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The South Jersey Hurricanes, a traveling Street Hockey team comprised of the best of the best of South Jersey, took the Middle Township and Cape May Gazettes to their last tournament in Long Island, N.Y. The boys fought a hard fight at the tournament and made it to the semifinal round before being defeated in overtime. It was heartbreaking but they will continue on to the next tournament in October - the International Street Hockey Tournament at Walt Disney World in Orlando. The line-up for the Hurricanes (not in order of the picture) is Ryan Albertson, Jacob Andrecci, Brandon Blomkvest, Eric Campbell, EJ Dougherty, Tyler Dunne, Tyler Erazmus, Sean Grande, Kyle Hermansky, AJ MacFarlane, Bryan McFadden, Tyler Meinhold, Mark Paget, Cody Walker, Nick Will and Sean Wilson.
 

Bernadette Smutko, of Haddon Heights and North Wildwood, remembered to take The Wildwood Leader along on her bus trip to Yankee Stadium as she would be arriving a few hours early for the Mass that would be celebrated by Pope Benedict XVI on April 22.
 
 

Girl Scouts in the Big Apple
On a fabulously unseasonably warm day in January 2008, Girl Scout Troop 14640 from Absecon/Galloway traveled to New York City by train to Madame Tussauds Wax Museum, enjoyed lunch outside in Bryant Park and saw “Legally Blonde” on Broadway in Times Square. The troop paid for the entire trip by saving their cookie sales money from year to year. The troop has been together eight years with leaders Debbie Deissler and Brenda Sterling. Here is the troop posing with Capt. Jack Sparrow and The Current. Left to right, bottom row, are Hannah Roswell, Jenna Sterling, Kristy Kelly, Rebecca Maguire and Amber Parker. Top Row: L’oreal Kurtz, Ajia Hashimoto, Capt. Jack Sparrow, Courtney Diessler, Michaela Goodwin and guest Lauren Diessler.
 

Off to the big city
Donna Reynolds Leopardi, shown here with her mother, Marlene Vignali, picked up a copy of The Current at the train station to peruse on her way to New York City. While in the city, Donna visited her daughter, a dancer for Holland America Cruise Lines, and enjoyed several Broadway shows. She was in from Cincinnati visiting her parents, Marlene and Jim Vignali of Egg Harbor City, for the Thanksgiving and Christmas holidays.
 

The Gazette traveled to the Philadelphia Convention Center for the New York City Dance Alliance Competition/Convention on April 18, 19 and 20 with the Dance Dynamics Competition Team. All of their dance numbers scored gold medals as well as numerous outstanding costumes, outstanding jazz, outstanding contemporary, outstanding energy and high score awards. The Gazette is pictured with the Dance Dynamics Youth Competition Team from Seaville. Pictured from left in the front row are Emily McCoy, Taylor Mason, Kristi Rohrer (holding the Gazette), Jessica Sykes and Grace Mills; second row is Tess Wagner and Shannon Wallace; back row is Madison Clark, Melissa Cappolina, Melissa Scott, Lauren Bauersock, Amy Phillips, Morijah Thomas and Marissa Peragine.
 

During spring break, Annie Palermo, her friend Hailey Cornell, Annie’s mother and Hailey’s mother went to New York City to the American Girl store. The girls are shown with the Gazette (with a floppy front cover) in front of the store.
 

At Yankee Stadium before the arrival of the Pope for the 2008 Papal Mass are John Adair, 13, and his father, Rich Adair. John and Rich were one of only 20 persons from St. Ann's Church to receive the tickets in a lottery.

Ann Sampson, a 60 year resident of Ocean City, is shown with the Gazette and her daughter, Elsie Spedden, where they spent two nights in Sag Harbor then visited Stony Brook Village Center for the Festival of Trees on Long Island, N.Y. Elsie was visiting from North Palm Beach, Fla. The photo was taken on Sunday, Dec. 2. The first snowfall of the season.

Happy campers
These campers traveled on an annual summer camping trip to the Catskill Mountains in New York, where the Castellis and the Della Vecchias of Galloway Township have been camping for the past five years. This year they were joined by the Battistellis of Mays Landing. Pictured from left to right in the front row are Matthew Castelli, Carol Castelli, Michael Castelli, Kaitley Davis and Andrea Battistelli (holding The Current), Melinda Battistelli, and Ariel Battistelli. In the back row are Paul Castelli, Anthony Della Vecchia, Tony Della Vecchia, Nick Della Vecchia, Charlotte Della Vecchia, David Battistelli and Dave Battistelli.

Drew crew goes to Cooperstown

The Drew family of Margate went to Cooperstown, N.Y. in July and attended the Baseball Hall of Fame induction ceremony of Tony Gwynn of the San Diego Padres and Cal Ripken Jr. of the Baltimore Orioles. Pictured are Jim, Sean, Jimmy, Maggie and Jeanmarie Drew.

Fun at Finger Lakes

Patrick Gilbride, 7, of Egg Harbor Township visited his grandmother in August for her 87th birthday party, which took place on Canandaigua Lake in the Finger Lakes region of western New York. The beautiful views were also enjoyed by Patrick’s parents, Marie and Jim Gilbride.

Birthday in Montauk

Lorenda Knisel of Absecon, reporter for The Current, stands with her boyfriend, Scott Abbott of Macungie, Pa., in front of the Montauk Point Lighthouse in Montauk, N.Y., March 10. They celebrated Knisel’s birthday by joining a “Burning Beach Ball” party at the Montauk Yacht Club, which was attended by devotees of the annual Burning Man festival held in the Nevada desert. They are holding a copy of The Current along with The Beachcomber News, its sister paper where Knisel works as a copy editor. 

Beverly and Ron Denney (center) took the Gazette with them to West Point when they hosted a trip for members of the Exchange Club to the military academy.

Chillin’ out on Valentine’s Day

The Patane family of Smithville traveled with The Current to Hunter Mountain, N.Y., in search of snow, and they found it. The Catskills received over 2 feet of snow on Valentine’s Day. This photo of Chrissie, Joe, Alyssa and Joey Patane and Chrissie’s brother, John DiGiacomo, was taken in front of the Kaatskill Mountain Club Resort on Hunter Mountain during the blizzard.

The Fusco-Rohrer family took the Gazette to New York City for their annual Christmas trip. They took the ferry over from New Jersey to New York and went to see the Rockefeller Center Christmas tree and St. Patrick's Cathedral. They took a bike ride through Central Park where they saw many of the park's features that were filmed in movies and shows. They also went to Times Square, where the Gazette is pictured. Pictured are James Fusco, Antoinette Fusco-Rohrer, Lisa Fusco and Kristi Rohrer.

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Picturesque place for ironman training

Annie Graves of Seaville, right, and Jackie Somers of Northfield spent four days in June at Lake Placid, N.Y., running, biking and swimming in preparation for Graves’ first ironman competition this past July. She finished in 14 hours 46 minutes, which they said is impressive for a first-timer.

A pre-dawn wake up call in Manhattan isn't enough to hold back a few local girls and their favorite newspaper. The Gazette joined Ocean City residents Meghan Laverty and Jordan Zboray at the Good Morning America Summer Concert series in Bryant Park, N.Y. to see pop star Hannah Montana. The show, on June 22, was the largest audience in GMA history with over 25,000 in attendance (many of whom stood in line overnight for the big event). Jordi and Meghan, dressed in their “Ocean City, NJ loves Hannah Montana” T-shirts, proudly showed off their local connections despite the 5:30 a.m. start. Thanks to Jordan's Uncle Rick, it was an experience of a lifetime.

The Gazette vacationed with Monica, Emily and John Mora of Ocean View along with Alice Coupe of Somers Point at the Rocking Horse Ranch in Highland, N.Y. The picture was taken in the lobby during the April 2007 Nor’easter.

During the Christmas holiday, Mike, Renee, Alison and Rebecca Miles, of Seaville, visited New York City with the Gazette and saw the Radio City Christmas Spectacular starring the Rockettes.

December in NYC

The Gazette traveled to New York City Dec. 2-3 to see the world famous Rockefeller Center Christmas tree and the Radio City Christmas Spectacular Show featuring the Rockettes. Pictured are Antoinette Fusco-Rohrer, Kristi Rohrer and Carol Fusco.

Shirley Allen of Marmora, Julie Brown, Matthew Brown, Donna Blackley, Alyssa Perry, Devon Blackley, Jackson Brown and Cole Blackely of Cape May took the Gazette on the family’s fourth trip to “The Today Show” in New York City, one for each of the children’s first birthdays. The photo was submitted by the children’s grandmother.

Smart cookies in Central Park

 Girl Scout Troop 5048 of Galloway Township used money raised from the Girl Scout cookie sale to go to New York City for the day, where they saw the Broadway show “Mary Poppins.” Pictured in Central Park are, left to right, Lindsey Norbady, Falon Irwin, Deena Drozd, Katie Juniewicz, Michell Myland, Angelica Mullins, Amanda Madanci, Reba Scull, Bailey Rogers and Jasmine Branch. Not pictured are leaders Brenda Drozd and Brenda Norbady.

Juliette Arico of Marmora, a junior at University of Rochester, Rochester, N.Y., is spending her spring semester studying at the Universiteit Van Amsterdam in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. She is standing with the Gazette in front of the Royal Palace on Dam Square.

Dance, Dance, Dance

The Gazette traveled to New York City in December with the Dance Dynamics competition dance team. The dance team took classes at the Broadway Dance Center. They saw the Alvin Ailey show and took a private dance class at the Alvin Ailey Dance Studio.

Made for speed

Ginger and Jerry Hammell of Absecon, pictured holding The Current, visited Lake Placid, N.Y., and took the Olympic Bobsled Run. The Olympics were held there in 1932 and 1980. The Hammells had ridden it once in the winter of 1966, and tried it again last summer, 40 years later. They said their posted time was the best of the day, winning them tickets for another ride on the bobsled. The couple decided to forgo the tickets and wait another 40 years to ride.

Snowmobiling in the Adironacks
 
Victor Caraballo of Linwood is pictured with his family, Brandon, Cory, Michael and Melissa Caraballo of Chalfont, Pa., and friend, Dave, as they prepare to cross Fourth Lake in Old Forge, N.Y., and head toward Canada on their snowmobiles over President’s Day weekend.

Getting some Chicago razzle dazzle in New York

Oakcrest High School teachers accompanied students in the Oakcrest High School Drama Department March 14 to see "Chicago" at the Ambassador Theater in New York City. Holding The Current at the theater are teachers front row from left: Paula Londono and Colleen Kennedy. Second row from left are Brenna Baker, drama coach Kim Tunney and band director David Tobias.

Batting a thousand

The South Jersey Sand Sharks 12-year-old Traveling Baseball League of Galloway Township attended the Cooperstown Dream Park Invitational Tournament Aug. 12-17 in Cooperstown, N.Y., home of the Baseball Hall of Fame, for a week filled with games. The tournament is host to 96 teams from all across the country. From left to right, each holding his own copy of The Current, are coach Doug Irwin, Kyle Bender, Chris Hahn, Cody Stashak, Anthony Ardente, Tanner Love, Willie Lakes, Nathan Otto, Coach Paul Hahn, Ryan Irwin, Lance Arlington, Cody Keich, Vaughn Champion, Justin Healy, Phil Collette, Kyle Hesse and coach Fran Champion.