Media Release American Forces Press Service WIESBADEN, Germany, May 20, 2008 – Hundreds of troops deployed from Europe will be able to see their children\’s high school graduation ceremonies via live webcasts, Department of Defense Dependents Schools Europe officials announced. DoDDS Europe, U.S. Army Europe and U.S. Army 5th Signal Command have combined assets, talents and technologies to enable the live webcasts. The effort will allow at least 18 graduation ceremonies to be viewed by an estimated 211 deployed parents in Iraq, Afghanistan and other locations around the world. The first graduation ceremony will be webcast June 5; 10 graduation ceremonies will take place simultaneously on June 6; and the last ceremony will be webcast June 13. Schools identified as having students with deployed parents are: — June 5: Hanau and Bamberg, Germany; — June 6: Naples, Italy; Heidelberg, Hohenfels, Kaiserslautern, Ansbach, Baumholder, Ramstein and Vilsek, Germany; Lakenheath, England; and Aviano, Italy; — June 7: Mannheim, Germany; and Rota, Spain; — June 8: Patch High School, in Stuttgart, Germany; H.H. Arnold High School, in Wiesbaden, Germany; and Vicenza, Italy; and — June 13: AFNORTH International High School, in Brunssum, Belgium. Deployed parents will be able to see their graduating seniors cross the stage and view student messages recorded for the occasion. This is the fifth year the effort has been undertaken. Diana Ohman, director of DoDDS Europe, who has been involved with each of the yearly webcasts, said that although it is a monumental technical challenge, these webcasts are emotionally significant to the students and the deployed parents. \”There is no room for error; it is too important,\” she said. \”It is important to the graduating senior that he or she be able to share the event with their parents, as well as for the deployed parent to be able to view their son or daughter crossing the stage.\” Planning for this year\’s webcast began in January. Seniors who had or anticipated having parents deployed at graduation were identified through the high schools. (From a Department of Defense Dependents Schools Europe news release.)

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Many Mount Ephraim residents and visitors stroll down West Kings Highway in Mount Ephraim for the 1st Annual Craft Fair & Classic Car Show about an hour before the fair concluded…………….Related: Mt. Ephraim News

By Bill Bates

Mount Ephraim NEWS Correspondent

An average spring day with a little overcast and some light winds didn\’t stop residents and visitors to the one square mile boro from holding a successful 1st Annual Craft Fair / Classic Car Show and Fire Prevention Open House.

Over 80 vendors and 20 plus classic cars made it out to line the booming West Kings Highway for the awesome event that was presented by the Mount Ephraim Celebrations Committee. Many attendee\’s filled the streets for most of the day as they strolled along to check out all of the happenings on the main thorough fair in town.

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From left, Mount Ephraim Commissioners Andy Gilmore & Bruce Greenwald, pose with Rob Andrews who is running for U.S. Senate and Mount Ephraim Mayor Joe Wolk. Visit www.RobAndrewsForChange.com for more information.

Car Show and Craft Vendor door prizes were given out every hour. Car Show trophies were given out for several different categories shortly after 1 o\’clock. The Emergency Management and Zone 5 Community Emergency Response Team (C.E.R.T.) had several displays and informative literature available. The police department had their D.A.R.E. car on display and also had literature on the recently formed town watch program in addition to controlling traffic around Kings Highway on this busy day.

The fire department, as part of their April Awareness Open House, had several smoke detector and home fire safety demonstrations during the day. The most favorite is always the smoke house trailer. In addition, a fire house jeopardy event and a hose rolling competition was held for the kids. The Fire Awareness Poster Winners, the Police D.A.R.E. Contest Winners and the Little League Bike Drawing were announced through-out the day. MEPRI EMS provided EMS bike patrols along the strip to the several hundred people that came out through the course of the day.

MEFD Firefighter Julian D\’Alonzo shows children how to operate a hose line to extinguish \”a fire\”. The MEFD and visiting companies displayed equipment along with the Mount Ephraim Emergency Management & Zone 5 Community Emergency Response Team (C.E.R.T.) for their Annual April Awareness Fire Prevention Day. Mount Ephraim Police were also on hand to provide information on their D.A.R.E. Program and the newly formed Town Watch Program. M.E.P.R.I. E.M.S. also provided a first aid station for the day.

A very special thank you goes out to Supporting Sponsor Federici & Akin, Pa of Sewell – www.federicianddakin.com. The Grand Sponsor was Inverso & Stewart of Maralton.

Thank you to everyone that donated giveaways and prizes; Advance Auto Parts, CABANA Water Ice Company, Canal\’s Fine Wines, Carollo\’s Restaurant, Casual Tanning Salon & Nails, Clean Tools, Edelbrock, Flex-A-Lite, Heidt\’s, K&N Performance, McDonald\’s Restaurant, MP Brakes, MSD Ignition, Rude Hawgs Pit BBQ, Salon Diva, Stephanie Carlin, The Street Rod Store and Vitamin Water.

A very special thank you to the Mount Ephraim Police Department, Fire Department, Emergency Management, MEPRI Ambulance and the Public Works Department for all their hard work and dedication. Without their help, this event would not have been possible. Special thanks also goes out to the classic Car Judges Sam Conte Jr., Greg Severence and Andrew Nowlen.

Special thank you goes out to the entertainers who performed through-out the day; the Audubon High School Choir, John Gugel, Bill Corbett and Russell Spera. Sacred Heart Church for the use of their parking lot. Jamie Herman for designing the tee-shirts. Tara Eggers for designing the event flyer\’s. Thank you also to the residents and business owners along Kings Highway for their cooperation in a day that turned out perfect for the entire community.

Last but not least, all of the days events would not have been possible without all of the countless hours of meetings and planning that were needed to put this event together by the Celebrations Committee. The Mount Ephraim Celebration Committee has recently been reorganized. The organization is comprised of citizens of Mount Ephraim that want to build a better community. They have set numerous goals to help bring the \”small\” community together as one. they hope they you will \”Come Grow With Us!\”

Photo\’s By Bill Bates

Rose Mary Taylor stands along side her friends 1930 Ford Model A that won \”Best Overall\” at the Classic Car Show.

Third Marking Period Honor Roll:

Mary Bray School

Distinguished Honors

Grade 3

Helen Barrett, Ariana Beebe, Alyssa Marszalek, Alexis Staib, Kelsey Vespe

Grade 4

Emily Calhoun, Victoria Milano

Honors:

Grade 3

Richard Bonczak, Cassidy Chambers, Anthony Cristino, Nevada De Ford, Angel Dougherty, Andrew Fehr, Holly Fitzgerald, Amy Guldin, Adnan Khan, Valerie LaMarra, Jillian Lynch, Matthew Marszalek, Amanda Murphy, Lindsay Musselman, Zachary Pacetti, Cole Panek, Azalea Rosado, Nicholas Salamone, Casey Spadea, Georgana Stewart

Grade 4

Mychaela Bilger, Christopher Blaylock, Courtney Bocchicchio, Dominick Cipolone, Maryellen Crain, Kasey Gardner, Taylor Gavin, Harry Harris, Eli Lapp, Meghan McDonough, Haley Woodington

Commendable:  

Sarah Beckett, Alexis Brassill, Allen Chase, Edward DuBois, Tiffany Gavin, Lucas Greenwood,

Kelsey Immendorf, Kaelyn Lahn, Damon Meraz, Austin Rampolla, Sabrina Wilson

Raymond W. Kershaw School

Distinguished Honors

Grade 5 – Jessica Chambers Grade 6 – Alison Guldin, Brandon Lanchang, Trent Maxwell

Grade 7 – Eric Ingram Grade 8 – Kaitlyn Alibrando, Matthew Goepel

Honors:

Grade 5

Allison Adolf, Timothy Alexander, Steafan Barrett, Jade Carson, Kelsey Coan, Claire Czerski ,Gary Czerski, Samuel Czerski, Tiahna Duong, Kirsten Hoffman, Carlie McErlane, Morgan Peterson, Natalie Price, Taylor Reed, Sage Rubeo, Jeanine Welsh, Kaitlyn Young

Grade 6

Gabrielle Bocchicchio, Tyler Capner, Chelsea Cassar, Michael Gaglianone, Erica Gilmore, Lisa Harris, Samantha Krieg, Matthew Massey, Emily Massi, Amber McNally, Destinee Meeser, Alexis Venere, Morgan Zielinski

Grade 7

Jacob Bell, Rachel Cosgrove, Stephen Severance, Kristyn Young

Grade 8

Kyle Adams, Dominic Bocchicchio, Michael Colgan, Lauren Greenwood, Matthew Henderson, Miranda Mistalski, Zachary Pallotta, Apryle Panyi, Jennifer Papa, Amanda Pescatore, Jessica Pescatore, Rebecca Rosetti, Meleia Wetmore

Commendable:

Grade 5

Nicholas Alexander, Jordyn Eggert, Stephan Gravenor, Zachary Holmes, Ryan Kennedy, Melissa Salamone, Justin Spadea

Grade 6

Michele Arechavala, Matthew Bonamassa, Anthony Granato, Taylor Kennedy, Paul Milano, Leyla Ozer, Sevda Ozer

Grade 7

David Baxter, IV, Emily DiPopolo, Owen Donia, Lauren Fehr, Nusrat Jahan, Kasey Lawson,

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Grade 8

Tammy Doyle, Nicholas Duffy, John Gugel, Leia Hall, Brittany Loughlin, Ryan McErlane, Keith Michalski, Alisha Sarno, Bianca Sciamanna

May Happenings:

21^st – PTO Meeting 7:00 pm – Mary Bray Media Center

23^rd – PTO Honor Roll Breakfast- R. W. Kershaw

24^th – Grade 8 Dinner Dance

26^th – Memorial Day Schools are Closed

28^th – Grade 5-8 Forensic Parent Technology Night – 7 – 8:30 pm – R. W. Kershaw Multi- Purpose Room

 

Best Buy Teach Award:

Recently, the Raymond W. Kershaw School applied for a Best Buy Teach Award. These awards recognize and reward schools that have found creative ways to engage students in the curriculum by using technology hands-on. We are proud to announce that our application was selected and has received one of only fifty $10,000 Best Buy Teach awards!

The program that won the award was our annual Parent Technology Night. This year we will have a Forensic Parent Technology Night on May 28^th. Students in grades 5-8 will be participating in this exciting program.

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The Charter Fleet at South Jersey Marina was very successful this weekend catching Drumfish.

On 5/16 Capt. Joe Lechner on \”Slammer\” and Capt. Clint Clement on \”Common Sense\” each had 14 nice size fish.

The next day 5/17 Capt. Bill Bittmann on \”Top Shelf\” came in with 13 fish.

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