The BRICK Times Vol. 21 - No. 46
In This Week’s Edition
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Service Dogs Gifted To Local Veterans In Need
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Community News Pages 8-10
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Inside The Law Page 13
Dr. Izzy’s Sound News Page 14
─Photos courtesy The CulleyStrong Foundation (Left) Pictured left to right is Eileen Culley, Stephen Culley and Don Redondo who was gifted a service dog. (Right) Annie Wilgosz received her own service dog thanks to donations. By Alyssa Riccardi BRICK – In memory of Brick resident Sean Culley, a nonprof it made in his name is going the distance to help others through e d u c a t io n , s u ic id e prevention and men-
tal health awareness. The CulleyStrong Foundation was created in 2019 in honor of Sean, who took his ow n life t hat sa me year. “ T h e fo u n d a t io n st a r t e d i n me mor y
of Sean Culley, who was 19 years old at the time and was a freshman and the University of Kentucky. He was my son’s best friend since they were about 4 years old,” said Jim Clabby, one
of the founders of the CulleyStrong Foundation. “Sean unfortunately died by suicide in Januar y of 2019. That’s how the CulleyStrong Foundation came to be. My wife, (Dogs - See Page 4)
BlueClaws Puts More “Jersey Shore” Into Stadium Experience
By Bob Vosseller LAKEWOOD – Spring is here and so is the return of minor league baseball and there is no better place for that in Ocean County than the Jersey Shore BlueClaws which recently unveiled some aesthetic enhancements that mesh with their Jersey Shore flavor. Joe Ricciutti, the pres-
Average Town Tax Bill Might Go Up $48 By Judy Smestad-Nunn BRICK - $500,000 in increased pension contributions. $1,580,00 for additional insurance costs. $529,000 more towards police salary and wages. $587,443 for bond principal payments. These are some of the additional costs included in next year’s municipal budget of $111,254,868 that will result in a slight tax increase of $48 a year on a median assessed Brick Township home valued at $251,800. The spending plan utilizes a tax levy of $80,547,357, with the local purpose tax rate of 76.6 cents per $100 of assessed value, or an increase of 1.9 cents. “Every year, we begin the budget with the same goal in mind,” said Mayor John G. Ducey during the March 22 Township Council Meeting, when he introduced the
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April 2, 2022
ident and general manager of the Jersey Shore BlueClaws, and the organization’s director of communications, Greg Giombarrese, recently hosted a media welcome to the new Blue Wave Bar and Grill, their revamped suites and some other eye-catching attractions designed to make watching a baseball game or
simply visiting the stadium for a conference, an even better experience. Ricciutti and Giombarrese said it was a matter of freshening things up and providing something new for attendees. “Along with the miniature golf course we opened a few years ago, we also opened the boardwalk game area
in center field which like we have elsewhere has balloon darts, hoop in the stadium,” Giomtoss, and goblet toss. We barrese said. also opened the sandbar He added, “we renamed which is down the left it as the Blue Wave Bar field line. Those came and redid the whole in 2018 and this year thing.” That motif is simwe renovated the bar ilar to the walls near the upstairs. That area used bar. Large renditions of to look fairly similar in area town beach badges the last 15 or 20 years adorn a wall near a water and we wanted to put a fountain and a number of Jersey Shore stamp on it (Blueclaws - See Page 20)
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Georgian Court Selling Land To Beth Medrash Govoha, Expanding Programs By Chris Lundy LAKEWOOD – In order to help pay for new buildings and programs, Georgian Court University is selling some property to a neighboring school, Beth Medrash Govoha. Georgian Court President Joseph R. Marbach announced an agreement to sell approximately 42 acres of “mostly unused land at the edge of our campus, and several administrative buildings along Lakewood Avenue, to our neighbors at Beth Medrash Govoha. As a Catholic university, we are called to be responsible for each other and care for the common good. (GCU - See Page 20)
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