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No More Post-Labor Day Guarded Beaches?
–Photo by Judy Smestad-Nunn Business Administrator Joanne Bergin, left, and Director of Recreation Dan Santaniello, present the recreation department budget to the council. By Judy Smestad-Nunn duced an ordinance at the council BRICK – The township will meeting that says beaches would consider dumping its post-Labor no longer stay open for the two Day beach days, removing the additional weekends, and would two weekends from the lifeguard close on Labor Day this year. schedule due to staffing difficul‑ “We are not able to provide ade‑ ties, leaving the beaches unguard‑ quate coverage after Labor Day,” ed, officials said. said Councilwoman Andrea Zap‑ Those plans were among the cic. “We’re going back to the old discussion points of the budget way of keeping beaches open from presentation for the beach depart‑ Memorial Day to Labor Day.” ment, among other departments Resident Larry Reid asked if the overseen by Director of Recre‑ beach staff would still be hired ation Dan Santaniello. if there is no beach this summer. According to Santaniello’s re‑ Presently, at high tide the ocean port, the Beach Division has 68 hits the exposed sea wall, leaving lifeguards, 16 badge checkers no room to even place a towel, and 10 maintenance workers, and he said. while the operating and overtime Santaniello said he expects that budget would remain flat, there with shoaling – or the ebb and would be a 1.84 percent increase in flow of seasonal offshore sand – he the budget for salaries and wages. expects there would be a beach, “We only used overtime at the but if the sand does not return, end of the summer season when the seasonal employees, who do lifeguards go back to college,” he not have a contract, would not said. “The remaining staff must be hired. cover their shifts and they work Business Administrator Joanne six days a week.” Bergin said that the 2016 budget In order to address that added was planned, fully anticipating cost, the governing body intro‑ (Beaches - See Page 12)
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March 5, 2016
Ice Hockey Still On Fire After Decades Of Growth
By Chris Christopher The name Bob Auriemma Sr. is synonymous with New Jersey ice hockey. The legendary Brick Township High School coach has seen it all ‑‑ beginning with the birth of the Green Dragons’ program in the 1960s. Warren Wolf, who retired a few years back as the state’s career wins leader in football, founded the ice hockey program in the early 1960s. He became Brick’s assistant superintendent of schools, allowing Auriemma Sr. to take over in 1963-64. “Coach Wolf began the program at the recreational level,” Auriemma Sr. recalled in a telephone interview while shov‑ eling snow. “He got a bunch of boys together and they used –Photo credit: James Murphy old Brick football jerseys for their games.” Bob Auriemma Sr. has led the Green Auriemma Sr. said the Green Dragons’ varsity team often Dragons to more than 700 wins as coach. (Hockey - See Page 4)
OCEAN COUNTY’S 114 GANGS “GANG WISE” EVENTS SHARE VIVID TRUTHS
By Judy Smestad-Nunn OCEAN COUNTY – New Jersey has some 1,500 different gangs, and Ocean County alone has 114, said State’s Investigative Agent and gang expert, Edwin Torres, who recently gave an eye-opening presentation called “The Gang Wise Project” at the Toms River Library. The event is a series the library is hosting at several branches, fo‑ cusing on recognizing, addressing and preventing gang activity in communities. Torres, 49, started his law en‑ forcement career 28 years ago when he was a Housing Unit Of‑ ficer at the NJ Training School for Boys, a juvenile detention facility located in Monroe Township. “I noticed after a few years that the character of the kids who came in was different--they came in with tattoos on their neck,
hands and even their lips, and they used language I hadn’t heard, and I thought what’s going on?” Torres said before his presentation. One of the tattoos Torres and his colleagues saw over and over again was “MOB,” which the juveniles said stood for “Money Over Bitch‑ es,” but in truth it stood for “Member of Bloods,” one of the most recog‑ nized gangs in the country. “I didn’t know we had Bloods in New Jersey. I thought they were only in LA, so then we started changing the way we did business and we created a gang unit at the facility,” he said. The Language Of Gangs Using PowerPoint and real news‑ cast videos, Torres showed various ways to identify gang members, including some of the tattoos, mu‑ sic, graffiti, clothes, language and hand signals favored by different gangs. The hand signals originated
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in prisons where gangsters could communicate with each other without the guards understanding, he said. Now the Bloods dominate the east coast, and their numbers are “ginormous;” other gangs mimic what they do, he said. The Bloods wear a lot of red, which represents violence. Other signs of a Bloods member are blooddrop tattoos, and dog paws which are sometimes burned into the skin with cigarettes. If some‑ one has one of these tattoos and is not a gang member, the Bloods (Gangs - See Page 13)
•RECOGNIZING •ADDRESSING •PREVENTING GANG ACTIVITY
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