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Tazza_BJ_AD_Sept_2012.indd 1 8/24/12 11:35 AM publisher’s letter Looking for success? We are very excited to announce some of the most recent happenings in the ever evolving world of The Boardwalk Journal. First and foremost, the completely re-designed www.BoardwalkJournal.com is the perfect complement to our monthly print edition. Complete with full access to our archives (all forty-two issues), breaking news alerts and email notifications for our digital subscribers, our new digital home Work With Ashley Franchini even has its own app. i have to give credit to Ken Warren, an attorney who works for theL eonard Law Group, who is also the Director of Digital Marketing • Qualified Buyers • Sotheby’s Brand/Name Recognition Development for The Boardwalk Journal and is the designer and architect of the all-new www.BoardwalkJournal.com. Ken undertook the massive project to re-build our previous website and turn it into a news based web destination for our readers. If you haven’t been to the site, please visit and • Extensive Marketing Plan • Full-Time Team & Staff become a digital subscriber and download our app, both of which are FREE, so that you can enjoy the digital content that we are now producing. • Huge Client Base • Production & Results (see examples below) scott Guntz, our Director of Business Development, has resumed his role in overseeing the distribution ofThe Boardwalk Journal and we have re- vamped our distribution list. This means the magazine will now be available in more high-traffic locations, in addition to all Atlantic County Wawas. My wife, Rebecca, is now working with The Boardwalk Journal as our Director of Operations and her efforts are easily noticeable this month in kS old old old old oldNTHS old S S S EE S S o S the form of The Pet of the Month and the What are you Lookin’ at? features that will now become part of each MoNTH M 2 w 1 2 issue thanks to the efforts of Constance “Connie” McNelis, a long-time friend ofThe Boardwalk Journal, who iN iN iN now joins our team as a Contributor. i am excited to announce that Harry Hurley, another long-time friend of The Boardwalk Journal, has been named our Political Editor and that Raina Tallent, a Boardwalk Journal Who’s Who from our August edition and the owner of the Simply Fly Boutique in Northfield, has been named our Fashion Editor and both Harry and Raina will kick off ourS ignature Series, which you will be seeing a lot more of in the coming months. longport longport Margate Margate Margate Margate As always, we appreciate your continued support. beachblock bayfront island house island house southside neW southside Enjoy. SEllER BuyER SEllER SEllER BuyER BuyER Respectfully, S S Sold Sold Sold Sold Sold Sold 45 day 45 day iN iN James J. Leonard, Jr., Esq. President / CEO / Publisher / Editor-in-Chief
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Tired of your home’s drafty, Atlantic City lost a legend on September 18th with the passing of Henry “Hank” Tyner, the former President of Atlantic City Council, who also worked as a firefighter, a police squeaky, sticking, unsightly, inspector and then ran the city’s Mercantile Division, before dying at the age of 88 rusting or unsafe doors? following complications related to a stroke. Senator Jim Whelan, who knew Mr. Tyner for several decades, told The Boardwalk Journal that Hank Tyner was “the quintessential public servant” and was a “true Atlantic City legend.” Mr. Tyner is survived by his wife Entry & Sliding Beatrice, his ten children and eighteen grandchildren. The Boardwalk Journal would Patio doorS like to extend our condolences to the entire Tyner and Graham family … Speaking of Atlantic City legends, The Knife & Fork turned 100 on October 4th, remaining by Miami Somers one of the city’s premier restaurants, having survived Prohibition, the Great Depression beautify your home and protect and Atlantic City’s ever-changing landscape. Congratulations to owner Frank Dougherty, your family... we’ll have you his family and his amazingly talented staff for reaching this truly amazing milestone … coming and going with ease, Patrick Kennedy, the former United States Representative for Rhode Island’s First confidence and pride! Congressional District and the son of the late U.S. Senator Edward “Ted” Kennedy is arguably Brigantine’s most famous resident, after relocating there following his marriage to local schoolteacher Amy Petitgout in August of 2011. Now, a little more than a year after settling into the greenhead capital of the world, rumors abound that the political scion may become more active in the affairs of the local Democratic Party, who, with the exception of Senator Jim Whelan, have as much depth as the shallow end of the kiddy pool at the M.R.A. in Linwood. Kennedy’s name has surfaced as a possible successor to Whelan, the incumbent State Senator, as well as a future challenger to Congressman Frank LoBiondo should the 45-year-old Kennedy decide to return to Washington. Stay tuned … limitEd Longtime Atlantic County Assistant Deputy Public Defender Charles “Charlie” Jurman recently retired, ending a very colorful career as one of the most revered criminal timE offEr defense attorneys at the Criminal Courts Complex in Mays Landing. Jurman’s career was roasted and lauded by The Honorable Michael A. Donio, the Presiding Judge of the Criminal ask about our Division at Jurman’s recent retirement party, which attracted more than 100 friends and fall door colleagues at the Mays Landing Golf and Country Club. Charlie always had a smile on his face and never said a bad word about anyone and has been one of The Boardwalk Journal’s proMotion biggest supporters since day one, recommending his friend / colleague / protégé Anthony NJDCA # 13VH000696000 Previti to pen what has become our monthly Out to Lunch column and introducing us to Bill Kelly, a frequent Boardwalk Journal contributor. We wish Charlie many years of 62 YearS of UnSUrpaSSed QU alitY , Service & e xperience health and happiness as he enjoys his well-deserved retirement … 609-927-4133 ♦ miamisomers.com ♦ 505 New Road ♦ Somers Point
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Aerosmith’s “Global Warming” Tour Coming to Atlantic City Giovanna and Johnny Liccio AEROSMITH ISn’t messing around. We Are Open Year Round America’s greatest rock band delivered Mon - Sunday For Breakfast, absolutely killer sets on the first leg of their Lunch And Dinner triumphant, sold-out Global Warming Tour this past summer, with critics dropping comments like (we kid you not, see below) WInter and Fall “stunning…jaw-dropping…impassioned entertaInment intensity…seamless swagger...epic rock moments…a wonder to behold…Aerosmith always managed to reinvent itself for the Book noW masses without losing its inherent musicality... For HolIday Make no mistake, Aerosmith remains king.” They aren’t done yet. More prisoners events will be taken when Steven Tyler (vocals), Joe Perry (guitar), Brad Whitford (guitar), Tom Oktoberfest Hamilton (bass) and Joey Kramer (drums) AM (local time). For VIP ticket packages, including opportunities Banquet room available for all events – On-site party coordinator available Specials return for the second leg of The Global Warming Tour launching to meet band members, backstage tours, great tickets and more, visit November 8 with a month-long, 14-city arena tour making a major www.Aeroforceone.com. In addition, a Facebook pre-sale begins stop at Revel’s Ovation Hall on Friday, November 23. The band’s Friday, September 21; fans who visit www.livenation.com/aerosmith appearance at Revel promises to be the most intimate on the tour with and RSVP to the presale will have early access to tickets. just over 5000 seats. They’re fully armed with career-defining hits and Music From Another Dimension marks Aerosmith’s 15th studio blazing songs from their new album, Music From Another Dimension, album and their first studio album of all-new material in 11 years. out November 6 on Columbia Records. They’re the only band of their There has been a witch’s brew boiling for 10 years, and they’re stature with all-original members and who are playing better than ever about to blow the cover off. The album abounds with one highlight before. after another, including “Out Go The Lights,” “Oh Yeah,” “Luv TheL ive Nation-produced tour will include supporting act Cheap XXX,” “We All Fall Down,” “Street Jesus” and “Can’t Stop Loving Trick. Tickets go on sale Monday, September 24 at 10:00 AM (local You,” on which Tyler duets with Carrie Underwood. The album time) at www.LiveNation.com. American Express card members can also includes “Freedom Fighter” which features Johnny Depp on get advance tickets beginning this Wednesday, September 19 at 10:00 backup vocals. Spooky Happenings at Mays Landing Country Club Mays Landing Golf & Country Club will be hosting Fright on “Mays Landing Country the Fairways, on October 18th, 19th, 20th and 21st from 6:00 Club is more than a golf p.m. to 10:30 p.m. each night. course. We want to unite the The Fraser family invites brave souls to find out what community by hosting family strange creatures come out on the fairways at night by oriented events,” says Jim taking a haunted hayride…if you dare. Along with the chills Fraser, President, Mays Landing and thrills, there will be food and beverages available for Golf & Country Club; and Founder/1st President purchase. This fearsomely fun event is $10 for all ages. These of the Greater Atlantic City Golf Association. “It’s also nights of frights are being held to raise money in support important for us to give back which is why with Fright on of area schools’ art programs. The Fine Arts Departments of the Fairways we are supporting local students interested in local high schools will be competing for the Mummy Award the arts with a scholarship.” and Scholarship by decorating scary sections along the For more information and group rates, contact Barbara haunted hayride trail. Guests will have the opportunity to Kraly, General Manager of Mays Landing Golf and Country Club, vote for the scariest section. at (609) 641-4411(x10) or visit www.mayslandinggolf.com. 12 | The Boardwalk Journal | October 2012 politics
The Return of Mr. October b y Ha r r y Hu r l e y , Political Ed i t o r o f Th e Bo a r d w a l k Jo u r n a l To date, we have witnessed one of the most intellectually dishonest The Great Recession ended one year into Obama’s Presidency, yet elections in American history. The national pro-Barack Obama media the media is not holding him accountable. Yet, the recovery is the most has deliberately failed to hold him accountable for his unprecedented anemic in history. record of poor performance. obama is being permitted to run on what he will do for the next By any measure, Obama is disqualified from serious consideration four years; not on his actual record of performance during the past for a second term. four years. However, because we are playing this election year under Bizarro it’s the first time in American history that a President’s actual World rules, featuring a suspension of belief at its core, Obama could record of performance is not being considered. win a second term. However, the American people are not stupid. They will take The media is not holding Obama accountable for 46 straight actual performance, rather than a new series of promises into account months of 8 percent and beyond unemployment. 23 million before voting on Tuesday, November 6, 2012. Americans are unemployed or under employed. One out of every two state Senator Joe Kyrillos has waged an exhaustive campaign college graduates cannot get a job. against United States Senator Robert Menendez. However, New Jersey There are 47 million Americans on food stamps. Obama has is such a “dark blue” political state that this is a very difficult feat to try accumulated $6 trillion dollars of new debt. He promised to cut the and unseat an incumbent Democrat state-wide. previous $10 trillion dollar deficit in half to $5 trillion dollars. Instead, Governor Chris Christie did it three years ago, but, there is a big the national deficit is now more than $16 trillion dollars. difference between how New Jersey citizens vote for Governor versus For every job created under Obama, we’ve lost four. America United States Senator. Although both are state-wide contests, they will need to create 350,000 jobs for the next three years to bring couldn’t be more different. unemployment back to 6 percent. Presently, 40,000 to 100,000 jobs it’s been a half century since a Republican has won a United are being created each month. We need 150,000 new jobs just to keep States Senate seat from New Jersey (Clifford Case in 1972). pace with new people coming into America. obama is going to carry New Jersey comfortably. This makes it Another filthy trick being perpetrated upon the American even tougher for Kyrillos running in a Presidential election cycle. people is the regular polling that has been conducted for weeks by united States Congressman Frank LoBiondo, R-2 is running intentionally using 10-12 percent more registered Democrats versus against Democratic challenger Cassandra Shober. Shober remains Republicans. almost completely unknown as we enter the final month of the This is to demoralize Governor Mitt Romney supporters into campaign. believing that Obama has already won the election. loBiondo is so confident of re-election, he’s not even having a The Gallup Organization and Scott Rasmussen daily tracking polls single debate with his novice challenger. LoBiondo has faced some have consistently showed this to be a 1-2 point race in both the national backlash for this, but, he’s not budging from it. He’s not going to place poll and battle ground states with Romney leading many times. himself in a setting which gives his opponent equal footing to him. The consumer confidence index is presently at 60-70. No This is a bad move for giving the voters the opportunity to see President in 40 years has won re-election with a consumer confidence both candidates in one face-to-face setting, but it’s smart politics. index below 90. LoBiondo will win at least 60-65 percent of the vote, even in a romney has clearly not waged the perfect campaign. However, Presidential election cycle. the blatant media bias to attack him at any and every turn has been There are no surprises expected at the Atlantic County level. It’s disgraceful. An illegally generated hidden video was one week of almost a snore. Democrat Colin Bell is making the most formidable vicious public attacks against Romney. run against Republican incumbent Freeholder at Large Frank By comparison, America experienced a terrorist attack on Giordano. However, Giordano, Freeholder Board Chairman Frank September 11, 2012 and Obama spent weeks failing to acknowledge Formica and 5th District incumbent Freeholder James Bertino will all that we even had a terrorist attack. The national media went along with win by comfortable margins. Obama’s scam. This is the most important national election in our lifetime. obama called the killing of Ambassador Christopher Stephens and three others a “bump in the road.” Romney would have been eviscerated by the national media if he said such a thing.
Harry Hurley is Political Editor of The Boardwalk Journal. Hurley is the president of Harry Hurley Consulting and Communications, LLC. He hosts the daily talk radio program “Hurley in the Morning” 6-10 a.m. weekdays on Townsquare Media, ESPN 1450 AM Radio. He has hosted various programs for local television and is the editor and publisher of his news and information website, www.harryhurley. com. Send comments to [email protected].
14 | The Boardwalk Journal | October 2012 The Insider Local News, Happenings and Events Blown away salon & Beauty Bar TV FITNESS PHENOMS SHAPE FIRST full service salon & spa ANNUAL SWEAT AC FESTIVAL in A.C. 2611-13 shore road Caesars Entertainment Atlantic City teamed up with some of the world’s most prominent names in health and fitness for the inaugural Sweat AC festival. Featuring northfield, nJ the top celebrity trainers, nutritionists and lifestyle experts in the industry, the three-day expo was held at Caesars, Harrah’s Resort, Showboat, Bally’s and on the 609.677.1600 Atlantic City beach and Boardwalk. Monday 10-4 Tuesday- Thursday 9-8 going for the gold Elvis to C.R.D.A.: “Thank you, friday- saturday 9-5 The Washington Township Boardwalk Journal girls soccer team poses with Vineland native and 2012 US Women’s Soccer Olympic Gold Medalist, Jill Loyden. thank you very much” The Casino Reinvestment Development Authority (CRDA) and Atlantic City Alliance (ACA) took part in announcing construction of 7 tournament style Keep an eye volleyball courts located at New Jersey Avenue at the Boardwalk in Atlantic City. out for our EXTREME MAKEUP contest starting next month!
Can’t wait Can’t wait to for football go shopping at tonight! Simply Fly! Field of dreams EHT Barracudas took part in the National American Tournament of Champions “Players Showcase” held at the Cooperstown Dreams Park. In addition, the team took top honors at the Quaker Classic Tournament, University of Pennsylvania, Sacred Heart Fathers Day Invitational, Maple Shade Summer Classic Tournament, and the 5th Annual In the Net Baseball Tournament held in Hershey, Pa. Congratulations to Tyler Knox and his teammates, Head Coach Keith Transue and assistants Ed Charlton, Ed Keil and Jim Battersby.
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Shoe FetishOn a recent trip started screaming. Then Y to New York City, I I resorted to hanging dragged my husband on my husband’s arm CM to Saks Fifth Avenue’s taking baby steps, until annual shoe sale. Once I went knob kneed and a year, Saks has this my ankles gave in and MY unbelievable sale where I nearly face planted. every shoe by every I spent the rest of the imaginable designer night walking around CY is 75% off. It’s every barefoot, holding my woman’s dream. shoes as an added CMY i anxiously waited accessory. That night in the elevator until I felt like a rockstar, I got to the shoe minus the stop to CVS K department level. As on the way home to the door opened, it pick up a can of fast was like a scene out of actin’ Tinactin—those National Geographic floors are filthy and you can never be too careful. where lions were fighting over the last piece of zebra during a famine. if the shoe fits, or even if it doesn’t like in my case, you have to Women were screaming and shoving one another to get their hands be able to wear your fashion with confidence. I may have not have on a pair of heels. Jimmy Choos and Christian Louboutins were been able to last long in my shoes, but beauty is pain. Otherwise being torn out of women’s hands and shoved on their ped covered we’d be walking around with uni-brows and mustaches. We squeeze feet. If the shoe didn’t fit they were thrown on the floor like garbage, our bodies in SPANX, attempt peeing through the little slit in the as the women moved on to their next victims. My husband glanced crotch area, and feel like we have cracked ribs just to give the illusion at me and said, “I’ll be over on this couch where I’m safe.” of looking thinner. Fashion is not just about the hottest trends, i made my way towards the battlefield and immediately spotted and what celebrities are wearing. It’s putting it all together to create these cream colored Christian Dior vintage looking heels. If I was beauty in how you wear it. going to survive in this jungle, then I would have to get in touch with My heels are sitting in a box in my closet. I now know they are my animal instincts. I made a quick dash and may have stepped over strictly “dinner shoes” but they are gorgeous, they were on sale, and and on a few ladies, but I snatched them before any of those cougars they are all mine! could get their dirty paws on them. They happened to be a size bigger than what I wear, but I didn’t care. “I’ll throw a Dr. Scholls gel pad in there and I’ll be fine,” I thought to myself. The following weekend my husband and I made plans with a group of friends to go to dinner at The Borgata. I was super excited to wear my new shoes, and I had the perfect dress to go with them. I got all fancied up and was ready to pretend that I was twenty-one again and didn’t have to get up in the morning to three children. Raina Tallent, I got out of the car and walked for fifteen minutes before my feet Simply Fly Boutique
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22 | The Boardwalk Journal | October 2012 McNelis “Connie” by Constance Image The Insider Local News, Happenings and Events
Shore Medical Center Foundation Holds Inaugural Women’s Wellness Journey Event Dr. Mohit Sood of Shore Physicians Group’s New Center for Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery Presents “New Wrinkles in Plastic Surgery” over 120 area women were on hand as the Shore Medical reconstructive surgery at the Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Center Foundation held its inaugural Women’s Wellness Journey. Medicine as the program’s Chief Plastic and Reconstructive Dr. Mohit Sood of Shore Physicians Group’s new Center for Plastic Surgery Fellow, gave an extensive presentation and answered and Reconstructive Surgery was the initial presenter with a program questions from the audience dealing with the hot issues in plastic entitled, “New Wrinkles in Plastic Surgery.” and reconstructive surgery. Dr. Sood has trained with world-class Carol Lipson, Joanne Gormley, Jayne Bray, Doris Curcio, Shore Medical Center’s Provider Liaison Nicole Tassinaro, “While the Women’s Wellness Journey is a Foundation event, surgeons at leading medical centers including Jefferson University Joan Siracusa, Patty Doyle and Patti Lees Dr. Mohit Sood of Shore Physicians Group’s new Center for it’s unique in that it is not designed to solicit donations,” said Shore Hospital, Hahnemann University Hospital, Memorial Sloan- Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Dr. Sood’s assistant Bridget Vice President and Foundation Chief Development Office Thomas Kettering Cancer Center, Westchester Hospital/New York Medical Gaffney and The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia’s J. Mundell, who was joined at the event by Shore President and CEO College, St. Christopher’s Hospital for Children and Reading (CHOP) Dr. Magna Chang Dias Ron Johnson and Shore Chief Medical Officer Dr. Jeanne M. Rowe. Hospital. Following his presentation, a variety of providers of “Our goal is to develop an annual series of educational programs the most up to date and advanced plastic surgery products and relating to women’s health issues, utilizing the exceptional and highly technical services were on hand. skilled physicians we have on staff at Shore Medical Center. We want working with Mundell on the event is a committee comprised women in the communities we serve, and in fact everyone in the of Cathie Kane (Chair), Patty Capaldi, Judy Cekada, Barbara Deaney, region, to realize that there is university level care available to them Jane French, Mary Ann Kull, Patti Lees, Kathy Maguire, Gert Novin, right here at the Shore.” Judy Schwartz and Millie Traa. The inaugural Women’s Wellness Dr. Sood, who completed a fellowship in plastic and Journey event was sponsored by Cape Bank.
From left to right: Theresa Trainum, SVP Residential Lending of Cape Bank; Linda D’Agostino, VP, Residential Lending; Michelle Perna, SVP, Human Resources; Jennifer McDermott, AVP, Business Banking; Lana Latella, VP, Business Banking; Shore Vice President and Foundation Chief Development Jann Mevoli, VP, Commercial Loans; Joanna Penman, VP, Officer Thomas J. Mundell, Chairperson Cathie Kane, Commercial Loans; Elizabeth Hulitt, VP, Commercial Loans; Shore President and CEO Ron Johnson, Committee and Christie Wiggins, VP, Marketing. Member Patti Lees and Dr. Mohit Sood
Above, from left to right: Cape Bank Event Sponsors, VP Marketing Christie Wiggins and SVP Human Resources Michelle Perna; Shore Vice President and Foundation Chief Development Officer, Thomas J. Mundell; Committee Members Barbara Deaney and Patti Lees; Shore President and CEO, Ron Johnson; Committee Chairperson, Cathie Kane; Committee Members Dr. Magna Chang Dias, Maureen Dias, Phyllis Hoover, Mary Ann Kull and Gert Novin; Dr. Mohit Sood and Committee Members Millie Traa and Judy Susan Auerbach, Claire Frankel, Ilene Daniels, Gert Novin, Kelly McCarron, Judy Stephenson, Jennifer Bowman, Schwartz. Right: Dr. Mohit Sood of Shore Physicians Group making his presentation. Barbara Cohen, Donna Lenchner, Roberta Muchnick and France Hermann Beth Bowman, Mary Ann Kull and Pat Ray
24 | The Boardwalk Journal | October 2012 October 2012 | The Boardwalk Journal | 25 Lloyd D. Levenson’s – “Life at the Shore” George “Chip” Godfrey joins the list of Cooper Levenson Attorneys Certified by the Supreme Court of New Jersey as a Civil Trial Attorney To become certified, an attorney must pass a written examination given by the New Jersey Supreme Court, meet strict experience and ethical requirements, and pass a background check that includes recommendations of past court room adversaries and trial judges who have observed the attorney in action. This distinction is achieved by less than 2% of all lawyers licensed in New Jersey.
“Chip is a talented attorney and a valued partner. We are proud to congratulate him on this well- deserved recognition from the New Jersey Supreme Court,” said Kenneth J. Calemmo, Jr., Chief Operating Officer. Other Cooper Levenson partners who are certified by the N.J. Supreme Court are Lewis April, Rona Kaplan, Russell Lichtenstein, Louis Niedelman and James P. Paoli. Godfrey joined the firm’s Employment and Casino Defense Litigation section in 2007 as a partner and brought with him a winning record in high-dollar civil litigation and particular expertise in insurance, personal injury, and workers compensation law. In addition to his practice, Godfrey serves as an arbitrator in Atlantic County Superior Court. He formerly served as Co-Chairman of the Atlantic County Lecture series for Young Attorneys and was honored as the Atlantic County Bar Association Honorable Benjamin A. Rimm Award for Outstanding Young Lawyer in 1996. Godfrey is a graduate of Colgate University (B.A. 1987) and the Oklahoma City University School of Governor Chris Christie grabbed the summarily bar New Jersey from how allowing lawful sports gambling Law (J.D. 1991). He is admitted to the New Jersey and Pennsylvania Bars and the New Jersey U. S. headlines recently when he publicly carrying it into effect. The leagues point in New Jersey could possibly increase District Court. Chip is a member of the American Bar Association, the New Jersey State Bar Association, announced that if anyone wanted to to a recent Court decision which upheld the supposed harm to the “purity of the Vincent S. Haneman American Inn of Court, and the American Trial Lawyers Association. prevent New Jersey from enacting sports a similar challenge which the leagues sport.” New Jersey even references the wagering, then “they’ll have to take brought in an attempt by Delaware to humorous scene in the movie George “Chip” Godfrey can be reached at 609.572.7384 or [email protected] action to try to stop us.” The Governor’s legalize sports wagering. Casablanca where Captain Renault www.cooperlevenson.com challenge was directed at both the exclaims in Rick’s Café (and gambling Federal government as well as at the New Jersey has not backed down one den) that he was “shocked, shocked to NCAA and the professional sports inch in the face of this challenge. The find that gambling is going on in here.” leagues, including the NFL, NHL, NBA, State has retained two nationally and MLB. In response, all of those regarded experts on constitutional law, It is possible, although unlikely, that by sporting organizations (but not the including Ted Olson, who had served as the time this article is printed, this Federal government) joined forces in a United States Solicitor General and matter will have been resolved. lawsuit they filed in Federal Court on represented President Bush in his Frankly, I think it more likely that this August 7, 2012. The fight is on! successful litigation over the 2000 litigation, which could be crucial to election results. The New Jersey our State’s ability to compete with Las While the issues are complex, the Defendants have countered the lawsuit Vegas and other venues, is going to drag underlying nature of the fight is simple. with a motion arguing that the sports on through a lengthy appellate process. The Professional and Amateur Sports leagues do not have “standing” to bring Protection Act (“PASPA”) is a Federal law an action in Federal Court to invalidate The bottom line is that the Governor’s prohibiting State governments from the New Jersey Sports Wagering Law. challenge was not a mere bluff. New carrying on any sports wagering, with a They argue persuasively that the Federal Jersey strongly desires legal sports few narrow exceptions which do not Constitution does not permit Congress wagering, and is obviously prepared to apply here. Notwithstanding PASPA, to delegate to the sports leagues the right fight this matter to the end. Those of New Jersey this year enacted the Sports to have State laws struck down as illegal. us who care about the economic Wagering Law, N.J.S.A. 5:12A-1, which viability of the Garden State will be explicitly allows sports gambling New Jersey also dismisses as pure following this case intently. throughout the State. speculation the claim made by the leagues that wagering on sports in New Citing the fundamental principle that Jersey will harm “the bonds of loyalty Lloyd D. Levenson is Chief Executive the laws of the United States are the and devotion between fans and teams.” Officer of the Atlantic City-based law firm Cooper Levenson and Chairman of the firm’s Casino Law “supreme law of the land,” the sports New Jersey points out that hundreds of Departments in Atlantic City and leagues argue that the New Jersey Sports billions of dollars are already being Las Vegas. Mr. Levenson may be reached at Wagering Law is clearly illegal under wagered both legally and illegally on (609)344-3161 or by email at PASPA and that a Court should sports in the United States. They ask [email protected]. Who’s Who Who’s Who at the Jersey Shore at the Jersey Shore
Nicole Tassinaro Faheem Davis
When you can increase an emergency hospital’s Nicole began her career in December of 1999 in Brick, NJ, honing Faheem Davis, otherwise known as DJ FAH D, from the ground floor and getting steadily bigger and bigger in physician referral revenue by $4 million, does it really matter that the her customer service skills first as an administrative assistant with of Atlantic City, might end up an inspiration to every kid who reputation and professionalism. “I worked really hard to get out patients the hospital serves are of the four-legged variety? the Brick Township Chamber of Commerce and later in various roles ever grew up making mix tapes, or mix CDs. At the age of 12, of the casinos,” explained Davis of his drive to make this work. last winter, when Shore Medical Center was looking for a Provider with Commerce Bank. Her first real marketing position came as Brand Davis started making mix tapes. These weren’t the mix tapes Currently, Davis works Monday through Friday on the business Liaison to head up its new Physicians Liaison Program, the experience Ambassador with WRAT radio in Lake Como, NJ, where she worked to I was making in high school. These mix tapes were actually side of things; planning, promoting, scheduling and marketing and results that Nicole Tassinaro brought to the table won her the promote the station and coordinate a variety of promotional events and creating a buzz in our area. So much so that after graduating from for Major Impact Entertainment. On the weekends, he DJs. position – despite her background coming with NorthStar VETS. station personality appearances throughout the local community. Atlantic City High School in 1996, while working as a bartender “There’s not much down time,” joked Davis. The reality is that Nicole, whose unique experience combines in April of 2008, Nicole returned to Brick and the Oxygen Fitness at Bally’s, Davis came across a copy of The Source Magazine—a He’s not kidding. In addition to being a DJ and running health, fitness, marketing and customer service, knows how to represent and Sports Club as a Group Fitness Instructor and Personal Trainer. magazine covering hip hop and culture—and found an article an entertainment company, Davis works in radio, creating, healthcare leaders. Nicole’s role as a Group Fitness Instructor and Personal Trainer helps there about one of his CDs. producing, and editing commercials for 99.3 Kiss FM, 101.3 in “Our physicians and their staffs want to know that their input and her promote health and wellness within the community. Between then and 2000, Davis sold thousands and Pennsylvania, and Delaware and Stockton’s 91.7 FM College, as concerns are being heard and acted upon at the highest levels,” Nicole During this same period, and prior to moving on to NorthStar said. “In my position I’m fortunate to have access to our President and VETS, Nicole put her undergraduate degree to work, accepting a Public thousands of his CDs in local stores, online websites, and well as hosting mix-tape radio shows of his own. Whatever down CEO Ron Johnson, our Chief Medical Officer Dr. Jeanne Rowe and Relations position with Ocean Health Initiatives (OHI) in Lakewood, through word of mouth. As word of his mixes grew, Davis started time he does have is reserved for his family. the entire senior leadership team. Their support brings a great deal of NJ. While at OHI, she worked to promote the company and its mission getting booked for parties. Davis had to rent equipment for his Davis, the father of three kids who range in age from 10 credibility to my role, and has enabled me to establish a great rapport of fostering relationships between individual patients, families and first party, where he mixed for a crowd of 1500 party goers, and months to 14 years, spends much of his working time at home, with the outstanding physicians we have on staff at Shore.” their providers, to ensure comprehensive timely treatment and the since then, he hasn’t stopped. In fact, only three times in the past where he is able to spend time with his kids in addition to Nicole works hand-in-hand with the Shore’s new Physicians development of personalized care plans. twelve years has Davis had the time to set his equipment up in making a Major Impact in Atlantic City. Davis explained, “I Relations Team and area doctors to ensure patient access to Shore’s while maintaining her home and close ties to friends and family in his home to practice. wouldn’t have it any other way.” facilities and programs, provide assistance with patient referrals, the Brick area, Nicole has found an equally enjoyable new home at Shore Davis is a born and bred Atlantic City native, and while promote the highest levels of patient-centered care, address physicians’ Medical Center and the South Jersey shore. Her dedication to servicing he’s played at venues across the United States, including Miami, issues and concerns, provide a consistent flow of information regarding the Shore team, its exceptional physicians and the people they care for Atlanta, Maryland, Delaware, and New York, as well as Jamaica, Faheem Davis what’s happening at Shore and create a positive referral experience for is in keeping with Shore Medical Center’s Mission, Vision and Values – his favorite place to play is still his hometown. “I’ve been able to physicians and patients, alike. and Nicole’s passion to be the very best! build a core audience here,” explained Davis. when she first arrived at Shore, Nicole’s focus was in support of His favorite AC venue? While he likes them all, Davis Shore’s Advanced Spine and Orthopedic Institute. Her early successes Nicole Tassinaro admitted, “I really like the sound system at the 40/40.” And and popularity, both within Shore and among area physicians, has though he’s played practically every venue in Atlantic City, quickly led to increased responsibilities. Nicole now promotes all six including Revel and The Foundation Room, he has yet to make Centers for Excellence and a variety of Shore departments, as well as his way back to Bally’s, where he continued bartending while Shore’s new affiliate – Shore Physicians Group. building his brand until 2008. “I do have two events next month Prior to joining the Shore Medical Center team, Nicole spent two in Bally’s,” Davis said. and half highly successful years as Marketing Director and Client Liaison And while Davis could probably DJ every day of the for NorthStar VETS in Robbinsville, New Jersey. Tapping into her week—according to Davis, he’s been named the Best Club rich academic background, which included a B.A. in Communications DJ by the South Jersey Music Awards and been named as from Monmouth University and a pair of Mini-MBA CMD in Strategic one of the top DJs in the country by XXL Magazine —he Marketing and Digital Marketing from Rutgers University, Piscataway, is working consistently on building up his company, Major Nicole developed the marketing strategies and coordinated the liaison Impact Entertainment. “Right now, I’m working on making the activities which yielded $4 million in physician referral revenue for company a household name,” explained Davis. “It was my New NorthStar VETS. Year’s resolution.” During her time at NorthStar VETS, which included stints on started with partner, Carnell Shepperson, Major Impact the New Jersey Veterinary Medical Association’s (NJVMA) Public Entertainment is a full service entertainment company that Relations Board and the Philadelphia Direct Marketing Association’s specializes in urban entertainment. They offer all styles of (PDMA) Board, she was the 2010 Recipient of the PDMA’s “Best concerts, bands, DJs, dancers, models, and more, and will Social Media Campaign.” She also initiated “Join the Paws,” a coalition custom design events. With Major Impact, Davis has contributed of veterinarians, business professionals and animal lovers connected to the promotion of huge Atlantic City events, including the through various social media channels. “Join the Paws” went viral and concerts of Lil Wayne, Nicki Minaj, Diddy, Jamie Foxx, and Trey received international awareness and recognition in and around the Gulf Songz among many others. oil spill, which affected wildlife throughout the Gulf region. Davis has worked hard to get where he is now, starting
28 | The Boardwalk Journal | October 2012 October 2012 | The Boardwalk Journal | 29 Who’s Who Who’s Who at the Jersey Shore at the Jersey Shore Jaime Hannigan Frank Giordano
Jaime Hannigan (Muratore), the Director of college kids the HERO Campaign works to educate. “We are trying Frank Giordano continues to feel thankful which is approaching forty years in business, boasts a full service Corporate Marketing and Sponsor Development for the HERO to really hit that age range, where they are really forming their ideals.” for the voters who have consistently supported him—with their help, restaurant with two banquet rooms and pizza take-out and delivery Campaign, never thought she would be working for a nonprofit And though Hannigan explained that the statistics say that more he has never lost an election in his sixteen year political career. It’s his for your convenience. when she was in college studying business marketing. The people have been affected by a drinking and driving accident than hope that this November’s elections for Atlantic County Freeholder Though there have been changes—Cousin Mario’s dramatically are no different. Giordano feels he has the experience and credibility increased in size when the restaurant moved to a new location in Westwood, NJ native graduated from Stockton College in 2006, and in previous years, her hope, and the hope of the HERO Campaign, necessary for making that happen. 2008—Cousin Mario’s still maintains a fun family atmosphere, which got her first marketing job right here in Atlantic County. is that they can start to change the culture of a school, one good Frank Giordano, originally from Queens, New York, moved to is of utmost importance to Giordano. With a kitchen run by Head After working as a bartender at the Lyons Group run sports-bar, decision at a time. Atlantic County in 1973. Along with his family, he helped as his father Chef and CIA Graduate, Anthony Lindi, Cousin Mario’s boasts a full Game On!, at The Pier in Atlantic City during college, Hannigan Hannigan is currently knee-deep in the Second Annual opened his very own pizzeria, Cousin Mario’s, in Mays Landing. menu complete with steak, seafood, veal and chicken. was hired in a marketing capacity for the Lyons Group. For over two Ensign John R. Elliot Hero Walk, which is scheduled to take When Frank and his family opened the restaurant, they were the first Giordano has found both his restaurant work as well as his years, Hannigan functioned as a Marketing Manager, working on place on Sunday, October 14th. Currently the HERO Campaign’s pizza shop in town. Since then, the area has quadrupled in size, giving political career to be extremely rewarding. Those, along with his promotions, group sales, and viability. signature event, Hannigan and her co-workers (there are now seven Frank the opportunity to be thoroughly involved in the community as family and his commitment to the Lord, contribute greatly to the in 2010, Hannigan was approached by a friend to help employees at HERO) are hoping they can double their fundraising he stayed a familiar face at Cousin Mario’s. character behind this freeholder. Giordano hopes to continue his coordinate the first ever Bartender’s Ball in Atlantic City. It would from $100,000 last year to $200,000 this year. Frank, a graduate of Oakcrest High School, married his wife service to the people of Atlantic County, adding, “I humbly thank the be an upscale, black tie event, benefitting the HERO Campaign. it’s a goal Hannigan is quite serious about—her and husband, Fran in 1981 and had two children, Eryn and Joe, solidifying his residents for all of the opportunities I have experienced in my life, Hannigan jumped at the chance, and the rest, as they say, was history. Brooks Hannigan, have postponed their honeymoon until after the walk. place in the community before becoming involved politically. both as an entrepreneur and as an elected official.” “After the event, HERO approached me,” Hannigan As much as Hannigan loves her job, she’s got another business also. Originally interested in promoting healthy recreation for the youth The Boardwalk Journal wishes you the best of luck this November explains. They offered her her current position. The feeling was “I own a boutique in Sea Isle with my sister, Lisa (Muratore).” White in the area, he ran for, and won, a seat on the township committee of 6th, Freeholder Giordano. mutual—Hannigan was in the process of approaching them about Lotus Boutique is located on 38th Street in Sea Isle City. “I’m really a Hamilton Township. coordinating the Bartender’s Ball annually. silent partner,” Hannigan explained. “My sister manages the front end serving on the township committee for nine years gave Giordano Hannigan took the job. She was HERO’s second employee. and seasonal employees make the business run on a daily basis.” That is, experience on every board in local politics, including terms served as of her experience at a nonprofit after working in the corporate when she isn’t working with Hannigan at the HERO Campaign. both Mayor and Deputy Mayor. This experience gave Giordano the world, Hannigan said, “It is totally different; it feels like you’re doing confidence he needed to become a candidate for the Atlantic County something for a cause, that you’re making a difference in people’s lives.” Jaime Hannigan Board of Freeholders, where he was first elected in 2006. “Having worked in a corporation, I feel a lot of personal re-elected in 2009, Giordano has quite a few accomplishments satisfaction here (at HERO). People care about each other, and I feel under his belt as a Freeholder. From serving on the budget like I’m doing a good job,” added Hannigan. committee to keeping taxes down while being part of the And doing a good job is of utmost importance to Hannigan, administration that has had twelve perfect audits , Giordano can as well as Bill and Muriel Elliot, who started the HERO Campaign also boast a low debt ratio in Atlantic County. Equally important to in 2000 after their son, Ensign John R. Elliot was struck and killed Giordano is his sponsorship of the Jessica Lunsford Act,which aims when a drunk driver, after being stopped and issued a DUI, got back to protect children from sexual predators. into the car and continued to drive. Giordano is currently the Chairperson of the 911 Centralized “The Elliot’s have taken a negative and terrible thing and made Dispatch Committee, which aims to centralize dispatch for all of it a positive,” added Hannigan. Atlantic County, saving the county and taxpayers millions of dollars Hannigan also appreciates the message of the HERO in shared services. Campaign, which is not an anti-drinking campaign, but rather a “We are partnering with Stockton to build a shared service responsibility campaign. “It’s more about changing behaviors and dispatch on their campus…Stockton will utilize part of the building awareness…making a plan about how you’re going to get home for student studies and the Stockton Police Department relocation… before you go out,” explained Hannigan of the “Be a HERO, Be a this building will also house emergency services for fire, EMS, and Designated Driver” message used by the campaign. police, and eventually traffic control,” explained Giordano of the with a new husband—she was married just days before our centralized dispatch plan. interview—who works as a bartender while studying to be a police Giordano’s goals for reelection are “to continue to increase officer, this message is important to Hannigan, who, as a former shared services, to be a watchdog on budget committee, and to help bartender herself, knows there is a difference between abstinence bring to fruition the work that has been started at the Scientific and responsibility. “I’ve never driven drunk or impaired…I’ve Research Park at the FAA property.” Giordano added that “this always had a plan when I went out…my husband and I will pay for formula will bring technological advancements in jobs to the families cabs for our friends. It’s what comes naturally to us.” of Atlantic County in the very near future.” Hannigan is hoping it becomes natural to the high school and if that weren’t enough, Giordano, along with his brothers, Freeholder Frank Giordano Joe, Mike, and John, also manages a restaurant. Cousin Mario’s,
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Legal legend Frank J. Ferry, Esq. at The Ritz in Atlantic City By Ja m e s J Le o n a r d Jr., Es q . Ferry in 1962 when he worked as an Assistant US Attorney with the Department of Justice in Camden
One person who doesn’t find himself glued to his television set every Sunday As a young law associate working for in Camden and I worked there until 1962 and then I went back to work at Senator Frank “Hap” Farley’s politically charged Atlantic City based law Hap’s firm. At the time, it was Hap, his brother Paul, Atlantic CityS olicitor night at 9 pm watching HBO’s locally-set, critically-acclaimed, award-winning firm in the mid 60’s, Ferry became acquainted with the real Nucky, Enoch Murray Fredericks, and myself. I was the young guy back then. One day “Nucky” Johnson, the colorful political boss who controlled Atlantic City in 1965, Hap came to me and asked me to do a favor for Nucky and he series Boardwalk Empire is local attorney/historian and aspiring author Frank for almost three decades before he was sent to federal prison in 1941. and I got to know one another quite well. The Department of Justice was “Hap Farley was my mentor,” says Ferry. “I’d known him since I was pressing him for the $20,000 fine he never paid and since I was familiar Ferry. “It’s not realistic,” says Ferry, dismissing the fictional Enoch “Nucky” a little boy. The Ferry and Farley families go way back.W hen I graduated with the procedures, I was able to stop the collection action.” Thompson with a wave of his hand. “It’s not even close.” from Georgetown Law School in 1957, I worked as a law clerk for Hap, No longer ‘the young guy’, Ferry is now the senior partner and who by then was a State Senator. Hap helped me get a job as a trial principal of Farley, Fredericks & Ferry, the same firm that was founded attorney for the U.S. Department of Justice in the U.S. Attorney’s Office by his mentor, Senator Hap Farley, more than a half-century ago. And Ferry would know. October 2012 | The Boardwalk Journal | 35 legendary Chicago gangsters Al Capone and John Torrio in 1921 at a Jack Dempsey heavyweight championship of the world prizefight in Jersey City, which in addition to attracting men like Johnson and Chicago gangsters, attracted a capacity crowd of 91,000 and generated the first ever million-dollar gate in sports history. “Nucky had gotten to know Dempsey because the champ was training in Atlantic City for the world heavyweight championship fight. He fought a Frenchman named Georges Carpentier and the fight was being billed as the great French War Hero (Carpentier) versus Dempsey, who was often criticized as being a World War I draft dodger. The whole event was quite a spectacle and ultimately Dempsey won,” says Ferry. “But aside from the fight, what had happened was that Nucky and Al Capone got together for the first time and they started doing business together controlling the flow of all the booze in the United States, because remember this was during Prohibition and the roaring twenties.” Ferry said that after attending the Dempsey fight, Johnson returned to Atlantic City with more than a connection and business relationship Republican boss Enoch “Nucky” Johnson with the country’s most notorious gangster—Nucky had his eyes set on something for Atlantic City’s future. “I’m one of the last guys from that era left standing, the only link Ferry’s book about Johnson, which is due out in December, details “Nucky was in awe that that between Hap and Nucky,” says Ferry. “Nucky died in 1968 and Hap died Nucky’s life as a young man, beginning with his tenure as undersheriff Dempsey fight attracted 91,000 in 1977.” and working for his father, Smith Johnson, the longtime county sheriff. people in a dust bowl and made so Ferry has written his first book, tentatively titled, Lucky Nucky, that “Nucky’s father hung three prisoners when he was the sheriff,” recalls much money that he set out to build details the rise and fall of his former client and friend, Nucky Johnson. Ferry. “The last hanging was in 1907. This is how they did things back the world’s biggest indoor hall so “Nucky was a very colorful individual, but he was nothing like what then—each county sheriff hung his own prisoner. Before the last man that he could bring events like that to they portrayed on television, with the exception of the carnation,” says was hung, Nucky, as the undersheriff, read a written statement from the Atlantic City,” says Ferry. Ferry laughing. “Nucky always wore a red carnation.” man, proclaiming his innocence, to those who had gathered. The Court And in 1929, after eight years The larger than life Johnson was wearing his trademark red carnation appointed a death jury of 12 to witness the hanging to make sure it was of planning and more than $15 when a 21 year old Ferry first laid eyes on him in 1950 as he strolled into carried out humanely.” million dollars in costs, Nucky’s the legendary Cotton Club on North Indiana Avenue in Atlantic City to six years later in 1913, Nucky, no longer his father’s undersheriff, vision and political muscle came thunderous applause and a standing ovation. became the undisputed boss of the very powerful Atlantic County to life by way of Atlantic City’s “Now keep in mind this was 1950,” says Ferry, “which was nine Republican Party, when he became the County Treasurer. mammoth Convention Hall – the years after he had been sent to prison and the place went nuts when he “Back then the Atlantic County Republicans were a well-oiled largest in the world. walked in, that’s how beloved he was after all those years, particularly by machine. When Commodore Louis Kuehnle went to jail in 1913 for “Convention Hall was Nucky’s A letter sent by Nucky Johnson to one of his political supporters the African American community because Nucky made sure that they conflict of interest, Nucky took over,” says Ferry. “You have to remember crowning achievement,” says Ferry. always had coal to keep warm in the winter and food to feed their families that back then people didn’t have social security, there was no welfare “It’s the one thing you can point to “Not to take anything away from Nucky, but no one matched up and that their children had clothes.” or workers compensation or civil service—people had to go to work more than 80 years later and say ‘hey, Nucky did that’.” with Hap Farley,” says Ferry. “Not back then and not today. Hap was a “Nucky wasn’t just a boss, he was a dictator,” says Ferry. “But he every day to take care of their families and the politicians controlled all Ferry says that while Nucky may be the one with a television series political giant. While Nucky gets credit for building Convention Hall was a benevolent dictator and the people loved him…his word was the jobs.” based on his life, it was Nucky’s political successor and Ferry’s mentor, during a Depression era, you have to give Hap credit for the Atlantic City his bond.” less than a decade after becoming boss, Nucky Johnson met Hap Farley, who was the real rock star of accomplishments.
36 | The Boardwalk Journal | October 2012 October 2012 | The Boardwalk Journal | 37 Depression and goes through World War II at the same time Nucky is going to prison and transitions into Hap taking over. Hap’s story in politics starts in the 40’s at the end of the FDR era and goes all the way through the 50’s and the 60’s, right through the civil rights era and into the early 70’s when Joe McGahn beat him in 1971. To be able to resurrect their lives and stories and how they intersect like they did, with characters like Jimmy Boyd playing a significant role in both books, is something that I wanted to do so that the next generation knows the real story behind Atlantic City and this region and not the fictional story on television,” says Ferry. “And number two, writing these books is a great way for me to relive so much of my life. I have such fond memories and this gives me an opportunity to take a very detailed stroll down memory lane and has helped keep me sharp.” That and a rigorous schedule that includes daily kayaking on the English Creek, which is adjacent to the old grist mill that is a part of Ferry’s picturesque Egg Harbor Township home. “This was former Assemblyman and owner of the Atlantic City Country Club Sonny Fraser’s home many years ago,” says Ferry on his back porch. “There is a lot of history here…the birth of Egg Harbor Township and Atlantic County.” History seems to be something very near and dear to Ferry as he peruses through several binders of old Atlantic City pictures featuring never before seen photos he has accumulated over the last several decades, as well as several handwritten notes and artifacts from men like Nucky Johnson and Hap Farley. He gave a lot Nucky had political clubs named after him in almost every city in Atlantic County and they supported the Republican ticket. Nucky and Floss were married in the Presbyterian Church at Pennsylvania of credit to his law assistant Carol Heinisch and Pacific Avenues in Atlantic City the day before he was sent to Federal Prison in 1941 for her detailed research and Lynn Wood, his photographer, along with her assistant, Expressway, the Garden State Parkway, the Atlantic City Marina, the Audrey Foster. Atlantic City Luxury Tax, the Atlantic City Race Course and his roles in “The material is going to be used in my third book,” says Ferry. “This the formation of what would become Stockton and ACCC and at least a one is going to be more of a pictorial book, where the other two are more dozen or more major accomplishments that you can look at today and say traditional biography type books.” ‘hey, Hap did that.’ He did the impossible routinely and became the Dean rob Huberman, the Publisher at the Margate based ComteQ of the New Jersey Senate with 34 years of service in the legislature.” Publishing, says that he hopes to publish all three of Ferry’s books, with Ferry has already written the first and last chapter of his follow the tentatively titled Lucky Nucky due out before Christmas. up book, which will be published after his 300 plus page Nucky book “Our plan is to release the Nucky book in December and follow it is released. And the subject of Ferry’s second book is, you guessed it, up with the pictorial book in the Spring,” says Huberman. “The pictorial Senator Frank “Hap” Farley. book is more of a coffee table book. I would then like to see the Hap Ferry says that writing books on men like Johnson and Farley has Farley book, which is a natural follow up to the Nucky book, come out been a very rewarding experience for him personally. Hap would see towards the end of 2013.” ten to fifteen people every day in his law office and they all left smiling – But while Ferry talks of three books, Huberman talks of a fourth. Nucky did the same thing on the Boardwalk at Iowa Avenue, on the street “I would love to publish a book about the life of Frank Ferry,” where he lived. says Huberman, adding, “Frank is the consummate storyteller and his “Number one, I am fascinated by these eras. The Nucky book starts at knowledge of local history is so extensive. I think Frank’s life story would He frequently rallied his political clubs in the election cycle to encourage supporters to get out and support the Republicans. the turn of the century, goes through World War I, Prohibition, the Great be an amazing read.”
38 | The Boardwalk Journal | October 2012 October 2012 | The Boardwalk Journal | 39 Huberman, through ComteQ, has already published the memoirs of several local prominent figures like George Hamid of Steel Pier fame and the legendary Sid Ascher. Football Recruiter Has Life-Saving Surgery at Armc’s “I really enjoy working with local authors,” says Huberman, “and working with Frank has been nothing Cardiac Catheterization and Rhythm Center short of fantastic.” Atlanticare Cardiac Physicians Tackle Life-Threatening Condition The humble Ferry smiles at the thought of a book being written about his life, but quickly turns the Carl Gansert, of Ocean View, New Jersey suffered a heart “I should have gone to more check-ups, but I never conversation back to Nucky and Hap. attack at his home the morning of April 22. thought it could happen to me. I would joke with my wife “They don’t make men like Nucky and Hap “At first I thought I had food poisoning. I woke up that I was Superman,” said Gansert. “I am very fortunate to anymore, I am the keeper of the flame,” says Ferry. around 4 a.m. feeling sick to my stomach and light headed,” be alive and will take the necessary steps to be as healthy as “These men were both very unique and very special and said Gansert. “I didn’t have any of the ‘classic’ symptoms of possible to prevent anything like this from happening again.” I consider it an honor and a privilege to have known heart attack, such as chest or arm pain. I remember being both men as I did and to have worked with them both. About the Heart Institute at AtlantiCare short of breath and sweating profusely,” recalls the 50-year-old Regional Medical Center I’ve always said that Atlantic City is very small and father of five and offensive coordinator for the South Jersey everyone is related, either through blood, marriage or The Heart Institute at ARMC is the region’s only Storm semi-pro football team. comprehensive cardiac surgery program. It offers nearly lawsuits. I feel that these books will show people who After initial treatment, Gansert was transferred through these men really were and what they meant to the every surgical and technological treatment for heart ARMC’s One Call Transfer System from Cape Regional development of this region.” disease available. It is the area’s sole provider of emergency Medical Center to the Heart Institute at AtlantiCare Regional while Frank Ferry may be correct when he says, cardiac catheterization services for patients experiencing “they don’t make them like that anymore,” referring to Medical Center’s Mainland Campus, Pomona, where the heart attacks. ARMC’s New York University-affiliated Nucky and Hap, it’s likely that the same quote applies Coronary Care Unit (CCU) team was waiting for him. The cardiothoracic surgeons, as well as its physician assistants to him—they don’t make them like Ferry anymore One Call Transfer System coordinates a patient transfer using and specially trained cardiac team, provide quality, either. To that end, we can only hope that the fourth ARMC’s 24 hour emergency medical transport system which compassionate care. book that Rob Huberman speaks about will one day provides life-saving care en route to an AtlantiCare facility. The Society of Chest Pain Centers (SCPC) granted Haitham Dib, MD, medical director, Cardiovascular be published. Ferry in his Ventnor office ARMC’s Mainland and City campuses full Cycle III Clinical Integration, AtlantiCare, was making rounds in the accreditation as Chest Pain centers in 2010. Cycle III CCU at the exact moment Gansert’s heart stopped beating accreditation is an advanced accreditation that recognizes and he went into sudden cardiac arrest. Dib and the clinical hospitals for meeting stringent guidelines and protocols in the team quickly mobilized to restart Gansert’s heart. care of patients with chest pain. “Carl was in the right place at the right time,” said Dib. “Because we were able to immediately intervene his recovery About Heart Attack Symptoms Atlantic City has changed greatly in recent years. Yet Angelo’s, located in was not compromised physically or neurologically.” “Heart attack symptoms include chest discomfort that the Ducktown section of Atlantic City, is a restaurant that has endured and Jeffrey VanHook, DO, of the Cardiac Catheterization and lasts more than a few minutes or goes away and comes back,” flourished for three generations of Mancuso’s - since 1935 - making this restaurant Rhythm Center at ARMC’s Mainland Campus, performed an explained Dib. “It might feel like pressure, squeezing, fullness an institution in Atlantic City. emergency cardiac catheterization. It revealed Gansert’s right or pain. Experiencing extreme fatigue; shortness of breath; coronary artery was 100 percent blocked which can lead to discomfort in one or both arms, the back, neck, or jaw; a More than seventy years of dining excellence have made our homestyle Italian feeling of indigestion or upset stomach are all symptoms. menu age like a fine Italian wine. 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Oddly, he seems to be Beautifully dressed in mid-nineteenth-century Dr. Charles Stansfieldspent decades in academia before existence doesn’t mean ghosts aren’t there.” wearing flamboyantly large diamonds—a tie stickpin finery, including a black tailcoat and top hat, this he began his new career as the author of ghost stories. Furthermore, in looking at it from a research angle, and several gaudy rings. But when they try to get a closer A doctor of geography, Stansfield taught at Glassboro Stansfield found that there was no culture that didn’t look at this glittering apparition, the image disappears as phantom strolls the streets and beach of Atlantic City. State (now Rowan University) from 1966 until about have some sort of ghost story tradition. From Eastern though the man, his chair and his servant have all simply The figure is usually seen only shortly after dawn. five years ago. During that time, he wrote several Europe, to Japan, to the Navajo tribe of Arizona, evaporated. Many who’ve had this experience think Early strollers on the Boardwalk are among those who geography text books. About nine or ten years ago, he cultures everywhere had ghost stories or legends to they’ve seen the ghost of Diamond Jim Brady. will glimpse the seemingly out-of-place Victorian thought to himself, “I’d like to write a ‘non-text’ book.” some extent. When the future millionaire and bon vivant was gentleman, so formally dressed in a town where a T-shirt it was during that period, when Stansfield authored one of the ghost stories that Stansfield shared with born in New York City on August 12, 1856, his parents is practically semiformal. named him James Buchanan Brady. Superstitiously, But the mysterious figure really is not out of place his first book for general readership, Vacationing on me was that of the Woman in White. Legend has it that they thought that naming the child after the in a historical sense. Longtime residents of Atlantic City the Jersey Shore, published by Stackpole Books, that he this ghost, often spotted along the beaches in Long newly-elected president of the United States would figure that the ghost must be their own Dr. Jonathan began to come across the ghost stories. Beach Island, was from a long ago family of ‘wreckers’. guarantee him a bright future. President Buchanan, Pitney, the physician known as “father” of Atlantic City As a self-described, “open-minded skeptic,” Prior to the development of lighthouses in New Jersey, it turned out, was not regarded as a particularly . This ghost threatens no one. He strolls along with Stansfield was intrigued by what he discovered—that the Jersey coast was considered part of the ‘Graveyard successful president, as he did nothing to prevent a proud, satisfied smile on his face as he views the ghost stories told over the years really reflected the of the Atlantic’. Ships wrecked so frequently that entire the coming Civil War, which confronted his successor, beautiful skyline of casino hotels, gleaming in the early- cultural geography of the area. His typist at the time, families based their business on salvaging the wrecks, Abraham Lincoln. But James Buchanan was a self- morning rays of the sun. He has reason to smile: he is like Patricia Martinelli, thought the ghost stories were a nicknaming them ‘wreckers’. The Woman in White was made rich man, one of the most successful lawyers of a father expressing his satisfaction that his offspring has book in the making. And so they were. supposedly from one particular family of wreckers, who his day, so maybe it was his moneymaking skills that become so successful in maturity. in 2004, Haunted New Jersey, by Martinelli and employed tactics to actually cause wrecks in an effort rubbed off on James Buchanan Brady. The good doctor always had faith in the city’s Born to a poor family, Brady got his first job as Stansfield, was published by Stackpole Books. Since to boost their business. The woman fell in love with growth, and his daybreak inspection tours show that a hotel bellboy. Soon, however, his jovial, larger- then, Stansfield has gone on to author or co-author a sailor, and prior to their wedding, they decided he his vision of a prosperous future for Absecon Island than-life personality, brimming with fellowship and has come to pass. Dr. Pitney was a dreamer, but also another eleven books in the Haunted Series, should go out on one last voyage—to South America— self-confidence, led him to a successful career selling a man of action. He was a prominent and influential including Haunted Vermont, Haunted to earn more money for their new life together. railroad equipment. One of the first to see that steel citizen of the area, and one with some money to invest, Arizona, and Haunted Jersey Shore. little did the woman know that her betrothed railroad cars would quickly displace those made of so others listened to him. Where others might have with years of study into cultural ghost hopped ship en route to South America and headed wood, he organized the Pressed Steel Car Company seen only an almost uninhabited sandbar, desolate in stories under his belt, Stansfield has literally back home, for he so missed his beloved. She and her and made a fortune, one so large that he earned the winter and plagued by green flies and mosquitoes in heard hundreds of ghost stories, both in family, unaware that the sailor was on his way home nickname “Diamond Jim” by collecting $2 million worth the summer, Dr. Pitney saw a great beach resort that his research as well as from fans. When I far ahead of his scheduled return, staged one of their of diamond jewelry. He said that he had a different set would serve Philadelphians looking for some fun in asked him if he has become a believer in ‘wrecking’ operations, causing a boat to crash. The of diamond jewelry for each day of the week, as he the sun. Absecon Island would become a playground believed it was bad luck to wear the same diamonds the paranormal since he began his research, woman, whose job it was to strip the bodies that had for millions, he thought, as soon as vacationers were every day. He wore a lot of diamonds, but never able to reach the seashore quickly and inexpensively. Stansfield explained that “while I was raised washed onto the beach of their valuables, came across thirteen at once as he was superstitious. What was needed was a railroad, so he helped organize a skeptic”—Stansfield’s parents would the body of her fiancé, and spent the rest of her life, Diamond Jim loved Atlantic City. He had his the Camden and Atlantic Railroad to bring would-be assure him there were “no such thing as and perhaps her eternal life, walking the beaches in her penthouse at the Shelbourne Hotel outfitted with beachgoers to his island. ghosts” after seeing a scary movie—“there wedding dress, in the mad hopes of warning her fiancé gold bathroom fixtures. He ate and drank the best of Dr. Pitney believed that fortunes could be made are a great many people who have had an of the impending disaster. everything—in large quantities. His immense weight from real estate in the new resort he envisioned. And experience that doesn’t have a scientific it’s enough to give me the creeps, but Stansfield and gout made it painful to walk, so he loved to be he was right. Oceanfront land that he and his friends reason behind it.” Stansfield added, “I have an takes it all in stride. “I sleep well,” Stansfield jokes. pushed along the Boardwalk in his rolling chair, cigar and glass of champagne in hand. He had one last rolling bought for $17.50 and acre in 1854 now goes for uncle who is color blind…he can’t see the color red. He may, but come this Halloween season, with a $2,000 or more per square foot. No wonder Jonathan That doesn’t mean the color red doesn’t exist. In the copy of Haunted Jersey Shore at my bedside, I may be chair ride, at least as a living soul on April 12, 1917. The next day, the thirteenth, his unlucky day, he was dead. Pitney’s ghost has a satisfied smile on his face. same way, just because you can’t prove or disprove their another story. But many believe that his ghost still rides in a Wouldn’t you?
46 | The Boardwalk Journal | October 2012 October 2012 | The Boardwalk Journal | 47 The Ghost Of Dr. Jonathan Pitney? It isn’t every day that you get to talk to an actual ghost. But that’s exactly what it’s like when you speak with Michael Doyle, the man who has portrayed a living Dr. Jonathan Pitney—considered the ‘Father of Atlantic City’—for the past City, where he first starred at the Harlem Club in 1943. the light earlier may have prevented. The Ghostly Tap Dancer fifteen years. A great showman, Bates had his wooden legs made Among the ghosts observed at the Doyle, a 69-year-old resident of both Absecon and Philadelphia, fell in love Many remember hearing the rhythmic tap-tap- into an assortment of colors, with matching tuxes and lighthouse is a British soldier of the with Atlantic City and its history over a decade ago, and has been a fan ever tapping sounds along Atlantic City’s Boardwalk, usually top hats. The irrepressible dancer performed almost Revolutionary War period. His red and late at night or early in the morning. The musical since, using the persona of Dr. Jonathan Pitney to educate residents and visitors continually until his death in December 1998 at age white uniform is spotless, his musket taps can be heard best when the Boardwalk is almost alike about the rich and varied history of the city. ninety-one. held at the port arms position, as if Doyle portrays Pitney so well and so often that he hardly ever answers his deserted, which is to say, only at odd hours in the It is said that some of his greatest performances ready for inspection. The historical phone out of character. And what a tremendous character he is—the ‘ghost’ of Dr. off-season. Distinctly different from the regularity of were for free. He volunteered countless times to record shows that, sure enough, a Pitney is jovial, informative and passionate about Atlantic City, then and now. the nearby surf, the tapping sounds are reminiscent entertain wounded servicemen during World War whole boatload of British soldiers Dr. Jonathan Pitney came to Atlantic County (which was then Gloucester of a uniquely American art form: tap dancing. With II, when some Atlantic City hotels were used as perished in a wreck off Absecon Island. County) from Mendam County, New Jersey, in 1820, having just finished studying at a little imagination, you can almost hear the music convalescent centers for soldiers and sailors recovering On March 31, 1779, a late-spring Columbia School of Medicine. At the time, there were only three to seven families, accompanying the taps. from surgery such as amputations. snowstorm reduced visibility to yards in addition to the Lenni-Lenape Indians, who were living on Absecon Island. Hearing, rather than seeing, ghosts is not all In life, Peg Leg Bates showed an unconquerable rather than miles. His Majesty’s troop Pitney spent a lot of time in Atlantic City, and eventually urged patients to that unusual. Are people who are hearing a rhythmic spirit—a classic tale of talent and determination come to Atlantic City to gain the therapeutic value of the ocean and sun, and to pattern along the Boardwalk experiencing an overcoming seemingly an insurmountable handicap. transport Mermaid was en route from simply relax. Pitney is said to have cured many people from rheumatism through encounter with a ghost? Or is the tapping merely Perhaps the world-class spirit just won’t die. So listen Halifax, Nova Scotia, to New York to this relaxation prescription. Pitney himself was responsible for bringing in the the random creaks of the boards responding to carefully next time you hear joyful tapping sounds reinforce British forces occupying the beginning of local tourism, traveling from Atlantic City to Philadelphia, New York, temperature and humidity changes and the impact of along Atlantic City’s Boardwalk. city. Blown off course by the raging human feet? storm, the Mermaid ran aground on a and Washington, DC to spread the word and bring guests and patients back to Those familiar with Atlantic City’s history, The Ghosts of Absecon Light sandbar and broke up in the high surf. the shore with him. particularly its show-business history, are convinced For fifty years, Pitney worked as a medical doctor, taking care of people who Absecon Lighthouse, in Atlantic City’s inlet section, At least 145 soldiers and crew died, that one of the greatest tap dancers to ever appear on didn’t have financial resources. He traveled the road to Port Republic to take care is haunted. But unlike most ghost stories, rather than their corpses washed up on what is stage in Atlantic City, and elsewhere, is still expressing of his patients so often that eventually, the road was named Pitney Road. being the scene of just one ghost’s appearances, the now America’s Playground’s beach. his zest for life and great satisfaction in entertaining his Though a good doctor, he was more than that to Atlantic City. In 1837, along lighthouse seems to host at least a dozen different So many more wrecks occurred audience. The intricate patterns of taps heard on the with his colleague Dr. Baker, Pitney was successful in his petition to the state to spirits. Those who claim to have seen ghosts standing Boardwalk may be the ghostly curtain calls of a man in the vicinity that Dr. Jonathan break away from Gloucester County, thereby establishing Atlantic County. Pitney on the very top of the light, usually gesturing out to who was one of the greatest tap dancers of all time— Pitney, the “father” of Atlantic City, was the first Freeholder of the area, served for many years as the postmaster sea, waving their arms to help ward off ships in danger, though he only had one leg! persuaded Congress in 1845 to of Absecon, and was a notary public at Graveyards Inlet (Absecon Inlet), where have such different descriptions of the apparitions as to Clayton Bates was born in 1907 in Fountain appropriate $5,000 for a feasibility he was responsible for naming all the deceased who died suggest hauntings by many different individual ghosts. Inn, South Carolina, to a poor black family, and little study of building a lighthouse there. in shipwrecks off the coast. After 78 vessels sank, he Atlantic City boasts that at 171 feet, Absecon Clayton didn’t enjoy many of life’s luxuries. But nothing Perhaps he should have introduced pushed for what became the Absecon Lighthouse Lighthouse is the tallest in New Jersey. But as with could discourage his natural sense of joy in life, and Congress to the ghosts of the many in 1857. many other things about the old “Queen of the Jersey he expressed it through dancing. At age five, he was shipwrecked victims. By the time it It was his work regarding the railroad Shore,” this is a slight exaggeration on the part of dancing for pennies in local barbershops. By age was completed more than a decade that firmly cemented Dr. Pitney as the local boosters. It’s only a very slight one, however, for twelve, he was working the graveyard shift at a cotton ‘father of Atlantic City’. According to Barnegat Lighthouse is just a foot taller. In fact, the later, on January 15, 1857, the mill, feeding cottonseed into a machine that pressed ACLink.org,”in a notion many of the time two lights most likely were intended to be built from Absecon Lighthouse had cost a total oil from the seed. One night he fell into the press—an branded as the “Railroad to Nowhere”, exactly the same plans, as both were constructed— of $52,187. But the cost of waiting so accident that severed his left leg below the knee and one determined man is most credited Absecon Light in 1857, followed by Barnegat Light in long was hundreds of lives. cost him two fingers off his right hand. with bringing the railroad to Atlantic 1859—under the supervision of Army engineer George Are the ghosts of shipwrecks past A leg amputation would have ended the City and county.” In 1854, Pitney rode Gordon Meade, who later went on to fame as the bitter? Or, as they gaze seaward dancing career of a less determined man, but Clayton on the railroad he petitioned for and Union general who won the Battle of Gettsyburg. from their perches atop Absecon hammered a metal tap onto his wooden leg, and a picked up 600 people in Camden to Lighthouses warn sailors of particularly dangerous legendary star was born. “Peg Leg” Bates soon had Lighthouse, are they relieved that offer them a glimpse of Atlantic City. locations along seacoasts. They are expensive to build star billing on Broadway, at the age of nineteen. He ships at sea now are warned of the In much the same way, Michael and maintain, so the decision to erect one comes only appeared onstage with the great Count Basie and inlet and beach? Doyle is promoting the city he has after a particular spot along the shore has proven to toured as far away as Australia with Louis Armstrong. grown to love. By telling people about be especially dangerous—after the cape or inlet has He was featured at Radio City Music Hall and was the The preceding stories were reprinted with it. By sharing with them the hopes of racked up a large number of wrecks and resulted in first African-American to appear on television’s Ed the express permission of the author and the past and the dreams for the future. sufficiently impressive death toll. Sullivan Show, in 1950. Ed had him back twenty-two publisher of Haunted Jersey Shore. For more By giving them a glimpse of a man who The many ghosts atop Absecon Lighthouse likely times. But his favorite place to perform was in Atlantic information on Charles Stanfield’s haunted was so critical to the earliest foundation represent a long list of maritime disasters that erecting book series, go to stackpolebooks.com. of Atlantic City. “He was a tremendous guy,” explains Doyle. To meet the Ghost of Dr. Jonathan Pitney personally, or have him speak at your function or school, Doyle, as the late doctor please call him at 609.377.4229. 48 | The Boardwalk Journal | October 2012 October 2012 | The Boardwalk Journal | 49 between life and death for the victims. In the last year, The dependent on the batterer and frequently unaware of the b y Mi c h e l l e Da w n Mo o n e y Women’s Center answered more than seven thousand services and interventions available to them to break the 1 Is 2 Many domestic violence related hotline calls and provided nearly cycle of violence. They are in need of emotional support, 3,500 shelter days to 222 women and children. protection and emergency shelter in which to stabilize 1 is 2 many. That’s the title of a recent campaign aimed “Domestic Violence is a pattern of abusive behavior from the traumatic experience of domestic violence.” at putting an end to the alarming increase of violence where one person, woman or man, has power and control Because safety is of primary concern, The Women’s against women. In the PSA, a star-studded line-up of over another,” says O’Hanlon. “The Women’s Center is the Center houses victims in secure, private locations. While athletes including Eli Manning, David Beckham and only agency in Atlantic County empowering survivors to the identities and whereabouts of those seeking shelter Jeremy Lin carry the message that it’s never okay to hit a live beyond abuse.” are always kept in confidence, the center’s staff is doing woman. Unfortunately, the statistics say otherwise. From shelter and food, to child care and legal advice, its best to make the issue of domestic violence widely The truth of the matter is that one in every four The Women’s Center team has been committed to doing known. Throughout the month of October, several events women will experience domestic violence in their lifetime whatever they can to see that victims of domestic violence will be held to help garner support of their mission, and it’s a situation that does not discriminate. Even some go on to live safe, healthy, and productive lives. While their including a “Flower On The Lake” vigil in Galloway Township of the seemingly strongest and most powerful women in hearts are big, their wallets are not. The center is supported and a Zumba class to end domestic violence. For more the world have fallen victim. through government grants that help pay for vital services information on upcoming events or to find out how to lend While pop star Rihanna became one of the most to victims of both domestic and sexual assault, but they your support by visiting their second hand store, “Finders successful musical artists of this decade, she was silently rely heavily on donations to make up the difference in Keepers” or making a financial or item donation, you can coping with the terrible secret that her equally famous helping to secure physical safety, emotional well-being and visit www.acwc.org. boyfriend, singer Chris Brown, hit her. She later broke her financial freedom. Perhaps the easiest way to show support is by wearing silence, telling the public that even after sustaining an “Victims who flee imminent danger and seek safety purple during the month of October. Purple is the designated incident that left her face bloodied and bruised, she went in our residential program leave behind their home, their color for domestic violence awareness. Another way is to back to Brown. Later, she admitted that it was a wrong possessions and whatever sense of security and stability be aware of the signs to identify if someone is in need of decision and she chose to break it off for good, in hopes they might have experienced in their communities, i.e. their help. Remember that even if you yourself are the one in this of being an example to any of her young fans in the same children’s schools, their church, etc.,” Ratzlaff says. “They situation, you are not alone, and help is just a phone call situation who were afraid or “too in love” to leave. are often emotionally, psychologically and economically away, 24 hours a day at 1-800-286-4184. While so often, the pattern of a victim of domestic violence is to keep going back to her abuser, The Women’s Center of Atlantic County has been working since 1975 to provide support and encouragement for women longing to break the cycle. To the many volunteers who work with the non-profit, there is always hope to give these women a safe and secure escape, before it’s too late Before you “The effects of domestic violence on individuals, $1.00 families and the community are far-reaching and spend on devastating,” says Claudia Ratzlaff, CEO of The Women’s Center. “Victims living in violent homes experience broken window and drops of blood leading from the living advertising in isolation, low self-esteem and a sense of hopelessness room to the back door. She was gone. about their situation.” October is Domestic Violence Awareness Month, so 2013, contact us It was the situations of two area women whose stories no doubt you will probably be seeing a few stories about we recently ran on NBC 40 that prompted me to write the unfortunate rise in domestic abuse, but for every to see what we this article in the first place. The first started with police story we hear about, there are hundreds of others that receiving a report of a man and a woman fighting in will never be told. Most cases of domestic violence are can do for you Cape May County. The woman was actually at the police never even reported to police, mainly because of fear and station to file a restraining order against the man, when intimidation and a feeling of being bullied into staying she learned he had allegedly set fire to her residence. in the situation, despite how bad it may be. According to The second involved a young 19 year-old woman from Erin O’Hanlon, Community Initiatives Coordinator for The Vineland, who was apparently contemplating filing a Women’s Center, education is key. restraining order against her 25 year-old boyfriend after stop “Domestic Violence Awareness Month is all about they had a domestic dispute. She found shelter with remembering, educating, and engaging the community (609) 345-0500 friends, who the following day thought they were leaving around the impact of domestic violence.” [email protected] her in a safe place. Shockingly, they came home to find a Making that one call for help can mean the difference boardwalkjournal.com
50 | The Boardwalk Journal | October 2012 realize that every learning experience requires the children have a Nancy Lopez walking with Bryce Molders golf course, equipment and balls, and transportation. That does not First Tee Comes To A.C. include the instruction element of the program on and off the course. Beginning on October 1st, with the The First Tee Code of Conduct Includes: The First Tee of Greater Atlantic City and Boys and Girls Club huge event Skins fore Kids—a charitable golf Respect for Myself of Atlantic City have assembled a great leadership team to grow tournament featuring golf legend Nancy Lopez • I will dress neatly and wear golf or athletic shoes. The First Tee and involve children from all of South Jersey. Mekos and top PGA pro Bryce Molder—The First • I will always try my best when I play or practice. Denson, the Executive Director of The Boys and Girls Clubs of Tee of Atlantic City will be reborn through the •I will keep a positive attitude and catch myself doing something Atlantic City, heads the team. Bryant DeShields, the Director of Boys and Girls Club of Atlantic City. Skins right regardless of the outcome. Athletics for Boys and Girls Clubs of Atlantic City will be the point Fore Kids, held at Hidden Creek Golf Club, • I will be physically active, eat well, get enough sleep and take man for the effort. Jim Schafer, the Head Golf Teaching Professional sends all proceeds to the The First Tee of care of myself so I can stay healthy. at McCullough’s Emerald Golf Links and retired Atlantic City High Atlantic City. What is The First Tee Program • I will be honest at all times, including when I keep score and if School teacher and associate varsity basketball coach, will be the and why is it so important to our community? I break a rule. man teaching The First Tee golf skills and values under Bryant’s and The mission of The First Tee Program nationally is to impact • I will use proper etiquette and maintain my composure even Mekos’ supervision. the lives of young people by providing educational programs that when others may not be watching. if you have any questions about how you can help or be involved in The First Tee, please call 609-347-2697. The goal is for all children build character, instill life-enhancing values and promote healthy Respect for Others choices through the game of golf. The First Tee is more than a sports to have more access to higher education, be more courteous, do better • I will follow all instructions and safety rules. in school, appreciate the diversity America offers, learn better social program for kids and teens. • I will keep up with the pace of play on the golf course. The First Tee is an international youth development skills and become better and more successful adults. The First Tee • I will be friendly, courteous and helpful. preaches these and more as their core values—isn’t that a program he was in second grade that I made a mistake I would never make with organization introducing the game of golf and its inherent values • I will remain still and quiet while others are playing and have someone else’s child. I was told to push him to focus on golf and he to young people. Through after school and in-school programs, parents should look into for the welfare and growth of their children? fun without being loud and rowdy. Call or look up The First Tee online today. could be the next superstar from this area. What my son wanted was it helps shape the lives of young people from all walks of life by • I will be a good sport toward others whether I win or lose. to play and try all sports—basketball, football, track, cross country, reinforcing values like integrity, respect and perseverance through From Golf Pro Jim Schafer: hockey, baseball, and karate, among others. I pushed him away from Respect for my Surroundings the game of golf. And it’s making a difference. Their research-proven “The best way to teach your kids is to have one simple rule:L et golf for a time by taking the fun out of it. He has had a nice career at • I will keep the golf course and practice areas clean and in as programs are having a positive impact on participants, their families them have fun when they are on the course or practicing at the range. Egg Harbor Township High School and he works at a golf course when good or better shape than I found them. and their communities. More promising golf careers have been ruined by overbearing and he is not in school. Golf has helped him grow into a fine young adult. • I will clean and take care of my and others’ golf equipment. How Extensive is The First Tee Program? pushy parents and coaches than any other reason. I am convinced Don’t make golf medicine or life and death. Make it the fun sport it • I will be careful not to damage anything that belongs to others. that when my younger son made the middle school golf team when • 6.5 million participants reached since 1997 should be. Don’t make that mistake with your child.” • 10,000 volunteers actively engaged Youth Development Research Validations • 4,800 elementary schools offering The First Tee National Independent research confirms the youth development programs School Program during the 2012-2013 school year delivered through The First Tee’s chapters instill life skills and core • 50 U.S. states offering The First Tee program values in youth participants. 2013 Memberships PLUS • 6 International locations offering The First Tee program Highlights from the study include: Available Now JOIN BEFORE Since 1997, The First Tee has introduced the game of golf and its • Participants unanimously identified school as a setting in 9/16 inherent values to more than six million young people. 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The First Tee’s goal is to provide character education and life skills Family Family MEMBERSHIP: Youth Leadership & Curriculum Focuses on: programs to help young people be successful in school and in life. $2,700 $1,700 $ • How to manage emotions Around the country, The First Tee and The Boys and Girls Club 800 • How to set goals have teamed up because their focus and missions are so similar. The chapters of both local organizations have huge goals not only for New for 2012 Junior Membership • How to resolve conflicts $ • How to introduce themselves Atlantic City and Pleasantville, which already have signed up, but for Emerald Ladies Membership 199 • How to communicate with others surrounding areas like EHT, EHC and Hamilton Township, which $499 Unlimited Green Fees will be joining shortly, as well as the rest of South Jersey. At a time Golf Links The First Tee Nine Core Values Are: when the CRDA has deemed our area’s golf as something that needs Unlimited Green Fees after 2:00 • Honesty • Integrity • Sportsmanship to be marketed with a great deal of money in hopes of helping the 3016 Ocean Heights Ave, after 12:00 PM & (accompanied w/adult) • Respect • Confidence • Responsibility local economy, it is vital that we partner those same businesses and Egg Harbor Township • 926-3900 • Perseverance • Courtesy • Judgment anytime on Tuesday or 4:00 (unaccompanied) groups to support The First Tee of Atlantic City. (Ladies Day) Ages: 12 to 17 The First Tee Nine Healthy Habits Are: How can you support The First Tee? It can be as small as www.McCulloughsGolf.com • Energy • Play • Safety donating the clubs sitting in your garage or basement. As a golf • Vision • Mind • Family course, you can sponsor kids’ tournaments or clinics. As a business, “A Tribute to The Famed European Links Courses” • Friends • School • Community you can support The First Tee with a financial donation. Most don’t Authentic, True, McCullough’s Emerald Golf Links. Tee Time Reservations 609.926.3900 • www.McCulloughsGolf.com 52 | The Boardwalk Journal | October 2012 An Emerald In The Rough b y Jim Sc h a f e r Jr.
en years ago, 3016 Ocean Heights Avenue in Egg Harbor parkland style, flat layouts. McCullough’s changes in elevation and links Township was a landfill. The landfill served its purpose, but style diversifies your trip to South Jersey and will leave you talking about no one will tell you it added any beauty to a drive down the variety of holes for months after your round. Ocean Heights Avenue. From closed landfill to an ode to the For a short recap of each hole and its inspiration, let’s take a short Tgreatest holes in links golf, McCullough’s Emerald Golf Links has been tour (all yardages from back tees, middle of greens): transformed from an eyesore to a unique 18 holes in the blink of an eye. 1. 414 yards, Par 4, an ode to Royal Portrush, Northern Ireland in 1986, the landfill at 3016 Ocean Heights Avenue was closed. 2. 204 yards, Par 3, an ode to Biarritz, France Mayor James “Sonny” McCullough’s dream was about to come to 3. 478 yards, Par 5, an ode to Gleneagles, Scotland fruition. After the ideas of ballparks and fields, which the township had 4. 356 yards, Par 4, an ode to Nairn, Scotland many and plans to build more, the focus became building an affordable 5. 219 yards, Par 3, an ode to Carnoustie, Scotland golf course for the masses, one dedicated to the great links courses of 6. 489 yards, Par 5, an ode to Southport & Ainsdale, England Great Britain and Ireland. Stephen Kay, the designer of many local golf 7. 447 yards, Par 4, an ode to Alistar Mackenzie, Designer of US’ courses and a known golf course historian, was chosen to create the links best golf courses golf course. 8. 398 yards, Par 4, an ode to Turnberry, Scotland After the decision was made to transform the landfill into a first 9. 172 yards, Par 3, an ode to Royal Dornoch, Scotland class golf course, McCullough set up an independent committee to run 10. 451 yards, Par 4, an ode to Royal Dornoch, Scotland the course. The next step was to hire a golf course designer that would 11. 328 yards, Par 4, an ode to Gleneagles, Scotland Eat-In • takE-Out • DElIvEry transform the landfill into a great course and pay homage to links golf 12. 423 yards, Par 4, an ode to Royal County Down, Northern Ireland in Great Britain and Ireland. It took one conversation with Mr. Kay to 13. 203 yards, Par 3, an ode to Gleneagles, Scotland OpEn 7 Days: 10:00 aM untIl MIDnIght realize his love of golf history and the course designs that made it special. 14. 500 yards, Par 5, an ode to St. Andrews, Scotland Pizza • Stromboli • CalzoneS • SteakS • Panini • Hot & Cold SubS once the players were in place, it was time to design the course. 15. 237 yards, Par 4, an ode to Royal Dornoch, Scotland SandwiCHeS • burgerS • wraPS • SaladS • wingS Kay had a distinct vision; each hole would be an ode to one of the 16. 136 yards, Par 3, an ode to Royal Troon, Scotland greatest holes of links golf. The landfill had natural elevation changes 17. 482 yards, Par 5, an ode to Waterville, Ireland that are very hard to come by in South Jersey. Kay went to work to make 18. 342 yards, Par 4, an ode to Prestwick, Scotland WE DElIvEr 347-4747 his vision come true—shaping the available acres to design a first class links golf course. The course’s yardage book and scorecard give you a more 1200 AtlAntic Avenue, AtlAntic city, nJ 08401 (corner of AtlAntic & north cArolinA Ave.) Most golfers that go to McCullough’s to enjoy a round of golf as well detailed breakdown than the space my editor can allow. Go to www. as patrons enjoying lunch, dinner or a cocktail do not realize the work mcculloughsgolf.com and take a course to truly enjoy the beauty and that was done below their feet to transform the landfill into a beautiful creativity of the golf course. golf course and clubhouse. There are fourteen layers below the grass the McCullough and General Manager Tom Sullivan have made two golfers enjoy. Below the actual waste on 40% of the land, there are seven new additions that seriously upgraded the course and the clubhouse to layers of protection: take your day to the next level. First, one of the rising superstars in golf 1. one foot of sand for fill superintendents goes by the name of Steve Lane. He is now and has Come home to Cousin Mario’s 2. one foot of sand for drainage with 4 inch leak detention pipes been for close to a year, McCullough’s Head Golf Superintendent. The 3. A 40 mm thick primary liner difference in course conditions is startling. First class conditions match 4. Three feet of clay the first class layout. 5. one foot of sand with leak detention pipes second, the Library Restaurant, a staple in South Jersey for 6. A 40 mm thick secondary liner generations, has created The Library Pub and Grille for the Clubhouse. 7. The subgrade Specials, burgers, sliders, dinners, daily happy hours and so much more Above those seven layers and below the fairways and greens you will make up one of South Jersey’s best Grille Room menus. For a first class find these layers: experience from the time you park your car and a golf course unlike any 1. The waste from the landfill other in South Jersey call McCullough’s (609-926-3900). You will not be Live Music 2. one foot of compacted clay disappointed. Thursday - Friday 3. A 30 mm thick PVC liner, designed to keep rainfall and landfill From Teaching Pro Jim Schafer: “Playing at McCullough’s calls for shots happy hour 12 - 7 gasses in you don’t hit every day and personally, I feel make it more fun. When DaiLy Drink speciaLs 4. one foot of drainage sand, which contains PVC pipes McCullough’s is at its best the wind is blowing. Playing the wind adds to the 5. A layer of 4 ounce geotextile fabric that acts as a warning not to mental side of the game. Playing against the wind is the easiest to play. I know Full BanqueT dig below for course repair some don’t feel that way but your opponents face the same wind. Take an extra FaciliTies 6. six inches of sand club for every 10mph in your face, move the ball back in your stance and turn 7. six inches of topsoil Take OuT & the hands over. With the wind, you have two choices—play under the wind delivery availaBle 8. A great links golf course or with it. Under the wind is more consistent but playing it low is not always After all of the plans were in place, a links golf course that was possible. Use the same 10mph rule clubbing down and most importantly, don’t check us OuT affordable to the working man with special discounts for Egg Harbor swing hard in any wind. Swinging harder is the biggest mistake you can make. on The WeB or Township residents was ready to be built. McCullough’s Emerald Side winds require a decision also. Do I draw or fade into wind or do the Be our Friend Golf Links had something that no other course in South Jersey would opposite? Again into the wind is easier to control. Call me at 609-926-3900 on FaceBook have—100 feet of elevation change. South Jersey golf is dominated by for my 5 playing lessons for $100 special.”
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58 | The Boardwalk Journal | October 2012 October 2012 | The Boardwalk Journal | 59 Anthony’s Out to Lunch Atlantic City.... Oktoberfest in Munich, Germany! A Place We Call Home
Welcome to a Special Road and delicious roast chicken Trip Edition coming to you that was cooked all day in By Anthony Previti Oktoberfest all the way from Oktoberfest a giant rotisserie oven and Thereisienwiese well, I could keep in Munich, Germany!!! served with a warm potato Festival Grounds That’s right, my salad. And who wouldn’t writing, but I do have buddy Matt want a ridiculous a full liter of a fantastic Munich, Germany and I are in ½ meter of Franziskaner Hefe-Weisbeir (wheat beer) in front of Hours: the land homemade The dates for the of endless bratwurst me and this entire tent of beer and sandwich, so 10,000 people just broke out 2013 Festival are delicious large that you into another song of “Ein September 21st - 3,000 calorie need two hands Prosit.” Until next month my October 6th meals, and not a to eat it? Or a soft pretzel friends… Auf Wiedersehen!! oktoberfest.de/en/ treadmill in sight. We the size of a hubcap? are here to celebrate his But my favorite menu: Atlantic Avenue 1900 – 1950 impending nuptials to would have to be the An endless array of the best locally raised pork, By Ken Calemmo and Kristine Kodytek jitneys are bright green mini-buses that run their talents and poise. The ultimate prize the love of his life, Jess. Schweinshachsen, or pork on compressed natural gas, 24/7! was no longer a mermaid statue, but an beef, veal, chicken, Our two previous editions brought to light (And yes, with my wife’s hock in English. This academic scholarship. the rich history of Atlantic Avenue, the very permission, thank you massive ham hock is cooked turkey, and fish that In 1916, the Duval Giants of Jacksonville, core of Atlantic City. This month, we’ll be you will ever have. I FL, an African-American professional In 1922, the original Baltimore Grill, was for asking). at high temperatures until highlighting the changes Atlantic Avenue, haven’t seen any fruits baseball team, moved to Atlantic City and located in the Inlet district on Connecticut This is usually the part the skin is beyond crispy and the city as a whole, underwent between was renamed the Bacharach Giants, after Avenue. But, in 1966 Tony’s Baltimore where I bore you with a and the meat just melts in or vegetables yet, but 1900 and 1950. I’m pretty sure they are Mayor Harry Bacharach. The Bacharach Grill moved downtown to its current white little history or background. your mouth. It’s then served Giants were a top independent team stucco building with red shutters and blue around here somewhere. In 1904, Atlantic City celebrated its Golden But let’s be honest, you with sauerkraut with minced featuring shortstop Dick Lundy, third signage on the corner of Iowa and Atlantic Maybe… Jubilee: fifty years of healing sand and surf can do a Google search on bacon, a potato dumpling, baseman Oliver Marcelle, and pitchers Dick Avenues, where it would remain an for a multitude of visitors, and now, a Redding and Jesse “Nip” Winters. In 1923, unmistakable Atlantic City landmark. Oktoberfest and find out and all nestled atop of the substantial population of locals. about all that good stuff on best gravy that you ever had. Tony’s Tip: the Bacharach Giants became a founding Over 6 million people member of the Eastern Colored League and your own. What you really In fact, the gravy is so good The famous Knife and Fork restaurant, [email protected] in 1926 and 1927 took home two visit Oktoberfest during located where Atlantic, Pacific, and Albany need to know is that I have that people actually drink it consecutive pennants. eaten some of the best food right out of the bowl. Man, I the 16 day festival each Avenues meet, was established by Mayor year. So if you hope to William Riddle and Commodore Louis in my life. I loved the tender love this country! The Atlantic City “Bathing Beauty Contest” Kuehnle in 1912. The Knife and Fork go, you have to book was first held in mid-September of 1921. began as an exclusive men’s drinking and hotels and flights early. Atlantic City businessmen wanted to extend dining club. Because women were not the summer season beyond Labor Day and, Weekdays during the permitted in the bar, there was a separate thus, encouraged nearby cities to send first week tend to be lounge for them to wait in on the second representatives to participate in the parade floor. A plaque memorializing the founders less crowded and have and festivities surrounding the pageant. The of the club still remains in the first floor the best weather. And first winner, 16-year-old Margaret Gorman, dining room above the fireplace. start working out your representing Washington, D.C., was awarded a Golden Mermaid statue and biceps now, those beers In 1915, the Jitney line, named for the called “Miss America.” are heavy! slang phrase for a ‘nickel’ (the original fare for transport), was formed. The earliest The Miss America Organization was jitneys were horse-drawn wagons, but even incorporated, and the pageant renamed the Anthony Previti is a criminal defense attorney who appears frequently in Atlantic County Superior Court and he limousines, station wagons, and (converted) “Miss America Pageant,” in 1940. In 1945, loves food. If you would like your restaurant featured, please send an email to: [email protected]. delivery vans have been utilized to transport the judging criteria expanded to include not visitors throughout the city. Today, the only the beauty of the contestants, but also 60 | The Boardwalk Journal | October 2012 curtain call b y Da v i d Sp a t z entertain Springer SCan Here tO PUrCHaSe Jerry Springer: From Freak YOUr SenSeS tiCKetS Show Host to Game Show Host “Jerry…Jerry…Jerry…” show that’s been The audience took up the familiar chant as the equally familiar TV airing regularly since host bounded on stage with an easy smile. 1956. The set, the But it wasn’t another installment of his salacious and occasionally games—even some of violent daytime talk show that had the audience all pumped up for the prizes, including a Jerry Springer. new car—are virtually They were chanting his name, just like his TV show audience does, identical to the TV hoping it might earn them the edge to get called up to participate in the version. Craig Ferguson DEE LEE Promotions, LLC Presents theresa Caputo Sinbad live version of The Price Is Right at Harrah’s Resort, which Springer is And Springer is Friday, October 5 Go Fight… Friday night From TLC’s Long Island Medium Saturday, October 20 hosting through Oct. 21. right in the middle of Friday, October 12 Saturday, October 13 Naturally at ease in front of an audience, Springer immediately all the fun, cracking 3PM & 8PM assured the crowd that no chairs would be flung across the set of the jokes with and about wildly popular game show, which has become a common sight on his the contestants, zinging outrageous TV series. them with ad-libs that are funny but never insulting and moving the or has it? 80-minute show along with a glib and good-natured attitude. while punches have been exchanged on his show—beefy “They know that if I’m hosting, it’s not going to be the traditional security guards try to keep the peace among warring transvestites game show host,” Springer said. “There’s nothing slick about me, so and transsexuals—and some participants have ripped wigs and hair they’re going to get a little bit of comedy from me, and we have great extension off of other guests, the whole flying chair business is little fun.” more than urban legend, Springer explained. The game show is a complete departure from his syndicated “Jerry “We’ve only had one chair thrown on the show,” the surprisingly Springer Show,” which began airing as a traditional talk show in 1991 al Bano KC & the Sunshine Band Gladys Knight Savage men soft-spoken Springer said recently during a casual and candid chat on and morphed into a mayhem-filled slugfest about three years later. Saturday, October 27 & Saturday, November 17 Saturday, November 30 every Saturday night at Boogie Nights the set of the game show. The Springer Show made the switch from mainstream to tabloid Sunday, October 28 7:30 PM – 9 PM, doors open at 6:30PM Free admission to Boogie Nights with But the image of a wayward chair being flung by guests is so to pursue a different audience. The program debuted as one of 20 Savage Men ticket. 1-888-5 SAVAGE. engrained in the consciousness of his audience that it seems like it’s a talk shows all chasing the same audience demographic that had been common occurrence, Springer added. monopolized by Oprah Winfrey and Phil Donahue. springer has had one of the most eclectic careers in or out of show when Ricki Lake brought her talk show to television and began business: Attorney; mayor of a major American city; TV news anchor targeting a younger audience with her subject matter, Springer’s for a network affiliate; political consultant; host of a long-running, producers decided to chase Lake’s audience, Springer explained. syndicated talk show; actor in movies, on television shows and even on “We decided we were only going to have young people in the Halloween Parties Broadway; recording artist and game show host. audience, young people on stage and young subject matter,” he said. “I’m looking for something I can do and then I’ll settle on it,” he “Young people, by definition, are much wilder in their lives, much said with a small laugh. more open. …Universal bought us and said from now on, you’re only & Costume Contest success has come easily for the 68-year-old former trial lawyer. allowed to do crazy. So…if you call us with a warm uplifting story, we Dazzle us with your creepy costume for a chance to win prizes! “I’ve been really lucky,” he said. “I’ve had these great jobs, (but) it are required to send you to another (talk) show. We’re only allowed Saturday, October 27 really is luck. I mean, I work hard, but lots of people work hard. But I to do stories that are either inappropriate, outrageous or outside the No masks. Must be 21. just got lucky, and I’m very grateful.” mainstream. So I know every day they’re going to hand me a script with with various sources including Forbes Magazine putting his net a story that’s out of the mainstream.” worth at $75 million, Springer acknowledges that he isn’t doing the all entertainment & imax: For tickets, visit ticketmaster.com, dial 1-800-745-3000 or visit the Tropicana Box Office. casino gig for the paycheck. 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