Maras: ACFAS Worth Another Look
EDITOR'S NOTE: Tom Maras is a resident of Fords.
The Home News Tribune has certainly renewed my faith in their journalistic integrity with their November 18 Editorial (see page A10, Community Voice) entitled, Avenel-Colonia Squad Deserves Second Look in Woodbridge.
The Editorial puts the ACFAS matter in clear perspective and calls into question the true intentions of Mayor John McCormac, regarding all first aid squads within the Township of Woodbridge.
With the Home News Tribune stating: “It’s time to reconsider keeping the squad alive”, gathering the few remaining signatures on the Petition to have the Woodbridge Town Council reinstate the ACFAS on the township 911 map, should be easy.
Once the sufficiency requirements of the Petition are satisfied, it is hoped the Woodbridge Town Council will reverse its position on their earlier ordinance, thus avoiding the cost, to the taxpayers, of a special ballot.
Of even greater importance, if the Council is responsive to the will of the people, the ACFAS will be able to resume service to the community at a much earlier date. The action will also reduce the over-burdened Woodbridge Township Ambulance and Rescue Squad, which had to cover an additional 25% of Woodbridge Township.
Perhaps, the Town Council and the Mayor might even consider reinstate the independent St. John’s first Aid squad in Fords, NJ. Such an action would certainly be well received by the residents, especially the senior residents, of Fords.
For now, however, it is very comforting to know the safety needs and the ‘will of the people’ are being recognized and supported by the Home News Tribune and, hopefully, in a very timely manner, the McCormac Administration.
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proleo 10:02 pm on March 18, 2011 Permalink
Usually a 1st or 2nd degree criminal conviction precludes anyone in the state from working in any civil service capacity regardless of the public, private, or nonprofit nature of the “employer”. For EMTs, precedent here in Woodbridge states that even a D.P. offense such as walking in to an abandoned roller rink in Edison, prior to demolition, doing harm to nothing, nobody, and removing nothing amounts to an offense so heinous as to call for removal from the rosters of committed civil service. With a wink and a nod, Mercado MIGHT land a job across the street from WTART at Big Shots Sports Bar. There’s a bartender there who violated numerous ABC laws back 2 1/2 years ago, and he went unscathed by this sort of thing. Well, he’s not a detective anymore, but he’s still got his main job! The new Assistant Director down Main Street can pull some strings if it serves his agenda. I mean he was 19, so like Sean McGuirk he WAS an adult, but like Michael DeCrosta he has friends. Additionally, Mercado wasn’t an accessory to Manslaughter, so maybe he should work WITH the big shots rather than AT Big Shots. Something to think about.