By linda denicola
Staff Writer
FREEHOLD TOWNSHIP — Members of a Freehold Township youth baseball team that won a state championship this summer have been honored by the Township Committee.
During the summer, a squad made up of players from the Freehold Township Little League won the Little League 2002 New Jersey Junior League championship.
State Assemblywoman Clare Farragher (R-12), a former member of the Township Committee, presented each member of the championship team with a joint resolution from the state Senate and Assembly and a certificate from the Township Committee. She told the 12 members of the team and their manager and coaches that baseball is her favorite sport. She also told the athletes to thank their parents for the sacrifices they made to get the players to their games.
The Little League Junior League is for players who are 13 and 14 years old.
The team members are Shawn Boysen, Brett Brach, Damian Csakai, Joseph DiCaro, Korey Yngstrom, Kamron Nel-son, Jesse Shenker, Jason Elo, Marc Hub-bert, Michael LaCava, Danny Franke and A.J. Rusbarsky. Also on hand for the presentations were Mike Brach, team manager, and Mike LaCava and Joe DiCaro, team coaches.
In addition to the certificates of achievement presented by the township, Mayor Eugene Golub showed the team the sign that will be installed at the entrances to the community. Wherever a sign welcomes people to Freehold Township, it will now also say "Home of the Little League 2002 New Jersey Junior League State Champions."
In other business, the committee adopted a number of ordinances, with only one of the new laws questioned during the public hearings. That one was the new cell tower ordinance.
The purpose of the ordinance is to establish guidelines for where wireless telecommunication towers and antennas can be constructed and regulations for their development, but as Committeeman Raymond Kershaw pointed out, the main point is that the ordinance limits the placement of cell towers to the town’s manufacturing zone.
One resident, Michael Kroser, who apparently had studied the ordinance with a knowledgeable and careful eye questioned a number of sections and made suggestions about how the law could be improved in order to strengthen the wording.
Golub asked for a copy of the comments and corrections and said township officials would look them over and take them into consideration, but in the meantime said officials "will still act on the ordinance in order to get protections for the township."
The committee voted and the ordinance was adopted with no dissenting vote. Committeewoman Dorothy Avallone was not present at the meeting.
The other ordinances adopted on second reading were an ordinance that provides $300,000 for improvements to the sanitary sewerage system; an ordinance approving the designation of historic landmark to the Holmes Earl House, Route 79; an ordinance that establishes fees for the cost of obtaining public records; and another ordinance that conveys a small, triangular piece of property at the corner of Georgia and Jackson Mills roads to Monmouth County.
In other business, the committee members thanked CME Associates, of Howell, represented by John Stefani, for making a $5,000 contribution to the community’s 9/11 memorial.