To be celebrated while living is a good thing, especially when an impressive life story is praised at age 100. Civic leader Ed Toriello recently experienced that.

Stafford Township honored him with a proclamation for service in World War II and community service at home, and the Kiwanis Club of LBI thanked the former club president for key work on a fundraiser that earned $100,000 for Southern Ocean Medical Center (then Southern Ocean County Hospital).