The BRICK Times Vol. 22 - No. 29
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December 3, 2022
4.6 Acres Could Be Saved As Open Space
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BREAKING NEWS @
─Photo by Judy Smestad-Nunn 20 Brower Lane might be acquired as open space. jerseyshoreonline.com
Government Pages 7
Community News Page 9-11
Dr. Izzy’s Sound News Page 14
Inside The Law Page 17
Holiday Meals To Be Given, Thanks To Students
─Photo by Judy Smestad-Nunn Mariah Blevins, a Pinelands High School Junior, and Xavion Moore, a senior from Lakewood High School, show off 1,385 meals stacked in packs of five in the walk-in refrigerators. There will be 3,000 prepared. By Judy fixings due to the hard when “Feed the Need” prepare 25 meals, said Smestad-Nunn work of culinary arts started - the best guess vo-tech teacher, Chef BRICK - Some 3,000 students at the Brick is somewhere around Gary Lesniak. of the needy in Ocean center of Ocean County 25 to 30 years ago - but T he prog ram has and Monmouth Coun- Vocational Technical it began when a church grown and grown over ties will have a Thanks- School (OCVTS). group asked if the culi- the years as the need giving meal with all the (Meals - See Page 4) No one is exactly sure nary arts students could
they deem appropriate for acquisition that could potentially be saved, said Mayor John G. Ducey during the November 22 Township Council meeting. “We’ve been working on trying to figure out which properties in town we’d like to see the town and/or county acquire to keep it as open space - not for any particular purpose,” he said. (Space - See Page 5)
Heating, AC To Be Sheriff’s Officers Detail Border Added To 4 Schools Crisis On Recent Assignment
─Photo by Stephanie Faughnan Ocean County Sheriff’s Officers Juan Mercado and Geoff Hyatt discussed what they learned during a training opportunity at the country’s southern border.
By Judy Smestad-Nunn BRICK - The Brick Open Space Savers Com mit tee (BOSS) was formed earlier last year with the purpose of identifying undeveloped parcels of land in town and recommending that they be preserved as open space. The Committee had its first meeting in September 2021 and since then, they have identified some 38 properties
By Stephanie Faughnan TOMS RIVER – Two Ocean County Sheriff’s Department officers bringing a fugitive back to New Jersey participated in a unique training exercise on their way to Yuma, Arizona. “Knowing that one of the guys we were sending down speaks Span-
ish, I figured this was a chance to give them the experience of going to the border,” said Ocean County Sheriff Michael Mastronardy. “I called up some of my Sheriff’s friends down there, Sheriff (Mark) Daniels in Cochise County and Yuma County Sheriff (Leon) Wilmont who I am on the Board of
Directors with on the National Sheriff’s Association.” Mastronardy said he felt both Sheriff’s officers Juan Mercado and Geoff Hyatt would benefit from training related to what’s happening at the border. After flying into Phoenix on a Wednesday, (Officers - See Page 6)
By Alyssa Riccardi BRICK – Four schools within the Brick Township School District will receive new or upgraded heating, ventilation and air conditioning systems after the board approved $10.7 million in HVAC projects. Currently, out of the 12 schools that make up the district, 10 schools
do not have any air conditioning. Only Brick Township High School and Brick Memorial High School have fresh air intake air conditioning. Earlier this year, the bond measure of each individual project was approved by the Board of Education. At the most recent Board of (Schools - See Page 8)
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