Keenan Loses State Seat Bid: Help Animals During The Holidays
Keenan Loses State Seat Bid: Help Animals During The Holidays
Keenan Loses State Seat Bid: Help Animals During The Holidays
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BELLMAWR, NJ
PERMIT NO. 1239
Its that time of the year. Its
time for the eighth annual Sun
newspapers Deck the Paws and
Help a Collie holiday drive to aid
area animal shelters and rescue
groups.
And, again this year, we need
your help. More specifically, the
animals in the shelters need your
help.
This year, the drive will run
from the week of Nov. 28 through
Dec. 16.
As mentioned, we started this
effort way back in 2004. That year,
we had only a few drop spots, and
we collected a couple of carloads
of supplies.
All of that has changed. In re-
cent years, we have had 20-30
drop spots and have been able to
deliver about 25-30 carloads of
supplies to the shelters every hol-
iday season.
The animals in these shelters
are in a tough spot. Our goal al-
ways has been to lighten the bur-
den shelters and rescue groups
have to keep the animals fed and
comfortable. When the shelters
receive basics, such as food, blan-
kets and litter, they save money.
Thats money that can go toward
helping to find animals a perma-
nent home.
Want to help? Heres how it all
works:
Right now, we need to build a
list of drop spots. We need places
where people can go to drop off
food, cat litter, cleaning supplies
and everything else our local ani-
mal shelters need. If you dont
mind people showing up at your
door and dropping 40-pound bags
of dog food on your floor, we need
to hear from you.
In a couple of weeks, we will
publish a list of drop spots in our
newspapers and online. People
then will read the list, gather sup-
plies and take them to a drop
spot.
After that, the supplies are
picked up and taken to a shelter.
It all starts with the drop spots.
The more spots we have, the
more supplies we collect. More
drop spots mean a brighter holi-
day season for shelter animals.
If you want to be a drop spot,
or if you have questions, please
send an email to
alan@elauwit.com. Please put An-
imal Shelter Drive in the subject
line.
Help animals during the holidays
By SEAN PATRICK MURPHY
The Mt. Laurel Sun
For Mount Laurel Mayor Jim
Keenan, now is a time for reflec-
tion.
Keenan, a Republican, was un-
successful in his bid for state As-
sembly.
Democrat Herb Conaway of
Delanco has kept his seat in the
assembly.
He is joined by Palmyras
Troy Singleton, also a Democrat.
By all accounts, it was a close
race in the 7th Legislative Dis-
trict.
Unofficial tallies show
Conaway on top with 22,558
votes, Singleton with 22,008,
Keenan with 20,608, and Republi-
can Chris Halgas with 20,338.
Incumbent-Republican Sen.
Diane Allen won in the district
over Democrat Gail Cook of Bev-
erly.
Allen received 25,166 votes
while Cook garnered 19,279.
Keenan said his efforts
werent wasted.
I dont consider working
hard a failure, Keenan said. I
devoted a lot of time to knock on
as many doors as possible to in-
troduce myself and to let people
know that I was running to
make things better for everyone
in the district and the state.
I feel that the people who met
me knew that I was running for
them, he added. Mount Laurel
needed more people to show up
to the polls and vote than what
we saw.
Keenan said he believes most
residents of the township are
happy and didnt see the need to
vote because they dont under-
stand that municipalities such
as Mount Laurel are not being
funded properly by career politi-
cians in Trenton.
I am a 51-year-old business-
man who has devoted and sacri-
ficed many hours for the last
four years to keeping Mount
Laurel afloat during a terrible
economic time, while I run my
own business and support my
family, he said. I feel that the
career Democrat politicians,
who rely on the public dole for
their income, did exactly what
their playbook called for by de-
liberately distorting the truth
about my service to Mount Lau-
rel and behaved in a very imma-
ture manner by distorting pho-
tos of me to make me look like a
sinister politician.
This way I was more like
them and people would say that
please see ELECTION, page 2
Keenan
loses state
seat bid
Mayor falls about 2,000
votes short in bid to join
the state Assembly
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