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You can’t say the Student Activities Office at Sussex County Community College doesn’t give a hoot about the homeless livestock in Sussex County – they give a moo! A Sept. 23 welcome back activity was turned into a fund raiser to assist the Ricker family to rebuild their barn that was damaged by a tornado.
“Looking at the variety of animal kits I decided to order the cows because people make jokes that we have so many cows in this county,” said Heidi Gregg of the Student Activities Office. “Recently the office was asked about holding a fund raiser for the Ricker family and by luck we had the appropriate animal for this event.”
The cows were free to students and $5 dollars for faculty and staff.
9/29/2009
Album ID: 848164
Photos by John Church
Bear captured in Monroe, 09/23/09
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The following photographs were contributed bu Monroe Printing and Photography. Walkers were disrupted in their strolls around Crane Park in Monroe Wednesday morning when a bear cub was sighted perched in a tree among a grove of trees between the gazebo on Route 17M and the waterfall area of the smaller pond.
A woman in a white Hummer, who had planned a morning walk, made one of the first calls to the Monroe Police Department approximately at 9 a.m., noting she watched the small bear walk out of pond and up the embankment, not knowing where it was traveling.
Eventually she and two others found the bear quietly sitting in a tree as they walked around the bend, with one jogger saying, “I had already been here once and didn’t even notice him.”
Between that time and approximately 12:15 p.m., village police kept walkers and joggers at a distance as they watched the small bear continue to sit in the tree. The State Department of Environmental Conservation eventually arrived to tranquilize the animal and transport it out of the area.
Across the street, a crowd of about 50 to 60 people - many armed with digital cameras - gathered to see the bear, the police and DEC. They clicked away as they watched the DEC tranquilize the bear and gently load the sleeping animal into a special bear trap/ transport container to an unknown location.
Bystanders said DEC officials indicated they found the bear was tagged with a New Jersey DEC tag. It was not known how the bear got there or why it traveled such a distance.
The flashing lights of police cars slowed traffic to a crawl as some gawkers even parked their cars along Route 17M and walked over to what became the unofficial viewing location, marveling at the opportunity to see a bear so close and watching as officials safely removed it from the area.
