Day: December 19, 2008

Joan Theresa Myers, of Villas NJ, GCHS Alumni Class of 1959, Home Health Aide

On December 18, 2008. Age 67. (nee Nagorka). Of Villas. Formerly Joan Sack of Fairview. Loving daughter of the late Bill and Stella Nagorka. Loving wife of 3 years to Vernon \”Bud\” Myers. Beloved mother of James Sack, Joanne (James) Gardiner, Michael Myers, Christine (James) Shah and Kathleen (Tony) Myers. Loving grandmother of John, Christin, Justin, Elise, Jimmy, Cindy, Bart, Ainslie and Andrew. Dear sister of William (Cathy) Nagorka and the late Gerald Nagorka. Also survived by many friends.

Born in Jersey City, Joan was a former resident of Gloucester City and a 1959 graduate of Gloucester Catholic. She worked 17 years as a waitress at the Mallard Inn in Mt. Laurel and 15 years at Compton’s Restaurant in Haddon Twp. Joan retired and worked as a Home Health Aide.

Relatives and friends are kindly invited to attend her visitation on Monday morning from 10:30 am to 12 noon at the McCANN-HEALEY FUNERAL HOME: 851 Monmouth Street, (at Brown Street) Gloucester City. Catholic funeral service will begin at 12 noon in the funeral home. Cremation will be private. There will be no evening visitation.

In lieu of flowers, donations in Joan’s memory to Love of Linda Cancer Fund, P.O. Box 1053, Wildwood, NJ 08260. Please write in memo: Joan Theresa Myers. Expressions of sympathy can be e-mailed to the funeral home under online obituaries of Joan Theresa Myers. Funeral Arrangements and Inquiries may be made through: McCANN-HEALEY FUNERAL HOME: 851 Monmouth Street, Gloucester City.

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Clemetines brighten the day in Gloucester City facility

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Close to 200 longshoremen in hoods and thermal jackets were working four ships at the Gloucester City marine terminal, hauling lumber from Ghana out of the belly of one vessel, clementines from Spain and grapes from Chile out of two more. A fourth ship destined for Brazil was being loaded with giant rectangles of railroad track.

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U.S. Soldiers Team Up With Afghan, New Zealand Forces

 By Army 1st Lt. Lory Stevens/Special to American Forces Press Service

BAGRAM AIRFIELD, Afghanistan, Dec. 19, 2008 – A unit of the 10th Mountain Division’s 1st Brigade Combat Team had a new mission in Afghanistan recently when it teamed up with Afghan and New Zealand forces to combat crimes in the eastern part of the country.

\"ClickArmy Sgt. Kevin Swackhamer of the Task Force Warrior security force examines the ankle of an injured Afghan man during a mission in Afghanistan’s Bamyan province, Dec. 10, 2008. U.S. Army photo
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After an increase in robberies and other insurgent activities in parts of Bamyan province, a team from Task Force Warrior security force joined forces with the New Zealand Provincial Reconstruction Team and Afghan National Police to conduct combat patrols and searches in several areas of the province. 

The security force normally provides transportation for key personnel throughout the area of operations. But for the last couple of weeks, they conducted offensive operations in conjunction with other elements of the brigade as well as the PRT and ANP, Army Lt. Col. Stephen Jeselink, the task force’s deputy commander, said. 

\”There had been a couple recent robberies along the Shibar Pass, which runs along the boundary of Bamyan and Parwan provinces,\” said Army 1st Lt. Brian Capra, officer in charge of the force, who implemented vehicle checkpoints and static observation posts throughout Shibar Valley.
The force also conducted patrols along the Gandak Highway, which runs along the territory where Hungarians conduct operations in Baghlan province. 

\”The operation targeted insurgents known to traffic weapons and explosives used to conduct attacks,\” said Jeselink, who reported the operation as successful and without incident.
Coalition forces established more of a presence to dissuade criminal activity and deny the enemy freedom of movement, officials said. In addition, they established relationships with local villagers. 

\”Afghan people were very generous,\” Capra said, noting that village elders allowed troops to stay overnight in village schoolhouses as they traveled throughout the territory.
The force also distributed radios and handed out other humanitarian aid as they conducted patrols.
(Army 1st Lt. Lory Stevens serves in the Task Force Warrior public affairs office.)

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An interpreter for Task Force Warrior speaks with two villagers from Afghanistan’s Bamyan province Dec. 10, 2008, during operations to secure roadways and search for roadside-bomb facilitators. U.S. Army photo

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