Ocean City Honors CERT Volunteers

Members of the Ocean City-Upper Township Community Emergency Response Team (CERT) were recognized for their volunteerism at Thursday night's City Council meeting in Ocean City. City Council in Ocean City took time out before its regular public meeting on Thursday (July 23) to thank members of its Community Emergency Response Team (CERT). Ocean City's team has more than 100 volunteers who are trained to assist the community in hurricanes, floods, blizzards and other events that require emergency response. "It's an honor to be able to thank them for their volunteerism," Ocean City Emergency Management Coordinator Frank Donato said. A new class — the first to combine volunteers from Ocean City and Upper Township — recently completed a 12-week class. Their names are listed below. Because the two municipalities work closely together in disaster response — with Upper Township hosting evacuation shelters during Superstorm Sandy and Tropical Storm Irene, for instance — the teams will now train together. "If it weren't for the Ocean City and Upper Township people, our shelter plan would have been null and void," Cape May County Emergency Management Coordinator Martin L. Pagliughi said. He said the county had no shelter plan at all when he first took on the duties a few years ago. Donato works with depuUty coordinators James Smith and Brian Hopely in Ocean City and Upper Township Emergency Management Coordinator Scott Morgan.

	Year	First	Last	City
1	2015	Tracie	Balk	Ocean City
2	2015	Cody	Collins	Ocean City
3	2015	Gayle	Davidson	Ocean City
4	2015	Marie	DeGaetano	Ocean City
5	2015	Joseph	Heenan	Ocean City
6	2015	Katherine	Hilinski	Ocean City
7	2015	Amanda	Kille	Ocean City
8	2015	Joseph	Lehman	Ocean City
9	2015	Elizabeth	Lehman	Ocean City
10	2015	Frederic	Little	Ocean City
11	2015	Shamus	McManus	Ocean City
12	2015	Jim	Petko	Ocean City
13	2015	Gaile	Rockey	Ocean City
14	2015	Walter "Bud"	Rockey Ill	Ocean City
15	2015	John	Szczepaniak	Ocean City
16	2015	Denise	Szymanski	Ocean City
17	2015	Bill	Vinal	Ocean City
1	2015	Mike	Capito	Marmara
2	2015	Ralph	Cooper	Ocean View
3	2015	Elisabeth	Corona	Marmora
4	2015	Ray	Klotz	Petersburg
5	2015	Frank	Roach	Ocean View
6	2015	Lee	Rominiecki	Ocean View