The MANCHESTER Times Vol. 28 - No. 34
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-Photo by Bob Vosseller Runners take to the Turkey Trot course for the second annual 5 Kilometer Run hosted by America’s Keswick of Whiting. The event served as a fundraiser for their addiction recovery ministry.
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By Bob Vosseller MANCHESTER – You didn’t need to wear a turkey suit to be part of the 2nd Annual Keswick Thanks-For-Giving Turkey Trot 5 Ki-
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lometer Run, but it sure wouldn’t hurt. The event that featured at least 50 participants took place on a chilly autumn morning at the America’s Keswick Ac-
tivities Center Addiction Recovery facility located in the Whiting section of Manchester. Robert Kenney serves as the director of Partner Care at Keswick in
Whiting, which offers an extensive Christian based addiction recovery program, and while he wasn’t wearing a turkey costume, he and
December 3, 2022
Mayoral Contenders Debate Development By Bob Vosseller MANCHESTER –A political war of words was heard during a recent Township Council meeting between mayoral contenders Mayor Robert Hudak and challenger Robert Arace. Both candidates will face off once again on December 13 in an election runoff. While Hudak and his team r e c e i ve d t h e m o s t votes, the percentage he received du r i ng the general election in November was at 44%, however 51% of the vote is required to win the election. While there were three mayoral candidates and six council candidates in that election, only
Arace and Hudak and their council team candidates will face off this time in the non-partisan race. During the public com ment per iod of the last Council session, Arace challenged Hudak’s position regarding development projects within the community. In particular he brought up a meeting that concerned the Heritage Minerals property. “Throughout the election Mayor Hudak has campaigned against development despite the fact that he was well aware that his own Business Administrator (Brandon Umba) (Debate - See Page 8)
Lakehurst Grows Cannabis Zone
facturing. He was helpBy Bob Vosseller LAKEHURST – Can- ing businesses to grow nabis retail and cultiva- and to get licenses. He said he also works tion in the borough is with an invest ment growing and during regroup that helps procent council meetings, vide funding for such an ordinance pertainbusinesses. “I’m working to that expansion ing with two of your has been the subject candidates and I’m here of dialogue between and he owned 12 Rolls industry representa- on their behalf and to Royce’s. He was a very tives and the governing also see if there wasn’t rich man. an opportunity to carve body. “He offered me a franDuring one public out additional space for chise way back when comment period, Alan another business of this he first started which I Trzuskoski, founder of type.” think was 1965. I met Cannabiz Incubator, “We are having a first him at Teaneck when said he was building reading to allow a seche opened up one there. a cannabis campus for ond business in the B-2 (Friendly's - See Page 5) cultivation and manu- (Cannabis- See Page 24) (Runners - See Page 4)
Friendly’s Route 37 Location Has Unhappy Ending
By Bob Vosseller TOMS R I V ER – Township resident Bob O’Keefe wanted some ice cream on a Tuesday afternoon so he stopped at a familiar location, the Friendly’s on Route 37. The marquee sign advertised a free sun-
dae with every “Happy Ending” menu item. O’Keefe was disappointed because all he got was an ending. The long-time restaurant/ice cream parlor had closed its doors to the public a day earlier on November 21.
Staff members were still working inside and refer ring those who stopped in to go to the nearest - and now only - Friendly’s location in Ocean County, on Hooper Avenue in Toms River. O’Keefe was a fre-
quent patron of the Rout e 37 lo cat ion. “I came for some ice cream. That’s a shame. I knew the owner of Friendly’s years ago. I worked for Rolls Royce Automobiles. T he owner of this Friendly’s came from Connecticut
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