Friday Thoughts

(No Hometown View on Thursday, July 10)

This summer is the 10th Anniversary of the Little League World Series won by the Toms River East American All-Stars. If a local team is going to duplicate that feat this summer it will be from Jackson as two teams from that township will meet tonight in the final of the District 18 Tournament for 12-year olds. Jackson Little League will face Holbrook Little League in the championship game at 7pm at the Berkeley Little League Complex. Jackson beat Lacey and Holbrook topped Toms River National to advance to tonight’s final which begins the Road to Williamsport. The District 18 Junior and Senior League Championships will also be played at the Berkeley Complex on Moorage Avenue in Bayville.

It may have a new name but the idea is still the same. One week from tonight the best recently-graduated football players from Ocean and Monmouth County High Schools will meet in the Shore Gridiron Classic at Brick Township High School. The game is sponsored by the Shore Football Coaches Association and the teams begin practice this weekend. Tickets are $8 in advance and $10 at the gate and on sale at all shore Applebee’s locations, Velocity Sports Performance in Wall and Huddy’s Inn in Colts Neck. Tickets can also be purchased on line at digital sports dot com.
Next Friday’s game will be broadcast on 1160 WOBM AM.

Is there any road sign more routinely ignored than a Yield sign? The law is pretty simple on this one….you do not have to stop if there is no reason to but you must be prepared to slow down and stop if necessary. So if you have a yield sign and traffic is coming then you are the one who must stop.
On a daily basis I come across areas in which drivers blow through the sign and make cars with the right of way jam on their breaks. I think some see a yield sign and speed up so they don’t have to stop for merging traffic.

I don’t know or need to know all the particulars of a long-running dispute between the Sawmill Café and the Borough of Seaside Park but the introduction of an ordinance that would end liquor sales at midnight is clearly aimed at the popular boardwalk bar. The only other two places that serve alcohol in the borough are the Windjammer Motel and the Seaside Park Yacht Club and they would not be greatly affected by the ordinance introduced by the council this week. However if the Sawmill had to stop serving at midnight it would clearly have a significant impact on their business and I for one question the fairness of this one.