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Serving Our Loyal Readers Since 1875 ASBURY PARK PUBLIC LIBRARY ASBURY F;y;K, NEvVJF ir - / ■ \-LLo rw ‘Hywd Aynasw ■3A« isyid oog ■an anand Mywd Aynasw A 6 / T S / S T 9 TT O T VOL. CXXl NO. 2 TOWNSHIP OF NEPTUNE THURSDAY. JANUARY 11. 1996 USPS 402420 THIRTY-FIVE CENTS V >V W' ,,4^ ' , Myrtle Louise Hogan - An Appreciation page 6 Van/ Tractor Trailer Collide In Neptune- City “ page 3 Bradley Beach Churches Hold Bethlehem Walk page 18 Area Arts BrWis in Arts & Lifestyle page 13 The Blizzard Of '96 A Look At Past Blizzards Volunteers Respond The Magic Of Snow From The Times' Archives page 6 To Snow Emergency b ack page An Editorial page 4 by Sandy Couto emergency and instituted a drifts that obscured parked suffered in December of '92 The flakes began falling traffic ban that was not lifted and stranded vehicles from when northeast winds shifted This Week: between 4 and 4:30 Saturday until S am . Tuesday. view and turned traveling by to the northwest between 4 morning and did not relent Schools and businesses foot into an endeavor of and 5 am., Monday. How until Sunday afternoon, leav closed. Federal, state, coun Olympic proportion. ever, tides of 3-4 feet above is pleased to ing the Shore blanketed with ty and municipal offices shut Ocean Grove received normal in Monmouth County, up to 30 inches of snow - Spotlight down, even the post office network television coverage caused severe beach eros the largest accumulation was forced to abandon its when it reported wind gusts ion. Limited coastal flooding James Curtis since the great blizzard of pledge to deliver the mail, of 81 miles per hour, on and the threat of more to Perry February 1899 dumped 34 elements not withstanding. Sunday evening. The fero come drove some area resi Inches of snow on the Jer A persistent wind mad cious wind again snapped page 11 dents into shelters. sey Shore. already frigid temperatures the oceanfront flagpole at Tuesday morning found The massive accumu seem even colder as the Main Avenue. The flagpole area residents still digging lation forced all but emer wind chill factor plummeted was felled during the out snow encased cars and gency personnel out of their to 20 degrees below zero. noTeaster of 1992. For This Attraction Daily submerged walkways in an ■ AH SoiSoats * AH Shows vehicies, as Governor Whit High winds caused moun Coastal communities I c f continued on back page man deciared a state of tainous drifts to develop - were spared the devastation Sojadt^insum Check Out the MAIN STREET • BRADLEY BEACH m m p*® Bradley Beach Has Summer On It’s Mind - No Kidding! Bradley Beach - Mayor that would be aesthetically the chief of police authority letter from Shark River Hills Mmilsf Is Dale Nlitil Stephen Schueler and the pleasing and uniform, was to issue special identification Elementary School reques full council met in the after- suggested. for concessionaire’s ting the donation of two Wrong Gates Put Up? math of the worst snow The four year lease for vehicles. season beach badges to a storm of the century, to con the three concession stands Other fair weather topics Chinese Auction. Mayor duct borough business as will be offered in an open bid arose when Mayor Schueler Schueler explained that al usual at a workshop meeting with a minimum bid set at offered a resolution that the though the borough would and special regular meeting, $1,300 for the first season governing body of Bradley like to fulfill the request, state last Tuesday evening. raised by $100 the second Beach execute ail paperwork law prohibits the donantion Appearing somewhat season. The mayor also and measures necessary to of beach badges. tired and worn from long asked for a stipulation re obtain a $8,169 Clean Com The mayor addressed a hours of coping with the quiring concession em munities Grant. more seasonal topic by of storm and its impact on ployees to have beach Also, the National Mul- fering some preliminary borough residents, the badges. tople Sclerosis Society thoughts on emergency al Mayor and council turned to Designated parking would like to bring their an ternate side of the street summer sut^ects. Mayor spaces for concession nual bike tour through Brad parking. In an effort to Schueler suggested that the stands were also discussed. ley Beach. Mayor Schueler facilitate snow removal, the council set a standard pat Borough Attorney Joseph said the Society would be Mayor suggested that park tern for new beach chairs Quinn said he would review sent a letter requiring them ing on borough streets be arid umbrellas rented at the to give the borough advance prohibited on the south and Close to 30' of snow falling onto Ocean Grove's the ordinance to see whether east sides on the first day square mile of territory had to have made some Newark, Brinley and Second these spaces could be des notification, an outline of the people long for the old days when cars were kept Avenue concession ^ands. ignated by resolution, but if route to be taken and that outside the gates! A burgundy and white, not, they could be desig the participants be insured. continued on page 3 striped or panelled pattern. nated by ordinance giving The borough received a P<VGE 2 THURSDAY JAMUAP'^ ITlji iTuiu’5- 1996 NEPTUNE CITY My RECYCLING SCHEDULE K 6 f I . 0 8 b G G f Commingled Recyclable Collection: Glass bottles. Getting a clear title to land is an exact science. Answer Aluminum cans. Tin cans and Plastic containers Surveyors are involved in helping develop clear titles. may all be commingled in one container for So are attorneys and historians and insurance companies by Billy Graham collection per the following schedule. You may use which specialize in tracing land ownership as far bvack as DEAR DR. GRAHAM: I want to help my brother some up to five (5) six (6) gallon containers or one thirty several generations. Where mortgages are involved, the how, but I don’t know what to do (if anything). We came (.^0) gallon container. lending banks and savings and loan companies nave to be from a bad situation - broken home, abuse, lots of alcohol - and things were so bad that my brother and I both swore sure that there are no judgments or other potential claims On a voluntary basis, we recycle plastic and mixed we would never get into anything like that. But now my which might put title in jeopardy. paper. The only plastics that are acceptable arc the brother is following the same road my father did, and it is When Ocean Grove's founders selected the lands be going to wreck his life. Why is he doing this, when he must ones with the recycle triangle of arrows on them. tween Wesley and Fletcher Lakes for their campmeeting know it will only bring him grief? T.H. DEAR T.H.; It doesn’t make sense for people to continue Paper Recycling Collection: Newspapers and resort, they found four people living in that large area. But, to do things that they know will destroy them - and yet peo cardboard arc to be tied and bundled separately. meticulously they caused searches to be made of the own ple do it all the time. It is one of the most mysterious facts ership of ALL the land they wanted. Clearing title involved about evil. You are allowed 2 tied bundles which are not to Why do they do this? One reason is because sin is like mounds of correspondence, interviews, surveys, wills. At exceed 50 pounds in weight. Mixed paper may be a disease (and in fact it is a spiritual disease) which slowly placed in a separate six gallon container. (Mixed least ten different tracts had to be examined. President E.H. but surely causes spiritual and moral blindness so people paper may contain: unwanted mail, magazines, Stokes reported, before it could be said that the Camp Meet don’t see its consequences. The Bible says concerning cards, soft cover books & computer paper.) ing Association had clear title to the 300 acres, more or less, such jDeople, Iheir thinking became futile and their foolish hearts were darkened. Although they claimed to be wise, which was purchased and laid out in streets and lots and they became fools' (Romans 1:21-22). Another reason is All recycling products will be collected per the parks. because some people value their lives so little that they following .schedule: James A. Bradley, the founder of Asbury Park, set as his don’t care what happens to them. This can especially be goal the ownership of the land between Wesley Lake and true of people who were abused as children, because they grew up thinking they were not worth anything. Please Note: Recycling Collection Deal Lake. He, too, had staff people working several years But God values them - in fact, Christ came to save peo Is Now On Wednesdays in obatining clear title. ple like that, because God loves them. "For the Son of Man All of which leads up to the development of The Shark came to seek and to save what was lost" (Luke 19:10). And that is one reason why I hope you will have the courage to January 3rd, 17th & 31st July 3rd, 17th & 31st river area. The title work there became a tangled web in confront your brother - and more than that, to let him know February 14th & 28th August 14th & 28th volving the Legislature and the courts.