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The Wine & Chocolate Festival at
Monmouth Park Racetrack in Oceanport will
be held from 11:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.
today and Sunday. Unlimited wine
sampling is $10, chocolate
sampling is $7 and combination
tickets are $15. More information
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Family and friends show their grief at the end of the funeral Mass at St. Rose Church for Mitzi Hernandez Nicolas and Emily
Gonzalez Perez, the two girls who drowned while swimming after hours at the Ninth Avenue beach in Belmar last week.

STEPH SOLIS @STEPHMSOLIS

BELMAR - Family members and friends, sitting a

few feet away from a pair of white caskets, wiped
away tears Friday afternoon as they honored two
young Belmar girls whose bodies will later be buried
in the familys native Mexico.
But the Rev. Walter Quinceno said at the funeral
Mass that the drowning victims spirits would remain
close by.
We say goodbye to their bodies with a lot of an-
guish, with a lot of sadness, but their angelic spirits
arent going to Mexico, Quinceno, parochial vicar at
St. Rose Church in Belmar, said in Spanish. Where
are these angels going to be? Here with us.

See MOURNERS, Page 8A

Food truck fun
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Lavallettes Kickoff to Summer Food Truck Festival will
For video from Fridays service at St. Rose Church, search Funeral cards for Emily Gonzalez Perez,12, left, and Mitzi run from 3 to 9 p.m. today at Bay Boulevard and Washington
double funeral at APP.com. Hernandez Nicolas, 13, who drowned in Belmar last week. Avenue. Admission is $5 for adults and free for children.

Data: State Police are more

Happy birthday, TR!
Toms Rivers 250th Birthday Bash will start at 11 a.m. with a

likely to give Latinos tickets

ceremony at Huddy Park followed by a Food Truck Festival at
noon on Washington Street.

SUSANNE CERVENKA @SCERVENKA
Latino and black drivers were more likely than
white drivers to be ticketed by New Jersey State Po-
lice troopers in the eight years since federal monitor-
ing of the agency ended, the Asbury Park Press found.
Since 2009, Latino drivers have received sum-
monses for about 64 percent of traffic stops where
records show the outcome. Thats compared with 54
percent of white drivers and 58.4 percent of black
drivers who received summonses from their traffic
stops.
The Press analyzed police stop data that Stanford
University obtained and released through its Open
Policing Project, an initiative that is collecting and
standardizing data on vehicle and pedestrian stops by
law enforcement. New Jersey State Police is the only
law enforcement agency from which the university
researchers collected data so far in New Jersey.
See TICKETS, Page 7A
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To see video about State Police stops, go to APP.com and
search three facts.
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Lakewood Townships $84,000 Family fun outing:

saves high school football team
PAYTON GUION @PAYTONGUION
LAKEWOOD - The Lakewood Township Commit-
tee on Thursday night did what the school district
couldnt and the state didnt, and pledged to pay
$84,000 to ensure the Lakewood High School football
team hits the gridiron this fall.
The Lakewood school district was facing the pros-
pect of cutting football next season, along with other
sports and programs, amid a big budget shortfall that
school officials still are trying to close.
Attorney Michael Inzelbuch, who is considering
again becoming the Lakewood school district attor-
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ney, said he organized the football teams appearance
before the Township Committee on Thursday.
Lakewood needs football, Inzelbuch said, adding
that several players on the team have college schol-
arship offers that they might have lost without having
a football team next year.
See FOOTBALL, Page 7A
MORE ONLINE Bring the family out to FirstEnergy Park in Lakewood to
Amid chaos, Lakewoods coach pushes forward. Search L.J. learn from our pro photographers how to take the per-
Clark at APP.com for full story. fect action shot, then head out onto the field with the
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