EVRIDGE, SCOTT M.
Suddenly on March 16, 2008, age 30 of Bellmawr, NJ formerly of Pennsville.
Beloved son of Sharon P. Evridge, James A. Evridge Jr. and stepmother Kathleen C. Evridge. Loving grandson of James A. Evridge Sr. Dear brother of Tracey L. Evridge, Deanna Catling, Jennifer Buckley, James W. Evridge, step-sister Tracy Riggio and step-brother Michael Thomas. Special nephew of Mark and Eileen, Kathy and Rich, and Ken. Also 15 nieces and nephews and \’tons\’ of loving friends. Predeceased by his loving grandparents Francis and Kathleen Lyons and Margaret C. Evridge.
Relatives and friends are kindly invited to call Wednesday evening 6-7pm at MAHAFFEY-MILANO FUNERAL HOME 11 East Kings Hwy Mt. Ephraim, NJ856-931-1628
Memorial Service 7pm at the funeral home. interment private. Family requests in lieu of flowers, contributions can be sent to the funeral home to defray the cost of Scott\’s funeral.

An older lady gets pulled over for speeding…

Older Woman: Is there a problem, Officer?

Officer: Ma\’am, you were speeding.

Older Woman: Oh, I see.

Officer: Can I see your license please?

Older Woman: I\’d give it to you but I don\’t have one.

Officer: Don\’t have one?

Older Woman: Lost it, 4 years ago for drunk driving.

Officer: I see…Can I see your vehicle registration papers please.

Older Woman: I can\’t do that.

Officer: Why not?

Older Woman: I stole this car.

Officer: Stole it?

Older Woman: Yes, and I killed and hacked up the owner.

Officer: You what?

Older Woman: His body parts are in plastic bags in the trunk if you want to see

The Officer looks at the woman and slowly backs away to his car and calls for back up. Within minutes 5 police cars circle the car. A senior officer slowly approaches the car, clasping his half drawn gun.

Officer 2: Ma\’am, could you step out of your vehicle please! The woman steps out of her vehicle.

Older woman: Is there a problem sir?

Officer 2: One of my officers told me that you have stolen this car and murdered the owner.

Older Woman: Murdered the owner?

Officer 2: Yes, could you please open the trunk of your car, please.

The woman opens the trunk, revealing nothing but an empty space.

Officer 2: Is this your car, ma\’am?

Older Woman: Yes, here are the registration papers.

The officer is quite stunned.

Officer 2: One of my officers claims that you do not have a driving license.

The woman digs into her handbag and pulls out a clutch purse and hands it to the officer.
The officer examines the license. He looks quite puzzled.

Officer 2: Thank you ma\’am, one of my officers told me you didn\’t have a license, that you stole this car, and that you murdered and hacked up the owner.
Older Woman: Bet the liar told you I was speeding, too.

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By Samantha L. Quigley American Forces Press Service WASHINGTON, March 16, 2008 – A new award administered by troop support groups and sponsored by a major corporation aims to recognize the sacrifices made by military moms. The Operation Homefront Military Motherhood Award will provide the winner with $5,000 and a free trip to the awards ceremony in Washington, D.C. The award pays tribute to mothers of servimembers, military wives with dependent children and women serving in the military who have children. It is sponsored by Lockheed Martin with support from the Military Times Media Group, and it is administered in conjunction with CinCHhouse.com. \”We\’re looking for inspirational stories of military wives and women in uniform who are successfully parenting children through the challenges of military life. These can be your children, stepchildren, foster children or others in unique circumstances,\” states the CinCHouse.com Web site. This is the first year of the award, and nominations are being accepted through March 31. Anyone who knows of a military mom with an inspiring story, including those moms, can fill out a nomination form on CinCHouse.com. The nomination requires a brief essay explaining why the nominee deserves to be honored with the Military Motherhood Award. At the end of March, when the nomination period closes, Operation Homefront will select the top 20 entries and allow the CinCHouse community to vote for the top five. A panel of judges will then select the winner. Congresswoman Susan Davis and Sen. Mel Martinez, both members of Operation Homefront\’s Congressional Advisory Board, will co-host the award ceremony in which the winner will be honored. Operation Homefront and CinCHouse.com are supporters of America Supports You, a Defense Department program connecting citizens and companies with servicemembers and their families serving at home and abroad.

Related Sites: CinCHouse.com Operation Homefront America Supports You

 

Commentary by Hank F. Miller Jr. 

 

\”Not too long ago I returned to my hometown on a long overdue visit to Gloucester City, N. J.\” While on one of my many walks I went to my old neighborhood area convenience store to get a sweet roll and a cup of coffee. Standing at a rack of newspapers and magazines, I noticed a weekend addition of a local New Jersey daily with a front-page headline that caught my eye: \”TOWN MAKES ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS FEEL UNWELCOME.\”

 

Variations on this theme have been reported all across the country for years: as numbers of illegals has crept up, more towns have cracked down. There are today anywhere from 12 million to 20 million illegal\’s in our country really at this point in time no one really knows just how many are here. This Particular Town was mulling over a get-tough ordinance that would deny businesses a range of permits and contracts penalize them for five years if they hired illegal\’s, and would fine landlords who rented to \”undocumented \”aliens or who failed to maintain proper documentation on the aliens. 

 

Nationally, this has been going on where the towns heard from immigration activists and ACLU lawyers along with civil rights lawyers sniffing around for \”racial profiling.\” Or perhaps they have missed the word illegal completely in the headline. We are a nation of laws, and these aliens are here illegally. My question is: Why do we need to care how they feel about being here? How about a page-one piece above the fold on how illegal aliens make taxpaying citizens feel. Yes, and just think of all the immigrants who waited and came through the front door the way they are supposed to waiting many years to migrate legally to our beautiful shores to become American citizens the through the proper channels. 

 

From what I saw and read while there, from downtown to small towns to suburbia America, unchecked illegal immigration is wreaking havoc on all kinds of communities including Gloucester City my home town. The crisis has spun out of control completely in many places and it\’s getting worse every day. Small wonder such influxes invariably lead to overcrowded classrooms, spikes in crime (including drug use and gangs) and generally overburdened health-care and hospital services, and generally also compromised quality of life. It seems that political issues prove to be elusive, as immigration has become a hot button wedge issue, during campaigning for the presidency. 

 

One faction demands a guest worker program but doesn\’t dare call it amnesty. Another says close the borders, another build higher fence, and make illegal immigration a felony. Some top democrats have sided with Bush\’s guest worker program plan. Some Republicans however want troops and a high-tech fence along the border, which isn\’t a bad idea but still nothing gets done. On many occasions here in Japan on TV, CNN, The Situation Room,\” illegal immigrants carrying Mexican flags, demanding their rights and complaining the United States may actually want to have some control over who comes here. Can you imagine that? 

 

\”Just who do they think they are anyway to have any right to do anything at all as illegal immigrants? But unfortunately they do have rights even illegal immigrants have rights you know. I heard an ACLU lawyer state so we are a nation of laws and proud to have them laws that govern us. 

 

While spending the holidays in my home town, Gloucester City. I had the opportunity of talking with many people regarding the illegal immigration problem, as well as other problems taking place there regarding illegals. I was surprised to see so many foreign looking people living and working in Gloucester City, I would think that these people have been checked out as well and were documented there illegally. 

 

I asked many people back there just how it has affected their lives with illegal aliens being seen and working in Gloucester City, my home town and thus written above was most of the responses I received there was a lot more but I won\’t write about that if you know what I am talking about. I have heard this from talking with my brother as well many family members and very good friends and other long time Gloucester city residents and the residents of surrounding areas.  

 

Warm Regards from Sunny Kitakyushu City, Japan 

 

Hank F. Miller Jr.

DEWITT ELIZABETH A. \’LIZ\’
(nee Hughes), age 61 of Audubon, passed away suddenly on Friday March 14, 2008 at Underwood Memorial Hospital, Woodbury.
Mrs. DeWitt was born in Tuscaloosa, AL and had been a lifelong resident of Audubon. She had attended the University of Arizona and leaves to cherish her memory; her mother Miriam McClelland of Marlton, her son Dan DeWitt, sister Pat Hughes-Mace and niece Michelle Mace all of Audubon.
Relatives and friends are invited to Remember and Pay Tribute to Liz on Thursday morning between 9:00 and 11:00 am at the HENRY FUNERAL HOME, 152 W. Atlantic Ave., Audubon, NJ, where funeral services will follow at 11:00 am with Rev. Dr. Walter Jesuncosky celebrating. Interment will be held privately. As an expression of sympathy and in lieu of flowers donations can be made to the American Cancer Society 1851 Old Cuthbert Rd. Cherry Hill, NJ 08034. (www.henryfuneral
home.com)

 

The DRPA presented five different alternatives for PATCO grade or light rail passenger trains coming through Gloucester City at last week\’s Gloucester City Business Association meeting. Why was the public not given this opportunity? I am aware of only three proposed routes. If they are considering five different alternatives thru Gloucester City as a citizen I should also be given this information.

 

I support the concept of mass transit, But that does not mean every transit project is a winner, you just need to look at the last light rail fiasco. We should question the DRPA and the State of NJ when they plan on spending billions of our money.

The DRPA does not have the best record when it comes to spending. The DRPA bypassed voters the last time around, that should be unconstitutional. The state built the last rail line and ignored other pressing transportation needs in NJ. Have you heard about the bridges? The deck of the Walt Whitman has a life span of 50 years. We\’re at 50 years, 3 months. The Ben Franklin Bridge looks like its crumbling with rust. PATCO runs 1970 era train cars, all in much need of repair. If the DRPA had spent our money wisely the last time around, maybe we would have the money for these much needed projects. Remember what happened in Minnesota on a bridge during rush hour traffic? If you don\’t, the bridge collapsed—only in America.

I am still wondering if we will ever stop subsidizing the last Light Rail line. Did you know that the DRPA is asking for $5 tolls to cross the bridges. What about the $17 million that was spent on the non-existent aerial tram over the Delaware River, what happened to that project/money? How about the $3 million submarine simulator at the Adventure Aquarium in Camden what happened to that project/money? That never came up for air. I hope the DRPA and it\’s officials will be held more accountable with our money. I would like to meet with John Matheussen from the DRPA doesn\’t he work for me?

Joanne Howey, Gloucester City

source http://www.record-eagle.com

The gobbler was 75 yards away and moving our way fast through the spring woods. He was fixated on Henrietta, my hen decoy, and seemed committed to a quick romantic dalliance with her.

The longbeard was almost within shooting range when the hunter in front of me asked, rather loudly: \”Is it time to shoot?\”

The gobbler heard the human voice, hit the skids, hung an immediate hop to the left, ducked behind a tree, and quickly disappeared from sight. He was as lost as last year\’s Easter egg from that time on. I was never able to locate that bird again.

Granted, turkey season is still over a month away, but savvy sportsmen are planning strategies now. Knowing the benefits of solitary hunting can be an important factor in hunting success.

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Posted: 17 Mar 2008 07:11 PM CDT

By Staff Sgt. Luis P. Valdespino Jr., USMC Special to American Forces Press Service HELMAND PROVINCE, Afghanistan, March 17, 2008 – Special operations Marines deployed to Afghanistan\’s Helmand province operate at a fast pace.   A special operations Marine examines a poppy plant handed to him by an Afghan National Army soldier (right) in Afghanistan\’s Helmand province during a patrol through a village in which they were looking for Taliban fighters. U.S. Marine Corps photo by Staff Sgt. Luis P. Valdespino Jr. (Click photo for screen-resolution image);high-resolution image available. Accompanied by a small group of Afghan National Army soldiers, the Marines are constantly on the go: visiting villages, distributing humanitarian aid and always searching for insurgents. Their breaks between operations vary from 12 hours to three days. Part of the 2-year-old Marine Corps Forces Special Operations Command, they thrive on missions that have them patrolling for enemy forces. \”We don\’t like being on the (forward operating base),\” one MSOC Marine said. In the northern part of the province, an MSOC leatherneck said, his Marines were attacked four times throughout a four-day mission. He described how they overcame enemy machine-gun positions, mortar attacks and rocket-propelled grenades. \”Needless to say, we silenced their weapons,\” another MSOC Marine said. On their next mission, a three-day assignment in the province\’s north-central region to visit villages, the Marines slept on the desert ground – in sleeping bags, but not on cots. On foot patrol through the first village with no schedule constraints, they took no shortcuts. In full combat gear, they searched all compounds, streets and paths in the village. When it was secure, they set up distribution sites for the humanitarian aid they brought with them. On the second day, the unit came under attack within five minutes of arriving at a small village. Immediately, the MSOC Marines positioned themselves throughout the village and began engaging the enemy insurgents. Halfway into what turned out to be a nearly four-hour battle, a Marine who seemed to never rest said with a grin, \”We\’re not done yet.\” He seemed unfazed that earlier a rocket-propelled grenade missed him by less than two feet. Despite several other close calls, the Marines relentlessly pursued the insurgents until they secured the village, and the Taliban fighters were either killed or fled. Before they were done, the MSOC hospital corpsmen cared for and treated villagers injured by insurgents. Afterward, Marine leaders met with village elders and committed to return with much-needed aid and support, as long as the Marines had the villagers\’ support. (Marine Staff Sgt. Luis P. Valdespino Jr. serves with Combined Security Transition Command Afghanistan Public Affairs. He recently spent 16 days embedded with a Marine special operations company deployed to Afghanistan\’s Helmand province from the 1st Special Operations Battalion, Camp Pendleton, Calif. The names and specific locations of special operations personnel are not used in this article for their security and for the security of their mission.)

Related Sites: Combined Security Transition Command Afghanistan U.S. Marine Corps Forces Special Operations Command

Marines with a Marine Special Operations Company take aim on Taliban fighters in a Helmand province village. Afghan National Army soldiers and the MSOC Marines were visiting the southern Afghanistan village when they were attacked by Taliban fighters. U.S. Marine Corps photo by Staff Sgt. Luis P. Valdespino Jr. Download screen-resolution Download high-resolution An Afghan boy receives a school bag from Afghan National Army soldiers and a Marine Special Operations Company\’s team member. U.S. Marine Corps photo by Staff Sgt. Luis P. Valdespino Jr. Download screen-resolution Download high-resolution Marines with a Marine Special Operations Company and an Afghan National Army soldier position themselves to fight Taliban fighters who attacked them a few minutes earlier. ANA soldiers and MSOC Marines were visiting the southern Afghanistan village when they were attacked by Taliban fighters. U.S. Marine Corps photo by Staff Sgt. Luis P. Valdespino Jr