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By JAMES P. QUARANTAStaff Writer
ROSENHAYN — WhenJoan Frith applied for aticket to a papal Mass atYankee Stadium in NewYork months ago, she did-n’t think she had much of achance of getting one.
“I guess I was blessed,”Frith said after receivingher non-transferable barcoded ticket for the Massscheduled for 2:30 p.m. Sun-day. “I’m flying high emo-tionally right now.”
Frith has been a mem-ber of St. Mary’s Churchfor 25 years and is aEucharistic Minister.She’ll be traveling with
Don Rogozanski, who soonwill be ordained a deaconat St. Mary’s and three oth-ers from Vineland.
Frith found out Mondayshe would be able to attendthe Sunday mass celebrat-ed by Pope Benedict XVI.She they expect to leavearound 5:30 in the morning.
Nearly 24 hours beforeFrith’s early morningdeparture, 15 students anda teacher from SacredHeart High School will beboarding a bus bound for
St. Joseph Seminary inYonkers, N.Y.
The group received tick-ets for a youth rally duringwhich the pope is sched-uled to speak.
For Mary Anne Serra, a47-year-old theology teacherat Sacred Heart, the meet-ing will be her second timeseeing Benedict. She firstsaw him in Cologne, Ger-many, in 2005 for WorldYouth Day.
By CODY GLENNStaff Writer
An unassuming church secre-tary by day, Linda Scully sets outon covert missions after work, onlong weekends and vacations.
Only then, it’s under thealias “Mother Hen” and withher cohorts by her side for backup — namely her husband andthree daughters. The team hassuccessfully targeted some 872top secret caches and countingthroughout the country whichmake up the global networkknown as “geocaching.”
But Mother Hen almost didnot take the mission that wasoffered to her.
“When we first started, myhusband and kids really lovedit, but I wasn’t sold on it. Thefirst couple of hunts we wenton, they had the GPS andwould find the cache,” said theVineland resident. “But whenI found my very own cache,that was it. I went zonkersafter that. I guess I’m more
competitive than I thought.”
A great family activityIn essence, geocaching is a
scavenger hunt — only morehigh-tech and on a much largerscale — comprised of hiddenstashes, which can range in sizefrom a pencil eraser to a 10-gal-lon bucket.
There were 559,877 activecaches worldwide as of Friday.Close to 40 of those lie hidden inthe greater Vineland/Millvillearea alone, and about 75 total inCumberland County. In the sev-en days previous, there had been418,466 new logs written by57,895 account holders.
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Staff photos/Cody GlennGabe "Bubba" Guenther, 7, of Vineland, part of the "Guenther Gang" family geocaching team, dons a geocaching cap withthe phrase "You are the search engine" on it while out on a hunt in Giampietro Park.
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By DEBORAH M. MARKOStaff Writer
VINELAND — A 33-year-old city woman wascharged Thursday withassaulting Prosecutor ScottPagliughi at VinelandMunicipal Court.
The attack occurredshortly after Theresa Ser-vais of North Delsea Dri-ve was sentenced to 30days in jail on unrelatedcharges. She was taken tothe prisoner room adja-cent to the courtroom,where those sentencedwait to be transported toCumberland County Jail.
While in the prisonerroom, court officials saidServais began causing adisturbance. Her scream-ing could be heardthroughout the court-room, according to policereports.
At approximately 12:30p.m., in the middle of thecourt session, Pagliughi,53, went into the prisonerroom to tell Servais tocalm down and be quiet.
But Servais got con-frontational, spewing pro-fanities at Pagliughi, andyelling that he was notGod, police reports said.
Servais then reported-ly spit at Pagliughi andlunged her 5-foot 2-inch,265-pound frame towardhim. But Court OfficerRobert Lowe was able toknock Servais to theground and handcuff her.
Because Servais wasbleeding from her mouth,the city’s Emergency Med-ical Services transportedher to South JerseyHealthcare Regional Med-ical Center.
Once she was medicallycleared, Servais was takento Cumberland CountyJail with a copy of her newaggravated assaultcharges.
Prosecutorattacked atcourthouse,police say
Judge will nothalt suspensionof master plan
By JOSEPH P. SMITHStaff Writer
BRIDGETON — The city ofVineland’s appeal for a temporary holdon a court order invalidating its mas-ter plan was rejected Friday morningduring a 30-minute hearing beforeCumberland County Superior CourtJudge Michael Brooke Fisher.
The likely next move for the city isto take the same appeal to the statejudicial system’s Appellate Division.
Vineland Planning Board SolicitorFrank DiDomenico and City CouncilSolicitor Richard Tonetta argued themotion for the city.
The city already is appealing Fish-er’s March 20 ruling in which he heldthe master plan had been adoptedwithout sufficient public involvement.The court found fault in the city’s fail-ure to advertise in advance meetings ofan ad hoc advisory committee.
DiDomenico argued before FisherFriday that the city felt its appeal hasa good chance of success. Given that,the attorney suggested that the motionfor a stay would do no harm and mighteven benefit property owners whowant to apply for approvals.
“But I don’t feel there is any chanceof success with this appeal because ofall the reasons placed on the record inwhich the court concluded the law wassettled law,” Fisher said.
The judge’s remark referred in partto the city’s contention that the March20 ruling went beyond the provisionsof the state’s Open Public MeetingsAct and sets a precedent. The citybelieves there was no legal compulsionto have advertised the ad hoc commit-tee meetings.
Meanwhile, the city is moving tointroduce another master plan. Twohearings are scheduled for later thismonth.
After the ruling, Tonetta said thatprocess could take six months. That isabout half the time the city needed to
City to lose motor vehicle agencyBy KRISTI FUNDERBURK
Staff Writer
VINELAND — Trips tothe local motor vehicleagency will mean a driveout of town, and new-driverroad tests will soon requirea trip beyond Cumberland
County when the stateMotor Vehicle Commissionscales back area servicesthis fall.
The Vineland MVC loca-tion will close its doors inSeptember, and the Mill-ville inspection station willstop administering roadtests sometime in the fall,
commission spokesmanMike Horan said Friday.
The Landis Avenueagency will merge with theEast Broad Street office inBridgeton, the nearestoffice to offer the same ser-vices — licenses, titles andregistration; vision andknowledge tests; and com-
mercial driver’s licensewritten tests. The Millvillesite will continue to offervehicle inspections, but theclosest site for road testsafter the service stops inthe Holly City this fall willbe in Salem County.
The commission startedconsolidating branches
early last year to save mon-ey, Horan said. Agenciesstatewide will cease late-night operating hours inJune for the same reason.
“We’re making surewe’re running things as effi-ciently as possible,” he said.
State Sen. Jeff VanDrew, D-1, said the cuts
will save the state roughly$150,000, but still calledthe closures unacceptable.
“We need to makeintelligent cuts thatmake sense. Closing one ofthe busiest branches ofthe DMV in a city with agrowing population does
SCAVENGER HUNTS GO HIGH-TECH
Local residents make pilgrimage for papal Mass
‘Geocaching’becomes a family affair
George and Linda Scully, of the "Evil Chicken"geocaching team of Vineland, make repairs toone of their caches set up since 2004 in anundisclosed location within a local park.
GPS devices are needed tosuccessfully find most cachesites.
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Prison saysemployeesmuggledin drugs
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BRIDGETON — Amaintenance depart-ment supervisor at SouthWoods State Prison hasbeen charged with smug-gling drugs into thefacility.
John Egelsen wasarrested at work onApril 9 and chargedwith possession of a con-trolled dangerous sub-stance.
Egelsen was releasedMonday from Cumber-land County Jail afterposting 10 percent of his$10,000 bail.
The New JerseyDepartment of Correc-tions Special Investiga-tions Division made thearrest as part of a continu-ing investigation, spokes-woman Danielle Huntersaid Friday.
“He was caught smug-gling drugs,” Hunter said.
The type and quanti-ty of drugs was notavailable.
Egelsen, a crew super-visor in building mainte-nance, started with thedepartment Sept. 12, 1981.
He could not bereached for comment.
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