Vol. 23 - No. 9
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Barnegat Bay Clean-Ups Reach Inland
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Letters To The Editor Page 9.
Dear Pharmacist Quick, What’s Red, Salty, Chewy And Tastes Like Bacon?
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Inside The Law Workers Compensation Basics Page 23.
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- Photo courtesy the NJ DEP The Manchester team filled a 40-yard dumping container, and found two full kitchens in the woods. By Chris Lundy its, coordinated with MANCHESTER - the towns and the New Cleaning up the water- Jersey Clean Commufront is one part of the nities Council. The problem, environmen- “blitz” part is when talists said. The other approximately 5,000 part is cleaning up the volunteers descended areas that drain to the on the area to pick up waterfront. trash and recyclables. During the Barnegat She estimated that the Bay Blitz clean-ups last group will have picked week, employees from up close to 600 cubic the New Jersey Depart- yards of trash from the ment of Environmental watershed. Over the Protection partnered course of eight years with local workers to of blitzes, the total will clean areas of the Bar- be about 32,000 volunnegat Bay watershed, teers and 5,000 cubic including wooded areas yards. that drain into the bay. Often, the groups inThere were more than clude school children. 100 clean-up sites in “We get to educate 33 municipalities, said them now” in how imKatie Ribsin, principal portant the environenvironmental special- ment is, she said. ist for the DEP, and coIn Manchester, a team chair of the Barnegat managed to fill a 40Bay Blitz. This goal yard du mpi ng conwas to reach the entire tainer. They found the 660 square miles of the contents of two full watershed. kitchens that had been To do this, the DEP dumped by someone. partnered with 20 corManchester was just porations and nonprof- (Clean Up - See Page 5)
| June 17, 2017
Kid Collecting Comics For Soldiers
By Chris Lundy JOINT BASE MCGUIRE-DIX-LAKEHURST – In a comic book, every issue has the hero challenged by an enemy and trying to rise above the challenge. They don’t just stop after one issue. So it is with Carl Scheckel. The 10-yearold has made it his mission to send his favorite form of literature - comic books - to soldiers overseas. He’s already been successful once, donating 3,000 books. Now, he’s trying to beat that record. “One of my readers on my website suggested I donate comics to people overseas and to vets in hospitals,” Carl said. Yes, he has a website. On CarlsComix.com, he talks about his favorite stories, reviews comics, and interviews
- Photo courtesy Veterans Affairs Carl Scheckel donated thousands of comic books to soldiers deployed overseas. writers and artists with unprecedented access. A few years ago, he went to comic book camp to make his own comic, called Heammer Head. Part of that project was to create business cards. He put CarlsComix down as
a website, to make it look like he had one. His father asked if he’d want to do this for real, and now he does. And it was through this website, and talking comics with local collectors and dealers, that he was able to accumu-
late a collection. Most kids would sit on their collection, bag and board them, and keep them in boxes forever. Instead, Carl collected Marvel and DC books, and some indie books, and brought (Comics - See Page 5)
Court Volunteers Honored For Their Dedication
By Jennifer Peacock LAKEWOOD – Court Appointed Special Advocates of Ocean County recently honored two people who make a difference to the organization. CASA honored volunteer Barbara Brenner and Ocean County Freeholder Joseph Vicari at CASA’s eighth annual Dining for a Cause at the Woodlake Country Club. Brenner was named CASA’s advocate of the year, by unanimous decision. (CASA - See Page 4)
— Photos by Jennifer Peacock Ocean County Freeholder Joe Vicari, CASA Board President Heather Barone, Jeremy Grunin of the Jay and Linda Grunnin Foundation.
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