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6 56525 11071 9 ■ Woman punched, purse stolen. Page A-3. ■ Bouncing bicycle hits child. Page A-3. ■ Latin Festival tonight. Page A-3. Annie’s Mailbox . . . . . . . B-6 BEN Column. . . A-3 Classified. . . . . . B-7 Comics . . . . . . . . B-5 Community . . . . A-3 Crossword . . . . . B-4 Doctor K . . . . . . B-6 Horoscope . . . . . B-6 Obituaries . . . . . A-7 Police Blotter . . A-3 Religion . . . . . . . A-6 Sports . . . . . . . . B-1 Television. . . . . . B-4 Viewpoint . . . . . A-4 Mostly sunny and breezy, High 63 Details, Page A-2 WEATHER INSIDE TODAY INDEX Vol. 265, No. 58 For Home Delivery Customer Service, Please Call 1-888-686-0060 Ron Vinick tournament today, Page B-1 nj.com/cumberland SATURDAY, APRIL 7, 2012 75¢ Masturbator flees scene Way of the Cross Staff Photos by Cindy Hepner Members from Trinity United Methodist Church walked The Way of The Cross through the community of Bridgeton in celebration of the cruci- fiction of christ on Good Friday. Members took turns carrying the wood- en cross as others read scriptures from the bible telling the story. Pro scooters hit skate park Builder survives nail gun accident Staff photo by Cathy Cramer Samuel Rivera at age 12 is enjoying Vinelands new Skate Park on his trick bike along with the scooter and skate- board riders Thursday. Shot to the heart Photo courtesy of Richard Stockton College of NJ Dean C. Pappas (right), and Zoe S. Pappas (center) at the announcement of their $1,150,000 gift to The Richard Stockton College of New Jersey. At left is Dr. Tom Papadometriou, a member of the Stockton Hellenic Studies faculty. Pappas donate $1.15M to Stockton By Greg Adomaitis nj.com/south VINELAND — The city’s new skate park hasn’t been open for very long but will have a very special visitor on Easter Sunday. No, it’s not a bunny ... but there will be an egg hunt. The Australia-based Madd Gear professional scooter team is in the midst of an East Coast tour and is coming here this week- end. “This is like having the X Games coming in a miniature version,” said Mike Anastasio, owner of Vineland skateboard and scooter shop Shredder’s Revenge. The city officially opened the new Landis Park loca- tion — pulled together from obstacles at a former YMCA site — late last month. Though the site is strug- gling through a lack of volunteer supervision, this weekend should make up for the recent troubles. Anastasio hooked up with Madd Gear after applying for a dealership agreement with the company. They in turn contacted him and he explained the proximity to an all-new park. “Would you mind if we came by a did a demo?” Anastasio said they asked. Absolutely not, he responded. There will be 36 tickets hidden about the park for kids in the crowd to get prizes, one of which being a complete scooter. “They’re pulling out all the stops,” he said of the company, which does worldwide tours and is pushing through an East Coast one. Holding the demo on Easter Sunday wasn’t intentional, Anastasio explains, but there was an open date that worked which was later discovered to be the holiday. “Basically, we ran with it and turned it into an egg hunt,” he said. So, for parents who will likely have their scootering children in tow that day, Anastasio says this is “a large event with free give- aways” for kids who eat, (See SCOOTERS, Page A-8) By Phillip Tomlinson nj.com/south BRIDGETON — The congrega- tion of Trinity United Methodist Church on Fayette Street in Bridge- ton took to the streets Friday morn- ing in a solemn demonstration of faith and community outreach. Good Friday is among the holiest days in the Christian calendar. It marks the date of Christ’s cru- cifixion upon the cross, and billions of Christians worldwide honor the date with prayers and services. Among the services conducted on Good Friday is the Way of the Cross. Worshipers symbolically follow the path of Jesus on his way to be crucified, from His solitary prayer in the Garden of Gethsemane to his corporal death at Golgotha. Four years ago, congregation members Sally and Bruce Durham were inspired when they saw an article in the Methodist magazine, The Interpreter, about a church who carried the Way of the Cross out onto the streets of their city. “They had had problems with (See CROSS, Page A-8) Special to The News GALLOWAY TWP. — As an undergraduate col- lege student at Dickinson College in 1961, Dean C. Pappas underwent “a transformational experience” when he heard the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. speak to the student body. “Until that point I was sort of drifting my way through college, but Dr. King’s message was very impressive,” the Bridgeton native recalled. “It made me start to think more seriously about my future. (See DONATION, Page A-8) By Stephen Smith nj.com/south MILLVILLE – A woman called for help when a man began masturbat- ing in front of her car in the Walmart parking lot Thursday, police said. The man, described as a black man in his 20’s wear- ing a black hooded sweat- shirt, black doo rag, black sneakers and light denim jeans, then vanished from the scene and has not been located. Officer Jonathan Gomez responded to a call from the woman at 5:18 p.m. as she was parked in the parking lot at the North 2nd Street establishment. She said the man was look- ing directly at her and fon- dling himself. As he entered the park- ing lot he could not see the suspect, so he located the woman. She said she was sitting in her car in the parking lot, waiting for her hus- band to come out of an eye exam in America’s Best Eye Care Center. She said she spotted the man prowl- ing through the parking lot, fondling his member which he had exposed from his unzipped jeans. The woman said she (See MASTURBATOR, Page A-8) By Stephen Smith nj.com/south VINELAND — A man who shot himself in the heart with a nail gun was discharged from Cooper University Hospital Fri- day. A hospital representa- tive said around 7 p.m. that Dennis Hennis, the 52-year-old Vineland man who shot himself in the heart with a nail gun, had been released sometime during the day. Around 3 p.m. Hennis’s wife Kaia had said he was not home at their South Mill Road residence. “No, he’s still at the hos- pital,” she said cheerily, though she conceded she had been worried about the accident at first. As reported by the Asso- ciated Press, self-employed builder Hennis was work- ing on a neighbor’s roof on Sat., March 31 when (See HEART, Page A-8)
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■ Woman punched, purse stolen. Page A-3.■ Bouncing bicycle hits child. Page A-3.■ Latin Festival tonight. Page A-3.
Annie’s Mailbox . . . . . . . B-6 BEN Column. . . A-3 Classified. . . . . . B-7 Comics . . . . . . . . B-5
Community . . . . A-3 Crossword . . . . . B-4 Doctor K . . . . . . B-6 Horoscope . . . . . B-6 Obituaries . . . . . A-7
Police Blotter . . A-3 Religion . . . . . . . A-6 Sports . . . . . . . . B-1 Television. . . . . . B-4 Viewpoint . . . . . A-4
Mostly sunny and breezy,
High 63Details, Page A-2
WEATHERINSIDE TODAYINDEX
Vol. 265, No. 58
For Home Delivery Customer Service, Please Call 1-888-686-0060
Ron Vinick tournament today, Page B-1
nj.com/cumberland SATURDAY, APRIL 7, 2012 75¢
Masturbator flees scene
Way of the Cross
Staff Photos by Cindy Hepner
Members from Trinity United Methodist Church walked The Way of The Cross through the community of Bridgeton in celebration of the cruci-fiction of christ on Good Friday. Members took turns carrying the wood-en cross as others read scriptures from the bible telling the story.
Pro scooters hit skate park
Builder survives nail gun accident
Staff photo by Cathy Cramer
Samuel Rivera at age 12 is enjoying Vinelands new Skate Park on his trick bike along with the scooter and skate-board riders Thursday.
Shot to the heart
Photo courtesy of Richard Stockton College of NJ
Dean C. Pappas (right), and Zoe S. Pappas (center) at the announcement of their $1,150,000 gift to The Richard Stockton College of New Jersey. At left is Dr. Tom Papadometriou, a member of the Stockton Hellenic Studies faculty.
Pappas donate $1.15M to Stockton
By Greg Adomaitisnj.com/south
VINELAND — The city’s new skate park hasn’t been open for very long but will have a very special visitor on Easter Sunday.
No, it’s not a bunny ... but there will be an egg hunt.
The Australia-based Madd Gear professional scooter team is in the midst of an East Coast tour and is coming here this week-end.
“This is like having the X Games coming in a miniature version,” said Mike Anastasio, owner of Vineland skateboard and scooter shop Shredder’s Revenge.
The city officially opened the new Landis Park loca-tion — pulled together from obstacles at a former YMCA site — late last month.
Though the site is strug-gling through a lack of volunteer supervision, this weekend should make up for the recent troubles.
Anastasio hooked up with Madd Gear after applying for a dealership agreement
with the company. They in turn contacted him and he explained the proximity to an all-new park.
“Would you mind if we came by a did a demo?” Anastasio said they asked.
Absolutely not, he responded.
There will be 36 tickets hidden about the park for kids in the crowd to get prizes, one of which being a complete scooter.
“They’re pulling out all the stops,” he said of the company, which does worldwide tours and is pushing through an East Coast one.
Holding the demo on Easter Sunday wasn’t intentional, Anastasio explains, but there was an open date that worked which was later discovered to be the holiday.
“Basically, we ran with it and turned it into an egg hunt,” he said.
So, for parents who will likely have their scootering children in tow that day, Anastasio says this is “a large event with free give-aways” for kids who eat,
(See SCOOTERS, Page A-8)
By Phillip Tomlinsonnj.com/south
BRIDGETON — The congrega-tion of Trinity United Methodist Church on Fayette Street in Bridge-ton took to the streets Friday morn-ing in a solemn demonstration of faith and community outreach.
Good Friday is among the holiest days in the Christian calendar.
It marks the date of Christ’s cru-cifixion upon the cross, and billions of Christians worldwide honor the date with prayers and services.
Among the services conducted on Good Friday is the Way of the Cross.
Worshipers symbolically follow the path of Jesus on his way to be crucified, from His solitary prayer in the Garden of Gethsemane to his corporal death at Golgotha.
Four years ago, congregation members Sally and Bruce Durham were inspired when they saw an article in the Methodist magazine, The Interpreter, about a church who carried the Way of the Cross out onto the streets of their city.
“They had had problems with (See CROSS, Page A-8)
Special to The News
GALLOWAY TWP. — As an undergraduate col-lege student at Dickinson College in 1961, Dean C. Pappas underwent “a transformational experience” when he heard the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. speak to the student body.
“Until that point I was sort of drifting my way through college, but Dr. King’s message was very impressive,” the Bridgeton native recalled. “It made me start to think more seriously about my future.
(See DONATION, Page A-8)
By Stephen Smithnj.com/south
MILLVILLE – A woman called for help when a man began masturbat-ing in front of her car in the Walmart parking lot Thursday, police said.
The man, described as a black man in his 20’s wear-ing a black hooded sweat-shirt, black doo rag, black sneakers and light denim jeans, then vanished from the scene and has not been located.
Officer Jonathan Gomez responded to a call from the woman at 5:18 p.m. as she was parked in the parking lot at the North
2nd Street establishment. She said the man was look-ing directly at her and fon-dling himself.
As he entered the park-ing lot he could not see the suspect, so he located the woman.
She said she was sitting in her car in the parking lot, waiting for her hus-band to come out of an eye exam in America’s Best Eye Care Center. She said she spotted the man prowl-ing through the parking lot, fondling his member which he had exposed from his unzipped jeans.
The woman said she
(See MASTURBATOR, Page A-8)
By Stephen Smithnj.com/south
VINELAND — A man who shot himself in the heart with a nail gun was discharged from Cooper University Hospital Fri-day.
A hospital representa-tive said around 7 p.m. that Dennis Hennis, the 52-year-old Vineland man who shot himself in the heart with a nail gun, had been released sometime
during the day. Around 3 p.m. Hennis’s
wife Kaia had said he was not home at their South Mill Road residence.
“No, he’s still at the hos-pital,” she said cheerily, though she conceded she had been worried about the accident at first.
As reported by the Asso-ciated Press, self-employed builder Hennis was work-ing on a neighbor’s roof on Sat., March 31 when
(See HEART, Page A-8)
