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Vol. 22 - No. 14 Your FREE Weekly Hometown Newspaper | Serving Bayville, Berkeley, Beachwood, Pine Beach, Ocean Gate and South Toms River September 10, 2016
From Empty Plot To Community Garden: Wrangle Brook Volunteers Help Stock Food Pantries BERKELEY – After breaking ground a year ago, the Wrangle Brook Community Garden is flourishing with fresh vegetables for Ocean County food banks, and sites are available for residents to grow their own vegetables. The one-acre tract of land, just off Lakehurst and Southampton Roads near Toms River, was a weeded, vacant lot. Bonney Parker, the Coordinator of the Wrangle Brook Community Garden and a member of the Unitarian Universalist Ocean County Congregation (UUOCC) had a dream to see the vacant lot produce something and become a jewel for the area. The UUOCC members also wanted a social justice project to work on and realized that hunger was a real problem in the area. The community garden will help those less fortunate who don’t have the opportunity to grow fresh vegetables, and do so at a reasonable price. Parker and other church members moved forward in asking Berkeley Township to lease them the land to grow a community garden. “Working with Mayor Amato, I presented the idea to the Council, who in turn, unanimously approved the resolution granting the lease,” said Berkeley Township Councilwoman Judy Noonan. “We were (Garden - See Page 7)
–Photos courtesy Berkeley Township A community garden in the Wrangle Brook neighborhood is giving residents a chance to garden, but is also helping to stock local food pantry shelves.
School Gym Dedicated To DePaola September 11 Ceremonies
–Photo courtesy Berkeley School District Township and school officials join the family of the late Anthony DePaola to rename the school gym in his honor.
By Catherine Galioto BERKELEY – The gym of Berkeley Township Elementary School now bears the name of the former board president who helped to administer its building decades ago, among other accomplishments the late Anthony DePaola achieved in his years of service to the school district and township. In an August ceremony, the Berkeley Township Elementary School Gymnasium was dedicated in honor of former Board of Education Member DePaola. Proclamations were presented from Mayor Carmen Amato, Freeholders (Gym - See Page 4)
To Remember Residents Who Died In Attacks
By Catherine Galioto OCEAN COUNTY – Though the towers of New York City were another state away, the impact was nonetheless felt incredibly close to home. More than a dozen local residents died in the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, in the World Trade Center but also on United Flight 93. Many of their names can be found in local memorials to September
11. Some of the men and women, ranging in ages from 26 to 70, were residents at the time, while others grew up or graduated here. Their names, compiled from archive news reports and September 11 sites, are reprinted here: Peter Paul Apollo, Waretown, World Trade Center, born 1974. John James Badagliacca, of Brick and Staten Island, World Trade (Ceremonies - See Page 4)
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