asbury park press front page sunday, july 13 2014

ASBURY’S FAILED LEADERSHIP I nterim Asbury Park schools superintendent Robert Mahon had enough. ¶ First, there was the failed superintendent search. The nine-member school board spent the past year in arguments, litiga- tion and division over the selection of a schools chief. ¶ Then, the visions were different. The board had rejected many of Mahon’s Ho w power, politics and race have devastated Asbury Park schools (Clockwise from top) state monitor Carole Morris, former superintendent Denise Lowe, board president Geneva Smallwood, possible interim superintendent Gregory Allen, outgoing interim superintendent Robert Mahon, and board members Felicia Simmons and Christian Hall By Nicquel Terry @NTerryAPP Y ou might g et comfortable with one Asbury Par k Press :: Monmou th Edi tion APP.COM $2.00 07.13.14 It’s 6 p.m. on a golden May evening, but a dark cloud has descended on Cable Avenue in Beachwood. Lola is lost. The 2-year-old Boston terrier got spooked by some firecrackers the Sunday before Memorial Day and bolted through an unlocked gate. That was four days ago. Now the owners of the little black-and-white dog, John Macklin and Lori Drozdow- ski, are beyond distraught. The Ge iss ing ers s hare a pass ion for reuniting pets with owners By Shannon Mullen @MullenAPP When the dog’s gone, this duo jo ins the hu nt REYNOSA, MEXICO —The pipeline bringing a flood of Central American migrants to the United States, in- cluding thousands of unaccompanied children, begins in villages like Quebrada María, near the Caribbean coast of Honduras. That’s where dimple-faced, 14-year-old Brayan Du- ban Soler Redondo lived in daily fear of being beaten up or killed by members of gangs like Mara Salvatrucha, also called MS-1 3, and Cal le 18. Gangs terrorize neighborhoods throughout Central America. Over three days in May, gang members in an- other Honduran city, San Pedro Sula, murdered five children ages 5 to 13. “They cut their bodies into quarters as a warning to others because the children didn’t want to distribute drugs in their neighborhood,” said Father German Cal- ix, director of Caritas Honduras, a Catholic relief agen- cy . Slayings like these were why Brayan was desperate to leave. He imagines himself working in an office in the United States someday, “wearing fancy clothes” Gang violence, poverty prompt t re k t o b o r d er T o escape bleak f utur es, Central American children head north By Daniel González and Bob Ortega Arizona Republic SeeCHILDR EN, Page A16 WHA T E XIT? Colts Neck trio shines on tonight’s ‘Real Housewives of N.J.’ premiere Sunday Best UP TO $1,081 IN COUPON SAVINGS TODAY

asbury park press front page sunday, july 13 2014

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