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The Gloucester City Little League Opened the 2008 season on Saturday, April 12 with a parade from King Street down Monmouth Street to \”The Field of Dreams \”on Johnson Blvd.

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Saturday was opening day for the Gloucester City Little League.

\”It\’s just like any other year,\” said Barbara Rafferty, who watched her 12-year-old son\’s Rotary team play the Lions.

\”Maybe the only difference was more whispering in the crowd.\”

That was the consensus among parents at the opening games for the league.

Last month, police arrested the league\’s former treasurer, Harry Fox Jr., and charged him with stealing about $53,000 in league funds.

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DiLEVA Mary Ann

On April 11, 2008. Age 75. (nee Miller) Of Pottstown, PA. Formerly of Gloucester City. Loving wife of 29 years to the late Dante A. DiLeva. Loving and caring mother of Patrick \”Tony\” (Rose) DiLeva of Glen Mills, Pa. and Michael (Kathy) DiLeva of Collegeville, Pa. Loving grandmother of Marie, Christopher and Ryan. Predeceased by her brother James Miller, Jr.

Mary Ann was a long-time resident of Gloucester and a faithful parishioner of St. Mary\’s Church. She was a 1950 graduate of St. Mary\’s High School in Gloucester City. Mary Ann worked many years as a Secretary in the medical and legal fields.

Relatives and friends are kindly invited to attend her viewing on Wednesday morning from 8:30 to 10:30 am at the McCANN-HEALEY FUNERAL HOME: 851 Monmouth St. (at Brown St.) Gloucester City, NJ 08030. Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated 11 am at Saint Mary\’s R.C. Church: 426 Monmouth Street, Gloucester City. Interment New Saint Mary\’s Cemetery, Bellmawr. There will be no evening viewing.

Those interested in making a memorial donation in Mary Ann\’s memory are asked to consider The ALS Association, Greater Philadelphia Chapter, 321 Norristown Road, Suite 260, Ambler, PA 19002. Please write Mary Ann DiLeva in the memo of the check.

Expressions of sympathy can be e-mailed to the family through our funeral home website www.mccannhealey.com under online obituaries of Mary Ann DiLeva.

THOMPSON, JOHN BURNAM \’JACK\’
On April 10, 2008, of Haddon Twp., NJ, age 76.
He is the beloved brother of Fay Lang and the late Florence Foster and loving uncle of Don (Linda), Jack (Marylou) and Scott Lang, Tammy (Dave) Sleiminger, Marlys (Cliff) Prescott, Diane Foster and Nancy (Dan) Joyce. He is also survived by 14 dear great nieces and nephews.

Jack was an employee of RCA/GE for forty years, and worked many of those years at RCA in Deptford, NJ. He was an avid photographer and took many pictures of family and friends. Jack loved to volunteer and spent many hours volunteering at Senior Citizens United Community Services of Camden County. He also enjoyed helping out with the youth ministry of Kid\’s Alley.

Jack also served his country in the U.S. Navy at the U.S. Naval Communications Center at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii during the Korean War. \’Uncle Jack\’ was greatly loved by his family and friends and will be missed by all, especially his best friend, \’Lady\’.
Relatives and friends are invited to meet Monday morning from 10:00 to 11:00 AM at the CRERAN FUNERAL HOME, 400 WHITE HORSE PIKE, OAKLYN, NJ. Jack\’s funeral service will be held11:00 AM at the funeral home. Interment will follow at the Camden County Veterans Cemetery, at Harleigh Cemetery, in Camden. There is no evening viewing. In lieu of flowers Jack\’s family requests memorial donations in his name be made to Kids Alley, PMB 194, 283B, Egg Harbor Rd., Sewell, NJ 08080.

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SICKLERVILLE, N.J. — A South Jersey solider returned from Iraq to a surprise homecoming on Saturday morning.Sgt. Donald Brown was in the war zone for about nine months. He returned home about three weeks ago.His wife, Rita, said she wanted to surprise him with a warm welcome home. With the help of other people in Sicklerville, she put on a celebration in her husband\’s honor.

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Most days, Williams, 22, plays a waiting game at Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, where he faces surgery to repair the knee he wrecked when he jumped from a truck to take cover during a mission in Iraq.

But on April 2, instead of staring at four walls, the soldier sits in a beach chair and threads a worm on a hook. The fish aren\’t biting, but catching one is secondary to simply being outside.

The program, Huntin\’ Buddies, was started by Lisa Webber, of White Hall, who has hunted and fished with her son, Robert, now 19, since he was 7.

When he left last summer for Army National Guard training, she created Huntin\’ Buddies, enlisted volunteers to help, and made contacts at Walter Reed. She now connects injured soldiers with outdoorsmen willing to take them on day trips.

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The US Army and Army National Guard has created an \”Army Web Risk Assessment Cell\” to spy on the personal blogs and forum posts of soldiers and their families, according to a confidential military document released yesterday by the controversial document-leaking website Wikileaks.

\”Conduct routine checks of web sites on the World Wide Web for disclosure of critical and/or sensitive information that is deemed a potential OPSEC compromise. Web sites include, but are not limited to, Family Readiness Group (FRG) pages, unofficial Army web sites, Soldiers’ web logs (blogs), and personal published or unpublished works related to the Army. The AWRAC will ensure a review and analysis is conducted on the suspected data found on the Internet.\”
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