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A4 TuesdAy, July 18, 2017BurlingTon CounTy Times
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By dAnielle desisTostaff writer
EVESHAM − Collect-ing trading cards may not be as popular as it once was, but it’s still all the rage for children in town.
For three years, the Police Department has hosted a trading card pro-gram to encourage children to connect with officers. When children approach officers and interact, whether it’s a simple hand-shake or asking about their day, the officers will give them their trading card, which features a candid photo, a description of their experience, and their favor-ite quote.
Each card is sponsored by a local business. Some are available at businesses, but others are obtainable only by finding and talking to officers.
This year’s program kicks off Aug. 1 as part of the township’s National Night Out. Children will be able to approach officers at the event to start or add to their collections.
The first three to col-lect all 84 cards will win prizes that have yet to be
determined, but the depart-ment is considering bikes and/or electronic devices, Lt. Joseph Friel said.
The purpose of the pro-gram is to help young peo-ple feel comfortable talking to officers.
“It’s been a huge success for the past three years, and it’s all about connecting offi-cers with young kids,” Friel said. “We’re their friends, and we’re here to help.”
For more information, visit the Police Depart-ment’s Facebook page.Danielle Desisto: 609-871-8050; email: [email protected]; twitter: @DesistoBCt
Evesham police continue trading card program
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be handing out trading cards to children.
WILLINGBORO — Township police are inves-tigating three robberies on Friday night that they believe are connected.
Officers were called to an armed robbery on Glenview Lane about 9:45 p.m. and met the victim at the scene, police said Monday.
The victim was threat-ened with a handgun by two
men who approached and demanded property. The victim gave the men a back-pack and smartphone, and was left unharmed, accord-ing to a release from the police.
While officers were searching for the sus-pects using a police dog, they received another dis-patch about a stolen 2008
Chevrolet Equinox on nearby Gloria Lane.
The car, which was run-ning and unattended at the time of the theft, was later found unoccupied near the scene of a third robbery. In that incident, men matching the description of the Glen-view Lane suspects stole a victim’s backpack before
running away. The victim was not hurt.
That robbery occurred on the unit block of Edgely Place, and the car was found in the area of Empire and Eddington lanes.
Anyone with informa-tion about the robberies is asked to call the police at 609-877-2200.
3 robberies reported in 1 night
By rose KreBsstaff writer
The former office man-ager of the Riverton Country Club pleaded guilty Monday to stealing about $191,000 from the private club in Cin-naminson during a five-year period for her personal use.
Donna Bucia, 58, of Main Avenue in Cherry Hill, entered a guilty plea to theft by deception and failure to pay taxes before Superior Court Judge Philip E. Haines at the Burlington County Courthouse in Mount Holly. Per the terms of the plea deal, Bucia will get a to-be-determined period of probation and a year in jail when she is sentenced in October.
Bucia already has paid about
$175,000 in restitution to the club and will have to pay about $15,000 more, accord-ing to officials. The theft occurred between January 2011 and July 2015, when Bucia oversaw bookkeeping at the member-owned club on Highland Avenue, accord-ing to authorities.
John Dunnigan, a long-time member and former
president of the club’s board of trustees who helped investigate the thefts, said Bucia had worked in a paid position until summer 2015. About two weeks after Bucia left, a CPA hired as a con-troller for the club discovered “discrep-ancies” in some of the bookkeeping.
After months of investigation and analysis of bank records, it was
determined that Bucia — who was in charge of making deposits — had been substituting checks for cash and pock-eting the money, Dunnigan said.
“It was obviously very unfortunate to find out someone you trusted was doing this for years,” he said, add-ing that the club has since “put in the proper financial controls,” is “finan-cially sound,” and continues to pursue several capital improvement projects.
Founded in 1900, the country club has a golf course, dining venues, swim-ming pool, tennis courts and bowling alley, according to its website.
Bucia, who has no previous crimi-nal history, according to court records, could possibly serve her time on house arrest.rose Krebs: 609-267-7586; email: [email protected]; twitter: @rosekrebs
Former bookkeeper admits to theft of nearly $200K
Bucia
she hopes the children are proud of their accomplish-ments, including finishing the race.
“I think it’s definitely a sense of self-accomplish-ment,” Andryca said. “It’s a huge self-confidence booster.”
Andryca’s daughter, Emily, 11, won this year’s race for the third year in a row, finishing in 29 min-utes and two seconds, beat-ing last year’s time by 48 seconds.
“It feels good to win, because I know my parents and family are supporting me, and I’m making them
very proud,” Emily said.Still, the mile swim is
about more than just win-ning to Emily. She swims year-round, and although she and her fellow campers also get to try their hand at such activities as archery and canoeing during the four-week camp, swimming in the lake is her favorite.
“It’s fun just to do this, because we don’t really live by an ocean. So it’s fun just to go into a lake that I live nearby and just swim,” she said.
A few swimmers reached the shores of Beach No. 1 on Tabernacle Road shortly after Emily, some complet-ing the mile in about 45 minutes. Others took lon-ger, but to Rachel Ulriksen, this was another important aspect of the mile swim.
She said the race can show kids how to persevere, even if they think they do not have the strength left to accomplish a task, and how to find that force within themselves. It also teaches kids that they cannot always win, and that it’s OK.
“So many of us don’t get in the race because (we say), ‘Well, there’s no chance I’m going to win,’ “ she said. “So? ... Get in the water any-way, and do the best you can and come out with a smile on your face.”
Samantha tells campers to take pride in complet-ing the swim, no matter how long it takes, and often reminds them that not all adults can swim a mile in open water.
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choose from, and players select up to 10, with 20 total drawn. The more numbers a player chooses correctly, the greater the payout.
Players can bet between $1 and $10 per drawing, with maximum payouts of $1 mil-lion for customers who wager $10 and hit on all 10 of their selected numbers.
Drawings are every 5 min-utes, and players can wager on up to 20 consecutive draw-ings at a time.
“It’s another way to get bang for your buck at a bar. It’s something to enter-tain you,” Dadz bartender Michelle Otto said.
The game is being launched shortly after New Jersey lawmakers approved dedicating all state lottery proceeds to the chronically underfunded pension system.
Gov. Chris Christie and his treasurer conceived the idea as a way to immediately improve the pension system’s financial standing, but the plan depends largely on lot-tery sales growing at a modest rate.
The New Jersey Lot-tery is anticipating at least $20 million in revenue from Quick Draw keno, describing it as the state’s first “social space lottery game” because it’s played in bars and other places where people gather for entertainment and social interaction, rather than at convenience stores, gas sta-tions and other stores where lottery tickets are tradition-ally sold.
Retail locations, which keep a small percentage of sales and winnings, were selected by the lottery because they fit that criteria, and about half of the 400 locations are new lottery retailers.
Dadz owner Jim Filler said he jumped at the oppor-tunity to offer the ticket sales. He recalled organizing a group ski trip in upstate New York, where keno was launched in 1995, and win-ning close to $2,500 at one of the bars.
“We had a ball. And of course we ended up buying a round,” Filler recalled.
New Jersey also consid-ered launching keno in the early 1990s.
The Lottery Commis-sion planned to establish a trial run of the game in 1993 before Gov. Jim Florio asked the commission to hold off in favor of performing a broad study of gambling in New Jersey, including keno.
At the time, there was intense pushback from New Jersey’s casinos, which con-sidered it an expansion of legal gambling in the state. Donald Trump, who at the time owned three casinos in Atlantic City, threatened legal action if the state moved for-ward with the plan.
In the years since, the commission has revisited the idea, but it wasn’t until last spring that it gave the green light.
Lottery Commission
Executive Director Carole Hedinger presented the idea in March, telling the com-mission that the rules for the keno game were approved in 2007 but that there would need to be some small changes to bring them up to date, according to the meet-ing minutes.
Hedinger anticipated the game would launch close to August and generate about $20 million in revenue for the 2018 fiscal year.
The commission voted to adopt the rule changes the following month.
There were no public hearings and no need for legislative or voter approval before Monday’s launch because the game is consid-ered an extension of the lot-tery rather than an expansion of legal gambling, such as video slots.
Neva Pryor, executive director of the Council on Compulsive Gambling of New Jersey, described it as a significant “expansion” of the lottery that the council plans to monitor.
“It is a different style of lottery,” Pryor said Monday, adding that her group has a close working relationship with the lottery to make sure safeguards are in place and that the group’s helpline and website (800-GAMBLER and 800gambler.org) are dis-played at lottery retailers and on materials.
“My mission is to make sure everybody knows where to go for help. We work very closely with the lottery. … I’m not overly concerned because I know it will be done responsibly,” she said.
But Pryor was taken a bit by surprise by the quiet launch, saying she had spo-ken to Hedinger about the game but was unaware it was starting so soon.
“I knew it was being launched. I didn’t think it would be this quick,” she said.
The winning numbers
for each drawing are posted on the New Jersey Lottery’s website, along with informa-tion about the rules and a video explaining how to play.
The commission also plans to hold a news con-ference and launch party in Hoboken on Tuesday afternoon. Dadz is hosting a South Jersey launch party Thursday between 6 and 8 p.m.
Filler is optimistic the game will become a draw at Dadz and other bars.
“It makes (the lottery) more interactive and lets customers have some fun,” he said. “Connecticut pro-jected close to $80 million in revenues its first year (in 2016), and we’ve got a lot bigger population than Connecticut.”
As of 1:30 p.m. Monday, 3,148 tickets had been sold with a combined winnings of $5,021 divided among 735 winners.
That amounts to about $7 per winner. And while that payout is far removed from the multimillion-dollar Powerball and Mega Millions jackpots that typically draw legions of lottery players, Filler and other tavern own-ers believe the game can be a fun diversion that helps keep customers in bars and restau-rants longer.
“We’ve wanted to do things like video lottery terminals (a form of slot machines) for many, many years, but we’ve never been successful,” said Diane Weiss, executive director of the New Jersey Licensed Beverage Association. “(Keno) isn’t something we necessarily lobbied for, but we certainly welcome it.
“It keeps people inter-ested so maybe they stay a little longer, eat or drink a little more,” Weiss said. “It’ll be interesting to see how it does.”David Levinsky: 609-871-8154; email: [email protected]; twitter: @davidlevinsky
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