Spring is here and that means baseball season is in full swing. As Brooklawn begins their season we were asked to join the Opening Day services on Saturday, April 10. As with a lot of families we were all running in different directions.

Firehouse.com May 2, 2010

A firefighter in Somerset County died yesterday after being rushed to the hospital from a training exercise, according to The Daily American.

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Pat Summitt, Robin Roberts, Sylvia Hatchell,Vince Dooley, Teresa Edwards and Others to Speak at Georgia Fundraising Event

Porterdale, GA- On May 15, at 7 PM, Friends of Porterdale will hold a fundraising dinner and \”Roast\” in honor of Betty F. Jaynes, the first Executive Director for the Women’s Basketball Coaches Association (WBCA). Events will be held at the Turner Lake Sports Complex in Covington, Georgia.

The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled 5-4 that a Latin cross honoring World War I veterans in southwestern California does not need to be removed or concealed from public view. The American Legion has long supported efforts to preserve the 1934-erected monument at its current location on Sunrise Rock. The American Civil Liberties Union has led efforts to remove it, contending it violates separation between church and state.

\”To remove the Mojave Cross, or to conceal it inside a plywood box as it has been for several months, is a violation of free expression in itself,\” American Legion National Commander Clarence Hill said. \”The court ruled correctly in this case. If it had gone the other way, a number of other veterans memorials and monuments around the country would be faced with similar restrictions. It’s a slippery slope, and the Supreme Court acknowledged that. Removal of a religious symbol from a veterans memorial could conceivably be followed by removal of religious symbols from all government-owned or public spaces even, perhaps, veterans cemeteries.

read via burnpit.legion.org

April 29, 2010

Bechtel Plant Machinery, Inc., Monroeville, Pa., is being awarded a $37,344,671 modification to previously awarded contract N00024-07-C-2100 for naval nuclear propulsion components. Work will be performed in Monroeville, Pa. (90 percent), and Schenectady, N.Y. (10 percent). Contract funds in the amount of $923,558 will expire at the end of the current fiscal year. No completion date or additional information is provided on Naval Nuclear Propulsion Program contracts. The Naval Sea Systems Command, Washington, D.C., is the contracting activity.

Fisher Scientific Co., LLC, Pittsburgh, Pa. is being awarded a maximum $9,120,000 fixed-price with economic price adjustment, indefinite-quantity/indefinite-delivery contract for the selection of a distributor for the laboratory integrated delivery system program. Other locations of performance are in Massachusetts, Illinois, California, Kentucky, Delaware, Colorado, Texas, New Jersey, Puerto Rico, New York, New Mexico, Washington, Georgia, Maryland and North Carolina. Using services are Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps, and federal civilian agencies. The original proposal was Web solicited via the Internet Bid Board System with eight responses. This contract has a base period and four one-year option periods. The date of performance completion is May 3, 2011. The Defense Supply Center Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pa., is the contracting activity (SPM2DE-09-D-7340).

via www.defense.gov

On May 1, 2010. Age 88. (nee Shockley) Of Gloucester City. Loving wife of 25 years to the late John Harris Jones. Loving mother of Eleanor (Robert) Orr and Edna (Ron) Chiodi. Predeceased by her daughters, Florence M. Jones and Jennifer Jones. Loving grandmother of John Jones, Jay (Juanita) Getchell, Mark Getchell, Jennifer McClelland (Rick) and Nicole Getchell. Loving great grandmother of Arthur Davis and Stephanie Stoughton. Loving great great grandmother of Emily Davis. Also survived by her beloved step-grandchildren: Kenny (Jackie) Orr, Jimmy (Kathy) Orr, Randy (Trish) Orr, Brian (Donna) Orr, Sheryl Conroy, Desmond and Brian Chiodi.

Relatives and friends are kindly invited to attend her viewing on Thursday evening from 7 to 9 PM and again to Friday morning from 9:30 to 11 AM at the McCANN-HEALEY FUNERAL HOME: 851 Monmouth St. Gloucester City. Funeral service officiated by Rev. Dr. Robert Muse of the First Baptist Church will begin at 11 AM in the funeral home. Interment Eglington Cemetery, Clarksboro. In lieu of flowers, memorial donations may be made to the Alzheimer’s Association Delaware Valley Chapter: 3 Eves Drive, Marlton, NJ 08053. Please write in the memo: Eleanor E. Jones. Expressions of sympathy: www.mccannhealey.com under online obituaries of Eleanor E. Jones. Funeral Arrangements and Inquiries through: McCANN-HEALEY FUNERAL HOME: 851 Monmouth Street, Gloucester City. Ph: 856-456-1142