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Parker Drake, 19, of Howell, who has

autism, escaped death when he jumped off
a Manasquan jetty into the frigid ocean on
a dare.
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Bill targets
endangering
mentally
impaired

Beach already
washing away

KATHLEEN HOPKINS @KHOPKINSAPP

TRENTON Responding to stories in the Asbury
Park Press of an autistic Howell man coaxed into
jumping off a jetty in February, Assemblyman Sean
Kean has introduced legislation that would make it a
crime to entice someone with mental difficulties to do
something that is likely to injure them.
Kean, a Republican representing portions of Monmouth and Ocean counties, introduced the bill on
Thursday.
He said the bill was crafted after he read articles in
the Asbury Park Press about an incident involving
Parker Drake, a 19-year-old Howell man with autism
who was encouraged by two other Howell men to jump
into the freezing ocean in February from the Manasquan jetty.

THOMAS P. COSTELLO/STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER

Less than two years after a beach replenishment project was completed in Sea Bright and Monmouth Beach, tides have already
eroded beaches in the north end of Sea Bright, breaking through the dunes.

Sea Bright residents voice concerns over erosion

See BILL, Page 6A

SUSANNE CERVENKA @SCERVENKA

JERRYS JOBS

SEA BRIGHT Along

large stretches, the beach here is as wide as a summer day is long.

But one swath of Sea Brights North Beach is noticeably shorter. Waves lap closer and
closer to the seawall, washing away portions of a multimillion-dollar federal beach replenishment project and the protections it affords the beach.
And that worries some residents in the borough where superstorm Sandy swamped the
beaches before ravaging the town itself.

JERRY CARINO CARINOS CORNER

People told me, Dont worry. Itll come back,

when the winds shift in the spring, said Borough
Councilman John Lamia, the liaison for the boroughs beaches and dunes committee. But it
didnt.
But others say the fact the beach is already
eroding might be a sign that trying to fight Mother
Nature with more sand might not be the best use of
resources.
If youre doing something like beach replenishment, and it doesnt seem to be working, maybe
they should be doing something else, said John
Weber of Bradley Beach and Mid-Atlantic regional manager for the Surfrider Foundation, a critic
of beach replenishment.
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has been re-

LAKEWOOD In his hit song Center-

See EROSION, Page 12A

PETER ACKERMAN/STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER

After work, reporter-turned-groundskeeper Jerry Carino dines

at the ballpark with son C.J. (left) and daughter Miriam.

At ballpark, grass
is good, dirt rules
field, John Fogerty extolled the virtue
of new grass on the field.
If he knew what went into preparing
that field, Fogerty would have praised
the infield dirt instead.
I know, because I spent a recent
Sunday on the grounds crew of the Lake-

THOMAS P. COSTELLO/STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers reconstructed beaches

in Sea Bright and Monmouth Beach in 2013, adding 2.2
million cubic yards of sand at a cost of $25.6 million.

If the beach in Sea Bright fails, the beach in Sandy Hook fails.
HEATHER BEDENKO
SEA BRIGHT RESIDENT AND DUNE COMMITTEE MEMBER

See CARINO, Page 10A

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Hawks hurler
blanks St. Peters
Monmouth Universitys T.J.
Hunt throws the teams first
no-hitter since 2007. Sports, 1D

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