Each year, Bill Maffucci organizes a bocce tournament in Voorhees.
He sends out e-mails to the teams to keep them informed. He umpires. He keeps the games moving with announcements over a megaphone. He changes the score on the board and updates the bracket taped to a minivan near all the food.
At the sixth [...]
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June 11th, 2010
Check OUT Bocce Ball in Voorhees Kirkwood Park
June 9th, 2010
Get Out and Eat Up in the fields on June 26
As part of its yearlong 50th anniversary celebration, New Jersey Conservation Foundation will hold a “Feast in the Field” on the preserved Pettit family farm off Marl Road from 2 – 6 p.m. on Saturday, June 26.
This “Day on the Farm” in Gloucester County will feature a gourmet meal prepared with freshly grown local ingredients, live bluegrass [...]
June 8th, 2010
Get OUT and go Seining this Summer
Has you child ever been seining in the summer?
Not sunning, but seining?
Seining is a fishing technique dating back to the ancient Phoenicians who used nets weighted on the bottom and floating on top of the Mediterranean Sea.
Your child can learning seining during summer camps at Palmyra Cove Nature Park, which specializes in offering fun-filled and [...]
June 7th, 2010
Check OUT ArtWalk in Moorestown on Friday
Moorestown ArtWalk, which returns for a fifth season this summer, is enjoyed twice as much by Hala Al-Shawaf.
A business person and an artist, Al-Shawaf sees the benefit of both at ArtWalk.
“I think it is a mutually beneficial relationship,” she said. “The artist benefit from being near the restaurants and the ice cream shops and places like that they naturally have foot traffic and for people [...]
June 4th, 2010
Join the Fifth and Final Kelly’s Ride Tomorrow
You can still join the Fifth and Final Kelly’s Ride tomorrow (Saturday, June 5) for a bike ride down the shore of 65, 40 or 25 miles.
The mission of Kelly’s Ride is to raise money for specific agencies dedicated to improving the quality of life for disadvantaged girls and young women physically, academically, emotionally and [...]
June 4th, 2010
Help OUT on National Trails Day Tomorrow
There is really no better way to celebrate National Trails Day tomorrow then to help OUT and clean up a trail …
Right here in sOUTh Jersey, Saddler’s Woods Conservation Association is looking for a few forest friendly volunteers to help nurture Saddler’s Woods on National Trails Day on Saturday.
Volunteers are invited to remove invasive species, pick [...]
June 4th, 2010
Urban BoatWorks Sail on the Cooper River
Under a steamy mid-morning sun, Jenise Rivera enjoyed a boat ride with some of her classmates Wednesday.
The eighth-grader, however, wasn’t part of a school trip to the Cooper River to sail on rented boats. Rivera helped build the two 15-foot wooden boats she and her classmates sailed for the first time.
“It was cool, very nice,” [...]
June 2nd, 2010
Saddler’s Woods Conservation Association Meeting June 21
The Saddler’s Woods Conservation Association will hold its annual meeting on Monday June 21 from 7 p.m. to 8:45 p.m. at the large meeting room of the Rohrer Branch Camden County Library on 15 MacArthur Blvd. in Haddon Township.
All are welcome to attend the annual public board meeting as we celebrate six years of the SWCA.
This [...]
June 1st, 2010
Help OUT Two S.J. Women Helping OUT in Nepal
Cristina Chillem, 20, and Kelly Simpson, 21, are going to the mountains this sumer.
Not the Poconos, either.
The two recent graduates of Camden Catholic High School will be spending the summer in Surkhet, Nepal.
Nepal, of course, boast eight of the world’s ten highest mountains, including the tallest, Mount Everest. Nepal contains over 240 peaks more than 20,000 feet (6,096 meters) above [...]
May 28th, 2010
Stepping OUT and Into “Hells Kitchen”
Growing up, Ed Battaglia played football and now he coaches the sport in high school.
The Edgewater Park resident also is a cook who will be turning up the heat when he tests his grilling skills on one of TV’s hottest culinary shows.
“It’s like the NFL of cooking for me,” Battaglia said about his participation on [...]
May 27th, 2010
Check OUT Bike/Hike Along Delaware Canal
The Friends of the Delaware Canal and Landmark Towns of Bucks County will host the Town to Towpath Bike Hike to celebrate National Trails Day on June 5 from 10 a.m. – noon.
National Trails Day, launched in 1993 by the American Hiking Association, is an initiative designed to inspire activities and events annually on the [...]
May 25th, 2010
South Jersey Marina Reporting the Drum Bite is ON
Nick Maney, the charter agent for South Jersey Marina, is beating the drum!
“Ladies and Gentleman, the drum are here,” Maney reports.
Maney said multiple boats have gone out this week catching drum and “not just the little ones we’ve had the big ones!”
He said The Cape Queen went out Saturday the 22nd and pulled in a [...]
May 25th, 2010
Team Speed Playing Basketball in Puerto Rico
Their nickname is Team Speed, but these age 14 and younger Amateur Athletic Union basketball players could be called Team Far. And Team Mature.
The 10 members of Team Speed are heading to the inaugural Puerto Rico Invitational in San Juan over Memorial Day weekend to represent the mainland United States. The group of seventh- and [...]
May 21st, 2010
Check OUT Kevin Touhey Book Signing in Medford
Kevin Touhey recently released a new book, “The Agony of Winning” and will have a book signing on June 17 and a lecture from 7 to 8 p.m. at Active Fitness on Route 70 in Medford.
Touhey, who lives in Medford, will donate 10 percent of all book sales at the event to Medford’s Relay for [...]
May 20th, 2010
Check OUT FCA Breakfast at Lenape on Saturday
The Fellowship of Christian Athletes mens breakfast is Saturday at Lenape High School.
Willingboro great Olympian Carl Lewis as well as Eagles Jason Avant , Winston Justice and Quinton Demps and Sixers guard Willie Green are scheduled to speaking as well as FCA keynote speaker Keith Elias, a former NY Giant and Colts running back who [...]
May 20th, 2010
‘The Medford Lakes Paddler’ OUT on Jersey Ocean
South Jersey’s Margo Pellegrino to paddle this weekend to raise coastal waterways awareness … and to train.
Pellegrino, also affectionately known as the Medford Lakes Paddler, will complete a 127-mile paddle of the entire New Jersey coast on Sunday, arriving in Sandy Hook after launching from Cape May the preceding day.
The indefatigable 42-year-old mother of two [...]
May 18th, 2010
Check OUT Ironwood Open House on Saturday
If you have never been to Ironwood in Lumberton, you are missing OUT on a wonderful OUTdoor experience that includes kayaking on the Rancocas Creek, hiking, ropes courses and a beautiful pool with friendly people.
Located among an ecologically diverse woodland and wetland preserve on the banks of the Rancocas Creek, Ironwood will be hosting an [...]
May 18th, 2010
Paddle-a-Thon in Medford Lakes on June 4 and 5
They are concerned neighbors, but Margo Pellegrino and Kristen Farr are also worried mothers.
Both Pellegrino and Farr hurt so much for two Medford Lakes families in their community they organized a 24-hour Paddle-a-Thon in Medford Lakes on June 4 and 5. A one-mile sprint race will take place at the end of [...]
May 17th, 2010
Help OUT at UrbanPromise Wine Tasting on June 10
Hassan Jackson used to attend the UrbanPromise Ministries summer camps. Now he works at the camp.
“It keeps me out of trouble being here at UrbanPromise,” said Jackson, 18, who will graduate from the East Camden school in June with sights on attending college. “Everyone says I am a deep thinker. I credit [...]
May 13th, 2010
Check OUT and Help OUT at Tree Trot 5K race
For those persons who enjoy running or walking, there’s a new race on the circuit.
And, for a good cause!
Saddler’s Woods Conservation Association (SWCA) will hold its first annual Tree Trot 5K race and 1 mile walk/fun run on Saturday, May 22.
The proceeds for the race will benefit the work of SWCA, a budding nonprofit since [...]
May 13th, 2010
Help OUT and Fight Cancer at ChemoClothes Event
Jared Levy says he is “an accountant by day and fights cancer by night.”
Levy, who does government auditing with Bowman & Company in Woodbury, is president of ChemoClothes, a nonprofit organization he founded in 2008 in honor of his mother, Deb, who died of cancer.
ChemoClothes collects and sells handmade clothing, jewelry, pottery and [...]
May 11th, 2010
Hike the Blue Hole at the Winslow Wildlife Management Area
Join South Jersey Land and Water Trust staff member Michael Hogan for a 2 hour guided tour to the Blue Hole at the Winslow Wildlife Management Area on Sunday, May 23rd, at 1:00pm.
The Blue Hole is located in Monroe Township and is part of the 7600 acre Winslow Wildlife Management Area.
They will walk along the [...]
May 11th, 2010
The Big Fish Surf Tour is … Endless
The Endless Summer is, well, suspended.
After celebrating their 20th year surfing throughout the Caribbean for a week or so each year, the boys of summer known as the Big Fish Surf Tour have stopped.
Just for this summer, though.
Andrew “Fish” Fisher, 53, of Cherry Hill is the brain child of this youthful passion.
“We didn’t go because of the economy this year,” said Fisher, an account executive with [...]
May 5th, 2010
Wishing Tread Lightly was Around for This Hike
I remember going on a canyon hike in the Sierra Nevada Mountains with my brother a few years back. The hike was rated a 5 star – or most difficult. The guide book said only mules should do this hike. So of course my brother and I went.
There was no one at the trail head [...]
May 4th, 2010
Albertson Carrying OUT Dream to be MLB Ump
Like so many Little Leaguers dotting the fields throughout South Jersey this spring, Dave Albertson dreamed of one day playing in the big leagues.
The years have passed for Albertson, now 18 years old. So has the dream of playing Major League Baseball on fields like Yankee Stadium and Citizens Bank Park.
However, the [...]