The MANCHESTER Times Vol. 26 - No. 20
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Inside The Law Page 21
−Photos courtesy Craig Farmer Newly planted shrubs are seen at the First Aid Squad Building in Lakehurst, a project of Troop 10 Boy Scout Craig Farmer. (Inset) Lakehurst Mayor Harry Robbins shake hand with new Eagle Scout Craig Farmer who completed his Eagle Scout project of landscaping the Lakehurst First Aid Squad building on July 25 with the help of volunteers and those who donated materials for the project. By Bob Vosseller L A K E H U R ST – Craig Farmer will be heading out to college but his experiences as a member of Boy Scout Troop 10 will go with
him - including his recently completed Eagle Scout project. The project involved landscaping and beautifying the Emergency Services building in
the community, Scout Master Jay Laird said. “It was at the new First Aid Squad building. My son (Jay Laird III) had done the fi re department side of it
three years ago for his Eagle Scout project and Craig’s project focused on the First Aid Squad part of it,” he said. “He made the firehouse (Scout - See Page 4)
Remembering The Shark Attacks Of 1916 By Patricia A. Miller BEACH HAVEN − It was a very hot and humid day on July 1, 1916 in Beach Haven, much like it probably was up and down the entire Jersey shore. It was so uncomfortable that Philadelphian
Charles Epting VanSant, 25, a graduate of the 1914 class of the University of Pennsylvania, couldn’t wait to get into the ocean water. He was traveling with his physician father and two sisters on a train to escape the city heat. Charles headed for the Beach Haven bathing
beach as soon as they arrived and began playing with a dog. But the dog didn’t want to go out too far, so Charles ended up by himself. Shortly after, residents and visitor heard what they thought was Charles still playing with the dog. But he wasn’t play-
ing. He was being bitten by what appeared to be a shark. He began shrieking close to shore. By time he was moved to the beach, he was nearly unconscious, according to Richard D. Fernicola’s book “Twelve Days of Terror,” a frightening account of five shark at-
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tacks in July 1916 along the Jersey Shore that left four men dead and one teenager injured. VanSant was one of the ones who died. He lost portions of both his legs and bled to death at the Engleside Hotel in Beach Haven. His death was the fi rst of (Shark - See Page 7)
By Bob Vosseller MANCHESTER – Mayor Ken Palmer said this year’s municipal budget plans for the future. “The big things to focus on this budget are that it did go up by $1.1 million from last year. There were three primary drivers for the budget going up,” he said. He outlined those three drivers explaining, “number one our EMS (Emergency Medical Service) is now online so that is a $1,050,000 increase by way of salary and operating expenses. You will see a new line item in the budget and it is entitled ‘reserve for retiree allowance’ and that is in the amount of $250,000.” “As we’ve talked about in our negotiations with our PBA, not this year, not next year but in the next three to six years a lot of our PBA and SOA, which are the rank and file police officers as well as our sergeants up, a large chunk of those employees will be retired. Along with them they get 183 days worth of pay in what it is called terminal pay.” Palmer said the terminal pay was something negotiated into their contracts years ago and is basically unused sick time that they accumulated. “It is going to cost the township a significant amount of dollars when they retire.” The mayor said the plan was for the township to start saving up for that situation now. “This year we are putting $250,000 aside and each of the coming years we hope to do the same if not more. When we are talking about the amount of money we are paying out if - I’m not mistaken - it is three to four million dollars worth of time that will be paid out. So, we have to start putting money aside to make those payments. Mayor Palmer said another driver in increasing the budget was a land sale that occurred last year for a county park. “We received $1.4 million and we don’t have that next year so that is a hit to our general operating revenue that we can’t count on.” The third driver was “another big and important item that has gone down is our capital fund which typically we had $500,000 in that line item. Last year it went down to $150,000 because we had some unspent reserve money for that but this year, we dropped it down $75,000,” the mayor added. (Budget - See Page 7)
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