TheTOMS RIVER Times Vol. 18 - No. 14
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Little League Softball Team Defies Odds
─Photo courtesy Bob D’Ambrosio The 10-U Little League Softball team made it to the regional championship.
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August 13, 2022
─Photo By Bob Vosseller Members of Seaside Heights American Legion Post 351 including Borough Mayor Anthony Vaz, join National American Legion Commander Paul Dillard, center, during his recent visit to their post. By Bob Vosseller met with Post 351 Commander “our biggest problem is memSEASIDE HEIGHTS – American Rich Angioletti, former command- bership, we have approximateLegion Post 351 received a special er Bill Kevish and other members ly160,000 in 2021 who did not visitor recently in the form of of the Post renew. We have to do personal American Legion National ComBorough Mayor Anthony Vaz contact with our membership. We mander Paul Dillard of Texas. was among the Legion members must reach out and get them to Dillard, who is the leader of the present for the morning visit which renew their membership. We need nation’s largest veterans service included State Commander Daniel to contact them to let them know organization, toured the Shore Dunn and National Executive they are important and why they Boro Post which is one of the oldest Committeeman Berley Hanna Jr. are important and how much we Legion posts in Ocean County. He Dillard noted at the gathering, (Legion - See Page 4)
vegetables. Lisa spent some of her time pulling dead leaves to keep the plant healthy. “He’s bad. He’s got to get taken out. We can’t have bad leaves,” she explained. Kathy Toohey, instructional specialist with the ARC, said they come once a week as long as it’s not too hot out. They planted seedlings in April and take pictures of the progress. Watching
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Community Garden Is Also A Learning Experience By Chris Lundy BERKELEY - There’s milkweed in a butterfly garden. There’s a honeybee hive box by the pumpkin patch. Both are there to bring pollinators to the Wrangle Brook Community Garden. In addition to these, other helpers have been coming once a week. Members of the ARC have been working in the garden. They pull weeds, plant seeds, and pick ripe fruits and
By Chris Lundy TOMS RIVER – Like the cast of a sports movie, the 10-U Little League Softball team were the scrappy underdogs that made it to the top. They weren’t underdogs because of any lack of talent. Far from it. They had the talent to head to the North East Regional despite only having played together for two years, Manager Bob D’Ambrosio said. The team beat Jackson Little League to win the District 18 championship. That put them in the Section 3 championship where they beat Freehold Little league to come out on top again. This promoted them to the New Jersey State Championship. They overcame Morristown Little League to win that, which was played at Fairleigh Dickinson University. This was a highlight of the season, as it placed them into the East Regional
─Photos by Chris Lundy ARC members helped care for the fruits and vegetables of the Wrangle Brook Community Garden.
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