Photo and caption ~Bill Cleary

CAMDEN, N.J., Aug 28, 2008 (BUSINESS WIRE) — The notion of \’tackling\’ is nothing new to a football mom, but the moms of 35 NFL players are giving tackling a whole new meaning this football season. The Professional Football Player\’s Mothers Association (PFPMA) is teaming up with the Campbell\’s Chunky/NFL Tackling Hunger(R) program and Feeding America, (formerly known as America\’s Second Harvest) the nation\’s largest domestic hunger-relief organization, to tackle a big issue — the nation\’s hunger. According to the United States Department of Agriculture, hunger affects more than 38 million Americans. To help fight this national problem, 35 moms from the PFPMA are taking part in the \”NFL Moms Tackling Hunger with Chunky Soup\” program, a friendly competition among moms of NFL players, where they\’ll strive to raise as many food donations as possible for their local communities. Beginning in September, which is also Hunger Action Month, each mom will

Gloucester City PD and Brooklawn PD Plan Roadside Sobriety Checkpoint

Media Release-

The Gloucester City Police Department in conjunction with the Brooklawn
Police Department will be conducting a roadside sobriety checkpoint on
Friday night September 5th.

The E-Mail They Didn’t Want You to See

On Thursday, August 28, a mediation session between City News Publisher Albert Countryman, City News Publisher Emeritus Bill Cleary, City Solicitor John Kearney and a representative of the state’s Government Records Council was held to discuss the controversial E-mail that was sent in June by City Administrator Paul Kain to Councilman Nick Marchese, Finance Chairman.

The City News had filed an OPRA request in June for a copy of the Email so it could be made public. OPRA provides that \”… government records shall be readily accessible for inspection, copying, or examination …. With certain exceptions …\” N.J.S.A. 47:1A-1.

However, Pau Kain, the City’s custodian of records refused to release the E-mail. \”The information requested in your OPRA dated June 27, 2008, refers to confidential, inter-agency, intra-agency advisory, consultative, and or deliberative material and is therefore exempted from the Open Public Records Act.\”

Countryman and Cleary had received a copy of the correspondence in question via snail mail in June from an anonymous source.

Mr. Countryman and I decided to file an OPRA request to see whether or not Mr. Kain would release the information willingly. When he denied the request we decided to take the next step and ask for mediation.

After our meeting yesterday we have decided that it does not meet the criteria to be excluded from public view. It will be released in its entirety next week.

Related: OPRA articles from CNB

HEARD ON THE STREET

A community in the immediate area is looking to replace a high ranking employee. A notice will be posted in October advertising the position.

~author Bill Cleary

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Tragic hit: It was an unremarkable hit during a routine football drill. Cliffside Park High School junior running back Douglas Morales took the ball during practice Friday morning and barreled toward a teammate.

The teammate lunged to tackle him. The teammate sprang to his feet after the collision. Morales did not.

Lincoln U. football back after 48 years

Abanishe attracted several transfer students, including quarterback Kareem Dennis, who played for Lincoln High in the Northeast and at Edward Waters College in Florida.

Many players are like sophomore linebacker Brandon McElwee, who figured his football days were over when he graduated from Gloucester High in South Jersey to attend Lincoln, only to discover the opportunity to resume his career.

\”I felt like I had to be a part of this,\” he said. \”I wanted to be a part of history.\”

As he moved about he briefly chatted with a few members of the growing throng of neighbors spilling out of his yard and into the next and frequently pulled his left wrist out of his shorts pocket to check the time on his gold wristwatch.

\”It has been a long day of waiting,\” he said. \”I hope I can hold it all back.\”

The moment he had been anticipating for more than a year came a short time later when he stepped out onto the street and was embraced in a giant bear hug by his son Edward III.

\”I love you Dad. I love you Dad,\” Lenard III, 38, said as the crowd of about 60 people cheered and clapped.

Sgt. Edward J. Lenard III, a pharmaceutical technician with the U.S. Army, was home from his nine-month deployment in Iraq.

A 13-year-old New Jersey football player who collapsed during practice Monday and later died had an undetected heart condition, WNBC is reporting.

The preliminary results of an autopsy on Sean Fisher revealed the heart condition, according to the report.

Fisher\’s death was the first of two youth football-related deaths this week in New Jersey.

Douglas Morales, 17, died Tuesday night at Hackensack Medical Center of a subdural hematoma, or excessive bleeding in the brain. Morales was running a drill last Friday when he was tackled, his helmet striking the defender\’s shoulder pad.

CAMDEN — Gloucester City, a stone\’s throw from the Broadway marine terminal of the South Jersey Port Corp., joined Camden residents Tuesday in opposing placement of a methadone clinic within the port.\”Just do the math,\” Gloucester City Councilman Nicholas F. Marchese Jr. told the board of directors at its meeting Tuesday.

\”We spend millions to revitalize our downtown and riverfront then you want to flood the area with drug addicts,\” Marchese said. \”This will kill Gloucester. We\’d like you and the state to look at alternate sites.\”

Related: Methadone Clinic