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Secaucus senior guard Jamling Lama proudly displays the basketball he received for becoming the school’s all-time leading boys’ basketball scorer with 1,300 points
Although Secaucus High School senior
Jamling Lama is an accomplished soccer player and an excellent baseball player, his sport of choice has always been basketball.
“I guess I started playing when I was about four or five,” Lama said of basketball. “I have two older brothers [
Sonam, now 32, and
Pema, now 26] and they were the ones to teach me the game. I rebounded the ball for them when they shot and they did it for me also. They grew up in Hoboken and I would go and watch them play in the school yards. They would take me out with them some times to play.”
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BOLA BAMIGBOLA
Tell us about your childhood and growing up days.
I was born on March 5, 1938 to the Omodeleola dynasty in Modakeke, Osun State and I grew up in the same environment. Because of my family’s situation and other circumstances, I did not start school until I was 10 in 1948. I left primary school in 1954.
Because I was a very brilliant student, our headmaster at St. Stephen’s School, Modakeke, employed me and some other classmates to teach in that same school and I was there till 1956 before I went for my Teachers Grade 3 Course at St. Peter’s College, Ilesha from 1957 to 1958. After the Grade 3 Teachers Course, I went back to St. Stephen’s School, Modakeke to teach. The system then was that after Grade 3, you had to teach for two years before you could advance to Grade 2. After teaching for two years at St. Stephen’s School, Modakeke, I sought admission to St. Luke’s College, Ibadan and I studied for another two years there. Wh
Flags will be flown at half-staff for the next week starting Friday across Ocean County government buildings in memory of former Ocean County Prosecutor and Toms River Mayor Tom Kelaher, who passed away this past Sunday at the age of 88.
Kelaher dedicated his life to serving others, whether it be with the U.S. Military, Ocean County Prosecutors Office, as Toms River Mayor, as a parishioner at St. Joseph s Roman Catholic Church and as a husband, father and grandfather.
He truly had a heart of gold and an infectious smile.
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As the Toms River and Ocean County communities continue to mourn his passing and celebrate his life and all the gifts he gave, the Ocean County Board of Commissioners has announced that flags will be flown at half-staff in his honor.
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