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-SO S-1 LOCAL NEWS ASBURY PARK PRESS TUESDAY, APRIL 19, 2005 Stafford Recreation Water thony Gorman said. "Bev bends over backward for the seniors and the children. If you let her go and don't support her, I feel you have made a big mistake." Hartman said officials don't know whether they will accept the resignation, saying they have to discuss how to proceed. Resident Gary J. Brower, a neighbor of Neyenhouse's, said he notices the long hours she works, including nights and weekends.

"It would be more than a shame and you should be embarrassed if you let Bev Neyenhouse leave," he said. Resident Walt Fernandez credited Neyenhouse for including special needs children, including his child, in the township's programs. "A lot of what this town has to offer is your recreation department," he said. "Our recreation department has so many programs going. Every time you turn around, Bev's name is on something.

We're not talking about big dollars, we're talking about fair and equitable pay." Hartman said officials have been pleased with Neyenhouse's performance, though he cited the need for some improvements but would not discuss them publicly. Neyenhouse said she was not planning litigation, but it remained a possibility. This is not the first time a member of Neyenhouse's family has had a dispute with township officials. In January, her husband, William C. Neyenhouse, a former township committeeman, accused Hartman of not supporting his selection to another term as planning board chairman.

Neyenhouse said his support of Brower as an independent candidate for Township Committee in November was the cause. Gregory J. Volpe: (609) 978-4584 or gvolpeapp.com els of the trimer, a semivolatile compound that tends to adhere to soil. Carbide found levels up to 4.4 ppm in the upper VA feet of soil, and up to 29 ppm in the lower depths. Gowers said that the discovery of the trimer on the property means the land will remain on the Superfund list at least until the toxicity study of the trimer is completed.

Magelssen said he based his statement about potential risks on the amount of trimer that remains in the soil, along with preliminary toxicity data on the trimer, which was first discovered in two United Water Toms River wells in 1996. Those wells Well 26 and 28 in United's Parkway well field are treated with an air stripping system and carbon filtration to remove contaminants, and water from the wells is then pumped onto the ground behind the Home Depot store at Routes 9 and 571. The water has not been used in United's drinking water system since 1997, another factor that Magelssen said led him to conclude there is no threat that the public will be exposed to the trimer in drinking water. Joseph Gowers, the federal Environmental Protection Agency's remedial project manager for Reich Farm, was more cautious, saying that whether or not the trimer is a potential carcinogen is a question that has not yet been answered. "What we can agree on is the exposure pathways have been interrupted," Gowers said.

He said the trimer is being removed from United's drinking water supply, preventing people from ingesting it, and that although trimer remains in the soil at Reich Farm, it is located at least VA feet below the surface of the ground. "There is nothing right at the surface that someone can be exposed to," Gowers said. Magelssen also said that data from monitoring wells at the Reich Farm site, in the area between the farm and the parkway well field, and at the well field itself, show that the plume of groundwater contamination is shrinking, and the levels of contaminants in the plume are dropping. Wells at the farm site are sampled annually, while wells located between the farm and the well field are sampled quarterly, Magelssen said. Wells at the parkway field are sampled monthly.

Magelssen said there have been no detections of trimer in the wells on the farm site in the past four years. The highest levels of trimer have been seen in a well located near Swain Avenue, nearly a mile south of the farm property. FROM PAGE Bl re-negotiating everyone's contract." Neyenhouse said she was hired in 1997 at $25,000 a year and received "percentage raises" and an extra $2,500 for her master's degree, though other department directors were earning between $40,000 and $50,000. She said she was earning $17,000 less than the average department director salary. Officials said her salary is about $41,000 this year.

Neyenhouse also blasted township officials, saying they haven't maintained parks, substantially cut funding for summer camp and decreased the concert series budget by half. She also said the township's labor attorney Robert Greitz sent her lawyer a letter that stated "a Recreation Department and its Director are luxuries." Hartman said the recreation programs were supposed to be self-funded and the cuts were out of officials' control. Neyenhouse gave the Township Committee two weeks notice. "I have made a considerable positive difference in the quality of life of Barnegat residents," she said. "However, I feel all of you have made it clear that recreation is not a necessity or priority and that I and my department are expendable.

All that I have ever asked for is a fair and equitable salary." A handful of residents defended Neyenhouse, saying she has worked long hours to improve the recreation department and should be paid as well as other supervisors. "There's always been a program for my kids," resident An Kingda Ka coaster STAFF REPORT Coaster enthusiasts anxious for the opening of Great Adventure's 456-foot Kingda Ka will have to wait a little longer, after Six Flags officials announced the roller coaster's official opening to the public originally scheduled for Saturday has been delayed. Additionally, a media day scheduled for Thursday, when the winners of an eBay auction were scheduled to take the first rides, has been delayed as well. The delay is not due to any safety concerns or problems, park spokeswoman Kristin Siebeneicher said Monday. "The coaster has been running very well," she said.

"We month FROM PAGE Bl Meinders and DeStefano said the district had abandoned a "traditional curriculum" about five years ago for the current curriculum, which was designed to address increasing state-mandated core standards, including President Bush's No Child Left Behind Act. Meinders said the days of being able to accept that 25 percent of students were just destined to fall behind were over. But parents such as Karyn Hill said the district's way of addressing the standards is leaving everyone behind. "It's not just hurting the child who needs it, it's hurting the whole," she said. Meinders responded: "The curriculum is based on what the state requires.

They need the same materials, they don't necessarily need the same textbooks. Consistency is in the skills, not in the curriculum." Hands began to shoot up as parents recounted stories of how their child was falling behind, or how school officials missed signals that led to their child's learning disabilities to go undetected. During the discourse, Meinders and DeStefano began to appear increasingly flustered and frustrated. Jennifer Brown of Ocean Acres said she was growing increasingly weary of Meinders and DeStefano-Anen's condescending tone and smirks at parents' concerns. Brown said her child struggles because he wasn't adequately prepared in the Stafford school district for Southern Regional Middle School.

Dennis Halpin of Ocean Acres has three children, two in the school district and one in the Southern Regional Middle School. He said the curriculum was changed when his son was in the third grade, which led to Dogs FROM PAGE Bl Raider and Gus are shepherds with experience sniffing for drugs in Camden. There was Jameson, a dog with New Brunswick Police Detective John Drury, and Falko, a shepherd with Officer James Fay of the Monmouth County Sheriffs Office. Nine bowsers in all were "volunteered." The campaign is part of the university's bank of dog blood, which opened in 1987 on the Penn campus in West Philadelphia. The bloodmobile entered service in 1991.

More than 4,000 dogs have had their blood taken for the Penn bank. "Animals sometimes need veterinary care and operations," Faiello said. "But we just aren't aware that there is a constant need for donated animal blood." Oakley, who started the Penn Animal Blood Bank, said: "I patterned it off the Red Cross. It works nicely that way." She said a dog's blood cells last six months, and plasma can last five years. "We don't ever muzzle the dogs," Oakley said, opting instead to simply halt the procedure if a dog seems distressed.

Jax, the frisky shepherd from Morris County, filled that billing. opening delayed just need more time to keep cycling the ride," she said. Six Flags cycles rides for 100 hours to ensure that everything from computer programming to employee training is thoroughly tested before opening a ride, Siebeneicher said. Siebeneicher said a new opening date has not yet been established, but could be announced by the end of the week. The winners of the eBay auction which raised close to $16,000 for Children's Miracle Network have been notified and will still get the first ride on Kingda Ka, she said.

Season pass holders will also get to ride the coaster before the general public, she said. FROM PAGE Bl became an issue late in 2003, when officials from the federal Environmental Protection Agency said that a five-year review of the cleanup at Reich Farm found significant levels of trimer remained in the soil. The farm and the plume of groundwater contamination emanating from it were a major focus of the nearly 6-year-old study of elevated levels of some childhood cancers in Dover Township, because the pollution plume had impacted United Water's Parkway well field. The well field, off Dugan Lane in the Pleasant Plains section, provides about 20 percent of the company's drinking water supply. Independent trucker Nicholas Fernicola has admitted that in 1971, he dumped more than 4,000 drums of chemical waste from Union Carbide's Bound Brook plant in the rear of the farm property.

Carbide, which has since merged with Dow Chemical, has paid for monitoring of the well field, and the cleanup at Reich Farm, which was completed in the late '90s. Soil at the farm site was excavated and treated with an on-site thermal desorption unit, in which the dirt was heated to high temperatures to vaporize any contaminants. The soil was then returned to the farm site, with clean fill placed on top of it. The company also paid for carbon filtration systems to be placed on several wells in the parkway field that were found to contain small amounts of the trimer in 1996. The trimer, a previously unknown chemical compound, was discovered in 1996 when water supplies here were tested extensively as part of the childhood cancer investigation.

When cleanup work was done at the farm in the mid-'90s, no one knew the trimer existed. The review of the cleanup at Reich Farm was initiated because the Reichs, who still own the former poultry farm in Dover's Pleasant Plains section, had asked if the property could be removed from the Super-fund list so they could regain some use of the land. The EPA took 77 soil samples at the farm in October and November 2004, at depths that ranged from VA to 29 feet below the surface. Trimer levels ranged from nondetectable to 1.4 parts per million (ppm) in the upper VA feet of soil, and from nondetectable to 14 ppm from VA to 29 feet below ground level. Carbide also did sampling at the site, and found higher lev 3.51 Get going to a World Savings rates: 1 800 Lanoka Harbor Route 9, Lacey Mall Next to Cost Cutters (609) 693-1155 get while Your IB i i ji i confusion that he believes has impacted the quality of his education.

"I hope some good comes out of this," Halpin said of the meeting. "Any time they listen, it's a good thing." Kim Johnson of the Ocean Acres section said she was not satisfied with the meeting. "I just feel they're not addressing the problem," she said. "We have awesome, awesome teachers and they are not allowed to do their jobs. My son is in the fifth grade and I have one in the first grade.

My fifth-grader's been struggling. We need to get back to basics. Hopefully, this is a start." Board of Education President Thomas Dellane, who attended Monday night's meeting, said, "I think that a lot of what has been said has been said before. I think the district is making an honest attempt to address the concerns and we look forward to working with them in the future to work out a solution." Erik Larseti: (609) 978-4582 or elarsenapp.com Oakley had the needle in Jax's neck when his distress became apparent, so she ended things, whereupon Jax leaped onto all fours and tore into the chow bowl that an aide pushed in front of him. "We want the dogs to recall this as a good experience," Oakley said.

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