Prosecutor Backs Mentoring Group

PRESS RELEASE
July 6, 2011
For Immediate Release
Contact: Bernie Weisenfeld- PIO

Gloucester County Prosecutor Sean F. Dalton on Tuesday (7/5) presented a check for $500 to members of the four-year-old Concerned Black Men of Gloucester County to support a summer mentoring program for teenage boys from the City of Woodbury.

“You’re filling a void,” Dalton told Robert Green, of Wenonah, Tracy McMillan of Westville and Julius Farmer of Woodbury, who have planned a summer of academic and life skills mentoring and field trips to museums, ball games and to the Gloucester County Prosecutor’s Office. The group hopes to attract up to 25 boys between the ages of 10 and 16.

“The fact that you’re taking them on these trips and so forth is just great, in addition to being good role models,” said Dalton, who drew the donation from seized drug investigation funds.

Green, a Mobil retiree, said the group began with ten men in 2007 and now numbers five. “We were all retired men and not everyone was enthusiastic enough to hang with it,” he said. He has, an undiscouraged Green said. “I have a large family. I’m from a large family. We worked in the Sunday schools. Kids have been part of my life all of my life. That’s what God left me here for, to mentor kids.”

Anyone interested in supporting the group can contact Green at (856) 415-1789 or write him at199 Linden St., Wenonah 08090 or P.O. box 372, Woodbury 08096.