Voorhees Town Center’s mixed-use redevelopment is a four-pronged project that consists of The Mall, The Boulevard, The Offices and The Residences. The Mall, a renovated and right-sized two-level enclosed shopping center, is anchored by Macy’s and Boscov’s and features a Food Court and approximately 90 retailers, while Main Street retail is beginning to line the beautifully landscaped Boulevard, including

WHEN EAST MEETS WEST

Commentary by Hank F. Miller Jr.

The Blast Center: At 11:02 a.m. August 9, 1945

Photo: The bombing of Nagasaki

At 490 meters in midair above Urakami Catholic Cathedral located in central Nagasaki the bomb exploded. The death toll right after the explosion was estimated to be about 70,000 perished in the Urakami Cathedral area.

The following is a story told by Mrs.Hatsuko Makisaka, who was 19 years old at the time of the bombing.

She was a student at Nagasaki Kassui Girls School. Located in Nishiyama. She was mobilized as a student worker at Mitsubishi Shipbuilding Company. She lived separately from her family at the schools dorm. Her mother and sister lived in Korea, and her father lived in Shanghai, China. She was assigned to the Superintendent’s office along with five other girls. At the Katsu-ura plant they were manufacturing torpedoes.

Even when the air-raid alarm sounded they were supposed to keep on working until the enemy planes showed up over head.

At the moment of the bombing she was at work at her desk.

She saw a tremendous flash and flames in a large circular shaped cloud that rose

Photo caption: Greg Luzinski, Raymond Rolak and Tom Paciorek celebrate the 2010 National Polish American Hall of Fame inductees at the Hockeytown Cafe.

A native of Buffalo, New York, he was celebrated for leading the Philadelphia Phillies to three straight National League East titles in the 70’s. He was National League Manager of the year in 1976. He also had a special celebrity for the way he fractured the English language. His most remembered saying was, \”Half this game is 90 % mental.\”

He started in professional baseball as a minor leaguer for the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1942. His baseball was interrupted by World War II. After recovering from shrapnel wounds received at the Battle of the Bulge, he embarked on a long career in baseball.

Kowal was both an NCAA Champion and Olympic Medal winner. She was NCAA

‘Peaches’ Bartkowicz was noted for all her International Championships including the 1964 Women’s Jr. Wimbledon title. She won three medals at the 1968 Mexico City Olympics, (demonstration sport).

Baseball funnyman and 18 year major league veteran, Tom Paciorek, kept the audience lively with stories of hasty dugout snacks, some prudent and mostly clandestine.

Paciorek recalled what a tremendous influence Tommy Lasorda had in his career and life. He then amazed everyone by listing all the major leaguers from the 1972 Albuquerque Dukes team. The list made an impression on the baseball enthusiast’s in attendance.

\”I learned how to play first base from Danny Ozark when I just came up to the Los Angeles Dodgers in 1973,\” Paciorek added.

The former University of Houston, All-America in football and baseball, exclaimed, \”I am 1,000 % Polish and proud of it,\” Paciorek started.

Paciorek told of the Chicago Connie’s Pizza chronicles. He needed no further prompting as he

(PhillyHistory)This year, local meteorologists are predicting a very snowy winter for Philadelphia. With such a forecast looming in the future, snow is probably the last thing that residents of this city want to think about. It is likely that Philadelphians did not want to think about the prospect of snow in 1914 either, especially as spring was nearing.

However, March 2 and into the early morning of March 3, 1914, the snow was practically all people were talking about. On that night, a storm blew in from the Atlantic Coast, causing great troubles in New York and Camden. It did not spare Philadelphia from the problems of frozen precipitation either.

In New York, winds of up to 72 miles per hour were reported to accompany the storm as it made its way through the region. By the end, it dropped only 7 inches of snow in the Philadelphia area, however combined with the wind and the snow remaining from a snowstorm the previous week, drifts of 6 to 10 feet in some areas occurred. These conditions shut down the city, cutting off communications with neighboring areas as well as the influx of food from nearby farms. The blizzard was particularly destructive across the river in Camden, where it was reported that:

fierce winds from the northwest whipped through the street, tearing off roofs, blowing down

By Brendan Kain

Special to the NEWS

As a Boy Scout from Gloucester City, I usually do not get on a bus at midnight. But I, and the rest of Troop 231, could not be late for the 2010 National Scout Jamboree.

photo: President Bush Addresses the 2005 National Scout Jamboree

The six-and-a-half hour bus ride to Fort A. P. Hill, Virginia, was uninterrupted except for a 90-minute breakfast stop at Denny’s.

We arrived before 8 a.m., but had to wait a while before we could unload our trailer of supplies and begin setup. We broke into patrols and began setting up tables, tents, chuck boxes and other equipment.

After that we ate lunch.

Then we began building our gateway by screwing logs together and standing them up in buckets of cement. Each scout in the troop created wood circles that were hung on it.

Also hung were wood signs saying \”Troop 231, SNJC\” (Southern New Jersey Council).

After the gateway was finished, I got on a bus and headed toward the Hometown News tent to learn how to be a Jamboree News Correspondent.

I went through training and got my press badge, and met another correspondent, who has an international guest all the way from Korea.

After that I went back to camp and had dinner. Next I went to an arena and watched the Baltimore Ravens cheerleaders.

Finally, I went to bed and wondered about all the other adventures I will have here at the 2010 National Scout Jamboree.

Oaklyn VFW 5 Manor Ave. Oaklyn, NJ 08107

Please come out to welcome home HN3 Joe Malandro from serving in Afghanistan.

Joe graduated from Haddon Twp. High School 2003. He is 25 yrs old. Joe has been in the military for 6 years.

He first joined the Navy for educational opportunities.

He did boot camp @ Great Lakes followed by Corp School @ Great Lakes.

First assignment was Bethesda Naval Hospital in MD.

Joe then deployed to Djoubouti, Africa with a Marine Sniper unit.

When he returned he decided he was not fulfilling his wartime commitment working in Labor & Delivery at Bethesda, so he then decided to go \”green side\” and went to Camp Lejuene where he went through boot camp…again.

He is now attached to the 1^st Battalion 9^th Marines (The Walking Dead) and has completed 2 tours with them. One in Iraq (where he missed the birth of his first son) and the current one on USS Ashland LSD 48.

They have spent a lot of their time training Jordon soldiers.

They also spend the first month in Haiti.