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Beverly Burlington City Burlington Twp. Cinnaminson Delanco Delran Eastampton Edgewater Park Evesham Florence Hainesport Lumberton Maple Shade Medford Medford Lakes Moorestown Mount Holly Mount Laurel New Hanover North Hanover Palmyra Pemberton Boro. Pemberton Twp. Riverside Riverton Shamong Southampton Springfield Tabernacle Westampton Willingboro Woodland Wrightstown Sunday, September 8, 1996 BR Mount Holly nature lover, sick about litter, assails hospital Frederick Disque wants to preserve Creek Island. His petition drive targets Memorial Hospital and its thrift store operations.

from the thrift shop. We also patrol the area about 12 times a day." But the shop's cochairwoman, Ruth Ryan, said that the bin had not completely stopped the vandalism and littering. "Those people have set our place on fire two times this year," Ryan said. "We keep no trash out, but they still steal everything possible. The hospital has done everything possible to better the situation; we need help from the township." Disque drew up a petition last month to block the hospital's relicensure from the state because of the littering, contending it See HOSPITAL on BR2 discarded clothing.

Last month, angry and frustrated, Disque called on the state to punish the business he feels is responsible for the litter, Memorial Hospital of Burlington County. He asked the state to delay the renewal of the hospital's license from the Department of Health. He said Memorial Hospital officials have allowed the area's homeless people to steal clothes from the hospital's thrift shop and take the items into the Creek Island area. Hospital officials acknowledge that some errant donors leave plastic bags of clothes on the doorstep of the Thrif Shop on Madi son Avenue when it is closed. But they say those bags are then stolen and their contents littered throughout the adjacent woodlands owned by Conrail, and the connecting Creek Island.

Thrift shop workers run the store from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Monday through Friday and from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. on the second Saturday of every month.

To counter the stealing, Memorial officials installed an off-hours collection bin for clothes behind the hospital about two years ago. "I think it's better than it was," said John D. Kaiser, Memorial's vice president for facilities and planning. "It's not all coming wrote in his June 1 journal of his trips through this township-owned forest. "With a loud roar, a covey of quail broke cover and vanished into the brush." But Disque's diary entry soon turned into a tale of woe.

"Scattered all over the trail and the right-of-way was used clothing, beer cans and broken wine bottles," he wrote. "The Thrift Shop sidewalk was filthy and covered with By Matthew Dolan TT INQUIRER CORRKSPONDKNT MOUNT HOLLY Frederick Disque and his springer spaniel, Molly, regularly dash into Creek Island, woodlands that might be the last 25 acres of undeveloped land in the area. "As we moved down the Conrail-owned right-of-way toward the causeway, Molly stopped and struck a perfect point," Disque 1 Woodland youths may get to skip Pemberton High Well, the way is clearer for them to go to Lenape Regional. Parents have yearned for that for years. ft A iv "-nimmiTTTmiiMiiii rnriiilrTiiMiii iiri'i i niff i 8 )- Now, the Woodland Township Board of Education no longer has to take Pemberton's "no" for an answer.

A bill signed by the governor in July allows sending districts to end relationships with receiver districts whether the receiver districts agree or not. State Sen. C. William Haines Burlington) had written the bill at the district's request. Now, all that remains is for Lena-; pe officials to say "yes." Whether they will accept Woodland's high school students depends on the outcome of a feasibility study by Lenape officials and meetings between the two school boards.

Lenape educators are scheduled to give Woodland an answer by Dec. 1. Karycinski, now school board president, said she hoped the 14 students of Chatsworth's class of 1996 are the last to start their freshman year at Pemberton. Students already attending Pemberton would have the option of switching over to the Lenape system, she said. Karycinski said she followed education at Pemberton closely when her daughter was a student there in See WOODLAND on BRIO By David E.

Wilson INQUIRER CORRESPONDENT WOODLAND TOWNSHIP For the 12 years she's been a school board member in this one-school district, Christa Karycinski has been told by parents over and over: We want a new high school. Convinced that the Lenape Regional High School District can offer a better education for graduates of their elementary school, many parents want to end an almost 70-year relationship with Pemberton Township High School. They have been itching to break it off for as long anyone can remember. "We have always had parents requesting that we find a way to leave the district," Karycinski said. "We've never heard from anyone who didn't want us to make the move." All that the Woodland educators needed to get started on the switch to Lenape was Pemberton's permission.

But Pemberton officials, mindful of the negative publicity such a move would create and the $7,800 annual tuition payment for each graduate of Chatsworth Elementary School said "no" every time. For The Inquirer NANCY WEGARD The Mighty Mighty Mites of Florence are bursting with energy as they practice some of the cheers they have learned. 5 i Mir V. 42 A new game for the old pep squad Sis-boom-ba humbug! It's not your mother's cheerleading anymore. Delanco still dubious after sewage report i Ml" pleted, but both authorities have a two-page synopsis.

It concludes that the plant's concrete structures and mechanical equipment are "in good condition." The report also states that the plant "should function at present capacity for 20 years." Beverly Mayor Frank Costello, chairman of the Beverly Sewerage Authority, says the report shows that "the plant is adequate." But Robert Bellin, chairman of See SEWER on BR11 By Matthew Futterman INQUIRER CORRESPONDENT During a sultry summer evening last month, Washington Township's Bonnie Tut-tle took a break from coaching her 13-year-old daughter's cheerleading squad to ex Inside V' i The study gave a good review to the Beverly plant. But township officials have questions. By Jan Ilofler INtlUIUKR CORRESPONDENT BEVERLY An independent engineering study has given Beverly's 84-year-old sewage plant good marks a review that officials hope will flush away the worries of Delanco Township, a plant customer for 48 years. But the concerns remain. Delanco officials say they still worry that Beverly's aging plant will be unable to accommodate Delanco's anticipated growth in the next 20 years.

About four years ago, Delanco officials began considering a $5 million plan to build a sewer line to the more modern Willingboro Sewerage Treatment Plant. When township residents learned of the proposal's details last summer, they protested that the Willingboro hookup could bring at least a $56 annual increase in sewer bills and might be unnecessary. The Delanco authority then agreed to postpone the plan, pending an independent evaluation of the Beverly plant. 1 After an eight-week study, Environmental Resolutions of Mount Laurel, issued a report in July to the Beverly and Delanco Sewerage Authorities, which are sharing the neview's $20,500 cost. The report will be released to the public once revisions are com plain tne virtues 01 stomping your feet and clapping your hands for the home team.

"Cheerleading is not what it used to be," said Tuttle, who was not a cheerleader when she was a teen, but coached squads for the township's youth program several nights a week this summer. "It's not just pompoms. Everybody stunts these days. These cheerleaders here are every bit as much athletes as the football players." And just as tough, For The Inquirer BOB HILL In Washington Township, midget league football has devoted players and cheerleaders alike. Eric Kessler, 7, adjusts his gear as Judy Cristelli, 6, watches.

MjWJM I 4 iv I i I i Ashley DiNucci, 6, lets out a shout at a Mighty Mighty Mites practice in Florence. "No," she said, they never thank her for cheering. "That's just the way they are." This was the year that women finally received the same respect as men at the Summer Olympics. At schools and in township recreation programs across the country, girls' sports are booming. But even in the midst of this post-feminist sports bonanza, competitive cheerleading and old-fashioned football-team pep are booming, too everywhere and for every age.

Nearly every municipality in South Jersey has a healthy cheerleading program in See CHEERLEADERS on BR2 year-olds Kelly Todd and Jennifer Kline have a somewhat more traditional answer for why they drag themselves out four nights a week to learn how to cheer for the township's midget football teams. After noting that they like to learn the movements and to travel throughout the region to the games, Jennifer's face exploded into a proud smile as she gave up the goods. "I like cheering for the boys," she said, without even a hint of embarrassment, as Kelly grabbed her around the neck. "You get to meet them that way." And do the boys appreciate her efforts? too. Tuttle's daughter Brynn sprained her arm last year propping up her teammates shortly before a national competition.

No matter. Brynn painted her cast red, white and blue and cheered away, sprained arm and all. Across the field from Tuttle's squad, 10-. I Matthew Busillo, the new principal at the Mount Laurel Hartford School, likens his post to being a Pied Piper. BR3.

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