By Linda Boker-Angelo

NEWS Correspondent

Following the swearing in of incumbents Louisa Llewellyn, Ray Coxe and Edward Hubbs at the reorganization meeting, members of the Gloucester City Board of Education (BOE) re-elected Llewellyn to serve as Board president, while Coxe was chosen to continue as vice-president.

During the regular meeting, teacher Rachel Clancy, Chairman of the Gloucester City Education Association (GCEA)’s Sick Bank Com-mittee, thanked the Board for meeting with the committee members to quickly and painlessly come to an agreement on the sick bank guidelines.

A sick bank usually is designed to aid employees who have used all of their accrued sick, personal and vacation time due to an injury or illness of their own or due to the health issue of a family member.

Llewellyn also praised the GCEA for a smooth and pleasant negotiation.

On behalf of the volunteers of the Helping Hand Food Ministry, I would like to thank the Gloucester City Postal Workers for organizing the food drive last week. It was very successful and added greatly to our food supply.

With the start of summer it is only fitting to announce a new state of the art fishing web site. Fishcrazed.com is a local forum bringing together both fishermen (and women) with industry professionals. The site is the creation of 2 local South Jersey lifelong recreational fishermen. The website intends to provide up to date fishing reports, weather reports and other areas of interest.

WASHINGTON, May 26, 2009 – America’s troops and their families embody what’s best in the country, and the American people have a responsibility to serve them as well as the troops serve the country, President Barack Obama said this weekend during his radio address to the nation.
Obama expressed hope that the spirit of Memorial Day will extend beyond the actual holiday observance. 

He said he’s committed as president to honoring the nation’s \”sacred trust\” to those who wear or have worn the uniform – a trust he conceded it hasn’t always lived up to.
\”All too often in recent years and decades, we, as a nation, have failed to live up to that responsibility,\” he said. \”We have failed to give them the support they need or pay them the respect they deserve.\” 

By Paula Carlton

NEWS Correspondent

(Editor’s Note: This is part two in a series about the Diocese of Camden’s plan to reduce the number of parishes from 124 to 68, with 107 Church/Worship sites). Source Gloucester City News

The Camden Diocese is closing and merging par-ishes, and also trying to consolidate Catholic ele-mentary schools, as part of its plan to make \”vibrant parishes,\” account for the lack of priests, and to save money.

Spokesperson Andrew Walton said a major study showed six priorities to invigorate parish life, and that \”Many parishes lacked the (financial) resources to advance those six pastoral priorities.\”

Bishop Joseph Galante is expected to announce the final merger plans within the next month.

CNSNews.com .

Thursday, May 28, 2009, 8 P.M.

City Hall, 313 MONMOUTH STREET

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