www.tabernaclesun.com JUNE 19-25, 2013 FREE Calendar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 Classified . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11-15 Editorials . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 INSIDE THIS ISSUE Rescue Squad Reaches out for help from committee. PAGE 5 Patty Bowker Park nears completion By NICK COHEN The Tabernacle Sun The third and final phase ofthe renovation of Patty Bowker Park is moving forward, and the end of what will have been a six- year project is in sight. At a township workshop meet- ing on June 10, the committee ap- proved specifications and author- ized the solicitation of bids to fin- ish the project that began in 2007. Township administrator Doug Cramer attributed the sluggish- ness of the project to the fact that the township has exclusively used grant money to complete the ren- ovations. There have been three grant periods staggered over the six years since the project began. The township received $250,000 in grant money from the state and county. The project began because pre- vious playground equipment at both Patty Bowker Park and Pricketts Mill Park was unable to meet new fall zone requirements and concerns over treated lum- ber, making it impossible to con- tinue using the wooden structure. New accessibility requirements from the Americans with Disabil- ities Act also made the changes for the parks necessary . The first two phases of the project focused on adding handi- cap accessible paths or width to NICK COHEN/The Tabernacle Sun Construction work will continue at Patty Bowker Park as the township committee approved the solicitation of bids at a meeting on June 10. The project first began in 2007 to make the park and all baseball fields handicap accessible. please see COMMITTEE , page 7
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The third and final phase of the renovation of Patty BowkerPark is moving forward, and theend of what will have been a six-year project is in sight.
At a township workshop meet-ing on June 10, the committee ap-proved specifications and author-ized the solicitation of bids to fin-ish the project that began in 2007.
Township administrator DougCramer attributed the sluggish-ness of the project to the fact thatthe township has exclusively usedgrant money to complete the ren-ovations. There have been threegrant periods staggered over thesix years since the project began.The township received $250,000 ingrant money from the state andcounty.
The project began because pre-vious playground equipment atboth Patty Bowker Park andPricketts Mill Park was unable tomeet new fall zone requirements
and concerns over treated lum-ber, making it impossible to con-tinue using the wooden structure.New accessibility requirementsfrom the Americans with Disabil-ities Act also made the changesfor the parks necessary.
The first two phases of theproject focused on adding handi-cap accessible paths or width to NICK COHEN/The Tabernacle Sun
Construction work will continue at Patty Bowker Park as the township committee approved the solicitation of bids at a meeting on June 10.The project first began in 2007 to make the park and all baseball fields handicap accessible. please see COMMITTEE, page 7
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Students createinnovative distracted
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According to John Donaldson,LRHSD director of TelevisionServices, the nine Lenape Districtstudents who spearheaded theHeads Up, Eyes Forward! cam-
paign, were elated and a bit ex-hausted driving home on Fridayevening, June 7.
It was the culmination of an in-tense campaign of long days,evenings and weekends thatbegan last summer and endedwith a "sprint" over the past fivemonths beginning in January.
“Winning the competition isvery exciting because it validatesall of the hard work that our stu-dents performed on the Heads Up,Eyes Forward! campaignthroughout the school year,” saidDonaldson.
"It was a great opportunity togrow as an individual, learningcommunications and public rela-
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Highlights of Lenape Region-al's winning campaign included a
partnership with N.J. Depart-ment of Transportation spear-headed by McGrorty, whose per-sistence resulted in a visit toLenape High School from NJDOTExecutive Director of Trans-portation Systems ManagementDennis Motiani and the HeadsUp, Eyes Forward! message post-ed on 160 dynamic message signsincluding the Garden State Park-
way, the Turnpike and A.C. Ex-pressway.
"It felt good to win, not becauseof the grand prize or the atten-tion, but because all of our hardwork in the last year paid off andthat our safe driving message washeard farther than we had antici-pated," LHS senior Alex McKeensaid.
Heads Up, Eyes Forward!hinged on an extensive social
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A partnership with RizzieriAveda School, "Save it for the van-ity, not the rearview." A JustDrive! T-shirt sale in partnershipwith junior Alyssa Lesher, withall proceeds benefiting Cooper
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"This campaign is so importantbecause so many people die fromdistracted driving in the US.
The public needs to be educat-ed about how their decisions on
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Rescue Squad reaches out tocommittee to make its job safer
By NICK COHENThe Tabernacle Sun
Members of the TabernacleRescue Squad reached out to thetownship committee in hopes of making their job a little easierand their risk for injuries a lotless.
First introduced at a workshopmeeting on May 13, the commit-tee approved specifications andauthorized the solicitation of
bids for a power stretcher andloading system at the most recentworkshop meeting on June 10.
The Power-LOAD system is aproduct of the company StrykerEMS, a provider of patient trans-port products.
Their engineering and designteams focus on continuous inno-vation globally with the goal of improving patient safety and re-ducing injuries among medicsand caregivers.
The system being considered
by the township is designed to re-duce operator and patient in-
juries.The device hydraulically lifts
patients weighing up to 700pounds with the touch of just onebutton.
The fastener system lifts andlowers the cot into and out of theambulance, reducing spinal loads
for EMTs and the risk of cumula-tive trauma injuries.
The lift is designed to improveoperator and patient safety bysupporting the cot throughoutthe loading and unloadingprocess.
A member of the rescue squadpresented the benefits of the sys-tem at the meeting on May 13.
The biggest one he felt is that,with this system, any two EMTswould be able to load any sized
patient into the ambulance.There are times now when
EMTs report to the scene andfind they are physically unable tomove larger patients by them-selves and then have to wait foranother team to respond to thecall and help with the transport.
Another benefit is the loadingof the patient into the ambulancecan be much smoother.
Prongs from the lift slideunder the cot and raise the pa-tient into the vehicle.
With EMTs, the movement isless fluid and takes more time, asthey need to reposition them-selves throughout the process toget the cot loaded.
The loading system takesabout 30 seconds from the patientbeing outside to secure in theback of the ambulance.
The feature the system hasthat is most important to the res-cue squad is the hope that it willgreatly reduce the number of
back injuries.With less continuous lifting
and the sometimes physicallyawkward task of loading stretch-ers into an ambulance, the idea isinjuries would occur less, lower-ing workers compensationclaims or medical leaves.
As the committee solicits bidsfor the power load system, mem-bers of the rescue squad are look-ing forward to days where boththey and their patients can oper-ate more safely.
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If the only exposure you had to
New Jersey was what others said
or wrote about it, you’d think it
was the worst place on the planet.
Scan the Internet just this week, and
you’d find these stories:
• Our governor called the authors of
a League of Municipalities report ontax reform “corrupt” and labeled the
group’s leader as a “whiner.”
• A Little League coach in Newark
plead guilty in court to assaulting an
umpire because he wouldn’t call a
game due to darkness.
• A new report says that the Garden
State is the most expensive state to get
your car repaired.
• A great white shark circled a boat
off the coast (not that this has much to
do with Jersey).
The greater public perception of New Jersey is that it is a crowded, ex-
pensive state full of loud, obnoxious
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better than everyone else (well, aren’t
we?). Our governor fits that mold per-
fectly, even as he is being mentioned as
a potential candidate for president of
the United States when the next elec-tion comes around.
Heck, of the three professional
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state, only one (the Devils) are
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from New Jersey. The other two (the
Giants and Jets) act like they’re from
New York.
So why does anyone still live here?
Why are we doing this to ourselves?
Because, for those of us who livehere, who grew up here and are rais-
ing families here, we know the good-
ness that is here in New Jersey, even if
we recognize the bad. We love our
beaches, our mountains and our easy
access to major cities. We are proud of
our small, quaint towns, our history
and our top-notch schools, even if we
pay exorbitant prices to be here.
We are New Jersey, and we’ll always
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And we don’t care what you think.
What are we still doing here? With all the negativity about the state, why does any one live in N.J.?
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Study shows county as having lowest tax burden in regionWith the county budget $43.6 million less
than it was in 2008 and the combined coun-ty property tax levy down $25.2 millionsince 2009, the Pew Charitable Trust credit-
ed Burlington County with having the low-est comparable, residential tax burden inthe Philadelphia region in a study last year.
Recently, the Burlington County Free-holders introduced a budget plan aimed atearning that distinction again by reducingthe total taxes needed to run all county gov-ernment programs by $7.7 million whilecutting the general operating budget bymore than $15 million.
The move is expected to continue a posi-tive trend that has seen the county share of an average resident’s total tax bill steadilydrop from 19 percent in 2007 to 15.8 percent
last year.“With the fallout from the recession still
impacting so many middle-class homeown-ers and job seekers, our goal was to againdo more with less. We set out to continueproviding property tax relief, while protect-
ing programs and services our residentsvalue,” said Freeholder Director Joe Don-nelly, who first took office in 2008.
Facing county tax ratables (property val-
ues) that plummeted another $1.9 billion,resulting in a general revenue loss of $7.6million, the freeholders analyzed the threebudgets of county government that eachoperate off a separate and distinct dedicat-ed tax – general operations, the library sys-tem, and the open space and historicpreservation programs – in an effort easethe overall burden on property taxpayers.
“We came to the conclusion that giventhe $48 million already banked in our landpreservation fund, the 4-cent open space taxcould be safely reduced to 1.5 cents withoutany negative impact on our efforts to save
land, maintain our parks, or continue oper-ation of our popular municipal recreationgrant program,” Donnelly said.
Donnelly reported that the overall coun-ty property tax rate will remain un-changed. That will be accomplished via a
decrease in the dedicated Open Space tax of 2.5 cents that will offset a corresponding in-crease in the tax rate for the regular operat-ing budget. The Burlington County library
system tax rate will remain flat for thisyear.Donnelly said that he was confident that
the dedicated open space fund would notonly cover existing programs, but also washealthy enough to fund three major initia-tives: the planned Underground RailroadMuseum at Historic Smithville Park; theconversion of Mount Holly Library into thecounty’s first general history museum; andthe recent partnership with the state, West-ampton Township and other organizationsto keep Rancocas Nature Center in opera-tion.
“Regardless, we remain committed toemploying every fiscally responsible toolavailable to protect our property taxpayersand keep more of their own money whereit belongs – in their own pockets,” Donnellysaid.
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Committee to solicit bids forphase three of construction
the existing paths around thefields. The baseball fields withlighting have completed paths onthe first base side as well as con-nections to Germain Road, whichis used to access the fields.
With the specifications forphase three now approved, the
committee will begin to solicitbids. Two different contractorscompleted phase one and phasetwo of the project. Cramer was
unsure who would be finishingthe project but said it may besome of the companies the town-ship has used previously for thisand other construction endeav-ors.
The third phase will ensurethat handicap accessible pathsconnect all the athletic fields tothe concession stand and rest-rooms as well as parking areas.Currently, there are paths aroundall the fields but they do not con-
nect.In addition to the path comple-
tion, the bleachers will be madehandicap accessible as well.
Currently, there is a concretepad separated from the other seat-ing that those in wheelchairshave had to use.
“Once we have the bleacherscompleted, the seating will be ac-cessible for all,” Cramer said.“Families won’t have to be sepa-rated due to accessibility issues.”
Storytime: Ages 0 to 5. 10 a.m. atChurch of Christ on CarranzaRoad. “Miss Peggy” welcomes
children and their attending adultto story hour. This is a greatopportunity for kids and adults tomeet new people in the commu-nity. Any questions, call thechurch office at 609 268 0576.
Snack Attack: 4 p.m. PinelandsBranch Library, 39 Allen Ave.,Medford. Join Miss Niki, DTR,from the Shop Rite of Medfordfor a fun activity and a lessonabout how to prepare a healthysnack. Registration required, visitwww.bcls.lib.nj.us.
THURSDAY JUNE 20
Paws to Read: 3:30 p.m., 3:45 p.m.,4 p.m. and 4:15 p.m. PinelandsBranch Library, 39 Allen Ave.,Medford. Children are welcome topractice their reading skills andmake a new friend by readingaloud to Ocho, a registered thera-py dog. Sign up for a 15-minute
slot and see what it's all about.Registration required, visitwww.bcls.lib.nj.us.
Storytime with Mr. Rick: 10:30 a.m.Pinelands Branch Library, 39
Allen Ave., Medford. Come joinMr. Rick for stories of all kinds tobe followed by an engaging andcreative activity. Registrationrequired, visit www.bcls.lib.nj.us.
Movie: 7 p.m. Rescue squad building,Hawkins Road, just east of Route206. The Township RecreationCommittee will be sponsoring theshowing of the DVD, “Flying withEmilio.” Members of the Ameri-can Legion, Mt. Holly Post 11 willbe in attendance to talk about thememorial service honoring Emilio
Carranza. The event is free andall are welcome
FRIDAY JUNE 21
Storybook sale: 10 a.m-4 p.m.Pinelands Branch Library, 39Allen Ave., Medford. Prepareyourselves: Summer is coming.Stock up just in time for the Sum-mer Reading Program! There willbe books for all ages, as well as
DVDs and CDs available for sale.
SATURDAY JUNE 22
Storybook sale: 10 a.m-4 p.m.
Pinelands Branch Library, 39Allen Ave., Medford. Prepareyourselves: Summer is coming.Stock up just in time for the Sum-mer Reading Program! There willbe books for all ages, as well asDVDs and CDs available for sale.
MONDAY JUNE 24
Tabernacle Township Committeeregular meeting: 8 p.m. in TownHall fourth Monday of the month.Formal action may be taken. For
more information and to confirmmeeting time, visit www.town-shipoftabernacle-nj.gov.
TUESDAY JUNE 25
TAA meeting: 7 p.m. Town Hall.Tabernacle Athletic Association’smonthly meeting.
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