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Jon Bon Jovi rocksRed Bankto benefit
healthcenter
GIVINGBROUGHT HOME
Jon Bon Jovi fired things up at the Count Basie Theatre in Red
Bank Wednesday night, once again showing his support for
the folks back home. Lets turn up the heat! said the rocker
from the stage to the sold-out audience. Bon Jovi, lead singer
of the band Bon Jovi, normally plays stadiums around the
world, but here it was a solo fundraising hometown show he lives in
neighboring Middletown for the Parker Family Health Center of
Red Bank. There are a lot of people who live in our area who have no
health care, and they need our help, he told the crowd. The Jersey
Shore-based Kings of Suburbia were his backing band, and the evening
feature a mixture of soul shakers (Aint Nothin But a House Party),
ROBERT WARD/STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER
Bon Jovi performs with the Kings of Suburbia Wednesday at the Count Basie Theatre in Red Bank.
There are a
lot of people
who live in our
area who have
no health care,
and they need
our help.
JON BON JOVI
By Chris Jordan @ChrisFHJordan
SeeBON JOVI, Page A7
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BELMAR Pension reform is going to involve break-ing promises, including reducing benefits that publicemployees were counting on for their retirement, Gov.Chris Christie acknowledged during a town hall eventin Belmar Wednesday.
It was an exchange with Jean Toher, a technologyteacher at Shark River Hills Elementary School in Nep-tune, that drew the governor into the heart of the pen-sion debate that he has reignited in recent weeks.
When I started working, I started at a salary of$12,800, said Toher, who has been paying into the pen-sion system since 1980. Part of the reason a lot of usaccepted those low salaries all those years is becausewe had a benefit and we negotiated that benefit all thoseyears.
Christie, earlier invoked the D-word (Detroit) todemonstrate how dire the situation is, saying that hedoubted taxes could raise enough revenue to cover the
Gov: Pensionpromisescant be keptIn Belmar, Christie points tobenefit cuts, not raised taxes
By Russ Zimmer @russzimmer
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Gov. Chris Christie arrives for a town hall meeting in BelmarWednesday.
SeePENSION, Page A6
TRENTON A Jackson resident who was a director ofthe Eastern Region of Pop Warner Little Scholars Inc.was sentenced Wednesday to more than two years inprison and ordered to make $560,000 restitution forwhat U.S. District Judge Joel A. Pisano called serialembezzlement from the nonprofit organization thatruns youth football, cheer and dance programs.
David Marshall, an out-of-work 58-year-old formerVerizon employee, also was ordered to undergo three
Two-year prison termfor Pop Warner thief
Jackson man also orderedto pay $560,000 restitution
By Bob Jordan @BobJordanAPP
SeeTHIEF, Page A6