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Amit Patel, proprietor of AP Liquor, Inc., trading as Belly Busters Package Goods and Bar, listens to the prosecution make the case against him.
Liquor License for Belly Busters in Browns Mills Ordered Suspended for Sixty Days After Owner Found Guilty by Pemberton Council of Selling Alcohol to 17-Year-Old; Defense Counsel, However, Contends Public Body Lacked Authority to Take Action
Staff Writer
PEMBERTON—The liquor license assigned to AP Liquor, Inc., trading as Belly Busters Package Goods and Bar, located at 98 Lakehurst Road in the Browns Mills section of Pemberton Township, has been ordered suspended beginning May 5 for 60 consecutive days by Pemberton Township Council, acting
as the municipality’s Alcoholic Beverage Control (ABC) Board. The suspension order came about as a result of a special in-person council meeting held last month that mimicked the daytime television show “Hot Bench,” only there were five “judges” in this matter (instead of the three on the television program) – or each of the council members – with all of them finding the proprietor, Amit Patel, “guilty” of selling alcohol to
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a minor. The 17-year-old boy he allegedly had sold the goods to had apparently been pulled over for driving under the influence (DUI) just an hour-and-a-half after making the purchase, according to an officer’s testimony. There was, however, some disagreement about the p enalt y that shou ld b e assigned to Patel in the wake of the See LICENSE/ Page 6
ShopRite of Medford Associates Raise $22K in Fight to End Hunger; Two Honored for Efforts Local Food Pantries Report ‘Huge Need’ in Pandemic By Douglas D. Melegari Staff Writer
MEDFORD—The past year has been unlike any other with the Coronavirus pandemic, but those circumstances did not cause ShopRite of Medford associates to lose sight of the need to fight and end hunger in the community. And, as two local food pantry operators attested to during a celebration of ShopRite of Medford’s most recent efforts to end hunger, through a Partners In Caring program co-sponsored by Cheerios-maker General Mills and ShopRite cooperative Wakefern Food Corp., which raised $22,764 at the local store-level over a five-week period, the “need” in our area has grown exponentially since the beginning of the pandemic. Lisa Sherwin, partnerships and events manager for the Food Bank of South Jersey, noted that “40 percent of the people we saw in our food distributions” over the past year “were first time recipients,” but yet the food bank was “72 percent down in our food acquisitions.” “What a year 2020 was – good grief,” Sherwin declared. “The pandemic, job loss and school closings. What did that spell? Food insecurity.” And, according to Madelyn Sutton, executive director of the Christian Caring Center, a local non-profit based in the Browns Mills section of Pemberton Township, which runs 12 different programs, including a food pantry, her organization has seen a “60 See SHOPRITE/ Page 7
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