Trivia time May 10, 2013 edition

Last Updated on Tuesday, May 21, 2013 10:43 am Written by Suzanne Marino Friday, May 10, 2013 12:55 am

Trivia Time
TGIF! Check out these factoids for Friday.
• On this day in 1877, President Rutherford B. Hayes has the White House's first telephone installed in the telegraph room; though he rarely received phone calls. The White House phone number was "1." It would be 50 more years until President Herbert Hoover had the first telephone line installed at the president's desk in the Oval Office.

• On May 10, 1869 the Central Pacific and Union Pacific Rail Roads meet in Promontory, Utah. A golden spike was driven in at the celebration of the first transcontinental railroad. That event is captured on the reverse of the Utah quarter.

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Trivia Time May 9, 2013 edition

Last Updated on Tuesday, May 21, 2013 10:43 am Written by SUZANNE MARINO Thursday, May 09, 2013 12:15 am

Trivia Time
Good Thursday morning! Come and grab a few nuggets of knowledge for your Thursday!
• The last episode of The Honeymooners was aired on this date in 1971. The show was a departure from most TV shows of the time; The Honeymooners was filmed in front of a live audience and broadcast at a later date to allow Jackie Gleason more time to pursue other producing projects, he taped two episodes a week,. Shows were taped at New York’s Adelphi Theatre in front of around 1,000 people.

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Authors Night at the Museum

Written by SUZANNE MARINO Thursday, May 09, 2013 12:00 am

  Authors Frank Ferry, left and Lee Ireland, both of Egg Harbor Township offer their books for sale at the Meet the Author Night event at the Atlantic County Historical Society Monday, April 29.

SOMERS POINT—The Atlantic County Historical Society invited 10 local authors to talk about their books at a special “meet the authors night’ Monday, April 29 at their Shore Road museum. Local authors whose books run the gamut of subjects from local lore to romance talked about their books and what inspired them to take on the challenge of writing and getting a book published. All of the authors were offering their books for sale and personalized them. The authors included Dawn Brown who wrote, “Minor Chances: A Catcher on the Farm.” Judy Courter; “Fred and Ethel Noyes of Smithville, NJ, The Artist and the Entrepreneur.” Frank Ferry, “Nucky, The Real Story of the Atlantic City Boardwalk Boss.” Lee Ireland: “Place Names of the Jersey Shore.”

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One year anniversary of April Kauffman’s unsolved murder

Last Updated on Thursday, May 09, 2013 07:11 am Written by SUZANNE MARINO Thursday, May 09, 2013 12:00 am

April Kauffman

LINWOOD—Friday marks one year since police rushed to the scene on Woodstock Drive here to find April Kauffman dead from multiple gunshot wounds in her own home and yet her killer is still free and no arrests have been made.

Because it is a murder case jurisdiction as well as official word on the case comes from the Atlantic County Prosecutors Office and not from the Linwood Police. At this point the only comments from the Prosecutors Office is that the investigation is continuing.

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Colleges, universities need to know the law

Written by Opinion Wednesday, May 08, 2013 05:59 pm

To the editor:

The University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth is in the news. It should be of no surprise since one of the suspects of the Boston bombing is a registered student there and three other students have been arrested for crimes associated with interference of a federal investigation.

The University of Massachusetts is following in the misguided footsteps of the University of Colorado (Aurora theater shooting); Penn State University (sexual abuse scandal); and Virginia Tech (33 dead).

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Superstition hurts us all

Written by Opinion Wednesday, May 08, 2013 05:50 pm

To the editor:

The amount of superstition being reported on as legitimate news is appalling. Can we not do better than a grand social plan of conflagration?

Superstition hurts us all. The reason why – other than we no longer medicate with mercury or ride horses to town – is that superstition is at odds with education. Denial of humanities’ scholastic achievements or worse; the use of them selectively serves only those who would divide us.

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Master Gardener to speak at Linwood Library

Written by Suzanne Marino Wednesday, May 08, 2013 12:57 pm

LINWOOD—The Friends of the Linwood Library have a special evening planned for Thursday, May 9. It is their annual meeting and the induction of officers will take place beginning at 6:15 p.m.  Following the installation meeting the Friends have a program bound to have everyone ready to get their green thumbs working. Mona Bawgus, certified master gardener from Rutgers Cooperative Extension Service, will be the guest speaker beginning at 6:30 p.m.
The officers of the Friends of the Linwood Library are; President - Elizabeth Shearer, Vice-President of Membership- Ellen Kelley, Vice-President Publicity - Virginia Bakos, Treasurer-Diana Intenzo, Recording Secretary- Adrianne Larson and Corresponding Secretary- Barbara Cipriano. The Members-at-large are Members-at-Large are Paula Demarest, Mary Englehart, Linda Gussie, Gini Olsson and Betty Welch. 
The Linwood Public Library is located at 301 Davis Ave.  in Linwood (609) 926-7991 ext. 3 for more information.

Honor Flight takes off at Northfield Community School

Last Updated on Wednesday, May 08, 2013 03:10 pm Written by SUZANNE MARINO Wednesday, May 08, 2013 12:12 pm

Korean War veteran Robert Webb of Northfield and Frank Pagano of Egg Harbor Township snap a salute during the singing of the National Anthem at the Honor Flight event sporting their Got Freedom? T-shirts that say thank a vet on the back.

NORTHFIELD – Never forgetting what veterans have done for all of us is an ongoing lesson at the Northfield Community School.

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