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New Service Dog Joins The Family
Gretel III, who they received in 2017, is still with them, but she’s retired. When a dog gets to be 10 years old, they are retired and a family can put in for their next pup from Canine Companions, Kim’s father Dennis explained. “He absolutely loves her,” he said, describing how the dog lays at her side when they’re watching TV. He’s always attentive and works hard. “He just took to her right away,” Kim’s mother Louise said. This is their third service dog and each one is trained differently. This is because techniques and needs change over the years. Canine Companions, the national foundation that donated the dog, said that Apollo Photo courtesy Canine Companions is two years old and was specially bred The Bratnik family, from top: Dennis, Louise, Kim and Apollo. and trained by the organization to serve people with disabilities. He knows more than 40 professional commands. For example, he can Chris Lundy BEACHWOOD – With a word and a gesture, Kim open doors, turn on lights, and pick up dropped items. Bratnik called Apollo to her, and the dog was eager to The Bratniks are such advocates for how life-changing these dogs are that they have trained puppies for Canine help and give affection. “He picks things up and carries them,” Kim said. If Companions. there’s an automatic door that can be opened with a large “We raised eight puppies from 8 weeks old to 16 months,” Dennis said. They house train them and take them wherbutton, she can ask him to push it. “Apollo seems to respond, and will do that,” she said. ever they go. Then they’re ready for advanced training. The family said that people watching want to be polite The most recent one is becoming a therapy dog. They’ve and help Kim. They have to tell these people who have also raised a PTSD dog for a veteran. Their ninth is good intentions that they have to give the dog time to coming soon. respond, and he always does. Then the people watch in “They are like little children because they will see what awe as the dog opens a door or picks up something that they can get away with,” Louise said. September is Service Dog Month. Another note on the was dropped. Apollo is a labrador/golden retriever mix. He looks just calendar is that Canine Companions is marking their like a black lab, but his eyes are a soft brown. He is the 50th anniversary. You can volunteer, donate and learn latest service dog for the family. Their first was Orson. more at canine.org.
Dredging Project Scheduled By Chris Lundy BERKELEY – The dredging of channels in Berkeley and Lacey is beginning this month and is expected to be completed around February. The State Department of Transportation announced that the $9.5 million project will be performed by H&L Contracting. They will dredge fine sand and silt from multiple channels within the Edwin B. Forsythe National Wildlife Refuge, including: Stouts Creek Channel Stouts Creek Spur A Stouts Creek Spur B Laurel Harbor Channel South Laurel Harbor Channel North Worden’s Oyster Pond Cedar Creek Channel Cedar Creek Channel Spur Whites Creek Channel Clamming Creek South Channel Clamming Creek North Channel The goal is to create depths of between four and six feet in all of the channels. Dredging operations will be done 24 hours a day, seven days a week, officials said. The sand and silt will be transported via pipeline and discharged into Stouts (Dredging - See Page 4)
Vigil For Charlie Kirk Fills Windward Park
Historical Groups Plan The Future By Chris Lundy OCEAN COUNTY – If you mention the words ‘historical society’ to someone, they might assume they are only concerned with the past. But the groups are constantly looking to the future, planning plenty of education and entertainment programs. Photo by Chris Lundy Many of them tabled at the Ocean A presenter in period attire de- County Historical Society’s “History scribes how things were during Day.” Visitors could speak to historians, (Historical Groups - See Page 4) a particular time period.
September 20, 2025
Photo by Bob Vosseller Crowds wearing red, white and blue shirts came out to Windward Beach Park in Brick for a vigil for right wing activist Charlie Kirk.
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