TheTOMS RIVER Times Vol. 18 - No. 30
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─Photo courtesy Geoff Hyatt The border wall is shown near construction materials that would have been used to build more wall, but are sitting idle.
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 Spanish, 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, Mercado and Hyatt drove southeast to Cochise County to spend the day with the Cochise County Sheriff. A day later, the two officers met with Sheriff Wilmont to see a different view of the United States/Mexico border. (Border - See Page 4)
Holiday Meals To Be Given, Thanks To Students By Judy Smestad-Nunn BRICK - Some 3,000 of the needy in Ocean and Monmouth Counties will have a Thanksgiving meal with all the fixings due to the hard work of culinary arts students at the Brick center of Ocean County Vocational Technical
School (OCVTS). No one is exactly sure when “Feed the Need” started - the best guess is somewhere around 25 to 30 years ago - but it began when a church group asked if the culinary arts students could prepare 25 meals, said vo-tech teacher, Chef Gary Lesniak.
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T he prog ram has grown and grown over the years as the need became g reater, he said, and they try not to turn anyone away. OCVTS partners with Fulfill Food Bank of Monmouth and Ocean Counties, who provided some 500 frozen (Students - See Page 6)
─Photo by Judy Smestad-Nunn Students cooked and packed meals for people in need.
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─Photo by Chris Lundy Engineer William Clanton works the equipment while DJ Matt Knight interviews Robyn Griffith on air. By Chris Lundy TOMS RIVER – Lots and lots of g roceries were bought on the weekend before Thanksgiving but they didn’t all make it home. If they were purchased at the ShopR ite on Fischer Boulevard in Toms River, some of it wound up in a huge Pepsi truck parked out-
side. It was part of the WJRZ Share The Joy collection of food, toys and supplies for Fulfill, formerly the Food Bank of Monmouth and Ocean counties, as well as Big Brothers Big Sisters and the Jersey Shore Animal Center. They set up a portable stage and broadcast (Food - See Page 7)
Friendly’s Route 37 Location Has Unhappy Ending By Bob Vosseller TOMS RIVER – 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 sundae with every “Hap-
py End i ng” 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 (Friendly’s - See Page 24)
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