Media Release April 17

Ewing, NJ – The Lions of the seventh-ranked Lions of The College of New Jersey hosted Rowan University on Thursday at George Ackerman Park in a key New Jersey Athletic Conference contest. Rowan needed 10 innings but came away with the 9-5 win over the Lions to improve to 23-8 overall and 8-4 in the NJAC. TCNJ drops to 23-9 overall and 9-3 in the conference.

The game saw four lead changes and two ties before Rowan tacked on four runs in the top of the tenth to triumph, marking a split for the two teams on the season.

In the top of the sixth, junior John MCMullin (Woodbury, NJ/Gloucester Catholic) gave Rowan a 4-3 lead after collecting a three-run home run to left center field, his fourth of the year. The lead marked the Profs’ second lead of the game after opening with a 1-0 lead after the top of the second inning.

TCNJ would tie the action at 5-5 in the bottom of the sixth inning with a pair of unearned runs as senior Matt Barrett (Pennington, NJ/Hopewell Valley) was hit by a pitch to reach and would score before pinch runner Elliot Stein (Middletown, DE/Middletown) scored on a throwing error by the short stop.

In the tenth, senior Joe Franceschini (Toms River, NJ/Toms River East) reached after being hit by TCNJ’s junior Eric Gertie (Cinnaminson, NJ/Cinnaminson) and moved to second on a ground out. Senior Paul Urbanovich (Rutherford, NJ/St. Peter’s Prep) doubled to left center field driving in Franceschini. McMullin would reach on a strikeout passed ball and a wild pitch moved Urbanovich over. A Lion error allowed another Prof baserunner before junior Garrett Mull (Chatsworth, NJ/Lenape) would triple to drive in two runs and put Rowan up for good.

Rowan’s senior starting pitcher Ryan Kulik (Marlton, NJ/Cherokee) worked six innings and gave five runs, all unearned and struck out six, while walking three in the no decision. Rookie Todd Burdette (Succasunna, NJ/Roxbury) worked three innings in earning his first collegiate victory and stands at 1-0 after three scoreless innings with no hits and three strikeouts. Junior reliever Kevin O’Hara (Clayton, NJ/Gloucester Catholic) earned his fifth save after an inning of work with a hit and a strikeout.

TCNJ’s senior Nick Amabile (Holmdel, NJ/Holmdel) worked 5.2 innings for the Lions before senior Brad Kittle (Millville, NJ/Millville) entered the contest and worked 2.2 innings with just two hits and a pair of walks and strikeouts before junior Eric Gertie came in the contest and suffered the loss (3-2) after 1.2 innings of work allowing four runs of which only one was earned with a pair of hits and three strikeouts for the game.

At the plate, TCNJ’s senior catcher Rich Gawlak (Plainsboro, NJ/West Windsor-Plainsboro-South) was 1-5 but drove in a pair of runs for the Lions while senior Bill Kropp (Pottstown, PA/Owen J. Roberts) and sophomore Chris Esperon (Union, NJ/Union Catholic) were each 2-5.

Rowan’s McMullin finished the day with a 205 effort with two runs scored and three RBIs, while Mull added a 2-3 effort with a pair of runs driven in.

Mark your calendar for June 10 and TCNJ\’s 17th Annual Lions\’ Club Golf Outing

TCNJ\’s athletic department will hold their 17th Annual Lions\’ Club Golf Outing on Tuesday, June 10 at nearby Mercer Oaks East Course. To learn more…

A reader submitted these photos along with her remarks about a recent visit to Fort Nassau Park, on Johnson Blvd., across from Martins Lake.

\”The other day I took my children to Fort Nassau Park and was astonished to find such deplorable conditions. Besides trash all over and no trash cans, crossing the tracks there was a drain with rusty colored water (didn\’t look very healthy).

More disturbing was the graffiti all over the equipment.

Inside the tube was spray painted Die N$%%er and a swastika along with many curse words just not a nice experience. When the new council members were elected two years ago they promised to keep after the City Highway Department to maintain this site.

They also promised to increase police patrols in the area to stop the vandalism. I am sure they are trying but if anything the Park looks no different than it did before they were elected.\”

 

Commentary By Hank F. Miller Jr. 

 

Some people collect rocks. Others stamps . 

Still others beer cans.My own collection, however, is a you see, I collect bloopers-more specifically, language bloopers. 

Not those of flick chicks flubbing their lines, nor those of the print media gumming up spellings. Nor even those of Japanese English learners bungling their \”L\’s\” and \”R\’s\”to announce they at\”clam school, insread of\”cram school\”and so on. 

 

Nope. My collection is much more personal then those mentioned. For I Package together the boo-boos we foreigners make in Japanese. 

As shch, I am intimately involved.I am both collector and collectee, observer and observed, cameraman and model, hunter and not -so-elusive quarry. 

 

Let me shamelessly say my collection,-\”Japanese made funny\”- has really become interesting and even some of my friends here are starting to collect and trade their findings when we get together occasionally and it certainly is a real panic !  

 

The girl in the countryside who entered an outdoor\”onesn= hot spring spa\”,only to find a fat cow in the water with her. This, understandably , vexed her to no end. So she shooed it out and then clubbed it to death with a wooden stool. 

Or so she explained to a Japanese friend,not knowing she had goofed the key word.  

For rather than \”ushi,\”which means \”cow,\” she had meant to say \” mushi,\”which means \”Bug.\” \”Wow,\” her friend thought.\”This is one tough women,I gotta watch her.\” 

Then there is the story of a girl who could not get her closet door to close. With guests due at any minute, she phoned her landlord to see if he might run up stairs to help her wiggle the darned thing shut.Except she mistook the word for closet, \”oshi-ire,\” with the word \”oshiri.\” 

That\’s right. She told her landlord that she couldn\’t get her butt closed. And that she needed his help because she didn\’t want her guests to peek inside. 

 

Women aren\’t the only ones who trip up badely in the Japanese language. Take the case of a guy who showed up at his boss\’s house one night with some papers to be signed. 

He rang the bell and momentarily the door was opened by a petite young girl in a T-shirt and tight jeans, his boss\’s teenage daughter. 

The man eyed her up and down and then asked, \”Sumimasen. Ochichi wa?\”He had assumed he was using the polite form for \”father\”and that his question was thus,\”Excuse me.Where is your honorable dad?\”But\”\”ochichi\” means something very different. And what the trimfigured girl heard was:\”Excuse me. Where are your breasts?\” 

 

Next we have the tale of a good friend who drove off in search of a well-known temple. 

When he got lost, he asked a women along the road if she could tell him the way.When the women replied that she had no idea, my friend shot back that she must know because the temple was very famous and quite popular with tourists.Yet the women stuck to her words and there was no such place nearby. However, she did have a \”regular\” temple at her house at which my friend was very welcome. He sped away,thinking the women to be somewhat odd nut.  

Only later did he realize that instead of the word for temple,\”otera,\” he had mistakenly said \”otearai.\”Which means toilet.  

Another friend, on a holiday at the seashore, shouted frantically to prevent a group of school girls from entering the waves. 

\”Don\’t go in, girls ! The water\’s full of jellyfish!\” Only he mixed the words\”kurage\” and \”karaage.\” Which resulted in the girls hearing: Don\’t go in, girls! The water\’s full of fried chicken!\” 

 

The same good-hearted friend also tried to protect a pair of female hikers in the mountains near here.\”Don\’t go down that path, girls ! I saw a huge snake there. \”He stretched his arms wide. \”It was this long ! Maybe longer!\”Except in place of \”hebi,\” which means \”snake,\” he instead used \”ebi\”which means \”shrimp.\”The girls avoided the path. They also avoided my friend,probably thinking he\’s some kind on nut case. 

 

Of course, more than just a few of the bloopers in \”Japanese Made Funny\”are pearls from my very own lips.  

Isn\’t that amazing just when you thought that you have excelled in the Japanese language. Wow ! What next.  

 

Of these,the one that is usually told first in our Miller family folklore, is the day that my wife caughed up a small amount of blood-\”chi\” in Japanese. I immediately phoned a doctor friend and explained what happened. 

The doctor kept calm,but my wife and children did not.They began to hoot like loons. 

For I had told the doctor my wife had vomited \”hi\”… which means \”fire.\”  

The doctor began to laugh, and I then realized I had made another a boo-boo. 

But my wife survived.And so did my pride just barely. 

 

Warm Regards from Kitakyushu City, Japan 

 

Hank F. Miller Jr. 

YOUNG, ALAN
Suddenly on April 14, 2008, age 37, of Sicklerville formerly of Oaklyn passed away.

Alan was a jokester and he loved surfing and snowboarding. He was a member of I.B.E.W. Local 351 in Folsom. He was a 1989 graduate of Collingswood High School. He always had a smile on his face and he was an outstanding husband, father, son and brother.

He is survived by his wife Karen Young (nee Mortimer) who grew up in Gloucester City and is the Pre-School teacher at Alice Costello School in Brooklawn. The couple just had a baby two weeks ago.

Also survived by his sons, Trevor and Jayden; his parents, Albert and Blanche; his sister, Tracy (Conrad); his grandmothers, Blanche Abrams and Gertrude Young; his mother-in-law, Blanche Mortimer; his brother-in-laws, Kevin (Mary) and Kenny (Colleen); his grandmother-in-law, Blanche Borger and numerous nieces and nephews.

Relatives and friends are invited to his viewing Thursday from 7:00 -9:00 PM at the HEALEY FUNERAL HOME, 9 White Horse Pike, Haddon Heights. His Funeral Mass will be held Friday morning 10:00 AM at St. Aloysius Church, 37 W. Haddon Ave., Oaklyn.

Interment New St. Mary\’s Cemetery, Bellmawr. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to: The Family of Alan Young c/o Healey Funeral Home, 9 White Horse Pike, Haddon Heights, NJ 08035.

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Gloucester City Budget Proposed tax levy: $2,976,018 Proposed tax rate: 97 cents per $100 YES 228 No 152 Candidates (Select 1) 1-year unexpired term EDWARD HUBBS 258 James Everett 86 Kathleen McHugh, Robert Bennett Sr. and Jacqueline Borger were unopposed for three three-year terms. John Schmidt write-in-candidate, one year received 46 votes

Mount Ephraim Budget Proposed tax levy: $4,504,149 Proposed tax rate: n/a Yes 167 NO 255 Candidates (Select 3) ROCCO VESPE 259 Nicholas Salamone Jr. 212 DELORES WARD 276 JAMES PACETTI 275

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He explained the adjustment is necessary because some communities\’ property values have appreciated faster than others over the course of a year.

The fact that property values overall are rising in their towns didn\’t make a county tax increase any easier to bear for residents Elaine Hansell, of Pennsauken, and Gordon Thomas, of Gloucester City.

Hansell, 74, would see her county taxes increase by $58 in 2008. That\’s money she could otherwise use on her prescription medication, she said.

\”I\’m frustrated because in Gloucester City people are building new homes and I thought more homes in the city was supposed to mean lower taxes,\” Thomas said.

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The 4th Annual Browning Ross Bob Kupcha 5k 1 mile walk and kids run was held in March at Haddon Lake Park, Mount Ephraim. To see the photos click here

Ewing, NJ–Due to a facilities situation, The College of New Jersey\’s home women\’s lacrosse game scheduled for Tuesday, April 15 with Elizabethtown College has been canceled and will not be rescheduled.