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–Photo by Judy Smestad-Nunn The Karen Minutella Reading Initiative Committee at the Brick Elks include (front row, from left): Jackie Holt (co-chair), Ken Healey, (back row, from left) Lisa Halligan (chair), and Denise O’Keefe. By Judy Smestad-Nunn BRICK – It’s been over four years since Karen Minutella, 47, died in a motorcycle a c c id e n t . Sh e w a s driving in a line of 13 motorcyclists in Connecticut when a 16year old, distracted by
her radio, crossed the highway’s center line. Minutella was the mot he r of t h re e, a grandmother, and fiancée to Ken Healey, who, to honor her memory, has spearheaded the Karen Minutella Reading Initiative Pro-
gram, coordinated by the Brick Elks #2151, and the Bayonne Elks #434 where she was an officer. “Karen loved reading to children, and the last thing she did as an Elk member was read to third grade students at
a school in Connecticut,” Healey said on Sat u rday af ter noon September 21 when the annual fundraiser was held at the Brick Elks. Healey was driving his motorcycle behind Minutella’s and spent (Reading - See Page 4)
The Nursing Lab Will See You Now
By Bob Vosseller TOMS RIVER – It was a gathering of celebration and thanks at the Toms River Center of the Ocean County Vocational Technical School where a ribbon cutting ceremony was held on Sept. 12 for the center’s new nursing lab. The event proved an opportunity to thank the Hirair and Anna Hovnanian Foundation for its generosity. Education-Consultant and former OCVTS Asst. Superintendent Nancy Weber-Loeffert said the Foundation donated more than $1 million for the state-of-the-art facility at the center located on Old Freehold Road. Cassandra Grom, a senior at OCVTS in the sec-
ond-year clinical program was among the nurses present for the event and who will benefit from the enhancements. “For a while I had been lost as to what I wanted to do. I had moved from North Jersey to Manchester and became interested in medicine and this program. I think what they have done is great,” she said. Haley Ingenico, Brick, is also a senior in her second year in the program. “I knew this is what I wanted to do but it is hard to go into the medical field and to go to college; you start off straight into debt. Now everyone can see this new medical building and they can see another option. (Nursing Lab - See Page 6)
| September 28, 2019
Still No Answers To School Budget Crisis
By Judy Smestad-Nunn BRICK – Could Brick schools benefit from a payroll tax to recoup some of the millions of dollars that are being cut in state aid? NJ Senate bill S-2, first proposed by Senate President Stephen Sweeney in 2017 and then signed into law by Governor Phil Murphy in 2018, cuts “adjustment aid” to school districts that the state has deemed to be overfunded, including Brick Township schools. During the Sept. 12 Board of Education meeting, Herbertsville Elementary School parent Cindy Cory asked the payroll tax question since there have been rumors that her children’s school - or another township school - might be closing since increasing amounts of state aid are being cut each year from the district. She asked if the administration is familiar with Jersey City’s one-percent payroll tax that goes directly towards funding their school district, and asked if Brick could do the same thing. “If that would be something Brick could possibly do, with all the businesses in Brick benefitting from all of us shopping here, it seems like it could be a profitable thing to put a half a percent payroll tax,” Cory said. She asked if the administration has come up with any ways to “fix the revenue problem” since the August meeting aside from “begging (Crisis - See Page 6)
Is It Possible To Beat The Odds? September Is Ovarian Cancer Awareness Month By Kimberly Bosco The NJ Lottery estimates that you have a one in about 300 million chance of claiming that Mega Millions jackpot. National Geographic estimates that you have a one in 700,000 chance (Awareness - See Page 5)
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