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It was the last hurrah for the Callaway political organization as The Honorable Atlantic County Superior Court Judge Albert Garofolo emphatically ended the once powerful reign of Atlantic City’s most notorious political family by sentencing Ronald Callaway a/k/a Jihad Abdullah to 9 Years in State Prison and top Callaway aide Floyd Tally to a 12 Year term following their convictions in the salacious blackmail scheme involving a prostitute and former Atlantic City Councilman Eugene Robinson. Abdullah and Tally, along with David Callaway inherited the tattered organization after former city council president Craig Callaway, the group’s leader, was sentenced to 40 months in federal prison on extortion charges in 2007. David Callaway is scheduled to be sentenced by Judge Garofolo in early January and both he and Tally still face criminal charges related to allegations of voter fraud during the June 2009 Democratic Primary Election between Lorenzo Langford and Marty Small. Craig Callaway, who was originally scheduled for release in a little more than a month, is reportedly looking at spending an additional year in prison following the sentence that Judge Garofolo gave him for his admitted role in the Robinson blackmail scheme…

The pinnacle of the Callaway’s success was the 2005 mayoral election in which Bob Levy defeated incumbent mayor Lorenzo Langford. Following this victory, the Callaway Organization essentially controlled all facets of Atlantic City government, but this reign would be short lived. Soon after Craig Callaway’s imprisonment, Bob Levy would resign in disgrace amidst a James J. Leonard Jr., Esq. federal probe of his own. This would pave the way for the city’s former business administrator Domenic Cappella to briefly appoint himself as the city’s mayor during a tumultuous political period in the fall of 2007. Cappella, a onetime ally of the Callaway Organization, recently filed a lawsuit against the city of Atlantic City claiming his political ties and cooperation A Full Service Litigation Firm with law enforcement led to retaliation in the workplace. Sources expect that Cappella’s suit, which names various city officials as defendants, will air all, if not most of the city’s very R dirty political laundry following Lorenzo Langford’s 2001 defeat of Jim Whelan, the subsequent rise and fall of the Callaway Organization and the re-emergence of Langford following the mess Criminal Law created and left by Callaway and Levy. It sounds like HBO is focusing on the wrong era to create Municipal Court / DWI a mini-series after… Philadelphia Inquirer investigative reporter George Anastasia has been seen around Traffic Matters town working the closely following the city’s political underworld. Anastasia, the star of Philly.Com’s “Mob Scene” and Fox Philadelphia’s “Mob Talk”, made his bones covering Atlantic Family Law • Divorce City in the early days of casino gambling and is even credited in the legendary Ovid DeMaris book “The Boardwalk Jungle”, which is a must read for anyone interested on learning the story Personal Injury on how modern day Atlantic City came to be. Anastasia would go on to write his own books, among them, “Blood and Honor”, “The Goodfella Tapes” and “The Last Gangster”, which is about a former Immigration Law Hammonton wise guy named Ron Previte who is supposed to be in the witness protection, but who Casino Licensing keeps popping up at convenient stores and restaurants all over South Jersey… Speaking of great reporters, a special shout-out to our dear friend Wayne Parry, South Jersey’s Associated Press correspondent, who is home recovering from heart surgery. Get well Wayne…

Congratulations to our very own Gary Hill for being named the Greater Atlantic City Chamber’s (609) 345-5800 Mainlander of the Year... And to all of our readers, we wish you a Happy Healthy New Year… www.LeonardLawGroup.com January 2010 The Boardwalk Journal | 9 Battle of the Billionaires

The bankruptcy battle for control of the embattled Trump properties has heated up, pitting a group backed by Donald Trump and his daughter Ivanka AC Confidential against a group backed by famous poker player The glitz and glamour of Atlantic City has which he commended the DJ’s spinning skills. Members of the Atlantic Andrew Beal and his Beal Bank’s newest partner, the become the perfect backdrop for stars and locals He was also mobbed by the ladies all night County Youth Orchestra, legendary Carl Icahn. What is at stake is not only to party the night away. Each month, prepare long…guess it’s in the blood! based in Northfield By Veronica Dudo yourself to learn some intimate details about met Itzhak Perlman LMFAO (5), the far east movement, Cisco the control of three Trump properties, but now the hottest happenings in the city, That’s Always backstage after his performance at Resorts Donald Trump Vs. Carl Icahn Adler and Schwayz all took the stage, 1 Turned On! Casino. Perlman spoke with students: Sarah includes a battle royal of bravado with Trump and for an impromptu performance of the Panty, Erica Mendillo, Maria Cannone, Icahn trading barbs at each other in recent published Dancing With the Stars contestant and December song “Shots” at Dusk. During the surprise Leila Hazavei, Amina Elsayed, Edward Playboy cover model Joanna Krupa (1) recently performance they poured Patron into each reports. Expect this to heat up as 2010 unfolds…. Lin and Treven Wesley, as well as Mary had a girls getaway at the Borgata Hotel Casino & others’ mouths and also poured Patron into Winkel, (8) a teacher in Egg Harbor Township. Spa. She dined at Wolfgang Puck American Grille their fans mouths. Ultimately, the groups The classical musician also autographed the before checking out Robin Williams’ sold-out took over the DJ booth and partied into the evening’s program for everyone. performance in the Event Center. The actress also early morning hours. 2 There He Is... partied at mur.mur, where DJ Eric Cubeechee Talk about a blast from the past! Eric One of the most beloved American bands of spun a special set for Krupa including her new Anzalone aka “The Biker” from the Village all-time, The Beach Boys founding member Mike single “I’ll Be Around”. People boogied the night away with friends in Love (6) and Grammy award-winning songwriter the VIP section at Boogie Nights. Anzalone also Miss’d America! Kelly Rowland (2) recently partied at mur. and member Bruce Johnston (7) made an danced and posed for pictures with the Boogie mur and performed her hit single “When Love appearance at The Palm to unveil their caricature’s. The Miss’d America Pageant, which has been absent from Nights Gang! Atlantic City for nearly five years, is making its triumphant Takes Over”. “It’s cool, I’m just a musician,” Johnston told me 3 at the event. I’m always surprised when people It was a truly a guys’ night out for Eagles return on January 31, Commemorating the release of his latest album think I’m famous it’s just always about the music, tight end Brent Celek, (9) as he, his father, Last Train to Paris, Diddy (3) hosted a launch party 2010. For the first time it’s not about us. But it’s cool to be here anyway.” grandfather and uncles watched Monday Night at mur.mur to celebrate the occasion. the pageant comes to Patrons were pleasantly surprised by the visit Football and mingled with guests at Ego Bar historic Boardwalk Hall, EAT-IN After performing in Caesar’s Circus Maximus and snapped pictures as, Love and Johnston and Lounge at the Trump Taj Mahal. Theatre, Latin singing superstar Julio Iglesias climbed a step ladder, to sign the wall, something a location fit for a queen, Mercury Morris and Jim Kiick from the Miami dined with friends at Phillips Seafood in The Pier Phyllis Lacca of Masterpiece Advertising says is and will be hosted by TV TAKE Dolphins visited the Ballys Mountain Sports 4 (I had the privilege of joining). Also, during his a win-win for everyone! “It’s for the Palm, but it’s bar to sign autographs, take pictures and meet personality and “Queer OUT stay, Iglesias ate at Mia’s where celebrity chefs also really important to the community, that the fans. After, Morris and Kiick went to the Ridge Eye For The Straight Georges Perrier and Chris Scarduzzio helped legendary Beach Boys got to be on our wall of at Ballys to hang out. The pair is from the only prepare his meal, since they were in town fame and the most important thing tonight— Guy” Carson Kressley. Open undefeated team in NFL history. introducing their new Seduction Menu. they were just so nice and so real. They took time Miss’d America was created as a spoof of the world-famous Miss 7 Days: Jessica Lowndes (4) from 90210 recently to take photographs with our customers, America Pageant 14 years ago to raise funds for a local charity. It to answer questions and that’s the 10am-2am sampled Mia’s new late night menu with some took place annually on the night after the famous beauty pageant 5 friends, before heading over to Dusk to host beauty of the Beach Boys”. when held in Atlantic City. This year, Trump Entertainment Resorts, lOcateD a party. Club sources say, she danced while Lo Bosworth enjoyed a VIP Cabana at Harrah’s Entertainment, Inc., and the Greater Atlantic City GLBT acrOss sipping champagne with boyfriend Aaron The Pool After Dark with some friends Alliance, in association with the Schultz-Hill Foundation, will Paul, star of the AMC series Breaking Bad and and her boyfriend, lacrosse player frOm recurring guest star of HBO’s Big Love shared Scott Hochstadt. She drank Grey unveil a pageant starring drag queens strutting down the world’s city hall occasional kisses throughout the night! DJ Goose and Water. 8 most famous runway. Morse Code played Jessica’s latest single “Hit Deangelo Hall, cornerback for the 6 the Dance Floor” and the crowd loved it. Pomp and circumstance returns in a glorious event as contestants WE DELIVER Washington Red Skins and Maurice compete in eveningwear and talent competitions, as well as a Leave it to Lamas star AJ Lamas, son of actor Jones-Drew, running back for the swimwear segment. Keeping with tradition, the event is being 609.344.6100 Lorenzo Lamas and grandson of actor Jacksonville Jaguars enjoyed a VIP and director Fernando Lamas appeared written and directed by Bob “Sandy Beach” Hitchen as it has since Cabana and drank shots of Ciroc as Fax: 609.344.1143 at Dusk and spent the night drinking Jack well as Hennessy Cocktails. They also its inception. credit cards accepted for orders over $10 Daniels straight from the bottle. He gave quite drank a couple bottles of Dom Perignon

7 a “colorful” shout out to DJ Jesse Marco, in Champagne at The Pool After Dark. 9

10 | The Boardwalk Journal January 2010 January 2010 The Boardwalk Journal | 11 iThe Casa Del Cielo Holiday Party 2009 j

Gary Hill, Berny Capaldi, Mr. Fred Raring and Ambassador Chris Tortu, Janet Markowitz Frank Pellosi, Greg Goff, Ken Jack and Bethanie Gorny Angie and Jeff Vasser newly married couple Bridget and and Mrs. Bill Hughes and Gary Hill and Joanne Le Fevere, Bernadette with David Goldberg David Capaldi and John Schultz Goff and Edwin Jacobs Esq.

Joan Siracusa Dominic Mazotti John Capista, Kim Deola, David and Bridget Capaldi Mr. and Mrs. Dan D’Angio with Gary Hill with Mr. and Mrs. Ben Zeltner and Gary Hill and Phyllis Lacca Annika Bruggewoth, John Schultz with Pat Capaldi Mr. and Mrs. Russ Wilcox Dr. & Mrs. Joe and Rita De Stephano, Dr. Scott Bruggeworth, and Lorraine Hill

Gary Hill, Dr. and Mrs. Scott Dr. and Mrs. Chris and Kim Lucasti Gary Hill, John Schultz, Rich Toulson and Sonya Betini Mrs. Tina Leonard with The Jeff Turner Trio Bruggeworth and John Schultz Dr. John and Anne Baker with Gary Hill Bill Mc Cullough and Jefff Krpitz and Bill McCullough 1920’s Party for 2009

Gigi Iacoviello, Mom Mary Lacca (Aka Liz), The Honorable Susan Maven, Liane and Lloyd Levenson Gina Lacca D’Alessandro, Phyllis Lacca, “Dapper John” Amodeo, Lauren (Behind Phyllis) Joy Lacca Gottih, Joanne Lacca, Miller and Francesca Santoro Maria Lacca And John Lacca

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David Spatz and Judy Lang Jeffrey Vasser and CongressmanFrank LoBiondo Maria D’Ambrosio Beth Joseph and Jim Arentz Jr. and Isabel Allen

Isabel Allen, Diane Spiers, Janessa Wentz & Gillian Melrose Phyllis Lacca and Ann Eberly Ann Eberly, Isabel Allen, Cassie Pollakis, Don Marrandino, Veronica Dudo, Cynthia Cortepassi and Mark Brown Phyllis Lacca, Mary Lacca And Gillian Melrose Lloyd D. Levenson’s – “Life at the Shore” A Decade of Discovery By Michelle Dawn Mooney

How is it that ten years have already passed since important thing I’m looking to do in this � some people thought the world would essentially new decade is just remember how much I Unresolved and Wow! cease to exist as we know it? Yes, Y2K has come… have to be thankful for, right out of the 2010 and gone…and here we are looking back at the first gate - even if that gate is a little harder to slip through than it was before � decade of the new millennium. the holidays! Unlisted Back in December, there seemed to be an explosion of radio and TV Must See TV! specials denoting the “Top Whatever” of the 00’s. Frankly, I think it While millions of us will be vowing to live a healthier lifestyle, two caught many people, including myself, by surprise, that on December fellow NBC 40 friends are facing their fat-blasting fears right in front 31, we wouldn’t be ringing in just another year, but another decade. of you, the viewing public. Starting in January, chief reporter Phaedra Well, it’s post station, or a table of 16, or a baby are traveling in that too small tee As with most people, my first instinct was to wonder what I could do Laird and meteorologist Monica Ott will be teaming up with the pros Holiday Season (why is that 5-year old in a good shirt and tattered jeans, what the to make the next decade the best ever: the workouts that I’d swear not at Island Gym to take part in a total body transformation right before and we have all restaurant at 9:00 at night? And heck is in those bags?—I’m sure it your eyes. For twelve weeks, they’ll be working with top-notch trainers to miss, the desserts I’d promise to forego, and the eight hours of sleep survived the why don’t those parents take him out isn’t their tuxedos. that I’d vow to make a mandatory part of my life. Yet even before the ball who will guide them through an intense lifestyle change when it comes overeating and when he screeches?) or a cackler, or a dropped, I knew that I was destined to fail. to fitness and food. While Phaedra and Monica will be checking in with their results on our NBC 40 newscasts each week, you can also follow overdrinking swinging door, or a lady wearing too •What is it with meteorologists? Why Don’t get me wrong. Not only do I consider myself an optimist, but I’m their progress daily and encourage them along the way through their that we had much perfume, or someone when they predict rain, it always rains, usually very determined to follow through with something once I set personal blogs on our website, www.nbc40.net. resolved last celebrating a birthday, or someone but when they forecast a sunny day my mind to it. However, there comes a time when one must be realistic that I would obviously find they are correct only half of the time? and understand that no matter how ambitious we might be, there has Better yet, why not follow along on your own to see how their newly year not to do to be some room for - well, I wouldn’t call it failure, exactly, but more learned tips can have you feeling fit as well! this year. I otherwise objectionable? like… adaptability. guess therefore we have also survived •And, when I get to my destination, another year of compiling those stupid how come my room is never ready? For this reason, before I ventured into the long list of things that could improve my life in 2010 and beyond, I decided to do a little decade in lists of resolutions that we know darn •Don’t the airlines know I am 6’5” I made a reservation a month ago! review, although less scientific and more a la Bridget Jones. I figured, well we aren’t going to keep. It’s too and I need that bulkhead seat? Did punk rockers trash it the night what better way to see where you still need to go than by looking at hard to be good, so people start turning before? (The room better not be where you’ve fallen short? Surprisingly, what I found had the reverse their list-making penchant away from too close to the elevator either.) affect. their own foibles to examining the rest Yes, there were plenty of pounds lost, gained, maintained, gained, of the world’s shortcomings and voila!– •How hard could it be to and lost again. There were the pitfalls of relationships and friendships we have the negative mirror image of synchronize traffic lights? I must (although they were far outweighed by the bright spots). And there the New Year’s Resolution List– the Pet however commend Margate and were crazy career moments that fortunately Peeve List – that compilation of Longport for making all the lights were met with support from co-workers as activities that they want everyone else on Atlantic Avenue blink in the well as the assurance that the paychecks would to stop doing. I myself don’t have any winter—Ventnor, are you listening? still be coming. Pet Peeves. I just can’t figure out why so All in all, I survived the typical front-running many people keep doing so many •The wind; God I hate the wind. issues that we all seem to dwell on, but I annoying things. They’re so obvious to Why does anyone want a yippy came away with so much more in that I’m Alexa Brunetti miss nj teen USA me, it boggles my mind that others don’t little dog? Why is my newspaper so even able to write this story with the full use far from my front door? Do people of my eyes and my hands, I’m hearing every see the waywardness of their actions. tap of the keyboard as my mind races to come have to raise their voices? up with another clever line, and I’m doing it For instance: Inevitably as I walk by that aisle in the heated room of a home that’s filled with more appliances and •How come Pennsylvania drivers my glare is met with a grin from Am I right? Aren’t people annoying? I gadgets than one really ever needs. In a decade that included intense some Teletubby tot smugly dangling guess I will stop here, lest you think I Kaitlyn Schoeffel drive (slowly) in the left lane of the economic hardship, some of the worst natural disasters of our time, miss nj national Atlantic City Expressway and never his little legs in all that extra room. am making a list, which I have resolved and not one, but two wars with enormous American casualties, just teenager 2009 look in the rear view mirror to see never to do. being transcends all of those supposed “failures” that seemed so me encroaching on their rear •And why does everyone have to significant at the time. bumpers, trying to pass? They have “carry on” everything they own in Lloyd D. Levenson is Chief Executive So while I will no doubt be running along with the rest of the masses the same traffic laws there as here. overstuffed bags that they have to Officer of the Atlantic City-based law firm Cooper when it comes to shaping up, cutting back, and saving a little more struggle to jam into the overhead Levenson and Chairman of the firm’s Casino Law - whether it’s part of my salary or my sanity - perhaps the most Department in Atlantic City and Las Vegas. •Why does every Maitre’d seat me right above me, with their bellies Mr. Levenson may be reached at (609)344-3161 or near the kitchen? Or a bussing looming at my eye level? If they by email at [email protected]. 16 | The Boardwalk Journal January 2010 2009 Christmas Party at the

An Officer & A Gentleman. Boardwalk Journal CEO & Atlantic City attorney James “Jimmy The Gent” Leonard and ACPD Officer Jimmy “Hollywood” Miltenberger reminisce about their reign of terror on the Atlantic City boardwalk in the mid 90’s with the Super Lawyers Pat D’Arcy & Chris Day late great Tommy “Big Meat” Sparks (RIP)

Democratic super-woman Jane Asselta and Atlantic City attorney Joe Levin Lori Link, Tracey Wiser, Stuart Wiser & Sam Mento

Braxton Plummer & his beautiful wife Shamia ACPD legend Joe Paparone

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Before you know it, we’ll be back in similar terrible losses. better economy, health care for all, more peace in the world . . . Siracusa-Kaufmann Wildwood at the Lighthouse Pointe on Thursdays, La Costa in “This is my campaign,” said Nynell Langford, “It’s a passion I’m sure you agree that that’s the mood for this New Year. Insurance LLC Sea Isle City for our Sunday afternoon jams, and on to our 39th in working positively for a cause that has personally affected And we toasted the coming of the New Year in grand fashion year at Memories in Margate. myself and my family. I’ve tried to reach out to help others who Steelman, Graves with our annual New Year’s Eve party at the Trump Taj Mahal’s have experienced the same devastating sort of loss.” & Waters, Inc. Tiara Ballroom, again a complete sellout and a great way to ring Of course, for all the excitement of the New Year at the shore, out the old and bring in the new. all you have to do is read the Boardwalk Journal. And the great “It’s not promotional...it’s personal,” she said. thing about this magazine is that it’s owned and operated by Ridge Insurance Agency, Inc. And one of the big events still to come is our 19th show at the Mrs. Langford wished to thank all of the supporters and sponsors folks who grew up down here at the shore and have a true sense Kimmel Center on Saturday, January 30, featuring some of the who have helped to make “A Time to Remember” such a and rhythm of what’s happening. Thibault-Sames greatest voices ever – Jay Black, Darlene Love, the Skyliners, wonderful event year after year. Insurance Agency, LLC Earl Lewis and the Channels, and Shirley Alston of the Shirelles. 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I guess the secret Business Insurance: is making people happy, and my reward is knowing, by the grace of Workers Compensation God, that I’ve accomplished this through all the years. Liability • Umbrella And our schedule for the coming year remains the same with Professional • Property some new things on the horizon. Our new CD, Fifty Years of Employment Practices Musical Memories, is finally available. For more info, call Geator Gold Radio at 215/923-0550. d Appearance-wise, as you know, on Wednesdays we do our live Home Office broadcast from Philly Park Casino and their new venue, the 332 Tilton Rd. 360 Bar. Thursdays it’s the Buck Hotel in Feasterville, Fridays Northfield, NJ 08225 the Springfield Inn on Baltimore Pike, Saturdays it’s the one- nighters that are booked to 2011. And added are appearances Berlin Branch on Sunday nights at Café Madison in Riverside and The Note 3 Harker Ave. in West Chester, plus Mondays at the new Riverwinds in West Berlin, NJ 08009 Deptford. To find out exact times, go to the Geator’s website, geatorgold.net. For information or a no And of course, radio and TV are always a part of it. Monday obligation rate quote contact: through Friday we’re on WVLT Cruisin’ 92.1 from 5 to 7 p.m., Elijah, Nynell, Isiah and Rennie Langford celebrate the life of their and then on Saturdays for WXPN 88.5 from the University of (609) 646-1000 little angel Mariah at “A Time to Remember” at the Historic Smithville Inn.

24 | The Boardwalk Journal January 2010 January 2010 The Boardwalk Journal | 25 were faced with addressing the needs of many of their own membership and their families as they were faced with long periods of unemployment. Helping Hands During Hard TimesBy Donna Clementoni During the Great Depression, my eighty three year old Catholic Charities Sister Grace Nolan insists, exercise for me,” she explains matter-of-factly. prescriptions and counseling. father-in-law’s family, newly arrived immigrants from Italy, “it’s not about me!” She credits the collective Each sunrise brings a new adventure for Sister Grace and her staff also serve the needs also looked to the local church to help supplement their community…individual donors, businesses, Sister Grace Nolan. Routine is not a word of the residents of the ‘Underwood Hotel.” pantry. As a young boy he would carry a note from his unions, civic organizations, local parishes, in her vocabulary. “Every day is different. I On Fridays, often before her early morning mother, pull his wagon to the neighborhood parish door houses of worship and the casino industry - learned a long time ago that you don’t create arrival, the homeless who live underneath to accept a donation of a 10 lb. bag of flour. that enable her and her tireless team to bring an agenda of what you have to do. You’re the boardwalk arrive for their weekly gift of It’s hard to imagine how this woman keeps going, day after the holiday spirit to so many of Atlantic lucky if you can check off two.” a clean change of clothes. They are always County’s needy. day, year after year, while witnessing so much suffering and The office she uses, when she does find a waiting for her, sprawled out on the parking despair. For her, the answer comes easily enough. She refers That said, it’s hard not to be in awe of this moment to sit still, is the same office that area, most the same faces she greets week to “the beautiful drudgery of working with the poor.” And “almost 90” year old woman who begins was the chapel for the sisters that taught after week, as she escorts them to the second of course, there is the teaching of her faith that she has been her day before sunrise (up until a few years at St. Michaels. The building that houses floor thrift center to make their selection. true to for her long and fruitful life that has taught her to help ago she would walk on the boardwalk at Atlantic County’s Think of these most “alleviate human suffering at all levels, from the womb to the 4:30am!), takes time for devotion and then Catholic Charities unfortunate members of tomb, regardless of race, color or creed.” hits the ground running. location that she our community as you Sister Grace poses with Prudential Fox & Roach realtors Lou Solomon and Joanne Ferraro “Goodness is the shop at the local mall for And then of course, there is her sense of humor. “If you don’t An army of volunteers fuel Sister Grace’s opened in 1970 have the humor, forget it,” she says. “You’ll get lost.” efforts to carry out the Catholic Charities, is the site of the the latest fashion! huge heart makes you want to go home, clean out the clutter in your Diocese of Camden’s mission to “provide former dormitory. only investment As times get harder, the closets, empty your pantry and sort through the mountain of neglected In closing, at Sister Grace’s insistence, (I was always obedient to the toys with the knowledge that the items will be fairly distributed to nuns!) the thanks, again, goes to you, the collective community, who social services to, advocate for, and empower Prior to working as a needs get greater. Despite the poor, oppressed or vulnerable.” They that never fails.” their best efforts, many those deserving. once again gave anonymously, from the heart, digging deeper when secretary for almost things were tougher. Through your continued generosity, you make the carry out their goal on a “non-discriminatory, individuals find they With unemployment figures hovering in double digits, many of the ten years at General Henry David Thoreau work of the “angels among us” possible. non-sectarian basis.” “We survive solely Motors, Sister Grace cannot meet the demands organizations that have helped out the Sponsor-A-Family program for on donation,” she explains. Without the entered the Convent of caring for their family the past 36 years have been faced with their own set of challenges. This For more information of Atlantic County’s Catholic Charities contact generosity of friends and strangers, they of the Sisters of Mercy of North Plainfield, with limited resources year, several unions, entrenched in the stalled construction industry, them at 9 N. Georgia Avenue, Atlantic City, NJ 08401 (609) 345-3448. could not maintain their operation. New Jersey in 1947. “They were teaching and rising prices. The Georgia Avenue The headquarters for all this positive activity sisters, so I studied at Georgian Court College location is an emergency center that “handles any type of family emergency.” Their trained is located at 9 N. Georgia Avenue in Atlantic to become a teacher,” she recalls. Her love of Atlantic City has changed greatly in recent years. Yet Angelo’s, located in staff and volunteers help resolve issues from City’s “Ducktown” neighborhood. In teaching and the families and children that the Ducktown section of Atlantic City, is a restaurant that has endured and the basics of food and shelter to the more addition to their usual menu of programs are a part of that noble profession made her a flourished for three generations of Mancuso’s - since 1935 - making this restaurant (which include refugee and immigration perfect candidate for her assignment to Holy difficult mental health challenges. an institution in Atlantic City. resettlement services, behavioral health Spirit outside Atlantic City in 1966 where In the center’s modest kitchen is a lineup of More than seventy years of dining excellence have made our homestyle Italian services and pregnancy counseling) the she was principal of the grade school. brown shopping bags standing like soldiers menu age like a fine Italian wine. Through the years, Angelo’s has become a holiday season adds the “Sponsor A Family” at the ready, filled with a 3 day supply of Growing up in Trenton as the sixth child in a perennial gathering place for friends and a haven for the hungry. We hope you program to it’s TO DO list. This year, close family of seven, Nolan reflects, often, on her emergency food rations for desperate find your dining experience with us a most pleasurable one. Bon Appetite! to 400 families came through their humble brother, the priest’s advice, “You do God’s individuals. In the freezer are individually halls to pick up their presents in time for work, you’ll get God’s pay. “ wrapped portions of meat ready to be The Mancuso Family the holiday festivities. The “wish lists” were dispersed. When I consider how much we assigned anonymously to the businesses and She has helped so many, in fact, that after mindlessly lay out for a dinner out at our individuals to protect the privacy and dignity receiving yet another award from the Diocese favorite restaurant it was a sobering sight. 2300 Fairmount Avenue, Atlantic City, NJ 08401 of the recipients. of Camden, they opted to make it a yearly opportunity to recognize extraordinary “The way the economy goes determines P: 609-344-2439 F: 609-348-1043 • angelosfairmounttavern.com The frantic pace could paralyze a woman half service to the community by naming it how charity goes, “explains Melissa Brown, her age with exhaustion, but Sister Grace “The Sister Grace Nolan Award for Social associate director of research at the Center pushes forward. “I’m so busy right now but Ministry.” Her legacy will live on, but for for Philanthropy at Indiana University it’s a happy busy. We’re providing for people now, she has lots of work to do!” in Indianapolis. (CNNMoney.com, who need help.” She is grateful that “God 2/13/2009)Many charitable organizations has blessed me with good health” (not to “Our main focus is on working people,” Sister are reporting a drop in their donations or mention stamina!). In addition to receiving Grace explains. “People that are not working smaller pledges being received. Fortunately new applicants for aid, counseling clients and have other resources available to them.” The Atlantic County has the charisma and working with other state agencies, she is right ‘working poor’ are often the ones who fall into tenacity of Sister Grace Nolan who has been out there with the staff and volunteers helping the gray area of charitable giving. Catholic able to “rally the troops” for her 40 year lug the bags of food and clothes that arrive Charities has a coordinated effort to assist tenure running Atlantic County’s Catholic at the N. Georgia Avenue office. “It’s good this deserving group with everything from Charities. Her infectious personality and rent, mortgages, utilities, transportation,

26 | The Boardwalk Journal January 2010 January 2010 The Boardwalk Journal | 27 to the cardboard box house. As we started and siblings on something (which in this case fur! I know they don’t make golden retriever up the steps to the porch, sitting watching was a stuffed golden retriever) it would bring coats but it’s just the point! I also tell guests By Tina Leonard from the screen door was “big mama”. She much needed comfort to our new addition this is Molly’s home and she will be joining seemed to know we would be back for her. once she was home. The day of arrival finally us for their visit. A New Day. . . We went in, sat on the floor and up on our came and what a wonderful day it was! I Never in my wildest imagination could I As 2010 arrives and the cold settles in, I start home with pictures and stories of how porch – there were puppies everywhere and laps she jumped. Matt couldn’t believe how remember laying down the rules before she ever have counted on the love and joy this the New Year with unbridled enthusiasm precious these little creatures were. I sat and they were absolutely adorable! My husband much she looked like his pal Lincoln. I arrived – no furniture, no beds, no feeding wonderful addition to our family would for “change”. My vow is always the same - to listened, shaking my head as I watched TV. was so right! Some were running, some asked Matt the usual questions parents ask from the table. Everyone agreed! We also unconditionally give! Living with a pet can get totally organized, of course thinner and My husband told me I was cheating myself were cuddling, all under the watchful eye of children when they are about to make a large settled on the name Molly which was a sweet be such a wonderful experience! It has been definitely more focused. by not going to see the large mass of yellow their mother. After an hour, I got up to leave “pet” commitment. Will you walk her? Will feminine departure from our male dominated for us! Someone said that the pet chooses Personally, January marks a leap of faith fur all huddled together with the mother and I was quite proud of myself! I had made you feed her? Yes-yes-yes was the answer to household. Along with our moms, the you - in our case that was true – and I am so I took nine years ago. At that time, we dog in this cardboard box. I assured him the right decision…I could walk away. everything! So off we went to inform the neighbors came to see Molly and bring her glad she did! When Matt went off to college, received a call from a friend saying her while it all sounded charming – I would Then something totally unexpected rest of the family that a puppy was about to toys. She bounced with joy in her new home. Molly and I comforted each other, and when golden retriever had just fathered a litter of pass. Matt quietly listened, resigned to the happened…this chubby ball of fur came become the newest “Leonard”. It was obvious our Molly was a perfect fit for he arrives home for a visit, her welcome 9 puppies. Our youngest son Matthew had fact that having a dog was something that politely up to me and licked my hand. I My husband, though shocked, was giddy us and the feeling it seemed was mutual! home dance is quite the sight to see! I say formed quite a bond with Lincoln, the father would have to wait until he was grown and asked whose home this puppy was going with joy! Our older sons who now had their All of that happened nine years ago in I got Molly for the family, but the truth is I of the litter, stopping on his way home from had his own home. to. I was told her name was “big mama” and own homes were cautious. One suddenly the month of January. As we get ready to got her for me. She touched my heart in such school each day to provide this extra large fur I really put the puppies out of my head until she had not been chosen yet. How could seemed to show the same concerns about celebrate Molly’s ninth birthday, much has a loving, pure way and there is NO ONE I ball with treats. In return, he would receive a one day when I was driving to work - just this be? She was obviously the best one of allowing a pet into our home that I had changed in our household. Yes – there is fur would rather have on my couch! big sloppy kiss. coming off a bad case of the flu. I had lots all! I asked why they called her “big mama” voiced all those years before, and the other on the carpet, a dog in our bed, dare I say Tina Leonard is a decorator and proprietor The best thing about Matt’s visits was the of time to think while I was sick in bed and and the owner said she had earned the reminded me a golden retriever would be “we” have had fleas and I find myself cooking of Dee Decor & Design. She resides with her Lincoln stories he would come home with. I wondered why I was so against the idea of title due to her girth and bossy demeanor the worst thing for his allergies. I followed special food just for her! I share the couch family and Molly in Linwood. I loved to see him pull up a chair as I was a pet. I was disappointed with myself that I with her siblings. Wow I thought – can’t my heart and stuck to the decision made at nighttime with Molly squished at one fixing dinner to share the latest tales of how had made my life so precise that the thought they spot a leader when they see one? I sat – at six weeks old a puppy would come end and me at the other. You can tell me I Lincoln had just swiped something from of a pet seemed somehow threatening. Not back down on the porch floor and with this home to us. have put on weight but if you tell me Molly the kitchen counter or ambitiously chased long after, I found myself in the vicinity puppy in my arms felt such a sense of calm We started to visit our “girl” on a regular basis. looks fat well “we” are downright insulted. I a squirrel. I was thrilled to have this quality of the house that held the cardboard box contentment. We then started to bring her gifts. Someone find myself telling people when we walk on time with our adolescent son. Truth be and all nine puppies. I stopped the car and Before I knew it an hour had passed and it was told us if we rubbed the scent of the mother the bike path she comes from beefy stock told, I was also somewhat relieved to think thought I would take a peek and move on to time to run. I went on with my day, picked – which she does! I even stopped wearing Lincoln was satisfying Matt’s “need to have my next appointment. When I entered the Matt up at school and found my way back a pet”. The previous attempts I had made to adopt a pet from the Philadelphia Zoo just did Dee not measure up to our family’s pet expectations. While our Molly Lisa Leonard boys loved the idea that we were supporting a sloth bear Decor or turtle – they reminded me on a daily basis that it was just not the same as sharing your home with a REAL animal. I Design was quite fussy and could not & bear the thought of fur and other unmentionable “things” finding their way into our house via a dog. The whole idea of training and actually caring for a pet seemed to be a daunting and unrealistic a personalized undertaking given our hectic decorating service schedules. The answer was no thank you! And then the puppies arrived! As I remember…my husband tina leonard was the first to actually go visit the puppies. He came phone 609.601.0553 [email protected] 28 | The Boardwalk Journal January 2010 The Hartman Home Team PREA 100 REAltoR EvERy yEAR SincE 2002 onE of thE toP 100 PRudEntiAl Sells It All! REAltoRS nAtionwidE!

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32 | The Boardwalk Journal January 2010 January 2010 The Boardwalk Journal | 33 Make Your Reservations for Restaurant Week 2010

Now that the holidays are over, what’s there to look Welcome to AtlAntic city forward to? Here’s a thought to warm you up through the long, cold winter: Atlantic City Restaurant Week To all our Atlantic City visitors, the members of UNITE HERE! Local 54, the hotel and restaurant employees union, extend a warm is just around the corner, and you can start planning and sincere welcome. The members of UNITE HERE! Local 54 are professionals in Atlantic City’s hospitality industry and we take your Restaurant Week schedule now. our responsibility of making you feel welcome and comfortable very seriously. We hope that your stay here will be enhanced by good service and, if you’d like to reward an employee for that good service, here are a few guidelines you may wish to consider. From Sunday, February 28 through Saturday, March 6, more than 70 restaurants throughout Atlantic County will serve up a big helping of fixed price meals for lunch Bartenders & Cocktail Waitresses: Showroom Maitre d’s & Ushers: We thank and dinner. Priced at just $15.10 for lunch and $33.10 Most casinos offer free drinks to players In a few showrooms where seating is not for dinner, you’ll be able to enjoy real value-priced meals at tables and slot machines. A tip of reserved but remains at the discretion of you for staying $1-$2 is the norm for good service. the Maitre d’, a tip of $5 to $20 helps you at some of the best restaurants on the East Coast. If you get a round of drinks (four or more), get your desired seating. You might want If you’re new to Restaurant Week, no worries. It’s a book reservations through Open Table at restaurants you might add a few extra dollars. to tip the usher a few dollars ($2-$5) with us and hope for his or her courtesy even if you have simple process. You don’t need to purchase tickets where that service is available. Bell Captain, Bellman & Doorman: pre-assigned seating. that our service or pay in advance. Just choose the restaurants where The usual tip is $1-$2 per bag. The bell To make things even easier, you can purchase and door staff are also a valuable source Restaurant & Room Service: you want you want to dine, check out the days and Restaurant Week gift certificates online at www. of information and can perform many Waiters and waitresses usually encourages a times they’ll be serving Restaurant Week meals, acrestaurantweek.com/gift_certificates.aspx, services, such as arranging for shows receive 15-20% of the bill, depending book your reservation (not necessary but strongly using a secure PayPal payment system. You can also or travel, so tipping an extra $5 is not on the service. return visit in the suggested) and enjoy. The participating restaurants unreasonable. Also, give $1 or $2 to the purchase them at the Boardwalk Information Center Valet Parking Attendants: will offer the special Restaurant Week menus along doorman who calls a cab for you. (Boardwalk and Mississippi Avenue, at Boardwalk A tip of $1-$2 each time the attendant near future. with their regular priced menus, so your selection Hall), the Expressway Information Center (mile Maids/Housekeepers: takes or brings your car is appreciated. won’t be limited. $2 a day per person is suggested, marker 3.5 on the Atlantic City Expressway), or by Buffet Severs: phone at 1-888-AC-VISIT (1-888-228-4748). usually left at the end of your visit. A few dollars per person for drink service To help you make your choices, you’ll find a complete Showroom Servers: and busing the table during the meal is list of the participating restaurants at www. And speaking of convenience, Restaurant Week also $5 to $10 for a party of two to four at a appreciated. UNITE HERE! acrestaurantweek.com, along with information about provides plenty of reasonable parking options. Many cocktail show only; $10-$20 for a dinner whether each restaurant is serving lunch or dinner, independent restaurants have their own parking, or show for the same size group depending a century of LocaL 54 and which days the Restaurant Week meals will be on service. excellence you can park in casino self-park garages and use the available at each restaurant. You can search the site casino valets for a nominal fee (fees are posted as you by cuisines such as Italian, Asian, steaks and seafood, enter). In addition, the South Jersey Transportation Latin and other categories. You can narrow your choice Authority is offering discount parking in their lot on down even more by viewing out each restaurant’s Christopher Columbus Blvd. between Atlantic and Arctic Restaurant Week menu. You can also check out the Avenues. Have the participating restaurant stamp the chefs and get some of their favorite recipes. back of your parking ticket or give you a business card You’ll want to visit the site frequently, as additional to present at the parking booth for a $4 parking rate $ restaurants, menus and other information are added (regularly $7 weekdays and $12 weekends). Please do as information becomes available. not staple anything to the parking ticket. , Feeling lucky? The same Atlantic City Restaurant Week “Our chefs are looking forward to preparing some site gives you a chance to win one of 14 different prize great special meals for you,” said Vasser, “and we’re 200000 packages. Each package includes an overnight stay looking forward to providing our guests with a quality Holiday Payoff CasH sweePstakes in an Atlantic City area hotel or casino resort during dining experience.” Restaurant Week, coupled with a great meal. There’s Some of the participating chefs will hone their skills sundays, January 10–31 also a link to book hotel accommodations. with special cooking demonstrations for members of “This is one event where you can’t go wrong,” said the Atlantic City Boys and Girls Club on Wednesdays Winners can pay off their holiday bills with Jeff Vasser, president of the Atlantic City Convention in January and February. They’ll show kids how to prepare fun and healthy foods. $ IN CASH – awarded January 10, 17, 24 & 31. & Visitors Authority (ACCVA), which produces 50,000 Restaurant Week. “The Boys and Girls Club demonstrations are an $ “This is your chance to check out some of the newest excellent tie-in with Restaurant Week,” Vasser noted. Five 1,000 cash winners selected every hour Noon-6pm and some of the finest restaurants in town at a true “We want our residents and our visitors to have an One $5,000 cash winner at 6pm value price, since all of the Restaurant Week meals enjoyable experience and to make good eating choices, are priced significantly below what they’d normally and we’re urging our Restaurant Week chefs to include Activate your card on the event dates for your chance to win. cost. And if you just haven’t been able to get to the some heart-healthy dishes in their special menus.” restaurants everyone’s been raving about, Atlantic City Visitors who are unfamiliar with Atlantic City can Restaurant Week offers a great reason to get there.” get full information about the area’s attractions, Vasser urges you to book your reservations accommodations, nightlife, shopping and much more early. “Several restaurants had record-breaking by calling 1-888-AC-VISIT (1-888-228-4748), by nights during last year’s Restaurant Week. It’s visiting www.atlanticcitynj.com, or by stopping at one worth it to make your reservation in advance.” of the visitor Information Centers mentioned above. Complete details are available at the Resorts Promotions Desk. The www.acrestaurantweek.com site offers links to Participants must be 21 or older. Bet with your head, not over it. Gambling Problem? Call 1.800.GAMBLER. January 2010 The Boardwalk Journal | 35 ...and Ahead at 2010 By Beverly Bird handful of individuals - not the date grip on the White House, among United States and its territories for the first time ever, Atlantic City wasn’t offer more than 450 casinos impervious. Unemployment skyrocketed. People cherish milestones. Fiftieth itself - changed our lives forever. other things. producing a gross gaming revenue Bankruptcies peaked. And this time, the anniversaries garner much more September eleventh will never again So where are we now? What impact of more than $34 billion annually. casinos - our lifeblood - felt it. splash than a couple’s forty-ninth, slip by unnoticed on our calendars. will time - and the individuals who And this doesn’t include those for example, and not necessarily It’s become a poignant and painful use it to propel change - have on us But Mayor Langford told us that the Summit tribal casinos mentioned above, because one more year together is anniversary anchor. locally at this milestone of a second seems to have a very good grip on the enormity because by law, they’re nations that big a deal. It’s the roundness of In 2000, as we segued into a whole decade in our new millennium? of the task it faces. “To attempt to put your and entities unto themselves. the number, right? It lends a sense of new century, the state of Vermont The Boardwalk Journal asked a arms around everything...you’ll probably get achievement, of getting somewhere. passed a bill they called HB847. It few experts in their respective Here in Atlantic City, casino nothing done,” he said. “So we’re addressing It’s an event. legalized civil unions for same sex fields to share their thoughts with dealers want to strike for more the most dire needs immediately. We’ll money and more secure benefits. prioritize a list of issues that can be reasonably Remember when 2000 rolled in couples, a notable event because our readers, because from all The UAW is still doing its best addressed, things that can be reasonably fixed. a decade ago? As if the idea of a no other state had yet done so. appearances, Atlantic City is once to rile them up. Saturday nights We’ve tried to get a manageable number of new millennium wasn’t enough Because of that one action kick again at a critical, pivotal point in on our casino floors look like things we can agree upon, things that are the to satisfy us, how many of us also starting things, the legislature of its history. Tuesday nights used to look in most pressing.” seized on all that Y2K hoopla? How the State of New Jersey is currently Ten years ago, our casino industry the eighties. And Tuesday nights many of us truly believed that at the spending as much, if not more, time was sitting rather pretty. It had He also told us that the group was very much look like California almost two stroke of midnight on December debating the rights of homosexuals already weathered some tough in agreement regarding the issues that need to centuries ago, well after the Gold 31, 1999, communication and as opposed to fixing our hideously economic times, and it survived be fixed. “Finding a consensus with regard to Rush moved on to Alaska. technology as we knew them were broken budget. The issue has set them. We were largely considered to the priority of what needs to be accomplished going to immediately shut down, up a firestorm of debate between be recession-proof, and proud of it. Does this mean that we’re at is important,” he said. “We want to work critical mass? Many of our local together, and we will work together. Our despite assurances from those in In the last thirty years, most Gaming Guru Dennis Gomes movers and shakers are at least next meeting will be held at a larger venue to the know who said it wouldn’t economists consider that our our noses. The Taj Mahal opened in 1990. wary of that thought. They’re accommodate even more people.” happen? I’ll admit it. I waited for country has endured eight separate The Borgata burst onto the scene right after concerned enough that in late November, the lights to flicker that night as Andy Warhol periods of negative economic That said, are we at critical mass? Mayor the 2001 dip in our economy. they put together a “Summit” - a meeting our electricity supply wavered. I growth, and four of those periods - Langford does not seem to think so. “I’m very might have of elected officials, casino leaders, and civic half expected the television to go 1981, 1990, 2001, and our current But now...we’ve stalled. Now, for the first time, optimistic about the future of Atlantic City. leaders, basically anybody and everybody click! and that would be the end of said it best: woes - are said to have been outright we have some serious competition. I’m also optimistic about working with the that. I hit the ATM at about 4:00 with a stake in Atlantic City and its future. recessions, meeting not only the In the early nineties, all over our country, incoming Governor Christie. Members of on that New Year’s Eve afternoon “They say that The purpose of the Summit was to identify layman’s definition of the term, but American Indian tribes also began to see the his transition team and administration will to make sure that my cash was in core areas of crises, the most pressing matters time changes some exacting economic criteria revenue potential - and the recession resistance certainly be involved in what we’re hoping to my wallet and not at the mercy currently in the lap of the city, and to decide as well. The difference is that in - of legalized gambling. And Atlantic City do here in Atlantic City.” of a fried computer terminal what could be done about those issues. things, but 1981, Atlantic City was a baby began stumbling maybe just a little bit more, somewhere in India. you actually industry, really just a kid. It was not from growth spurts this time, but maybe “Leaders within the community have But...nothing happened. The enduring spurts of healthy growth from old age. rolled up their sleeves and have gotten rollover into a new millennium was have to do it the way kids do. Growth spurts to work,” said Mayor Lorenzo Langford America is currently home to 562 federally entirely notable only in our own make children a little clumsy once of this historic event. “We’ll take the recognized Indian tribes. By 2001, more minds - we who so love milestones. yourself.” in awhile because they can’t seem to ideas and move ahead from here. I’m than two hundred of those Native American get out of the way of their own feet encouraged. One big thing we’ve already Andy Warhol might have said it nations offered Class I (games that involve and their forward momentum. But accomplished is to bring everyone best: “They say that time changes minimal wagering) and Class II (games after they work through these spells, together to work together.” things, but you actually have to do outgoing governor Jon Corzine and like poker and bingo) gambling on their they bloom. And Atlantic City did it yourself.” our newly-elected Chris Christie reservations. One short year later, by 2002, Makes sense. Any football enthusiast will tell as the clock races down toward just that. After a chaotic rush of six you that a defensive blitz frequently gets the I’ll take that one step further. tribal gambling moved into Class III games, the end of the year. Corzine wants casinos opening in two years, the job done. But if we’re going to be candid, this Sometimes other people change the heavy stuff, and enjoyed revenues of $14.5 to push the same-sex marriage Tropicana burst onto the scene in isn’t just about our casinos. The first decade us. And sometimes they cause billion, generated from 354 casinos. bill through before his daylight mid-recession in ‘81, thumbing of the new millennium has left us to carry events that change us. But Warhol Come our most recent recession, the runs out. Christie is hoping that their corporate noses at the state of forward with a variety of bruises, not all of was right. It’s not necessarily time Atlantic City industry that was still in a kid Corzine’s daylight runs out. the economy. which we could control. We endured the itself that does the deed. It’s what in 1981 has now hit full-stride maturity. There were failures, too, and highly embarrassing debacle of our mayor mankind does with that time. In 2000, Jim Whelan was still And we’re feeling the heat of competition, some of that clumsy stumbling I disappearing when Bob Levy took a powder mayor of Atlantic City, having not of all those young upstarts. Nineteen states Ten years ago, as we waited for mentioned above. We lost Playboy, in the middle of a firestorm the whole nation yet moved on to bigger and better currently offer casinos. Three of them are our Y2K to do gremlin work on our but at the same time, Trump and was watching. We made national news when things after he lost his local seat to immediate neighbors - Delaware, Maryland, computerized existences, how often Showboat threw their bucks into we produced our own serial killer. And, on Atlantic City Mayor Lorenzo Langford Lorenzo Langford....who, a decade and Pennsylvania. All told, the continental did the word “terrorist” actually a national level, the economy tanked, and later, is b-a-a-a-a-ck. In 2000, our arena. And by the time our creep into our conversations? The Christie Whitman was still our country fell into the throes of the events of 911 would not occur next recession - in 1990 - we in

Looking B a ck t 2000 governor. Bill Clinton still had his for another 21 months, but then a Atlantic City were still thumbing January 2010 The Boardwalk Journal | 37 Dennis Gomes is also optimistic. Gomes has closing and industries were collapsing. We’ve been a gaming industry leader for over 35 come a long way since then. There’s a lot of years, so he’s got a wealth of experience to draw optimism right now. We have the federal tax Life is Short...Buy the House! upon. A former law enforcement officer in Las credits, and prices have leveled off. Inventory Paula Hartman’s Famous Poem, Reprinted Vegas, he went on to serve as lead investigator has been reduced. More realtors are staying with the Nevada Gaming Control Board and in the business now. We’re getting rid of a lot There was an old woman who lived in a shoe from there to very successfully managing of the part timers.” Most notably, she said, She had so many children she didn’t know what to do! casino and entertainment properties in “Mortgage rates are lower right now than But interest rates were dropping to an all time low- both Las Vegas and here in Atlantic City. they’ve been in fifty years. That’s a biggie.” So she packed up her things and decided to go. He’s served as President of Steve Wynn’s To hear her tell it, 2010 is a brand new start for Golden Nugget, our own Taj Mahal, and he Calling a Realtor was the number one thing the real estate market, something like a phoenix was the force behind the merging of Aztar A down payment check she needed to bring. rising out of ashes. We’re rebounding. Corporation’s Tropicana properties in Las Then she called a mortgage rep for a pre-qual letter Vegas and Atlantic City, increasing Aztar’s “If you look at the market reports,” she said, To make her family’s life so much better. operating profits by over eighty percent. The “a three bedroom home in Margate sold for They ran her credit; gave her a FICO score, New York Times dubbed him “Mr. Fixit” and $215,353 in 2000, and that was 94.08% of the And she found out now, she could afford so much more! called him our “most unconventional casino asking price. This happened in about 74 days president.” As one can gather from all this, on the market.” So on Realtor.com she started her search, Dennis Gomes is known not only for his To find a property close to her church. So where are we now, in 2009 and on the verge business acumen, but for his imagination and of 2010? “A three bedroom home in Margate She found out she could live close to the beach, insight as well. Prominent local realtor Paula Hartman sold for $483,715 in 2009,” she told us. “And And that so many homes were within her reach. “In my humble opinion,” he told us, “Atlantic attributes. Why do you think that everyone that was 92.41% of the asking price.” She met the Realtor on a bright, sunny day City is one of the greatest vacation and gaming in Pennsylvania - who can afford it - has Stats don’t lie. Sure, inflation took over, but And her home search was now well under way. destinations in the United States. However, if summer homes at the Jersey shore? Because people are still paying between 92% and 94% To make up her mind was a daunting task; you listen to many of the Wall Street analysts they want to be able to get away from the of the asking price. That’s not a nosedive, Many questions to her Realtor she needed to ask. and even some gaming executives who don’t humdrum and the boredom of their daily not by any means. Homes are staying on the have a stake in New Jersey, you’d think the lives and escape to a wonderful, exciting, and But they opened the door and she knew this was it! market just marginally longer, 91 days in 2009 city is in the middle of its death throes.” beautiful environment that has something Because this home for her was the perfect fit. as opposed to the 74-day average in 2000. Gomes feels that nothing could be further for everyone. She decided to go for it and not look back, But there is one major difference. Spin from the truth. While the naysayers are “I love this city and will never leave it,” Gomes Even though so many children she needed to pack! To check on her mortgage the date it was due; the stats a little differently, and it becomes bemoaning the potential of Delaware, said. “I have undying faith in its sustainability So she would be able to leave her old shoe. apparent. “In 2000, 88 out of 89 homes sold, From out of the mattress came some cash- Maryland, and Pennsylvania to cut off our air as one of the great destination resorts in the which was 98.88% of the market,” she said. That all along she had been able to stash. Her mortgage commitment came in right on time, like boa constrictors in this next decade, he country. I urge everyone to not listen to those “This last year, only 46 out of 130 homes sold, And things were going along just fine. feels that our city is unique enough to survive who love to bash New Jersey and everything For it was time to place her bid- only 35.38% of the market.” the squeeze. “Yes, the worst economy since about it, especially Atlantic City. They’ve And that is exactly what she did. She called all her friends to tell them her luck, And then she called a moving truck. the Great Depression - as well as competition done this continuously in the past. They were So we’ve got issues, and not all of them are The seller countered back and forth they went from our primary feeder markets - has hurt wrong then and they’re wrong now! Mark my things that any one individual can do anything Until an entire day was spent. The utility companies were the very next call, us tremendously,” he said. “But we still have words; they’ll all be left crying in their beer about. Its circumstance, and it’s the time we’re The bills would now be hers, after all. Compromising on a settlement date, all of the attributes that in the past have made because they didn’t have the foresight to invest living in as we prepare to jump feet first into She was so excited and just couldn’t wait. The kids counted the days to the settlement date, this the most popular vacation destination in in this city when they had the opportunity.” our next milestone. the east. We still have our beautiful beaches, She booked her babysitter so she wouldn’t be late! But there’s still a national crisis going on out A home inspector was next on the list. our clean, pristine air, the Boardwalk, fishing, As Andy Warhol said, time doesn’t change The hour before settlement they walked through the place, there, right? There are things happening these He checked plumbing, heating & electric boating, surfing, hiking, exciting city-wide things so much as people do. Maybe I’m The sellers had left the home without even a trace. days to people’s wallets that go well beyond so that nothing was missed. events, and some of the finest, friendliest, just optimistic, but I’ll put my money on the control of Atlantic City and its movers The big day was here, and she signed and signed again- and most dedicated resort employees and the survival of Atlantic City. I believe in They even made sure to check the roof and shakers. One such area is the real estate And by now her Realtor was her best friend. executives in the world.” our survival instinct. Our legacy is one of She received all her reports and now had the proof. bubble, boom...and bust. adapting. Knock us down, and we get right Up for sale now is the old woman’s shoe, We gave Dennis Gomes the “critical mass” A termite inspector then checked for bugs But super-realtor Paula Hartman of back up. This city has done it time and time question, too. Is that where we’re currently at While she went out to buy her new rugs. That just might be the perfect fit for you! Prudential Fox and Roach was also upbeat again, and I think we’ll keep doing it. We’ll with this latest milestone of a new decade? A C.O. inspector from the city was next to get So when the time comes to buy your next home, when we asked her about the immediate change with - and respond to - the times. “We have a critical mass of great casinos And her capable Realtor made sure not to forget - Remember a red-headed Realtor is as close as your phone! future of our real estate market, about where All we have to do is work for it, and according and retail, dining and entertainment, that is it’s just been and where it’s going with this to Atlantic City Mayor Lorenzo Langford, second to none,” Gomes answered. “Nothing new decade. “The horrible part is over,” she many of us are willing to do just that. Paula Hartman is a licensed Realtor with Prudential Fox & Roach Realtors in Margate, NJ. She, along with The Hartman Home Team, else in the east will be able to compete with said vehemently. “A year or so ago, banks were has been consistently ranked in the top 100 Nationally of Prudential Agents since 2002. This year The Hartman Home Team is currently the synergy created by all these wonderful #1 in volume in the entire state of New Jersey, as well as #1 ranked Real Estate team in units. If you have questions about this article or would like to ask Paula a real estate question, please contact her at [email protected] .

38 | The Boardwalk Journal January 2010 January 2010 The Boardwalk Journal | 39 20 Questions current anemic GDP growth rate what are Commodities are the hot new financial assets and Money Talk: With  Joel Naroff Joel L. Naroff is the President and founder of Naroff the odds that our economy enters into a as such are very susceptible to speculation and Economic Advisors, a strategic economic consulting period of stagflation? large changes in prices or bubbles. They are risky Local wealth managment advisors Tracy Fiedler 4) What is the biggest risk in your view firm. He advises companies across the country and should be viewed that way. Santoro and Steve Marchel posed the following to Atlantic County’s economy in the Not likely. A slow growth period is quite possible on the risks and opportunities that economic questions to nationally recognized economic next decade? but it would take foreign companies raising their developments may have on the organization’s prices sharply to get the inflation part and that 17) Among Industrialized Nations economies, operating environment. forecasting expert Joel Naroff. Pay attention. Atlantic City has a service based economy has not been the case in the past and is not likely which countries present the best A nationally recognized economic forecasting 1) How is the excess inventory of unsold real greatly dependent on the gaming industry. The to be the situation going forward. The Fed may investment opportunities over the next expert, Joel has received numerous honors. In estate in Atlantic City vs. other second biggest threat is the rising competition especially err initially and a period of higher than desired five years and why? 2008 he was awarded the Lawrence Klein Award home markets? from Pennsylvania. With Pennsylvania likely inflation may occur, but it will not be anything for Blue Chip forecasting excellence. This is one of to add table games soon, unless Atlantic While there were areas where residential like the 1970s and it will not be enough to be I don’t give international investment advice. Europe, the oldest and most prestigious forecasting honors. construction, especially condo activity was clearly City separates itself out as a major tourist Japan and the United States are not expected to be It is named after the Nobel Laureate in Economics Joel Naroff labeled stagflation. excessive, it wasn’t nearly as bad as in the worst destination that is not just a place to gamble it rapid growth areas over the next few years but they who received the award in 1980 for “the creation will have problems growing. of econometric models and the application to the parts of the nation such as Las Vegas, Miami, The next few years could be problematic for 13) What are the dangers of stagflation? How are likely to escape a double-dip recession. Look for Phoenix and Southern California. Thus, the area funds since taking a gamble on one country analysis of economic fluctuation and economic many firms, but more than likely it will be does an individual investor prepare for policies”. He was also named the Bloomberg inventory overhang is not that great. In those 5) What should local politicians, particularly only creates more risk in investing. smaller to mid-sized company’s not larger ones. stagflation if it comes to pass? Business News 2008 top economic forecaster. In towns where things such as condo conversions were in Atlantic City and at the county level be A slowly rising economy does not lift all firms I don’t expect stagflation. Firms in a slow growth 2007, Joel received the National Association of great, there is still a problem but I expect that to be doing to stimulate growth in our area that 18) Among Emerging Market economies, and those that cannot manage in a slow growth environment have to concentrate on becoming Business Economists Outlook Award as the top largely worked out over the course of 2010. has not already been done? which countries present the best environment will fail. super-efficient and if inflation does follow, then economic forecaster and in 2006, he was MSNBC’s Clearly, better City management is needed. investment opportunities over the next they will be well positioned to deal with that the top forecaster. He was the first independent 2) What do you think the annual appreciation Image may not be everything but it does five years and why? 9) If an investor invests $10,000 in the S&P500 problem as well. economist to win the CBS MarketWatch Economist rate for that real estate will be over the next matter. Better usage of funds and a coordinated or the U.S. Treasury 30 year bond today, You have to have a great appetite for risk to invest of the Month award. five years? development plan that expands upon the casino what will each be worth in five years? 14) If you were forced to commit 50% of your in emerging markets. They are volatile and one To learn more about Joel or to contact his firm, please industry is needed. The industry must have a One thing about real estate is that it is about as I don’t give investment advice but most analysts own personal investable assets to one year’s gains can be quickly wiped out. visit them on the web at www.naroffeconomics.com major say in how to expand their business with local a market as we have. Indeed, there is no such think that stocks will likely increase at a 6.5% to investment for the next ten years what associated attractions. thing as a real estate market but more a collection would it be? 19) Given the size of the U.S. Trade and Budget 7% range over the next five years while the 30- Tracy Fiedler Santoro spent three years working of lots of small markets that differ by location, size Deficits should an average U.S. individual Let’s switch gears to the Financial Markets: year Treasury will average between 5% and 5.5%. Age and willingness to take risk are the factors as an auditor for Ernst and Young in Philadelphia. of homes and makeup of the communities. Thus, investor be tailoring their own investment The Treasury bond gives you a return with no risk that should determine the allocation of funds. At She then proceeded to Wall Street, where she while some areas could see appreciation in double 6) What do you think the average residential portfolio with an eye towards these two but stock investments, as we all know, are risky. my age, I would look for a mixed fixed income worked for six years as a financial analyst for digits for some years, others may not see much 30 year fixed mortgage rate will be over the deficits and why? and market index fund. For an average investor, Goldman Sachs. Tracy returned to South Jersey price change at all. In those areas that are still next 5 years? 10) What is the one area of the U.S. Domestic an ETF (exchange traded fund) that mirrors the The budget deficit is the greater of the two problems in 2000 to join the Marchel Wealth Management suffering from large excess housing inventories, the Mortgages in the 6.5% range, give or take 0.5%, Economy that you think offers an market would be a good, conservative way to go. as it has to be reduced dramatically if we are to get Group, which is now part of Janney Montgomery price gains in the next few years could be modest. are likely to be the norm over the next few years. individual investor the greatest amount of back on a solid growth path. That means slower Scott LLC. Tracy’s focus is the planning and However, this is the shore and as confidence We might see them a little higher in 2011 or 2012 management of the assets of high net worth upside in the next five years? 15) Are the U.S. Treasury Department, the growth in government spending in a variety of returns and the stock markets improve, I think if inflation accelerates more than hoped for, but areas but how those cutbacks occurs depends upon individuals and their families, as well as institutional Green technology and health care look to be the Obama Administration and the Fed and non-profit clients. She is a Chartered Financial price increases will once again exceed national not significantly higher. who controls Congress. Thus the best thing to say growth areas in the United States. Baby boomers incented to engineer a lower dollar and Analyst, Certified Divorce Financial Analyst as well averages. But the days of assuming double-digit is that after this round of stimulus runs its course, are aging and will be in need of more and more if so why? And if not, why are they not as a Certified Public Accountant. or even near double-digit increases are not likely 7) With the deficits that Washington are care while governments around the world are propping it up? don’t look for the federal government to continue to be repeated for most areas. currently running and the fact that the State to spend like crazy and those reductions have to placing huge bets on growing the green economy. The dollar is a price that is set in the markets. of NJ is basically broke, should a resident of watched carefully. Steve Marchel has spent his entire 25-year The U.S. government may be able to slow a trend 3) How would you characterize the risk NJ expect higher taxes in the years to come? career as a financial-services professional. Since to our local economy of what has been 11) What area of the U.S. Domestic Economy in the dollar but attempts to control the value The simple answer is yes. While cutting taxes 20) Which Investments have the best chance 1998, Steve has worked in Southern NJ as a Branch characterized as the next shoe to drop, the should be avoided by an investor in the would not likely succeed in the mid or longer helps attract and expand business in the long to outperform the overall market given the Manager/Financial Advisor and is Branch Manager expected correction in the commercial real next five years and why? term. A lower dollar helps make domestic firms term, in the short run it loses money. That is the size of the U.S. twin deficits? of Janney Montgomery Scott’s Margate NJ office estate market? Almost all parts of the U.S. economy are likely more competitive and in the past, the stronger trap the state is in: It needs to cut taxes but if it where his team and he serve the investment to grow, even manufacturing. If as expected the dollar has harmed industries. Regardless, the It’s not the size of the deficits per se that matter it needs of their individual, institutional and non- The casino industry is having a major problem does it loses money. Unless people are willing to dollar continues to depreciate, domestic firms administration is doing what it should; it’s letting is how they change. A lower dollar will keep the profit clients. securing financing but the impacts of that on make major sacrifices, and that has not proven will become more competitive. I am not sure the dollar seek its own level. trade deficit from rising rapidly as it did in the the local economy have largely been felt. Projects to be the case, the state will likely have to raise The Marchel Wealth Management Group, there is a sector to avoid like the plague but even previous decades. It could also help certain export have already been cancelled or postponed. Those taxes as well as cut services to bring the budget Janney Montgomery Scott LLC is located at 23 S. if there were, there will always be firms in that 16) What is your outlook on precious industries and firms. Changes in government underway may have to stop but there is not a lot of mess under control. Washington Ave. Margate NJ. You can contact Tracy metals and commodities in general as an spending patterns, up and down, are what need to activity on new construction so the impact should weak sector that succeed. or Steve at 609-823-2400 or by email at tsantoro@ investment class for the individual investor be followed as the budget deficit is dealt with. jmsonline.com and [email protected]. be modest. It is also not expected that the national 8) Do you think there will be more or fewer for the next five years? economy will be greatly affected by the problem. defaults among Fortune 500 companies 12) Given the U.S. Budget Deficit and the three years from now vs. the median of the likelihood of higher interest rates down previous couple decades and why? the road because of it combined with a

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Art Contest Page Dec 09 12/11/09 4:23 PM Page 1 AtlantiCare Awarded Baldrige Award –Nation’s Top Honor for Excellence By Danielle Davies It’s officially time to stop driving over the bridge for designed to help the community. According to Chrissy that apply and are judged to be outstanding in seven healthcare. For years, the unofficial word regarding South Reich, RN, BSN, of the Emergency Room of the Pomona areas: leadership; strategic planning; customer and Jersey hospitals was that they were fine to visit for minor campus, “AtlantiCare is tremendously focused on the market focus; measurement, analysis, and knowledge injuries, but for anything major, it was best to head to community.” Nowhere is this more apparent than in the management; workforce focus; process management; �������� Philadelphia. And while Philadelphia area hospitals dozens of health and community services offered by the and results.” This means that AtlantiCare certainly has its continue to provide care for droves of New Jerseyites, group. Services include free and reduced fee health care act together, and in fact, has become a national model for it seems that South Jersey has finally entered the big as part of Mission Health Care, Health Mobiles, Mobile excellence in business. A Very Special Holiday Card leagues of healthcare. Mammography, and Safe Haven Family Center, two “The road to greatness in America has been, and always Enter AtlantiCare. A regional health care organization, community facilities offering after school programs and will be, traveled by those who embrace change and work AtlantiCare consists of AtlantiCare Regional Medical Center, alternatives to gang or drug activity, among others. hard every day to be the best; the organizations we honor AtlantiCare Foundation, AtlantiCare Health Plans, AtlantiCare In addition to traditional community involvement, today with the Baldrige National Quality Award exemplify Amazing Art Contest Behavioral Health, and AtlantiCare Health Services. On AtlantiCare sponsors two unique community initiatives - that spirit,” President Obama said. “This year’s recipients ��������������������������������������� December 7, 2009, AtlantiCare gained national recognition Healthy Schools, Healthy Children, and Healing Arts Art have shown how quality, innovation, and an unending Display of when it was awarded one of only five of the 2009 Malcolm Tour. Healthy Schools, Healthy Children focuses on school quest for excellence help strengthen our nation and ������������������������������������� Baldrige National Quality Awards by President Barack Obama partnerships with multiple districts in Atlantic County in brighten the future of all Americans.” Kids’Art �������������������������������������� and Commerce Secretary Gary Locke. an effort to eliminate childhood obesity by helping to The Baldrige Award was established by Congress in 1987 The Baldrige Award is a very big deal. A Presidential create fitness and nutrition programs as well as providing to “enhance competitiveness and increase performance ��������������������������������������� award, it signifies excellence both nationally and resources for students, teachers, and parents. of United States businesses.” Selected from a field of ������������������������� internationally. To understand what that really means, The goal of the Healing Arts Art Tour is to support the seventy applicants, AtlantiCare participated in a rigorous here’s a brief look at the recipient. AtlantiCare, a healing process. According to the AtlantiCare website, evaluation process, which included about a thousand ����������������������������������� nonprofit health system in Southeastern New Jersey, is “numerous studies show that clinical outcomes can be hours of review and on-site visits by a team of examiners. fast becoming to New Jersey what Kaiser Permanente enhanced by incorporating the healing arts in the clinical AtlantiCare is now one of only eighty organizations ���������������������������������������� is to California. According to the National Institute of environment.” AtlantiCare, particularly the Center for that have received the Baldrige Award since 1988. As a ����������������������������������������� Standards and Technology, AtlantiCare has experienced Childbirth, the Pomona ER Department, and the George recipient of the award, AtlantiCare will serve as a role noticeable growth, discharging approximately 56,000 F. Lynn Harmony Pavilion in Atlantic City, is now home to model for other organizations. ��������������������������� patients in 2008, up from 34,000 in 2000, making it the over five hundred pieces of art. The Baldrige Award brings international recognition to our largest health care provider in the region. With over 4,000 If it seems like AtlantiCare is stretched too thin, guess region, and perhaps broadens the perspective of those in employees in more than sixty locations, there seems to be again. According to the National Institute of Standards the region. AtlantiCare employee Bernadette Ciabatoni, an AtlantiCare facility on every South Jersey corner. and Technology, the Baldrige Award, named for the RN, BSN, who works the Emergency Room/Trauma Unit While perhaps most recognized for its medical center - 26th Secretary of Commerce, Malcolm Baldrige, is “given in the Atlantic City Campus, is “proud to be working for AtlantiCare Regional Medical Center is a 567 bed teaching by the President of the United States to businesses - a forward thinking hospital system that strives for the hospital with campuses in both Atlantic City and Pomona manufacturing and service, small and large - and to highest performance.” AtlantiCare sponsors several events and programs education, health care and nonprofit organizations Next time I’m in need of healthcare, I think I’ll stay right here.

Nick Gomez, a 7th grade student at Ventnor Middle School Adam Remeniski, a 3rd grade student at Van Zant Elementary School

Sarahjane Hehre, a 6th grade student at Ventnor Middle School Jalisa Boswell, a 6th grade student at Ventnor Middle School

������������������ �������������������� ���������� Michael Neustadter, chairman, AtlantiCare Board of Trustees, and David P. Tilton, president and CEO, AtlantiCare, applaud as Joan Brennan, DNP, RN, vice president, �������������� Quality and Performance Excellence, AtlantiCare, addresses media and AtlantiCare staff at a press conference AtlantiCare held at AtlantiCare Regional Medical Center, City Campus, Atlantic City to announce details about being one of five organizations in the country named 2009 Malcolm Baldrige Award winners. Julia Ferris, an 8th grade student at Rittenberg Middle School

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Yet in his very first (who rode to Senator Frank Lautenberg’s Plus: ‘Straight Talk” with Harry Hurley, Author Rachel Simon and Michelle Dawn Mooney shares her birthday celebration...with you!!!OCTOBER 2009 budget, Corzine moved to raise the sales tax rescue a year before) came to the aid of the controversy for Imus after he had engaged should be dead.” morning quarterbacks” - you know the ones from six to seven percent. He also proposed Corzine as well and sealed the records from in some racially insensitive dialog on his Monetization of Tolls and Highways who seem to have all of the answers the day cuts to the New Jersey Home Savers Rebate public view. It should be noted, however, that morning program. To monetize means that you convert government after the game is played. In politics, we have Program, though he had proposed during his an investigation conducted by the State Ethics Corzine had very little time to make the trip debt into currency that can be used to purchase campaign to increase this program for New Panel, in response to a complaint from then from Atlantic City to Princeton, a journey goods and services. This was Governor Corzine’s what could be called “Wednesday morning Jersey homeowners. His proposals to increase Bogota mayor Steve Lonegan, came to the that would normally take about two hours. plan back in January of 2008 when he proposed quarterbacks”, famously opining on the taxes and cut benefits for New Jersey citizens conclusion that there were no violations of This was a contributing factor to the crash, to sell our highways and privatize the tolls in proved so problematic for Corzine that he the Governors Code of Conduct during the results the day after the election. along with what the State Police deemed to be exchange for money that would be utilized to became entrenched in a serious struggle course of the labor negotiations. “an inexperienced driver operating the pickup pay off more than half of the thirty billion dollars For the record, the Boardwalk Journal got it within his own party as his fellow Democrats As for Carla Katz, she was removed as truck” - although the police never charged the in state debt at that time. Corzine proposed the right back in October of 2009, a full month refused to approve a state budget that included president of the CWA, Local #1034, in July operator of the truck. establishment of a “public benefit corporation” an increase in the sales tax. before the election, when we predicted of 2008 by a unanimous vote of the National To Corzine’s credit, he was released from the who would then be responsible to collect tolls John Amodeo and improve and repair the highways within the the return of the “Grand Ol’ Party” with The Government Shutdown Union’s Executive Board, for what the board Chris Christie hospital in only two weeks and proceeded to Republican Gubernatorial candidate A pivotal point in Corzine’s brief tenure described as multiple violations of their Vince Polistina RE take full responsibility for the crash, for not State of New Jersey. Christopher J. Christie and several of his strong as governor came on July 1, 2006 when he bylaws and other cause. Just three months E Futu wearing a seat belt, and for his actions being the Major concerns erupted as soon as this running mates, such as Assemblymen John signed an executive order that effectively earlier, Katz had filed a civil suit against the Back to th The Return of The Grand Old Party cause of injury and trouble to others. Corzine proposal was proffered. Heavy toll hikes in Amodeo and Vince Polistina. On the evening shut down the state government by halting all CWA for what she described as “retaliatory also insisted that a summons be issued to him the amount of fifty percent increases every of November 3, as he was conceding defeat by road construction projects, state government harassment”. for his failure to wear a seat belt. He later pled four years through at least the year 2022 were former United States Attorney Christopher offices, theN ew Jersey Lottery, Motor Vehicle The Katz issue never did seem to go away for guilty and paid a fine to the state. believed to be part of this “asset monetization” Christie, Jon Corzine was heard saying that Departments, the Department of Education, Corzine throughout his term as governor. State Police Trooper Rasinski has reportedly Corzine would eventually heal from his plan, as well as the loss of the rights to tolls and “elections are not about the people running, and - for the first time since 1978 - the doors Although no candidate ever directly seized made application for a pension following significant injuries, but it is widely believed highway rights for 75 years. but rather about the choices that they make.” to the Atlantic City casinos. They were closed upon the issue during the course of multiple the incident, due to Post Traumatic Stress that his standing and image among the people Corzine had incentives in mind for local and for business as many of their employees campaigns, it struck at the heart of ethics Disorder and back injuries from the crash. of New Jersey never completely recovered. frequent drivers who would operate these who were essential to their operations were during the Corzine era. He has also reportedly been the subject of current and future toll roads. They would prohibited from working. The government departmental charges unrelated to the car Corzine further went on to record a series of The Car Crash receive a discount. But think EZ Pass here. EZ shutdown ended on July 10, 2006 when crash for the past two years. The governor has television and radio ads to promote highway April 12, 2007 probably seemed like any other Pass used to provide a discount for toll users, Corzine and his fellow Democrats reached a credited Rasinski for preventing even more traffic safety and to encourage the use of seat day in the life of Governor Jon Corzine. He serious injuries to everyone. compromise. They agreed to the increase in came to Atlantic City to give a speech at the Taj the sales tax in exchange for fifty percent of An aide to Corzine, a 25-year-old female, was Mahal Casino before the New Jersey Mayors OPEN 24 HOURS Beautiful the generated revenue being earmarked for Conference. After Corzine gave this mostly also injured and transported from the scene Victorian -Style Inn home property tax relief. unmemorable speech, things took a terrible of the crash for medical attention. FULL MENU GIFt SHOP wItH But while the seven percent sales tax increase turn. While traveling home on the Garden In a point of terrible irony, Corzine - a FREE PARKING IRISH IMPORtS…ANd was affected, Corzine’s promise to increase State Parkway to the Governor’s Mansion “green activist” who curtailed the use of the 609-344-9063 VERy LOw PRIcES! property tax relief was not. This was a broken at Drumthwackett in Princeton, in a sports governor’s helicopter for transportation while promise that would not be forgotten by New utility vehicle that was being operated by the on official business - ultimately ended his trip St. JameS Place at the Boardwalk • atlantic city, nJ 08401 Jersey voters. The government shutdown New Jersey State Police, Corzine’s vehicle was in a medivac helicopter that transported him would loom over Corzine’s entire term. involved in a horrible crash. in critical condition to a trauma center in Carla Katz The governor was well known for not Camden. dAILy Governor-elect Chris Christie Carla Katz is the former girlfriend of wearing a seat belt, and he wasn’t wearing The fallout from this episode was significant Governor Corzine and the former president one on this day either. When State Trooper for Corzine. Early on there were perceived To examine what really went wrong for Jon of the Communication Workers Union of Richard Rasinski was forced to make an efforts to shift responsibility for the crash $ 95 Corzine, it helps to look at some of the choices America (CWA), a major labor union with evasive maneuver, his vehicle careened into away from the governor and onto the 6 he made during his four years as governor of business in the State of New Jersey. Although a guard rail at mile marker number 44 near state police, since Rasinski was reportedly the State of New Jersey. Corzine was elected the couple broke up in 2004, they maintained Galloway Township. operating the police vehicle at a high rate dINNER in November of 2005 as the “Wizard of Wall contact afterward and many hundreds of of speed. The initial accident reports also Street” and the successful financial consultant The crash left Corzine semi-conscious and SPEcIALS email communications passed between them. attempted to blame “an erratic driver in a from Goldman Sachs, where he had eventually severely injured. The governor sustained These emails became the subject of great red pick-up truck” who turned out to be an FEAtURING: gone on to become chairman and chief a broken left leg, collar bone, sternum, six controversy during periods of negotiations innocent bystander who was trying to get Shepherd’s Pie executive officer of the firm. Corzine became broken ribs on each side, and a fractured between the State of New Jersey and the out of the way of a police vehicle motorcade a self-made multi-millionaire in the stock vertebra in his lower spine that was deemed Flounder - union that Katz headed. traveling in excess of 90 miles per hour in a 65 market and was prepared to bring these same “not threatening”, as well as significant Crab Cakes MPH zone with no real emergency purpose winning principles to the management of the After the New Jersey Superior Court ordered blood loss. In addition, Corzine suffered in mind. To add more trouble for Corzine, Chicken Parmesan government in New Jersey. that more than 700 pages of communications lacerations to his face that would later between Corzine and Katz must be released require plastic surgery to correct. Governor the cause for the rush back to Princeton was with Caesar Salad While campaigning throughout the year in to the public, Corzine spent the next year Corzine was described by his surgeon as an event that most deemed to be a publicity LARGE SELEctION OF IMPORtEd ANd dOMEStIc BEER 2005, Corzine promised that he would not resisting the release of the information. “lucky to be alive.” stunt. The governor was scheduled to meet

46 | The Boardwalk Journal January 2010 January 2010 The Boardwalk Journal | 47 but it now charges the same as if you deposit dirty and personally-negative campaign and to chat with him personally, they might Christie. Kean said that there are always a few respect to these proposed appointments, coins in the basket. against Chris Christie, who did not respond have liked him better too. expected last minute appointments at a time then republicans are believed to be prepared the way he might have if he had mentioned like this, but the sheer volume of one hundred to use a very controversial practice known as The governor’s plan went nowhere through I briefly interviewed Governor Corzine in just some of what you’ve read within my story and eighty proposed appointments to positions “Senatorial Courtesy.” This practice is a nuclear 2008, and it was not until late October of Atlantic City at the New Jersey League of so far. This campaign did not become Corzine, and agencies that will attempt to steer the option that would involve legislators blocking this year, during the heat of the campaign Municipalities yearly gathering held just two whom former Governor James Florio once future policy in New Jersey is something that the nominations for the particular individual against governor-elect Christopher Christie, weeks after the November General Election. that Corzine resurrected his highway and toll dubbed the “Walking ATM Machine”. A crash should be left to the in-coming Governor. The nominees who live in the counties that they monetization scheme during an interview in the financial world, loss of investments, The governor was not doing interviews scope of the budgets and the regulatory powers represent. This can be done without any with the New York Times. Many thought this and a very expensive divorce settlement by on this day, but he was very kind to speak of these authorities are of particular concern obligation for the legislator to justify the basis late-injected proposal was desperate. Some Corzine managed to change his heretofore with The Boardwalk Journal. We only had to Senator Kean for appointments to be made for his actions. In other words: they can just do thought it was foolish, a microcosm of the inexhaustible campaign dollar war chest. He two questions. during this unseemly lame-duck session. it, because they want to do it. While seldom was mortal after all, and had to raise public utilized, (or acknowledged in use is a better disconnected way in which Corzine was being First, where does he go from here? Governor “Governor Corzine had four years to make funds for the first time. description), this controversial practice would perceived by the people of New Jersey. Corzine said that he will always remain a appointments such as these to the sports It became apparent that the operative word authority and port authorities. This is just bad effectively kill any appointments that Corzine 2008 Fiscal Collapse strong voice for the things that he feels need would try to push through in the counties One huge and lasting problem that Governor within Governor Jon Corzine’s administration to be said, and he will continue to be a strong form on the way out the door, “said Kean. was “crash” - from a horrible car crash, to a where Christie’s allies were situated. If there Corzine has faced from late 2007 into 2008 voice outside of government. This matter blew up about two weeks ago, when were ever a time to employ such an option, and continuing to the present is the economic fiscal crash, a government shut-down crash, Governor Corzine nominated his own Chief Second, we asked him what feeling he’s been Corzine waves good-bye. with the stakes as high within the fiscal state of meltdown that assisted Barack Obama in and ultimately to the Obama/Corzine “Walt left with following this election. The governor of Staff, Edward McBride for a judgeship. New Jersey, this may be that time. becoming president and most likely was the Whitman Bridge Shut-down Fiasco”, with said, “Being given the opportunity to serve the Christie is said to have reacted very strongly to death knell for Corzine’s re-election hopes many other campaign crashes in between. That alone should put him in a better position To further complicate matters for Corzine, people of New Jersey as their governor is the these tactics being employed by his vanquished just one year later. While Obama was merely In the end, if you were to look at Jon Corzine’s to get things done. he had already previously created a backlog highest honor of my life. I will forever treasure opponent Corzine. The Governor-elect is said of proposed appointments before he required to offer “Hope and Change”, this is priorities - or at least the ones he publicly Of the things that he did promise, they can to be considering all options available, including precisely what the people of New Jersey were attempted and in some cases succeeded the experience I was given by our people.” had lost the election on November 3rd. and should be accomplished: from attacking the ability of his allies in the state legislature to These unfilled appointments include at looking for just a year later with the prospects in moving - the people did not view these Looking Ahead With our massive debt and spending problems to block these appointments if necessary. of a new governor in Chris Christie. actions as “successes” but rather as more Governor Christopher Christie three dozen judgeships to the New Jersey providing property tax relief, from opening “Senatorial Courtesy?” Superior Court. The meltdown affected all states, but New crashes: abolishing capital punishment in Throughout his campaign for governor, one New Jersey to business and development the State of New Jersey and commuting the of Chris Christie’s most oft-repeated lines If an agreement between negotiators for (continued on page 60) Jersey, so leveraged in debt and fiscal instability, again by relaxing unnecessary regulations to Christie and Corzine cannot be reached with has been hit the hardest. Corzine’s “Wizard of death sentences of eight horrible human was, “If you want to change the State of New providing cuts to income and business taxes. beings at the same time he was supporting Jersey, let’s start by changing governors.” The Wall Street” reputation did little for the people Governor Christie and his running mate, public funding to end the lives of innocent people of New Jersey did this on November of New Jersey when they saw their pension Lieutenant Governor Kim Guadagno, bring funds and other investments collapse. unborn children. As for his efforts in support 3rd. Now what? of same sex marriages, or his attempts to sell with them a healthy law-and-order platform Our state was already home to the highest the rights and tolls of our highways while Governor Christie will take office when at a time when corruption is running rampant property taxes, high sales taxes and user fees, proposing what would have amounted to he is inaugurated in January of 2010. He in our state. On a very positive note, Governor a place where many residents are exiting in an 800% increase in tolls for New Jersey will inherit a state budget with a structural Christie has promised that one of his first such historic numbers that Corzine enacted a drivers, Corzine was doing what he wanted imbalance of eight billion dollars. Christie acts upon being sworn in will be to sign an “moving tax” for the residents who could no and I suppose what he thought was right. The will find himself in a position very similar to executive order deeming Casino Control and longer afford to live here. We even got taxed only problem for him was that it wasn’t what that which Barack Obama found himself in other officials as “essential employees” so as to An Old-Fashioned one more time on the way out! large majorities of his constituents wanted or just a year ago. 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Chef’s Nightly speCials but in less than one year he has gone from This period of time by an out-going official same time, a member of Corzine’s cabinet, 1¼ lb. Steamed Whole Lobster - 2 for $24 In the final analysis, Corzine’s crash became a popular opinion of more than seventy often involves last minute appointments the Office of Community Affairs’ New Jersey Sunday - Prime Rib Dinner $12 synonymous with a nice guy who was left with percent to below 45 percent in some reliable to jobs, both paid and unpaid, as well as office, was raided by the FBI. a disconnected perception by too many of his polls. 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48 | The Boardwalk Journal January 2010 January 2010 The Boardwalk Journal | 49 Terry Oleson doesn’t really look like a serial discovered the first body inN ovember 2006). killer. Or any kind of killer, really. Three Years After Being Connected to the Deaths of Four Prostitutes Oleson couldn’t afford to stay anywhere else, Seated at a table in the back of a local diner he said, and a daily commute back and forth one Sunday morning, Oleson, 37, looks pretty to his Salem County home cost even more Terry Oleson is Picking Up The Pieces unassuming as he orders breakfast with his money he didn’t have. fiancé, Carol-Ann Seaholtz. Before his world The first woman discovered was Kim Raffo, By Regina Schaffer was turned upside down, Terry Oleson was 35, a one-time PTA-mom whose escalating a high school dropout-turned-mechanic who drug habit drove her from Florida to the liked to restore old cars, like his Trans Am. streets of Atlantic City. She’d been strangled He enjoyed spending time with his 11-year- to death just hours before her body was old daughter. He taught robotics classes and found. Lying nearby were the bodies of Molly was once a mentor at a robotics competition Jean Dilts, 20; Barbara V. Breidor, 42; and held at Salem Community College. He Tracy Ann Roberts, 23. Roberts, like Raffo, loved Halloween and bragged about creating was strangled. Dilts and Breidor had been in haunted displays on his front lawn that would the marsh for too long for a cause of death to scare the neighbors. be determined. All of that was a little more than three years Together, the women left behind five children. ago. All of that was before the bodies of four women were discovered in a ditch along the The murders were likely the work of a serial border of Atlantic City, near a gritty motel killer, investigators had said. Need Roofing where Oleson had stayed. All of that was Investigators conducted hundreds of before Oleson was painted as – but never interviews and spent thousands of hours named – a suspect in the brutal murders of working on the case, the Atlantic County and Siding? those four women. Prosecutor’s Office has said. There were some For Oleson, three years may as well be a other people who got police attention – a street lifetime ago. preacher who spoke out against prostitutes; a Call Today! petty criminal who confessed to the killings Today, Oleson rents a home on Carpenter and was later referred to a psychiatric facility. Street in Salem with Seaholtz, but he’s hardly a free man. He walks under a cloud of suspicion. But it was Oleson who received the brunt of 609-822-4839 He’s lost all of his friends. His neighbor wants the scrutiny. him to leave his front door open when her “I am absolutely certain he is in no way All phases of kids come to play with his kids. And every few connected to the deaths of those four women,” weeks – seemingly on never ending repeat – said James J. Leonard Jr., Oleson’s Atlantic roofing and siding the Investigation Discovery channel re-runs City based attorney, who is also the Publisher the 48 Hours special “Beyond the Boardwalk.” of this magazine, “Whoever murdered these www.TopNotch-Roofing.com In the special, Oleson is prominently featured women is a depraved sociopath. You spend as a person of interest in the killings. five minutes with this guy and you realize he Every time it airs, Oleson swears people stare doesn’t have it in him.” • Bonded at him when he goes out. He wonders what Police combed the marsh and the motel for they think. evidence, as the media descended on the • Insured Did he do it? Is he the guy? area to cover what was quickly becoming • Licensed a sensational story. Oleson, trying to help, Oleson lets out an exasperated sigh. Talking he said, told police that he noticed shoes on • Free Estimates about everything that has happened, he begins the roof of the motel. Police, however, were to break out in hives. interested in more then what Oleson spotted • Owner Operated “This has been unreal,” Oleson said. “This is a on the motel roof. living nightmare. I’ve prayed for death.” *** Authorities were watching him. Media reports CALL for your Oleson knows how it looks. The bodies of the later revealed Oleson was kept under 24-hour four women – all Atlantic City prostitutes – surveillance. were discovered; face down, in the marsh During that time, “Oleson didn’t so much beside the Golden Key Motel on the Black FREE as run a stop sign,” the Newark Star Ledger Horse Pike, lined up with their heads pointing quoted a former law enforcement official Estimate on Roofing and Siding! toward the city. Oleson – inconveniently for as saying. But good behavior did little to him – had been staying at the Golden Key sway police. Motel with Seaholtz while doing construction Terry Oleson, November 2009 work in the Atlantic City area (though he was In April 2006, authorities searched Oleson’s 609-822-4839 Photos by Ginny Leith nowhere near the motel when a passerby then-Alloway Township home, ripping up January 2010 The Boardwalk Journal | 51 came and went, few people seemed to pay attention. A white wooden cross in front of the Golden Key Motel – placed there shortly Lo Bosworth on Life in The Hills after the killings – bears the names of the four women. It is now warped and faded – a By Veronica Dudo testament to the unthinkable crimes and their As the reality television sensation continues, there is one sixth season, scheduled to begin filming this month. and to not play up to the aftermath. network that not only understands this growing trend but “I’m in contract negotiations for the next season with MTV,” cameras. “I’m not that Olseon’s home was destroyed, and he and does its best to pump out shows that truly pack a punch! Bosworth told me during her December visit to Atlantic City. crazy. I don’t aspire to be Seaholtz had to move to the Salem home MTV’s wildly popular hit reality TV series, The Hills, follows “I’ve loved the opportunity to do it. I just have to make sure this ‘that girl’, so you either the lives of a group of 20- something’s who live in Los like me (on the show) or they rent now. Both are disabled and can’t is the right situation for both sides.” Angeles, California. It all began with one of the network’s you don’t.” work. He doesn’t like to go out much. He is highest-rated reality programs, Laguna Beach: The Real During an appearance at The Pool at Harrah’s, Bosworth on medications for depression and anxiety. enjoyed a VIP Cabana with some friends and her Bosworth’s role on The Orange County. That series filmed a group of teenagers in Hills has allowed her many He wants his possessions back that he claims Laguna Beach, California, including Lauren “Lo” Bosworth, boyfriend, lacrosse player Scott Hochstadt. “I’m excited investigators stole. More importantly, he said, for tonight!” she told me on the red carpet after she had career opportunities. “I’m during their senior year of high school and the summer transitioning to hosting, Lo Bosworth he wants his good name back. He doesn’t hold posed with fans. before college. After graduation, Lauren Conrad, one of the and I would love to write a his breath for either. show’s stars, moved to Los Angeles to follow her dreams of While this reality TV personality and spokesperson is book one day, so those are two goals that are in the near future a career in the fashion industry. Thus The Hills was born. These days, Oleson spends his days keeping a enjoying her celebrity status, she has also had a very private for me.” As for long term goals, Bosworth says she ultimately low profile. But in a twist of irony, he recently he Bosworth joined the cast again in 2007, for Season Two of role on The Hills. When asked if it’s difficult to keep certain just wants to be happy and successful. “I went to UCLA; I have areas of her life private, she responded, “It’s not. It’s always joined in on the effort to start a neighborhood The Hills. She’s been part of the cast ever since. a college degree, so for me the opportunities are endless. The been that way for me, so it’s easy to sort of separate one watch in his crime-ridden Salem community. In 2009, during the fifth season of the show, Conrad left the door’s open. I don’t have to choose a career in television. That’s from the other.” But Bosworth did tell me that she wants what my goal is right now, but I guess we’ll see! I’m only 23, so He recently watched a drug deal take place in series to pursue other opportunities. According to published her fans to know, “I have an amazing boyfriend and I have it’s going to be a few years before I really figure it out.” front of his home, and Oleson said he wants reports, the series was exposed for using loose scripting for an amazing family!” better for his and Seaholtz’s children. production purposes. However, the show continued and And what better way to figure it out than by jet-setting Terry Oleson with his fiance Carol-Ann Seaholtz recently, it’s been announced that The Hills will be back for a Despite criticism that the show uses minor scripting, around the world to meet adoring fans! “I’m really aware of my surroundings,” Oleson Bosworth says her goal is to always stay true to herself said. “If something is amiss, I pick up on it.” floor boards, punching holes in walls, ripping “Everything was destroyed,” Oleson said. • • • • • up carpet and smashing out the windows of When Oleson finally got out of jail, he wore his cars. The home “looked like a tornado went a T-shirt with a telephone on it. It said, “Off Editor’s Note: Less than five days after he through it,” Oleson said. the hook.” Oleson later gave the shirt to his was interviewed for this story Terry Oleson By Veronica Dudo Police impounded his truck and took samples attorney as a souvenir. was involved in a head-on collision in Salem County and was ejected from his vehicle. He was Christina Lindley has graced the covers of many magazines, around a lot of people, where it’s really energetic and just actress, and poker star, traveling around the world with her of his DNA. But for Oleson – and the families of the four transported to Cooper Trauma Center in Camden as well as being featured in layouts for Maxim, FHM, Stuff, fun,” she said. publicist Talbot, whose role is to manage Lindley by booking In the home, police found what they needed victims – little has changed. The case remains People, Playboy, Fitness Rx and Muscular Development. Now appearances, jobs and press interviews. where he remains as of press time. Her versatile career began with her fascination with the to hold Oleson – a video of his girlfriend’s unsolved, and no new suspects have been the fitness model-turned-actress can add “celebrity poker fitness industry. At 21 years Lindley is also writing a screenplay about what it’s like to teenage daughter in the nude. Oleson claims named. As the third anniversary of the killings star” to her billing. old, Lindley decided to take a stab at flexing her own muscles. bring a little bit of Hollywood into poker and a little bit of his ex-girlfriend – with whom he has had a “Out of all of the things I’ve done in my life, by far poker is my poker into Hollywood. tumultuous relationship at best – planted the After attending a bodybuilding show, Lindley said she favorite,” Lindley told me last month while in town playing began researching key players in fitness modeling and she video. He eventually served a year in county in the Ladies Event for the World Series of Poker Circuit came across one photographer who was known for taking jail for the “peeping Tom” charge, and pleaded Event at Harrah’s. “So far I’ve been very impressed with fabulous fitness photographs. Lindley remembers how she guilty, he said, only to spare the girl from the people,” she said about her time in Atlantic City. “John decided to go with her ambitious attitude and make a cold answering questions about the video. Arthur is the tournament director. It’s very well run and very call. “I said, ‘Hi! You’re going to shoot me for your magazine professional.” While in jail, he received a letter from Seaholtz. and I’m going to be on the cover.’” With that, They had dated in the early 1990s and gone Lindley began playing poker a little over two years ago. “It Lindley was flown out to shoot the cover and she also got a their separate ways. When Seaholtz first heard was love at first sight, literally!” she recalled. And since then, thirty-page layout. Having spent years being featured in the Lindley has taken the poker world by storm. “I noticed that world’s top fitness magazines, Lindley’s presence now in the news of the killings, and that Oleson might be there were no women at all, none in the casinos.” fitness world involves writing articles for numerous national involved, she broke down, she said. While Lindley has had tremendous success during her fitness magazines. “I just couldn’t believe it,” Seaholtz said. “I relatively new poker career, she says her ultimate goal is to Despite her involvement in so many projects, Lindley thought, ‘No, not Terry.’ But, sometimes win the main event of the World Series of Poker. But in the continues to cultivate her acting skills with various roles on TV people snap, you know? I didn’t know what to meantime, she’s enjoying playing and improving her game. and in film. Currently, Lindley is set to appear in an upcoming think.” “I’m really living the dream that I didn’t even know I had feature film, Mimmo, from director James Quattrochi, who recently worked on The Nail, shot in Philadelphia starring Seaholtz began to send Oleson poems in jail to until two years ago, coming in to this world. I’m traveling Tony Luke Jr., William Forsythe, and Tony Danza. lift his spirits (They have since been published around the world and meeting great new people and going in a book she titled “Heartfelt Confessions.”). places I would never go. Usually, the good thing about poker Lindley said ‘Mimmo’ is a comedy about two brothers who Oleson, who was in the medical unit of the jail is that a lot of the great tournaments that are huge for the get in trouble with the mob. “We’re finalizing everything due to his back injury, spent his days reading World Series of Poker are in amazing places. The next one is with the casting now, which stars Tony Luke Jr., Leo Rossi and in the Bahamas, and now Atlantic City, Monaco, Monte Carlo, some big names in the hip hop community,” Lindley said. the Bible, sleeping, and staring out a small London, everywhere you can imagine!” window. He had to wear a special outfit to keep In addition, Lindley is also starring in a reality series with Christina Lindley him from killing himself. Oleson and attorney James J. Leonard Jr. smile during a light moment in Atlantic County Superior Court. While in town, Lindley also hosted a party at Dusk in Caesars. her publicist, Victoria Talbot, from Hype Inc. Presently called Photo courtesy of Alan Barry Photography “I love anything where I can be in front of a lot of people, or Hype, the show focuses on what it’s like for Lindley - a model,

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56 | The Boardwalk Journal January 2010 January 2010 The Boardwalk Journal | 57 The ‘Big Red’ Machine: A Look Back & Ahead at the Never-Ending Andy Reid Era The winningest coach in Eagles franchise history teams perennial playoff contenders and gives Eagles are out of just got a three-year contract extension on the them a cherished stability - no small feat in an timeouts and you heels of another late season winning streak, and NFL that can change from day to day and game are ready to put a nearly tacit promise of another NFL playoff to game like Tiger Woods’ paramours. your boot through By Mike Missanelli appearance from perhaps another NFC East Reid has had seven winning seasons and seven the screen! Division championship. And still, the majority playoff appearances in 10 years as the Eagles coach. By the middle of the season, the majority of of fans aren’t ready to chest bump, the way this He has more regular season and playoff wins than Eagles fans had had enough. They wanted change. winningest coach did a few games ago with his any coach in Eagles history. During his tenure, the They were tired of the Andy Reid-Donovan wispy wide receiver. Eagles have won nearly 70 percent of all of their McNabb thing and were willing to move on Is there something wrong with us, or with games in the cruel month of December, when a with whomever. The conservatives said that Andy Reid? lot of teams, including the Dallas Cowboys, fade. you’d better be careful what you wish for, that if It’s the million dollar What that probably means is the harsh pre-season you want Reid out, then you’re risking losing the question around camps Reid runs, much to the players’ chagrin; good that you have. The presumption is that no these parts, where pay off big later in the season. And it also points one on earth would possibly be capable to giving out that Reid is doing something that makes his Philadelphia Eagles you what Andy Reid gave you: a competitive team grow and stay together as a unit when times football is trying football team that made the playoffs every year get tougher. That’s all good. to pull itself out and gave the city a chance at a championship. of a pool of sports And yet there’s another side to this field. Because You gotta be in it to win it, they would say. And fan oblivion. They for all that Reid has done well as Eagles coach, my counterpoint was always, gee, did the Tampa were pushed there there are also the unmistakable big game failures. Bay Buccaneers see it that way when they fired by the Philadelphia Under Reid, the Eagles are 1-4 in NFC title the very capable Tony Dungy and replaced him Phillies, of course, games, and they have also lost a Super Bowl. with Jon Gruden? Gruden won a Super Bowl who -- a day after Now, I don’t take off any points for the Birds the next year. Did the Pittsburgh Steelers fall the Eagles won their losing to the New England Patriots in 2004 in into the black and gold hole when Bill Cowher second game of the Jacksonville, even though they had the lead and left and the Steelers replaced him with Mike season over the it can be said that the quarterback kind of - dare Tomlin? They too won a Super Bowl. Eagles’ Head Coach New York Giants, we say - choked. But the Eagles weren’t supposed Andy Reid taking control of to win that game. Nor were they supposed to What’s done is done. I will admit that with the the division and beat the St. Louis Rams that year when the Rams young burgeoning talent the Eagles have on putting the Giants on playoff life support -- still toppled the Birds in the playoffs, first round en offense right now, and the fact that they’re a couldn’t be quiet for a change. route to a Super Bowl. But the other games, the building team and not a rebuilding team, Andy Like a prize fighter sensing his opponent’s NFC title games against the Tampa Bay Bucs in Reid deserved to see this through. And the only weakened state, the Phils came over the top with 2002, the Carolina Panthers in 2003, both home, fair way to let him see this through was to give a haymaker and landed pitcher Roy Halladay and then the Arizona Cardinals last year, well, the the head coach another contract. But until I from the Toronto Blue Jays. We know what the Eagles were supposed to win those games. They actually see a Super Bowl, I won’t participate in Phillies are. They’re a legitimate contender. But were healthy favorites in each. And in each, it can the etching of the Andy Reid bronze statute that what are these Eagles all about? Is Andy Reid a be said that Andy Reid was out-coached. team owner Jeff Lurie and his co-conspirator good enough football architect and coach to be It is fairly maddening to be an Eagles fan. We’re Joe Banner might want to convince us should trusted to the extent of a three-year extension trapped between logic and logic. The Eagles be built in front of Lincoln Financial Field. This that amounts to a 15-year commitment? If Eagles are one of the NFL’s most successful teams of is another year I don’t expect the Philadelphia president Joe Banner is on the record quoting recent history. We really like that. And yet, we sit Eagles under Andy Reid to win a Super Bowl. Einstein that doing the same thing over and through season after season, trapped in eternal Which probably means it’s going to happen, and over again without changed results is insanity, sameness, with a coach who kills us with the same you can then dismiss this column. then what do we make of the continuation of old mistakes: a game plan that doesn’t include the Andy Reid era? the run, horrendous red zone play calling, time Mike Missanelli is the host of It gives us cause for analysis. management problems, the seeming inability to think on his feet and adjust to what the other the Mike Missanelli Show, from Andy Reid is one of only four NFL coaches in guy is doing. You watch a game like the one the 2 p.m. to 7 p.m. daily on 97.5 FM The history to have accumulated 100 or more wins Eagles had earlier this year, and you see Reid burn Fanatic and 950 ESPN AM. His book, in a decade. The others are Tom Landry, Don a meaningless time out in the third quarter. Then, Shula, and Bill Bellichick, three Hall of Famers. in the same game, he uses up another time out in “The Perfect Season, How Penn State Of course, that distinction has much of a basis in the fourth quarter on a bad replay challenge with Stopped a Hurricane and Won a National The Boardwalk Journal is currently looking for Sales Representatives. the luck of how the years fall. But it also points his team trailing, when time outs are absolutely Championship” is available out that the coach is averaging at least 10 wins precious. And then he challenges a fourth down in bookstores throughout the region. If you are interested in joining our team, please email your resume to: [email protected] per season during that span, which makes those official’s call, and loses that one, and now the

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(continued from page 49) Christie Opens With A Spirit of Bipartisanship Christie into running the campaign that they Chris Christie has immediately given a strong wanted him to run. Christie did not take Atlantic City. A Place We Call Home indication as to what kind of governor he is their “fool’s gold” suggestion, and he ran his going to be and what sort of administration campaign the way that he wanted. the people of New Jersey can expect on Christie has said that the “Wall Street January 19, 2010 with his selection of Essex Philosophy” of borrow-now-spend-now- County Prosecutor Paula Dow (a registered By Ken Calemmo facility to be constructed on the grounds of and-worry-about-paying-for-it-later has Democrat) to serve as his Attorney General. FortFort Monmouth. This would be complete decimated the fiscal condition of New OnOn a beautiful summer day in Atlantic Dow also served for two years with Christie withwith R&D for robotic and technology Jersey. These are the very policies that have City,City, a young serviceman is being pushed systems to assist amputees, assisted living in the United States Attorney’s Office. created fiscal insolvency and have created along the Boardwalk in a wheelchair ffacilities,acilities, daycare and re-entry training The Atlantic City Christie said, “I am absolutely committed to having survived a vicious attack in a ffacilitiesacilities for veterans. a crisis within the state’s pension system, hostile incursion overseas; he is now Jitney Association having a tough and completely independent and they are just some of the mandates that permanently disabled for having so nobly FForor all her dedication and efforts over the Attorney General. Paula Dow will serve serves the needs of the local Christie was elected to fix. I would disagree served his country. Another is guided yyears,ears, Mrs. Braymes received numerous in this important post without political aalonglong the Boardwalk blind and scarred honors, including the Presidential Medal community as well as the with those who say that Governor Christie interference. I’m intent on selecting the has no mandate. He beat almost the entire from injuries received from a landmine. presented to her by General Omar millions of visitors to Atlantic However, these young men were not best individuals to serve the people of New mainstream media who wanted him to lose. However, these young men were not Bradley; thethe Service Medal from the U.S. City. We provide convenient, recently injured in Iraq or Afghanistan Air Force Association; Command Award Jersey, regardless of party affiliation.” He beat a multi-millionaire opponent who on-time transportation to but in Vietnam and the year is 1965. The from the U.S. Air Force; the Dickey spent more than $25 million of his own visit to AtlanticAtlantic City is part of a program Chapelle Award from the Marine Corp various points in Atlantic City. Upon confirmation by the New Jersey Senate, Dow would be the first African-American dollars to personally savage him. He also beat organized by Lt. Col Mark Braymes and for shows and dinner. As Mrs. Braymes League; two Iron Mikes from the 82nd his wife Lois. This was the start of a long explained “I hahaveve seen the price of female to ever serve in the position of Attorney Barack Obama, Joe Biden, and Bill Clinton, his wife Lois. This was the start of a long Airborne; and the 101st Airborne named Jitney Color-Coded and wellwell traveled road with the nations freedom” having cared for young men her “Their Miss America.” In addition, General. The governor-elect has further who all made multiple appearances in New route numbers wounded and survivors of war in an effort who were blinded or lost limbs and “we there have been two songs written about described his first cabinet nominee as “a tough Jersey to attempt to win one more for Jon to help them re-enter society. The idea oowewe it to these young people to make her by the Marine Corp Band. #1 Pink attorney who will speak truth to power.” Corzine and the Democrat party here. was to give returning servicemen who their lives regular”. In the late 1960’s Mrs. NowNow in herher eighties,eighties, you will still see Lois Cutting taxes and unneeded regulations, have been seriously wounded an outlet to BraBraymesymes began a campaign to bring a New Hampshire Ave. to A Mandate to Keep relax and to readjust to society after the VeteransVeterans Hospital to AtlanticAtlantic City.City. It waswas Braymes at charity events in the city Jackson Ave. via Pacific Ave. Some in the mainstream media have said ending borrowing and spending schemes, traumatic events of the war. her belief that Atlantic City provided the escorted byby herher “boys”“boys” – servicemen, New that Christie is “A Man Without A Mandate”. saving the state pension system, and bringing perfect location for wounded servicemen Jersey State TTroopersroopers or AAtlantictlantic City #2 Blue This is not true. It seems to be a frustrated businesses and residents back to New Jersey... Lt. Col Braymes passed away in 1966, but to recuperate from ththereere injuriesinjuries.. ThThee police officers. And when you ask her Marina Area-Trump Marina, it sure sounds like a mandate to me. the idea he started Atla became a lifentic long Cisame recuperativety cure was encouraged why shshee chchoosesooses to do thisthis,, withwithoutout reaction from a media that could not entice passion of his wife. Since 1966, Mrs. hesitation she says “I want everyone to see Harrah’s, Borgata via Delaware some 100100 years early by the founder of hesitation she says “I want everyone to see BraBraymesymes has arranged for over 36,000 thesethese brave men and women who risk Ave. to Pacific Ave. AAtlantictlantic City, Dr. Jonathan Pitney, to care wwoundedounded servicemen to spend A an allPforlac his sicke andWe injured patients.Call Homeththeireir lives for our safety and freedom – #3 Green expense paid weekend as guest of AAtlantictlantic We can NEVER forget ththem”.em”. A Burger’s Worst Nightmare! City and to be recognized for thethe sacrifices Atlantic City offers a great climate,climate, salt air,air, ththeyey made for our countrycountry.. A Atlantictlantic City sunshine,sunshine, thethe ocean and boardwalk. She Since the United States has become #4 OranGe hotels, restaurants and the people of the immediately proposed to CongressCongress,, eveveryery engaged in ththee wars in Iraq and city would welcome to town her “boys” for branch of the Armed Service, and the White Afghanistan the number of fallen soldiers Locations for Jitney a weekend of fun and enjoyment. It was House her idea for ththee construction of a is in excess of 4200. Service members that cutting edge rehabilitation Veteran’s have been wounded in hostile actions is ticket sales: not long after that the icon of Atlantic City, cutting edge rehabilitation Veteran’s have been wounded in hostile actions is the Miss America Pageant, opened their Hospital in Atlantic City. In fact, the nownow in excess of 32,000. Not included in Atlantic City doors and regularly provided the soldiers AAtlantictlantic City Housing Authority went as far this count are the thousands that are with theirtheir ownown section along the runway. as to donate 40 acres in thethe north east inlet suffering from Post-Traumatic Stress Jitney Association Pageant contestants would meet each year area of the city for this project. She made Disorders due to their time serving abroad. 201 Pacific Avenue with ththee wwounded.ounded. Through ththee 1971970’s0’s numerous trips to WWashingtonashington D.C. and 1980’s thethe program became so shuttling betweenbetween thethe PentagonPentagon and thethe Let us remember – this is the Home of the Atlantic City successful that these trips became a White House talking to everyoneeveryone and Free, Because of the Brave. standard for wounded soldiers from all anyone that would listen to her concern for Check Cashing We can never forget. over the country. the troops and the care that they needed. 1226 Atlantic Avenue or ShShee enlisted ththee hhelpelp of Atlantic City 3100 Atlantic Avenue When you speak with Lois Braymes she businessesbusinesses,, the citizenry, and the troops to Please send in your favorite evevokesokes passion, protection and loloveve for contact politicians all ooverver the country to Atlantic City story at Checcs all 36,000 of the service members she accomplish hherer mission. AAtt one point in [email protected] has touched in her lifetime. It is as if AtlAntic city has touched in her lifetime. It is as if ththee mid 1971970’s,0’s, she came close to gaining 1429 Pacific Avenue ththeyey are part of hherer immediate familyfamily.. support for a facility in South Jersey.Jersey. Outlets – the WAlk ShShee calls ththemem hherer “boys”, her However,However, politics played played itself out in its For information about Ph: (609) 344-1080 “wounded”“wounded” or herher “people”.“people”. SheShe dressed usual fashion and the hospital found a Regular Jitney Service, them, cried with them, fed ththemem and home in Philadelphia. But that has even helped a few of them to get not deterred Lois Braymes.Braymes. For Train Station Jitney Service, nOW OPen married. Her ultimate goal is to have the better part of forty plus Lost and Found or ne hOtdOg exPress society look beybeyondond the scars and the yearsyears she still continues to The author holds a Ticket Programs, call AtlAntic city, nJ missing limbs and treat these fight for hherer “men” taking photo of his grandfather individuals with the dignity and support every chance she can to speak Chief Warrant Officer right next to the harley davidson store! every chance she can to ththeyey deservdeserve.e. In hherer wwordsords “it is our tospeak members to members of the military, of the Lawrence Calemmo, who responsibility to take care of ththeseese politiciansmilitary, politicians and business and retired from the Navy after 30 years of 609-344-8642 Franchises available [email protected] youngyoung souls”.souls”. groups.business groups. distinguished service. This passion to helphelp thethe woundedwounded did not Her most recent proposal is 60 | The Boardwalk Journal January 2010 just stop with a mere visit to Atlantic City a state-of-the-art rehabilitation

January Boardwalk Be a u t y 2010 Eagles Cheerleader Tiffany Monroe

iffany is currently a Somers Point health and physical education teacher and a four Tyear veteran and squad captain of the Philadelphia Eagles Cheerleaders. Tiffany was born and raised in Absecon, a graduate of Holy Spirit High School class of 2002 and The College of NJ class of 2006. This past July, she along with five of her cheerleading teammates traveled to Iraq and Kuwait for a military goodwill tour for twelve days. They traveled to a number of different bases where they performed for and visited with the troops to bring a little bit of home to them. On and off the field, this Boardwalk Beauty is a winner!

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