By Communications Division
SOUTH WILLIAMSPORT, Pa.
August 17, 2009

South Shore National Little League from Staten Island, N.Y., took the lead on its first at-bat of the game, with a lead-off home run from Angelo Navetta, and the combination of Vincent Quinn and James Morisano made it stand up in a 4-0 victory over Somerset Hills Little League from Bernardsville, N.J. in the Mid-Atlantic Region Championship game Monday night at Breen Field in Bristol, Conn.

Quinn and Morisano scattered six hits and Somerset Hills Little League stranded eight base runners, while South Shore National Little League collected eight hits of off pitchers Danny McDonnell, Alex Baratta and Eddie Pavlini.

By Communications Division
SOUTH WILIAMSPORT, Pa.
August 16, 2009

Park View Little League from Chula Vista, Calif., collected only six hits, but four of those hits were towering home runs, in its 11-4 win over Loomis-Eureka Lakeside Little League from Granite Bay, Calif., on Sunday night, in the West Region Championship at Al Houghton Stadium in San Bernardino, Calif.

Despite the impressive big flies, Park View Little League broke the game open in the fifth inning by turning four walks into five runs for an 8-3 lead. Bradley Roberto drove in two runs with the only hit in the inning, a double off of the right-field fence.

Kiko Garcia, who hit his 11th and 12th homers of the West Region Tournament, and Luke Ramirez, extended the lead with consecutive blasts in the sixth inning off of losing pitcher Connor Briare.

Park View Little League’s Andy Rios opened the game with a solo home run and Garcia hit his first homer of the night to give the Southern California representative a 3-0 after one inning.

Photo & Caption By Bill Bates

Mount Ephraim NEWS Correspondent

OVERTURNED TRACTOR TRAILER – Shortly after 1 pm on Monday, August 17, 2009 firefighters from Bellmawr and Mount Ephraim were summonsed to respond to 296 South at mile marker 26.8, the Aljo Curve for a tractor trailer that was over tuned. Crews arrived to find a tractor with a 35\’ long trailer had over tuned under the bridge that ruptured the sattle tank. Firefighters secured the fuel tank as EMS checked out the driver for minor injuries. The road is expected to be closed for a few hours as the tractor trailer that was hauling plastic pallets is up-righted. No other injuries were reported. NJ State Police are investigating the cause of the crash.

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Obama Care is projected to cost between $1 trillion and $1.5 trillion during the first ten years of operation. That works out to an average annual cost of $100 billion to $150 billion, or somewhere between $274 million and $411 million a day.

Personally I am against the federal government getting involved in my health care. The reason, simply put, Big Brother has a terrible track record and can’t be trusted to manage it. As it stands now there will be 53 departments needed to oversee this bureaucracy.

 This bill it seems has been proposed because 35 to 50 million people do not have health insurance. That number of uninsured fluctuates depending upon who is giving the speech.

Friday at the Belgrade, Montana town hall meeting, Randy Rathie, who identified himself as proud member of the National Rifle Association said to President Obama \”You can\’t tell us how you\’re going to pay for this. The only way you\’re going to get that money is raise our taxes.\”

\”You are absolutely right,\” Obama said. \”I can\’t cover another 46 million people for free. I can\’t do that. We\’re going to have to find money from somewhere.\”

The Treasury Department said last week the federal deficit has topped $1 trillion for the first time ever and could grow to nearly $2 trillion by this fall, intensifying fears about higher interest rates, inflation and the strength of the dollar.

The deficit has been widened by the huge sum the government has spent to ease the recession, combined with a sharp decline in tax revenues. And the cost of wars in Iraq and Afghanistan continues to spiral.

In the meantime, the U.S. debt now stands at $11.5 trillion. Interest payments on the debt cost $452 billion last year — the largest federal spending category after Medicare-Medicaid, Social Security and defense.

And yet here we are discussing how to spend another trillion plus dollars on health insurance and our leaders don’t know where the money is coming from to pay for it.

What a financial mess we are leaving our grandchildren and great grandchildren all thanks to the federal government.  

We cannot allow the Washington Bureaucrats to continue spending our hard earn tax dollars like there is no tomorrow.  I for one say enough already.

The silent majority must keep up the pressure. We can make a difference.

Bellmawr NJ 10:40 pm August 16, 2009

Edgewood Ave and Leaf Ave

photos and caption by Steve Skipton