2016-06-11 - The Brick Times

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Vol. 15 - No. 7

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Business Directory............................ 22 Classifieds......................................... 21 Community News.......................... 9-12 Dr. Izzy’s Sound News...................... 16 Fun Page .......................................... 23 Government ....................................... 8 Inside The Law ................................. 25 Letters to the Editor ............................ 7 Wolfgang ......................................... 27

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Farmers Market Starts Off Strong

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June 11, 2016

Two Brick Teens Earn Girl Scout Gold

–Photo by Judy Smestad-Nunn Casey L. Earl, left, and Elizabeth Dlugosz, right, of Brick earned their Gold Award, the highest honor a Girl Scout can earn. –Photos by Judy Smestad-Nunn Above, crowds have again taken to the Brick Farmers Market, held each Saturday at Windward Beach Park. At right, friends Silvana Brave, 11, and Brianna Brancati, 15, check out the offerings. By Judy ed to keep the traffic flowing smoothly in Smestad-Nunn and out of the parking lot there, while locals BR ICK – can be seen walking along Princeton AveThe Satur- nue, headed to the market with their reusd ay mor n- able grocery bags tucked under their arms. Recreation Department Coordinator ing Farmer’s M a r k e t a t Christine Hessenkemper said some 37 W i n d w a r d vendors, including seven farmers, have Beach Park is booths at the market, and the township has drawing large received numerous applications for space c r o w d s e a c h from additional vendors. “People want to be here. We haven’t had to week: a special officer is need- turn [vendors] away, but we’re going to max

it out and cap it at about 40 vendors,” she said as she eyed her clipboard at the market on Saturday morning. “We’re going through the approval process now.” This is the second year the market has been open after the township applied for and received a two-year $40,000 U.S. Department of Agriculture Farmers’ Market start-up grant that paid to establish the market, solicit vendors, signage, recycling bags for shoppers, advertising and more, said Township Business Administrator (Farmers - See Page 4)

OCC Softball Finishes Sixth In Nation

By Chris Christopher It was a memorable season for the Ocean County College women’s softball team. The Vikings went 26-13 overall. They won the National Junior College Athletic Association Division III Region XIX Tournament. And they finished sixth at the NJCAA Division III Tournament. The program was born in 1977. It was the first time the Vikings won the Region XIX

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title and the initial time they qualified for the nationals. “Our team was very even keeled,” said Bob Mazanec, OCC’s seventh-year coach. “It never got too high. It never got too low. We rallied to win games a half dozen times. The girls never gave up. They were battlers.” Seven players won postseason honors. Sophomore outfielder Kara Molnar, a Jackson Memorial High School graduate, and

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sophomore pitcher Ashley Hussey (Toms River North) captured first-team all-region and first-team All-Garden State Athletic Conference honors. Sophomore first baseman April Szymczyk (Jackson Liberty), freshman second baseman Kurstin Binshedler (Pinelands Regional) and sophomore shortstop Adelle Hickman (Jackson Liberty) won second-team (Softball - See Page 5)

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By Judy Smestad-Nunn BRICK – Two teens from Brick were among 30 Girl Scouts who were honored at a June 2 ceremony for earning the Gold Award, the highest honor a Girl Scout can earn. Casey L. Earl, 18, and Elizabeth Dlugosz, 16, attended the celebratory dinner at The Mill in Spring Lake, which also commemorated the 100th Anniversary of the Gold Award, equivalent to the Boy Scouts’ Eagle Award but is more difficult to achieve, said Erick Rommel, Chief Communications Officer for Girl Scouts of the Jersey Shore. Less than five percent of Girl Scouts earn the Gold Award, and to eligible, she must have earned a Silver Award and completed one journey (a coordinated series of activities grouped around a theme), or they must have completed two journeys, he said. Then they have to present a service project to a volunteer board who can approve it, suggest revisions or reject it. Earning the Gold Award requires 80 hours of planning and implementing a challenging, large-scale project that is innovative, engages others and has a lasting impact on its targeted community with an emphasis on sustainability, (Scouts - See Page 4)

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