The Touch New Jersey Thrift Shop/Food Kitchen has opened in Mount Ephraim at 7 North Black Horse Pike. Readers are encouraged to help the poor with food and clothes in these difficult economic times.

Currently, there is a need for canned, boxed or other prepared foods to be distributed to the homeless and needy among us. Also, there is a great need for clean blankets, jackets and sleeping bags.

To help out, or for more information, call 559-0116 or go to www.touchnewjersey.org.

The Yellow Ribbon Club and Summerville at Voorhees Assisted Living are combining efforts to collect homemade cookies to ship to the troops in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Our cookie drives for the troops for the holiday season were a huge success. We received many thank you letters from the troops for the cookies and they really appreciate the homemade goodies and greeting cards. Therefore, we are doing another cookie drive this year.

On Saturday, November 14, 2009, we will be accepting homemade cookies and holiday greeting cards to send to our troops in Iraq and Afghanistan.

The drop off place will be:

Summerville at Voorhees

1301 Laurel Oak Road, Voorhees, New Jersey 08043

The time of the event is 11am-5pm.

The Yellow Ribbon Club will be there to accept your donations and you will receive a yellow ribbon in exchange. This is also an opportunity for dropping off items to be shipped in care packages to our troops. Please see the list of items by clicking here.

Click here for more details.

The Yellow Ribbon Club
http://www.yellowribbonclub.org
[email protected]

STONE HARBOR NJ-Recently several \”fearless\” sport fishermen from the Gloucester City area took a trip on the \”SS Minnow\” aka The Gracie with Captain Bob Bevan. The men had a great time and a successful trip catching several large stripers.

Pictured from left to right, Mike Smollack, Gloucester City Mayor Bill James and Dave Stallwood, of DJ Auto Electronics, Gloucester City.

see last year\’s photo album 

 

On November 11, 2009. Age 50. Of Atco. Formerly of Mount Laurel. Loving Son of Emma Wynne (nee Cannon) and the late Charles Henry Wynne, Sr. Cherished brother of Kenny Wynne, Emlin Wynne and Cheryl Renae Wynne. Beloved Uncle of Anthony Wynne, Darren Wynne and Tyrell Lamar Wynne. Craig loved baseball, basketball, swimming, weightlifting and dancing.

Relatives and friends are kindly invited to attend his Prayers of Committal officiated by Pastor Ronald W. Tucker on Tuesday, 10 am at Land of Canaan Cemetery, 678 South Fairview Road, Elk Township.

Expressions of sympathy can be e-mailed to www.mccannhealey.com under online obituaries of Craig T. Wynne. Funeral Arrangements and Inquiries may be made through: McCANN-HEALEY FUNERAL HOME: 851 Monmouth Street (at Brown Street) Gloucester City. Ph: 856-456-1142

Courtesy: MAAC Sports
Release: 11/05/2009

The MAAC will celebrate its 30th Anniversary during the 2010-11 academic year.

Edison, NJ – Phoenix Design Works is proud to announce the launch of the new MAAC 30th Anniversary branding program. The new official anniversary branding program for the conference consists of multiple logo marks in modular executions and conference specific color palettes for all digital, broadcast and print media applications. The MAAC will celebrate its 30th Anniversary during the 2010-11 academic year. 

By Paula Carlton

NEWS Correspondent

(Editor’s note: This is part three in a series about the Diocese of Camden’s plan to reduce the number of parishes from 124 to 68.)

The Catholic Church worldwide is going through changes, and dioceses are feeling the pinch of paying for sexual abuse findings against priests.

The Wilmington Diocese recently filed bankruptcy as cases concerning the abuse were ready to be heard.

This, combined with major population shifts of Catholics out of the inner city over the past 30 years, has forced Church officials to close schools and parishes. The Archdiocese of Philadelphia recently announced plans to close both Cardinal Dougherty and Northeast Catholic high schools.

Some Catholics are very upset, and are taking steps to keep their churches open. One such group is Save Saint Mary’s Malaga (SSMM).

Locally, St. Mary School in Gloucester City was able to stay open, after opposing a diocesan plan to merge it with St. Theresa School, Runnemede, and Our Lady of the Sacred Heart School, Barrington, into a renovated Annunciation School in Bellmawr – which lies vacant on Browning Road.

The diocese decided to keep St. Mary School, the oldest one in the diocese, open. Dawn Burkhardt has spearheaded major fund-raising projects, including the annual Fund Drive, to keep St. Mary School open and vibrant.

dca Division of fire Safety Releases \”Fire in new jersey 2008\” publication

TRENTON, N.J. – The New Jersey Department of Community Affairs’ (DCA) Division of Fire Safety today issued \”Fire in New Jersey 2008,\” an annual publication that provides fire and emergency incident data for 2008. The report can be accessed at http://www.state.nj.us/dca/dfs/fire_in_nj08.pdf on the DCA website.

\”This publication is full of information that fire officials and households around the state can use to help make their communities and properties safer,\” said DCA Acting Commissioner Charles A. Richman. \”We commend the participating fire departments that gathered and submitted data about fire incidents. The report would not be possible without their help and hard work.\”

Citing the publication, State Fire Marshal and Division of Fire Safety Director Lawrence Petrillo reported that two firefighters died in the line of duty and 83 civilians lost their lives as a result of fire in 2008. Nearly 500 civilians and almost double that number of firefighters sustained injuries. More than 77 percent of the 83 civilian fatalities occurred in residential occupancies.

\”In 2008, there were more than 10,000 fires reported in one or two-family dwellings. Some of the most common causes of fire include ignition of clothing dryers, water heater units, power cords, and fireplaces, chimneys and furnaces,\” said Director Petrillo. \”By far, however, household dryers and cooking were the most frequent causes of residential fires.\”