| U. Pitts. BOE approves food service contract
UPPER PITTSGROVE TWP. The board of education here has approved a contract between the Upper Pittsgrove School District and Dowling Food Service Management, Inc. for the 2007-2008 school year. The cost for the management services will be in the amount of $8,500 for the entire year, effective Sept. 1, 2007, through June 30, 2008. Representatives from Dowling Food Service Management, Inc. were on hand for the contract approval and thanked the Upper Pittsgrove Board of Education for unanimously approving the agreement. Dowling Food Service Management, located in Stanhope, provides food service to over 40 schools in several districts throughout New Jersey. The closest schools served by the company are located in Camden County and Vineland, said District Manager Jeanine E.
A venture in paradise
THE Radisson Resort Fiji has been open for all of 39 minutes when we step over the drying cement of its threshold. This must explain the vehemence of the welcome. Rapturous, if not a little alarming, arrival ceremonies begin with a conch-shell fanfare and a thunderous beating of drums. Then three grass-skirted men leap out to deliver a heart-stopping chorus of Bula! .
Houston soldier laid to rest at national cemetery
An American flag draped the coffin of Army Pvt. Alan J. Austin at his funeral today, but family and friends said his smile, honesty and quiet goodness will live their hearts forever. "We're saying farewell to a good man and a good person, " said Reba James. "He was honest. He had a beautiful smile." Austin, 21, died Aug. 12, of injuries suffered in a noncombat-related accident when his Humvee rolled over near a forward operating base in Sharana, Afghanistan, Defense Department officials said. The machine gunner on the truck, Austin was assigned to the 782nd Brigade Support Battalion, 4th Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division stationed at Fort Bragg, N.C. About 100 people gathered at the Sunlight Baptist Tabernacle Church, in the 6300 block of Laura Koppe, to say their last goodbyes.
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