2019-01-12 - The Brick Times

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Vol. 18 - No. 36

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–Photos by Judy Smestad-Nunn Seeds Of Service Executive Director Christie Winters, left, and Moira Edge, who runs the Bay store are in a room that will temporarily house volunteers who come to help with their mission.

By Judy Smestad-Nunn BRICK – Seeds of Service is the new name for the former Visitation Relief Center on Mantoloking Road, but it has the same core group of 12 staff members and volunteers who came together in the aftermath of Superstor m Sandy who are now offering expanded services. Executive Director Christie Winters said that the Visitation Relief Center was a ministry of the Visitation Parish, but they separated from the church because “We got too big. We have a new name and a new mission.” The mission statement for SOS is to assist and advocate for the sick, poor and needy while collaborating with other community partners. The rebuilt center ( Seeds - See Page 8)

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| January 12, 2019

Filippone Retires After 4 Decades In Brick

By Judy Smestad-Nunn BRICK – On Jan. 31, Dennis M. Filippone, 62, will turn off the lights and walk out of his office, marking the end of a 41-year career in the Brick School District. Not only has his entire professional career taken place in the district, but he also attended Midstreams Elementary School, Lake Riviera Middle School and Brick High School as a student after his family - which includes an identical twin brother, Steven - moved to Brick from North Bergen when they were four years old. After Filippone’s 89-year-old mother recently broke her arm in a fall at her Princeton Commons home, Filippone and his wife of 36 years, Christine, invited her to convalesce in their Little Egg Harbor home, and then she broke her hip in a second fall. “That sealed the deal for me to retire,” he said in a recent interview from his office at the Professional Development Center, where he is the director of planning, research and evaluation for the school district. “She had to live with us, so that made the (Filippone - See Page 2)

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Inside The Law Page 15.

Business Directory Page 18.

Classifieds Page 19.

Wolfgang Puck Page 23.

Freeholders Reconvene For 2019, Remember Freeholder Bartlett

By Jennifer Peacock TOMS RIVER – If you weren’t there before 3 p.m., you weren’t getting a seat. The meeting room in the Ocean County administration building was beyond packed for the county freeholder’s reorganization Jan. 2, and recognized by most as a bittersweet time. While the guests—which included senior Congressman Chris Smith and former Lt. Gov. Kim Guadagno, among others—celebrated the reelection of Gerry P. Little, welcomed newcomer Gary Quinn, and erupted in applause as Virginia Haines was named first woman freeholder director in 40 years, a somberness settled

–Photos by Jennifer Peacock (Left) Gary Quinn at the dais. (Right) Virginia Haines after being named freeholder director. in when remembering that for the first time in four decades, the longest serving freeholder in the state’s history,

John C. Bartlett Jr., was not there. After battling cancer, Bartlett died (Freeholders - See Page 4)

Congressman MacArthur: My Legacy Will Be Serving The People By Chris Lundy TOMS RIVER – At a town hall at the Waretown Fire House in early 2017, Congressman Tom MacArthur opened it up with “I am not Donald Trump. I am not Paul Ryan. You might have guessed I am not Hillary Clinton.” What followed was a long night speaking with residents who had very emotional concerns about health care, education, and the fitness of the president. (MacArthur - See Page 8)

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