EVERHART
Frances Rose

On March 19, 2008. Age 58. (nee Law) Of Brooklawn. Beloved daughter of the late Francis Law and Theresa (nee Buch) Law. Loving wife of Joseph H. Everhart. Loving mother of Kevin Everhart of Brooklawn and Jeffrey (Candy) Everhart of Glassboro. Dear sister of Jeanne Marie Law, Stephen Law, Timothy (Dawn) Law, and the late Daniel Law, and aunt of Isabella Law. Frances was a faithful and devoted parishioner of Saint Maurice R.C. Church in Brooklawn. She was a longtime member of the Brooklawn Board of Health. Relatives and friends are kindly invited to attend her viewing on Monday morning from 8 to 9:15 am at the McCANN-HEALEY FUNERAL HOME: 851 Monmouth St. (at Brown St.), Gloucester City, NJ 08030. Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated 10 am at Saint Maurice R.C. Church : 401 Community Rd. , Brooklawn. Interment New Saint Mary’s Cemetery, Bellmawr. The family requests memorial donations in Frances ’ memory to the American Diabetes Association: P.O. Box 11454, Alexandria , VA 22312. Please write Frances Rose Everhart in the memo of the check. Expressions of sympathy can be e-mailed to the family through the funeral home website www.mccannhealey.com under online obituaries of Frances Rose Everhart.

By Gerry J. Gilmore American Forces Press Service FORT RILEY, Kan., March 18, 2008 – In simulated villages on the honey-hued Midwest prairie here, U.S. troops are learning to serve as military advisors to Iraqi and Afghan forces. Afghan National Army Sgt. Maj. Mostafa Rahmani stands guard at the doorway of a dwelling being searched by U.S. and Afghan soldiers during advisor training at Fort Riley, Kan., March 17. Defense Dept. photo by Gerry J. Gilmore (Click photo for screen-resolution image);high-resolution image available. Since 2006, soldiers of the U.S. Army 1st Infantry Division\’s 1st Brigade Combat Team, based here, have trained 5,767 soldiers, 840 sailors and 1,172 airmen to take up duty with transition training teams in Afghanistan and Iraq, said Army Col. Jeffrey Ingram, the combat team\’s commander. In addition to the U.S. trainers, about 30 Afghan National Army soldiers and Afghan contract employees are at Fort Riley assisting in the training. The Afghan troops have been a regular part of advisor-training cycles, Ingram said. There are no Iraqi troops, yet, among the training cadre. Bringing Afghan soldiers to Fort Riley to teach U.S. advisors makes sense, Ingram noted. \”There\’s no better way\” to learn about the culture of a country, than to meet with and talk to someone from that country, Ingram pointed out. Each transition training team is composed of between 10 to 15 U.S. servicemembers who are embedded with Iraqi or Afghan security forces, Ingram explained. The U.S. advisors use their mentoring and coaching skills to improve the performance and capabilities of their Afghan and Iraqi counterparts. The advisor training program is paying big dividends, said Ingram, who has managed the program for the past 18 months. \”I know it is saving lives,\” Ingram emphasized. The training program teaches a variety of skills and techniques, ranging from how to interact with Afghan and Iraqi tribal, military and municipal officials to detecting and avoiding the deadly improvised explosive devices employed by both Taliban and al Qaeda insurgents. \”It\’s better for them to have experience in the field prior to their deployment to Afghanistan,\” said Afghan contract employee Omaid Azarakhsh, who works as an interpreter and Afghan language and cultural teacher for the U.S. advisor students. Afghan Army Sgt. Safiullah Salek said he enjoys working with his U.S. counterparts at Fort Riley. And, with the continued help of the United States and its NATO allies, Salek predicted that Afghanistan \”will be a stable country\” in the not-too-distant future. \”We\’re sharing Afghan culture and customs, so that before they go to Afghanistan they get the proper training so that they can do effective work,\” Salek explained through an interpreter. Afghan soldiers play themselves and Afghan contract employees and U.S. soldiers take the roles of insurgents or villagers. Scenarios play out in simulated Afghan or Iraqi villages constructed of plywood or metal shipping containers scattered across Fort Riley\’s 100,000 acres. One key training point is the operation of checkpoints. \”The checkpoints are used widely throughout Afghanistan,\” said Army Capt. Gary McDonald, a member of the 1st Brigade\’s transition-team training cadre, who in January returned stateside after a tour-of-duty in Kabul, Afghanistan. The Afghan National Police usually run the checkpoints, he noted, but the Afghans have no standard operating procedure. As a result, the police checkpoints are \”different all across Afghanistan,\” McDonald said. \”That is one thing we\’re trying to effect; to standardize the checkpoints to make them more efficient.\” An important component of advisor training \”is to interact with the Afghans,\” McDonald pointed out. \”That\’s a big thing that they\’ve improved here.\” Sgt. 1st Class Micah S. Lyness, a National Guardsman from Buffalo, N.Y., stood watch in a faux Afghan village during yesterday\’s cordon-and-search training exercise. \”My role now is pulling security. I was on a gun truck out on the entrance way, then, they called us forward, because they felt they needed more security inside\” the village, Lyness explained. \”I think we\’re getting good training here. The cultural training and the language training is going to help us when we get over to Afghanistan to help the ANA secure their country,\” he added. Getting Iraqi and Afghan security forces onto their feet is mission one, said Army Lt. Col. David T. Seigel, part of the combat team\’s training cadre. \”Training advisors is about getting their armies ready to go, so that they can confidently protect their people and their governments,\” Seigel pointed out. \”The transition team training mission that is conducted here produces professional, well-trained teams of advisors,\” Army Maj. Gen. Robert E. Durbin, 1st Infantry Division and Fort Riley commanding general, said yesterday at a redeployment ceremony for 37 advisors returning from duty in Afghanistan and Iraq. \”I\’m very proud of the quality of training that is conducted here,\” Durbin said.

An Afghan National Army soldier searches a \”suspect\” during U.S. advisor team training on Fort Riley, Kan., March 17. Defense Dept. photo by Gerry J. Gilmore Download screen-resolution Download high-resolution Afghan contractor Omaid Azarakhsh stands underneath Afghanistan\’s national flag during a U.S. advisor training exercise at Fort Riley, Kan., March 17. Defense Dept. photo by Gerry J. Gilmore Download screen-resolution Download high-resolution Afghan National Army Sgt. Safiullah Salek poses for a photo during a break in training on Fort Riley, Kan., March 17. Defense Dept. photo by Gerry J. Gilmore Download screen-resolution Download high-resolution

Ewing, NJ… The College of New Jersey women’s basketball head coach Dawn Henderson has been selected as the 2008 Atlantic Region Coach of the Year by D3hoops.com.

Henderson was also named the 2008 Russell Athletic/WBCA Region 3 Coach of the Year after guiding the Lions to a 22-7 season. TCNJ won the New Jersey Athletic Conference South Division with an 11-2 conference mark and advanced to the conference championship game. The team then earned an at-large bid to the NCAA Division III Championship and moved into the second round of the tournament.

The veteran coach was previously recognized as the 2008 NJAC Coach of the Year and boasts a career record of 334-164.

Mr. Joseph \”Frank\” Corson, of Deptford passed away on March 18 at the age of 77. A resident of Mt. Ephraim for 47 years he was very active in the community during that time.

Frank was the originator of the Mt. Ephraim Girls Softball Association and served as president of that group for 14 years. He served as president of MEPRI for over 10 years and was Captain of the Mt. Ephraim Ambulance Squad for over 20 years.

After 30 years with Abbotts Dairies, Frank started a second career as an EMT with Camden County Board of Social Services.

\”He and I were good friends\” , said Camden City EMT Steve Skipton. \”Frank was the type of guy that would give you the shirt off his back and still ask what else do you need.\”

Beloved husband of Mary M. (nee Ventura). Devoted father of Debra Day (Larry), Patricia Hollen (Jim), Barbara Fedorak (Wayne), Denise Creato (Jeff) and Kirk Corson (Anna). Loving grandfather of Drew, Ryan, Greg, Jim (Jess), Doug, Kelly, Jeffrey, Jessica, Sara and Emily.

Relatives and friends are invited to attend the viewing from 6 to 9pm Friday eve and 9 to 10am Saturday morning at Gardner Funeral Home, Runnemede. Funeral Service 10 is Saturday at the funeral home.

Interment Bethel Memorial Park, Pennsauken. Expressions of sympathy may be e-mailed to Condolences@Gardner FuneralHome.com.

Related: Mt. Ephraim News

By Staff Sgt. Luis P. Valdespino Jr., USMC Special to American Forces Press Service HELMAND PROVINCE, Afghanistan, March 17, 2008 – Special operations Marines deployed to Afghanistan\’s Helmand province operate at a fast pace.   A special operations Marine examines a poppy plant handed to him by an Afghan National Army soldier (right) in Afghanistan\’s Helmand province during a patrol through a village in which they were looking for Taliban fighters. U.S. Marine Corps photo by Staff Sgt. Luis P. Valdespino Jr. (Click photo for screen-resolution image);high-resolution image available. Accompanied by a small group of Afghan National Army soldiers, the Marines are constantly on the go: visiting villages, distributing humanitarian aid and always searching for insurgents. Their breaks between operations vary from 12 hours to three days. Part of the 2-year-old Marine Corps Forces Special Operations Command, they thrive on missions that have them patrolling for enemy forces. \”We don\’t like being on the (forward operating base),\” one MSOC Marine said. In the northern part of the province, an MSOC leatherneck said, his Marines were attacked four times throughout a four-day mission. He described how they overcame enemy machine-gun positions, mortar attacks and rocket-propelled grenades. \”Needless to say, we silenced their weapons,\” another MSOC Marine said. On their next mission, a three-day assignment in the province\’s north-central region to visit villages, the Marines slept on the desert ground – in sleeping bags, but not on cots. On foot patrol through the first village with no schedule constraints, they took no shortcuts. In full combat gear, they searched all compounds, streets and paths in the village. When it was secure, they set up distribution sites for the humanitarian aid they brought with them. On the second day, the unit came under attack within five minutes of arriving at a small village. Immediately, the MSOC Marines positioned themselves throughout the village and began engaging the enemy insurgents. Halfway into what turned out to be a nearly four-hour battle, a Marine who seemed to never rest said with a grin, \”We\’re not done yet.\” He seemed unfazed that earlier a rocket-propelled grenade missed him by less than two feet. Despite several other close calls, the Marines relentlessly pursued the insurgents until they secured the village, and the Taliban fighters were either killed or fled. Before they were done, the MSOC hospital corpsmen cared for and treated villagers injured by insurgents. Afterward, Marine leaders met with village elders and committed to return with much-needed aid and support, as long as the Marines had the villagers\’ support. (Marine Staff Sgt. Luis P. Valdespino Jr. serves with Combined Security Transition Command Afghanistan Public Affairs. He recently spent 16 days embedded with a Marine special operations company deployed to Afghanistan\’s Helmand province from the 1st Special Operations Battalion, Camp Pendleton, Calif. The names and specific locations of special operations personnel are not used in this article for their security and for the security of their mission.)

Related Sites: Combined Security Transition Command Afghanistan U.S. Marine Corps Forces Special Operations Command

Marines with a Marine Special Operations Company take aim on Taliban fighters in a Helmand province village. Afghan National Army soldiers and the MSOC Marines were visiting the southern Afghanistan village when they were attacked by Taliban fighters. U.S. Marine Corps photo by Staff Sgt. Luis P. Valdespino Jr. Download screen-resolution Download high-resolution An Afghan boy receives a school bag from Afghan National Army soldiers and a Marine Special Operations Company\’s team member. U.S. Marine Corps photo by Staff Sgt. Luis P. Valdespino Jr. Download screen-resolution Download high-resolution Marines with a Marine Special Operations Company and an Afghan National Army soldier position themselves to fight Taliban fighters who attacked them a few minutes earlier. ANA soldiers and MSOC Marines were visiting the southern Afghanistan village when they were attacked by Taliban fighters. U.S. Marine Corps photo by Staff Sgt. Luis P. Valdespino Jr

Posted: 17 Mar 2008 07:11 PM CDT

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The gobbler was 75 yards away and moving our way fast through the spring woods. He was fixated on Henrietta, my hen decoy, and seemed committed to a quick romantic dalliance with her.

The longbeard was almost within shooting range when the hunter in front of me asked, rather loudly: \”Is it time to shoot?\”

The gobbler heard the human voice, hit the skids, hung an immediate hop to the left, ducked behind a tree, and quickly disappeared from sight. He was as lost as last year\’s Easter egg from that time on. I was never able to locate that bird again.

Granted, turkey season is still over a month away, but savvy sportsmen are planning strategies now. Knowing the benefits of solitary hunting can be an important factor in hunting success.

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The DRPA presented five different alternatives for PATCO grade or light rail passenger trains coming through Gloucester City at last week\’s Gloucester City Business Association meeting. Why was the public not given this opportunity? I am aware of only three proposed routes. If they are considering five different alternatives thru Gloucester City as a citizen I should also be given this information.

 

I support the concept of mass transit, But that does not mean every transit project is a winner, you just need to look at the last light rail fiasco. We should question the DRPA and the State of NJ when they plan on spending billions of our money.

The DRPA does not have the best record when it comes to spending. The DRPA bypassed voters the last time around, that should be unconstitutional. The state built the last rail line and ignored other pressing transportation needs in NJ. Have you heard about the bridges? The deck of the Walt Whitman has a life span of 50 years. We\’re at 50 years, 3 months. The Ben Franklin Bridge looks like its crumbling with rust. PATCO runs 1970 era train cars, all in much need of repair. If the DRPA had spent our money wisely the last time around, maybe we would have the money for these much needed projects. Remember what happened in Minnesota on a bridge during rush hour traffic? If you don\’t, the bridge collapsed—only in America.

I am still wondering if we will ever stop subsidizing the last Light Rail line. Did you know that the DRPA is asking for $5 tolls to cross the bridges. What about the $17 million that was spent on the non-existent aerial tram over the Delaware River, what happened to that project/money? How about the $3 million submarine simulator at the Adventure Aquarium in Camden what happened to that project/money? That never came up for air. I hope the DRPA and it\’s officials will be held more accountable with our money. I would like to meet with John Matheussen from the DRPA doesn\’t he work for me?

Joanne Howey, Gloucester City

DEWITT ELIZABETH A. \’LIZ\’
(nee Hughes), age 61 of Audubon, passed away suddenly on Friday March 14, 2008 at Underwood Memorial Hospital, Woodbury.
Mrs. DeWitt was born in Tuscaloosa, AL and had been a lifelong resident of Audubon. She had attended the University of Arizona and leaves to cherish her memory; her mother Miriam McClelland of Marlton, her son Dan DeWitt, sister Pat Hughes-Mace and niece Michelle Mace all of Audubon.
Relatives and friends are invited to Remember and Pay Tribute to Liz on Thursday morning between 9:00 and 11:00 am at the HENRY FUNERAL HOME, 152 W. Atlantic Ave., Audubon, NJ, where funeral services will follow at 11:00 am with Rev. Dr. Walter Jesuncosky celebrating. Interment will be held privately. As an expression of sympathy and in lieu of flowers donations can be made to the American Cancer Society 1851 Old Cuthbert Rd. Cherry Hill, NJ 08034. (www.henryfuneral
home.com)

 

Commentary by Hank F. Miller Jr. 

 

\”Not too long ago I returned to my hometown on a long overdue visit to Gloucester City, N. J.\” While on one of my many walks I went to my old neighborhood area convenience store to get a sweet roll and a cup of coffee. Standing at a rack of newspapers and magazines, I noticed a weekend addition of a local New Jersey daily with a front-page headline that caught my eye: \”TOWN MAKES ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS FEEL UNWELCOME.\”

 

Variations on this theme have been reported all across the country for years: as numbers of illegals has crept up, more towns have cracked down. There are today anywhere from 12 million to 20 million illegal\’s in our country really at this point in time no one really knows just how many are here. This Particular Town was mulling over a get-tough ordinance that would deny businesses a range of permits and contracts penalize them for five years if they hired illegal\’s, and would fine landlords who rented to \”undocumented \”aliens or who failed to maintain proper documentation on the aliens. 

 

Nationally, this has been going on where the towns heard from immigration activists and ACLU lawyers along with civil rights lawyers sniffing around for \”racial profiling.\” Or perhaps they have missed the word illegal completely in the headline. We are a nation of laws, and these aliens are here illegally. My question is: Why do we need to care how they feel about being here? How about a page-one piece above the fold on how illegal aliens make taxpaying citizens feel. Yes, and just think of all the immigrants who waited and came through the front door the way they are supposed to waiting many years to migrate legally to our beautiful shores to become American citizens the through the proper channels. 

 

From what I saw and read while there, from downtown to small towns to suburbia America, unchecked illegal immigration is wreaking havoc on all kinds of communities including Gloucester City my home town. The crisis has spun out of control completely in many places and it\’s getting worse every day. Small wonder such influxes invariably lead to overcrowded classrooms, spikes in crime (including drug use and gangs) and generally overburdened health-care and hospital services, and generally also compromised quality of life. It seems that political issues prove to be elusive, as immigration has become a hot button wedge issue, during campaigning for the presidency. 

 

One faction demands a guest worker program but doesn\’t dare call it amnesty. Another says close the borders, another build higher fence, and make illegal immigration a felony. Some top democrats have sided with Bush\’s guest worker program plan. Some Republicans however want troops and a high-tech fence along the border, which isn\’t a bad idea but still nothing gets done. On many occasions here in Japan on TV, CNN, The Situation Room,\” illegal immigrants carrying Mexican flags, demanding their rights and complaining the United States may actually want to have some control over who comes here. Can you imagine that? 

 

\”Just who do they think they are anyway to have any right to do anything at all as illegal immigrants? But unfortunately they do have rights even illegal immigrants have rights you know. I heard an ACLU lawyer state so we are a nation of laws and proud to have them laws that govern us. 

 

While spending the holidays in my home town, Gloucester City. I had the opportunity of talking with many people regarding the illegal immigration problem, as well as other problems taking place there regarding illegals. I was surprised to see so many foreign looking people living and working in Gloucester City, I would think that these people have been checked out as well and were documented there illegally. 

 

I asked many people back there just how it has affected their lives with illegal aliens being seen and working in Gloucester City, my home town and thus written above was most of the responses I received there was a lot more but I won\’t write about that if you know what I am talking about. I have heard this from talking with my brother as well many family members and very good friends and other long time Gloucester city residents and the residents of surrounding areas.  

 

Warm Regards from Sunny Kitakyushu City, Japan 

 

Hank F. Miller Jr.