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─Photo courtesy Rafael Adorno President Donald Trump spoke to supporters at the Wildwood Convention Center. By Bob Vosseller WILDWOOD – Scores of people, most of whom knew they would not be able to enter the Wildwood Convention Center, were there for President Donald J. Trump’s Make America Great Again Campaign rally. Some media sources estimated a crowd of around 175,000 came out to see Trump. The convention center’s website says it can hold as many as 10,000 in all of
its rooms. Among those in the crowd who got to hear his hour-long speech included former Republican Governor Chris Christie and Second District Congressman Jeff Van Drew whose district includes Wildwood. Trump came out to support Van Drew who opposed the president’s impeachment and who switched his party affiliation from Democrat to Republican shortly afterward.
“Now you have a president that will stand up for you and New Jersey,” the president said during his speech. Many of his familiar catch phrases and topics emerged during the speech which was punctuated at times when he took a pause, by chants of “four more years” from the audience. Finances was a big topic covered in his speech. “You’ve been losing your ass with 401Ks; now you are making a fortune. I
have people coming up to me all the time, I had one man say to me thank you sir for making me look so smart. My wife never had any respect for me and now she thinks I’m a great investor.” Trump told his supporters that “if you want your children to enjoy the blessings that generations have fought and died for to secure then we must devote everything we have to victory in 2020.” (Trump - See Page 4)
Help Needed To Complete Dune Project
By Bob Vosseller SEASIDE PARK - Borough officials are looking for support from the public, especially borough residents and property owners, to assist with a major dune grass replenishment project. During the borough’s re-organization meeting, newly sworn-in Mayor John Peterson introduced
a resolution that would provide needed work to complete the Army Corps of Engineers dune grass project. The resolution calls for planting native vegetation on the west side of the newly augmented dune to provide stability to the dune in the future. This resolution was required because
the Army Corps of Engineers project is at risk of deteriorating over the next several years on the west side of the beach. Peterson first served as mayor in the 1980s when the first dune grass plantings began on the beach level near to the east of the boardwalk. That effort, over three decades ago, resulted in
a 22-foot-high dune along the entire ocean shoreline of Seaside Park and protected the ocean side of the Borough during Superstorm Sandy from moving water damage. Those dunes were the result of the planted beach grass being covered with blowing sand. The grass had to grow higher to survive as the sand cov-
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ered and each subsequent year the dunes got higher and the grass roots formed a matrix under the sand to hold it in place, officials said. The reason for this is that the American beach grass planted on the dune needs to be continually covered with blowing sand in order to remain (Dune - See Page 10)
By Patricia A. Miller TRENTON – The former longtime head of the Ocean County Republican Party was sentenced to a year and a day in federal prison for fi nancial crimes he committed over the past few years. A pallid-looking George R. Gilmore apologized for his financial misdeeds. Some of his family and friends sobbed during and after the court proceedings. Gilmore was not jailed on the morning of his sentencing hearing on Jan. 22. U.S. District Court Judge Anne E. Thompson gave him and Kevin H. Marino - his Chatham-based attorney - several weeks to file arguments on why an appeal should be granted. He will serve his sentence at Fort Dix Federal Correctional Institution. Gilmore will also have to serve three years of probation once his sentence runs out. Thompson also ordered that the one-time party head will have to receive mental health treatment. His attorney had declared this was part of a hoarding disorder. An expert on this was brought forward to testify, but the federal (Sentence - See Page 11)
County Challenges State On Senior Funding Loss
By Chris Lundy TOMS RIVER – If there’s one theme that can be seen lately, it’s that local officials have been questioning the state about cuts in funds. In addition to the Toms River and Brick school districts losing tens of millions of dollars in aid over the course of several years, the county lost state funding for senior programs. Freeholder Joseph H. Vicari, who is Chairman of the Office of Senior Services, sent a personal letter to Gov. Phil Murphy urging him to restore “devastating” cuts to (Funding - See Page 9)
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