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Vol. 263, No. 87

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Megan’s Walk Sunday at CRHS

Staff Photo by Cindy Hepner

Megan’s Walk is being coordinated by the Cumberland Regional High School peer mediators. The walk is scheduled for Sunday May 15,2011 at the school. Pictured are from left: Kurt Strittmatter, Mary Kate Maloney, Jake Paul, Kelsey Bayzick and Josh Peterson.

“She’s the type of person who tries to help everyone else. Megan’s the one who would go do anything for anyone, and a lot of people feel a responsibility to help her after everything she’s done for everyone else.”

— Kelsey Bayzick, senior in the CRHS peer mediation program

Megan Daddario, 19, battling lymphoma

Women’s health centers closing

Millvillemural

A 55-foot mural recogniz-ing World War II aviation history of the Millville Army Air Base, “America’s First Defense Airport,” was unveiled Thursday at Millville Airport.Mural artist Samuel Dono-van of Woodstown, who created the commemorative “Wall of Remembrance” mural on Millville City Hall in 1997, designed this mural at Millville Airport to recognize the significance of the P-47 Thunderbolt Fighter Bomber aircraft and the WWII pilots who flew them extensively in air battles in the Euro-pean and Pacific theaters during the War.

—Staff Photo byCathy Cramer

By Jason Ladayjladay@sjnewsco.com

BRIDGETON — South Jersey Healthcare will be vacating their women’s health centers on Manheim Ave-nue, in Bridgeton, and at the former Newcomb Medical Office building, in Vineland, sometime this summer, according to officials.

The move is part of SJH’s initiative dating back to 2006 to transfer its women’s health services, chiefly

pre-natal care, to the non-profit CompleteCare Health Network, formerly Community Healthcare Inc.

According to Dr. Michele Torchia, CompleteCare medi-cal director and vice president of medical affairs, the 170 regular women’s health patients at the Medical Arts building on Manheim Avenue, and the 130 patients from the Sidney L. Brody center, on Chestnut Avenue in Vine-land, will be absorbed into one of the four Cumberland County facilities administered by CompleteCare.

However, it remains unclear how the soon-to-be-closed

centers’ 27 employees will be affected by the shuffle.“We’re going to be assuming responsibility for the

patients from the two women’s health centers,” said Tor-chia, adding CompleteCare currently serves 500 patients at its four Cumberland County sites.

“South Jersey Healthcare at their sites only provided prenatal care for women, and we’ll be moving them to our services, though we will maintain a small residence clinic, very small, at the Manheim Avenue location.”

(See WOMEN’S, Page A-5)

By Lauren T. Taniguchiltaniguchi@sjnewsco.com

UPPER DEERFIELD TWP. — Cumberland Regional High School (CRHS) students invite the community to sup-port CRHS alumna Megan Daddario by joining them at Megan’s Walk on Sun-day.

Beginning at 11 a.m., participants will walk the CRHS cross-country track, around the school’s grassy grounds, to raise funds for Daddario, who is currently battling lymphoma.

As a patient of The Chil-dren’s Hospital of Philadel-phia, Daddario has been updating her many sup-porters via a CarePage website, where she pro-vides daily updates with an upbeat tone despite her struggles.

Nineteen years ago Thursday, she was born with Complex Congenital Heart Disease, but after three open-heart surgeries, Daddario was doing well dealing with her initial set-back.

“Things went great and

(See WALK, Page A-5)

From staff reports

MILLVILLE — Boe-ing received a $23.7 mil-lion contract on May 9 to perform Initial Production Fielding Support modi-fications on 49 CH-47F Chinook helicopters at the Boeing Millville Modifica-tion Center.

The contract period extends the current work of modifying Chinook air-craft at the Boeing Millville facility for another year, from May 2011 through April 2012.

“This important pro-gram for our U.S. Army customer is a result of the quality work our employ-ees do every day,” said Peri Widener, Boeing director of Rotorcraft Support.

“Their responsiveness to schedule needs has helped Boeing to provide an afford-able, service-focused offer for our customer.”

After the Chinooks are delivered from the produc-tion line in Philadelphia to the Army, they are flown to Millville, where Boeing structural and electrical employees make special-ized avionics and airframe modifications to support new Army requirements.

In February 2010, Boeing

MillvilleBoeinggets$23.7Mcontract

(See BOEING, Page A-5)