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Hillary Clinton

Shore readies
for Jersey
Shore Sports
Awards June 13

and Gov. Chris

Christie more
charitable than
Donald Trump

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Its been another incredible year for Shore Conference athletics.

Think Mater Dei Preps jaw-dropping comeback
victory over Christian Brothers Academy in the
Shore Conference basketball tournament. Or running back Mike Gawliks standout performance
208 yards rushing, three touchdowns and a 49-yard
touchdown pass leading Jackson Memorial to a
second consecutive state championship victory.
Student athletes across Monmouth and Ocean
counties have shown their dedication both on the
field and off this school year, and their shining
achievements will be commemorated at the inaugural Asbury Park Press Jersey Shore Sports
Awards, a red carpet affair set for June 13 at Monmouth Universitys Multipurpose Activity Center.
APP is proud to embark on this new tradition to
celebrate their successes, and has secured a special guest to join the ceremony: Two-time Super
Bowl MVP and Giants quarterback Eli Manning.
These student athletes have poured their blood,
sweat and tears into achieving excellence in the
classroom and on the field, said Press Executive
Editor Hollis R. Towns, Vice President News, Gannett NJ. Their parents want to recognize that.
Their schools and communities want to recognize
that. And the Asbury Park Press wants to celebrate
it with them.
The formal awards banquet will be held June 13
at Monmouth Universitys Multipurpose Activity
Center (MAC) and will honor more than 350 of the
top student-athletes from all three scholastic seasons. Our Athletes of the Year, Coach of the Year,
Scholastic Achievement and Courage Award winners and more will be announced live at the event,
co-sponsored by Barnabas Health and Pine Belt
Auto.
Athletic directors, coaches, students and their
families around the Shore said the buzz and excitement is growing for the evening, which promises to
be the premier Shore area sports event of the year.
Any type of recognition that you can give to
your local communities and local high schools is a
positive thing, said Ed Sarluca Jr., athletic director at Brick Memorial, where 11 first-team All
Shore athletes have been chosen to be honored for
the fall and winter seasons.
I think these types of good, positive experiences in your scholastic athletic career teach you how
to work hard, how to be committed to something,
how to sacrifice yourself and how to be part of
something that might be a little bit bigger than
you, Sarluca said.

WHAT
THEY GAVE
DONALD TRUMP
Donated $30,000
since 2008, according to the only
public record available.
lThe Donald J.
Trump Foundation: $591,450 in
grants in 2014, the
most recent year
available.
GOV. CHRIS
CHRISTIE and
FIRST LADY MARY
PAT CHRISTIE
Donated more than
$145,000 since
2009.
lHurricane Sandy
New Jersey Relief
Fund: $7.1 million
last year. The charity was created by
Mrs. Christie.
HILLARY CLINTON
Donated $3 million.
lThe Clinton
Foundation: $5.1
million in grants
and more than $34
million in staff
salaries in 2014.
SOURCES: IRS 990S;
GUBERNATORIAL
TAX RELEASES; ASBURY
PARK PRESS DESIGN
STUDIO ILLUSTRATION

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SHORE SPORTS AWARDS

Billionaire presidential candidate Donald Trump

bills himself as an ardent philanthropist, but the
charitable giving by close ally Gov. Chris Christie and
his wifes foundation laps the presumptive Republican
nominees gifts to charity by nearly 12-to-1, an Asbury
Park Press investigation found.
According to their federal income tax returns,
Christie and his wife, Mary Pat, have donated more
than $145,000 to charity since 2009, the year he was
elected. They donated $27,109 in 2014, the last year returns have been made available.
The Sandy recovery fund that Mrs. Christie started

Visit on.app.com/
sportsawardstickets to get your
tickets now before theyre sold out!
When: June 13; doors open at 5
p.m., dinner starts at 6 p.m.
Where: Monmouth University
Multipurpose Activity Center
(MAC)
Tickets: First-team selections and
honorees get two complimentary
tickets; one for themselves and
one for a guest.
For all others, tickets are $50 each.
Attire: Business casual

has handed out more than $37.7 million since it was

founded in late 2012.
By contrast, the Donald J. Trump Foundation the
candidates private, namesake foundation donated
about $3.2 million over the three-year period according to IRS documents, including $591,000 in 2014, the
latest year available.
The candidate himself hasnt donated a single dollar
to the foundation since a $30,000 gift in 2008, which is
well within his rights, Kansas University nonprofit law
professor Bruce Hopkins said.
Theres no obligation right now for Trump to put
See GIVING, Page 5A

What Trump's doing is not good philanthropy. We typically think that philanthropy has to involve your
own money or time. There should be an element of sacrifice. Obviously, there's not a lot of that going on.
LESLIE LENKOWSKY, A PHILANTHROPY PROFESSOR AT INDIANA UNIVERSITY

How do local school districts handle

transgender facilities for students?
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At Ocean Township High School in Monmouth

County, transgender students can use the bathroom of
their choice, but most prefer the private ones in the
nurses office.
A few miles south, the issue is so contentious in the
Toms River Regional School District that parents and

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religious leaders started a petition drive to stop a proposed policy that would have allowed transgender students to choose which bathroom or locker room they
use. The policy has since been put on hold.
Nearly a week after the Justice Department issued
sweeping guidelines saying all transgender students
See SCHOOLS, Page 13A

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