The House last night reaffirmed \”In God We Trust\” as the national motto of the U.S., in an effort to encourage its display in public buildings and send a message to those who seek to remove God from the public domain.

BEAR CHECK STATION HOURS OF OPERATION

Hunters who harvest a bear must take it to one of the Pennsylvania Game Commission’s check stations within 24 hours. Check stations will be open from 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. on Saturday, Nov. 19; from 10 a.m. until 2 p.m. on Sunday, Nov. 20; from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. on Monday and Tuesday, Nov. 21 and 22; and from 10 a.m. until 6 p.m. on Wednesday, Nov. 23. Check station details are listed on page 37 of the 2011-12 Digest.

By Sara Martino

Gloucester City News

The railroad has jurisdiction over the crossing near the tracks, and it has never been permissible for vehicles to go through the opening,\” said Mayor Theresa Branella during last week’s Brooklawn Borough Council meeting.

Wilmer O. Hall, 91, of New Jersey passed away October 21, 2011. Funeral services were held October 26. Foster-Warne Funeral Home, Audubon, NJ, was in charge of arrangements.
Wilmer was the beloved husband of the late Kate \”Betty\” Hall. Loving father of Stephen \”Skip\” (Cathy) Hall of Mt. Ephraim, NJ, Cynthia E. (George) Stillwell of Williamstown, NJ and Virginia (James) Batchelor of Franklinville, NJ. He is also survived by eight grandchildren, eleven great grandchildren, a sister, Gladys I. Buckley of Ogden and nieces and nephews.
Mr. Hall retired in 1975 after 35 years of employment as a FHA/HUD official. He was a World War II U.S. Naval Aviation veteran and a member of Tatem-Shields Post #17 American Legion, Collingswood, NJ. In 1979 he graduated from Turgers Univer., Camden with degrees in Political Science and Business Administration and then attended Thomas Edison State College, earning a degree in Social Science. Mr. Hall was also a member of Haddonfield Lodge #130 F&AM, Excelsior Consistory, W. Collingswood, NJ, Crescent Temple Shrine, Trenton, NJ VASA Order (Swedish Social Organization) of Cherry Hill, NJ and a former Boy Scout Master at Holy Trinity Lutheran Church, Audubon, NJ.
Interment was held in Greenwood Cemetery, Pleasantville, NJ. The family requests contributions be made to Habitat for Humanity, 650 Clinton St., Camden, NJ 08103 (www.habitatcamden.org).

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(Gloucester City NJ) The William Flynn Veterans Sports Complex, Johnson Blvd. and Middlesex Sts. reopened on November 1 after being closed for two years so that the site could be cleared of radioactive thorium. The sports complex is part of the Welsbach/General Gas Mantle Superfund site in Camden County. EPA Regional Administrator Judith A. Enck was joined by Congressmember Robert E. Andrews and Gloucester City Mayor William P. James at a ribbon-cutting ceremony in Gloucester City to officially reopen the park and return it to the community.

Last week President Obama came bearing gifts in a speech at the University of Colorado in Denver–relief from student loan debt, delivered by way of an executive order without congressional authorization. Under the President’s plan, money lenders cannot require students to pay more than 10 percent of discretionary annual income for student loans. It also completely forgives student loans in 20 years, five years fewer than before. But here’s the fine print, a key fact that the President failed to mention in his speech: For all its pomp and circumstance, the President’s plan would save college students less than $10 per month–barely enough to buy two cups of coffee from Starbucks.

\”NJEA – Creating a Better Tomorrow\”

Appearances by renowned education historian and author Diane Ravitch and acting Commissioner of Education Christopher Cerf will headline the 157th annual NJEA Convention November 10-11 in Atlantic City.

By Chris Concannon

Gloucester City News

The Bellmawr Purple Eagles put the centerpiece on their 50^th Anniversary season with a celebration event October 15 at the Bellmawr Park Fire Hall.

More than seven months of planning went into the massive celebration, as more than 300 people from their Purple Eagles’ past and present were on hand.

Truth is, parents and taxpayers—to say nothing of thousands of hard-working teachers—have plenty to gripe about. L.A. Unified is a picture of dysfunction, bureaucratic bloat, and massive waste. The second-largest school district in the United States, LAUSD has a $7 billion budget and enrolls (\”educates\” isn’t quite the word) around 600,000 students. The district is home to both the glistening, half-billion-dollar Robert F. Kennedy Community Schools complex, opened last year on the former site of the Ambassador Hotel (where Kennedy was assassinated in 1968), and Locke High School, one of the worst-performing high schools in California. Only 55 percent of LAUSD students graduate from high school after four years. The district is hindered, in large part, by its 350-page contract with United Teachers Los Angeles (UTLA), which enshrines seniority over quality and leaves younger, tatealented teachers most vulnerable to pink slips. Yet as Los Angeles education blogger Anthony Krinsky notes, despite three consecutive years of layoffs, \”we have more teachers per student than we had 5 years ago, 10 years ago, 15 years ago, and 20 years ago.\” For all of the manpower, student performance remains stagnant.

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