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Parade to serve up spooky sights
Twin connection
President of state association reflects on development
This year’s Halloween Parade is set for Oct. 28
By keLLie c. mURPhy The New Jersey Chapter of the American Planning Association is an 1,100 member organization of mostly licensed planners. There’s 565 municipalities in the state and the bigger cities should have a staff of at least several planners. The organization is focused on members doing training and continuing education. As a board the NJAPA will respond to different pieces of legislation that relate to planning. The ques- Twin brothers Alexander and Sawyer Fuzy have fun with balloons at Bordentown’s tion, “How to really educate Community Day, Sept. 15, 2018, at the township municipal complex. For more ‘mom and pop’ about planning?” photos, turn to Page 20. (Photo by Suzette J. Lucas.) is always being posed. And at the helm of all of that is Bordentown resident Charles Latini. Modern housing complexes, new office developments and parks and recreation upgrades happen constantly in today’s world. Even with new technollege of New Jersey football was a major reason, but there ogy, it’s difficult these days coach could watch Borden- was more to it. to connect us all efficiently “It was a presence in Bortown Military Institute teams through real estate while dentown, it was part of the culplay. remaining visually attractive “I remember my dad walking ture,” said Hamilton, a 1971 and environmentally sound. By Rich FisheR me across Route 206 and 130 Bordentown High graduate There are professionals in real by Town and Country Diner who was famous for football and estate whose job it is to see that It stands to reason a high to go to the BMI fields just to also playing guitar with Apricot bigger picture and sort all of school must have a pretty good stand and watch some of the Lampshade, one of the town’s that complexity out: a talented athletic program for a father to football and baseball games,” most popular garage bands. But and dedicated urban planner. drag his young son across not Hamilton recalled. “It was a unlike many long-haired rockLatini, of Ewing-based Latini one, but two major highways to little scary crossing over—I’d and-rollers of the time, Hamiland Gleitz Planning explains it all see a game. never do it today!—but it was ton had respect for the military plus his passion for New Jersey. tradition. That’s exactly what Bill worth it.” At first, Latini was an athlete. Hamilton used to do with his “If you were living in BorIn those days, BMI was as He played football at Ewing High elementary school-aged son much a fabric of Bordentown dentown, you were exposed School before enrolling at Tren- Eric back in the mid-1960s; so City as fine dining on Farn- to the presence of not only an the future Trenton State/Col- sworth Avenue is today. Sports See LATINI, Page 8 See MILITARY, Page 10
More than athletics at BMI
Military school’s alumni to gather this month
By micheLe aLPeRin The annual Bordentown Halloween Parade is a family affair. Katy McGowan has been running the Consolidated Fire Association’s Halloween Parade, set this year for Oct. 28, for nine years, taking over after the sudden death at of her father, Steve McGowan, who had been parade chairperson from its beginning. Rick Klinge co-chaired the parade from the beginning until his death a few years ago. For the McGowans, the Consolidated Fire Association’s building on 20 Crosswicks St., dedicated October 24, 1970, is a second home. “I used to go to St. Mary’s School, right around corner. I would walk every day to the firehouse; we would hang out in the firehouse with my father, and he would drive us home,” says Katy McGowan. “The firehouse is a place to hang out for many firefighters.” McGowan’s father joined the volunteer firefighters in about 1962 at age 16, fudging a little on the minimum age of 17. That was eight years before the July 5, 1966, merger of the Citizen Hook and Ladder Co., The Delaware Fire Co. and Weccacoe Hose Co. to form the Consolidated Fire Association to create the Consolidated Fire Association. The first parade was held See PARADE, Page 18
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