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Central Honors Student Heroes
Fundraiser Started For Fallen Officer’s Family By Chris Lundy BERKELEY - A GoFundMe campaign has been started to help the family of a Berkeley Township Police officer who died suddenly on Nov. 3. Sgt. Alison Wray suffered a stroke while on duty, according to family members who set up the donation page at gofundme.com/alisonwray. In two days, it had already reached almost 20 percent of its $50,000 goal.
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| November 11, 2017
New Head Coach For OCC Women’s Basketball
–Photos courtesy Trisha DeVoe (Above) Master Sgt. Sherlock Grant presents Certificates of Heroism to Charles Tice, left, and Nikolas DeVoe. (Right) Luciana Oliveri thanked Nikolas after he rescued her from drowning on Sept. 25. By Chris Lundy BERKELEY – Central Regional students Charles Tice and Nikolas DeVoe were honored at a recent Board of Education meeting for their selfless bravery. Both of them are cadets in the Junior ROTC program. Master Sgt. Sherlock Grant, who supervises the cadets, presented these Certificates of Heroism to the boys.
“These medals of heroism are not easily won,” he said, explaining how the request for them go through several stations, making its way up to the Pentagon. “Every individual cadet would have done the
same thing if they were in their place,” he said. Cha rles Tice explained how he happened upon a fight in the high school. “A nother st udent brought two steel balls in a sock in order to
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hurt another student,” he said. Faculty intervened, but when she started sw i ng i ng t he so ck around, they backed up for their own safety. “I turned a corner and saw her as she was (Heroes - See Page 7)
By Chris Christopher TOMS RIVER – At an age where most former coaches are content to watch highlights of their teams, Tom Westen continues to coach. “I live basketball,” said Westen, 64, the firstyear head coach of the Ocean County College women’s team. “I like teaching it. I love coaching it. I am still young enough. Rollie Massimino was 71 and still coaching. Jim Calhoun is still coaching. The old guys like Calhoun are still doing it. It was kind of a no-brainer when they (school officials) offered it to me.” Turns out school officials did not have to look far to find a new coach. Westen spent 2015-2017 serving as an OCC assistant coach under former Brick Memorial High School and Montclair State University player Kathryn Lamastra, now the second assistant (Coach - See Page 4)
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