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By Bob Vosseller BRICK – There will be no Ocean County Colu mbu s Day Parade or Italian Heritage Festival this year but that doesn’t mean honoring Italian heritage and culture won’t happen. Township resident
Mario and Christine Poliviou, Toms River, hold a sign during the rally. By Chris Lundy at all, and some drivers joined by a bridge to SOUTH TOMS RIV- that shouted four-letter Huddy Park on the othER - A rally for Joe words instead, but the er side of the Toms Biden urged people to members of the rally River. Eventually, that honk if they are “ri- were pleased by the number tripled but it din’ with Biden,” and support for the Dem- was in stark contrast there were a surpris- ocrat. to the hundreds of peoing amount of drivers T he rally st ar ted ple who flooded Point honking for a largely with just a half dozen Pleasant Beach for a Republican area. people holding signs Trump rally or the boat Sure, there were plenty along Route 9 in Mathis parades that have been of cars that didn’t honk Plaza, the small park all over the news. This
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No Parade But Italian Heritage Will Be Celebrated M ich a el Bl a n d i n a , who has chaired the O ce a n Cou nt y Co lumbus Day Parade Committee since its i nce pt ion 29 ye a r s ago, recently announced plans for a different kind of observance to be held on October 10.
The Ocean County Columbus Day Parade Committee noted that this year’s events to celebrate the national holiday of Columbus Day wou ld i nvolve a procession around several areas around the county. “We have decided
along with other Italian American Organizations to have a procession, which will be followed by a ceremony on the Franklin Avenue Stage located on the Seaside Heights Boardwalk. All who would like to join us for the cere-
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was not the fi rst time there had been a rally here and more are planned for future Saturday mornings. Debbie DiDonato, South Toms River, organized the rally, as she had organized previous ones. She has a fivemonth-old that serves (Biden - See Page 4)
mony should arrive on the boardwalk by 11 a.m.,” Blandina said. “The Metropolitan Fe st iva l Ba nd w i l l perform prior to the ceremony, which will begin at noon. T he ceremony with feat ure the K nights of (Parade - See Page 9)
By Bob Vosseller BRICK - It was a bit of a bittersweet victory for the Brick Little League All-Stars but they got to play ball and win the state tournament. However, in this year of the COVID-19 pandemic, they could not move on to compete in the Little League World series. It wasn’t just the players who came to grips with what might have been but the families as well. Team Manager George Cavanaugh was a member of the Brick National Little League team 30 years ago. It was Brick’s first state championship. His son is among a roster of 15, 12-year-olds who made up this year’s New Jersey State Little League championship team. The Brick All-Stars beat Englewood Cliffs 8-3 to win the 2020 state championship in what has been a very unique season for all Little League players. This past week however would have been the time the state champs would have been heading off to Bristol, Connecticut, for the Mid-Atlantic tournament as Cavanaugh had done three decades prior when it was called the East Region tournament for what he said was “one of the best times of my life.” “I wanted nothing more than to see them win the state championship. I wanted it so bad for them because now being 42 years old and looking back, you really do take your childhood for granted,” Cavanaugh said. “We’ve become such a tight group. They have played together since they were eight years old,” Cavanaugh added. He said the team won the 8-year-old tournament. “We won districts as tens and then we got knocked out in the section semi-finals. We came back in the following year as elevens. In 2019 we won districts again and won sections and went to states and lost in the state finals and this year we won everything. “These kids were working out four to five nights a week until the pandemic began. It was St. Patty’s Day weekend. We were all together at a party and all joking around not really thinking that it was going to get as bad (State - See Page 4)
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