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B8 Montgomery County www.philly.com THE PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER Wednesday, October 29, 2003 Death of woman, 77, blamed on tornado A 20-foot branch hit Doris J. Smith in the head and kept going in a Hainesport bowling alley parking lot. Ocean City proposes bank of beach sand The Army Corps replenishes the shore every 3 years. Storms strike more often. F5.

Smith, known as Dolly, lived in the Lumberton Lees retirement community. She was born and raised in Burlington City and lived in Moorestown for two decades. She worked as a bookkeeper and teller for at least two banks before she retired. She spent summers in Surf City, and had been active at St. Mary's Episcopal Church in Burlington City and in various service organizations in South Jersey.

Neighbors recalled Smith as a kind woman often seen walking around the Lumberton Lees neighborhood with her dog, Buddy. She loved to cook, said Ann Naulty, who had known Smith for about 20 years, originally when the two volunteered to help the elderly and then when Naulty moved in across the street. "She was a good friend, a real nice neighbor, and a fantastic cook," said Naulty, who specifically remembered Smith's tasty fruitcake. Smith's death was the second caused by powerful storms that toppled trees in the region in the last two weeks. William Gibson, 24, was killed Oct.

15 in Haverford Township, Delaware County, when a tree landed on his 1997 Ford Expedition. He was pronounced dead at the scene, and his girlfriend, a passenger, was taken to a hospital with serious injuries. By Nora Koch INQUIRER SUBURBAN STAFF HAINESPORT A tornado caused the winds that ripped off a treetop and sent a large branch airborne through a bowling alley's parking lot Monday afternoon, killing a 77-year-old grandmother from Lumberton. Doris J. Smith was pronounced dead at Virtua-Memo-rial Hospital Burlington County in Mount Holly shortly after the tornado touched down outside Holly Bowl Lanes in Hainesport at 3:39 p.m.

She was standing outside her car when the tree limb, about 20 feet long and nine inches thick, slammed into her head, state police said. Smith had joined a bowling league last week and had just finished one of her first practices. The branch, which police said had been torn off a 20-foot-high tree, also damaged her car. The limb then damaged two more cars before landing on the other side of the parking lot. Late Monday, the National Weather Service station in Mount Holly declared that the winds had been caused by a tornado that traveled a half-mile with a 30-yard-wide path of destruction.

Creating gusts estimated at 70 m.p.h., the tornado blew down 10 to 15 trees, state police said. It knocked down a lamppost, blew over trash cans, and damaged the bowling alley. Like others that hit New Jersey last month, this tornado was relatively weak classified as F0 on a scale that tops out at By John Curran ASSOCIATED PRESS OCEAN CITY, N.J. A Shore town whose beaches get replenished every three years wants to begin stockpiling sand for use between projects. Ocean City officials want to establish what is essentially a sand bank from which they would make withdrawals to shore up beaches in between Army Corps of Engineers beach-replenishment projects.

The proposal, while simple enough, is a novel approach in New Jersey. "I think this is a first," said Merv Brokke, a spokesman for the Corps of Engineers. Next month, a dredge named Beach Builder will begin sucking up 1.5 million cubic yards of sand from the Atlantic Ocean floor before piping it onto eroded beaches in the city's north end. The $8.4 million project is part of the city's contract with the Corps of Engineers for beach replenishment every three years through 2041. But this time, city officials are asking permission from the Corps of Engineers and the state Department of Environmental Protection to get an extra 50,000 cubic yards enough to fill about 2,700 dump trucks and set it aside at the north end of the island.

The idea is to save some for a rainy day or for after a few of them, to be more precise, when nor'easters or hurricanes chip away at beaches. "Historically, we've seen significant erosion occur there, and we thought it would be good to have some extra sand that would help us feed our beaches in the intervening times of replenishment," said George Savastano, director of public works. Savastano said that, given the high cost of beach replenishments, it makes sense to make the most of them. "When we have these replenishment projects, it costs $1 million just to get the dredge here, before you pump a lick of sand. Since it's there, it behooves the city or whomever to get as much sand as they can from that borrow site into our beach system.

We want to get as much sand as we can. More sand is never a bad thing," Savastano said. The Corps of Engineers likes the idea, but the state still must sign off on the plan. "There's going to have to be some modifications to the contract," Brokke said. "It's a little extra sand, but it won't be for free." He called the set-aside "doable" from a technology standpoint.

DAN DRAKE Associated Press A work crew from the Arthur Henry Construction Co. replaces a pipe in preparation for beach replenishment in Ocean City. The Army Corps of Engineers oversees such projects regularly. have used a sand bank earlier this year. "This past spring, we had severely eroded beaches at the north end.

If we had some sand stockpiled and transported it there to that stretch, we could have replenished it ourselves," he said. Child-welfare workers target Guitarist seeks leniency in public urination stunt DYFS from Bl On Monday, officials announced they would reassess the safety of nearly half of more than 14,000 foster children in the system who had been visited in recent months as part of a system overhaul. Yesterday, union officials blasted top state officials for saying they would fire nine employees who handled the case. "We have not been given any evidence whatsoever as to what was allegedly done by these workers," complained Carla Katz, president of Communications Workers of America, Local 1034, as she took a break between disciplinary hearings in Trenton. The nine hearings were conducted yesterday, and in each case, the suspensions were upheld, with termination proceedings to follow, state officials said.

Steven Weissman, an attorney representing six of the suspended workers, said he was confident that the state's actions would be reversed in arbitration. "Those workers had their constitutional rights violated," Weissman said. He called the hearings a "sham" because all that was presented was a one-paragraph written statement from an administrator confirming "that there is evidence in the case record that the employee did not take necessary, sufficient action to protect the safety, health and well-being of all children residing in the Jackson home." Katz, who represents about 700 DYFS employees in South Jersey, said that there had been "a failure of the community at large. There are many members of the community that surrounded these children that saw them repeatedly. Some of the workers that were fired never saw the children at all." Two of the workers had no direct contact with the family since 2000, union officials said.

Another worker had not seen the family since 2001. Of the nine employees targeted for termination, two are district office managers and are re- of probe lo said. "If the adoptive mother says that the child has an eating disorder, you have to ask for medical records. "But they (DYFS caseworkers) say, 'Oh, and that's not appropriate. Has the child seen a doctor? That didn't happen in this case," Parello said.

"Our suspicion is that it doesn't happen in a lot of cases. Children who are in danger are not identified." Cecilia Zalkind, executive director of the Association for Children of New Jersey, spent much of yesterday trying to fix the system. She is a member of a DYFS working group that is preparing a court-ordered child-welfare-reform plan. She said the atmosphere created by the Collingswood case had emphasized the importance of the work. "This case defies description," she said.

"It's hard to believe someone could miss what was happening to these kids and not have some questions, some common sense." Contact staff writer Robert Moran at 609-989-9016 or rmoranphillynews.com. Inquirer staff writers Troy Graham and Kaitlyn Gumey contributed to this article. By Benjamin Y. Lowe INQUIRER STAFF WRITER Jared Hennegan, the Bloodhound Gang guitarist accused of urinating onto the street from a downtown West Chester garage for a videotaped stunt on Oct. 10, waived his preliminary hearing yesterday in front of District Justice Mark Bruno.

Hennegan's lawyer, David Zalesne, said the 32-year-old Huntingdon Valley resident would apply for the Accelerated Rehabilitative Disposition program. Hennegan faces misdemeanor charges of conspiracy, open lewdness and disorderly conduct. His record could be expunged if the District Attorney's Office approves his application. West Chester Police Sgt. Sam Iacono rejected pleas by Zalesne to reduce charges against his client to summary offenses.

"What we're trying to do is "It's a good idea, it can be done, and we're looking at how to do it cost-effectively," Brokke said. Officials with the Department of Environmental Protection did not immediately respond to requests for comment on the proposal yesterday. Savastano said the city could taining their own lawyers. The caseworker who had the most visits in the Jackson home also has hired her own attorney. The union is representing two caseworkers, one licensing inspector, one foster-care worker, and two front-line supervisors.

"They're either incompetent, uncaring, or they lied," Gwendolyn L. Harris, commissioner of the state Department of Human Services, said on Monday, adding that "any reasonable person" would have recognized something wrong with the boys. Paul Alexander, assistant to the president of Local 1034, which represents five of the nine, said the state terminated "anyone whose fingerprints were remotely on the case." "The administration's position was: Shoot everybody and sort out the bodies later," said Alexander, who accompanied the workers to the termination hearings in Trenton. "You don't tar everyone with the same brush." Alexander said hundreds of employees and union members who serve DYFS have been "profoundly saddened by the case and outraged and angered" by the state's reaction. "Our position is that people should be held accountable for this; anyone who is not doing their job should be held accountable," Alexander said.

"But I would like to see people take a deep breath and step back. "We have to have a reasonable rational discussion based on the facts, and then make the appropriate decision," he said. "We have only anecdotal information. I have no idea who did what to who." Alexander said he met yesterday with about 100 DYFS workers in Camden and found them "outraged. They feel betrayed." Nancy Parello, a spokeswoman for the Association for Children of New Jersey, a child-advocacy group, said yesterday that alleged starvation of the Collingswood boys is "another case where the division DYFS failed to dig deep enough to learn whether the children were safe." "You have to assess the whole family situation, not one child but all the people in the home and check other sources," Parel Montgomery Medical Center in Lansdale.

Criminal charges were filed July 15. Reilley could not be reached for comment yesterday. Contact staff writer Keith Herbert at 610-313-8007 or keithherbertphillynews.com. Contact suburban staff writer Nora Koch at 856-779-3869 or nkochphillynews.com. make a statement that West Chester is not going to put up with that stuff," he said.

Iacono added that the department returned most of the videos officers confiscated from the video crew filming Hennegan. Zalesne said the incident was an "unfortunate circumstance" and that his client used "poor judgment." "It was a stunt late at night and was not designed for anyone in the community. It was designed for a television show," he said. Hennegan's stunt was to be shown on Viva La Bam, a Jackass spin-off produced by Brandon "Bam" Margera. The show airs on MTV on Sundays at 9:30 p.m.

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