The BRICK Times
Vol. 20 - No. 11
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─Photo courtesy Brener Zwikel & Associates Ricky Bandejas, left, is a bantamweight MMA fighter from Brick.
Inside The Law
By Judy Smestad-Nunn BR IC K - Home town Mixed Martial Arts Champion Ricky Bandejas, 28, is on his way up. With a pro MMA record of 13-40 (Win-Loss-Draw), he made his second appearance of the 2020 campaign against newcomer Sergio Pettis in a bantamweight fight on
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Friday, July 24 at the Mohegan Sun Arena in Uncasville, Connecticut. The fight was televised live on Paramount TV, and it was Bandejas’ fi rst time as the main event. He has had eight victories in 10 fights over the last four years, with three of those being first round knock-
outs. Unfortunately, Pettis defeated him in a close match by unanimous decision (30-27, 30-27, 30-27). MMA, also known as cage fighting, is a “terrible sport,” joked Bandejas in a recent FaceTime call. “It’s k ick i ng, w restli ng, punching, the elbow,
you can choke the guy out,” he said. “Everything goes but scratching and biting.” Blood is spilled in nea rly ever y f ig ht, Bandejas said, resulting from injuries like cuts and broken noses. Bandejas said MMA fights are called “cage fighting” because they (MMA - See Page 8)
Report Examines Beaches Most Impacted By Pollution
By Bob Vosseller NEW JERSEY – Even in a summer featuring pandemic restrictions which have limited beach attendance at cer t ai n beaches, bacteria pollution at ocean and Barnegat Bay beaches remains
a health concern, local environmentalists said. Environment New Jersey Research & Policy Center released a report identifying local beaches that have exceeded the Environmental Protection Agency’s bacteria contamina-
tion threshold for safe swimming, using data from 2019. The solution to the bacteria problem is increased water infrastructure to prevent this pollution, they said. They were joined by Clean Ocean Action,
Save Barnegat Bay, the Surfrider Foundation and the Sierra Club. Last year, bacteria levels at New Jersey beaches indicated that water was potentially unsafe for swimming there on at least one day 73 times, according to
the new report “Safe for Swimming?” by Environment New Jersey Research & Policy Center. Environment New Jersey Research & Policy Center Director Doug O’Malley said, “one (Beach - See Page 9)
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Commissary Kitchen Approved On Drum Point Road
By Judy Smestad-Nunn BRICK - A plan for the construction of a 9,682-square-foot building for a commercial commissary kitchen at 346 Drum Point Road was unanimously approved by the Township Planning Board during a recent virtual meeting. The applicant, Fine Art Holdings, LLC, was represented by local attorney John Jackson, who explained that food would be prepared onsite but sent out to various offsite catering places throughout the state. Typically there would be five to 10 kitchen employees working onsite, he said. Part of the building application includes two residential apartments for the second floor, totaling 4,664 square feet, and a storage area for the commissary kitchen. Jackson read comments from a review letter written by Township Planner Tara Paxton, which Jackson said “captures what our application is about.” Paxton wrote, “The proposal fits in with the intent of the creation of the Village Zone. It is a mixed-use development that combines a commercial use with two residential accessory apartments.” Jackson said the type of use for the project is “relatively low intensity,” with minimal traffic and “fits well” on the corner of Drum Point Road and Emberly Road. The currently wooded, vacant lot measures 22,404 square feet, and the building footprint would measure 5,018 feet. During an overview of the project, the applicant’s engineer and planner Bill Stevens said the building was designed keeping the look and height of local homes in mind. “The intention is to keep the parking and the more intense parts of this use located along the Drum Point Road frontage, while trying to buffer the residential uses that are located further to the south and to the east of the property behind the project,” he said. The buffer includes a dense “four season” landscaping plan of evergreen and deciduous trees, Stevens said. The engineer explained that access to the (Kitchen - See Page 8)
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