The BRICK Times Vol. 23 - No. 11
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Car Wash Proposed For Busy Intersection By Judy Smestad-Nunn vacuuming stations at BRICK - Plans to 1905 Route 88. The site is currently build a car wash on a wooded and located busy section of Route next to the Camp Mall 88 has met with resisshopping center. Attortance from residents ney for the applicant, of Laurelton Heights, when about two dozen Jason R. Tuvel, said of them came out to a there would be no new recent Board of Adjust- “curb cuts” on Route 88 ment meeting to make since the plan calls for access to the car wash their feelings known. JAC Operating LLC from the existing strip has submitted an appli- mall. The site design prescation for an automated ents some challenges, 2,800 square-foot car wash with 12 outdoor (Car Wash - See Page 5)
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Photo courtesy Kristy Soltmann Students of the Early Act Club are joined by their advisors and township officials for the unveiling of the “Take a Toy, Return a Toy” bin. By Alyssa Riccardi BRICK – Have you e ve r b r o u g h t yo u r kids to the beach but forgot to bring a pale or shovel? Or maybe you just don’t have a n y b e a c h t oy s t o bring? B r i c k To w n s h i p
students have come up with the idea of a “Take a Toy, Return a Toy” to serve a n yo n e w h o v i s i t s Brick Beach III this season. The colorful toy bin was created by students as part of the
Emma Havens Young Eleme nt a r y School Early Act Club, led by a dv isor s K r ist y Soltmann and K risten Carone. Early Act Club is a com mu n it y ser vice club where students g i ve b a c k t o t h e i r
school but also give ba ck to t hei r community. “We want to start f rom a you ng age to show you can give back to others i n so m a ny d i f fe rent ways,” Soltmann (Students - See Page 4)
Photo by Judy Smestad-Nunn The proposed car wash would go in the woods next to this shopping center.
New Homeless Camp: Behind Every Face Is A Story By Stephanie Faughnan TOMS RIVER – A clandestine homeless encampment has managed to defy discovery since last October, catching local authorities completely off guard. The revelation came to light during a recent Photo by Stephanie Faughnan weekend summer sunset The many faces of the newly discovered homeless patrol by diligent memencampment. bers of the Ocean County
Air Support Squadron (OASS). From the vantage point of their small aircraft, volunteers took a double take as they gazed down upon the landscape below. Amidst an area nestled near high tension wires, rows of tents and people moving about revealed a hidden world that had successfully eluded scru-
tiny for eight months. Ocean County Sheriff Michael Mastronardy oversees OASS, which serves as the county law enforcement agency’s air wing. Utilizing their own aircraft, skilled pilots conduct surveillance over waterways, roads, and wooded regions. Through the submission of photographs, any
unusual discoveries are patched a targeted group diligently documented. to the camp to engage Mastronardy credited with them and evaluate the sharp-eyed team with their situations. While discovering the hidden some expressed resisencampment, which had tance to what they perbeen alluded to in a so- ceived as outsider intercial media post that same vention, others hoped to day. Upon identifying find alternatives to their the setup, Toms River current living conditions. Police were notified of In the wake of county the situation. officials taking proactive Local authorities dis- (Homeless - See Page 5)
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