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5 things to do beforesummer endsASBURY PARK PRESS APP.COM $1.00MONDAY 08.10.15VOLUME 136NUMBER 190SINCE 1879ADVICE4CBUSINESS8ACLASSIFIED6CCOMICS5CLOCAL3ALOTTERIES2AOBITUARIES9AOPINION11ASPORTS1DWEATHER8DHer Powerful Portrait: Womans tale of rape and healing. 3AFrank Gifford was a star and a winner, from the football field where he won an NFL championship in 1956 with the New YorkGiants to the broadcast booth, where he won an Emmyaward as televisions outstanding sports personality for hiswork as Monday Night Football co-announcer. Gifford diedSunday at age 84. Page 1DSportsFootball legendGifford diesONEYEARAFTERFERGUSON:POLICEARESTILLKILLINGUSPAGE 1BTOMSRIVERBucketBrigadefounderCassandraVitale was able to help hundreds of storm victims, butin the end, she was unable to help herself.Vitale, 29, who died in Florida on July 31 of a heroinoverdose, had started using the drug while she was stilllivinginOceanCounty,accordingtoherfamily.Herbrother, Brick resident J.R. Vitale, said that as her workdistributing supplies and helping clean out homes be-gan to dwindle, his sister faced a void that she filledwith the deadly drug.Its just so available, J.R. Vitale, 36, said of heroin,anditssomuchcheaperthanwhenIwasateen-ager.Much of the heroin being sold today is also laced withfentanyl, an opiate that is 100 times more powerful thanmorphine, according to Al Della Fave, a spokesman forthe Ocean County Prosecutors Office.Icantsayenoughhowimportantitistogetthewordoutonthetragediesheroinaddictionbreeds,Della Fave said. Because of the purity of the productandbecausenow dealersarelacingtheirproduct with fentanyl, its just a matter of time before it killsyou.Bucket Brigade founder Cassandra Vitale, 29,died July 31 in Florida of a heroin overdose.Her group worked to supply food and otherhelp to superstorm Sandy flooding victims. COURTESY OF VITALE FAMILYAid groupsfounder isvictim ofheroin ODJEAN MIKLE @JEANMIKLESee HEROIN, Page 5AA little advice for high school gradspacking for college over the nextmonth: Dont forget to bring ideas alongwith your stuff.Ideas can inspire people to movemountains. With a good one, and somedrive, you can make a difference. Shaye DiPasquale doesnt need thereminder. The 17-year-old from Howellrecently received a national honor from Youth Ser-vice America for her tireless work to empower wom-en.At Freehold Township High School she founded achapter of Girl Up, the United Nations initiative thathelps underprivileged girls around the globe. SinceJanuary, the chapter has collected more than 600donated books for distribution to local womens aidorganizations. Shaye dubbed the drive Books of Hope. She used Book by book,Howell teenagermakes differenceSee CARINO, Page 6AJERRY CARINOCARINO S CORNERTOMS RIVER A new Exit 83 could be coming to thesouthbound Garden State Parkway.But before you get too excited about the prospect,justknowthis:Constructionisstillseveralyearsaway.Itsinwhatwecalltheconceptdevelopmentphase, Ocean County Engineer Frank S. Scarantinosaid. We will end this phase in December. The pro-posalisanOceanCountyproject,withassistancefrom the state Department of Transportation and theNorth Jersey Transportation Planning Authority.If the new exit planis deemed to be beneficial to thetraffic situation in the area, it will move into the de-sign phase, which will likely take about three years.Scarantino said a new exit could help alleviate con-gestionissuesonRoute9andNewHampshireandHooper avenues, where drivers head after leaving theParkway at Exit 89 or Exit 82. There is no exit on thesouthbound highway between 89 and 82, a seven-milestretch that includes some of the fastest-growing sec-New path offthe Parkway?Southbound Exit 83 proposed to untangle traffic in Toms RiverJEAN MIKLE @JEANMIKLERealistically, ...the vast majorityof people are infavor of theproject. Clearlythere are a coupleof skeptics, andclearly there aretwo propertyowners who arenot happy.FRANK S. SCARANTINOOCEAN COUNTY ENGINEER See EXIT, Page 5A@Play, 1C


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