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There can be no better feeling in public service than saving a life, or in this case, bringing a new life into the world. On November 10, Camden County Dispatcher Peter Krygiel of Bellmawr received what will most likely remain the most memorable 911 call of his career – an anxious father-to-be who was calling for help for his fiancée, who was about to give birth at any moment, and there was no way they could wait for an ambulance.

Despite having only six months experience on the job as a dispatcher, 22-year-old Krygiel calmly and professionally helped the young couple deliver their baby daughter in what turned out to be an action-packed, 11-minute phone call.

\”Every day of every year, the 911 call center receives about 1,200 calls, and each call can be

A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 40% of Adults favor a 10% pay cut for all state employees to help reduce state spending. Forty-one percent (41%), however, oppose an across-the-board pay cut like this. Nineteen percent (19%) are not sure. (To see survey question wording, click here.)

Perhaps not surprisingly, while 60% of entrepreneurs and a plurality (45%) of private company workers favor a 10% pay cut for public employees, 75% of those employed by the government do not.

Many states are also looking for ways to reduce large pension benefits promised to public employees as another way to help reduce their deficits. Only 26% of Americans are willing to pay higher taxes to ensure that all pension benefits promised to public employees are paid. Forty-three percent (43%) would rather reduce the benefits. Thirty percent (30%) are undecided.

The findings come as support for public employee unions nationwide has fallen nearly 10 points since May of last year and is down even among those with family ties to unions.

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– timesherald.com

That grand vision was painted by Charles Gallub, the principal of Develcom of
Bellmawr, N.J., for the Norristown council and the general public three years ago when the proposal included five, 50-foot-high soundstages on the third level of the former Sears building and production space, set-making shops and a film school for college and high school students for the first and second levels of the former department store. In December 2007, proposed financing included subsidizing the renovations with $8,085,737 from a Tax Increment Financing (TIF) proposal. Emerson Resources was going to move into the renovated building.

In February 2009, the plan had changed again. The proposed 160,000-square-foot movie production studio had been scaled back to two, 24,800-square-foot studio buildings — a 72-percent reduction in space.

A proposed four-story, 100- to 150-room hotel was eliminated from the construction plans. A supermarket space was added to the plans along with 15,000 square feet of new retail space for the former Logan Square Shopping Center. A Checkers fast-food restaurant was proposed for the Markley Street side of the 24.5-acre parcel.

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