Firefighters from Hudson County will be taking on a different sort of blaze next week as they participate in The Ultimate Fire Department Cook-Off. Competing in the challenge are 12 teams of firefighters from departments all across New Jersey, two of which represent North Hudson and Bayonne. "Firefighters across the nation have cooking and sharing meals as means of...
Bayonne fire captain Mike Maquire, 48, firefighter Craig Sisk, 36, captain Bob Bartos, 48, and firefighter Roger Nunez, 38, prepare their skirt pepper steak on January 23, 2011 for last year's charity food competition in Edison, NJ. Firefighters from Hudson County will be taking on a different sort of blaze next week as they participate in The Ultimate Fire Department Cook-Off.
Competing in the challenge are 12 teams of firefighters from departments all across New Jersey, two of which represent North Hudson and Bayonne.
"Firefighters across the nation have cooking and sharing meals as means of decreasing stress and building cohesiveness and comradery," says Bayonne Fire Chief Gregory Rogers. "It's about big brotherhoods, because their lives depend on things like that."
Representing the Bayonne Fire Department are Craig Sisk, 37; Roger Nunez, 39; and Bob Bartos, 49; and Captain Mike Maguire, 49.
The team also participated in last year's cook-off where they "performed reasonably well but did not take top prize," as Rogers described. However, the Bayonne firefighters plan to take home the win this year.
Little insight has been divulged regarding the team's tactics and strategies, as they claim to be utilizing a secret recipe. It has been revealed, however, that this year they are switching "from fur to fins."
The cook-off, which will be benefiting New Jersey State Firefighter's Mutual Benevolent Association and Saint Barnabas Burn Foundation, is part of the 2nd Annual Cooked and Uncorked Food and Wine Festival.
Big names are expected to attend the event, one of whom is legendary Bayonne boxer Chuck Wepner who will acting as a celebrity guest judge.
The event will be held at The Pines Manor, 2085 Route 27, Edison, NJ from 6 pm- 9 pm.
Tickets to the Cooked and Uncorked Food and Wine Festal are $50. Tickets can be ordered by calling Beverly Foster at 973 322-4344 or order online with a credit card.
Visit www.cookedanduncorked.com to view participating restaurants, wine/spirits and for more information.
A Manalapan woman who passed out in her car on a Bayonne street was arrested Wednesday after Bayonne cops found hypodermic needles and a bag of suspected heroin in her car, The Jersey Journal reports. Alicia L. Dantonio, 25 was charged with possession of heroin, possession of marijuana, and possession of hypodermic syringes, police said. Full story from The...
Officers were called at 3:28 p.m. to West 56th Street, near Avenue B on a report of a woman passed out in a parked black Acura Integra.A Manalapan woman who passed out in her car on a Bayonne street was
arrested Wednesday after Bayonne cops found hypodermic needles and a bag
of suspected heroin in her car, The Jersey Journal reports.
Alicia L. Dantonio, 25 was charged with possession of heroin, possession of marijuana, and possession of hypodermic syringes, police said.
Bayonne Medical Center cut the ribbon yesterday on its newly renovated radiation oncology center, The Jersey Journal reports. “It was redone from the ground up,” said Brianne Keenan, executive director of Peninsula Radiation Oncology Services, of the renovations that began in late August. “It’s a completely new floor plan.” Full story from The Jersey Journal: Bayonne Medical Center dedicates...
The PET/CT scanner room in the radiation and oncology facility at Bayonne Medical Center.Bayonne Medical Center cut the ribbon yesterday on its newly renovated radiation oncology center, The Jersey Journal reports.
“It was redone from the ground up,” said Brianne Keenan, executive director of Peninsula Radiation Oncology Services, of the renovations that began in late August. “It’s a completely new floor plan.”
Full story from The Jersey Journal:
Bayonne Medical Center dedicates newly renovated center for treating cancer with radiation
Twelve teams of firefighters from across the state will be competing in the annual Ultimate Fire Department Cook-Off, where two teams hail from Hudson County. The cook-off, which will be benefiting New Jersey State Firefighter's Mutual Benevolent Association and Saint Barnabas Burn Foundation, is part of the 2nd Annual Cooked and Uncorked Food and Wine Festival. Full story from The...
Bayonne fire captain Mike Maquire, 48, firefighter Craig Sisk, 36, captain Bob Bartos, 48, and firefighter Roger Nunez, 38, prepare their skirt pepper steak on January 23, 2011 for the charity food competition in Edison, NJ. Full story from The Jersey Journal
Hudson County Fire Departments to compete in The Ultimate Fire Department Cook-off
Daily poll: Were the Operation Bid Rig III arrests a ploy to get Christie elected governor?
Were the Operation Bid Rig III arrests a ploy to get Christie elected governor? Former Jersey City Assemblyman Louis Manzo says that the Operation Bid Rig III arrests that rocked the state, and Hudson County in particular in 2009, were part of a ploy by friends of Chris Christie to get the former U.S. Attorney elected governor. One of...
Former Jersey City Assemblyman Lou Manzo says New Jersey's massive corruption sweep in 2009 was a ploy to help Chris Christie get elected governor. Former Jersey City Assemblyman Louis Manzo says that the Operation Bid Rig III arrests that rocked the state, and Hudson County in particular in 2009, were part of a ploy by friends of Chris Christie to get the former U.S. Attorney elected governor.
One of 46 people nabbed in the sting that included rabbis, businessmen, and nearly two dozen political figures in Hudson County, Manzo was accused of accepting more than $20,000 in cash bribes from government informant Solomon Dwek who was posing as a corrupt developer seeking favors.
Manzo got some of the charges dropped after he successfully argued in 2010 that he shouldn't have been charged under the Hobbs Act since he was not an elected official when he allegedly committed these crimes in 2009. He was at the time a candidate for mayor of Jersey City.
But after Manzo swatted down those charges, the U.S. Attorney's Office filed additional charges against him, accusing Manzo of failing to report to authorities that others were accepting bribes from Dwek.
Manzo's attorney was back in court yesterday, making the case that the entire sting operation, started by Christie and then executed by his close allies after he stepped down as U.S. Attorney, was a Republican ploy to get Christie elected governor.
After all, most of the arrests were of Democrats in Hudson County. FBI agents even raided the home and office of Joe Doria, the former mayor of Bayonne who was then the Department of Community Affairs under former Gov. Jon Corzine, the man Christie ultimately crushed at the polls. No charges were ever brought against Doria and the feds recently said he did nothing wrong.
Christie spokesman Michael Drewniak yesterday called Manzo's accusations "total nonsense" and said the former assemblyman is only trying to divert attention from the criminal acts he stands accused of.
Yesterday's poll, results
