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THE BRICK
Vol.15 - No. 34
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December 17, 2016
Shore Acres Road Project
Santa’s Here
–Photo by Judy Smestad-Nunn Shore Acres residents will notice a major roadway improvement project is complete. Above, Cedar Island Drive.
–Photos courtesy Brick Township BRICK – The annual tree lighting featured some help from Santa to spread Christmas and holiday cheer, but also to help flip the switch on the tree outside town hall. The annual event was well attended by residents, including the mayor and council, and featured singing from the Brick High School chorus.
By Judy Smestad-Nunn BRICK – A large project to reconstruct roads in the Shore Acres section around Mandalay Road is essentially complete. It took Lucas Construction of Morganville about two weeks to mill, pave, replace some curbs and install bicycle-safe sewer grates in a neighborhood off Mandalay
New Fees For Mechanical Work
By Judy Smestad-Nunn BRICK – How the township much charge homeowners for some work inspections, and which ones are required, was up for discussion at the recent township council meeting. Until recently, the use of an inspector to oversee certain types of mechanicals in a municipality was optional, but when one was used there was a specific fee schedule for the installation or replacement of certain kinds of equipment. Now the state of New Jersey re-
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quires that municipalities utilize a mechanical inspector for the planning, review, installation and replacement of heating and cooling equipment, such as water heaters and other mechanical equipment like refrigeration, air conditioning, ventilating apparatus, gas piping, heating systems or standby power generators, said Council President Paul Mummolo at the December 6 council meeting. “The requirement is now mandatory. Therefore a change in the fee (Fees - See Page 5)
Road. The roads include Meadow Point Drive, Cedar Island Drive, Cedar Island Court, South View Drive and South View Court. Lucas won the bid at $638,469. Competing bids for the job came in as high as $1.1 million. The road work was part of the 2015 capital budget.
A DAY THAT WILL LIVE IN INFAMY
By Judy Smestad-Nunn OCEAN COUNTY – A local WWII veteran was honored, and was also a guest speaker during a ceremony held on the 75th Anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor. Lakewood resident, Jim DiPiazza, 91, who served in the Pacific theater during the war, was presented with a proclamation by Freeholder Joseph H. Vicari that called the December 7, 1941 attack “a defining moment in the history of the United States.” During a two-wave, two-hour
attack on Pearl Harbor by Japanese warplanes, which began at 7:55 a.m. on a Sunday, over 2,400 people were killed, another 1,000 were wounded, 21 American ships were sunk or damaged, and 300 airplanes were damaged or destroyed, most of which were still on the ground. Nearly half of the casualties were on the naval battleship USS Arizona, which was hit four times by Japanese bombers and eventually sank. The next day, President Franklin D. Roosevelt declared war on Japan.
Before introducing DiPiazza, Head Reference Librarian Elizabeth Cronin said that “commemoration requires remembrance,” and that many who were there during the attack are “fading from living memory.” A group called Pearl Harbor Survivors Society officially disbanded in December 2011 since there too few survivors left to keep the organization running, Cronin said. The Society transferred their assets to the nonprofit Pacific (Veteran - See Page 4)
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