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by Allan Dean New Seating has been installed at the gazebo located at the Atlantic Highlands Municipal Marina. Bench seats will provide comfortable viewing for the Sunday Summer Concerts. The total costs have not yet been calculated, but it is estimated that the project cost is about $25,000. It is part of an Atlantic Highlands Harbor Commission capital improvement project which was budgeted from harbor revenues, according to Harbormaster Bill Bate. Those involved with the construction include Henry Hudson Regional School students. Last spring, the 9th and 10th grade students of Industrial Arts teacher Robert Gaffey created 115 supports used for the benches. One area newspaper reported an estimated savings of $13,000 in labor costs from the students participation. Others involved with the work include local contractor Jim Reilly, Bob Hillmann, and several harbor employees who helped in the excavation and construction. Star of the Sea Concrete installed 6 inches of re-enforced concrete padding. Ann Petereit created a beautiful landscape design that features a floral pattern laid out to form the number 2000 behind the seating area. The Harbor has another project near completion called Heritage Square. The Harbor Commission is offering community members, and those who love Atlantic Highlands an opportunity to have their names engraved on bricks that will be used in Heritage Square. The square is located along the bulkhead in front of Shore Casino. The cost is $100 per brick. Only 20-25 bricks remain. Contact the Atlantic Highlands Harbor Commission for more information. 100 First Avenue, Atlantic Highlands, NJ. http://www.ahherald.com/atlantichighlands/gazebo_seating.htm - See Gazebo
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by Allan Dean The Highlands Mayor and Council on Monday night voted 3-2 to appoint Paul J. Shaffery as new Borough Administrator replacing Nina Light Flannery who resigned that position last February. Flannery remains as the full-time borough clerk - a position she has held since 1987. Shaffery, who had served Keansburg since February 1999, resigned as Keansburg Borough Manager last month after he was informed he would be replaced by the incoming Keansburg Mayor and Council members who took office July 1. (see related story) The vote on Shaffery's appointment came after an hour-long closed-door executive session. Councilwomen Delores Monahan Howard and Sherry Ruby voted against the appointment. Councilmen Robert M. Rauen and John Bentham, and Mayor Richard W. O'Neil voted in favor of the appointment. Mr. Shaffery's appointment is effective immediately and extends through December 31 at a annual salary of $62,000 which will be pro-rated for the remainder of this year. Shaffery, who has extensive administrative experience, is also currently project manager for the Bayshore Development Office of the State Commerce and Economic Growth Commission. He holds degrees in political science and public administration from Xavier University and completed postgraduate coursework in municipal land use and planning at Rutgers University. http://www.ahherald.com/highlands/index.html - Herald's Highlands Community Web
ATLANTIC HIGHLANDS - There’s still time for men to grow handlebar mustaches and women to build huge feathered hats before Sunday July 23. That’s when the Gingerbread Porch band gives a Victorian-era brass band concert at the Atlantic Highlands Harbor gazebo, starting at 7:30. The Gingerbread Porch Band consists of nine professional orchestra musicians who play brass instruments, woodwinds and drums. Many of the band members are with St. Peter’s Orchestra. They will play music from the late 1800’s and the turn of the Century. The concert is co-sponsored by the Atlantic Highlands Historical Society and the Borough’s Recreation Commission, in other words old-time and fun. There are no known recordings or written records to indicate what music was played in Atlantic Highlands during that time. But most likely there were brass bands playing during the summer weekends at the big resort hotels. Brass music was brilliant and upbeat in style and usually sing-able, march-able, dance-able or all three. Visit the Historical Society’s Booth for some popcorn and old fashion lemonade. Admission is free. Parking is available at the harbor. For more information please leave a message at the Strauss Mansion 732-291-1861. http://www.ahherald.com/atlantichighlands/index.html - Herald's Atlantic Highlands
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RED BANK—Red Bank Mayor Edward J. McKenna Jr. and Administrator Stanley Sickels hosted a group of Japanese officials on Tuesday, July 11, for a discussion on the Borough’s revitalization over the last ten years and a brief tour of the town’s business district. The officials, staff members of Wakayama City, Wakayama Prefecture, Japan, were visiting New York City and requested a meeting with Red Bank officials to discuss the town’s recent resurgence and a tour of the shopping area. McKenna and Sickels went over the history and development of the town with the group and explained the complex problems facing a community like Red Bank. While the population is under 11,000, they noted, Red Bank acts as a regional center for employment, entertainment, transportation, hospital, churches and other social services. This brings a burden on services along with the added complication of the highest number of tax-exempt properties per square mile in the county. Sickels noted that, being a regional center, Red Bank is not shy about applying for grants and State Funding and has seen success in this area. They noted that while Red Bank enjoys a healthy business district, revitalized through the efforts of the RiverCenter special improvement district, the administration places an greater importance on maintaining the residential neighborhoods. McKenna noted that they also make it a point to put the needs of the community before those of potential investors. He said one reason it is such a popular destination is that visitors feel safe in its family-oriented atmosphere. Sickels credited a strong spirit of volunteerism in the fire, first aid and parks and recreation departments with helping the town to run smoothly. http://www.ahherald.com/redbank/index.html - Herald's Red Bank Community Web PASTORS CORNER During my seminary training, I worked in three nursing homes. I would visit all three of them in one afternoon per month, and hold a worship service in each one of them. I would sing with residents, preach a short sermon, and give them the Lord’s Supper. For those residents who were not able to come down, I would go to their rooms and offer them the Lord’s Supper. During one of these times that I offered the Lord’s Supper, I saw one of the most beautiful faces that I have seen in my life. This octogenarian asked permission to pray (usually the Pastor prays at the distribution of the Lord’s Supper). Permission being granted, she closed her eyes and I kept mine opened! As she started to thank Jesus for her salvation, her whole face radiated with joy and thanksgiving. I have never seen such elation and beauty. She was bedridden, she had a broken hip, she could not move, but her relationship with Jesus filled the room with joy unspeakable and full of glory. Over the next three years, I became good friends with many. I looked forward to seeing them and the feeling was reciprocal. However, ministering in the nursing homes only once a month had the disadvantage of getting there and finding that a resident was no longer there. A quick illness had taken them away and one of the local ministers officiated the funeral service, or the family took the body home. One day after holding three services in three nursing homes, I stormed in the office of my supervisory minister and asked him to assign me to a different task. Among the reasons that I mentioned was that all the people that I minister to are waiting to die. Wisely, he talked to me and asked me if I were more concerned with their death or with my own mortality. Thinking about this on the one hour ride home, I saw his point. In retrospect, nothing has haunted me as much as a poem written in a poetry contest. This poem won first prize in this nursing home. It was entitled ‘In the Corner, Vivian! It had three verses. The first verse had to do with a time when Vivian was in kindergarten and because she misbehaved, the teacher punished her by asking her to stand in the corner. The second stanza was about an event in her years as a young married woman when she felt that she was sent into the corner again. The third stanza was about her life in the nursing home: And now when I am feeble and rarely can do something I hear the voice of my kindergarten teacher say again: In the corner, Vivian! On the way home, I could not stop crying over a life that was summarized by rejection.
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I have some more good reports from the tuna fisherman this week. The weekend was a bit breezy for offshore again but the weekdays were picture perfect. Fluke
and bluefish are in full swing and the weakfish are starting to feed again. Not surprisingly the stripers have been providing the bulk of the action in the
bay.
Fluke
On Saturday we had a nice weigh-in from Dave Sommers of Jersey City. His weigh 6lbs and was caught on live killies near the ammo pier. Mike Werdann of
Highlands had 12 keepers fishing with his son Justin off the nude beach. At a safe distance I am sure.
Striped Bass
Brian Richards, Highlands & Ft. Lauderdale, tagged a nice trophy bass 28 pounds and 38 inches. He caught it chunking near Flynn's Knoll using clam bellies.
Chrish Devereaux, Oceanport landed a 31 pounder fishing in the same place. Mark Preslow on the "Miss Joanna" wore out his arms trolling the Roamer
Shaols swash channel by buoy 7s & 9 s. He had his limit in 20 minutes but kept going for his trophy Striper. He was by himself so his arms will be tired
tomorrow. Mark was trolling rubber shads.
Tuna
I bought some Tuna from Eric Hecht, who fishes out of Atlantic Highlands Marina on his new 48' Cabo. He had a nice catch of big yellowfins taken in the Hudson
Canyon. The fish weighed between 50 & 70 lbs. He trolled them on Thursday. Eric also mentioned that there were many small bluefin in the area and
inshore as well.
Bluefish
One of my bartenders, Jason Dixon of Highlands, was cruising the Bay Beaches and got into a school of cocktail bluefish feeding on baby "peanut"
bunker. He was about a 1/2 mile south of Horseshoe cove on Monday Night.
Weakfish
Rich Zerilli, Rumson, weighed in a 5.5lb weakfish plus 4 smaller on Tuesday. He was in the same vicinity as Jason was the night before but in a boat. He
was fly casting bucktails into a school af bluefish and found the weakfish working for an easy meal underneath. Later in the day he moved over to Breezy Point
Brooklyn, a popular spot for fly casters, and picked up some more weakfish.
http://www.bahrs.com/weekfisrep.html THE LEMONADE STAND "Befriending" Wall - click here [excerpt] Our backyard was no different from any of the others on the block. But, if it were up to my parents, they would have built a fence around our yard as tall as Jack’s beanstalk. (And it would have been electrified.) "I don’t like anyone knowing our business," my mother used to say. "I like my privacy." Privacy? All my mother ever did out in our backyard, as I recall, was hang clothes on the line. It’s not like she liked to sunbathe in the nude or anything. read the full text Last week's question: "Name the famous Big Band leader who for many years raced a power boat in the Red Bank Regattas. " The winner this week is Ken Jenkins of Port Monmouth, NJ. He corrected stated Guy Lombardo was the power boat racer. History credits Guy Lombardo with as many as fifteen Unlimited or Gold Cup Class victories as a driver between 1946 and 1953. But these include about thirteen races that were multi-class free-far-all events which don’t count in modern records. Guy’s two major victories were the 1946 Gold Cup and the 1948 Ford Memorial contests - both in Detroit - with TEMPO VI. Other wins include the 1946, 1950 and 1951 National Sweepstakes Trophy Races in Red Bank, New Jersey, the 1949 and 1950 Star Spangled Banner Regattas in Baltimore, Maryland, and the 1950 and 1951 Buffalo Launch Club Regattas. Guy’s first outing in competition with TEMPO VI was at Red Bank in the National Sweepstakes. The lone representative of the combined Unlimited and Gold Cup fleet, Lombardo easily defeated seven challengers from the Limited ranks in all three heats on the Shrewsbury River with an overage speed of 65.382 miles per hour in the Final. In 1947, Guy earned a niche in the hydro trivia hall of fame when TEMPO VI and the Danny Foster-chauffeured MISS PEPSI V battled down to the wire at Red Bank to record Unlimited racing’s one and only dead heat finish with both drivers checking in at an identical 68.706 for the Final Heat of the National Sweepstakes. Source - http://www.thunderboats.org/
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