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WEEWEEKLY.K LY. ge 31 Mayoral, Freeholder Candidates $350M Sports Complex Proposed Outline Plans In Vineland’s mayoral race, incumbent mayor Robert Romano is seeking a second term, chal - A huge complex proposed for a Lincoln Avenue site in Vineland will serve up a wide variety lenged by former two-term mayor Perry Barse, of indoor and outdoor athletics. { BY RYAN DINGER } current city council member Douglas Albrecht, on Nametko has a vision for area youth athletics. former city council president Ruben Bermudez, For over a decade, the founder of The Magic and labor activist David W. Mazur. Romano RSports Complex of NJ has envisioned a major defeated Barse four years ago, and Bermudez indoor/outdoor state-of-the-art athletic facility that was beaten by Barse when he won his second will offer a host of sports-related and recreational term in 2004. Neither Albrecht nor Mazur has activities and special events in southern New Jersey. run for the top office before. Now he wants to build that facility in Vineland. At the county level, voters will select two can - On October 22 at Vineland’s City Hall, Nametko and didates to serve on the Cumberland County his team of developers submitted their application to Board of Chosen Freeholders. The two seats are build a $350 million sports complex on south Lincoln currently held by Republicans Tom Sheppard Avenue, near Route 55. The Zoning Board, which received and Mary Gruccio, both running for re-election. the proposal, will have one month to review the project In last November’s elections, Republicans took before hearing the pitch from Magic Sports during a control of the freeholder board for the first time regularly scheduled meeting on November 28. Should in decades. Now the party needs to defend both that first meeting go well, Magic Sports would then be Sheppard’s and Gruccio’s seats to maintain con - asked to go back and prepare a site plan for the project. trol of the board. The candidates running on the “This project is not about me,” said Nametko, during Democrats’ ticket are Joe Derella, Jr. and Doug Vineland’s proposed sports complex will be a mecca for athletes and Long. Read all of their profiles starting on page 24. sports enthusiasts near and far. Continued on page 29 Dr. John, Blind Boys at CCC Cumberland County College first-ever joint tour. will present “Spirituals to Funk” Based on the legendary r e m o t s u C l a i t n e d i s e R featuring Dr. John, pictured , and Carnegie Hall “Spirituals to l a c o L The Blind Boys of Alabama, at 3 Swing” concerts produced by p.m. this Sunday, November 4, in John Hammond in the 1930s, this S S W R C E the Guaracini Performing Arts concert will deepen your affection Center, Sherman Avenue, Vineland. for meaningful music. for all other seats. 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RYAN DINGER How Doe sees the election, for what it’s 1, worth, and a plea to cast your ballot. 24-27 Mayoral, Freeholder Candidates don’t know how much it’s going to And you’re going to let somebody else help the farmers, but there sure seems decide which are the best candidates? 3,6,8 Faces in the News to be a bumper crop of campaign signs It’s our own fault for letting them think 4 Prizeweek Puzzle Iin South Jersey. Hope they harvest we’re stupid. How can they not? them all after next Tuesday. I watched all four of the national debates 10,19 In Our Schools And, speaking of next Tuesday, don’t for - and attended the local mayoral one. get to get out and vote. Here’s my scorecard: Romney won the 12 News in Brief I know it has been a long, long, long cam - first, the second was a tie and Obama might paign and it’s going to seem even longer over have won the third because Romney phoned 15 Enemy Implants During WWII, German POWs were the next few days as the candidates battle it in. On the VP side, Biden looked like a housed and employed locally. over the last few fence-sitters. teen-ager who’d had a few too many Red VINCE FARINACCIO I read recently that the Big Two (the Bulls and Ryan didn’t seem sure enough of Dems and the GOP) are going to spend over his answers: call it a draw. 16 DINING $2 billion on the election. But before the debaters even finished I wonder if that figure includes the money shaking hands the pointy heads were already 18 What To Do? spent by the Political Action Committees (PACs). explaining to me what I’d just seen and MainStreet Vineland events offer “something different.” In fact, I wonder if the Big Two hasn’t heard: as though the candidates had been TODD NOON become the Big Three. speaking ancient Babylonian. Because, most of the really ugly political To me, “left” and “right’ are directions 20 Entertainment ads you see on TV come from the PACs. and “far left” and “far right” are just further Those ads are easy to spot. They’re the directions. The “right” the politicians should 22 Community Calendar ones that don’t include a smiling shot of the be talking about and leaning toward is the candidate at the end saying he or she “right” that balances “wrong.” 23 Veterans Day Events “approves this message.” The only thing that the candidates seem 30 REAL ESTATE It took me a while (I’m not nearly as to agree on—at least in their ads—is that they smart as most politicians) to figure out the are against taxes, for protecting seniors, and 31 CLASSIFIEDS language in these ads. When they say a can - proud to be Americans. Well, I’m all of those didate “recognized” a problem, it usually things and I’m not even a candidate. means the candidate didn’t do anything Here’s what I think about the Presidential else—and won’t in the future. race: I voted for Obama in the last election. When a candidate says, “polls show,” he Part of the reason was that he is black. or she is usually leaving out the key adjective Before some of you get all twisted: in that “our,” as in, “our carefully selected group of same election (if they’d gotten their party’s people” polled exactly the results we needed nod) I might have voted for Hillary Clinton to make our point. (because she’s a woman) or Mitt Romney When an ad says a candidate is “working” (because he’s a Morman). on a problem, you can be sure he or sure will The other candidate (said the old guy) retire as soon as the votes are counted. was just too old. Obama was younger and his When a candidate says, “That’s a very good campaign slogan was “change.” question,” the only thing you can be sure of is Well, I thought, it was time for a change that you won’t understand his or her answer.