Month: December 2010

Gloucester City Dec. 21 Council Meeting Agenda

Monthly Council Meetings

Tuesday, December 21, 2010 at 8:00 pm at City Hall, 313 Monmouth Street

Agenda for Council Meeting – Click Here

Resolution for Sale of a Property – Click Here

Resolution for Reduction of Performance Bond – Click Here

Resolution for Waiver of Hall Rental Fee – Click Here

Resolution for Thermoseal Re-Development Area – Click Here

Resolution for Recycling Facility – Click Here


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Philadelphia Snow Emergency Still in Effect

December 27, 2010

PHILADELPHIA, PA –With the winter storm winding down, Mayor Michael A. Nutter, \"Snow8\" has announced that the City’s Emergency Operations Center has been deactivated at 8:00 a.m. today. However, the Snow Emergency is still in effect to allow Streets Department crews sufficient time for salting and plowing operations. Towing of vehicles from Snow Emergency Routes is still underway. If your car is towed, call Philly 3-1-1 for its location. Do NOT call 911.

Streets Commissioner Clarena I. W. Tolson asks residents to continue to follow regulations so crews can continue to safely and effectively remove snow from the roadways:

Park vehicles at least 20 feet from the corner, as required by law. Cars parked too close to the corner limit our ability to salt and plow roads.
It is dangerous and illegal to shovel or plow snow into the street. Placing snow in the street after it has been cleared will create dangerous icy patches.
Please place snow in a safe place on your property so that snow mounds do not obstruct the cleared pathway.
Drive with caution as black ice is expected to form on the roadways.
Clear a sidewalk path at least 36\” wide within 6 hours of the end of the storm.
Clear snow from neighborhood sewer drains to allow melting snow to drain.
Stay tuned to local media for updates.
Check on sick and elderly neighbors.

Streets Department crews will continue to focus their efforts on treating primary, secondary, hilly residential streets and other residential streets.

The Code Blue remains in effect to provide additional support to the homeless. If you see a homeless person in need of assistance, please call the Homeless Outreach Coordination Center at 215-232-1984.

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Mayor Nutter Signs Bill Increasing Finds for Selling Tobacco Products to Kids

December 24, 2010

Philadelphia, December 23, 2010- Mayor Nutter signed a new bill which increases the penalty for merchants who illegally sell tobacco to youth from $100 to $250. The new bill also provides Municipal Courts discretion to assess a minimum fine of $300 to a maximum of $2,000 for merchants who default on the original $250 fine. Mayor Nutter also detailed the City’s new campaign to encourage smokers to kick the habit.

Bill 100634, which was sponsored by Councilwoman Marian Tasco and approved by a 15-0 City Council vote, requires merchants who violate the new City Ordinance to attend one-on-one information sessions that will provide tips on checking identification and how to refuse sales to minors. The Ordinance will also provide the City authority to close a business for 48 hours if that merchant sells tobacco to a minor three times in two years. The City may assess on-the-spot penalties to violating merchants and will post the names of businesses that are cited for illegal tobacco sales to minors on the Department of Public Health’s website.

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The Country\’s First Organic Waste to Energy/Compost Recycling Facility to be Built in Gloucester City; Construction Cost $30 Million

By Bill Cleary

 

The City of Gloucester City has been chosen as the site for the first organic waste \"CNB to energy/compost recycling plant to be constructed in the United States. The $30 million, 110,000 square foot facility will be located in the City’s Southport Development area on 9.5 acres at the end of Water Street and the Delaware River. The vacant ground was once home to New Jersey Zinc which was owned by Gulf and Western. 

 

The organics recycling facility will accept 60,000 tons annually of organic material [source-separated food waste, yard waste, and brush] for processing into renewable energy and compost. The facility will generate approximately two megawatts of renewable energy and 60,000 cubic yards of high-quality compost and will operate during normal business hours five and a half days per week.

 

The project was announced at the December 22 Gloucester City Council meeting. At that meeting a resolution authorizing Organic Diversion LLC, of Marlton to proceed with the plans for the facility was approved. 

 

Organic Diversion LLL, of Marlton was founded 18 months ago. Principal owners include: Rocco D’Antonio, Gail Rosati, John Connelly and Joe Kozlowski.

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ClearysNoteBook Wishes Everyone a…

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Thank you for your support!

Bill and Connie Cleary, and our faithful contributors…Hank Miller, Dan and Dawn Watson, Wil Levins, Mark Matthews, Bruce Darrow

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Give someone, some organization, etc. a Cheer/Jeer

\"6a00d8341bf7d953ef0115723d3b6b970b-800wi\" ClearysNoteBook.com is preparing a Cheer and Jeer column for the month of December. If you know of any person, organization, event, happening, that deserves a Cheer or Jeer now is the time to step up and yell out. Deadline is December 30th. 

This column is open to everyone, in every community across the world wide Internet that reads this site. Send your suggestions to [email protected]

 

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Holiday Wishes from the Bellmawr Boro School Superintendent

Dear Parents and Guardians,

\"Sneeuwman21\" In a continued effort to increase communication and collaboration between school and home, I am sending the following update about our school district.

The Bellmawr School District is hopeful and excited about our after school tutoring programs, which will be in operation from January to April 2011. The tutoring programs will include ESL (English as a Second Language) for grades K thru 8; and Math and Language Arts for grades 1 thru 8. Additionally, for the first time, we will be offering Spanish instruction to students in grades K-4. All students interested are welcome to attend.

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Letters: Thank You Mickie Glassman We Appreciate Your Hard Work

Dear Mr. Cleary, 12/24/10

I would like to thank Mickie Glassman for all of her hard work to make The \"Thank-You-4-Early-Payment\" Gloucester City\’s Polar Express Christmas a beautiful and fun night for my entire family. I know she worked so hard decorating the former Comcast building for Santa with trains, wrapped presents under the tree, and even had her son make the fireplace in which the stockings were hung.

She also was the one who set up the trolley ride and had her other son set up the Polar Express movie on the building for the children to watch. Cookies were sitting by Santa for children to snack on while they waited for Santa to be in their picture.

I\’m not sure how she wasn\’t mentioned in the Gloucester City News and I realize that everyone can not be mentioned who helped out, but I do find it sad that the one person who was willing to do so much wasn\’t named. It\’s hard to find anyone who wants to volunteer their free time and when they go unnoticed it may turn them away next time help is needed. So Good Job to everyone who put the time in to make the celebration a success! I hope the next celebration Mickie will be apart of because this one was the most memorable!!!

Thank you for your time. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!!

Sincerely, A Gloucester City Resident

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CHUCKLES: IRISH TRADITION

 

submitted by George Cleary

 

 

 

Paddy, had long heard the stories of an amazing family \"Dancing tradition.

It seems that his father, grandfather and great-grandfather had all been able to walk on water on their 18th birthday. On that special day, they\’d each walked across the lake to the pub on the far side for their first legal drink.

So when Paddy\’s, 18th birthday came \’round, he and his pal Mick, took a boat out to the middle of the lake, Paddy, stepped out of the boat …and nearly drowned! Mick just barely managed to pull him to safety.

Furious and confused, Paddy, went to see his grandmother.

\’Grandma,\’ he asked, \”It\’s my 18th birthday, so why can\’t I walk \’cross the lake like my father, his father, and his father before him?\”

Granny looked deeply into Paddy\’s, troubled brown eyes and said, \”Because your father, your grandfather and your great grandfather were all born in December, when the lake is frozen, and you were born in August, ya nitwit.

 

 

 

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63-Foot Boat Sinks in Delaware Bay near Cape May NJ; One Man Dead

Coast Guard Press Release December 24, 2010

CAPE MAY, N.J. – The Coast Guard rescued one man after the 63-foot boat he was \"Cg aboard sank seven miles south of Cape May Thursday.

Watchstanders at Coast Guard Sector Delaware Bay received a call at 1:35 a.m. from a member of the New Jersey State Police reporting a boat with two people aboard was taking on water.

A MH-65 rescue helicopter crew from Coast Guard Air Station Atlantic City, N.J., and 47-foot Motor Life Boat crews from Coast Guard Stations Cape May and Indian River Inlet, Del., arrived on scene.

The boat crew from Indian River located both men and reported one was responsive and one was unresponsive. The crew brought the responsive man aboard and the rescue helicopter crew hoisted him aboard the helicopter.

The unresponsive man was unable to be recovered.

The responsive man was taken to AtlantiCare Regional Medical Center in Atlantic City for treatment.

He is in critical condition.


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