LAKEWOOD – The Alcoholism and Drug Abuse Council of Ocean Inc. (ADACO) will honor two individuals at its annual awards dinner to be held June 10 at The Crystal Point, Point Pleasant.
Geoff Brown, general manager of the Lakewood BlueClaws minor league baseball team, and Jim Dowd of the National Hockey League’s Philadelphia Flyers will be honored as Citizens of the Year.
Prior to joining the BlueClaws in October 1999, Brown spent three years as assistant general manager with the Norwich, Conn., Navigators, a New York Yankees minor league affiliate. Previously, he worked with the Trenton Thunder minor league baseball team for the first three years of their existence.
Brown currently serves on the board of directors of the Monmouth Ocean Development Council, the Ocean County YMCA, the Jersey Shore Council of Boy Scouts and the FoodBank of Ocean and Monmouth Counties.
He has been recognized by the South Atlantic League as its General Manager of the Year twice and the New Jersey Sportswriters Association as the state’s Minor League General Manager of the Year.
Dowd is a Brick Township native and resident of Point Pleasant Beach. He has played for 10 NHL teams during his 17- year career, the most teams played for by any American-born player in league history. He also played for five minor league teams and for a team in Germany during the NHL lockout season of 2004-05.
Dowd made a name for himself in the Shore Conference as a teenager, notching 355 points in four years at Brick High School before moving on to Lake Superior State.
ADACO is a private, nonprofit corporation whose primary mission is to reduce the incidence and prevalence of alcoholism, other drug addiction and related problems. The cost to attend the June 10 event is $75 per person. For more information contactADACO at (732) 367-5515.