Archive for September, 2006
Atlantic City, NJ - The giant, golden Buddha statue that will become the focal point of the dinning experience at the new Buddakan restaurant at The Pier is slowly moved from the boardwalk to its third floor perch with tremendous effort.
Hammonton, NJ - In an unusual relocation ceremony, the band strikes up a march to lead the old Hammonton town hall down the street, by way of a moving truck, to its new home three blocks away.
Cape May, NJ - At the Coast Guard Training Center, a national guard team of experts train on a biological terrorism scenario that could happen in the United States. The team explains what it is like to work in the high temperature, high stress environment of a situation like this.
Atlantic City, NJ - Decades after witnessing the aftermath of the 1937 Hindenburg tragedy in Lakehurst as a little girl, Betty Frey gets the chance of a lifetime to go up in a blimp herself, thanks to the Twilight Wish Foundation.
Newfield, NJ - A town councilman speaks out about the Shieldalloy Metallurgical Corporation’s plan to leave a large slag pile of low level radioactive material behind when they relocate to Brazil. He claims that the public should know about the potential dangers that exist in this plan, and how the people of Newfield and Vineland may already be in danger because of it.
Franklin Township, NJ - A South Jersey spinach farmer laments the recent spinach recall due to an investigation into Ecoli bacteria thought to have been found in spinach grown in the western US.
9.15.2006 - Superplay USA in EHT
8:19 pm
Egg Harbor Township, NJ - The mayor of EHT and his staff call a press conference to proudly announce a new development plan for the movie theater area of the Shore Mall that will include a huge new bowling and game center known as Superplay USA, new restaurants, and even a theater upgrade, all courtesy the Frank family.
Atlantic City, NJ - With the coming redevelopment of the adjacent Bader Field, as well as economic pressures due to less then stellar ticket sales, rumors of the Atlantic City Surf baseball franchise moving elsewhere are addressed by vice president Mario Perrucci.
Atlantic City, NJ - A select group of pizza places bake their way towards a hopeful victory in the Northeast Pizza Challenge at the Pizza Expo in Atlantic City. The best pizza wins; but are the judges up to the task of trying over 40 different slices of pizza?
9.13.2006 - World Pizza Games
7:36 pm
Atlantic City, NJ - As an added attraction to the Northeast Pizza Expo at the Convention Center, the World Pizza Games pits the experts in the pizza arts against one another in a contest involving various pizza related skills. Competitors battled it out in such categories as dough stretching, cardboard pizza box folding, and the popular pizza dough twirling acrobatics.
