Vol. 6 - No. 42
In This Week’s Edition
THE SOUTHERN OCEAN
TIMES
FOR BREAKING NEWS
jerseyshoreonline.com
Your FREE Weekly Hometown Newspaper For Lacey, Waretown, Barnegat, Manahawkin, LBI, Tuckerton and Little Egg
Community News! Don’t miss what’s happening in your town.
Barnegat Local Expands Thanking Vietnam Veterans Movement
Pages 8-11.
Dr. Izzy’s Sound News
9 Tips To Help Detect Hearing Loss
Page 14.
Dear Pharmacist
Calendula Soothes Reflux And Skin Problems
Page 15.
Dear Joel Page 16.
Inside The Law Page 17.
Business Directory Page 19.
Classifieds Page 18.
Wolfgang Puck Page 23.
Horoscope Page 23.
–Photos by Kimberly Bosco The annual Barnegat Vietnam Veterans Memorial Ceremony was established by Vietnam refugee and Barnegat resident Thy Cavagnaro, and her husband Jimmy Cavagnaro. By Kimberly Bosco BARNEGAT – Thy Cavagnaro wanted this year’s National Vietnam Veterans Day to be about more than just remembering the past, but also about sharing that history with today’s youth. The 2nd annual Barnegat Vietnam Veterans Memorial Ceremony was held at Gazebo Park on March 29, 2019. This was the second year of the township event, established by Barnegat locals Thy and Jimmy Cavagnaro in 2018. Although the turnout was a bit smaller this year, the emotional presence was perhaps even larger. Thy is a Vietnam refugee that arrived in the U.S. with her family in 1975 on a South Vietnamese naval minesweeper. The Vietnam Veterans Memorial, both the event and the monument placed in Gazebo Park, are Thy’s way of per pet ually thanking those veter-
ans whose heroic actions gave her family freedom and opportunity here in America. “You helped keep the communists away from our home in Vietnam, and you made sure we had a safe passage to your own country after we lost ours,” said Thy, addressing the veterans in attendance with tearful thanks. Although Thy was only a year and a half at the time her family was rescued from Vietnam, she gets emotional at the memory of what her family endured. “I have to hold tears back when I talk about how my mom had to have her dad choose two people out of the 10 members of our family who would accompany us…it would assure the safety of those two, but was essentially a death sentence for the rest,” she explained. “I realize the terror, the anguish, and the despair they must have felt.” (Veterans - See Page 4)
| April 13, 2019
Barnegat Adopts $26M Budget
By Kimberly Bosco BARNEGAT – The Barnegat Township Committee adopted the 2019 municipal budget at a recent meeting. This year’s budget is up just under $800,000 from 2018, calculated at a total of $26,492,097.19. Of the total general fund, $22,371,250 of appropriations is within caps and $3,010,574.65 is excluded from caps. Municipalities are required to keep increases within a certain cap on a lot of line items. Barnegat Township chief financial officer Tom Lombarski noted that some of the increases seen in this budget have to do with items “outside the cap.” Statutory expenditures, such as pension funds for the Police and Firemen’s Retirement System, were the cause of some of the increase for this budget as well. This line item is mandated by the state and the township must adhere. The 2019 budget reflects a $131,000 increase in PFRS funds for a total of $1,624,000. Other increases to the budget have to do (Budget - See Page 4)
Lacey Receives $395K For Road Improvements
By Kimberly Bosco LACEY – Lacey Township recently received $395,000 in grants to improve local roadways. The NJ Department of Transportation Infrastructure and Municipal Aid grants will fund the roadway overlay work performed for Nautilus Boulevard from Shadybrook Drive to Capstan Drive, according to township officials. Mayor Timothy McDonald noted that the township is always happy to receive help, es-
Stay Connected www.facebook.com/jshoreonline
pecially when budgets are tight. “Our goal is to leverage grant dollars to help improve our infrastructure and cover the funding gap and focus on the urgent need for repaving,” said McDonald. The Municipal Aid Program is quite competitive, receiving a whopping 681 applications for funds this year. These 681 applications requested more than $377.9 million in assistance, however (Road - See Page 4)