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Showing gratitudeDover church thanks emergency responders,
military. STORY, 3A
Legendary coach says Rutgers’ Ash is right man for the job.
STORY, 1B
How accurate are New Jersey’s speed limits? Onelegislator wants
to find out.
Assemblyman Declan O’Scanlon, R-13th Dist., saidThursday that
he’s preparing a bill that would linkNew Jersey’s speed limits to
engineering research,likely including an increase to 70 mph on
major high-ways.
On some smaller roads, there’s a chance thatspeeds could even
decrease, O’Scanlon said.
“We’re going to take bureaucrats and elected offi-cials who
don’t know a thing about setting speed limitsand make sure they’re
set according to sound engi-
DAILY RECORD FILE PHOTO
A blank speed limit sign along Route 18 southbound inPiscataway
is seen in 2010.
Legislator:70-mphlimit not sofar-fetched
See RESEARCH, Page 2A
Bill would adjust some restrictionsaccording to engineering
research
MIKE DAVIS @BYMIKEDAVIS
A Chester doctor has founded a nonprofit dedicatedto preventing
inherited cancers instead of simplytreating them after a diagnosis,
which he hopes may bethe first step in eliminating the disease
altogether.
Dr. Thomas Bock’s road to creating HeritX began inNovember 2011,
when his wife, Irina, was diagnosedwith breast cancer.
“I suspected immediately that our lives were goingto change,”
Bock said. “She underwent surgery and
chemotherapy, everything you know and read about.”His wife also
was revealed to be positive for a BRCA
mutation, which meant her family carried a gene thatresulted in
a high likelihood of breast, prostate, pan-creas, ovarian and skin
cancer.
“What that means is it changed not just our life butthe lives of
our whole family,” Bock said. “In a way thatwas more devastating
than the diagnosis of cancer.”
Bock said he spent a good deal of his professional
Wife inspiresChester doctor’scancer crusade
PHOTO COURTESY OF HERITX
HeritX founders Thomas Bock and Joi Morris (center) accept the
Aegis Award for Nonprofits from Joe Fortuna, foundingpartner of the
Aegis Group at Morgan Stanley (right) and John Cervenka of Morgan
Stanley (left).
“This opens the door for cancer prevention. Now that you do know
who gets
cancer you get a chance to study and medically intervene.”
DR. THOMAS BOCK
See DOCTOR, Page 2A
MICHAEL IZZO @MIZZODR
New Jersey poets feted at CCM ceremony
RANDOLPH - County College of Morris will host areception to
celebrate the publication of the 2016 issueof the Journal of New
Jersey Poets at 7 p.m. Wednes-day in the Davidson Rooms of the
Student CommunityCenter on the college’s Randolph campus, 214
CenterGrove Road.
The reception will honor this year’s New Jersey Po-ets Prize
recipient, Timothy Walsh. The event, featur-ing a reading, book
signing and reception, is free andopen to the public.
The Journal of New Jersey Poets, the only annualcompendium of
poetry by authors who were born,raised or have an association with
the state, began atFairleigh Dickinson University, which published
thefirst issue in 1975. CCM has been home to the journalsince 1990,
and 2016 will mark the seventh year of theNew Jersey Poets
Prize.
This year’s issue is dedicated to Dr. Edward J. Yaw,who retires
at the end of August after more than 30years as CCM’s president.
Yaw’s presidency has beenmarked by its support of the arts.
Walsh will read his winning poem, “My Father’sRoyal Standard.”
His most recent poetry collectionsare “When the World Was
Rear-Wheel Drive: New Jer-sey Poems” and “The Book of
Arabella.”
The ceremony also will honor both MarvinSilbersher and Linda A.
Cronin, two poets who have
had long relationships with the journal — and are pub-lished in
the 2016 issue — who died th is year.
Other distinguished poets attending will includeCharles H.
Johnson, Richard Krohn, Wanda Praisner,Chuck Tripi, Cheryl
Racanelli, Ruth Holzer, and JohnBargowski, among others.
For more information about the event, call 973-328-5463 or email
[email protected].
Volunteers needed for river cleanup
Volunteers are needed for the 24th Annual Musco-netcong River
Clean-up 9 a.m. to noon Saturday.Volunteers will meet at 9 a.m. at
various locations
along the Musconetcong River including Lake Hopat-cong State
Park, Stephen State Park, HackettstownAlumni Park, Penwell Road
Fishing Area, Point Moun-tain Park, Butler Park Road, Hampton Boro
Park,MWA River Resource Center, Bloomsbury/AsburyRoad, Warren Glen
Park and Riegelsville area.
The Musconetcong River spans from Lake Hopat-cong to the
Delaware River. New locations will be add-ed as needed.
Cleanup crews will pick up litter along roadsides,parks and
stream banks. The collected trash will be de-posited in
predetermined trash drop-off locations.
Volunteers will be provided with T-shirts, workgloves, bags,
snacks and water.
Following the cleanup, the MWA offers a free picnicfor
participants at the MWA River Resource Center,
What’s Ahead This Week
See AHEAD, Page 4A
Leonard Smalley wants to make baseball bats saf-er, but while
he’s patented a shatterproof wooden“safety bat,” he’s still waiting
for teams or leagues toembrace it.
“It’s a hard sell because people are still using alu-minum
bats,” Smalley said. “They send the ball outfaster and can cause a
lot of damage. But it’s hard toget people to go back to wood.”
Smalley, 87, a retired Morris County Park Police of-ficer from
Chester now living in Sou th Carolina, cameup with the idea on a
whim.
“It was just one of those things,” Smalley said. “Myfamily was
out shopping and I was home, and the ideacame to me. What I if use
fishing line?”
Smalley said his idea, patented in 2008, uses the po-lymer film
that typically wraps around fishing line tomake grooves around the
bat, preventing it from shat-
tering.“It’s a webbing that holds the grain together, andyou can
make it so you don’t even see it,” Smalley said.“It does not change
the weight of the bat; it does notchange the balance. It’s still
one piece of wood. All wedid was make it safer so there would be
less injuriesbut keep it from shattering.”
While there was no single moment that led to Smal-ley’s desire
to design a safer bat, he said a history of
See BATS, Page 4A
Leonard Smalleyexplains thedesign for hisshatterproofbaseball
bat.
Inventor making mark with shatterproof bats
MICHAEL IZZO @MIZZODR
