Vol. 24 - No. 10
In This Week’s Edition
THE MANCHESTER
TIMES
FOR BREAKING NEWS
JERSEYSHOREONLINE.COM
| June 23, 2018
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Community News!
50-Year-Old Wedding Cake Symbolizes Lasting Marriage
Pages 12-17.
Letters
Manchester Student Wins Toms River Artist Contest
Page 10.
Government Page 9.
Dr. Izzy’s Sound News
5 Signs It’s Time To Upgrade Your Technology
Page 20.
Dear Pharmacist Page 21. –Photo courtesy Sanford Josephson Hailey Post’s winning piece was a mixed media portrait of the famous Jimi Hendrix.
Inside The Law Page 25.
Business Directory Page 28-29.
Classifieds Page 27.
Fun Page Page 26.
Wolfgang Puck Page 35.
Horoscope Page 35.
–Photos by Jennifer Peacock (Above) Diana and Marty Van Boerum hold their wedding portrait in their Manchester home. (Right) The 50-year-old top tier piece of the original 1968 wedding cake, which has moved 13 times in 50 years. By Jennifer Peacock MANCHESTER – Their love story started at a north Jersey church youth group more than 50 years ago. They’ll celebrate their 50th wedding anniversary June 22, with a party with friends and family in their Manchester home the next day. Something they’ve kept from their wedding day will make one final appearance at their party, before getting tossed in the trash: The top tier of their wedding cake. Marty and Diana Von Boerum don’t remember the flavor. And no, no one will be trying a piece that predates the moon landing. “I don’t like cake so I didn’t really eat it, so I don’t know what was in it,” Diana said.
By Kimberly Bosco TOMS RIVER – Manchester Township High School student Hailey Post was the first place
winner at the Toms River Artist Community’s (TRAC) reception for Manchester’s art (Artist - See Page 11)
How To Recognize Subtle Signs Of Domestic Abuse But the cake has moved around almost as much as the Van Boerum family (it made a trip in dry ice to Kentucky), and it’s come to symbolize, for Diana, marriage itself. “Over the years the cake got moldy and pieces of icing had chunked off on the top, and it’s (Marriage - See Page 4)
By Judy Smestad-Nunn BRICK – Every minute some 20 people are physically abused by an intimate partner in this country, and one in three women and one in four men have been victims of some form of physical violence in their lifetime, according to the National Coalition Against Domestic Violence (NCADV). Intimate partner violence accounts for 15 percent of all violent crime, and women between the ages (Abuse - See Page 11)
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