Freeholders Award $664,750 in Grants for Open Space Recreation and Historic Preservation in Camden County
For Immediate Release: July 9, 2009
Contacts: KEN SHUTTLEWORTH (609) 472-8837

Camden County Freeholders are funding a variety of Open Space and Preservation projects ranging from installation of a lighted gazebo in Hi-Nella’s Schilling Memorial Park to upgrading the USS New Jersey, the nation’s most decorated battleship.

“A total of 23 projects will benefit from this $664,750 investment from the Camden County Open Space, Recreation, Farmland and Historical Preservation Trust Fund,” said Freeholder Jeffrey L. Nash, liaison to the county’s Open Space Preservation Trust Fund Advisory Committee, following unanimous approval by governing body at its June 18 monthly meeting.

Stratford - $50,000 to preserve the Quaker Store on the White Horse Pike, the last remaining structure of the original village of White Horse and a site that hosted commercial establishments from the 1740s to the 1980s. Nash said the money will be used, among other things, to restore the second floor kitchen and bathroom, refinish floors, repair and restore windows, upgrade electric service to the second floor and the attic and install a chair lift for the disabled and repair stair treads to the second floor.

Quaker Store Photo

Camden - $25,000 to renovate a restroom and provide a handicapped accessible restroom on the main deck of the storied USS New Jersey. Also, $50,000 each to restore the Rose Window at the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception on Broadway, at Market Street, in Camden, and for replacement of the roof on the rectory and for restoration of stained glass windows in the 19th Century Gothic Church buildings that now house the Camden Shipyard and Maritime Museum on Broadway in South Camden.

In addition to the Hi-Nella gazebo project, Nash said the trust fund advisory committee awarded grants to the following projects:

Barrington - The Deer Field Recreation Complex, $25,000, to help construct a playground, amphitheater, bleachers and benches.

Bellmawr - $25,000 for Betty Shepherd Park for creation of a passive park.

Berlin Township. The Luke Avenue Recreation Complex, $25,000, to help fund a terraced amphitheater; and $25,000 for the Robert T. Clyde Memorial Park to improve the hockey court.

Brooklawn - $25,000 for the Pershing Road Recreation Area to rubberize the playground surface.

Cherry Hill - $25,000 to help fund replacement of dilapidated fencing at the National Little League field on Cooper Landing Road.

Chesilhurst - $25,000 for the Leanna Harris Park to construct a walking path with workout stations.

Haddonfield - $25,000 for irrigation and soccer field renovations at Crows Field.

Lawnside - $25,000 for new playground equipment at Lawnside Recreation Park on Charleston Avenue.

Magnolia - $25,000 to Magnolia Community and Senior Center to help reconfigure and light athletic fields.

Merchantville - $19,750 to rehabilitate the playground and repair fencing.

Mount Ephraim - $25,000 for fencing and play equipment at the Kershaw School on the Black Horse Pike.

Oaklyn - $25,000 to resurface the hockey court at Lion’s Park, behind the Oaklyn Middle School, and $25,000 for rehabilitation of Tracy Connors Park.

Pennsauken - $25,000 for construction of a new playground on Westfield Avenue.

Runnemede - $25,000 to help finance soccer field improvements at Beaver Branch Park.

Stratford - $25,000 for outdoor exercise equipment at Saratoga Park.

Voorhees - $25,000 to help finance playground construction at John Hale Park.

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