Mt. Ephraim Commissioners Want Feds To Rebuild Post Office
By Linda Boker-Angelo
NEWS Correspondent
Mount Ephraim residents will make another appeal for a new Borough post office later this month when a special meeting will be held with Postal Service officials.
Mayor Michael Reader last week asked that all residents attend the meeting, which will be held at 6 p.m. on October 23 in Mepri Hall.
Reader and his fellow commissioners have been trudging through red tape for the past few months attempting to convince postal officials to give the go-ahead to rebuild the Kings Highway post office, which collapsed last year during a winter ice storm.
Borough residents have been told to use the Audubon Post Office, located in the in the newly refurbished shopping center on Black Horse Pike.
Reader said many residents have complained about the service in Audubon, citing unfriendly clerks and lost and delayed mail as reasons for their discontent. He added that many of the Borough’s senior citizens, who must walk to their intended destinations, now have difficulty even getting to the post office to mail their letters.
The mayor said that letters would be going out to each Borough household, encouraging residents to come out to the meeting.
Commissioner Anthony Chambers reported that there has been a considerable amount of vandalism taking place at both Shining Star and Norcross parks.
He said that Public Works employees are spending hours each day repairing play equipment and cleaning graffiti. Chambers said that the Borough is spending about $300 per month in graffiti remover, despite increased police patrols.
“The parents have to control their kids,” he said. “Please discuss it with your kids, to be more respectful of Borough property.”
Chambers said that kids caught in the parks past hours will be given one warning. If they persist in loitering, they will then be taken into custody and their parents will be called.
In other business, Gary Gavin was appointed to serve as an alternate member of the Planning Board.
The commissioners will meet again at 8 p.m. on Thursday, November 2 in the Borough Hall, 131 South Black Horse Pike.
