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Owners of NJ pancake/ice cream shop want to spread kindness, inclusion to the community
WILDWOOD CREST, N.J. (CBS) — The house owners poured their hearts into the place and the second you stroll in you’ll be able to really feel the kindness and unity that they created and so they hope to unfold it in Wildwood Crest and past.
It is one of many latest additions to the Crest: Brandon’s Pancake Home and Ice Cream Parlor on New Jersey Avenue.
Karl and Aimee Famiano personal the place. They are saying their son Brandon, who lives with autism, impressed them to create the enterprise.
Karl additionally had a highschool yearbook dream of opening a pancake home.
“We merged the 2 concepts collectively and provides individuals with particular wants a protected place to eat with out being judged or checked out or starred at,” Karl Famiano mentioned.
The Faminaos say they need households to really feel snug and their mission is to unfold the love and ensure nobody is overlooked.
“The whole lot they’re doing right here is for the neighborhood,” Aimee Famiano mentioned. “So for everyone that wishes to return right here, we’re household. You are protected.”
Aimee has a particular schooling background and says contained in the restaurant there are earphones for sound sensitivity, sensory toys, and menus with photos accessible.
“No matter they need they might level to or circle. I would like toast or I would like eggs,” Aimee Famiano mentioned
They also have a wall of fame so you’ll be able to change into part of the household.
The Faminanis say they’re so grateful for the assist.
“It is rather overwhelming I’ve to say the belief and love that folks have in us,” Aimee Famiano mentioned. “Like sharing photos and movies of their youngsters, that is unbelievable.”
Brandon’s pancake home opened simply this week and they’re gearing up for a busy summer season season.
And they’re wanting ahead to the outreach and connections this place will convey.
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Another whale has died after becoming beached on the coast of the Jersey Shore, according to officials with the Marine Mammal Stranding Center.
The agency says they received a report from the New Jersey Department of Environmental at 3:00 p.m. on Friday that their aerial survey team spotted the whale on the southern end of Long Beach Island. The Coast Guard, who was on a routine helicopter flight, was able to divert and locate the whale just before sunset. They were able to determine that the whale beached on a sandbar, and was only able to be accessed by boat.
Due to tidal conditions and the whale being located late in the day, members of the Marine Mammal Stranding Center and the New Jersey State Police Marine unit were not able to access the whale until Saturday morning. Once they arrived on scene the whale was identified as a young humpback measuring at 29 feet in length. When the team examined the whale further they found that the mammal was lethargic and in “very thin” body condition. They also found wounds from an apparent propeller strike. Their final prognosis was the whale’s health was “extremely poor” and was unlikely to survive.
Due to the incoming tide on Saturday and the lack of daylight, officials from the stranding center administered sedatives to keep the whale comfortable overnight until operations could continue the next morning in the daylight and at low tide. When they arrived back the next morning along with operators from Sea Tow of Atlantic City, they discovered the mammal had passed away sometime in the overnight hours.
The whale was first seen in the New York Bight on October 2nd by American Princess Cruises. At that time, it was evident that the young whale had experienced significant trauma due to propeller strikes that were still in the process of healing, and the wounds were impacting the animal’s ability to feed based on the very thin body condition.
Additional information will be shared as it becomes available on the Marine Mammal Stranding Center’s website.
SALEM COUNTY, New Jersey (WABC) — Four people were killed in a deadly multivehicle crash on the New Jersey Turnpike early Sunday morning.
The deadly crash happened around 12:40 a.m. on the southbound side of the New Jersey Turnpike near milepost 1.3 in Carneys Point Township, Salem County.
New Jersey State Police say Christopher Neff, 41, of Westminster, Colorado was driving in a Dodge pickup truck northbound in the southbound lanes of the turnpike when the collision happened.
Yaakov Kilberg, 19, of Lakewood, New Jersey, was driving in a Mazda SUV with three passengers southbound in the left inner lane, officials said.
Authorities say a head-on-collision occurred between the Dodge pickup truck and Mazda SUV near the milepost. Following the collision, Kilberg’s car was struck by a Freightliner tractor-trailer traveling in the right lane behind the vehicle.
Kilberg and his passengers were killed as a result of the crash. The victims include 18-year-old Aharon Lebovits and 18-year-old Shlomo Cohen, both from Lakewood, New Jersey, as well as 18-year-old Chaim Grossman of Fallsburg, New York.
Police say Neff suffered serious injuries from the crash, while the driver of the Freightliner tractor-trailer suffered no injuries.
The crash remains under investigation as police try to determine what led up to the fatal collision.
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