By Gary Sheftick
Army News Service

LONDON, July 27, 2012 – After leading the U.S. boxing team in warm-ups yesterday, Marine Corps Sgt. Jamel Herring demonstrated the unique style and speed that may earn him an Olympic medal.

Marine Corps Sgt. Jamel Herring raises his arms in victory after a hard-fought contest against Air Force Senior Airman Adan Hassan at the 2012 Armed Forces Boxing Championships at Paige Fieldhouse on Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton, Calif., Feb. 3, 2012. Herring now is in London to represent the United States at the Olympic boxing competitions. U.S. Marine Corps photo by Pfc. Trevon S. Peracca

\”I\’m definitely an underdog here,\” said Herring, a light welterweight who surprised several opponents at the U.S. Olympic Team Trials with quick footwork and his ability to dodge punches. \”It\’s like a hit and run. It\’s like a game of tag — I\’m hitting, and I\’m gone.\”

\”The minute you get frustrated, I\’m right back on you.\”

Herring will be the first U.S. Marine boxer to climb into an Olympic boxing ring in 20 years. He said coaches sometimes compare him to \”Sugar Ray\” Leonard, who won Olympic gold at the 1976 games while fighting in the light-welterweight division. He said Leonard danced like Muhammad Ali — avoiding punches and coming in for the knock-out.

\”Speed creates power,\” Herring said.

Brazil\’s Everton Lopes, however, is the reigning world champion in the light-welterweight division and England\’s Thomas Stalker is the division\’s No. 1-ranked boxer.

\”The odds are definitely not with us,\” said USA head boxing coach retired Army Sgt. 1st Class Basheer Abdullah, who added that all of his athletes have a fighting chance in London.

 BY BILL CLEARY

(cnbnews.net)Gloucester City Council introduced an Ordinance on First

reading July 28 that forbids fishing at Freedom Pier, King and Cumberland Streets. The site is the future home of the proposed Otts Restaurant. The new law came about because of a few fishermen who are trashing the area which is located at the former Coast Guard Base on the Delaware River. Trash is also a problem at the nearby Proprietor’s Park Fishing Pier but that pier will remain open. Second reading and final adoption of the new law is scheduled for August 16. 

 

 

A number of people are against the ordinance and have commented on the topic. See story. Here are a few remarks.

by HeathCo due to Electrical Shock Hazard
Sold Exclusively at Home Depot

WASHINGTON, D.C. – The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, in cooperation with the firm named below, today announced a voluntary recall of the following consumer product. Consumers should stop using recalled products immediately unless otherwise instructed. It is illegal to resell or attempt to resell a recalled consumer product.

Name of product: Motion Security Lights

Units: About 7,800

 

 

 

photo submitted by ALAN MESTER

• GLOUCESTER CITY, NEW JERSEY-The 1955 VFW Post 3620 team, age 10-12 year olds, playing in the Carmen Palmeiro League.

• Back Row:Mr. Hoover, ? McKeever, Jack Brandt, Albert Miller, Bill Rettig, Toby Frymire, Alan Mester, Wayne Ives, George Dolbow
• Front Row: Mr McKinney, Billy Cleary, Bobby McKinney, ? Smith, ? Krueger, ? Hoover, Jim Barrett, Mr. Martin.

Check out the new white sneakers on yours truly. I was 11-years-old at the time. My basketball career was short lived. I got a sore butt from sitting on the bench. Notice too, I looked malnurish. The Cleary family was very poor in those days, we only ate one meal a day, and that was peanut butter and jelly. 0:)

P.S. Alan has lived in Flordia since 2004. The Mesters if you recall owned and operated Mester\’s Cleaners at Market and Sussex Streets, Gloucester City.

 

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Youth from six counties in the Diocese of Camden will trade fun in the sun for service at the shore as part of the Summer in the City service project sponsored by the Office Lifelong Faith Formation – Youth Ministries. Beginning Aug. 5 through Aug. 11, the week-long community service project provides high school teenagers the opportunity to volunteer at various work sites in Atlantic City including Catholic Charities, The Rescue Mission, Jean Webster’s Kitchen, Atlantic County Food Bank, and Villa Raffaella. Lodging will be provided at Holy Trinity Parish, St. James Church, in Ventnor.

 

Washington, D.C.) – Today, Citizens Against Government Waste (CAGW) named House Agriculture Committee Chairman Frank Lucas (R-Okla.) and Ranking Member Collin Peterson (D-Minn.) its July 2012 Porkers of the Month for sponsoring the Federal Agriculture Reform and Risk Management Act (FARRM). Like its counterpart in the Senate, FARRM is a massive waste of taxpayer dollars at a time of record profits for farmers, maintains the command-and-control system that has been in place for decades, and falls far short of the $180 billion in savings for the Farm Bill that was included in the House-passed budget resolution. The bill would reduce Farm Bill spending to $957 billion over ten years, a difference of $35.1 billion and a paltry savings of 3.5 percent.

While FARRM terminates many of the wasteful programs that were eliminated in the Senate bill, such as the Average Crop Revenue Election (ACRE) program, direct payments, and counter-cyclical payments, many profligate programs are left largely unreformed and new ones have been created. For example, the Price Loss Coverage Program (PLC), set to replace the egregiously wasteful system of direct payments, would reimburse farmers for revenues lost due to lower commodity prices. In today’s climate of historically high prices, PLC will almost certainly come at a very high cost to taxpayers when prices inevitably drop.

 

BILLINGS, Mont. – Norma Pilkington is a legend. She’s too humble to say it, but her fellow Red Cross volunteers quickly reach for the word when describing the 84-year-old great, great grandmother from Bloomington, Ill.

The organization is famous for its volunteers, so what makes this lady, who introduces herself as \”Mean and nasty,\” stand out? Well, to start with, the Montana fire relief effort marks the 92nd time Pilkington has left her loved ones to help others following a disaster.

Since her first relief operation, a flood response in 1996, Pilkington has averaged nearly six deployments a year and normally spends Mother’s Day, Thanksgiving and countless other days away from her family. She was in Montana for the birth of her seventh great, great grandchild and also her most recent birthday.

\”When the restaurant found out, they gave me 84-percent off my bill,\” she said with glee.

The client casework manager has responded to almost every type of disaster including wildfires, hurricanes, tornadoes and even an ice storm in Texas. \”It was like a big saw had come and chopped the trees off,\” she said.

Her most memorable Red Cross experience was the first of three deployments she made following 9/11.

 

press release

WEST CAPE MAY – Mayor Pam Kaithern announced The Borough of West Cape May has received notification from Suzanne Treyger, Stewardship Project Coordinator for the New Jersey Audubon Society of continuation of Invasive plant control underway on private property along Elmira Street near Cape Island Creek. This project is now in its second year of controlling kudzu, porcelain berry, and Japanese knotweed using an integrated vegetation management strategy over several years. This involves chemical, mechanical, and manual control methods to effectively control these invasive plants. When progress is observed in the next year or two, NJ Audubon plans to recruit volunteers to help plant native trees, shrubs, and grasses where the invasive plants once were. This is a long-term habitat restoration project and annual monitoring will be necessary to detect new invasive plant growth once the larger control treatments are completed. Currently, NJ Audubon is monitoring this restoration site, but we plan to coordinate volunteers to monitor the area in the near future.

Please be aware that US Fish and Wildlife Service\’s Partners for Fish and Wildlife Program, a partner on this project, will mow kudzu, Japanese knotweed, and porcelain berry on Elmira Street on July 31, weather pending.

 

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