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VOLUME 136

NUMBER 147

SINCE 1879

SATURDAY 06.20.15

Raise your hands foryoga on the beachInternational Yoga Day is Sunday, and there are plenty of places to practice by the ocean.

Relive theBattle ofMonmouthJoin history buffs andre-enactors as they re-createthe famous skirmish.

Catch thebig onewith DadCompete in the annualfishing derby at ManasquanReservoir.

Happy hourDoyles Pour House: Barnegat, $3.99appetizers; $1 off draft wine; $1 offdraft beers; 4-7 p.m.

709 Point Beach: Point PleasantBeach, $4 glasses of wine; $2 draftbeer; $5 mixed drinks; $6 housemartinis; $1 clams; $1.85 Blue Pointoysters; $5-7 specific pizzas, flatbreadsand appetizers; 1-4 p.m.

Pauls Tavern: Lake Como, $7 pitchers;$4 shots of Fireball whiskey; $4 housedrinks; 7 a.m.-9 p.m.

beacheditionYOUR WEEKEND GUIDE DOWN THE SHORE

ADVICE 6DCLASSIFIED 7DCOMICS 5DLOCAL 3AMOVIES 4D

OBITUARIES 8AOPINION 11ASPORTS 1CWEATHER 16CYOUR MONEY 4A

New Jerseys depleted fund to prevent lead poison-ing a preventable harm that afflicts thousands oflargely minority children in each year may soon geta boost.

On Tuesday, the state Senate Budget and Appropria-tions Committee is scheduled to consider a bill(S-1279), which would funnel $10 million into the LeadHazard Control Assistance Fund in the state fiscalyear that ends June 30.

Each year, the fund is supposed to receive $7 millionto $14 million in tax revenues from the sales of paintand coatings.

Yet it was fully funded only once in 11 years in2006. Gov. Chris Christies administration has put zero

sales tax revenues into the fund since fiscal year 2011.The legislative response stems from an Asbury

Park Press investigation on lead poisoning. The Press found months ago that the states leaders

had diverted more than $50 million funds destinedfor the lead fund into the general treasury since2004.

Furthermore, the state Department of CommunityAffairs did not carry out a 2008 law aimed at ensuringlead-safe conditions in one- and two-family rentals, thePress found.

Lead poisoning called the states top environmen-tal health threat for kids is fully preventable. Lead, ahighly toxic metal used by humans for millennia,

Lead fund vote follows Press probeTODD B. BATES @TODDBBATESAPP

See LEAD, Page 7A

HATS OFF TOCLASS OF 15 Thousands graduate from Shore high schools

GRADUATION 2015

To see photo galleries, video andmore from Shore high school gradua-tion ceremonies, visit APP.com INSIDE: See more photos andgraduation coverage, 3A and A10

Top: Members of Toms River High School Easts Class of 2015 smile beforethe schools graduation ceremony Friday. Above left: Valedictorian NicolePovey addresses her classmates at Red Bank Regional High Schoolsgraduation in Little Silver. Above center: A member of the Brick MemorialHigh School Class of 2015 displays their mortarboard during graduation.Above right: Tyrone Harmon plays an instrumental version of the NegroNational Anthem during Asbury Park High Schools graduation at theParamount Theater. TOP: DOUG HOOD/STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER;

ABOVE LEFT: PETER ACKERMAN/STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER; ABOVE CENTER: MARK R.

SULLIVAN/STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER; ABOVE RIGHT: FRANK GALIPO/CORRESPONDENT

Meet the Asbury Park Press 2015

golf, tennis, volleyball and lacrosse

players and teams of the year. 1C

BRIAN WILLIAMS APOLOGIZES, BLAMES HIS EGO FOR TELLING FALSE TALES PAGE 1B

Iconic Tonys Tomato Pies to serve last slices today. YOUR MONEY, 4A