Mt. Ephraim Fire Dept Responds to Auto Accident

by Bill Bates News Correspondent

The Mount Ephraim Fire Department, Station 45, was dispatched at 3:27 hours on Friday, December 1 in front of 602 North Black Horse Pike, the WaWa, for a two car motor vehicle accident.

Basic Life Support Unit 297, Haddon Heights, came upon the accident moments after it was dispatched.

BLS 297 ascertained that they had a two vehicle MVA with one entrapment.

Camden County Communications re-toned the assignment and added Rescue 2, from neighboring Bellmawr, as Mount Ephraim’s rescue is temporarily out of service.

The MEFD is awaiting the arrival of the new truck which should be in a few weeks. The truck is currently being mounted with special equipment and having the lettering and painting completed.

Deputy Chief Brian Gilmore arrived and assumed Command 450. Shortly after, Mount Ephraim’s Engine 452, followed by Bellmawr’s Squad 32 arrived and both companies went to work to extricate the patient.

Command 450 reported at the ten minute mark that both companies were operating and that he would hold with the equipment and staffing on location.

The patient was extricated by the 20 minute mark and transported to Cooper Hospital by Haddon Heights BLS 297.

Engine 452’s crew and Command 450 stayed on location to assist the police and the tow company as they removed the vehicles from the highway.

The driver of the vehicle and the driver and passengers of the second vehicle were all treated and released the same day.

GREEN, MARGARET K.
(nee Graf) Age 89, on January 5, 2007. Lifelong resident of Gloucester City.
Loving wife of the late Edward E. Green. Beloved mother of her two devoted sons Edward C. \’Bolt\’ of Brooklawn and Robert G. and his wife Carla of Gloucester City. Loving grandmother of Robert M. Green of Gloucester City, Steven (USN) and Jennifer Thomas and William J. (USN) and Lindsey Green, all of Norfolk, VA. Loving great-grandmother of Brett, Jessica and James. Also surviving is a loving niece Vivian Sprague of New Gretna.
Relatives and friends of the family are invited to attend her viewing and funeral, Wednesday starting 1 p.m. at
MAHAFFEY-MILANO
FUNERAL HOME
11 East Kings Highway
Mt. Ephraim, NJ 08059
856-931-1628 Religious services 2 p.m. at the funeral home. Interment Lakeview Memorial Park, Cinnaminson.
In lieu of flowers, donations in Margaret\’s name to Gospel Ministries to Children of South Jersey, c/o Janet E. McKinney, 531 Deep Run Road, Perkasie, PA 18944, are preferred.

Mt. Ephraim Fire Dept Candy Cane Parade

On Sunday, December 17, members of the Mount Ephraim Fire Department organized their annual Candy Cane Parade.

This is a small parade that hits just about every street in the borough where Santa & Mrs. Claus visit the residents and children one last time before Christmas.

The emergency vehicles are all decked out with their holiday lights and the holiday music.

The Candy Cane Parade lasted a little over two hours and over 1,000 candy canes were given out by members of the fire department.

Thank you to the Mount Ephraim Emergency Management and MEPRI EMS who also joined us for this special parade.

KNICELEY, PATRICIA
On January 5, 2007, of Glassboro, NJ. Age 66.
She was the beloved daughter of the late Edgar and Margaret Kniceley, and loving sister of Edgar Kniceley, Jr. and his wife Oliva of Gloucester City, Samuel Reinhardt and his wife Diane of DE and the late Sr. JoAnn Kniceley. Her niece Stephanie Stewart, her husband Peter and their sons, PJ and Sammy and her nephew Adam Kniceley, his wife Sandy and their son Aidan also survive her.
Pat was raised in Gloucester City and graduated from Gloucester High in 1958. She spent most of her adult years living in Cherry Hillbefore moving to Glassboro. Pat had been an Actuary for Towers, Perrin, Forester & Crosby in Philadelphia for over 40 yrs. retiring from the company in 1996. She enjoyed traveling and had visited every continent except Antarctica. She loved the Theatre, Ballet, Opera and was also a long time member of the Philadelphia Zoo.
Relatives and friends are invited to attend Pat\’s funeral service on Wednesday 10:00 AM at St. James Evangelical Lutheran Church, 400 Columbia Ave., Pitman, NJ. Interment will be private at the request of the family. In lieu of flowers memorial donations may be made to the \’Glory to God Fund\’ at St. James Evangelical Lutheran Church at the address listed above. Pat\’s funeral arrangements have been entrusted to the ETHERINGTON-CRERAN FUNERAL HOME, Gloucester City, NJ.

MOODY, WILLIAM W.
On January 4, 2007, of Westville, NJ. Age 44 years.
William was the beloved brother of Rosalie Weiley and Carol Ryley, both of Westville and dear uncle of Brian Weiley and his wife Jennifer of Gloucester and great nephew Ty.
Relatives and friends are invited to meet Wednesday evening from 6:00 to 7:00pm at The ETHERINGTON-CRERAN FUNERAL HOME, 700 Powell St. in Gloucester City. Memorial services will be held 7:00pm.

This summer’s fiasco at Kiddie Kollege was just the tip of the environmental iceberg – New Jersey is filled with toxic sites that haven’t been properly cleaned up.
By Leigh Davis

Check out a few photos of one toxic site in Newark

New Jersey’s reputation for environmental problems is not news to most folks. It’s been fodder for comics who turn ournickname, the Garden State, into the not so tongue-in-cheek Garbage State. And the more sinister appellation Cancer Alley is commonly associated with various parts of the state. However, the Jersey Devil is in the details.

Continue reading \”Jersey Devil in the Details\” »

Mayor William James Inaugural Address

(Reporter\’s Note) Mayor James (right in photo)delivered his message to the governing body and members of the public at Thursday (January 4) Reorganization meeting.

\”It is a great honor to be standing in front of you this evening as your newly elected Mayor.

The first thing I think is important for me to do, is to on behalf of myself and the citizens of Gloucester City Thank Former Mayor Thomas Kilcourse for his many years of dedication and service to our community. I’d also like to thank and commend Patrick Keating and Raymond Coxe for their service and further thank the both of them and Ron Pollander for a clean campaign in the past November Election.

Next, I’d like to recognize and thank New Jersey State Assembly Speaker Joseph Roberts for taking time from his busy schedule to attend tonight’s ceremonies and administer the oath of office. Thank You Mr. Speaker

I‘d like to recognize – Retired Freeholder – Our very own Tom Gurick,

Newly elected Camden County Sheriff Chuck Billingham, Councilman Tom McAdams of Brooklawn

I feel it is important for everyone here, to know, that the work has already begun and that Jay, Nick, Bill, Rocky, Jean, Elsie and I have been working on this transition of government for the past month.

Our objectives are simple.

Initially we intend to better communicate with you exactly what is going on within our town and within our city government.

Secondary but equally as important is, with Citizen Advisory Committees, we hope to address the major issues that exist now within our community and those situations that we will encounter in the future. We as your government officials are humble enough to know, that we do not have all the answers and we will need your help and input in the development of innovative problem solving techniques to address these situations.

As you will see within the very near future, a lot of changes have been made already. These changes were not made merely for the sake of change but instead were made after careful consideration and discussion and because at this particular time in Gloucester City’s History, we felt, they were necessary.

More changes are expected in the future and from this point on you will be informed of them ahead of time and you will be informed as to the reasoning behind those changes.

All is not well in Gloucester City and each and every day I come to find new challenges directly before us.

This administration has inherited a long awaited and slowly moving redevelopment of our waterfront,

We’ve inherited the need for a new water treatment facility,

We’ve inherited a large debt service due to an antiquated infrastructure and the need to further improve the infrastructure to address the future needs of redevelopment.

We’ve inherited as every municipality has, the exorbitant rise in cost for employee health insurance and other operational related insurances.

We’ve inherited several instances of costly litigation.

We’ve inherited a loss of 70 residential tax ratables through a now stalled School Construction project.

We’ve inherited the possible failure and or the impossibility of the state to live up to it’s obligations to build the new school.

We’ve inherited declining neighborhoods; empty storefronts and an over worked and understaffed Housing Department.

We’ve inherited the request to expand the WaWa

We’ve inherited the stigma and the associated problems of being labeled an Abbott District

We’ve inherited the need to develop relationships with other municipalities related to shared services and consolidated purchasing.

We’ve inherited a loss in Emergency Services revenue of over $120,000 due to what we believe to be a contract signed with an incompetent collection agency.

We’ve inherited a Marina that remains half filled with only 50 percent water and electric supplied and $40,000 a year in costs to the taxpayer for operation.

This Marina was also the subject of a 5-year litigation action, which was just settled out of court at a cost to taxpayers of $100,000.

We’ve inherited An Urban Enterprise Designation accompanied by the responsibility to see that the monies acquired through the UEZ are spent wisely with our eyes directly upon the impact of these monies on the business community of the future.

We’ve lastly, as far as I know, have inherited approximately 2000 rental units within our community that offers only a little over 4,000 housing opportunities.

I’m sure everyone here tonight could probably at least add one more item to the list of things that need to be addressed and needless to say this list alone represents a pretty daunting task, especially for a retired cop, a boilermaker, a Site Development Coordinator and 4 experienced councilpersons.

But as I said before we are humble enough to know we can not go it alone, We know that we are going to need the help of each and every one of you to help us push ahead into the future and to hopefully someday, excel as a community together.

The first thing we are going to do in this regard is to surround ourselves with good competent individuals. It has been proven throughout history that when an individual or group accomplishes this feat that success and good fortune are sure to follow.

In closing I can only promise you two things, that we will continue to hold the high ground to stop the decline of our neighborhoods and we will continue to fight the good fight to give Gloucester City Government back to the people it represents. Each and everyone of us, as your elected officials has the inherent Bipartisan responsibility to serve you to the best of our ability and I intend to embrace this ideal. The November Election is over; it’s time to move on.\”

Thursday morning January 4 before the storm front blew in, from the 24th floor of the Inky building.

photo by Cousin Frank Messenger

We Are Marshall (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Re: The movie We Are Marshall, Al Carelli, a 1961 graduate of Gloucester Catholic High School died in that airplane crash.

Bill,

I saw \”We Are Marshall\” last night. It was really good. The type of resilient spirit and \”no quit\” mentality that you\’d find in Gloucester City, is the same type displayed by the folks of Marshall and the Huntington, WV area.

The story was less about the crash and more about how Marshall and the city pulled themselves together after the loss of 75 lives, minutes from the time they were to touch down at the airport on a trip home from East Carolina. It\’s a hell of a thing to grow up with someone, and go to high school with him, only to later in life to be walking into a movie theater about three miles from where Al and I grew up, and seeing a movie about how he died so tragically.

I think that anyone who went to Gloucester Catholic with Al Carelli, and any of the guys from Gloucester High who knew him and played against him, would find real value in the movie. I mention all this because the movie has been there for a few weeks already and probably won\’t be there too much longer. Knowing the fine spirit and character you show Bill by producing your Notebook, virtually assures me that this movie will be your kind of story.

Cordially,

Gus  

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A Fisherman\’s Tale

Ken and Bob are fishing in a boat under a bridge. Bob looks up and sees a funeral procession starting across the bridge. He stands up, takes off his cap, and bows his head. The procession crosses the bridge and Bob puts on his cap, picks up his rod and reel, and continues fishing. Ken says, \”That was touching. I didn\’t know you had it in you.\” Bob responds, \”Well, I guess it was the thing to do – after all, I was married to her for 40 years.\”