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Asbury Park

City orgs, council raise funds to outfit crossing guards

Community initiative outfits 30 with reflective winter coats

By Jill Bartlett


Christmas came a little early this year for Asbury Park’s crossing guards. For the past several weeks a community-wide initiative has been underway to help sponsor new warm, reflective winter gear to outfit the guards. Previously, they wore thin reflective vests over their own personal winter coats. At a press conference held Friday outside of […]

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Dec 23, 2013
Asbury Park

Resident takes issue with crossing guards

Says guards teach children not to obey traffic signals

By Molly Mulshine


A city resident lodged a complaint regarding the crossing guards who help children cross the city’s busier streets on the way to and from school each day. Tom Pivinski said at the May 15 council meeting that the crossing guards’ techniques may be “creating a real danger for our kids.” Pivinski was driving down Main […]

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May 29, 2013