CNBNEWS MEMORIES: Thank You and Welcome Home Lt. Col. Al Bancroft

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ON Sunday, April 11, 2010, friends of Lt. Colonel Al Bancroft honored him at the American Legion Post 372, Cherry Hill. The following is the press release announcing that celebration.

Please come out to Honor Lt. Col. Al Bancroft. The Yellow Ribbon Club, Warrior Watch Riders, American Legion and all other military support groups are getting together to say THANK YOU and WELCOME HOME to Al Bancroft. As most of you know, Al has served over 50 years for the United States Marine Corps. He served THREE tours in Vietnam. He is a true Maverick. He started off enlisted and worked his way up to Lt. Col.

Lt. Col. Bancroft supports all of us and our work. Regardless of how he may have been treated during the time he served; he comes out to welcome home our current troops. He has told us from time to time that this work has helped him heal.

We would like to honor him for his longevity of service in our Welcome Home style. He will be surprised by a convoy of bikes and police who will unexpectedly pull up on his street and make noise. He will then be escorted Rock Star style to the Cherry Hill American Legion for light snacks and small tokens or appreciation from various groups. Now is the time to show our appreciation for one of our older veterans who truly has Patriotism flowing through his blood. If your group would like to present him, please call Leslie at the above number. Hope to see you there.

Gloucester City: North Wind Schooner Arrives at Freedom Pier

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By John P. Schmidt/ NEWS Correspondent

GLOUCESTER CITY NJ (July 5, 2007)–As Gloucester City Mayor William P. James played the bagpipes on the Delaware River, the Schooner North Wind sailed into port Saturday evening, July 5.

It docked at the old Coast Guard Pier, which has been renamed Freedom Pier, under the direction of Captain Charles Reed.

Reed has more than 40 years of maritime experience and is volunteering his time to help the City.

\”It\’s a beginning,\” Councilman Jay Brophy said. \”The King Street Theater went down, the Coast Guard Base closed down, and all this property closed down. Now, it\’s alive. It\’s absolutely a benefit to everybody, it\’s unbelievable.\”

The Schooner was followed up the river by the Flagship IV, which also docks at Freedom Pier.

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CNB ARCHIVES 2011: The Largest Solar Panel in N. America Being Built in Gloucester City

CNB Archives posted Wednesday, June 11, 2011

By William E. Cleary Sr.

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(CNBNEWS.NET) GLOUCESTER CITY NEW JERSEY–Construction work has begun at the Gloucester Marine Terminal on the largest rooftop solar power plant (photo above) in North American. Leo Holt, (photo) president of Gloucester Terminals, located at King and Essex Streets in Gloucester City, announced the plans\"\" on Tuesday, June 21 at a press conference held on the rooftop of Building 42, a refrigerated warehouse. 

 The massive, 1.1 million-square-foot project, known as Riverside Renewable Energy, LLC, is a privately-funded $42 million venture that calls for the installation of 27,528 high-efficiency SunPower photovoltaic solar panels that will generate nine megawatts of electricity– or roughly enough to power 1,500 homes – at the Terminal, which is owned by the Holt family.

 

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Nemours Foundation Donates 46 Acres for Alapocas Run State Park

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(Photo provided) —Governor Markell receives the deed from Nemours’ Dr. Roy Proujansky for land donated to Alapocas Run State Park. 

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Weekly Philly Events December 1 through December 6

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Obituary | Jennifer M. Tomasello of Mt. Ephraim

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CNB Business Scene: Behind the scenes at South Jersey\’s best-known diner

 

Nick Fifis is in a quiet back room at Ponzio\’s Diner in Cherry Hill, dutifully assembling takeout orders one by one. This would not be odd except that Fifis owns the darn place. \”The chains are getting better,\’\’ John Fifis, his brother and co-owner, will say later. \”I welcome that. It keeps us on our toes.\’\’…

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SHOUT MERRY CHRISTMAS!

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 T\’was two months before Christmas

When all through our land,

 Not a Christian was praying

 Nor taking a stand.

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Gowanus Canal: Cesspool of Dreams

 

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Near the banks of the Gowns Canal, an exceedingly polluted waterway that wends through brownstone Brooklyn for two miles, you can buy a deer fetus for $230 at the Morbid Anatomy Museum. The bruised little corpse was not fished from the canal, though the bodies of mafiosi used to routinely end up in these murky waters.…

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New Jersey Observes World AIDS Day 2015

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