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Anthony and Jim hello everyone and welcome to Insight I'm Jim Quinn along with mayor Anthony fucci from the city of vinand and we're going to be talking about some of the wonderful things that are going on in vinand and uh mayor before we start I
have a trivia question for you uh okay now you'll know this I'm sure do you know who the vinin high school quarterback was in 1974 when you were in kindergarten Reed Nelson no you were close somebody closer to you than that
what you do Sean no no somebody that very close to you 7 in your building used to be in your building who Keith Petroski
Kei my man oh that's a good one yeah so um one of my friends mentioned that to me and I said I do remember that and the other thing that was interesting was that um Keith just retired he did we just had a beautiful retirement celebration for him that's nice 36 years
was it yeah 36 or 38 wow yeah I I mean Keith's been he's a legend yeah he really is you know um fantastic I didn't realize he was the quarterback then yeah um I know Reed Nelson was I remember him because of course I used to do the V of
mville games all the time radio TV you know and I'm was trying to gaug like who in that age bracket would have been there and you know I guess I just something times don't Peg Keith for for that time frame but you're right at the I was surprised when my friends and I
did sort of remember him that one year playing and then of course Keith did play bypl for me for foot line of football we covered that all the time uh yeah we really Bill Dudley actually remember Bill Dudley yeah I miss him has
he moved out of the area I haven't seen him in a very long time so I almost want to say the answer is yes to that yeah um who did the comment with Coach pazi well I think John also did it with the coach okay yeah because John pazi was the other color when Dudley retired John
took over well what a wonderful man he was ah coach was great he and Tony SAS were such good friends and the nice thing was they voted to name the da Journal trophy the John parasi Tony SAS trophy that's given to the vard mobille
team whoever wins the Thanksgiving game two great guys right there coach SAS just phenomenal human being um coach pazi great love this Paul Spinelli and Coach pazi were they did officiate they were stick as thev those two yeah I forgot about they uh just great I I
really miss coach um I remember when it was time for me to go to high school and um they were you know I of course went to St Augustine I didn't go to violin I originally had wanted to go to violand my mom made the decision I was going to St Augustine and uh coach parazzi was
mad at me because I I didn't go to V own to play football and um for a little while so when I worked at Buist the country club as a kid I used to clean golf clubs and was golf card coach would come in and he'd always give me that look cuz you know he was an avid golfer him and chalky and
Paul and you know a whole group of those guys and I'd be like hey coach Anthony I'd be like I know coach I know cuz my freshman sophomore year there was no football at St Augustin oh it wasn't until my junior year we got the program
wow what a great program finally we got the program and I saw him one summer I'm like coach I'm playing I know you are boy they've had a great program at St Augustin for for many many heres yeah considering where you know where we came from very humble beginnings um we used
to use the field at Michael Debbie Park you know we didn't have anything um oh that's right yes I do remember that yeah coach du charm coach Dari and Coach Chapman Jim Chapman were our three coaches no kidding yeah so Mr Dari was rest of Soul was our head coach that's
nice and then but du of course was all the offense and all the Flash and boy did he have it yeah he did it was quite we learned special attitudes from coach D um so and uh and Mr Chapman Do You Remember Jim Chapman yeah I do so Mr
Chapman was just a good old southern man and you know uh Heart of Gold tough as nails though he would yell at us um when it was time to hit the blocking sled you know he's like boys you got to go boom you got to hit this thing right now here you know I don't know Mr Chapman had to
be in his 60s at that time coaching and this guy would hit the blocking sled with no helmet no pads no nothing and he'd be driving it down the field we thought he was crazy we had some good times though that's great compl good memories of good people yeah i' I've been blessed to be
surrounded by some really great mentors in my young life to help me get where I am today that is for sure it's interesting um I don't know if you probably don't know the fellow but Nick Luciano is my Philly's ticket agent and
he went to Sacred Heart till the closed then he had to switch over to St Augustine prep related to Duke it's Duke's great-grandson how about that okay yeah in fact when I first met him I said are you related to Duke goes yeah it's my great grandfather and uh what a nice fell in fact it's interesting he's
gotten me you know I don't know if you've been out there or not Pi Wick oh yeah um the the doctor collectively own that they uh chaplene dendros and them um you know their food's really pretty good out there I'll tell you what yeah I tell you I mean I've only been there
twice both of the times with Nick but Friday night when I was there I had shepherd's pie my God was delicious the other what one of their Irish Specialties tell you what they make some damn good ribs you know they have barbecued pork oh wow I'll tell you they they actually catered an event at my
house um oh jeez One Summer and I can't remember which year it was but they came out and Jim when I tell you the spread they put out it was unbelievable well and um they
were extremely price competitive they were great and I mean I more or less didn't care but they were so good about it and um the food portions were incredible they were flavorful their staff that came to to serve and clean and everything were wonderful St on
point with time um and Ari uh you know Dr dendrino's son okay is you know uh was running the show at that point and he was just he did a fantastic job flavors were amazing um I'll be honest with you I love good
barbecue who I don't eat that anymore but I'm sure it's so I'm not supposed to everything I've had there was so good and the people are so nice they really are it it's uh they're very in fact I can only eat half the portion and yeah took the other half home had it the next
evening for dinner but they do a nice job so I was glad Nick picked that place cuz I had never been there and now I've been there twice and uh I'll be back it's a nice environment they have good music yeah um you know I don't really belly up to a bar much anymore cuz it's
just not me at my age at this point but they have a beautiful bar in there when you come in and they have a regular crowd yeah you know of course I went to school right up the street so I've seen that place turn over from thing to thing to thing yeah and now they've done this and they've done well um they have a little banquet room type situation
upstairs like a little private room thing um they were packed Friday night that's great I'm glad to hear that cuz you know what they're good people and that's good you always I don't know I'm the guy always rooting for Success yeah exct there's a lot of people hating from the cheap seats but I want people to be successful yeah that's super well you
know speaking of meals and things um I won't mention a restaurant but this restaurant when you come here for $15 there's two for two for 30 menu you get a soup or a salad entree two vegetables
and a dessert I've gone to a place recently couple times you do not get a salad you do not get a vegetable unless you want to order it separately you get the entree and maybe a few I steak fries a gold or something like that and that's
it and it's 30 some dollars so it's more than the price of two meals here for $30 some dollars so here you bring two people in and it's a select menu but it's a very good menu I used to get turkey and uh it's this place is fantastic I know the mayor comes here
for breakfast a lot too and his family sitting over here having dinner and he'll be getting his takeout dinner on his way home and it's just a great place to come folks and uh you know you get a chance think about the queen restaurants at Lincoln at lison vand one of the
nicest looking restaurants in the city of Vinland and uh good people and my favorite B is here tonight and I do go to the milville queen as well another great spot it is absolutely and there they've even lowered the price to 2 for
28 and my friend Joe and I usually go there on Monday nights and uh Joey pepp no well actually Joe he and I do sometimes Joe Pierce Joe this is a funny story when I opened bim's Pizzeria in
milville 52 years ago Joe was 16 at the time and he was basically my manager even though he's still in high school he ran the place and eventually ended up owning it has had it ever since and unfortunately his beautiful wife passed
away about 6 months ago of cancer so we get together and usually once a week and have dinner and talk about good times and things like that he's really good person about that anyway that's I guess enough for the food got the big story
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the great thing the the big thing that's happening in b a lot of big things right now which is great as usual you know we love all the good news so couple things that are happening one is the announcement of our new um Convention Center came out yeah um and that is
going to be right on at Landis Avenue in downtown we're repurposing the former Amish Market um and turning that into a downtown convention center uh we're going to be get Renovations very soon on the inside of the building and then the exterior is going to have a little bit of a facelift to to you know look really
good and um already in just a little bit that we've leaked out the information people are already booking events oh that's fantastic if you can believe that so Sandy foresty is going to be handling it through her Department right um as usual we like to add a little bit to sy's Plate whenever possible she's
amazing but she came up with the idea um and ran it past me and I said you know what Sandy that's phenomenal we need this is really great we could use that we could do so much and it's going to help all the businesses the hotels the restaurants right all the downtown all up in the other areas over by the mall
um so we're um we have some great Partnerships we put on tap for that and it's going to be amazing but the um we have an individual that we're bringing on staff that's going to be working for us that's going to manage and run the bookings in the dayto day which will be fantastic and
uh an article hit NJ Biz today I believe and went out and I've been getting a bunch of text messages because it's been all over the place and like news break app and this and that so the Daily Journal Joe Smith did a story yes absolutely well Joe I like Joe he's a
good guy it's amazing how newspapers have changed Joe used to go to our meeting when I was the mayor of milville you had four newspapers there the press the Daily Journal which well three I guess brsh na news now there's none to go at all yeah we have the um do you
have somebody to cover you voice of vinand okay no violent voice it's called it's part of the Hamilton Gazette group oh okay um and they've recently entered into the City and our weekly publication um I signed up for it I get
it at the house once a week mailed out um they do a great job so far they're covering everything um you know Joe Smith obviously so covers all the big stuff cuz this is his beat you know it's sad it's not like it once was with the paper here um where you know you know
how it is when you would sit back when I was a city councilman sit in a council meeting you'd look over in the Press area and you'd have you know Tom Baris from the AC press and you have Joe Smith from the journal you know whoever else was covering that night Anthony Capa for sports and you know all all these guys
and ladies and Debbie Marco and that's right it's different it is isn't it yeah it is well it's everything's online I mean I find about stuff people passing away on Facebook although I do get the Daily Journal Online check the oits
there but yeah it's very interesting and a lot of the well the crime that's going on in milville I get it off the milville we not the city's website somebody you know was put together a Facebook website milville good bad and ugly or something
like that and uh I guess for milville sake we're probably glad they know don't have a newspaper cuz it's been an aw just had of stabbing recently and some killings and shootings and all that stuff and uh what's going on over there are they uh as a I understand the police
force numbers are kind of down right they are yeah they're down because they haven't give them the salary they need to give to get people to sign up and I mean I've had the sheriff on I know they're hurting getting people luckily you guys pay well so you're okay but millville's down at least eight maybe
and uh and then some people were complaining they gave promotions which I don't have a problem with that but they don't have the officers somebody told meille runs with maybe just five officers and that's 44 square miles of land and uh wow you know
and the problems are too there's still gangs and the gangs are retaliating against each other that's where your shootings occur and of course as I always say drugs are the cancer that's eating away our society and that's one of the the big things that happens and
an awful lot of people have illegal guns too so that's not situation you know when you talk about um where a city like violent has you know flourished in a number of years and you're right we do pay our officers very well you know that's extremely important and I've worked with you know our police unions
to be able to do that and believe me we've made Financial sacrifice in the city uh for a number of years to be able to compensate uh the men and women that are police officers and firefighters and EMTs to to really keep our staff robust
and it's expensive right but if you don't have Law and Order you don't have fire protection and or prevention and you don't have good Emergency Medical Services you're not servicing your community well you've got no economic
retention let alone Economic Development right and we're booming because yes we've reinvested into you know Public Safety sector for the city of Island it's extremely important and I'll tell you you know even when it hurts I you know I tell the residents people are moving in here because of a reason are
not moving out of here right you know that it's interesting a friend of mine her son who I friendly with too Cameron was his name and uh he was number one in the milville police well the police academy up in Gloucester whenever I went
to the ceremony he was the number one police officer for the milville branch yes all the things especially the ex physical and all that kind of stuff anyway I don't think he stayed six months he's now a delare state trooper
and I many times run into New Jersey state troopers who are former milville police officers too so each level needs them and if you don't pay the monies you need to pay them to retain them then they're gone so that's what hurts they
were poaching our best men and women for quite a while until we work to get very competitive on our salary scale we would lose lose them to State Police and then we would lose them to the like different townships outside of Cumberland County CU they had a shorter step guide or they
were able to more money and you know people in the unions always ask the question well how come cities you know don't pay better well when you're competing against the whole state or you're competing against the township there's pools of money there yeah right that are coming in from all over you
know for us we pay extremely well but I'll be honest with you Jim I wish we could afford to pay our First Responders and all those areas more money yeah well thank God they have the heart for what they're doing and they love what they're doing but milville has good First Responders I will say I've actually had
to use them from time to time and I've been very pleased John feldis whose father Jack was the mayor of marsh Township is the head of the EMS in noville and does he and his staff they do a really good job no's got a lot of
great people in it um you know it's just sad that they fight back back and forth um and politically if you will you know and it's been a battle I mean you know frankly we've talked about this before the form of government sets you up for
failure um doesn't really allow you to do what you do in today's day and age you know maybe many years ago it worked um and frankly I know when you were around it did um but I think right now without having really true defined
leadership uh like our faler Act form of government gives yeah right executive and legislative um it's it's not great in today's day and age it's it's really hard now it's outdated as we talk about there are very very few commission forms of government left in the state when I
was there I tried to get it on a petition but the other Commissioners didn't want it so you know I I understood cuz they were sort of like the mayor of their own department but if you don't have the right Nick of people and I always give you credit because
what where's the success come the city of violent this man brings a lot of it to the table because he's a businessman he's college graduate he's intelligent he's uh you know knows how it was to run an insurance business a real estate
business that means a lot when you go in because government is a big business you know and it wasn't that tough of a transition for you mayor you know and I I think my levels of government prepared me that's true the school board and a counsil too yeah and but I never you
know I wasn't a guy that was running for office for ego or for title I ran for office the first time you know because I wanted to give back to the community and that's when I ran for the Board of Ed in 2006 got reelected there in 2009 and then won the election in 12 to become
become the council president and then four years after to become the mayor for for the first time now never realizing I was going to be a three-term mayor which is amazing um not to us who know how good you are maybe to you I honestly and I say this sincerely I think you could
be the mayor for as long as you want to be the mayor of Island cuz what a wonderful job you've done and I know it's the Keith Petros Sandy foris and all the people that you give credit Bobby dcka Bobby D you so many so many people I mean
we I I I tell you for as much frustration aggravation comes in serving in government sometimes because there's just some mountains you just can't move even though you keep trying to push on them I am very grateful to have a team around me like I have um because they
not only give you the support but they have the faith in my decision making and my vision on where I want to see violin go and people are like you've taken violin the new heights I'm like wow you know what yes you know I'm the captain of the team but we have a team right and
um I said but I'm not done I said we have these four years now in front of us to not only look the heights we've taken it but to set the bar even higher and my goal is to not stop until you know I'm complete I'm completely satisfied which will probably be never but I will I will
term limit myself at some point because you know I I don't believe in I don't believe in you being here forever right I I think that as long as you're productive and you can add to it you have the stamina for it you should do it but I also believe there's a time that you have to you know you've built the
foundation you've built the house you know and and now it's time to turn the keys over to someone that you know can also uh come in with great ideas a fresh look that kind of stuff and you know that's going to be the job now as we're excelling more enir for the next few
years and identifying a successor um you know just it's it's a lot you know how it is it's a lot on your family it's a lot on your business think of that for Stacy and the girls yeah I mean it's a lot on you you know and and my problem is much like you you know when you were
a commissioner and a mayor your heart's on your sleeve you eat and breathe and sleep your city and your passion is in it you know violin's been a wonderful City to me um in my businesses and raising my family and and
you know being great place for me to grow up yeah you know Cumberland County has had so much to offer I have friends all over the place and um and it's hard you know it's a bit one of those bit Sweet Moments when you finally walk out that door yeah well you got a long time that's going to happen you're still a
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talking about some of the great things that are going on in V I had um Ben proos serve U Ben L Ben Lorry with me the other day yeah he's County Commissioner director for Salem County but we were talking about his building and his businesses in the vinon
industrial park and I say every time I go up there to see my buddy Ray Kon that place is packed that's fantastic ftic I'm so proud of you and Sandy and all your everybody it's just wonderful to see my goodness there must be thousands
of jobs up there oh yeah yeah and cold storage and you know and again the other thing that's beneficial that we've talked about in the past Is Vinland has their own electric utility so if I own cold storage and I got a choice between
V electric utility that is much more reasonable than Atlantic electric utility I want to get in BL you know I really do that makes a big difference on the bills because you know everywhere you could save you can save and electric they're very high users yes you know
um it it it's a blessing really you know so for us that's why we've enhanced our infrastructure there we're always upgrading we're always assessing we're always looking for better better ways to operate more efficiently um and how we
can power more things and and be more more to more people you know and it's important people don't realize that that when you have something like that you have to really not only does it take a lot to run it but it takes a lot to maintain it yes so we're adding um some
uh some jobs this year that are posted now for um some folks to get into succession because you have an aging Workforce too and you know the um the thing there is of course is that when you have men and women that are going to retire out of there you better have a play in the back F you know your line
Personnel your electrical staff you know because if you don't um all your successes and go out the window real quick well that's for sure so we're lining them up now you did tell me that um a
computer uh oh the data center Data Center thank you yeah that just got announced too um which will be down on uh South Lincoln Avenue and um that's going to be one amazing project so you know a number of years ago when I ran my first mayoral campaign um big thing for
me in the debates against my opponents were making violent what we call a smarter City there's a lot of smart City Concepts out there we wanted to be a smarter city and what I meant by that was truly revamping everything looking at our website our social media presence
our marketing uh any advertising that we would have for it um bringing better technology to the Forefront and and we've done that so we've did a new website we did all social media Pages we did a whole marketing Blitz we've done our TV commercials uh we've done a my
vient app right where you can pretty much operate anything you need to within the city from your phone um we uh have a new customer service portal that has just been completed which will be a great online interface for our residents which will be rolled out very shortly um
we've looked at a Broadband initiative here in B to become our own internet service provider you know we're you know we've been working on all these things moving forward in hopes to attract technology companies here to become I don't know I don't want to be
Silicon Valley but I want a little piece of silicone around here right so we've done that and now the announcement came out this past week um that um data first part of the phase of the data center is under going to be under construction that's fantastic amazing
amazing and it's a worldwide initiative yes um so it's very collaborative and the gentleman that heads it up is from France originally and um you know they've been here and they've shared us a plan for the site um some ancillary other businesses they want to bring with
it here to the site just everything we could have asked for and more Jim wow that's fantastic I actually I think Ben Lori was talking about working with you guys a little bit on broadband yes so there was a a grant that came out an million Grant that was shared between
Cumberland and Salem they applied together jointly um Salem wants to build out a dark fiber middle mile um and then you know you need your beginning and then your end mile of course and um cumberland's still in the planning stages for what they're looking at doing
but we've been ahead of it for years right we've already been upgrading fiber looking at our networks we've had our Consultants on tap we've mapped out the entire city and for us our goal would be to um finish our fiber infrastructure
upgrade build two new fiber rings on the outskirts of the area and I would be able to supply wholesale internet to Cumberland and to Salem separately for what they need intergovernmental right right so it's not like you're selling your sold to the lowest bidder right um
and our goal is better reliability better speeds and better price points for anyone that needs it and the southern New Jersey region is ripe and desperate for sure for Broadband we have so many areas in Cumberland that just don't have access right um you know Senator Tesla has done a good job with
trying to get Comcast in other areas where they weren't yeah and but it's difficult for them too and they answer to shareholders yeah we don't right we're self liquid self- liquidating on for-profit fantastic so you know for us it makes all the sense in the world and
I can help them and yes Ben has been a a big proponent for this and we're trying to get there um unfortunately the the grand money split up evenly between them so 12 and a half I think and 12 a half million it's not enough you that's about 33 I think every bit of that right and
you know what happens government's going to hand you out the first grant yeah you know then it become it's like a drug yeah you get and then you got to hope you get the next one and the next one and the next one so um it's a lot but I told them once we're up and running and we'll be ready to go we'll be we'll be
hot and then you guys can tie in wherever you want I'll always work with our partnering counties you know cuz I want to help them too I mean especially Salem they've got not a whole lot going on you know no and boy you know I just realized vland and Pitts Township of but so you're with Salem County because my
friend Ron Durham who's one of my sponsors he's actually right over the vine of line in Pitt um tires Yeah dance Treads yeah he's a great guy he is a great guy really is his wife Margaret's a sweetheart um you know just good family great people yeah really really
are it's amazing good business around a long time yeah he's doing very well very busy in fact he has jobs available folks if anybody needs a job when I see people begging at the WWA I tell them he want a job right D's looking for a couple
people you know so we have so many jobs open right and you know so when I was a councilman people it was a mass Exodus when the previous mayor was in right um people were out now businesses have not only stayed expanded new ones have come in and have
expanded and you know they're flourishing here right we're the international headquarters to so many of these companies in the industrial park and um you know there are jobs there for people and they're not just minimum wage jobs they're better than minimum wage
there's benefits retirement plans they're very competitive if you're not working here either a you don't have the ability to or you don't have the desire to yeah because there's a lot available uh right now which is great so our unemployment is extremely low yeah that's wonderful
really is and uh like you said there are good jobs out there so if you're I guess you can go to the city of V website right on the website or if you're not sure how to contact somebody contact the economic development office in the city of Island sy's office she has contacts for all the people in the industrial
parks and they usually send us their hirees what they're looking for super and this data center is going to you know hire a number of people and they are going to be high-skilled technology jobs which are white collar pay extremely well um in there to operate these things you know it's that has the
potential to be a multi billion would it be dollar projectly all the construction jobs that are going to be there and then all the the the computers these gpus now are incredible the costs and then the employee base I mean this is what this
generation has been raised for behind us with technology and computers and now we're able to bring it right to them and speaking of technology and computers um we have a brand new Esports room at the violent Library oh that's we're getting ready to launch and announce
that uh probably beginning of May they're still doing the stress tests on the equipment um to make sure the network can handle it but there's uh 12 or 14 um units inside that room wow online
gaming streaming everything yeah um and state-ofthe-art everything and we really reworked it to make it very friendly it's going to be it's incredible my my is team was in there with a couple of our other guys uh making sure everything ran smooth I said another stress
test yeah playing a lot of games but uh but they did a fantastic job um you know Tony Quigley who's the head of that department really worked with uh Dr Lewis Amber who's the business manager of the library we talked this initiative
they went in there it took a while they got the equipment they got everything running we re the room it's it's just incredible it's a gamer's dream that's in there and you know what they keep saying what do you got for kids I got plenty yeah we got Parks we got new Park equipment we got Sports um you've got
food we're redoing basketball courts we've got Esports you know we've enhanced the library we're working on so many things in the area um that's great yeah to keep going lot on the agenda the next few years I see yeah we had a couple of our
friends say hello Patty Pard and hey Patty Patty is a wonderful lady she donates a lot of her she was a former Eagles cheerleader donates a lot of her time to the fundraisers and I see her with Ron jorski and the former Eagle cheerleaders and was a teacher in
violand for quite a few years just a delightful person and uh zark re re do you know zark don't you he's with um oh the guy that does Paving uh Ricky yeah Ry
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Anthony fucci and Jim [Music] Quinn as QVC brings you Insight with Anthony and Jim welcome back to Insight I'm Jim quinel mayor Anthony fucci you know mayor I was
mentioning earlier in the show that Friday night I met Nick Luciano who was part of the Luciano family here in mil in in vinand rather and uh so we he suggested we meet at the P Wick in so
this was my second time to meet him there and fat food was fantastic and a wonderful time but what I did I had a lot of time to spare to out to the pit quick so I drove out handbridge road I wanted to see the tunnel that went under the road that was really neat for the
golf carts when white trout and John ruger's Golf Course gets going but what was really something is I took my time driving out that way and panther Road and all the roads out that way and I saw all the Farms it's like oh my goodness I never realized how much farming is going
on in violent mhm a lot and you know of course backbone of our community was always farming and eggs yeah that's right yes so then became food processing when the industrial park really you know was birth um but the farming Community
is amazing here um we have the best and freshest produce around um in our areas and um it people just don't know like for me we're rolling into the right time of year yeah because I want to go right down to like
you know Mr Ferrari's little produce stand down there on Panther and corn copia yeah and get my cucumbers and my tomatoes and my red onion and I mean it's like every night for dinner I can go pick it up fresh out of the field and just you know for a few bucks and you know you're you're getting the finest
quality produce you could imagine um you know fresh as comes oh let me tell you so it's it's great to be like hey go down to Mr Ferrari's and pick this up sure what you got then go up you see you know Bobby hey Mr Ferrari what do you got today h i got some potatoes coming up and I got this and I got that and
it's all the I guess you know they don't take to the block or you know they don't pre-sell and they have so much but we're spoiled yeah we are you know heads of red lettuce heads of Roma wow you know pontano Farms that you know um you know the pontos do such a wonderful job with
their farming yes Tommy I went by Tommy pont's form you know the tavos and you know and then in our area too you've got like consulo with all the blueberries oh yeah you know um the the the young men and women that are in the farming
industry here uh are truly salt to the Earth and are hard hard working the franchis kinis I see Dave Francis skini all the time young Dave and you know and this guy works like a mule you know and when they get their time off boy do they deserve
it you bet they do the cold months where they can finally take a break yeah you're not kidding yeah so God bless them I mean we're grateful to have them and um you know you hope for forever that all these families are still around yeah you know it's it's incredible you
know I talked to the other day I hadn't in years many many years I always liked the guy was Mo Castellini yeah do you know mo sure yeah in fact I met his daughter she was my server out too seavo yeah Michelle and she gave me his phone
number and we had a nice talk Mo and and kisess and myself and a bunch of us got together to build the South Finland softball field back in the 70s and uh it was funny cuz the guy was the I won't say his name but who was the recreation
commissioner for the city of mville I like the guy but I was president of the league in noville and it got to be a beer league and by the third game half the people were drunk and I said I can't can't we can't do this I said can't you
mandate that we don't have alcohol at the field let him go John's bar sponsoring go over to John's when you had done playing ball and I said I'm going to start my own Li and he goes no way you'll never be able to do that without the city or the county well fortunately I was able
to do that uh Mory Sand Company had been leasing the field of the car estessi so we joined up together I got donations for the polls which you guys gave me I told you that story before lanic or Vine electric gave it to us even though Atlantic Electric served us at that time
and my radio station we did a trade for fencing and lights and all that kind of stuff and we were able to really Spruce the field up and we were the most popular league in the county and then softball we had the best teams we had tournaments even Rob Shannon ended up
holding his tournament at our field how about that so it was I was very pleased Mr Baseball himself yeah he sure was but Mo was such a great guy and just a really good person and I met a lot of nice people through that you know and as my cousin Joey would say Jim what do
they all have in common they're all Italian and I love him every time we talk about that I said you know that's the truth honest to God I mean I don't think I know an Italian person I don't like to your company your your country's
credit when I've been over there those people are warm and friendly mja V come in you just super people we're feeders that's for sure we are feeders boy the food over there was so good it was like almost going into Grandma's Kitchen they have like toras or whatever they call it
small small little restaurants and the food was fabulous in fact I was saying someone recently when I was in Italy I actually got to sit up on the altar with the Bish the pope was sitting there Pope John Paul the 22nd or whatever he was in
pretty bad shape his neck was leaning but Lou maruchi father Lou maruchi um put together a singing group and my former wife was in that group and I went with them and it was quite an experience put anyway about that speaking of Catholic Church do you know Steve bord
Roi is it he a ber Nazi he's a priest yes he is yeah I was really impressed we were in school at St Augustine together and St Mary's together and he's a few years behind me but great guy great family um he was
destined for that path that vocation was for him and um he was always just such a great guy when we were kids I mean another just salt of the earth guy and yeah um and I really think he's doing what he was cut out to do he seems very
happy he gave the invocation of my cousin Harry's 90th birthday party that's how I got to meet him in fact I got his number I'm going to get him on sometime to talk about his his vocation and all that kind of stuff and it's nice to see you know a young he's in
Collingswood as where his parishes and I've also gotten to be very friendly with Dave Rivera Dave is the pastor at U St J Jo in Hamilton it's a big church goodness really oh yeah and uh he does a wonderful job too so at least we got
some good young priests coming up cuz it's hard to find priest let me tell you it's tough I mean picking have been slim for a long time and you know it's uh it's important you know faith in having faith inside the community is important Johnny Burton was one of my buddies and Keith Petroski that's his friend that's
right Keith Oh Our Man Keith yeah he's hope he's enjoying his retirement so far I got to get him on I got to get your his phone his cell phone number from you so I can give him a call and S I appreciate that yeah he's special guy like God and having him and Bobby
Dickinson and like you know just and then you told me Rick cot on board that's yeah he's on our pal right now athletic leue what a good guy um doing a great job um you know he gets it you know and the kids really need an enhanced program and he's got the
direction from a director Ed Alysia and um oh yes um and the uh acting Chief Steve triantos and you know they were talking about what needs to be in for these kids for these programs and of course he has our full support from the city Administration so we're looking for great things to come for pal um in in
next year you've got some um a former Lieutenant that's in inspections housing inspections from noville well he lives in Bland but the was it milville the director yeah your buddy Matt Rabbi yeah that's it yeah
that guy is oh he's special that boy he is so funny tell you what he works hard for us though yeah he's always really helped streamline the department and made has made some difficult decisions that were in the best interest of the city and its residents and he's not
afraid to take something head on yeah yeah he he's great Matt's just a great guy his wife Meg who was um you know worked in the school district for many years and certified in sign language and whatnot just great people he's Rick tetta's neighbor oh is he really yeah no
kidding that was T boy you guys really brought that street down didn't oh tell it's in fact Matt had me do a wedding out on one of the farms in East Finland was friends of his and oh yeah it was really nice I really enjoyed
it and uh do you do a lot of weddings there I I do some I did a lot in the beginning um the problem is you can do a wedding every day oh I know you know and it's just it's so hard to fit in your schedule you know between literally between my duty at the city cuz again a
lot of people don't realize it but I work full-time at the city and work full-time in my businesses you know and how be like how do you do that trust me it's a lot of hours you know for sure 90 hour weeks I'm new Strang or to so um it's hard to balance it you know but if
I have enough notice or planning I'll certainly do them and um and you know I I really it's an honor to do a wedding for for people you know yeah it's wonderful it's one I've done about 350 During the period of time when as mayor and of course now I can do them because
um Mary Meritus right and uh I just did one few months ago it's the Sailing Club in milville and it's yeah it's nice it's everybody's happy nobody's yelling at you or anything like that I remember one Valentine's Day doing five weddings on Valentine wow yeah I don't remember
another Valentine's Day doing a wedding down at the uh East Point Lighthouse and February the wind was whipping the lighthouse was closed it was freezing I'll never forget that that was a chilly one but Thomas lman I got to do his winning and he just won
again he's really throwing some hands that guy huh good for him what a great kid what a great great personality you know good work ethic good for him I'm happy to hear that I did a wedding for somebody one time and the groom the groom was 90
minutes late oh boy wow I said oh man when the bride finally came out that those eyes were burning with fire and uh I'll never forget that and I just looked at I'm like hey buddy I guess there's kudos for showing
up but boy for a world to hurt my man so oh yeah unfortunately that wedding didn't last for him long I was going to say somebody asked me that marriage was over how long the wedding us last I said I guess about half of them get divorced that's what the divorce R probably is so
no matter what you do brutal it but I've always enjoyed them they've always been you know something that I've forward to doing it's it's I've had the honor of um marrying some fellas before they were getting ready to go be deployed you know they their husbands and wives and you
know we had one that had emergency deployment orders and we had a situation cuz you know have that little waiting period right yeah and we had to get at the time her honor Georgia curio as the assignment judge to step in because she had to Grant the okay to wave the
timeline so I got a call from the family they told me what was going on and the guy was being shipped out the very next day he had orders my God and um they were planning a wedding never know never realized he was getting shipped out now they were going to plan it 6 months from there yeah and wow it was uh it was in
my I think my first term as mayor and um there was some conflicts going on overseas and he was being shipped out well wow I called Rick tet I'm like Rick what do I do with this yeah and I said this is I've never had this encounter yet and
he's like yeah well this is how it works and thank God again I got a veteran on my staff there that knows and I'm like oh God I said what do we do he's like you you need a judge and nobody was available and it's got to be superior court judge right and he's and I and he
said well you know what I'll call Judge curio of course you know violent girl right so everybody knows her super she gets on the phone with me and the speaker phone and everybody and you know work through it um that was an honor and that young man did come home safely which is great and now has some children
and that's wonderful do yeah it's good stuff there to feel good things you know yeah I was just with Joe spacio former Cumberland County Freeholder who I just think the world of he's shipping out soon in a couple weeks for I don't know how many months but at least maybe six
seven months before deployment he has two more years left in the Air Force Reserves I think what he's been he's a great guy oh he is he's one of the best I've ever worked with what a gentleman and he is he's such a nice guy had dinner with him last night his wife
whole family's great yeah and you know what's interesting every time I mention somebody oh yeah that's my cousin I mean it's like fact the priest the one I was just mentioning Steve he said yeah he's my cousin you know I said okay yeah his mom's a SP show yeah that's right that's
right okay that's right I forgot uh what wonderful people they really are and I want to thank my cousin George Castellini and his wife Kim we had dinner last night uh all of us and uh it was Joe's birthday a few weeks ago that
means Kim we really thank you you know we just throw George in there getting lot sugar every now and again Kim's still working for uh cry Bank she's phenomenal George is great yeah yeah longtime friend uh colleague in the industry yeah that's right again two
more great people yeah well again Castellini another Italian yeah and uh yeah it it is wonderful truly this is amazing anyway I thank you mayor for coming in good to see you always great
to see you great you the good work and uh Ryan narowski thank you for producing the show today here on the Insight from the beautiful queen restaurant Linc Atlantis in Violet and we'll see you soon take care this has been a QBC television
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