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Lakewood growth riles neighboring towns

CULTURE

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SHOCK

Bourna Moise, 11, sings with other Hope Academy

Charter School students in Asbury Park. The Asbury Park
Music in Film Festival benefits the school.

Film, music
fest benefits
kids at citys
Hope Academy
CHRIS JORDAN @CHRISFHJORDAN

Where there is Hope,

there is music.
The sixth-grade kids
are ready to perform
Adeles Hello in the music room of the Hope
Academy Charter School
in Asbury Park. The
chorus is on one side of
the room, the drummers
are on another, and the
keyboard players are
squeezed in the middle of
the cozy quarters.
While the sounds
starts out a bit cacophonic, theres no denying the
harmony in the room. In time, the song takes a
sharper form, thanks to the pronounced rhythm of
the mid-tempo song.
This is Adele with a beat.
I like keeping the band on point, said drummer
Exiever Chathuant, 12, of Asbury Park after the rehearsal.
Exiever is one of the music programs standouts.
I didnt know he was that good of a drummer,
said music teacher and Battery Electric band
member Brent Ovar Bergholm of Asbury Park.
One day he was banging on it and it sounded like a
drum line. When I heard it, I was, well, I have to get
him involved in the drums.
Exievers on board.
It gets me motivated to have my day be better
and to do the best in what I do, said Exiever as he
shakes hands with his classmates as they exit the
music room.
The classes, overseen by the citys Lakehouse

DOUG HOOD/STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER

Signs outside of homes along Vermont Avenue in Toms River. Visit APP.com for an interactive map of local sales and a video.

SHANNON MULLEN @MULLENAPP

AND JEAN MIKLE @JEANMIKLE

STAFF PHOTO/SHANNON MULLEN

Correnna and James Hayes have watched as their longtime

neighbors on Galassi Court in Jackson have sold their homes.

See MUSIC, Page 4A

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The Morins left first. Then Mrs. Werbler, the Hernandezes, Keith and Holly Deschenes, and the Menzorovs.
Soon, the trickle of goodbyes on Galassi Court in
Jackson became a flood. In a years time, 11 of the culde-sacs 20 four-bedroom, center hall colonials, set on
tidy one-acre lots, changed hands. Six of the homes
have since been turned into rental properties, records
show. The buyers were families or real estate investors with ties to Lakewoods Orthodox Jewish community.
Longtime Galassi Court resident James Hayes, 60, a
husky retired juvenile corrections officer, tears up
when he recounts the day his friend and next door
neighbor packed up and left, too.
It just hit me in my spirit, like ... everybodys
gone, he said.
Its the nature of neighborhoods to turn over, in
time. But the abruptness of Galassi Courts transformation and the insular, ultra-conservative lifestyles
of their new Orthodox neighbors have left Hayes
See HOMES, Page 5A