City Soap Box Derby Brings Families Together

by Maxwell Barna  at 09:01PM  on Monday, June 13 2011
 
 
...The local race, now in its eleventh year, is the only officially-sanctioned race in the state that sends its winners to Akron, Ohio for the world championship derby, according to city Superintendent of Recreation Michael Blackwell.

The derby, sponsored by the city Dept. of Recreation, Johnson & Johnson and Turtle and Hughes Inc., an electric supply distributor, started on Johnson Street near J&J World Headquarters and ended at the crosswalk at the corner of George and Hamilton streets.

...Two football teams, the New Jersey Lions and the New Jersey Vikings, helped clear the cars off the track at the finish line and transported them back to the pit lanes.

“This is our first year involved in this and hopefully we’ll be here for years to come so long as they’re having it,” said Lions Co-Owner Paul Castillo. “We joined forces with the Hub City center and they asked us if we’d be willing to come down with some coaches and players to help out, and that’s what we’ve done.”

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