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─Photo By Bob Vosseller Ann Strauss of Eatontown stands near the poster featuring her daughter Misti Autumn Strauss who was the victim of addiction and was represented among the 263 victims of addiction who were part of the Black Poster Project display held at Windward Beach Park recently. By Bob Vosseller literally, the face of Dee Gillen as a labor on display in various BRICK – Two hundred a d d ic t io n show i ng of love created after she local events. Someand sixty-three post- these individuals as experienced the loss times it is a full disers featuring photos of they truly were. Enjoy- of her son, Scott, to a play, and sometimes it people were on display ing hobbies, at family heroin/fentanyl over- is a smaller grouping recently at Windward gatherings or milestone dose at the age of 27. of photos. Each photo Beach Park. The people events. It was part of It began with a simple allows people to look in the pictures came the Black Poster Proj- post just prior to Over- at their faces and learn from all walks of life, ect designed to raise dose Awareness Day about them. They were and varied in ages, but awa re ne ss t h roug h in 2019. She encour- daughters, sons, parall shared one thing in lives lost to the disease aged other loved ones ents, musicians, athcommon. to share their pictures letes, performers and of addiction. more who just wanted The display was not The project was de- and it grew. (Poster - See Page 4) for art but to present, scribed by its founder The posters have been
Bulkhead, Road Improvements Planned
By Judy Smestad-Nunn BRICK - It won’t be long until residents of Parkway Pines will be driving on smoother and drier roads since the gover ning body awarded a $301,579 bid for roadway improvements there to Meco, Inc. of Clarksburg, NJ. The project consists of drainage improvements
and roadway rehabilitation to correct drainage and other issues. The scope of work includes Stephan Road f rom Burnt Tavern Road to Lanes Mill Road, and Mu le Avenue f rom Burnt Tavern Road to Stephan Road. Brick’s Division of Purchasing and Contracting received seven
bids for the project, which ranged f rom the winning bid up to $497,315. Parkway Pines is located in the northern section of town, two miles west of Herbertsville near the Howell border. The council also approved some bulkhead improvements and re-
placements in various locations throughout the town. The $418,800 bid was awarded to marine contractors R. K remer and Son of Brick. The project consists of bulkhead replacement, i nclud i ng removal / disposal of existing bulkhead, securing of corners, pipe penetra-
tion, backfill and restoration at bulkheads on Lawndale Drive, Brower Drive, South Drive, East Coral Drive, and Bayshore Drive. The town’s Division of P u r ch a si ng a nd Contracting received four bids ranging from the winning bid up to $1,137,117. (Road - See Page 24)
October 24, 2020
Brick Man Named National Chess Champ
By Judy Smestad-Nunn BRICK - Township chess prodigy, John Burke, 19, was named 2020 U.S. Junior Chess Champion, an elite national championship event hosted by the St. Louis Chess Club in Missouri, which is the chess capitol of the United States. Along with the prestigious title, Burke also won some $20,600 in prizes and a $6,000 scholarship to be used at the institution of his choice. The three-day tournament concluded on October 15 when Burke competed against nine other boys who represented the strongest male chess players in America under the age of 20. After nine nail-biting rounds, Burke won after a very close match against Jeffrey Xiong. For the first time in American chess history, the 2020 Chess Championships were held virtually because of the COVID-19 pandemic. Burke is currently a sophomore at Webster University in St. Louis and agreed to a Zoom interview the day before the tournament started. He said he found his passion at a young age after his grandmother introduced him to chess when he was only four or five years old. One day he was in the Brick Barnes and Noble with his father when he noticed a book - Chess for Dummies - and asked his father to buy it for him. “I started reading it and became really interested, so from that point on I just basically kept going with it,” he said. “Then one day when I was about eight years old my dad entered me in a tournament - he didn’t tell me he was going to, he just sort of did it - at Brookdale Community College.” Burke wasn’t familiar with tournaments and was very nervous. He lost two of the games, partly because he didn’t know the rules. “I don’t want to make excuses, but there is a rule in tournament chess which I was not aware of called ‘The Touch Move Rule’ which means if you touch a piece, you have to move it, even if it’s detrimental to you, so because of that I ended up losing the first game,” he said. He continued to participate in local tournaments and eventually his family hired a coach which helped him to improve. (Chess - See Page 25)
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