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THE BRICK
Vol. 15 - No. 6
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Strong’s Todd Durkin Returns To Brick Roots At Relay For Life
on Friday night, May 20. Durkin is best known as a member of the cast of Strong, a fitness show which appears on NBC on Thursdays at 8 p.m. Durkin returned to his beloved roots with eight trainers and eight trainees from the show. The cast teamed with Jersey Strong. Surrounded by admirers, Durkin knelt at midfield and spoke to Dougard, telling the youngster he would pray for him. “Matt is a young boy who is in the fight of
his life,” Durkin said. Dougard’s mother, Kelly, has known Durkin for a long time. “We grew up as children in the Princeton Avenue neighborhood,” she said. “Matthew was diagnosed last November. He has three years of treatment ahead. The doctors are very happy with his treatments.” MatThew Dougard wore a T-shirt that said Team Matthew and Warriors Fight. (Relay - See Page 4)
Officials Pledge Faster Service As County Buses Get Computer Upgrades
By Daniel Nee OCEAN COUNTY – The county has completed an upgrade of the routing software behind its 70 Ocean Ride bus vehicles, which will allow the county’s Department of Transportation to optimize routes, assist passengers calling to ask about bus timelines and run the entire bus network more efficiently, officials said. “It’s going to be so much better for the
people who get rides as well as the drivers,” said Freeholder Virginia Haines. The county began the upgrade project last spring, as it was facing a dispatching and routing system that was quickly falling apart. Large terminals in buses were physically damaged after years of use on the road, the information being produced by the system was inefficient and the
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Event Focuses On Lakewood History, Orthodox Community
–Photo at right by Morgan Scott, at left photo courtesy “Strong” Todd Durkin gives the “four” signal, the signal the Brick Township High School football team gives its opponents to tell them the fourth quarter will belong to the Green Dragons. Durkin attended Brick’s American Cancer Society Relay for Life. By Chris Christopher BRICK – Todd Durkin has made it big in the fitness industry, but the former Brick Township High School football standout was not too big in terms of importance to encourage a child. Durkin offered kind words to six-yearold Brick resident Matthew Dougard, who suffers from leukemia. Durkin came up big at the American Cancer Society Relay for Life at the school on Keller Memorial Field
Inside This Week’s Edition
Business Directory............................ 23 Classifieds......................................... 24 Community News........................ 10-14 Dr. Izzy’s Sound News...................... 18 Fun Page .......................................... 25 Government ....................................... 9 Inside The Law ................................. 28 Letters to the Editor ............................ 8 Wolfgang ......................................... 31
county was maintaining an in-house server network that suffered from too many periods of downtime. The new system includes up-to-date routing software and runs remotely on a cloudbased webserver, meaning the county does not need to maintain physical computers to run the system in-house. Instead, the entire system is maintained over the Internet. (Computers - See Page 20)
By Judy Smestad-Nunn LAKEWOOD – There has been a lot of negative press lately about the surging Orthodox Jewish population in Ocean County, with stories written about aggressive real estate agents trying to bully homeowners of neighboring towns to sell; stories about Lakewood school district deficits caused by transportation and special education costs for children who attend private Jewish schools; about overcrowding in Lakewood and more. None of these issues were addressed at a program held at the Lakewood Library on May 23 called “Heart of the Stranger: A Portrait of Lakewood’s Orthodox Community” and the presentation fell short of audience expectations, attendees said. (Orthodox - See Page 17)
TARGETING SEA NETTLES’ EXPLOSIVE GROWTH
By Judy Smestad-Nunn BRICK – Can anything be done to curtail the explosive growth of stinging Sea Nettles in Barnegat Bay? That was the focus in of four Barnegat Bay Bulkhead Blitz workshops held in May in lagoon-front neighborhoods of Curtis Point in Mantoloking; Berkeley Shores and Good Luck Point in Berkeley Township; and Shore Acres in Brick. Dr. Paul Bologna, director of Marine Biology at Montclair State University, and staffers from the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection used power washers and scrub brushes to dislodge Sea Nettle polyps (Growth - See Page 20)
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