31 Oct 2008 | By
charlotte
First of all Happy Halloween everyone!
We all dressed up at work today and one guy went all out and I do mean ALL out. He was dressed as one of the Ghostbusters. He even went as far as to deck out his SUV. (see the picture below) He won a prize for the best costume. He was allowed to park his Ghostbustermobile on the front lawn by the sign. That attracted the local Channel 40 news team and he got interviewed by a reporter.
We had people dressed as orientals, sumo wrestlers who looked like they could use some diet pills, lots of witches, cartoon characters, dark characters and even some beauty queens such as Miss Take, Miss Calculation, Miss Hap, etc. We all had a great time and between 3 and 5 pm the employees were allowed to bring in their kids and grandkids so they could go trick or treating from office to office. I love working for this place!
29 Oct 2008 | By
charlotte
We were discussing, at work today, what we were going to dress up as for Halloween. Every year everyone in the building dresses up and comes to work. Prizes are given and in the afternoon we are allowed to bring in our kids and grandkids. The kids get to go trick or treating to all of the offices. One co-worker was joking around and said he was going to dress up as a bottle of alli. LOL
Since we are a Halloween business it would just be wrong if we didn’t dress. I have a couple of costumes to try on to see which one I want to wear. Both include an Elvira wig!
Trick or treating in Galloway is from 6 to 8 pm on October 31. I rarely get anyone at my door except for a gang of teens, who aren’t wearing costumes, holding pillowcases. I don’t bother to answer the door.
What are you going to be this Halloween?
29 Oct 2008 | By
charlotte
This blog used to be South Jersey Fun. It was about travel and things to do in Southern NJ. Then I changed it to South Jersey News which was just news articles. I’ve gone and changed it again. It’s just South Jersey now and will have travel, things to do in South NJ and news… maybe more.
I have a hard time limiting myself to what I want to say on a particular blog.. as you can see by this post! So be prepared to see more than just news… maybe even more than news, travel and things to do.
23 Oct 2008 | By
charlotte
A U.S. military judge denied a request from self-proclaimed mastermind of the Sept. 11 attacks. Khalid Sheikh Mohammed requested to hav internet access inside his Guantanamo cell. The judge ruled that he doesn’t need it to prepare for his death penalty trial. So his friends or family shouldn’t bother sending him a new Sony Vaio.
He is one of five defendants held at the Guantanamo Bay Navy base who’s charges include conspiracy, hijacking and terrorism for the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks. Those attacks killed nearly 3,000 people in New York, Washington and Pennsylvania.
The government was going to provide the men with laptop computers so they could review the evidence. Prosecutors argued at a pretrial hearing that giving them access to the internet could pose a severe security risk.
The men are held apart from the general population in a prison reserved for Guantanamo detainees transferred out of CIA custody.
The judge also rejected the inmates’ requests for office equipment such as printers and provisions to speak with their family members by telephone. He ruled the men are entitled to have additional resources installed on their laptops including a legal dictionary, the U.S. Constitution and the Geneva Conventions.
19 Oct 2008 | By
charlotte
More than 60 years after Mary Ruth Justice’s wallet disappeared, her family returned to Georgia College & State University to claim it. Her niece, Marjorie Williams, and nephew, Sterling Justice, went to campus Thursday to get the alligator-skin wallet of their aunt, who died two decades ago.
Construction crews renovating the university’s theater found the wallet a few weeks ago on the ledge of a wall in the basement. It contained five black-and-white photographs, a Social Security card and a Georgia state employment card bearing the woman’s name. Campus officials tracked down her family and told them about the wallet, which disappeared in the 1940s.
Justice was born in 1920 in Sparta, but eventually moved to Buffalo, N.Y., where she died in 1978.
