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Hard Rock Hotel Casino 2019-20 Entertainment Schedule

2019 – 2020 ENTERTAINMENT LINEUP

12/16 & 12/17 – Craig Gass & Joe Fernandez – Howie Mandel’s Comedy Club

12/27 & 12/28 – Jim Breuer – Sound Waves

12/28 – Earth Wind & Fire – Hard Rock Live @ Etess Arena

12/29 & 12/30 – Human Nature – Sound Waves

12/31 – Kool & The Gang  / K.C. & The Sunshine Band New Year’s Eve Party – Hard Rock Live @ Etess Arena

1/6 – 1/9 – Chris Franjola & Richie Holliday – Howie Mandel’s Comedy Club

1/11 – Top Rank Boxing:  Hart Vs Smith – Hard Rock Live @ Etess Arena

1/13 – 1/14 & 1/16 – Tom Cotter & Kerri Louise – Howie Mandel’s Comedy Club

1/18 – Sounds of Philadelphia featuring Russell Thompkins Jr. and The New Stylistics, Harold Melvin’s Blue Notes and The Manhattans – Sound Waves

1/20 – 1/23 – Keifer Thompson & Dale Jones – Howie Mandel’s Comedy Club

1/25 – Marc Anthony

Opus Tour

– Hard Rock Live @ Etess Arena

1/29 & 1/30 – JF Harris & Greg Warren – Howie Mandel’s Comedy Club

2/3 – 2/6 – Lynne Koplitz & Jeff Shaw – Howie Mandel’s Comedy Club

2/7 – Sugar Ray – Sound Waves

2/8 – Demetri Martin “Wandering Mind Tour” – Sound Waves

2/10 – 2/13- Jessica Kirson – Howie Mandel’s Comedy Club

2/15 – Fitz & The Tantrums – Sound Waves

2/22 – Eros Ramazzotti – Hard Rock Live @ Etess Arena

2/22 – Bob Saget – Sound Waves

2/24 – 2/27 – Greg Morton & Ben Moore – Howie Mandel’s Comedy Club

3/14 – Adam Sandler – Hard Rock Live @ Etess Arena

3/14 – Jay Mohr – Sound Waves

4/17 – Ana Gabriel – Hard Rock Live @ Etess Arena

5/1 – Zucchero – Sound Waves

6/6 –

Bad Company –

Hard Rock Live @ Etess Arena

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What is a Smart City?

PHILADELPHIA PA–In 2017, the City launched the SmartCityPHL initiative to help improve service delivery for its broad community of residents, businesses, and visitors. While developing a roadmap to guide this initiative, we engaged community members and organizations in workshops designed to build a shared foundation for how technology can make Philadelphia a better place to live.

At its most basic level, the

SmartCityPHL Roadmap

defines a smart city as one that uses data and technology to improve the quality of life for those who live, work, and visit our diverse city.

To further shape the development of smart city projects and technology, we identified four guiding principles unique to Philadelphia’s approach:

Locally-inspired:

We will pursue projects that accurately reflect the needs of Philadelphia’s communities and use the unique assets, culture, and existing resources present in the city.

Innovative:

We will grow our capacity for research, discovery, piloting and evaluation to develop creative solutions to municipal challenges.

Equitable:

We will strive to engage and invest in our diverse communities so that all Philadelphians can benefit from and contribute ideas to smart city activities.

Collaborative:

We will collaborate on project development and implementation with stakeholders and partners from government, private sector, startup, civic technology, academia, and local neighborhoods.

These goals represent primary considerations when forming and evaluating SmartCityPHL projects.

Pitch & Pilot

, a new program designed to identify and test innovative approaches to municipal challenges, is a prime example of putting these principles into practice. The SmartCityPHL guidelines drive Pitch & Pilot’s process of choosing challenges, soliciting and evaluating proposals, and assessing the success of a pilot project. Our goals for this exciting initiative are to engage Philadelphia’s diverse community and work together to discover solutions to the city’s challenges.

Learn more about how Pitch &Pilot supports the overall goals of SmartCityPHL.

Avalon Receives $177,000 NJDOT Grant for Reconstruction of Portion of 69th Street

AVALON, NJ–The Borough of Avalon is receiving a $177,000 grant from the New Jersey Department of Transportation.  The grant will be used for the Borough’s reconstruction of a portion of 69

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Street between Dune Drive and Ocean Drive.  The project is expected to begin in 2020.

“We are very appreciative of the Department taking a close look at this project and providing funding to help defray costs for municipal taxpayers”, said Avalon Mayor Martin Pagliughi.  “Avalon has been fortunate to submit competitive grant applications in prior years.  These grants allow the Borough to repair and replace necessary infrastructure”.

Since 1997, the Borough of Avalon has secured approximately $2.9 million from the New Jersey Department of Transportation for various street projects.  Last year, the Borough received a $150,000 grant from the program for the reconstruction of a portion of 68

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Street.

In 2019, the Department received 661 applications that requested more than $368 million for projects.  Funding comes from the Transportation Trust Fund which is supported by the State gasoline tax.  $161.25 million was allocated to projects throughout the State of New Jersey for the NJDOT’s Fiscal Year 2020 Municipal Aid Program.  The application for the grant was made by Avalon municipal engineer Thomas Thornton of Mott MacDonald and previously authorized by the Avalon Borough Council.

Ginger Radzieta Wins 2020 Avalon Beach Tag Art Contest

(Avalon, NJ)–Fifth grade Avalon Elementary School student Ginger Radzieta, pictured with Avalon Business Administrator Scott Wahl is the winner of the

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Annual Beach Tag Art contest sponsored by the Avalon Elementary School and the Borough of Avalon.  Ginger was presented with the very first beach tag of the 2020 beach season with her artwork, along with a plaque from Mayor Martin Pagliughi congratulating her on the award.

2020 Avalon Beach Tag

Each year, students at the Avalon Elementary School are asked to design the art work for the following summer’s seasonal beach tag.  Dozens of entries are submitted to Mayor Martin Pagliughi who chooses the winning design.

The presentation was made to Ginger at the Avalon Elementary School on Friday, December 13

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to kick off the annual holiday program at the school.

Photo:  Avalon Business Administrator Scott Wahl with Ginger Radzieta.  Photo by Avalon Recreation Director Chuck McDonnell.

Coast Guard responds to diesel discharge caused by boat fires in Great Egg Harbor

Seaview Harbor Marina

EGG HARBOR TOWNSHIP, N.J. — The Coast Guard is responding to a discharge of diesel from two submerged vessels at Seaview Harbor Marina in Great Egg Harbor, Monday morning.

Watch standers at Coast Guard Sector Delaware Bay received the report of the vessel fires from local police dispatch at approximately 1:50 a.m.

The estimated maximum potential for the discharge is an estimated 2,000 gallons of diesel. There have been no reports of impacts to wildlife at this time.

“Our pollution investigators are on-scene and overseeing commercial cleanup operations,” said Chief Petty Officer Christopher Brady, command duty officer at Coast Guard Sector Delaware Bay. “Our goal is to ensure safe operations and to help mitigate environmental impacts resulting from the discharge.”

A salvage plan is currently being drafted by the responsible party for approval by the U.S. Coast Guard. The cause of the incident is currently under investigation.

Employment Opportunities for Camden County Residents

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The Center for Family Services will be holding a recruitment event on Tuesday,

December 17th

at the Camden County One-Stop Career Center.  Please call (856) 549-0568 to schedule an appointment and reserve your time slot.

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Senior Helpers will be holding a recruitment event on Friday,

December 20th

at the Camden County One-Stop Career Center.  Please call (856) 549-0568 and schedule an appointment to reserve your time slot.

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The Camden County One-Stop Career Center is located at 101 Woodcrest Road, Suite 127, Cherry Hill, NJ. One-Stop hours are

Monday through Friday, 8:30 AM to 11:30 AM and 1 PM to 3:30 PM

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(Video) Coast Guard Rescues Dog Swimming off Florida Coast

FORT MYERS BEACH, FLORIDA–A Coast Guard crew rescued a dog found swimming in the ocean off the southwest coast of Florida.

source United States Coast Guard

Help Prevent Thefts From Your Vehicle This Holiday Season!

Gloucester Township Police Community Bulletin:

Car thieves, like home burglars, look for easy targets. Car owners obligingly leave doors

unlocked, windows

open, or their keys in the vehicle.

Criminals usually DO NOT want to be seen, heard, or take an excessive amount of time to break in.

Help Prevent Thefts From Your Vehicle This Holiday Season!

□ Lock your vehicle

□ Lock your windows

□Place items of value OUT OF SIGHT

□ Take your keys with you

□ Remove your garage remote

□ Set your alarm

□ Park and lock your vehicles in garages when possible. □Remove personal information such as driver

license, registration etc, from unattended vehicles.

#GTPD

#LockItOrLoseIt

Address/Location

Gloucester Township Police Department

1261 Chews Landing Rd

Gloucester Township, NJ 08021

Contact

Emergency: 9-1-1

Non-emergencies: 856-228-4500

Glassboro Public Schools Donate $1,200 to Patients of Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center

Glassboro, NJ –

Students and staff of Glassboro High School (GHS) and Glassboro Intermediate School (GIS) recently made a special donation to Jefferson Health’s Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center – Washington Township. The Glassboro Public School District collectively raised and donated $1,200, following a collaborative fundraising effort between the schools, which included a dress-down day, along with special help from the GHS Field Hockey Team and the GIS Girls Learning Our Worth (GLOW) club’s pink-ribbon sale.

Shown in front of Glassboro faculty and high school students, with the check at GHS are, from left:

Michele Gaguski, MSN, RN, Cancer Services Administrator; Michele Keating; LaVonyia Mitchell, GIS Principal; Brittinee Garcia, GIS Counselor and GLOW Advisor; Tamara A. LaCouture, MD, Radiation Oncology Medical Director; and Jennifer Baiada, Special Events Coordinator, Jefferson Health Foundation – New Jersey.

Funds raised — presented to the Jefferson Health Foundation – New Jersey — will go toward the Cancer Center’s Hope & Healing Patient Assistance Fund, which helps oncology patients struggling to pay bills or in need of transportation during treatment. The donation marked the Glassboro Public School District’s fourth donation to the Cancer Center since 2016, totaling more than $3,000. This year’s donation doubled their donation from last December; the donations are in honor of GHS Math Teacher & STEM Academy Chair Michele Keating, a cancer survivor who, in 2015, received treatment at the Cancer Center.

Maple Shade PD Seeking Officers through the Intergovernmental Transfer Program.

(Maple Shade NJ)(Dec. 13, 2019)–The Maple Shade Police Department announces our recent acceptance and participation in the New Jersey Civil Service Commission Intergovernmental Transfer Program (ITP).  In order to be considered, an officer MUST be a member in good standing of a Civil Service police department who participates in the ITP with a valid certification from the Police Training Commission as a full-time Municipal Police Officer.

If you are looking to join a progressive agency that offers superior training, opportunity, job growth and a supportive work environment, and who has been recognized by the Attorney General’s Office for their ground breaking work in the area of Officer Mental Health and Wellness (Resiliency), then we invite you to apply for a position at the Maple Shade Police Department.  Job specifications call for a High School Diploma or equivalent GED, and you must be a resident of New Jersey with a valid New Jersey Driver’s License to be considered.

Interested candidates should send their resume and a cover letter to the Appropriate Authority –

Township Manager Susan Danson, 200 Stiles Avenue Maple Shade, NJ 08052

as soon as possible, but no later than

Friday, December 20, 2019

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Applicants will undergo an interview process with our command staff.  Those who are moved beyond that point will then be subjected to a thorough background investigation to include an Early Warning System and Internal Affairs File check in accordance with the Attorney General Guidelines.  Selected candidates who successfully pass the background process will be moved into the next phase of hiring, which will include a physical and psychological examination.  Those who pass that phase will be offered positions based upon their ranking amongst the command staff during the above process.  The starting salary is negotiable within a defined range based upon an officer’s level of experience as notated in the Collective Bargaining Agreement.  The officers who work in Maple Shade are represented by PBA Local #267.

Any eligible officers with questions or inquiries should contact Lt. Jeffrey Hoch at

jhoch@mapleshadepd.com

, or at 856-382-1205, Monday through Friday, 8am to 4pm.