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Off-duty officer saves boy

PTL. WILLIAM DEININGER

By Sean C. McCullensmccullen@sjnewsco.com

BRIDGETON — A city police officer is being hailed as a hero after he saved an infant boy at a popular carnival in Hammon-ton late Thursday.

Bridgeton Police Ptl. William Deininger was instrumental in helping dislodge the boy’s tongue from his throat as the infant apparently was having a seizure, according to authorities.

“He saw the whole thing happening and was pretty heavily involved in the rescue,” Hammonton Police Chief Frank Ingemi said Friday.

Ingemi did not get Deininger’s name Thursday night — as the off-duty Bridgeton police officer played his part in saving the boy, then disappeared into the crowd at the Our Lady of Mount Carmel Festival — but indicated he had heard the unidentified rescuer was an off-duty police officer.

Deininger, 25, was walking through the festival grounds, located around St. Mary of Mount Carmel Church, formerly known as St. Joseph, with friends when he saw a couple behav-ing in a frantic manner at around 11:30 p.m.

“You could just tell that something was wrong,” Deininger recalled on Friday, noting the boy’s arms were limp.

The Bridgeton police officer identified himself as such, took the boy from his father’s arms and placed him down on a table. He heard the boy, whose face was blue, “gurgling,” so he tilted his head back, helping to dislodge his tongue from his throat.

“He just instantly came back,” Deininger said. “The color came back in his face and he started moving around.”

Bridgeton Police Chief Mark Ott was not surprised to learn of Deininger’s heroics Friday morning.

“In the short time he’s been here with us, he’s become a valu-

(See HERO, Page A-6)

Staff Photo by Cindy Hepner

Elana Anglani carries the flowers that will crown Our Lady of Mount Carmel during the Feast of Our Lady of Mount Carmel Friday.

Residents angry over tax bills

Room availableMHA extends deadline for Maurice View

Almost ready for the challenge

Staff Photo by Cindy Hepner

Volunteers prepare food for the participants of the Sunset Challenge Friday. Mike Castaldi mixes in chopped peppers for the pasta salad. 

By Jason Ladayjladay@sjnewsco.com

BRIDGETON — Sarah Cas-sidy’s mother walked in the Our Lady of Mount Carmel Festival in 1914, the very first year the annual prayer walk saw wor-shipers march from the former Catholic school to the Church of the Immaculate Conception.

Carmine Catalana’s grandfa-ther was president of the Lady of Mount Carmel Society for 27 years. His father was president for nine years.

For the two co-chairs of the event, Friday’s celebration — in which nearly 200 people from throughout South Jersey recit-ed the Rosary from the school to the church before attending 9 a.m. mass — is just as much about family tradition as it is community tradition.

They weren’t alone.“I’d say about 60 percent

of the people here have fam-ily that were a part of the Our Lady of Mount Carmel celebration,” said Catalana, donning a sash of Italian red, white and green. “It’s something that orig-inally started in Italy, and was brought here to Bridgeton in 1914.”

Cassidy was bittersweet about the cel-

ebration this year, the first without her brother, who died last year.

“I just wish my brother was here to see it this year,” she said.

According to Cassidy and Catalana, the original Bridgeton celebration ran annu-

Catholic tradition continues

(See PROCESSION, Page A-6)

By Jean Jonesjeanjones@fast.net

MAURICE RIVER TWP. — You could tell the tax bills had just been sent out.

Everyone who spoke at Thursday’s meeting of the township committee disagreed with the recent revalua-tion and the impact on taxes, though the municipal budget hasn’t been adopted yet and the bills were only estimated.

And everyone wanted the town-ship committee to do something about it.

Mayor Andy Sarclette explained several times that the revaluation was done by an outside firm, that there had been no new appraisals in so many years that the appraised value of properties was at 49 per-cent of actual value and that resi-dents who thought there were errors in their appraisals had the chance earlier to talk to the firm that did the work and later to appeal to the county. None had followed the full process.

Irene Shoemaker, who said she lives on Mackey’s Lane, said she got a 70 percent increase in her tax bill.

(See TAX BILLS, Page A-6)

By Anthony Bellanoabellano@sjnewsco.com

MILLVILLE — The Millville Housing Authority (MHA) realizes it needs to do more to make resi-dents aware there will soon be room available at the Maurice View Plaza housing complex.

To that end, it is launching a cam-paign to get that word out, includ-ing contact with various ministers and social services outlets. It has also pushed back the deadline for the submission of waiting list appli-cations until Oct. 29. The previous deadline was June 30.

Maurice View Plaza is a housing complex for the young disabled, age 18-50.

“We just don’t have enough appli-cations,” MHA Executive Director Paul Dice said. “We put out a public notice. It didn’t reach who it needed to. ... We need to do a better job.”

There are currently somewhere between 30 and 40 applicants. The ideal number of applicants is 100. The federal government has strict guidelines for who is eligible for this type of housing.

Although people with various types of disabilities are eligible, there is an income limit for potential tenants, and anyone with a criminal

(See ROOM, Page A-6)

Staff Photo by Bryan Littel

Dianne Anderson, Casey Feldman’s mother, speaks at the dedication of a pink-lighted tree in Casey’s memory at Glasstown Plaza in Millville Friday evening.

Victims remembered with loveBy Anthony Bellanoabellano@sjnewsco.com

MILLVILLE — Dianne Anderson stood in front of the Glasstown Plaza Friday night with a microphone in her hand and tears welling up in her eyes, looking at the tree that had just been lit for her late daughter.

“(Saturday) is the one-year anniversary of my daughter’s death,” Anderson told a group that had gathered to remember the late Casey Feldman, who was hit by a car while crossing a cross walk in Ocean City last sum-mer. “ ... She was a few steps away. Another couple of sec-onds and she would still be

with us.”The 21-year-old Feldman

was a Journalism major at Fordham University. It was her final summer before graduation; before she would realize her hopes and dreams.

“Writing was her pas-

(See TREE, Page A-6)