Candle Starts House Fire on Hickory Lane
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Your Local Connection ! •• December 13, 2007 SMorth Brunswick • South Brunswick 50$ Purple reigei Wine tasting raises funds for S.B. library Page 3 Playing around DANIEL HULSHIZER staff Afeiv Kendall Paik Elijah Teague, 7, of Flemington, gets a lesson on the meaning of the dreidei as Rabbi Levi Azimov and the Chabad of South Brunswick center ontertjin? delivered holiday presents to patients at The Children's Hospital at Saint Peter's University Hospital in New Brunswick on Dec. 6. Page 24 Candle starts house fire on Hickory Lane As they entered through the door, Family safe but the water vented through the win- 'They jont <,arc They dow and created an intensity of 1 damage necessitates tnm ' I'm caa arcl flames, according to Snediker. there's Tuning yiu c=-n house to be torn down do to me. Another firefighter suffered from BY JENNIFER AMATO smoke inhalation. — L P-UMl.-Kdr SUIT Writer The fire marshal said the investigation showed that the fire two-story, single-family did start in the basement, as the Colonial house on Hickory coffee table was found burned ALane in North Brunswick halfway through where the candle must be demolished after a house was sitting. fire damaged the structure on Snediker also said that the index Sunday morning. house was deemed unsafe and Cipssffiad 36 The fire department received a needs to be torn down. The back of Crossword .... 23 phone call from the Nam family the house is where most of the fire Editorials ... .1O around 1:38 a.m. reporting a fire damage occurred, and the right Entertainment .. ... .19 in the basement, according to side of the second floor collapsed Obituaries ... ... .28 township Fire Marshal Craig into the firsi floor. Real Estate 31 Snediker. The three township fire According to Councilwoman Sports 29 DANIEL HULSHIZER staff companies arrived, along with A house at 10 Hickory Lane in North Brunswick suffered extensive fire Cathy Nicola, who was at the mutual aid from New Brunswick, damage early Sunday morning. scene Sunday morning, the father Milltown, East Franklin, East is a minister at a Presbyterian Brunswick and South Brunswick, basement with a candle on the cof- utes between the start of the fire fee table. He had set his cell phone and the fire call. church in Edison and went to his as well as the Middlesex County church service at 10 a.m., showing fire coordinators. The three-alarm alarm for 1:30 a.m. and fell asleep, All of the occupants of the resi- noticing the fire when he woke up. dence were able to get out without his resilience. fire was finally under control Any residents wishing to pro- around 3:41 a.m. He went upstairs to get some injuries, but three firemen sus- water, came 'back downstairs, tained slight injuries. Two of the vide assistance to the Nams can [Wwww.gmnewG.col m According to Snediker, the 15- went upstairs again, causing a three members of the initial attack contact the township at (732) year-old son said he was in the time delay of roughly eight min- crew sustained burns to their ears. 247-0922. SENTINEL, December 13, 2007 NS www.gmnews.com ^ A LoviTUT n Agency, Inc. re you caring for a loved one ? Do you need help during the Holidays? -. O K =£• Care Agency is one of NJ's fastest-growing home care agencies, servicing all of New Jersey. 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T - '" > !h www.gmnews.com NS SENTINEL, December 13,2007 3 Fundraiser bottles up a grape time in S.B Library wine tasting on Dec. 6 will go toward improvements and cafe BY CHRIS MUKINO Staff Writer SOUTH BRUNSWICK — It was a night of socializing, singing and sipping r wines at the fifth installment of Music, Merlot & Miele, a fundraising event run % by the South Brunswick Public Library Foundation on Dec. 6. * • 1 The Miele Showroom was trans- formed into a wine-tasting extrava- ganza. Tables of wine distributors were. set up throughout the room. An array of food was displayed on the countertops: shrimp, pizza bread, cheese platters, bra- schetta, buffalo wings, wraps —just about any food your taste buds could possibly de- sire. If the lights were dimmed, it would have been the re-creation of a jazz club, with the Carl Aquino Jazz Quartet per- forming for all those who attended. Ira Matthias, of Dayton, was im- pressed. It was his first time at the event. "It's very nice, very open," Matthias said. "It's not congested..Xeu can move around; you can move from station to station." He only had one problem. "I'm just tryiiig to keep my wife away A't f-chiifiPi a ij from the appliances," Matthias joked. J 1 "This is the type of affair that I think for \1< I itatrt \\iiie, li. everybody enjoys," said Mayor Frank at thf-f v cut P\HI> \( ii Gambatese, also amemher of the library '1'inple c IM tiW( 111 tin . „ board, "It's mostly socializing. We have diffueni win. s and hopL- iSfcJr. S^feSI • all this food, most of it homemade. It's a fulh ihi\ll torat fait and ETV.'^W.^SKSS^I very quiet, nice time just before the hol- buj Lh.em, ^thneiLi •-aid iday rush." "Thoiu ait send jii opli £ Thei e s alw i\ ^ .i mu^-ii (oin "It's a really wonderful, unique event, j probably the most unique event in South pom nt To 11 Tin fond looking In 1'ci cind lift tt l Brunswick," said Councilman Chris Kill- 1 murray, also a member of the library ] M ) \i>np h.id Hit'ii I i board. "And it just keeps getting better vonti- winfs Al mln is was and better." fond (il i » uii-U i)f .) BJind Ellen Gambatese, the co-chair of the event and the vice president of the li- preli'iif il tliL icd ' It - not a -.i Lii'l that L m I brary board, said this year's gala had a 1 few differences from past years. One was a ku dunki i s,.id I that this was the first year Suzanne cllnniii ( hii^- Killinui\, Hayducka co-chaired the event. Hi did hi'Wi \i < 11\ "We have our own chef," Gambatese sonu-Bai II uli'M JilueheiM said of Hayducka. "She'll be showing her Ale fine cooking artistry. In fact, she's our 'Ti s nm diiiniii s- hut own Rachael Ray." it's \n\ _c «i(.l Kilh'iiuiitt if,, Hayducka even did a cooking demon- said 'Jfi'" stration for about 25 people, quipping jokes and making her pitch to be the new face of the Food Network. Other food was provided by local restaurants from around the area. HI Another new feature was an appear- ance by the South Brunswick High From the top' Jayne Daube. of South School Concert Choir. They performed Brunswick, looks at bottles of wine on Christmas favorites like "Deck the display at a wine-tasting fundraiser for Halls" and "O Come All Ye Faithful" in the South Brunswick Public Library front of Miele's Christmas tree, adding to Foundation at the South Brunswick Miele offices on Dec. 6. Bella Deigado. the holiday feel of the evening. Megan Sehrend and KiKkan Dnss (I r) It was also the first Music, Merlot & sing with the South Brunswick High Miele event for Christopher Carbone as School Concert Cnoir during the director of the library. He talked about fundraiser. Howard Melman pours a his favorite part of having this event. sample for Jennifer Fraley of East "Just the social aspect of it," Carbone Brunswick. said, adding, "Making new friends around the holidays." The money raised from this fundraiser will be used to improve a spe- cific part of the library. "We'll be making some major im- provements in the library building that will lead to a cafe," Gambatese said. 4 SENTINEL, December 13, 2007 www.gmnews. com Chabad brings light to Great Ideas in Specialty Sleds for Babies, Kids & Grown-ups Route 1 with menorah BY CHRIS MURINO fourth year that the event has taken place Staff Writer and Greenstein has been to each one. SOUTH BRUNSWICK — Sen.-elect "This clearly is the season of light, even Bill Baroni, Assemblywoman Linda Green- though it's dark and cold," Greenstein said. stein, Police Chief Ray Hayducka, South "That's what we have to do all our lives, Brunswick Mayor Frank Gambatese and bring a little light into the darkness." Veterans of Foreign Wars Commander Al Baroni agreed. Kady all joined the Chabad of North & "This has been a wonderful tradition South Brunswick at its annual menorah here in South Brunswick Township and we Hours Mon, Wed 10-8 lighting on Monday, at the Monmouth Mo- need more and more of that," Baroni said. Tues, Thurs & Fri 106 It also happened to be Barorii's 36th 4235 Route 9 North, Freehold, NJ Salla5-Sun 11-5 bile Home Park on Route 1.