Day: March 10, 2007

News Round-up Saturday, March 10

by: jay lassiter

reprinted with permission of Blue Jersey

  • An update about the Wayne Bryant juggernaut coming to an unceremonious ending. This one looks to the future a bit. Soon Bryant\’ll be an after thought and I will no longer be obliged to write updates about his nincompoopery. In any event, I have heard some good stuff for Dana Redd who\’s poised to take Bryant\’s place.

     

  • New Jersey lost a rock and roll legend yesterday. Bill Chinnock was an early member of Bruce Springsteen\’s E Street Band. The pInky describes Chinnock as \”a key figure in the Asbury Park music scene that propelled Springsteen to stardom.\”

     

  • In response to recent scandals involving the BurlCo bridge commission, Sen. John Adler has a plan. The commission hates it which probably means it\’s a good idea.

     

  • Frank LoBiondo is calling for the Army\’s surgeon general to resign in light of the Walter Reed implosion. Of couse if heads are gonna roll LoBiondo might do well to take his frustrations out on his own political masters in the White House, IMHO.

     

  • Switching gears to the topic of hot-tubs. With hookers or without. Make sure you\’ve had your coffee first. The first article is especially salacious, even by Garden State standards.

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  • Before you go to sleep tonight, don\’t forget to Spring your clocks ahead by an hour.

    So tell me Blue Jersey, what\’s on your mind today? Last one to comment is a rotten egg!

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    Bellmawr History

    COURIER POST
    1683: John Hugg, an Irish Quaker immigrant, purchases 100 acres at the junction of Little Timber and Big Timber creeks. The area is known as Huggville for generations to come.

    1840: Hedding United Methodist Church is founded and the region is popularly referred to as \”Heddings.\”

    1868: Hedding Church is rebuilt after a fire destroys the original structure.

    1896: Hedding Church is rebuilt after a fire destroyed the second structure. This building, too, is damaged by fire.

    1900: A village store is built at Browning Lane and Black Horse Pike to serve the growing population.

    1926: The borough of Bellmawr officially is incorporated the same year as the United States celebrates its 150th anniversary. The borough\’s principal landowners are the Bell family, after whom the town is named, along with the Marples, Brownings, Glovers, Budds, Zanes, Crispins, Starrs, Haines and Rowlands.

    1930s: Borough faces significant financial hardship during the Great Depression. Borough hall is built under the federal Works Progress Administration program.

    1941: Bellmawr Park built as part of a federal housing project.

    1976: Bellmawr celebrates 50 years as U.S. celebrates bicentennial.

    2001: Bellmawr mail facility closes briefly due to concerns over anthrax following the 9/11 terrorist attacks.

    Sources: \”Courier-Post\’ archive

    LANDMARKS IN BELLMAWR
    1. Club Diner, 20 N. Black Horse Pike. It is celebrating its 60th year.

    2. Hedding United Methodist Church, 53 N. Black Horse Pike. While not the original structure, the church still provided the name for the area for decades after it was built in 1840.

    3. Bellmawr Lake Park off Creek Road, opened in 1957 and included 10 acres of land, a 200-foot by 300-foot lake, dance pavilion, refreshment stand and picnic tables. It now offers miniature golf, a water slide and picnic groves.

    QUOTABLE
    \”That\’s the way we are in South Jersey. We help each other out.\”

    Joe Paul, Bellmawr resident and winner of the Wing Bowl in 2000, on his interaction with fellow South Jerseyan and Wing Bowl legend Bill Simmons

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    Chuckles by Gary M

    Walking into the bar, Mike said to Charlie the bartender, \”Pour me a stiff one – just had another fight with the little woman.\”

    \”Oh yeah?\” said Charlie, \”And how did this one end?\”

    \”When it was over,\” Mike replied, \”She came to me on her hands and knees.

    \”Really,\” said Charles, \”Now that\’s a switch! What did she say?\”

    She said, \”Come out from under the bed, you little chicken.\”

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