Jurisdiction: GLOUCESTER CITY Salary: $35,000.00 Per Year
Num. of Positions: 1 Workweek: 37.50 Hours per week
Application Fee: $15.00
Open to Residents of: Gloucester City
Requirements:
EDUCATION: Graduation from an accredited college or university with a Bachelor\’s degree.
NOTE: Applicants who do not meet the above education requirement may substitute experience in inspecting or reviewing activities/programs for compliance with established standards, guidelines, regulations, or contractual agreements or in the review, analysis, and evaluation of activities/programs to ascertain their adequacy, efficiency, deficiencies, and effectiveness in achieving objectives on a year-for-year basis with 30 semester hour credits being equal to 1 year of experience.
Assembly Speaker Joseph J. Roberts, Jr. (D-Camden, Gloucester), commemorated the 100th anniversary of the Gloucester City High School\’s first four year graduation.
Junior and Senior National Honor Society students from grades 7 through 10, marked the event by collecting memorabilia from their generation and storing it in a time capsule which will be opened in 2058.
Photo: at one time Mary Ethel Costello School, at Cumberland and Joy Streets was used as the high school.
source Family- Images.com
\”Years from now, students your age will open this time capsule and learn a great deal about the things that were important to your generation,\” Speaker Roberts said. \”From music and pictures to newspapers and articles of clothing, these items tell a story about who you are.\”
Among the artifacts stored in the time capsule were Phillies tickets, senior prom tickets, a cell phone, flip flops, a T-shirt, an Apple iPod play list, a school calendar, a NJ State quarter, and a picture of Corporal Marc Ryan, a casualty of the Iraq War and Gloucester High alumnus.
Also included were a 2008 high school yearbook, along with copies of the school newspaper and the Gloucester City News.
The time capsule was donated by McCann-Healey Funeral Home.
Students from each grade level tightened the screws to seal the time capsule before it was laid in the ground.
Gloucester City, Superintendent Paul A. Spaventa, Gloucester City High School Principal Dr. Jack Don and National Honor Society advisor Mrs. Barbra Gorman presided over the ceremony, which was well received.
Source Gloucester City News, July 3, 2008
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Bellmawr Borough Councilman Louis P. DiAngelo said during last week\’s meeting that the town\’s Youth Program would begin July 7, with registration at the Recreation Center.
Mayor Frank R. Filipek added, \”About 100 14 and 15 year olds are interested, and want to come out and keep busy this summer.\”
Resident Maria Straub thanked the Highway Department for their efficient work in removing old, flood damaged furniture.
Triton Regional High School senior Michael E. Anthony thanked Council for the Community Service Award he received.
On another matter, DiAngelo reminded everyone about the Fourth of July festivities in Bellmawr.
Celebrations will begin with the Baby Parade at 9 a.m. at the Borough Hall. The Bicycle Parade follows at 10 a.m. The Main Parade is scheduled for 11 a.m., starting on the Annunciation School parking lot.
\”The American tradition of parades, cookouts, and fireworks helps us celebrate the summer season, especially our nation\’s birthday on the Fourth of July,\” he said.
\”However, fireworks can turn a joyful celebration into a painful memory when children and adults are injured while using fireworks. All consumer use of fireworks is illegal in the State of New Jersey. Please be careful and have a fire safe and injury free holiday,\” he said.
In regular business, Bellmawr Council approved a bond ordinance for the reconstruction of Beechwood Place, Elm Place, Pine Terrace, Laurel Place, and Aspen Place streets.
It appropriates the sum of $100,000 and authorizing the issuance of $95,000 for financing, which will be refunded by Community Block Grant.
Also approved upon second reading was a bond ordinance for the purchase and installation of one new emergency generator, appropriating the sum of $45,000. It is fully funded by the Capital Improvement Fund.
Council unanimously passed a resolution opposing Senate Bill #S-1455, which would consolidate the Municipal Tax Assessor, Municipal Tax Collector, Health Services, and Animal Control services.
Council Okayed submitting a grant application with the NJ Department of Transportation for the Bell Road and Browning Road Streetscape project.
A resolution to submit a grant application with the NJ Department of Transportation for the Lincoln Avenue Reconstruction Project was also approved.
Council approved liquor licenses for the following:
Joe Canal\’s of Bellmawr, Johnnies Liquor Store, The Liquor Mart, Bellmawr Lake Catering, Inc., Ten 9 Corporation, Dominic\’s Tavern, Pennant East, and club licenses for Bellmawr Fire and Rescue Squad #1 and Crescent Park VFW Post 9563.
Source Gloucester City News, July 3, 2008
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Gloucester City Mayor Bill James announced early this afternoon that the New School funding allocations have been released by the state of New Jersey.
\”Gloucester City is on the list for a newly constructed Middle School for a total estimated cost of $53,520,915\”, said Mayor James.
The school will be built on the vacant ground located on Market Street between Fifth and Sixth Streets extending south towards Jersey Avenue.
Fifty-three schools will be constructed in New Jersey\’s poorest communities with $2.9 billion in funding lawmakers approved last week.The projects are the first to be proposed for funding since the contruction program depleted its original $8.6 billion in funding three years ago.
Guaynabo, Puerto Rico wins 1st Annual Adrean Blue and Gold Tourney with outstanding pitching and clutch hitting.
Rosario Wilfredo went 4 innings to get the win giving up 1 run on just 4 hits and 2 strike outs. The run was an earned run. Rosario got outstanding relief pitching from Jorge Coste and Bryan Quiles. Hitting stars for Guaynabo were Ryan Santos, 2 for 4, scored twice and had 1 RBI and Xavier Feliciano who went 2 for 3 with a double..
For Haddon Heights Zack Schneider took the loss giving up 3 runs on 4 hits with no strike outs. Only 1 run was earned on his watch.
Hitting stars for Haddon Heights were Brandon Winkler 3 for 4 and Anthony Chiliberti who went 1 for 4 with a triple and a run scored.
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Jurisdiction: GLOUCESTER CITY Salary: $15.00 Per Hour
Num. of Positions: 4 Workweek: 18 Hours per week
Application Fee: $15.00
Open to Residents of:
Gloucester City
Requirements:
LICENSE: Appointees will be required to possess a driver\’s license valid in New Jersey only if the operation of a vehicle, rather than employee mobility, is necessary to perform essential duties of the position.
It has been brought to my attention that the City of Gloucester City is seeking five people to add to the payroll. HelpWanted advertisements have been posted on the New Jersey Department of Personnel website .
The announcement for *Code Enforcement Trainees started on June 19 and expires on July 10. The announcement for a *Program Monitor was placed on June 24 and expires on July 15.
I want to thank Lori for bringing the announcements to my attention. Without her help I doubt many of us would have known the City was going to hire more people. Just last week Mayor and Council hired Lori Kraft to assist City Administrator/Municipal Clerk Paul Kain.
Does anyone know the job description of a PROGRAM MONITOR? According to the announcement the person is required to have a college degree. But there is no description of duties for that position.
One further thought; as you drive around our community it is obvious the City’s housing stock is shrinking. With less homes why are we are hiring more people to work in the Housing Office?
To those who asked why Council’s agenda for the Caucus meeting and the regular monthly meeting hasn’t been posted on CNB for the past two months. I am assuming there must be an oversight. I have requested Assistant Clerk Kathy Jentsch to put me back on the Email list for those monthly announcements.
I was told the UEZ meeting scheduled for Monday at 4 PM (yesterday) was cancelled at the last minute because the Board lacked a quorum. One of the topics to be discussed was a BID program for the Monmouth Street Business District. The City of Gloucester City has authorized a feasibility study for a Business Improvement District (BID) that would include businesses in a four block section of the City. The center hub for the BID would be Broadway and Monmouth Street.
The JCSG group is conducting the study for a fee of $5,000, according to Howard Clark, director of the City’s UEZ (Urban Enterprise Zone). In June the City paid the JCSG group $4500 for the study. See City Bills for June
The article is authentic was written by Ken Blackwell, an African American conservative columnist. This column appeared on Townhall.com on March 14, 2008.
Blackwell is the Senior Fellow for Family Empowerment for the Family Research Council in Washington D.C. He is a columnist for the New York Sun and a contributing editor for Townhall.com.
It\’s an amazing time to be alive in America. We\’re in a year of firsts in this presidential election: the first viable woman candidate; the first viable African-American candidate; and, a candidate who is the first front running freedom fighter over 70. The next president of America will be a first.
We won\’t truly be in an election of firsts, however, until we judge every candidate by where they stand. We won\’t arrive where we should be until we no longer talk about skin color or gender.
Now that Barack Obama steps to the front of the Democratic field, we need to stop talking about his race, and start talking about his policies and his politics.
The reality is this: Though the Democrats will not have a nominee until August, unless Hillary Clinton drops out, Mr. Obama is now the frontrunner, and its time America takes a closer and deeper look at him.
Some pundits are calling him the next John F. Kennedy. He\’s not. He\’s the next George McGovern. And it\’s time people learned the facts. Because the truth is that Mr. Obama is the single most liberal senator in the entire U.S. Senate. He is more liberal than Ted Kennedy, Bernie Sanders, or Mrs. Clinton.
Never in my life have I seen a presidential frontrunner whose rhetoric is so far removed from his record. Walter Mondale promised to raise our taxes, and he lost. George McGovern promised military weakness, and he lost. Michael Dukakis promised a liberal domestic agenda, and he lost. Yet Mr. Obama is promising all those things, and he\’s not behind in the polls. Why? Because the press has dealt with him as if he were in a beauty pageant. Mr. Obama talks about getting past party, getting past red and blue, to lead the United States of America. But let\’s look at the more defined strokes of who he is underneath this superficial \’beauty.\’
Start with national security, since the president\’s most important duties are as commander-in-chief. Over the summer, Mr. Obama talked about invading Pakistan, a nation armed with nuclear weapons; meeting without preconditions with Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who vows to destroy Israel and create another Holocaust; and Kim Jong II, who is murdering and starving his people, but emphasized that the nuclear option was off the table against terrorists – something no president has ever taken off the table since we created nuclear weapons in the 1940s. Even Democrats who have worked in national security condemned all of those remarks. Mr. Obama is a foreign-policy novice who would put our national security at risk.
Next, consider economic policy. For all its faults, our health care system is the strongest in the world. And free trade agreements, created by Bill Clinton as well as President Bush, have made more goods more affordable so that even people of modest means can live a life that no one imagined a generation ago. Yet Mr. Obama promises to raise taxes on \’the rich.\’ How to fix Social Security? Raise taxes. How to fix Medicare? Raise taxes. Prescription drugs? Raise taxes. Free college? Raise taxes. Socialize medicine? Raise taxes. His solution to everything is to have government take it over. Big Brother on steroids, funded by your paycheck.
Finally, look at the social issues. Mr. Obama had the audacity to open a stadium rally by saying, \’All praise and glory to God!\’ but says that Christian leaders speaking for life and marriage have \’hijacked\’ – hijacked – Christianity. He is pro-partial birth abortion, and promises to appoint Supreme Court justices who will rule any restriction on it unconstitutional. He espouses the abortion views of Margaret Sanger, one of the early advocates of racial cleansing. His spiritual leaders endorse homosexual marriage, and he is moving in that direction. In Illinois, he refused to vote against a statewide ban – ban – on all handguns in the state. These are radical left, Hollywood, and San Francisco values, not Middle America values.
The real Mr. Obama is an easy target for the general election. Mrs. Clinton is a far tougher opponent. But Mr. Obama could win if people don\’t start looking behind his veneer and flowery speeches. His vision of \’bringing America together\’ means saying that those who disagree with his agenda for America are hijackers or warmongers. Uniting the country means adopting his liberal agenda and abandoning any conflicting beliefs.
But right now everyone is talking about how eloquent of a speaker he is and – yes – they\’re talking about his race. Those should never be the factors on which we base our choice for president. Mr. Obama\’s radical agenda sets him far outside the American mainstream, to the left of Mrs. Clinton. It\’s time to talk about the real Barack Obama. In an election of firsts, let\’s first make sure we elect the person who is qualified to be our president in a nuclear age during a global civilization war.
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News this week: Hunting licenses are on sale. You can go to the county treasurer\’s office to buy a license, but then you\’ll miss the chance to browse at all the hunting equipment at area stores. We tell you where you can buy them.
If you need something to get you in the mood for hunting, take a peek at last year\’s photo gallery.
Our reader fishing photo of the week was submitted by Travis Capalbo who caught this striper, weighing 6 to 7 pounds, at Beltzville State Park. Check our fishing photo gallery for others caught this season
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By Air Force Master Sgt. Mike R. Smith Special to American Forces Press Service
ARLINGTON, Va., July 7, 2008 – The first group of 200 California National Guard members called out by California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger for direct ground support on the fire line July 1 have competed their classroom training and are ready to deploy for hands-on training tomorrow, National Guard officials here said today.
California Army National Guard soldiers receive firefighting training from California Department of Forestry and Fire Prevention instructors to prepare them for the possible dangers they might face. U.S. Army photo by Sgt. Stuart Brown, California National Guard (Click photo for screen-resolution image);high-resolution image available.
Answering two call-ups by Schwarzenegger for additional wildfire assistance on the ground last week, 400 California National Guard members joined or were preparing to join the more than 20,000 civilian ground-based firefighters and support personnel today engaged in extinguishing 330 active fires charring the state.
Officials said that the addition of Guard members at the fire lines will help relieve \”overburdened and exhausted\” firefighters on the ground. It\’s the first time California Guard members have formally deployed for the governor to a fire line in nearly three decades.
\”I have ordered additional California National Guard soldiers to provide direct ground support to our firefighters in their efforts,\” Schwarzenegger said. \”These additional soldiers will bring much-needed assistance to the efforts of the firefighters who continue to tirelessly battle the blazes across California.\”
Nearly 1,000 National Guard members are supporting numerous firefighting operations in California. Since June 21, at least 32 Guard fixed- and rotary-winged aircraft and aircrews from more than half a dozen states repeatedly have joined state and federal agencies battling wild land blazes from the state\’s smoke-filled skies.
The Guard\’s aerial missions have dropped more than 1.7 million gallons of water and fire retardant in and around the state\’s wild land fires.
Most recently, aircrews from the California Guard\’s 129th Rescue Wing joined the air battle as the state\’s first combat search and rescue wing to qualify and carry 660-gallon buckets of water to the wild fires.
The recent introduction of National Guard ground forces into the fire fight includes 200 soldiers who trained at the state\’s Wild Land Fire Training Center at the former McClellan Air Force Base.
\”The California National Guard is actively engaged in responding to the wildfires in Northern California by providing assistance to local authorities and to the citizens of the affected communities,\” Army Maj. Gen. William Wade, California adjutant general, said. \”We continue to do this through air assets and personnel and equipment on the ground. The California Guard is proud of its ability to respond rapidly to those citizens affected by this horrible disaster.\”
Officials said the soldiers were trained by the state\’s Department of Forestry and Fire Prevention personnel in fire behavior, fire safety and how to create fire containment lines using hand tools. The soldiers will be issued equipment tomorrow and conduct hands-on fire training today at a \”cold-line\” section where wild fires have previously burned. A majority of the soldiers are from the 100th Troop Command and the 115th Regional Support Group.
\”It will be tough work, tedious and dangerous,\” said retired Army Col. Terry Knight, director of community relations for the California Guard. \”They are getting hot and heavy as we speak.\”
Knight said a primary function for the two teams will be to construct fire lines, by hand, in places heavy equipment cannot reach. Still, other Guard officials said, the Guard members also will provide follow-up support and may possibly end up fighting active wild fires.
Officials said an additional 200 California Guard soldiers, called out by the governor July 4, are the next group to train at McClellan for ground firefighting support.
Other California Guard forces on the ground are providing truck transportation and command and control personnel for civilian responders. Eight California Guard bulldozers and operators are also cutting fire lines in their efforts to contain the blazes.
(Air Force Master Sgt. Mike R. Smith serves with the National Guard Bureau.)
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