The Transformation Newark News NOV/DEC 2014

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Its All About Love!

Gospelfest Producer Brings "Lovefest" To Newark!

Emmy award winning producer A. Curtis Farrow, Irving Street Rep. and Prudential Center present a roof-raising experience celebrating Christmas through songs of worship and an explosive message of Love from the one and only Bishop T.D. Jakes. Brick City Christmas: It’s All About Love, will be an event to remember. This spiritfilled event will take place on Saturday, December 13, 2014 at Prudential Center (25 Lafayette Street, Newark, NJ).

Beyond the pulpit, Jakes ranks among EBONY’s Power100 and is the winner of several prestigious awards including BET Honors, Stellar Award, NAACP Image Award, Keeper of the Dream Award and McDonald’s 365Black Award for his humanitarian efforts. His worldwide impact is also felt through high profile conference series such as MegaFest which recently drew more than 75,000 participants and an empire that spans film, television, radio, best-selling books, and the T.D. Jakes School of Leadership.

Bishop T. D. Jakes is a charismatic leader, visionary, provocative thinker, and entrepreneur who serves as Bishop Jakes made his presence felt in Hollywood with senior pastor of The Potter’s House, a global humanitarian eight films to date including the recent hit, “Winnie organization and 30,000-member church located in Dallas. Mandela” starring Jennifer Hudson; last year’s top five release, “SPARKLE,” featuring Jordin Sparks and the Named “America’s Best Preacher” by Time Magazine, late Whitney Houston; “On the Seventh Day,” the first Jakes’ voice reverberates from the world’s most sequel in the “Woman Thou Art Loosed” franchise prominent stages. Through his nexus of charitable works, which outperformed the competition on a per screen T.D. Jakes is known for extending a hand of help to the average; and “Jumping the Broom,” an award winning needy, heart of compassion to the hurting, and message of romantic comedy that debuted as the #1 comedy and inspiration to the disenfranchised. grossed nearly seven times its budget in 2011.

Beyond the pulpit, Jakes ranks among EBONY’s After more than 36 years in ministry, Jakes continues to Power100 and is the winner of several prestigious awards be a leading voice of innovation, inspiration, and including BET Honors, Stellar Award, NAACP Image influence in Christendom today.

Award, Keeper of the Dream Award and McDonald’s 365Black Award for his humanitarian efforts.

Get Ready, Get Ready, Get Ready because Bishop T.D.

Jakes is prepared to give a word about Love like you never heard Before!

Sharing the stage with this mighty man of God, who will also be preaching on the topic of Love is Bishop Liston Page Jr. from The Highway Church in Paterson, NJ. The dynamic duo, Pastors Derrick & Darrell Etienne from Latter Glory Church in Paterson, NJ and Pastor Jamal Bryant from Empowerment Temple in Baltimore, MD. No Christmas gathering would be complete without joyous music. The anointed preacher, teacher, worship and praise leader, published author, and psalmist, Bishop George C. Searight from Abundant Life Family Worship Church and his praise team will be blessing the evening with praise and worship. Also, singing wonderful Christmas songs and praises is Newark’s very own two-time Grammy-Award Winner, The Duchess of Gospel, the legendary Cissy Houston. Houston is a soul gospel singer and mother of the late superstar Whitney Houston. She has recorded over 12 albums and is a two time Grammy Award Winner for her albums “Face To Face” and “He Leadeth Me”. She has graced stages around the world, from stadiums to intimate cabaret rooms singing of God’s goodness. She is prepared to take this Brick City Christmas: It’s All About Love to another level.

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LINCOLN TOWERS GOING INTO REHABILITATION

Pastor Rick Greene Editor/Publisher

Lincoln Towers, formerly known as Scudder Homes and Geraldine “GiGi” Foushee Towers, which Mission Visualization: The mission we have for consists of two 11-story buildings, and is home to Newarkers is the same as Nehemiah’s.

(Nehemiah 1:3,10 &17) more than 200 senior citizens and disabled residents will be renovated to modernize the apartments, Team Mobilization: Identify those who will begin eliminate undesirable studio apartments, and add and complete the work in Newark. new laundry facilities, a community room, new (Nehemiah 2:16-17, see 3:1 & 5) elevators, kitchens, and a new façade.

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Enemy Identification: Identify those motivated to The buildings will also gain energy-efficient obstruct Newark’s transformation. appliances, new security cameras, and a key card (Nehemiah 2:10, 4:1-3 & 7-8, 6:1-2) system for building access.

Economic Equalization: Newark’s opportunities playing field must be level.

(Nehemiah 5:1-4, 7) (Nehemiah 5:11).

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The renovation will be accomplished one building at a time, and residents will be moved into a tower not or no longer under renovation or off-site during the construction work, then back to their new or old Word Saturation: The City of Newark must be apartments after the work is done. saturated with the Word of God. (Nehemiah 8:1-3,7) (Nehemiah 8:9-10) Funding for the construction came from a four Holy Day Observation: With believers support, all percent Low-Income Housing Tax Credit from New must see the Lord’s Day reverenced.

Jersey Housing and Mortgage Finance Agency, (Nehemiah 10:31 and 13:15-17) equity and debt supported by PNC National bank, and Project-Based Vouchers from HUD and NHA. Righteous Family Unification: Unified righteous The construction period is expected to be 18 months families will strengthen our city.

(Nehemiah 13:24-27) and the total construction costs are anticipated to be To be a part of the Transformation Newark movement contact $34 million.

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Congratulations!

To Our Mayor Mayor Baraka Named One of 2014’s Most Influential AfricanAmericans

The Readers Corner

The Root held their annual Root to the Top awards dinner and ceremony honoring 100 AfricanAmerican influencers in entertainment, government, sports, and community activism. Mayor Baraka was named 49 on the Root 100 list.

City Partners with Program for Parents and Newark’s Future in Launch of Newark App Mayor Baraka Partnered with Program for Parents and Newark’s Future in Launch of Newark App The AXcess Newark app is a new family resource guide that will help with securing housing assistance, finding childcare and other support services.

The app can be downloaded from iTunes and Google Play. Follow the conversation on social media using: #taptheapp

Brick City Christmas continued Also, several anointed and angelic choirs, groups and soloists will raise their voices to celebrate the birth of Jesus Christ. Singing traditional hymns, holiday classics and modern favorites, there will be something for all ages. Brick City Christmas: It’s All About Love will be fun for the entire family.

Produced and directed by Emmy Award winning Producer, A. Curtis Farrow, Brick City Christmas: It’s All Above Love is the inaugural launch of this Christmas celebration. “We are very excited about this phenomenal event! I am amazed that we have this high caliber level of preachers led by the inspiring Bishop TD Jakes.” said Farrow. “You want to be in the house on December 13th to receive a mighty Word!”

Tickets go on sale Friday, September 19 at 11:00 am. To purchase tickets, call Ticketmaster at 800.745.3000, or at www.ticketmaster.com. Tickets will be available at Prudential Center Box Office starting Monday, September 22 at 11:00 am. For further information, please call the Brick City Christmas Hotline at 973-643Order online at: PastorRickGreene.com 6262.

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HAPPY SIGNS TO INSPIRE CITY! British artist Killy Kilford, and Newark youth will begin the posting of hundreds of street signs to motivate and inspire residents with hope and optimism.

Mr. Kilford’s interest in Newark began arbitrarily, having never set foot in the City, from reading crime stories. He reached out to Mayor Baraka three months before the mayoral election, impressed by the Mayor’s work as a poet, and Mayor Baraka readily agreed to support the program.

The signs, being designed by the artist and Newark youth from Central, Arts, Sojourn, and St. Benedict’s High Schools, will contain inspirational and positive messages, and be posted all across the City, including in City Hall. The signs will have messages like “Less Drugs, More Hugs,” and ‘Follow Dreams, Not Crowds,” and other slogans created by participants, who are coming from Newark schools and youth detention centers. 200 signs are expected to be installed throughout the city this year.

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No Smoking At The Park!

A new municipal ordinance bans smoking within municipal parks and recreation facilities and within 50 feet of a municipal building’s entrance, exit, windows, or ventilators.

The ordinance signed by the mayor also expands the definition of smoking to include hookahs and electronic cigarettes. Smoking is already prohibited in City Hall and other public buildings since the City’s first smoke-free ordinance went into effect in 1991.

The ordinance also includes electronic smoking devices such as e-cigarettes, vape pens and hookah pens, which have becoming increasingly popular in recent years. This year, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found an alarming increase in ecigarette use by youth. In 2009, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration found toxins and carcinogens in tested electronic cigarettes. Since then, many studies have shown health concerns with using and being exposed to electronic vapor smoke, which contains toxins including nicotine.

The ordinance signed by the mayor also expands the definition of smoking to include hookahs and electronic cigarettes.

New Jersey became the first state in 2010 to ban the use of electronic smoking devices inside public places and workplaces. New Jersey also bans the sale and giving of tobacco and electronic smoking devices to persons under age 19.

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NEWARK'S HISTORIAN AT REST MAYOR'S STATEMENT ON Price, distinguished professor at Rutgers University-Newark and longtime resident of Newark, New Jersey, died on Nov. 5, 2014, in New Brunswick, New Jersey.

Price, named Newark city Clement Alexander Price historian earlier this year.

1945-2014 He has been celebrated for decades as a historian, teacher, mentor, husband, friend, citizen, neighbor, collaborator, patron of the arts and humanities, public servant, public intellectual, advisor to leaders at the university and at all levels of government up to and including the White House, and a clear-eyed observer of Newark.

“He empowered and energized everyone he met and touched with his warmth and wisdom, and we were proud to return that warmth and wisdom by appointing him as Newark’s first AfricanAmerican City Historian. Our celebrations of Newark’s 350th Anniversary in 2016 will be a tribute to his love of Newark and his vision of its greatness as our nation’s third-oldest city. He defined the transformation we are making to turn Newark into a City we can all believe in", said Mayor Ras Baraka

EBOLA SCREENING “The City of Newark welcomes the additional measures the Department of Homeland Security is taking to protect the public health of our nation, by adding additional screening measures at Newark Liberty International Airport for travelers from the three West African Ebola-affected countries. We will work with our federal, state, county, and health care partners to ensure that Ebola does not threaten our City. We note that there are presently no direct flights from Ebola-affected countries to Newark, or any airport in the United States.

“We also note that only three Americans have been infected with the Ebola virus during this latest epidemic, and our nation’s health agencies are working diligently to prevent further incidents. We are also aware that many Newark residents have relatives in the affected countries of Liberia, Sierra Leone, and Guinea, and we have these residents and their families in our thoughts and prayers as a caring world unites to address this epidemic.”

THE MODEL NEIGHBORHOOD PLAN The city held a press conference at Police Headquarters, located at 480 Clinton Avenue, to discuss the City of Newark’s Model Neighborhood Plan, a collaborated initiative by multiple city departments and residents to transform neighborhoods into model communities of prosperity.

At the press conference, the Mayor addresed the specific measures the City has taken and is planning to take in the first two identified neighborhoods: Clinton Hill in the South Ward and the Lower West Ward.

Municipal departments, including Police, Fire, Economic Development, Health and Community Wellness, “Our prayers go out to his wife, Mary Sue Sweeney Price, and his and Engineering have devised action plans for both neighborhoods and created task forces to identify and entire family.” address existing quality of life, economic development, health, and public safety issues.

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Specific initiatives will include training programs for re-entering offenders, neighborhood revitalization and blight removal, creating “incubators” for small-business entrepreneurs, more intense police deployments in these neighborhoods, neighborhood beautification, increased health and housing safety inspections.

AFRICAN AMERICAN DEVELOPERS DEVELOPING NEWARK The Mayor the Newark Municipal Council, and Director of Economic and Housing Development Baye Adofo-Wilson joined executives of Lincoln Park Urban Renewal, LLC, to break ground for the Lofts at Lincoln Park, at 90 Clinton Avenue in the City’s East Ward (Not to be confused with the Lincoln Towers project mentioned on page).

The project is being developed by Lincoln Park Urban Renewal, LLC, formally known as The MidAtlantic Investment Alliance, and the managing partners are Victor Baker and Hassan Keith, a pair of African-American developers. Previous developments by the Alliance in Newark include a $2 million redevelopment project in the West Ward, begun in 2008, of affordable and workforce housing. Another was the construction of four town homes in the same ward, a project taken over when the previous developer/contractor’s project was stopped due to faulty construction, and the buildings were abandoned.

The $5.19 million development project is partially funded by a $1.35 million loan from the New Jersey Housing Finance Agency through the Choices in Home Ownership Program. New Jersey Community Capital is the secondary participating lender, with $1.35 million.

The project is a four-story, 24-unit residential building, consisting of two- and three-bedroom condominiums, over ground-level parking. All units will be Energy Star Certified and consist of two full baths, open kitchens, and sustainable hardwood flooring throughout. The building will have bicycle storage within the garage and two community rooms. 11/6/2014

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44th Fire Department Recruit Class

The Mayor, Municipal Council, Fire Director James W. Stewart, and Fire Chief John G. Centanni welcomed the 42 recruits of the Newark Fire Department’s 44th Recruit Class into the Newark Fire Academy on Monday, October 27, at 11 a.m., at St. Lucy’s Church, 118 Seventh Avenue.

The new class includes a married couple, Cesar and Veronica Gray, and a second female, Aida L. Villalongo. The married couple and two females are both firsts in the Newark Fire Department’s history. In addition, the Department will promote four Captains into their ranks at the ceremony. Battalion Chief Raul Malave will serve as Master of Ceremonies.

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Mr. Weatherford gave out 750 smoke detectors to Newark residents during the foot patrol. Mr. Weatherford is nationally recognized for his extensive philanthropic work with his primary outreach focused on children and families. In addition to being the spokesperson of Second Chance Toys, Steve serves as Health and Fitness Ambassador for the Boys and Girls Club of New Jersey, and head coach for Wellness in the Schools. He was moved to donate smoke detectors to the Newark

The signs, being designed by the artist and Newark youth from Central, Arts, Sojourn, and St. Benedict’s High Schools, will contain inspirational and positive messages, and be posted all across the City, including in City Hall. The signs will have messages like “Less Drugs, More Hugs,” and ‘Follow Dreams, Not Crowds,” and other slogans created by participants, who are coming from Newark schools and youth detention centers.

Fire Department after a Father’s Day fire that killed five Newark residents.

The smoke detectors are being given away to promote fire safety in the City of Newark, as residents enter the winter heating season.

If Detectives Get Less: City Saves Mayor Ras J. Baraka and Police Director Eugene Venable announced that the City of Newark is proposing a series of reforms and new policies in the Newark Police Department that will enable the force to save money, increase efficiency, avoid layoffs, and hire 65 new officers in 2015.

The proposed measures include eliminating stipends paid to detectives on top of their overtime payments, shifting workweeks to make weekends part of regular time, and eliminating detective personal car gasoline allowances. The measures planned should save the City more than $2 million annually, which would be applied to hire the 65 new officers.

“The measures that we are recommending are more than cost-cutting steps. We are looking at ways to make our Police Department more efficient, more responsive to our residents’ needs, and perhaps more importantly, to provide our dedicated and hard-working officers with the help they need, by hiring more officers. We are also looking to increase police salaries by two percent,” Mayor Baraka said. “Public Safety is the center of my administration’s efforts to transform Newark into a City we can all believe in, and a more efficient Police Department with more officers will be a gigantic step towards doing so.”

Highlights of the Mayor’s proposal

· Elimination of the Detectives’ Stipend, which will save $600,000 annually. · Elimination of the Detectives’ Monthly 35-Gallon Gasoline Allowance, which will save $450,000 annually. · Elimination of the practice of assigning department vehicles for 24-hour personal use. · Elimination of crediting personnel with automatic “on-call” time and service-based compensatory time.

The Detective’s Stipend is presently being paid to detectives as an annual remittance of a flat overtime allowance for detectives in lieu of overtime. The standard practice of compensating detectives at time and one half of regular pay for all overtime shall continue.

The most important move in the Mayor’s plans is the restructuring of the non-patrol detectives’ The Mayor’s proposals must be approved by the Fraternal Order of workweek into two blocs: A Saturday to Thursday workweek and a Tuesday to Sunday workweek. The Police, as well as unions representing senior officers. move would thus end the current policy, which makes Saturdays and Sundays overtime days for staff police personnel, and increase manpower on weekends. The measure is estimated to save the City as much as $600,000.

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Don’t be afraid to make people wait for excellence. Many leaders burnout and are far less effective because they try to do everything at once. It’s okay to say no. In fact, it’s actually When you are really ready to change or reinvent yourself you might be surprised to know that others have healthy been waiting for you to do it too. Your family, friends, and coworkers are all just waiting for you to stop giving excuses and to step up and be the person whoam they all know you can be.

Invest in a few key leaders. You can’t invest effectively in everyone who’s trying to follow you. Jesus had lots of They all have seen the gifts you have and it hurts them to see you not living up to the potential that God has followers. He had only 12 disciples.. put in you. So that you can be the person who God has called you to be.

"No More Excuses"

CITY TRANSFORMATION EddieMae Livingston Shows Us How!

People can talk until their “blue in the face” but, just like an addict, but until you get sick and tired of NOT being in the place YOU want to be, nothing will change. You will just continue to make excuses for failure.

One person can truly make a difference. and Ms. Livingston has been making a difference for over 50 years!

NOW IS THE TIME TO BE SICK AND TIRED! After graduating in 1942 from Benedict College in North Are you tired of blocking yourself, cheating yourself, and being your own stumbling block, preventing you Carolina through the financial support of cousin Louise Gary, from achieving success in your life? Often that comes from our own thoughts. We become our own worst Livingston a high school valedictorian promised her cousin to enemies because of procrastinating, comparing ourselves to others, lying to ourselves, having self-doubts and pay forward to others, what she could never pay back. having a fear of failure.

Ms. Livingston at 95 years old, still an active supporter of the NAACP, has been giving out scholarships to young college WHAT WILL IT TAKE TO PUSH YOU OVER THE EDGE? students, mostly from Newark, for over five decades.

What will it take for you to wake up? To get up? To go for it?

There are no essays nor an application process, she simply Now is the time to stop making excuses and do what you know is right and what you know you should be selects someone whom she hears about, such as a friend's doing. After all this is your life, and you have to start to live the life you want today. You can’t waste another granddaughter or neighbor and sends them a $25 check once a month along with a note of encouragement for a one or two year moment walking around being unfulfilled, unsatisfied, and underutilized. period, after she has met her own financial obligations.

RIGHT NOW is the time for you to work toward your dreams, reach for your goals, and step into the vision Ms. Livingston doesn't keep track of how much she's given out nor of how many students she's helped, she simply states that, you have seen for yourself. Its been far to long that you’ve had this yearning in your heart, so don’t be afraid, "Someone was nice to me, and I haven't stopped being nice to go for it NO MORE EXCUSES! others."

“I help people who need help,’’ she says. “Our future depends on whether students are educated So I challenge all of our readers to start your own scholarship fund. Find a young college student of your choice and sow into their lives financially as well as encouraging them to reach their potential. This is what I'm going to do. Thank you Ms. Livingston for showing us another way to transform our city.

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WHERE IS YOUR APPRECIATION?

By Min. Curtis D. Mincey When was the last time you told someone that you appreciated them? When is the last time you took the time to let someone know how much you really value them? It may not seem like much to you now, but think about the profound impact you can have in someone's life right now if you were to take advantage of the opportnuity today to tell one person or a group of people how special they are to you; and how much they mean to you.

The Power Of A Woman How to use it to change the world

By: L. Craig Schoonmaker, writer and fotografer The bizarre, extremely noisy and overproduced halfhour news program on channel 9-1 from 10:00-10:30pm that started as Chasing New Jersey, has recently dropped "New Jersey", leaving its title as the absurdly incomplete Chasing. Chasing what? "To chase" is a transitive verb in all but the most casual, slang uses. It requires an object, but this show no longer has an object, in more ways than one. It also no longer has me as a viewer. You drop New Jersey, I drop you.

Mind you, the program continued to focus on New Jersey, and its Twitter and Facebook mentions continued to include "New Jersey" or "NJ". That is not good enough for me. There was absolutely no defensible reason to drop "New Jersey" from the program's title. That constituted eminent reason for me, however, to drop that program from my routine. The program had in any case become almost unbearably annoying in filling something like 40% of its time with pointless, loud music that had absolutely no relationship to the subject being discussed, and that sometimes nearly drowned out the oral reports. It also kept wandering over to New York City, as tho NY needed more attention. I did not care to see, on Chasing New Jersey, segments about Brooklyn, the Bronx, Manhattan, or any other part of New York. NY gets lots of coverage from the other broadcast channels in this area. It doesn't need to steal attention away from New Jersey. And channel 9 is supposed to focus on New JERSEY, according to a mandate from the FCC. If channel 9 will not live up to its LEGAL OBLIGATION to devote much of its time to New Jersey, it's time for the FCC to revoke channel 9's broadcast license, and reassign it to some truly New Jersey-based entity. '

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What most woman do not realize is that they have such a great influence upon the men in society that they can literally change the entire world! Interestingly enough is that they have always had this power since the beginning of time. Eve It doesn't have to be a big presentation (not that there is anything wrong with a big presentation). It can be a simple phone call, an email or a greeting card. But something from the heart that let's a person know that you have really noticed what they have done.

in the garden of Eden, created in perfection for Adam caused him to abandon the trust of the only one he had ever known, just to follow her.

His desire to please her, his desire for unity with her, and his ultimate love for her caused him to forsake his own

Now you may wonder why this is so important. Well, I believe it is a good thing to let someone know how much you really appreciate them while they're still alive. It's a good thing to see the smile on their face or the tears of joy streaming down their cheek as you acknowledge them publicly and proudly. Let someone know they're doing a good job. Tell your wife or husband how much they mean to you. Tell your children's teachers how much you value them and the lessons they teach your children. Hug your children, hug your parents and let the people in your life know, I love and value you.

So take advantage of this day to acknowledge the people that have helped you, provided for you, fought for you, raised you, or impacted your life in any significant and positive way. Let them know you love them. Give them their flowers while they can smell them. Enjoy their presence while the grass is still under their feet and they are still above ground.

One small gesture from you can impact, influence, inspire and encourage someone in a profound way.

But most of all. Let the Lord know that you love and appreciate all that He's done and. Praise him, give him thanks and worship him in spirit and truth; and know that God has blessed you, so you need to go out and bless somebody else.

reasoning, just to please her. THAT'S POWER! While it is certainly true that men run the world, a wise woman through her charm, wit, insight, and beauty, can actually rule most of the men in her world. She must be willing to try to to see things from his male perspective, learn what motivates him, and act from a position of strength as his loving woman. And then and only then will she be able to influence him to do things her way.

CAUTION: Women if you attempt to use this power to influence your man simply for your own selfish motives he will eventually find out, resent you, leave you, and he may even become violent!

The purpose for sharing this information is to help you to build up the man in your life, to strengthen your marriage, and to help your family to reach a place of love and happiness.

As I have always told my daughters, "Use your powers for good, and not evil."

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