boro gets $300,000
Green Acres grant
By Brian O’Keefe
The Borough of Spring Lake
Heights has been notified by the
Department of Environmental
Protection [DEP] that its application for a Green Acres grant was
approved in the amount of
$300,000.
The borough applied for the
grant earlier this year to help it
buy a 2.55-acre, mostly wooded
lot at 1200 Allaire Road for open
space and/or recreational uses.
The lot is adjacent to Allaire Road
Park.
Before applying for the grant,
the borough had two assessments
done last year on the land. The
average of those assessments was
$1.4 million, and officials had
hoped the Green Acres grant
would cover 50 percent, or
$700,000, rather than the
$300,000 that was recently
approved.
But Mayor Elwood Malick said
this week it was his understanding
that next year the borough can ask
the DEP to reconsider the application, and additional money could
be approved at that time.
He said Bill Kastning of the
DEP, who helped the borough
complete the grant application, is
now advising the municipality
that additional money could still
potentially bring the total Green
Acres grants to 50 percent of the
purchase price.
For example, if the borough
Heights police report
recent boro activity
Spring Lake Heights Police
reported the following recent
activity in the borough:
• On July 26, Ptl. Andrew
O’Neill arrested Manasquan resident William Wainwright, 29, for
operating a vehicle while under
the influence, after a traffic stop.
• On Aug. 5, Ptl. Edward
Gunnell arrested Belmar resident
Brett Pandelo, 30, for contempt of
court on an active warrant out of
Asbury Park, after a traffic stop.
• On Aug. 6, Ptl. Travis
Ventimiglia issued a summons to
Point Pleasant resident Anthony
Wolfe, 35, for operating his vehicle while suspended, after a traffic
stop.
• On Aug. 12, Sgt. Francis
Gunning arrested Tinton Falls resident Anthony DeRosa, 33, for
contempt of court on an active
warrant out of Howell Township,
after a traffic stop.
• On Aug. 12, Ptl. Christopher
Bennett issued a summons to
Carteret resident Christopher
Bufano, 30, for operating his vehicle while suspended, after a traffic
stop.
reaches an agreement with the
property owner to buy the land
for $1.5 million, the 50 percent
figure would be $750,000.
Besides the $300,000 grant that
has already been approved, an
additional grant of up to $450,000
could potentially be received from
the DEP next year, said Public
Works Superintendent Art Herner,
who worked on the grant application.
The borough would have to
come up with the remaining
$750,000 under that scenario.
Mayor Malick and Mr. Herner
acknowledged there are no guarantees that any additional grant
money will be received for the
property, but both seemed optimistic.
The mayor said Mr. Kastning
gave the impression that the borough has “a good shot” at getting
the maximum grant next year.
Mr. Herner said although future
state funding is unknowable,
Green Acres is a “strong program.”
“So it looks pretty good,” Mr.
Herner said.
The borough is also applying
for a $250,000 Open Space Trust
Fund grant from Monmouth
County for the property.
Mayor Malick said he was not
sure whether the borough could
make a commitment this year to
buying the property, without
knowing for sure whether an additional Green Acres grant will be
received next year.
“We’re not gonna rush into anything,” he said.
The borough is still negotiating
with property owner M.B.
Fletcher and her lawyer on a selling price, Mayor Malick said.
Once a price is agreed to, that figure would be referred to CFO
Wendy Matson, who would determine whether the borough’s contribution to the purchase could be
bonded without increasing property taxes, he said.
The mayor said he favors buying the property as long as annual
bond payments do not exceed the
approximately $70,000 per year
the borough receives from the
open space trust fund tax that was
approved by Heights voters in
2004.
The term of the bond ordinance
could be adjusted in order to keep
annual payments within that limit,
Mayor Malick said.
The youth of the Wall United
Methodist Church are holding a
car wash to benefit their scholarship fund this Saturday, Aug. 19,
from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. The washing will take place at the church,
2414 Old Mill Road.
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$580,000 Fire Truck
Special Election
Voters in Spring Lake Heights
will decide whether the borough
fire department may enter a lease
purchase financing agreement to
buy a new pumper truck costing
$580,000. It would replace a 1973
model currently in use by the
department.
The special election will be
held at the firehouse, Sixth and
Essex avenues, on Saturday, Sept.
9. The polls will be open from 2
to 9 p.m.
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Adult ID Cards
The Spring Lake Heights coordinator on aging, with the support
of the Monmouth County
Sheriff’s Office, will conduct the
IDENT Adult Program from 8:30
to 10 a.m. at the borough community center, Ninth Avenue and
Ocean Road.
This photo ID will be prepared
for Monmouth County adults who
are 50 years of age or older. This
photo ID card has been accepted
in many places including airports.
You must present one of the following: a voter registration card, a
Medicare card or a Social
Security card. Anyone from contiguous towns may participate.
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Eyeglass
Donations
Residents with eyeglasses they
no longer need may donate them
to the Wall Lions Club by bringing them to boxes located in the
borough halls of local towns. A
donation box will be in Spring
Lake Heights borough hall for the
rest of the summer. Other locations include Belmar, Manasquan,
Avon,
Spring
Lake
and
Manasquan.
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Pancake
Breakfast
The Spring Lake Heights Fire
Department holds pancake breakfasts on the first Sunday of each
month, from July through
September. The last one for this
year will be on Sept. 3.
Breakfasts are served from 8
a.m. to noon, for a $5 donation, at
the firehouse on the corner of 6th
and Essex avenues. Children
under 5 eat for free.
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Quilting
Group
Those who enjoy the art of
quilting or are interested in learning are welcome to attend the
Spring Lake Heights Senior
Recreation Committee’s quilting
group, which meets every
Thursday at noon at Wall United
Methodist Church, 2414 Old Mill
Road.
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THE COAST STAR, THURSDAY, AUGUST 17, 2006
Spring Lake Heights
New Superintendent Meets Dignitaries
Residents, officials
discuss Black Creek
By Brian O’Keefe
Borough officials from Spring
Lake Heights joined residents in
expressing concern about the
state of Black Creek at Monday
night’s council meeting.
The depth of the water in the
creek is now just 16 inches, sitting over 7-foot deep silt, said
Public Works Superintendent Art
Herner.
Lake Avenue resident Thomas
Ort commented that the conditions are such that swans, geese
and ducks now struggle to swim
in the water. When canoeing on
LAUREN PARKER, The Coast Star
Ruth Ziznewski, the new superintendent and principal at Spring Lake Heights Elementary
School, introduced herself to council members and other dignitaries of the borough at a meeting in the school’s media center yesterday.
Two people hired to staff police window
By Brian O’Keefe
Two part-time employees have
been hired to staff the Spring Lake
Heights Police Department window on a temporary basis.
The council approved the
appointments of Norma Bishkoff
and Thomas Murphy at Monday
night’s meeting.
They are working alternate days
to help people who walk into the
station between the hours of 10
a.m. and 2 p.m. Their hourly wage
is $12.
No one had been specifically
assigned to staff the window after
the Heights consolidated its dispatch office with that of Spring
Lake. Chief Mark Steets reported
receiving numerous complaints
from people that sometimes no
one was there to help them.
The positions are funded until
the end of the year. Officials will
then evaluate whether they are still
necessary.
In other news from Monday
night’s council meeting:
• The council approved a
request by Ptl. Michael Matunas
to work as a drill instructor at the
Monmouth
County
Police
Academy. The patrolman indicated the job will not interfere with
his duties in the Heights.
• The council passed a resolution endorsing an agreement by
the U.S. Conference of Mayors to
take steps to try to reduce global
warming.
At the local level, those steps
include adopting land-use policies
that reduce sprawl and create
“compact, walkable urban communities,” reducing the number of
municipal vehicles, and retrofitting facilities with energy-efficient lighting.
• A resolution was passed supporting the “You Drink and Drive,
You Lose 2006 Statewide
Crackdown.” That crackdown is
meant to increase impaired driving enforcement from Aug. 19
through Sept. 4.
• The council issued a proclamation to borough resident
Amanda Marasco, congratulating
her for being a finalist in a recent
junior golfer essay contest. As
part of her prize, Amanda walked
inside the ropes with LPGA players at a tournament in Gladstone.
Race, fall festival set for Oct. 14 at school
By Brian O’Keefe
The Spring Lake Heights
Elementary School booster club
and PTA are planning two events
for Saturday, Oct. 14.
First, the booster club will hold
a five-kilometer race and a children’s race starting at 9 a.m.
Formerly called the Heights
Harvest 5K, the race is being organized by the booster club for the
first time this year.
The regular race will start at 9
a.m. and the children’s race will
be at 10 a.m.
There will be six cash prizes for
the males and females who place
first through third overall. In addition, the first finishers in various
age groups will get prizes.
Random prizes will also be awarded.
The entry fees are $20 for
adults and $10 for children.
Applications are available at
Miles Ahead on Route 35 in Wall,
Sneakers Plus in the K-mart plaza
on Route 35 in Wall, and at the
Spring Lake Heights borough hall,
555 Brighton Ave.
For information on the race, call
732-449-3370.
Starting at 11 a.m., the PTA will
hold its annual fall festival on the
school grounds. Inflatable rides
will be rented, and there will be
various tables staffed by students,
vendors and community organizations.
Each grade will run its own
table, with activities like craft projects and bake sales.
One possibility for an activity
this year is a chance for attendees
to build their own scarecrows, said
PTA president Debbie Daniels.
The PTA would supply the hay,
and people would bring their own
clothes to the festival to make a
scarecrow, which they could then
take home.
“Every family can go home
with a scarecrow,” Ms. Daniels
said.
Tables at the festival will be
available to vendors for $25 and a
donation to the gift auction.
Community organizations, such
as the Spring Lake Heights
Citizens Advisory Committee and
borough police department, are
also being invited to staff tables.
Last year the festival was held
inside the school because of rain,
but organizers are hoping for good
weather this year.
Ms. Daniels said she expects
the festival will last until about 3
p.m.
the creek, it is tough to pull paddles back out of the water, and the
muck then has to be shaken off,
he added.
Mr. Ort asked the council about
a sign he had recently seen, indicating that the water had been
treated. He said he saw no apparent improvement, and asked what
kind of treatment was used.
Mr. Herner said a company
called Aquatic Technology has
been hired to treat the creek with
chemicals to improve conditions.
See DISCUSS, page 27
School assembly to
emphasize peace
By Brian O’Keefe
Students at Spring Lake
Heights Elementary School will
begin the day with a gathering at
the flagpole, and end it with an
assembly focusing on peace,
friendship and tolerance, on this
year’s anniversary of the
September 2001 terrorist attacks.
Each student will receive a
paper dove at the beginning of the
school year, said Supervisor of
Curriculum
and
Instruction/Special
Services
Danielle Harris Lacasale.
Students will write a sentence
or draw a picture on their doves
showing what peace means to
them, and they will all be displayed in the halls outside each
classroom door, she said.
Teachers will select two doves
from each of their classes to be
featured during an assembly at the
end of the day on Sept. 11.
Ms. Lacasale said the students
whose doves are selected will
share their thoughts about peace
orally during the assembly.
Also during the assembly, the
book “What Does Peace Feel
Like,” by Vladimir Radunsky, will
be read aloud and discussed.
The goal is to focus on peace,
friendship and tolerance, rather
than negativity, on the anniversary
of the attacks. The children will be
taught “peacekeeping ways,” such
as how to get along with and tolerate others despite differences,
Ms. Lacasale said.
She said she had started a similar assembly last year at her previous job in the Piscataway School
See PEACE, page 27
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THE COAST STAR, THURSDAY, AUGUST 17, 2006
Wall Township
New principal, new character initiative program at Intermediate
By Katherine Czech
Rosaleen Sirchio may not be a
new face at Wall Intermediate
School, but she will have a new
title this coming school year.
After spending three years as an
assistant principal at Wall
Intermediate, Mrs. Sirchio was
hired to be the new principal,
replacing Joseph Tonzola, who
officially retired this past July.
Taking Mrs. Sirchio’s old position is Tiffany Steiner, who was a
guidance counselor at the school
for the past five years. Tom
Ridoux will remain as the other
assistant principal.
“I welcome the challenge,” said
Mrs. Sirchio of her new role in the
school.
Mrs. Sirchio, who lives in Wall
Township with her husband and
daughter, said she feels a certain
sense of connection with the
Intermediate School, as well as
with the township. Her daughter
will enter the first grade at Wall
Central School this fall. Prior to
working at Intermediate School,
Mrs. Sirchio was an English
teacher at Wall High School.
“We have an outstanding student body and fabulous teachers,”
said Mrs. Sirchio of the
Intermediate School.
She said it was the school’s
sense of community that she really values, and was a major reason
for her applying for the principal’s
position.
The goal of Mrs. Sirchio and
the entire administration is to continue to foster this sense of community further by creating a more
caring student body. In order to do
this, the school has adopted a
character education format, called
Character Counts, said Mrs.
Sirchio.
This new initiative is a framework for the school to be committed to teaching, enforcing, advocating and modeling the six pillars
Wall Twp.
Community
Calendar
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Wall Township news story, e-mail
kczech@thecoaststar.com
Family
Fun
Fair
LAUREN PARKER, The Coast Star
Tom Ridoux [from left], assistant principal, Tiffany Steiner, assistant principal and Rosaleen
Sirchio, principal of Wall Intermediate School, will help implement the Character Counts initiative
into classrooms this fall.
of character. These pillars are
trustworthiness, respect, responsibility, fairness, caring and citizenship.
Mrs. Sirchio said the school
will be implementing this initiative into the current curriculum.
They have started to train the faculty, sending Ms. Steiner and
another teacher, Gail Maher, to a
three-day training session where
they learned ways of integrating
these pillars into the school.
Mrs. Sirchio said examples of
this will include assemblies targeting the issue of character and
community service initiatives for
the students.
A Character Counts committee
of parents, teachers and students
will also be forming in the near
future, said Mrs. Sirchio.
Character Counts supports the
district’s
Accreditation
For
Growth [AFG] program, which
calls for Wall Township schools to
have an academic and a character
goal. All the township’s schools
hope to improve academic
achievement. Character Counts
will represent the Intermediate
School’s character goal, said Mrs.
Sirchio.
She said she and the faculty
hope to increase student confidence, improve student decision
making, decrease bullying and lesson their number of discipline
referrals.
Bullying behavior is a major
problem for students in the sixth,
seventh and eighth grades and
Mrs. Sirchio said if the school can
in any way decrease this behavior
by helping students make better
choices, then it will also help to
make the students better citizens.
“Academics is very important,
but so is being a good citizen,”
said Mrs. Sirchio.
She said she is very excited
about starting the new school year.
Students entering the Intermediate
School this fall can find their supply lists for the upcoming year on
the Intermediate School web site.
Wall Township Police blotter
Chief Roy Hall of the Wall
Township Police Department
reported the following recent
arrests in the township.
• On July 26, Todd Matthew
Estlow, 27, of Manasquan was
arrested after a motor vehicle stop
on Old Mill Road by Ptl. Edward
Michael Steitz and charged with
conspiracy to possess heroin.
On the same day, Mr. Estlow was
also arrested by Ptl. Ian Hatch and
charged with contempt of court,
failure to appear.
• On July 28, Linda S. Stoner, 21,
of Spring Lake Heights, was arrested on Snyder Avenue by Ptl.
Edward M. Steitz and charged with
conspiracy to possess heroine. Ms.
Stoner’s arrest is under investigation and is related to the the investigation of Mr. Estlow’s conspiracy
charge, according to Sgt. Bill
Connellan.
• On July 27, Varnia Johnson,
39, of Asbury Park was arrested at
the K-Mart on Route 35 by Ptl.
Sean P. O’Halloran and charged
with strong arm robbery.
Ms. Johnson was caught
shoplifting by a K-Mart security
person. She resisted being detained
and assaulted an employee of the
store.
• On July 26, William D. Klare,
23, of Sea Cliff, N.Y. was arrested
on Belmar Boulevard by Ptl. Justin
Hudson and charged with possession of heroin.
• On Aug. 12, at about 11:45
p.m., Keith Hunsinger, 18, of Wall
Township was arrested by Ptl. Ian
Hatch and charged with obstruction
and false reports, subsequent to a
motor vehicle accident investigation involving Mr. Hunsinger’s
vehicle and an unoccupied parked
car.
• On Aug. 11, Shawn S.
Davidson, 18, of Sewell and
Matthew R. Zeiders, 19, also of
Sewell, was arrested by Ptl. Ed
Lister at about 8 p.m. subsequent to
a motor vehicle stop at 2605
Atlantic Avenue. They were
charged with underage possession
and consumption of alcohol, and
after processing were released on a
summons.
• On July 30, Dereck R. Folkes,
47, of Wall Township was arrested
on New Bedford Road by Ptl. S. J.
Powers due to another agency warrant.
• On July 26, Mark L. Pierce Jr.,
33, of Tinton Falls, was arrested on
Route 35 by Ptl. Steven Nash on a
warrant from another agency.
• On July 26, Kevin M. Wilson,
34, of Asbury Park, was arrested on
Route 35 by Ptl. Chris Lisewski on
a warrant from another agency.
• On July 30, Debra J. Sones, 50,
was arrested on Route 138 by Ptl.
Suresh Madhavan on a warrant
from another agency.
• On July 26, William Figueroa,
33, of Manchester, was arrested at
Ancora Psychiatric Hospital by Ptl.
Steven Nash and charged with contempt of court, failure to appear.
• On July 26, James J. Applegate,
44, of Whiting, was arrested on
Allaire Road by Ptl. Justin Hudson
and charged with contempt of
court, failure to appear.
• On July 26, Donny Childs, 49,
of Neptune, was arrested by Ptl.
Serge Ridoux and charged with
contempt of court, failure to appear.
• On July 27, Edward L. Kelsch,
42, of Edison, was arrested on
Route 35 and Old Mill Road by Ptl.
Todd Czech and charged with contempt of court, failure to appear.
• On July 27, Marcus A.
Henderson II, 24, of Neptune was
arrested on Route 138 by Ptl. Sean
P. O’Halloran and charged with
contempt of court, failure to appear.
• On July 27, Samuel Wade, 47,
of Wall Township, was arrested on
Route 34 by Ptl. Rydinsky and
charged with contempt of court,
failure to appear.
• On July 29, Martin Andrew
Taylor, 21, of Neptune, was arrested on Route 33 and Route 34 at the
Howell border by Ptl. Ian Hatch
and charged with contempt of
court, failure to appear.
• On July 29, Plamen S.
Assardjiev, 37, of Lakewood, was
arrested on Route 138 by Ptl.
Emmett W. Idzahl and charged with
contempt of court, failure to appear.
• On July 30, Sheryl H.
Wendroff, 34, of Freehold, was
arrested on Route 34 and charged
with contempt of court, failure to
appear.
• On Aug. 1, Edwin J. Boyd, 45,
of Egg Harbor, was arrested at the
Atlantic County Jail by Ptl. Michael
Textor and charged with contempt
of court, failure to appear.
• On Aug. 1, Vladimir N. Tuaev,
48, of Point Pleasant, was arrested
on Baileys Corner Road and
charged with contempt of court,
failure to appear.
• On Aug. 2, Eileen M. Durning,
42, of Brick, was arrested on Route
138 and Highway 16 by Ptl. Justin
Hudson and charged with contempt
of court, failure to appear.
• On Aug. 2, Darryel Mcmullen,
22, of Asbury Park, was arrested on
Route 35 by Ptl. Sean P. O’Halloran
and charged with contempt of
court, failure to appear.
• On Aug. 2 Stephen Quaranta,
45, of Manasquan, was arrested by
Ptl. P. J. Scannell and charged with
contempt of court, failure to appear.
• On July 28, Ezequiel Santiago,
43, of Belmar, was arrested on
Hilltop Drive by Ptl. Christopher
Gallagher and charged with driving
while intoxicated [DWI].
• On Aug. 2, Hafyd Gonzalez,
23, of Lakewood, was arrested on
Route 34 by Ptl. Kenneth Brown Jr.
and charged with driving while
intoxicated.
• On Aug. 2, Craig Anthony
Santiago, 22, of Howell, was arrested on Route 138 and Allenwood
Road by Ptl. Frank A. Kuhl and
charged with driving while intoxicated.
• On Aug. 13, Julian Shah, 24, of
Edison, was arrested by Ptl.
Gallagher at about 2 a.m. subsequent to a motor vehicle stop and
charged with driving while intoxicated.
• On July 26, Keith D. Wilson,
33, of Asbury Park, was arrested on
Route 35 and Tarpon Drive by Ptl.
Jason R. Constantini and charged
with hindering the apprehension of
one’s self.
• On Aug. 1, Juan Ruiz, 21, of
Point Pleasant Beach, was arrested
on Route 35 by Ptl. B. J. Mansfield
and charged with shoplifting.
In other news from the police
department:
• On Saturday, Aug. 11, a vehicle
being operated by Jennifer Starr,
21, of Howell struck the rear of, and
became partially lodged under, a
dump truck. The driver, Ms. Starr,
suffered non-life threatening
injuries as a result of the accident,
and was transported to the Jersey
Shore University Medical Center
by the Wall Township First Aid
Squad. The driver of the dump
truck was not injured. Route 34
north of Airport Boulevard was
closed while the accident was being
investigated and the road cleared of
debris. Ptl. Gallagher is the investigating officer.
Shore Christian Center invites
families of the entire Jersey
Shore area to enjoy one last summer throw-down at Family Fun
Fair! You need not be a member
of the church to attend - all are
welcome to enjoy this afternoon
filled with amusements, music,
food and friendship not to mention the drawing for a 1959 Ford
Galaxie classic.
The event will feature a
Classic Car show, BMX biking
demonstrations, live bands and
the 107.1 FM Breeze Van featuring their on-air personalities.
It will be held on Saturday,
Sept. 9 from 12 p.m. to 5 p.m. on
the Squankum Road campus of
SCC. For additional details,
please contact Glen Dalakian
973-214-1329 or log onto
www.59fordgalaxie.com
~
Cut-A-Thon
There will be a benefit to support Catie McInerney, daughter
of Tim and Joni McInerney, at
Main Thing Hair Salon in Old
Mill Plaza, 2100 Route 35 on
Aug. 20 from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.
Catie, now 16 months old, was
a premature baby, born at 23
weeks. Her twin brother, Aiden
was born at 26 weeks, but died.
Catie has had several operations
so far, including a recent liver
transplant, and will need more
operations in the future.
All of the proceeds will go
towards her expenses that insurance will not cover.
For more information call
732-449-1900 or to make a
donation
visit
www.catieandaidan.org.
~
Thursday
Night
Book Club
The Wall Township Library
Book Discussion Group’s next
meeting will be Aug. 17 to discuss “Handmaiden’s Tale” by
Margaret Atwood. After that,
“American Pastoral” will be discussed on Sept. 21 and Oct. 19.
The discussions, all at 7:15
p.m., are lively and new readers
are always welcome to join.
Copies of books are available for
Wall residents at the library, but
everyone is welcome.
~
Breast Cancer
Fund-raiser
On Monday, Aug. 28, all services at the Milagro Spa at the
Atlantic Club in Manasquan and
Red Bank will be donated to the
Avon Foundation. The spa hair,
nail, and skin professionals will
be donating their time so that
100 percent of service costs will
be donated to help find a cure for
breast cancer.
The event will run from 4 p.m.
until 9 p.m. To book an appointment call 732-223-2296 for
Manasquan or 732-450-440 in
Red Bank.
~
Entertainment
Books
The South Wall Fire Co. is
again offering the popular
Entertainment Book for sale as a
fund raiser. The books are $25.
This year in addition to some
favorite local restaurants like
The Four Winds and Edgars, all
the travel offers like American
Airlines and car rentals, the
entertainment offers like six
flags, golf offers, sporting
venues and dry cleaning, there
are coupons totaling $20 each
for both Shop Rite and
Foodtown.
You can get a copy or information by calling 732-449-7369.
Books can also be picked up at
Dietrich Opticians, 134 Main
St., Manasquan.
THE COAST STAR, THURSDAY, AUGUST 17, 2006
Wall Township
Wall Twp.
Community
Calendar
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Wall Township news story, e-mail
kczech@thecoaststar.com
Backpack
Collection
A collection for new or slightly
used backpacks and school supplies
is in progress for needy children of
the community.
In support of a National Honor
Society project, donations will run
through Aug. 18.
Donation boxes are placed at the
Wall Library, Manasquan Library
and Brielle Library.
~
Women of Grace
Bible Study
There will be a Women of Grace
Bible Study Information Night on
Aug. 30 at 7:30 p.m. The invitation
to attend is open to everyone.
It will be held at the home of
Maria Dolan at 3402 Sandpiper
Way in Wall Township. For more
information call 732-528-1972 or
visit the Women of Grace website
http://www.womenofgrace.com/cu
rriculum.htm.
~
Films at Wall
Library
The Wall Township library will
feature three movies in the month
of September.
“Red Shoes,” starring Anton
Walbrook will be shown on
September 26. “To Catch a Thief,”
starring Cary Grant, will be shown
on Sept. 19, and “The Unforgiven,”
starring Cary Grant will be shown
on Sept. 12.
All the films will be shown at 2
p.m. There will be no charge to see
them. For more information call
732-449-8877.
~
Arthritis and
Fibromyalgia
Support Group
The Arthritis Foundation holds a
support and education group for
people living with arthritis and
fibromyalgia. The next meeting
will be Aug. 24 at 6:30 p.m. at Wall
Township Library, 2700 Allaire
Road.
The speaker will be Karen Drzik
from the Arthritis Foundation and
she will discuss “Physical Activity
and Arthritis/Fibromyalgia.”
For more information call the
Arthritis Foundation at 888-4673112 or Linda at 732-449-2733.
~
Halloween
Costume Collection
The Rotary Club of Wall
Sunrise, which meets on Thursday
evenings at 6:30 p.m. at Piancone's
South, is collecting Halloween costumes that children may have outgrown or are no longer needed.
Rotarians believe that no child
should miss the fun and excitement
of Halloween due to financial or
physical limitations.
These costumes will be distributed to the Wall Township
Elementary Schools and made
available to any child who needs a
costume for the Halloween activities. Please contact Kathy Miller at
Sotheby's Real Estate, 732-5803902, for more information, or bag
them and bring them to Piancone's
South.
~
Caregivers
Support
A caregivers support group
meets at the Allaire Senior Day
Center on the last Monday of each
month, at 3 p.m. Call Cheryl
Fenwick at 732-974-7666 for more
information.
~
Wall H.S. Class of
1986 Reunion
The Wall High School Class of
1986 Reunion will be held
Saturday, Aug. 19 at the Spring
Lake Manor, Spring Lake Heights
from 7 p.m. to 11 p.m.
For additional information
please visit www.wallhigh86.com
or contact colin@wallhigh86.com.
Problems at Four Seasons continue
By Katherine Czech
When residents of the Four
Seasons at Wall adult community
initially looked into buying a
new home in the development,
they received a packet with a letter from Kevork Hovnanian saying, “We look forward to having
you join the ranks of 60,000
happy K. Hovnanian homeowners.”
Well, after moving into their
new home, many did not join
those ranks of “happy” homeowners.
From snow in their attics to
crumbling driveways, some residents are getting tired of waiting
for results from the Middletownbased builder.
Several of those unhappy
homeowners attended last week’s
Wall Township Committee meeting to update the governing body
regarding the ongoing problems
in the community.
Resident John Smith asked the
committee for advice about how
to deal with the problems
between Four Seasons and its
homeowners. He brought up the
continuing problem of snow getting into the attics of homes.
In a survey distributed by the
Association
of
Concerned
Homeowners, Four Seasons at
Wall, 92 homeowners out of the
400 total have reported snow in
their attic. In some cases residents have reported over a foot of
snow accumulation.
Joseph Verruni, township
administrator, said that violation
notices have been issued to the
developer concerning the issue of
snow getting into the attics, but
that a building violation must be
reviewed by the construction
board of appeals, and they have
to make any real decisions about
the matter.
Virginia Orbe said she was
concerned about the continuing
driveway problems. Previously,
she understood that 250 of the
400 driveways in the complex
were replaced, but that if the
remaining 150 homeowners
wrote a request to have their driveway replaced, the developer
would do so.
She said 130 residents have
made this request and only 21
driveways have been replaced.
For
quite
awhile,
K.
Hovnanian refused to admit any
problems with the driveways. In
a letter dated July 26, 2000 to the
president of the Four Seasons at
Wall Homeowners Association,
W. Bryan Dempsey, code
enforcement officer at the time
for Wall Township, stated that he
Photo courtesy of Sander Kelman
Many driveways at Four Seasons in Wall Township have had to be replaced multiple times.
Community resident Donn Ruotolo’s driveway [above] was replaced in 2000, but crushed stone
was not installed as a base material for the driveway. The driveway was in need of a replacement just four years later.
had been “informed that the driveways … are in accordance with
the approved plans for this project.”
The approved plans required
six inches of crushed stone to be
put down under the asphalt.
Sander Kelman, chairman of
the Association of Concerned
Homeowners at the Four Seasons
said this was not done. Asphalt
was in many instances put directly on top of the ground dirt,
which is the reason the driveways
are crumbling and full of potholes, he said.
Yet, some progress was made
when homeowners received a letter last February saying that if
homeowners contacted the developer before March 1 and requested a driveway replacement, they
would get one.
Matt Dietz said he has had his
driveway replaced three times
and is on the list requesting
another one. Why so many?
“They have put nothing under
the blacktop,” he said. They keep
making the same mistake over
and over, he explained.
Mr. Dietz did note that K.
Hovnanian replaced his driveway
the first time, without him having
to request it.
He said the problem at Four
Seasons is that K. Hovnanian
subcontracts “everything.”
“They squeeze subcontract to
nothing,” he said. There is “no
Man charged with
prescription drug fraud
By Katherine Czech
Robert Anderson, of Lake
Como, was charged with forgery
and prescription drug fraud last
Saturday after attempting to fill a
falsified prescription for the pain
killer Percocet.
The
Wall Township Police
Department received a call from
Campbell’s Pharmacy in Wall
Township about a suspicious
quantity of Percocet, 80 tablets,
requested on a prescription, said
Detective Sgt. Joe Gisoldi.
“The pharmacist was alert
enough to see that this was suspicious,” said Detective Sgt.
Gisoldi.
The pharmacy contacted the
doctor who prescribed the drug.
The doctor stated that the prescription had been written, but it
was for 30 tablets of Percocet, not
80, which was the amount that
read on the prescription that
Campbell’s had, said Detective
Sgt. Gisoldi.
An investigation by the Wall
Township Detective Bureau identified the 49-year-old Mr.
Anderson as the accused.
He was arrested at about 10:30
p.m. on Aug. 12.
Mr. Anderson did not post bail,
which was set at $5,000. He was
being held at the Monmouth
County Correctional Institution,
Freehold.
There was also an Ocean
County non-support warrant for
$31,000 for Mr. Anderson at the
time of his arrest, according to
Detective Sgt. Gisoldi.
oversight.”
This means that it is the subcontractor that has the problem
of replacing the driveways, not
K. Hovnanian, he said.
“You expect a builder of K.
Hovnanian status to have integrity,’ said Mr. Dietz. He said he
trusted them to build his home
properly.
Homeowners were promised
that their driveways would be
replaced by the end of the year,
but Mr. Kelman said he does not
see this happening.
Mark Caverly, manager, transitions and bonds for K.
Hovnanian at Wall, who has been
the homeowners contact for
problems with their driveways
and garages, did not return a call
seeking comment by deadline.
Aside from his driveway problem, Mr. Dietz also had a problem with his attic when he moved
in. There was no way for him to
get to it — no ladder, no door,
nothing. Someone had to come in
and cut an opening into the top of
one of his closets so that now he
can at least climb into the attic.
In the survey organized by the
Association
of
Concerned
Homeowners, 23 percent of
homes reported their attics being
inaccessible when they moved in,
although only 1 percent still have
the problem.
Mr. Dietz’s porch also had to
be replaced because it was sinking.
Mr. Kelman has also had several problems, including having
to have more structural support
put into the attic and into the
downstairs floor.
His front porch has not been
replaced, but it has sunk about
one inch below its original placement.
He also needed his garage
extended, which is another problem that 22 homeowners have
reported, said Mr. Kelman. Each
garage measures 19 feet from
one inside wall to the other, but
what builders failed to take into
account was the presence of steps
or a closet inside some garages,
which thereby leaves less room
for a car to fit in.
After Fox news Channel 29
Philadelphia did a report on K.
Hovnanian’s faulty work at the
Four Seasons, in which Mr.
Kelman’s garage was featured, it
was replaced soon after.
Resident Phil Roccaro is also
on the list for a garage extension,
and said he has contacted Mr.
Caverly several times to inquire
about when his extension project
will start. His calls have not been
returned.
Homeowners just want what
they paid for, said Mr. Kelman.
“In our [Association of
Concerned Homeowners, Four
Seasons at Wall] experience, the
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THE COAST STAR, THURSDAY, AUGUST 17, 2006
Wall Township
Wall steps up drunk
driving enforcement
By Katherine Czech
Wall Township Police will be
stepping up its drunk driving
enforcement for the next two
weeks as part of the “You Drink
and Drive, You Lose 2006”
statewide crackdown against
impaired drivers.
This is an annual New Jersey
initiative, said Detective Sgt. Joe
Gisoldi. It will run from Aug. 18
to Sept. 4 and is an attempt to further curb impaired driving.
The end of the summer season
is generally a time of social gatherings. These gatherings often
include alcohol.
The goal of the program is to
raise awareness about the dangers
of drinking and driving through
high-visibility enforcement, and
to arrest motorists who choose to
drive while impaired by drugs or
alcohol.
Detective Sgt. Gisoldi said that
supplemental patrols will be utilized during this time period. This
means there will be an increase in
the number of police on the road
in Wall. There will not be any driving checkpoints though.
The use of both drugs and alcohol result in accidents across the
nation and impaired drivers continue to be a huge safety problem
for motorists.
Impaired drivers kill nearly
18,000 people on the nation’s
roads each year. In New Jersey, 31
percent of motor vehicle fatalities
are alcohol related. The National
Highway Traffic Administration
[NHTSA] reported that nearly 97
percent of Americans view drinking and driving by others as a
threat to their families and themselves.
“Traffic is our number one concern in Wall,” said Detective Sgt.
Gisoldi.
On Aug. 3, a 77-year-old man
was fatally injured in a collision
with an intoxicated 19-year-old
girl on Route 138 in Wall
Township. Detective. Sgt. Gisoldi
said that the collision is still under
investigation and that the toxicology reports were not returned yet.
As a participating agency in this
statewide campaign, the Wall
Township Police Traffic Safety
Unit offers the following advice:
• Be responsible and don’t risk
it. You will be caught.
• If you plan to drink, chose a
designated driver before going
out.
• Take mass transit, a taxicab or
ask a sober friend to drive you
home.
• Spend the night where the
activity is held.
• Report impaired drivers to law
enforcement.
• Always buckle up — it is your
best defense against impaired drivers.
First aid receives record
number of calls in July
Wall First Aid and Rescue
Squad, based on Monmouth
Boulevard in the heart of Wall
Township, had a record number of
emergency calls in July.
With over 150 total calls, the
squad members were busy every
day of the month.
“A volunteer organization is
only as good as the active members allow it to be. July demonstrated that we have a squad of
well motivated, highly trained
EMTs. The number of times they
responded to calls demonstrates
how committed they are to serving
this community,” said Capt. Bill
Voelkel.
The type of calls ran the spectrum of every possible emergency
— from difficulty breathing,
always a problem in the summer,
months, to crashes on the
Parkway.
Patients came from near and
far. Whether from neighboring
towns or other states, they were all
treated with efficiency and
respect, said a representative from
the first aid squad.
As always, the EMT teams
relied heavily on support from the
police and fire departments as
well as the sister squad, Wall
Community First Aid, from the
south side of town.
“We do not look to break
records, less is better for all concerned in EMS. However, the fact
is that Wall is a high-density area
and the demands placed on the
emergency services can rise dramatically during the summer
months. It is good to know that we
have the capacity to rise to
increases in demand,” continued
Capt. Voelkel.
The squad is preparing to take
delivery of a brand-new rescue
truck in October. This truck will
include state-of-the-art rescue
equipment and allow for optimum
extrication of victims of serious
mishaps. The continued rise in 91-1 calls underlines the wisdom of
the squad’s decision to upgrade its
resources. Funded in part by local
community support, the new truck
will be a testament to the commitment of Wall residents belief in
professionally trained and well
equipped local volunteer services.
The squad is also looking forward to sharing a night of fun and
great music at its annual
“Beatlemania” show at Wall High
School on Sept. 1.
A Job Well Done
Photo courtesy of Bob Both
Bob Both [right], of Wall Township was recognized by
Robert Sheridan [left] of the Savings Bank Life Insurance
Company of Massachusetts, with their "No Nonsense
Achievement Award" in recognition of his volunteer activities within the community. This included raising more than
$200,000 through the Jersey Shore Relay for the MonmouthOcean Counties Special Olympics. A check in his name for
$500 was presented to the Boy’s and Girl’s Club of
Monmouth County at the Asbury Park 5K on Aug. 12. He
also recently hosted the Wall Township Summer Series of
Races for Youth and Adults.
Kean on property tax
reform committee
Assemblyman Sean T. Kean
[R-11], of Wall Township, has
been chosen to serve on a subcommittee that will address property tax reform, examining if a citizens property tax constitutional
convention or constitutional
reform is a better method to
improve the property tax system.
This subcommittee will act as
an advisory panel to provide
Assemblyman Richard Merkt [R25], the Assembly Republican
representative serving on the Joint
Legislative
Committee
on
Constitutional
Reform
and
Citizens
Property
Tax
Constitutional Convention, with
input for the Committee.
The Constitutional Reform
Committee is one of four bicameral, bipartisan committees established to reform the property tax
system. The other committees
include: Public School Funding,
Government Consolidation and
Shared Services and Public
Employees Benefits Reform.
“Each of the four property tax
committees are charged with a
significant task: recommending
how to best address their particular area of the property tax problem,” said Assemblyman Kean. “I
am honored to serve on the
Constitutional
Reform
Subcommittee and I hope to offer
input on how to quickly and effectively bring the property tax
reform proposals before the voters.”
The
Committee
on
Constitutional
Reform
and
Citizens
Property
Tax
Constitutional Convention is next
scheduled to meet on Thursday,
Aug. 17 to hear testimony from
two professors from Rutgers
University who lead the State
Constitutional Studies at Rutgers,
Camden.
Assemblyman Kean believes
that by serving on the
Constitutional
Reform
Subcommittee he can voice the
opinions and proposals of his constituents in Monmouth County.
“Serving on this subcommittee
provides me with the opportunity
to express my constituents’ ideas
and proposals for property tax
reform,” said Assemblyman Kean.
“I want all my constituents to
know that they are welcome to
share their suggestions with me
and I will bring them to the subcommittee and Assemblyman
Merkt. I urge constituents to call,
write and e-mail me with their
ideas on how to change the system. ”
Assemblyman Kean continued,
“I understand that skyrocketing
property taxes are forcing some
New Jersey families to leave the
state and reforming the system is
of the utmost importance.
Hopefully, these four committees
will make great progress and we
will see real reform by the end of
this year.”
Assemblyman Kean maintains a
legislative office at 1334 Laurel
Avenue, Wall Township. His office
may be contacted at 732-974-0400.
Man arrested for
lewdness at Starbucks
Bruce
Semple,
39,
of
Shrewsbury, was arrested Monday
after being caught masturbating in
front of Starbucks Coffee on Route
35 in Wall.
At about 5 p.m. on Aug. 14,
Wall Township Police responded to
a call of a subject exposing himself
in front of Starbucks.
An investigation at the scene
revealed the accused was Mr.
Semple. He had been observed
masturbating in front of the coffee
shop by a female patron who was
in the company of her school-aged
children. The female notified
Starbucks of the incident, who in
turn contacted police.
Mr. Semple was arrested by
police on charges of lewdness and
endangering the welfare of children.
At the time of his arrest, Mr.
Semple was in possession of a
green 2001 Chrysler PT Cruiser
with a New Jersey registration.
Wall Police are urging the
female witness to please contact
them with information regarding
the incident. Anyone with information regarding this incident or similar incidents are also requested to
contact Detective William Hurley
at 732-449-4500.
Mr. Semple’s bail was set at
$20,000.
THE COAST STAR, THURSDAY, AUGUST 17, 2006
Wall Township
Meritage to become
Japanese restaurant
By Katherine Czech
The trend of hibachi restaurants popping up in the area is
not new, but none have been
quite as big as the new Japanese
restaurant in Wall Township will
be.
The Meritage Restaurant on
Route 34 closed at the end of
July and is being sold to L.P.C.C.
Restaurant, LLC, which will be
redesigning the site to give it a
more Japanese ambiance.
The entrance to the restaurant
will be the same, but will be
more handicapped accessible
with planned construction of a
ramp.
Downstairs, the centerpiece of
the main room will be a large 20foot long fish tank. There is also
going to be a sushi bar, about
double the size of the current
sushi bar in the Meritage, and, of
course, hibachi tables.
A small party room will be
available for parties of about 20
people and there will be a piano
bar.
The upstairs room, which
Meritage currently uses as a banquet facility, will be transformed
into another dining room with 16
tables.
The
Wall
Township
Committee approved the transfer
of the Meritage’s liquor license
to L.P.C.C. Restaurant at the
Aug. 9 meeting.
There were a few discrepancies when information was left
out of the original application for
the liquor license by L.P.C.C.
“We are disappointed it started
the way it did, but we wish you
good luck,” said Deputy Mayor
John Tobia, to the owner Jolene
Chen and future manager of the
restaurant, Patrick Chu.
Mr. Chu told the council that
renovations to the building
should be completed in the next
few months.
Ms. Chen also owns Shogun
Restaurant in Toms River. Due to
the success of that restaurant, she
decided to open a new one in
Wall Township.
In other news from the committee meeting last week:
• An ordinance was introduced
to organize a Joint Board of Fire
Prevention in Wall Township. It
will be established by the Board
of Commissioners of the fire districts. The Joint Board will
appoint a Fire Marshall/Fire
Official, who will serve a term of
one year.
Joseph Rizzitello is currently
the fire official for the department of fire prevention in Wall
Township.
• An ordinance was introduced
which would exempt redevelopment properties in the West
Belmar Gateway area from
mandatory development fees.
• An ordinance was introduced
which calls for Wall Township to
vacate Shark River Station Road.
In a deed dating back to 1790, a
portion of the road is located in a
resident’s front yard. Since 1790,
the road was relocated off this
property, but the deed was never
vacated. This ordinance is to formally clear the title for the owner
of the property.
• A resolution was passed
authorizing the collective bargaining agreement between Wall
Township
and
the
Communications Workers of
America [CWA] Local 1034,
which represents the public
works employees and police dispatchers in Wall.
The CWA Local 1034’s contract expired in December 2005,
at which time they requested
health care benefits for the interim after retirement and before
Medicare.
After coming up with a 5-year
payment plan, in which a percentage of the Wall CWA
employees’ salaries is being set
aside to pay for the costs of these
benefits, the township is satisfied
that the CWA workers are completely absorbing the cost of benefits for retirees during the interim period mentioned.
Wall Republican Club
annual golf outing set
T h e Wa l l Tow n s h i p
Republican Club is holding its
16th Annual Golf Outing to support the re-election bid of
Deputy Mayor John Tobia, the
club’s candidate for township
committee.
It will be held on Monday,
Oct. 2 at the Eagle Ridge Golf
Club in Lakewood.
The entry fee for the outing is
$225 per golfer. This price will
include a continental breakfast,
green fees, golf cart, complete
bag service, club cleaning, use of
the club facilities, a one-hour
open bar and luncheon.
Those interested have the
option of just attending the cock-
tail party and luncheon for a $75
fee.
There will be various prizes
including two ‘hole in one’
prizes worth $5,000 each, a
‘closest to the pin’ prize and a
prize for the golfer with the
longest drive.
Sponsorships are also available.
The outing will begin at 7 a.m.
with registration and breakfast.
The shot gun start will be at 8
a.m.
The registration deadline for
the outing is Sept. 15.
For more information contact
Roger McLaughlin or Gwen
Braly at 732-919-1155.
Wear a bike helmet,
get a free Frosty
Earlier this year, the New
Jersey state law was changed to
require anyone under the age of
17 to wear a helmet while riding
a bicycle, skateboard, roller
skates and roller blades.
The new law went into effect
in March, but that does not mean
children in the area have been
abiding by it.
The Wall Township Police
Department wants to change this
by initiating a program to reward
safety helmet usage — free
Frosties. Any youth under the
age of 17, observed wearing a
helmet by a police officer will be
given a coupon for a free Frosty
from Wall Township Wendy’s
locations.
Each year more than 130,000
children go the hospital with
brain injuries sustained on bicycles alone, according to the Brain
Injury Association of New
Jersey.
Helmets have been shown to
reduce the risk of head injury by
85 percent, according to a Wall
police press release.
Those under 17 who are
observed not wearing a helmet
will be issued a written warning.
A violation notice will then be
sent to their parents.
Discount coupons will be provided for anyone who cannot
afford to purchase a safety helmet for their child.
LAUREN PARKER, The Coast Star
The Meritage Restaurant on Route 34 recently closed. It is the future location for a new Japanese
restaurant that will feature a 20-foot fish tank, large sushi bar, and many hibachi tables.
New Sunnyside facility on Ridgewood Rd.
delayed by contract negotiation problems
By Katherine Czech
After more than five years,
there was hope that the
Sunnyside Manor relocation deal
would come to a formal conclusion at last week’s committee
meeting, but once again, it was
postponed to a later date.
This time the cause was a dispute between the owners of the
proposed relocation property and
neighbors of the property.
The Aug. 9 meeting was
scheduled to be the final hearing
and vote for the property
exchange between Sunnyside
Manor and Wall Township, needed to complete the deal, and also
for the ordinance which will
amend the zoning map for the
proposed new Sunnyside property on Ridgewood Road.
The latest postponement was
because the current owner of the
property on Ridgewood Road,
Elaine Stevens, has not yet
signed a contract to sell her property to Sunnyside Manor.
While the original agenda for
the meeting intended for both
issues to be tabled, Township
Attorney Roger McLaughlin suggested they be carried to the
committee’s next meeting, which
was agreed upon by the council.
Ms. Stevens approached the
committee during the public
hearing, but was quickly interrupted by Mr. McLaughlin, who
suggested that Ms. Stevens not
speak during the public hearing
due to the ongoing contract
negotiations.
Ms. Stevens then interrupted
him, saying that she has been trying to reach her attorney, but he
is not responding to her.
“You have an interest that
ought to be protected,” said Mr.
McLaughlin, once again suggesting that Ms. Stevens not speak in
front of the public.
Mr. McLaughlin told Ms.
Stevens in the workshop meeting
held prior to the public hearing
that he had been in correspondence with her lawyer, Frederick
Niemann, who said that a contract with Sunnyside Manor
would be signed by Friday or
that he would present a letter to
the township, allowing the committee to handle the current dispute.
If Ms. Stevens refused to sign
the contract to sell her property
to Sunnyside Manor, the township said it would have the property appraised and subsequently
would acquire the property
through condemnation in order
for it to be sold to Sunnyside, Mr.
McLaughlin said during the
workshop meeting.
Mayor Mary Burne also interrupted Ms. Stevens during the
public meeting, telling her that
for her own benefit, it would be
better for her not to speak publicly about the matter.
“We have let you know that we
are trying not to let you speak,”
said Mayor Burne.
“I didn’t see the Sunnyside
contract,” stated Ms. Stevens,
who insisted that her lawyer was
not returning her calls.
Her attorney, Mr. Niemann,
who did not attend the meeting,
said this was not true.
“That does not accurately
summarize my relationship with
her,” said Mr. Niemann in
response to Ms. Steven’s comments at the committee meeting.
“I don’t publicly debate with
clients,” he said.
The stalling of the contract is a
result of a business dispute
between Ms. Stevens and Joseph
and Kathy Rossi, who currently
live on Ridgewood Road next to
the property in question. The
Stevens and the Rossis were
business partners in the past,
jointly owning property on
Ridgewood Road. Ms. Stevens
owned nine acres of land, two of
which were jointly owned by the
Rossis.
The Rossis sold out their portion to Ms. Stevens, but when
they did so they placed a deed
restriction on the land, stating
that it could only be used for single-family residential purposes,
said Mr. Niemann.
The deed restriction is on the
entire nine acres, said Ms.
Stevens.
Obviously a nursing home
would not fall under the classification of single family homes,
and therefore Sunnyside could
not purchase the property and
build a new facility there with
such a restriction.
“No one knew about the deed
restriction,” said Mr. Niemann.
“It was not made known to the
municipality.”
While Ms. Steven’s signature
is on the contract which calls for
the deed restriction, she said she
was unaware of the restriction.
“It was 28 years ago,” she said,
adding she must have overlooked
it.
She said she may have signed
the agreement because her intention for the property had always
been to put single family homes
on it.
In the past, Ms. Stevens had
proposed to create five lots on
her nine-acre property on
Ridgewood Road, but her proposal was denied. It was at this
point that the township suggested
the deal with Sunnyside.
Ms. Stevens said she agreed to
go forward and sell her property
to Sunnyside.
The Rossis, however, brought
up the issue of the deed restriction several weeks ago and are
now seeking monetary compensation for the removal of the deed
restriction, said Mr. Niemann.
The Rossis are saying if they
are going to live next to a new
nursing home/assisted living
facility, and agree to the lifting of
the deed restriction, they should
be compensated for same, Ms.
Stevens said.
Alfred Faiella, attorney for the
Rossis, also spoke at the meeting
and said that a price had been
established and that he and the
Rossis hoped to go forward and
settle the matter.
“Ms. Stevens is in the process
of evaluating all of her options
and what is in her best interest
moving forward,” said Mr.
Niemann.
“I don’t know if it will be settled,” by the next committee
meeting, he said. “At this point it
becomes a business negotiation.
She may choose not to sign.”
Yet, if it is not settled soon,
then Wall Township will be stepping in, and may seize the property, said Mr. Niemann.
“The township is interested in
resolving this matter sooner
rather than later,” said Mr.
Niemann, although he noted that
he could not determine how long
it would be before the township
stepped in.
Ms. Stevens said she is interested in working out a deal with
Mr. and Mrs. Rossi and the township. She is working through the
process at the current time.
Sunnyside Manor originally
approached the Wall Township
committee in 2001 with an application to expand its current nursing facility located on Ramshorn
Drive from a 33,000-square-foot
facility to a 90,000-square-foot
facility. The application was
rejected after lengthy testimony.
Sunnyside then filed a lawsuit
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THE COAST STAR, THURSDAY, AUGUST 17, 2006
Wall Township
Growth in student population in Wall district is slowing down
By Katherine Czech
At this week’s Wall Township
Board of Education meeting, Terry
Van Ness told the public and the
board that growth in the township
has slowed down, according to a
review of the recent demographic
report.
This means that the peak growth
of new students to the school system appears to be slowing down,
said Ms. Van Ness.
What is important to remember
though, is that the “school population is not shrinking,” she said.
The school system still has the
same number of students, and
therefore the same problems.
“The crowding problems now
are not going to go away,” she said.
The information from the demographics report is “what we are
going to base what we do from
here on out,” she explained.
One important issue will be the
potential impact of affordable
housing development, said Ms.
Van Ness.
The Collingwood affordable
housing development in Wall
resulted in 135 new students to the
school system, predominately at
Central Elementary School, she
said.
The town’s current affordable
housing obligation is 370 new
units, said Ms. Van Ness, although
she reminded the board that the
new units could include nursing
home facilities that would not
result in any new students to the
schools.
The board has asked the principals at Wall High School and
Central School to outline the ramifications of the student population
increases on the schools. These
two schools have been faced with
the greatest student increases.
Ms. Van Ness said new topics
being discussed are which elementary schools could be expanded if
need be and the parking problems
at the high school.
In other news from the board
meeting:
• A principal for Old Mill
Elementary School was not
announced, but the board said a
decision would be made by early
next week.
• Board member Doug Wild
said the finance committee
addressed the problem with lighting in the high school gym. There
have been complaints that during
the varsity basketball games, the
lights are not bright enough.
After researching the options
for enhancing the lighting, the
committee has determined the cost
will be about $50,000 to $60,000
and suggested it be looked at as a
budget item for next year.
• Mr. Wild also announced the
Wall Soccer Club has offered to
irrigate the Wall Intermediate field
at no cost to the school district.
Mr. Wild said he has been told
that it is one of the worst fields of
its kind in the area because it is so
dry.
A representative from Wall
Soccer Club said the irrigation
offer is just on a conceptual level
right now and the group will
research what else needs to be
done to make the irrigation system
work for all the fields, including
the baseball and softball fields.
• The board also said that the
2005-2006 audit is currently in the
process of being completed. A pre-
liminary report should be given to
the board at the end of September.
• Board member David Lucas
said the policy committee
reviewed the detention and suspension procedures and these procedures will conform to what is in
the student handbook.
Examples of actions resulting in
suspension at the high school are
smoking, first offense is a five-day
suspension and fighting is a 10day suspension.
• The township also announced
an upcoming town meeting with
state legislators to be held at the
Intermediate School on Sept. 20 at
7:30 p.m.
It will be hosted by Wall
Township Board of Education and
Wall Citizens for Quality Schools.
The goal of the meeting is to get
the state funding formula repaired
and fixed. Education funding and
property taxes will be discussed.
Legislators in attendance will be
Sen.
Joseph
A.
Palaia,
Assemblyman Steve Corodemus,
Assemblywoman Amy Handlin,
Assemblyman Sean T. Kean and
Assemblyman Joseph R. Malone.
• A representative from The
New Jersey Education Association
approached the board in regards to
the recommendation for the termination of Bonnie Murphy, a computer technician.
“The termination is flawed,” he
said. “It is something I feel the
board was forced into.”
He requested an executive session with the board and then
quickly left the meeting. The
board attorney said the request was
not going to be granted.
The board would not answer
any questions regarding the personnel issue.
• The board also announced its
acceptance of a gift of $50,000 to
the Wall Education Fund donated
by the Estate of Alice G. Watts of
Warren Avenue in Spring Lake
Heights, in the memory of her sister, Dora Watts King.
The board is currently researching the relationship between Dora
Watts Kind and the Wall Township
school system. They expressed
great appreciation for the gift.
Dr. James Habel recommended
putting the money into a scholarship fund.
Full Gospel Church
gets a new pastor
By Katherine Czech
Rev. Mattis Pottiger and his family are moving to Wall Township
this week where he will become the
new pastor at Full Gospel Church
on East Hurley Pond Road.
The former pastor, Bryan
Riportella, moved to Kansas City in
March and since then Rev. Rick
Ianniello has been serving as the
interim pastor.
Rev. Pottiger is coming from
Capitol Assembly of God in
Hamilton where he has been serving as an associate pastor for the
past 12 years.
It was in January, during a sevenday pray period, in which Rev.
Pottiger was asking God for some
direction, when he got the call to
move to Wall Township — literally.
Rev. Pottiger said he and his
wife, Justine, were actually praying
to stay for three more years in
Hamilton, unless God interrupted
them.
“God interrupted us with a call
from the former pastor [Rev.
Riportella],” he said.
Rev. Riportella, who Rev.
Pottiger had known for many years,
asked him if he was interested in
submitting his resume to take over
the position as pastor at Full Gospel
Church.
Rev. James Barco was Rev.
Pottiger and Riportello’s former
senior pastor in Cherry Hill and had
also been a pastor at Full Gospel.
Rev. Pottiger said it was interesting
that all three, once in the same
church together, would pass
through Full Gospel, as well.
Rev. Pottiger submitted his
resume and started the job on Aug.
6.
“We are really excited to be
moving into this community and to
be serving such a lovely and friendly congregation,” he said.
Rev. Pottiger said his two children, Matt, 12, and Thomas, 10, are
thrilled with the move. He said they
are excited about exploring the 20
acres in Wall that they will now call
home. The two boys will be attending Calvary Academy in Lakewood
in the fall.
Justine, the Reverend's wife, is
also happy about the move. She
will be serving on staff as the
church secretary.
Rev. Pottiger is originally from
Harrisburg, Pa. He said he got the
calling to join the ministry in 1981
when he was 17 years old.
“I was on a mission trip in Haiti
and decided I wanted to give my
life to helping people with not just
their physical, but also their spiritual needs,” said Rev. Pottiger.
He attended Central Bible
College in Missouri and was
ordained as a minister with the New
Jersey District Council of the
Assemblies of God.
Rev. Pottiger has served churches in New Jersey and Pennsylvania
as a music, youth and associate pastor since 1986.
A formal installation service for
Rev. Pottiger will be held on Aug.
27 at 10:30 a.m. at Full Gospel
Church, 2649 East Hurley Pond
Road. The service will be conducted by Rev. Carl J. Colletti, the district superintendent for the New
Jersey District of Assemblies of
God.
Anyone interested is invited to
attend. Afterwards, a celebratory
dinner will be served at 2 p.m.
For further information contact
the church office at 732-681-5335.
Father Daughter Team
LAUREN PARKER, The Coast Star
Bill and Dana Cave scheduled a book signing at the
Atlantic Club in Wall last Friday, for their new book “Survival
of the Human Race.” However, due to a flight delay, Ms. Cave
was unable to attend the signing. Their book deals with the
idea that truth, including having a correct written history, is
the key to the survival of societies.
THE COAST STAR, THURSDAY, AUGUST 17, 2006
PAGE 17
Bradley Beach
Mayor’s clambake cooks up lots of funding for holiday decorations
By Corinne Busichio
Mayor Schueler’s Ninth Annual
Clambake, held last Saturday, was
hailed as a huge success once
again. Located under a tent at 5th
and Ocean Avenue, music, dancing and dinner were a part of the
festivities at which not only was
the mayor honored, but money
was raised for holiday decorations
for the town.
Joe D’Angelo Productions provided the D.J. entertainment, as
they have the past nine years,
according to Mayor Schueler. The
dinner, catered by Piancone’s
Restaurant in Bradley Beach,
included lobster tails, ribs, garlic
chicken, red potatoes, corn on the
cob, pasta, steamers and watermelon. Dishes of antipasto were
also placed on every table.
The tent was decorated in a
beach/island theme and everyone
received straw hats with brightly
colored bands. The tables were
also dressed with centerpieces
made of sea shells and fresh flowers. Soda and water was provided,
and all guests were welcome to
bring their own cocktails, as well.
Tickets for the clambake sold at
a cost of $75 each with the proceeds being put toward a fund for
the holiday decorations. Operating
supervisor of the borough’s public
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Community
Calendar
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9th Annual Bradley
Beach 5K Run
LAUREN PARKER, The Coast Star
Bradley Beach Councilman Tom Volante [from left] Pat D’Angelo, Bradley Beach Councilwoman
Lori Marchak-Ortiz, Mayor Stephen Schueler, and Borough Administrator Phyllis Quixley enjoy the
food, music and fun at the Mayor’s 9th Annual Clambake held last Saturday evening.
works
department,
Richie
Bianchi, explained how the public
works department was heavily
involved in the preparation and
clean-up for the event. “We help in
the overall set up, it’s a lot of
work, but definitely worth it — it’s
a great time,” he said.
Councilmember
Thomas
Volante wished to thank the mayor
for throwing the “shin-dig.”
Fellow councilmember, LoriMarchak-Ortiz, added what a
“nice night” it was and how she
had really been looking forward to
it.
Mayor Schueler thanked all the
volunteers [approximately 20 to
30 people] for putting the night
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The run will be held on
Saturday, Aug. 19. This is a
Jersey Shore Grand Prix event.
The race starts at the Gazebo at
5th and Ocean avenues in Bradley
Beach. Post registration begins at
7 a.m. with the race starting
promptly at 8:30 a.m. Fitness
walkers are welcome. Kids’ races
will be held on Aug. 18 at 6:30
p.m. at Bradley Boulevard with
post registration at 5:30 p.m. For
more
information
go
to
www.bradleybeachonline.com or
call 732-774-3492 or e-mail derheld@verizon.net
Golf Tournament
5th Annual Robert J. Foti
Memorial Golf Tournament takes
place Sunday, Aug. 20, from 10
a.m. to 1 p.m. at the Ocean
Avenue Mini-Golf Course.
Garbage truck takes
down transformer pole
By Corinne Busichio
Last Thursday morning, at
approximately 7 a.m., Bradley
Beach Police responded to an
incident involving a downed
transformer pole in a parking lot
located on Lorraine Avenue, after
a garbage truck struck the pole.
According to Deputy Chief
Leonard Guida, a garbage container truck was in the process of
swapping containers [an empty
container for a full container] and
it was during that process when
the power line connected to the
nearby building was partially
pulled down, causing the transformer pole to fall.
“Sparks were flying,” Deputy
Chief Guida commented. No
injuries were reported, but Deputy
Chief Guida added, “The driver[of
the garbage truck] was very lucky
— he could have been electrocuted,” he added.
Deputy Chief Guida explained
that although the incident
occurred in a parking lot, the 600
block of Beach Avenue remained
closed most of the day to allow for
clean-up detail.
According to Deputy Chief
Guida, the county office of emergency management was contacted
and the county haz-mat [hazardous materials] department was
contacted due to the spilling of
some oil from the transformer.
“The spill needed to be cleaned up
and vehicles parked near that area
that had been splashed also needed to be de-contaminated,”
Deputy Chief Guida said. Deputy
Chief Guida also stated that a
clean-up
crew
from
the
Philadelphia area was dispatched
by JCP&L [Jersey Central Power
and Light] to aid in cleaning up
the spilled oil.
Responding officers included
Deputy Chief Guida, Sgt. Stephen
Fahnholz, Patrolman Ed Scott,
and Patrolman Anthony Murray.
photo courtesy of Paul Spennrath
A garbage container truck struck and partially took down a
transformer pole on Lorraine Avenue last Thursday morning.
BOE discusses nutritional changes to school lunch menu
By Corinne Busichio
Lunchtime will be healthier this
coming school year, given the new
nutritional guidelines that will be
put into effect at Bradley Beach
Elementary and schools across the
state, Superintendent Dr. Wayne
Turner said at Tuesday’s Board of
Education meeting.
Dr. Turner said that in accordance with the regulations set
forth by the State of New Jersey
Department of Agriculture, children will no longer have the
option of sugary or fatty foods in
the cafeteria lunches.
Brochures, courtesy of the State
of New Jersey Department of
Agriculture-Division of Food and
Nutrition-Bureau
of
Child
Nutrition, will be sent home with
the students as the new school
year commences. The brochures
are designed to inform parents of
the changes being made to the
food offered by the school for
their children’s lunches, according
to Dr. Turner.
The brochure stresses the
importance of eliminating fat and
sugar from the food choices, given
the fact that, “child and adolescent
obesity has reached epidemic levels in the United States and that
poor diet, combined with lack of
physical activity, negatively
impacts on students’ health and
ability and motivation to learn.”
The literature states that the board
is committed to the following:
• Providing healthy and nutritious food.
• Encouraging the consumption
of fresh fruits/vegetables, low-fat
milk and whole grains.
Kids Race, 5K slated for this weekend
By Corinne Busichio
Runners of all ages are invited
to come out this weekend for a
Kids Race, taking place Friday,
Aug. 18, at 6:30 p.m. on Bradley
Boulevard and Evergreen Avenue
and the ninth annual 5K Race,
Saturday, Aug. 19 at Ocean and
5th avenues.
Richard Held, chairman of the
racing events, said the money
raised from the kids race will be
put towards the optical fund that is
run by the Bradley Beach Parent
Teacher Organization. Mr. Held
said the fund provides money for
eyeglasses for those students in
need of glasses, but cannot afford
to purchase them.
The money raised from
Saturday’s 5K race is donated to
various organizations throughout
the borough including the food
pantry, the public library, the first
aid squad, the Sylvan and Fletcher
Lake commissions, and the historical society, according to Mr.
Held.
Mr. Held said the historical
society has been involved with the
restoration of World War II veteran portraits, and some proceeds
will be put for that effort.
Mr. Held said he is expecting
between 650 to 700 racers to
attend the event, which has averaged between 600 ad 625 participants in years past.
“The weather will play a key
factor in attendance as well,” he
added. He also said the average
amount on money that has been
raised over the past eight years
totaled approximately $40,000.
According to Mr. Held, the race
philosophy is composed of three
goals. First to make it a good race
for the runners; a safe course, food
provided at a discount from local
grocery stores, and trophies
awarded to the winners.
The second goal centers on
town promotion. Door prizes will
available through gift certificates
donated by local restaurant businesses.
The third and final goal is to
raise money through the fund-raising for organizations throughout
town.
“It’s a nice flat course that can
promote speed, certified by the
U.S. track and field, so runners
looking to log their personal best
can be assured it is a true 5K
race,” Mr. Held explained.
The 5K Race begins at 8:30
a.m. on Saturday and registration
will be available at 7 a.m. Friday
night race packets can be picked
up at the senior center on Main
Street between 5 and 8 p.m.
• Supporting nutrition education.
• Encouraging students to consume all components of the school
meal.
• Providing students with daily
physical activity
The
U.S. Department of
Agriculture defined the foods that
may not be served, sold, or given
out as a free promotion anywhere
on school property at anytime
before the end of the school day.
These items include all food and
beverages listing sugar, in any
form, as the first ingredient and all
forms of candy.
The brochure also explains the
beverage and snack standards in
all schools, based on the nutrition
fact labels. According to the policy, foods and beverages can contain no more than eight grams of
total fat per serving, with the
exception of nuts and seeds that
will be permitted. No more than
two grams of saturated fat per
serving in foods/snacks will be
permitted, and all beverages shall
not exceed 12 ounces with the
exception of water or milk that is
2 percent or less in fat. Whole
milk shall not exceed eight
ounces.
Parents of Bradley Beach students can be confident that 100
percent of all beverages offered
shall be milk, water or 100 percent
fruit or vegetable juices, officials
said.
Board member Paul Johnson
inquired about the impact the policy will have on students who
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Belmar
Donations still sought to revamp skateboard park
By Matt O’Brien
To ensure the 16th Avenue
skateboard park renovation project is completed, Belmar officials are reminding the business
community and sympathetic
individuals that donations are
still needed to give borough
youth a quality park to enjoy for
years to come.
“We are still looking for donations,” Councilman William
Merkler emphasized during last
Wednesday’s council meeting.
The councilman has been in the
forefront of organizing efforts to
revamp the skateboard park.
His comments were in
response to a resident’s concern
about children having nowhere to
go to skateboard and possibly
being hassled by people who
were bothered by the activity.
At this time, Councilman
Merkler said he accounted for
$10,000 the borough has
received in donations solely for
the purpose of improving the
park, with the last donation coming from Bar Anticipation in the
amount of $2,500.
The councilman also is looking to loan $4,000 out of his own
pocket toward the efforts.
Borough Administrator Robbin
Kirk said officials will probably
refund Councilman Merkler
through a bond ordinance once
enough funds have been donated
to cover that amount.
He said organizers — the
Belmar Arts Council had assisted
with the park revitalization
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Movies On
The Beach
Belmar’s “Movies on the
Beach” will be held on Sunday
evenings beginning at 8:30 p.m. on
the 8th Avenue Beach.
On Aug. 20 there will be a showing of “The Sandlot” and on Aug.
27 “Ghostbusters” will be feature
film.
~
Library Reopens
LAUREN PARKER, The Coast Star
Councilman William Merkler said last week the borough still seeking donations to help complete
the 16th Avenue skateboard park improvement project.
efforts — are still looking for
volunteers to help construct a
ramp, as well.
“Belmar was out in front with
the skateboard park … now it’s
run-down and dilapidated,”
Councilman Merkler remarked.
In other news from last
Wednesday evening’s council
meeting:
• The council passed a resolution authorizing the retention of
special counsel on behalf of the
borough for an Animal House
hearing officer. The rate is set at
$125 per hearing that will not
exceed a total of $2,000.
• Councilwoman Meredith
Brennan said the public works
department is almost done with
line painting the east side of
Route 71. The department also
assisted the local elementary
school with removing old playground equipment, saving the
district thousands of dollars.
Adding to her committee
reports, Councilwoman Brennan
said beach revenue for the borough is roughly $2.2 million,
which is slightly down from last
year’s mark.
• Council President John
Szeliga noted that the area has
experienced a boom in the Asian
mosquito population. This type
of mosquito does not thrive in
water but more from old tree
stumps and similar environments.
People who are being bothered
by the mosquitoes are urged to
call the Monmouth County
Mosquito
Extermination
Commission.
• Councilman Merkler said he
and borough officials will be
preparing to auction off unused
public works department equipment. He noted garbage trucks
the borough no longer uses may
be sold off if officials decide to
keep their trash pickup contract
with Marpal Disposal.
• Mayor Kenneth E. Pringle
said during the recent hot spell
the lifeguards worked in staggered shifts along with being
assisted by water safety teams to
monitor swimmers keeping cool
in the ocean.
Also, beach badge checkers
were sent home early because of
concerns with the brutal heat.
• The mayor said he and Police
Chief Jack Hill were working on
forming a regional police force
with surrounding communities in
southeast Monmouth County.
Councilman Merkler also said
he would be discussing the matter with local PBAs.
Alliance Helps Journey To College
The Belmar Public Library is
reopening on Monday, Aug. 21 at
8:30 a.m. after being closed down
for repairs to a collapsed wall.
The library hours will be
Monday through Friday 8:30 a.m.
to 4 p.m. Wednesday nights from 6
to 8 p.m. and Saturday mornings
from 8:30 a.m. to noon.
~
BAC Concerts
The Belmar Arts Council has
partnered
with
project
P.A.C.K.M.A.N. [Police and
Community Kids Music Against
Narcotics] to produce concerts that
will be performing on Friday, Aug.
18 and again on Aug. 30. The
events will be held at the Taylor
Pavilion from 7 to 10 p.m.
~
Shillelagh
Fund-raiser
On Saturday, Aug. 26 the
Shillelagh’s will be competing
against the New Jersey State Police
Central Softball Team at the
Lakewood BlueClaws First Energy
Park at 1 p.m.
There will be a donation of $5
per person. Proceeds from the
event will benefit the Neo-Natal
Intensive Care Unit at K.
Hovnanian Children’s Hospital at
Jersey Shore University Medical
Center.
For more information call 732681-7576.
~
AC Trip
On Tuesday, Sept. 5 at 9:45 a.m.
the Mayor’s Council for Senior
Citizens will be going on their
Atlantic City bus ride.
The cost is $17 per person that
includes an $18 return with a $5
food coupon.
Participants can purchase bus
tickets at borough hall, located at
601 Main Street. Borough hall can
be contacted at 732-681-1176.
~
Food Pantry
MATT O’BRIEN, The Coast Star
Belmar Recreation Director Brian Magovern awarded borough youth Robert Sopko with the
Belmar/Lake Como Drug Alliance scholarship at last Wednesday evening’s council meeting.
The Belmar Food Pantry, a nondenominational program, is located
at the First United Methodist
Church, at 7th Avenue and D Street
in Belmar.
Hours are 10 a.m. to noon
Mondays and Thursdays, except
for holidays. Nonperishable foods
as well as baked goods are available.
A written referral is necessary
on the first visit and clients are welcome to return every two weeks.
THE COAST STAR, THURSDAY, AUGUST 17, 2006
Belmar
Tieman to spread awareness
about lasting Gulf crisis
Photo courtesy of Biana Bakman
Plenty of young, novice sailors competed in last year’s Mayor’s Trophy Reggata race in the Belmar
Harbor.
Sailing skills to be displayed at
Mayor’s Trophy Reggata on Friday
A free, three-week instructional
junior sailing program was recently
provided to residents of Avon,
Belmar, Neptune City, Neptune
Township and Wall Township, for
those ages 11 to 16, thanks to The
Friends of the Belmar Harbor and
the Shark River Environmental
Roundtable. The finale of the program is the upcoming Mayors’
Trophy Regatta where the 40 participants will put their new skills to
use racing in Belmar Marina this
Friday. The race will be held from
12:30 to 4 p.m. at the Belmar
Marina along Route 35 and 10th
Avenue.
Forty young adults from Avon,
Belmar, Neptune City, Neptune
Township and Wall Township;
Friends of the Belmar Harbor; and
the Shark River Environmental
Roundtable.
The Friends of the Belmar
Harbor and the Shark River
Environmental Roundtable came
together to ensure that the area’s
young residents are able to enjoy
the waterborne activities that the
Jersey Shore’s proximity to the
Atlantic Ocean and local rivers
allows.
Their ability to offer the junior
instructional sailing program free
of charge, opens the exciting world
of sailing to those who may never
have had the opportunity to step
onto a boat before.
Serving as the culmination of the
participants’ three-week experience, the Mayors’ Trophy Regatta
race lets the young residents show
off their newly acquired skills and
enthusiasm for the sport.
Mayor, council adopt new policy
change regarding appointments
By Matt O’Brien
Several weeks ago, when Mayor
Kenneth E. Pringle made three
appointments to the board of
adjustment, it caused a political
fallout and revealed deep divisions
on the Belmar Council.
To blunt critics calls of wrongdoing, such as those of fellow
Councilman and Democrat Barry
Zimmerman, the mayor agreed to
reform the appointment process
that will now give the council notification of who the mayor has chosen for a particular position seven
days in advance of a meeting when
nomination confirmations are
expected. An amended ordinance
that was unanimously adopted last
Wednesday read that the borough
clerk will inform the council when
an opening occurs so members will
have a “reasonable opportunity” to
submit to the mayor names of their
suggested candidates. Nominations
for appointments requiring advice
and consent from the council will
be submitted by the mayor to the
governing body in writing or by email at least seven days prior to an
agenda meeting for discussion.
The nomination could then be
confirmed at the regular meeting
immediately following the agenda
session, the ordinance states.
The ordinance resulted from
councilmen Zimmerman and
William Merkler questioning and
then later lashing out at Mayor
Pringle for trying to appoint several
people to the board of adjustment at
the last minute without giving them
time to review the candidates or
offer their input.
Mayor Pringle defended his
decision and argued those appoint-
ments were made within the borough’s laws governing the nomination process. He did agree to reform
the process by including a provision that council members be alerted seven days before the meeting
that appointments are confirmed.
The appointments that sparked
the debate were Jay Davies being
appointed as a full-time member to
the board of adjustment, Jill
Dempsey moving from second
alternate to first alternate and Dan
Reilly filling the void left by Ms.
Dempsey.
The appointment policy change
was advocated and tailored by
Councilman Zimmerman. Both he
and Mayor Pringle polished up the
wording that eventually produced
last Wednesday’s ordinance.
Sea Coast Project will soon go before
planning board for consideration
By Matt O’Brien
Plans for redeveloping the Sea
Coast Chevrolet Oldsmobile dealership property at 800 Main Street
in Belmar will soon be presented to
the borough’s planning board,
which will mark the first Belmar
Seaport Redevelopment project to
officially go before the board for
approval.
During last Wednesday’s council
meeting,
Borough
Administrator Robbin Kirk said
the Technical Design and Review
Committee [TDRC] — the municipal body that reviews all redevelopment applications — had finished its review of The Gale
Company’s request to build a
mixed use site of residential and
commercial space at the site and
had approved the plan.
The Gale Company also serves
as the borough’s master redevelopers.
Among some of the TDRC’s
recommendations for Gale Co.
executives included hiring a consultant for the project’s sustainable
building elements, ADA compliance and addressing building material concerns, she said.
Mayor Kenneth E. Pringle said
the TDRC’s report of recommendations is nonbinding.
Many months ago, The Gale Co.
went before the council to present
preliminary plans for redeveloping
the
Sea
Coast
Chevrolet
Oldsmobile dealership into a
mixed use site that would fit within
the overall redevelopment vision.
The redevelopment project is a
massive undertaking by borough
officials to reinvent and connect
Belmar’s downtown, Main Street,
marina and fisherman’s village.
It was said last week that Gale
Co. executives were going out to
bid for demolition permits and that
a deal between Gale officials and
Sea Coast Chevrolet Oldsmobile
dealership’s owner was imminent.
When Carol Lee Tieman first
arrived in Biloxi, Mississippi last
January, she was overwhelmed by
the boarded-up homes, gutted stores
and miles of debris. The real shock
came when she traveled to the
neighboring towns of Pass Christian
and Waveland that were totally
destroyed by a 40-foot storm surge
— no homes, stores, schools, nothing.
Seeing the devastation and hearing residents’ stories motivated Ms.
Tieman to raise awareness, solicit
funds and make changes in her own
life.
Since returning she has purchased flood insurance even though
her Bed & Breakfast, a block from
the ocean, is not in a flood zone —
neither were the homes along the
Gulf — and moved important
papers and valuables out of the
basement. This month she graduated as a member of Belmar’s first
Community Emergency Response
Team and assembled a disaster supply kit for herself and her guests.
To raise awareness, Ms. Tieman
has delivered talks to church groups
and members of the Preferred Inns
of New Jersey and shared her experience with friends, family and
guests.
Since words cannot convey the
enormity of the destruction she tries
to paint a picture asking folks to
imagine an area from Asbury Park
to Brielle and from the ocean to
Route 35 with everything gone —
that is what it is like along the Gulf
of Mississippi.
Sleeping on a church floor, sharing three showers with 50 volunteers, and mass producing three
meals a day for 100 hungry volunteers was a long way from the feather beds, Jacuzzi tubs, and gourmet
breakfasts at Ms. Tieman’s Morning
Dove Inn Bed & Breakfast in
Belmar. That was her experience
during four weeks as a Katrina disaster relief volunteer.
Volunteers are the backbone of
the effort to “Bring Back the Gulf”
she said.
The gratefulness of the residents
who have lost everything is what
brings thousands of them back for a
few days, a week or longer. Ms.
Tieman is no exception and will
return later this year for two months
to help rebuild the gulf one shingle,
one house, one life, one family at a
time. Whether installing insulation,
painting, clearing debris, or cooking no job is too big or too small.
After hearing about Ms. Tieman’s
DeCotiis named
to dean’s list at
Stevens Tech.
Robert F. DeCotiis, son of Mary
and Robert DeCotiis, of Belmar,
was recently named to the dean’s
list at the Stevens Institute of
Technology in Hoboken.
Mr. DeCotiis is pursuing a
degree in civil engineering.
He graduated from High
Technology High School in 2003.
Stevens Institute of Technology
students must have a 3.0 grade
point average to be named to the
dean’s list.
experience, a member of her hiking
group recently spent two weeks in
Biloxi and several others have
expressed interest in joining her in
the fall.
Aug. 29 is the first anniversary
of Hurricane Katrina and instead of
remembering the losses, the
Disaster Relief Center will hold a
celebration honoring those who
have contributed and volunteered.
The week of Aug. 13 Judy Bultman,
the Lutheran Disaster Relief Site
Director, and her husband Pastor
Gerald Bultman are touring New
Jersey and Pennsylvania to share
information, raise funds and recruit
volunteers. Ms. Tieman will host
the Bultmans at the Morning Dove
Inn for several nights during their
time in New Jersey.
To assist the Bultmans with fund
raising and encourage contributions
Ms. Tieman has pledged to match
contributions up to $10,000. Checks
in any amount can be made payable
to Lutheran Disaster Relief and
mailed to the Morning Dove Inn,
204 Fifth Ave., Belmar. For information on volunteering or other
ways of helping call 732-556-0777,
e
m
a
i
l
Katrina@morningdoveinn.com or
log
on
to
www.morningdoveinn.com.
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THE COAST STAR, THURSDAY, AUGUST 17, 2006
Belmar
Office of Emergency Management
offers hazard planning for seniors
The
Belmar
Office
of
Emergency Management, in
cooperation with the Department
of Homeland Security, is offering
the following all-hazard planning
tips for seniors:
Each person’s needs and abilities are unique, but every individual can take important steps to
prepare for all kinds of emergencies and put plans in place. By
evaluating one’s own personal
needs and making an emergency
plan, they can be better prepared
for any situation. A commitment
to planning today will help prepare for any emergency situation.
Preparing makes sense. Get ready
now.
Consider how a disaster might
affect individual needs.
Plan to make it alone, at least
for a period of time. It’s possible
that people will not have access to
a medical facility or even a drugstore.
Identify what kind of resources
one uses on a daily basis and what
might they do if supplies are limited or not available.
Get an emergency supply kit.
If people must evacuate, take
pets, if possible. However, if
someone is going to a public shelter, it is important to understand
that animals may not be allowed
inside.
Plan in advance for shelter
alternatives that will work for
both the owner and their pets;
consider loved ones or friends
outside of the immediate area
who would be willing to host the
owner and their pets in an emergency.
Create a Support Network
If one anticipates needing
assistance during a disaster, talk
to family, friends and others who
will be part of a personal support
network.
Write down and share each
aspect of an emergency plan with
everyone in the support network.
Make sure everyone knows
how the person plans to evacuate
the home or workplace and where
they will go in case of a disaster.
Make sure that someone in the
local network has an extra key to
the home and knows the location
of emergency supplies.
Teach those who will help how
to use any lifesaving equipment,
and administer medicine in case
of an emergency.
Practice the plan with those
who have agreed to be part of the
network.
Additional Supplies
and Documents:
Medications & Medical
Supplies
If one takes medicine or uses a
medical treatment on a daily
basis, be sure to keep those supplies on hand to make it on their
own for at least a week, maybe
longer.
Make a list of prescription
medicines including dosage,
treatment and allergy information.
Talk to the pharmacist or doctor
about what else one may need to
prepare.
If one undergoes routine treatments administered by a clinic or
hospital or if they receive regular
services such as home health care,
treatment or transportation, talk to
the service provider about their
emergency plans. Work with them
to identify back-up service
providers and incorporate them
into the personal support network.
Consider other personal needs
such as eyeglasses, hearing aids
and hearing aid batteries, wheelchair batteries and oxygen.
Emergency Documents
Include copies of important
documents in the emergency sup-
ply kits such as family records,
medical records, wills, deeds,
social security number, charge
and bank accounts information
and tax records.
Have copies of medical insurance and Medicare cards readily
available.
Keep a list of the style and serial number of medical devices or
other life-sustaining devices.
Include operating information
and instructions.
Make sure that a friend or family member has copies of these
documents.
Include the names and contact
information of the support network, as well as the medical
providers.
If people have a communication disability, make sure emergency information notes the best
way to communicate with the
senior.
Keep these documents in a
waterproof container for quick
and easy access.
The
Belmar
Office
of
Emergency Management hopes
seniors will take time to prepare.
The office cannot stress enough
how important it is to be proactive
with regards to personnel emergency preparedness.
Emergency
management
encourages people with questions
or who would like more information or assistance with emergency
preparedness to contact the
Belmar Office of Emergency
Management. Please contact the
Belmar OEM Coordinator, John
Rizzitello, at Belmar Borough
Hall, Monday through Friday,
from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. at 732-6813700 ext. 213 or e-mail him at
fireadmin@boro.belmar.nj.us.
Council reduces $150
parking fine to $50
By Matt O’Brien
Starting Aug. 29, people parking their vehicles in reserved taxi
stand spots will face a $50 violation in Belmar, which is a significant decrease from $150 — the
previous amount that had caused
numerous violators to flood borough hall with e-mails and letters
complaining about what they
perceived as an absurd penalty.
The Belmar Council adopted
an ordinance last Wednesday that
switched the parking violation
from a $150 offense to $50
instead.
Over the last several weeks,
the mayor and council said they
were stunned by the amount of
people who were fined for the
violation. Some officials wondered if those people had not
observed street signs indicating
those spaces served as taxi
stands.
Several weeks ago, Mayor
Kenneth E. Pringle said out of
fairness violators would have
their court hearings “adjourned”
in the meantime until the council
could reduce the violation to
$50. Violators will be able to pay
the borough court $50 at the end
of the month to resolve the matter.
At the July 26 council meeting, borough resident Jack
Leonard suggested to the council
that borough employees paint the
curbing near the taxi stands yellow in order to bring an obvious
awareness to the parking restriction.
Mayor Pringle said he would
speak to Chief of Police Jack
Hill concerning the painting of
the curbs.
The council also amended the
ordinance to delete a sentence
about towing violators’ vehicles
from the taxi stands and reducing
second offenses from $300 to
$100.
Belmar Library to host
Pizzolato brothers
The Belmar Public Library
will present the Pizzolato brothers in concert on the library lawn
on Thursday, Aug. 31 at 7 p.m.
The Pizzolato brothers concert
is being sponsored by “The
Friends of the Library.”
David Pizzolato, 17, will be a
senior at St. Rose High School in
Belmar this September. He has
been studying classical piano for
10 years. Both boys enjoy playing jazz, rhythm and blues and
rock music. David participated in
the Monmouth County Teen Arts
Festival and was selected to perform Chopin’s Nocturne in E flat
at the College of New Jersey.
Dave and Michael enjoy playing
a variety of music for various
organizations, clubs and restaurants as part of their interest in
community service. They performed at the Belmar Library
Summer Concert series, The
Stone Pony, The Barclay, and
Merrimakers in Sea Bright.
Michael Pizzolato, 16, will be
a junior at Manasquan High
School in September. He has
been studying classical piano for
10 years. Michael also sings,
plays saxophone, bass and guitar.
Mike participated in the piano
division at the Monmouth
County Teen Arts Festival. He
was a finalist performing
Rachmaninoff’s Prelude C sharp
minor. For five years in a row
Dave and Mike won the group
instrumental division at the
Monmouth County Fair. Mike
also performs for many organizations, clubs and restaurants as
part of his commitment to community service.
For more information contact
Lois T. Gallagher at the Belmar
Public Library at 732-681-0775.
LAUREN PARKER, The Coast Star
The First Presbyterian Church, Belmar, was home to the Annual
Peach Festival this past Saturday, where visitors enjoyed salads
and peach goodies in an effort to raise money for charities.
Another successful
year for peach festival
By Corinne Busichio
The annual Peach Festival, hosted by the Presbyterian Women’s
Group, took center stage this past
Saturday at the First Presbyterian
Church located on 9th Avenue and
E Street in Belmar. The festival has
been a long-standing tradition, having been conducted for the past 20
to 25 years annually, according to
Lois Rein, Presbyterian Women
member and Peach Festival
Chairwoman.
Ms. Rein commented on how
well she felt the festival was going,
and explained how many visitors
return year after year for the festivities. “Some [festival goers] have
told me this is the tenth year they’ve
been back,” Ms. Rein stated.
Nobody could go hungry during
the festival, given the variety of
delectable dishes available to
munch on. Visitors could enjoy
homemade chicken salad sandwiches, four-bean salad, carrot salad and
potato chips and wash it all down
with iced tea, hot tea or coffee.
Yellow cake served with peaches
and ice cream was on the menu for
dessert and other peach treats, such
as muffins and peach crisp, were
also available for purchase.
Ms. Rein explained that the
monies raised from the festival were
to be used for various mission projects that will be determined during
discussions at the upcoming fall
meetings. In the past, funds have
been given to benefit such charities
as Oceans of Love, The Make-A-
Wish Foundation, Habitat for
Humanity, and the Heifer Project.
The Heifer Project is an effort to
send money for the purchase of livestock — such as chickens, cows and
goats — to third-world countries to
help combat the issues of hunger
taking place there, Ms. Rein
explained. In addition to the livestock, items such as wheelbarrows
and other architectural tools are sent
for constructing shelter, she added.
“It’s a great project,” Ms. Rein said.
Nancy Steel, the clerk for the
First Presbyterian Church, Belmar,
commented on what a “full house”
the peach festival brought, and how
it was “going so great.” “I’ve had
phone calls during the week regarding the festival; people come for
years, they really look forward to
it,” Ms. Steel said.
Gladys Forsyth, a church member and Ocean Grove resident, felt
everyone [at the festival] was “very
friendly” and the homemade food
was “very good.” Ms. Forsyth
explained how she has been going
to the festival ever since it started
and said it is “always a success.”
Barbara Victor, stepdaughter of
Ms. Forsyth, also attended the
event. Ms. Victor, who resides in
Butler, was staying with Ms.
Forsyth during the weekend, and
this was her first time attending the
peach festival. “Everything is nice,
clean, and put together well,” Ms.
Victor said. “The food is also very
good,” she added.
Chamber, BAC
preparing for events
By Matt O’Brien
The Belmar Chamber of
Commerce will be moving the
14th annual Fall Harvest Festival
back onto Main Street this year
after a two-year stint primarily at
Pyanoe Plaza.
During
last
Wednesday
evening’s council meeting, borough resident Jack Leonard, an
organizer of the event, approached
the council with the festival’s
Main Street site plan that will host
food and various vendors, entertainment, contests and other fallthemed attractions this October.
The chamber has sought permission from the borough council
in the last two years to host up to
five food vendors, all Belmar
based, at the fall festival.
Mr. Leonard said the Belmar
Women’s Club is attempting to
offer the local blood bank a spot at
the fall festival to run a blooddrive while chamber members
will be asking Bank of America
officials to use the bank’s property for the festival’s vendors and
activities.
The Fall Harvest Festival will
be held on Main Street between
8th and 10th avenues on Sunday,
Oct. 8. Those interested in attending the festival are urged to visit
the chamber’s web site, belmarchamber.com, in the following
weeks to learn more about the
event.
For more information or vendor
requests, e-mail fallfest06@belmarchamber.com.
At past festivals, over 100 vendors have set up shop pedaling
various goods, such as homemade
items, crafts and antiques.
Last week, in his capacity as a
Belmar Arts Council [BAC] member, Mr. Leonard took the opportunity to issue an announcement
about that organization’s “Young
Photographers” workshop.
BAC officials said the workshop will offer youngsters a
chance to learn the fundamentals
of light and color and composition
and style. The workshop is open
to children ages 8 to 12. The $20
workshop fee includes a disposable camera and processing used
in the workshop. Leading the
workshop is BAC member and
professional
photographer,
Autumn Spadaro.
The Young Photographers
workshop, which runs from 10
a.m. to noon, is located at Taylor
Pavilion, on Ocean and 5th
avenues in Belmar, Monday, Aug.
21 through Thursday, Aug. 24.
Additional information and
entry forms are available on the
web
at
www.belmararts.org/events, by email
at
workshops@BelmarArts.org and
at Taylor Pavilion the first day of
the workshop.
THE COAST STAR, THURSDAY, AUGUST 17, 2006
Belmar
Belmar Police report of bar incidents
evokes tough response from council
By Matt O’Brien
A police report that has documented improper activities occurring at local bars throughout
Belmar pushed the council last
week to step up punishment
efforts for repeat offenders of
ABC laws and crack down on
unruly behavior.
After some lengthy discussion,
Police Chief Jack Hill and
Borough Attorney Karl Kemm
said they would review the report
in detail to determine what
charges could be leveled against
repeat offenders — at the council’s discretion.
The report, which recorded
activity between July 1 to Aug. 8,
included behavior problems happening at 507 Main, the
Boathouse Bar & Grill, the
Tropical Pub and D’Jais.
Before last Wednesday’s discussions, the council already
scheduled an ABC violations
hearing for the Tropical Pub,
which was canceled last week
because the owner’s attorney was
away on vacation. The hearing has
been rescheduled for Aug. 23.
The charges the Tropical Pub is
facing include failure to maintain
counters (bar employees who
count the number of patrons who
enter the establishment), not registering its employees with the
police department and causing
excessive noise.
Chief Hill said the excessive
noise and lack of counters charges
violate conditions that have been
attached to the Tropical Pub’s
liquor license.
Tropical Pub management
could not be reached for comment
by press time.
Reading aloud from the police
report to the council members,
Chief Hill said one theft, one simple assault and two disorderly
conducts were recorded at 507
Main. Two disorderly and one
noise complaint were reported at
Belmar Council looks to
downsize certain houses
By Matt O’Brien
In an attempt to downsize some
of the houses that could be built
one day on undersized lots, the
council last week introduced its
highly anticipated FAR ordinance.
According to the ordinance
FAR [floor area ratio] means the
sum of the gross floor area of
buildings or structures compared
to the total area of the site. FAR is
expressed as a percentage of the
total lot area. Borough officials
included a table of calculations
that would allow future homeowners to see how large applicants
may build their houses, if the ordinance is adopted at the Aug. 23
meeting.
The proposed table reads:
• For 10,000 square-foot lots a
house’s floor area could be a maximum of 50 percent.
• For 7,500 to 9,999 square-foot
lots a house’s floor area could be a
maximum of 55 percent.
• For 7,000 to 7,499 square-foot
lots a house’s floor area could be a
maximum of 55 percent.
• For 5,000 to 6,999 square-foot
lots a house’s floor area could be a
maximum of 65 percent.
• For 4,000 to 4,999 square-foot
lot a house’s floor area could be a
maximum of 70 percent.
• For lots 3,699 square-foot or
less a house’s floor area could be a
maximum of 70 percent.
In addition to the proposed
ordinance furthering regulation of
home-building, it expanded on the
technical definitions of lot coverage and building coverage.
When the council was reviewing the ordinance during its agenda session prior to introducing it,
Mayor Kenneth E. Pringle had
issue with the “fences, hedges,
walls and vision clearances” provision.
In that provision, language was
inserted for trees, hedges and
other plantings stating they could
not be planted within any frontyard setback for the purpose of
obstructing the view of any
adjoining properties. Plantings
presently in the setback would
have had a height maximum limitation of 4 feet.
Mayor Pringle, who described
the provision as “absurd” and
“crazy,” said rather than tabling
the ordinance and paying, again,
to republish and re-advertise the
ordinance without the provision,
suggested the council introduce
another ordinance at the next
meeting that would delete the language from the FAR ordinance.
Council members were in agreement.
Belmar PTO prepares
for ‘Family Fun Day’
The
Belmar
Elementary
School’s
Parent
Teacher
Organization has been meeting
throughout the summer so that it
can launch its fall schedule of
events when school reopens this
September.
According to Deborah Hilliard
Howell, PTO president, “The
highlight of our plans for the fall
is a Family Fun Day and Spaghetti
Dinner on Sunday, Sept. 24 at the
Taylor Pavilion. We’ll have relay
races, crafts, face painting and
other activities from 2 to 4 p.m.,
followed by a spaghetti dinner
from 4 to 6 p.m.”
The purpose of the event,
according to Mrs. Howell, is to
provide an opportunity for families to meet each other at the start
of the year.
“One of the major goals for the
PTO this year is to enhance the
feeling of community at the
school,” she said. “In order to do
this, we need to provide more
opportunities for families to get to
know each other. We think that
this will be a great way to do that.”
Tickets to the event will cost $3
per person, or 4 tickets for $10.
Mrs. Howell stressed that this is
not a PTO fund-raiser.
“We wanted to sponsor an event
that is purely about building rela-
tionships among our families. The
cost of the ticket is designed to be
affordable, while somewhat offsetting our costs,” Mrs. Howell
said. “Also, there is only seating
for about 130 people, so space
will be extremely limited. By selling tickets, we are able to make
sure that people are not disappointed by showing up only to
find that the event is sold out.
Since it’s our first year trying this,
we are using a small, but affordable location that may not be able
to accommodate everyone who
would like to come. I urge people
to get tickets early.”
Other PTO events scheduled
for this fall include providing a
welcome package for new students at the pre-k and kindergarten orientation, running the
Scholastic Book Fair at the
school, having a mum sale, and
having a Yankee Candle fundraising sale.
The PTO’s first meeting will be
held on Sept. 19 at 7 p.m. in the
elementary
school
library.
Parents who are interested in
becoming involved in the PTO, or
who want tickets to the Family
Fun Day, can contact Mrs. Howell
at mdhowell@optonline.net.
the Tropical Pub. Five simple
assaults and four disorderly conducts were reported at D’Jais.
Only one disorderly conduct was
recorded at the Boathouse Bar &
Grill.
“We have an issue that, we as an
ABC [board], should be addressing,”
Councilman
William
Merkler said opening up the discussion last week. “Are we turning
a blind eye to this?”
“This is disconcerting,” Council
President John Szeliga added.
Councilman Merkler went as
far as stating that any establishment that records three or more
offenses be categorized and treated in a similar fashion as an
Animal House. However, Mayor
Kenneth E. Pringle cautioned that
Animal House hearings are only
legally possible because of state
statute and that no law provides a
municipality with such legal
recourse for dealing with bars. He
did agree action needs to be taken
against repeat violators and that
favorable conditions encouraging
out-of-control
bar-goers
be
addressed.
Chief Hill said the department
talks with the bar owners and their
staff about violations, complaints
and liability, adding that incidents
occurring in the bars at times
leaves the police department “out
of the loop.”
In some of the incidents, such
as purses being stolen or a fight
breaking out between two individuals, the borough cannot take
action against the establishment,
he said.
The department also lacks the
manpower to constantly plant officers inside the bars to monitor
patrons’ and staff activities.
Councilwoman Meredith Brennan
said it would be ideal for officers
to look into allegations of bar staff
“over-serving” patrons.
The chief said Belmar has had
success with state ABC agents
going into borough bars looking
for violators — though that
agency has limited capabilities, as
well.
Chief Hill said he has also
attempted to rally the surrounding
communities police departments
to pool resources together and
form a task force that would rein
in violators. However, those
efforts have been thwarted by
police chiefs’ concerns of workmen’s comp, liability and other
LAUREN PARKER, The Coast Star
A recent police report citing problems at several local bars has
prompted the Belmar Council to explore options of taking possible action against those establishments. The well renown Ocean
Avenue bar, D’Jais, tallied up the most incidents between July 1
and Aug. 8, with five simple assaults and four disorderly conducts being reported there.
worries.
The Belmar Police Department
will take a close look at patrons’
complaints about bar staff, namely
bouncers, using unreasonable,
brute force in certain situations.
There are three ongoing investigations about bouncer misbehavior.
“In some cases it could be the
employees,” Chief Hill said. “In
that case you could do something.”
The report will have to be
looked over in greater detail to
evaluate each call officers
responded to in order to determine
if action could be brought against
an establishment, the chief said.
Mayor Pringle directed Chief
Hill and Borough Attorney Karl
Kemm to list each call under the
appropriate bar. The council will
later consider punishment or some
other measures to eliminate problems originating from the local
bars.
During
the
meeting,
Councilman Merkler wanted the
council to vote on requiring two
local bars to come before the
council to face possible ABC
penalties. He did not name the two
establishments.
Shark River Inlet to
be dredged this fall
By Matt O’Brien
This November, the U.S. Army
Corps of Engineers will be
dredging the Shark River Inlet to
calm local officials’ clamoring
for action after the charter boat
Golden Eagle ran into the southern jetty because of what was
believed to be shoaling conditions.
In addition to the owner of the
Golden Eagle, other boat skippers and crew have complained
about the accumulation of mineral deposits that have made the
mouth of the Shark River Inlet
too shallow for certain larger vessels.
During
last
Wednesday
evening’s Belmar Council meeting, governing body members
announced about $140,000 in
federal grants would be spent by
the Army Corps of Engineers to
dredge the inlet over a seven-day
period.
“They will dredge it again like
last year,” Council President John
Szlegia said about the news he
gathered from U.S. Rep. Frank
Pallone, Jr.’s [D-6] office.
Since May, when the Golden
Eagle’s hull was damaged from
smacking into the rocks that
make up the southern jetty, Rep.
Pallone said he has responded to
numerous calls from concerned
residents.
“This extensive dredging project should eliminate any shoaling that remains in the Shark
River so that boaters can continue
to confidently travel this popular
waterway without any concern of
hitting a shoal,” Rep. Pallone said
in a statement.
The New Jersey congressman
said the Army Corps completed
the engineering and design phase
earlier this year for the first
extensive dredging of the river in
three years. In January 2003,
20,000 cubic yards of sand was
taken from the bottom of the
channel, from shoals located in
the entrance to the inlet and a
from portion of the main channel
east of the entrance to the yacht
basin.
Those dredge materials were
placed both on the beach north of
the L-jetty at the Borough of
Avon-by-the Sea and as a
nearshore berm in approximately
10 to 14 feet of water, an Army
Corps of Engineer report states.
While large-scale dredging
work has not taken place since
2003, the Army Corps removed
areas of shoaling near the mouth
of the Shark River Inlet that
posed a hazard to boaters in
December 2005. According to
the Army Corps, it removed
2,500 cubic yards of sand was
removed from the inlet and was
placed in a nearshore berm in
order to eliminate the shoaling.
According to an Army’s Corps
report on the Shark River Inlet
states boaters’ concerns regarding a continuing shoaling problem are currently being evaluated
for short-term and long-term
solutions.
“That is something we do in
closed session,” Mr. Kemm
responded, adding the council’s
past practice has been to review
the reports and determine if bars
can face charges based on the violations.
Councilman Merkler also
pressed another issue, which he
has mentioned in prior meetings,
that bars that are proven to be a
burden and strain on police
resources may be required to compensate the borough for its constant police presence.
Both Mr. Kemm and Chief Hill
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THE COAST STAR, THURSDAY, AUGUST 17, 2006
Spring Lake
Board approves retaining wall, new single-family home
By Erin Scott
It’s not often that a decision
made by the planning board is contingent on whether an ordinance
will be approved by the council,
but that is exactly what happened
during the board’s meeting last
Wednesday in Spring Lake.
Resident Dan Files has to wait
until September to know if he will
be allowed to keep two patios on
his property because the variance
he requested from the board will be
contingent on whether an ordinance amending impervious coverage — which was introduced at the
council meeting on Aug. 8 — is
adopted.
If passed on Sept. 5, the new
ordinance would eliminate “any
and all paved, non-driveway areas
such as patios” from the area calculation for walkways.
Under this amendment, residents
would be allowed to install patios
of any dimension on their properties as long as they remain under
the total maximum total impervious surface coverage. That total
will remain 40 percent.
Driveways, swimming pools,
sidewalks and detached garages
will still be considered impervious
coverage and included with building coverage to calculate the maximum total impervious surface
allowance.
During its monthly meeting last
week, members of the planning
board, by a 5-4 vote, denied a
request made by Dr. Files for a
variance requesting relief for over
1,000 square feet of patios and
sidewalks on his property, which is
located at 2001 Ocean Ave.
According to the borough’s current
ordinance, Dr. Files would be
allowed to have 350 square feet of
this type of coverage.
Dr. Files’ attorney, Michael
Rubino, told the board his client
was not aware of the ordinance
when he installed the patios and
walks on his property, without a
permit, and would like to be able to
keep them.
“We all remember from law
school that ignorance in law is no
excuse,” said Colleen Panzini, the
board’s president, in response.
“These are all now constructed,”
asked board member Joseph Rizzo.
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LAUREN PARKER, The Coast Star
The Spring Lake Planning Board recently decided Dr. Dan Files will be able to keep the retaining
wall on his property, which is located on the corner of Ocean and Ludlow avenues, but may have
to remove the patios. A final decision will be made following the approval or denial of an ordinance amending the borough’s impervious coverage allowance.
Mr. Rubino said Dr. Files would
agree to remove the excess patios
and sidewalks and reiterated that he
did not realize the ordinance.
“I think there’s a lot of patios
and a lot of paving on this,” Mr.
Rizzo said.
Ms. Panzini agreed the coverage
was excessive.
“The testimony was, ‘Oh, sorry I
didn’t know.’ We’re the zoning
board. We’re not here to fix mistakes either made by the builder or
the architect or the engineer,” Ms.
Panzini said.
She added there was just a lot of
paving that was not being used to
take the owners to a remote garage
in the back of the property –– it
was just for additional sitting areas.
Board member Richard Furey
pointed out that Dr. Files was still
under the allowable amount of total
impervious coverage, which is 40
percent.
“One thing they did do very purposefully is not overbuild the
house,” said Mr. Rizzo, “and I’d
rather see less house than worry
about patio.”
But that wasn’t the issue at hand,
said Ms. Panzini.
Board Attorney George McGill
said if the amended ordinance is
passed by the council, the patio and
paving would be permitted.
Mr. Rizzo added there were no
objectors to the first reading of the
ordinance.
If the relief for the patios was
going to be denied, Mr. McGill
said Dr. Files should be given the
opportunity to await the outcome
of the ordinance.
“You don’t want to make somebody pull out a patio that a week
later he’ll be allowed to have,” he
said.
Conversation among the board
members then turned to the concrete wall that Dr. Files installed on
his property without first gaining
approval from the board.
Board member Marcel Wagner,
who owned the property next door
to Dr. Files for 12 years before selling it two years ago, said the previous timber wall was on the western
property, not on the doctor’s.
The brick retaining wall runs all
along Ocean Avenue and was
designed to replace a landscaped
timber wall that went all the way to
the back of the property, where
there had been a cinder block and
concrete wall, said Dr. Files.
In response to why he decided to
add a brick wall, Dr. Files said, “I
don’t think we had much of a
choice. The landscape is such that
there is a large drop-off there. I
don’t know what the alternative
would have been.
“I just thought it was replacement,” he said.
Engineer Tom Giglio testified
that the new wall is more easterly
than the old wall had been. He also
said there is a substantial grade to
the property, which has a steep
slope near the adjacent property.
Ms. Panzini said she thought the
retaining wall was necessary
because it was holding up the land
between the two properties.
Mr. Rizzo added the wall had
probably been installed without
fully understanding where the
property line is since Dr. Files
thought he was replacing an existing fence. Dr. Files also testified
that he had moved the brick wall
toward his property by several feet.
No objections to the wall were
made from audience members and
Dr. Files’ neighbors were not in
attendance at the meeting.
A motion to approve the retaining wall was approved by a 8-1
vote, with Mr. Wagner dissenting.
Borough
Engineer
Chas
Holloway asked Dr. Files provide
an actual survey of the property as
a condition of that approval since
one was not included with his
application.
Eleanor Toomey, of Vroom
Avenue said, “I think this is one of
the most beautiful homes that has
been built on Ocean Avenue in the
past 10 years.” But despite her kind
words, the board decided to make
Dr. Files to remove the patios.
The request to keep the patios
was denied 5-4 by the board members, with Nicholas Sapnar, David
O’Malley, Mr. Wagner, Mr. Rizzo
and Ms. Panzini all voting against
the motion.
“Here’s the case where somebody did it, whether they knew it or
not, just put it in,” said Ms. Panzini.
Mr. Rizzo agreed with her and
said he thought it would be appro-
priate for the board to ask that the
patios be removed.
Mr. McGill said Mr. Files would
be allowed to retain the patios until
an ordinance amending impervious
coverage is acted upon or six
months, whichever came first.
Members of the board also heard
an application from Shore Builder
to construct a home on the corner
of Passaic and Fifth avenues. The
3,100-square-foot single-family
home will be allowed to be constructed, the board members decided by a 6-3 vote.
Victor Furmanec, who has been
a licensed planner for 19 years, testified the three variances that were
need for the property all met the
requirements for the C-1 variance
for hardship.
The frontyard setback for the
property will be set at 18 feet and
the distance between the garage
and the house was proposed to be
23 feet, where 25 feet is required
for both. The garage doors would
also face the street, which is not
allowed in the zone.
He said the severe constraints of
the corner lot would impact the
aesthetics of the house if they were
further constrained, and added
there was not sufficient depth to the
property to adjust to the orientation
of the garage.
“What are we going to do, put a
driveway over on Fifth,” asked Ms.
Panzini, who, at first, had a problem with the garage but realized
there was no alternative solution.
According to borough ordinance, the garage on the property
would have to be located in the rear
yard, which it will be, said Mr.
Furey, and since there was no basement, he did not have a problem
with allowing the garage for storage space.
“My compliments to the architect,” he added, “because Fifth and
Passaic is really a premier corner in
town, it’s the main access to the
downtown business district, and I
think this house will be a very very
attractive element there.”
Members of the board requested
that the builder remove 2 feet from
the length of the house, which he
agreed to do, in order to improve
lines of sight. The measure also
brought the distance between the
garage and the house into compliance.
“I’m pleased the architect
designed the house in a way that
made it look like two fronts,” said
Mr. Rizzo. He said he did not have
much of a problem with the sight
lines because there was an open lot
across the street.
Walton Kingsbery said he did
have a problem with approving the
application.
“I think we have a problem in
Spring Lake with these lots and this
is too much house for this lot,” he
said. “I regret I will not be able to
support this application.”
Mr. Wagner and Mr. O’Malley
also voted against the approval of
the application.
The application gained enough
votes from the remaining members
of the board, though, to be approve
the two variances for frontyard setback and garage door orientation
with conditions to remove 2 feet
from the house’s length and to
grant an easement to borough to
enforce no shrubbery or planting
15 feet in each direction on the
property to allow a site triangle.
On Thursday, Aug. 24, the
Spring Lake Home Owners’
Association will host their Summer
Breezes V event at the Breakers
Hotel from 7 to 11 p.m.
Hors d’Oeuvres and open bar
will be held on the deck from 7 to 8
p.m. and it will be followed by a
dinner buffet, dancing and entertainment in the Crystal Room from
8 to 11 p.m.
The cost will be $50 per person.
Please mail payment to P.O. Box
423, Spring Lake, 07762 by Aug.
22.
For more information, please call
Judy Cheche at 732-449-1291 or
Aniela Sullivan at 732-449-5618.
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Summer Sidewalk
Sale
The Greater Spring Lake
Chamber of Commerce Sidewalk
Sale will take place on Saturday,
Aug. 19 from 10 a.m. to 5p.m. in
the Third Avenue Shopping district.
The rain date for the event will be
Saturday, Aug. 26.
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Library Events
This month, the Spring Lake
Library will be displaying a vintage
clothing photo display by Jennifer
Delgado.
On Wednesday, Aug. 23, there
will be bingo for books for children
event held at 7:15 p.m. for children
ages 6 to 10.
Space is limited and children
must be registered in order to participate.
For more information, contact
Kateri Quinn at 732-449-6654.
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Project Healthy
Bones
Project Healthy Bones is a
strength training exercise program
for older adults with or at risk for
osteoporosis. The program includes
exercises that target the bod’s larger
muscle groups to improve strength,
balance and flexibility. The 24week curriculum also has an interactive educational component on
the importance of exercise, nutrition, safety, drug therapy and
lifestyle factors that relate to osteoporosis. The program was developed an is monitored by St.
Barnabas
Osteoporosis
and
Metabolic Bone Disease Center.
Volunteers are needed to coordinate and conduct this 24-week curriculum. The peer leader training is
one and a half days, conducted by a
volunteer
lead
coordinator.
Although the training program is
free, the materials needed are not. A
fee of $50 is required for each peer
leader. This fee covers the cost of
the peer leader’s manual, the participant’s manual and the 10 lb. ankle
weights.
For more information, please
contact lead coordinator Mary Lou
Mills at 732-449-6209.
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Covenant House
Golf Outing
On Monday, Aug. 28, the 27th
Annual Joseph C. Nugent Covenant
House Golf Outing will be held at
the Spring Lake Golf Club.
The proceeds from the even will
be donated to the Covenant House,
a New York based home for runaway children with facilities in 21
locations.
For more information, please
contact William J. Gearty at 732449-1114.
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Eyeglass
Donations
Residents with eyeglasses they
no longer need may donate them to
the Wall Lions Club by bringing
them to boxes located in the borough halls of local towns.
A donation box will be in Spring
Lake borough hall for the rest of the
summer.
Other locations include Belmar,
Manasquan, Avon and Spring Lake
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Spring Lake
Officers organize a run
for borough administrator
By Erin Scott
As members of the Spring Lake
Police Department, Sgt. Jerry
Preston and Detective Sgt. Billy
Coyle have undergone countless
hours of intense physical and lifesaving training, but none of their
efforts could have prepared them
for their current challenge.
Sgt. Preston and Detective Sgt.
Coyle are among the six officers
from the squad who are training
and fund-raising for the upcoming
Marine Corps Marathon in
Washington, D.C. on Oct. 29. The
proceeds will not be going toward
the police department and they
have not been running the boardwalk at 6 a.m. on Saturday mornings for their health –– they are
putting in this effort for one man
who has touched the entire borough, they said.
The two officers, and 18 other
runners, will be running for
Spring
Lake
Borough
Administrator Thomas Ferguson,
who was diagnosed with
Hodgkins Lymphoma in March
2005.
“According to my treating
oncologists locally and at
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer
Center in New York City, I have
exhausted all possible curative
treatment options and I have been
informed that I am terminally ill,”
said the 33-year-old husband and
father.
Without intervention, doctors
estimated Mr. Ferguson will live
for about three more months, but
last week he started a new
chemotherapy treatment that is
intended to prolong his life and
minimize the pain of the disease.
When the officers first had the
idea of doing a marathon back in
May, the idea of doing it for a
charity was also raised.
“Immediately, Tom came to
mind,” said Sgt. Preston.
The fund-raiser started as one
based on pledged sponsorships,
such as in a walk-a-thon, but then
Sgt. Preston put together a web
site for it and the donations started
rolling in.
“So far, the response from the
people of Spring Lake has been
tremendous,” said Sgt. Preston.
He said there were a lot of
donations are coming in from
New York and Florida in addition
to those from Spring Lake and the
surrounding towns.
“[Sgt.] Preston and Chris
Kucinski developed the web site,
and that’s what’s enabled this
thing to really expand and take
what would have been a nice contribution to we think a very significant contribution to the family,”
said Detective Sgt. Coyle.
The web site, www.runfortom.com, features information on
Run For Tom T-shirts donated by
McInerney's Custom Lettering,
which are available for purchase
in various sizes for between $10
and $15 , raffle [$5] and benefit
tickets [$30], pictures of Mr.
Ferguson and his son and a message board where people can post
messages for Mr. Ferguson.
“I think the message board has
the ability to be very important,
too,” said Sgt. Preston, “where
people can send messages to Tom
and be inspired by him.”
“We’d like to see people put
postings, messages for Tom on the
web site,” echoed Detective Sgt.
Coyle.
And Mr. Ferguson does log on
often to check those postings.
“Although it is very emotional
to do so, we regularly visit the
web site to review comments on
the message board,” said Mr.
Ferguson, who added his wife,
Julie, is printing pages from the
website to make a scrapbook for
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Photographs of models in antique clothing as captured by Wall Township photographer Jennifer
Delgado will be on display in the Spring Lake Public Library through the end of the month. All of
the original, antique clothes for the shoot were borrowed from Spring Lake Heights resident June
Rounds.
Photography of vintage clothes
on display until end of August
By Erin Scott
Over the past two weeks, elegant photographs depicting models in vintage clothing have been
hanging from the black iron banisters of the Spring Lake Public
Library, and for Spring Lake
Heights resident June Rounds,
each of them is worth more than a
thousand words.
Earlier this year, while in the
midst of a move from Spring Lake
to the neighboring Heights, Mrs.
Rounds, 81, decided to have her
contractor’s
wife,
Jennifer
Delgado, over for tea since she
was temporarily living in one of
Mrs. Delgado’s homes during the
interim of the closing of her old
house and the completion of her
new home. While sipping on the
brew, Mrs. Rounds called attention to a pile of paper bags that
contained clothes that had been
stored in her attic, said Mrs.
Delgado.
After having a look at the garments, which had been taken to
the historical society for analysis,
Mrs. Delgado, 43, who is now a
“passionate” photographer residing in Wall Township and previously worked in the fashion industry in Europe, asked if she would
be able to photograph local models in the garments.
At first, Mrs. Rounds was concerned with allowing them to be
worn because of the frail condition of the garments, but after
some convincing, she allowed
Mrs. Delgado to use them.
She explained that by photographing people in the clothing
Mrs. Rounds would, in essence,
be preserving them in a way.
“Even if the fabric falls apart,
the images will be preserved,” said
Mrs. Delgado.
Before removing them from the
large garment bags that they had
been stored in for more than 40
years, each article of clothing
once hung in the closets of Mrs.
Rounds’ family home at 410
Passaic Ave.
She said her mother, Ruth Dale
Patterson, loved to sew. In fact, the
first check her mother ever earned
as a Missouri schoolteacher went
toward her hobby. The money was
spent on ribbon and decorative
trim for clothes, Mrs. Rounds
said.
“She loved to sew very fine
work and she would save these
things,” she added.
Various pieces her mother had
sewn for her, including her christening outfit and wedding gown,
are among the garments that were
modeled for the photo shoot.
“All of the clothes were
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Sea Girt
Council passes water upgrade bond ordinance
By Brian O’Keefe
The Sea Girt Council passed a
$3.75 million bond ordinance for
an extensive upgrade of the borough’s water system at a meeting
last Thursday evening.
The bond ordinance allows the
borough to accept money from a
DEP loan for the same amount,
according to Councilman Donald
Fetzer. Funds are expected to be
available in November.
In other council news:
• Rosanne Tagliamonte was
appointed as a part-time assistant
secretary to Public Works
Superintendent
Kevin
Thompson. She will work 20
hours per week at a pay rate of
$10 per hour, with no benefits,
said
Councilwoman
Anne
Morris.
Ms. Tagliamonte’s duties will
include answering telephones
and assisting residents who visit
the office in person. She will free
up Mr. Thompson and other public works employees to do other
tasks,
the
councilwoman
explained.
• The council approved the
creation of a temporary, parttime project position to help with
filing in the borough’s construction and zoning offices.
• The council approved emergency repairs to the borough hall
fire alarm system after numerous
false alarms sounded recently.
• The personnel committee
will work on plans to interview
applicants for the newly created
borough administrator position
over the next couple of weeks,
Councilwoman Morris said.
The borough had to restart its
candidate search this summer,
after the person it chose from an
earlier round of interviews asked
for a larger salary and more vacation time than the borough was
willing to offer, Council
President Mark Clemmensen has
said.
Official opening of pavilion held
By Brian O’Keefe
More than 100 people attended
a party thrown last Sunday
evening at Sea Girt’s new beachfront pavilion to celebrate its official opening.
Attendees included current and
former council members, the contractor who built the project, the
borough engineer, residents and
beach visitors from out of town.
After a ribbon cutting, the
building was fully opened to the
public for tours for a couple of
hours. Free food and beverages,
including hot dogs, hamburgers
and soda were available at the
concession stand, and DJ Jersey
Joe played music.
“[It was] a great tribute to all
those who saw the thing through,”
said Councilman Donald Fetzer.
“Hats off to [project manager]
Tim Harmon and all the contractors.” They took a project that
appeared to be in “real trouble”
and brought it to fruition in a
short period of time, the councilman noted.
The project encountered long
delays earlier this year, and the
council blamed Cutting Edge
Construction, which had originally won the contract. That contract
was terminated in May with only
preliminary work completed, and
Poss Construction took over,
working extended hours to partially open the building by the
Fourth of July weekend.
“The man didn’t take a day off
for 60 days,” Mr. Harmon said of
company owner Bill Poss. “This
was a tough project.”
Past and current council members also deserved credit, Mr.
Harmon said, and the party was
organized in part to publicly
thank them. The council kept the
project on track and moving forward, despite setbacks, he said.
Former councilman Peter
Halas, who was in charge of the
project during the planning
stages, was among those in attendance.
The building was designed by
architects Richard Graham and
Chris Rice, and engineered by
Borough Engineer Peter Avakian.
The pavilion was designed to
create a “festive atmosphere” and
have “classic details” while also
requiring little maintenance, Mr.
Graham explained. The shingles
and trim are reminiscent of Jersey
Shore beach houses, while the
durable metal roofs highlight the
building.
The observation towner acts as
a focal point, with its vertical
form contrasting to the rest of the
building, as is common in
Victorian architecture, Mr.
Graham said.
Sea Girt
Community
Calendar
To submit a calendar listing or
Sea Girt news story, e-mail
bokeefe@thecoaststar.com
School Supplies
Donation Drive
A National Honor Society candidate is sponsoring a collection
of new or gently used backpacks
and school supplies for needy
children in the area. Donation
boxes will be in the libraries of
Sea Girt, Wall, Brielle and
Manasquan. For information call
Caitlin at 732-449-4469.
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Beach Department
Photos Requested
The Sea Girt beach department
is looking for any group photos of
lifeguards or other beach staff
members taken before 1995, for
decorating the new pavilion.
Photos of the old pavilion are also
requested.
Photos will be returned to owners after reproduction. Lifeguard
director Tim Harmon is the contact person. His number is 732449-9335 ext. 15.
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Clothing Donation
Drive
Photo courtesy of Edward Sidley
A bearded dragon was reported “running at large” on Sea Girt
Avenue Tuesday morning. Police captured it and turned it over to
Associated Humane Societies in Tinton Falls.
Police catch ‘dragon’
on Sea Girt Avenue
By Brian O’Keefe
A resident of the 700 block of
Sea Girt Avenue in Sea Girt
reported a lizard “running at
large” in their front yard Tuesday
morning.
Police responded to the home to
find a lizard “hanging out” on the
front lawn, said Chief Ed Sidley.
A juvenile at the scene subsequently identified it as a bearded
dragon.
Chief Sidley described the
lizard as “very docile. It wasn’t
aggressive. It wasn’t fast.”
After approximately 30 minutes, a box was obtained for capturing the reptile. Capt. Robert
Conway performed the capture
after it crept toward the box.
The captain then put a garbage
can lid on top to ensure it would
not escape. The lizard waited in
the box for one hour for an animal
control officer from Associated
Humane Societies in Tinton Falls
to arrive, the chief said.
An officer went door to door on
the 700 blocks of Sea Girt Avenue
and Crescent Place to determine if
the owner lived in one of the houses, but no one claimed the animal.
In other police news:
• A taxi driver was arrested for
disorderly conduct on Beacon
Boulevard in front of the Parker
House last Friday night at closing
time.
Officer Laura Osborn told
Ocean Township resident Ibrahem
E. Abdo-Abdelwahed, 29, to
move his cab because he was simply parked there and not picking
up any passengers.
Then,
Officer
Jeffrey
Truszkoski also told Mr. AbdoAbdelwahed to move because he
was blocking traffic and hindering
the loading of passengers into
other taxis.
Ptl. Douglas Nesbitt was monitoring traffic in the area at the time
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A donation drive for new and
gently used children’s clothing
and other items for the Madonna
House charity is being conducted
by Sea Girt resident Sloane Foley,
a senior at Manasquan High
School, as a leadership project for
the National Honor Society.
Diapers, underwear and socks
are in particular demand. Other
children’s clothing and necessities, including cribs, car seats,
high chairs and booster seats, are
also needed. Drop-off bins will be
at the Sea Girt Library and at the
shed in Baltimore Park, Fourth
Avenue and Baltimore Boulevard,
Sea Girt, from 9 a.m. to noon on
weekdays. To arrange a pickup of
large donations, call Sloane at
732-974-2511.
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Sand Sculpture
Contest
The annual children’s sand
sculpture contest, sponsored by
the Sea Girt Chamber of
Commerce, will be held Aug. 24,
starting at 9 a.m. The location will
be the beach by Chicago and
Brooklyn boulevards.
Members of the Sea Girt
Planning Board will judge sculptures within the following age
groups: 4 to 6, 7 to 9 and 10 to 12.
Children ages 4 to 6 will work in
teams, while the older children
will work individually.
Prizes will be awarded to the
top four sculptures in each age
group, and all competitors will
receive a T-shirt and a coupon for
a free ice cream.
The rain date will be Aug. 25.
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Beach Yoga
Beach yoga is being held this
summer at the Trenton Boulevard
beach, located at the south end of
the boardwalk. The hours are 7:30
to 8:30 a.m., seven days a week,
and the cost is $10. It will continue on that schedule through
September.
No registration is needed. For
information call Kathleen at 732449-5734 or Jillian at 732-4927771.
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treatment devices, will separate the
stormwater’s suspended solids into
concrete chambers. The chambers
can be easily removed by public
works employees, Mr. Baier said.
An additional $1 million should
be available later this year to continue the watershed restoration, he
said.
“It’s all budget-dependent,” Mr.
Baier said in response to criticism
that the DEP has been too slow in
addressing the problems at Wreck
Pond. While the department is currently focusing on $13 million
worth of watershed restoration projects, it looks like only about $1
million per year will be available,
he said.
As for the dredging, Mr. Baier
said it “absolutely” must be done at
some point in order to fix the problem.
“[But] I’m not sure where the
$15 million is gonna come from,”
he said. Most of the cost of dredging is associated with disposal of
the dredge spoils, he added.
“Dredging is part of the BandAid approach, too,” he said in
response to those who maintain the
DEP’s actions so far have failed to
address the root of the problems at
the pond. Simply dredging without
watershed restoration would not
address the root either, because sediment would continue to enter the
pond and re-create the situation, he
said.
“It’s got to be a holistic
approach,” Mr. Baier said. “We
can’t just fix one thing and walk
away.”
Wreck Pond is one of the department’s highest priorities, and that
has been demonstrated by its commitment of $6.2 million to the
extension of the outfall pipe into the
ocean last year, he said.
Other priorities around the state
include Lake Hopatcong, located at
the border of Morris and Sussex
counties, the Pequannock River in
Passaic and Morris counties and the
Delaware and Raritan Canal tributaries.
Wildlife control does not appear
to be a problem at the pond, currently, Mr. Baier said, adding he
had visited last week and found a
total of just 20 swans. In the past
they had easily numbered at least
10 times that, he said.
The stormwater management
committee studying the Wreck
Pond watershed aims to issue a formal plan in about a year, said chairman Turner Shell. The plan will
address pollutants and erosion from
the headwaters entering Wreck
Pond.
DEP Commissioner Lisa P.
Jackson
has
spoken
to
Assemblyman Sean Kean and
accepted his invitation to tour the
pond the next time she is in the
area, “although she’s [already] very
familiar with Wreck Pond,” said
Elaine Makatura, who directs the
department’s press office.
and explains the program.
The family selection committee
then reviews applications until it
finds a handful of families who may
qualify. They then visit those families to verify the need they claim to
have. Finally, a single family is chosen by the committee.
At any given seminar held by
Coastal Habitat, 40 families may
show up, but only one will be
approved, Ms. Mulligan said.
One of the biggest challenges for
the New Jersey chapters of Habitat
For Humanity is that “land is at a
premium” here, said Ms. Mulligan.
Coastal Habitat originally sought to
build more houses this year but was
unable to get the land, she said.
In the past, the chapter has only
built houses on donated land, but it
is now also considering buying land
because of the difficulty of finding
donors.
Most of the land used for the 11
projects Coastal Habitat has
worked on so far was donated by
Neptune Township, which Ms.
Mulligan said has been “very generous.”
Land is typically donated by
local governments, and it can be
either plots the governments have
always owned or ones they recently
took possession after property taxes
went unpaid. Wall Township and
Asbury Park have both promised
land to the chapter, Ms. Mulligan
said.
Most of Coastal Habitat’s money
comes from private donations, she
said, although it also receives
grants. One new venture the chapter
is planning is a “ReStore” at 917
Third Ave. in Asbury Park, where
used furniture, appliances and other
household goods will be sold.
The money raised from sales will
go toward the chapter’s affordable
housing mission, according to Ms.
Mulligan. It will also help people
who have items to get rid of and
keep them out of landfills, she
added. Donations will be taxdeductible.
Sea Girt Chamber of Commerce
president G. Kevin Callahan said if
the day goes well it could become
an annual project for the chamber.
Coastal Habitat is also looking
for volunteers to help with the new
house on other days. There is no
cost to volunteers, nor are tools
required.
For information about volunteering either on Sept. 23 with the Sea
Girt Chamber or on another day,
call the Coastal Habitat For
Humanity office at 732-974-2422.
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The New Jersey Department of
Environmental Protection [DEP] is
holding off on further dredging of
Wreck Pond until watershed
restorations are well underway, a
department official said yesterday.
Beginning major dredging now
would be a mistake, because sediment sources have to be controlled
first, said Larry Baier, the DEP’s
director of watershed management.
“If you dredge the pond without
controlling the sediment sources …
we’ll be right back here in five
years having the same discussion,”
he said.
The department is currently
focusing on nine early action recommendations for watershed
restoration made by the Wreck
Pond Brook Regional Stormwater
Management Plan Committee. Mr.
Baier said the department will discuss dredging only after those measures are well underway.
The recommendations would
cost about $13 million to implement, and the dredging of Wreck
Pond would cost an additional $13
million to $15 million, he estimated.
The DEP recently took the first
step in the watershed restoration by
committing $1.2 million toward
retrofitting approximately 30
stormwater outfalls that empty into
the pond with filters. That was one
of the stormwater committee’s suggestions.
The filters, called manufactured
the house will be completed by
October.
Although the organization seeks
to help “families in need” and
reduce poverty, houses built by
Habitat For Humanity are not
donated to the new owners. They
are sold for the same amount they
cost to build, and buyers must sign
no-interest mortgages and show
they have the ability to make the
payments.
Currently, houses in the area
built by the chapter cost approximately $85,000 to build, according
to Ms. Mulligan. So far, the chapter
has built only single-family homes,
but it is now consulting with an
architect about possibly building a
multi-family building because of
the cost of land in the area, she said.
Generally, very few people who
express interest in buying a house
through the Coastal Habitat program are chosen. They must
demonstrate need, as well as a willingness to spend several hundred
hours helping to build the house.
But the one requirement that
many families who are interested in
the program are not able to meet is
having good credit, Ms. Mulligan
said. The organization does not provide homes to people with bad
credit or who cannot afford mortgage payments.
Ms. Mulligan suggested those
with housing needs who have bad
credit could call the United Way for
a list of organizations that might
provide assistance.
When a house is planned,
Coastal Habitat sends notices to
social service agencies, newspapers
and libraries. A seminar is then
given, generally at a local library,
where the chapter’s family selection committee gives a presentation
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DEP official: Too early for
further dredging of Wreck Pond
By Brian O’Keefe
The Sea Girt Chamber of
Commerce is planning to join a
Coastal Habitat For Humanity construction project next month to provide manual labor.
The chamber is looking for volunteers from the area to join them at
the Neptune Township construction
site on Saturday, Sept. 23.
The new house, at the corner of
Columbus and Fisher avenues in
Neptune, is being built for a single
mother and her two daughters, who
are 6 and 8, said Maureen
Mulligan, executive director of
Coastal Habitat For Humanity.
The family currently lives in a
“bad neighborhood” in Asbury
Park, in an apartment that is in
“serious, serious need of repair,”
Ms. Mulligan said.
This is the 11th house Coastal
Habitat has built since the chapter,
located in Wall, was founded in
1995. The organization, like its
national counterpart, is a non-profit
Christian entity that seeks to provide quality affordable housing for
low-income families.
Construction began on the new
house in Neptune this spring. It is a
single-story house with three bedrooms and 1,200 square feet of living space. It is the first house
Coastal Habitat has built in years
that comes with a garage, which
was required by a township ordinance, Ms. Mulligan explained.
Sea Girt Chamber of Commerce
member Tom Branch, Sr., who has
been volunteering with Coastal
Habitat for the past 18 months,
urged the chamber to get involved
in the project. He said the work on
Sept. 23 will probably only be in
the interior of the house.
Ms. Mulligan said she expects
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Sea Girt resident Kelly Hughes, 5, got ready to ride Seymour the horse at the Sea Girt Family
Picnic, held at the National Guard Training Center last week.
Chamber to volunteer at Habitat house
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Avon-By-The-Sea
Board votes to apply for grant for trees
By Cheryl Harvey
At the Avon Board of
Commissioners meeting on
Tuesday night, the governing
body passed a resolution to obtain
a grant from the state in the
amount of $16,000 to fund the
“Cool Cities CSIP Tree Planting
Grant.”
The money would be used to
purchase trees for the residents of
Avon. The resolution authorizes
Mayor Daniel Gibney to apply for
the grant and, if awarded, to execute a grant agreement with the
state for a grant in an amount no
less than $15,000 and no more
than $16,000. If awarded the
grant, the governing body agreed
to match 25 percent of the total
project amount, in compliance
with the match requirements of
the agreement. All members of
the governing body voted to pass
the resolution.
The commissioners also voted
to approve the second reading for
an ordinance for storm water
management
and
control.
Commissioner Robert Mahon said
that the purpose for the ordinance
is to protect communities from
stormwater runoff and is required
by every municipality. All members of the governing body voted
to approve the ordinance.
The mayor and commissioners
also voted yes to approve a reso-
lution for a new fire alarm system
in the Avon-by-the-Sea municipal
building that was installed for
$22,620 by Complete Security
Systems, Inc, of Marlboro. The
system has been inspected and
tested by Anthony Vecchio, the
fire sub-code official. and found
to be fully operational.
The governing body also
passed a resolution that the performance bond posted in the
amount of $50,000 be released to
Neighbor & Neighbor. The bond
was released after Neighbor &
Neighbor completed a condominium project on Main Street. Since
the project is in accordance with
the plans reviewed and approved
by the planning board as inspected by the the borough engineer,
Charles Rooney, the bond was
returned to Neighbor & Neighbor.
In other news from the meeting:
• The governing body passed a
resolution that Cody Smith, Juan
Tirendi and Thomas Lucasiewicz
be appointed as Class II Special
Police Officers.
• A resolution was passed that
on Aug. 19 and 20 from 7 a.m. to
6 p.m., a portion of Marine Place
from Sylvania Lane to Sylvania
Avenue may be blocked for the
purpose of conducting a anniversary celebration.
Avon
Community
Calendar
To submit a calendar listing or
Avon news story, e-mail charvey@thecoaststar.com
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Library
Announces
Summer
Hours
The Avon-by-the-Sea Public
Library has announced its summer hours. Starting on June 12 the
library will be open Monday
through Friday from 9 a.m. to 1
p.m. and from 6 to 8 p.m.
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Avon
Pavilion
Boardwalk
Show
On Saturday, August 19, The
Manasquan River Group of
Artists will showcase at the Avon
Pavilion. Call 732-449-7651 for
an application.
~
Eyeglass
donations
needed
The Wall Lions Club is collecting eyeglasses that are no longer
needed. You can donate them by
bringing them to the Avon-by-theSea Borough Hall.
~
photo courtesy of Donna Ferrante
A painting by Donna Ferrante, the Vice President of the Manasquan River Group of Artists who is one of the 20 artists that will display art at this Saturday’s Avon Boardwalk Pavilion Art Show.
Art show to be held at Avon Pavilion
By Cheryl Harvey
This Saturday, the Manasquan
River Group of Artists will be
holding an art show from 10 a.m.
to 4 p.m. at the Avon-by-the-Sea
Pavilion. The Avon Pavilion
boardwalk show and sale will be
held in honor of former member
of the Manasquan River Group of
Artists, Gloria Pelkey, who passed
away this year. The show will feature “only fine art and photography,” said President of the
Manasquan River Group of
Artists, Joanne Pisapia.
Chairperson of the event,
Donna Ferrante, said that it is the
first year that the Manasquan
River Group of Artists are hosting
the Avon art boardwalk show,
along with the Avon-by-the-Sea
recreation department. The Avon
boardwalk show has been previously hosted by the Art Loft in
Belmar. Gloria Pelkey, the artist
who the show will be honoring
this year served as the chairperson
for the Avon show for many years.
Mrs. Pelkey’s daughter, Dana
Bealer, will be selling her mother’s art at the show.
The show will feature art
depicting scenes from the local
shore area from a mixed group of
20 artists from the Manasquan
River Group of Artists and the
local area. The art consists of a
variety of pastel watercolors, oils,
acrylics and mixed mediums.
“The people of Avon have
always been supportive,” said Ms.
Ferrante, and she is glad to be continuing the Avon boardwalk art
show.
She said that one of the nice
things about having the art show
on the boardwalk is that a lot of
children and younger people are
exposed to the art and some of
them become very interested.
Ms. Ferrante explained the benefits of having the art show right at
the shore where locals and visitors
get a chance to see the art. She
said that perhaps “visitors will
want to take home something with
them to remember their time at the
Jersey Shore.”
The event is scheduled to take
place rain or shine.
Avon
Recreation
Commission
2006
Golf Outing
On August 14, Avon recreation
will host a golf outing at Pebble
Creek Golf Club, Route 537,
Colts Neck. The fee for golfers to
register is $135. The fee includes
green fees, cart, box lunch, open
bar, gold shirt and awards dinner.
For more information please call
Alan Tardiff at 732-774-2509,
Susan Keating at 732-775-5256,
or Kevin McCarthy at 732-5024517.
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Avon
School
fund-raiser
The Avon School is participating in Shop for a Cause day sponsored by Macy’s. In order to
obtain tickets please contact
Norah Magrini at 732-988-1571.
Tickets are $5 and entitle you to
enjoy 10 to 20 percent off your
purchases
on
Saturday,
September 16. Regular restrictions apply.
THE COAST STAR, THURSDAY, AUGUST 17, 2006
— PHOTOGRAPY —
From Page 23
extremely tiny,” said Mrs.
Delgado, who found girls from the
ages of 13 to 20 to model the outfits.
Her favorite outfit was Mrs.
Rounds’ christening attire, which
still had a little stain on the collar
from a rose that had been pinned
on it.
Fun & Games On The Beach
“I think it’s the sweetest,” she
said about the handmade silk outfit.
“One of the girls is wearing my
wedding dress,” Mrs. Rounds said.
Her mother made it for her based
on a pattern she had found at Best
and Company in New York City,
she said.
The long-sleeved, white dress
has tiny buttons on the front with a
peter pan collar, glass beads and
embroidery, said Mrs. Rounds,
who recalled that her mother made
her go back into the city to count
exactly how many buttons were on
the dress.
Another model is wearing a
Victorian black jacket that
belonged to Mrs. Rounds’ Aunt
Edna, who always tried to destroy
pictures of herself, she said.
Mrs. Rounds said the other outfits included a post-Civil War
black cape, which was heavily
beaded and made by a local seamstress, as well as flapper dresses,
which were worn by her cousin.
One of the girls who wore a
flapper dress was talking about
what she learned about the
Roaring 20s and the Great
Depression in school, said Mrs.
Delgado.
“I think [the models] really got
a kick out of it,” she said.
Mrs. Delgado and the models
went to places that existed during
the time period to take the photos,
she said, including the beach and
the Parker House, among other
locations, to shoot the couture outfits.
“We tried to go to historical
locations,” she explained, because
she decided she wanted the pictures to be retro but not historical.
“I wanted people to realize that
these are not old photographs,”
Mrs. Delgado said, describing
why she decided to have the girls
don modern hairstyles.
The best part of the photoshoot
for her was actually seeing the
photographs of the clothes in
color.
“It was neat for me to see the
idea that actually it was a colored
world,” said Mrs. Delgado.
Back then, they had the “most
exquisite way of showing off the
person in the clothes,” she said.
“They’re really like these beautiful frames for people,” Mrs.
Delgado added. Now, clothes are
more of a political statement, she
said.
She added the most difficult
part of the whole experience was
selecting which images to use.
“I specifically chose pictures
that show the detail of the fashion
–– the detail of the clothes,” said
Mrs. Delgado.
She selected a total of 19 photographs of the clothes, which are
currently on display in the library,
for her second public exhibit.
They will be available for viewing
during regular library hours
through the end of the month and
were previously shown at
Landmark Books in Manasquan,
she said.
After the viewing at the library
is over, the question remains as to
what will happen to the photographs, said Mrs. Delgado, who
figured that they would go to the
Spring Lake Historical Society
Museum.
— PEACE —
District, and it went well. Younger
students drew pictures of children
playing harmoniously on a playground, while the older students
often related peace to accepting
people with different skin colors
or customs and not bullying others, she said.
Because the anniversary is so
early in the school year, teachers
do not have much time to spend on
the topic, Ms. Lacasale explained.
Students will play an active role in
the assembly, rather than simply
listening to adults speak, she said.
Ms. Lacasale, who just began
her job this month, said she seeks
to get children actively involved
because it helps them retain more
of what they learn.
There will also be a morning
gathering, including a student-led
flag salute, the national anthem
and a moment of silence for those
who died in the attacks.
Other upcoming school events
include:
• The Spring Lake Heights
Board of Education will meet on
Monday, Aug. 28 at 7 p.m. in the
school cafetorium.
• An orientation for all new students will be held Wednesday,
Aug. 30, from 10 to 11 a.m.
• The Spring Lake Heights PTA
has not yet finalized a schedule of
assemblies for the fall. It plans to
discuss future assemblies at its
Wednesday, Sept. 13 meeting,
which will be held at the school at
7:30 p.m.
comparison could be made
between use and non-use, she
said.
Mr. Ort questioned why the
borough was spending money on
a treatment officials know does
not work. This year the borough
spent $2,930 for the treatment,
according to Borough Clerk Elise
McCann.
Councilwoman McKnight said
the borough decided to try the
treatment again this year because
officials thought it might possibly
do some good. Aerators have also
been used to promote water
movement. The borough wants to
make every effort to improve conditions at the creek, she said.
In response to a question from
Lake Avenue resident Dan Feiss,
Councilwoman McKnight said
the borough is now exceeding the
state’s requirements for stormwater management.
Mr. Herner said he was convinced dredging is the one thing
that would address the problem,
but added the expense involved
would be too much for the borough to take on. The state has to
step in and dredge Black Creek
and Wreck Pond, he said.
“Otherwise it’s just not gonna
resolve. Simple as that,” he said.
Councilwoman McKnight said
local officials are trying to get the
DEP to take action. She said she
would try to reach Commissioner
Lisa P. Jackson to discuss the
issue.
The DEP currently has no firm
plans to dredge Wreck Pond or
Black Creek [see related story,
Sea Girt pages].
From Page 11
LAUREN PARKER, The Coast Star
All was fun and games for Megan Gallagher, 10, of
Manasquan, at last weekend’s Big Sea Day celebration.
— DISCUSS —
From Page 11
He acknowledged that the treatment does not work.
The chemicals are environmentally safe and are intended to
inhibit growth on the bottom, but
the water is too shallow for it to
work, Councilwoman McKnight
said.
“That could control a healthy
lake,” Mr. Herner said. “We don’t
have that … It wants to be a
swamp now.”
— COOKS —
From Page 17
together. “We always have a lot of
fun; people really look forward to
dancing,” he said. “We used to
give away door prizes, but no
longer do because people have
said they want more dancing
time!” he added.
Booklets were available to
everyone attending the clambake,
which served as a way for people
to write messages to the mayor.
Many messages came from borough officials, employees, and
businesses located in the borough,
thanking Mayor Schueler for all
his contributions to the town.
Local merchants also had the
opportunity to advertise their
businesses in the booklet.
The hosts of the evening included Phyllis Quixley, Alan Quixley,
Pat D’Angelo, Ms. MarchakOrtiz, Ray Ortiz, Mayor Schueler,
Michele Mortimer, Mary Ann
Solinski, Gail Krzyzczuk, Nicole
Montedoro, Warren Siri, Janet
Siri, Charles Kovach, Brenda
Connelly-Kovach, Liza Kovach,
Norman
Goldfarb,
Susan
“You’ve got mosquitoes galore
at that point [when it becomes a
swamp],” Mr. Ort said.
The problem is that the water is
so shallow that the sun hits the
bottom of the creek, helping
weeds to grow, Mr. Herner said.
When the weeds die, the dead
plant material remains on the bottom, making the creek even shallower, and the cycle starts again.
Councilwoman Mary Beth
McKnight said the chemical treatment was used in past years but
did not seem to help. The borough
did not use it at all last year so a
Goldfarb, Fran Sauta and John
Naples.
Also in the booklet was a list of
former mayors who served
Bradley Beach beginning in 1893.
A message from Mayor Schueler,
“A thank you to those who have
served our community,” accompanied the listing.
Mayor Schueler felt this year’s
clambake was “the best one yet.”
“It’s the most money we’ve
ever raised,” the mayor commented, although he added that the
exact dollar amount has not been
determined yet. The money will
be used for decorations along
Main Street and Riley Park that
can be seen this upcoming holiday
season.
Although the event was slated
to end at 10 p.m. to accommodate
the noise ordinance in effect
throughout the borough, the
mayor said people were dancing
after 11 p.m. “Everyone was just
having a really good time,” he
stated.
A beaming and appreciative
Mayor Schueler said, “Thank you
everyone for raising so much
money for the town we love so
much.”
LAUREN PARKER, The Coast Star
Margaret and Bill Grey, of Bradley Beach, join the borough police department’s deputy chief,
Leonard Guida [center] for a picture during the mayor’s 9th annual clambake held last Saturday.
The event raised money for holiday decorations for Main Street and Riley Park.
Fun At The Sons Of Italy Festa Italiana
ANDREW RUGGE, The Coast Star
Lou Coccaro [front], Robert Kennedy [back row, from left], Phyliss Plesnarski, Enza Sciurba,
Julia Psiuk, Trudi Soldi, Lou Pallotta, Gary Barrella and Anne Roslin of the Sons of Italy enjoyed
the festivities last weekend at the Sons of Italy Festa Italiania in Bradley Beach.
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PAGE 28
THE COAST STAR, THURSDAY, AUGUST 17, 2006
State & County News
Water quality report underscores need to act on Wreck Pond
LEGISLATIVE
MATTERS
A recently released
report
on
water quality illustrates
the need to
continue to
work to protect the quality of the
water at our
By
beaches. In
ASSEMBLYMAN addition, it
SEAN T. KEAN
served
as
[R-11]
another indication that action needs to be taken
to address the situation at Wreck
Pond.
As most residents are aware,
Wreck Pond, which sits on the border of Wall, Spring Lake and Spring
Lake Heights, is a coastal lake
which empties into the Atlantic
Ocean at the Brown and York
avenue beaches in Spring Lake.
Unfortunately, through this
process, pollution from a variety of
sources, including the numerous
geese which populate Wreck Pond,
flows directly into the Atlantic
Ocean, often resulting in the need to
close the beaches at York and
Brown avenues to swimming.
In fact, according to a report
authored by the United Resources
Defense Council, New Jersey experienced 79 beach closures last year.
69 of those closings were in
Monmouth County — the majority
of which can be attributed to Wreck
Pond. In terms of closures, the next
closest county is Ocean County
with five closures. Clearly, this is a
category we do not want to be leading.
For too long the problems at
Wreck Pond have been addressed
with little more than Band-Aid
approaches that do little to solve the
root causes of the problems. It is
long past time for the state to do
what is necessary to remediate
Wreck Pond so that we can, once
and for all, eliminate this source of
the majority of beach closures in
New Jersey.
In addition to working with
Clean Ocean Action to spread the
word about the results of this
Local participants
earn honors at fair
The Monmouth County Fair
concluded its 32nd annual run at
East Freehold Park Showgrounds
in Freehold Township on July 30.
The Monmouth County Park
System thanks the hundreds of
vendors and exhibitors, stage performers, event coordinators, park
rangers, 4-H members, volunteers
and sponsors on a job well done.
Warmer than normal July weather provided the backdrop for five
days of fun. By Sunday’s closing,
67,000 people had entered the fair
gate and had a chance to view 4-H
exhibits, visit the midway and
enjoy refreshing lemonade.
A total of 1,472 ribbons, trophies and honors were presented.
Local winners included:
In the 4-H category’s department of animal/vet science,
Maureen Docker, of Sea Girt, won
first place in the rabbit division,
American fuzzy log class.
In the home and garden category’s art department, Christine
Knubbort, of Avon-by-the-Sea,
took first place in computer generated color adult class, while in the
drawing
division,
Victoria
Bubadias, of Wall Township, took
second place in teen pastels and
Bridget Gibson, also of Wall, took
honorable mention in teen pen and
ink.
In the home and garden category’s baked goods department, adult
bread and rolls division, Terry Van
Ness, of Wall Township, took second place in quick breads sweet
and Michele Neiberlien, of
Manasquan, received honorable
mention. Anita Pardue, of Wall,
took honorable mention in sweet
yeast bread, adult brownies and
adult single crust pies.
Michele
Neiberlien,
of
Manasquan, took second place in
adult cupcakes and received honorable mention in adult double crust
pies.
In the home and garden category’s craft department, Barbara
Knubbert, of Avon, took honorable
mention in original design soft
dolls.
Charlotte Walling, of Belmar,
placed first in knitting as well as
first holiday crafts made from a kit
or pattern. Joyce Siedentop, of
Wall, placed third in the same category.
Ms. Siedentop also received first
place for a machine piece bed quilt,
second place for a machine quilted
wall hanging and third place honors in crewel embroidery.
In
miscellaneous
craft,
Mariemma Thompson, of Wall,
received honorable mention in the
children’s division.
In vegetables, Brielle’s Marge
Langenberger received second
place for rosemary, third place for
fragrant/culinary herbs and honorable mention in basil.
Joanne Gray, of Belmar,
received honorable mention in
other herbs.
Antonie Kritckova and Richard
Strucek, both of Brielle, received
honorable mention in thyme,
onions and bell peppers.
From the antique and classic car
show, Richard B. Haycook, of
Spring Lake Heights, took third
place in tuner trucks.
In the toddler waddle portion of
the children’s race, Anthony
Gennaro, of Wall, received third
place in the walkers 19- to 24month division.
important report, I have also called
on
the
Department
of
Environmental Protection [DEP] to
take the necessary action to clean
up the pond. Further, I invited the
DEP Commissioner to personally
view the pond so that she may gain
a greater understanding of the situation.
While I applaud the DEP for taking some action to address the
pond, such as the extension of the
outfall pipe, I have continually
advocated for a more comprehensive approach that addresses the
causes of this situation.
Clearly, this plan must include
dredging of the pond. Further, any
approach must include a stable
source of funding since a one-time
appropriation will only provide a
quick fix that will leave us in the
same situation in the future. To that
end I have introduced legislation
that would dedicate 1 percent of the
corporate business tax to go for
dredging purposes. If passed, this
measure would provide upwards of
$29 million per year for dredging
projects.
In addition, I have also spon-
sored a measure that provides an
appropriation of $5 million that
would be used specifically for
remediation at Wreck Pond and
Black Creek. I am hopeful that my
colleagues will recognize the urgent
need to address this situation and
approve one or both of these measures. In the meantime, it is up to
the DEP to do what is necessary to
confront these problems that have
gone on for far too long.
The beach closures that we are
forced to endure are harmful to our
environment and damage our local
economy which is heavily dependent on tourism. Moreover, every
beach closure impacts on the reputation of the entire state.
Very soon, another summer
plagued with beach closures will
have come and gone. The state
should take the necessary steps to
clean up Wreck Pond before another summer is tarnished by beach
closings.
[Assemblyman Kean maintains a
legislative office on 1334 Laurel
Avenue, Wall Township. His office
may be contacted at (732) 9740400.]
Tug of War at Big Sea Day
LAUREN PARKER, The Coast Star
Seven-year-olds John Shea and Brendan Reilly used all
their strength in a game of friendly tug-of-war at Big Sea Day
last Saturday in Manasquan.
Teaming Up To Build At Big Sea Day
LAUREN PARKER, The Coast Star
Lauren [from left] and Robert Ball teamed up with Stephen, T. J. and Abby Farr, of Brielle, to
build a sand castle for the contest this past weekend at Big Sea Day in Manasquan.
THE COAST STAR, THURSDAY, AUGUST 17, 2006
— RUN —
From Page 23
Photo courtesy of Tom Ferguson
Borough Administrator Tom Ferguson and his son, Andrew, 2,
enjoyed a sunny day on the beaches of Spring Lake earlier this
summer.
— POLICE —
From Page 24
and saw the officers speak to the
driver. He told him three more
times to either move or be arrested.
Mr. Abdo-Abdelwahed did not
move his vehicle at all, and did
not even check traffic to prepare
to pull out. Instead of moving, he
argued with officers that he was
trying to make money, according
to police.
Ptl. Nesbitt arrested him for
disorderly conduct as well as disregard of an officer directing
traffic. According to police, Mr.
Abdo-Abdelwahed was advised
nine times to move his cab before
the arrest.
An officer moved his cab and
parked it farther east on Beacon
Boulevard.
Chief Sidley also reported the
following recent activity:
• On Aug. 8, at 9:26 p.m.,
a resident of the 500 block of
Baltimore Boulevard reported
children running through her
yard. Officer Dan Santoro located a group of juveniles and
advised them to stay out of other
people’s yards.
• On Aug. 9, at 2:32 p.m., a 10year-old boy from the 500 block
of Baltimore Boulevard reported
his bicycle was taken from
Baltimore Boulevard Park sometime during the day. The bike is a
gray and brown beach cruiser.
Ptl. John Demillio took the
report.
• On Aug. 10, at 10:52 a.m., a
resident of the 500 block of
Chicago Boulevard reported that
their son Andrew, 2, to read and
review when he is older.
“It is my hope that he will read
about the wonderful and compassionate people supporting me and
emulate that behavior in his life,”
Mr. Ferguson said. “I also hope
that in my son’s lifetime a cure for
all cancers will be found. No one
should have to fight this disease.”
Fight is what Mr. Ferguson has
done since being diagnosed, said
Detective Sgt. Coyle.
“He’s fought this thing with
courage and dignity,” he said,
describing Mr. Ferguson, who has
also maintained his sense of humor
while in borough hall last week.
“If anything shows his character, it’s that he’s here at work,”
Detective Sgt. Coyle said.
“Unbeknownst to many, I have
continued to work as much as possible during my illness, from the
borough hall, home and medical
centers, via phone, e-mail, fax
and/or mail,” said Mr. Ferguson,
who has been Spring Lake’s borough administrator since March
2001. “Management in local government is one of my passions, as
is the borough itself,” he added,
furthering saying that work is a
welcome distraction from the
medical environment for him.
While his salary from the borough helps to cover his medical
expenses, the officers hope that the
various fund-raisers they are
putting together will help the family.
Cosmo and Linda Scardino of
and The Breakers Hotel agreed to
host a Run For Tom fund-raiser on
the rear windshield wiper on a
1995 Mercury Villager was broken off sometime after 10 p.m.
the night before. Officer John
Clayton took the report.
• On Aug. 11, at 9:21 p.m.,
Officer Santoro responded to
Baltimore Boulevard Park at the
request of a resident of the 400
block of Philadelphia Boulevard.
He advised a group of children
there that the park closes at dark.
• On Aug. 13, at midnight, Ptl.
Justin Macko issued Hoboken
resident Joseph Concha a summons for violating the borough’s
noise ordinance at a house on the
200 block of Chicago Boulevard.
• On Aug. 15, at 8:11 a.m., the
Sea Girt Fire Company responded to a residence on the 200
block of New York Boulevard for
a report of a burning bush
Belmar’s Rising Stars
Tuesday, Sept. 19 at 6 p.m., which
will include hors d'oeuvres,
refreshments, raffles, 50/50s and
music by DJ Jersey Joe, they said.
Run for Tom T-shirts raffle tickets, 50/50s and event tickets,
which are limited to 300, can be
purchased by contacting members
of the Spring Lake Police
Association, police department,
first aid squad, fire department or
borough hall employees.
“We can’t thank the Breakers
enough for hosting it for us,” said
Sgt. Preston. “We hope to, through
raffles, 50/50s and donations, raise
whatever we can to help the
Fergusons and the police association is simply going to hand over
every single penny we make ––
everything goes to Tom.”
Sgt. Preston said he did not
know how much money has been
raised so far since it is still in the
initial stages.
“We hope people open up their
hearts and their wallets and give,”
he said. “It’s a great cause, a great
family. I think everybody's been
touched by someone who’s had
cancer in their family, friends,” he
said.
“We’re by no means experts in
fund-raising, but the driving force
behind it is that Tom’s just a great
guy, plain and simple,” Detective
Sgt. Coyle said.
Most of the runners are also
novices, he said. Detective Sgt.
Coyle said he and Sgt. Preston ran
the New York City Marathon in
2002, and Ptl. Tim Giblin ran a
marathon last year, but all of the
remaining 17 runners are all firsttimers.
The group started training on
July 1, said Sgt. Preston, who
added they are following a couple
different marathon training guides.
between
two
houses.
Homeowners began extinguishing the fire with a garden hose,
and the fire company turned over
the mulch and ensured the fire
was completely out. Capt.
Conway
and
Officer
Truszkowski responded.
‘Half-way to
St. Paddy’s Day
fund-raiser’ set
The Belmar/Lake Como St.
Patrick’s Day Parade Committee
will be holding a fund-raiser at
Bar Anticipation in Lake Como
on Saturday, Sept. 9 from 2 to 6
p.m.
Entertainment will be provided
at the “half-way to St. Patrick’s
Day fund-raiser party” by popular
local duo Pringle & Bluetooth,
Robbie Doherty and various shore
area guest stars including bagpipers. There will also be a free
“all you can eat” barbecue and a
free complimentary drink included.
Donation is $10 both in
advance or at the door.
The committee’s military service personnel will be admitted
for free.
Details and tickets may be
obtained at the following sources:
• Bar Anticipation, which can
be contacted at 732-681-7422.
• The Irish Centre, which can
be contacted at 732-449-6650.
• The parade committee, which
can be contacted at 732-2802648.
Everyone is welcome to attend.
Express your opinions in a
letter to the editor!
MATT O’BRIEN, The Coast Star
Mayor Kenneth E. Pringle recently congratulated Alicia Corbett [right] and Colleen Moore for
being awarded the Belmar Improvement Fund Scholarship.
The Coast Star
13 Broad St., Manasquan 08736
As a group, they do long runs on
weekends, ranging from 10 to 20
miles, and the runners do shorter
distances individually during the
week.
“I think most of us have the
mindset of finishing is winning,”
Sgt. Preston said. “You know,
we’re not going to set records. We
have in the back of our minds why
were doing it and we have it on the
sleeves of our shirts why were
doing it –– we’re doing it for
Tom.”
Detective Sgt. Coyle agreed that
just crossing the finish line was a
victory.
“We’re all fathers and we’re all
saying what if we were faced with
our own mortality? Who would
provide for our kids,” he asked,
“and we’re just looking to ease
[the Fergusons] burden a bit.”
“We hope people keep Tom in
their prayers and their thoughts,”
said Sgt. Preston, who hopes the
fund-raiser will help some of the
financial burden the Fergusons
might be feeling. “We just want to
try to give Tom something back for
the friendship and the kindness
he’s shown us,” he said.
When asked how he felt about
the fund-raiser, Mr. Ferguson said,
“To say that my wife and I are
overwhelmed by the efforts of the
Spring Lake Police Association,
their sponsors, my coworkers and
the Spring Lake community is an
understatement. We are humbled
by their efforts and support.”
Mr. Ferguson added that
although he cannot run the
marathon with the Run for Tom
team, he plans to be waiting for
each runner at the finish line.
“Their training efforts are
inspiring to all of us,” he said.
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
THANK YOU CITIZENS & COUNCIL OF BRIELLE
Editor, The Coast Star:
As a member of The Brielle Taxpayers Association, I
wish to express my sincere thanks to our members for circulating the petition to the registered voters of Brielle. We
made a commitment to each other to do so after the council meeting of July 24. The surprise came after Brielle citizens read The Coast Star article published on July 27.
Erin Scott reported the story clearly and accurately and my
phone began to ring. The public wanted to volunteer and
volunteer they did. Their participation raised our number
to over 900 signatures. Congratulations are due to one and
all.
Margaret Mead once said, “Never doubt that a small
group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the
world. Indeed it is the only thing that ever has.”
To Mayor Nicol and the council, thank you for recognizing the will of the people.
As Mr Bolger said last night , “It is great to see you all
here.” Keep coming to meetings!
BILL BRANNICK
Schoolhouse Road, Brielle
~
OUR VERY OWN GEORGE BAILEY
Editor, The Coast Star:
In the popular Christmas classic “It’s a Wonderful
Life,”— starring Jimmy Stewart — small town banker
George Bailey faces financial ruin and considers ending
his life thinking he should have never been born. His
guardian angel comes to his rescue and shows him what
the world would have been like [not so great] had he not
been born. His friends also come to his rescue to help him
and show their love and support as he faces his darkest
hour. It reminds me a lot of what happened the other night
at the Breakers Hotel where we gathered to pay tribute to
Ben Dineen.
Ben is our very own George Bailey — loved and revered
by all in the Spring Lake, Sea Girt and Spring Lake
Heights communities and well beyond. Hundreds showed
up to honor and thank him for his half century of coaching
our kids.
When he first arrived, he looked a little scared; but, true
to Ben, he rose to the occasion and had the time of his life
— spending an evening with those he had coached,
coached with, and moms just wanting to thank him for all
he had taught our kids.
The party was somewhat reminiscent of the big spontaneous party given to George Bailey when hundreds arrived
at his home with love, support and cash in hand to say
thanks for all he had done for them. In our case, the proceeds received will be utilized for a Ben Dineen Fund, a
lasting tribute to him and his kids.
I never witnessed a happier, more spirited crowd of well
wishers, all crazy about Ben and thrilled to be a part if this
tribute. Everyone had a glow about them. Ben does this
to people, he makes them smile and enjoy life to its fullest.
He brings out the best in us all.
We are so grateful to our spectacular committee who
worked so beautifully together, as well as all who came, to
those who donated gifts, to our many generous sponsors
and to Shannon, Anthony, Cosmo and the entire, warm and
gracious staff at the Breakers Hotel, and also Jim
Maclearie for the tremendous job he did in putting together our program booklet. We also thank Erin and the
world’s greatest community newspaper The Coast Star
for their fabulous article about Ben.
I went to visit Ben the next day, and he was still taking
about the party and all his kids and all his friends — how
happy he was to see all. He loves having visitors and is as
warm, and funny and engaging as ever. Believe it or not,
he still remembers most of the nicknames he gave his
kids. So please, everyone, visit him often! Just go, he will
be so thrilled to so see you!
Finally, to be a little more spontaneous here, we will
have Ben’s League [yes he will be there] on Saturdays,
Aug. 19 and 26 from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. I think you all
know where. So for Ben’s sake, grab a few baseballs,
your mitts, a few bases [4?] and please join us and come
play ball!
MARY REILLY
St. Clair Avenue, Spring Lake
~
THANKS TO ALL FOR BIG SEA DAY SUCCESS
Editor, The Coast Star:
On behalf of the Squan Village Historical Society, I
would like to express my appreciation to all who helped
make Big Sea Day a success.
A special thanks to T.R. Devaney and the Third Ave.
Surf Shop for the surfing contest, Joe Bayer and the
Manasquan Fishing Club for the fishing contest, Michael
Bauer and the Manasquan Recreation Association for the
children’s beach games, Jim Coakley and the Manasquan
Tourism Commission for the sandcastle contest and the
band concert, Mona Kirk, June Kole and Mary Monagle
for their artwork, Doug Kovats and the Atlantic Body
Surfing Club for the Body Surfing contest, The Macaroon
Shop of Avon for the pies for the pie-eating contest,
Ahern Copy Center for posters, and last but not least, all
those who worked so hard behind the scenes to make Big
Sea Day the great event that it is.
This year we topped the best weather and the biggest
turnout ever. It was wonderful to see everyone having a
great time. I am sure the participants will have fond memories of Big Sea Day for many years to come.
NOEL HOOD
BIG SEA DAY COORDINATOR
Squan Village Historical Society
50 YEARS AGO
• A searching party last night recovered the charred bodies
of a Belmar pilot and two passengers from the wreckage of a
small plane that crashed Monday night about 10 miles east of
Wilkes-Barre, Pa.
The Piper Tri-Pacer, which had taken off from Belmar
Monday, was spotted earlier Thursday by search planes and a
helicopter. State police dispatched search parties to the scene,
about a mile and a half of rugged terrain from the northeast
extension of the Pennsylvania Turnpike.
The crash occurred on a high plateau in the Pocono
Mountains.
The victims are Arthur Yates, 41, of 401 5th Avenue,
Belmar, Dale Heff, 27, of Kingsport, Pa. and Joseph Sipple,
23, of Edwardsville, Pa.
25 YEARS AGO
• Spring Lake Borough has until Sept. 18 to reply to a
request for a summary judgement favoring conversion of the
Essex and Sussex Hotel into condominiums.
The suit was filed in Superior Court Aug. 12 by William F.
Dowd, a Red Bank attorney acting for Charles Carroll, Inc.,
Spring Lake.
The case will be heard in September by Superior Court
Judge Thomas L. Yaccarino of the Chancery Division. Charles
J. Carroll, owner of the hotel, seeks assurance from the courts
that he already possesses the legal authority to proceed with
conversion of his five-story oceanfront structure into 156 or
more one- two- and three-bedroom apartments without interference from any of the official bodies of the borough.
• If it is the policy of Manasquan High School to frisk
seniors before graduation ceremonies, Brielle Board of
Education intends to register its objections.
“It occurs to me that a public high school is not a police station,” said Grace Alznauer, vice-president of the board.
10 YEARS AGO
• Nearly two years after it was rejected, a plan to construct
a Taco Bell restaurant in Wall Township will continue to be
heard by the Wall Township Planning Board on Monday.
In April 1996, Taco Bell changed the proposed construction
location from the Allaire Shopping Plaza, Allaire Road and
Route 35, to a pad site at the K-mart Shopping Center.
However, earlier this week, Taco Bell’s National Community
Affairs Manager Ronald Dee said the company may propose a
third site to the planning board.
• The lone Democrat on the Manasquan Council held the
fate of who would be the board’s next councilman in his hands
Monday, and broke a 2-2 tie between candidates to cast the
deciding vote for Thomas McCabe. Mr. McCabe immediately
resigned from the board of education and planning board.
1 YEAR AGO
• Belmar Police Chief Jack Hill said this week his department will conduct a “thorough investigation” into bias allegations by two Puerto Rican families from Bronx, N.Y., and
Pennsylvania who allege they were discriminated against by
two white special police officers and kicked off the beach
because of their race.
• In a move that was initially opposed by Mayor Lawrence
Chiaravallo, the Lake Como Council on Tuesday night unanimously voted to appoint newcomer Eric Larkin to the seat
vacated by former Councilman James Chappelle, who
resigned effective July 31.
The appointment of the 24-year-old came at the recommendation of the chairman of the Lake Como Democratic
Committee, Michael Ryan, who offered the names of Mr.
Larkin, Brian Wilton and Marni McFadden-Lee to council
members for their selection.
See LETTERS, PAGE 31
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Upcoming Meetings
Letters To The Editor must be received by 4 p.m. Tuesday for possible inclusion in that week’s issue. The Coast Star reserves the right to refuse any letter if
author confirmation cannot be obtained. Letters received prior to the deadline are
not guaranteed to be included in that week’s issue. The Coast Star reserves the right
to reject or edit any content not deemed suitable for print. Letters will be rejected
or edited, at the publisher’s discretion, if the length exceeds 500 words. Letters
without a signature, name, address and phone number clearly listed will not be
considered for publication. Letter writers who have been published in the previous
30 days may be denied publication. The views represented by the letter authors do
not necessarily represent the views of The Coast Star or its management.
• Manasquan Council, 7 p.m. workshop, 8 p.m. regular, borough hall, 201 E. Main St.
• Belmar Planning Board, 7:30 p.m., borough hall, 601 Main
St.
— MONDAY, AUGUST 21 —
— TUESDAY, AUGUST 22 —
• Spring Lake Heights Planning Board, 7 p.m., borough hall,
555 Brighton Ave.
• Bradley Beach Council, 6:30 p.m. workshop, 7 p.m. regular, borough hall, 701 Main St.
• Spring Lake Council, 6:30 p.m. workshop, 7 p.m. regular,
borough hall, Fifth and Warren avenues.
— WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 23—
• Sea Girt Council, 7:30 p.m., elementary school, Bell Place.
• Belmar Council, 6:30 p.m. workshop, 8 p.m. regular, borough hall, 601 Main St.
• Wall Township Committee, 7 p.m. workshop, municipal
building, Allaire Road.
— THURSDAY, AUGUST 24—
• Belmar Board of Adjustment, 7:30 p.m., borough hall, 601
Main St.
• Belmar Board of Education, 7 p.m. workshop, 8 p.m. regular, elementary school library, Main St.
• Avon Board of Commissioners, 3:30 p.m. workshop, borough hall, 301 Main St.
Observations of
ADAM YANKEE
The best way to
criticize another
person’s work
is to do yours
better.
THE COAST STAR, THURSDAY, AUGUST 17, 2006
— LETTERS —
From Page 30
MISS VAL IS NUMBER ONE
Editor, The Coast Star:
I have 15 granddaughters, they all attend dance
schools, in different parts of the country. I have been
present at their rehearsals and recitals and weekly
dance classes.
I can honestly say Miss Val is number one in every
way. For her to be let go is a disgrace. Doesn’t Spring
Lake realize what a gem they have? She should be
director of the dance company.
CAROL BALS
Hannah Hill Road, Jackson
~
JOHN MADDOX DESERVED SOME ATTENTION TOO
Editor, The Coast Star:
I am writing in response to last week’s article
about Matt Maddox and his football career at Illinois
University.
I would consider myself a family friend, as John,
Matt’s younger brother, has been one of my best
friends for many years. We have been through a lot
together and we have always stood by each other.
I am aware that the article was primarily written to
acknowledge Matt’s outstanding football career, and
I am very proud of his accomplishments. However, I
was disappointed to find little mention of John. The
older brother, Mike, was mentioned several times as
being a role model and source of encouragement for
Matt, but John elicited only one line “John is in the
Naval Academy.”
I think we need to mention how hard John has
worked to get where he is and how much he has sacrificed, and how he too is a role model for many others, such as me. John has had many obstacles standing in his way just to get to the Naval Academy, but
his dedication and strength have endured. And let’s
not forget that John, an excellent football player, is
now playing football at the academy.
The purpose of this letter is certainly not to offend
Matt or the rest of the wonderful Maddox family,
because I highly admire them. However, in general,
there are times when, and especially in the midst of
all our nation’s conflicts, that I think it is sad that we
put so much focus on sports accomplishments. The
servicemen that are protecting our country are young
men, struggling with adversity and difficulties, far
away from home and facing danger and somehow
they seem invisible to many of us.
As I stated before, while I am proud of Matt, let us
not forget John Maddox, who has dedicated his life to
the protection of America.
KIAH M. MALICK
First Avenue, Manasquan
~
SQUAN IS LUCKY TO HAVE BIG SEA DAY
VOLUNTEERS
Editor, The Coast Star:
I would like to take this opportunity to thank Noel
Hood, the Manasquan Historical Society and their
committee for sponsoring Big Sea Day on Saturday,
Aug. 12. It was a great event from beginning to end.
Noel has been a volunteer member on the committee
for almost 20 years and has chaired the event for the
last 17 years. Manasquan is very lucky to have such
dedicated volunteers producing fun-filled family
events. Also many thanks to John Paglia, owner of
Leggett’s and the Riverview for sponsoring the spectacular fireworks display.
LIA M. TRENCH
E. Main Street, Manasquan
~
CHANGING THEIR VIEW AFTER HEARING AN
EXPLANATION
Editor, The Coast Star:
This letter should serve as a follow up to a letter
you published on Aug. 3. A friend locked her keys in
her car at Pathmark in Wall. The letter to the editor
may have sounded critical of the Wall Township
Police Department.
Following the letter to the editor, I was contacted
by Capt. Sullivan of the Wall Township Police
Department who reviewed the concerns expressed in
the Aug. 3, 2006 letter. The captain spoke with me on
a number of occasions and even reviewed the “tape”
of the unfortunate night. We have learned a couple of
things of interest. Despite dealing with a significant
thunderstorm and a structure fire, the dispatcher was,
in fact, helpful. Although there were no police officers available due to the other pressing matters, the
dispatcher did offer to call a locksmith or AAA.
The letter that was written on Aug. 3, 2006 was
intended to thank the guardian angel who looked out
for our friend. The subsequent investigation and
attention by Capt. Sullivan has shown that the police
department was helpful, courteous and making a concerted effort in a difficult situation.
This letter gives me the opportunity to again thank
the guardian angel who helped our 83-year-old friend
on that evening. The experience has also allowed us
to understand that, in addition to the guardian angel,
public servants are in fact available to come to our
aid.
It should also not go unnoticed that the Wall
Township Police Department took the time to follow
up on a seemingly insignificant incident and made
every effort to satisfy both me and themselves that all
proper procedures had been followed.
JOYCE BURROWS
Curtis Avenue, Manasquan
~
PARKER HOUSE HOSTS SEA GIRT FIRE COMPANY
FUND-RAISER
Editor, The Coast Star:
Hats off to the ownership, management and staff of
the Parker House in Sea Girt for hosting our annual
fund-raiser event that was a tremendous success due
to their generosity. In particular, we would like to
personally thank manager Tony Sofia who assisted in
the selling of tickets [donated by Maclearie Printing],
donated prizes, arranged the entertainment, made
sure the food was outstanding and scheduled the
most remarkable employees work that evening.
The night would not have been as successful without the help of other donations by: The Lakewood
BlueClaws, Horizon Blue Cross & Blue Shield, The
Atlantic Club, Rod’s Tavern, Harrigan’s Pub,
Boathouse Bar and Grill, 507 Main and Bar
Anticipation.
And to those who were able to attend that night or
contributed in other ways, we appreciate your support in making it a great night and we hope to see you
again next year!
THE SEA GIRT FIRE COMPANY
SOCIAL COMMITTEE
Baltimore Boulevard, Sea Girt
~
MANASQUAN ART WALK WAS A GRAND EVENT
Editor, The Coast Star:
The Manasquan Art Walk last Thursday celebrated
our community. Children and adults represented
their love for the Manasquan Inlet in their artwork.
Manasquan merchants welcomed those who had
come to visit. Our visitors were introduced to the
lovely offerings in the stores. Most importantly, we
celebrated our community spirit.
Thank you, Margaret McChesney, Margaret
Patterson, Lea Colie Wight, the merchants and everyone else who made this a grand event.
HELAINE DONOVAN
Minesink Road, Manasquan
~
THANK YOU TO FAIRWAY MEWS FROM GOLF
COMMITTEE
Editor, The Coast Star:
On Saturday, July 29, the Fairway Mews Country
Club Association hosted the annual charity golf tournament to benefit the Spring Lake First Aid Squad.
Saying thank you to the wonderful Mews people
who worked so hard to make this event a success
doesn’t quite make it. We are very grateful to the
association for their continuous financial and moral
support of the squad. No one, anywhere, has ever
been as kind and generous as they have been to us.
This year, Chairwoman Lynn Kegelmann, took
charge, doing a superb job. Our special thanks to the
committee, who worked tirelessly and outdid themselves. To Kevin Kenny, who handles the golf end
with ease, and to Brian O’Gibney, who handles
everything with ease. To Nancy, Alex, Marlene,
Joyce, Doris and Ed, you’re the best. To our sponsors,
the restaurants who send us great food, the golfers,
Cosmo, and Egans, who make all of this possible.
We sincerely appreciate all you have done for us
and hope to see you again next year.
JUDY CHECHE
GOLF COMMITTEE CHAIRMAN
Mercer Avenue, Spring Lake
~
POSITIVE EARTH DRIVER’S CLUB EXTENDS THANKS
Editor, The Coast Star:
The Positive Earth Driver’s Club would like to
thank the many attendees who came out on a very hot
Sunday, July 30 for the ninth annual British Car
Show at Georgian Court University. We were pleased
to meet so many people and thrilled with the wide
array and turnout of cars for judging.
We also extend our thanks to the many wonderful
trophy sponsors including Midas of Wall, Provident
Bank of Manasquan, Dr. Clinton Ives of Belmar, Van
Wickle/Napa Auto Parts of Spring Lake Heights and
Millennium Marketing of Lake Como.
The terrific array of door prizes were also a big hit:
The Mill at Spring Lake Heights, Vic’s in Bradley
Beach, PJ’s Car Wash in Wall, The Sand Bar in
Brielle, Aqualand Pools of Manasquan, Starbucks at
Route 35 Plaza in Sea Girt, Hoffman’s in Spring
Lake Heights, The Sweet Cow in Manasquan and
ACN Graphics in Spring Lake Heights. Thank you all
for your generosity!
We look forward to seeing everyone on the road
and again at next summer’s show.
PAT WIGNALL
Route 71, Spring Lake Heights
~
FAMILY WILL NO LONGER SUPPORT COMMUNITY
HOUSE
Editor, The Coast Star:
For many years, our family has enjoyed the lovely
theater presentations at the Spring Lake Community
House. However, now, after the unfair and unilateral
action which was taken to dismiss Miss Val, we shall
no longer support this organization.
Apparently the board of trustees operates in a vacuum, caring nothing for community sentiment and
See LETTERS, page 46
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THE COAST STAR, THURSDAY, AUGUST 17, 2006
Mini-Golf
tournament
to honor
hero
The Sea Girt 5K Is For All Ages
Brielle Day
Dash forms
now available
The Brielle Parks and
Recreation Commission recently
announced that registration for
the 9th Annual Brielle Day Dash
is now being accepted.
The annual event will be held
on Friday, Sept. 8 at 6 p.m., and
the rain date for the race will be
Sept. 10.
The Brielle Day Dash is a noncompetitive event, and fun runs
are held for each age group.
Ages 2-3 will run 25 yards with
a parent, 4-year-old children will
run 50 yards, five- and six-yearolds will run 100 yards, ages
seven and eight will dash 200
yards and children ages nine and
10 will run 300 yards.
There are no overall awards
since all finishers will receive a
special ribbon.
Custom-designed T-shirts and
post-race refreshments will be
provided while supplies last.
Burgers and hot dogs will also be
served by the Brielle Fire
Company.
Race forms are available at
Brielle Borough Hall. The entry
fee for the race is $12 per child
and $7 each for all others of the
same family. Checks should be
made
payable
to
Brielle
Recreation.
Registration forms completed
by Aug. 15 will get a T-shirt while
those who register afterward, by 8
p.m. on Sept. 7, are not guaranteed a shirt.
No registration will be accepted
on race day.
Any race participant with special needs should contact Sue
McWade at 732-528-7060.
Brielle Day Dash Participants
are reminded to pick up their Tshirts and race numbers at the
Curtis House on Thursday, Sept. 7
6 - 8 p.m.
Sunday, Aug. 20, marks the
fifth annual Robert J. Foti
Memorial Golf Tournament, taking place at the Ocean Avenue
miniature golf course from 10
a.m until 1 p.m.
Robert J. Foti was a New York
City Firefighter that lost his life
during the Sept. 11 attacks,
according to Councilwoman Lori
Marchak-Ortiz. Ms. Ortiz said
Mr. Foti vacationed in Bradley
Beach and while there, volunteered with the Bradley Beach
Fire Department and the lifeguards.
In his honor, the proceeds
derived from the golf tournament
will be donated to the fire
department and the lifeguards,
Ms. Ortiz said. “His son, Robert
Foti Jr., is currently a lifeguard
for Bradley Beach,” she added.
The radio station the WRAT
will be at the tournament from
11 a.m. until 1 p.m. with giveaways. Ms. Ortiz also said that
this year Mrs. Foti has made Tshirts that will be available for
purchase with the proceeds benefiting the lifeguards and fire
department.
According to Ms. Ortiz,
approximately $800 was raised
last year. She also said that some
members of the fire and police
departments as well as some lifeguards usually attend the event.
Adults and children are welcome to play and trophies will be
awarded for the varying age categories.
LAUREN PARKER, The Coast Star
Sea Girt resident Patty Valentino [left] ran with her twin daughters, Gabriella and Samantha,
in the Sea Girt 5K last week, as New York City resident Christine Hilla approached on her left.
— INCIDENTS —
From Page 21
said that such an arrangement
could create a conflict. The borough attorney said that measure
had caught the attention of the
state attorney general who issued
an unfavorable opinion on the
practice. Under such an arrangement, charges a bar faces could be
thrown out if a conflict is proven
between a municipality’s officer
and the establishment, Mr. Kemm
said.
“If an issue comes up where we
can take corrective action on an
ABC violation, or change [a
bar’s] procedure … then by all
means, we should act,” Mayor
Pringle said.
All businesses with liquor
licenses have the option to appeal
to the state.
All Aboard!
Trendsetters plan
trip to N.Y.
botanical gardens
Photo courtesy of Heidi Wittenberg
The Brielle Chamber of Commerce held its regular monthly meeting Tuesday, July 8 aboard
the River Belle. Among those who attended the meeting were: Heidi Wittenberg [from left],
Executive Assistant, Dawn Geraldi, Treasurer, Joe Higgins, chamber member, and Charlene
Archer, Vice President.
The Spring Lake Heights
Trendsetters senior group is holding a trip to the New York
Botanical Gardens to experience
the “magical” Dale Chihuly glass
sculpture exhibit.
The trip, which costs $67, will
depart from the Sea Girt Library
in The Plaza on Oct. 11 at 8:45
a.m.
Those interested in the trip
should call Susan Leahy at 732449-7807 or 732-449-9155.
Reservations are due Aug. 18.
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Thursday, August 17, 2006
Pre-inlet beach was a great location for
fishing, swimming before 1931 re-opening
Photo courtesy of Jennifer Brown-Wegener
Manasquan Resident Tom Brown shared his love of the inlet with his grandchildren, including his
grandson Cam, during his regular visits to the inlet with his daughter, Jennifer Brown-Wegener.
Point woman remembers Saturday
mornings at the inlet with her father
By Joe Bagnell
When Point Pleasant resident
Jennifer Brown-Wegener thinks
about the Manasquan Inlet, it
brings back memories not of
C summer days spent on the sand,
M or swimming in the ocean, but of
Saturday mornings with her
father, John Brown, known to
friends and family as Tom.
Since she married and moved
out of her parents’ house about
seven years ago, Mrs. BrownWegener said she and her father
would go to the inlet each
Saturday morning to catch up on
the latest developments in each
other’s lives, stopping on the way
to pick up bagels and coffee.
“We would watch the boat traffic and talk about life, and the
way Manasquan was when he
was growing up,” Mrs. BrownWegener said of the times she
spent at the inlet with her father,
who died in February at the age
of 59.
After Mrs. Brown-Wegener
had her three boys, Cam, Jake
and Cole, the children tagged
C
M
Squan Inlet
Memories
along on the Saturday morning
visits with her father, and listened to their grandfather’s stories about growing up at the
Jersey Shore.
Mr. Brown was a lifelong resident of Manasquan and a graduate of the Manasquan High
School class of 1965, where he
played both varsity football and
baseball.
Mr. Brown served in the United
States Navy during the Vietnam
War, and was also a member of
the National Guard.
“He was a real ‘town guy,’”
Mrs. Brown-Wegener said of her
father. “He loved living in
Manasquan, and all of the traditions of the town. A few years
ago, my mother took a job in the
candy store in town, and he loved
walking to see her.”
Ms. Brown said her father
loved being involved in town,
coaching for the Manasquan
Little Blue Warriors and the
Manasquan-Brielle Little League
for 20 years. Mr. Brown was also
a Manasquan/Brielle softball
coach and a member of the
Manasquan Football Club where
he was known for his famous
Thanksgiving Day Parade floats,
all while working as a maintenance electrician.
Sitting and watching the boat
traffic and chatting over coffee
on countless Saturday mornings,
Mrs. Brown-Wegener said she
learned a lot from her dad and the
stories he told.
“As you get older, you really
start to appreciate your parents,”
Mrs.
Brown-Wegener
said,
adding she began feeling like an
adult when she learned that “parents aren’t always wrong.”
Mrs. Brown-Wegener said she
learned to take her father’s advice
and closely listened to his stories
about life, her mother and how he
and her mom raised five children.
“He told me stories of his grandfather telling him about the inlet
being built,” she said.
Another memory that sticks
out in Mrs. Brown-Wegener’s
head happened shortly after she
married her husband, Chris, a
marine mechanic.
“We used to take boat trips
early in the morning,” she said.
“One of the first trips we took,
when we were first married, we
were leaving and coming through
the inlet, and there was my dad,
on the Manasquan side, waving
to us.”
Mr. Brown-Wegener said after
her father’s death, for a while it
was too difficult to go to the
inlet, but she has since returned.
“When I take my kids there, I
think of sitting in the car and
talking to my dad.”
Jennifer Brown-Wegener
danced with her father Tom
Brown at her wedding seven
years ago. Even after she
married and had children, Ms.
Brown-Wegener continued to
meet her father at the
Manasquan Inlet on Saturday
mornings for coffee and
conversation.
Photo courtesy of
Jennifer Brown-Wegener
By Matt O’Brien
Before local officials took on the
Herculean task of creating the Manasquan
Inlet to allow countless ocean-bound leisure
and commercial fishing boats access to the
Atlantic Ocean, numerous area children
would play, swim and fish along the stretch
of beachfront that vanished 75 years ago.
As a 12-year-old girl, Doris P. Read
would head to that beachfront, at times with
her father, to fish and swim in the tidal pools
that formed from high tides at the site where
the entrance to the inlet now sits. “Prior to
the opening of the inlet, you could go along
the unbroken beach from Manasquan to the
Point Pleasant Beach boardwalk — an
attraction even then,” she recalled. “And my
father would take me fishing in the large
tidal pools that formed from the ocean
waves breaking through the barrier beach
along what is First Avenue now.”
In 1931, Ms. Read, at the time living at
39 McLean Ave., said she first learned of
the official opening of the Manasquan Inlet
when she was waiting with her mother in
front of Weirs Drug store in Manasquan,
located at the corner of Route 71 and Main
Street, for a bus to take them to Asbury
Park.
She remembered a man in a car stopped
and asked her and her mom if they would
like a “lift” to their doctor’s office in Asbury
Park. During that ride, the man told the pair
about the opening of the inlet and that he
had been asked by the Manasquan Council
to swim the length of the inlet as part of the
opening day ceremony.
Shortly after learning about the inlet
Squan Inlet
Memories
opening, Ms. Read was on hand the day of
the ceremony. Walking from her house on
McLean Avenue to the inlet she recalled
how much of a different borough
Manasquan was then.
It was sparsely developed between
Wyckoff Avenue and the bungalows along
the beach. There were clusters of houses on
Fletcher Avenue and some other streets, but
the rest were widely scattered. Few roads
were paved where gravel and sandy tracks
were the roadways of the day. Remnants
from Manasquan’s farming community
were almost totally overgrown by tall grass,
pines, bayberry, wildflowers, small wildlife
and hummingbirds.
While Manasquan residents today can
only imagine the quiet, sleepy town at that
time, Ms. Read is one of the few people who
actually had the chance to experience the
Manasquan of yesteryear.
She added that her uncle was one of the
few people responsible in the 1930s and
later on with the early development of
Manasquan, and he helped to build eight
houses throughout the borough.
The creation of the inlet was a flashpoint
of Manasquan’s growing community, she
said.
“Although there was a large crowd there,
I later learned that many in Manasquan
were unaware of the inlet’s official open-
ing,” Ms. Read said.
She did get to see the kind man, who
offered her and her mom a ride to Asbury
Park, swim that day as part of the celebration.
“From then to now, with my family, I
made many trips through the inlet and visited it in all types of weather and seasons,”
she said.
Ms. Read, 87, said although the fishing
spot she and her dad and many others got to
enjoy was erased from the landscape with
the opening, the Manasquan Inlet provided
many more memories over the years.
Trained in canoeing from trips to Canada
and at camps, the Reads would often take a
canoe trip up and down the Manasquan
Inlet. The mouth of the inlet, which is noted
for its occasional rough conditions, did not
present much risk to the Reads because of
their training, she said.
An avid horse rider, Ms. Read also
recalled the days when fishermen would
take their horses to the beachfront before
the inlet was built.
“I knew the fishermen who made the
daily trips from the beach to the pound nets
about a mile offshore and led their dray
horses past our house in the evening,” she
said.
Though the creation of the inlet signaled
the end to a popular beachfront fishing and
recreational location, it opened a new door
for the Read family, as they have enjoyed
family canoeing trips, picturesque sunsets
and many pleasant memories at the inlet.
“I love the inlet,” Ms. Read concluded.
Commemorative book details history
of the Manasquan Inlet, area towns
By Mary Birckhead Ware
A commemorative book celebrating the reopening of the Manasquan Inlet is being
offered by the 75th Anniversary Committee.
The volume details the history of the reopening of the waterway as well as the histories of Brielle, Manasquan, Point Pleasant,
and Point Pleasant Beach complete with pictures and postcards.
More than 75 years ago, the businesses and
residents along with the mayors of Brielle,
Manasquan, Point Pleasant and Point Pleasant
Beach joined with the Monmouth and Ocean
County Freeholders to petition the State of
New Jersey and the Federal Government to
build a permanent inlet from the Manasquan
River to the Atlantic Ocean.
In 1931, the U.S Army Corps of Engineers
completed the re-opening of the Manasquan
Inlet connecting the river to the Point Pleasant
Canal and Barnegat Bay, completing the
northern end of the Intracoastal Waterway.
The project resulted in the creation of a harbor
for commercial fishing, charter and private
fishing boats and one of the largest recreational boating ports on the New Jersey Coast.
The Manasquan River and the surrounding
beaches became a destination for tourism, as
well as one of the most desirable places to live
in New Jersey.
Again, today, the celebration joins these
communities, counties, and the state in marking this historic event with a commemorative
book.
Sponsors of the book include the Brielle
Chamber of Commerce; Gee Gee's Pizza,
Restaurant and Arcade; J.F. Murray Insurance
Co., Inc.; Joe Leone's Italian Specialities,W.F.
Sherman & Son, Inc., and Norkus Foodtown.
These sponsors and the Point Pleasant
Historical Society, Squan Village Historical
Society, and the Union Landing Historical
Society will make this volume available to the
public.
Books also may be obtained at courtesy
desk of the Point Pleasant Beach Foodtown as
well as the Ranger Station at Fisherman's
Cove Conservation Area in Manasquan from
5 to 8 p.m. on Sunday, Aug. 20, during the
final open house showcasing the Manasquan
Inlet and surrounding area.
The limited edition Manasquan Inlet 75th Anniversary Commemorative History
booklet is available, free of charge, throughout the area, including at The Coast
Star on Broad Street. Members of the commemorative book committee included
John Belding, John Burke, John Devereux, David DuPre, Kathleen Ferris Heim,
Mary Birckhead Ware and Jerry Woolley.
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THE COAST STAR, THURSDAY, AUGUST 17, 2006
This week’s question:
Street Beat
“Seeing my teacher, Mrs.
VanWickle.”
JOHN ELLICOTT
MANASQUAN
“I’m excited about math.”
CLARK ELLICOTT
MANASQUAN
“What are you looking forward to
about the first day of school?”
“I am looking forward to
seeing my friends.”
“I’m excited to see what
friends are in my class.”
“I want to meet the new
kids.”
BAILEY ELLICOTT
MANASQUAN
BRENDAN REILLY
MANASQUAN
JAMES REILLY
MANASQUAN
Doctor to perform National
Anthem for Blueclaws game
He not only delivers babies, he
also sings. Alfred Parchment,
M.D., board certified OB/GYN
on staff at Kimball Medical
Center, Lakewood, will sing the
National Anthem for the
Lakewood
BlueClaws
on
Thursday, Aug. 17 as part of
Kimball
Medical
Center’s
Physician Night.
Dr. Parchment volunteered to
represent the hospital and sing
the National Anthem to open the
BlueClaws’ home game.
He
considers it a great honor. “I’m
really looking forward it,” he
said. “I’m excited.”
Dr.
Parchment has been singing
since his childhood and regularly
sings at the church that he and
his family attend.
When asked if he felt any anxiety about picking up the microphone in front of such a large
crowd he replied, “No, not at all.
I attended the Naval Academy
prior to going to medical school.
I was a member of the Glee Club
there and we were always
singing in front of large crowds.
I’m used to it and I’m proud to
have this opportunity.”
Fans of the Lakewood
BlueClaws baseball team will
have the opportunity to enjoy the
game, meet Dr. Parchment and
learn about others on the exceptional medical staff of Kimball
Medical Center on Thursday,
Aug.
17
when
Kimball
Physicians’ Night takes place at
First Energy Park in Lakewood.
Beginning at 6 p.m. when the
gates open, several Kimball
Medical Center and Saint
Barnabas Behavioral Health
Center physicians will be on
hand for fans to learn of the
exceptional services they provide.
Physicians participating in
Physicians’ Night include podiatrists Dr. Christopher Blakeslee,
Dr. Richard Lesser and Dr. David
Bell; internal medicine specialists Dr. John Sersanti and Dr.
Michael Sher; orthopedic surgeon Dr. Andrew Harrison; cardiologist Dr. Rupal Dumasia;
hematology and oncology spe-
cialist Dr. Lena Dumasia; urologist Dr. Charles S. Tomaszewski;
otolaryngology specialist Dr.
Syed
Jaffari;
and
obstetrician/gynecologists Dr.
David Morgan, Dr. Didi Salloum,
Dr. Gary Greenstein and Dr.
Alfred
Parchment.
Representatives from the Saint
Barnabas Health Care Link will
also be on hand to provide information on their services.
The physicians will have
information about their practices,
specific fields of medicine,
health information and free giveaways.
The BlueClaws will be taking
on the Hagerstown Suns at 7:05
p.m. and Dancing Christopher
will provide entertainment. The
BlueClaws special evening promotion for this game is beer tasting night.
For more information on ticket
sales for this event go to
www.lakewoodblueclaws.com.
To learn more about the physicians on staff at Kimball Medical
Center, call the Saint Barnabas
Health Care Link at (888) SBHS123.
“I’m not really looking forward to going back to
school.”
— PICNIC—
From Page 2
were the twice weekly visits from
Tom the ice cream man and the
huge “Get Wet Day” that was held
on July 21. Members of the
Brielle Fire Department arrived
that day to spray water on the children as they played on water rides
that were brought in especially for
the occasion.
On rainy or especially hot days,
movies were shown indoors and
activities such as bubble-blowing,
bead art, freeze tag and more were
enjoyed by the children.
Debra Staziak also returned
with her “Aspiring Young Artists”
program, Mr. Trimble said.
At the end of the program, each
child received a T-shirt and 16page yearbook, which contained
collages with over 80 black and
white photographs from the summer’s events.
Mr. Trimble wanted to thank his
staff, which included counselors
Kevin Gambrino, Kerrin Galinis,
Jared Morris and Alexandra
No damage or
injury from
trash can fire
On the morning of Friday, Aug.
11, the Bradley Beach Police
Dept. received a call regarding a
possible house fire at 302 Bradley
Boulevard.
The fire department was dispatched to respond and the Avonby-the-Sea Fire Dept. was called
for mutual aid.
According to Deputy Chief
Leonard Guida, the fire, which
was believed to have started in the
kitchen trash can from a lit cigarette, was already extinguished
upon the arrival of the fire department.
“There was just some lingering
smoke in the kitchen,” Deputy
Chief Guida added.
There was no structural damage done and the resident of the
house, Helen Zakari, 93, suffered
no injuries.
PAT REILLY
MANASQUAN
Miller. Junior counselors Mike
Denniston, Krista Duerr, Emily
Bessemer, Elise Kelly, Bryson
McTighe, Brad Newman, Billy
Dudley and Kathleen Woods also
added their “talents and enthusiasm to the program,” Mr. Trimble
said.
In addition to expressing gratitude to the staff and Recreation
Commissioner John Devereux,
Mr. Trimble also wanted to thank
Superintendent Joseph Torrone
and his staff at Brielle Elementary
School for their assistance.
“One of the great joys in life
and work is to be surrounded by
positive people and I’ve got that
with everyone I work with in
Brielle Recreation, from the
school to my staff,” he said.
Heights tennis
tournament
dates set
This year’s Dog Days of
Summer tennis tournament is
scheduled for Aug. 26 and 27 and
Sept. 2 and 3. The draw party will
be held at the Columns in Avon
on Aug. 24 from 7 to 9 p.m.
The fee for playing is $80 per
team, which includes a T-shirt,
two rounds of tennis and admission to the draw party. Donations
of $25 will be accepted to attend
the draw party only.
Match play will take place on
the newly resurfaced courts in
Spring
Lake
Heights.
Applications for the event will be
available by mail for past competitors, and at Heights borough
hall, the Atlantic Club tennis
facility in Wall and at Good
Sports in Wall.
The money raised goes toward
children's emergent needs in and
around Spring Lake Heights. It
also funds three $1,000 college
scholarships for graduating high
school students.
To become a sponsor, call Mike
Matecki at 732-449-7254 or 908693-6061. To become a volunteer,
call Elizabeth Matecki at 732449-7254.
THE COAST STAR, THURSDAY, AUGUST 17, 2006
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Allaire Village slates Antique Auto Show
Photo courtesy of Sander Kelman
Snow getting into the attics of houses in the Four Seasons has been a major problem for residents. A homeowner on Morningstar Road is shown using a tape measure to show a 13 inch drift
of snow in his attic.
— PROBLEMS —
From Page 13
K. Hovnanian organization has
generally had to be dragged,
kicking and screaming, to fix
many of the deficiencies that still
persist here, seven to nine years
after the homes were originally
built. State investigations, newspaper and TV exposes, and some
litigation has been necessary to
get those things done that have
been fixed,” he said.
— DELAYED —
From Page 15
with the United States District
Court for New Jersey claiming
that Wall Township was in violation of the Federal Fair Housing
Act because it failed to provide
adequate housing for seniors.
Wall Township disagreed saying that adequate housing was
already provided in the town.
During the pre-trial period,
Sunnyside approached Wall
Township officials with a plan to
build a new, modern facility at its
same location. A settlement was
established with the agreement
that Sunnyside would come back
to the township with a new pro-
Yet, the problems continue.
“The result is that all of the
incentives placed on the development subsidiaries are to build as
quickly and cheaply as possible;
any deficiencies are someone
else's problem,” he believes.
“Inevitably, that someone else is
the home buyer.”
While there are disgruntled
homeowners in Four Seasons,
there are many homeowners who
are happy with their home and
the Four Seasons community.
Some have not had any major
problems, and if they have, they
posal.
This new application was also
denied, thus the settlement was
broken and the case returned to
court.
It was at this point that the
town began discussing the possibility of building the new facility at another location in Wall,
said Township Attorney, Roger
McLaughlin.
He said the property on
Ridgewood Road was identified
and Sunnyside agreed to the new
location.
Both Sunnyside ordinances are
scheduled to be heard at the next
township committee meeting on
Aug. 23.
are satisfied with the way the
problems have been fixed.
“I like the house,” said Mr.
Dietz. “The house is attractive.
But I wouldn’t buy a house from
them again.”
The Historic Village at Allaire
will present its 11th Annual
Antique Rolling Iron Auto Show
on Sunday, Aug. 27.
The show is open to all vehicles
manufactured from 1981 and
before. Trophies will be awarded
to vehicles in many classes including foreign cars, American cars,
custom cars, modified cars, street
rods, trucks, modified trucks and
antique motorcycles. In this show,
age and beauty are one in the
same.
There will be unique antique
vehicles, many that could not be
seen at any other shows.
For the early arrivals, the first
200 vehicles will receive a dash
plaque. There are 41 unique trophies, combining People’s Choice,
the Historic Village at Allaire
Guilds and Directors will be
awarded to the winners in each
class. There will be Three Special
Best of Show trophies sponsored
by Ocean First Bank of Wall,
Kelle Chevrolet of Farmingdale
and Connelly, Campion and
Wright of Belmar, that will go to
the vehicles with the most people’s choice votes.
This show takes place in the
parking lot of Allaire State Park,
next to the Pine Creek Railroad.
There will be plenty of macadam,
with shade and grass to keep the
vehicles dust-free, and of course,
keep the spectators cool and comfortable. John and Debbie “O,”
will be the food vendors providing
hot dogs, hamburgers, French
fries, italian ice, soda, funnel cake
and much more.
A state parking fee of $5 is in
effect for spectator cars. Show
vehicles are $12 pre-registered by
Aug. 19 and $17, if registered the
day of the show. Registration is at
8 a.m. and trophies will be awarded at 3 p.m.
Allaire Village Incorporated has
said that the Annual Antique
Rolling Iron Car Show has
become one of the premiere shows
of the Jersey Shore area, with over
300 vehicles displayed and thousands of spectators attending. This
is a show not to miss.
This event is not just a car show.
All visitors are encouraged to visit
the Historic Village at Allaire
while they are there to walk
through the buildings, shop at the
General Store and learn about life
in the 1830’s. There is a picnic
area, hiking trails and visitors can
take a train ride aboard the Pine
Creek Railroad for a charge of $3.
Children can fish in the pond
and observe the authentically
dressed museum interpreters as
well as the visiting carpenters and
blacksmith shops, where they can
see demonstrations of each craft.
The village tells a story of life
there 170 years ago, a creative
learning experience for all to see
in the restored 1830’s iron manufacturing community.
This event is a fund-raiser to
benefit the historic and educational programs presented by the nonprofit organization, Allaire Village
Incorporated. Allaire Village Inc.
is licensed by the State of New
Jersey to operate the 40-acre, state
owned Historic Village at Allaire,
site of James P. Allaire’s Howell
Iron Works Company in the
1830’s. It receives no regular state
funding towards the educational
programming presented throughout the year, but is entirely supported through private donations,
membership fees, patronage of its
retail stores, fund-raising events
and a special grant from the New
Jersey Historical Commission.
Historic Village at Allaire is
located on Route 524/Atlantic
Avenue. in Wall Township. For
more
information,
contact
Historic Village at Allaire during
business hours, Monday through
Friday, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at 732919-3500 or visit www.allairevillage.org.
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THE COAST STAR, THURSDAY, AUGUST 17, 2006
Doo Wop concert at
Allaire State Park
The “Sounds of the Street”
bring their special musical talents
to the Historic Village at Allaire in
the air-conditioned chapel. This is
the third concert in a continuation
of the mini-concert series being
offered by Allaire Village in 2006.
Anyone who is a fan of Doo-Wop
Oldies will enjoy the five members of the “Sounds of the Street”
singing a cappella with songs like
“In the Still of the Night.” “Have
You Heard” and many other songs
of the 1950s mad famous by
groups like the Dubbs, the
Duprees, The Juve 5, Johnny
Miestro and Larry Chance and the
Earls and many others.
The concerts will take place in
the Allaire Village Chapel in
Allaire State Park on Aug. 18 at 8
p.m. and Aug. 19 at 8 p.m.
Advance ticket purchase is
requested as seating is limited.
Tickets are $12 per person, and
are available by calling the Allaire
Village ticket office at 732-9193500. Please have your credit card
ready. This is an excellent way to
have an enjoyable evening of
music and help Allaire Village
continue their educational and
interpretive programs in the
Historic Village.
The Historic Village at Allaire
is located in Allaire State Park on
Route 524 [4265 Atlantic Ave.] on
the border of Wall Township and
Farmingdale.
For more information contact
the Historic Village at Allaire
office during business hours,
Monday through Friday, 9 a.m. to
5 p.m. or visit www.allairevillage.org.
Percussion At The Pavilion
LAUREN PARKER, The Coast Star
Listeners gathered on the deck of the Sea Girt pavilion as the percussion section of the 75piece Harry Eichhorn Band performed last Wednesday evening.
Sidewalk Sale Coming
LAUREN PARKER, The Coast Star
Though the streets are quiet now, they will not be this weekend when The Greater Spring
Lake Chamber of Commerce Sidewalk Sale takes place on Saturday, Aug. 19 from 10 a.m. to
5p.m. in the Third Avenue Shopping district.
THE COAST STAR, THURSDAY, AUGUST 17, 2006
Irish Festival
set for Sept. 16
at Army Camp
The Patrick Torphy Division of
the New Jersey Ancient Order of
Hibernians [AOH], in Monmouth
County, has announced its plans
for the Eighth Annual Irish
Festival at the Jersey Shore.
New Jersey Assemblyman Joe
Cryan [D-20] has been selected as
this year’s festival chieftain.
The festival will be held at the
Sea Girt National Guard Training
Center on Saturday, Sept. 16,
from 10 a.m. till 6 p.m., rain or
shine.
“This year our festival will be
even greater. We are now selecting our liturgy for Mass, as well
as the music, vendors, cultural
exhibits and much more," said
Rob Hughes, AOH division president, and Jack Sullivan, festival
chairman, in a written statement.
The event will open with a
Catholic Mass commemorating
the nine Hibernians from New
Jersey who died in the attacks on
the World Trade Center complex
on Sept. 11, 2001. New Jersey
State AOH Chaplain Father
Daniel Cahill, from St. Ann's
Church in Keansburg, will celebrate the Mass. Father Dan will
have his famous bell choir in
attendance.
Musical performers at this
year’s festival will include
Seanachai, Willie Lynch, Bantry
Boys, Bogside Rouges, The
McCabes and Round The House.
Ceili music will be played by
Patty Furlong, and bagpipe bands
will also perform. Joe Finn will be
the master of ceremonies.
There will also be a Ceili tent
with live music from noon to 6
p.m.
There will be a children’s area,
an Irish shopping village, step
dancing, an Irish heritage tent, an
Irish food court and an Irish pub
featuring great music.
Tickets are $7 in advance and
$10 at the gate. For tickets, sponsorship and vendor information,
call 732-291-3239. Ticket payments may be mailed to AOH
Div. 2, P.O. Box 913, New
Monmouth, 07748.
Going Up
LAUREN PARKER, The Coast Star
Sea Girt resident Grace Boriotti, 6, climbed a wall at the National Guard Training Center during last week’s Sea Girt Family Picnic.
Tasty Cotton Candy
Horan elected
to board of
N.J. chamber
Sea Girt resident Gary S. Horan
was recently elected to serve a
three-year term on the board of
directors of the New Jersey
Chamber of Commerce.
Mr. Horan is the president and
CEO of Trinitas Health and
Hospital, a 531-bed hospital system that was formed from a merger of St. Elizabeth Hospital,
Elizabeth General Medical Center
and Alexian Brothers Hospital.
He was elected along with
seven other members of the chamber.
“New Jersey is facing many
challenges,” said chamber president Joan Verplanck, “and we
look forward to working with our
board members on developing
solutions to the state’s problems.”
The New Jersey Chamber of
Commerce is a business advocacy
organization based in Trenton.
The mission of its board of directors is to “promote a vibrant business environment and economic
prosperity through vision, expertise and innovative solutions.”
LAUREN PARKER, The Coast Star
Raquel Castaneda served cotton candy to attendees at last week’s Sea Girt Family Picnic at
the National Guard Training Center.
Senior rec trip
to Lewisburg,
Pa. set for Dec.
The Spring Lake Heights
Senior Recreation Committee is
sponsoring a two-day trip this
December to Lewisburg, Pa. to
visit the Christkindl Market, an
authentic
outdoor
German
Christmas market.
The trip will take place on Dec.
8 and 9, and will include transportation, lodging at the Country
Inn, breakfast and dinner at
Gabriel’s and a tour of the
Victorian Slifer House, as well as
visits to see the Christmas lights
at night in the Susquehanna
Valley.
Spaces are available, and a $50
deposit is required. For more
information call Kay at 732-4492759.
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Kristyn Heck engaged to Vogels celebrate 50th anniversary
wed Douglas Ackerman
Mr. and Mrs. James J. Heck of
Brielle have announced the
engagement of their daughter,
Kristyn
Elizabeth
Heck,
Charleston, N.C., to Douglas Alan
Ackerman.
Her fiancee is the son of Martha
and
Fred
Ackerman,
of
Woodsfield, Ohio.
The bride-elect is a graduate of
the College of Charleston,
Charleston, S.C. She is currently
employed by Motley Rice Law
Firm of Mount Pleasant, S.C.
He is a Senior Master Sgt. in
the United States Air Force currently stationed in Hawaii.
KRISTYN HECK &
DOUGLAS ACKERMAN
Gloria M. “Glo” [Vanpelt] and
Ronald “Pete” Vogel, Wall
Township, celebrated their 50th
wedding anniversary on Saturday,
June 3, at an intimate dinner party
given by their children at the
Eagle Ridge Golf Club.
Mr. and Mrs. Vogel were married in 1956 in the Greenville
Methodist Church in Lakewood.
Gloria worked as a cashier for
Jersey Central Power and Light
and Ron is a certified public
accountant and managing partner
of Mohel, Vogel and Elliott CPA’s,
Pa.
They were high school sweethearts and, ironically, their senior
pictures were positioned side by
side in their high school yearbook.
Gloria and Ron are avid sports
fans, enjoy golfing with friends,
vacationing in Florida, and spending time with family. They are
members of the Eagle Oaks Golf
Club in Farmingdale.
The couple has two children,
Jeffrey of Chesterfield and Glenn
of Manchester; and one grandchild, Allison.
Helen Thompson to wed Brian Convery
Arthur
and
Dorothy
Thompson, Manasquan, have
announced the engagement of
their daughter, Helen Dorothy
Thompson, Tinton Falls, to Brian
Convery, also of Tinton Falls.
Mr. Convery is the son of
James and Barbara Convery, of
Barnegat.
Ms. Thompson is a 1996 graduate of Manasquan High School,
and graduated from The College
of New Jersey, Ewing, with a
bachelor of arts in English, history and education in 2001. She is
currently a real estate agent with
the Richard I. Wood Agency,
Manasquan.
Her fiancee is a 1996 graduate
of Piscataway High School and
graduated
from
Rutgers
University with a bachelor of science in finance, in 2000. Mr.
Convery is currently employed at
Metlife, Morristown, as a portfolio analyst.
A wedding is being planned
for March 10, 2007.
HELEN THOMPSON &
BRIAN CONVERY
MR. & MRS. RONALD “PETE” VOGEL
THE COAST STAR, THURSDAY, AUGUST 17, 2006
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MILESTONES ❖
Danielle Ayers weds Timothy Murray
Danielle
Ayers, Tacoma,
Wash. and Staff Sgt. Timothy A.
Murray, Ft. Bragg, North
Carolina, were married July 8 at
First Presbyterian Church,
Broadway, N.C. Pastor William
Boyd officiated.
The bride is the daughter of
Lisa Ayers, Tacoma, Wash.
The groom is the son of
Douglas and Veronica Murray,
The Villages, Fla., formerly of
Manasquan.
The bride was given away in
marriage by her mother.
Douglas B. Murray, the
grooms father, was the best man.
Danielle served two years in
the U.S. Army as a Medic and is
now attending the University of
North Carolina at Greensboro.
Sgt. Murray has been in the
U.S. Army since August 1996.
He is now a member of the
Special Forces, having served in
Bosnia, Kosovo, Africa and with
the U.S. Embassy in Yemen. He
received a Purple Heart for
wounds received while assigned
to the 325 Airborne Infantry in
Iraq for 13 months. He is currently studying Arabic as part of
his training for the Green Berets.
Sgt. Murray met his future
wife when she was serving as a
Medic in the same unit in Iraq.
The couple will honeymoon in
Mexico after completing their
next assignment.
SGT. & MRS. TIMOTHY MURRAY
Christina Levari to wed Andrew W. Ker
Joanne and Henry Levari,
Buena, have announced the
engagement of their daughter,
Christina Joanne Levari, to
Andrew William Ker, son of Ms.
Maryanne Ker, Neptune and Mr.
William Ker, Allenwood.
Christina is a graduate of
Sacred Heart High School,
Vineland, and graduated from
The College of New Jersey,
Ewing, with a bachelor of science in engineering science. She
received her MBA from St.
CHRISTINA LEVARI &
ANDREW KER
Joseph’s
University,
Philadelphia. She is currently
employed as a staff engineer for
PSE&G, Moorestown.
Her fiancee is a graduate of
Albright College, Reading, Pa.
where he received a bachelor of
science degree in history and
film. He is currently employed as
a high school history teacher in
West Long Branch.
A wedding is being planned
for July 21, 2007 in Galloway
Township.
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Big Sea Day, Bucket of Fun
LAUREN PARKER, The Coast Star
Luke Brown, 7, of Manasquan, took part in the children’s
games at Big Sea Day on Saturday.
Making A Big Splash
LAUREN PARKER, The Coast Star
Colin Martin, 6 1/2, of Spring Lake invented a new dive at
the pool while bathing there earlier this week.
— BOAT PARADE —
From Page 1
ice cream while pizza will also
be for sale. Carlson’s Corner and
Mike’s at the Inlet will also be
open late that evening to accommodate the crowds with their full
menus. Jenkinson’s on the Point
Beach side will also be offering
special meal packages.
At 6 p.m., there will be an
official ribbon cutting on the
water to celebrate the anniversary of the opening of the inlet.
The ribbon will stretch from the
mouth of the inlet from the stage
set on Third Avenue to the Coast
Guard boat in the water which
will have county and state dignitaries aboard.
At approximately 7 p.m.,
plaques will be presented to the
top winner of the Manasquan
Inlet Memory Contest, as well as
to the four students who were
recognized for their essays on
the inlet. These presentations
will take place in the VIP area,
located near the intersection of
Third Avenue and Riverside
Drive.
At 7:20 p.m., there will be a
blessing of the fleet on both
sides of the inlet. On the
Manasquan side of the inlet the
blessing will be given by the
Rev. Steve Davis of First
Presbyterian
Church
in
Manasquan, the Rev. Stanley
Lukaszewski from St. Denis
Roman Catholic Church in
Manasquan and Deacon Denis
Saake from St. Mark’s Church in
Sea Girt.
The boat parade begins at 7:30
p.m. with the Grand Marshall
boat, the Jamaica II, leading the
parade. The boats will be judged
in four categories. In each category there will be two sub-categories, one for boats over 30 feet
and the other 30 feet and under.
The four categories the boats
will be judged on are most patriotic, most unique, most effective
lighting and best in entertainment.
The judges will be representatives from the parade sponsors:
The Coast Star and The Ocean
Star, Jack Baker’s Lobster
Shanty and Wharfside, Squan
Tavern, Manasquan Savings
Bank, Ocean First Bank,
Bogan’s Deep Sea Fishing,
Century 21 Herbertsville Real
Estate, The Schoor DePalma
Community Foundation and
Manasquan Elks BPOE No.
2534.
The overall winner of the boat
parade will receive a large trophy donated by John Renna at
Allaire Enterprises and two tickets for a ride on the Horizon
Blue Cross Blue Shield blimp on
Saturday, Sept. 30.
At 9 p.m. the night will cap off
with a fireworks display sponsored by Jenkinsons.
The rain date for the event is
scheduled for Wednesday, Aug.
23.
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THE COAST STAR, THURSDAY, AUGUST 17, 2006
Heart recipient creates bond
with family of his donor
— FROM PAGE 1 —
make it, someone else had to die.
You don't want to wish that upon
anyone," he said.
After several false alarms, Mr.
Schneider received the heart of
39-year-old Army reservist, Sgt.
Seitz, on June 25, 2001. Ten days
after his transplant surgery, Mr.
Schneider was released from the
hospital, and quickly resumed
his normal life with his wife,
Beverly, and two sons, Hans and
Chris.
"I have no physical limitations, I am able to work, exercise
and do all the hobbies I did
before I got sick, like motorcycle
and ride hot air balloons," he
said. One year after his transplant, Mr. Schneider even competed in the 5K cycling event in
the Transplant Olympics held in
Orlando, Florida.
Mr. Schneider was ever grateful to have been given a second
chance and wanted to bestow his
gratitude on the donor's family.
So, he contacted Donors for Life,
a group that functions as the
intermediary between donors and
recipients.
"The loss of their son was my
gain, how do you thank someone
for that?" said Mr. Schneider.
It was a very difficult and
emotional letter to write, but he
did his best to thank the Seitz
family for such a miraculous gift
and requested to meet them in
person.
"I needed to meet them to
complete the circle of the experience I went through," he said.
Although many donors never
respond to recipient's letters and
vice versa, Brenda Seitz had
been anxious to know if the operation had worked and if her son's
wish of being an organ donor had
come true.
"Two weeks before he died,
we were sitting in the yard having a casual conversation when
Robbie reminded me that if anything should ever happen to him
he wanted to have his organs
donated and be cremated," she
said.
Robert Seitz was a healthy 39year-old with two teenage boys,
a new wife and a 3-month-old
son. Death was the last thing
Mrs. Seitz saw in her son's
future.
However, tragedy was waiting
around the corner.
Sgt. Seitz was stationed at Fort
Indiantown
Gap,
near
Harrisburg, in Pennsylvania.
While training a new reservist on
how operate a pan scraper — a
large piece of heavy equipment
used in excavation work — the
machine jerked, and he fell and
broke his neck.
"While he was in the hospital
and I knew he wasn't going to
make it, the doctor put his arms
around me and said that he
shouldn't even still be alive, it
was just that his heart is so
strong. That is when it hit me
like a lighting bolt that he wanted to be an organ donor," Mrs.
Seitz said, who donated all of his
bodily organs for transplant.
When she received the letter
from Mr. Schneider through the
Gift of Life foundation she felt
her prayers were had been
answered. Although the foundation recommends donors and
recipients meet on neutral
ground, Mrs. Seitz welcomed the
Schneiders to her home in
Tremont, Penn. to meet all of
Robert's family.
Both the Schneiders and the
Seitz's recall how nervous they
felt and the uncertainty of what
to say or expect. When they were
finally introduced they were all
overcome with emotion and
many tears were shed.
"I can remember Art [Robert's
father] saying that at least something good came from this
tragedy, and I realized that things
were going to be OK," Mr.
Schneider said.
From that day forward, the
Seitz's and Schneider's have
formed such a loving bond that
they consider one another family.
They see each other four times a
year and talk every two weeks on
the phone. The Schneider's have
seen both of Robert's sons graduate from high school and have
visited his wife and youngest son
in Germany, where they live now.
This past week Mrs. Seitz stayed
with the Schneider's, enjoying a
summer vacation on the Jersey
Shore.
"John is now more or less a
part of me," said Mrs. Seitz. Her
relationship with Mr. Schneider
has helped ease the pain of her
loss by knowing that a part her
son is still alive and he has given
life to someone else.
Mr. Schneider has a newfound
appreciation for the kindness of
people, like the Seitz family, and
is also grateful for the support of
his family, including his wife and
children and mother, Theresa, the
restaurant’s customers, other
organ recipients who came to
comfort him, as well as the hundreds of strangers who prayed
for him every Sunday at churches all over the area.
"Every morning when I wake
up, work during the day, and
before I go to bed, I am fully
aware that I have somebody
else's heart and that it's a gift,
that it's on loan, and that it gave
me the opportunity to continue
with my life," said Mr.
Schneider, who has become an
activist for organ donor awareness.
Currently, there are twice as
many people waiting for hearts
than will actually receive them,
and Mr. Schneider is working
hard to increase the number of
donors. He works with the Donor
for Life program in South Jersey
and the Sharing Network in
North Jersey educating people on
the benefits of organ transplants.
"I want people to know that it
works and that one donor can
save up to 77 people. Tragedies
happen everyday, but if you can
salvage something to save lives,
it's worth it, and it's as easy as
filling out a donor card," he said.
Full Speed Ahead
LAUREN PARKER, The Coast Star
Approximately 250 children participated in the fun run and other activities at the Sea Girt 5K
last week.
THE COAST STAR, THURSDAY, AUGUST 17, 2006
Big Sea Day, Bags of Fun
LAUREN PARKER, The Coast Star
Presley Stevenson, 11, of Manasquan, took park in the
sack race at Big Sea Day on Saturday.
— MENU —
From Page 17
Dr. Turner advised the board the
policy pertains only to what the
school itself will make available
for the students. The school cannot intervene with foods sent
from home that may be high in
sugar or fat content, he said.
Board member Elizabeth
Baker questioned what will happen with
Parent Teacher
Organization-sponsored events
such as the ice cream social. The
board discussed having to alter
the menu to include foods such
as bagels or low-sugar, low-calorie snacks.
Another item discussed at the
meeting was the school lunch
program biosecurity plan. Dr.
Turner explained that a biosecurity team exists, made up of
school employees and volunteers
who monitor and ensure that
food is maintained in a secure
environment. Dr. Turner assured
the board that Bradley Beach is
“indeed secure” and “there has
not been any tampering of any
kind.” He also added the food
service biosecurity management
plan is a requirement of the New
Jersey
Department
of
Agriculture.
In other board news from
Tuesday’s meeting:
Avon Actors Shine In Shakespeare Show
Photo courtesy of Linda Henderson
Avon-by-the-Sea residents, Tom Shannon [left] who played Tom Snout and Reid Henderson,
as Franci Flute and Thisbe, took part in the Spring Lake Shakespeare in The Park production of
“A Midsummer Night’s Dream” directed by Sandra McLaughlin.
• Dr. Turner stated new and
repaired musical instruments
will be available for music class
from the Music and Arts Center,
Horsham, Pa.
“New instruments haven’t
been purchased in quite some
time,” he added.
An increase in storage space
behind the auditorium’s stage
will be utilized to house the
instruments.
• The board approved the
appointment of Joann Mack to
the position of teacher aide
effective Sept. 1 through June 30
2007.
• Melissa Wheeler was
approved by the board to the
position of teacher aide, effective
Sept. 1 through June 30 2007.
• The board approved the
appointment of the registered
substitute teachers for 20062007 school year. Ms. Baker
inquired if substitutes should be
reviewed if they haven’t worked
with children for an extended
period of time and if that should
be of concern. Dr. Turner
explained that often substitute
teachers are on more than one
school district’s list so even if
they have not subbed at Bradley
Beach for a while, there is a good
chance they have been at other
schools more recently.
• Dr. Turner informed the
board that soon all policies
regarding the school district will
be available online.
In board president Paul
Charette’s report, he exclaimed,
“Look out because the school
year is coming real quick!” Mr.
Charette also told the board how
important back to school night
is, adding it is one good chance
for teachers and employees of
the school to meet parents.
He also requested the presence
of a translator during the evening
to ensure that students and parents of different heritage backgrounds feel as comfortable as
possible.
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Fr. Bill Lago Blesses Water
Photo courtesy of Catherine Klug
On Aug. 15 in celebration of the Feast of the Assumption, Friar
Bill Lago, of St. Elizabeth’s Parish in Avon, led the congregation
to the Lincoln Avenue Beach for the blessing of the water.
— BENEFITS —
From Page 1
benefits through their employer.
Councilman Garruzzo, who
works for Smith Barney, is not
offered benefits through the
company.
“It became clear to us that the
majority of the residents wanted
to see the program end,” said
Councilman Tim Shaak.
“Our responsibility is to the
residents of this town and that’s
what last night’s decision was all
about,” said Councilman Shaak
on Tuesday. “Residents brought
us their concern, we listened to
them and we changed the policy
in response to their concerns.”
Express your opinions
in a letter to the editor!
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THE COAST STAR, THURSDAY, AUGUST 17, 2006
Obituaries
Helen M. Fisher
Ocean Grove resident Helen M.
Fischer, formerly of Wall
Township and Belmar, died
Tuesday, Aug. 8 in the Manor By
The Sea Nursing Home in
Neptune.
She was 91 years old.
Mrs. Fisher worked in the manufacturing plant of the R.C.A.
Corporation in Harrison for 30
years. Later in life she worked as a
private caregiver in the Belmar
area for over 20 years.
Born in Newark, Mrs. Fisher
lived in Kearny for 18 years, Wall
Township for 30 years and Belmar
for two years, before moving to
Ocean Grove five years ago.
Helen loved living at the Shore
where she could indulge her great
passion for the beach and the
ocean.
She is survived by her sons,
Kevin Fisher of Bradley Beach
and Paul Fisher of Hopatcong
and his wife, Rosemary; her
granddaughter, Cindy Ann Fisher
of Hopatcong; and her brother,
Edward Powers of Chatham.
Interment was at St. Catharine’s
Cemetery, Wall.
In lieu of flowers, donations to
the Fellowship Fund of the
Methodist Home, Ocean Grove
07753 would be appreciated.
Reilly Funeral Home, Belmar,
handled the arrangements.
Roofing and Siding of Belmar
which he started over 50 years
ago. He was a member of the
Asbury Park, Wall Elks Club
Lodge No. 128. Born in Spring
Lake, he lived in Belmar for 62
years.
Mr. Cory is predeceased by his
parents, Helen and Charles Cory
and his five siblings, Carrie, Doris,
Olive, Zane and Corbett.
Mr. Cory is survived by his wife
of 62 years, Doris Cory; his son,
Gene Cory, Belmar and his wife
Nancy; his daughter, Lynda S.
Westerfield, Wall and her husband, Martin; his five grandchildren, Christopher Cory, Wall and
his wife, Jennifer, Michael Cory
of Liberty, S.C. and his wife Lee,
Brian Cory of Pearl River, N.Y.
and his wife, Sheila, and Kelly and
Jennifer
Westerfield,
Wall
Township; his five great-grandchildren, Ryan and Lindsay Cory
of Wall Township, Hannah and
Catherine Cory of Liberty, S.C.,
Angela Westerfield, Wall, and a
baby on the way in Pearl River,
N.Y.; and his sister, Everdeen K.
Yetman, Tucson, Ariz.
Entombment was at Monmouth
Memorial Park Mausoleum,
Tinton Falls.
In lieu of flowers, donations to
the Belmar First Aid Squad would
be appreciated.
Reilly Funeral Home, Belmar,
handled the arrangements.
____________________ ____________________
Frank A. Pinnella Jr.
Charles E. Cory
Belmar resident Charles E.
Cory died Wednesday, Aug. 9 in
Jersey Shore University Medical
Center, Neptune.
He was 82 years old.
Mr. Cory was the owner of Cory
Manasquan resident Frank A.
Pinnella Jr. died on Monday, Aug.
14 in Medical
Center of Ocean
County, Brick.
He was 82 years
old.
Frank had been employed as a
machinist at E.A.I. Corporation,
Eatontown for 25 years before
retiring in 1985.
He was a faithful Communicant
of St. Denis Roman Catholic
Church, Manasquan and an Army
veteran of WWII.
Born in Brooklyn, N.Y., he had
lived in Manasquan for the past 55
years.
He was predeceased by his loving wife Evelyn L. [nee Meli]
Pinnella in April 2004; and his
two brothers, Bernard and Peter
Pinnella.
Surviving are his seven sons,
Joseph J. and Tracy of Santa
Barbara, Calif., Donald F. and
Cheryl of Westcliffe, Colo.,
Stephen K. and Terry of Cairo,
N.Y., Jeffrey D. and Terri of
Brielle, David R. and Mary Beth
of Manasquan, Kenneth D. of Fort
Collins, Colo., and Michael G.
and Jennifer of Milltown, N.Y.; a
brother, Joseph, of Toms River;
and a sister, Paula Martin, of
Florida; and 18 grandchildren and
six great-grandchildren.
Funeral service will be today at
10:15 a.m. from the O’Brien
Funeral Home, Highway 35 at
New Bedford Rd., Wall, followed
by a Mass of Christian Burial at
11 a.m. at St. Denis Roman
Catholic Church, 90 Union Ave.,
Manasquan.
Interment
St.
Catharine’s Cemetery, Wall. In
lieu of flowers the family requests
donations to the National Multiple
Sclerosis Society, Mid-Jersey
Chapter, 246 Monmouth Road
Oakhurst,
07755. Donation
envelopes are available at the
funeral home.
____________________
Hazel E. Bonagura
Belmar resident Hazel E.
[Young] Bonagura
died
Tuesday,
Aug. 15 in Jersey
Shore University
Medical Center,
Neptune.
She was 84 years old.
Mrs. Bonagura was a former
member of the Rosary Society and
the Prime Timers Leisure Group
of Saint Rose Church in Belmar.
An Army Air Corps Veteran of
World War II, Mrs. Bonagura was
a radio technician stateside during
the war.
Hazel was also an artist and
painter. Born in Newton, N.C.,
Mrs. Bonagura lived in Clifton
from 1947 until 1980 when she
moved to her summer home in
Belmar.
She is survived by her husband
of 60 years, Peter J. Bonagura; her
three sons, John D. Bonagura of
Columbus, Ohio and his wife
Debra, David M. Bonagura of
Brick, and his wife, Sandra, and
Gregory P. Bonagura of Fort
Meyers Fla. and Belmar; her
daughter, Susan B. Sanders of
Lee, N.H. and her husband Bruce;
her two grandchildren, Kelsey and
Tyler Sanders; and two brothers,
Howard Young of Maiden, N.C.
and Ralph Young of Miami Fla.
Visitation will be today from 2
to 4 and 7 to 9 p.m. at the Reilly
Funeral Home, 801 D St., Belmar.
Relatives and friends are invited to
attend the funeral from the funeral
home on Friday at 8:30 a.m. A
Mass of Christian Burial will be
offered at 9:30 a.m. at Saint
Margaret’s Roman Catholic
Church,
Spring
Lake.
Entombment will be at Holmdel
Cemetery Mausoleum, Holmdel.
In lieu of flowers, donations to the
American Diabetes Association
would be appreciated.
____________________
Victor A. Florio
Leisure Village East, Lakewood
resident Victor A. Florio, whose
daughter lives in Manasquan,
died Tuesday, Aug. 15 in Meridian
Hospice, Brick.
He was 70 years old.
He was born in Caldwell. He
owned and operated the Gates Bait
& Tackle Shop
and Motel in Point
Pleasant Beach for
22 years.
A longtime resident of Point
Pleasant Beach he was captain and
owner of the charter fishing boat,
Barvic. He also worked for Sterns
Transportation, Wall and was a
member of the Marine Corps.
He is survived by his loving
wife of 48 years, Barbara Florio;
and his five children, son Frank
and his wife Sharon, of Point
Pleasant,
daughter
Susan
Thompson and her husband Kevin
of Manasquan, son Daniel and his
wife Caryl of Middletown, son
Donald and his wife Teresa of
Brick and son John and wife Amy
of Denville. He is a cherished
grandfather of 13 grandchildren;
Beth, Caitlin, Lauren, Nicholas,
Lindsey, Matthew, Luke, John
David, and Arianna Florio as well
as Meridith, Kelly, Ashley and
Megan Thompson.
Relatives and friends will be
received at the O’Brien Funeral
Home Highway 35 at New
Bedford Rd. Wall, on Friday from
2 to 4 and 7 to 9 p.m. A memorial
service will be offered at 8:45 pm.
In lieu of flowers, memorial
donations may be made to the
Michael J. Fox Foundation for
Parkinson’s Research Grand
Central Station PO Box 4777,
New York, NY 10163 or to the
American Heart Assoc. 2550 US
Hwy 1, North Brunswick, 089024301.
____________________
Minnie Brown Ervin
Manasquan resident Minnie
Brown Ervin died Wednesday,
Aug. 9.
She was 96 years old.
Minnie enjoyed crocheting, gardening and loved to cook, especially baking.
Her biggest joy in life was
spending time with her family,
especially her grandchildren and
great-grandchildren.
Minnie was a member of the
West Grove United Methodist
Church, Neptune. She worked for
many years
at Signalight
in Neptune as
an assembly
line worker.
Minnie
was born in
Oakhurst and
lived
in
Neptune for
30 years before moving to
Manasquan, where she lived for
37 years.
Minnie was predeceased by her
husband of 41 years, John Ervin,
in 1965.
She is survived by a daughter
and son-in-law, Dorothy and Al
Temple of Manasquan; two sons
and two daughters-in-law, John W.
and Vilma Ervin of Sarasota, Fla.,
and Robert J. and Elizabeth Ervin
of Holiday, Fla.; a sister-in-law,
Betty Ervin of Villa; 10 grandchildren and 20 great-grandchildren;
and six great-great-grandchildren.
Interment was at Glendola
Cemetery, Wall.
Orender Family Home for
Funerals handled the arrangements.
In lieu of flowers donations can
be made to Family & Children
Services, 191 Bath Ave., Long
Branch, 07740. Condolences can
be e-mailed to www.orenderfamilyhome.com.
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Houses of Worship
THE CHURCH IN BRIELLE
821 Riverview Drive, Brielle
Guest Minister Rev. Frederick
Mold, Jr. will lead the Sunday
Worship Service at 10 a.m. Nursery
care is provided for up to 3 years old.
On Monday, August 21, Al-Anon
meets at 7:30p.m.
On Friday, August 25, Overeaters
Anonymous meets at 10 a.m.
For more information, call the
church at 732-528-7070, or visit
http://churches.rca.org/brielle.
ST. CATHARINE ROMAN
CATHOLIC CHURCH
Spring Lake
Weekday masses will be held
Monday through Saturday 6:45 a.m.
and 8 a.m.
Weekend masses on Saturday will
be held at 4:30 p.m. at St. Catherine
Chapel
Sunday masses will be held at 7
a.m., 9 a.m., 10:30 a.m., and 12 noon
at St. Catherine Chapel Confessions
will be held Saturdays, 3-4 p.m. at St.
Catherine Chapel For more information, call 732-449-5765.
ST. ANDREW’S UNITED
METHODIST CHURCH
West Lake and Fourth avenues,
Spring Lake
Worship services are at 9:30 a.m.,
followed by coffee hour.
The Rev. Murphy has a children’s
message, so all children are welcome.
Nursery and Sunday School begins
at 9:30 a.m. All children are to meet
in the sanctuary.
Contemporary evening services
will be held on Saturday at 5 p.m.
Call 732-449-5147 for further
information.
CALVARY BAPTIST CHURCH
13th Avenue and E Street
Belmar
Sunday-morning blended worship
service begins at 10 a.m.
Sunday-morning Bible classes for
all ages are at 11:15 a.m.
For more information on smallgroup, youth and children’s activities,
and Bible studies, call 732-681-0940.
ST. ROSE ROMAN
CATHOLIC CHURCH
Belmar
Schedule of Masses is as follows:
Saturday Vigil Mass, 5 p.m.; Sunday
Masses, 7, 8:30, 10 and 11:30 a.m.,
and 5 p.m.
GRACE TABERNACLE
2014 Main St., Lake Como
Christ-centered worship and biblical truth is proclaimed every Sunday
at 8:45 and 10:45 a.m. The Rev.
Randy Smith will be preaching.
A nursery program and Sunday
school are provided for children
through fifth grade.
A mid-week prayer service and
Bible study is held on Wednesdays
from 7 to 8:15 p.m. Youth group for
ages 11 to 18 also meets Wednesdays
at 6:30 p.m., as does the Good News
Club for ages 4 through the fifth
grade at 7 p.m.
For more information, call 732681-3712 or visit www.thegracetabernacle.org.
MT. OLIVE BAPTIST
CHURCH
703 17th Ave., Lake Como
Sunday school for children and
adults begins at 9 a.m.
Sunday-morning worship begins
at 10 a.m.
Wednesday-evening Bible study is
from 7:30 to 9 p.m.
The Rev. Jesse W. Evans is pastor.
For additional information, call the
church at 732-681-1730.
WALL UNITED METHODIST
CHURCH
2414 Old Mill Road
Spring Lake Heights
Sunday worship service led by the
Rev. Glenn K. Miller begins at 9:30
a.m. Nursery care is available during
the service. A Bible study is held on
Tuesday at 7 p.m. in Fellowship Hall.
Wall United Methodist Church is
located at 2414 Old Mill Road,
Spring Lake Heights, across from the
Circus Drive In, just off Highway 35.
For more information, call 732-4498287.
FIRST UNITED
METHODIST CHURCH
7th Avenue and D Street, Belmar
The blended contemporary-traditional worship service meets at 10:30
a.m. every Sunday.
Come to worship where biblically
grounded, challenging, practical messages are heard, and enjoy inspiring
and uplifting music.
For more information, phone the
church at 732-681-1385 [English].
The food pantry is open to the public
on Mondays and Thursdays 10 a.m.
to noon.
The church asks that if you have
prayer concerns, call them and their
prayer-chain ministry team will help.
FIRST PRESBYTERIAN
CHURCH
9th Avenue and E Street, Belmar
Join us for worship this summer.
Summer worship services begin at 9
a.m. Nursery Care is available. A
Christian Meditation group meets on
Mondays from 7-7:45 p.m.
For additional information, call
732-681-8685, or visit www.belmarpresbyterian.org.
CALVARY
PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH
2263 Allenwood Road, Wall
Worship service begins at 10 a.m.
Sunday school begins at 9 a.m.
Children’s church and nursery care
are available.
For more information, call 732449-8889.
GLENDOLA BIBLE CHURCH
1615 Glendola Road, Wall
Sunday school begins at 9:30 a.m.
Sunday worship for all ages begins
at 10:45 a.m. and fellowship begins at
10:30 a.m.
For further information, call 732681-3029.
ST. MICHAEL
EPISCOPAL CHURCH
Wall Township
Celebration of the Holy Eucharist
is at 8 and 10 a.m. on Sunday.
Sunday school is available for children preschool-age through eighth
grade. Nursery care is also available
for infants and toddlers. Fellowship
continues after services in the undercroft.
Newcomers are welcome.
For more information, call the
parish office at 732-681-1863.
WEST BELMAR UNITED
METHODIST CHURCH
1000 17th Ave., West Belmar
Contemporary worship service and
Sunday school are held at 9:15 a.m.
Traditional worship service is held at
11 a.m.
For more church information, call
732-681-4413.
SAINT URIEL
EPISCOPAL CHURCH
3rd Avenue and Philadelphia
Boulevard, Sea Girt
Regular services are at 8 and 9:30
a.m. Sundays. The principal service of
the day is a choral celebration of the
Holy Eucharist at 9:30 a.m. Sunday
school follows the 9:30 a.m. service.
A nursery is provided for infants
and preschool children during the
9:30 a.m. service.
Wednesday celebration of the
Holy Eucharist is offered with
prayers for healing and the laying on
of hands at 9:30 a.m.
For more information, call the
church office at 732-449-6173.
SHORE CHRISTIAN CENTER
4041 Squankum Road, Wall
Looking for a spiritual home filled
with exciting worship, influential
Bible teachings and life-lasting fellowship?
SCC offers something for anyone
“searching.” We welcome all and hope
they bring their friends!
Pastors Dewey and Ronda Friedel
welcome you to experience worship
and a life changing word.
Quench your spiritual thirst at our
many services offered: Happy Hour
on Saturday at 5 p.m. Early bird special at 8 a.m. Sundays or the main
course 10 a.m. on Sundays.
Nursery and children’s church is
provided for each service.
Coffee offered after Sunday service and brunch the first Sunday of
the month.
“Life Together Intimate house fellowship groups meet bi-weekly.
Nursery, children’s church and
Eternity Youth Ministry groups
growing in numbers and welcoming
more each day.
Wednesday mornings at 9:30 a.m.,
Bible Study is offered.
Eternity Youth Group meets
Friday evening at 7:30 p.m. with
enjoyable activities and coffee house
gatherings.
God’s Pantry collecting food,
clothing household goods, collects
and distributes groceries, following
the Saturday evening and 10 a.m.
Sunday Service.
For additional information, call the
church office at 732-938-4353 or
check
us
out
at
www.shorechristian.org.
CONGREGATION AGUDATH
ACHIM
301 McCabe Ave.
Bradley Beach
Please call 732-774-2495 for services.
TRINITY BIBLE CHURCH
Allenwood-Lakewood Road, Wall
Experience uplifting, contemporary worship, relevant teaching,
friendly atmosphere and biblically
solid messages that quench the thirst
of anyone seeking spiritual renewal.
Sunday worship starts at 10:30
a.m., with a family Bible school at
9:15 a.m. for children and adults.
“New Community” small groups
meet throughout the week in home
Bible studies.
For more information on activities
for children and youth, or other special events, contact the Rev. Lenny or
the Rev. Marc at 732-458-6210 or
visit www.TBC4Him.org.
FULL GOSPEL CHURCH
2649 East Hurley Pond Road, Wall
The Full Gospel Church welcomes everyone.
Sunday services include Christian
education at 9:30 a.m. [classes for all
ages]. The worship service is at 10:30
a.m.
Intercessory prayer is on Tuesday
at 10 a.m.
Adult Bible study is Wednesday at
7 p.m.
Royal Rangers and Missionettes,
for children 3 to 18 years old, is
Wednesday at 7 p.m.
Youth group, for youth 13 to 18
years old, is Friday at 7:30 p.m.
Prayer and outreach is Friday at
7:30 p.m.; the church welcomes all.
For information, call the church
office at 732-681-5335.
SOCIETY OF FRIENDS
Wall Township
The Religious Society of Friends
[Quakers] meets for worship at 11:15
a.m. every Sunday.
Worship is held in the Manasquan
Quaker Meeting House, Route 35 off
the Manasquan Circle.
Adult class convenes at 10 a.m.
All are welcome to attend a Peace
Vigil to be held the first and third
Fridays of the month at 7 p.m.
The Society welcomes all.
ST. DENIS ROMAN
CATHOLIC CHURCH
Route 71, Manasquan
Masses are celebrated in the
church at 4:30 p.m. on Saturdays.
Sunday Masses are celebrated at 8,
9:30, and 11 a.m. at the church and at
10 a.m. at the beach chapel.
MANASQUAN UNITED
METHODIST CHURCH
23 Church St., Manasquan
Open hearts, open minds, open
doors.
This Sunday, Aug. 20, please join
us for worship at 8:15 a.m. for Holy
Communion or a spririted worship
service at 9:30 a.m. This Sunday,
Janet Stafford’s message is “What
would You Ask For?”
Coffee hour is held following the
9:30 a.m. service.
Nursery care is provided for infants
and toddlers at this service.
For more information, call the
church at 732-223-5432.
ST. MARK ROMAN
CATHOLIC CHURCH
Sea Girt
Masses are held on Saturday at 5
p.m. and Sunday at 8 and 10 a.m. and
noon. There is a Hispanic Mass at 5
p.m. on Sunday. Daily Masses are at
7:30 and 11 a.m.
Miraculous Medal Novena will be
held after 7:30 and 11 a.m. masses on
Wednesdays.
Our Lady’s Rosary is daily after
the 7:30 and 11 a.m. masses.
The sacrament of reconciliation is
administered Saturday from 4 to 4:45
p.m. or by appointment.
For more information call the
parish office at 732-449-6364.
KING’S HARBOR
ASSEMBLY OF GOD
62 Main St., Manasquan
Children’s church for ages 3
through 9 is provided during the worship hour. Nursery is also available.
Sunday school is at 9:45 a.m. for all
ages.
For further information, call 732223-2127.
HOPE COMMUNITY CHURCH
23 Taylor Ave. [Rt. 71], Manasquan
The Rev. Joe Santucci will lead
Sunday-morning worship at 11 a.m.
Bible
study
and
prayer
Wednesdays will be from 7 to 9 p.m.
DivorceCare is Thursday evenings
at 7:30 p.m.
For more information, call 732223-4115 or visit www.hopecom.net.
HOLY TRINITY EVANGELICAL
LUTHERAN CHURCH
Main Street and Osborn Avenue,
Manasquan
On this 11th weekend after
Pentecost, the Rev. Mary Olson will
preach and preside at the 5 p.m.
Saturday service and at the 8:45 a.m.
service on Sunday. Both services are
with Holy Communion.
Holy Communion will be celebrated at the 7 a.m. service on
Wedensdays.
Coffeehouse Christians will discuss “How to Share Your Faith with
Someone” at 7 p.m. Tuesday in the
Java Moon Cafe, Rt. 35, Wall. The
Rev. Timothy A. Leitze, Assistant
Pastor will serve as moderator.
The church office is open between
the hours of 8:30 a.m. and 5 p.m.
Monday through Thursday and from
8:30 a.m. to Noon on Friday.
For more information call 732223-0533.
FIRST PRESBYTERIAN
CHURCH
16 Virginia Ave., Manasquan
On Sunday, summer worship services are held at 8 and 9:30 a.m.
Pastor Steve Davis will be preaching a sermon series on A Walk
Through the Bible that will cover the
history books of the Old Testament.
This week Pastor Steve’s sermon will
be “Family Matters” from 1
Chronicles. Chilren’s Church begins
at 9:30 a.m. Child care will be provided for both services.
For more information, call 732223-4627.
HOLY TRINITY CHURCH
Third and Monmouth avenues,
Spring Lake
Historic Holy Trinity Episcopal
Church is a welcoming church, on
the national registry of historic places.
Church is air-conditioned.
Service begins at 9 a.m. every
Sunday., beginning June 18.
For information, call 732-4495240.
For more information, call 732774-0456.
AVON UNITED METHODIST
CHURCH
507 Garfield Ave., Avon-by-theSea
Sunday worship service is held
at 10 a.m. with the Reverand Gerry
J. Koob
“Garlic, Salt, and Pepper Bible
Study” is held Tuesdays at 10:30
a.m. with Reverand Koob leading.
All are welcome to attend. After
the Sunday worship service on July
23, a Welcome Party for our new
pastor will be held in Fellowship
Hall, all are welcome.
SAINT JAMES
EPISCOPAL CHURCH
4th and Hammond avenuES
Bradley Beach
732-775-5414
The church celebrates the Holy
Eucharist every Sunday at 8 and 10
a.m. The church warmly welcomes
all.
The Rev. Frank M. Goss is the rector.
Church school meets every Sunday
at 9:45 a.m.
Nursery care is provided during the
10 a.m. Eucharist.
For more information, call the
parish office at 732-775-5414 or visit
the web site www.saintjamesbb.org.
BRADLEY BEACH
COMMUNITY CHURCH
P.O. Box 58
Bradley Beach 07720
732-693-7079
Bradley Beach Community
Church holds its services Sundays at
10 a.m. at the Bradley Beach Fire
Department Hall, 815 Rear Main St.,
Bradley Beach.
For more information, call the Rev.
Wayne E. May at 732-693-7079 or
visit www.bradleybeachcommunitychurch.org.
FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH
47-51 South St., Manasquan
Worship services are held on
Sunday mornings at 8:45 and 10:15
a.m. All are invited to attend.
For more information, call the
church office at 732-223-4649.
UNITED
METHODIST CHURCH
Avon-by-the-Sea
Sunday worship is at 10 a.m. For
more information, call 732-7744368.
ST. MARGARET CHURCH
Spring Lake
Weekend Masses are Saturday at 5
p.m. and Sunday at 8:30, 10 and
11:30 a.m.
Confessions will be heard between
the hours of 3:30 to 4:30 p.m. on
Saturday.
For more information, call 732449-5765.
AVON BAPTIST CHURCH
435 Sylvania Ave., Avon
Worship services are held at 10:30
a.m. and 6:30 p.m. Sundays.
Nursery and children’s church are
available during the 10:30 a.m. service.
Prayer meetings and Bible study
are every Wednesday at 6:30 p.m.
Men’s Bible study is at noon every
Thursday.
For more information, call 732776-8806.
ST. ELIZABETH CHURCH
Avon-by-the-Sea
Masses are celebrated at 4 and 5:30
p.m. Saturdays and at 7, 8, 9, 10 and
11:30 a.m. Sundays.
Confessions are heard between 3
and 3:45 p.m. Saturdays.
SHILOH BAPTIST
CHURCH
44 Union Ave., Manasquan
Prayer and Bible study are held
each Wednesday from noon to 1:15
p.m. and again in the evening from 7
to 9 p.m.
For more information, call 732458-9238.
ST. JOHN’S EPISCOPAL
CHURCH
First and Woodland avenues
Avon-by-the-Sea
Celebration of the Holy Eucharist
is at 9 a.m. on Sundays.
Church warmly welcomes all.
THE CHURCH OF ASCENSION
Bradley Beach
Weekend Masses will be held on
Saturday at 5 p.m. and on Sunday at
8 and 10 a.m. and noon.
Weekday Mass is at 8 a.m.,
Monday through Friday.
Confessions will be heard on
Saturdays from 4 to 4:30 p.m.
The Church’s Holy Name Society
meets the second Monday of each
month starting with a prayer service
at 7:30 p.m. followed by members’
meeting in O’Hara Hall. Anyone
interested in joining the Holy Name
Society is welcome to attend.
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THE COAST STAR, THURSDAY, AUGUST 17, 2006
— LETTERS —
From Page 31
quality of teaching personnel. Their biased and close-minded treatment of Miss Val is to say the least, reprehensible.
PHYLLIS R. ELSTON
Jersey Avenue, Spring Lake Heights
~
THANKS TO ALL THE ANGLERS WHO CAME OUT ON BIG
SEA DAY
Editor, The Coast Star:
As chairman of the Manasquan Fishing Club Big Sea Day
Fishing Tournament, I would like to thank all those anglers
[80] who participated, the club members who worked so
hard, and the following merchants who generously donated
prizes: East Main Street Trattoria, Salerno’s Pizza, Rocco’s
Pizza, Fisherman Supply, Corner Bagelry, Squan Tavern,
Reel Sea Tackle Shop, Reel Life Bait and Tackle, Brielle
Bait and Tackle, Jaspan Hardware, Center Food Market,
Algonquin Theater, Riverside Cafe, Eloise Cafe, Gee Gee’s
Pizza, Main Street Art Gallery, Broadway Grill, Domino’s
Pizza and Sweet Cow.
Special thanks to Noel Hood, who put Big Sea Day
together for about 18 years.
JOE BAYER
Harris Avenue, Brielle
~
THANK YOU COUNCILMAN RIZZO
Editor, The Coast Star:
As a resident whose home sits overlooking the Spring
Lake, I was quite distressed to see the unhealthy, dirty, and
neglected state of the west end of the lake over the past
month. I contacted Councilman Rizzo and expressed this
concern to him. He inspected that section of the lake, and
reported on its unsightly state to the council. He then ordered
a cleansing treatment of the lake and requested a cleanup by
the borough workers. Within two days of my phone call to
him, he had resolved the problem and the lake’s state has
vastly improved. He returned my phone call with news of
future proactive measures that are soon to be implemented as
well. Kudos to a responsive and caring councilman! I both
appreciate and respect his work ethic and diligence.
KATHLEEN FERRARO
West Lake Avenue, Spring Lake
~
GOOD SAMARITAN RESTORED MY FAITH IN MANKIND
Editor, The Coast Star:
Thank you Jeff. On Aug. 1 my battery went dead at a gas
station. The gas attendant was not allowed to help me, so I
reluctantly asked another patron for help. To my surprise he
was very willing to help. His name was Jeff and he wouldn’t
take any money for his efforts. The temperature was in the
90s and he spent over half an hour getting my car started,
and then followed me home. Believe me, this restored my
faith in mankind, that there are still people out there who
will help. I don’t know if I would have done the same, but I
will in the future. Again thank you Jeff, with the silver VW
Passat, from Wall. Your family and neighbors are lucky to
have you!
GEORGE RAGAGLIA
Washington Avenue, Spring Lake
~
FAMILY APPRECIATES HELP FROM EMERGENCY SERVICES,
COMMUNITY
Editor, The Coast Star:
We can never begin to express our sincere appreciation for
the bravery and dedication of the men and women of the
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BOROUGH OF BRIELLE
BOND ORDINANCE NO.
BOND ORDINANCE PROVIDING AN APPROPRIATION OF
$62,900 FOR MISCELLANEOUS IMPROVEMENTS FOR AND
BY THE BOROUGH OF BRIELLE, IN THE COUNTY OF MONMOUTH, STATE OF NEW JERSEY, AND AUTHORIZING THE
ISSUANCE OF $59,755 BONDS OR NOTES OF THE BOROUGH
OF BRIELLE FOR FINANCING PART OF THE APPROPRIATION.
BE IT ORDAINED, by the governing body of the Borough of Brielle,
in the County of Monmouth, State of New Jersey (not less than two-thirds
of all members affirmatively concurring) as follows:
SECTION 1
The improvements described in Section 3 of this bond ordinance has
heretofore been authorized to be undertaken by the Borough of Brielle,
New Jersey (the Borough) as a general improvement. For the improvement of purposes described in Section 3, there is hereby appropriated the
amount of $62,900 such sum including the sum of $3,145 as the down
payment required by the Local Bond Law of the State of New Jersey, constituting Chapter 2 of the Title 40A, municipalities and counties, of the
Revised Statutes of New Jersey (the Local Bond Law). The down payment is now available by virtue of provision of down payment or for capital improvement purposes in one or more previously adopted budgets.
SECTION 2
In order to finance additional cost of the improvement or purpose not
covered by down payment, negotiable bonds are hereby authorized to be
issued in the principal amount of $59,755 pursuant to the Local Bond
Law. In anticipation of the issuance of bonds, negotiable bond anticipation notes are hereby authorized to be issued pursuant to and within the
limitations prescribed by Local Bond Law.
SECTION 3
(A) The improvement(s) authorized and the purposes for the financing of which obligations are to be issued are as follows:
Brielle Police, First Aid, and Fire Department. We must also
thank the fire departments of Point Pleasant Beach, Point
Pleasant, South Wall, Spring Lake Heights, Manasquan, and
Sea Girt. Your unselfishness is truly amazing.
We have been overwhelmed by the support of family,
friends, neighbors, classmates, and co-workers. We are eternally grateful for your friendship and so thankful for the
community spirit we have experienced in Brielle.
THE RIORDAN FAMILY
Holly Hill Drive, Brielle
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YOU WILL REALIZE I WAS RIGHT
Editor, The Coast Star:
In response to an Aug. 10 letter [“Don’t Be Afraid of
Different Cultures”], my experience watching neighborhoods decline began in l953 and ended with my retirement in
l989. The flow of illegal aliens into this country is not something new. I recall working as a desk lieutenant in the early
’60s and almost every week illegal aliens were brought for
various incidents. INS was notified, and on every occasion
they advised me if they were not being charged with a crime
to release them and advise them to report to immigration
offices at 9 a.m.
Of course, they never reported to the immigration office. I
believe it was in l986 that the illegal aliens were granted
amnesty. Today, a very large percentage of them are on welfare, and the state of New Jersey is paying the cost to educate their children at a cost of approximately $18,000 to
$19,000 per child. One cannot control property taxes if one
ignores the ever-increasing flow of illegal aliens entering
this country. By the way, the great majority of my friends in
high school were black and Puerto Rican. In my experience
an absentee owner usually rents to two or three families, and
that is the start of of declining property values. Five years
from now you will realize that I was right.
RICHARD TENPENNY SR.
Wall Road, Wall Township
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SEEKING HELP TO FIND MISSING BACKPACK
Editor, The Coast Star:
My 12-year-old son left his backpack on the Belmar
boardwalk on Friday evening, Aug. 11. We had such a beautiful day at the beach and did not leave until after the guards
and badge checkers were already gone.
The backpack contained his fins, [as well as his cousin’s
fins], rash guard and towel. We do realize that it was his
responsibility but we are very disappointed that it has not
been returned as of yet. We have reported the loss to the
Belmar Police and ask that anyone who may have found this
backpack to please return it to them.
Many have told me how great it is that they have come
back to the boardwalk to find something they left behind the
day before. Unfortunately this did not happen for us. Parents
please take notice if your child has recently found a new
backpack, fins, rash guard and towel. They actually belong
to someone who very much would like them back. Thanks
for all that do not take things that don’t belong to them.
CATHERINE E. DEGENOVA
Oakwood Road, Wall Township
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WHEN WILL WE STOP BUILDING ALONG THE OCEAN?
Editor, The Coast Star:
In man’s quest to live at the ocean’s edge we have allowed
developers and homeowners to build within the impact zone
of even a minor storm. The Jersey Shore has not seen a major
storm in many years; hence the average citizen has no idea
of what happened in ’44 or ’62 — even the Halloween storm
of ’91 now seems a distant memory. Yet even those who wit-
1. Exhaust extraction System
Brielle Fire House
$44,000
2. Cleaning truck bay ceiling & walls
$ 2,200
3. Painting truck bay ceiling & walls
$16,700
Total of the above
$62,900
B) The estimated maximum amount of bonds or notes to be issued for
the improvement purpose is $59,755
C) The estimated cost of the improvement or purpose is $62,900.
SECTION 4
All bond anticipation notes issued hereunder shall mature at such time
as may be determined by the chief finance officer, provided that no note
shall mature later than one year from its date. The notes shall bear interest at such rate or rates and be in such form as may be determined by the
chief finance officer. The chief finance officer shall determine all matters
in connection with notes issued pursuant to the ordinance, and the chief
finance officer’s signature upon the notes shall be conclusive evidence as
to all such determinations. All notes issued hereunder may be renewed
from time to time at public or private sale and to deliver them to the purchaser(s) thereof upon receipt of payment of the purchase price. The chief
finance officer is directed to report, in writing, to the governing body at
the meeting next succeeding the date when any sale or delivery of the
notes, pursuant to the ordinance, is made. Such report must include the
amount, the description, the interest rate and the maturity schedule of the
notes sold, the price obtained and the name of the purchaser.
SECTION 5
The capital budget of the Borough of Brielle is hereby amended to
conform with the provisions of this ordinance to the extent of any inconsistency herewith.
SECTION 6
The following additional matters are hereby determined, declared,
recited and stated:
(A) The improvement or purpose described in Section 3 of the bond
ordinance is not a current expense. It is an improvement or purpose that
the Borough may lawfully undertake as a general improvement, and no
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BOROUGH OF AVON-BY-THE-SEA
TAX SALE NOTICE
NOTICE OF SALE OF PROPERTY FOR NON-PAYMENT OF TAXES, ASSESSMENTS AND
OTHER MUNICIPAL LIENS DUE TO THE BOROUGH OF AVON-BY-THE-SEA
PUBLIC NOTICE is hereby given that I, Kerry McGrath, Collector of Taxes in and for the Borough of Avonby-the-Sea, County of Monmouth, State of New Jersey, will sell on Tuesday, August 22, 2006 at public auction at
the Municipal Office, 301 Main St., Avon-by-the-Sea, NJ, 10:00 am prevailing time or at such later time and place
that sale may then be adjourned, all of the several lots and parcels of land assessed to the respective person whose
names are set opposite each respective parcel as the owner thereof for the total amount of municipal liens chargeable against said lands respectively, in accordance with N.J.S.A. 54:5-1 et seq. as computed the 22nd day of August,
2006.
Take further notice that the hereinafter described lands will be sold for the amount of the municipal liens chargeable against each parcel of said land assessed as one parcel, together with interest and costs to the date of sale. Said
lands will be sold at the lowest rate of interest bid, not to exceed 18%. Payment for said parcels shall be made prior
to the conclusion of the sale in form of cash, certified check or money order, or parcels will be resold. Properties
for which there are no other purchasers shall be struck off and sold to the Borough of Avon-by-the-Sea at an interest rate of 18%.
Industrial Properties may be subject to the Spill Compensation and Control Act (N.J.S.A. 58:10-23.11 et seq.),
the Water Pollution Control Act (N.J.S.A. 58:10A-1 et seq.) and the Industrial Site Recovery Act (N.J.S.A. 13:1K6 et seq.) In addition, the municipality is precluded from issuing a tax sale certificate to any prospective purchaser
who is or may be in any way connected to the prior owner or operator of the site.
IN THE EVENT THE OWNER IS ON ACTIVE DUTY WITH THE MILITARY, THE COLLECTOR
SHOULD BE NOTIFIED IMMEDIATELY.
At any time before the sale I will accept payment of the amount due on any property with interest and costs.
Payments must be in the form of cash, certified check or money order.
The lands to be sold are described in accordance with the last tax duplicate as follows:
Assessed to:
Location
Total
Block and Lot
10/5.02
Winberry, Rachel
609 Main Street
782.02 WS
10/10.01
Harbet, Edward
616 Woodland Ave.
331.34 WS
36/8.01
Duffy, Daniel J. & Mary E.
134 Lincoln Ave.
1,125.12 WS
43.02/1
Fowler, James J.
2 Main Street
14,281.84 TWS
57/1
Burton, William S.
Island
35.53 T
T=Property taxes, W=Water, S=Sewer
KERRY McGRATH
Collector of Taxes
($151.20) (108) (07-27, 08-03, 08-10, 08-17)
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nessed these events forget. Development along the Jersey
Shore has continued at an alarming rate, so close and so
densely within flood and tidal zones that any storm of size
should give the director of FEMA nightmares. So when do
we come to our senses and start moving back from the
water’s edge? Man has always determined that we are superior to nature and have manipulated waterways and coastal
profiles for years — New Orleans is an great example that
such manipulation has not always worked.
Now that oceans are rising, the beaches are slowly receding and it has become clear that beach replenishment is the
New Jersey’s answer to “property protection.” And given the
design the ACOE has come up with, it is nothing less than an
armoring of the beach. With no regard for environment [they
bury all jetties and beachheads by 200 yards], no regard for
recreation [creating riptide-prone beaches unsuitable for
swimming, surfing or wave riding of any kind], and ignoring
any natural littoral [shifting sand] profiles. Both Surfrider
and SEA [Surfers Environmental Alliance] have been trying
to persuade a moderate approach to replenishment. There
has been no acceptance of any adjustment to the profile of
the ACOE design.
What really should bother you is the fact that some towns
and developers are looking at these replenishment projects as
“new land” or in some cases, old land that has been replenished or renourished as the case may be. Studies around the
country are demonstrating that there is more development in
vulnerable areas after renourishment.
Note that the major proponents and lobbyists for renourishment are groups made up of those who will benefit from
development e.g. Jersey Shore Partnership [power companies, builders etc. and arm of the American Shore and Beach
Preservation group]
Replenishment is paid for by your taxes. Even some
farmer in Iowa has paid taxes so New Jersey may be appropriated funds to replenish the beaches. Bad enough he has to
buy a badge to get on one.
Yet, there are a number of projects [including a pier] that
are submitting plans to build even closer on replenished
beaches.
No one — no town, no developer, no homeowner —
should be allowed to build on any beach and this should
apply to old footprints where the ocean had reclaimed land.
To continue this insanity of overdevelopment [Long
Branch, Deal, Sea Bright and Seaside Park] then FEMA
should not cover these projects in any respect.
It is a continuing affront on the ocean with greed as the
only reason for it. There is no reasonable line of logic to
allow this to happen and both SEA and Surfrider Foundation
are unified in fighting anyone who considers the coast and
beaches as “private property” — you have paid for them
already.
BOB DUERR
Cedarcrest Drive, Brielle
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THANK YOU FOR YOUR SUPPORT
Editor, The Coast Star:
I would sincerely like to thank those who encouraged me
to stick up for myself. And those who gave me your beautiful gift of support. I am forever thankful.
Many thanks to The Coast Star for their press coverage.
VALERIE ANDERSON
Prospect Avenue, Spring Lake
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SHOULD THE U.S. PLAY THE ROLE OF UNBIASED BROKER?
Editor, The Coast Star:
A recent letter questioned my understanding of the history of Palestine. While it was not the point of my letter, here
part of the cost thereof has been or shall be specially assessed on property specially benefited thereby.
(B) The period of usefulness of the improvement or purpose within
the limitations of the Local Bond Law, according to the reasonable life
thereof computed from the date of the bonds authorized by this bond ordinance is ten (10) years.
(C) The supplemental debt statement required by the Local Bond Law
has been duly prepared and filed in the office of the Borough Clerk and a
complete executed duplicate thereof has been filed in the office of the
Director of the Division of Local Government Services in the Department
of Community Affairs of the State of New Jersey. Such statement shows
that the gross debt of the Borough, as defined in the Local Bond Law, is
increased by the authorization of the bonds and notes provided in this
bond ordinance by $59,755 and the obligations authorized herein will be
within all debt limitations prescribed by that law.
(D) An aggregate amount not exceeding $5,000 items of expense listed in and permitted under Section 20 of the Local Bond Law is included
in the estimated cost indicated herein for the purpose or improvement.
SECTION 7
The full faith and credit of the Borough of Brielle is hereby pledged
to the punctual payment of the principal and interest on the obligations
authorized by this bond ordinance. The obligations shall be direct, unlimited obligations of the Borough and the Borough shall be obligated to
levy ad valorem taxes upon all taxable property within the Borough for
the payment of the obligations and the interest thereon with limitation of
rate and amount.
SECTION 8
This bond ordinance shall take effect 20 days after the first publication thereof after final adoption, as provided by Local Bond Law.
PUBLIC NOTICE
Notice is hereby given that the foregoing Bond Ordinance was introduced and passed on first reading by the Mayor and Council of the
Borough of Brielle on August 14th, 2006, and will be considered for final
passage and adoption at a meeting of the Mayor and Council to be held
is a short history lesson. For those interested in more detail I
would direct you to the following UN web site,
www.un.org/Depts/dpa/ngo/history.html.
The original idea for a Jewish state came out of a deal in
1917 between the British empire and European zionists. In
return for their support of the allies during WWI, Britain
agreed to support a homeland for Jews. In 1948 the UN
divided Palestine in two parts and the U.S. [Truman] was the
first country to recognize the part which became known as
Israel. In subsequent wars, Israel claimed or occupied the
remaining parts. Those who were displaced want what they
believe is their land back.
Whether anyone likes it or not, these are the facts of history as I understand it. The question for the U.S. is do we
play the role of unbiased broker, taking neither side in the
argument, or do we support only the side of Israel, as is
viewed in most of the Arab world?
CHARLES JUDICE
Trenton Boulevard, Sea Girt
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DAY WORKERS SHOULD STAGE IN SQUAN BOROUGH HALL
LOT
Editor, The Coast Star:
Evidently, the extended flume and dredging of Wreck
Pond on the east has done little to stem the number of beach
closings caused by contaminants flowing out of the pond.
The lengthened pipe structure may have actually made the
“dilution solution” less likely to work by creating a “dead
water” sump on the north side of this pipe, i.e. it interrupts
the normal south to north longshore current so that outfall
water collects “behind” [north of] it.
The main source of contaminated water in Wreck Pond
was only addressed in part: Canada Geese droppings. These
fowl have vacated, kind of, with the encouragement of Geese
Peace. So now, the destructive, ill-tempered, non-native,
invasive, European Mute Swans remain. Many score of
these, at times. I guess their spit don’t stink because no one
wants to go on record speaking foul of such a “lovely” creature!
Speaking of contaminants, the Acme and 7-Eleven of
Manasquan have posted 17 and 12 signs respectively: no
congregarse, no traspasal, no solicitar signs on their parking
lot properties. Illegal immigrants and their unlawful employ
are ultimately problems that the federal government must
resolve. For Manasquan Police Department Chief Daniel
Scimeca to lamely pass the whole of the problem for the feds
to fix, is wrong. Yet he declares that local law enforcement
has the resources and the jurisdiction to enforce local ordinances; so, go enforce them!
According to a N.J. State Trooper, with whom I spoke at
the 7-Eleven, it is the local police who have the authority and
duty to enforce no congregarse, no traspasal, no solicitar,
even though these are policy of Acme and 7-Eleven creation.
Most of those seeking work at these lots in Manasquan
arrive every morning by train. They are not “locals.” So why
doesn’t this congregarse happen in Spring Lake, Belmar,
Deal, etc.? Not because there isn’t a convenient 7-Eleven
near the train station, but because the local police would not
have allowed such blight to take hold in their jurisdictions.
If you would, Chief Scimeca, have these day workers
stage in the Manasquan Borough Hall parking lot, imagine
that!
DON CORDTS
New York Avenue, Wall
on August 28th, 2006, at 7:30 p.m., or as soon thereafter as the matter can
be reached, at Brielle Borough Hall, 601 Union Lane, Brielle,New Jersey,
at which time and place all interested parties shall be heard.
THOMAS F. NOLAN
Municipal Clerk
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BOROUGH OF LAKE COMO
ORDINANCE NO. 2006-787
STATE FISCAL YEAR 2007
ORDINANCE TO EXCEED THE MUNICIPAL BUDGET
APPROPRIATION LIMITS AND TO ESTABLISH
A CAP BANK (N.J.S.A. 40A: 4-45.14)
WHEREAS, the Local Government Cap Law, N.J.S.A. 40A: 4-45.1
et seq., provides that in the preparation of its annual budget, a municipality shall limit any increase in said budget to 2.5% unless authorized by
ordinance to increase it to 3.5% over the previous year’s final appropriations, subject to certain exceptions; and,
WHEREAS, N.J.S.A. 40A: 4-45.15a provides that a municipality
may, when authorized by ordinance, appropriate the difference between
the amount of is actual final appropriation and the 3.5% percentage rate
as an exception to its final appropriations in either of the next two succeeding years; and,
WHEREAS, the Mayor and Council of the Borough of Lake Como
in the County of Monmouth finds it advisable and necessary to increase
its SFY 2007 budget by up to 3.5% over the previous year’s final appropriations, in the interest of promoting the health, safety and welfare of the
citizens, and,
WHEREAS, the Mayor and Council hereby determines that a 1%
increase in the budget for said year, amounting to $21,450.79 in excess of
the increase in final appropriations otherwise permitted by the Local
Government Cap Law, is advisable and necessary; and,
WHEREAS, the Mayor and Council hereby determines that any
The Department, in accordance with Title VI Civil Rights Act of 1964, 78 Stat. 252 U.S.C., 49 C.F.R., Parts 21
and 23 issued pursuant to such Act, and Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 will afford minority business enterprises full opportunity to submit bids in response to this invitation and will not discriminate against any
bidder on the grounds of race, color, sex, national origin, or handicap in the contract award.
Drawings and specifications for the proposed work are available at Bid Express website www.bidx.com. You
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organizations at our various Design Field Offices at the following locations:
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BOROUGH OF BRIELLE
ORDINANCE NO.
AN ORDINANCE TO AMEND CHAPTER SEVEN OF THE
CODE OF THE BOROUGH OF BRIELLE ENTITLED “TRAFFIC”.
BE IT ORDAINED, by the Governing Body of the Borough of Brielle that Chapter Seven, Section 16(a.) be
amended to read as follows:
Side
Times
Location
Street
Union Lane
West
Monday-Friday
From a point 235 feet north
When School is
of the northerly curb line of
In Session
the southern most Brielle
Elementary School driveway
to a point 75 feet northerly
therefrom
BE IT FURTHER ORDAINED, that all ordinances or parts of ordinances inconsistent with the foregoing are
hereby repealed, but only to the extent of the inconsistency.
BE IT FURTHER ORDAINED, that this ordinance shall take effect immediately upon passage and publication according to law.
PUBLIC NOTICE
Notice is hereby given that the foregoing Ordinance was introduced and passed on first reading by the Mayor
and Council of the Borough of Brielle on August 14th, 2006, and will be considered for final passage and adoption
at a meeting of the Mayor and Council to be held on August 28th, 2006, at 7:30 p.m., or as soon thereafter as the
matter can be reached, at Brielle Borough Hall, 601 Union Lane, Brielle, New Jersey, at which time and place all
interested parties shall be heard
THOMAS F. NOLAN
Municipal Clerk
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NOTICE
Summary or synopsis of the audit report of the Board of Commissioners of Fire District No. 1, Borough of
Spring Lake Heights, County of Monmouth for the year ended December 31, 2005, as required by NJS 40A:5A16.
Statement of Net Assets
amount authorized hereinabove that is not appropriated as part of the final
budget shall be retained as an exception to final appropriation in either of
the next two succeeding years.
NOW, THEREFORE BE IT ORDAINED, by the Mayor and
Council of the Borough of Lake Como, in the County of Monmouth, a
majority of the full authorized membership of this governing body affirmatively concurring, that, in the SFY 2007 budget year, the final appropriations of the Borough of Lake Como shall, in accordance with this
ordinance and N.J.S.A. 40A: 4-45.14, be increased by 3.5%, amounting
to $75,077.75, and that the SFY 2007 municipal budget for the Borough
of Lake Como be approved and adopted in accordance with this ordinance; and,
BE IT FURTHER ORDAINED, that any amount authorized hereinabove that is not appropriated as part of the final budget shall be retained
as an exception to final appropriation in either of the next two succeeding
years; and,
BE IT FURTHER ORDAINED, that a certified copy of this ordinance as introduced be filed with the Director of the Division of Local
Government Services within 5 days of introduction; and,
BE IT FURTHER ORDAINED, that a certified copy of this ordinance upon adoption, with the recorded vote included thereon, be filed
with said Director within 5 days after such adoption.
NOTICE is hereby given that the foregoing ordinance was introduced
and passed on the first reading at the Regular meeting of the Mayor and
Council of the Borough of Lake Como, in the County of Monmouth, on
the 15th day of August, 2006 and will be considered for second reading
and final passage at the Regular meeting of said governing Body to be
held on the 5th day of September, 2006 at 8:00 pm at the Lake Como
Meeting Room, 1740 Main Street, at which time and place any person
desiring to be heard upon same will be given an opportunity to be heard.
LOUISE A. MEKOSH, RMC, CMF, CMFO
Borough Clerk/Administrator
($42.00) (120) (08-17)
The Coast Star
2005
Assets
Cash and cash equivalents
Prepaid insurance
Restricted assets:
Restricted cash and cash equivalents
Capital assets, net
Total Assets
$199,271
18,968
46,313
363,195
627,747
Liabilities
Liabilities
Accounts payable and accrued expenses
Due to LOSAP
Noncurrent liabilities:
Due within one year
Due beyond one year
Total Liabilities
19,945
109,451
31,428
184,334
345,158
Net Assets
Net Assets
Invested in capital assets, net of related debt
147,433
Restricted for:
Capital projects
46,313
Unrestricted
88,843
Total Net Assets
$282,589
Statement of Revenues, Expenditures, and Changes in Fund Balance
General Fund
2005
Revenues
Local Sources
District taxes
$218,645
Interest on investments
2,958
State Sources
Supplemental Fire Services Grant
2,717
Total Revenues
224,320
Expenditures
Administration appropriations
32,849
Operations appropriations
220,638
Total Expenditures
253,487
Excess of Revenues (Expenditures)
over Expenditures (Revenue)
(29,167)
Fund Balance Beginning
99,042
Fund Balance Ending
$ 69,875
Comments and Recommendations:
None.
The above summary or synopsis was prepared from the report of the audit of the Board of Commissioners of
Fire District No. 1, Borough of Spring Lake Heights, County of Monmouth, for the year ended December 31, 2005.
This report of audit, submitted by Martha C. Carroll, Certified Public Accountant, is on file at the Borough of
Spring Lake Heights clerk’s office and may be inspected by any interested person.
FRANK CIUFO
Secretary/Clerk of the Board of Fire Commissioners of
Fire District No. 1 in the Borough of Spring Lake Heights,
County of Monmouth
($60.90) (174) (08-17)
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Point Foundation slates annual triathlon
The Point Pleasant Foundation
for Excellence in Education recently announced its third annual
Treasure Island Sprint Triathlon
will be held on Sunday, Sep. 24,
beginning at 9 a.m.
The Treasure Island Sprint
Triathlon will consist of a 2-mile
kayak or canoe around Treasure
Island on the Manasquan River followed by a 7.8-mile bike and a 3mile run on the paved streets of
Point Pleasant. The event will be
staged at the Maxson Avenue
Beach, Point Pleasant.
Multiple registration categories
listed by age group for male,
female, solo and teams entries are
available.
• Solo racers compete in all three
aspects of the event.
• Two-person teams consist of
two people kayaking or canoeing
together, one person biking and one
person running. The same person
cannot bike and run.
• Three-person teams consist of
one person canoeing or kayaking,
one person biking, and one person
running. One team member cannot
perform more than one event.
Registrants must provide their
own equipment and must wear a
USCG approved personal flotation
device on the water and a helmet
when riding the bike.
All registrants will receive a Tshirt and goodie bag on the day of
the race. The top three finishers in
each category will be recognized
with an award.
All entrants in the event will be
eligible for raffle prizes which
include a one-year membership to
Meridian Life Fitness, gift certificates to Jersey Paddler, Brielle
Cyclery and Miles Ahead Running
Store, a quarterly training program
with USA Triathlon Certified
Coach Tom Manzi, Ocean Potion
Sun and Skin Care products along
with many other items.
Additional features for the third
annual Treasure Island Sprint
Triathlon include Chip Timing by
CompuScore, which will provide
fast and accurate results for all finishers within minutes of the race
finish.
Another feature will be a contest
for the best yard party along the
course.
All residents on the route who
have a party for the event are in the
contest. Several judges from the
foundation will make their way
from party to party judging who has
the best yard party along the course.
Prizes will be awarded to the top
three yard parties.
A final new feature to this year’s
event will be a best costume contest
eligible to all event registrants. The
top three finishers will receive a
prize.
Cost for the event is $30 for a
solo entrant, $40 for a team of two
and $50 for a team of three. Early
registration closes Sept. 16. Late
registration will close at 8 a.m. on
the morning of the event and the
cost will increase by $10 for each
category.
Visit the foundation’s web site at
www.pointpleasantfoundation.org
to download a registration form or
to register online.
The Point Pleasant Foundation
for Excellence in Education, in
existence for over nine years, has
donated over $200,000 to the Point
Pleasant School District in the form
of teacher grants, student leadership
grants, student scholarships and
new technologies.
For more information about the
event please call the Race Director
Dave Johnson at 732-892-9374.
BAC holding
a one-day
sculpture class
The Belmar Arts Council
[BAC] will hold a one-day sculpture workshop for children from
10 a.m. to noon on Aug. 25, at the
Taylor Pavilion, located on Ocean
and 5th avenues, in Belmar.
The workshop is part of the
BAC’s
FantaSea
Creature
Invasion Project.
Children will learn sculpture
techniques from Philadelphia
Artist Heather Bryson while creating their own FantaSea
Creatures.
This free workshop is open to
children ages 8 to 13. Pre-registration is required. For more
information visit the BAC web
site at www.belmararts.org or email workshops@BelmarArts.org
or contact Tom Brennan at 732280-2865.
Registration forms are available at borough hall.
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Squan Pop Warner cycle of success
LAUREN PARKER, The Coast Star
Over 250 kids practice each night for Wall Pop Warner Football. The season will begin on August 26th & 27th
with the Friendship Cup against Manasquan. The regular season will begin on Labor Day Weekend.
Wall tradition continues
By Jamy Lineberry
Walking up to the Wall Pop Warner
Complex, it quickly becomes clear
just how big a program it is.
Stretching across the practice fields,
hundred of kids practice both football
techniques and cheering skills.
“It would be safe to say we have
around 450 kids involved in both football and cheering,” Wall Pop Warner
President Dean Marabeti said.
Wall’s Pop Warner program begins
with flag football for kids ages 5 and
6. Manasquan doesn’t have a flag
football program so kids are welcome
to play flag at Wall.
The next level is the Mitey Mite
level, from 7- to 9-year-olds with a
weight range from 45 to 90 pounds.
The Junior Pee Wee teams go from
8 to 11 years old with the weight from
55 to 100 pounds.
The Pee Wees go from 9 to 12 years
old with the weight range from 70 to
115 pounds and the Junior Midgets go
from 10 to 13 years old with weights
from 80 to 110 pounds.
The Midgets are from 11 to 15
years old with weights from 95 to 150
pounds.
Wall Pop Warner has four flag football teams, three Mighty Mite teams,
two Junior Pee Wee teams, one Pee
Wee team, one Junior Midgets team
and one Midget team.
“The flag football program gives
the kids a good foundation for football,” Wall Pop Warner Public
Relations Director Pete Micelli said.
“It gets them used to lining up and
prepares them for the next couple
“We just want the kids
to go out and have fun.
Hopefully there are no
injuries and everybody
can improve from the
first snap to the the
last.”
Wall Pop Warner President
Ed Maribeti on expectations
of this year’s season.
years when they get the equipment
on.”
The flag football games are 8-on-8
and the fields are shorter and not as
wide, but it gives the kids a taste of
football.
“This age [5- and 6-year-olds] are
so much fun to watch, they really have
fun out there,” Micelli said.
For Wall it seems that every year
the Pop Warner program keeps growing.
“Our numbers seem to go up consistently over the last couple of years,”
Micelli said.
Marabeti believes the success of
Wall varsity football helps to keep
younger kids interested in Pop
Warner.
“A lot of kids want to play football
at Wall and play for Coach [Chris]
Barnes,” Marabeti said. “He deserves
a lot of credit for our success.”
For Marabeti the success of the program isn’t measured in wins and losses.
“We want the kids to go out there
and just have fun learning the sport of
football,” Marabeti said.
To measure the success of the Pop
Warner program, look no further than
the Crimson Knights.
Chad Tirpack and Adam Mancino,
both members of the Shore 44 AllStar team, just finished great careers at
Wall High School after coming up
through the Pop Warner Program.
“Pop Warner is very good at developing the skill positions,” Marabeti
said.
All the Pop Warner teams will play
an eight-game schedule. Four home
games and four road games.
All the games will be played either
on Saturday or Sunday.
As the kids move through the Pop
Warner program, they learn more than
just the basics of football.
“It allows the kids to build relationships with other kids as they play,”
Marabeti said. “They move through
the program together and develop
friendships.”
Just like the kids, the coaches also
move through the program with their
kids.
It’s a big commitment for the parents as well as the kids.
Each team practices five days during the week for two hours each night.
“The parents are a huge part of our
success, they take a lot of time out of
See WALL, page 60
By Len Bardsley
MANASQUAN
—
Eddie
Kirschenbaum remembers starting in the
Manasquan Pop Warner program 10 years
ago.
Kirschenbaum especially looked forward to practices when Manasquan High
School football players assisted at practice
and then watched the same players during
games.
As Manasquan Pop Warner prepares to
start another season, Kirschenbaum and
his senior teammates on the Warriors team
are perfect examples of the circle of success of the Manasquan Pop Warner program.
Manasquan seniors Alex Otchy, R.J.
Read, Kevin McCridie, Ben Ortiz, Pat
Brown, Ryan Heisler, Mike Mele, Gage
O’Connell, Evan Ragan, Alex Vasilenko,
Jim Sullivan, Brad Newman and Alex
Iachetta along with Kirschenbaum played
Pop Warner football before taking their
experience and skills to the next level with
the Warriors varsity.
“It helped tremendously,’’ said
Kirschenbaum of how the Pop Warner
program prepared him for high school
football. “It is a huge head start. You know
what to expect. It is a wonderful program.
I can’t imagine playing for anyone else.’’
All of the Manasquan Pop Warner
coaches use the same terminology and
drills used by Warriors head coach Vic
Kubu and his staff. All of the Pop Warner
players are encouraged to attend
Manasquan games and get in free when
they wear their Pop Warner jerseys.
A total of 180 boys went out for the
Manasquan Pop Warner program this
year, which started practices the first week
of August, along with about 90 cheerleaders.
Manasquan had its first scrimmage last
“It helped
tremendously. It is a
huge head start. You
know what to expect. It
is a wonderful program.
I can’t imagine playing
for anyone else.’’
Manasquan senior
Eddie Kirschenbaum
on playing Manasquan Pop
Warner before playing
varsity for the Warriors
night against Neptune and will play Wall
in the annual Friendship Cup on Aug. 26
and 27.
The regular eight-game schedule begins
Labor Day weekend.
It is no coincidence the Manasquan Pop
Warner programs enjoyed a surge in participation after the Warriors won a state
championship in December.
“Every time the high school wins a state
championship our numbers increase,’’ said
Manasquan Pop Warner President Bruce
Bresnahan. “All the kids try to go to the
state finals and all the regular season
games. They are going through practice
knowing the high school team will be
doing the same drills.’’
Kirschenbaum feels all the years playing Pop Warner helped create a special
bond among his fellow senior Manasquan
teammates.
“We have been playing together since
we were seven,’’ said Kirschenbaum. “It is
amazing how much it helps. We are so
close and so tight, we would do anything
for each other.’’
Kirschenbaum tries to get to a Pop
Warner practice whenever possible, knowing exactly how he felt as a seven-year-old
first learning the game of football.
“When you are that age you look up to
the high school players,’’ said
Kirschenbaum. “I was in their position, I
loved it when the high school kids helped
out.’’
The Pop Warner program has long considered itself a perfect feeder program for
the high school and works closely with
Kubu.
“We are the next level down,’’ said
Bresnahan. “Mr. Kubu and his staff have
been dynamite. The main goal is to get
kids ready — they know what is coming.’’
The biggest thrill for Bresnahan is
watching a graduate from the Pop Warner
program suit up for the high school.
“That is my biggest thrill,’’ said
Bresnahan. “Even when cheerleaders
make varsity, seeing kids from Mitey
Mites all the way up.’’
The program begins with the Mitey
Mite level from 7 to 9 year olds with a
weight range from 45 to 90 pounds.
The Junior Pee Wee teams go from 8 to
11 years old with the weight from 55 to
100 pounds.
The Pee Wees go from 9 to 12-years old
with the weight range from 70 to 115
pounds and the Junior Midgets go from 10
to 13 years old with weights from 80 to
110 pounds.
The Midgets are from 11 to 15-years
old with weights from 95 to 150 pounds.
It is a big commitment from players,
coaches and parents to participate in
Manasquan Pop Warner. Each team has
three practices a week before school starts,
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LAUREN PARKER, The Coast Star
The Manasquan Little Warriors Junior Pee Wee team goes through practice on Monday at Spring Lake Heights
Elementary School. Manasquan Pop Warner has 180 kids playing foorball and over cheerleaders participating in the program which runs from early August until November with eight regular season games..
A day for the entire family to surf
Patrick Pomilio was one of 140 competitors of the surfing contest during Big Sea Day in Manasquan on
Saturday. Pomilio placed third in the Menehune Division.
By Len Bardsley
MANASQUAN — It was another great
year for the annual surfing, body surfing
and boogey board contest during Big Sea
Day in Manasquan.
The first event was the surfing contest,
which took place at the inlet starting at 8
a.m.
T.R. Deveney of the Third Avenue Surf
Shop, once again, ran the surfing contest.
The contest, a highlight of the summer
schedule, drew about 140 contestants.
“It started with waist to stomach-high
waves, two to three feet,’’ said Deveney. “It
got fun, it got really fun.’’
It may take a lot of effort to run an event
like the surfing contest, but it is something
Deveney and his staff enjoy doing each
summer.
“It is a lot of work,’’ said Deveney, “But
having a competitive surfing background
we sort of know the drill. Everyone looks
forward to this event.’’
The surfers are put into age groups and
put into heats. The heats last 12 to 15 minutes depending on the surf and competitors
are scored on biggest maneuver close to the
curl, style points and length or ride.
Each surfer is scored on his top three
waves.
The youngest surfers were eight or nine
years old with the veterans of the surf taking to the waves later in the day.
One of the most satisfying things to
Deveney is watching families compete
together.
There were several families who had
multiple surfers on Saturday, including the
Rooney’s, the Duerr’s and the Cowley’s.
“What is funny is now we are starting to
have kids who can start to surf,’’ said
Deveney. “We are starting to get our lives
back.’’
Big Sea day is a chance for families to
surf together and compete together with
friends.
“Running the event is hectic, but seeing
everyone together for a good day at the
beach is worth it,’’ said Deveney. “You
couldn’t have asked for a better turnout and
a better group of people.’’
Deveney figures a lot of local families
have at least one surfer and most of them
come out for Big Sea Day.
“What makes Big Sea Day special is
people who show up from other competitions and sign up on the beach,’’ said
Deveney. “That has always been what Big
Sea Day is all about. It has been a good
ride.’’
The first surfers had to deal with a shore
break with north winds, which pushed the
waves into the jetty, but conditions soon
improved.
It made things difficult for the younger
surfers who started the day, but Deveney
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Ranaudo spends summer doing what he does best: baseball
By Jamy Lineberry
St. Rose incoming senior
Anthony Ranaudo works hard
during the summer, but he doesn’t
get paid for efforts — at least not
yet.
Anthony, who is an All-Shore
pitcher for the Roses, has traveled
all over the country playing in various tournaments and participating
in prospect showcases.
“It’s a lot of traveling, but I’m
getting to do what I love,”
Ranaudo said.
Anthony’s team, NJ Super-17,
won the inaugural 17U Don
Mattingly World Series held at the
Jack Cust Baseball Academy in
Flemington this past weekend.
The tournament featured eight
teams
from
New
York,
Pennsylvania, Virginia, Texas,
California and New Mexico.
“The competition in this tournament was unbelievable,” Anthony
said. “It was a great experience
facing players of that quality.”
Anthony got the win in his
team’s third-round game against
South Troy, a team from New
York.
It was a game where NJ Super17 got out to a huge 10-0 lead and
Anthony was pulled after a couple
innings to save him for the finals.
Anthony took the mound in the
finals of the World Series against
the team from Dallas.
It wasn’t one of his finest performances.
“I only pitched one and onethird innings. I was just really wild
and I couldn’t find the strike
zone,” Anthony said. “I was
throwing the ball hard, but I just
didn’t have it.”
Anthony gave up two runs
early, but his team was able to
come back, eventually winning on
a walk-off home run in the seventh.
“I was upset for a little while in
the dugout, but I had to get over it
and root for my teammates,”
Anthony said.
Part of being a big-time college
and pro prospect is being able to
deal with those off days.
“Baseball is sometimes a game
of failure. I think when you have
an awful outing like that, you’re
just one step closer to having a
string of good ones [outing],”
Anthony said.
Anthony recently returned from
Marietta, Ga. where he played
with the same team in a wood bat
tournament. The tournament
included 114 teams from all over
the country, made up of only kids
graduating in 2007.
In that tournament Anthony’s
team made it to the final eight
before being eliminated.
Anthony pitched well, throwing
a total of seven innings, striking
out 10 and giving up three runs.
“I felt like I pitched pretty well.
I was consistently throwing in the
high 80s and low 90s,” Anthony
said. “ I got a couple wins and we
went pretty far.”
It’s not often during the summer
that Anthony has an off day.
When he’s not scheduled to
pitch or participate in a showcase
Anthony makes sure he works out
on his own.
“I usually run about a mile or
two in the morning,” Anthony
said. “Then I usually lift weights
for about an hour and do some
arm stretches.”
Anthony also does a lot of long
tossing to keep his arm loose a
couple days prior to his starts.
“Usually a long toss is about
300 feet. It’s a good way for me to
stay loose before my starts,”
Anthony said.
This weekend Anthony will
return to the Jack Cust Academy
for the MLB Bureau weekend.
There will be scouts from all 30
LAUREN PARKER, The Coast Star
St. Rose senior Anthony Ranaudo delivers to plate in a game earlier this season. Ranaudo has
had a busy summer working out for both professional and college scouts.
MLB teams in attendance the
event.
Although some people would
be intimidated by that type of
audience, Anthony is getting used
to it.
“It’s so much fun to get to show
people what I can do,” Anthony
said. “I’m just going out there and
doing what I love and I just look at
it like that.”
In most of these showcases,
Anthony throws off the mound
for scouts one day, then there are
scrimmages held the next day.
So far after several showcases,
Anthony is moving up the list of
prospects in the country.
“Baseball America” is a leading
publication in the scouting of high
school players. Right now
Anthony is ranked 110th in the
nation in his class.
“I’m happy to be ranked 110th
in the country, but I’m certainly
not content with that,” Anthony
said.
In a couple weeks, he will get a
chance to throw for scouts at
Yankee Stadium. Anthony was
invited with about 40 other
prospects to throw in the house
that Ruth built.
“When the scout asked me to
come to Yankee Stadium to throw,
I was like ‘Yeah, I think I can
make it,’” Anthony said.
As a Yankees fan, it’s always
been a dream for him, but he’s
focused on the job at hand.
“As much as I’ll be in awe of
the stadium, there will be time for
that after,” Anthony said. “I have
to go there and take care of business first, then I’ll get a chance to
see everything else.”
It’s a mindset you don’t always
see when talking to a 16-year-old.
Anthony has other exciting
things in his life besides baseball.
In a couple weeks, he will take
his driving test to get his license.
“I can’t wait to be able to drive.
I feel bad all the time when my
parents have to pick me up at
night,” Anthony said.
At 6 foot 7, 225 pounds,
Anthony is also the starting center
on the St. Rose basketball team.
Anthony averaged 19 points
and just under 11 rebounds per
game in his junior year.
“I’m really looking forward to
this upcoming season. I played a
couple games in the summer
league and it got me real excited,”
Anthony said.
When talking to Anthony about
basketball the obvious question
about injury concerns had to be
mentioned.
“I can’t worry about getting
hurt. It [getting injured] could
happen walking down the stairs,”
he said. “If I think like that then
I’m more prone to get injured.”
One of the main reasons for
Anthony to go to all these showcases is to get a scholarship.
“That’s what this is all about. I
want to get a college scholarship,”
he said. “All the pro stuff is nice,
but that’s [a scholarship] the
biggest priority.”
It doesn’t hurt that Anthony is a
good student at St. Rose, with a
3.8 GPA.
“There are a decent amount of
schools interested in me, but now
it comes down to picking the right
one,” Anthony said.
He is looking at schools in the
South as his primary interest.
Some schools that he is really
interested in are Virginia, LSU,
Clemson, Winthrop and Virginia
Tech.
“I’m looking for a strong baseball program, good academics,
and a nice surrounding area,”
Anthony said.
He also knows the importance
of getting a good education.
“God forbid something happens, I want a good education to
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Taylor ready to return to the Bollettieri Tennis Academy
By Len Bardsley
WALL
TOWNSHIP
—
Chelsea Taylor is counting the
days until school starts again.
Taylor,
a
senior
from
Allenwood, would be heading
into her senior year at Wall, but
the reason Taylor is so anxious for
the school year to start is because
it means the return to Florida and
the
Nick
Bollettieri Tennis
Academy.
Taylor spent most of the last
year in Bradenton honing her
game while attending school in
Florida.
“I love it down there,’’ said
Taylor. “I enjoy it so much.’’
Taylor has spent the summer at
home in Allenwood. Taylor
recently competed at the
Ballew/Rolex New Jersey State
Junior Tennis Championship at
the Atlantic Club where she
placed second in the 18-year-old
division.
Taylor will be competing at the
Atlantic Club again this week in
the doubles division of the New
Jersey State Tennis Championship
at the Atlantic Club before competing in the US International
Hard
Court
Junior
Championships this weekend.
Taylor loves being totally
involved in tennis during her days
at the Bollettieri Academy.
The typical day starts at 6 a.m.
with weight training three days a
week with tennis from 7 to 10
a.m. Taylor attends classes from
11 to 3 p.m. before she goes back
to the court with a personal trainer where she works on technique
and strategy.
Taylor spent two months at the
academy last year and decided
she wanted to make a full-time
commitment.
“Last year I was only supposed
to go for a month or two,’’ said
Taylor. “But I really liked it and I
came back. I wanted to go back
down and finish the year down
there.’’
Taylor feels she can see huge
improvements in her game since
spending an entire school year at
the Academy.
“It has improved so much,’’
said Taylor. “My dad told me
since I first came back from
Bollettieri’s my game improved
30 percent since the first time
down and 30 percent more since
then.’’
Taylor, who is hoping to play
tennis in college, loves being a
competitive tennis environment.
“I have been working really
hard,’’ said Taylor. “Pretty much
my whole summer has been tennis.’’
Taylor’s enthusiasm for the
game has increased since coming
back from Florida. She has spent
the majority of the summer working on her game.
“I have only been to the beach
once or twice all summer,’’ said
Taylor. “My best friend lives two
blocks from the beach, but I am
on the court all day I don’t want to
go out in the sun anymore. I will
go to the movies and stuff like
that.’’
Taylor loves being surrounded
by other players, who all have the
same type of goals, to take their
tennis to the next level.
Even during the summer when
Taylor is home in Allenwood, she
is on the court nearly all day.
“We are all really good
friends,’’ said Taylor of the other
players at the Bollettieri
Academy. “It is also very competitive. If you are on the court it is
different than when you are off.
You have to separate the game
from your friendships. I love the
environment and everyone is so
nice. We all want to do well and
all want to succeed and do well in
life.’’
At the end of the New Jersey
State Junior Championship match
which she lost 6-4, 6-1, Taylor
remained on the court working
over her game in her head.
“It is not that I think I played
horribly,’’ said Taylor. “I think I
could have done better. I was a little disappointed. I didn’t think I
did everything I could. I got a little tight, a little nervous. My mind
was telling my body to do one
thing and my body was hesitating.
She was a good player, she hit
corner to corner well.’’
LAUREN PARKER, The Coast Star
Chelsea Taylor competes in the Ballew/Rolex New Jersey State Junior Tennis Championship at
the Atlantic Club. Taylor, who is from Allenwood, is heading to the Nick Bollettieri Tennis Academy
in Florida for her second year at the prestigious tennis school.
Smoke wins New Jersey Junior Singles
title at Atlantic Club Tournament
By Len Bardsley
WALL TOWNSHIP — The
Atlantic Club hosted the New
Jersey Junior singles championships last weekend with several
local players performing well.
MacLane Smoke, the brother of
Manasquan graduate Jarrad
Smoke, who is now playing at the
U.S. Naval Academy, cruised
through the 12-year-old division
of the tournament.
Smoke, who is from Belmar,
only lost three games during the
entire tournament while winning
the title.
Conor Ritchey of Manasquan,
Alex Elbogen of Spring Lake,
Chris Sabaitis of Spring Lake and
Ken Sasnouaski of Manasquan
also competed in the boys 12year-old division.
In the boys 14-year-old division, James Teasley of Spring
Lake reached the quarterfinals.
Sam Rispuad of Spring Lake,
and James Christopher of Avon
also competed in the boys 14year-old division.
Sam Rispuad also competed in
the boys 16-year-old division,
along with Randy Kondler of
Manasquan and Ed Wrigley of
Wall and Jordan Cruz of
Manasquan.
Charles Sabaitis of Spring Lake
advanced to the quarterfinals in
the boys 10-year-old division
along with Charles Elbogen of
Spring Lake.
Laura Turner of Spring Lake,
Lauren Lindsey of Manasquan
and Lauren Balsamo of Wall
Township competed in the girls
16-year-old division.
The girls 14-year-old division
was loaded with local players with
Dena Tanenbaum reaching the
quarterfinals. Lindsey Balsamo of
Manasquan also competed in the
division as well as Paige Alden of
Spring Lake, Cindy Kasselman of
Manasquan, Grace Newall of
Brielle and Gwen Alden of Spring
Lake also competed.
In the girls 12-year-old division, Tanenbaum advanced to the
finals. Tanenbaum lost a hardfought three set match to Lindsay
Kayati in the finals.
Tanenbaum lost the first set 6-4,
but won the second set 6-3, before
losing the final set 6-0.
Atlantic Club
Basketball
programs
The Atlantic Club will be running a variety of basketball programs for players in grades pre-K
to 8th grade. The Junior
Basketball League will run on
Thursdays from 4 to 5 p.m., starting Sept. 14.
Preseason basketball workouts
for boys and girls in grades 3-8
will be on Sundays from 10-11
a.m. starting Sept. 17, then on the
weekend of Nov. 11-12, there will
be a shooting clinic from 9-11
a.m. for grades K-8. For more
information on these programs,
please contact Matt Burke at
(732) 292-4377 or e-mail
mattb@theatlanticclu.com.
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At the age of 74 Ed Torres of Wall coaches the Rider University tennis team and is one of the top
senior players in New Jersey. Torres recently won a gold medal in doubles in the New Jersey Senior
Olympics and won a silver in the singles competition.
Torres is forever young as long
as he is playing, teaching tennis
By Len Bardsley
Ed Torres cannot imagine not
playing tennis.
The 74-year-old Wall resident
has been playing the game he
loves for the last 65 years and is
showing no signs of slowing
down.
He figures the sport keeps him
young, plus he has genetics on his
side.
Torres’ father, who is also
named Ed, got his son started on
the game at the Spring Lake Bath
and Tennis Club where he was a
member.
Ed Torres Sr., played tennis
until he was 85.
Ed Torres Jr., figures he still
has a few more good years left.
Torres is actually playing more
now then when he was one of the
top high school and college players in New Jersey half a century
ago.
Torres led Asbury Park to the
state title his senior year in 1950
before putting together a record of
43-1 as the top singles player at
Rider University.
The only years Torres was not
playing was when he was on a
ship in the Navy from 1955 to
1957.
Torres is still playing and still
winning.
Torres won the mens doubles
competition at the New Jersey
Senior Olympic games held in
Atlantic City in July and placed
second in the men’s singles.
Torres will play in the National
Senior Olympics next summer in
Louisville, Kentucky.
Torres was a regular in the New
Jersey Senior Olympic games
until he was named the head
coach of the Rider University tennis team in 1995 at the tender age
of 63.
It seemed natural for Rider to
turn to its greatest tennis player in
the history of its program.
Torres had been a regular in the
New Jersey Senior Olympics
games until he was named the
head coach of the Rider
University tennis team in 1995, at
the tender age of 63.
Curt Blake, who was the athletic director at Rider at the time,
became interested in hiring Torres
as coach after he was inducted
into the Rider University Athletic
Hall of Fame in 1993.
“At the ceremony I told them I
was retiring in 1994,’’ said Torres.
“They remembered and called me
and asked if I knew anyone who
would be interested in the (coaching) job. I thought no way I was
going to do it, I had just retired.’’
Torres thought about it a little
more and decided to give it a
chance.
“I asked them, ‘you mind if I
try this job,’’’ said Torres. “‘If you
don’t like me I will just leave.’
(Blake) said, ‘I was hoping you
would say that because practice
starts next week.’’’
Torres took over a struggling
program that had been coached by
a player fresh out of college who
didn’t bother to recruit or use
available scholarship money.
Torres helped rebuild the Rider
program and was named Metro
Atlantic Athletic Conference
Coach of the Year in 2005.
“It is a part-time job, but I can
put a full-time effort into it.’’
That seems to be the secret for
Torres, working part-time at a lot
of things he enjoys, while putting
a full effort into each endeavor.
Torres gives lessons at the
Manasquan River Yacht Club and
Fairway Mews during the summer
and at the Atlantic Club during
the winter, and plays in as many
tournaments as possible.
He missed playing in the New
Jersey Senior Olympic games that
were usually scheduled during the
peak of Riders’ season.
When they were moved to July
and a friend called asking if he
wanted to play in the doubles
tournament, he jumped at the
chance.
Torres still loves the competition, he just wishes there were
more players his age to play singles against. He usually has to
play singles against a player 10 to
15 years younger than he is.
“I can still get charged up playing,’’ said Torres. “I do enjoy singles more. It is more exercise, but
I play more doubles than singles,
not by choice.’’
Torres had never thought about
coaching or teaching tennis in his
younger days, but it seemed like a
perfect fit. Torres got a job teaching at Neptune High School after
he left the Navy.
He was looking for a summer
job when a friend approached
with the idea of tennis lessons.
“A guy I went to Rider with
said they needed a tennis pro at
the Manasquan River Yacht Club
because the pro got fired or something,’’ said Torres. “I told him I
had never given lessons before,
but he said you are a better player
than anyone here. I started giving
lessons, if I had not been a teacher
I probably would not have done
it.’’
Nearly 50 years later Torres is
still teaching and playing on the
court. He retired from his job as a
teacher and then vice principal at
Neptune after 35 years in the high
school in 1994.
“It is not even like work for
me,’’ said Torres. “When it
becomes work that is when I really retire.’’
Torres tries to help his players
at Rider with tips within the
match.
“You can help them with the
strategy and their confidence,’’
said Torres. “You can also calm
them down during matches.’’
Torres appreciates the changes
in the game since he first picked
up a wooden racket and played on
clay courts.
“The equipment has changed
the game,’’ said Torres. “The
training … I never trained a day in
my life. These guys are lifting,
running, they are eating right.
They play 12 months a year. I
played every day in the summer
when I was young and then the
spring and summer when I was in
high school and Rider, but I put
away the racket in September and
played basketball. There was no
such thing as indoor courts.’’
Torres is blunt when comparing
the play of college players today
compared to when he was the top
player for the Broncs in the
1950s.
“The kids today would have
beaten the hell out of me,’’ said
Torres. “I played on clay courts. I
didn’t play on hard courts until I
was 30 years old. It was a slower
game with a wooden racket and
long strokes. Today the ball
comes so fast.’’
Torres is relishing every
moment on the court and loves the
fact he is playing more now than
when he was a student at Rider.
“I am playing more than I ever
did,’’ said Torres. “I still enjoy it.’’
THE COAST STAR, THURSDAY, AUGUST 17, 2006
Briant earns Four Medals at Nationals
Hannah Briant, 11 of Manasquan, won four medals at the Junior
Nationals last week in Huntington Beach, California. Briant won medals
in the run-swim-run event, the distance swim, and the rescue relay.
Briant was also on the relay team that won a medal.
Monmouth County finishes
fourth in Lifeguard Nationals
By Jamy Lineberry
The Monmouth County team
had finished second in five of the
last six years in the United States
Lifeguard Association Nationals.
With a smaller team and competing against full-time lifeguards, Monmouth County finished fourth last week at the
nationals in Huntington Beach,
California.
“Having just 30 competitors
out there, to finish 4th overall is
truly a great job,” Sea Girt
Lifeguard Tim Harmon said.
The L.A. County team finished
first, their seventh straight first
place finish.
Volusia
Surf
Lifesaving
Association of Florida and the
California State Lifeguard team
finished in second and third,
respectively.
The Monmouth County team
brought 39 lifeguards and judges
to Huntington Beach for the
competition.
Due to high travel costs the
team was smaller than in the
past.
“We brought a small group this
year, but the guards that went out
there were dedicated and did a
great job,” Harmon said.
Matt Nunnally, of Bradley
Beach, won the men’s individual
point title in 2003 and 2005.
Nunnally placed third in 2004.
Looking to defend his 2005
title, Nunnally ended up third
this year behind two L.A. County
Lifeguards.
Nunnally continued to excel in
the ironman competition, winning first in the open division
American
Ironman.
Ryan
Matthews, of Belmar, finished
fifth and Todd Sudol, of Sea Girt,
finished in sixth place.
Nunnally placed fifth in the
open division international ironman.
The difference between the
international and American ironman is in the international the
last leg, competitors use a surf
ski instead of a surf boat.
Nunnally also earned a fifth
place finish in the open division
surf swim competition.
Monmouth County continued
its dominance over the American
Ironman as Mike Barrows, of Sea
Girt, won the 30-34 age division.
Barrows took fourth in the 3034 run-swim-run event.
In the 30-34 surf swim event
Barrows finished in fifth place.
Barrows and Nunnally paired
up to finish second in the 30-34
rescue race event.
In the open division of the res-
cue race event, Nunnally and
Andrew DiPietra, of Bradley
Beach, finished in second place.
In the same event, Ryan
Matthews of Belmar and Shawn
Matthews of Bradley Beach finished in fourth place.
In the men’s 2K beach run,
ages 40-44, William George of
Sea Girt finished in fifth place.
George paired with his brother, Daniel from Takanassee, to
win the men’s surfboat 40-44.
The Monmouth County team
of John Petillo of Avon and Bob
Smolniak of Takanassee placed
fifth in that event.
In the surfboat event ages 3539 the team of Tim Harmon of
Sea Girt and Mark Racioppi of
Monmouth Beach finished in
second place.
It was a good showing for the
Monmouth County team who
continued to excel in rowing and
ironman events.
“We had a good group of
young guys from Sandy Hook to
Manasquan that all came together for the good of the Monmouth
County team,” Harmon said.
Next year’s nationals are set to
take place in Myrtle Beach,
South Carolina.
Manasquan surf team getting bigger, better each season
By Len Bardsley
While some of the best athletes
at Manasquan High School will
be hitting the practice fields to
get ready for their respective fall
sports in the next couple of days,
many of the top Warriors in their
sport will never leave the beach.
They are members of the
Manasquan High School surf
team, which is heading into its
fifth season of competition.
The Manasquan surf team is
getting bigger and better with
each passing season, drawing
over 30 competitors last season.
The Warriors finished second
in the state to Ocean City and
sent 13 competitors to the
National Championships held in
Dana Point, Calif.
While the majority of the
team’s competitions take place in
the
fall,
the
National
Championship is always held in
June.
The surf team remains a club
sport, because it is yet to be officially sanctioned by the New
Jersey Interscholastic Athletic
Association, but there is already a
well-established high school surfing federation.
The
National
Scholastic
Surfing Association sets the rules
and guidelines for running high
school surfing competitions.
The Manasquan surf team is
similar to any other varsity sport
at the high school in that it has a
coach, Glen Zabriskie, and holds
practices.
It is a little different in that
there are no set tryouts and the
practices are held on the beach.
Manasquan has a lot of athletes
who surf, but many of them have
to choose between traditional varsity sports and the surfing team.
“Every year you get different
kids, but about the same amount
of kids,’’ said senior Erica
Librizzi, who has been on the
team every season. “It is a pretty
eclectic group of kids, who you
know surf, but you don’t know
how good they are until they
come out for the team. They give
a lot to the team.’’
The team is truly a community
team, backed by parents, many of
whom surf themselves.
Erica’s father, Sal Librizzi, is a
See SURF, page 56
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THE COAST STAR, THURSDAY, AUGUST 17, 2006
Cobras baseball team heading to Cooperstown
By Len Bardsley
You could call it the ultimate
field of dreams for baseball players.
It is Dreams Park in
Cooperstown, New York and the
Cobras, a 12-year-old team from
Manasquan and Brielle, will be
heading for a week of baseball
starting on Saturday.
The Cobras will be part of the
long summer of baseball in
Cooperstown, the site of the
Baseball Hall of Fame.
Each week, 96 teams from all
over the country participate in a
week-long tournament on pristine
fields around the Hall of Fame.
The players stay in barracks in
town and play up to three games a
day. The winner of the week-long
tournament is invited back to compete in the final championship
round at the end of the summer.
Each team must apply for a coveted spot in the tournament and
then raise money to pay for the
trip.
It is a year-round commitment
for the players and parents, who
are anxious to be involved in a
great week of competitive baseball
in a perfect setting.
The Cobras will leave tomorrow and begin tournament play on
Saturday.
“You have very, very good
teams playing in the tournament,’’
said Cobras manager Bobby
Briant. “It is great stuff.’’
The Cobras held tryouts, have
played in tournaments all summer
and have been raising money for
much of the year.
“It is well worth the experi-
The Cobras 12-year-old team from Manasquan and Brielle will be heading to Cooperstown for a
tournament at Dreams Park. The Cobras team consists of Coaches Mike Ammerman [back row,
from left], Bobby Briant, Paul Capotorto, Greg Waga, Nick Masone [standing, from left], Jack
Capotorto, Jesse Terranova, Mike Ammerman, John McCarren, Josh Aromando, Ryan Zappi [kneeling, from left], Alex Waga, Tim Barry, Billy Acciavatti, Chris Errichiello, Brody High and Drew
Ballester.
ence,’’ said Briant. “The kids learn
from working hard and raising
money. They learn a good life lesson.’’
It is also a lot of fun for the kids
to play on one of the 24 immaculate fields and meet other kids
from all over the country.
“It is amazing,’’ said Briant. “It
is like the Olympics with all the
teams marching out with flags
representing where they are from.
It is a great thing.’’
Junior Legion team ends season on high note
By Len Bardsley
The Wall Junior American
Legion team ended an impressive
season by finishing second in the
state last week, falling to Mount
Laurel in the state finals in Union.
Mount Laurel was the only
team Wall lost to all season, finishing with a record of 23-3.
It was a great run for a Wall
team that consists of players who
will be juniors and sophomores
for the Crimson Knights this year.
“They showed why Wall baseball is so successful,’’ said Wall
manager Tom McNamara, who is
an assistant coach to Todd Schmitt
for the Wall High School varsity
team.
“They come to play every game
and they are fundamentally sound.
That is why Wall baseball has had
the run it’s had.’’
McNamara was especially
impressed with how his team won
four games when trailing after five
innings during tournament play,
including a dramatic 10-inning
victory.
“They never packed it in,’’ said
McNamara. “They are true baseball players. Mt. Laurel was just a
little deeper than us. We could not
get anything started.’’
Wall was led by Anthony
Cinelli, Kyle McArdle and Frank
Desarno.
“The real leader by example
was Cinellil,’’ said McNamara.
“He was a varsity starter at second
base, but we wanted him to get
some innings pitching. He really
stepped up and showed leadership.’’
McNamara was also pleased
with the effort of McArdle, who
gave a great effort on the mound in
a crucial game despite being under
the weather.
Cinelli went 6-for-14 and
scored five runs during the fivegame state tournament, while
Nick Gacos was 4-for-15 with
four runs scored.
Verga moves up as head coach of St.
Rose boys and girls cross country
By Len Bardsley
John Verga will take over as
head coach of the St. Rose boys’
and girls’ cross country teams this
season.
Verga, who coached the Purple
Roses boys’ and girls’ track teams
during the spring season, will take
over for Bill Jasko who will
remain as an assistant.
Verga was the assistant coach
for Jasko during cross country last
season.
Verga is now the head coach for
all three St. Rose running teams
— cross country, indoor track to
outdoor track.
“I am doing all three,’’ said
Verga. “It is fun. I am back into it.
I can’t stay away from it. I guess it
is a good drug.’’
Verga feels he is lucky to work
with Jasko, who is in the school
during the day, as well as assistant
coaches Karen Donahue and Pete
Casagrande.
“We are trying to build something here,’’ said Verga. “The boys
team won back-to-back state titles
in 2000 and 2001, but struggled a
little bit after that. We want to
build it back up.’’
Verga has been the head coach
of the track team for three years
and the assistant coach for cross
country two years and is familiar
with all the Purple Roses runners.
Friendship Cup Regatta results
Sam Zankel of the Raritan
Yacht Club was the winner of the
Optimist White event in the 2006
Friendship Cup Regatta, hosted by
the Friends of the Belmar Harbor
on Sunday.
John Patrick Cummins of
Friends of Belmar Harbor took
second in Optimist White, while
Evan Morgan took third place.
Adrianna Matyas of Friends of
Belmar Harbor was first in
Optimist Blue with Tim Forgione
of Raritan Yacht Club taking second and Daniel Gallagher of
Manasquan River Yacht Club
placing third.
Mary Margaret Clawson of
Raritan Yacht Club won the
Optimist Red, while Jack Pringle
of Friends of Belmar Harbor taking second place and Alex Pibl of
Friends of Belmar Harbor taking
third place.
Adrianna Matyas of Friends of
Belmar Harbor won the Optimist
Overall class, with Forgione taking second and Sam Zankel of
Raritan Yacht Club placing third.
In the 420 Class, Brogan
Savage and Mimi Beck from
Friends of Belmar Harbor and
Mataloking Yacht Club earned
first place, while Trevor Von
Kaenel and Maddie Johnstone of
Raritan Yacht Club took second
with Allie Harrington and Michael
Gallagher of Manasquan River
Yacht Club placing third.
In the JY15 Class, Evan Ryan
and Matt Orgill of Friends of
Belmar Harbor took first, Trevor
Finn and Billy Marshall of Friends
of Belmar Harbor took second and
Mike Kulik and Keith Hebrew of
Friends of Belmar Harbor took
third.
Bernadette Boffice of Friends
of Belmar Harbor won the 2006
Friendship Cup Sportsmanship
Award.
Kidney named
wrestling coach
at St. Rose
Kevin Kidney was named Head
Coach for the St. Rose wrestling
team this past week.
Kidney was an assistant coach
for the St. Rose wrestling team.
Kidney wrestled at Monsignor
Donovan and also at York
College.
The St. Rose wrestling program
is coming off a rough 2005 campaign in which Kidney hopes to
improve on.
Desarno was was 5-for-14 and
also pitched for Wall, while Mark
Pellechia was 8-for-18 and 1-1 on
the mound.
Danny Comano was 6-for-15
and put down two sacrifices, while
Frank Labrusciano put down two
crucial sacrifices.
Zach Mangrer was 2-for-2 as a
pinch hitter. Joe Negry and Steve
Brudzinski also played key roles
in supporting the team through its
tournament run.
South Wall
Little League
registration
South Wall Little League will
be holding registration for fall
baseball and softball Thursday,
from 7 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. at the
Upper Field House Meeting
Room off Atlantic Avenue.
Registration will also be held
on Saturday, Aug., 26 from 8:39
a.m. until10:30 a.m.
Late registration will be accepted along with a $25 individual or
$100 team late fee up until Sept.
1.
Forms can be mailed to: SWLL
P.O. Box 13, Allenwood, NJ,
08720 or turned into Sneakers
Plus in the K-Mart Shopping
Plaza on Rt. 35 in Wall.
There will be no registration
accepted after Sept. 1.
The fees are $65 for individual
and $90 for two or more players
for Wall residents and $75 for all
other individuals.
To download registration forms
go to www.eteamz.com/swll
Lacrosse programs
held at
Atlantic Club
The Atlantic club will be running its instructional fall lacrosse
league starting on Sept. 14 and
ending in early Nov.
The league will be for boys and
girls in grades 2-4, 5-8, 9-12 and
run for eight weeks.
Girls in grades 9-12 will play
on Thursday from 4:15 to 6:15
p.m. The rest of the age groups
will play on Saturdays. Boys can
rent a helmet, shoulder pads,
elbow pads and gloves for $25.
Players must provide their own
stick. All players will receive a
mesh jersey. Please contact Matt
Burke at (732) 292-4377 for more
information.
THE COAST STAR, THURSDAY, AUGUST 17, 2006
— SQUAN —
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with a total of no more than 10
hours.
The teams can practice no more
than six hours in two or three sessions during the school year with
most games taking place on
Sunday mornings.
The coaches usually move up
the Pop Warner ladder with their
sons and enjoy watching the progression of their players.
“It
gets
easier,’’
said
Manasquan Junior Pee Wee coach
Mike Bellefeville. “It becomes
more fun. You get to know the
system. It is the same system as
the high school.’’
Each team usually has three or
four coaches each putting in at
least 15 hours a week.
“They know the basics,’’ said
Bellefeville. “A lot of these kids
have been doing it for three or
four years. They know the basics
and the fundamentals.’’
The most rewarding aspect for
Bellefeville is watching a kid who
has a hard time at the beginning of
practice or the season start to pick
up the game and have fun at the
same time.
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From Page 50
fall back on,” he said.
The early signing period for
college is in November. Anthony
hopes to have made a decision by
then.
“It would be nice to have something done in November, so I
don’t have to worry about it during the season,” Anthony said.
Another possibility, as the season comes to an end, is Anthony
getting drafted by a Major League
team.
The question then becomes do
you go to college or take the
money and go to the majors?
“It’s a decision that all big
prospects have to think about,”
Anthony said. “I can honestly say
that it’s something I think about
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From Page 49
feels it is better to get the
younger competitors in the surf
first instead of much later in the
day after they are tired out from
being on the beach all day.
“It was tough for them,’’ said
Deveney. “The problems we have
found is that parents and the little
guys can’t handle the all day
thing. We try to accommodate
them, but the tides don’t always
work out. The masses tell us to
tough it out and move things
along.’’
The body surfing contest was
held at Riddle Beach with a solid
turnout and choppy surf.
It was the sixth year for the
Body Surfing contest with the
Outbback Steakhouse being one
of the main sponsors and offering
gift certificates for prizes.
Other prizes in the contest
included New York Giants Tickets
and Lakewood Blue Claws
Tickets.
The following were winners in
the surfing and body surfing competition.
Menehune Surfing: 1. Andrew
Rooney, 2. Jessica Duerr, 3.
Patrick Pompilio, 4. Ben
Messoroll, 5. Curran Iglay, 6.
Tanner Cowley
Boys Surfing: 1. Tyler Reedy, 2.
Nicholas DiSanzo, 3. Nico
Pecoraro, 4. Daniel Tighe, 5.
Anthony DiSanzo, 6. Robert
Crane.
Jr. Mens Surfing: 1. Alex
Fereaz, 2. Bryan Martins, 3.
Brendan Tighe, 4. Ray LiSata, 5.
Alex Barlow, 6. Mike Scheoning.
Mens Surfing:
1. Philip
Mansfield, 2. Corey Kiesel, 3.
Sterling McCulouf, 4. Justin
Bracket, 5. Scott Leshner, 6. Ray
Leotta.
Masters Surfing: 1. Chris
Lisanti, 2. Scott Duerr, 3. Chris
Rooney, 4. Gary Finnegan, 5.
Steve Stillman, 6. Eugene Wahl.
Girls Surfing: 1. Caroline
Duerr, 2. Allie Gordon, 3. Jenna
Schambach, 4. Shae Cowley, 5.
Caroline Duerr, 6. Casey Rooney.
Womens Surfing: 1. Ryan
McGrath, 2. Carleigh Sion, 3.
Kim Kepich, 4. Sindia Sosdian, 5.
Jess Swensen, 6. Lauren
Schamback.
Youth Bodyboard: 1. Adam
Cook, 2. Dillon Druz, 3. John
Morris, 4. Pat Tighe, 5. Daniel
Tighe, 6. Nick Liggett.
“Seeing a kid who struggles at
every practice or the beginning of
the year then seeing them at the
end of the night or the end of the
year, smiling and saying see you
tomorrow coach. Seeing the
change you have made. You know
you have done your job.’’
Bellefeville works in the construction business, but is always
looking forward to going to practice even if he had a long day on
the job.
“I love coming here every day,’’
said Bellefeville. “We start early
(on the job) and end early. I can be
here six to eight [p.m.] and give it
my all. I look forward to every
practice.’’
Bellefeville, of course, loves
the games and competition, as
well, but never wants an intense
hostile environment to ruin the
experience for the kids.
“When fans are hostile and
coaches are screaming at their
kids, that is not fun,’’ said
Bellefeville. “At this level it is
about fun and teaching. I don’t
care what anybody says. They are
9, 10 and 11 years old. They are
out to have fun and learn, that is
the basics of this whole organization.’’
every single day.”
For Anthony, he’s focused on
college for now.
“It would have to be life-changing money for me to not go to college,” Anthony said.
Anyone drafted in the first
round of the MLB draft probably
will receive a signing bonus of at
least $1 million.
“I wouldn’t forfeit a chance at a
great education just for the
money,” Anthony said.
It’s certainly a decision that can
be life changing for any 16- or 17year-old.
“I know it’s a big decision that
I’ll have to make, but certainly not
a bad decision to have,” Anthony
said.
Anyone who knows Anthony
Ranaudo, would have to believe
he’ll have no problem making the
right one.
Adult Bodyboard:
1. Ricky
Brandon, 2. RJ Clayton, 3. Pat
Grady, 4. John Mangini, 5. Chris
Dettlinger, 6. Gary Finnigan.
Open Longboard: 1. Corbett
Monica, 2. Scott Duerr, 3. Chris
Rooney, 4. Bobby Duerr, 5. Scot
Beesley, 6. Gary Finnigan.
Open Womens Longboard: 1.
Caroline Duerr, 2. Rebecca
Wishbow, 3. Carleigh Sion, 4.
Kristina Duerr, 5. Hilary Shinn, 6.
Casey Rooney.
Open Skim: 1. Mike
Scheonigh, 2. Matt Swigon, 3.
Chris
Lisanti,
4.
Darryl
Schambach.
Body Surfing Contest:
10-13: 1. Brian Smith (Little
Silver), 2. Maggie Brown
(Manasquan), 3. Bryan Wall
(Manasquan).
14-16: 1. Nick Cefalo (Basking
Ridge),
2.
Steve
Grieb
(Manasquan), 3. Stephen Azierski
(Nutley).
17-25: 1. Michael Curran
(Manasquan),
2.
Brendan
O’Connor (Sea Girt), 3. Braden
Orr (Pennington).
26+: 1. Tim Shea (Manasquan),
2. John Forrester (Little Silver), 3.
Jeff Brown (Manasquan).
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The Manasquan Little Warriors Junior Pee Wee team goes through some blocking drills during a
recent practice at Spring Lake Heights Elementary School.
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THE COAST STAR, THURSDAY, AUGUST 17, 2006
FISHING TIPS
The stellar weather has continued from last week and many
people besides fishermen have
been enjoying our beaches. Surf
temperatures are right around 74
degrees and the water clarity has
improved greatly — so much so
that over this past weekend it
took on that tropical appearance.
There is a lot of life around as
plenty of bait is present in the
form of spearing, anchovies,
butterfish, sardines, and small
snappers. The jetties are also
teaming with life and look like
tropical aquariums.
Bluefish and fluke remain at
the top of the list for best catches mirroring what we saw last
week. Big blues have been in
and out of the surf but best
action has been by the boats as
one can easily chase them down.
In the last week a good concentration of 5- to 10-pound bluefish has been located just 1 to 3
miles outside of the Manasquan
Inlet. These fish have been moving south as the morning progresses but then reappear the
next morning back to the north.
A report from Capt. Jim
O’Grady on the Cock Robin
said, “We are jigging fish along
the beach from Point Pleasant
south to Ortley Beach. The same
fish that have been around on
the beach for a while now, 5- to
15-pound gorillas, are eating
everything in sight! Over the
weekend we started off looking
for some of the big slammers in
close to the beach, and we found
them out in 60 feet of water
rather than in close to the shore.
We got on several piles of fish in
the 8- to 14-pound range, and it
was the usual, catching as many
as we could until the fish scattered around 10:15am.
“Looking around after that, I
decided to try a spot out toward
the edge of the Mud Hole in 100
feet of water,” Capt. O’Grady
continued. “When we got there,
I saw very few signs that the fish
were there, but this is not unusual for this particular spot. I got
the boat anchored, the lines went
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longtime surfer.
“It is great,’’ said Erica. “My
dad does surf, he is the one getting me up at 5 a.m. on a morning
when there are waves. We surf all
the time together. It is nice to
have a permanent partner.’’
Erica’s sister, Ursula, is also on
the surf team, for a while they
were some of the only girls on
the team.
“I try to recruit girls,’’ said
Erica. “The first year there were
just three girls, now there are
seven or eight.’’
At first Librizzi just enjoyed
participating in a sport representing Manasquan, now she loves
the fact she feels part of a true
team.
“It used to be the fact I had a
sport to do after school,’’ said
Librizzi. “It was something I
liked to do. This year I have a lot
of new friends and we have a lot
of fun. We have become a real
team this year.’’
Bob Duerr, a longtime surfer
whose daughter, Krista, is on the
team, loves giving Manasquan
athletes opportunities he never
had in high school.
Duerr, treasurer of the
Manasquan surf team, is also a
big part of the fund-raising effort
that sends any surfers who qualify to nationals.
“It is a great experience to be
on surf team in high school and
go to California and go against
teams
from
Hawaii
and
California. I get goose bumps
thinking about it. I wish it was
there when I was a kid. I am able
to see it for our children and it is
very rewarding.’’
The team holds fund-raisers all
year, with the big event being the
Surfers Ball, held at Leggett’s in
early April.
By
Jim
Freda
into the water, and we had a fish
on immediately. This was followed by another fish hooked
and landed, and the bite was on!
We had steady fishing of four to
five fish on the entire time, with
flurries of six or more at once.
There were very few lulls where
we were waiting for fish, and
these lulls only lasted a minute
or two, and I think that was due
to people getting their lines back
out into the water after some fish
came in. These fish were all in
the 8- to 14-pound range, and all
on bait. We had one thresher
shark hooked and released, too.”
The fluke fishing has been
good in both the Shark and
Manasquan rivers as rods are
bending with plenty of short
fluke with a good mix of keepers. Fluke up to 3 pounds, with
some larger, are greeting most
boaters that are fishing a tide.
Over the rail at the Manasquan
Inlet some keepers are also
being caught that are averaging
right around 18 inches.
Lots of rays and skates have
also been spotted in the surf as
swimmers have reported seeing
them swim by in large schools.
John, down at Betty and Nick’s
in Seaside Park, reported several
sightings of exotic skates as he
received reports of a strange
looking skate being caught off
the surf. After a little research
and some help from “McClane’s
Guide to Saltwater Fish,” John
thinks these multi-tailed skates
are called Barndoor Skates.
“We sent 13 kids [to
California] last year,’’ said Duerr.
“We raised close to $15,000 and
got the kids to California and
back. It is an expensive proposition funding this thing.’’
Librizzi has qualified and
made the trip to nationals twice.
“That was really good,’’ said
Librizzi. “We were very involved
in fund raising. We really got to
appreciate how much we had to
work and how much we had to do
as a team.’’
Librizzi appreciated going
against excellent competition in
great waves.
“The waves were exceptional,’’
said Librizzi. “The competition
was outstanding. They can surf
all year long. I think we were the
only East Coast school out
there.’’
Back
in
New
Jersey,
Manasquan is one of the dominant teams out of the 15 or so
schools that field teams in the
state.
The big goal is to defeat Ocean
City in the state championship.
The winner of the states hosts the
event the following season.
“They [Ocean City] always
have home field advantage in
terms of reading the break and
knowing the tides,’’ said Duerr.
“That is key. If we had it here we
know the break very, very well.
Our goal is to win it and bring it
back here.’’
The team practices three times
a week, runs on the boardwalk
and must be in good enough
shape to catch 10 waves in a span
of 15 minutes during competition.
“You have to be in good condition to paddle out there,’’ said
Duerr. “You have to make sure
you go out there and your first
wave is about as good as you are
going to get and build on that.
You have to know what you are
doing. If you have good balance,
are fit and strong and can swim
you can usually surf.’’
Librizzi would love to see a
few more schools pick up the
sport.
“It would be nice to see it more
widely accepted,’’ said Librizzi.
“You don’t see everybody on the
beach rooting us on.’’
It is pretty clear, the
Manasquan surfers have the commitment and athleticism of any
other Warriors team, just not the
Phil Infantolino, of Brielle,
placed second in last week’s
Ocean City, Md., White Marlin
Open with an 81.5-pound white
marlin he boated on his Heartto-Heart from Brielle Yacht
Club. Jack Hotz on True Grit
from Lewes, Del., placed first
with an 82-pound white marlin.
Greg over at Brielle Bait and
Tackle reports that fluke fishing
in the Manasquan River is good
at this time. Many boaters are
getting their limits with fish up
to 3 to 4 pounds. Greg says that
there are also weakfish showing
up now in the river that are hitting fins fish and sandworms.
On the ocean side, Greg says
the fluke ratio has dropped once
again as boaters are weeding
through about 50 shorts for
every keeper. Kim Spinosa, of
Lavallette, weighed in an 8pound 14-ounce fluke.
Greg says that there are also
plenty of 6- to 12-pound bluefish in the ocean to keep you
busy.
Announcements of interest:
• Aug. 19, Fall Family
Flukin” Frenzy, VFW 4715,
Men’s Auxiliary, Point Pleasant
Beach, proceeds to benefit Point
Pleasant Beach and Boro student scholarships, call 732-8990890.
• Aug. 19-20, Nor’East
Saltwater’s First Big Blue
Challenge, call 631-863-0170.
• Aug. 20-26, Mid-Atlantic
$500,000 Marlin and Tuna
Tournament, Cape May, go to
www.ma500.com.
• Aug. 26, Wiggle Rigs FlukeMaster Tournament sponsored
by Jersey Coast Bait N’ Tackle,
Brick and Julian’s Bait and
Tackle, Atlantic Highlands, call
732-451-1077 or 732-291-0050.
Tip of the week: Look for
more mahi-mahi to set up
around the inshore lobster pots
that are located from 5 to 15
miles outside the Manasquan
Inlet.
Send info, comments, or
notable
catches
to:
jimfreda@optonline.net.
recognition.
Yet.
Duerr can’t understand why
not.
“It is a great high school
sport,’’ said Duerr. “Where else
can you go out to the beach and
the sand and the waves and the
girls in bikinis? Come on it is
great.’’
Manasquan
River Golf
Club results
Nora Kolmer, Mary Polizzotto,
Joan Olson and Marlene Koonz
won the One Better Ball on 4’s, 2
Better Ball on 3’s and 5’s
Tournament on Tuesday.
The foursome shot an 89.
The second place team consisted of Judy Fitzsimmons, Marty
Wright and Ruth Dowling with an
97.
Carol Hickie, Kate McClave,
Betty Koch and Sheila Graham
were third with a 100, while Kay
Gragnano, Kay Everitt, Ann
Hawkins and Maria Gaal placed
fourth with a 101.
Fairway Mews
Golf results
Pat Rees was the low gross
Flight A winner of the 18-holers
1st round championships last
Wednesday at Fairway Mews.
Maureen Mahala was the low
net winner. Nora McPhail was the
low gross winner in Flight B,
while Jo Tull was the low net winner.
Mary Michaels was the Flight
C low gross winner with Pat Roff
winning the Flight C, low net.
In the 9-holers 2nd round
championship Mary Lou Hart
won the low gross in Flight A,
while Janet Casey and Freda
Gerardi tied for the low net in
Flight A.
Hannah Goodman was the low
gross winner in Flight B, while
Anne Hooton was the winner in
low net. Laura Jordan was the
Flight C low gross winner and
Doris Gorey was the low net winner in Flight C.
THE COAST STAR, THURSDAY, AUGUST 17, 2006
Sea Girt captures hometown title
By Jamy Lineberry
SEA GIRT — For the second
straight year, Sea Girt was able to
win their own lifeguard tournament, edging out Belmar Tuesday
night to win the Sea Girt
Invitational.
Sea Girt has won their home
tournament 8 of the last 10 years,
finishing in second in 2003 and
2004.
“It’s always good to win a
hometown tournament,” Sea Girt
Lifeguard Captain Tim Harmon
said. “We performed well.”
Sea Girt finished with a total of
27 points, while Belmar finished in
second with 23 points. Monmouth
County Parks finished with 17,
Manasquan 16 and Avon and
Bradley Beach tied with 14 points.
“Our guys came together and
did a great job,” Harmon said.
Sea Girt uses a pick out of the
hat format to decide who will compete in each event for their team.
“It really makes for a level playing field,” Harmon said. “You have
to bring your most complete
guards and be ready for anything.”
Sea Girt was able to finish first
in 3 of the 5 events to propel them
to the victory.
Sea Girt got off to a good start
winning the kayak relay.
Manasquan came in second followed
by
Belmar,
Avon,
Monmouth County Parks and
Bradley Beach.
The second event was the paddle relay.
Manasquan took first, followed
by Monmouth County Parks,
Avon, Belmar, Bradley Beach and
Sea Girt.
Matt Haibach [left] and Ryan Wade [right] are pushed out by Matt Harmon [right] and Dave
Warren [left] during the last leg of the boat relay. Sea Girt won their own tournament Tuesday
night for the eighth time in ten years.
Sea Girt was able to get back to
their winning ways in the rescue
relay.
Belmar finished in second,
Bradley Beach third, Monmouth
County Parks fourth, and Avon
came in fifth.
Sea Girt won the second straight
event winning the line rescue.
Bradley Beach came in second,
Monmouth County Parks third,
Belmar fourth, Manasquan fifth,
and Avon sixth.
The final event of the tournament was the boat relay.
Belmar was able to close the
final gap with Sea Girt by winning
the relay.
Sea Girt came in second, followed by Avon, Monmouth
County Parks, Bradley Beach and
Manasquan.
“It was a very good team effort,”
Harmon said. “All the teams competed hard.”
Harmon said he does love the
fact that the Sea Girt Tournament
is done totally at random.
“It’s nice to see in our tournament that every beach has a chance
to win,” Harmon said.
The Sea Girt Invitational was
the last lifeguard tournament of the
season.
“It was a fun season, I think
everyone is already looking forward to next year,” Harmon said.
Members of the Sea Girt Lifeguard team after winning the Sea Girt Invitational Tuesday night. Matt Hybach, [back row, from left
to right] Matt Zane, Dave Warren, John Forrester, Mike Barrows and Matt Grogan. Matt Harmon, [front row, from left to right] Tim
Harmon, Megan Harris, Annie Fittin, Dave Welsh and Todd Sudol. Also on the team were Bill Medler and Ryan Wade [not pictured].
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THE COAST STAR, THURSDAY, AUGUST 17, 2006
_____________________________
JOSEPH W. OXLEY
MONMOUTH COUNTY
SHERIFF
NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE
SALE
SUPERIOR COURT
OF NEW JERSEY
MONMOUTH COUNTY
CHANCERY DIVISION
Docket No. F-1291904
Sheriff’s File #05002137
Mortgage Electronic Registration
Systems, Inc., Plaintiff vs:
Charles H. Williams, III, et al,
Defendants
By virtue of a writ of execution in
the above stated action to me directed, I shall expose for sale at public
vendue, at Hall of Records, 1 East
Main Street (2nd Floor - Freeholders
Meeting Room), in the Borough of
Freehold, County of Monmouth,
New Jersey, on Monday, the 28th day
of August, 2006 at 2 o'clock, P.M.
prevailing time.
The property to be sold is located
in the Township of Howell in the
County of Monmouth, State of New
Jersey.
Commonly known as:
23 E. Third Street
Tax Lot No. 90 in Block No. 121
Dimensions of Lot:
50’ x 200’
Nearest Cross Street:
200’ from Roosevelt Avenue
TERMS OF SALE: DEPOSIT:
20% of the bid amount at the time of
sale. Balance due in 30 days. Cash or
certified check only.
The approximate amount of the
judgment, Commission and costs to
be satisfied by sale is the sum of
$195,527.31. The successful bidder
will be responsible for all fees, commissions and costs of sale.
The Sheriff hereby reserves the
right to adjourn this sale without further notice by publication.
JOSEPH W. OXLEY, Sheriff
Powers, Kirn, LLC,
Attorneys
Sarah E. Powers, Esq.,
for the firm
(856) 802-1000
Attorney Ref.: 2004-0728
(8/3, 8/10, 8/17, 8/24)
($81.20) (58)
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JOSEPH W. OXLEY
MONMOUTH COUNTY
SHERIFF
NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE
SALE
SUPERIOR COURT
OF NEW JERSEY
MONMOUTH COUNTY
CHANCERY DIVISION
Docket No. F-1755704
Sheriff’s File #05001426
Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. successor by merger to Wells Fargo Home
Mortgage, Inc., Plaintiff vs:
Joseph W. Bellotti, et al,
Defendants
By virtue of a writ of execution in
the above stated action to me directed, I shall expose for sale at public
vendue, at Hall of Records, 1 East
Main Street (2nd Floor - Freeholders
Meeting Room), in the Borough of
Freehold, County of Monmouth,
New Jersey, on Monday, the 28th day
of August, 2006 at 2 o'clock, P.M.
prevailing time.
The property to be sold is located
in the Borough of Keansburg in the
County of Monmouth, State of New
Jersey.
Commonly known as:
149 Highland Boulevard,
Keansburg, NJ 07734
Tax Lot No. 26 in Block No. 4,
on the official Tax Map of the
Borough of Keansburg
Dimensions of Lot:
50 ft. x 100 ft. x 50 ft. x 100 ft.
Nearest Cross Street:
Oakwood Place
Subject to any unpaid taxes,
municipal liens or other charges, and
any such taxes, charges, liens, insurance premiums or other advances
made by plaintiff prior to this sale.
All interested parties are to conduct and rely upon their own independent investigation to ascertain
whether or not any outstanding interest remain of record and/or have priority over the lien being foreclosed
and, if so the current amount due
thereon.
TERMS OF SALE: DEPOSIT:
20% of the bid amount at the time of
sale. Balance due in 30 days. Cash or
certified check only.
The approximate amount of the
judgment, Commission and costs to
be satisfied by sale is the sum of
$97,445.63. The successful bidder
will be responsible for all fees, commissions and costs of sale.
The Sheriff hereby reserves the
right to adjourn this sale without further notice by publication.
JOSEPH W. OXLEY, Sheriff
Phelan, Hallinan & Schmieg, PC,
Attorneys
Rosemarie Diamond, Esq.,
for the firm
(856) 813-5500
Attorney Ref.: NW4384
(8/3, 8/10, 8/17, 8/24)
($105.00) (75)
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JOSEPH W. OXLEY
MONMOUTH COUNTY
SHERIFF
NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE
SALE
SUPERIOR COURT
OF NEW JERSEY
MONMOUTH COUNTY
CHANCERY DIVISION
Docket No. F-1263304
Sheriff’s File #06003174
Alexander Levchuk, Executor of
the Estate of Victor Isigkeit, Plaintiff
vs:
Dalma II, Inc., A New Jersey
Corporation, Defendants
By virtue of a writ of execution in
the above stated action to me directed, I shall expose for sale at public
vendue, at Hall of Records, 1 East
Main Street (2nd Floor - Freeholders
Meeting Room), in the Borough of
Freehold, County of Monmouth,
New Jersey, on Monday, the 28th day
of August 2006 at 2 o'clock, P.M.
prevailing time.
The property to be sold is located
in the Township of Howell in the
County of Monmouth, State of New
Jersey.
The legal description is:
Tract I:
Beginning at a monument set in
the northerly edge of Easy Street, at
the point of beginning of the whole
tract of which this is a part; thence
1. North 7 degrees 05 minutes
West, 290.40 feet to a monument;
thence
2. North 80 degrees East, 419.70
feet to a monument; thence
3. South 14 degrees 35 minutes
East, 301 feet to a monument; thence
4. South 80 degrees West, 458
feet to the point or place of
Beginning.
Being also known and designated
as Lot 2.01, Block 46 on the Tax Map
of the township of Howell.
Tract II:
Beginning at the southeasterly
corner of a tract of 5.12 acres conveyed to Igor Boschanovsky, et ux,
which point is also the southwesterly
corner of a tract of 6 acres conveyed
to Peter Paschiko, et ux (a concrete
monument is set on the easterly
Boschanovsky line two feet from said
point; thence
1. Along the southerly line of the
Paschoko 6 acre tract North 80
degrees East 893 feet to a point on
the Squankum - Metedeconk Road;
thence
2. Along the said road South 14
degrees 35 minutes East, 528.6 feet
to a point which is the northwesterly
corner of the intersection of the said
Squankum-Metedeconk Road and
Easy Street; thence
3. Along the northerly edge of
Easy Street North 71 degrees 5 minutes West, 1027 feet to the point and
place of beginning.
Containing 5.4 acres, plus or
minus, as surveyed by Peter
Raftopoolo in May 1953.
Being also known and designated
as Lot 1, Block 46 on the Tax Map of
the Township of Howell.
TERMS OF SALE: DEPOSIT:
20% of the bid amount at the time of
sale. Balance due in 30 days. Cash or
certified check only.
The approximate amount of the
judgment, Commission and costs to
be satisfied by sale is the sum of
$69,698.32. The successful bidder
will be responsible for all fees, commissions and costs of sale.
The Sheriff hereby reserves the
right to adjourn this sale without further notice by publication.
JOSEPH W. OXLEY, Sheriff
Alexander Levchuk
Alexander Levchuk, Esq.,
for the firm
(732) 462-7000
(8/3, 8/10, 8/17, 8/24)
($140.00) (100)
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JOSEPH W. OXLEY
MONMOUTH COUNTY
SHERIFF
NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE
SALE
SUPERIOR COURT
OF NEW JERSEY
MONMOUTH COUNTY
CHANCERY DIVISION
Docket No. DJ-32320504 &
DC-755504
Sheriff’s File #06003093
Velocity Investments, LLC,
Plaintiff vs:
Donna M. Boyle, Defendants
By virtue of a writ of execution in
the above stated action to me directed, I shall expose for sale at public
vendue, at Hall of Records, 1 East
Main Street (2nd Floor - Freeholders
Meeting Room), in the Borough of
Freehold, County of Monmouth,
New Jersey, on Monday, the 21st day
of August, 2006 at 2 o'clock, P.M.
prevailing time.
The property to be sold is located
in the Township of Howell in the
County of Monmouth, State of New
Jersey.
Commonly known as:
89 Heritage Dr.,
Howell, NJ 07731.
Tax Lot No. 87 in Block No. 79
on the Tax Map of the Township
of Howell.
Dimensions of Lot:
54.83’ x 104.35’ x 75.69’ x
100.87’.
Nearest Cross Street:
Approximately 130’ to Dantley
Drive.
Full description in Deed Book
4753 Page 754.
TERMS OF SALE: DEPOSIT:
20% of the bid amount at the time of
sale. Balance due in 30 days. Cash or
certified check only.
The approximate amount of the
judgment, Commission and costs to
be satisfied by sale is the sum of
$2,141.66. The successful bidder will
be responsible for all fees, commissions and costs of sale.
The Sheriff hereby reserves the
right to adjourn this sale without further notice by publication.
JOSEPH W. OXLEY, Sheriff
Ragan & Ragan, PC,
Attorneys
W. Peter Ragan, Jr., Esq.,
for the firm
(732) 280-4100
(7/27, 8/3, 8/10, 8/17)
($89.60) (64)
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JOSEPH W. OXLEY
MONMOUTH COUNTY
SHERIFF
NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE
SALE
SUPERIOR COURT
OF NEW JERSEY
MONMOUTH COUNTY
CHANCERY DIVISION
Docket No. F-179806
Sheriff’s File #06003193
Washington Mutual Bank, FA,
Plaintiff vs:
Robert Papeo, et al, Defendants
By virtue of a writ of execution in
the above stated action to me directed, I shall expose for sale at public
vendue, at Hall of Records, 1 East
Main Street (2nd Floor - Freeholders
Meeting Room), in the Borough of
Freehold, County of Monmouth,
New Jersey, on Tuesday, the 5th day
of September, 2006 at 2 o'clock, P.M.
prevailing time.
The property to be sold is located
in the Township of of Marlboro, in
the County of Monmouth, State of
New Jersey.
Commonly known as:
16 Windfall Lane,
Marlboro, NJ 07746
Tax Lot No. 16 in Block No. 371
Dimensions of Lot:
115 ft x 175 ft
Nearest Cross Street:
Forge Court
Subject to any open taxes,
water/sewer, municipal or tax liens
that may be due.
TERMS OF SALE: DEPOSIT:
20% of the bid amount at the time of
sale. Balance due in 30 days. Cash or
certified check only.
The approximate amount of the
judgment, Commission and costs to
be satisfied by sale is the sum of
$470,968.15. The successful bidder
will be responsible for all fees, commissions and costs of sale.
The Sheriff hereby reserves the
right to adjourn this sale without further notice by publication.
JOSEPH W. OXLEY, Sheriff
Zucker, Goldberg & Ackerman
Attorneys
Leonard B. Zucker, Esq.,
for the firm
(908) 233-8500
Attorney Ref.:XCZ74471/cfo
(8/10, 8/17, 8/24, 8/31)
($85.40) (61)
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JOSEPH W. OXLEY
MONMOUTH COUNTY
SHERIFF
NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE
SALE
SUPERIOR COURT
OF NEW JERSEY
MONMOUTH COUNTY
CHANCERY DIVISION
Docket No. F-194906
Sheriff’s File #06003230
Deutsche Bank National Trust
Company, as Trustee under the pooling and Servicing Agreement Series
ITF INABS 2005-A,
Plaintiff vs:
Ronny M. Holmes, et al,
Defendants
By virtue of a writ of execution in
the above stated action to me directed, I shall expose for sale at public
vendue, at Hall of Records, 1 East
Main Street (2nd Floor - Freeholders
Meeting Room), in the Borough of
Freehold, County of Monmouth,
New Jersey, on Tuesday, the 5th day
of September, 2006 at 2 o'clock, P.M.
prevailing time.
The property to be sold is located
in the Township of Howell, in the
County of Monmouth, State of New
Jersey.
Commonly known as:
60 Crest Dr., Howell, NJ 07731
Tax Lot No. 14 in Block No. 58
Dimensions of Lot:
100 ft x 130 ft
Nearest Cross Street:
Woodland Drive
Subject to any open taxes,
water/sewer, municipal or tax liens
that may be due.
TERMS OF SALE: DEPOSIT:
20% of the bid amount at the time of
sale. Balance due in 30 days. Cash or
certified check only.
The approximate amount of the
judgment, Commission and costs to
be satisfied by sale is the sum of
$220,765.71. The successful bidder
will be responsible for all fees, commissions and costs of sale.
The Sheriff hereby reserves the
right to adjourn this sale without further notice by publication.
JOSEPH W. OXLEY, Sheriff
Zucker, Goldberg & Ackerman
Attorneys
Leonard B. Zucker, Esq.,
for the firm
(908) 233-8500
Attorney Ref.:XRZV74528/cfo
(8/10, 8/17, 8/24, 8/31)
($89.60) (64)
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JOSEPH W. OXLEY
MONMOUTH COUNTY
SHERIFF
NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE
SALE
SUPERIOR COURT
OF NEW JERSEY
MONMOUTH COUNTY
CHANCERY DIVISION
Docket No. F-350106
Sheriff’s File #06003233
Chase Home Finance LLC, successor by merger to Chase Manhattan
Mortgage Corporation,
Plaintiff vs:
Michele Sloboda, et als,
Defendants
By virtue of a writ of execution in
the above stated action to me directed, I shall expose for sale at public
vendue, at Hall of Records, 1 East
Main Street (2nd Floor - Freeholders
Meeting Room), in the Borough of
Freehold, County of Monmouth,
New Jersey, on Tuesday, the 5th day
of September, 2006 at 2 o'clock, P.M.
prevailing time.
The property to be sold is located
in the Borough of Belmar, in the
County of Monmouth, State of New
Jersey.
Commonly known as:
1402 D Street, Belmar, NJ 07719
Tax Lot No.12 in Block No. 143
Dimensions of Lot:
50.00 ft x 99.125 x 50.00 ft x
99.125 ft
Nearest Cross Street:
Fourteenth Avenue
Pursuant to Municipal tax search
dated July 13, 2006. Subject to: 3rd
party 2006 taxes the amount to be
determined due 8.1.06; water to
5/5/06 $51.50 open.
TERMS OF SALE: DEPOSIT:
20% of the bid amount at the time of
sale. Balance due in 30 days. Cash or
certified check only.
The approximate amount of the
judgment, Commission and costs to
be satisfied by sale is the sum of
$67,087.62. The successful bidder
will be responsible for all fees, commissions and costs of sale.
The Sheriff hereby reserves the
right to adjourn this sale without further notice by publication.
JOSEPH W. OXLEY, Sheriff
Hill, Wallack
Attorneys
Michelle M. Monte, Esq.,
for the firm
(609) 924-0808
Attorney Ref.:114843708/mmf
(8/10, 8/17, 8/24, 8/31)
($92.40) (66)
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BOROUGH OF
AVON-BY-THE-SEA
Notice is hereby given that the
following entitled ordinance was
introduced and passed on first reading at a meeting of the Board of
Commissioners of the Borough of
Avon-By-The-Sea held on July 24,
2006 and was passed on final reading
after a hearing at a meeting of said
Board held on August 15, 2006.
Copies of said ordinance may be
obtained in the Clerk’s office at no
cost.
Timothy M. Gallagher, RMC
Borough Clerk
ORDINANCE NO. 8-2006
“AN ORDINANCE TO AMEND
THE CODE OF THE BOROUGH
OF AVON-BY-THE-SEA BY
ADDING SUBCHAPTER 11346A, STORM WATER MANAGEMENT AND CONTROL.”
($8.40) (24) (07-17)
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BOROUGH OF BELMAR
NOTICE OF SPECIAL
MEETING AND HEARING
The Mayor and Borough Council
of the Borough of Belmar will have a
Special Meeting and a Hearing on
Wednesday, August 23, 2006 commencing at 5:30 P.M.
The purpose of this hearing is to
prefer charges against ENCUMBRANCE, INC. t/a Tropical Pub
which will begin at 5:30 P.M. and
continue to approximately 7:00 P.M.
The Agenda Session of the
Mayor and Borough Council will
commence at 7:00 P.M. and the
Regular Meeting of the Mayor and
Borough Council will commence at
8:00 P.M.
Margaret D. Plummer
Borough Clerk, RMC
($7.70) (22) (08-17)
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BOROUGH OF BELMAR
BOARD OF EDUCATION
NOTICE
TO WHOM IT
MAY CONCERN:
In accordance with the Open
Public Meetings Law, C.231, P.L.
1975, the Belmar Board of Education
has established the following meeting dates:
Thursday, August 24, 2006
7:00 p.m.
Workshop & Regular Meeting School Library
Agenda items to include personnel, education, finance, operations,
policies and construction.
Action to be taken.
LORETTA HILL
Business Administrator/
Board Secretary
($7.70) (22) (08-17)
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BOROUGH OF BRIELLE
BOARD OF ADJUSTMENT
NOTICE
Take notice that on the 5th day of
September, 2006, a hearing will be
held before the Brielle Board of
Adjustment for a variance application for property known as Block
24.01 lot(s) 16, street address of 509
Longstret Avenue and Cardeza
Avenue so as to permit: Constructing
an addition to the existing detached
storage garage.
In violation of the following
Article and Section of the Brielle
Zoning Ordinance:
21-13.1.C Permitted Conditional
Use - R-3 Residential Zone
21-13.2.A1 (D) Minimum Front
Setback 30’ req., 25 existing, 5’ var.
21-13.2.A.1 (H) Max. Lot
Coverage, 20% allowed, 23.9%
prop., 3.9% var.
21-36.1 Min. Area. 5’ wide landscaped on all property lines.
The hearing will be held at 7:30
P.M. in the Borough Hall, 601 Union
Lane, Brielle. The maps and documents pertaining to this application
are on file in the office of the Board
of Adjustment and are available for
inspection during normal business
hours.
Any interested party may appear
at this hearing and participate in
accordance with the rules of the
Board of Adjustment.
BRIELLE FIRE CO. #1
Applicant
JAMES F. STENSON
President
($14.70) (42) (08-17)
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BOROUGH OF BRIELLE
BOARD OF EDUCATION
LEGAL NOTICE
In accordance with the Open
Public Meetings Act, c.231,P.L.
1975, you are hereby advised that the
Brielle Board of Education will hold
its regular monthly action meeting on
August 23, 2006 at 7PM in the
Brielle School Library. The public is
welcome to attend.
EDWARD F. McMANUS
Board Secretary
($4.90) (14) (08-17)
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BOROUGH OF BRIELLE
ORDINANCE NO.
AN ORDINANCE TO AMEND
CHAPTER THREE OF THE
CODE OF THE BOROUGH OF
BRIELLE ENTITLED “POLICE
REGULATIONS”
BE IT ORDAINED, by the
Governing Body of the Borough of
Brielle that Chapter Three, Section 31.9 Specific Prohibitions be amended as follows:
Section 3-1.9 (d) shall now
include the following proviso:
“Nothing in this section shall be
construed as to apply to any Federal,
State or County Agency, undertaking
a construction project that is deemed
to be in the public interest.”
BE
IT
FURTHER
ORDAINED, that all ordinances or
parts of ordinances inconsistent with
the foregoing are hereby repealed,
but only to the extent of the inconsistency.
BE
IT
FURTHER
ORDAINED, that this ordinance
shall take effect immediately upon
passage and publication according to
law.
PUBLIC NOTICE
Notice is hereby given that the
foregoing Ordinance was introduced
and passed on first reading by the
Mayor and Council of the Borough
of Brielle on August 14th, 2006, and
will be considered for final passage
and adoption at a meeting of the
Mayor and Council to be held on
August 28th, 2006, at 7:30 p.m., or as
soon thereafter as the matter can be
reached, at Brielle Borough Hall, 601
Union Lane, Brielle, New Jersey, at
which time and place all interested
parties shall be heard
THOMAS F. NOLAN
Municipal Clerk
($16.80) (48) (08-17)
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BOROUGH OF LAKE COMO
ORDINANCE NO. 2006-784
AN ORDINANCE PERTAINING
TO PURCHASING PROCEDURES, AND PROVIDERS OF
SERVICES FOR THE BOROUGH OF LAKE COMO, MONMOUTH COUNTY, NEW JERSEY
NOTICE is hereby given that the
above titled ordinances was introduced and passed on the first reading
on August 1, 2006; second reading
and public hearing was held on
August 15, 2006 at which time it was
adopted.
LOUISE A. MEKOSH,
RMC, CMC
Borough Clerk/Administrator
($7.00) (20) (08-17)
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BOROUGH OF LAKE COMO
ORDINANCE NO. 2006-785
ORDINANCE SETTING FORTH
THE SALARIES AND ENUMERATIONS OF THE MEMBERS OF
THE LAKE COMO POLICE
OFFICERS ASSOCIATION.
NOTICE is hereby given that the
above titled ordinances was introduced and passed on the first reading
on August 1, 2006; second reading
and public hearing was held on
August 15, 2006 at which time it was
adopted.
LOUISE A. MEKOSH,
RMC, CMC
Borough Clerk/Administrator
($6.30) (18) (08-17)
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BOROUGH OF LAKE COMO
ORDINANCE NO. 2006-786
AN ORDINANCE OF THE BOROUGH OF LAKE COMO PROHIBITING PARKING ON CERTAIN STREETS AND REGULATING HANDICAP PARKING ON
A PORTION OF WILDWOOD
PLACE, PROVIDING A PENALTY FOR THE VIOLATION
THEREOF.
NOTICE is hereby given that the
above titled ordinances was introduced and passed on the first reading
on August 1, 2006; second reading
and public hearing was held on
August 15, 2006 at which time it was
adopted.
LOUISE A. MEKOSH,
RMC, CMC
Borough Clerk/Administrator
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BOROUGH OF SPRING LAKE
PUBLIC NOTICE
Notice is hereby given that at a
meeting of the Planning Board,
Borough of Spring Lake, Monmouth
County, NJ held on Wednesday,
August 9, 2006 a Resolution was
memorialized granting the variance
application of M/M Dennis McGorty
on property located on Block 116
Lot 25 AKA 2001 Fourth Ave. on
the Spring Lake Tax Map.
Notice is further given that the
determination of the Planning Board
has been filed in the office of said
Board and is pursuant to R.R. 4.69-6
(bx 3).
Margaret Costanzo
Board Secretary
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BOROUGH OF SPRING LAKE
PUBLIC NOTICE
Notice is hereby given that at a
meeting of the Planning Board,
Borough of Spring Lake, Monmouth
County, NJ held on Wednesday,
August 9, 2006 a Resolution was
memorialized granting the variance
application of
M/M James
McLaughlin on property located on
Block 16 Lot 1
AKA 201
Pennsylvania Ave on the Spring Lake
Tax Map.
Notice is further given that the
determination of the Planning Board
has been filed in the office of said
Board and is pursuant to R.R. 4.69-6
(bx 3).
Margaret Costanzo
Board Secretary
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BOROUGH OF
SPRING LAKE HEIGHTS
PLANNING BOARD
LEGAL NOTICE
IN THE MATTER OF
LOUISE and LESTER DENNIS
Planning Board Resolution
Memorializing an Approval of
Residential Bulk Variances
Block 10, Lots 144
8 Ninth Avenue
Spring Lake Heights, New Jersey
PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that the
Applicants, Louise and Lester
Dennis were granted approval of various bulk variances for the above
noted property in accordance with
the application submitted and as
amended subject to various terms and
conditions set forth in the Planning
Board Resolution dated June 22,
2006. The said Resolution was
adopted on July 27, 2006 and a copy
of it may be obtained at the Office of
the Planning Board Secretary located
at 555 Brighton Avenue, Spring Lake
Heights, New Jersey 07762.
LOUISE and LESTER DENNIS
Applicant
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JOSEPH W. OXLEY
MONMOUTH COUNTY
SHERIFF
NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE
SALE
SUPERIOR COURT
OF NEW JERSEY
MONMOUTH COUNTY
CHANCERY DIVISION
Docket No. F-691406
Sheriff’s File #06003320
Wells Fargo Bank, N.A., Plaintiff
vs:
Jacqueline Iannuzzi, et al,
Defendants
By virtue of a writ of execution in
the above stated action to me directed, I shall expose for sale at public
vendue, at Hall of Records, 1 East
Main Street (2nd Floor - Freeholders
Meeting Room), in the Borough of
Freehold, County of Monmouth,
New Jersey, on Monday, the 11th day
of September, 2006 at 2 o'clock, P.M.
prevailing time.
The property to be sold is located
in the Township of Howell, in the
County of Monmouth, State of New
Jersey.
Commonly known as:
38 E. 4th Street,
Howell, NJ 07731.
Tax Lot No. 1 in Block No. 124,
on the official tax Map of the
Township of Howell.
Dimensions of Lot:
100.00 ft x 75.00 ft x 100.00 ft x
75.00 ft.
Nearest Cross Street:
Roosevelt Avenue
Subject to any unpaid taxes,
charges, liens, insurance premiums
or other advances made by plaintiff
prior to this sale. All interested parties are to conduct and rely upon their
own independent investigation to
ascertain whether or not any outstanding interest remain of record
and/or have priority over the lien
being foreclosed and, if so the current
amount due thereon.
TERMS OF SALE: DEPOSIT:
20% of the bid amount at the time of
sale. Balance due in 30 days. Cash or
certified check only.
The approximate amount of the
judgment, Commission and costs to
be satisfied by sale is the sum of
$237,148.31. The successful bidder
will be responsible for all fees, commissions and costs of sale.
The Sheriff hereby reserves the
right to adjourn this sale without further notice by publication.
JOSEPH W. OXLEY, Sheriff
Phelan, Hallinan & Schmieg,
Attorneys
Rosemarie Diamond, Esq.,
for the firm
(856) 813-5500
Attorney Ref.: CAD 1174
(8/17, 8/24, 8/31, 9/7)
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JOSEPH W. OXLEY
MONMOUTH COUNTY
SHERIFF
NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE
SALE
SUPERIOR COURT
OF NEW JERSEY
MONMOUTH COUNTY
CHANCERY DIVISION
Docket No. F-370206
Sheriff’s File #06003253
Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. d/b/a
Americas Servicing Co., Plaintiff vs:
Rita Silverman, et al, Defendants
By virtue of a writ of execution in
the above stated action to me directed, I shall expose for sale at public
vendue, at Hall of Records, 1 East
Main Street (2nd Floor - Freeholders
Meeting Room), in the Borough of
Freehold, County of Monmouth,
New Jersey, on Monday, the 11th day
of September 2006 at 2 o'clock, P.M.
prevailing time.
The property to be sold is located
in the Township of Manalapan, in the
County of Monmouth, State of New
Jersey.
Commonly known as:
19 Madison Court,
Manalapan, NJ 07726.
Tax Lot No. 2.143 in Block No.
2501, on the official Tax Map of
the Township of Manalapan.
Dimensions of Lot:
40.66 ft x 6.89 ft x 118.46 ft x 44
ft x 121.99 ft.
Nearest Cross Street:
N/A
Subject to any unpaid taxes,
charges, liens, insurance premiums
or other advances made by plaintiff
prior to this sale. All interested parties are to conduct and rely upon their
own independent investigation to
ascertain whether or not any outstanding interest remain of record
and/or have priority over the lien
being foreclosed and, if so the current
amount due thereon.
TERMS OF SALE: DEPOSIT:
20% of the bid amount at the time of
sale. Balance due in 30 days. Cash or
certified check only.
The approximate amount of the
judgment, Commission and costs to
be satisfied by sale is the sum of
$294,654.89. The successful bidder
will be responsible for all fees, commissions and costs of sale.
The Sheriff hereby reserves the
right to adjourn this sale without further notice by publication.
JOSEPH W. OXLEY, Sheriff
Phelan, Hallinan & Schmieg,
Attorneys
Rosemarie Diamond, Esq.,
for the firm
(856) 813-5500
Attorney Ref.: ASC 1039
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JOSEPH W. OXLEY
MONMOUTH COUNTY
SHERIFF
NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE
SALE
SUPERIOR COURT
OF NEW JERSEY
MONMOUTH COUNTY
CHANCERY DIVISION
Docket No. F-1110805
Sheriff’s File #06003257
Wachovia Bank, N.A., Plaintiff
vs:
Michael Tartakovsky, et als,
Defendants
By virtue of a writ of execution in
the above stated action to me directed, I shall expose for sale at public
vendue, at Hall of Records, 1 East
Main Street (2nd Floor - Freeholders
Meeting Room), in the Borough of
Freehold, County of Monmouth,
New Jersey, on Monday, the 11th day
of September, 2006 at 2 o'clock, P.M.
prevailing time.
The property to be sold is located
in the Township of Manalapan, in the
County of Monmouth, State of New
Jersey.
Commonly known as:
76 Drew Court,
Manalapan, NJ 07726.
Tax Lot No. 15.03 in Block No.
10Q-C076.
Dimensions of Lot:
Condo.
Nearest Cross Street:
Condo.
Being Known and Designated as
Unit 76 in Triangle Commons
Condominium’s a condominium
together with an undivided 1.676%
percentage interest in the Common
Elements appurtenant thereto,
together with the exclusive right of
any, and such other limited common
elements as may be appurtenant to
said Unit, all in accordance with and
subject to the terms, limitations, conditions, covenants, restrictions, easements, reservations and other provisions of the Maser Deed Recorded
October 8, 1997 in Deed Book 5655
Page 466 in the Office of the Clerk
Register of Monmouth County, New
Jersey, creating and establishing said
Condominium (the Master Deed),
together with the easements appurtenant thereto as set forth in the
Master Deed.
Prior Liens/Encumbrances:
Taxes are current as of 6/1/2006
Sewer open + penalty owed in
arrears $251.12.
Total as of 6/1/2006: $251.12.
TERMS OF SALE: DEPOSIT:
20% of the bid amount at the time of
sale. Balance due in 30 days. Cash or
certified check only.
The approximate amount of the
judgment, Commission and costs to
be satisfied by sale is the sum of
$229,639.65. The successful bidder
will be responsible for all fees, commissions and costs of sale.
The Sheriff hereby reserves the
right to adjourn this sale without further notice by publication.
JOSEPH W. OXLEY, Sheriff
Fein, Such, Kahn & Shepard,
Attorneys
Shari Seffer, Esq.,
for the firm
(973) 538-4700
Attorney Ref.: AD555
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TOWNSHIP OF WALL
BOARD OF ADJUSTMENT
NOTICE OF DECISION
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN
that at the meeting of the Board of
Adjustment, the Township of Wall on
August 2, 2006 at the Wall Township
Municipal Complex Meeting Room,
2700 Allaire Road, Wall, New Jersey,
the following action was taken:
The Applicant, Linda Clancey,
Block 22, Lot 32 was granted
Variance approval for removal of two
trees as per the Resolution dated
August 2, 2006.
NOTICE IS FURTHER GIVEN
that the determination of said Board
has been filed in the Office of said
Board at the Municipal Complex,
2700 Allaire Road, Wall, New Jersey,
and is available for inspection.
This notice is given pursuant to
New Jersey Court Rule 4:69-6 (b)
(3).
LINDA CLANCEY
Applicant
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TOWNSHIP OF WALL
BOARD OF ADJUSTMENT
NOTICE OF DECISION
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN
that at the meeting of the Board of
Adjustment the Township of Wall on
August 2, 2006 at the Wall Township
Municipal Complex Meeting Room,
2700 Allaire Road, Wall, New Jersey,
the following action was taken:
The Applicant, Joseph and Judith
A. Collins, Block 271 Lot 2 was
granted Variance approval for expand
screen porch and provide a new bathroom, closet and laundry area as per
the Resolution dated August 2, 2006.
NOTICE IS FURTHER GIVEN
that the determination of said Board
has been filed in the Office of said
Board at the Municipal Complex,
PAGE 59
2700 Allaire Road, Wall, New Jersey,
and is available for inspection.
This notice is given pursuant to
New Jersey Court Rule 4:69-6 (b)
(3).
JOSEPH and JUDITH A.
COLLINS
Applicant
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TOWNSHIP OF WALL
BOARD OF ADJUSTMENT
NOTICE OF DECISION
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN
that at the meeting of the Board of
Adjustment the Township of Wall on
August 2, 2006 at the Wall Township
Municipal Complex Meeting Room,
2700 Allaire Road, Wall, New Jersey,
the following action was taken:
The Applicant, Richard M. Davis,
Block 800 Lot 55 was granted
Variance approval for a front and side
covered porch and garage height,
front yard and side yard setback as
per the Resolution dated August 2,
2006.
NOTICE IS FURTHER GIVEN
that the determination of said Board
has been filed in the Office of said
Board at the Municipal Complex,
2700 Allaire Road, Wall, New Jersey,
and is available for inspection.
This notice is given pursuant to
New Jersey Court Rule 4:69-6 (b)
(3).
RICHARD M. DAVIS
Applicant
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TOWNSHIP OF WALL
BOARD OF ADJUSTMENT
NOTICE OF DECISION
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN
that at the meeting of the Board of
Adjustment the Township of Wall on
August 2, 2006 at the Wall Township
Municipal Complex Meeting Room,
2700 Allaire Road, Wall, New Jersey,
the following action was taken:
The Applicant, Maura K. Tully,
Block 62, Lot 2 was granted Variance
approval for concrete patio (20’ x
16’) and concrete stairs in backyard
as per the Resolution dated August 2,
2006.
NOTICE IS FURTHER GIVEN
that the determination of said Board
has been filed in the Office of said
Board at the Municipal Complex,
2700 Allaire Road, Wall, New Jersey,
and is available for inspection.
This notice is given pursuant to
New Jersey Court Rule 4:69-6 (b)
(3).
MAURA K. TULLY
Applicant
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TOWNSHIP OF WALL
BOARD OF EDUCATION
BID NOTICE
MILK
Notice is hereby given that sealed
bids will be received by the Wall
Township Board of Education, Wall,
New Jersey, for the above.
Specifications and bid forms will be
received at 11:00 a.m. on Tuesday,
August
29,
2006
in
the
Administration Offices, 18th Avenue,
Wall, NJ where bids may be secured.
The Board reserves the right to reject
any or all bids or to accept the bid
which, in its judgment, is in the best
interest of the Township.
Bidders shall comply with the
requirements of P.L. 1975, C. 127
(Affirmative Action).
ARLENE BIESIADA
Board Secretary
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TOWNSHIP OF WALL
ORDINANCE NO. 26-2006
AN ORDINANCE OF THE
TOWNSHIP COMMITTEE OF
THE TOWNSHIP OF WALL IN
THE COUNTY OF MONMOUTH, STATE OF NEW JERSEY AMENDING AND SUPPLEMENTING CHAPTER 113 ENTITLED, “FIRE PREVENTION”,
OF THE TOWNSHIP CODE OF
THE TOWNSHIP OF WALL.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT
ORDAINED by the Township
Committed of the Township of Wall,
in the County of Monmouth and
State of New Jersey, as follows:
Section 1. Chapter 113 of the
Township Code of the Township of
Wall, entitled “Fire Prevention”,
Section 113-3, Paragraph E, shall be
deleted in its entirety and shall be
replaced with the following:
Ҥ113-3. Local enforcement
agency
designated;
appeals;
inspection and permit fees.
E. Organization of Joint Board.
(1) The Joint Board of Fire
Prevention shall be established by the
Board of Commissioners of the fire
districts. The Joint Board shall
appoint a Fire Marshall/Fire Official
who shall supervise the enforcement
of the Uniform Fire Safety Act and
the Local Fire Prevention Code within the Township.
(2) The Fire Marshall/Fire
Official shall serve for a term of one
year with vacancies to be filled for
the unexpired term.
(3) The Fire Marshall/Fire
Official may be removed from office
for cause by the Joint Board, after
having been given at least 10 days
notice of a hearing to be held by the
Joint Board at which time the Fire
Marshall/Fire Official shall have the
opportunity to be heard on any
charge against him.
(4) Such inspectors or other
employees as may be necessary to
enforce and administer the Uniform
Fire Safety Act and the Local Fire
Prevention Code shall be appointed
by the Joint Board. The salaries of all
employees of the Joint Board of Fire
Prevention shall be established by an
Annual Salary Ordinance, its amendments and supplements, and any
applicable salary resolutions.
Section 2. All Ordinances, or
parts thereof, inconsistent with the
provisions of this Ordinance, be and
the same are hereby repealed to the
extent of such inconsistency.
Section 3. Should any section,
paragraph, clause or any other portion of this Ordinance be adjudged by
a Court of competent jurisdiction to
be invalid, such judgment shall not
affect or impair the remainder of this
Ordinance.
Section 4. This Ordinance shall
take effect upon its passage and publication according to law. Upon adoption, a copy shall be sent to the New
Jersey Division of Fire Safety.
NOTICE
Notice is hereby given that the
foregoing Ordinance was introduced
and passed on first reading by the
Township Committee of the
Township of Wall on August 9, 2006,
and will further be considered for
final passage and adoption at the
Wall Township Municipal Building,
2700 Allaire Road, Wall, New Jersey,
on September 13, 2006, at 7:30 p.m.,
or as soon thereafter as the matter can
be reached on the agenda, at which
time and place all persons interested
therein shall be given an opportunity
to be heard, and during the week
prior to and up to and including the
date of such meeting, copies of said
Ordinance will be made available at
the Clerk’s Office in the Township of
Wall, Town Hall to the members of
the general public who shall request
the same.
LORRAINE KUBACZ, R.M.C.
Township Clerk
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TOWNSHIP OF WALL
ORDINANCE NO. 27-2006
AN ORDINANCE OF THE
TOWNSHIP COMMITTEE OF
THE TOWNSHIP OF WALL
AMENDING CHAPTER 140,
THE "LAND USE AND DEVELOPMENT REGULATIONS OF
THE TOWNSHIP OF ` WALL",
OF THE CODE OF THE TOWNSHIP OF WALL, SECTION 140283 "MANDATORY DEVELOPMENT FEES" AND PROVIDING
FOR AN ADDITIONAL EXEMPTION THEREFROM.
BE IT ORDAINED by the
Township Committee of the
Township of Wall, in the County of
Monmouth and State of New Jersey,
as follows:
Section 1. Chapter 140, the
"Land Use and Development
Regulations of the Township of
Wall", of the Code of the Township
of Wall, as amended and supplemented, Section 140-283, "Mandatory
Development Fees", subsection
140¬283E., "Exemptions", be and
the same is hereby further amended
and supplemented by the addition
thereto of subparagraph (10) to read,
in full, as follows:
"(10) Redevelopment projects
pursuant
to
Redevelopment
Agreements signed by the Township
on properties located in the West
Belmar Gateway Area, as defined by
Chapter 141 hereof."
Section 2. All Ordinances, or
parts thereof, inconsistent with the
provisions of this Ordinance, be and
the same are hereby repealed to the
extent of such inconsistency.
Section 3. Should any section,
paragraph, clause or any other portion of this Ordinance be adjudged by
a Court of competent jurisdiction to
be invalid, such judgment shall not
affect or impair the remainder of this
Ordinance.
Section 4. This Ordinance shall
take effect upon its passage and publication according to law, and upon
the filing thereof with the Monmouth
County Planning Board.
NOTICE
Notice is hereby given that the
foregoing Ordinance was introduced
and passed on first reading by the
Township Committee of the
Township of Wall on August 9, 2006,
and further be considered for final
passage and adopted at the Wall
Township Municipal Building, 2700
Allaire Road, Wall, New Jersey on
September 13, 2006, at 7:30 p.m., or
as soon thereafter as the matter can
be reached on the agenda, at which
time and place all persons interested
therein shall be given an opportunity
to be heard, and during the week
prior to and up to and including the
date of such meeting, copies of said
Ordinance will be made available at
the Clerk's Office in the Township of
Wall, Town Hall, to members of the
general public who shall request the
same.
LORRAINE KUBACZ, R.M.C.
Township Clerk
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TOWNSHIP OF WALL
ORDINANCE 28-2006
AN ORDINANCE OF THE
TOWNSHIP COMMITTEE OF
THE TOWNSHIP OF WALL
VACATING A PORTION OF
SHARK RIVER STATION ROAD.
WHEREAS, the Township
Committee of the Township of Wall
has been requested to vacate all of the
right, title and interest of the
Township in a portion of Shark River
Station Road as described in
Schedule A attached hereto; and
WHEREAS, the Township
Committee makes a determination
that the public will not adversely be
affected by the vacation of the
Township's interest in a portion of
Shark River Station Road;
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT
ORDAINED, by the Township
Committee of the Township of Wall,
in the County of Monmouth and
State of New Jersey, as follows:
Section 1. There is hereby vacated all of the right, title and interest of
the public for all public usages and
purposes in and to that portion of
Shark River Station Road as is set
forth on Schedule A attached hereto
and made a part hereof; however, the
Township does hereby expressly
reserve and except from the vacation
all rights and privileges now possessed by public utilities as defined
in R.S. 48:2-13 and by any cable television company as defined in the
"Cable Television Act," P.L. 1972, c.
186, (C.48:5A-1, et seq.) to maintain,
repair and replace their existing facilities in, adjacent to, over or under the
street, highway, lane, alley, square,
place or park or any part thereof,
being vacated by the provisions of
this Ordinance. The vacated-parcel
shall attach to the adjacent property
and shall not be subdivided.
Section 2. At least one week prior
to the time fixed for further consideration for final passage of this
Ordinance, a copy hereof together
with a notice stating the introduction
of the Ordinance on first reading and
the time and place when and where
the Ordinance will be considered for
final passage shall be mailed to every
person whose lands may be affected
by the adoption of this Ordinance.
Section 3. This Ordinance shall
be published at least once in the official newspaper of the Township at
least ten (10) days prior to the time
fixed for consideration of the final
passage of this Ordinance
Section 4. The Township Clerk, if
this Ordinance is adopted on final
reading, shall submit a certified copy
of this Ordinance, together with
proof of publication, to the
Monmouth County Clerk's Office for
recording in the Book of Vacations.
Section 5. This Ordinance shall
take effect after second reading and
publication as required by law.
Section 6. A copy of Schedule A
as referenced herein shall be kept on
file and made available for public
inspection in the Township Clerk's
office during normal business hours.
Section 7. All Ordinances, or
parts thereof, inconsistent with the
provisions of this Ordinance be and
the same are hereby repealed to the
extent of such inconsistency.
Section 8. Should any section,
paragraph, clause or other portion of
this Ordinance be adjudged by a
Court of competent jurisdiction to be
invalid, such judgment shall not
affect or impair the remainder of this
Ordinance.
NOTICE
Notice is hereby given that the
foregoing Ordinance was introduced
and passed on first reading by the
Township Committee on the
Township of Wall on August 9, 2006,
and further be considered for final
passage and adoption at the Wall
Township Municipal Building, 2700
Allaire Road, Wall, New Jersey on
September 13, 2006, at 7:30 p.m., or
as soon thereafter as the matter can
be reached on the agenda, at which
time and place all persons interested
therein shall be given an opportunity
to be heard, and during the week
prior to and up to including the date
of such meeting, copies of said
Ordinance will be made available at
the Clerk's Office in the Township of
Wall, Town Hall, to members of the
general public who shall request the
same.
LORRAINE KUBACZ, RMC
Township Clerk
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TOWNSHIP OF WALL
PLANNING BOARD
NOTICE OF DECISION
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN
that at the meeting of the Planning
Board of the Township of Wall on
August 7, 2006 at the Wall Township
Municipal Complex Meeting Room,
2700 Allaire Road, Wall, New Jersey,
the following action was taken.
The Applicant, Patrick Cheney
was granted approval to construct a
picnic shelter with variances as per
the resolution dated August 7, 2006.
The property is known as Block 751
Lot 3 on the tax map of the Township
of Wall.
NOTICE
IS
FURTHER
GIVEN that the determination of
said Board has been filed in the
Office of said Board at the Municipal
Complex, 2700 Allaire Road, Wall,
New Jersey, and is available for
inspection.
This notice is given pursuant to
New Jersey Court Rule 4:69-6 (b)
(3).
TIMOTHY B. MIDDLETON
Attorney for Applicant
PATRICK CHENEY
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TOWNSHIP OF WALL
PLANNING BOARD
NOTICE OF DECISION
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN
that at the meeting of the Planning
Board of the Township of Wall on
August 7, 2006 at the Wall Township
Municipal Complex Meeting Room,
2700 Allaire Road, Wall, New Jersey,
the following action was taken.
The Applicant, D&O Associates,
was granted an approval for an
amended site plan approval with variances along with a Technical
Subdivision on August 7, 2006. The
property is located on Route 34 and
is known as Block 942 Lots 38, and
87, on the tax map of the Township of
Wall.
NOTICE
IS
FURTHER
GIVEN that the determination of
said Board has been filed in the
Office of said Board at the Municipal
Complex, 2700 Allaire Road, Wall,
New Jersey, and is available for
inspection.
This notice is given pursuant to
New Jersey Court Rule 4:69-6 (b)
(3).
TIMOTHY B. MIDDLETON
Attorney for Applicant
D&O ASSOCIATES
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TOWNSHIP OF WALL
PLANNING BOARD
NOTICE OF DECISION
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN
that at the meeting of the Planning
Board of the Township of Wall on
August 7, 2006 at the Wall Township
Municipal Complex Meeting Room,
2700 Allaire Road, Wall, New Jersey,
the following action was taken.
The Applicant, Colin Ochel was
granted Minor Subdivision aproval
per the resolution dated August 7,
2006. The property is known as
Block 270 Lot 2 on the tax map of
the Township of Wall.
NOTICE
IS
FURTHER
GIVEN that the determination of
said Board has been filed in the
Office of said Board at the Municipal
Complex, 2700 Allaire Road, Wall,
New Jersey, and is available for
inspection.
This notice is given pursuant to
New Jersey Court Rule 4:69-6 (b)
(3).
TIMOTHY B. MIDDLETON
Attorney for Applicant
COLIN OCHEL
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TOWNSHIP OF WALL
PLANNING BOARD
NOTICE OF DECISION
PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that
on August 7, 2006, the Planning
Board of the Township of Wall,
County of Monmouth, State of New
Jersey, adopted a Resolution granting
Minor Subdivision Approval to
Robert Skinner and Kenneth Skinner
for property known as BLOCK
278.02, LOTS 11 AND 12 on the
Tax Map of the Township of Wall. A
copy of the Resolution has been filed
in the Office of the Secretary of the
Planning Board, Township of Wall,
New Jersey and is available for
inspection during regular business
hours.
MARK R. AIKINS, L.L.C.
Attorney for Applicants
ROBERT and KENNETH
SKINNER
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TOWNSHIP OF WALL
PLANNING BOARD
NOTICE OF DECISION
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN
that at the meeting of the Planning
Board the Township of Wall on
August 7, 2006 at the Wall Township
Municipal Complex Meeting Room,
2700 Allaire Road, Wall, New Jersey,
the following action was taken:
The
Applicant,
Colfax
Investment Holding Co., Block 806
Lot 7.02 was granted Site Plan
approval for site plan and to erect
three buildings for offices and flex
use as per zoning 65,700 sq. ft. total
as per the Resolution dated August 7,
2006.
NOTICE IS FURTHER GIVEN
that the determination of said Board
has been filed in the Office of said
Board at the Municipal Complex,
2700 Allaire Road, Wall, New Jersey,
and is available for inspection.
This notice is given pursuant to
New Jersey Court Rule 4:69-6 (b)
(3).
STEPHEN VACCHIANO
COLFAX INVESTMENT
HOLDING CO.
Applicant
($10.85) (31) (08-17)
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Big Sea Day Fishing Contest nets all kinds of creatures
their schedule to help,” Micelli
said.
The Wall Pop Warner Board of
Directors also deserves a lot of
credit for the work they do.
“I give credit to the 27 men and
women on the board who help
with all the behind the scenes
work,” Marabeti said. “The town
of Wall does a great job in supporting youth sports.”
Marabeti also said the recreation department does a great job
too.
Looking around the complex
you can see hundreds of kids
learning football and, most
importantly, enjoying themselves.
“It’s fun to watch all these kids
running around and having a blast
playing football,” Micelli said.
“It’s definitely good to see.”
Marabeti believes that the
coaches are just another kind of
teacher.
“We have an obligation to come
out here as volunteers and just
teach these kids for two hours,”
Marabeti said. “We have to teach
them the structure and teamwork
out here.”
A total of 280 kids are playing
Pop Warner football in Wall, and
130 girls are participating in the
cheering program.
It’s safe to say all those kids are
ready for the season to get underway.
Wall will take on Manasquan in
the Friendship Cup on Aug. 26
and 27.
The regular eight-game schedule will begin on Labor Day
weekend.
Marabeti is expecting a successful, fun season for the Wall
Pop Warner program.
“We just want the kids to go out
and have fun,” Marabeti said.
“Hopefully their are no injuries
and everybody can improve from
the first snap to the the last snap.”
Do you know someone
receiving a special honor
or award?
Call us at The Coast Star!
732-223-0076
photo courtesy of the Manasquan Fishing Club
Cindy Driscoll, Wall Township [left] and Fred Priscoe, Toms River, view one of the cownos rays that were caught during Big
Sea Day’s Fishing Contest, sponsored by the Squan Fishing Club.
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Lavallette
1998 HANDICAP Ford Van
V-8Triton XLT, good cond.,
Braun wheel chair lift w/remote
control. 150,000 miles. $6,500
718-551-5500.
APPLIANCES!
WHIRLPOOL
Super Capacity washer and gas
dryer, self cleaning gas range, &
dishwasher. All in good cond.
Call 732-223-4067.
BABY RACER II BMW for kids
1-3 yrs. Blue w/orange seat.
Brand new, non motorized, $75.
732-528-7013, Brielle.
ENTERTAINMENT
CTR.
(Hooker)- Top section has 2
pocket doors w/VCR & cable
box compartments. Accomodates 36” TV. Bottom section
has 3 drawers & 3 doors for
storage. 48x25x78. Excellent
cond.
Asking
$350.
732-840-3885.
GIANTS TICKETS- Pre-season
only. 2 left for tonight’s Kansas
City game! 4 tickets for 8/31
New England Patriots. Face
value. Call Tom, 732-223-5405.
732-528-1212
13 Broad Street
Manasquan, NJ 08736
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JETS FOOTBALL Season tickets- face value, 2 tickets.
Pre-season and regular season,
total 10 games. Two seats Sec.
329, Row 18, $1,400. Call
201-563-9899.
LEROY NEIMAN signed lithographs. International Golf foursome, 18th at Pebble Beach,
16th at Spyglass. Ask about
more Neiman’s. Call Tom
732-449-5288.
LIVING RM. items- Leather
sleeper sofa $175, leather
chair/ottoman $125, 3 cherry top
tables $150, solid oak entertainment unit $150. 732-701-1334.
MAPLE TABLE w/6 chairs, 2
leaves, hutch w/2 glass doors,
many shelves & drawers. Excellent cond. $600. o/b/o. Call
732-278-6731.
ORNAMENTAL
GRASSES,
Dune Grass, various types and
pot sizes. Backyard grower.
Evening hours. 732-364-7081.
OVAL DINING table, Queen
Anne cherry w/2 leaves, tablepads, excellent cond. Spring
Lake Hts. Call 845-323-6812.
TROXEL BABY seat for adult bicycle. Like new, $60. Wooden
toy chest, $20. 732-974-3532.
14.00 Week Up to 20 Words
70¢ for ea. add. word
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Ads run in both The Coast Star & The Ocean Star plus
on our website. Ads are identified in 22 categories.
PLAYTIME WOODEN Swing set
$200. Solid wood twin bedroom
set w/dresser & mirror. $250.
732-681-5505.
TWO BURGUNDY recliners
w/wood arms. Excellent cond.
$225.
for
both.
Call
732-864-9429.
RELOCATION SALE- Furniture,
reproductions, collectibles, appliances, exercise equip., etc.,
even Inflatable Moon Walk. Call
for appt. 732-682-5218.
B. Garage & Yard Sales
REMODELING SALE- White
gas range, dishwasher, elec.
dryer, washer & black granite
countertop $100 ea. Sink &
Gooseneck faucet $50 ea. Call
732-974-3548 or 732-245-1582.
REMODELING- MUST sell Friedrich air conditioner. 18,500
BTU’s. Used 1 season. New
$1,200., asking $699. o/b/o. Call
732-714-8470.
STARTING LABOR Day week
all furniture from Candlelight Inn
Motel for sale. 2400 Grand Central
Ave.,
Lavallette.
732-793-5050.
TWIN LOFT bed by Hardwood
Artisans in Cherry, Maple, Walnut. Includes ladder, bookcase,
dresser & desk. $1,750 o/b/o.
732-207-8909.
BAY HEAD- 103 Meadow Ave.,
behind Yacht Club, Sat. 8/19,
8:30am-?. Lots of collectibles.
Rain or shine. No early birds.
BRIELLE- 407 Riverview Ln.
(end lane at the river), Fri.-Sat,
8/18-8/19, 8am-3pm. You can’t
take it with you, even just to
California.
Unbelievable
stuff/everything must go. Antiques, collectibles, oriental rugs,
books, Japanese kites, quilts,
furn., piano, three sofa beds, antique drafting table, glassware,
dishes, antique sewing bases,
bird bath, etc.
BRIELLE-604 ISHAM Cr., Sat.
8/26, 8am. Glass DR table seats
6-8, kitchenware, comforters,
electronics,
DVD’s/CDs,
videos/books, gowns/ladies casual wear. Everything must go.
CALL
EXT. 13
NORMANDY BEACH- 37 1st
Ave. (ocean side), Fri.-Sat.,
8/18/-8/19, 9:30am-3pm. Small
roll-top desk, portable Singer
sewing machine, Yamaha keyboard & guitar, golf bag & balls,
lamps, 2 mink jackets, housewares, file cabinet & much more.
PT. PLEASANT Bch.- 315 River
Ave. Rain or Shine. Huge yard
sale. Fri.-Sat. 8/18-8/19. Jewelry,
records,
collectibles,
clothes, books and more. Bear
right off Rte. 35 south.
PT. PLEASANT- Rita’s Italian
Ice, 3014 Rt. 88, Sat.-Sun.,
8/19-8/20, 8am-12pm. Various
items including HH items, tools,
electrical & other misc. things.
No early birds.
SPRING LAKE- 11 Mercer Ave.,
Fri 8/18 10am-3pm. Huge sale,
everything must go! Antiques,
vintage
furn.,
collectibles,
wicker, glassware, Warren Hotel
items. etc.
BRIELLE- 620 Isham Circle
(Riverview Dr. to Isham), Sat.
8/19, 8am-3pm. Garage Sale for
charity!
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MANASQUAN- 104 McLean,
front & back garages. Sat., 8/19,
8:30am-11:30am. HH, crafts
bikes, toys, books, clothes. Excellent cond. #91.
SEA GIRT- 1A Brooklyn Blvd.
Fri 8/18, 10am-4pm, Sat 8/19
am only. Moving sale. Heredon
dining set, buffet, armoire, end
tables., misc. items.
PT. PLEASANT- 1112 Oakland
St. (off 88 near Ocean Rd.
School), Sat. 8/19, 9am-2pm.
HH items, books, clothes, baby
items.
SEA GIRT- 2206 Mueller Lane
(off Sea Girt Ave.), Fri. 8/18,
9am-1pm. Golf clubs, furn., seasonal items, something for everyone.
PT. PLEASANT- 2307 Bert Ave.
(off Beaverdam) Huge yard sale,
Sat.-Sun., 8/19-8/20, 8am-3pm.
Furn.,
HH
items,
kid’s
toys/clothes, and more!
WALL- 1315 Salem Ave., Sat.,
8/19, 9am-2pm. Exercise equip.,
books, videos, brand new items.
Edgemere off Belmar Blvd. to
Salem.
MANASQUAN- 78 Parker Ave.,
Sat. 8/19, 9am-3pm. Coffee table, misc.HH items. No early
birds. #93
PT. PLEASANT- 2605 River
Rd.,
Sat.-Sun.,
8/19-8/20,
9am-2pm. Everything negotiable
& must go!
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WALL- MULTIFAMILY. Pheasant Hollow Condominiums (Rte.
34 & Lakewood Rd, behind
Shop
Rite.),
Sat.
8/19,
8am-2pm. Rain or shine.
PT. PLEASANT- 900 Patterson
Rd.,
Fri.-Sun.
8/18-8/20,
9am-2pm. Some furniture &
lighting fixures, and much more.
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WALL- BLOCK sale, Troy Drive
(New Bedford to Troy), Sat.
8/19, 8am-1pm. Rain date Sunday. Too many items to list!!
WEST POINT Island, LavalletteHomeowner moving. 207 Newark Ave., Sat. 8/19, 9am-4pm.
Rain date Sunday.
BRICKESTATE
Sale,
Sat.-Sun. 8/19-8/20, 10am-4pm.
Sheraton style Cherry Queen
Tester bed, Chippendale style
mahogany highboy (Century),
French Bergere, giltwood mirrors, hand painted Bombay
chest, Champagne silk brocade
sofa, rose marble top end tables, giltwood stools, Louis XVI
style bureau plat. Fine Sterling
silver jewelry by Tiffany, David
Yurman, Chanel & Robert Lee
Morris. Capodi Monte & Boehm
cherubs, Herend. Equestrian articles- Hermes jumping saddle,
riding boots, hats, bridle, crops,
hunt blazer’s, etc. A phenome-
nal selection of top designer
fashions, furs & accessories
from Saks Fifth Ave., Bergdorf,
Nieman Marcus & Henry Bendel, mostly all new w/tags, some
worn once! Ralph Lauren (purple label), Christian Dior, Kors,
Steven Stolman, Escada, Armani, Anna Sai, Nicole Miller,
Moda, Theorg, Peruvian Connection, Valentino, Rene Lezard,
TSE, Donna Karan, Eskandar &
so many others! Shoes & boots
(hundreds) by Escada, Jimmy
Choo, Ferragamo, Manalo Blahnik, Michael Kors, Colin Stuart,
Ralph Lauren, Christian Louboutin, Gucci, Prada, & others. An
extraordinary array of garments ,
too varied to list (eg. 150 cashmere sweaters). 7 Rose Court,
Cedar Manor Condos. Rte. 70 to
left on Brick Blvd. to first light,
left onto Old Hooper to Cedar
Manor (just past “The Outback”
but on left. Parking at shopping
mall. Cash only. Diane
C. Antiques
WILLIAM BARRON Auctioneers
will sell contents of 2 warehouses filled w/antiques & fine
reproductions. Items to include:
many dining room sets, furn.
breakfronts, oil paintings, mirrors, jewelry, large quantity oriental
rugs,
chandeliers,
sconces, clocks, etc. 18th, 19th,
20th century items. Preview
8:00am, Sat., 8/19, 267 Broadway,
Long
Branch.
Sale
10:00am. 732-280-8820.
D. Articles Wanted
CASH FOR your sea glass. Call
732-722-8386.
E. Dogs, Cats, Pets
EXPERIENCED PET sitter offering services in my/your home.
Reasonable rates. Call Beth
732-449-2382 or 732-757-9409.
PET NANNY while at work or
away. Will board with conditions.
732-280-9452 or 732-233-4865.
PET PARTNER Pet Sitting Services- Bonded/insured, experienced Vet Tech. Pet taxi also
available. Loving care when
you’re not there. 732-280-0704.
G. Real Estate for Sale
BRICK HERBERTSVILLE- 3BR,
1.5BA colonial. Huge master
bdrm., family rm. w/gas frpl.,
100x100 lot. Possible subdivision w/variance. $379,900. The
Real Estate Co., Realtors.
732-528-7575.
BRICK- SPACIOUS 3BR, 2BA
Herbertsville rancher on 1/2 acre
in need of TLC. 2 frpls., garage
& deck. $339,900. The Real Estate
Co.,
Realtors
732-528-7575.
BRIELLE- BEAUTIFUL 4BR,
2BA home. Walk to restaurants
& marinas, bike to beach. Deck
& sunken pool. Plus 3rd story
great room & 1 car garage. Must
see to appreciate. Requesting
$879,900. The Real Estate Co.,
Realtors 732-528-7575.
MANASQUAN- 3BR, 2BA Victorian. Gourmet kitchen, finished
bsmt., wrap around mahogany
porch. Walk to shops & beach.
Requesting $1,299,000, The
Real Estate Co, Realtors
732-528-7575.
BRIELLE- OPEN House, 908
Jordan Dr., Sat.-Sun. 12-4pm,
Manasquan River Waterfront.
7,600 sf custom home with 3-car
detached
garage
on
the
Manasquan River is currently
under construction on a 70x290
lot. 6BRs, 6.5BAs, study, media
rm., custom kit. Radiant heat
flooring, 4-story elevator. Decks
& balconies on every flr. Offered
at $4.3 mil. MGM Homes LLC,
732-223-5300. Feel free to call
for appt. to view during the
week.
BRIELLEWATERFRONT.
Drawbridge West, 2 Townhouse
units avail. immediately. Won’t
last! Pool. Priced at $849,000.
MGM
Homes
LLC,
732-223-5300.
LAKE COMO- FSBO, 407 18th
Ave. Reduced $479K (all offers),
1,000 ft to beach, 6BRs. Details
at www.jerseyshorefun.com or
732-977-6564.
LAKEWOOD- COVINGTON Village, Locust Drive. 2BR, 2BA
condo, clubhouse & extras included. Ideal location. $249,500
FSBO. 732-449-4417.
MANASQUAN- 3/4BR, 3BA,
den,
craftsman.
Updated
kitchen, fireplace, basement. 2
zone A/C and heat. Charming.
FSBO.
$650,000.
Call
732-223-6263 for appt.
MANASQUAN- 449 Euclid Ave.,
3.5BRs, 2BAs, fully renovated, 5
blks to beach. $709,000. For details
go
to
www.forsalebyowner.com,
732-722-8096. Pls call for appt.
MANASQUAN- BY Owner. A
pristine cottage on quiet cul de
sac w/charming screened front
porch just around corner from
Main St. 2BR, 1BA, new siding,
newly painted. Follow the balloons on Broad St. 1 block north
of Squan Tavern to 11 Beams
Terrace. Stockade fenced private yard w/garden gate thru to
Main St. shops. Call for apt.
732-292-3102 or email for photos:
indydunes@yahoo.com.
$599,900.
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MANASQUAN- FSBO. Mac’s
Pond area, custom built Colonial, 4BR, 2.5BA, LR, DR, hdwd.
flrs., C/AC, gas bb hw heat, full
bsmt.
Move
in
condition.
$672,500. 732-223-2899.
MANASQUAN- MORRIS Ave.
Buildable
lot,
60x130,
guesthouse & 2 car garage.
$565,000. Call 732-840-7594.
MANASQUAN- RTE. 71, Commercial/Residential 3,000 sf.
storefront, 2,000 sf 3 or 4BR
house. Newly remodeled. Immaculate. Separate utilities.
Lease
or
purchase.
732-921-1518.
MANASQUAN- SHABBY Chic
garden cottage elegance carriage house. Fireplace, sunny
conservatory, lots of skylights &
character. Tranquil Koi pond &
lush gardens, pavers & more.
Walk to shops & beach. Truly a
must see. Requesting $799,900.
The Real Estate Co., Realtors
732-528-7575.
PT. PLEASANT Bch.- Cape Cod
2 blks. to beach! In the south
end, large 1,600sq. ft. home includes 4BRs, C/AC, frpl, driveway on a 50x100 lot. Update
some with your TLC. FSBO
$509,900. 732-892-6447.
SEA GIRT- Lot 50’x150’, 505
Boston
Blvd.
Owner.
732-449-7641.
PT. PLEASANT- FSBO Open
House 304 Hall Ave., 8/20 &
8/27, 1-4pm. Well maintained
Dutch Colonial 3BR home. New
kitchen w/corian tops, FR
w/brick frplc., formal LR, DR
w/hdwd. floors. Large inground
heated pool & cozy front porch.
Quiet street 1.5 mi. to ocean, 2
blocks to river beach. $485,000.
Call 732-295-0119. Cooperative
Realtors welcome.
PT. PLEASANT- New Price
$469,999. 518 Summit Dr. Minutes to beach. Click on MyListings
on
www.CandiceClausell.com
for
photos/virtual tour. You must
see this home: updated colonial,
open flr. plan, garage, bsmt.,
lovely neighborhood. Call Candice
Clausell’s
cell
201-424-3820
or
Coldwell
Banker Residential Brokerage
732-449-2777 x142.
SPRING LAKE Hts.- Fairway
Mews ranch, 2BRs, 2BAs
w/brand new Kit., baths, appliances, carpeting, tile, fixtures &
more.
$595,000.
Call
973-610-6100.
SPRING LAKE Hts.- FSBO. Located in a great courtyard neighborhood just 6 blks. from Spring
Lake beaches. 1yr. old townhouse, 3BRs, 2.5BAs, custom
kitchen, 2 car garage, hdwd. flrs.
throughout, full bsmt. and more.
732-859-4779.
WALL- 60X755 lot approved
plans for 3,000+ sf, 4BR, 4BA, 2
car gar., finished bsmt. + 1,000sf
detached garage. Will build.
Exc. oppty. Asking $599,000.
MCG
Properties
LLC,
732-921-1518.
WALL- BY owner. Orchard
Crest, 4BRs, 2.5BAs, hdwd flrs,
frpl., 3 car garage, 3 zone gas
heat/AC, full bsmt., lg. FR w/cathedral ceiling, lg. deck, beautifully landscaped, 3,700sq. ft.,
desirable neighborhood, 4 miles
to ocean. By appt. $925,000.
732-292-9564 or 732-996-5034.
No Brokers.
WALL- MUST see! Charming
3BR home w/detached garage
close to beaches & shopping.
Offered at $339,000. Open Sun.
1-4pm, 1211 Curtis Ave., Dir:
18th to L on Grove to R on Curtis. The Real Estate Co., Realtors 732-528-7575.
AVON-BY-THE-SEABEACH
block rentals, beautifully furnished, short term or long term,
2nd flr., (1) 2BR, 1.5BA apt.
within beautiful Italianate villa
multi-family building, $2,400/mo.
(utilities
incl.
short
term),
$2,100/mo. (utilities inc. annual
rental), avail 9/1/06; (2) 2BR,
1BA apt w/elegant new bathroom, $1,850/mo. (annual rent,
utilities included), $2,000/mo.
(short term, utilities included),
avail. 10/1. Off-street parking, no
smokers, no pets. Call Barbara
direct on 732-319-7751.
BELMAR- OFFICE space, Main
St. location, Available immediately. Call 732-280-1140.
BELMAR- WINTER rental. 1BR
oceanfront condo completely
furn., private balcony. Avail.
9/11/06-5/21/07. $995/mo. +
utils
plus
1.5mo.
sec.
973-895-2798.
WALL- NEW Construction, last
home in Sea Girt Crossings, 3/4
acre home site at end of
cul-de-sac. Asking $1,199,000.
Call for specs. The Real Estate
Co., Realtors 732-528-7575
BRIELLE- YEARLY. Avail. 9/1.
2BR house, 1BA, quiet neighborhood, no smokers, no pets,
$1,500/mo. + utils, 1.5mo. sec.,
refs. req’d. Call 732-528-7240.
H. Real Estate for Rent
FLORIDA KEYS- Islamorada2BR, 2BA townhouse, pool, tennis, beach, gated community.
Call 732-223-1174.
AVON- WINTER rental. 2BR
apt. on ocean. Parking, private
entrance, non-smoker, no pets.
Call 732-774-9282.
SPRING LAKE- Worthington
Ave. 100x150 approved with
plans $2.3 mil. or will build
$3.7mil.
Great
location.
732-223-5300 MGM Homes
LLC.
MANASQUAN- 1BR, 3.5 room
garden complex. 1st floor, carpeted, blinds, A/C, eat-in
kitchen, closet space. Off street
parking. One yr. lease. No pets.
1.5 mo. sec. Avail. Mid July.
$810. plus utils. 732-223-6500.
WALL TWP.- 12,000 sf Commercial building, office/warehouse condo. Ample parking,
great location. Will subdivide.
Sale or lease. Call for details.
732-921-1518.
BELMAR- NORTHERN end,
beautiful
balcony
carriage
house, close to beach. 1BR, private yard, gas grill, W/D, DW,
C/AC 1yr. lease, $1,100/mo.
732-681-3104.
FLORIDA KEYS- Islamorada.
2BR/2BA townhouse in gated
community. Fully equipped including bicycles & kayak. Fishing dock, pool & sandy beach.
732-223-0543
FLORIDAMARCO
Island.
Beautiful 2BR, 2.5BA townhouse. Pool/hot tub. Close to
beaches, restaurants, churches,
shopping. No pets/smoking.
Avail. monthly. 732-722-8039.
LAKE COMO- Temp or winter.
Furnished 3BR, 1BA cottage, lg.
yard,
quiet,
W/D,
DW,
non-smoking. 908-578-0388.
LAKE COMO- Winter rental.
9/15/06-5/15/07, 2BR home on a
dead-end street. W/D, D/W.
$1,100./mo. Call 201-410-7407.
MANASQUAN BEACH AreaWeekly & Winter. Updated unit
sleeps 7 people, C/AC, W/D,
DW, lg. deck, off street parking.
Call 732-995-1327 for details.
MANASQUAN- 9/11/06-5/19/07.
Waterfront. 3BR, 2BA ranch
near beach, W/D, DW, A/C,
$1,250/mo. Call 732-221-5673.
MANASQUAN- 9/15-5/15, 3BR,
furnished, W/D, garage, yard,
$1,050/mo.
+
utils.
732-513-3850.
MANASQUAN- ANNUAL. Immaculate 3 or 4BRs, 2BAs, garage, W/D, A/C, storage. Immediate. 732-921-1518.
MANASQUAN- IMMACULATE,
furnished winter rental. Beachfront, 2BR, 1BA, W/D, D/W,
$1,095./mo. plus untils. Security.
No smokers. No pets. Call
732-431-9099.
MANASQUAN- OFFICE space,
convenient downtown location,
flexible 140-700 sq. ft., utilities
included. Avail. immediately.
Call Linda 732-223-4148.
MANASQUAN- RTE. 35 & Lakewood Rd., 500sq. ft. Reasonable.
Avail
10/1.
Call
732-996-3298.
MANASQUAN- WINTER, 1 or
2BR avail. Near beach & train,
A/C, W/D, cable. No pets.
201-658-3272.
MANASQUAN- WINTER rental,
9/16-5/12. Nicely furnished, 1BR
on Stockton Lake. No pets. Call
973-879-5663.
MANASQUAN- WINTER rental,
Perch Ave. 3BR, 1.5BA home
with w/d, dw, cac, inlet view.
Pets considered. $1050/mo. +
utils. Call 732-223-5979.
Call the marketing sales team of Lise Wall and
Christopher Wall for a no cost market analysis.
For all your
real estate needs!
Lise Wall
Broker/Associate
Cell 732-804-9970
555 Washington Blvd., Sea Girt, NJ 08750
732-974-2300
FAX: 732-974-2331
Christopher Wall
Sales Associate
Cell 732-691-1272
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MANASQUAN- WINTER. 2BR,
$600/mo; 3BR $800/mo. Plus
utils all units., gas heat.
732-223-0097.
MANASQUAN- WINTER. 2nd to
beach, 2BR apt. $900 + utils.
2BR apt. $700 + utils. Call
732-996-4864.
MANASQUAN- WINTER. 3BR,
1BA, A/C, W/D. Avail. 9/23 thru
early May. Asking $800/mo. Megan
201-923-5600
or
mquiggs@comcast.net
MANASQUANWINTER.
9/15-5/15. 2BRs, 1.5BAs, LR,
Kit, DW, W/D, gas heat, C/AC.
$850/mo. + utils. 973-467-4252
(Mon.-Fri.),
732-223-8126
(weekends).
MANASQUAN- WINTER. Sept.
thru April 2007, w/parking.
$800/mo., utilities not included.
No pets. Call 973-301-6361.
MANASQUAN- YEARLY Guest
house on Morris Ave. AC, full
basement
w/storage,
w/d.
$1500.
+
utils.
Call
732-859-4981.
SEA GIRT Estates- Winter.
2BR, 2BA, garage, bsmt., W/D,
C/AC. Avail. 9/1. $1,000/mo +
utils. No pets. 917-434-9057.
MANASQUAN- YEARLY. Avail.
Sept. ‘06. 2BR furnished town
home, W/D, off street parking.
email:mzientek@verizon.net,
732-763-2186.
MARTHA'S VINEYARD- Mint
cond. 3 BR, 2 BA Cape. Deck,
outside shower. Overlooking
farm, midway bet. beach & town.
Avail. Summer 2006. Off season rates avail. 732-996-1027 or
732-974-2300.
NEPTUNE CITY- Riverview
1BR, 1BA w/direct views of
Shark River, pool on premises,
pets allowed, new flooring,
freshly painted, $1,275/mo. +
utils. Call Barbara Furdyna
732-319-7751, Diane Turton Realtors.
PT. PLEASANT Bch.- 2BR duplex, 1 story, W/D, DW, 7 closets, new carpet, quiet street.
Avail. 9/1. $1,450/mo. + utils.
609-610-2596.
PT. PLEASANT Bch.- 400sq. ft.
professional
office
space
w/separate entrance & restroom.
Rt.
35
frontage,
parking.
$850/mo.
heat
included.
732-892-9050.
PT. PLEASANT Bch.- Oct-April
28th. Furnished 2BR & 3BR cottages from $550/mo. + utils, off
street
parking.
No
pets.
908-237-1622.
PT. PLEASANT Bch.- Winter.
Nice 1BR condo, 1 blk to
beach/train. No smokers, no
pets. $975/mo. + elec. Avail.
10/1-4/30. 908-507-1394.
PT. PLEASANT Beach- Winter.
1BR, 1BA, furn. bungalow 1 blk.
from beach inlet. Oct.-mid May.
$850./mo plus utils. Contact
973-865-1335.
PT. PLEASANT- Yearly. Avail.
10/15. East of canal, 2BR, 1BA
house close to town & beaches,
C/AC, DW, W/D, patio, EIK,
closet space. No smokers/no
pets. $1,500/mo. + utils. Refs.
req., credit check. 732-714-0449
PT. PLEASANT/BAY HeadWinter, mid Oct-June, 3BR,
2BA, furn., C/H/A, W/D, wrap
porch (1/2 screened), small pet
neg. No smokers. $1,000/mo. +
sec. deposit. 732-892-7592,
941-716-5790.
SANIBEL ISLAND- Near beach,
newly built 3BR, 2BA, beautiful
Florida vacation home w/heated
pool.
Monthly
rentals.
732-223-5937, www.sanibelvacationhideaway.com
SEA GIRT- (Governor’s Court)
Year round rental. Conveniently
located 2BR 1st flr. unit.
$1,700/mo. + utils. Call Phil
Schwier cell: 732-492-7365.
Henry S.Schwier, Inc. Realtors,
732-449-6200, ext. 323.
SEA GIRT- 5BR, 2BA beach
house 2 blocks to beach &
Parker House. Avail. 8/21-9/4
$4,500,
Sept.
$3,000.
917-921-5994.
SEA GIRT- 5BR, 2BAs, formal
DR, EIK, 2 car garage, close to
town & schools. Good condition.
Yearly lease $3,100/mo. Immediate occupancy. Call Mike
Sweeney, 732-245-4415. Henry
S.
Schwier,
Inc.
Realtor,
732-449-6200.
SEA GIRT- 9/18/06-5/18/07,
4BRs, 2 full baths, DW, W/D,
C/AC,
deck,
full
bsmt.
$1,395/mo. 732-221-5673.
SEA GIRT- Winter. 1BR,
$600./mo plus utils. 3BR,
$1,100./mo plus utils. Call
732-322-2222.
SEA GIRT- Winter. 2 homes
avail., 3BR, 2BA & 4BR, 3BA,
EIK, W/D, deck, yard, garage.
Sept.-May.
$1,200/mo.
&
$1,600/mo + utils. Call Michael
732-995-9444.
SPRING LAKE Hts.- 2BR garage apt., 9/1 thru 6/15,
$1,000/mo.
+
security
or
$1,450/mo. incldg utils., cable,
local phone. Off street parking.
Bright, clean, new kitchen, furnished. No smoking, no pets.
A/C, W/D, DW. Close to train,
town
&
beach.
Call
732-449-8631 or 732-449-5724.
SPRING LAKE Hts.- Fairway
Mews townhouse, 2BR, 2.5BA,
furnished,
garage.
Yearly.
$2,500./mo. plus security & utils.
Call 727-463-9289.
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SPRING LAKE Hts.- Homestead
Garden Apts. 1BR Special starting at $1,180/mo. incl. heat, hot
water, cooking gas. Private, park
like setting. No dogs, cats only.
Call 732-449-3270.
SPRING LAKE Hts.- Hwy. 71
professional office space avail.
Includes private parking, use of
computer w/DSL, tel., & fax.
Space can accommodate small
groups and/or priv. consultation.
Contact Jeanie 732-492-2465.
SPRING LAKE Hts.- Lovely 2BR
home, quiet residential neighborhood, close to local stores &
restaurants. LR, DR, 2BAs, A/C,
W/D, garage, deck, furnished.
Avail. Sept to May. $1,350./mo.
Call 908-309-4008.
SPRING LAKE Hts.- Lovely 2BR
home, quiet residential neighborhood, close to local stores &
restaurants. LR, DR, 2BAs, A/C,
W/D, garage, deck, furnished.
Avail. Sept to May. $1,350./mo.
Call 908-309-4008.
SPRING LAKE Hts.- Office
Space, Rte. 71. 1st flr. 5 rm.
suite + bath, $1,800/mo. + utils.
2nd flr 4 rm suite + bath,
$1,300/mo. + utils. Can be combined into 1 large office. Avail.
10/1. 732-245-9415.
SPRING LAKE Hts.- winter
$800/mo, yearly $1,550/mo,
2BR, 1BA house. W/D, paver
patio w/outdoor shower, off
street
parking.
Call
732-904-5147.
SPRING LAKE Hts.- Winter
2006-2007. Beautiful 2-3BR, furnished,
C/A
&
heating.
9/9/06-5/19/07. $975./mo. plus
utils, (except basic cable). Outdoor shower, charcoal grill &
computer
workstation.
Call
11am-4pm. Bob Donahue, Realtor, 732-449-2301.
SPRING LAKE Hts.- Winter,
3BRs, 1.5BAs, fully furnished,
fenced in yard, W/D, $1,300/mo.
+ utils. 973-722-7146.
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SPRING LAKE Hts.- Winter. St.
Clair Ave. Lovely 3BR, 2BA unit,
garage, W/D, DW, $1,400/mo.
includes utils. 732-280-3601.
SPRING LAKE Hts.- Yearly.
Fairway Mews, 2BR, 2.5BA,
newly painted & carpeted corner
unit, garage, lots of parking, golf,
tennis, pool avail. $1,850/mo. +
utils. Edmonds Realty Co.,
732-449-4600,
eves:
732-223-5661 Russ.
SPRING LAKE Summer last
week in August. Renovated 2BR
plus loft, sleeps 6, A/C, lg. private
patio,
garage,
W/D,
$2,000/week 908-227-0419.
SPRING LAKE- Winter. 1BR furnished apt., gas heat. Sept.
15-May
14.
609-577-3868,
609-921-0931.
THE COAST STAR, THURSDAY, AUGUST 17, 2006
SPRING LAKE yearly rental.
Spacious 2BR carriage house,
mint cond. Private patio, garage,
W/D. No pets. Avail. August.
$1,600/mo. 732-449-3898.
SPRING LAKE- Annual rental, 5
BR, 3 BA, $3,000/mo. Owner
NJLR. 732-233-9630, Diane
Glander, Mary Holder Agency,
Realtors.
SPRING LAKE- Winter. Furnished 2BR cottage. No pets.
Walk to beach, town, train or
bus.
$950/mo.
+
utils.
732-449-5742.
SPRING LAKE- Summer 2007,
3-4 BRs, beach & pool tags,
beach locker, utilities, cable TV
& WiFi included. www.rent4summer.com, 732-528-7393.
SPRING LAKE- Winter. 3BR
house, 2BAs, gas heat, C/AC,
W/D, DW. Sept 15-May 14th.
609-577-3868, 609-921-0931.
SPRING LAKE- Winter. 6BR,
3BA on lake. Great house! New
high tech kitchen, 2 car attached
garage.
$2,300/mo.
732-604-3538.
SPRING LAKE- Winter. Block to
lake & downtown shops, immaculate & tastefully appointed
4BR, 3BA corner lot furnished
home. 2BRs on 1st flr., new
deck,
detached
garage,
$2,500/mo.
+
utils.
No
smokers/no pets. Call Barbara
Furdyna, Diane Turton, Realtors
732-449-4441,
x
219
or
732-319-7751.
SPRING
LAKEWinter.
Sept.-May,
4BR,
furnished,
wall-to-wall, 2 zone C/AC, near
school. No pets/no smokers.
$2,200/mo
+
utils.
732-223-1499.
SPRING LAKE- Winter/Yearly.
Water view, picture perfect and
immaculate. 3BR, 2BA, 2 car
garage, C/AC, tastefully furnished. No smoking/no pets.
732-275-5020.
SPRING LAKE- Yearly or winter.
4BR, 2.5BA, tastefully furnished
house,
$3,500/mo.
yearly,
$2,500/mo. winter + gas/electric.
No smokers 203-233-3527.
Charles C. Wooley
Broker/REALTOR®/GRI, CSP
Each Office is Independently Owned and Operated
1204 Third Avenue
Spring Lake NJ,07762
Office: 732.223.6066 x224
Fax: 732.282.2300
Website: www.charleswooley.com
Email: cwooley@remax.net
TEQUESTA, FLORIDA- Riverbend gated community on golf
course. 2 units for sale or rent.
Gold Coast’s best kept secret.
Very
affordable.
Call
732-245-2899, 1-508-833-4407.
VERO BEACH FL- Manufactured home in Heron Cay adult
park, 2BR, 2BA, screened porch
overlooking lake, pool, clubhouse.
Reasonable.
Call
732-920-1117.
WALLDESIRABLE
Colfax
Plaza office, 615sq. ft., 2 office
rms., warehouse w/garage bay,
cable modem ready & network
ready. Avail. immediately. Call
732-977-3213.
WALL- MASSAGE THERAPIST:
Sublease chiropractic office 4
days/wk. Located on Hwy. 71.
$300/mo.
utils.
included.
732-974-7757.
WALL- YEARLY. End unit townhouse, located in Pheasant Hollow, mins. from GSP & beaches,
3 levels of living, 3BRs incl.
master bath suite w/deck, FR off
KIT, frpl., 2 car garage & lg.
deck. Asking $2,950/mo. + utils.
Call 732-223-7133.
WALL/MANASQUAN SHORESYearly. 3BR, 1BA Cape, full
bsmt. plus garage. Avail. Immediately.
$1,900/mo.
732-859-3611 or 609-361-9569.
WALL/SPRING LAKE border.
Winter. $950/mo plus utils. 2BR,
newly renovated, cathedral ceilings, pergo, new carpet, more.
Quiet,
peaceful
yard.
908-347-3410.
M. Help Wanted
ATM
SALESP/T.
Earn
$1,000./wk. 732-280-3699.
CASHIER/PACKING
CLERKPT, flex. hrs. Apply within, UPS
Store (next to Shop Rite), Hwy.
34, Manasquan.
DRIVER/STOCKPERSONMUST be reliable, neat, self-motivated. Call Apple Office Supply
732-223-0525.
FRONT DESK & Physician assistant, PT. Medical ofc. in Sea
Girt. Experience preferred, wlll
train right candidate. Fax resume: 732-974-0190
NAIL TECH- experience in gels.
Busy growing salon. Call Stefanina’s Salon 732-892-5292.
FT CERTIFIED teachers &
teacher’s assistants. Benefits
package
avail.
Call
732-449-8866.
GOLD'S GYM Rte. 35 So, Pt.
Pleasant is looking for FT/PT receptionist. Weekend & weekday
shifts avail. Apply within.
LOOKING FOR a responsible
individual for employment in Chiropractors Ofc. Fri. afternoon &
Sat. AM starting at $9/hr. Call
732-974-9100.
NAIL TECHNICIAN- Great opportunity for the self motivated,
professional people to grow in
the industry. FT/PT. Candy Phenomenail,
Manasquan.
732-223-1526.
ORGANIST/CHOIR DIRECTORPT. Send resume to SPRC, Wall
Methodist Church, 2414 Old Mill
Rd., Spring Lake Hts., NJ
07762.
P/T POSITION in Wall Medical
Office. Must be able to perform
front office & back offices tasks.
Please
fax
resume
to
732-280-7177.
PRODUCER- P/T. Audio conference producer- coordinator to
organize
&
arrange
business-to-business tele-conferences for Manasquan based
publisher. With guidance, organize educational telephone conferences, presentations for executive audiences. Must be detail oriented self-starter with excellent communications skills.
Plan program schedule, recruit
& work with program presenters.
Power Point knowledge a plus.
Send resume, cover letter, qualifications to, rjenkins@healthsourcesonline.com or fax to
732-292-1111.
THE COAST STAR, THURSDAY, AUGUST 17, 2006
PROFESSIONAL
CLEANING
Service looking for PT help,
Tues.-Fri.
Call
Claudia
732-295-0118.
PT POSITION available for local
physician’s office. Both front &
back office skills required.
Please send resume to PO Box
626, Brielle, NJ 08730.
PT SALES Help- Teddy Bears
by the Seashore. 732-449-7446.
REAL ESTATE Sales/RentalsLicensed salesperson for busy
Manasquan office. Call Bob.
732-223-1830.
REAL ESTATE- Have you
dreamt of working at the beach?
Training + support. Call Frances
Graffeo, Mgr. Normandy Beach
office. 732-793-6484. Weichert,
Realtors.
RETAIL- VERY unique gift store
needs experienced mature P/T
help. Flex. hrs. Days, evenings,
weekends. Circle Factory Outlet.
732-223-2298.
RIVERSIDE CAFE, Manasquan
now hiring. Flex. hrs. Call
732-223-2233.
SALES PT/FT, 10am-5:30pm,
reliable & dependable. Little
Charmers Children's Boutique,
Brielle. 732-528-6966.
SPARE TIME hrs, FT income
potential. Proven “must have”
auto related product. Work from
home, computer needed. Fun!
888-642-0211.
STOCKPERSON
FOR
Vitamin/Health Food store, FT,
Mon.-Fri., $9/hr. Manasquan.
732-223-4900.
SPRING LAKE Golf ClubServer, bartender, cook, bus,
snack bar, FT/PT. Excellent opportunity for dynamic individuals
to join prestigious golf club.
Benefits avail. Apply: Warren
Ave., SLH. 732-449-8100.
TEACHER MANASQUAN child
care center infant/toddler room.
Afternoons
Mon-Fri.
Call
732-292-2940.
TEACHER’S AIDE- 2 positions,
Mon.-Fri.
8am-12:30pm,
or
12:30pm-6pm. Pt. Pleasant Bch.
Nursery school. 732-616-5032.
THOSE NEEDING additional income, home based, PT, will
train. Exploding field- Health
Wellness Skin Care Cosmetics.
732-915-8782.
WEBMASTER- P/T. Publishing
company in Manasquan seeks
an entry-level webmaster for the
marketing dept. Responsible for
development & maintenance of
six sites. Must be proficient in
web design, knowledgeable with
web tools, self-motivated & able
to work with minimal supervision
in a fast moving, team environment. Please send resume,
cover letter & salary expectations to rstodolak@healthresourcesonline.com.
Fax
732-292-1111, or write Health
Resources Publishing, Attn:
Webmaster Position, 1913 Atlantic
Ave.,
Suite
F5,
Manasquan, NJ, 08736.
P. Situations Wanted
HOME HELP provider. A responsible lady will take care of
your loved ones. Cooking, light
cleaning, and personal needs.
732-229-4959.
POLISH REFERRAL Service,
Inc.- Licensed/bonded. Serving
all NJ area. Providing exp.
live-in companions/housekeepers, w/excellent references. Call
908-689-9140.
T. Instruction
INSTRUCTION- MATH tutor.
Certified math teacher avail. to
tutor grades 6-8, Algebra I and
Algebra II. 732-600-1447, leave
a message.
MATH TUTOR. Experienced
teacher. Certified math 7-12. Individual Support attention. Reasonable, convenient, your home.
732-252-5465. Leave msg.
TUTOR AVAILABLE (all subjects K-8), individualized instruction in your home by K-8 certified teacher. $30/hr. Initial consultation is free. Call Bill at
732-556-6677.
V. Boats & Accessories
28’ BOAT slip on Manasquan’s
Glimmer
Glass
avail.
till
12/31/06. Includes water/electric.
$750.
Call
Jim
at
732-685-9283, 732-282-1935..
SUNFISH SAILBOAT- 14’, white
hull, red, white, blue sail. Good
cond. $975. Call 908-963-2320
or 908-963-9623.
X. Automotive
‘03 AUDI A4 turbo- black ext.
w/black leather int. 6 speed
manual trans. Moon roof, new
tires, well maintained, good
cond. 61,500 miles $17,300.
Call 908-963-2320.
Call today for your
Free Pre-Approval.*
1-888-299-0408
Toll Free
Financing provided by Coldwell Banker Mortgage, 3000 Leadenhall
Road, Mt. Laurel, NJ 08054. Licensed by the N.J. Department of
Banking and Insurance. *Some restrictions apply. Please contact
us for details.
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‘04 JEEP Wrangler X- lt. khaki
metallic ext., khaki roof, int.
Auto. trans., new tires, well
maintained,
excellent
cond.
33,800 miles $16,400. Call
908-963-2320.
1995 JEEP Cherokee Sport 4x4,
white. Original owner. Excellent
cond. 168,000 miles. New tires,
C/D, A/C, keyless entry. $3000.
o/b/o. 732-280-9187.
1984 MERCEDES 280SL Roadster w/hardtop, 6 cyl., great
summer car, $8,500 o/b/o. Must
sell. 732-610-7297.
2000 JEEP Grand Cherokee,
4WD, pewter, 59K miles, 6 cyl.
PS, PB, AC, $10,000. Exec.
cond. Call 732-223-1035
2002 CHEVY Camaro- silver,
52,400 miles, 6 cyl., auto. trans.
Excellent cond. $8,200. Call
973-773-1224.
2002 TOYOTA Sequoia, mint
cond. Gold w/leather interior,
25,200 mi., FM/Cass/CD. Asking
$28,000 732-295-1232.
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AUTOS, TRUCKS, Vans- Any
year or model, running or not.
Highest cash paid- or donate to
Maddona House or St. Rose
H.S. for full market value, free
pick up. 732-280-6444.
Y. Services
A SUMMER Wind Cleaning
Service- 20 yrs. exp. Owner supervised, fully insured, free estimates.
Call
Barbara,
732-458-2255.
DNR HANDYMAN Service- Will
do odd jobs for you. No job too
odd! Call Dan, 732-229-4959.
THE COAST STAR, THURSDAY, AUGUST 17, 2006
A CLEAN Sweep- Local residential & small business cleaning
service Move-ins/outs, post construction, seasonal clean-ups.
Call Dawn 732-371-2333.
A PC Problem? I come to your
house. Free evaluation. Software and networking expert.
Services & repairs @ $30/hr.
Jerry 732-892-8618.
A PROFESSIONAL Cleaning
Service- Our reputation is "spotless". We're honest, reliable &
reasonably priced. Free estimates. Fully insured. Many yrs.
exp. Call Maria, 732-241-7896.
A PROFESSIONAL CLEANING
service. Grace Sullivan, 38
years serving the shore. Owner
supervised. Honest, reliable,
reasonable. Fully insured, free
refs./estimates. 732-280-1087.
AFFORDABLE + PROFESSIONAL- Jeannette's Cleaning
Services. Free estimates. Fully
insured. Residential/commercial.
Reasonable rates. Cleaning
weekly, biweekly, monthly. Excellent refs. Call 732-449-6882
or 732-223-6661.
ANDERSEN DOORS & windows. Expertly repaired, installed, leeks repaired. All
phases of home improvements.
Fully insured, 20yrs. exp. Call
Jerry 732-829-6109.
APPLIANCE REPAIRS - And
sale of Maytag, GE, Kitchen Aid,
Whirlpool, Kenmore and others.
Courteous service by Apple Appliance. 732-223-1286.
BOB CHAMBERS painting &
wallpaper. 35yrs. in your area.
Satisfaction guaranteed. Insured.
Free
estimates.
732-899-6033.
DISCOUNT TELEPHONE- Service, phone jacks, wiring, cable
TV outlets. Retired from N.J.
Bell. 27 yrs. experience. Call
732-528-7535.
PARTY MAIDS- “Let us serve
you”. We set up your party,
serve your guests & complete
clean up. Experienced/references. 732-202-1532.
CERAMIC TILE & Marble installations. Bathrooms, kitchens,
foyers, backsplashes. Repairs,
regrout. Free estimates. Larry
732-948-6956.
DON CARNEVALE/ PAINTINGSpecializing Interiors/exteriors.
Neat, clean. Reasonable, reliable. Quality always! 25 yrs exper. References. 732-899-4470.
LIGHT HAULING- Remove trash
or any unwanted items. Reasonable rates. Ron Masella Sr.
732-528-5769.
CLEAN-UP, DEMOLITION &
Hauling- Debris removal. Call
Randy Stoddard 732-751-9300
or 732-245-1474 (cell).
CLEAN-UPS,
CLEAN-OUTS.
single items or large quantities.
Friendly, reliable. BobCat services also available. Free estimates. Call Shore Removal
Service. Immediate response.
732-267-2183.
POLISH LADY w/refs. will clean
your house perfectly. Call Eva
732-785-0316.
ELECTRICIANLICENSED,
#9176. Insured. Small jobs, everything electric. Fans, lighting,
telephone jacks, receptacles,
trouble-shooting.
Free
estimates.
Jimmy’s
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732-899-6000.
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NOTICE OF ADOPTION
SEA GIRT BOROUGH
BOND ORDINANCE STATEMENTS AND SUMMARIES
The bond ordinance, the summary terms of which are included herein, has been finally adopted by the Borough of Sea Girt, in the County of
Monmouth, State of New Jersey on August 10, 2006 and the 20 day
period of limitation within which a suit, action or proceeding questioning the validity of such ordinance can be commenced, as provided in the
Local Bond Law, has begun to run from the date of the first publication
of this statement. Copies of the full ordinance are available at no cost
and during regular business hours, at the Clerk’s office for members of
the general public who request the same. The summary of the terms of
such bond ordinance follows:
Title: Bond Ordinance Providing An Appropriation Of $3,750,000
For Improvements for the Water Utility In And By The Borough Of Sea
Girt, In The County Of Monmouth, New Jersey And Authorizing The
Issuance Of $3,750,000 Bonds Or Notes Of The Borough For Financing
Part Of The Appropriation.
Purpose(s): Improvements to Bell Place Facility including enhanced
water supply (wells), treatment/filtration process, storage and distribution and pipeline work at various street locations
Appropriation:
$3,750,000
Bonds/Notes Authorized:
$3,750,000
Grants (if any) Appropriated:
None
Section 20 Costs:
$1,000,000
Useful Life:
40 years
Lorene K. Wright, RMC, RPPO, CMR
Municipal Clerk, Sea Girt Borough, NJ
($20.30) (58) (08-17)
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BOROUGH OF BELMAR
NOTICE OF CONTRACT AWARD
THE MAYOR AND COUNCIL OF THE BOROUGH OF BELMAR HAS AWARDED THE FOLLOWING CONTRACTS WITHOUT COMPETITIVE BIDDING, AS A PROFESSIONAL SERVICE
PURSUANT TO N.J.S.A. 40A:11-5 (1) (a). THE CONTRACT AND
THE RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING SAME ARE AVAILABLE FOR
PUBLIC INSPECTION IN THE OFFICE OF THE MUNICIPAL
CLERK.
AWARDED TO:
Alfred J. D’Auria, Esq.
SERVICES:
Animal House Hearing Officer
COST:
Not to exceed $2,500
Margaret D. Plummer
Borough Clerk, RMC
($9.80) (28) (08-17)
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Berber Painting
COMMERCIAL AND RESIDENTIAL
Powerwashing
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Phone 732-918-2150
Fax 732-918-2150
Cell 908- 433-1638
Fully Insured
Free Estimates
Suzanne Gazzillo
nthony Valente
J. Plunkett
& Sons
Plumbing & Heating Service
DIRECTOR OF DESIGN
COMMERCIAL / RESIDENTIAL
REPAIRS ON
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F. 732.974.3586
C. 732.682.5218
732-890-0329
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P. 732.294.8272
4th Generation Carpenter
me Improvement Contractor
Gas Piping - Boilers
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732-892-7055
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TIMATES
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OFFICE 732-899-9100
FAX 732-899-8577
CELL 732-539-3517
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732-919-0809
732-528-0292
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We also do small jobs
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Fully Insured - N.J. Licensed
Business
34 Years Experience
Fully Insured
732-295-0718
~ Special on Vinyl Replacement Windows ~
Frank & Lou’s Carpentry
— Fully Insured —
•
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CELL
Over 35 yrs. exp.
NJ Lic #13VH01445100
Crown Moulding
Coffered Ceilings
ARCHITECTURAL
DETAILS
732-814-3734
NJ Registration #13VH01232700
Fully Insured
EXTERIOR
KILLED
IMATES
SURED
Holmes
3-2660
732-614-6649
D.T.M. ELECTRIC
SILVA ELECTRIC INC.
Residential • Commercial • All Phases of Electric
• Service Upgrades
• Paddle Fans
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• Pools/Hot Tubs
• Outside/Landscape
• Recessed Lighting
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WALL TOWNSHIP
BOB SILVA
(732) 272-6075
732-714-2245
Fully Bonded & Insured
NJ Lic. # 15167
Serving Ocean &
Monmouth Counties
NEIL SCOTTO CARPENTRY
25 Years in Business
Free Estimates
Fully Insured
Complete Kitchens & Baths
Decks & Finished Basements
Custom Cabinets for Home & Office
Window & Door Replacements
732-922-4068
Exterior
washing
• Decks
Repair
Featuring
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Carriage
House
Doors
• Residential Steel and Wood Garage
Doors
5-8278
GENERAL
CONTRACTORS
H03826800
KITCHENS • BATHROOMS • BASEMENTS
DECKS • FORMICA TOPS • REGROUTING
WINDOW AND DOOR REPLACEMENTS
“No Job Too Small”
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FULLY INSURED
732-255-7819
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• Lift Master™ Automatic Garage Door
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• Expert Repairs and Prompt Service
TICO’S
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HOME REPAIR & IMPROVEMENTS
WATERPROOFING • RETAINING WALLS
CONCRETE & MASONRY REPAIRS
TWB
Painting
pment
ctors - All Makes
rators, etc.
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NJ 08736
• GUTTERS CLEANED
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• POWERWASHING
• Ceilings & Walls Repaired
• Handyman Service • Carpentry
No Job Too Small!
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CONSTRUCTION CO. INC.
JIM FRANK
(732) 528-3302
FAX (732) 528-7834
CELL (732) 539-2864
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GENERAL CONTRACTING
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DECORATIVE TRIM SPECIALISTS
REMODELING
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$
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732-778-8758
We also seal & stain wood decks
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PAT R I C K J . K A N E C O N T R A C T I N G
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PAINTING TO WALLPAPER
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FAX: (732) 280-9424
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732-223-INFO
Manasquan, NJ 08736
fessional Hardscape Company
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Specializing in
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★ • Pool/Spa Copings
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~ No Job Too Small ~
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★
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BRICK - BLOCK - CONCRETE - PAVERS - CULTURED STONE
ing Northern Ocean & Southern Monmouth Counties
732-779-8189 John (CELL)
FREE ESTIMATES
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Specialist
Wall
Design
Installation
rainage
enance
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Pt. Pleasant/Manasquan
58-3396
732-922-9590
COMPANY
• Cleaning/ Sealing
• Stain Removal
• Efflorescense Removed
• Weed Free Sand Stabilizer
Restoring Pavers
to their Original Beauty
OCEAN
732-458-3396
MONMOUTH
732-922-9590
FULLY INSURED
Northeast
Copper Craft
• Chemical Programs
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• Hydroseeding
• Sod
~ Copper Roofs ~ Copper Gutters ~
~ Flashings ~ Roof Repairs ~
~ Snow Removal ~
Accepting
New Accounts!
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Insured
732-223-4875
Fully Insured
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ROOFING & SIDING SPECIALISTS
Free Estimates
Over 8 Years Experience
Contact Paul 732-682-7442
SERVING
OCEAN &
MONMOUTH
COUNTIES
MONAGHAN
SIDING
Since 1979
Call Guy Martini
732-775-0195
732-291-7970 office
908-507-6222 cell
Call
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Lockwood Avenue
Manasquan
Fully Insured
732-223-2304
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• Complete Kitchen & Bathroom Remodeling
★ Free In-Home Design Consultation
• Layout & Design Specialist
★ 23 Years Experience
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• Countertop Replacements: Granite-Corian-Silestone-Laminate Tops
Call 732-775-2500
Serving All Monmouth County
Call For Hours & Appointment • 85 Highway 35 Neptune City, NJ 07753