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Jon Bon Jovi rocksRed Bankto benefit

healthcenter

GIVINGBROUGHT HOME

Jon Bon Jovi fired things up at the Count Basie Theatre in Red

Bank Wednesday night, once again showing his support for

the folks back home. Lets turn up the heat! said the rocker

from the stage to the sold-out audience. Bon Jovi, lead singer

of the band Bon Jovi, normally plays stadiums around the

world, but here it was a solo fundraising hometown show he lives in

neighboring Middletown for the Parker Family Health Center of

Red Bank. There are a lot of people who live in our area who have no

health care, and they need our help, he told the crowd. The Jersey

Shore-based Kings of Suburbia were his backing band, and the evening

feature a mixture of soul shakers (Aint Nothin But a House Party),

ROBERT WARD/STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER

Bon Jovi performs with the Kings of Suburbia Wednesday at the Count Basie Theatre in Red Bank.

There are a

lot of people

who live in our

area who have

no health care,

and they need

our help.

JON BON JOVI

By Chris Jordan @ChrisFHJordan

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BELMAR Pension reform is going to involve break-ing promises, including reducing benefits that publicemployees were counting on for their retirement, Gov.Chris Christie acknowledged during a town hall eventin Belmar Wednesday.

It was an exchange with Jean Toher, a technologyteacher at Shark River Hills Elementary School in Nep-tune, that drew the governor into the heart of the pen-sion debate that he has reignited in recent weeks.

When I started working, I started at a salary of$12,800, said Toher, who has been paying into the pen-sion system since 1980. Part of the reason a lot of usaccepted those low salaries all those years is becausewe had a benefit and we negotiated that benefit all thoseyears.

Christie, earlier invoked the D-word (Detroit) todemonstrate how dire the situation is, saying that hedoubted taxes could raise enough revenue to cover the

Gov: Pensionpromisescant be keptIn Belmar, Christie points tobenefit cuts, not raised taxes

By Russ Zimmer @russzimmer

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Gov. Chris Christie arrives for a town hall meeting in BelmarWednesday.

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TRENTON A Jackson resident who was a director ofthe Eastern Region of Pop Warner Little Scholars Inc.was sentenced Wednesday to more than two years inprison and ordered to make $560,000 restitution forwhat U.S. District Judge Joel A. Pisano called serialembezzlement from the nonprofit organization thatruns youth football, cheer and dance programs.

David Marshall, an out-of-work 58-year-old formerVerizon employee, also was ordered to undergo three

Two-year prison termfor Pop Warner thief

Jackson man also orderedto pay $560,000 restitution

By Bob Jordan @BobJordanAPP

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