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Southampton Looks for DPW Manager; Temporary CO Issued for Dept. HQ

By Douglas D. Melegari

Staff Writer

Photos By Bob Ritter

Before and after photographs of the Vincentown Friends Cemetery show the work done to reset the gravestones.

PRESERVING HISTORY Southampton Organizations and Government, Along with Businesses and Rutgers University, Come Together to Restore Historic Cemetery

By Douglas D. Melegari Staff Writer

SOUTHAMPTON—The Southampton Township Historical Society; with the assistance of Southampton Township, Rutgers University, Vincentown Garden Club and local businesses; has made significant strides restoring Vincentown Friends Cemetery, a historical township burial ground located in the “designated state and federal historic Village of Vincentown.”

“A lot of areas in the historic town are made to make it comfortable for people to come and see, or enjoy, the history

there,” said Historical Society President Bob Ritter to the Southampton Township Committee during its Jan. 15 meeting.

“This cemetery is one of those little gems that is in the historic town.”

The Historical Society is hoping to be able to complete the restoration project soon. Construction of a black iron fence being placed around the cemetery is the final part of the project.

According to Ritter, restoration of the cemetery, first established in 1812, was undertaken by the organization’s Cemetery Committee in January 2015 at the behest of late Township Committeeman Joseph

Laufer.

“It was back, a little before 2015, that former Committeeman Joseph Laufer encouraged the Historical Society to get involved and try to bring this cemetery up to par,” Ritter said.

In March 2015, Rutgers University g r a d u at e st ude nt s p e r for me d a Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR) and Electromagnetic Induction (ERT) study of the cemetery’s grounds to locate as many gravesites as possible in preparation of the restoration work. Deterioration of unkept gravestones over the years would See HISTORY Page 11

SOUTHAMPTON—The Township of Southampton is searching for a full-time manager of its Public Works Department.

Township Administrator and Clerk Kathleen D. Hoffman, in a Jan. 18 interview with the Pine Barrens Tribune, confirmed that Charles “Chuck” Oatman, the department’s veteran manager, retired from Southampton Township in December.

“He has had 27 years in the system, but not all of them were spent in Southampton” she said. “He probably spent 20 of those years in Southampton.”

Hoffman added that she did not want to comment further on Oatman’s retirement from the post. Oatman could not be reached for comment on this story.

Sources have told the Pine Barrens Tribune that the two officials disagreed with each other on multiple fronts for at least the past year.

The Southampton Township Committee did not discuss the vacancy at its Jan. 2 and 15 meetings.

“They do not talk about personnel,” said Hoffman of the reason why the committee has not mentioned the vacancy.

No appointments have yet been made to fill Oatman’s position.

“There is a help wanted ad on the New Jersey League of Municipalities website,” Hoffman said. “It is myself (managing the department) because nobody else wants to do it.”

The employment ad on the league’s website says that Southampton is seeking a “customer oriented” person to supervise 10 employees who collect garbage; maintain and repair streets and roads; perform storm and snow removal; maintain buildings, parks, and equipment; and conduct fleet management.”

According to the job posting, the township says it prefers that applicants have a New Jersey State Public Works Manager certification or a willingness to obtain one within 18 months of hire.

“Hopefully, they can find someone certified for the position,” Hoffman said. “If not, the township will send them to school.”

Hoffman said she “absolutely” intends to find a replacement for Oatman.

Southampton, according to the employment ad, is 44 square miles with an approximate See MANAGER Page 19

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SH A MONG —A fo otba l l t e a m t h at bounced back from initial defeats to clinch a championship 2018 season was honored at a Jan. 16 Lenape Regional High School District (LRHSD) Board of Education meeting.

The Renegades of Shawnee High School, part of the LRHSD, were recognized for winning their second consecutive South Jersey Group IV title, and eighth title in the school’s history, despite starting the season with a 2-6 record.

The team rebounded to win four straight games before falling to Long Branch, 20-17, in the inaugural New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association South/Central Group IV Bowl Game, to finish the season with a 6-7 record.

“This year, Shawnee was dealt a very difficult schedule, probably one of the toughest in South Jersey,” said Shawnee Athletic Director Rich Dodd.

The Renegades were able to get into the playoffs as a number-four seed and defeated Mainland, Millville and Clearview to earn the SJ Group IV Championship.

“As a coaching staff, we always preach, ‘It’s not how you start, but how you finish,’” said 36-year Shawnee Head Football Coach Tim

Gushue. “We tell them just focus on today.

What is really remarkable is that this team really did follow through on that.

“We had a very rough October. We were in every game but one, but we kept falling short.

But the leadership here was one of the best examples of leadership that I’ve seen in my career. They kept everyone together, embracing every young man on the team.”

To other observers of the team, the players’ attitude off the field was just as important as their performance on it.

“This group of seniors in particular has been instilled with a concept of leadership by Coach (Tim) Gushue, but its record is just a small part of where my pride comes from,” said Shawnee Principal Matthew Campbell. “It is also from watching these students in the hallways and community every day.”

After members of the football team exited the room, but before Gushue had left, board member David Stow (Medford) praised the team.

“Besides being at a few games watching these guys play, I also had the opportunity to see them in the public after team meetings, at the Lions Club helping with the packing of food for charitable distribution and loading up cars the next day,” he said. “What impressed me was when I saw the guys in their local favorite

bagel shop in Medford. Their conduct outside the control of the coaches was just as classy and professional as when they were on the field.”

A l so r e c og n i z e d for t hei r at h let ic accomplishments were Kristina Foster, who led the Seneca High School Field Hockey team to its second straight NJSIAA Group II championship game as a rookie coach and was named Burlington County Coach of the Year, and Seneca Boys’ Soccer Coach Sam Maira, whose team captured its first-ever sectional title in South Jersey Group III and was named Burlington Coach of the Year, South Jersey Coach of the Year and New Jersey State Coach of the Year.

In her report, Superintendent Dr. Carol Birnbohm also recognized Johnathan Moraglia, of The Drone Life, and Eric Schubert, of ES Genealogy, who were each presented with 2018 Southern New Jersey Millennials 30 Trendsetter awards in November. The award is given to individuals who start their own businesses under the age of 30.

In other business, the board approved the resignations of Cherokee High School staffers Michael Nash, a part-time paraprofessional and Kevin Kley, a special education instructor. It also approved the hiring of two new language See COMEBACK/ Page 10

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Pemberton Razes Vacant Supermarket

By Douglas D. Melegari Staff Writer

BROWNS MILLS—A notorious eyesore in the Browns Mills section of Pemberton Township, commonly referred to by locals as the “old Acme,” is no more.

Pemberton Township employees, during the months of November and December, demolished what was a vacant, heavily boardedup and deteriorating supermarket structure that had served as the main anchor store to the Browns Mills Shopping Center for decades.

“It was done primarily in-house through the Pemberton Township Department of Public Works,” said Mayor David Patriarca in a Jan. 4 interview with this newspaper, noting that the municipality is still quantifying the manhours spent on the demolition. “We contracted with Red Lion Metals, of Southampton, to do the removal of what was left of the building’s metal or steel framework.”

The supermarket structure was last occupied

by Acme Markets (hence the “old Acme” reference) before the grocery chain relocated its Browns Mills store to the Pine Grove Shopping Plaza, located less than two minutes down the street.

“I think it was a pretty good accomplishment that we were able to get the ‘old Acme,’ or now the ‘missing Acme,’ demolished prior to the end of 2018,” said Councilman Jason Allen to loud cheers and applause at a Jan. 2 Pemberton Township Council meeting.

The demolition of the supermarket structure completed the first step of a township plan to See SUPERMARKET/ Page 10

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Gadd Replaces Veteran Official on Washington Township Committee

By Douglas D. Melegari Staff Writer

WASHINGTON—C. Leigh Gadd Jr. has become Washington Township’s newest committeeman.

Gadd was sworn in by Township Solicitor Tom Coleman during the municipality’s New Year’s Day reorganization meeting at 10 a.m., as documented in photographs shot by a staff photographer of the Pine Barrens Tribune.

Gadd ran unopposed in last year’s November General Election and replaces longtime Committeeman Barry Cavileer, who decided to retire from his position in December.

After Gadd was sworn in to the committee, the gover ning body selected longtime committeeman Dudley Lewis to serve once again as mayor of Washington Township, according to Township Clerk Kathleen D. Hoffman during a Jan. 18 interview. Lewis’ appointment was also confirmed through meeting notes taken by the recording secretary, which were provided to this newspaper in lieu of meeting audio.

Hoffman told the Pine Barrens Tribune on Jan. 2, in response to Open Public Records Act (OPRA) for the meeting audio, that the township’s meeting recorder failed both during the committee’s Jan. 1 reorganization meeting, Jan. 1 regular meeting and a special meeting held just days earlier on Dec. 27.

In light of previous recorder problems early in 2018, Hoffman had established a new procedure where a backup recorder is to be utilized at all meetings. However, Hoffman told this newspaper on Jan. 2 that the person designated to record the meetings forgot to bring the backup recorder with them.

Hoffman, on Jan. 18, provided more details

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Paul Seybold (left), chosen as Deputy Mayor, is congratulated by newly-installed Committeeman C. Leigh Gadd Jr. on New Year’s Day. to this newspaper about what led up to the primary recorder’s failure.

“Somebody turned off the mixer,” she said.

“There were also Girl Scouts doing things in the room leading up to the meeting, and several power outages and surges.”

Attempts to reach Lewis and Gadd for reaction to being sworn in, in light of the nonexistent meeting audio, were unsuccessful.

After Lewis took his oath of office, Paul Seybold, appointed to the committee in July of last year following the resignation of Daniel James, was chosen by the committee as deputy mayor of Washington Township, according to the meeting notes.

All of the professional appointments for the year were verified through the meeting notes.

Coleman was reappointed as township

solicitor for the year following the swearing in ceremony. Kevin Dixon was reappointed as the township’s engineer.

Rodeny Haines, of Holman Frenia Allison PC, will remain the municipality’s auditor.

Kevin Quinlan, Esquire, was appointed as the municipal prosecutor, while Brian Rumpf, Esquire, was designated as the township’s public defender.

One other key appointment was that of George Gabaravage as the municipality’s certified animal control officer.

January’s regular meeting of the Washington Township kicked off at 10:29 a.m., according to the meeting notes.

Two ordinances were identified as being See REPLACES/ Page 10

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Ashley Haines, of Marlton, was chosen as the winner of the Week #2 Christmas Coloring Contest, sponsored by Medford United Methodist Church. She was awarded a $100 Target gift card for her winning entry on Jan. 3, 2019. The church is nearly two centuries old, having been founded in 1821. It has been in its current building since 1973, with a pre-school

education wing having been added in 1982, and a "Family Life Center" added in 2017 prompted by the needs of the community under Senior Pastor Rev. Joe Monahan and Witness Chairman Bob Harriett. For more information, contact Medfordumc.org, or Advertising Director Jeff Higgins, or Lisa at 609-654-8111.

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Lack of Quorum Forces Woodland Mayor to Call Off Committee Meeting

By Douglas D. Melegari Staff Writer

WOODLAN D —A reg ular Woodland Township Committee meeting scheduled for 7 p.m. on Jan. 23 was abruptly canceled at 7:03 p.m. that day and replaced with a brief “Question and Answer Session with Mayor William DeGroff” after a quorum of committee members failed to appear at the Woodland Township Municipal Building, and one was accused of failing to give advance notice to the township clerk of his absence.

The accusation was later refuted.

According to Township Clerk Maryalice Brown, Committeeman Mark Herndon notified her around 9 a.m. on Jan. 23 that he was going to be absent from the Wednesday night meeting due to a family emergency.

Brown said she proceeded with holding the regular meeting of the township committee because she was not notified by any other member of the three-person governing body that they would be unable to attend.

Under the Open Public Meetings Act, also known as the Sunshine Law, a quorum of committee members must be present in order for a government meeting to take place. DeGroff was the only person to appear at town hall. While voting members can phone into a meeting to satisfy the attendance requirement, Herndon was said to be unable to phone into the meeting due to the need to be with his family at the time.

“Mr. Herndon had a family emergency,” DeGroff told members of the public who had gathered in the committee’s meeting chambers for the regular meeting as he canceled it. “We do not know where Committeeman Matthew Henrich is.”

Members of the public, however, asked DeGroff if they could still speak out about topics. Township Solicitor William Burns advised DeGroff that he could legally hold a question-and-answer session as the mayor, as long as no action was taken. DeGroff agreed to hold the session.

Resident Jane Donohue thanked officials for

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Mayor William DeGroff (center) and Township Clerk Maryalice Brown explain to those in committee chambers on Jan. 23 that the regular meeting of the Woodland Township Committee for that day was canceled due to a lack of quorum. repairing a pipe that broke on Old Tuckerton Road and extended praise to officials for going the extra mile to make the repairs, which Brown elaborated on after the session ended.

“On Old Tuckerton Road, a culvert pipe gave out,” Brown said. “Mr. Herndon and Mayor DeGroff spent their day with the Department of Public Works fixing it. Our engineer gave his advice for free and saved us between $5,000 and $10,000 because we didn’t need to a hire a contractor to do it.”

Resident Terry Sheerin was the only other resident to speak during the session and asked when Henrich is up for re-election. Officials advised her that Henrich’s term expires at the end of the year and he would need to run for office this year to retain his committee seat.

DeGroff ended the session by telling the audience that he had, “no control over who is here.”

“Thanks for coming, everybody,” the mayor said as the session ended around 7:09 p.m.

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As the audience began to file out of the room, Brown could be heard telling officials that she felt it was inconsiderate of Henrich not to communicate to her that he would be absent.

Brown later explained to the Pine Barrens Tribune that she sent a text message to Henrich when he also failed to appear for a scheduled 6 p.m. workshop meeting, but received no response.

“Herndon called me first thing this morning to tell me he was unavailable,” she said, noting that the municipality had to pay municipal professionals for their time at town hall on Jan. 23.

The committee was scheduled to go into executive session during the first half hour of the 6 p.m. workshop meeting to hear from a professional working with the municipality to possibly redevelop a tract of land off Route 72.

When this newspaper arrived at town hall around 6:30 p.m., Brown and DeGroff kept looking out a conference room window to see if they could

spot Henrich entering the parking lot.

Henrich emailed a statement the next day to this newspaper refuting Brown’s allegations.

“Maryalice was informed at 6:15 p.m., via email, that I was not attending last night’s meeting due to my late travel for work and having caught the flu,” Henrich said. “Nobody informed me that Mark Herndon would not be attending the meeting—so this lack of communication caused the meeting to be rescheduled.”

Henrich added that what happened Wednesday night “adds to the argument” that the committee needs to have two additional members to make it a five-member committee. Some residents spoke out at committee meetings last year, pointing out other less sudden meeting cancellations due to a lack of a quorum and inquired as to why the committee membership just isn’t expanded as a mitigation tactic.

“It is impossible to communicate only one hour per month to run our town successfully,” Henrich said. “There has been talk to add this question (Would you like to increase the size of the township committee to five members?) to the ballot for this year’s election, but both Bill (DeGroff) and Mark (Herndon) are against it.”

Brown, when contacted late Thursday, said that she was waiting for Henrich to text her back, or call her, during the workshop meeting and it was not until she got home that she saw his email.

She added that a ballot question has never been disscused by the committee.

“This is nothing but a personal, political game here,” said DeGroff after this newspaper reached Brown. “Having a five-member committee will cost the residents more money, potentially between $12,000 and $14,000. This is all because certain people are upset that I am the mayor.”

Brown said in an emailed statement Thursday that the meeting has been rescheduled for Jan. 30 at 10 a.m.

“The meeting is going to be held via a conference call (although members of the committee and/or public can attend) in order to save the professional fees that were already charged last night,” she said.

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Location: Medford Lakes Details: Turn up the heat on winter blahs at the Log Cabin Café. Two talented acts will perform in historic Memorial Hall, 108 Stokes Road, Medford Lakes, from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. Pan Gravy opens the show and is followed by Sanctuary Trio. Enjoy unique interpretations of bluegrass, new grass, Americana and country music. Admission is $10 ($5 for children under 16 when accompanied by an adult) at the door, or in advance at the Protestant Community Church office, 100 Stokes Road. www. protestantcommunitychurch.org, www. facebook.com/logcabinmusic.

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Location: St. Mary of the Lakes School Details: Coffee with the Principal for prospective parents is scheduled for Wednesday, Feb. 13 at 9 a.m. and again at 6:30 p.m. It will included opportunities for personalized discussion of specific needs, Q&A and tours. St. Mary of the Lakes School is located at 196 Route 70, Medford. For more information, call 609-654-2546 x 227, or visit admissions@smlschool. org.

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Location: Mount Holly Details: Learn how to become an advocate for abused and neglected children in Burlington County by attending an information session on Feb. 6 at 10 a.m. The session is less than one hour and will be held at the Mt. Holly Office of Court Appointed Advocates for Children of Mercer and Burlington Counties, 100 High Street, Suite 301. For more information, contact Harry Cassidy at 609-2652222, or sign up at www.casaMB.org.

Court Appointed Special Advocates (CASA) selects community volunteers to advocate for the best interests of children who have been removed from their homes due to abuse and /or neglect. The volunteers strive to ensure the emotional, physical and educational well-being of these children while they reside in foster homes or residential facilities and to help establish a safe, stable and permanent home for each of these children.

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Location: Medford Details: All are invited to attend the Woman’s Club of Medford Annual Tea, from 2:30 p.m. to 5 p.m. at Medford Village Country Club, 28 Golfview Drive, Medford. Funds raised will benefit the Alzheimer’s Association, Delaware Valley Chapter, as well as programs run by the Woman’s Club.

Tickets are $30 per person and can be purchased by PayPal at www. medfordwomansclub.com, or by sending a check to P.O. Box 994, Medford, NJ 08055.

Location: Mount Holly Details: Learn how to become an advocate for abused and neglected children in Burlington County by attending an information session on Feb. 12 at 5 p.m. The session is less than one hour and will be held at the Mt. Holly Office of Court Appointed Advocates for Children of Mercer and Burlington Counties, 100 High Street, Suite 301. For more information, contact Harry Cassidy at 609-2652222, or sign up at www.casaMB.org.

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GUEST COMMENTARY Speak Up for the Change You Seek

I represent around 250,000 people in Burlington, Camden and Atlantic counties.

They all have their own thoughts, their own wants and needs and their own injustices that they go through.

It is hard to satisfy everyone I was chosen to represent, but it is impossible to satisfy anyone that doesn’t speak up. Take this as my call to action for people to get in touch with me regarding their New Jersey issues.

After a year as a member of the state General Assembly, I learned that you can get bogged down in the weeds that have grown tall throughout Trenton. However, I also learned that the best way to combat getting stuck in the political machine is to get back to the basics.

For me, the basics involve getting out to the towns in my district, taking calls and emails from citizens and fixing the problems they present me with.

RYAN PETERS ASSEMBLYMAN

Over the last couple of months, I’ve completed a tour of all 20 of my towns and launched a website, which I paid for, that has allowed me to connect on a deeper level with my constituents.

The drive to entice public outreach has led to two pieces of legislation that I have sponsored.

The first bill aims to change a state law to allow a beloved daycare at an Evesham public school, the Teddy Bear Academy, to continue to operate.

Senator Dawn Marie Addiego, Assemblyman Joe Howarth and I introduced it after a groundswell of families and educators called for action. If I am being honest, these passionate folks would

have found us and demanded change regardless of any outreach I have done.

The second bill was on a more intimate level.

It was the result of one person who experienced what she believed to be an injustice. That person reached out to my office to speak her mind.

The Westampton resident suffers from epileptic seizures and had her license medically suspended until she could prove that her seizures were under control and it was safe for her to drive.

After overcoming her seizures and having her license restored, she was hit with one more obstacle. The state’s Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) made her pay a $100 restoration fee.

The woman was calm, but passionate when she called and expressed how unfair she thought it was to have to pay $100 to the DMV just because she has a medical condition. When I heard her story, I was indignant. In no scenario should someone with a medical condition have to pay quadruple what it costs to renew a license just to get theirs restored.

I immediately started working on a bill to eliminate this fee, which I introduced this week.

But if it wasn’t for the woman who reached out, I would have never known it existed.

This state has giant looming problems that aren’t going to be solved with one phone call, but it doesn’t hurt to try to be part of the solution instead of complaining into the void.

If I represent you, I’ll do my best to lend you my ear, so we can fix issues together. If you’re having a problem that involves a state agency, or can be fixed on a state level, let me know.

My website, ryanepeters.com, has every way imaginable to get in contact with me. It also has links to the bills I’ve sponsored, my voting history and where I show up in the media.

Help me build on a vision of transparency and open communication in our local government.

Assemblyman Ryan Peters was elected to the State Assembly, to represent the 8th Legislative District, in 2017. He graduated from the United States Naval Academy with a Bachelor of Science degree in political science and obtained a law degree from Rutgers University School of Law. Peters is an associate with a law firm and specializes in commercial litigation. He is also a certified fraud examiner and a certified anti-money laundering specialist. Peters has an extensive military background, having served his country as a Navy SEAL with multiple combat deployments in Iraq and Afghanistan. He is currently a Lieutenant Commander in the Naval Reserve.

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New Jersey’s Governor Envisions the Golden State

Democratic Governor Phil Murphy is trying to make New Jersey the East Coast version of California in the following ways: First, he wants to legalize recreational marijuana, which will increase the occurrences of DUI. Marijuana is also a gateway drug and causes changes in the brain, especially in teens and young adults.

I, for one, don't want more people driving under the influence than there already are. Wide receiver Josh Gordon, of the Cleveland Browns, was suspended because he couldn’t give up using marijuana, which shows how addictive it is. In this age of opioid addiction, why would you want to make it easier to acquire marijuana?

As for the argument that the state will get millions in tax revenue from legalizing the drug, once it is legalized, the price goes down, and, consequently, revenues, as well.

This has happened in all the other states where recreational marijuana has been legalized.

An article in a daily newspaper stated that New Jersey would likely only get $210 million from the legalization of marijuana, which would account for less than 1 percent of the state’s budget.

The crime rate and cases of DUI have also gone up, so why add fuel to the fire?

Second, Murphy is making New Jersey a sanctuary state. I will not list all of the crimes committed by illegals (Kate Steinle is one of the most famous cases) who should have been

deported. How can anyone, in good conscience, protect potential criminals? The safety of the citizenry is the government’s number-one priority.

Third, the “millionaire” tax Murphy instituted is causing people and, more importantly, businesses to reconsider staying or locating here. We should be encouraging upper income people and business owners to stay or move into New Jersey, and not make it more onerous to stay here.

Who does Murphy think hires all of the employees?

In this same vein, a big reason N.J. is having such a difficult time fiscally is because the state provides too many services for low-income people. If we remove those services, many of them will leave the state and more of our taxes could go towards schools and municipal aid. (Lest you think this writer is rich, I am a teaching assistant who lives within a strict budget and has never taken government assistance.)

New Jersey is becoming a welfare state, like California. Our bond rating is A-, lower than any other state’s except Illinois (need I say more?). This makes it more expensive to borrow money when we vote “yes” for bonds.

Fourth, Murphy wants to mandate that all businesses have a certain number of women on their governing boards. This is identity politics—the best people, male or female,

should be on those boards. Setting artificial goals is counterproductive, and causes reverse discrimination.

Additionally, just when you thought you were able to have free choice and not have medical insurance, Murphy signed a law making it mandatory. This forces young, healthy individuals to buy insurance, just to prop up the Affordable Care Act marketplace, which should be allowed to expire, so real insurance reform can happen.

Here are two personal examples from both ends of the income scale: One lowincome friend receives a huge subsidy in the marketplace for the bronze plan, but can’t even use it because the deductible is $8,000!

Another friend, who is now retired from a major pharmaceutical firm and was absolutely thrilled when the individual mandate was struck down, is now disgusted that she has to buy insurance on the market instead of going to a concierge service at a considerable savings. She is very healthy and doesn’t need regular coverage.

Her current marketplace insurance is the same price as her private insurance was, with much less coverage. She is also going to move to Pennsylvania where retirees aren’t taxed to death like they are in New Jersey. She loves this state and would really like to stay, but these new mandates, along with the taxes, are making her leave. She is one of the people New Jersey should be trying to retain.

Fifth, Murphy wants illegal immigrants to be able to get valid New Jersey driver's licenses.

The justification is they will appear at the state’s Department of Motor Vehicles and pay for the licenses, registrations, etc. and generate more money for the state. Only a politician would try to spin this as a positive. Anyone with common sense would know that illegal immigrants will never do this for fear of being arrested. That is why they stay in the shadows.

Legal American citizens have to have six points of identification now just to renew a license; why should a non-citizen get something for less proof than a citizen? Does anyone else see how ridiculous this is?

Finally, Murphy is forcing an artificial minimum wage instead of the marketplace determining it. The reason those jobs carry minimum wage is they were never supposed to be a person’s job for life. Teenagers should never get that much money; by having such a high minimum wage, you encourage people to stay in dead end jobs instead of trying to improve themselves. This is not capitalism and will cause many small businesses to fail, or not hire as many workers.

The road to California is paved with Murphy's socialist, liberal intentions. I dread what New Jersey will look like after he and his administration get done with his agenda.

Diane Fanucci Pemberton Borough, New Jersey

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Encountering God in Your Fellow Man “Truly I tell you, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers and sisters of mine, you did for me.”

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magine a woman who dreams one night that she will be visited by the Lord the following day. The dream is so vivid that she can’t help but believe that it is a vision from God, and so she fully expects it to happen. The next day at her job as a nurse, she is fully expecting to see someone who resembles the picture she has in her mind of Christ. She thinks she might see him with hands and feet pierced by nails, or with blood streaming from his side or his head like the crucified Christ. During her day, she tends to an elderly man with dementia, relieving his fears and easing his pains. She tends to several children with the flu, and throughout her long day she treats everyone with the solicitous care and warmth that she always tries to provide, but especially so today, believing that the

Lord could well be her next patient.

At day’s end, she leaves the office disappointed, thinking that her dream had been merely a dream, a phantasm of her active imagination.

Saying her prayers that night, she despairs somewhat and beseeches the Lord, “If only you had visited me today, my life would be complete,” to which she immediately hears the Lord’s response: “Truly I tell you, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers and sisters of mine, you did for me.” (Matthew 25:40 NIV) – Christopher Simon

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PEMBERTON—Medicare options that are available to limited-income seniors were explained by Sharon Anderson, Medicare benefits coordinator for Rowan College at Burlington County, during a recent guest speaker appearance she made at the Pemberton Township Senior Center.

The college program provides several trained volunteers to work with individuals to find the best resolutions to their Medicare problems.

The Low-Income Subsidy (LIS) is for those individuals whose monthly income is below $1,518, have assets valued at no more than $14,100 or for couples bringing in $2,058 or less and having assets worth no more than $28,150. This plan will pay some, or most of one’s Medicare Part D prescription costs.

To b e c ome a “ Q u a l i fie d Me d ic a r e Beneficiary,” or QMB, an individual must have a monthly income of no more than $1,012

and a couple, $1,372. A single person’s assets must also be worth no more than $4,000 and a couple’s below a value of $6,000.

Those who qualify for the plan will pay a monthly Medicare Part B premium, Medicare deductibles and coinsurance. Qualifiers will also be able to automatically enroll a beneficiary in the Low-Income Subsidy (LIS) program.

Those whose income is too high for QMB status, individuals with income below $1,366 or couples below $1,852, can qualify for the “Specified Low-Income Medicare Beneficiary” (SLMB) or “Qualified Individual” (QI-1) status. The plan would pay one’s monthly Medicare Part B premium and qualify that person for the LIS program. A person’s assets must be below $7,560, or a couple’s, $11,340 to make them eligible for this program.

All three of these plans are provided by the federal government. In addition, the State of New Jersey offers a plan called “Pharmaceutical Assistance to the Aged and

Disabled,” or PAAD. Annual income must be under $27,189 for an individual or $33,334 for a couple to qualify for this program. Assets are not counted when considering eligibility.

PAAD pays the Medicare Part D premium and all costs associated with the Part D deductible, co-insurance and “donut-hole” phases.

It is well worth applying for these benefits, which can save seniors on limited incomes $100 or more per month. Anderson will work with individuals to apply for any program, and assist in all paperwork. Contact her at 856-222-9311, ext. 1051, and she will mail you a list of items you need to qualify. Then she will meet with you personally to complete the application process.

In addition, those who qualify for one of these programs may well be able to benefit from the Low-Income Home Energy Assistance program (LIHEAP) offered by the New Jersey Department of Community Affairs, which provides help with heat and electricity bills.

Anderson will work with an individual to help

them secure the advantage of that program as well, in addition to providing help with Medicare billing issues.

Anderson, or one of the RSVP volunteers, will return to the center to present a program on the State Health Insurance Assistance Program (SHIP) in September or October when open enrollment begins again.

Anderson is just one of a number of speakers invited to the senior center throughout the year to offer valuable information. In addition, members of the caring and capable staff can often assist seniors in solving or avoiding problems.

A guest speaker from Wegman’s Pharmacy will share information on pneumonia on Feb. 5 at 10 a.m., as part of the next program. Another program about new physical therapy options now available will be held on Feb. 13 at 10:30 a.m.

Other planned activities include a session of a Grief Support Group on Feb. 14 at 10 a.m.

It will be hosted by Juliette Elmore.

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REPLACES (Continued from Page 5) introduced for first reading.

One would establish regulations for food trucks. Lewis, late last year, received a request to have a food truck off River Road, near River Road Clam House, where there are boaters and jet skiers during the summertime enjoying recreational activities.

Amy Howell attended a Dec. 4 committee meeting explaining that the food-truck request was made by her daughter, who would like to have one in operation off River Road during summertime weekends.

Concerns, however, were expressed by officials with regard to the impact the food truck will have on traffic and parking in the area.

Provisions of the proposed ordinance were not immediately available.

The second ordinance would amend fencing regulations for property owners. The measure did not pass late last year and thus had to be reintroduced in the new calendar year.

“This is changing (permissible) fences,” said Hoffman last year when the fencing provisions were first proposed in 2018. “Right now, you are allowed to have a dirt pile in your front yard, side yard, wherever. That would remove that (possibility). You would just be permitted

to do fences and hedges.”

Following the introduction of the ordinances, Kristen Manning was reappointed as the municipality’s Chief Financial Officer and Kimberly Smith was appointed as deputy township tax collector.

Meeting notes from the Dec. 27 special meeting were unavailable. However, Hoffman described to this newspaper on Jan. 18 the committee’s much-anticipated Dec. 27 decision with regard to a proposed ordinance that would vacate a portion of South Bend Road to Gadd, who at the time was not on the committee, but was either on the ballot for committee, running unopposed, or a committeeman-elect.

Gadd claimed that he wanted to take possession of a part of South Bend Road, and close it off, due to trespassing and vandalism on his adjoining property. He described how he was getting no relief from local law enforcement.

The proposed ordinance prompted some residents and outsiders to start a petition voicing opposition to it. It was tabled several times in November and December—though at one point an incorrect meeting agenda, coinciding with the absence of Coleman and Hoffman, created confusion that it had actually passed.

“It just died because nobody would take a second vote on it because the attorney was trying to get more information,” said Hoffman of the committee’s Dec. 27 decision. “The issue hasn’t come back up and I don’t foresee it coming back up.”

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A vacant supermarket structure anchored to the Browns Mills Shopping Center prior to being demolished.

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A vacant supermarket structure is no longer anchored to the Browns Mills Shopping Center after being demolished.

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Shawnee High School's football team was recognized by the Lenape Regional High School District Board of Education on Jan. 16 for winning a South Jersey Group IV Championship. instructors, Alison Morgan to teach Interim Spanish at Lenape High School and Steven Wills to teach Interim English at Shawnee High School.

Also approved were the following personnel transfers: Suzanne Keubler from the position of Cherokee attendance clerk to the same post at Seneca, business education instructor Jessica Laverne from Lenape to Cherokee, and Jeffrey Rinker from Lenape custodian shift supervisor to the same post at Cherokee in an exchange of positions with Wilfred Currier.

John Jeffers, who was re-elected to his board seat in November, but wasn’t present at a Jan. 2 board reorganization meeting, was officially sworn in as Mount Laurel’s representative.

Board Secretary Constance Stewart read a New Jersey School Boards Association

resolution that declared January as School Board Recognition Month, asking residents to acknowledge any contributions made by local board members of the LRHSD. The board also approved a $13,000 grant from the America-Italy Society of Philadelphia and additional donations to the district amounting to $11,630, including $3,000 in speakers and music equipment to the Cherokee Music Department from Rick Goldenberg/DJ Connection, and $2,200 and $1,500 in gift cards from the Stone and Tierney families, respectively, to the Cherokee food pantry.

A December payroll of $8,027,383 was approved, along with the writing of checks in the amount of $3,499,215 from Dec. 20, 2018 through Jan. 15, 2019.

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Pemberton Township became the owner of the retail strip mall on July 19, 2018 when a Burlington County Superior Court judge approved of the municipality acquiring it from Rocco and Antonia Berardi through eminent domain. The decision was reached after the judge agreed with the township that the center was being neglected by its former owners.

“We submitted the money in to the court,” said Business Administrator Dennis Gonzalez of a $920,000 appraisal on the shopping center when the eminent domain was approved. “The issue of evaluation is still in the courts.”

The Berardi family had owned the shopping center since 1988. After the shopping center lost its anchor store in 1996, many of the complex’s other stores and restaurants failed, leaving the 42,000-square-foot retail strip mall with numerous vacated storefronts.

The shopping center, on a 2.5-acre parcel, eventually fell into disrepair with deteriorating signage and façade.

In 2002, the municipality went so far as to order it condemned through a council vote and made plans to pay the Berardis $2.27 million for the acquisition. Although upheld by a Superior Court ruling, the township reneged on the deal due to its inability to find a developer for the project.

The broken promise led to the filing of a complaint a decade ago by the Berardis seeking fees, costs and damages that they claimed had resulted from the township’s original attempt to exercise eminent domain. They said the township’s actions had deprived them of their property rights, business opportunities and their ability to rent out the site of the former Acme. The Berardi family complaint was later dismissed by a state Superior Court judge. The judge, however, did award them attorneys’ fees and disbursements. The decision was upheld by the state’s Appellate Division.

Another appraisal was received in 2013 as the township continued to attempt negotiations with the developer.

Patriarca has often noted that when he first assumed office in 2007, he met with Rocco Berardi to persuade him to clean up the shopping center up and make improvements to it. However, he claimed nothing came of

the requests.

“When I first took office, I met with the former owner of the property,” said Patriarca in a Jan. 4 interview with this newspaper.

“It was my first week in office and he never followed through on his promises to make improvements.”

Patriarca, ecstatic that the property is now in possession of the township and progress is being made, added that the next step for the shopping center revitalization project entails “moving forward on other areas of the structure” to see if it can be demolished as well.

“I met with the current tenants to express our vision with how to handle the current situation,” he said. “We will be looking at the rest of the structure that remains to dismantle it without interrupting or disturbing the tenants.”

Patriarca explained that he plans to hire an architect to design a “stand-alone system” that will allow the shopping center’s tenants to remain on the property throughout the entire redevelopment project.

“We would like to develop a small retail component on the west side of the property, where the Acme was, and move the tenants into that building,” he said. “Then we would like to take down the existing structure that remains and develop the whole northeast side of the property.”

Patriarca told the Pine Barrens Tribune that the township has received “various offers from different developers” interested in the project.

During the Jan. 2 Pemberton Township Council meeting, Patriarca announced that he held a discussion with a developer earlier that day who was “very interested” in the project.

“We will not just jump on the first offer that comes along because we are only going to get one shot at this, and whatever we do there will be with us for years to come,” said Patriarca at the Jan. 2 Pemberton Township Council meeting. “So, we want to do it right. We are working very hard to get something in there that will meet the needs of the residents here in the community.

“We started working on this back during the first week of 2007, when I had the former owner in my office going over his intentions for the property, and we have not stopped since that point.”

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Be an Epic Party Guest

f you’re attending a Super Bowl party, congratulations.

Being a guest grants you a stress-free way to enjoy the biggest game of the year without playing the role of host.

But visitors aren’t without their own responsibilities. Don’t just show up with a bag of chips and plan to leave once the last whistle blows.

Learn how to be a helpful and epic guest so the host can enjoy the big game.

DON’T BE LATE You don’t want to disrupt the party by showing up late. Ask

fashionably late. If you need to miss the event, let the host know as soon as possible. Also ask if you may arrive early to help prepare.

up and demanding full control of their kitchen while you whip together a dip or platter that should have been prepared at home.

BRING A SIDE

Ask if others are bringing alcoholic beverages or a party game.

Be respectful of other partygoers by not crowding the television if your favorite team is approaching the goal line or has a great play.

Before leaving, offer to help your host clean up the mess that was made. Don’t be afraid to chip in during the party by picking up dirty plates or empty cups throughout the night.

You don’t have to be a five-star chef to prepare an awesome dish that impresses. Finger foods and simple appetizers are typically the main course at Super Bowl parties.

When planning your contribution, consider bringing a cold dish or preparing a meal at © ADOBE STOCK home that can be your host what time the event ensure you arrive when they quickly reheated. Your host begins and plan your day to request. There is no room for won’t appreciate you showing

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hile the big game does a great job of entertaining from beginning to end, you can add even more enjoyment for your guests by planning fun games to play during the event. It’s important to find a balance for the different types of people who will be attending.

Whether your friends are with football decor. activities that are FLAG FOOTBALL active, more relaxed or will be played on the couch.

If your backyard has COMMERCIAL bringing along their littles ones, BINGO ensure there is something for the space, encourage Consider heavy-hitguests to partake in a everyone.

FOR THE ACTIVE GUESTS friendly game of flag ter commercial topics Weather permitting, an out- football. It’s a great way that are popular door party will help keep the to burn off energy before during the big game mess down and give your guests the game begins and can and create custom plenty of room to wander and include people of all bingo cards for guests enjoy football-themed games. If ages. to mark. You can purBOTTLE BASH you have the luxury of watching chase a grand prize or FRISBEE the Super Bowl outside, considencourage guests to You may purchase a er these activities to set your drop a couple bucks packaged version of this party up for success. in a football helmet to CORNHOLE game or make one yourreward the first bingo. © ADOBE STOCK This game goes by several self with a few pieces of BET ON THE FOR THE different names but creates a PVC, a frisbee and two bottles.

GAMES Take a cue from Vegas and RELAXED GUEST competitive atmosphere as Add a competitive advantage by For those who don’t want to pick unique game situations guests compete to dominate holding a tournament and opposing teams. Consider dec- allowing the winning team first exert a lot of energy on Super for guests to bet on. Try a safeBowl Sunday, you can create ty, a pick six or a trick play. orating your boards or bags dibs in the food line.

9 a.m. -10 p.m. Sun 10 a.m. - 6 p.m.

FOR THE KIDS Young children may not share the same enthusiasm about football as your adult visitors, so give them plenty to do.

FOOTBALL HELMET PINATA Create a paper-mâché version of a football helmet and fill it with delicious treats.

Make sure each child has a turn by allowing younger children to swing first.

PIN THE FOOTBALL A football-themed version of Pin the Tail on the Donkey is a great idea to put a fun twist on a classic game.

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Super Bowl Trivia

fun way to entertain guests before and during the game is by creating a fun trivia experience.

Your questions should include a combination of common knowledge and little-known facts, so everyone can participate. Consider a football-themed prize for the participant who answers the most questions correctly.

If you aren’t a football fanatic, here are some fun facts about the Super Bowl you can add to your competition.

Kurt Warner threw 414 yards in 2000, becoming the first quarterback in NFL history to throw than 400 yards in a Super Bowl.

Jacoby Jones ran the longest play in Super Bowl history, a 108-yard kickoff return in Super Bowl XLVII. Devin Hester of the Chicago Bears holds the fastest score in the game’s history with an opening kickoff return for a touchdown in Super Bowl XLI.

Roger Staubach holds the infamous record of most career Super Bowl fumbles at five.

Tom Brady has the record for most completions in Super Bowl history.

The first Super Bowl left 32,000 empty seats at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum as fans complained of the high ticket prices, $12.

The Buffalo Bills appeared in four consecutive Super Bowls and lost them all.

New Orleans has hosted more Super Bowl events than any other location,

but Miami will tie it by hosting Super Bowl LIV. Phil Sims was the first NFL player to say the famous line “I’m going to Disney World.”

The Lombardi Trophy is given to the winner of the big game. It is created by Tiffany & Co. and is worth about $25,000.

Super Bowl Sunday is the second largest day for food consumption, behind only Thanksgiving.

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f you are the lucky one tasked with throwing this year’s Super Bowl extravaganza, make sure your space is set up for success. Impress your guests with an attractive entertainment area and of course, a dazzling television.

THE BIG SCREEN

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During the game, all eyes will be on the action on television. Make your party a big deal by upgrading to a big screen.

Check out your local electronic store; retailers usually have big Super Bowl sales.

Consider how much entertainment space you have when deciding what size ENOUGH SEATING television to choose. How far do you and Does your room seem cramped or your guests sit from the TV? Will you use have limited seating space? Now is the upgrades like 4K? Once you have the time to find the furniture set that welperfect screen picked, how are you going comes large groups of guests and to display it? If you choose to hang it on works for your living area. your wall, make sure you use a mount Check out your local furniture store that’s suitable for the size and weight of for great deals, and if cost is an issue, the TV. INVEST IN A SOUND BAR doesn’t require hiding wires throughout most offer exceptional lending proDon’t forget to hide unsightly wires Immerse your guests with rich your living room. You can find affordable grams, to lessen the immediate hit on with cable concealers or running cords sound-enhancing technology that sound bars that mount under a televi- your wallet. behind the walls.

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Party Proof Your Home

ccidents happen at parties. Drinks can be spilled and valuable items risk being bumped from shelves.

The first step to party proofing is maximizing your space. Rearrange furniture and create clear walkways around and through your party area. Keep reading for more hints on hosting a successful party.

PROTECT YOUR CARPET Here’s how to clean common some common party spills.

Red wine: Blot the spot from the outside in; don’t rub. Keep blotting with cold water until the wine is gone or diluted. Pour salt over the spot while it’s still wet and let the salt absorb the remaining wine.

Barbecue sauce: Mix a 1:1 ratio of warm water and dishwashing liquid. Blot the spot until it disappears. If it sets, mix a tablespoon of ammonia with a half cup of warm water and sponge it over the stain. Blot until it disappears and rinse with cold water.

Melted cheese: Use the dull edge of a knife to pull as much cheese as you can out of the carpet fibers. Mix two cups of warm water with two tablespoons dishwashing detergent.

Use a soft brush or sponge to dab solution, working from the outside in. Blot cheese away with a paper towel until it’s all gone. Rinse with cold water and blot dry.

TABLECLOTHS

Your tabletops will need to be

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They also make cleanup a

breeze. Ensure only disposable items remain on the table, roll the cloth up and find the trash can.

PREPARE YOUR PETS

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est day of the year. People get wrapped up in the game and aren’t afraid to show their enthusiasm or disdain throughout. If you have a pet who is timid or nervous of loud noises, consider keeping

them in an area of your home where people won’t be around.

Treat them with their favorite foods and remember to check on them during the night.

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If you are on a budget for this year’s party, there are ways to save big bucks while hosting a memorable event.

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RENTING EQUIPMENT

Super Bowl Sunday is traditionally a day where finger foods and casual drinks outweigh fancy feasting and sophisticated cocktails.

Go for inexpensive snacks like chips and dip, premade veggie and fruit trays, and barbecued meatballs. Ask your guests to bring their favorite appetizers and drinks, too.

If you feel your television setup needs an upgrade before guests arrive, but it doesn’t make sense financially, consider using a rental service.

Keep in mind that others may have the same idea, so it’s important to contact an electronic rental service several weeks prior to the big game.

Enquire about available sizes, deliv-

ery and setup and return methods. In most cases, they will help in every step of the process for a small fee.

DISPOSABLE CUTLERY

Don’t worry about purchasing new silverware or dishes for your party.

When using paper plates, disposable cups and plastic cutlery, you’ll save a ton of money and time during cleanup.

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BIG GAME PARTY PLANNING GUIDE | FOOD

Healthy Snacks on the Table S

uper Bowl Sunday doesn’t have to be an event where people break their New Year’s resolutions of healthier eating. Sure, it can be a cheat day after a month of strict diet and exercise, but don’t forget to add a few healthy options on the table amongst the high-calorie snacks the day is known for.

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Create a festive centerpiece by using Fill a table with bowls of healthy multiple colors of choices like yellow greens, light dressings, nuts and vegepeppers, broccoli, carrots and toma- tables. Encourage your invitees to toes. For dip options, use a fat-free bring along their healthiest suggesdressing or search for recipe to create tions to create a versatile salad.

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Are you planning to fire up the grill for Super Bowl Sunday? If burgers and brats are on the menu, consider including leaner proteins like ground chicken or turkey sausages. They will feature the familiar flame-cooked tastes while offering fewer calories.

Give your deep fryer a break and prepare classic meat dishes in the oven or an air fryer. Avoiding the use of high-fat oils will grant your guests a

You don’t want to turn off your guests who consider Super Bowl Sunday a day to indulge. Make sure to include a few staples at great parties like chicken wings, desserts and bacon-wrapped everything.

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Students from Rutgers University perform Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR) and Electromagnetic Induction (ERT) studies of the cemetery’s grounds to locate as many gravesites as possible. have otherwise made it unknown if workers were disturbing the remains of those buried there.

“In doing this project, the Historical Society wanted to create a nice entrance area to the cemetery,” Ritter said. “In order to be able to do that, and to be sure we were not trampling over gravesites we didn’t know about, we looked into having GPR and ERT studies done on the (cemetery) field.”

Ritter added that Rutgers University agreed to perform the study, an otherwise costly activity, at no cost to the organization.

“It took them about three or four weekends over about a year and half to survey the burial grounds,” Ritter said. “In doing so, we found out that the area where we wanted the entrance was OK with no bodies buried there.”

Shortly thereafter, in October 2017, the Historical Society created a site plan for the new entrance with the help of Vincentown Landscape and Nursery.

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Vincentown Friends Cemetery’s new entrance.

Additionally, the first installment of the fence was done that month, along with the creation of a plaque for the gravesite of Capt. Thomas Wilkens Eayre, a Civil War veteran who died in May 1864 and was buried at Vincentown Friends Cemetery.

“In 2017, the township invested some money and began putting the fence up near the backside of the Vincentown Grange,” Ritter said. “While that was going on, there were a lot of stones that you just couldn’t read and there were some historical ones. One of the stones was for Capt.

Wilkens Eayre, who was buried there. We had a picture of him and also some information about him, so we had a plaque made up of marble granite, thinking we might do something similar to that in the future.”

The new entrance to the cemetery, containing mostly brick, was completed last May. The entrance’s accompanying garden was planted with the assistance of the Vincentown Garden Club.

Signs, including one with a listing of who is known to be buried in the cemetery, and dates of when they were buried there, were also installed

in May 2018 after being funded by local business donations, the Historical Society’s township budget line account and the organization’s treasury.

“The Historical Society, along with the Burlington County Library, maintains the records of everybody who is buried in this cemetery,” Ritter said. “There are 88 names of people, who we have on our records, as being buried in there.

The earliest burial was in 1812 and the latest was in 1913. The cemetery is not used as a burial area anymore.”

Ritter noted, however, that the study had limitations in finding people buried in the cemetery unbeknownst to historical recordkeepers because many of the caskets used when the cemetery was active were made out of wood, instead of concrete.

“Due to the age of the burial site, the people weren’t buried in concrete containers,” Ritter said.

“Wooden boxes were used and wooden boxes over 100, or 150 years, just decayed.”

In recent months, as the project nears completion, the Historical Society hired Brewers Cemetery Services to fix the gravestones, many of which were “out of alignment, flat or half buried.”

Before-and-after photographs provided by the Historical Society now show the gravestones installed in straight rows, making it easier for the cemetery’s groundskeepers to perform mowing operations at the site.

The Historical Society also hired Alenco Fence Co. earlier this month to complete some more of the fence installation using a grant from the Medford-Vincentown Rotary Club. The latest installment was completed on Jan. 18.

The four-year cemetery restoration project will be completed when the fence is erected on all four sides of the township-owned cemetery. Ritter explained to the committee that the cemetery’s back part still requires fencing and requested that the township complete it with municipal funds.

“We just hired and paid for Alenco Fence Co. to finish off the fencing near Grange Street,” Ritter said. “The Southampton Historical Society is requesting that the township complete the last area of fencing, if it can.”

Ritter added that the cemetery, and associated signage, add to the historic community and offer its visitors a “walk into history.”

Mayor James F. Young Sr., who helped gather previous business donations for the cemetery project, asked Ritter if he had an estimate for the cost of the fencing that still is required.

Ritter said that the organization just paid Alenco about $4,000 for the 90 feet of fencing installed near Grange Street and that the remaining part of the cemetery requiring fencing is greater than that in length.

Committeeman Michael Mikulski asked the Historical Society to obtain an estimate for the remaining fencing required and turn it in to the township.

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Pharmaceutical companies harvest 25 billion in revenue annually from their use, even by kids.

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The purpose of the JELIS Study was to find out if EPAs would enhance a statin, or if a statin alone was enough. Every person in the study was on a statin. Cholesterol numbers came down in both groups (the statin-only group, and

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One potential mechanism of action is that EPA reduces your body’s production of arachidonic acid (AA), which is an inflammatory compound.

Reducing AA improves the outcome of many conditions, including Alzheimer’s, depression and autoimmune diseases.

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A Vacuum Worthy of the Jetsons

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s a child I loved to watch cartoons.

I adored the Flintstones, ScoobyDoo and I especially enjoyed watching The Jetsons, a cartoon about a futuristic family.

They would fly around in an aero-car with a transparent bubble top, create and bake dinner by the push of a button and had a robot maid named Rosie.

Who wouldn’t want a robot? Rosie cleaned, she laundered and when push came to shove, Rosie ordered up the bacon and fried it up in a pan.

As we move on through the years, technology is certainly progressing and although most of us aren’t commuting to work in our aero-cars, we can cook a tender roast in under an hour with our Instapots. (I, for one, would be more impressed if the dang thing washed and returned itself to the cupboard.)

I know lots of techy people. I have friends with Apple watches, colleagues who know how to get a football game on their Smart TV and I even know a guy who knows a guy who understands the Cloud.

Our eldest son, Vernon, is the techiest of the techies. Lots of folks go to Vernon for their technical inquiries as if he was a guru sitting at the top of a mountain, and beg to seek his wisdom.

Being his mother, I don’t have to beg Vernon.

I just tell him what I need to know and then offer him some cold hard cash.

That being said, the new home that our Vernon shares with his beautiful wife Stephanie is as close to visiting the Jetsons as I’ll ever come.

Vernon walks in their front door and speaks the environment into existence. He can turn lights off and on with a verbal request, look at his watch to see who is ringing the doorbell and with his feet up and in a reclining position, Vernon turns their thermostat up and down.

That is all good and well, and while I’m a tad awestruck, I wasn’t mesmerized until a visit last year when I saw a disc-shaped object moving itself across their kitchen floor.

“What is that?” I asked Vernon as he put a bag of Brussels sprouts into his online shopping cart.

“That? Oh, that’s a robot vacuum.”

“What’s it doing?”

“It’s vacuuming the floors.”

Well, praise be! Was all that I could think. I asked plenty of questions, up to and including, “So it really sweeps the floors and then docks itself on its own charger?”

Although there are those who will tell you differently, I truly am a frugal person. I utilize coupons, wait for sales and when the day comes, I’ll happily take advantage of a senior discount.

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But once I saw that robot vacuum, I knew I had to have one—come what may.

Once I had the robot vacuum, I decided to refer to it as a girl named Penny. Not because “only a woman can clean” mind you (in fact I made sure all four of our sons knew how to utilize a broom and use it well). Rather it was because we could always use more women in the Clinch household.

Penny works and that girl works hard. She fires up every morning at 9:30 a.m. and makes her way across the back hall before heading to the kitchen.

When she was new, Penny was quite impressive. She started out strong and never tired. Back and forth, across the rooms she would go, transitioning from tile to wood to carpet with nary a complaint.

I’m not one to judge, but these days Penny is showing signs of aging. She seems to forget that the stairs are a no-no and that, given her size, she can’t fit under the sofa.

Not one to judge on that one either.

Suddenly Penny lacks the umpf to make it over thresholds between rooms and suffers from the inability to move back off of the throw rug in the bathroom.

If I didn’t know better, I would wonder if Penny had a drinking problem because the other day she came moving past me and was completely oblivious to the fact that she had lost her dust pan and was picking up dirt and simultaneously discarding it out of her back end.

I know that Rosie had her share of problems and would even pop a spring out of her head from time to time. The Jetsons loved her anyway.

Me, not so much. In fact, at this very moment I cannot find her. I checked all of her usual spots that included, but weren’t limited to a wide expanse of space in the living room.

You know, I might just see if we can trade Penny in on a robot thermostat.

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17 Group sharing a name with a cranberry cocktail 18 Docs' work areas 19 Slip or clip follower 20 Rich rocks 21 Hot 23 Satyr's kin 24 Rear 25 Obvious 28 Holiday decor item 29 Final announcements 30 Comes across 31 "__ Crossroads": Bone Thugs-nHarmony song 32 Hue 33 Game with a varying number of cards 34 Like many horses 35 __ Nova 36 Turkestan tents 37 Full moon, e.g.

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38 Sports nail-biters 40 Felix __, CIA friend of Bond 41 Siouan tribe 42 Portrayer of Buddy's father in "Elf" 43 Acrimonious 44 Prince in "Frozen" 45 Wise chip flavor 48 Low numéro 49 Actress in "Spy" (2015) 52 Wet blanket 53 "Grown Ups" star 54 Loan application fig.

55 Al Jazeera and Yomiuri Shimbun Down 1 1960s-'70s Orr teammate, to fans 2 Prime cut 3 OR teammates 4 Needle 5 Apia natives 6 Suffering from ennui 7 "Either/Or" author Kierkegaard 8 Muscles strengthened by muscleups 9 Shipping nickname 10 Longtime Seattle Mariners' majority owner 11 Jersey homes

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44 Acting coach's banes 45 Bundle in a field 46 Maverick on TV 47 Game divs.

50 Unembellished 51 Med. number that's better when it's higher

Lori Clinch was born and raised in North Platte, Nebraska, a hotbed of material for writers whose passion it is to make people laugh. She is the mother of four sons and the author of the book “Are We There Yet?”

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The new Southampton Township Public Works facility at 16 Buddtown Road. population of 10,464 people.

On the same day of the latest township committee meeting, Southampton Township released a public notice seeking sealed bids for 2019 to 2021 snow removal seasons by Feb. 5. Hoffman, in a Jan. 22 follow-up email, said that the township does not plan to privatize snow removal.

“We request this each year to assist with areas when the snow reaches certain levels,” she said.

Oatman’s eventual replacement will preside over a new 6,000-square-foot building for the Public Works Department at 16 Buddtown Road. A one-car garage and trailers on the lot that previously housed the department were demolished last year to make way for the new building, which is about three times the size of the previous infrastructure.

“We have a temporar y Cer tificate of Occupancy (CO) for it,” Hoffman said. “We are going to try to have them (the department’s personnel) moved in it by the end of the month.”

The department has temporarily been using a building for its operations in the 1800 block of Route 206 during the approximately $1,049,949 construction project.

At t he Ja n. 15 com m it tee meet i ng, Committeeman Michael Mikulski asked Hoffman if there would be a grand opening celebration for the building. Hoffman said she needed the committee to settle on a date of when to hold the event.

Mayor James F. Young Sr. said the celebration should be held, “when it gets warmer.”

In somewhat related business during the committee meeting, Committeeman Ronald Heston said he received an email from the Burlington County Bridge Commission alerting the municipality of $90 million in CGP&H grant funds that are available to construct or improve recreational facilities in New Jersey.

Heston, who added that any grant application has to be filed by the end of March, asked the committee if it wanted to apply for funds to start Phase Two of a project that is transforming a large portion of Southampton Township’s Good Farm into recreational facilities.

“Should we start looking at Phase Two, since Phase One is wrapping up?” Heston asked his colleagues.

The committeeman added that he has not received word from the Burlington County Board of Chosen Freeholders about whether it will continue to allow the county to issue grants for recreation in 2019. The board fell under Democratic control earlier this month.

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claimed that county government business has been slowed down considerably because of the transition-of-power process.

“That is understandable,” Heston said.

Democrats gained control of the freeholder board on Jan. 1 for the first time in nearly 45 years.

“I thought it (the CGP&H grant) was something that we should look at,” said Heston, who urged the committee to look at other grant opportunities for Phase Two. “I thought we should have more than one field available.”

The discussion led to a revelation from Mikulski that Phase One may see an amendment.

Five concept plans for the recreational complex, created over a six-year period, drew criticism from Heston last year.

“We think that because of the money saved with the (removal of) telephone poles (that were on the farm), there may be even additional fields in Phase One now,” Mikulski said.

Heston responded that he, “hadn’t heard about that yet.”

Hoffman, in the Jan. 18 interview, tried to walk back Mikulski’s revelation.

“No, the plan isn’t changing,” she said. “There may be money, that maybe we saved…since we don’t have to pay for moving the telephone poles (along) the (adjoining) road,” Hoffman said. “So, we may be able to do another field— like seed another field.”

Hoffman, when asked how “doing another field” was not considered to be an amendment to the plan for Phase One, again denied that the project’s initial phase was being altered.

“No, it is not (being changed),” Hoffman said.

“There are three fields already in the design. It is just that the money we had was only able to seed one field.”

Hoffman, when queried as to why the township would include three fields in the design when it only had money for one, replied that, “when the county recreation grant opens up, we will apply for more.”

“Like we said, we are not doing anything more than what we are getting grant money for,” Hoffman said.

The first phase, as approved on Aug. 21, 2018, was—according to officials at the time—to involve construction of just one multi-purpose field, a six-foot-wide asphalt walking path circling the field and an asphalt drive with a stone parking lot.

Installation of an “extensive” stormwatermanagement system and elect r ical infrastructure, as well as grading and earthwork for future multi-purpose fields, was also slated to be part of the project’s first phase.

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have direct deposit and the state pays all of its completed.

The latest, overall project concept plan that employees through direct deposit. was presented last summer to the public calls She added that the township is also working for 75 acres of the 220-acre farm to have four to make changes to the payment process for multipurpose fields, five ball fields, bocce vendors, though new stipulations are not in courts, a sledding hill, a skating pond, a the ordinance. comfort station with a concession area, several “With our vendors, we are trying to wire them picnic pavilions, an amphitheater, a boardwalk, money, rather than give them actual physical two field sheds and an irrigation pump house checks,” she said. “This is being done to prevent on the farm. intrusions into our bank account or hackers.”

The recreation complex construction is all Hoffman, when asked if there was any recent part of the community’s search for both active fraud involving Southampton Township’s bank and passive recreation opportunities. accounts, responded, “no.”

The Little League field and T-Ball field at the The committee also approved three change Red Lion Road Baseball and Softball Complex orders, reducing the cost of contracts for are plagued by sinkholes and officials had to Stagecoach Road sidewalk improvements, close them in October 2016 due to dangerous Hawkin Road improvements and a 2017 local conditions. road program. However, the reduction figures In addition, there are multiple soccer fields were not immediately available. on Buddtown Road, part of a municipal sports Deputy Mayor Elizabeth Rossell, after all of complex that is located on the east side of the items on the committee’s meeting agenda Route 206, which are considered to be located were acted upon, announced that the New improperly by the Pinelands Commission.

Jersey Community Forestry program, run by The township’s request to build the new the New Jersey Department of Environmental Public Works Building was approved by the Protection, approved the municipality’s second Pinelands Commission, pending removal of five-year Community Forestry Management the contested soccer fields by the end of 2017, Plan. The plan details how the municipality though the fields have not yet been removed. plans to care for and manage its tree resources In other meeting news, the committee over the next five years. introduced an ordinance that would mandate The meeting concluded with another that all township employees be paid through request from Hampton Lakes Fire Company direct deposit. leadership for a new fire truck. Mikulski held “When we met with Investors Bank, they up a thick packet and said “we just got the suggested that one way to avoid bank fraud report.” The committeeman was referencing and people hacking into our account, is to a study of both township fire companies and limit the number of checks and deposits that their apparatus (the other fire company being go in the bank from employees and vendors,” said Hoffman inPine the Jan. 18 interview, before Vincent Fire), said3:45 to have by DHLC Expo ad Barrens Tri 4.875x6.25.qxp_Layout 1 12/21/18 PM been Page performed 1 adding that most municipal employees already former firefighters.

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