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THE BRICK
Vol.15 - No. 36
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2016 Featured New Top Leadership For Brick
–Photos by The Brick Times Among the 2016 milestones for Brick, clockwise from top right, a new police chief, the mayor’s online outreach and new school board members elected in November. By Judy Smestad-Nunn of schools and a new township department for 35 years. police officer on duty. BRICK – 2016 was a year when business administrator. Since Riccio took over as police One of his goals was to establish there were new names in the It was the year James Riccio took chief last year, he has made some an active neighborhood watch top leadership of the township, the reins from Police Chief Nils changes, including establishing program and now there are four including a new police chief, R. Bergquist II when he retired a police substation on the barrier up and running. a new interim superintendent after serving in the Brick Police island where there is always a (Year - See Page 4)
Shore Acres’ History From La�oon�ront Cotta�es
By Judy Smestad-Nunn BRICK – Once billed by developers as the “Venice of the Jersey Shore,” the waterfront neighborhood of Shore Acres was originally planned as summer community of one-story cottages, built on manmade lagoons that
were carved out of the marshland. “The DEP would never allow that to be done today,” said retired high school math teacher, Betty Jane France (nee Tomlinson), 84, who spent her summers in Shore Acres from the time she was six years old, and who, many years later,
would move into her childhood summer home full-time when she and her husband retired 1991. Development of the original area of Shore Acres–the west side of Drum Point Road from Bayview Drive to Ward Drive–began in the (Shore Acres - See Page 14)
–Photo from France Family collection
December 31, 2016
Grab A Shovel: Brick Wants Snow Corps Volunteers
By Judy Smestad-Nunn BR ICK – Calli ng all able-bodied do -go o de r s t h is winter season: volunteers are needed for the Brick Township Snow Corps to help senior and disabled residents shovel snow from their sidewalks, driveways and walkways after a snowstorm. The program was created by Mayor John G. Ducey after he received a number of phone calls from township seniors after the January 2016 winter storm Jonas dumped over 20 inches of snow in the area. He said he researched online to see if there were any type of volunteer programs, but only found two others: one that just started in Jersey City last year, and a second one in Chicago that just started a few years ago. Most of the adult communities in Brick clear the snow out for their residents, but that’s not the case for the elderly and disabled who live in homes scattered t h roug hout t he tow nsh ip i n different neighborhoods. “A lot of people were stuck in their houses, there was so much snow they couldn’t get their mail and they couldn’t get their cars uncovered,” Ducey said from his office recently. “They were hoping that teenagers would come by and offer to shovel for pay, but they didn’t,” he said. “I remember in the old days the teenagers would be out making money after it snowed.” (Shovcl - See Page 4)
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