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| October 14, 2017
Golden Eagles Fly High At Hall Of Fame
By Chris Christopher BERKELEY – Central Regional High School was the scene of a stroll down Memory Lane. Six people were inducted into the Central Regional High School Athletics Hall of Fame. The ceremony took place in the foyer of the Golden Eagles’ gymnasium prior to Central’s Hall of Fame football game against Jackson Memorial. The honorees were also recognized at halftime of the game. Memorabilia from past ceremonies filled the foyer. Honored were Harrie Garris, Bob Breitenbach, Faith Clyburn, Erika Applegate-Walton, Dan Duddy and Chris Alan Gnehm. “This is a very proud school,” said Central athletics director John Scran, who emceed the event, attended by an estimated 150 people. “There is a very proud athletic tradition.” “It’s great for these students to be immortalized,” said Triantafillos Parlapanides, the superintendent of the Central Regional School District. “Harrie (Fame - See Page 6)
–Photos by Chris Lundy (Top) Central Regional Field Hockey coach Agnes Whitfield paints shirts for the team’s fundraising tie dye party. Vendors sold all kinds of food and refreshments at Berkeley Pride Day. By Chris Lundy BERKELEY – The summer concerts are now a happy memory. Berkeley Pride Day capped off a series of community events
that provided all-ages fun at Veterans Park. Every event had a ring of vendors selling food or other items. Many of these were nonprofits that rely on these
events for fundraising. But how much money was raised and what do they do with it? It depends on a lot of factors,
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Family Fun Discovered At Columbus Parade And Italian Fest
By Bob Vosseller SEASIDE HEIGHTS – Long time Parade Chairman Michael A. Blandina said recently that the annual Italian Heritage Festival and Ocean County Columbus Day Parade never rests on its laurels and that he and his committee always try to offer
something new and exciting to those who come out to it. Blandina said that the festival, held from Friday, Oct. 6 to Sunday, Oct. 8 “has become one of the most popular ethnic cultural festivals in the state.” He added that for the past 19 years the parade
committee arranged to bring in “special groups of talented people from Italy to add an authentic spirit of Italian Heritage and Culture to these events.” “This year it was our honor to have for the fi rst time with us the folkloric groups Città di Tropea from the Re-
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gion of Calabria, Italy and La Teglia from the Region of Molise, Italy,” Blandina said. Both Folkloric Groups consisted of around 25 members, divided between singers, dancers and musicians. All were experienced in folklore and wore (Parade - See Page 4)
–Photo courtesy South Jersey Ghost Research A shape that appears to be a person stands in a room in the Burlington County Prison Museum. By Chris Lundy TOMS RIVER – Frednia Brodbeck came out to hear the paranormal investigators speaking at the (Ghost - See Page 22)
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