Rainbow In The Misty Firefight
February 5 2007 – Atlantic City, NJ – A constant mist from the hose creates a rainbow as firefighters battle a blaze on Atlantic and California Avenue.

CUNNINGHAM
DANIEL ALBERT

On February 8, 2007. Of Haddonfield. Age 80. Beloved husband of the late Frances (nee Bouland). Loving father of Judith Cunningham Shue of Ridgeville, SC, Marianne Belling and her husband Doug of Haddonfield and Kathleen Cunnigham of Haddonfield. Beloved Grandfather of 5. Daniel served many years on the Haddonfield Police Auxiliary and was a longtime resident of Haddonfield. He was a longtime member of the Square Circle Sportsman’s Club. Relatives and friends are kindly invited to attend his Memorial Service on Tuesday at 10 am at the Ascension Lutheran Church: 4th Avenue at Highland Avenue, Haddon Heights. There will be no visitation. Inurnment at Calvary Mausoleum, Cherry Hill. Family requests that memorial donations be made in Daniel’s memory to the charity of your choice. Expressions of sympathy can be e-mailed to the family through our funeral home website www.mccannhealey.com under online obituaries of Daniel A. Cunningham.

BILL\’S POINT OF VIEW:

Dear Mr. Kilcourse,

From the letter you submitted to the Gloucester City News it appears you are finally going to talk about your term in office. I am referring specifically to the sentence, \”Stay tuned; we may have more true facts.\”

Are you going to speak about the supposed arrangement your administration had announced in October with Reel Fish Seafood, of Bellmawr? The article was published in your Democrat newsletter What\’s Happening in Gloucester City.

The following is an excerpt from the newsletter.

\”On October 12, Gloucester City purchased the former Dooley\’s bar at Broadway and Cumberland Street. On October 16, the City signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Reel Fresh Seafood, currently located in Bellmawr, to negotiate for the construction and opening of a seafood restaurant at the location\”.

Mayor James said when he asked the remaining Council members from your administration, ( Hagan, Kaye, Kormann and Loebell) for the written agreement, he was told \”nothing was put down on paper\”.

Where is the signed Memorandum of Understanding ? Was it misplaced?

As usual you missed the point of my Cheers and Jeers column. The ownership of the King Street parking lot is not the issue. My bone of contention was that Holt Cargo Systems was being given another sweet-heart deal.

The R was left out of Pearl’s name. Typographical errors happen to all of us. But in your hurry to ridicule me you missed the positive praise I gave to the Gloucester City Board of Education who honored Dr. Pearl Kowalski with a memorial garden.

So please don’t keep us in suspense. We are all waiting for you to clarify your announcement, \”Stay tuned; we may have more true facts.\”

SIGNED: Bill Cleary

For those who missed Mr. Kilcourse\’s letter I reprinted it below.

Statement Totally False
I recently read an article that appeared in the Jan. 25 issue of the Gloucester City News. The article appeared in the ClearysNotebook under the cheers and jeers headline.
The article stated that the City under the Kilcourse administration agreed to give up the city parking lot (O\’Hara\’s does not own this lot) on King Street for the new office building for Holt. This is totally false.
Bill, go back to being Emeritus. Stay tuned, we may have more true facts. P.S. There is an R in Pearl
Tut Kilcourse, Gloucester City

Bill
As Publisher/Editor Emeritus I would suggest you explain to TuRt Kilcourse the meaning of the term euphemism. My review of your jeer comment clearly shows you know the City owns the lot. At a council meeting I recall Mr. Kilcourse referring to the area where he lives as \”his block\”. Did he use that term as a euphemism or did he make a TOTALLY FALSE STATEMENT and try to make the audience believe he owned the entire block?

Maybe we were paying his confidential secretary to explain the writings of others to him. But we will never know, after all that\’s confidential.

Bill, pay no attention to him, he failed all the same courses as my> brother \”J\”. But he also passed the ATTITUDE course.

Sincerely
Rub-A-Dubb Dubb

PS I looked all over for that R that you left out of Pearl\’s name but
never could find it.

Re: Kilcourse\’s Remarks……

Is it \”We\” the City residents and business\’ that own the parking lot,
or is it \”We\” the City politicians own the parking lot in question on
King St.? How about any \”City\” owned property? I\’m guessing that the
politicians take tax money, spend it to \”improve\” parking in a
neighborhood, then politicians take the same \”improvements\” like the
Ft. Nassau Park away. There is one thing that is a True Fact when it
comes to Gloucester City Politics, \”THE TRUTH HURTS!\”

I seem to remember True Facts like Oh Hara\’s paying $10,000.00 towards
the \”Public Parking Lot\” that \”This Business\” was specifically \”Taxed\”
for improvements to the area parking, and another business owner
\”Michael Mitchell\” paying over $2,000.00 towards that same parking lot,
so would these business\’ get this money back, and what\’s next, if Holt
needs more space, since it has been pushing out the volunteers, I guess
you can just give Holt the Fire Dept. on King St. and just move out
into Gloucester Heights. That lot is usually pretty full, from both
residents and business\’ but who cares about residents and small
business\’ anymore in this town, when we have Bigger Business\’ to cater
to, and I would bet with pretty good odds, that Holt has made campaign
contributions to at least one side, can both sides come clean about it?
True Fact or Closed Door Politics? \”THE TRUTH HURTS!\”

I would rather be lied to, at least I know the Facts aren\’t the Facts,
when politicians start to tell the \”Truth\” it\’s too confusing for us
Citizens! I\’ve heard that when politicians tell the truth, it takes too
many months to lie their way out of it! Stalemate, are we going
anywhere? I can\’t imagine how next years budget is going to look, I
personally think it\’s going to implode under the direction of financial
blunder.

We need to import some Delaware Politicians from the Governor on down,
Sales, Income, and Property Taxes 20 minutes from here only 3 counties
and they seem to be doing something right. Why can\’t NJ seem to get it
right?

signed True Facts?

ELLER
Marianne E.

On Feburary 8, 2007. Age 42. Of Wenonah, Formerly of Gloucester City. Surrounded and cared for by her devoted family. Loving and caring wife of 22 years to Wayne M. Eller, Jr. Beloved mother of Michael J. Eller, Megan L. Eller and Wayne R. Eller all of Wenonah. Beloved daughter of Mary Ann Gorman and her husband Frank of West Deptford and the late Robert L. Collins, Sr. (surviving wife Betsy). Dear Sister of Barbara Stafford and her husband Stan, Robert L. Collins, Jr. and his wife Colleen and Tina Greene and her husband Michael all of Gloucester City. Adoring grandmother of Kaylee Caban. Survived by many aunts, uncles, nieces, nephews and cousins. Marianne was a longtime resident of Gloucester City and was a graduate of Gloucester City High School in 1983. She was a resident of Wenonah (Deptford Township) for the last 18 years. Marianne worked as a school bus driver for McGough Company in Deptford. She was an active member of the Gloucester City Women’s Pool League for the last 21 years and she loved the league. Relatives and friends are kindly invited to attend her viewing on Tuesday Evening from 6 to 9 pm and Wednesday morning from 8:30 to 9:45 am at McCANN-HEALEY FUNERAL HOME: 851 Monmouth Street, (at Brown Street) Gloucester City. Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated 10:30 am at Saint Mary’s R.C. Church: 426 Monmouth Street, Gloucester City. Interment Woodbury Memorial Park, West Deptford. Family requests that memorial donations be made in Marianne’s memory to Samaritan Hospice: 5 Eves Drive, Suite 300, Marlton, New Jersey 08053-3101. Please write in the memo of the check Marianne E. Eller. Expressions of sympathy can be e-mailed to the funeral home website www.mccannhealey.com under online obituaries of Marianne E. Eller.