The SandPaper, November 3, 2012 Vol. 38 No. 43

Special Edition: HURRICANE SANDY FREE November 3, 2012 VOL. 38, NO. 43

THE NEWSMAGAZINE OF SOUTHERN OCEAN COUNTY

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We appreciate the hardship caused to all by Hurricane Sandy.

We are working as hard as possible under difďŹ cult circumstances to restore our beautiful island community!

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Election OfďŹ cials Alter Polling Plans....20 High waters won’t disenfranchise voters

Departments Artoon ....................................................................................6 The Fish Story ......................................................................29 Liquid Lines .........................................................................30 The SandBox ..........................................................................6

Cover Photo, Jack Reynolds: Hurricane Sandy wreaked havoc on this oceanfront home in Loveladies. From humble ďŹ shing shacks to grand beachfront mansions, Long Beach Island area homes and their owners found the storm to be a historic leveler.

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for Stafford Twp Council Stafford Township is a special place to live, work, raise a family and retire. Henry Mancini, Paul Krier and Lori Wyrsch are working to ensure it stays that way.

They have made a total commitment to improving the quality of life for the residents of Stafford and are doing the right things today to assure a better future tomorrow.

VOTE REPUBLICAN

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Note to Readers

Precious Memories To the Editor: Long Beach Island has and always will hold a very special place in my heart. Growing up just off the causeway – many people call it the “mainland” – I spent a lot of my time growing up on the Island.

As a child, my father would bring me to Fantasy Island every weekend. We would spend hours there until I got that stuffed animal out of the claw machine that I had my eye on; whatever made me happy. As a teenager, my high school sweetheart lived right in Ship Bottom. We had the time of our young carefree lives just walking around the Island enjoying whatever activities it would throw our way, even if that meant standing on line for hours for the Chegg.

My first job ever (if you’d like to call it that) was a beach badge checker for Long Beach Township. Then I moved on to working at B&B in Ship Bottom for a good part of my late teens and early 20s. We became a family at that store. I still remember my favorite customers. In my early 20s I had moved out of my house with my then fiancé. We moved into a duplex right in Ship Bottom across from the bay. Needless to say, those two years in that duplex were the best years ever. We would venture to Nardi’s, Buckalew’s and the Gateway. You name the bar or restaurant, we made it there at some point and most likely the night ended perfectly.

Lastly, there was the beach. The beach was my sanctuary to get away from the craziness of the world and to collect myself at times.

It was my place to kind of sit back and enjoy life.

I am now married, living in Waretown and working up north 60 hours a week, and had not ventured over the Causeway and past “the shack” in quite some time. However, on a Sunday in early October I decided to take a drive by myself. I drove past Fantasy Island, past my old high school sweetheart’s house, past the beaches I used to badge check, then to B&B in Ship Bottom, on past my first apartment and lastly I ended up on the beach.

Looking back, it was a bittersweet feeling.

Was this LBI’s way of saying goodbye to me?

By taking me on a journey through memory lane?

I am thankful I have these memories and I will never let them go. LBI will be rebuilt and the beach and I will meet again one day.

Melissa Modica Waretown, N.J.

Other Consequences To the Editor: If the storm did “nuthin” else, it wiped out for a while, the annoying political ads, and proved that down here on earth “we ain’t in charge” of anything.

Jack Jones Feasterville, Pa., and Beach Haven

Comprehensive Coverage To the Editor: I want to applaud your paper for the comprehensive coverage of the storm and its aftermath. Residents have been unable to get on the Island and have received minimal information from officials regarding conditions on the Island. Your paper has provided much needed information under these unimaginable circumstances.

Susan Hoff Clifton Park, N.Y., and Beach Haven Crest

Thanks To the Editor: For those of us who live in northern New Jersey, it has been next to impossible to find out what is happening on Long Beach Island.

The SandPaper must be commended for its exceptional coverage of this disaster. Thank you so much for keeping us informed.

With sincere best wishes and gratitude Helen and Vic Fadini Beach Haven

Letters Welcome The SandPaper welcomes letters to the editor. They should include the writer’s full name, address and telephone number. Full addresses and phone numbers are for confirmation purposes only. Letter writers can reach us at 1816 Long Beach Blvd., Surf City, N.J. 08008 or letters@thesandpaper.net.

We bring you this paper, produced in the basement of The SandPaper’s production manager in Cedar Run, with the hope that it will provide useful information about Long Beach Island and the adjacent mainland in the wake of Hurricane Sandy. Our reporters and photographers have been scouring the Island and mainland, posting pictures and stories to our web site, thesandpaper.net, continually since the storm moved into our sights.

Some of them have gone beyond the call of duty, risking their very lives, to bring you this comprehensive picture of the enormous destruction and disruption to life at the shore. We thank them.

This edition of The SandPaper is almost totally devoted to storm coverage. It doesn’t look like anything we’ve ever published before.

And, hopefully, never again. Our paper has never missed publishing a weekly issue in its history. We hope to keep it that way. Please excuse us if this edition is not edited to perfection. We are focused on “big picture” here; petty details might have to fall by the wayside.

We hope everyone is safe and getting a plan together to meet their needs. We will be reporting online on a daily basis and in print to bring residents and anyone with a love of Southern Ocean County the latest news as it becomes available to us.

The SandPaper is proud to be part of a community that can weather a storm like Sandy.

Reporter’s Notebook: Sandy vs. The SandPaper

By MICHAEL MOLINARO o leave or not to leave. That was the question that haunted me until 5:12 a.m. this morning when I decided to head off the Island from the home I rent in Surf City. Should the question be “To be or not to be?” A question of mortality? Or are we all taking this storm too seriously?

You weigh the pros and cons. Stay for the story and have that story to tell your grandkids long into your 90s, for is not all the world a stage on which we play out such adventures? The chance to be a pair of eyes on the ground during a moment in history when all the eyes of the world lay their gaze on the coast of South Jersey. The chance to take albeit amateur photographs and video to the best of your ability to document the damage of Sandy for all of humanity.

You consider your landlord, who had stayed through all storms on LBI through the past 35 years, who came in your front door with the simple phrase “I’m evac,” having created a new adjective. You consider how two of your best friends staying a few streets north in Surf City, whose small fishing

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boat was part of the safety contingency plan evolving in your mind, decided to leave for a relative’s trailer park residence in Tuckerton.

Then there are those you know who are staying. That crazy old surfer drunk getting his GoPro camera ready. Your boss and editor who will camp out at the three-story office beach house on pilings we call The SandPaper and go down with the ship if need be. Your roommate who believes this could all be part of a 2012 doomsday conspiracy.

Still yet there are those whom you promised you would leave, your friends and family, without whom where would you be? You stay up well into the night talking with someone you care about, trying to rationalize your fears. At first the dead silence and calm of the deserted ghost Island seem worth the time you have already decided to stay. Then at some point the chilling creepiness of less-frightening Octobers takes shape in the form of a howling wind, increasing in its cadence, and a rainfall already filling up your street.

I realized the bayside Barnegat Avenue and oceanside Long Beach Boulevard would be flooded at this point, and if I did not leave

then and there, I would not be able to wait until after first high tide of the morning, as I had planned. There would be no video of the sunrise on LBI or pictures of intrepid surfers braving the waves.

Central Avenue appeared fine at first as I headed toward the Causeway and out of this mess. As I got closer to Ship Bottom with the traffic light beacon of Route 72 in the distance, water began appearing on both sides of the street and, as is customary and accepted during such situations, I adjusted my path to Central’s dead center.

As I drove, I watched wind push these flood puddles and extend them like watery fingers into the middle of the road. And then at some point the entire street was flooded, particularly around the Surf City library, and I pushed through. The rain’s intensity had increased, and coupled with the twin geysers of water spouting straight up from my front tires and onto my windshield, my visibility completed dissipated. For the next 20 seconds or so I wondered if my car would make it through the next 10 blocks to that street Continued on Page 25

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The Republican Team Southern Ocean County can count on to Àght for less government spending and quality services for families, seniors and veterans.

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HURRICANE SANDY: A KNOCKOUT BLOW

LBI Reels From Impact; Costs Could Reach $1B From STAFF REPORTS n the wake of what has been called “the costliest storm in New Jersey history,” Long Beach Island has sustained damages totaling $750 million to $1 billion, according to Long Beach Township Mayor Joseph Mancini, factoring in property damage, recovery, debris removal, beach replenishment and other costs.

For now, “there is a lot to assess,” he said. “There will be no permanent residency here until further notice.”

Though no re-entry date for residents has yet been established, it will certainly be no sooner than seven to 10 days. Long Beach Township is working on a plan to let homeowners, by section of the municipality, back onto the Island for a short period only to assess damage, to remove perishable food and to take medicine, clothes, important documents and other necessities before leaving again.

By Sunday afternoon or Monday, there should be a schedule posted on longbeachtownship.com for when LBT residents can come back to get to their houses for that short period of time. The web site is also updated twice a day with other information.

By Friday, the natural gas supply had been cut off to the entire Island to curtail leakages, and electricity remained out, with little hope of restoration in the near future. Officials’ guesses ranged from weeks to months.

Crews have been working diligently to restore utilities, according to an update from the Long Beach Island Joint Office of Emergency Management, representing all six Island municipalities, that was issued on Thursday.

“Currently there is no water or sewer service in the southern part of the island,” the joint office reported.

“The Long Beach Island Health Department is monitoring any health issues that may arise. … Road crews are working with outside contractors to clear roads from sand and debris.

Many areas are impassable on both ends of the island.”

On Long Beach Island as a whole, the record-breaking personal and economic impacts of Hurricane Sandy mark a new chapter in the history of the barrier island and its people.

Aerial images, combined with eyewitness reports on the ground from every Island town, tell a story of widespread destruction that will take months to overcome.

Jim Eberwine, retired meteorologist and hurricane program manager for the National Weather Service in Mount Holly, said Hurricane Sandy turned into a “hybrid storm” that “will be the costliest storm in New Jersey history.” The weather service reported the highest wind gust in the area on Monday at 89 mph at 2 p.m. in Surf City. The weather service registered

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a wind gust in Harvey Cedars at 75 mph at 3:30 p.m.

“Some may call Sandy a hurricane; some may call it a nor’easter,” Eberwine said. “That doesn’t really matter. Whatever you want to call it, it was extremely destructive.”

In spite of mandatory evacuation orders issued on Sunday, some resolute Islanders decided to stay put through the storm and now, in its aftermath, are struggling to get by with no power or heat and with otherwise severely limited resources.

As in any natural disaster, emotions run high, manifesting in acts of courage and fear, human kindness and outrage, desperation and triumph. As the storm surge intensified, heroism took the form of emergency personnel’s efforts to rescue stranded Islanders who had not evacuated on Sunday. Unconfirmed reports of looting and subsequent arrests began circulating as early as Tuesday. In an effort to minimize possibly dangerous and illegal activities during hours of total darkness, officials instituted a curfew from 6 p.m. to 6 a.m. that is being enforced by local police and the Ocean County Prosecutor’s Office. Meanwhile, law enforcement at the local, state and federal levels is actively patrolling the waters around the Island to prevent all attempts to access the Island by boat.

At the present time, the only people granted Island access are contractors or those who have been requested by the town officials, according to the joint office of emergency management. Anyone remaining on the Island is urged to self-evacuate or call a local police department for evacuation assistance. For stranded pets left in homes, arrangements can be made for retrieval by calling local police or by e-mailing bkerlin@lbtpd. org to make a report.

Residents are urged not to call 911 to inquire about their homes or about the possibility of returning to the Island. Such calls only impede the ongoing stabilization and recovery efforts.

Mayor Credits Beach Replenishment Now, the good news: Certain areas of the Island, such as Barnegat Light and portions of Surf City and Ship Bottom, appear to have escaped with only minor damage, which some have attributed to recent beach replenishment projects that shored up the dune system. Likewise, the dunes in Brant Beach appear to have held up well, and homes fared much better because of the beach replenishment there. “Beach replenishment worked. ... The damage wouldn’t have been as catastrophic if the entire Island had been replenished,” Mancini said.

Mancini suggested homeowners who suffered a great deal of dam-

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age because their neighbors refused to sign easements to receive the beachfill project might want to think about initiating lawsuits against those neighbors. For the future of beach replenishment, he said, “we’re going to make sure those easements get signed.”

Meanwhile, other areas have been severely compromised, the worst of which may be the North Beach and Holgate sections of Long Beach Township. On Thursday, in North Beach and Loveladies, Long Beach Boulevard was still covered in piles

of sand that had washed over from the beach, passable only by four-wheeldrive vehicles. Somebody described Holgate as looking “like the surface of the moon.”

At the Island’s marinas, boats were piled on top of each other and some, wrenched free from their moorings, floated away and came to rest in the street or against buildings.

According to Army Corps of Engineers press officer Stephen Rochette, three coastal engineers surveyed the Island by helicopter Wednesday and Thursday. “Their

early impressions are that areas with a recently constructed dune or USACE project fared better than other areas in terms of property damage,” Rochette said. “Nearly all of our projects suffered significant damages (dune and sand losses) in Delaware and New Jersey, but they acted as designed and appeared to have prevented significant damages.

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BATTERED, TORN: (Facing page, from top) Cars and homes in Holgate are chief among the Island’s casualties.

Inundation throughout Beach Haven West lifted boats from trailers and blocks. (This page, clockwise from top left) A once-cozy hearthside space in Loveladies is now a sand-filled wasteland. Kinsey Cove in Harvey Cedars became one with the bay. Homes in Holgate were completely undermined. National Guardsman Sgt. First Class Dilok Boonmema surveys a broken landscape. A flyover on Friday shows the south end suffered two ocean-to-bay breaks.

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HURRICANE SANDY: A KNOCKOUT BLOW Widespread Destruction Has Far-Reaching Effects Continued from Page 10

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HOLGATE HAPPENINGS: (Top) In some cases, even next-door neighbors will find they have been impacted in very different ways. (Above) A bulldozer wastes no time in getting to work on putting sand back where it belongs.

The ocean leveled the dunes.

compare to the 1962 storm in most of the areas he saw. We'll be developing more-formal assessments in the coming days and weeks. You may see our survey crews on the beaches as well, inspecting and photographing damages.”

The Manahawkin Bay Bridge, though closed to public vehicular traffic until further notice, is reported to be “structurally sound and fit to remain in operation,” according to Timothy Greeley, public information officer for the state Department of Transportation.

“To be clear, the main reason that the Route 72 Manahawkin bridge remains closed is the security concerns and public safety issues on the LBI side of the bridge,” Greeley clarified Friday. “Under normal conditions, the bridge is safe for operation.”

However, given the uncertainty of any timeline for cleanup and repair on the Island, the DOT “cannot speak to when it will be reopened,” he said.

Beleaguered police departments and volunteer first responder units on Long Beach Island are getting muchneeded support from the New Jersey National Guard, which has used the Ocean County Southern Service Center in Manahawkin (the former St. Mary’s Parish Center) as its base for operations.

First Sgt. David Moore, public affairs officer, said approximately 100 guard personnel have been deployed.

“We’re basically here to help the local authorities in any way we can,” said Moore. “We have 5-ton trucks and Humvees available for evacuating people. That has probably been our main task. But we also have personnel who are equipped with medical supplies. These vehicles can get to places where the police cars and other

Storm Plays Havoc With Barnegat Township Dock

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urricane Sandy destroyed Barnegat Township’s municipal dock and adjoining bay beach, and also left numerous bayfront homes uninhabitable.

“At the dock, all we have left is the bandshell,” where the summer concerts are held, said Mayor Al Cirulli on Nov. 2. “Everything else is gone. The dockmaster’s station washed away; we don’t even know where it is.”

He said township officials have already begun discussions on getting the area repaired in time for next summer.

“The dock and the beach are focal points for us during the summer season,” Cirulli said. “We’re hoping to get some funding from FEMA (Federal Emergency Management Agency) or any other grants that are out there.”

Cirulli said the storm surge off Barnegat Bay was "at least 10 feet."

“The force of the surge sent a lot of these heavy concrete dividers at the beach right onto Bayshore Drive,” he said.

Cirulli said there was one bay-

front home that was “completely destroyed” and about 15 others that were uninhabitable.

“People living in the bayfront area are being allowed back, but they have to show proper identification to police that have set up barricades,” he said.

Cirulli said the Russell Brackman Middle School had served as a shelter for displaced persons from Long Beach Island and the mainland. It opened on Oct. 28 and closed on Nov. 2.

“At the height of the storm on Monday, we had about 150 people in there,” he said. “A few stayed on until the end.”

The mayor said Hurricane Sandy knocked down trees “all over town.”

He said one downed tree hung over Route 9 just north of Gunning River Road, forcing the state Department of Transportation to set up cones to reconfigure traffic.

Cirulli said that as of Nov. 2, power had been restored to about 85 percent of the municipality.

“We’re extremely fortunate that there were no fatalities,” he said. “I

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SUNK: Only the bandshell remains; the dockmaster’s station is gone. know that a lot of seashore communities north of here got hit a lot worse than we did. There are people who won’t have power for a week to 10 days. If this was a Category 1

hurricane, I shudder to think what would happen if it was a Category 2 or 3.”

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vehicles can’t, and there has been a lot of flooding that makes it inaccessible for many vehicles. We’re covering all 18 miles of the Island.”

Moore said the unit is getting additional support from the guard’s military police outfit in Cherry Hill, an engineering battalion from Hammonton and the 177th Fighter Wing from Atlantic County, among other groups.

“What is most important is that we are here to make sure everyone is safe,” said the sergeant. “We go down the many streets and look for people needing help.

“I don’t know how long we are going to be here. We’ll stay until we get the word that it is time to go.”

Barnegat Light Protected by Dunes At the north end, Barnegat Light "was essentially spared," compared to areas farther south, officials assessed.

"That's what saved Barnegat Light, the multi-layer of dunes," remarked Dave Bossi, borough councilman in charge of public works, whose residence is on Third Street at the north end, where the dunes extend three-quarters of a mile. "We have two or three sets of dunes everywhere in town," he said. Dune grass helps stabilize the sands, and the town's public works department uses fencing in a constructive way, Bossi said.

In Barnegat Light, flood waters covered "from Bay Avenue to Central," Bossi said, "but did not reach the hundred-year-flood mark that FEMA uses. The condos at Fifth Street were built inches above that, and it appears that it did not reach that mark." The ocean breached the dunes in only two places where it could have been "fully expected," Bossi added: at 30th Street, a beach access point, and at Fourth Street and Central, where the beach entrance is open for emergency beach access, he said.

On the borough's web site, a bulletin lists damage as reported by Fire Chief Keith Anderson.

"The Barnegat Light Volunteer Fire Department chief has reported that Barnegat Light was essentially spared as compared to anything south of 30th Street. Oceanside homes suffered no water damage, just some spotty wind effects. Bayside homes may have suffered some flooding depending on location, but no obvious structural damage," the report says.

Photos on Facebook the day after the storm showed the area of Andy's at the Light at the inlet to be flooded.

At Viking Village commercial fishing dock, word that had been relayed to Bossi from Mayor Kirk Larson indicated damage was not major.

"He said it was 2 inches above the Halloween storm (of 1991); Ernie (Panacek) has a mark on the wall."

The town was not without the utility hazards that plagued the rest of the Island, still, on the third day after the storm. "Gas is the biggest issue, and there are still some power lines down," Bossi said. Telephone communication was still out, and cell phone coverage was sporadic. The borough was, however, temporarily supplying water to a Continued on Page 14

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Signs of Life, Interrupted

Everyday Objects, Adrift in the Wreckage TOPSY-TURVY: (Clockwise from above) A 9/11 commemorative photo frame lies amid the debris in Loveladies. A sailboat teeters near 19th Street in Ship Bottom. A beach cruiser, after the ride of its life, comes to rest on its side on Arts Lane in Loveladies.

Councilman Is Fearful BH Borough Hall Is ‘Toast’

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each Haven has set up shop in a vacant room inside the Stafford Township Municipal Building to try to hold together day-to-day operations while its own borough hall is inaccessible.

Borough Clerk Sherry Mason said the move will help Beach Haven perform basic functions such as paying bills and communicating with contractors among various other tasks. Mason also said borough employees are looking to add e-mails and cell phone numbers for the town's emergency notification system to keep residents informed as up-to-theminute as possible. Lauren Rohrer, deputy borough clerk, has also been working on updating the borough's web site, beachhaven-nj.gov/.

"The biggest thing on people's minds is, obviously, when are they going to be allowed back on the Island and get back in their homes," she said.

"We really want to thank Stafford in being so cooperative and helping us set this up."

When, and if, the borough hall can be reopened remains uncertain.

"There was about 4 feet of water

in some spots," Rohrer said. "It's probably going to get very moldy. We haven't been able to get inside and see the extent of the damage."

Councilman Jim White said that if the situation doesn't change anytime soon, the municipal building "may be toast."

"I don't know if it will be able to be remediated," he said. "It's probably a moldy mess. We can't wait much longer. When everyone can come back to the Island, we may have to rent trailers to keep borough hall operations running."

White has been volunteering at the emergency operations center, the former U.S. Coast Guard building on Pelham Avenue. He said the structure is temporarily home to between 60 and 80 emergency personnel including police, fire department and first aid squad volunteers and public works employees.

"We're enduring very tough conditions," he said. "We have no heat or running water."

White said a contingency convoy from a Fraternal Order of Police outfit in Washington, D.C., has provided food and clothing.

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REMAINS: Sandy reduced the beloved Causeway Shack on Route 72 to an unrecognizable smattering of sticks.

"They have also brought along tents and kerosene heaters," said the councilman. "I'm very thankful

for their help because we are overwhelmed. People are doing as best they can to cope with this very dif-

ficult situation."

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INSIDE-OUT: (Clockwise from above) In Holgate, holes have been torn in houses and beachfront views have changed dramatically. Downed wires and trees litter the streets, and homes have been separated from their foundations. Work trucks in North Beach share the road while reconfiguring the sandy terrain. A damaged home in Loveladies shows all the outer layers shorn away to reveal the very bones of the structure.

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"We're feeding water to Harvey Cedars; they were getting a new pump," Bossi said.

As the Island’s narrowest area, Harvey Cedars experienced the joining of ocean and bay in at least two spots, Essex and Bergen avenues, according to Harvey Cedars Mayor Jonathan Oldham. About 50 borough residents who had planned to stay on the Island through the storm changed their minds Monday and were evacuated by the High Point Volunteer Fire Co. in Harvey Cedars, Oldham said.

A six-wheel-drive rescue vehicle took them across the bridge, where they were shuttled to evacuation centers at Southern Regional High School in Manahawkin and Pinelands Regional High School in Little Egg Harbor.

Acute back bay flooding in Harvey Cedars inundated the roadways with at least 24 inches of water, reported Holly Avenue resident Dan Sheplin.

At the intersections of Long Beach Boulevard and Cumberland and Union avenues, the water was probably between 30 and 36 inches at one point, he added. He said the beaches broke through on the south end of the borough and neighboring North Beach in Long Beach Township.

“If it wasn’t for beach replenishment, the damage in Harvey Cedars would have been catastrophic. We would have lost a lot of homes. The homes on the oceanfront would have gone quickly.”

Scenes of “Mayhem” In Beach Haven Deborah Whitcraft, based in her New Jersey Maritime Museum in

Beach Haven, called the storm carnage on Long Beach Island “mountains of mayhem.”

Beach Haven experienced breaches in many places, she said on Friday morning, describing the beachfront Sea Shell Resort and Beach Club on Centre Street as “demolished,” in terms of its outdoor Tiki Bar and pool area, the huge east-facing picture windows, which were shattered, and the entirety of the ground floor banquet room, nightclub and guest rooms.

Boats that were on blocks at Morrison’s Marina are in piles, butting up against the Beach Haven Marlin and Tuna Club. A recently built wooden walkway along Dock Street is now in pieces, resembling “a bunch of toothpicks stacked up.” The Fifth Street and Pearl Street pavilions are gone.

“It ain’t pretty,” she said. “It’s just overwhelming right now.”

A newly installed, state-of-the-art computerized water system in the borough was never properly shut off, according to Whitcraft, so the system continued to run during the storm.

That resulted in a total failure to the system, which will amount to “major bucks” in costs to repair, she said.

At the museum, the flood water rose to about 5 feet, Whitcraft said, and came within inches of entering the first floor. The elevator and garages were wiped out, but the priceless maritime artifacts are safe, so she counts herself lucky. “I can’t replace the contents of the building,” she said.

The roadways in Beach Haven are passable, Whitcraft reported, but heading south toward Holgate, one encounters “huge dunes” of sand in the middle of the main thoroughfare.

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he unoff icial U.S. Postal Service creed promises that “Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds.”

“Or even Hurricane Sandy,” added Postmaster Brian Sheeran, who has been working 16-hour days through the week to help set up operations that have amounted to giving Long Beach Island residents the ability to pick up their mail at the Tuckerton Post Office as of 10:30 a.m. Friday. Residents of towns other than Barnegat Light can retrieve their mail at the retail center at 139 East Main St. in Tuckerton after presenting a photo ID, while Barnegat Light residents can now pick theirs up at the Manahawkin Post Office, located at 525 East Bay Ave. The Tuckerton Post Office can be reached at 609-294-1858, and the Manahawkin Post Office at 609-978-2192 if residents have any questions.

Sheeran normally oversees operations at all five Long Beach Island post offices other than Barnegat Light, which uses post office boxes exclusively. He said Tuckerton was chosen due to its increased space compared to Manahawkin, which already had been inundated with Beach Haven West mail it has been unable to deliver.

Deliveries have been made since Wednesday to any areas the post office has access to, as Tuckerton was also hit hard by Sandy and many areas are unreachable. The post office is working with police to learn what areas can have carriers sent to them as the recovery and cleanup continue.

As of noon Friday, the Tuckerton Post Office had two full truckloads of mail to go through. Sheeran added that post office employees are among the displaced from LBI and other areas, and some have joined

up at the Tuckerton station, while some from Tuckerton have been relocated as far as Pleasantville based on where a given carrier lives and what facility he or she has access to.

The effort is part of an ongoing adjustment of deliveries, employees and even the sort schemes of the machines in processing plants such as the one Southern Ocean County’s mail comes from, in Bellmawr.

“We had to change the mail from being sorted by delivery sequence to now being in street order and numerical order so we can find it easier based on your address when you come in,” Sheeran said.

“Right now everyone’s doing a phenomenal job and working very hard. We are pulling this together, and we want to make this as normal as possible for people and help make it as easy a transition as possible for people.”

Sheeran – who has been working for the postal service for more than 30 years and been a postmaster for more than 20 – said the 16-hour days have done little to slow down his drive to get people important mail that he knows may already include insurance company or disaster relief information for those who have suffered damage during the storm.

“It’s extremely important, and we’ve made a strong, concentrated effort to get this task completed in the short time we’ve done so. This is a challenge that personally I’m excited to do because I see a lot of people that have been helping strangers, and I feel a strong obligation to get this done and be a part of that.”

In 2001, a USPS commercial airing after the events of Sept. 11 added “nor a nation challenged” to its creed. It would seem that 11 years later, despite all of the challenges it has faced, the U.S. Postal Service continues to uphold its creed.

— Michael Molinaro michaelmolinaro@thesandpaper.net

Overall, the property damage is “incomprehensible.”

“The majority of property owners don’t know, and they won’t know, until they see it.”

Though Whitcraft is glad she stayed, she said the worst part of the experience has been visiting the nearby properties of friends who are off-Island and breaking the news to them about the condition of their properties.

“That’s the part that hurts the worst,” she said.

Contrary to rumor, the Ferris wheel at Fantasy Island Amusement Park remains upright. The water slides at Thundering Surf Water Park also appear to have withstood the storm.

On Tuesday morning, Ship Bottom Mayor William Huelsenbeck quipped, “Nobody is going to talk about the ’62 storm anymore.” Huelsenbeck reported many borough homes had 3 to 6 feet of water inside. The dunes were breached in several areas of Ship Bottom, he said.

Video footage shot by Alliance for a Living Ocean Executive Director Chris Huch with a vehicle-mounted camera shows the extent of post-storm damage, as seen from the Boulevard in many sections from Holgate to Surf

City. The videos are posted on ALO’s Facebook page. Huch summarized the Island’s status as follows.

Barnegat Light: Flooding, but very little damage.

Loveladies, Harvey Cedars and North Beach: Numerous breaches, heavy damage.

Surf City: Some breaches at north end, flooding, but less damage.

Ship Bottom: Flooding, but less damage.

Brant Beach: Heavy flooding, several smaller breaches.

Beach Haven: Several small breaches, heavy flooding, some damage.

Holgate: Full breaches, heavy damage. Satellite imagery from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration shows a new inlet has formed at the southern end of the Edwin B. Forsythe National Wildlife Refuge.

“I can’t imagine how many months of cleanup (are ahead),” Whitcraft said. “It’s just a really sad state of affairs.”

Y This story was compiled by Victoria Lassonde, with contributions from Eric Englund, Juliet Kaszas-Hoch and Maria Scandale. victorialassonde@thesandpaper.net

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Undeterred by Sandy, Post Office Reroutes LBI Mail to Tuckerton

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Recovery Efforts Already Under Way HELPING HANDS: (From top) National Guard members convene in Loveladies. Brothers Justin and Jason Marti are members of the High Point Volunteer Fire Co., which, during the storm, served as a place for evacuees to await transportation off the Island and, afterward, as a place for emergency personnel to recalibrate, rest and refuel.

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HURRICANE SANDY: MAINLAND MAYHEM Hurricane Devastates Tuckerton, Little Egg Waterfront Sections

By PAT JOHNSON ow that the wind and tides from Sandy’s wrath have receded, local officials are concerned with gas fires. On Wednesday, Tuckerton officials continued to keep residents out of Tuckerton Beach from fear that sparks could ignite leaking gas lines. In the Mystic Island section of Little Egg Harbor Township, volunteer firefighters had already responded to five house fires.

Residents were slowly cleaning up their homes in Mystic Island. Boats and floating docks were everywhere, overturned on roads or in the marshes.

One man was seen rowing his dock back to his property on West Raritan Drive by lagoon.

The storm had started with high tides on Sunday followed by fierce wind and unprecedented flooding.The hurricane eye made landfall around 6 p.m. Monday, but an eerie calm was just false security as the back end of the storm hit at high tide and brought the worse damage, said Tom Paxton, owner of Great Bay Marina, at the very end of Radio Road facing Great Bay. Sandy had tossed boats in Paxton’s boatyard together into clusters and thrown some into the adjoining marsh.

“I’ve been here 40 years and I’ve never seen something like this,” he said. “We were here all night with no sleep. The first half of the storm was fine, just a normal hurricane, but then it came around from the southeast, and that devastated us. All the boats piled up in a corner and broke up every dock we had and damaged the building.

“We had 3 to 4 feet of water in the building, and we’re trying to clean up a little bit,” said Paxton. “The hardest part was talking to the insurance company and FEMA because I didn’t like the answers. They said because I have good credit, they may not be able to help me rebuild. The flood insurance will cover the building, but

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they don’t cover the outside. I hope we can make it.”

In the Dynasty Diner in Tuckerton, a mechanic with Verizon from Pennsylvania said this was the last day of his 30-year career. “I was looking forward to retiring down here, but this is a nightmare. That was the plan, but now, who knows?” He had 4 feet of water in his home in Mystic Island.

“I never had water over the bulkhead before,” he said.

Jerry Schultz, president of the Tuckerton Beach Association, was also having breakfast with his wife, Dot. They were taking a break from their duties as Certified Emergency Response Team members and fire police for Tuckerton borough. Schultz had taken a tour of the beach area and was fielding some calls from his 280 members.

“My heart goes out to them. I’ve seen the devastation first-hand, and I know what they are going to see.

Some are not going to recognize their homes.

“The worst area is Parker Drive.

The houses were right on the bay, and many of them are gone. Some are just a pile of lumber; they’ll have to bulldoze them.

“At Sheltered Cove Marina, the boats are stacked two and three on top of each other, upside down, all which ways.”

Schultz said his own home, on Anchor Road, had water damage.

“I was able to get into my back yard yesterday, but the water level was up to my neck. The houses that are 10 feet up on pilings just have devastation below them. The houses that are up 4 feet have real devastation.

“The TBA slogan is ‘In Unity There's Strength,’ and that’s how we are going to survive this.”

Schultz is also a volunteer with the Great Bay Regional EMS and was on his way to do his duty-shift. Dot had helped serve more than 500 meals to those evacuated to Pinelands Regional

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Junior High School. She was going back to help serve dinner. “We’re 70 years old and we’re doing this,” said Schultz.

“The Great Bay personnel are working around the clock. They are bleary-eyed, they look like zombies, but they keep going out on call after call,” he added. “Our captain, Al Gentless, and his wife lost their home in Mystic Island, and they are still out there helping others.”

At the corner of West Calabreeze Drive and South Portland in Mystic Island, Patrick Munnia was helping his father, Gary, clean out the home they had inherited from his grandfather. From the marks on the walls they estimated they’d had 3 feet of water in the house.

“We don’t have flood insurance because we don’t have a mortgage,” said Patrick. “We have put in an appeal to FEMA, but it’s a rigorous process.”

On West Raritan Drive, Dick Whitney said Sandy had ruined his

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arold Spedding, Tuckerton borough’s emergency management director, announced Friday that the Tuckerton Beach area will reopen on 8 a.m. Saturday to residents and business owners only.

The beach area was closed to all traffic following Hurricane Sandy's landfall Monday.

The Tuckerton Beach area was the hardest hit in the borough, with 32 homes completely “missing,” 280 severely damaged, 260 moderately damaged and 81 homes without damage, according to Tuckerton’s construction officials’ first estimate.

Residents have been questioning the blockade of the past few days, but Spedding said, “Our biggest concern was keeping the residents safe.”

To access the Tuckerton Beach area, residents must have proof of ownership – a driver’s license, tax bill, telephone bill, anything that shows a resident’s name and address.

Residents should wear protective clothing, hard-soled shoes, work gloves and perhaps a face mask.

“The Tuckerton Beach area is still a disaster area. Debris fills your property, and many dangerous sharp items will prove to be hazardous,” said Spedding.

“Anyone who has an elevated home up on pilings should consider bringing a ladder because in most cases, the staircases are gone,” he added.

Spedding said the vast majority of people have understood the borough’s need to secure the area from gas leaks

and the possibility of electrical fires.

“We understand their frustration, but the last gas leak was repaired Thursday afternoon. The danger still exists, and homeowners must have their gas meters and electric panels inspected prior to having service returned.”

There is no water or sewer service in the beach area, he continued.

“Those people who have homes that are not damaged may occupy their homes, but they must deal with these conditions and not ’s*** in a bucket and throw it out the window.’”

Spedding laughed at the next question. “Yes, residents may put debris on the side of the road – along with the four boats, six docks and eight tons of seaweed in their front yard.”

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dock and deck, but his boat was still floating. He had borrowed a wrench from a neighbor to turn off the gas service at the meter. A fire truck down the street was responding to a complaint of a gas leak. “What’s happening is people are coming back and turning on their electric, and that is sparking a fire if the gas is leaking,” said Whitney.

West Tuckerton Volunteer Fire Co. Assistant Chief Rob Shahinian said his crew was doing a great job.

“We have been evacuating people, chasing wires and trees, doing a lot for three days.”

The water came across Radio Road and flooded a strip mall where John and Sonia Spinelli have operated their luncheonette for 10 years.

“There was 4 feet of water in here.

I was chasing minnows and putting them back in the lagoon,” said Sonia.

“Everything was upside down, the refrigerators were on the floor, and the food was spoiled. It was unbelievable.

But our customers have been great.

A lot have offered to help. What can you do? You can’t sit down and cry.”

Tim Colmyer stopped in with a generator for the Spinellis to use. “I come in for breakfast every day. I live up on Parkertown Drive and I don’t have any damage so I feel bad for a lot of people.” Colymer said his wife is a real estate agent and was getting calls for rentals from people who had been flooded out.

Out on Beach Drive on Osborn Island, Tom Green was helping his aged parents by bringing couches and stuffed, soggy chairs out to the lawn to possibly dry. “It's like the unwanted yard sale,” said Green. “It’s disheartening looking at my parents’ belongings destroyed.”

His mother, Veronica, and father, James Sr., were in the bedroom assessing what clothes could be saved.

“We were evacuated and just got back today,” Veronica said. “We stayed with a daughter in Jackson.” Veronica, 77, is a retired letter carrier from South Continued on Page 18

Some Little Egg Residents Face Condemnations

By PAT JOHNSON he Little Egg Harbor municipal offices were closed on Wednesday to all but those paying their property taxes, but upstairs, township officials were readying for the next phase of storm recovery: the unhappy task of condemning homes.

Residents had already started their cleanup efforts and mounds of household belongings grew on the streets, but construction code official Jay Haines had a stack of orange stickers that would keep many from moving back anytime soon. “We have to make sure they are structurally sound,” said Business Administrator Garrett Loesch.

Township officials had met earlier in the day with the superintendents from Pinelands Regional and Little Egg Harbor school districts and together made the decision to suspend reopening school to students.

“There are so many displaced families,” said Police Chief Richard Buzby, “it would be unrealistic to try and get them (children) ready for school when they have no homes.”

Buzby said the evacuation center at Pinelands Regional Junior High School would remain open as long as people needed a place to stay, and when school resumes, “I am working on finding another shelter for our residents that need it,” he said.

Committeeman Gene Kobryn had spent the last two days serving meals to those displaced by the storm. “On Monday night, we had 560 people, but on Tuesday we had less as people found other accommodations with family and friends,” he said.

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Little Egg Harbor Continued from Page 16 the residents of Seacrest Village Nursing and Rehabilitation Center, located near the Mystic Shores community. The area was less affected by rising tidal water, and Kobryn said they had been returned to their facility by Tuesday evening.

Deputy Mayor Ray Gormley noted that for the second time in two years the eye of a hurricane came through Little Egg inlet. “We had overwhelming destruction, with the hardest hit being Iowa Court on Osborn Island. They took a direct (hit), being on the edge of Great Bay. But we had major damage in Mystic Island and Great Bay Boulevard, and the back side of Atlantis.�

Gormley said Mayor John Kehm had evacuated from his home and was taking care of his family that day. Assistant Business Administrator Mike Fromosky also had evacuated and said he had taken 4 feet of water in his home on Atlantis Boulevard. “We have members of the police department, volunteer ďŹ re departments and Squad 85 volunteers that have lost ther homes, and they are still working,â€? Fromosky noted.

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Rob and Heather Duberson’s condo in “The Sanctuary� had escaped damage despite being close to the end of Radio Road near the edge of Great Bay. Rob had evacuated with his basset hound, “Puppy,� and the couple’s four cats while his wife had elected to stay during the storm.

Duberson said the water had come up to their fourth step but no farther. Unfortunately, lulled by last year’s local nonevent of Hurricane Irene, he hadn’t bothered to move their cars, and they were ruined. He had waited and watched the water

“I don't even have words to describe the heroic efforts of the great volunteers we have in our community,â€? said Gormley. “The members of the business community stepped up with donations of food.â€? “There was a magniďŹ cent effort of our ďŹ rst responders, members of our public works; a large amount of people helped with the evacuation,â€? Buzby said. “Despite all our efforts, we did have one person who lost their life. “We started notifying our residents by Nixel (a free community-based app) and the Wildcat channel last Thursday, but I think because Hurricane Irene had been such a non-event, it caused a false belief in people that this storm was not a danger. It was obvious to us, and we got to everyone who asked for help.â€?

Buzby said the decision to continue to make the shelter pet-friendly was because they knew from past experience that some people would not leave their homes without their pets.

He also said Little Egg Harbor School District would be providing meals to displaced families.

The number to contact the Federal Emergency Management Agency for disaster assistance is 1-800-621-3362 or FEMA.gov.

Y rise on Sunday, then called the LEH police to be evacuated during Monday’s low tide, he said. He was picked up in a military truck. “It was raining and there was no top on it, and we went around and picked up other people, about a dozen of us – and the cats were drenched in their carriers.�

Duberson said by the time he made it to the shelter, there were no cots or blankets left, so he spend the night sitting on a stool in the room with the pets.

His wife slept through the storm.

Shannon Kramer had also elected to ride out the storm with her family in her home on North Burgee. “We had 5 feet of water in the house. It was crazy; the bay was pushing on our house.

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HURRICANE SANDY: AFTERMATH UPDATES Polling Plans Adjusted So High Waters Won’t Disenfranchise Voters F

By RICK MELLERUP ar too many residents of Long Beach Island and the bayside neighborhoods of Southern Ocean County’s mainland communities have lost part or all of their homes and belongings because of Hurricane Sandy. It is a safe bet to say many have also lost their usual polling places and/or access to them. But they won’t lose their right to vote as long as they can make their way to the Ocean County Southern Service Center, located at 179 South Main St. (Route 9) in Manahawkin, a block south of the Route 72 interchange.

Drew Holt, a member of the Ocean County clerk’s staff at the Southern Service Center, said the SSC will be open until 9 p.m. on Thursday, Nov. 1; from 8 a.m. until 9 p.m. on Friday, Nov. 2; from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Saturday and Sunday, Nov. 3 and 4; and from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Monday, Nov. 5 to accept vote by mail applications.

Not only that, said Holt, but Southern Ocean County residents, after having their vote by mail applications accepted, can receive ballots and do their voting on the spot. They can turn over their completed ballots to a representative from the Ocean County Clerk’s Office.

Let’s repeat that: “They can fill out their ballot here,” said Holt.

Ballots for the following municipalities will be available: Beach Haven, Long Beach Township, Ship Bottom, Surf City, Harvey Cedars, Barnegat Light, Little Egg Harbor, Tuckerton, Eagleswood, Stafford, Barnegat, Lacey and Ocean Township (Waretown).

All Ocean County voters may fill out the vote by mail application and receive ballots for their municipality at the Ocean County clerk’s temporary location at the County Administration Building in Toms River, located at 101 Hooper Ave., Room 116. The clerk’s office relocated there on Monday after losing power at the Ocean County Courthouse.

“We realize this is a very stressful time for all our residents, and now we are offering two locations in the northern and southern portions of our county to ensure that every registered voter has the opportunity to cast a ballot despite the impact of Hurricane Sandy,” said Ocean County Clerk Scott M. Colabella.

Colabella’s office warned that anybody who had mailed in an application for a vote by mail ballot and has not received it should, due to possible delays and disruptions in mail service, reapply in person.

What about members of the Southern Ocean County diaspora who are hunkering down with friends or relatives or staying in hotels at inland locations far from Ocean County? Can they go to any county clerk’s office in New Jersey to receive a ballot in this

time of emergency? That question can’t be answered yet. There is no information on the web site of the N.J. Department of State, which oversees the state Division of Elections. When the Department of State was reached on the phone by The SandPaper, a reporter was given the name and number of the division’s media liaison, but her message box was full.

Something to remember when applying for a vote by mail ballot: You must be a registered voter, and the deadline for registering for the Nov. 6 election was Oct. 16. There is no extension for registering.

The General Election of 2012 is a huge one in many ways. New Jersey residents will, of course, be voting for a U.S. president as well as a U.S. senator and U.S. House of Representatives member. Ocean County voters will also be casting their ballot for two seats on the Ocean County Board of Chosen Freeholders and picking an Ocean County sheriff.

What makes this election even more important than normal, though, is that many voters will also be picking the members of their local and regional school boards and local governing bodies.

School board elections were formerly held in April, but Gov. Christie signed a law on Jan. 17 that allowed them to be held at the same time as the November General Election as long as their budget increase did not exceed a 2 percent cap. Most school districts in the state quickly made the switch, hoping for increased voter participation. Some people did object, worrying that partisan politics might intrude into public education, but the hope for more voter participation prevailed.

Non-partisan municipal elections in towns such as Long Beach and Stafford townships used to be held in May. But in 2010, the state allowed them to switch to November elections as well, but they would lose their nonpartisan status. Many did, with the main reason usually being the cost savings that could be realized by having just one election in November, thereby reducing the number of poll workers hired, etc.

There will also be two statewide questions on the ballot. One asks voters to allow New Jersey to borrow $750 million for upgrades of the physical plants of the state’s colleges and universities; $300 million would be allocated to Rutgers University and the New Jersey Institute of Technology. The state’s eight other public colleges and universities would receive $247.5 million in total. New Jersey’s community colleges would be given $150 million. Even the state’s private colleges and universities, with the exception of those having a total endowment of more than $1 billion Continued on Page 31

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INSIGHT: As homeowners absorb a new reality in the post-Sandy paradigm, answers to the most pressing initial questions will help set them on the path toward recovery. This Loveladies home is one of many that will require complex considerations from the ground up.Andy Anderson of Anderson Agency cautions not to expect results to happen quickly.

Navigating the Insurance Process: Local Agent Offers an Overview

By MARIA SCANDALE here do we go from here?

For many who lost homes in the Long Beach Island and adjacent waterfront communities, the question is literal.

The parking lot was full on Friday, Nov. 2 at the Anderson Insurance Agency in Manahawkin. At times a line went out the door as local flood victims started to sort out insurance questions.

The differences between what damage is covered by homeowners insurance and flood insurance, and covered by the Federal Emergency Management Agency relief through the National Flood Insurance Program, is of utmost importance now as property owners are seeking to file claims.

In an interview with agency President Andy Anderson on Friday, Anderson lent an overview of some of the most frequently asked questions today. Anderson is past chairman of the Flood Insurance Producers National Committee and past president of the Professional Insurers Association of New Jersey.

“First, I think what we have to do is take a deep breath and recognize that nothing is going to happen quickly. Damage is so widespread, and infrastructure has to be replaced first,” said Anderson, whose agency has been in business since 1967.

“We would ask that those who have secondary homes respect and appreciate the needs of those who have lost their primary homes and let their needs be met first.”

Among the year-round population of 8,000 to 10,000 on Long Beach Island, the bulk of the damage is to homes built prior to 1974, which were typically not elevated to the 100-year stormwater height estimate.

“It appears that the vast majority of them have suffered damage.

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remarked during the phone interview as he watched from his Manahawkin office on Route 72.

“There is going to be a lot of confusion about what FEMA’s role is in all of this. The first avenue to pursue is your flood insurance. There is a misunderstanding on the role of FEMA vs. the role of your flood insurance company. Your flood insurance policy comes first,” he said.

“Your flood insurance policy will address the items covered by insurance, building and contents only.

FEMA may address your added living expenses,” he said, referring to the cost of renting a temporary living space, for instance. “FEMA may address some of the items you did not have insurance for,” Anderson added.

“Typically, FEMA will not do much for you until your insurance claims are settled. And in certain cases that will mean your flood insurance proper, and your traditional homeowners or business owners property insurance.

“Regarding folks who did not buy a flood insurance property – and that is quite a few, since a $100,000 policy for an older, non-elevated home costs about $800 per year – FEMA will listen to them on an individual basis," Anderson said. “We will all find out as this progresses. Things are going to happen a little on the slow side because the damage is so widespread.”

Links to FEMA web sites containing more information can be found through the Anderson Agency web site at www.aiainsure.com.

As flood-struck residents try to sort out insurance questions, many are wondering where they are going to live until conditions settle into whatever their new normal will be.

“Temporary housing is an issue right now. Flood insurance doesn't cover that, so, again, you would go to FEMA with that request,” said Anderson.

“A homeowner's policy typically will provide coverage for added living expenses, but only when the home is uninhabitable as a result of a loss

that is covered by the homeowner's policy,” Anderson reported. "For instance, wind damage is covered.

Therefore, if you can't live in the house because of wind damage, then the homeowner's policy will pay your added living expenses ... but not when the home is damaged by flood. That's where FEMA comes in, to help you with that rent that isn't covered by other insurance.”

Customers coming into the office are telling the agents that they are having trouble finding temporary housing; there aren't a lot of rentals out there. “And they don't know how long they need to rent a house for – one month, two months, six months, a year. So it’s difficult for them to make a commitment.”

Added to that, “You still have to pay your mortgage, your taxes, insurance for a home that is damaged,” Anderson noted.

Extra help and extra phone lines are at work to handle customers at the office, and the Anderson Agency is staying open on Saturdays and Sundays.

One might wonder where FEMA will get the money to address all the claims. To that question from The SandPaper, Anderson answered, “They said they’d tap into the federal treasury and print more money ... that's how it’s done.”

When the shore is rebuilt, it will be rebuilt with more compliance to current regulations, Anderson said.

“A lot of people around the country are complaining about ‘Gee, we’re subsidizing their premiums and encouraging them to build in high-risk areas.’ That’s not exactly true. The new homes that are elevated, their premiums are not subsidized by anybody. It’s only the old, non-elevated homes that get any kind of premium subsidy.”

Enclosures underneath elevated homes, built with breakaway walls, are “sacrificial” and are not covered by flood insurance policies, Anderson added.

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AFTERMATH UPDATES Chamber Sets Up Temporary Office For Businessfolk

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usiness must go on as soon as possible, so a temporary office has been set up in Stafford Township by the Southern Ocean County Chamber of Commerce for all area businesses to conduct meetings and other activities.

“Due to the severity of Hurricane Sandy, we have opened a temporary office at the Stafford Heritage Park Train Station and Rail Car across from Manahawkin Lake between routes 9 and 72,” the chamber announced Oct. 31.

“This will serve as a regional recovery center for local businesses and consumers to stay in touch during this period,” said the announcement on the chamber’s web page, visitlbiregion.com.

Updates can be followed on facebook on the page LBI Region for official chamber of commerce communications (for those who are able to get on the Internet, of course).

The announcement adds that messages can be left at the center.

“For members and all area businesses, please go to the new location for a meeting point, to leave messages for your customers, and details on you and your business, so we can best serve you at this time. We will be open daily and will have a drop box for you to leave information at any time.”

The chamber’s destination marketing director, Lori Pepenella, added on Wednesday, “If you’re looking for private meeting space to meet with clients, or officials regarding rebuilding, there is space available at the train station.

The chamber’s regular office is located on the incoming Causeway in Ship Bottom, where flooding was severe. —M.S.

LBI Residents Urged To Avoid Flood Waters

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lood water can be contaminated with hazards ranging from sewage to submerged sharp objects, authorities are warning. An advisory on the hazards of coming into contact with flood water was issued Nov. 1 by the Long Beach Island Health Department.

“All residents from Long Beach Island are advised to avoid direct contact with flood waters.

Flood waters may be unsafe by containing harmful bacteria, sharp objects and other hazardous conditions,” the alert states.

“It is recommended that individuals wear protective clothing, gloves and boots when coming in contact with standing water. Wash and disinfect soiled clothing and wash your hands frequently,” the alert summarizes.

In some areas, flood waters are still pooled on the ground or standing in buildings.

“When returning to your home after a flooding emergency, be aware that flood water may contain sewage,” adds the web site, www.lbihealth.com.

Further information and additional links can be found at the this web site, the health department advises.

For those who do not have access to the Internet, phone numbers are listed for more information.

For the Department of Health Hotline, which will answer questions about food/water safety, cleaning and mold removal, call 211 or 1-866-234-0964.

Among the additional details on the site is an advisory about wound infections.

“Open wounds and rashes exposed to flood waters can become infected. To protect yourself and your family: “• Avoid exposure to flood waters if you have an open wound.

“• Cover open wounds with a waterproof bandage.

“• Keep open wounds as clean as possible by washing well with soap and clean water.

“• If a wound develops redness, swelling, or drainage, seek immediate medical attention.” —M.S.

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HELP FOR THE FALLEN: In places such as Holgate, where houses have sustained some of the most extreme damage, homeowners can take some comfort in knowing they need not wait to begin the process of applying for federal assistance.

Picking Up the Pieces: How to Contact FEMA

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esidents and business owners who suffered damage in Ocean County during Hurricane Sandy can begin applying for Federal Emergency Management Agency assistance immediately, say county officials.

To register, go to www.disasterassistance. gov or m.fema.gov or call 1-800-621-3362 or 1-800-462-7585 (TTY).The phone numbers will operate 7 a.m. to 10 p.m. daily until further notice.

Also, the Internet link to information on FEMA disaster aid for individuals and businesses is: http://www.fema.gov/newsrelease/president-declares-major-disaster-

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The above information was provided by the Ocean County Office of Public Affairs & Tourism through its director, Jeanne DiPaola.

DiPaola wrote the letter below to the business and residential community and sent it out by e-mail Oct. 31.

“On behalf of Freeholder Tourism Liaison, Joseph H. Vicari, and the members of the Ocean County Tourism Advisory Council, please know that our thoughts and prayers are with you as we clean up, assess our losses and begin to move forward after the devastating damage we suffered from Superstorm Sandy.

Our Tourism Office remains committed to getting out to you the information you need to facilitate the recovery of your homes and businesses. As we have shown in past storms, we who live near the sea are strong and resilient, we pitch in to help our friends and neighbors, and we survive to rebuild and get ready for the next year. Please feel free to call me with any questions or concerns you have, and I’ll do my darnedest to get you the answers you need.”

DiPaola’s phone numbers are: 732-9292000 or Toll-free: 800-722-0291, extension 7863. —M.S.

Distressed Property Owners, Beware of Scams

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he scams are out there; make sure they don’t enter the door.

A Spray Beach homeowner, who would rather not be identified in the media, got a phone call Thursday from a man who claimed to be an insurance adjuster, but who stopped talking when the homeowner pressed for his identification. Then the line went dead.

“Her house has a lot of water damage, and she got a call that was most likely a scam call,” reported the boyfriend of the homeowner’s daughter. “She is not sure it was a scam or not.

But she had worked in insurance for many years, and she wants people to ask the right questions.”

The caller said he was an “independent insurance adjuster” calling from Newark, N.J., and “could be there today,” the homeowner reported.

He had a Southern accent, she said.

Already wary, she asked for a phone number and was given one, but when she asked who he was affiliated with, “he wouldn’t tell her,” the tipster to The SandPaper said.

“She asked who he was working for, and either he just hung up, or the call got disconnected.”

Authorities from states affected by Hurricane Sandy have been warning consumers to be alert to whom they are dealing with, as scams and thefts are common after natural disasters.

In the temporary mainland office of the Southern Ocean County Chamber of Commerce, set up in Heritage Park across from Manahawkin Lake, security agency owner Keith Gunsten was talking about a related issue on Thursday. He said property owners should be aware that there are state guidelines and licensing that govern properly run security companies.

“There are a lot of people doing it that aren’t

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KEEP OUT: Con artists capitalize on the vulnerable during trying times. Don’t be a victim twice. really licensed,” said Gunsten, owner of the licensed Keith R. Gunsten Investigation and Security Services LLC. Gunsten is a retired New Jersey State Police officer, and also president of the Southern Ocean Rotary Club.

The Security Officer Registration Act of 2004 sets forth many requirements to operate a security officer company in the state of New Jersey. Among those requirements are that operators must be at least 25 years old and have a

minimum of five years’ prior experience in either law enforcement or management at a licensed security officer agency.They must undergo a background check and have a clean criminal record. They must have a license to operate issued by the superintendent's office of the state police and keep it current by paying their fees every two years.

— Maria Scandale mariascandale@thesandpaper.net

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Ryan Morrill

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Coordinated Cleanup

Work Crews Begin Dune Restoration, Debris Removal Ryan Morrill

DEFENDING THE DUNES: (Clockwise from top left) National Guard troops take their Humvees to the beach to bolster Island security. Bulldozers begin to reshape the duneline in Beach Haven Park. Meanwhile, the Acme Market parking lot serves as a temporary trash depot for road maintenance crews. Mayor Joseph Mancini coordinates emergency efforts from Long Beach Township’s municipal complex.

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Hospital Sails Through Hurricane Sandy With Few Problems

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he Southern Ocean Medical Center Emergency Department was a busy place in the wake of Hurricane Sandy. Not surprisingly, very few patients showed up during the height of Sandy’s wrath.

According to hospital spokeswoman Joyce McFadden, the ED treated just 59 patients on Monday, Oct. 29, as compared with a normal daily average of 110. That figure jumped up to 132

on Tuesday and 144 on Wednesday.

By Wednesday afternoon, however, things were returning to normal.

“For the most part, the things that brought people to the ED were the same as on a typical day,” said McFadden, “chest pain, etc.”

Still, problems that were definitely storm-related helped swell the number of patients. McFadden said the ED treated a couple of people who had

taken falls or sustained cuts as the result of removing downed trees from their properties. Several people also showed up at the ED because they had been separated from their medications – the hospital supplied small amounts of those meds and directed those people to open pharmacies in the area.

Several patients were admitted on a “social disposition” basis.

“The social admissions were

people who were vulnerable in shelters because of medical conditions,” explained SOMC President Joseph P. Coyle in a telephone interview with The SandPaper on Friday morning.

“We still have four patients (at the hospital instead of a shelter) who are medically compromised.”

In other words, better safe than sorry.

Electrical power, said McFadden,

went out at approximately 1 p.m. on Monday but came back on at about 4 p.m. At about 10:30 on Monday evening, it went out again and wasn’t restored until approximately 8 p.m. on Tuesday. The hospital’s generator, though, was up to the task.

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High School Becomes Refuge To Offer Shelter from Storm T

By MICHAEL MOLINARO hree hundred sixty-five displaced people had made their way to the shelter that Southern Regional High School had become by early evening Wednesday. Some came simply to escape the cold after being left with no power. Others were following evacuation orders while still others were rescued from homes they had not expected would flood.

The last included Louise Fama of Manahawkin, who has lived at her residence in Beach Haven West for 18 years. “I thought it wasn’t going to be that bad,” said Fama. “I woke up at 7:30 a.m. (Monday). When I looked outside, it was a river, and I gathered my things in five minutes. In that short amount of time, water came into the cul-de-sac over the lagoon.”

Fama called the Stafford police and was told the barrier islands were supposed to have been evacuated the day before and she would have to ride out the storm. However, police soon called her back, and an Army truck came to rescue her.

“He picked me up like a baby and walked me across the street to the Army truck,” Fama said of one of the “two young fellas” who rescued her.

She arrived at 10:30 a.m. after checking for a room at the Holiday Inn in Manahawkin, which was completely booked.

Fama was one of many now filling the school cafeteria, enjoying a hot dinner and playing cards or conversing under the dim emergency lights to pass the time. “Last year was Irene,

and it was not like this. I evacuated and went to my sister’s in Toms River for the week, so I didn’t think it was going to be bad like this. It was. So I knew it was serious. In years and years they’ve never experienced this in the township of Stafford.”

Catherine Pszcola of Manahawkin followed evacuation orders for both Irene and Sandy without hesitation. She left her home in Colony Lakes on Sunday and was upset about those who chose to stay in their homes. “There are people that caused problems with search and rescue by staying. They call them ‘stupid people,’ Pszcola joked.

“Sometimes you can’t stay with someone close because we’re all in the same boat. Two calls to every member of our community saying ‘get out of there’? That should have been enough to get you out.”

Many of the volunteers at the shelter had been displaced themselves, including Southern Regional School District Superintendent Craig Henry, who relocated his family from his home in Ship Bottom to a relative’s in Manahawkin.

He confirmed that authorities were not forcibly removing residents from LBI who chose to stay, but doing all that could be done to try to convince them to. Many displaced LBI residents were sent to long-term shelters, such as the Joint Base McGuire-DixLakehurst, which has doubled as a headquarters for FEMA. “They’ve been helping people that didn’t leave, finding them stranded on

porches and streets in low tide running around and bringing them here,” said Henry. “Quite frankly, those people looked shocked, bewildered, confused, like they’d been through a night of hell, and they literally were.”

No pictures are allowed to be taken of those in the shelter, though their stories may be shared with their consent. That is the policy of the American Red Cross, one of the many agencies working in tandem at the Southern Regional shelter. That includes the Stafford Township Office of Emergency Management, the Ocean County Office of Emergency Management, the Southern Regional School District, and Stafford Township municipal employees who work with the town’s Dial-a-Ride service, for example.

Overseeing it all is retired shelter manager Mary Ann Carricarte, whom Henry described as “the matron saint.” “She’s the one that is the grounding rod for the entire thing, keeping everything moving. She’s never left. I don’t know if she’s slept.

It’s in her nature; she’s a take-charge gal that gets it done.”

Carricarte has had to work with Southern Ocean Medical Center for those requiring hospital assistance, though she was fortunate no serious medical issues had occurred. Hypothermia was battled by making use of the high school’s “Vintage Hut,” a clothing distribution place for students in need. “It’s a full classroom of an entire wardrobe for both men and women,” said Henry. “It’s all sizes and

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SAFE HAVEN: Evacuees found accommodations in the form of cots in the high school gymnasium. Shelter manager Mary Ann Carricarte carries supplies to the hundreds displaced during the storm. ages, so one by one, we would take them up to the Vintage Hut and have them pick out a new wardrobe, and it’s all stylish stuff because it’s from the kids. So we’ve been able to provide for them because we’re unique enough to have that type of facility.”

Besides food and shelter, the facility had a key resource most were in dire need of: electricity. This is thanks to its two diesel-powered generators, which can run the building for 24 hours straight upon fueling.

Technical issues arose with generators Monday night at a time Henry described at the shelter as “chaos.”

“It was Grand Central Station,” he said, causing power to go out before it was repaired by electricians who work for the school.

Henry described being shorthanded in medical staff as well, and called nurse Carol Power and Dr. William Power, who had to leave their home in Beach Haven Park for the shelter, “angels.” “Their whole medical group swooped in when our group was at its wits’ end,” said Henry. Power described leaving on a light military

Surfer Rides Out the Storm By Grandmother’s Side

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n the face of one of the greatest natural threats to life and property on Long Beach Island in documented history, some brave (or crazy) souls chose to stay put on the barrier island to weather the impact of Hurricane Sandy. One is Chris Scarpinato, a Ship Bottom resident and Wave Hog Surf Shop staffer, who decided to stay on 12th Street to look after his grandmother, Maryann McCourt, and the house, located on a lagoon, that his family has owned since 1959.

One of his photographs of the rising floodwater was posted on

Wave Hog’s facebook page Monday morning.

By noon on Monday, the water was already up to the doorstep and would likely enter the house once it rose another 1 to 2 feet, he said. Overnight, the winds had ripped siding off the east side of the house. “I’m surprised we still have power,” he added.

“There’s not really much you can do,” he said, though he was worried about the storm surge expected with the next high tide.

Still, despite have made “pretty minimal” preparations beyond shor-

ing up the property and stocking up on rations, water, ice and other supplies, Scarpinato described the experience as “more exciting than terrifying,” to be at the mercy of nature and to witness the Island under conditions “as intense as it can get, pretty much.”

As for the aftermath, “that’s going to be a real fun time.” (In times of high anxiety, a little sarcasm never hurts.)

As a surfer, he added, he wasn’t too optimistic about wave conditions for the rest of the week. “We might be able to get some waves Tuesday

or Wednesday, but it’s not going to be anything as good as guys are anticipating.” The winds likely won’t cooperate, he said.

In the meantime, Scarpinato was keeping in touch with other people on the Island, and in particular a couple of Ship Bottom friends on 14th and 21st streets, who “seem to be OK, so far.”

“A little bit of elevation goes a long way.”

One of the advantages to being on the Island, he said, was the scarcity of large trees that could fall and damage power lines or structures. —V.L.

transport after noticing waves reaching between Long Beach Boulevard and Beach Avenue.

Heading up the kitchen was Pam Heim, a 1981 Southern Regional graduate now living in Philadelphia who had come to the shelter to help following the storm. She ran the kitchen at a Camp Katrina in Leland, Miss., following Hurricane Katrina and has made phone calls to several members of her team there, explaining the situation in Ocean County.

“I just knew. I knew it was going to be bad,” said Heim, who was asked by the Red Cross to be in charge of the kitchen alongside her team of Southern Regional student volunteers, who did the serving. “Look at the students that have been here. I mean, it’s overwhelming. Unbelievable.

“I know what happened down there," said Heim of Katrina. “I know what’s going to happen around here, and it’s already happening. Everybody’s been coming to us with supplies, asking, ‘What do you need?’”

Despite at one point running out of food on Monday, the shelter was then overwhelmed with donations from various restaurants in the area, including Okie’s Butcher Shop in Surf City. The shop’s owner donated more than $30,000 worth of food to the shelter after seeing his business sustain massive damage.

“He had so many Christmas and Thanksgiving orders and now has no business, said Heim. “We all just sat there and listened to him, and then I said, ‘You’re here and that’s what matters.’ We all learned a valuable lesson in New Orleans: Material things can be replaced; you cannot be.”

For updates on the shelter and what may still be needed, search for Stafford Township PBA on Facebook.

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Continued from Page 6 light ahead that was my only hope for safety.

It did. Had another hour passed, perhaps not, as the aqueous left and right hands of this long but lanky barrier island reached forth to clasp each other.

Pumping my waterlogged brakes, I was able to stop at the light and continue onward along the slippery slope Causeway that had yet to be ďŹ&#x201A;ooded, passing a garbage truck blocking off that ďŹ rst bumpy off ramp to East Bay Avenue and the lights of a ďŹ&#x201A;ashing police car, vigilantly enforcing the eastbound blockade of Route 72.

There was relief upon arriving at the house in Waretown where I grew up, one of the oldest structures in town, dating back well more than 150 years. Today there is trepidation; the constant shaking and creaking as high winds come in as if a chiropractor were cracking our homeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s back; the collapsing of the northern wall of our wooden fence over the ďŹ sh-ďŹ lled pond below; the moving of our cars from beneath the maple tree that might go; and the back and forth ďŹ&#x201A;uctuation of power.

Time will tell whether I made the right choice. Will it be any better here? And what of the story I will have to tell? Will it be as good?

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Continued from Page 23 said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;There was enough power for all critical operations; there was enough power to keep all equipment going except for the MRI.â&#x20AC;?

All in all, Coyle said, SOMC experienced very few problems as a result of Sandy. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Our team members and physicians did a great job,â&#x20AC;? said Coyle, who added the nursing staff, technicians and doctors were able to focus on the job at hand even while some were worrying about their own homes. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We only had a few people who couldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t get in to work.

We provided temporary sleeping arrangement for people who couldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t get home, and some people worked many hours in a row and slept on cots.â&#x20AC;?

Coyle said a post-event critique is scheduled for Monday. But he added that two problems, though slight, did emerge during the storm and its immediate aftermath.

The hospitalâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s internal wireless communications system went down during the storm because the Nextel tower that serves it ceased operation. So workers used walkie-talkies to communicate. So, Coyle said, the hospital will have to address the issue of communication redundancy.

He also said coordination with the areaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s shelters was less than perfect. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We couldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t ďŹ nd the people in charge,â&#x20AC;? said Coyle. That made it difďŹ cult to determine the sheltersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; medical needs and problems. So a better system of coordination will have to be developed, perhaps designating a shelter employee or volunteer as the point person.

Still, it was a fairly smooth ride at SOMC, considering the havoc in the area. By Nov. 1, the hospital routine was back to normal, with elective surgeries once again performed. Yet even there, communication remains an issue.

The hospital has had problems reaching people to conďŹ rm scheduled surgery appointments.

Land line phone service is still out in some parts of Southern Ocean County, and the hospital records usually have only a personâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s land line number. One thing SOMC will be thinking about for future appointments: get patientsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; cell phone numbers.

One other note: The Diabetes Health Fair, scheduled for Saturday morning, Nov. 3, has been cancelled. â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Rick Mellerup rickmellerup@thesandpaper.net

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NOTES FROM SANDY’S DAY OF DESTRUCTION

Most Left, Some Stayed; Some Stayed, Then Left

Jay Mann

Tracking a Watery Trek Stalwart Newsman Braves Storm’s Peak for Online Audience GUTS AND GOPRO: SandPaper Managing Editor Jay Mann captured GoPro video footage of his journey on foot through Ship Bottom and Surf City during the height of Hurricane Sandy’s fury on Monday afternoon. The video is viewable at thesandpaper.net. Stay tuned for Jay’s additional documentary footage, from North Beach.

Family Shaken, But Grateful for Lives After Daring Self-Evacuation from LBI

By KELLEY ANNE ESSINGER “ t was like something out of a movie,” said Rose Perry, The SandPaper’s layout supervisor.

But she wasn’t recalling a slew of stories she had put together for the paper. She was talking about her journey off of Long Beach Island on Monday afternoon, during the midst of Hurricane Sandy – a story she said she was happy to have lived to tell.

Perry and her family, including her husband Ken, their two dogs, and sons Kyle, 24, and Dakota, 18, who was picked up on Friday from Monmouth University after the school closed down in preparation for the storm, had planned on riding out the hurricane in their Ship Bottom home on 10th Street. The group had been through many natural disasters before, having lived on the Island nearly 20 years. Ken’s parents’ summer home in Barnegat Light, which was built in the ’40s, had weathered many storms as well. And last year’s Hurricane Irene, they said, “wasn’t what they thought it

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NEW PERSPECTIVE: The Perry family made their way through Ship Bottom by truck, with bated breath, driving in any direction possible. The view is bleak from Central Avenue, looking toward the Ninth Street inroad to the Island.

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ALIEN LANDSCAPE: On Thursday, portions of the sand-covered Boulevard were navigable only by four-wheel-drive vehicles. Pictured here, a Harvey Cedars police vehicle monitors passage of military transport.

With Time Running Out, LBTPD Listed 75 Still in Need of Rescue

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ong Beach Township Police Lt. Paul Vereb announced Monday that rescue and evacuation operations on Long Beach Island would likely cease by 4 or 5 p.m., as the hurricane had picked up speed and conditions were sure to worsen to the point that first responders could no longer help anyone.

He conf ir med ocean dune breaches have occurred in “numerous areas from Holgate to Loveladies,” though by his firsthand account he “couldn’t count how many streets.”

Though he could not speculate on the extent of the damage to beachfront homes or structures elsewould be,” even after all of the excited talk on the news.

“I’m never one to stay. If I’m told to evacuate, I’ll go,” admitted Perry.

She had wanted to leave Sunday when LBI residents were under mandatory evacuation. But she said the rest of her family thought she was just “having a nervous breakdown.”

When floodwater began bubbling out of a manhole in front of their house and water started breaching their front yard on Monday, something they had never witnessed before, the family changed their tune.

where on the Island, he could only say with certainty that “the next high tide could bring major damage.”

At 2:45 p.m., police were working with a list of 75 residents awaiting evacuation assistance. Military and police transport was in place to usher the stranded off-Island, but it was impossible to say how much longer the transport would be operational.

“This is definitely the worst we’ve seen.”

By early afternoon, the winds had increased dramatically, he said, and the path and speed of the hurricane looked as if it might make landfall earlier than expected, he said. —V.L. “Finally I said, ‘I’m leaving. I need to find a way off (the Island),’” Perry remembered.

She called 911, looking for help vacating the Island, and was told her family would be put on the list to be rescued and transferred to the shelter at the Southern Regional High School in Manahawkin; but they were only allowed to bring one bag, and their dogs would not be accepted. The family decided they couldn’t leave their dogs behind; they’d have to find another way out.

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Togetherness Far Outvalues Material ‘Stuff’

Ship Bottom Family Braces for Impact In Bayside Home

By VICTORIA LASSONDE hip Bottom resident Lucille Ascolillo, along with her husband, Bobby, son Frank and their two dogs, were hunkered down and weathering the effects of Hurricane Sandy on the 19th Street cove on Bay Terrace Monday.

“We have power, but no internet, cable or phone,” she said at 3:30 p.m. as the family awaited the worst still to come. Water had already entered the ground floor by Monday morning, she said, but her confidence remained high as the original portion of the house was built in 1933.

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as unrelenting winds slammed the north-facing side, she said.

“I didn’t get really nervous until maybe about a half hour ago, when the wind started picking up,” she said. Looking straight down the street from her house to the ocean beach, she could see the roadway was completely under water. One of their four vehicles, a compact car, was submerged over its windshield.

“We’re the only ones left on our street,” she said. A neighbor’s boat, apparently having f loated off its trailer, was lodged between a garage and a trash can corral.

“Somebody’s shed just went by,” she said, referring to the plastic

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TIDAL TROUBLES: (Clockwise from top left) Throughout the day on Monday, the bay view from the Ascolillos’ front porch grew increasingly grim. A Ship Bottom bayfront home’s demolished ground floor testifies to the power of tidal surges the Ascolillo family and others endured. Boats were floated off winter storage blocks all over Southern Ocean County. Wayward vessels near MarineMax, just south of Ship Bottom, give some indication of the extent of the tidal surge in the center of the Island. kind that snaps together.

The Ascollillos’ shared mindset (though subject to change as the winds rapidly increased) is one of mostly calm resignation. “Frankly, what are we going to do?” They have the basic necessities for an extended period without power, and most important, they have each other.

“We’re very calm because all this stuff is just stuff. We’re all

together. We’re all in one place.

What’s the worst that could happen? The house is secure. Water is water.”

Their decision to stay was based on the welfare of the dogs, which they could not take with them to the evacuation shelter at Southern Regional High School in Manahawkin. The closest place accepting pets, she said, was at Pinelands Regional Junior High School in

Little Egg Harbor.

Frank Ascolillo, a Ship Bottom volunteer firefighter, was at the firehouse Sunday night and said the National Guard had reported some 200 people remaining in Ship Bottom. About six firefighters were standing by at the firehouse Monday afternoon, waiting for calls to help stranded residents or assist in any other way they could, she added. Y victorialassonde@thesandpaper.net

Staying With the St. Rita: An 85-Year-Old Business Owner’s Story

By MARIA SCANDALE t was murder,” Marie Coates “ said of staying out the storm in Beach Haven, and the ordeal wasn’t over on Tuesday as the chill of an unheated room was starting to wear on her endurance. But she would “maybe” do it again. Coates is 85 years old.

She stayed with her St. Rita Hotel because she didn’t want to worry from afar about the 150-year-old landmark that has stood high on Engleside Avenue through generations of other storms. And although she had invitations from worried friends to evacuate to the Ocean Acres section of mainland Stafford Township, she decided

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Hotel Owner Weathers One More in Series of Life’s Storms that she and her chihuahua, Sasha, and cat, Skipper, should stay on familiar ground at home.

“I think I would have been a disaster if I’d been over there. I’d have been worried sick about the place here,” she declared.

By the day after the storm, there were signs of life outside as work crews were coming and going from the area of the nearby Engleside Inn up at the beachfront. But Coates was remembering the isolation of a day and night of raging wind.

“The wind was really whipping. I

stayed here; I thought I’d be all right, but I never thought I’d lose heat. It’s down to 59 in the house. I don't have any (tap) water; my basement is flooded,” she said by telephone Tuesday.

This is a woman who has overcome a lot in life, as a ward of the state raised in an orphanage and by foster parents in Philadelphia. She has outlived her daughter, who passed away a month ago. But she is known for community involvement and for a feisty smile on a face that looks at least 30 years younger. With a tireless work ethic, she has owned the St. Rita

Hotel for nearly 39 years. Her late husband, Harold, was the third owner when he bought it in 1955.

“He was known for taking people out after the 1962 storm,” Marie said of the historic March storm of 50 years ago. “He landed his four-seater Cessna in the park across the street.

“He lost a house in that storm; it was his birthday, March 7, 1962. ... I wanted to buy an oceanfront house but he wouldn’t after that. He said, ‘Put it in your name, not mine!’”

Coates hadn’t heard about the condition of the town outside at the

time of this interview. Later, video taken by helicopter showed Bay Avenue still underwater in the center of Beach Haven.

Maybe by spring, she’ll sit on the porch and recount more of her life story under sunnier conditions. But for now, the phone conversation was concluded with an urging for her to put on a hat and scarf, and use the old trick of wrapping the body in a garbage bag to keep warm, until she would hopefully decide very soon to seek out some neighbors.

She mentioned the Engleside Inn. “If it comes to it, I’ll go up there with my animals,” she said.

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Choose Charities Carefully

Words to Give by: Think Regionally, Donate Locally T here will be a thousand, if not more, organizations asking for your money after Hurricane Sandy. Some will be total rip-offs. Others will be legitimate, such as the American Red Cross or the Salvation Army, but how do you know your money will be spent in Southern Ocean County and not Belmar or Staten Island?

It was one of the issues discussed briefly at the first meeting of an adhoc group hosted by the Southern Ocean County Chamber of Commerce on Friday morning at the chamber’s temporary headquarters at the Stafford Heritage Park Train Station in Manahawkin.

There was a general consensus among the group that nobody could go wrong by donating to their local volunteer fire companies. The damage done to their equipment and trucks, especially those driven through high salt water, will take a considerable amount of money to repair.

Janine Seeley, who was on hand to talk about her “Stafford Bucket Brigade” (see related story below), agreed that the fire companies would be worthy of donations. She also had another idea.

Seeley admitted she was a huge NASCAR fan. Still, she said, people should consider making a donation to the Martin Truex Jr. Foundation when looking for an appropriate place to send their money to help local Sandy victims.

“Every single solitary penny is going here (Southern Ocean County); it will not go to Brick, it will not go to Atlantic City,” said Seeley.

“I want the people of Mayetta and everyone back East impacted

by Sandy to know that I’m thinking about them and will do whatever possible to provide relief quickly,” Truex said in announcing his foundation’s specially targeted effort. “My family, my friends and everyone impacted by this disaster are in our thoughts.

I’m humbled by the generosity of the

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SORT IT OUT: Any number of organizations will be requesting contributions to benefit those affected by the storm. Those inclined to help should consider giving in a manner that puts the funds back into the immediate area.

NASCAR community and want to thank each of you for contributing to our relief effort.”

The Martin Truex Jr. Foundation hasn’t determined exactly how it will help Southern Ocean County in the upcoming weeks, but if its past efforts are any indication, it will probably be helping local kids affected by the storm. Children, after all, have been the focus of the foundation since the Southern Regional High School graduate and local-

boy-made-good driver of the No. 56 Carlyle Tools by NAPA Toyota racecar in the NASCAR Sprint Series (he’s currently in seventh place in the sport’s championship “Race for the Chase”) founded it in 2007.

The foundation has since raised more than $1 million to help needy children in New Jersey and North Carolina, the driver’s current base of operations as a member of the Michael Waltrip Racing team. Among its other activities, the foundation

has pledged $250,000 toward the construction of the Martin Truex Jr. Pediatric Care Center, part of the Southern Ocean Medical Center Emergency Department expansion, scheduled to be opened in January.

To donate toward the foundation’s fund for Hurricane Sandy relief, visit its web site at martintruexjrfoundation.org or call 704664-1113.

— Rick Mellerup rickmellerup@thesandpaper.net

Stafford Bucket Brigade SOCCC Hosts Brainstorming Meeting Brings Helpful Supplies To Reach Out to Businesses, Residents For Household Cleanup

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urricane Sandy has passed and now the cleanup has begun.

And what a cleanup it will be!

That’s one of the first things Janine Seeley thought of when Sandy visited Southern Ocean County earlier this week. So she sprang into action and formed the Stafford Bucket Brigade.

No, Seeley and her friends didn’t fight fires in places water pressure had been lost. Instead they started creating “flood buckets,” five-gallon buckets stuffed with household cleaning materials, which will be essential when people try to clean up their flooded and damaged homes in Beach Haven West and LBI. A “flood bucket” consists of, of course, a five-gallon bucket, five scouring pads, seven sponges, a scrub brush, 18 reusable cleaning towels (Easy Wipes, for example), a 50- to 78-ounce box of dry laundry detergent, a 12-ounce bottle of liquid concentrated household cleaner such as Lysol, a 25-ounce bottle of liquid disinfectant dish soap, a package of 48 to 50 clothespins, 100 feet of clothesline, five dust masks, two pairs of heavy, repeat, heavy latex gloves, a pair of work gloves, a 28-bag roll of 30- to 45-gallon trash bags and a six- to nine-ounce bottle of insect repellent (not aerosol). At least that was the original plan – insect repellent, clothespins and clothesline have been difficult to find, so current pails lack those items.

The Stafford Bucket Brigade has three collection points. The main one – and also its only distribution point for people wanting the buckets – is at the Ocean Community Church at

1492 Route 72 (on the corner of Breakers Drive) in Manahawkin. The other collection points where people can drop off supplies are Stafford Township Volunteer Fire Co. No. 1, located at 133 Stafford Ave. in Manahawkin, and the Eagleswood Fire Co., located at 219 Railroad Ave. in Eagleswood.

Donations shouldn’t be limited to the prescribed items.

“We need everything,” said Seeley at a meeting hosted by the Southern Ocean County Chamber of Commerce on Friday morning. “Mops, brooms. And they don’t have to be brand new five-gallon pails. If they are dirty that’s fine; people are just going to be throwing mud and dirt into them.”

Seeley said the latex gloves and face masks are especially important.

“We are going to have so many people sick from contamination,” she said. “That bay muck – you don’t know what was in it!”

One woman in attendance at the chamber meeting was worried about providing people with materials to clean their own homes. Shouldn’t that, she wondered, be better left to the professionals?

Seeley agreed, to a degree.

Sure, she wasn’t about to advise people to try to clean their own carpets, their own walls. But, she said, professional cleaners aren’t about to wash dishes, which, in the interest of health, have to be washed very carefully, indeed. They, said Seeley, aren’t going to clean your picture frames, your children’s toys. True, she said, the heavy-duty stuff should be left to

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he Southern Ocean County Chamber of Commerce sponsored a meeting at its temporary headquarters at the Stafford Heritage Park Train Station and Rail Car in Manahawkin Friday morning. Its purpose was to get representatives of local businesses, neighboring chambers, Southern Ocean County’s Rotary clubs, and other concerned citizens to start brainstorming ideas of how to help the businesses and residents of Southern Ocean County who suffered from Hurricane Sandy in the coming days, weeks and months.

Organized by Lori Pepenella, the SOCCC’s destination marketing organization director, the meeting attracted a dozen-and-a-half people, ranging from SOCCC board members, LBI business owners and members of the media to youth pastors and Cub Scout leaders.

Pepenella urged the members of the new ad hoc group to go back to their own employees/organizations and to come back with fresh ideas at its next meeting at the railroad station, at 11 a.m. on Monday, Nov. 5.

“Our main goal,” Pepenella told the group, “is to protect local businesses and consumers.”

When recovery comes, she said, she would hope people do some research before hiring contractors to clean up and repair their homes.

People will come from all over the

country offering their services. Are they legitimate? Are they rip-off artists?

In the dual-edged effort to promote local businesses and protect consumers, the chamber has already posted information on its web site, visitlbiregion.com, under the title “Know Your Contractors.”

“As you know,” the information header reads, “in time of crisis there

are many opportunities for home and business owners to fall victim to scams and unscrupulous businesses that claim they are here to help. The Southern Ocean County Chamber of Commerce encourages the use of local businesses that were established in the community before the storm.”

A list of general contractors, home improvement contractors, repair services, designers, architects and landscapers follows.

The web site has also posted links to the Federal Emergency Management Agency and the U.S. Small Business Administration (which pro-

vides low-interest, long term loans for businesses that suffer from a declared disaster) and will add more links to provide the area’s business owners and residents with important information.

One of the things that Pepenella stressed to business owners and their employees who may be out of work because of Sandy is that people have only 30 days to file for federal disaster unemployment assistance.

The chamber will be a source of information to business owners and residents for months to come. Any new information should be disseminated at next Monday’s meeting, and surely new ideas of how to help the Southern Ocean County community will be floated.

The temporary chamber office, located across from Manahawkin Lake between Routes 9 and 72, will be open daily. Pepenella added that the chamber’s temporary phone number is 609-618-3429. She also said the site’s railroad car will be available as a spot for displaced business owners to meet with insurance agents, FEMA personnel, etc. All business owners have to do is call the chamber to reserve a time slot.

The chamber may have been forced out of its home in Ship Bottom, but it isn’t out of business.

— Rick Mellerup rickmellerup@thesandpaper.net

the pros, but that still leaves plenty of items – often cherished personal items – to be cleaned.

To keep abreast of the Stafford Bucket Brigade’s doings, visit them on Facebook at facebook.com/StaffordBucketBrigade.

One last, but very important, note: The Stafford Bucket Brigade is accepting materials to create flood buckets, not manning the streets or supermarket parking lots with buckets collecting money. This reporter had already received an e-mail asking

where people could find a bucket in which to toss their money. Wrong type of bucket! And, considering how natural disasters bring out the best in most people but the worst in some others, don’t be fooled by imposters.

— Rick Mellerup

“Our main goal is to protect local businesses and consumers.”

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Mind-Boggled Mann On the Front Lines Of Hurricane Sandy

By JAY MANN hat an odd contraption the mind can be. As I fought legitimate hurricane-force winds during an into-the-gusts, 1.5mile hike between Ship Bottom and Surf City (see related video at thesandpaper.net) one would think my mind had better things to do than taunt me with a suddenly vivid image of a breakup I had with a little red-haired girl. I was in something like junior high. With oddly menacing browns eyes, she said, “I’ll get you for this if it’s the very last thing I ever do.” Her name was Sandy S. Payback time, eh?

Well, I’ll say this for Sandy: she sure grew into a raging bitch. I’m talking about the hurricane. I won’t even breathe a bad thought about Sandy S – knowing what she can apparently do in the long run.

Hurricane Sandy took nearly four days just to come ashore, sucking every ounce of energy she could from an ocean that sported water way warmer than it should have been holding for late October. In a way, we paid royally for an Indian Summer. So, I guess we can now blame that along with Sandy S. And I’ve got my suspicions about that so-called “European model” weather forecasting thing. It was so damn accurate you have to wonder if it might actually be creating the weather. (Hey, the paranoia effects of my long-term exposure to hurricane aftermath may be showing.)

Our government is staring daggers (of unjustified indignation) at something called the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts. It is a highly-funded weather company.

In its own words: “We are an intergovernmental organization supported by 34 (European) States. We provide operational medium- and extended-range forecasts and a state-of-the-art super-computing facility for scientific research.

We pursue scientific and technical collaboration with satellite agencies and with the European Commission.”

What they do is charge a bundle to be viewed (by the world), then offer what amounts to the finest weather forecasts money can buy. As one of my buddies at NOAA said, “That’s what you can get when you’re in the business of weather forecasting.” He heavily emphasized “business.”

DEAD CENTER: ECMWF nailed Sandy – scientifically speaking, that is. (Sandy S. is 60-something now.) It produced a color-enhanced, spot-on, utterly accurate satellite image of Sandy forming, then intensifying, off the Delmarva – seven frickin’ days ahead of time!

I kid you not. ECMWF’s forecast images, as insanely intense as they seemed at the time, were so incredibly accurate that right before the storm was about to hit us, you could have perfectly overlapped ECMWF’s

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seven-day-old prediction with reality’s maps.

I hate to say it, but it was only days before impact that our forecasters even noticed Sandy forming, much less predicting she’d team up with other weather features to become a 100-year storm. Hell, only 36 hours before her direct hit on Jersey, many North American computers had her most likely turning out to sea. You all saw that.

But what made Sandy so super freaky?

Now we have to leave Europe and go way west, to introduce another forecaster of sorts.

Enter Dr. Sakuhei Fujiwhara (Oct. 29, 1884 - Sept. 22, 1950). He was a Japanese meteorologist who decided to name the Fujiwhara Effect after himself. Actually, he was the one who discovered the unique do-si-do effect of two cyclones sorta dancing with one and other. If given enough open space, they would swirl around and around, playing off each other’s rotating energies.

While Fujiwhara’s cyclone-on-cyclone theory developed in the Pacific, most meteorologists hereabouts hail the effect as the main reason Sandy did us like she did.

As Sandy dillydallied about in the Atlantic, a low pressure in the Southeast U.S. got into a do-si-do thing with a far stronger hurricane.

The partner-starved hurricane was attracted to the newcomer’s moves – and that southern charm – and she decided to give it a go, fighting off an even more famous earthly influence, called the CVoriolis Effect.

Named in 1835, after French mathematician Gustave-Gaspard Coriolis, this effect encompasses the planetary rotational force that makes weather in the northern hemisphere move west to east.

And it takes some serious punch to counter the Corriolis. But a wildly spinning Sandy had absolutely no problem going against those mathematical currents. She essentially flung herself headlong into Jersey, like some drunken airhead falling over sideways at a frat party.

In a way, Fujiwhara moves a bit of blame from Hurricane Sandy, but that sure as hell doesn’t dry my rugs.

SANDY WAS JUST THAT: It’s not the best way to get jetties back.

Sandy actually redistributed sand – in a monumental way. Replenished beaches are no longer jutting out, so to speak.

The beachfront is kinda level, sandwise, and still quite wide, mid-Island.

I saw a daring dude on a dirt bike scrambling along the beachfront at a goodly speed. He had smooth and straight sailing for miles and miles.

Again, the storm’s leveling effects.

It sure looked like fun. Glad the National Guard didn’t spot him.

By the by, most of the jetties that had been buried for months on end by replenishment are now fully out

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Cleanup Party at the Shell All Hands Are on Deck to Shore Up a Clobbered Hotel and Club PUSH AND PULL: Members of the Hughes family, owners of the Sea Shell, and friends get a jump on cleaning up the mess created by Sandy. The Beach Haven establishment sustained substantial damage. again – and looking around, sorta going, “Wow, that was weird.”

Interestingly, the stormed-over sand is rapidly returning.

Part of the game plan behind beach replenishment is placing sand on the beach and dunes fully knowing it could migrate into the ocean during storms. In ideal-world theory, it will then, fairly quickly, be moved back onto the beaches through gradual, i.e. non-dramatic, ocean action. I won’t even bring up the chance of another storm next week. That’s drama.

Actually, this is a good test for that

She essentially flung herself headlong into Jersey, like some drunken airhead falling over sideways at a frat party. “returning sand” theory.

No amount of natural sand salvation can help Holgate. The area from Beach Haven to the tip of the Wilderness Area took the brunt of the storm.

HOLGATE BLEAKNESS: As the Coast Guard patrols the waters around Holgate for looters – they’ve nabbed some, missed others – the Island’s south end has been savaged upon. Below is a blog from jaymanntoday.ning.com: “Spent a big chunk of the day in Holgate. I saw where damage becomes full-blown destruction. I will no longer whimper over the dampening of my house and even the loss of my truck. There are at least half a dozen storm-demolished homes in clear view of where the Boulevard used to be. You can’t even call it a road, just piles of nondistinct sand masses.

“You’ve likely seen the photos of the massive damage down there but you can’t see is the wretched smell of raw gas from what the mayor says are dozens of leaks. You get a whiff and your stomach runs for cover but there’s hardly any distance before a

new load of gas fumes hit.

“The front beach of Holgate, from Beach Haven south is inconceivably changed. It's a Lon vast stretch of beach with no longer any dunes, just a row of oceanfront homes teetering on their almost fully exposed pilings. It's so changed, I didn't even know where I was. Utterly surreal.

“Talked with Don and Clarice K who weather it out at the trailer park and almost ate it as trailers began being driven toward the bay. They lost most everything and left island today.

I’ll be calling them for more details once they get to relatives.”

Spent a big chunk of the day in Holgate. I saw where damage becomes full-blown destruction. I will no longer whimper over the dampening of my house and even the loss of my truck. There are at least half a dozen storm-demolished homes in clear view of where the Boulevard used to be. You can’t even call it a road, just piles of nondistinct sand masses.

You’ve likely seen the photos of the massive damage down there, but what you can’t see is the wretched smell of raw gas from what the mayor says are dozens of leaks. You get a whiff and your stomach runs for cover, but there’s hardly any distance before a new load of gas fumes hit.

Looking at aerial photos shot Friday, there are two ocean to bay breaks in the Holgate refuge.

The front beach of Holgate, from Beach Haven south, is inconceivably changed. It’s a long, vast stretch of beach with no longer any dunes, just a row of oceanfront homes teetering on their almost fully exposed pilings. It’s so changed I didn’t even know where I was. Utterly surreal.

Talked with Don and Clarice K, who weather it out at the trailer park and almost ate it as trailers began being driven toward the bay. They lost most everything and left the Island today. I’ll be calling them for more details once they get to relatives.

ODD NATURE: As I was on the last leg of my in-your-face hike twixt SB and SC, I slid to the leeward side

of a small building for some R&R calmness.

Glancing around, I realized I was being watched like a hawk. Only 15 feet away, on a fence, was a barn owl, just calmly sitting there, somewhat protected from the storm and seemingly utterly unperturbed by my having suddenly shown up. “What’s up?”

We nonchalantly eyed one and other before he seemingly lost interest and began pivoting his neck around to take in the storm.

The weird part was how unweird this was to me. Years back, I was unadvisedly out and about in a very nasty winter storm and pulled into the St. Francis Center parking lot to fix a windshield wiper problem. And there on in a protected area near the doors was a statuesque barn owl.

“What’s up?”

COMMUNICATION BREAKDOWN: It was as if I fell off the edge of the digital Earth. Well, more like I was pushed off. It was as if I was the first person voted off Survivor Island.

As the skies began to go spastic in preparation for Sandy’s grand entry, I watched in amazement as the electronic infrastructure collapsed around me in a veritable flash. I literally swirled down the communication drain. I was almost instantly incommunicado – close to vaporized, media-wise.

I lost Internet in the building where I had sought refuge from the storm. My trusty truck ignobly fell to insta-rise floodwaters in Ship Bottom. The electricity died, along with the landline phone system. My cellphone tweeted a few times, then gave up the ghost. My laptop battery percentage dropped with every word I typed, then silently succumbed.

And the only station I could get on my battery-powered radio had on a weeklong Michael Bolton marathon.

Just shoot me now.

Thank heavens for the high-cost flashlight I had at the ready, as darkness crept in. I could just push the button and … push the button once more … and once more. You lousy, stinkin’, lowdown piece of …!” Y jaymann@thesandpaper.net

The SandPaper/Saturday, November 3, 2012

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Surfers Stand at Forefront Of Sandy, During and After

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Some storms live in infamy in a surfer’s memory for not only the power of nature, but the waves they create. Sandy will be remembered forever, but it was a very different kind of experience for local waveriders.

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looked like Hawaii. Southern beaches of North Carolina turned world class. But Sandy stayed offshore of these areas, creating swell with minimal weather or damage. The mid-Atlantic suffered a different fate.

Instead of pushing up into the North Atlantic and sending waves that would be lived and relived for years to come, Sandy made a once-in-alifetime westerly turn and tried to erase the coast of our state. Aside from some choppy waves on Saturday in advance of the storm and a handful of riders who got bittersweet, head-high peak afterward, there was no surfing Sandy. There was certainly no epic day that will go down in history.

But surfers are not dwelling on this for long. They have, in fact, been on the front lines through this whole thing.

Ric “Aloha” Anastasi, who has been surfing LBI since the 1970s and owned Ric’s Aloha Classics in Beach Haven in the '90s, is still a professional surfing judge and ding repairman.

He is also a rescue worker with the Beach Haven Volunteer Fire Co. and stayed during the storm, rescuing an estimated 50 to 70 people who had refused to evacuate on military vehicles and Jet Skis.

“People weren’t supposed to be on the Island.

Our chief was very clear that we were not allowed to respond to any calls that put our safety in jeopardy,” he said.

Monday night, during the height of the hurricane, Anastasi saw things he never could have imagined, such as underwater transformer fires. He saved a victim from the Sea Shell who had been trapped by a refrigerator as the ocean came in through the glass doors. And all of this happened while his own first floor and workshop were inundated by the rising water. He also lost about $15,000 of surf memorabilia.

“I’m just glad to be alive,” he said, and then joked, “but there is a 1967 Miki Dora ‘Da Cat’ model floating around somewhere. If anyone sees it, it’s mine.”

Coming to aid in a very public way is Jetty, the locally owned apparel company. After a local favorite event, Clam Jam Surf Festival, in Harvey Cedars on Oct. 20 and the highly successful Crabbin for A Cure with David’s Dream and Believe Cancer Foundation at Mud City Crab House on Oct. 24, co-owners Jeremy DeFilippis and Cory Higgins had to evacuate the Island before Sandy could make landfall.

When the storm had passed, they felt helpless, staying at friends’ houses on the mainland.

The destruction was reminiscent of Hurricane Katrina. Following that storm in 2005, they had created a hurricane relief T-shirt and given all proceeds to the American Red Cross. Now they have sprung into action again, designing a New Jersey hurricane relief T-shirt, offering advance sales for $20 on their web site, jettylife.com.

They never could have imagined the response, as they sold 3,000 shirts in the first 24 hours, crashing their own server.

“The T-shirt is something we felt we could do immediately and, in turn, get that money to people who need it now – not after an insurance claim or when they get back to their homes,” said DeFilippis. “There are people volunteering in shelters and people working 24-hour shifts who have risked their lives to help others. We’re going to give those people some relief now.”

The two owners and several of their employees started this project on Tuesday night, and they haven’t even been able to see their own homes yet.

“The web site has been slowed down, but we’re already thrilled to help and keep our minds off the homes we haven’t been allowed or able to get to,” DeFilippis added.

For many, the best source of storm news has come from those who stayed and their updates on social media. SandPaper Managing Editor Continued on Page 31

Continued from Page 30 Jay Mannâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s videos have gone viral. Conor Willem, a Surf City surfer, also stayed. His father, Bill, lived through the 1962 norâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;easter. They stayed in order to start cleanup right away. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We had power until about the last six hours of the storm, so I had my computer and my phone to update everyone about the wind and the rising water,â&#x20AC;? Willem reported. â&#x20AC;&#x153;And there were so many people without power responding to everything.â&#x20AC;?

Willem has been living on the Island since then without water, electric or gas service. He has been inspecting the Island on foot, checking on peopleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s homes and collecting his old surfboards that ďŹ&#x201A;oated all over the neighborhood.

He walked from his house to Harvey Cedars, reporting that 80 percent of the houses east of the Boulevard in North Beach seem severely damaged.

Most of the surf shops on the Island suffered water and inventory damage. Fortunately, surfboards ďŹ&#x201A;oat. Brian Farias of Fariasâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Surf and Sport is anxious to start repairing the ďŹ&#x201A;agship store, in Ship Bottom, which took on heavy water. Wave Hog took on 3 to 5 feet of water.

Brighton Beach had a similar situation. Some havenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t been able to fully assess the damage.

George Gales of Surf Unlimited said he hoped his Ship Bottom store had only minor damage, but his Beach Haven location has been wiped out. Longtime local Jack Bushko rode out the storm at Island Surf and Sail, which was ďŹ&#x201A;ooded.

Immediately following the storm, the Surfrider Foundation put out this statement: â&#x20AC;&#x153;As we pause to consider those we have lost from

Great Escape Continued from Page 26 They considered taking their suitcases, which they had packed in case of an emergency, along with some nonperishable food and water, to their next-door neighborsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; house since it was up on pilings and had a better chance of withstanding damage. But without knowing when theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d be able to get off the Island again, they said they didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t think it was the best idea. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Food and water will only go so far. And Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m not a camper; thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not my idea of a fun time,â&#x20AC;? said Perry.

The situation was time-sensitive. Strapping on his sonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s waders, Ken headed out into the waist-deep, water-ďŹ lled street, looking for a way off the Island. When he ďŹ nally saw a path he thought he could manage driving through, the family quickly piled into their 10 year-old four-wheel-drive, Ford pickup truck.

They drove through front yards and over knocked down fences, and managed to break through a troublesome berm they nearly got stuck in, before reaching the eastbound road on Ninth Street. They proceeded in the opposite direction until they reached the parking lot of the Country Corner Farm Market, where they passed through to the other side on West Eighth Street. Trying to keep above the water, Ken drove along the sidewalk â&#x20AC;&#x153;as much as possible,â&#x20AC;? before reaching Barnegat Avenue where the water was waist-deep again. In the distance

Voters Continued from Page 20 (in other words, Princeton), will get $52.5 million to split. Needless to say, this question is being supported by colleges, universities and students while anti-tax groups are opposing it.

The second question is actually a constitutional amendment. It would allow the Legislature to require judges to pay more into their retirement and beneďŹ t plans. The Legislature and governor had previously passed such a law ,but the state Supreme Court declared it unconstitutional, saying the state constitution doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t allow such a measure. This was meant to protect judges who may have made unfavorable rulings from retaliation from lawmakers and governors.

Polls â&#x20AC;&#x201C; at least the ones that survived Sandy â&#x20AC;&#x201C; will be open from 6 a.m. to 8 p.m. on Tuesday. Y rickmellerup@thesandpaper.net

they even spotted a woman in a Cadillac with water nearly above the roof trying to drive off the Island. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We came a lot farther than I really expected.

This is the biggest adventure of my life. You wouldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t believe it,â&#x20AC;? said Perry.

They watched another pickup truck, followed

by Ship Bottom Volunteer Fire Co. and National Guard trucks, make it over to the bridge. Following those same tracks, the family ďŹ nally made it over, too.

They drove to Moorestown to stay with Kenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s parents, where theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve been keeping in touch with friends at home via phone and Internet.

Though they havenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t lost any power there, they said they did maintain some gutter damage from a fallen tree last night. â&#x20AC;&#x153;That doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t even come close to anything thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s happened to me these past few days,â&#x20AC;? said Perry. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We made it through a harrowing journey.

Gutters can be replaced.â&#x20AC;?

At this point, Perry and her family donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t know when theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll be allowed back on the Island. They donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t know what their property looks like, or what sort of damage their house sustained. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s nothing we can do at this point,â&#x20AC;? said Perry. â&#x20AC;&#x153;In the meantime, weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re just glad everyoneâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s safe. Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll deal with what happened when we get back.â&#x20AC;?

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Logos | Business Cards | Brochures Custom Websites | Hosting | Ecommerce www.jskgraphics.com 609.709.9196 jeff@jskgraphics.com

DEBORAH C. WHITCRAFT Mayor Emeritus - Wedding & Civil Union OfďŹ ciant Member of the National Association of Wedding OfďŹ ciants 609-492-3645 home 609-226-3838 cell

www.DCWhitcraft.com DebWhitcraft@gmail.com

Notary Public of the State of New Jersey 528 Dock Road â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Beach Haven, NJ 08008 OfďŹ ciant fees to beneďŹ t NJ Maritime Museum, a 501(c)(3) Non-ProďŹ t Organization

â&#x20AC;&#x153;IN PAIN?â&#x20AC;?

Herniated Disc Therapy Non-Surgical Treatment relieves herniated disc pain.

MRI studies have shown disc bulges shrink in size.

Laser Therapy Therapeutic Deep Tissue Heat Laser Fast Pain Relief from acute and chronic pain 3TUDIES SHOW THAT LASER THERAPY CAN HELP WITH 4ENDONITIS #ARPAL 4UNNEL 3YNDROME 4ENNIS %LBOW 3PRAIN 3TRAINS !RTHRITIS "ACK .ECK

Knee Pain and much more.

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EMERGENCY & SUNDAY CARE

thesandpaper.net

In-OfďŹ ce Whitening

Covering Southern Ocean County ...No Matter What

ZOOM & Wherever You Smile, We Make It Brighterâ&#x201E;˘

Gift Certificates Available â&#x20AC;˘ Lumineers â&#x20AC;˘ Mini Implants â&#x20AC;˘ Snap-on Smile â&#x20AC;˘ Laser Dentistry â&#x20AC;˘ Same Day Repairs â&#x20AC;˘ One Hour Whitening â&#x20AC;˘ Dentures & Partials â&#x20AC;˘ Invisalign (Invisible Braces)

Ocean Family Dental

524 S. Main Street Cedar Run, NJ 08092 609-597-9290

Harry Gilbert, D.D.S., F.A.G.D. Keri Irving, D.M.D. Marc DiNapoli, D.M.D. Now Accepting www.LBIDENTIST.com

New Patients

Cosmetic, Family and Implant Dentistry 508 S. Long Beach Blvd.

SENIOR CITIZEN DISCOUNTS â&#x20AC;˘ We Children and Cowards Too! Evening & Saturday Appts. â&#x20AC;˘ Most Insurance Plans Accepted

Ship Bottom, NJ 08008 609-494-4492

The SandPaper/Saturday, November 3, 2012

Liquid Lines

Hurricane Sandy and focus on the immediate recovery efforts for those who have lost their homes, power, water and other life sustaining necessities, we are reminded of the real and devastating effects that are being caused by rising sea levels.

"While the superstorm is an extremely rare event that cannot be directly blamed on climate change, our warming oceans are creating the latent potential for more frequent and more powerful storms. When powerful storms combine with increased sea level rise and intense coastal development, they provide the ingredients for massive destruction, loss of life and major economic losses.

"When the storm calms and itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s time to clean up and rebuild, the Surfrider Foundation urges leaders to resist the urge to proclaim that we will build it all back but instead pause to consider our future with a warming ocean and increased sea level rise and plan for a coast of the future that is resilient to future weather events.â&#x20AC;?

And the surf industry outside the region is already rallying to bring relief. Jon Rose, a former pro surfer turned humanitarian and director of Waves 4 Water, is heading to New Jersey and New York to provide relief, primarily in the form of water puriďŹ cation methods, as he had done in Indonesia and Haiti.

As for the physical geography of LBI, it may never be as we remember it. Dunes are cut in half, and the contour of the coast is far different.

Holgate is a much different place than we knew.

And while we will lose some surf spots, we will gain new sandbars and spots as a result of Sandy.

Surfers, highly tuned to the ocean conditions, know that in the aftermath, riding waves is not a priority. But it is a big part of life on LBI and will play a part in rebuilding our community. Y joncoen@thesandpaper.net

The SandPaper/Saturday, November 3, 2012

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ADOPTION Are you pregnant? A childless, married couple (in our 30s) seeks to adopt. Will be hands-on mom and devoted dad. Financially secure. Expenses paid. Nicole & Frank, 888-969-6134.

Are you pregnant? A caring married couple seeks to adopt. Will be full time mon/devoted dad. Financial security. Expenses paid.

Yvette & David. (Ask for Adam) 800-790-5260.

MASSAGE THERAPY/ SPA SERVICES Enjoy a full-body, relaxing, deeptissue, 4hands or couples massage by Ray, LMT. Couples special. Call Hands To You, 609-7037570. www.hands2u.com Enjoy therapeutic massage in your home. ABMP Certified Massage Therapist practicing in Swedish, Deep Tissue, Myofascial Release, Medical Massage, and Muscle Energy Techniques. Call Ken, 609859-3080, cell 609-280-3528.

Premier Quality Massage

Excellent therapy, delivered, 7 days. Swedish •Deep Tissue •Couples •Parties. Experienced Professional CMT. Call SkyBlu 609-226-4289, Sally.

STAMPS WANTED Father Don is looking for stamp collections! The Rev. Donald Turner, 609-494-5048 or frdltpadre1@yahoo.com

ANTIQUES/BOOKS Verde Antiques and Rare Books

We Buy & Sell Quality Items

Decorative Art & Paintings, Prints & Photographs; Vintage & Rare Books; Toys, Sports & Doll Collectibles; Magazines & Autographs; Pottery; Ephemera of All Kinds & Estate Jewelry. .......................................................

Open Wed.-Sun., 11am-4pm. 73 East Bay Ave., Manahawkin. 609597-5233. On the web at verdeantiquesandrarebooks.com

ANTIQUES

APPLIANCES

Architectural Salvage

Refrigerator/freezer, electric range oven, microwave, dishwasher, sink. All in almond. $650. Kitchen cabinets & countertops, best offer.

Sofa, blue & white striped. $500.

215-808-6848.

Wrought iron fencing, garden antiques, fireplace mantles, hardware, kitchen and bath, much more. Recycling the Past, 381 North Main St., Barnegat, 609-6609790.

BYERS CHRISTMAS CAROLERS, 20% OFF. Bay Avenue Antiques, 349 South Main Street, Barnegat. Open Tues.Sun., 10am-5pm. 609-6983020.

MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS Classical guitar, nylon strings, Torres model concert guitar. Inquire for price. 609-693-1584.

Downtown Consignment

MERCHANDISE

609-978-3633

DISH Network. Starting at $19.99/ month PLUS 30 Premium movie channels FREE for 3 months!

SAVE & ask about SAME DAY installation! Call 866-944-6135.

Ar t •Antiques •Vintage •Salvaged Goods •Cool Junk.

762 E. Bay Ave., Manahawkin.

Open Thurs.-Mon.

TWO SHORE BIRDS

Antiques & collectibles bought & sold. Norman Cramer, proprietor.

An eclectic selection of collectibles.

425 Rte. 9, West Creek. For hours or appointment, 609-296-2704.

FLEA MARKETS Manahawkin Flea Market

New merchandise– Pay $25 for Saturday, next day, Sunday, is free. Used merchandise– Sat. & Sun., $10 each day. Expires Dec. 2012. PRICES VALID WITH THIS AD. 657 East Bay Ave. 609-597-1017.

APPLIANCES

MERCHANDISE WANTED

609-597-6446

Lic.#13VH05348400

COTTAGE FENCE

Installations & Repairs. Vinyl •Chain Link •Wood •Aluminum Fence •Trash Enclosures & Showers •Swimming Pool Enclosures.

Quality, Dependable Work. 609489-6400. Lic.#13VH05152400 cottagefence@yahoo.com

Full service contractor, insured demo/debris removal. Build to suit.

HGTV “Kitchen Cousins”/Brunelleschi Construction. Call 201-3959000.

Dear Readers & Advertisers: This Week’s Classified Section was produced under battlefield conditions owing to the hurricane. We apologize if a listing or two is out of place or mis-categorized.

We will have our computer system fully functional next week.

Thank you for your understanding.

STORM ASSISTANCE STORM DAMAGE REPAIR & RESTORATION

**Call now for immediate response to your needs! Lighthouse Building & Contracting. All phases, professional workmanship. Over 25 years exp. Fully insured. Lic.#045477.

609-857-5992

AWNINGS & CANOPIES ATLANTIC AWNINGS

Professional Installations •Residential/Commercial. Retractable Awnings, Window Awnings, Retractable & Stationary Canopies, Recovers, Repairs, Re-Hang, Take Downs, Washing. Fully insured.

FREE ESTIMATES. 609-6182420. Lic.#13VH06758700. atlanticawningcompany.com

The Classified Dept.

Classified Ads Get Results 494-5900

CAMERAS WANTED

Highest prices paid for quality cameras. No Kodak, no polaroid, no movie. Will pick up. Please call 908-964-7661.

JEWELRY WANTED

Entire collections. Costume, estate, gold, silver. Broken jewelry. Call for FREE estimates. We will come to you! 609-661-4652.

SPORTING GOODS SCUBA DIVERS

Wetsuits (men/women), doubles, wings, deco bottles, regulators, BCDS (men/women), much more.

Must go! Call Jack 908-723-4530.

ERIK’S APPLIANCE SERVICE

RELIABLE SERVICE for your washers, dryers, refrigerators, ranges and dishwashers. All makes & models.

STORM ASSISTANCE

FENCING

DANA LIMOUSINES, LLC SERVING ALL AIRPORTS, CITIES, CASINOS & PIERS GUARANTEED LOWEST RATES

CALL-TOLL FREE

HALL RENTAL

(866) 521-0076 • (866) 521-8790 FAX

HALL RENTAL Surf City Firehouse– year ’round. Heat and A/C, kitchen, off-street parking.

Call 609-494-6127 for information.

FULLY LICENSED Danalimousine DanalimousineLLC LLC@aol.com @aol.com INSURED

SERVING THE TRI-STATE AREA WARNING: N.J. & U.S. DOT LAWS REQUIRE LIMOUSINE COMPANIES TO HAVE $1,500,000.00 IN LIABILITY INSURANCE, & ALSO ALL NEW DRIVERS ARE SUBJECT TO CRIMINAL BACKGROUND CHECKS. BEWARE OF LOCAL FRIENDS, NEIGHBORS, OR LIMOUSINE COMPANIES THAT DON’T MEET THESE STATE & FEDERAL REQUIREMENTS.

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JUNK OUT

You name it, we remove it! Everybody has junk. Home & Business.

Basements •Attics •Yards •Garages •Sheds •Apartments.

877-637-JUNK.

CLEANING SERVICES All your cleaning needs. Let It Shine Cleaning Service. Changeovers, year ’round. LBI area. Owner operated. References available.

Faith, 609-312-9494.

ANCHOR CLEANING

Full service. Year ’round, seasonal & changeovers. No job too large or too small, give us a call. 609-947-5514, 609-9158215.

Got Cobwebs?

2 Jersey Girls Cleaning Service

Betty’s Busy Bees, LLC

Year ’round cleaning service. Residential/Commercial. Openings/ Closings, Changeovers. Reasonable rates. Bonded and Insured.

Call 609-618-9465.

CARPET CLEANING

Truck-mounted steam cleaning. ‘‘We Are the Best.’’ LIBERTY CARPET CLEANING. 609-9787522.

Do you need to ‘‘brighten’’ your home? Call Sunshine Cleaning Service. Year ’round, seasonal and changeovers.

References available. Call Stacey, 609-3841649.

DORA’S ISLAND CLEANING FLOOD RESTORATION 609-276-5537

609-812-0597

Paula Sullivan, Owner

HOUSE WATCH

AND Complete Cleaning Service, NJ Registered. Year ’round residential, weekly, bi-weekly, & monthly cleaning. Mary Kennedy, 609-492-5122, 609-709-3240.

HOUSEWORK HELPER

BEST

STEAM CARPET CLEANING

159 HALF HOUSE $ 85 3 Areas SOFA & LOVESEAT $ 110 99 WHOLE HOUSE $ SOFA & LOVESEAT 219 7 Areas 7 Areas

Audrey says, ‘‘Don’t get your panties in a pinch!’’ With our help we can make all your cleaning needs a cinch. We do it all, so give us a call.

Cleaning is a sure thing. 609-5975325, Audrey.

SEASONAL/YEAR ’ROUND

Reasonable • Experienced Weekly • Bi-Weekly Year ‘Round

WHOLE HOUSE $

CLEANING SERVICES

95

609-489-1721

Year ’round cleaning, with over 20 years experience. I clean corners, I do not cut them! References available. Call Rosemary 609-618-3788 or 609-698-2459.

MillCreek Carpet Cleaners

Carpets, ceramic tile, furniture.

23 years serving LBI. Call 609492-7061, or 609-597-7061.

Window Cleaning Pressure Washing Painting • Staining

Mr. Maintenance Cleaning

Residential, commercial and summer changeovers. Mattress cleaning and sanitizing. Fully insured. Bonded. Free estimates.

10% OFF first cleaning. 609242-1629. www.mr-maintenance-clean ing.com

For a Friendly Phone Consultation with no Bait & Switch, Call 609290-2691. You’ll be glad you did! www.baysidecarpetcleaning.org

LBI screen repairs, door installation, and home repairs done at your location! Lic.#13VH01016900.

Credit cards accepted. Call Mike Haines, 609-290-8836.

Fast Screen

Same Day Mobile Repair Service Credit Cards Accepted

Chimney sweeping. Fully insured, reliable. Sales, service, installation. 609-597-3473.

HIC.#13VH01525800. See our displays. www.fireplacesonline.com

WELDING

Retired certified welder, small/large items, my place or yours. Steel, aluminum, stainless. Over 45 years experience. 609-494-7263, cell 609-713-5528.

609.312.1076

Fully Insured

Kelly’s

Cleaning Service, LLC Year ‘round, Seasonal & Changeovers L.B.I. Based 15+ Years of Experience, Family Owned Affordable • Reliable • Free Estimates Window Cleaning • Carpet Cleaning • Power Washing

FLAGPOLES INSTALLED. Vinyl/ Aluminum/Nautical Yardar ms.

FALL SPECIAL– 25ft. flagpole $975 installed. American made. 20year warranty. 609-494-0800 email victor@perennialgardensllc.com

A FALL CLEANUP

Tree removal & trimming, yard cleanups, gutter cleaning, odd jobs, mulching. Call 609-9710242. (Lic.#13VH02103100).

Complete Design Services. Interiors, Home and Realtor Staging, Window Treatments, Slip Covers and Upholstery. Call 609-5973360.

ALL HOME REPAIRS & MAINTENANCE

Wind Damage, Roofing, Siding, Windows, Drywall, Trim, Decks, Basements, Kitchens, Baths, Additions. Guaranteed call back.

Lic.13VH04665400. 609-489-6305.

BuildAxis.com

CABINETMAKER

Finish Carpenter. Kitchen & Bath Remodeling. Cabinet Refacing. Entertainment centers, bookcases, mantles, custom moldings. References, fully insured, 30 years experience. 609-492-6820.

Lic.#13VH04077900.

HOUSE WATCH All Winter House Watch $55/Month

By Jim Ratigan, LBI & BHW since 2001 FULL TIME. Background: Heating, Electrical, Plumbing, Property Management & Maintenance, 30+ years! Personalized Service. Weekly house checks.

SUN BUSTERS WINDOW TINTING

THINK ABOUT IT! Carpet & wood floors, furniture & artwork, the sun will destroy them. We’re here to help! 99% Ultra violet ray rejection.

Specializing in ocean and bayfront homes. Call Tom, 609-693-BUST (2878). sunbusters.cjb.net

ELEVATORS ACCREDITED HOME ELEVATOR CO.

Sales/Service •Residential and Commercial •New or Existing •Installation •Moder nization •Repairs •Service/Service Contracts. Hoistway Construction, Dumbwaiters, Chairlifts. Visit our showroom, 127 Rte. 9 South, Barnegat. Lic.#13VH04317500. www.accelevator.com

609-660-8000

Customer Photo Album Call for appointment

609-290-1920

EYE on LBI

Landscaping & Garden Center

House Watch Property Mgmt Services

(Previously LBI Landscaping)

Call Kevin and Mike

Design, Install, Maintain

Who’s watching your home?

FULL TIME LBI RESIDENTS available 7 days/week 12 months. Interior & Exterior Inspections. Contractor Access.

Meet your Deliveries.

www.EYEonLBI.com

· Unique Island Style Landscapes · Colorful Gardens, Fence, Bamboo · Long Term Landscape Relationships

609-361-4310 www.hochslandscaping.com Lic # 13VH04791400

ISLAND HOME WATCH &

Visit our New Garden Center!

ALLPURPOSEREPAIRS.COM. LBI based. Weekly & monthly rates. Insured & NJ licensed, #13VHO5115400. Ask for Dave, 609-207-6056.

229 S. Main St.(Rt 9) Barnegat Pkwy Exit 67

OCEAN

Lic# 13VH02482900

For-Shore Weed Control Lawn Care

Tree & Shrub Care

FREE Follow-Up Service Calls FREE Evaluation/Estimate Poison Ivy Control • Weed Control on Sand, Stone, Patios & Driveways LAWN CARE • TREE & SHRUB CARE OUTDOOR PEST CONTROL

609-693-6999 BARNEGAT L IGHT L ANDSCAPING & GARDENS Complete Range of Landscaping Services Shore Garden Specialist Proudly Serving LBI’s North End

Stone Spreading Brick Pavers Landscaping

609-597-3629

www.SouthernOceanHardscaping.com

ISLAND HOME CHECKS & SERVICES

609.709.5227 SRF444@yahoo.com Garden & Landscaping Center Located at 502 Broadway, Barnegat Light Now open weekends 8:30am - 5pm or by appointment

JAMES “BUTCH” McCAFFREY (609) 492-6758 Licensed • Bonded • Professional Island Resident • References FREE BROCHURE WRITE CALL Retired Island Police Chief JMAC ENTERPRISES P.O. BOX 1486 BEACH HAVEN, NJ

Lic# 13VH00325300

Allgreen Pest Services ECO FRIENDLY

Michael J. Kelly 732-364-5330

mfritz625@aol.com www.allgreenpestservices.com

EMERGENCY WORK

609-296-5335 Over 20 Years Experience Fully Insured • Lic. #13VH01823000

7 Day Service

732-597-8550 866-303-0044

FREE ATES

ESTIM

732-208-8733

power washing/wildlife trapping

Scheduling Now for Spring 2013 Weekly • Bi-Weekly • Monthly Fully Insured

LANDSCAPING

JG DESIGNS

HOME REPAIR •MAINTENANCE. LBI based. Wind Damage, Doors, Locks, Siding, Roofing, Drywall, Andersen Windows, Fences, Rotted Wood. Lic.#13VH02403900.

609-713-2400, 609-713-2405.

OUTHERN

FLAGS & FLAGPOLES

WINDOW TREATMENTS

CARPENTRY

SCREEN REPAIRS MIKE’S POWER WASHING

Call: 609-389-2565

Fireplaces Plus, Inc.

609-713-8352

You’ll Get the Cleanest Carpet & Upholstery

CLEAR REFLECTIONS LLC

METAL WORKING

CHIMNEY SWEEPING

Licensed & Insured Free Estimates Real Estate Inspections

Certified Arborist & Line Clearance Certified Tree Removal & Planting Natural/Organic Tree, Plant & Lawn Care Proper Pruning & Trimming • Cleanups & Clearings Stump Grinding • Brush Piles • Firewood 60' Aerial Lift / Grapple Truck / Experienced Climbers Customized Plant Care Program • Fertilization & Disease Management

The SandPaper/Saturday, November 3, 2012

RUBBISH & GARBAGE REMOVAL

The SandPaper/Saturday, November 3, 2012

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ELECTRICAL

LANDSCAPING

LANDSCAPING

LANDSCAPING

PEST CONTROL

MASONRY

AFFORDABLE Landscaping

MANAHAWKIN TREE SERVICE

SCHONEYâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S LANDSCAPING CLEANUPS

LIND ENTERPRISES LLC TERMITE & PEST CONTROL

A&A MASONRY REPAIRS. Steps, chimney walls, rebuilt & repaired.

Stone veneer, concrete & pavers.

Fully insured. Call Pete, 609-2424249. newjerseymasonry.com

Fall Cleanups/Winter Closings â&#x20AC;˘Planting â&#x20AC;˘Pruning â&#x20AC;˘Mulching â&#x20AC;˘Weeding â&#x20AC;˘Fencing. Over 15 years experience. Low rates. Please call 609-276-3111.

Tree Removal, Trimming, Stump Grinding & Chipping.

Gardens Planted, Weeded & Maintained.

494-0266

AH

â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;The friends of your yard.â&#x20AC;&#x2122;â&#x20AC;&#x2122; Stone spreading, all colors and sizes, lawn care, hedge and shrub trimming, mulch and complete cleanups. â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Planting time is any time.â&#x20AC;&#x2122;â&#x20AC;&#x2122; Prompt service. 609-312-9857.

597-8846

Free estimates. Fully insured.

Lic.#13VH01099400

Yard Cleanups, Mowing, Weeding, Tree/Hedge Trimming, Mulch, Stone, Plant Transplants, Flower Beds, Misc.

Work. Reasonable prices. Call Stacey 609-618-3673.

Complete landscaping, grading and brush hog, backhoe, fences, gutters, tree, shrub and stump removal. 609-693-3084.

Lic.#13VH01672000.

STAFFORD STONE

Design & Installation

609-978-1045 â&#x20AC;˘ Fax: 609-978-0337 celestino.landscaping@yahoo.com

Reg./Lic# 13VH02263300

LIGHTHOUSE LANDSCAPE www.LighthouseLandscapeLBI.com

more

All Landscape Services & Outdoor Lighting Installations

609-494-7373 Joe Salentino C:609-312-3688 H:609-848-9033

On tthe O h Side LANDSCAPING Fall Savings 10% Off for New Customers

â&#x20AC;˘ Rock â&#x20AC;˘ Cleanups â&#x20AC;˘ All Landscape Needs â&#x20AC;˘ 60ft. Bucket Lift â&#x20AC;˘ Pavers â&#x20AC;˘ Hardscaping â&#x20AC;˘ Treework â&#x20AC;˘ Trimming â&#x20AC;˘ Planting â&#x20AC;˘ Weeding â&#x20AC;˘ Mulch â&#x20AC;˘ Topsoil

PERENNIAL GARDENS perennialgardenslbi.com

Landscaping â&#x20AC;˘ Fencing â&#x20AC;˘ Pavers

(609) 494-0800 Lic.# 13VH01646400

Call Howard 609-384-5019

Stone Delivery & Spreading â&#x20AC;˘Grading â&#x20AC;˘Fill â&#x20AC;˘Mulch â&#x20AC;˘Topsoil â&#x20AC;˘Stone, all types & sizes. Free estimates. 609-698-5505, 609709-6556. Lic.#13VH02679500.

Clean Ups â&#x20AC;˘ Trimming â&#x20AC;˘ Tree Planting & Plants Celestino Cruz References â&#x20AC;˘ Free Estimates - Est. 1980

Serving LBI & Ocean County Real Estate and WDI Inspections. Termite, Ant, Rodent, Wasp and all pest control problems solved. Excellent Customer Service. Lic.#98314A fully insured.

Property & Lawn Maintenance Sod â&#x20AC;˘ Stone Shore Plantings Wall Stone Drainage Solutions Mulch Free Estimates

DAWSON

â&#x20AC;˘ Spring/Fall Cleanups & Maintenance â&#x20AC;˘ Professional Design/ Build Services â&#x20AC;˘ Pools & Spas â&#x20AC;˘ Outdoor Living Spaces â&#x20AC;˘ Outdoor Kitchens & Fireplaces

Landscapes Reg/Lic# 13VH02805500

Surf City 609-361-8800 www.bayaveplantco.com

CULTURED STONE

Sales, Installation. Residential/ Commercial. Interior/Exterior.

Reliable, fully insured.

HIC#13VH01525800. 609-5973473. Fireplaces Plus, Inc. See our displays. www.fireplacesonline.com

Curbs Driveways Patios Sidewalks Steps

Carl Gallagher Mason â&#x20AC;˘ Contracting

609-494-0969 Reg./Lic.# 13V00199100

Landscape Design 494-7562 â&#x20AC;˘ 294-9551

Night & Day Landscape Design

609.812.9191 www.shrubheads.com â&#x20AC;&#x153;Your yard is always on our mindâ&#x20AC;?

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NJ LICENSE #6156

Kean

Electrical Contractors, Inc.

Complete electrical residential/ commercial service. Guaranteed call back. Free estimates.

Lic.#14560A. 609-978-2070.

THOMAS F. GOGLIA & SON ELECTRICAL CONTRACTORS

All calls promptly answered. Serving Manahawkin & LBI w/25 years experience. Lic.#12137. 609-5490049.

Serving LOCAL Businesses & Homeowners for Over 20 Years

Since 1976

Lic # 5828

Ceiling Fans Recessed Lights Remodeling & New Construction

QUICK RESPONSE

609-361-0236

GEORGE WARR

www.daveselectric.net

Electrical Contractor

FREE ESTIMATES

Meter Sockets & Service Cable Replacements Water Heater Elements Installed Ceiling Fans â&#x20AC;˘ Dryers Air Conditioning â&#x20AC;˘ Circuits Lighting & Remodeling Specialist P.O. Box 182, Barnegat Light, NJ 08006

609-494-0927

LBI â&#x20AC;˘ Manahawkin Tuckerton Lacey Twp. â&#x20AC;˘ Toms River FIND AN ELECTRICIAN IN THE SANDPAPER CLASSIFIEDS

KURTZ ELECTRIC, INC. Residential â&#x20AC;˘ Commercial â&#x20AC;˘ Industrial

â&#x20AC;&#x153;NO JOB TOO SMALLâ&#x20AC;?

Serving Local Businesses & Home Owners for 32 years â&#x20AC;˘ Upgrade Electrical Service â&#x20AC;˘ Recessed Lighting â&#x20AC;˘ Air Conditioning Circuits

FREE ESTIMATES

â&#x20AC;˘ New Construction â&#x20AC;˘ Wiring for Ceiling Fans â&#x20AC;˘ Troubleshooting

597-8570 LICENSE No. 6093

185 N. Main St. (Rt. 9) Manahawkin, N.J.

Sod â&#x20AC;˘ Stone â&#x20AC;˘ Plantings â&#x20AC;˘ Pavers Retaining Wallsâ&#x20AC;˘ Lighting Drainage Systemsâ&#x20AC;˘ Property Maintenance Lic. #13VH00349300

609-978-1392

Stone Delivery & Spreading â&#x20AC;˘ All Types & Sizes Quality Paver Work Most Reasonable & Experienced Area Contractor Mushroom & Topsoil â&#x20AC;˘ Clam Shells

Call for free consultation for design services

Call now to schedule your fall cleanup

FREE 3-D Design with any Design Built Service

10% off for New Customers

We Will Beat Any Estimate by 5% FREE ESTIMATES

494-4106 â&#x20AC;˘ 597-1767

Lic#13VH00893900

Repairs & New Installations â&#x20AC;˘ Senior & Military Discounts â&#x20AC;˘ Lighting Ceiling & Attic Fans â&#x20AC;˘ Generator Specialist â&#x20AC;˘ Kitchens & Baths

$50 OFF ANY JOB OVER $200 Fully Bonded & Insured Lic.# 15541

609-891-6905

Free Estimates 24-Hr. Service

WE DO SOLAR

Outdoor Environments

All Phases of Electrical Work No Job Too Small

10% OFF ALL JOBS OVER $250.00

Landscape Planning, Design & Construction â&#x20AC;˘ Plant Services Property Management â&#x20AC;˘ Irrigation & Drainage Solutions Landscape Lighting â&#x20AC;˘ Outdoor Living Areas â&#x20AC;˘ Carpentry Services Fiberglass Pools & Spas â&#x20AC;˘ Hardscape Design-Build Services Long Beach Island, NJ

p: 609-494-7007 www.daivdashlandscaping.com

609-597-0964 Manahawkin, NJ 08050

856-764-8446 Delran, NJ 08075

Licensed & Fully Insured NJ License #15079A

(some restrictions may apply)

â&#x20AC;&#x153;Extreme Home Make Over Contractorâ&#x20AC;?

(609) 978-6530 WWW.GOGREENWITHLOUSELECTRIC.COM

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ROOFING/SIDING

HEATING & COOLING

HEATING & COOLING

HEATING & COOLING

PLUMBING

A ALL EXTERIOR RENOVATIONS

A ALL PHASES OF ROOFING/SIDING

ALL-WAYS HEATING & AIR CONDITIONING

JR’S HEATING SERVICE BOILER REPAIR

Rick Barker Heating & Cooling, LLC

S.K. ROBB PLUMBING CO. (Free Estimates)

Certified Vinyl Siding Contractor (VSI), Cedar Impressions, Real Cedar Shakes, Timberline Roofing, Windows, Decks, Outside Showers. Fair Prices. Free estimates, Proof of license, insurance & vinyl siding certification. 609-494-3999.

Lic.#13VH04369400.

ALL HOME REPAIRS & MAINTENANCE

We specialize in Roofing & Siding, Cedar Impressions, Vinyl Siding, Cedar Shakes, GAF Timberline Roofing. BEST PRICES ON LBI. Call for free estimate. Only Certified Vinyl Siding Installers Located on LBI. Fully licensed & insured.

609-494-5108.

Lic.#13VH04369400.

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Wind Damage, Roofing, Siding, Windows, Drywall, Trim, Decks, Basements, Kitchens, Baths, Additions. Guaranteed call back.

Lic.13VH04665400. 609-489-6305.

BuildAxis.com

Sales •Service •Installation •All Makes/Models. Financing Available. BPI Certified. 24Hr. Emergency Service. 877-247-1010.

Lic.#13VH01556300.

FAZIO HEAT & AIR

Our rates don’t inflate going over the bridge. R22 $24.99 lb. Great service contracts. 15 minute call backs. Emergency service standby. Fully insured. Free service calls. Lic.#13VH06569000 ins.

609-276-1658

Baseboard heat, circulators, relays, thermostats, zone valves installed. Over 30 years experience.

WINTER HOUSE WATCH Avail.

609-290-1920

LAURENCE HEATING & AIR CONDITIONING

Experienced Technician For Sales •Service •Installation. Certified & insured. 30 years experience.

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Your comfort is our goal! Get it done right the first time. 609-5975808. Lic.#13VH04377200.

PLUMBING

Outdoor showers, tankless and water heaters, gas lines, sewer/ drain cleaning, boilers, service work. For all your plumbing needs.

Free estimates. Lic.#12452. 609668-9008.

Repairs & Power Washing

ATLANTIC ROOFING & SIDING

Residental & Commercial Shingle Roofs • Flat Roofs • EPDM • Single Ply Systems Vinyl & Cedar Siding • Copper • Chimneys Additions & Alterations • Gutters • Windows • Painting Fiberglass Decks • Vinyl Railings • Skylights • All Repairs Fully Insured

609-698-7766 Serving Ocean County & LBI for over 20 years

Quality Service at Your Convenience for all your plumbing needs.

Winterizations, Leaks, Fixture Replacement, Drain Cleaning. 609242-5474. Lic.#12557.

www.lbiplumbing.com Plumbing,

Heating & Cooling

Plumbing - Heating Building & Construction

Yes, Our Office Is On LBI!

609-384-1709

(No subcontractors)

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A company where the owner is on the job!

Lic# 13VH01941200

609-361-9453

JERSEY SHORE PLUMBING & DESIGN

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All Plumbing Services. Bathroom Remodeling. Handicapped Toilets. Winterization Services. NJ Lic#.8455.

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609-361-0600

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609-361-8815

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Roofing • Fiberglass Decks • Skylights • Vinyl Rails All Types of Shingles & Repairs

609-294-8219

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609-361-7473 Michael J. VanLiew Over 20 Years Experience Master Plumber

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Replacement windows, paint, roofing and siding repair, storm doors, brush and tree removal, raking leaves, stone work, light hauling.

Serving LBI and Mainland since 1987. 609-698-7493.

All types of home repairs, •Carpentry •Ceiling Fans •Locks •Stor m Doors Installed •Housesitting •Rental Property Maintenance. Call Sal 609-3352099.

ALLPURPOSEREPAIRS.COM

LBI based. One call does it all: repairs, renovations, windows, doors, closets, tile, fire/water damage, carpentry. No job too small. Also home watch. Insured & NJ licensed, #13VHO5115400. Ask for Dave, 609-207-6056.

LBIHANDYMAN.COM

Wind Damage, Screens, Roofing, Siding, Flooring, Tile, Windows, Drywall, Trim, Decks, Kitchens, Baths, Cleanouts. Guaranteed call back. Lic.#13VH04665400. 609489-6305.

BEN SHEPPARD

HANDYMAN & HOUSE WATCH SERVICES. Phone 609-848-4893.

Visit www.ben-sheppard.com Fully Licensed & Insured. NJ HIC#13VH 06951700.

Big C...Little Repairs

Handyman Services. One call does it all. Year-round repairs & house check. Insured. 609-947-6396.

Lic.#13VH03667600.

COAST HANDYMAN SERVICES

Windows, doors, all carpentry, woodwork, sheetrock, plaster & paint work. Licensed & insured.

Lic.#13VH03837800. Call Dave 609-296-5779.

Mr. Fix-It

Repair & yard work, power washing, interior/exterior painting & staining. No job too big. No job too small. We do it all. Serving LBI out of Beach Haven. 609-312-9857.

SUNRISE SERVICES

Professional: House Cleanings, in/out seasonal cleanups, gutters, water damage, repairs, carpentry, window & power washing. Dune fencing. Lawns: mow, rake, bag, prune. North LBI. Eric, 609-494-5548.

Lic.#13VH01376000.

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Rotted Wood Repairs Sheetrock & Painting Leaky Roofs & Siding Wall Air Conditioners Closets & Partitions - Trim Decks, Stairs & Showers Windows • Doors • Locks Andersen Window Repairs Termite Repairs Lic.#L046452

RON FERRIER FLOOR SANDING CO. Installation, staining, pickling, repairs. Clean, top quality work.

Serving Southern Ocean County.

732-775-1932.

10% Senior Citizen Discount

All Fixtures, Drain Cleaning, Water Heater Installation & Repairs Appliance Installation & Repairs 609-618-4298

609-549-5088 Office

24 Hr. Emergency Service Lic# 4996

Specializing in: Tankless Water Heaters Ductless Air Conditioning, Water Turn Ons, Sewer and Drain Cleaning Call for a FREE In-Home Estimate

A ALL H0ME IMPROVEMENTS

We specialize in Renovations, Additions, Add-a-Level, Decks, Kitchens, Bathrooms, Vinyl Siding, Cedar Shakes, Windows, Vinyl Railings, Outside Showers. Free Estimates. Fully licensed and insured.

Lic.#13VH04369400. 609-4943999.

We specialize in Additions, Decks, Renovations, Vinyl Siding, Cedar Siding, Windows, Vinyl Railings, Outside Showers, and Roofing.

BEST PRICES ON LBI. Call for free estimate. Fully licensed and insured. 609-494-5108.

Lic.#13VH04369400.

HOME TEMPERATURE MONITORING STARTING @ $35.99 + TAX AND SENSOR LEAVING FOR THE WINTER? WE WILL MONITOR YOUR HOME’S TEMPERATURE TO PREVENT DAMAGE. ONLY DOWN FOR WEEKENDS? IN SUMMER DON’T COME HOME TO A HOT HOUSE. SERVICE CONTRACTS MAINTENANCE CONTRACTS Starting @ $20.00 a Month + Tax Starting @ $100.00 + Tax Includes Parts & Labor 32-point Tune Up (Cap & Contactor Included) 32-point Tune Up DISCOUNT ON PARTS & LABOR UNLIMITED SERVICE CALLS PRIORITY SERVICE

SENIOR DISCOUNTS AVAILABLE ON SERVICE CALLS www.rossohvac.com yrosso@rossohvac.com LIC#13VH01298500

609-812-0094

Old & New Floors Installation & Repairs

609-597-6229 Jerry Milano

Joy Milano

MILANO TILE, LLC Serving LBI over 40 years

Custom Installations Bath remodels, backsplashes Marble, glass, handcrafted tile our specialty

Hardwood ~ Laminate ~ Bamboo ~ Cork

Home Improvement Contractor •Kitchen & Bath Remodeling •Decks •Additions •Windows & Siding •Property Management. Quality Work. Serving LBI & Area Over 25 Years. 609-312-6410.

Lic.#13VH02671400

ALL HOME REPAIRS & MAINTENANCE

Wind Damage, Roofing, Siding, Windows, Drywall, Trim, Decks, Basements, Kitchens, Baths, Additions. Guaranteed call back.

Lic.13VH04665400. 609-489-6305.

BuildAxis.com

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JOSEPH MIDURE

HOME IMPROVEMENTS INC.

Vinyl Siding •Windows •Doors •Decks •Carpentry & More. Free Estimates. 609-294-0173. Fully Insured. Lic.#13VH06667900

General Contractor. Remodeling: Kitchens, Baths, Tile, Hardwood Flooring. Major/minor renovations.

Roofing, Decks, Small Repairs.

Quality workmanship & references, ser ving LBI since 1985. #13VH02749200. Call Mike P. 609296-8222. ‘‘You’ll be glad you did!!’’

MALCOLM LEIGH CONSTRUCTION LLC

Professional Flooring Installation at Competitive Rates Have us install any brand from any store or use our free shop at home service & save!

609.276.9299

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Remodeling, Additions, Kitchens, Baths, Doors/Windows, Siding, Decks, Three Season Vinyl Patio Rooms. 609-290-9737. BBB Accredited Business.

Lic.#13VH03012500. malcolmleighconstruction.com

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NON FIREABLE ASBESTOS

Legal disposal. Pick up or removal.

Call All Safe, 609-709-1723.

POWER WASHING

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ADMIRAL HOME REPAIR

JG Stone Creations, LLC

Custom stone design. Interior and exterior walls, fireplaces, feature walls, and more. 609-618-7980.

Lic.#13VH06988100. www.jgstonecreationsnj.com

MICHAEL & SON

ABEL DRYWALL & PAINTING

All phases of home inprovements & repairs. Bathrooms, kitchens, tile, decks, siding, Andersen windows, replacement windows, vinyl railings and painting. 609-504-7007.

Lic.#13VH06514200

Professional Remodeling Contractors since 1982. Custom trim, crown moldings, additions, kitchens, baths. Satisfaction guaranteed. Lic.#13VH01891800. 609597-8925. Facebook.com/jconos centiandsons

Reg/Lic # 13VH04482900

Marble - Natural Stone - Glass Tile

Additions •Renovations •Demolitions •Cleanups •Complete Basements & Bathrooms. Free estimates. Fully insured. 609-273-8207.

Lic.#13VH06131300.

J. CONOSCENTI & SONS CONTRACTORS

Ph/Fx: 609-698-2378

A.G.F. HOME IMPROVEMENTS All phases of home renovations.

Kitchens •Baths •Tile •Decks •Fully Insured •References •Free Estimates. 609-971-7459.

Lic.#13VH01279700.

AFFORDABILITY J. COLLINS & SONS CARPENTRY

SALES • SERVICE • INSTALLATION ALL MAKES AND MODELS • Furnaces • Central Air • Humidifiers • Boilers • Ductless • UV Systems

Floor Sanding & Refinishing

HOME IMPROVEMENTS

Ceramic Tile LLC

Custom Showers • Complete Bathroom Remodels Kitchen Backsplashes Small Jobs & Repairs Welcome Fully Insured • Reg/Lic 13VH00054700

Cedar, vinyl, fiberglass, railings, decks, wood restoration, concrete, docks all phases. Insured.

Lic.#13VH01389600. Call John, 609-494-6175.

MIKE’S POWER WASHING

Credit cards accepted.

Lic.#13VH01016900. Call 609-2908836.

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Winterizations

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& CARPENTRY. Interior & exterior repairs. Screen repairs and storm door installations also.

Lic.#13VH01016900. Credit cards accepted. 609-290-8836.

FLOORING

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25% off Selected Items

Installers, all windows/doors. Replacements, Andersen, repairs. Licensed and Insured.

Lic.#13VH03837800. Call Dave 609-296-5779.

Refinish Your Hardwood Floors Starting At $2.49 Sq. Ft. 50 YEAR TITANIUM FINISH • EXCLUSIVELY AVAILABLE HERE

EAST COAST CONTRACTING– Kitchen & Bath Remodeling •Decks •Vinyl Railings •Tile •Painting & More. 1 hour response. Chris 609618-3462. Lic.#13VH06855700

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Serving NJ - NY - PA - DEL Areas With Our Mobile Flooring Stores Contractors Lic.# 13VH00147400

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PAINTING

PAINTING

AL-CAT PAINTING

Andrew H. Grayson Painting & Contracting

BYRNE PAINTING

Interior â&#x20AC;˘Exterior â&#x20AC;˘Wallpapering â&#x20AC;˘Power Washing. All other home improvements and remodeling.

Fully insured. 25yrs. experience.

609-978-0181, Joe. Lic.#13VH03693100.

jppereiraconstruction.com Reg/Lic# 13VH00319400

Licensed/Insured. Interior/Exterior Paint, Stain, Decorative Finish.

Wallpaper, Repaint, New Construction. Power Washing. Residential/Commercial. Sub-contract, Ocean County/Will travel. References available. 609-891-5513.

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New Homes â&#x20AC;˘ Additions Structural Repairs â&#x20AC;˘ Decks Siding â&#x20AC;˘ Framing Historical Renovations Home Improvements

DECKING PLUS DECK BUILDERS & POWERWASHING CO.

25 Years Experience FREE ESTIMATES â&#x20AC;˘ INSURED 609-693-3472 Reg./Lic.# 13VH01404200 Lic.# 13V02820300 Insured

All Major Credit Cards Accepted

Additions â&#x20AC;˘ Renovations â&#x20AC;˘ Windows â&#x20AC;˘ Doors 609-748-7870 Siding â&#x20AC;˘ Decks â&#x20AC;˘ Kitchens â&#x20AC;˘ Baths www.acqconstruction.com No Job Too Small

ROBERT HOTALING

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609-361-8226 SHIP BOTTOM

PAINTING

Interior/exterior.

Power washing. Quality work at reasonable prices. References supplied. 609-494-5626, 609597-8558. Lic.#13VH02045500.

Howard Painting & Staining

Interior & exterior. Give us a call. 609-312-9857. Serving all the Mainland and Long Beach Island.

PAINT & HAMMER

Interior and Exterior Staining & Painting. Powerwashing. Windows & Doors Installed. Michael Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Donnell. Lic.#13VH05479800.

609-494-3699.

R.J.H. Paint & Stain

Interior/exterior, power washing, wall coverings, acoustic spray, small repairs. Owner operated since 1979. Licensed, insured, reliable. 609-597-7763.

Lic.#13VH01979900.

Fully Insured Free Estimates

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HOME REPAIRS & IMPROVEMENTS Always a Quality Job at a Fair Price

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REMODELING â&#x20AC;˘ ADDITIONS â&#x20AC;˘ DECKS TRIM WORK â&#x20AC;˘ EXTERIOR STAIRWAYS DECORATIVE OUTDOOR WOODWORK EXTERIOR SHOWERS â&#x20AC;˘ NO JOB TOO SMALL

30 Years Experience Reg/Lic# 13VH06407000

Licensed & Insured

Beyond All Expectations

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Fully Insured NJ License # 13VH04665400

PHONE: 609-693-8998 FAX: 609-693-5358

ADDITIONS & ALTERATIONS

33 YEARS IN BUSINESS

FULLY INSURED & LICENSED

KRETZER & SONS, INC. CUSTOM BUILDERS BATH & KITCHEN REMODELS REPLACEMENT WINDOWS DECKS & VINYL RAILS WILLIAM C. KRETZER, PRESIDENT FORKED RIVER, NJ NEW HOME BUILDERS LIC#00595 HOME IMPROVEMENT CONTRACTORS LIC#13VH03118500

ATTEND COLLEGE ONLINE FROM HOME. Medical, Business, Criminal Justice. Job placement assistance. Computer available. Financial aid if qualified. SCHEV authorized. Call 888-220-5975. www.CenturaOnline.com

MATH & SCIENCE TUTOR

All ages. Basic to college level.

Call for more info. 609-3121477.

READING TUTOR

Certified â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Orton-Gillinghamâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;â&#x20AC;&#x2122; reading/writing teacher, K-8th, with over 30 years experience. Specializing in dyslexic individuals. Call Joan 609-242-4088.

SPANISH

INSTRUCTION & TUTORING NJ Certified K-12. 25 years exp.

Affordable, will travel. Remedial/ enrichment. All levels, children to adults. Call 201-638-4906.

EXTERIOR/ INTERIOR

â&#x20AC;˘ Deck Restoration â&#x20AC;˘ Window Cleaning â&#x20AC;˘ Powerwashing â&#x20AC;˘ Paint/Stain Fall Roof Cleaning Special

800-560-WASH

PAINTING STAINING 597-0544 Reg./Lic.# 13VH01517700

Frank Co. Painting & Paperhanging

Professional â&#x20AC;˘ Prompt â&#x20AC;˘ References

609-276-9213

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ADULT CARE

Rock Solid Productions

Experienced (25 years plus) caregiver. Specializing in Alzheimer patients. Full time or part time. Prefer Long Beach Island. Call 609-3842107.

Providing original music for media, TV, and film. Please visit us www.rocksolidproductionsllc.com, email rocksolid321@gmail.com or call 609-713-6325.

CUSTOM HOUSE PAINTING

361-2452

PETS/PET CARE

MUSIC LESSONS Music lessons for All ages! Find a music teacher. TakeLessons offers affordable, safe, guaranteed music lessons with teachers in your area.

Our prescreened teachers specialize in singing, guitar, piano, drums, violin and more. Call 888690-4889.

ADOPT A PET

COMPUTER SERVICES

Dogs, Puppies, Cats & Kittens ready for adoption in Ocean Countyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s animal facility, located at 360 Haywood Rd. in Manahawkin. All animals have been spayed/neutered, vaccinated & microchipped. Hours: 1pm-4pm daily, Wed., 1pm-6:30pm.

COMPUTER TECH

LOST A PET? Call the shelter, your pet could be there!

12 years experience in all phases of computer programing, setup, maintenance, repairs, networking & security. For home or small business. Will come to you! Tuckerton to LBI. Call 609618-6147 or email: williamsLEH@comcast.net My Computer Works. Computer problems? Viruses, spyware, email, printer issues, bad internet connections- FIX IT NOW! Professional, U.S. based technicians. $25 off service. Call for immediate help.

888-904-1215.

SHORE PC CLINIC

Est. 1987

Additions â&#x20AC;˘ Alterations Remodels â&#x20AC;˘ Renovations Elevators â&#x20AC;˘ Decks Siding â&#x20AC;˘ Windows Doors â&#x20AC;˘ Floors â&#x20AC;˘ Trim

ANTHONY JOHNâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S REMODELING, LLC Calls promptly returned

INSTRUCTION

Corrigan Construction Co.

LIC# 13VH00402400

(609) 276-2242

TMS PAINTING

Interior & Exterior. OFF SEASON RATES. Licensed & Insured. Senior citizen discounts. Call Terry, 609-424-8264. Lic#13VH06985600

MUSIC PRODUCTION

609-978-0127

Adorable, 8-week-old kittens, grey striped. Free to great home. Spaying & first shots included. Friendly, good with kids & dogs. Call Sandy, 609-492-1801, Beach Haven.

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HOLIDAY PORTRAITS

Pet portraits from your photo. Pen & Ink * Colored Pencil * Watercolor or Oil * Caricature or Cartoon. 10% discount on orders placed by 11/1.

Call Pat Johnson, 609-296-2162, leave message.

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Computer Repairs â&#x20AC;˘ Upgrades â&#x20AC;˘Virus and Malware Removal.

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PET AND HOUSE SITTING, LLC

Pet Sitting â&#x20AC;˘Pet Walking â&#x20AC;˘Full Animal Care â&#x20AC;˘House Sitting â&#x20AC;˘Plants, Mail, etc. References/ Insured. Barbara,

ADULT CARE

609-361-8020

AT HOME ELDER CARE

European caregivers, English speaking. References, licensed, bonded, insured. Call 732-899-6366. www.athome-eldercare.com EUROPEAN CAREGIVERS looking for home health aide jobs. 12 years experience. Excellent references. Call Ann, 732-525-1839.

THE PET NANNY DOG CARE COACHING

Personal Pet Care. Pet Sitting, Dog Walking, Cat Care Coaching, House Sitting. 15+ years experience on LBI. The professional, loving care that your furry family deserves. Tail-wagging references!

CHERI 609-713-0866

T.W. Knorr Construction, LLC BUILDERS & CONSTRUCTION MANAGERS

(609) 848-4094 (201) 650-0534

Additions â&#x20AC;˘ New Homes â&#x20AC;˘ Home OfďŹ ce Renovations â&#x20AC;˘ Media Rooms Add-A-Levels â&#x20AC;˘ Kitchens & Baths tim@twknorr.com â&#x20AC;˘ www.twknorr.com NJ Reg # 13VH03126700

WASHING â&#x20AC;˘ New/Old Work â&#x20AC;˘ Wall Paper Removal â&#x20AC;˘ Sheetrock Repairs

Custom Fiberglass Fully Insured

Free Estimates

Serving LBI

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Hansonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s House Painting, LLC #1 Fall Rates! 609-271-4708 Leo Hanson â&#x20AC;˘ Owner/Painting Contractor Insured, Registered & Licensed in NJ Interior/Exterior â&#x20AC;˘ Power Washing Staining â&#x20AC;˘ Professional Window Cleaning Home Improvements Where Excellent Quality at a Reasonable Price Still Matters!

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Special Pricing Starting at $29900 Includes Capping & Low E Glazing

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PETS/PET CARE

HELP WANTED

WALK A DOG OR FOSTER KITTENS!

WANTED: LIFE AGENTS. Earn $500 a day, great agent benefits, commissions paid daily, liberal underwriting. Leads. Leads, Leads.

LIFE INSURANCE LICENSE REQUIRED. Call 888-713-6020.

Volunteer at Southern Ocean County Animal Shelter, located at 360 Haywood Rd. in Manahawkin.

Dog walkers are needed daily from 9am-4:30pm. Orientation held 1st & 3rd Thursday and 3rd Sunday at 11am. Must be 18 years old. Paperwork can be picked up at the shelter daily, 1pm-3pm. FREE Pet Food Pantry in shelter lobby for those in need.

Weichert Realtors is looking for new and/or experienced team members. Call to arrange a confidential interview, LBI office 609494-6000.

HELP WANTED

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AIRLINES ARE HIRING! Train for hands on aviation career. FAA approved program. Financial aid if qualified. Job placement assisitance. CALL Aviation Institute of Maintenance. 877-564-4204.

AAA LOCATION

AREA CLAIMS Writer/Property Inspectors. Interviewing now. PT/FT, flexible. Training provided. Respond to 732-930-7900 or www.metronjm.com Driver- $0.01 increase per mile after 6 months. Choose your home time: weekly, 7/ON-7/OFF, 14/ON7/OFF. Requires 3 months recent experience. 800-414-9569. www.driveknight.com DRIVERS - A. Duie Pyle needs owner operators regional truckload operations. HOME EVERY WEEKEND! O/O average $1.84/ miles. Steady year ’round work.

Requires CDL-A, 2 years experience. Call Dan: 877-307-4133. www.DriveforPyle.com Drivers- Start up to $.40/mile!

Home weekly, new pay package, great equipment. CDL-A with 6 months OTR experience required.

Dedicated to excellence. 877-4320048. www.smithdrivers.com Drivers: w/flatbed experience. Excellent wages, top 25% of fleet earn over $65,000, top 50% over $57,000. Excellent benefits. New trucks, Rider program. Safety bonus. Home weekends. CDL-A, 2 years experience. P&S Transportation, 877-660-1663 x367.

Experienced drivers. $1,500 singon bonus! Regional LTL opportunities available in Burlington, NJ! Earn up to $1,100 or more per week. Great home time. 855-7808011. www.driveffe.com Experienced Reefer drivers: GREAT PAY/freight lanes from Presque Isle, MS, Boston-Leigh, PA. 800-277-0212 or www.primeinc.com

Housekeeper Wanted

in Barnegat Light for thorough cleaning of 2-story home with 2 cats. Flexible schedule, 2-3 days each week, 3-4 hours each trip.

Hourly rate negotiable. No agencies or services please. Call 609494-7920 between 11am-6pm to inquire.

Licensed Real Estate Agent for Sales & Rentals in Progressive Suppor tive LBI Office. Join a Friendly, Positive Professional Team. Call Rick at Stevens Real Estate for a Confidential Interview, 609-494-5555.

P/T SPECIAL EDUCATION AIDE: High school diploma required; college-level course work in education or previous experience preferred.

Apply to Karen T. McKeon, Superintendent, 201 20th St., Ship Bottom, NJ 08008 by 10/29/12. EOE/ ADA. PLUMBER’S HELPER– Must have valid driver’s license. Experience helpful. 609-361-0600.

REAL ESTATE– Sales/Rental agents. Build or increase your business in one of our busy Long Beach Island offices. Great opportunities for newcomers or seasoned agents. Call Aileen Kidd TODAY at Prudential Zack Shore Proper ties for a confidential interview. 609-494-1776.

TRAVEL TRAILERS FOR SALE 30ft. Award: walkaround queen bed, pull-out sofa, sleeps 6, many extras! Good condition, well maintained. $9,995. Located Beach Haven. 609-492-2466.

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YEAR ROUND RENTALS Barnegat (Pebble Beach section), 3BR, 1BA ranch. W/D, D/W, large fenced-in yard. $1,200/month plus utilities, 1.5 months security. No pets/smoking. 609-661-2500.

BARTLETT LANDING

SHIP BOTTOM strip store available immediately.

609-290-1272, 609-494-2420.

Manahawkin, 250-1,000 sq.ft. Ideal professional office, retail or medical office. Available immediately. Will subdivide. Owner offers rental incentive. Jeff, 732-580-7457 or Diane Turton Realtors, 609-4927000.

Single or multiple office space for lease in newer Victorian building on Route 9, south of Manahawkin.

Share building with engineering contractors. Access to conference room, ample parking. Call Lou at 609-709-5063.

Stafford Forge Business Park

Contractor’s Office/Workshop for rent. 1,100-14,000 sq.ft. Will divide.

609-294-4990.

LOTS FOR SALE Manahawkin, 1-acre lot on desirable Beachview Ave. Underground utilities already installed. Price reduced. Call Don Diorio, 609-7092483.

HOUSES FOR SALE Affordable Bayfront!

For Sale By Owner

Barnegat Light/High Bar area.

Details & brochure on Web site barnegatlightbayfront.com For appointment please call 609-713-1415.

SPECTACULAR LOVELADIES

BAYFRONT PROPERTY

200ft. of unobstructed southwest exposures. Private cul-desac. 43 West Holly Ave. Priced to sell at $2,295,000. MUST SEE! 609-709-5227.

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MOBILE HOMES 2005 33ft. Chateau, steps from ocean. Sleeps 8, fully equipped.

Located in Oceanside Trailer Park, unit #6. $29,900/OBO. Call 917862-4673.

R.E. OUT OF STATE AUCTION- Real Estate & Personal Property, Cliffside Mansion & Cottages, 216+/- Acre Country Estates, offered in 17 tracts in Carroll County and Galax, VA. Long frontage on New River Trail and Chestnut Creek. Guaranteed to sell over $699,000. Nov. 8, 10am - Personal Property; Nov., 9, 10am - Personal proper ty, real estate sells at NOON. Sale held on site tract 7, 506 Cliffview Road, Galax, VA, 24333. 5% buyer’s premium on real estate, 10% buyer’s premium on personal property. For more information, go to woltz.com or call Woltz & Associates, Inc., Brokers & Auctioneers, (VA#321) Roanoke, VA. 800-551-3588.

Convenient/Comfor table, 2BR, 2BA, fully applianced. Call or stop in today. Our team is eager to help make you feel ‘‘at home.’’ Call 609294-2404.

WINTER RENTALS

BOAT HAULING

Little Egg Harbor, now-May, 3BR, 1BA, W/D. $800/month + utilities (negotiable). Lagoon-front, easy bay access. No pets/smoking. Bill, 609-618-3083.

SHIP BOTTOM BOAT TOWING, local & long distance boat hauling, since 1986. 609-978-7757. Like Us on Facebook. www.Shipbottomboattow.com

AUTO REMOVAL

CASH PAID

SAIL REPAIRS

For your unwanted cars & trucks.

TOP DOLLAR PAID. FREE TOWING. Call daytime 609-268-0365, eve. 609-230-5998.

ATTENTION SAILOR: Sail repairs, new sails, boom covers, windows, cushions. Rigging replacements.

CDI furlers. Will pickup & deliver.

609-294-2457, Aggie.

AUTOS FOR SALE

BOAT ACCESSORIES

2001 VW Golf, $3,500/OBO. 105K miles, check engine light on, needs front brake pads. Please call 609709-9196.

BAYVIEW CANVAS

Boat Canvas– custom fabrication and repair. All types enclosures, covers, upholstery, marine carpeting, residential canvas. 609-276-2720. www.bayviewcanvaslbi.com

L.E.H. 2BR, 1BA, gas heat, C/A, W/D, fenced-in yard. $1,100/month + 1.5 months security. Call 609339-0862.

Blue, 2007 Dodge Ram 1500 SLT, 5.7 liter V8 Hemi. 104,000 miles.

Crew cab 4x4 w/6.25ft bed, bed liner and retractable bed cover, tow package. AM/FM, CD, cruise control. $13,750. Mercer County. 609273-8339.

Little Egg Harbor, large, 1st floor, 1-bedroom condo w/pool. $950/ month + utilities, security, credit check. Available 11/1. No smoking.

609-709-6574.

Mercedes Benz, 2008, C300. Fully loaded. Meticulously maintained.

62,000 miles. Asking $25,000. Call 609-342-0044 or cell 609-7123140.

We come to your location. All covers vented to prevent mildew.

609-660-0669.

AUTOS WANTED

PROTECT YOUR OUTDOOR INVESTMENTS!

Manahawkin, unfurnished, 3-bedroom, 2-bath, 2-car garage, ranch.

No pets/smoking. Available 11/15. $1,700/month plus utilities. Credit check/references/tenant interview.

Owner real estate agent. Call 609226-6113.

DONATE your car, truck or boat to HERITAGE for the BLIND. FREE 3 day vacation, tax deductible, FREE towing, will take care of ALL paperwork. 888-438-1090.

Manahawkin, 4-bedroom house, 2 full baths, W/D, DW, C/A, full basement. Large yard. No pets. Available 11/1, $1,750/month + utilities.

201-912-1390.

Honda, Toyota, Nissans, SUVs and Jeeps. All vehicles WANTED. 2001 and UP. Top Cash Paid. 24 hour CASH pick-up. Any condition.

732-496-1633.

Manahawkin waterfront w/large dock. 2BR, new kitchen/bath, hardwood floors, deck. $1,100/month + utilities/security. No pets. Call 973722-3115.

MARINE SERVICES

MANAHAWKIN– FAWN LAKES adult 55+ 2BR, $950/month + utilities. FAWN LAKES, 1BR, $850/ month + utilities, no pets/smoking.

MANAHAWKIN 3BR, 2BA, $1,050/ month + utilities. MANAHAWKIN 3BR, 2BA ranch, $1,500/month + utilities. WEST CREEK apartment, 2BR, gas heat, $1,050/month. We are in need of rental properties.

Please contact us if you are considering renting your property.

Home Alliance Realty, 609-9789009.

CAPTAIN BRAZILL’S MARINE– Certified Condition & Vessel Value Surveys; Pre-purchase Insurance.

Boating Safety Instructor •Boat Hauling •Boat Stands. 609-4947200. www.lbiboatcap.com

SHRINK WRAP NACE’S SHRINK WRAP

Outdoor Kitchens & Bars •Fire Pits Pool Pumps, Filters, Heaters •Air Conditioners. Boat Winterization & Hauling. Snow Plowing. 609-5482917.

WAVERUNNER/JET SKI

Winterization/Shrink Wrapping done correctly. $135 each. Discounts for multiple machines. Oil changes, all models. Pick up/on site. 609-839-1264. baysidejetski@yahoo.com

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THIS WINTER...

WHO'S PUTTING YOUR BOAT TO BED??

"Let Us Tuck It In!" Winter Storage Includes: • Haul Out • Storage on Individual Rack • Spring Launch

FREE WATER PICK-UP & DELIVERY IN OCEAN COUNTY BY LICENSED USCG CAPTAIN No Hidden Charges!

Call for Prices & Reservations (609) 698-0463 Outboard & I/O Winterization, Shrink Wrapping & Fiberglass Repair Available

Mystic Island waterfront, 3-bedroom ranch, 719 Twin Lakes Blvd.

Bulkhead, great area. Credit check, references, $1,250/month plus utilities. 973-334-3468, 973-789-6863.

NEW GRETNA, 2BR & 1BR apartments. Heat supplied. Rent starts at $800/month. No pets. Call 609978-0964.

BOAT STORAGE

HOUSE RAISING AND MOVING

www.AtlanticStructureMovers.com

Jay Thompson L i c 13 V H 0 0 6 8 5 6 0 0

609 597 3538

We have it all!

EXPERIENCE! EQUIPMENT! FACILITIES! PRIME LOCATION! Family Owned & Operated for 70 Years

Victorian-style shore house privately set on a Sea Captain’s Estate. 2-3 BR, reversed living w/ open floor plan, cathedral ceiling and upper deck. Fully equipped and furnished. C/A. Walking distance to downtown or bay front areas. $1,400/month plus utilities.

Call 609-488-0526.

Authorized Dealer

VILLAGE ON THE GREEN

TUCKERTON APARTMENTS Luxury 1BR & 2BR, spacious, gourmet kitchen, mini blinds, fully applianced. Call 609-294-2424.

ROOMMATE WANTED Oceanside, share clean, 2BR, 1BA, apartment. Great location, ample parking, huge deck, O/S. Haven Beach. Call for more details.

609-287-1179.

609-361-1400 609 361 1400

under New Management Family Owned & Operated Pet & Kid Friendly Detailing • Power Washing Summer Slips Up to 50ft.

Jet Ski Slips • Rack Service • Fuel Dock Winter Storage • New Amenities 3110 LB Blvd., Brant Beach

Sherer's Boat Basin 482 E. Bay Ave. Barnegat, NJ 08005 609-698-0463

HU 39

STACK’S PILINGS & DOCKS LLC

•Bulkheading •Boat Lifts •Floating Docks •Davits. Free estimates. Fully insured. Reg./ Lic.#13VH03247500

609-978-1175

Yo u r A d C o u l d B e Here! 609-494-5900

CARDAN

2 Miles from Inlet All your Striped Bass needs on the water.

Storm Damage Repairs

Docks • Davits • Vinyl Bulkheading Decks • Repair Work

Live Baits

OUTDOOR DECK-ORS,INC. T/A SURF BULKHEADING & DOCKS

Extruded Vinyl Bulkheads Non-Polluting Bulkhead Piers and Breakwaters We Take Care of All Permit Needs

609-698-1536 Lic#13VH05229500

NJ DEP • CAFRA • Army • Local

856-313-0562

GARY GOVE

Picture Perfect Designs

Specializing In... Marine Construction of All Types

Fully Insured • Free Estimates

Eels • Chum • Spots • Clams

Tackle • EUA’s • Bait Rigs Fuel • Ice & Coffee Snacks • Soda Holgate Marina Bouy 110 88 Tebco Terrace

PREMIER DOCKS AND BULKHEADS

Marine Construction

HOW ARE YOUR PILINGS?

Yo u r A d C o u l d B e Here! 609-494-5900

Repairs

609.494.4561 Lic.# 13VH06980200

Repairs

Actual LBI Photo

T/A SURF BULKHEADING & DOCKS

RESIDENTIAL/COMMERCIAL UM M A GN IF T S L T A O B

Custom Waterfront Construction Docks • Vinyl Bulkheads

FREE ESTIMATES • FULLY INSURED State & Local Permits

609-971-1780 Reg/Lic# 13VH015848900

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FORMAPILE Can fix rotted pilings at a fraction of the cost of replacement pilings Call 609-494-7200 Capt. Bob Brazill for details

609-296-0309 460 Dock Road, West Creek NJ

FULL SERVICE MARINA BOATS / JET SKIS / TRAILERS BOAT STORAGE WINTERIZING / SHRINK WRAP BOAT HAULING / TRAVEL LIFT Complete REPAIR & SERVICES at your dock or our shop.

I/O-O/B ENIGINE / OUTDRIVE rebuild or replacements.

BOAT SLIPS 2013 USED BOAT SALES

BULKHEAD INSTALLATION & REPAIRS DOCKS • DECKS • EXCAVATION PIERS • PERMITS

609-857-5185 NJ LIC.#13VH05898400

Holgate Marina

609-597-4513 www.kngmarine.com

FULL SERVICE MARINA

609-492-0191

83 Tebco Terrace - Holgate

NOW AVAILABLE Fall Transient Slips - Weekly / Monthly

2013 Slips - Vessels Up to 36 Feet RESERVE NOW 2013 Jet Ski Port with Rollers

www.holgatemarinalbi.com

Barge Work • House Pilings House Raising • Docks Bulkheads • Piers • Boatlifts

Call the Experts 609-296-9063 Sales@amonconstruction.com Reg. Lic. #13VH00017900

The SandPaper/Saturday, November 3, 2012

MARINE CONSTRUCTION

Attract All the Birds for Under $15

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Great for First Time Bird Feeders

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Great Addition to Your Existing Setup

NEW CONSTRUCTION OCEANSIDE IN BEACH HAVEN TERRACE

The all-in-one feeder that attracts them all with seed, suet, nuts and fruit.

Flying Start™ Combo

Buy 3 Stackables® for $14.97 Get a FREE FeederË($9 Value) *Valid only in Toms River. Buy 3 Stackables® for $14.97 and get a FREE Feeder ($9 Value). Offer not valid onprevious purchases; one per person. Available for a limited time

941 Route 37 West, Toms River 732-281-2473 wbu.com/tomsriver 2 miles west of the Parkway, exit 82A, eastbound side BIRD FOOD • FEEDERS • GARDEN ACCENTS • UNIQUE GIFTS

New construction oceanside in Beach Haven Terrace! Reversed living with open floor plan and cathedral ceilings, elevator, four bedrooms and 3.5 baths, and multiple decks including a rooftop.

First floor family room features a wet bar with fridge. Second floor great room has a gas fireplace and breakfast bar. Hardwood floors, custom tile baths, stainless appliances, granite countertops, paver driveway, tankless hot water, 2-zone HVAC and more. A perfect location, within easy walking distance of restaurants, shops, bank, ice cream shop, tavern and more. All this and a guarded bay beach just a few blocks away! Completion early spring 2013. Still time to choose your own colors and finishes!

Call Deirdre Devine at 609-384-5929. $1,224,000.

PET FOOD DONATIONS NEEDED Come See Our Family of Pets for Adoption They Need Your Love • They Will Love You

DOG WALKERS NEEDED

Dependable Waterfront Sales & Service since 1959

Season’s End Specials Popular High-Quality Boats

Our food bank for pets is getting very low!

Please Help

• Looking for dry pet food, wet pet food and treats for dogs and cats • If you are able to help, THANK YOU! If you are in NEED, please stop by the shelter and we can help you.

We have four (4) drop off points:

For Family Fun

Wally Mitchell’s Restaurant (side door)

Boston Whaler Key West • Parker

We d Neeet P d Foo

Sunfish Laser Pedal Boats

Evinrude • Yamaha Outboards EXCELLENT SELECTION OF USED BOATS & USED MOTORS 1225 E. Bay Ave., Manahawkin www.hanceandsmythe.com

609-597-7813

712 Long Beach Blvd.

Surf City

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CLOSED MONDAY & TUESDAY

Southern Ocean County Animal Shelter 360 Haywood Rd. Manahawkin

Morning Dog Walkers Needed

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Uncle Will’s

Lucky’s Bed & Biscuit

Long Beach Blvd.

Beach Haven

Bay Ave. Manahawkin

Friends of Southern Ocean County Animal Shelter P. O. Box 1162 • Manahawkin, NJ 08050 Open Everyday 1pm to 4pm & on Wednesday till 6:30pm (609) 978-0127 www.fosocas.org • fosocas@comcast.net

Southern Ocean County Animal Facility 360 Haywood Rd., Manahawkin