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Morristown Teen’s New Children’s Book Aims to Increase Alzheimer’s Awareness

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By Alexander Rivero t has never been too late to start fighting a good fight.

Valencia Julien reminds us that it is never too early either. The 17-year-old Morristown High School junior, aside from being a volunteer at the Alzheimer’s Association of Greater New Jersey (AAGNJ), has just published a children’s book, Giselle Learns About Alzheimers, which attempts to discuss with young children the disease that plagued her own grandfather at the time she was a young child herself. Seeing her grandfather go through the known effects of the disease profoundly moved Julien at the time in ways she was then unable to capture or express. As all powerful experiences from childhood, this one stayed deep within her, fueling her to immortalize her grandfather by educating as many children (and adults) as possible about what it is like to witness first-hand a loved one go through the disease.

The idea for the book itself came during her high school freshman year, when she was challenged with completing her Northern New Jersey Girl Scout Gold Award Leadership Project, the top award in a girl scout’s entire time spent within the organization. The project a girl intends on submitting in order to earn her Gold Award needs to be completed by the end of her high school years. Having already earned her Bronze Award (at the end of elementary school) and her Silver Award (by the end of middle school), Julien saw a precious chance to do something special. By writing a children’s book on Alzheimer’s, she could earn the top award of the organization, she could do something in memory of her beloved grandfather, and—most importantly to her—she could help future generations understand this mysterious illness in a way that was fun, creative, and accessible to all.

“My main concern was to help children around the age

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Teen’s New Children’s Book... continued from front page gins the grueling schedule of seeing the project come to fruition, campaigns that usually require north of eighty hours to complete, all while juggling course loads, extra-curriculars, preparations for college applications, and of course a social life.

“It’s definitely not easy”, says Julien.

“Some girls complete it within one school year, but it’s so hard to balance it all.”

Candidates get creative, too. “Some girls hold large drives. One girl built bookshelves so that kids were able to take books as long as they put one back.”

Julien happily recounts her first live reading of the book, which she completed for the Roxbury Memory and Book Café, run by the Roxbury Public Library, in front of a live crowd, many members of which were going through Alzheimer’s themselves. She received praise and plenty of questions on the book, as well as open requests from people to volunteer to help set up future readings.

Overall reception of the book has been better than she expected, and she remains active in promoting it. Recently, she donat-

ed whatever copies she had remaining to a local neighborhood community house for children which runs day care, after-school, and recreation league sports programs for kids.

As for the putting together and writing of the book itself, Julien explains that the toughest part of all was sticking to the daily routine of writing it, designing it, working with illustrator Sule Buse Basar—all while juggling her other workloads. Also difficult was the need to find good volunteers to help her with the audio book format on YouTube, the translations of the book into Spanish, Arabic, and Turkish (with Mandarin, French, Italian, Creole, and Portuguese translations to come), and finding someone trustworthy and dependable for help in social media promotion. In each of these supplementary roles, Julien says, the challenge was to find people that were able to share in her vision of the project, and she is confident that each of her selections—including Morristown High classmate and friend Kate Goldberg for social media manager—fit the bill.

The character of Giselle herself is based

off an actual girl Julien babysat over the summer of 2021. “Making the character of the book in her likeness was one of my favorite parts of the whole project, and she really got a kick out of it,” she says.

Goals for the future include playing field hockey at the collegiate level, going to college somewhere in the northeast

and studying criminology or forensic science, and turning Giselle Learns About Alzheimer’s into a series of children’s books, each of which has Giselle learning about something new—and worth learning about.

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Rebekah Alstede of Alstede Farms Continues to Grow in the Agriculture Realm en her education, but instead opted to add a second degree, Sustainable Agriculture, to expand her knowledge to where she desired. “Our farm has so many different aspects that I wanted my education to be able to encompass all of those,” she explains.

Alstede, who has been a member of the DelVal Collegiate Farm Bureau since she arrived on campus, now serves as its President, and is also head of the school’s agricultural marketing team. Last spring, she represented the bureau and won the Pennsylvania Farm Bureau’s Collegiate Discussion meet, and then took part in the national level collegiate discussion of the American Farm Bureau’s FUSION reimagined conference, ending up in the final four nationally. “It was an amazing opportunity and really expanded my knowledge on agriculture and the industry that surrounds it. Our questions spanned from talking about international trade, to the community impact of agriculture, the lack of incontinued on page 9

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Rebekah Alstede... continued from page 8 frastructure for agriculture - specifically broadband access - and then we did also touch upon mental illnesses,” Alstede says.

“And something major that we kept talking about, and kept repeating over and over again, was adopting new technologies and new techniques within the industry. Regardless of what the question prompt was, it kept going back to learning how to utilize these new virtual platforms that have been developed because of COVID, and learning how to really be accepting to the change that’s coming to the agricultural industry as a whole, and then also on the farm level.”

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Nolan Kasper Reflects on His Career as a United States Olympic Skier

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By Steve Sears or former United States Olympic Slalom skier, Nolan Kasper, the memories are fond ones.

“There’s always some really good memories around the Olympics,” Kasper says, looking back to his participation in the 2010 (Vancouver, Canada), 2014 (Sochi, Russia), and 2018 (Pyeongchang, South Korea) games. “There’s always sort of that nostalgia. Obviously, this is the first Winter Olympics I haven’t been in in the past decade, but I’m taking on new challenges, and I’m excited with what’s ahead.”

Then, there are the injuries. “And, with the way that my body feels, I think I’m happy not being there,” Kasper says with a laugh.

Kasper, who still competes in an occasional duo slalom event in the World Pro Ski Tour, retired from skiing in 2018. He explains. “I’d gone a six-year span where I’d had seven surgeries - two on my hips, five on one of my knees.” But he worked his way back in 2017 and 2018. “I had finished that season after missing almost three years with an injury, and I was able to come back and I worked really hard, was able to execute what I needed to. I went from not racing for almost three years to qualifying for the Olympics, and even though I didn’t get all of my goals that

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year, I felt like I did what nobody expected to happen.”

Kasper, 32, who was born in Morristown but grew up in Vernon from 1989 until 2000, had two older brothers who were close in age that were on skis prior to him, and his dad was a ski instructor. “It was something we always did,” he recalls, “and they had

Nolan Kasper skiing at Beaver Creek, Colorado. Photo credit Eric Schramm/U.S. Ski & Snowboard.

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experiences, being in that stadium in front of 80,000 people. That’s when you really felt like you were truly representing the country, walking out with the rest of the USA team.”

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Kevin’s dynamic approach brings passion and commitment. He is a true representative of District 7 and an outspoken advocate for the people.

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Kevin resonates with every community member. He believes that in order to be successful as a congressman, you must truly know the people in your communities. He plans to take a different approach. He will be himself, tenacious and genuine, outspoken and passionate about the issues, to represent the people of the 7th District. Dorlon said “I care, I will listen and I will bring people together to simplify solutions, and get results for our district and our state.”

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A Purim Message from Rabbi Yaacov Shusterman Chabad Jewish Center, Mt. Olive urim is here, with its food baskets, Hamantaschen, groggers, and of course- kids dressed in all sorts of costumes and masks.

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These days, there is a lot to say about wearing masks. In the past, we would associate masks with fun and silliness, but now we know they offer protection. And, to be honest, sometimes, we find that there is a certain comfort about wearing masks. They allow us privacy when we want to be concealed. They allow us to become anonymous when we need to be. Of course, the best part is that masks are removable. When we get outside, we have the liberty to pull them off.

Purim has many themes, and the mask is one of them. Queen Esther hides her identity. Her very name means a secret.

G-d is hidden throughout the story, leading the average reader to assume that it is a story of coincidence and fate.

Yet, the scroll we read is called Megillat Esther. The word Megilla comes from the Hebrew root work - Legalot - to re-

veal, and Esther, of course, means a secret. Esther wrote the Megilla to reveal this amazing secret - there had indeed been a great miracle! If one would read the sequence of events, one would truly recognize that G-d, although hidden and sometimes masked, was truly always there orchestrating the events.

And so on Purim, we dress up. We wear masks and costumes to change the way we look in order to celebrate the mystery and the hidden. We wear masks to affirm that G-d is always behind the scene, involved in every detail of our lives. However, let us not forget that the goal is to take the masks off and to constantly recognize this.

Please join us for a grand Purim party at the new Chabad Jewish Center on Thursday, March 17th. Please visit our website at www.mychabadcenter.com/Purim for more information. If you or anyone else you know is in need of a place at a Seder for Passover, please reach out to Rabbi Yaacov Shusterman at 973-933-6011, or rsvp at www.mychabadcenter.com/seder.

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Morris County Mom’s Genius Idea is a Convenient Germ-Fighter

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Cleaning it yourself is not only a time consuming hassle; traces may be left behind.

A Madison mom knows this all too well and was inspired to do something about it.

“Studies show toddler car seats have more germs than a toilet seat, which is disgusting,” says mom of two, Lauren Siclare, who started BuckleBath to help parents tackle the common germ-filled problem.

It started when the entrepreneur was in the preschool drop-off car line with her daughter. A teacher took her daughter out of her car seat and a crumby mess came out with her.

“I was so embarrassed, ‘how does this happen?’” Siclare wondered. “My daughter is really clean and so is my car.” She then had her ah-hah moment and realized it was leftover snack crumbs from days prior.

She promptly searched online for a cleaning service specific to children’s car seats, she even checked the Apple app store, but couldn’t find a mobile business solely

dedicated to cleaning gear in driveways.

This was the genesis of the business. “‘I needed to start in a market where there’s a densely populated community with a lot of young children,’ The entrepreneur researched and wrote her business plan while working at Google, she then left corporate America to see her mobile car seat cleaning and sanitizing company to fruition.

Her venture became significantly more relevant during the pandemic as a result of hyper awareness around sanitizing, disinfecting and removing germs.

“The adoption of our service and the excitement around it was very organic and spread very quickly in the beginning,” says Siclare, of witnessing it firsthand.

A month into the launch, she and her husband were in a restaurant when seated behind them they heard a woman and her friend talking about BuckleBath. The friend responded incredulously.

“I was not shortsighted in knowing this potentially could be a nationwide brand but wanted to be strategic in proving out the concept locally,” says the entrepreneur.

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continued from page 14 manufacturer guidelines, using natural products because car seats have to be cleaned in a specific way.

“That’s really important to note,” says Siclare. “We are strict about the protocols. I am a licensed CPS tech -- and sat through a four-day long, intense course to understand the rules and regulations behind car seats, then trained all my team members to do so.”

After a stint on Good Morning America, there is a huge interest in BuckleBath franchises.

“We’re still a newer business and don’t spend huge amounts of money on advertising so it’s not like you’re going to walk into a Starbucks and see something about BuckleBath unless it’s a flier a mom left behind,” the entrepreneur says, ‘word of mom’ has definitely helped. As of September BuckleBath is legally a franchise.

It was a lot of work, according to Siclare — but as founder of the company her hope is to be able to provide jobs, through bringing on new franchisees who want to be business owners and are passionate about introducing BuckleBath to their community.

“Our strategy is to grow and meet the demands of the requests we get every single day from multiple states and towns,”

says the entrepreneur. “Because no one else does exactly what we do.”

As we move into the warmer spring months, a new franchisee will be running New York City.

“We are looking for individuals who are interested in opening a franchise.” We have always been careful to ensure the quality of the service is strong.”

Next: Add North Jersey and New York franchisees to help BuckleBath grow and service some of the high demand areas they are not able to frequent on a regular basis.

BuckleBath is interested in partnering with more of the right people to keep kids healthy in the car.

“There’s complete chaos in the summer months,” says the entrepreneur. “We’re in conversations with someone in Florida to open a franchise there. They don’t have concerns about weather so we’re excited to see what BuckleBath in a different climate will do.”

The branded vehicles are mainly used for in-driveway service and partnering with daycare centers to clean on site.

Standard cleaning is $59. A more involved cleaning (child was carsick) $110.

Your own franchise: $32,000 (plus business expenses) $61,000.

Siclare has a showcase of before and

after pictures. Each appointment it’s the cleaning associate’s responsibility to pick up the gear, snap a picture — and prior to returning, take another photo to display the difference.

The reactions are priceless, according to the entrepreneur.

“Moms are blown away,” Siclare says.

“They made this look brand new; it was so convenient, you saved me from buying another car seat,” are some of the comments she’s received about BuckleBath.

And it’s why she started the business in

the first place — being available for moms, dads, nannies (or whoever it may be) during a stressful time and removing the heavy burden; it’s cumbersome to clean a car seat.

“If we can take it off their hands, they’re really happy about it,” says the entrepreneur.

She knows her business will stand the test of time. “There’s always going to be babies born, busy parents, caretakers and BuckleBath will always be relevant,” Siclare says.

To book an appointment or for more information, visit www.bucklebath.com.

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The Chester First Aid Squad will receive $1,500 to carry on their good works. CASA (Court Appointed Special Advocates) will receive $1,500 to aid in their mission to assist juveniles who find themselves in the court

system. Fire Departments in the area will each receive $1,000 aiding them in their continuing service to the community including Long Valley Fire Company, Fairmount Fire Company, and Schooleys Mountain Fire Company The Chester Lions Club is dedicated to helping those in need. For further information regarding the Chester Lions Club or Lionism please visit our website at chesterlionsclubnj.com

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Rutgers Basketball Player Moves Forward with Foundation He Started During Pandemic

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By Steve Sears aul Mulcahy, a junior guard on the Rutgers University Scarlet Knights basketball team, created a vision in 2020, and that vision is flourishing.

Mulcahy’s Grateful4 Foundation was started early during the Covid-19 pandemic, but the idea had percolated a few years prior. “It was an idea that I had for a couple of years dating back to sophomore year of high school, and I always wanted to do it,” says Mulcahy, who wears number 4 for the Scarlet Knights, therefore the “4” in the foundation name. “I never had time, and the pandemic gave me time to spend my resources in other areas. Also during that time, there was a lot going on in the world: a lot of indifference, a lot of separation between people, and a lot of people were on edge about the pandemic, about social issues, political issues, whatever the case may be. I just figured that it was the best time to try to bring people together through an emotion that everyone can feel.”

Mulcahy’s foundation has gained much traction in the two years since its beginning.

From the outset, he asked his website visitors to record a short video detailing the four things they were grateful for, and then to nominate four others to do the same. “That got a great response from people,” Mulcahy states. “I think it was 23 states and like four different countries that people had sent videos from, and that was pretty cool. Between Twitter and Instagram, there was probably 75 videos, maybe 100.” And bolstered by that activity, he pushed forward. “I made a lot of cold calls, reaching out to a lot of people to see their thoughts and if they’d be able to help, and I got a lot of help. Since then, we’ve been able to do a lot more, especially in the recent couple of months.”

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The Big Ten, the conference that Rutgers athletics competes in, has also helped. “The Big Ten did a documentary during my sophomore year about it,” Mulcahy says, “and Rutgers and the Rutgers Nation and the community - basically everywhere I go, somebody mentions it to me - they’ve helped me a ton, and the alumni base and everything has been great.”

Mulcahy “lives” the Grateful4 Foundation daily, he himself keeping and writing in a gratitude journal. “It just helps perspective, and realizing there’s highs and lows in life,” he says.

“But if you can keep a medium perspective about everything, and realize all the great things that there are that people down the block from you would love to have, it makes a lot of situations better.”

Mulcahy, a Human Resource and Sports Management major, has a five-year-goal for the Grateful4 Foundation. “We’re raising a lot of money to help a lot of people in a lot of different ways,” he says. “I would love to have a headquarters, a place to help people and really build a team, and just help as many people as possible.”

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Dogs, Cats, and Irish Landscapes: Chester Resident Margaret Compton is Inspired

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By Alexander Rivero he was born and raised in Jersey City and as a young girl, exhibited a natural knack for the brush. Before she knew it, however, she was raising her precious children and working sales for AT&T in Manhattan, and the idea of easing into a stool and pulling up a fresh canvas was as distant to her as leaving everything to go backpack Europe. The children are older now, however, the AT&T job is a thing of the past, and Margaret Compton, Chester resident and forever artist at heart, is very much back to where it all began, and happy about it.

“I started battling back in 2017,” she says, referring to the painting skills she knew were within her despite decades without touching a brush. She remembers feeling inspired to reawaken her skills after seeing a Van Gogh exhibit in New York in 2017 and walking away feeling both refreshed and as if a fire had been lit under her.

She jumped right in. Within days, she began working on her craft at the Visual Arts Center in Summit, as well as at the Morris County Art Association in Morristown, where she says she was blessed with excellent teachers who guided her, per se, back to herself. Notable among those who helped her were Francesca Pelaggi at the Morris County Art Association, who helped her rediscover and greatly improve her techniques with landscape and acrylic painting.

Compton focused on her landscape painting for about three years before the COVID-19 pandemic came into full force, which prompted doors to close across the country and forced life to a grinding halt. The slow-down was a welcomed change for Compton, who used the time and the space to

jump head first into her art. By then she had reacquired and refined her form in landscape painting—lonely, Hopper-esque landscapes somehow both cool and warm, with graceful renditions on early-morning and afternoon sunlight, and vibrant greens and blues.

After the pandemic, however, she expanded her repertoire, bolstered by the challenge to try something new. She went ahead and started painting pets—dogs and cats—including her own golden retriever, Maggie. The renditions come out beautifully, with particular note on the lifelike expression in the faces of each pet.

“I paint them from photographs,” says Compton. “Some of the dogs I know, and others I get commissions to paint, and so I go over and meet the dog or cat. You kind of just get a feel for who they each are. It’s all in the eyes for me. Once you get the eyes, you really get the essence of the dog.”

The hardest part of painting the pets for Compton is getting commissions of ones that have passed away. She never sets out to paint to do a lackluster job, but in such situations she feels an extra drive to get it just right. She notes that regardless of the circumstances of her painting of pets, she finds cats easier to represent simply because of the uniformity of their bodies’ shape.

“The shape of their bodies is so similar that all you really need to do is alter their eye color, their fur, any minor details they may have on them that separate them from other cats, but that’s really it,” she says. “But with dogs, the expressions on the faces are so different. They’re a lot harder to capture.”

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Long Valley Native Seeks Republican Ticket in 7th Congressional District

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By Alexander Rivero ong Valley native John Henry Isemann, 27—who left his job on Wall Street to head up a humanitarian effort in Guatemala City—will be running on the Republican ticket for New Jersey’s 7th congressional district. Isemann looks to challenge Rep. Tom Malinowski (D—Ringoes) in a race that could very well determine which of the two major political parties controls the U.S. House of Representatives at the halfway mark of Joe Biden’s presidency.

The University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill alum, who finished with a degree in political science, points to the need, as he says, “for a generational change in Congress, and a categorial shift in the character of our leaders.”

Bright-eyed, measured, and intelligent, Isemann points to the tendency of candidates to only view the short-term requirements necessary to secure and hold onto power, without much thought to what the country will look like long after they have left office.

The son of a school nurse and a financial advisor turned Mendham Hills pastor, Isemann’s resume is interesting enough to warrant a peek. He worked the equity derivatives desk at UBS for three years and concluded he did not “want the job forever” before heading off to Columbia Records for two years. Here, he worked in the business and

legal affairs branch of the company, where he often collaborated with teams of artists and overseers producing Grammy-winning music.

“Early on after college”, Isemann says, “I learned how to work, especially at UBS. I learned just what it took to function at that level—the 6 a.m. meetings, the constant call to come up with ideas on the fly.”

It was after his time at Columbia Records that he decided he wanted to return to charity work in Guatemala—Zone 3 of Guatemala City precisely—one of the poorest places in all of Latin America. Isemann first visited Guatemala City at the age of thirteen with fellow Morris County residents looking to make a difference in a place that looked like the opposite of where they were from. While at Chapel Hill, he went back to Guatemala City for a whole summer to volunteer. Asked what his greatest memory of Guatemala is, he does not skip a beat: “No question, the sheer capability of a community working in unison to achieve a common purpose.”

Isemann says he came up with the idea to run throughout the course of a ten-year stint where he traveled much of the country, coast to coast, up and down, including a stint living in New York City’s 14th district, which elected Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. He picked up on many lessons and trends amongst the voting public in the U.S., most notably the

evident distancing of many from their civic duty to stay informed and keep their leaders accountable.

“It’s clear that a lot of people have become more and more apathetic to the political process,” Isemann says, noting the fact that the candidates with the biggest spotlight often had weak connections at best to the people they were supposed to be representing. It seemed like an inevitability to have these kinds of professional bureaucrats win elections over and over again. But the tides, Isemann believes, are changing.

“The candidates that are driving the conversation more and more today are not from a political dynasty. They’re from grassroots efforts,” he says.

Isemann says that some of the first things he would do if elected include proposing new term limits at the congressional level that would cap candidates at two-year terms, and that this proposal would fall under the greater umbrella of ethics reform.

The idea, he says, “is to stop people from being able to build careers out of government service, so they can’t jump from Congress right into lobbying.”

Also on the list for Isemann is the limiting of candidates to engage in stock trading.

Since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, Isemann points out, local representatives, particularly Malinowski himself, saw their

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fortunes rise by millions of dollars “on undisclosed healthcare trades during the pandemic,” Isemann says. The representatives, he adds, bet against the very people they were supposed to be representing.

In his bid for election to the state’s 7th district, Isemann will have to get past six other candidates in the Republican primary: former U.S. Food and Drug Administration official Rik Mehta, Kevin Dorlon of Long Valley, John P. Flora, District 23 Assemblyman Erik Peterson, Philip Rizzo, and Senate Minority continued on page 23

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continued from page 22 Leader Thomas Kean, Jr. (R-Westfield).

Isemann—who joins Robert Healy, 38, of Burlington County and former Marine combat veteran Nick DeGregorio, 36, of Bergen County as yet another Republican under 40 years of age to announce congressional runs in New Jersey—is focused on his message, which is that the people of New Jersey can, in fact, change the political circumstances of their state and country, but they “have to stop doing the same thing and expecting a different outcome—looking to the same tried and tired political dynasties and lobbyists—career politicians who have been

climbing the ladders in Trenton and Washington while leaving New Jersey on the losing end.”

Some of Isemann’s biggest historical role models are Theodore Roosevelt and John Adams, Roosevelt for fitting the role of what a conservative statesman should be—a man of both great thought and great action—and Adams for being one of the most “forward thinking of the founding fathers.”

The best thing people can do to help him is, Isemann says, to volunteer. To reach out to the Isemann team, visit the campaign’s official website: www.johnisemann.com.

Chester Resident... continued from page 21 sights I’ve seen there. But the look of a big blue sky, the sunset, the play on the light with the clouds, the way it all touches and plays with the landscape—it’s just always struck me as magnificent and so uplifting, promising, regardless of where I’ve encountered it.”

Compton relishes the fact that she can look out her window in Chester and see that interplay of light and land every day, and after the slow-down of the world as a result of the pandemic, she feels many other people stopped to see it as well.

When she built her website—www.margaretcomptonart.com—she put up a quote

as a welcome banner for guests; it reads “living in art.”

She confesses, “I really like that quote because to me, it’s always been a dream to get back to my painting. It’s a dream to be doing it, honestly. A pleasure and a privilege to be able to do this. I had been visualizing the day I’d get back into it for a long time.

And it’s nice to be acknowledged. I feel like it’s my second act, and it feels really good to reinvent yourself and be recognized for it. It’s fun.”

For more information on Margaret Compton’s artwork, please visit her website at www.margaretcomptonart.com.

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NJ Based Kiwimbi Liberates Kenyan Children with Powerful Knowledge

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By Jillian Risberg he power of education drives Kiwimbi’s potent partnership with underserved communities, vital for the future of children in rural Kenya.

“It’s an opportunity to support incredibly underserved people and make a difference in the lives of (those) who live with so few opportunities,” says Lisa Connell, director of development and communications.

Kiwimbi’s mission is to partner with underserved communities to create educational opportunities through locally run libraries and community learning centers.

According to Connell, the educational system in Kenya was such that grade eight students had to pass the KCPE (Kenyan Certificate of Primary Education) with at least 250 out of 500 points on this national exam (given in English, not their native tongue) — otherwise they didn’t go to high school, it was the end of the road educationally.

Then recently the government made secondary school a requirement, and everybody had the opportunity to attend high school. But the test now determines the quality of the secondary school where they can enroll.

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The secondary school system In Kenya is divided into levels: National, Extracounty, Sun-county and County.

“Quality goes down, with each,” Connell says. “So a Sub-county school might have nothing more than an under-prepared teacher, 100 students and a blackboard.

There are National schools, equivalent to good high schools in the US,” she says.

Connell says one of Kiwimbi’s Kenyan supporters shared that some high school’s don’t even have a science lab, so when they take the mandatory test

at the end of secondary school and it was time to use a microscope in the exam, there were schools where kids had never seen one because their schools didn’t have science labs. To be offered a university spot they must pass another exam at the culmination of high school.

Most of the secondary schools are boarding schools, crucial for girls especially, so they have the opportunity to focus on their education and not be required to devote time for chores and housekeeping. continued on page 26

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The 200 Club of Morris County announces Laura Zupa D’Avella at 50th Golden Celebration

he grand Legacy Castle on Route 23 in Pompton Plains has been the selected venue, fitting to celebrate the club’s 50 years of supporting Morris County first responders from Fire, local Police, New Jersey State Police departments and Emergency Medical Technician services on Thursday, May 5th, 2022. Weather permitting, outside displays will be available for the attendees from those services prior to the event. Trained personnel will greet guests and be available for questions and walk-through. Stay-tuned in the coming months for additional information!

Guests will be welcomed inside by magnificent 55-foot ceilings, hand-painted gold detailing, and a dual floating staircase featuring the richly worked Italian marble medallion at the base.

In keeping with the ambiance, the 200 Club is proud to showcase professionally accomplished Soprano Laura Zupa D’Avella, who will lead the evening’s festivities with The Star-Spangled Banner.

Laura Zupa D’Avella, Soprano, has been

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performing professionally since 2005, when she made her debut in Verdi’s Il Trovatore under the baton of her late mentor and New Jersey State Opera founder Alfredo Silipigni. Her lyric soprano has delighted audiences in numerous concerts and operas throughout the United States, and her most recent engagements include performances with the Light Opera of New Jersey (LONJ), Opera New Jersey, Eastern Opera, Pacific Opera, and Empire Opera in such roles as Papagena, Adele, Susanna, Despina, Papagena, Gilda, Micäela, Frasquita, Mabel, and Josephine. In 2021, she debuted the role of heroine Elsie Bengough in Paul Ziegler’s well-received chamber opera, The Beckoning Fair One. She is a founding member of Savoy Faire, LONJ’s educational outreach ensemble and has been the soprano section leader and soloist for many churches including St. Peter’s Episcopal Chancel Choir, Central Presbyterian Church of Montclair, and St. Mary’s Abbey Delbarton. Laura received her Master’s Degree in Voice Performance

and Pedagogy from Westminster Choir College and holds a BA in music from Barnard College of Columbia University. She is a NATS certified teacher and currently maintains an active private voice studio. www.lauravoice.com.

For the past four years, Laura has served as the Co-Music Director of Montclair Kimberly Academy (MKA)’s Upper School musicals (Annie and Chicago).

During the 2020-21 school year, she was proud to have been the Music Director and Conductor of a musical movie version of Jason Robert Brown’s Songs for a New World at MKA. Laura looks forward to returning to MKA as Music Director of Rodger’s and Hammerstein’s Cinderella in March of 2022.

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Kenyan Children... continued from page 24 Kiwimbi runs many programs to support education in rural Kenyan, including an intensive program at 3 schools where small group tutoring, one-on-one mentoring and a daily lunch are the main components.

If students walk 45 minutes to school and 45 minutes home for lunch that may or may not be there and have to walk back for afternoon classes, many of the kids… (i.e., girls) would not return for afternoon classes.

So in preparation for their first national exam, Kiwimbi provides nutritious lunch for Grade Eight students.

“Feeding not only gives them brain power and nutrition, the ability to concentrate throughout their day — it keeps them there so they can focus on their education,” says the director of development and communications.

The students in these 3 schools passed the 2020 KCPE at a rate of 63 percent, “Instead of the three percent average, usually achieved by similarily situated rural children, leaving a lot of 14-year-olds with no options,” she says. They are excited to see what March’s test will unveil.

Kiwimbi also provides access to books, newspapers and other resources in their library, in satellite libraries they established and through regular delivery of books to the three schools they work with in the intensive program, as well as 72 schools in nearby villages.

“Some of them come to us, either the class or the kids. Sometimes a teacher might get the books and bring them back,” the director of development and communications says the service is efficient.

The Kiwimbi Community Centre was a rundown building owned by the county, now borrowed by Kiwimbi. They cleaned and painted the space, which houses the county’s (more than a million people) lone free public library.

According to Connell, people come to charge their phones, read the newspapers, visit the museum, where they work on cultural preservation, and tailor and carpentry vocational programs.

“We do outreach to three schools; an intense program includes daily lunch for the eighth-grade students, small group tutoring and one-on-one mentoring,” she says.

“A government official named Kiwimbi as an Innovation Hub and installed fiber optic cable for more reliable Internet and a local NJ church (St. Luke’s in Gladstone) donated the money for us to put in solar panels. So we have reliable Internet, reliable electricity, which is hard to come by (and) great, safe drinking water, which is also hard to come by.”

Video of a 45-minute walk two kids took from their home hut to the Kiwimbi Library introduced Connell to the incredible experience.

Her time at Kiwimbi since February 2020 has been transformative.

“I find it fulfilling and challenging in all the right ways to work towards supporting the efforts of the students,” the director of development and communications says they’re hard workers.

She was attracted to this cause because of her commitment to education, years as a third-grade (and preschool) teacher.

“I was a Big Sister in college, taught Sunday school with my kids and was a Brownie leader,” says Connell. “I started at Kiwimbi in more of an administrative capacity; the position grew over the last two years. I like the people I work with, our organization, Kenyan culture is fascinating and enriching to me.”

In 2010 Lynne Rathgeber, Board Chair of Kiwimbi International reached out to Prof.

Olubayi Olubayi as a friend to help become more involved with non-profit work for the most underserved.

Over the course of their chat, Olubayi told her of his move back to Kenya after years as an American student and teacher.

“Early education he was at risk of not proceeding to secondary school because of having trouble with math, and Kenya’s exam system weeded out children like him,” Rathgeber says. “He was fortunate and got help, earning a Ph.D. in microbiology.”

The professor explained back then children in rural Kenya faced the same do-ordie exams.

“Rural children, even the brightest, could not move ahead academically because their schools were too poor to teach them,” the Board Chair says Olubayi wanted to share educational opportunities with a new generation of children, and she wanted to help.

So Rathgeber and the professor gathered a group of like-minded friends to develop the concept that became Kiwimbi — a Community Learning Center serves as a source of academic and vocational training, free to all and separate from, but complementary to, the public school system.

“Kiwimbi” is a Swahili word meaning ripple.

“That person will be able to earn a better living, support their family and benefit the wider community, spreading like a ripple through water,” she says, of the effect.

It was a massive pursuit.

Rathgeber had never been to Kenya, so in 2012 she, husband John and daughter Natalie took their first trip to witness it firsthand, engage with the people to understand if the Kiwimbi concept made sense and would be welcome, and learn about the communities benefiting from their educational opportunity.

She calls it a diverse and beautiful country.

“We didn’t see it all, but did see the big

city (Nairobi), a bit of the largest slum in Africa (Kibera), high mountains (Mt. Kenya), vast plains (Masai Mara), spectacular game (lions, hippos, giraffes, elephants, hyenas, antelope, zebra, wildebeest… so many); industrious people walking everywhere, and smiling children thrilled to see their first white people,” the Board Chair says they fell in love.

Seeing people make do on tiny farmsteads with mud huts, water from the river, no electricity, reliant on a changing climate Rathgeber calls an eye-opener.

The children spread the word about the visiting “wazungu” (white people), wanted to hold their hands and tried to converse (on a limited basis), as well as see photos on their phones and ask questions.

“When we sat with them with Olubayi and other adults and asked about their aspirations, they were hopeful (which) we encouraged,” she says. “The sad truth is without access to better education, for the vast majority those might be pipe dreams, and limited in vision by the world around them. If you have never seen or known of a scientist, mathematician, engineer, writer, a painter… how can you aspire to become one?”

After visiting this distant world Rathgeber says they knew they were doing the right thing in establishing Kiwimbi there.

COVID hits marginalized and underserved students hardest. Kiwimbi continued its impactful work throughout the pandemic, while Kenya closed down.

Travel was restricted, schools closed the better part of a year, masks were mandated, the country was cautious. Kenya was fortunate to not have the number of firstyear infections of other nations.

“But with schools closed, children could not access what few resources they might have had, education came to a standstill for

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the majority of Kenyan children, especially in rural areas where books were scarce and other services non-existent,” says the Board Chair, adding Kiwimbi worked within the restrictions and met with most of the children who depended on them.

They met in small groups outside and a limited number had access to enter and borrow library books, which they took to various small-group meetings around the countryside.

The months’ long break did not result in a setback; it provided many a chance to catch up with students from more affluent areas.

The path to liberation is knowledge and Rathgeber says Kiwimbi takes this route. Rather than give “things” to their beneficiaries, they share knowledge.

“This is empowerment, not handouts,” she adds if a young person is educated, they have the power to earn a livelihood, ensure their siblings education, get a job off the tiny farm or create a successful business.

“They can make educated decisions about who to elect to power and envision a village, county or country serving the best interests of their families, determine how to accomplish that, and make it happen.”

With knowledge they can mold their own world.

Thousands of children with access to books and other resources they didn’t have before — in Busia County (western Kenya) impacted, Kiwimbi sees the program as one to develop.

“Having implemented the idea successfully there, we plan to replicate the model so we can expand our geographic impact to other underserved areas,” Rathgeber says.

To learn more, visit www.kiwimbi. org or text KIWIMBI to 41444 and donate. Volunteering is also welcome.

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CúChullain Pipe Band of Morris County Celebrates 45 Years

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By Steve Sears t all began with Michael J. Smith 45 years ago.

A.J. McCann, Pipe Major and 26-year member of the CúChullain (koo-hull-in) Pipe Band, gives the details in brief. “It was Saint Patrick’s Day, and he (Smith) was sitting in a bar in Mine Hill, New Jersey.

He was a piper and he said, ‘You know, I think we should have a parade!’ He went out, got his pipes out of the car, and he walked down to the end of Main Street in Mine Hill - just him and a bunch of people behind him. That was the first parade, and that’s how he decided he was going to form a band.”

That march of a dozen people was the beginning of the CúChullain Pipe Band, an organization dedicated to preserving traditional Celtic music. It still is the first pipe band ever established in Morris County.

The CúChullain Pipe Band is a familyoriented group, which is the way Smith wanted it. “He didn’t want a band with a lot of tensions and rivalries because, over the course of years, you see bands come and go and a lot of it is due to infighting

amongst members,” McCann says. “He was really big on making sure this stayed a family event. Since then, we’ve had people come, they joined the band at a young age, they go to college, they get married, they have kids, and now their kids are in the band.”

Mike Houston is in his seventh year as a CúChullain Pipe Band member. He started piping at age 48, and now serves as the organization’s secretary. He says of his role, “It’s really just a matter of keeping communication going, doing what I can to recruit new members. Most of the members of the band have been around a long, long time. You become a member of the band, and you stay a member of the band; there’s not a lot of moving around.

And I also like that it’s been in Morris County since 1977, it has a lot of history, and it’s also family-oriented.”

McCann’s family is a perfect example.

His two sons, Alexander and Matthew, now ages 18 and 14 respectively, have marched with him in the band since they were able to walk. “At three years old, they were marching down the street with me, but now they march beside me. My son is

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the Pipe Sergeant, he just got promoted this past year. For the people in the band, it’s a huge family that never ends. It just keeps on growing. Somebody can come back who’s been with the band and gone for 20 years can step right in and, boom, you’re back in the family again. We have a lot of fun doing what we do.”

McCann’s wife of 26 years, Pam, also plays a major role. “She’s been very supportive,” her husband says. “She actually was a drummer in the band many years ago, a tenor drummer. She’s had her hands in it too, and now she got elected to be the band manager. She runs the band now.”

John Garrity has served as President of the CúChullain Pipe Band for five years and has been a member for 15 years. He also arranges the band’s music. “I have access to bagpipe music writing software.

Really, at this point in time, I’m also the piping instructor, so I try to keep the music interesting. I’ll find stuff on the internet, I’ll transpose it into the software, make a bunch of copies, and then we’ll go on Thursday night and have fun.”

Garrity also enjoys the family element of the band. “That’s the thing I’ve always loved about this band and why I would never think of leaving,” he says. “It is because of that whole family quality, and it’s absolutely true. When we go to parades, we’ll bring grills and just pick a side street, and we’ll just cook up some

hamburgers or something. And when you go to practice, you’re not going just to practice. You’re going to practice to see these people. It’s just a beautiful thing.”

As Pipe Major, McCann is in charge of the music execution, practices, conducting, and leading the band in parades – and there are quite a few during this busiest part of the year for the CúChullain Pipe Band. “I think we have four parades in March to do,” McCann says. The band either leads or participates in the annual Morristown Saint Patrick’s Day Parade, and also marches in parades in Denville, Hackettstown, West Orange, and East Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania during the year.

The CúChullain Pipe Band is always looking for new members, and training is provided. “You’re never too old to pick it up,” Houston says. “We meet every Thursday night (at the Rainbow Lakes clubhouse in Denville), and John is the instructor. He put together this curriculum that everybody uses, so we really keep on the same page, learning the same things at the same pace. But we take new members at any time during the year.”

Perhaps Garrity puts it best. “I love to play the pipes,” he says, “but the reason I go is just for the people I’m playing the pipes with.”

For more information about the CúChullain Pipe Band, visit their website at www.cuchullainpipeband.com.

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The History and Mythology of St. Patrick’s Day

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By Henry M. Holden here is one day a year when people of all ethnic groups can claim to be Irish. Saint Patrick’s Day, (or from Gaelic: Lá Fhéile Pádraig, “Day of the Feastday of Patrick”), is a cultural and religious celebration held on March 17, the assumed death date of Saint Patrick (385 – 461). The original reason for the celebration was the arrival of Christianity in Ireland.

More countries celebrate Saint Patrick’s Day than any other national festival. It is a public holiday in seven countries and is widely celebrated in the United Kingdom, Canada, United States, Argentina, Australia and New Zealand.

The Potato Famine that struck Ireland (1845-52) led to the immigration of over one-million Irish to the United States, in one decade, although it continued to a lesser extent into the early 20th century.

When Irish immigrants brought St. Patrick’s Day traditions to the United States, the day evolved into a secular celebration of Irish heritage and culture.

Saint Patrick’s Day became an official Christian feast day in the early 17th century.

Celebrations involve parades, céilís, a social event at which there is Irish folk music, traditional dancing, shared folklore, leprechauns, and all things Irish. Pubs served green beer and the folks in Chicago dye the river green (a tradition dating back to 1962).

Modern celebrations are still influenced by the Irish diaspora, the ethnic Irish and their descendants who live outside the island of Ireland and influenced by those that developed in North America.

What we know about Patrick is he wrote his own autobiography in the form of a Declaration. He was born in Roman Britain in the fourth century, into a wealthy Romano-British family, and became a fifth-century Romano-British Christian missionary and bishop in Ireland.

The shamrock, a three-leafed clover is not only a feature of Celtic mythology, but it was also especially important in Irish legend in the spread of Christianity.

The shamrock, aka the “seamroy” was a sacred plant in ancient Ireland.

It symbolized the rebirth of spring. By the seventeenth century, the shamrock had become a symbol of emerging Irish nationalism.

Saint Patrick tried to inform the Celts on the Holy Trinity, but they could not

understand what he was saying.

Patrick saw a clover and decided to use it to explain the Holy Trinity, the Father, Son, and the Holy Spirit as one. The Celts realized what he meant, and that’s how the shamrock became so important in Irish history and social tradition.

Spirited music is often associated with St. Patrick’s Day—and Irish culture in general. From earliest days of the Celts, music has been an important part of Irish life. The Celts had an oral culture, where religion, legend and history were passed from one generation to the next by way of stories and songs.

The English began to seize land and make laws against the use of the Irish language and the practice of Catholicism.

The first British Law specifically banned the use of the Irish language was Article III of The Statute of Kilkenny in 1367. As a result, Irish began to wear the shamrock as a symbol of their pride in their heritage, and their anger with English rule.

After being conquered by the English, and forbidden to speak their own language, the Irish, like other oppressed peoples, turned to music to help them remember notable events and retain their heritage and history, as it often stirred emotion and helped to galvanize the people.

One of the most lasting folklore stories is the legend that during his mission in Ireland, Patrick once stood on a hilltop (which is now called Croagh Patrick), and with only a shepard’s staff, banished all the snakes from Ireland.

The “banishing of the snakes” was a metaphor for the suppression of pagan ideologies from Ireland and the triumph of Christianity. Within two hundred years of Patrick’s arrival, most of Ireland was converted.

Each year, thousands of Irish Americans gather with their loved ones on St. Patrick’s Day to share a “traditional” meal of corned beef and cabbage. Cabbage has long been in the Irish diet, but it was at the turn of the 20th century that corned beef became popular.

Irish immigrants living on New York City’s Lower East Side substituted corned beef for their traditional dish of Irish bacon to save money. They learned about this inexpensive alternative from their Jewish neighbors.

One icon of St. Patrick’s Day is the Leprechaun. The original Irish name for these figures of folklore is “lobaircin,”

meaning “small-bodied fellow.” They have appeared for centuries in Irish folklore.

Belief in leprechauns stem from Celtic belief in fairies, tiny people who could use their magical powers to serve good or evil.

In Celtic folktales, leprechauns mended the shoes of the other fairies. Though only minor figures in Celtic folklore, leprechauns were known for their trickery, which they often used to protect their mythical pot of gold.

According to Irish mythology, butterflies move between worlds and bring messages and warnings. They are souls, waiting to be reborn on earth. Leprechauns are the cultural symbol of Ireland, with their names translated from ‘shoemaker’. They were said to roam Ireland before humans, with a unique hat and red hair.

In oral folklore, you can find their pot of gold at the end of a rainbow, so if you visit Ireland, be sure to look for a rainbow.

The harp became cemented in the folk music tradition, everyday life, and popular culture of Ireland.

The Harp of Daghda is a national icon in Ireland. Folklore says that evil gods stole the first harp from the Daghda, a

Leprechauns stem from the Celtic belief in fairies, tiny people who could use their magical powers to serve good or evil. (Public Domain)

king in Irish/Celtic mythology. Daghda’s music made people feel transformed. The absence of music caused sadness to pass over the country. Eventually the evil gods gave it back to them, and joy returned to the land.

Now that you know some of the myths and legends from Irish folklore, you are safe to wander through the most rural parts of Ireland.

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By Evan Wechman arolyn Mastrangelo of Roseland remembers the pain her whole family went through almost two decades ago. At that time, her mother became ill from having early onset Alzheimer’s disease and the toll it took on her loved ones was almost too much to bear. These memories will be with her this coming April 30 at Harrison Field in Roseland. There, her organization, Running for Answers will be holding a 5K race and 2-mile run/walk to benefit the Cure Alzheimer’s Fund. This will be the 13th annual event which has raised well over $400,000 since its inception.

Mastrangelo remembers fondly her mother, Pat Lepofsky, a registered nurse playing bridge around the house and always reading. However, when the Alzheimer’s illness hit her mother, they both knew things would take a quick turn for the worse. Her mother after a long battle, died in 2015, and Mastrangelo wants to make sure that other families don’t go through the same ordeal she was forced to endure.

Mastrangelo, a professional fitness trainer and nutrition coach is aware of the ramifications of the disease. She recently said, “Alzheimer’s doesn’t just take away your memory, it takes away everything you are until it leaves just a shell.”

Organizing the event has been no easy task for Mastrangelo who is the primary founder, chairperson, and fundraiser for the event. She said she has performed most of the work at her kitchen table, rather than a fancy office. However, she is grateful other people have helped her through the years. She appreciates even the smallest donations and still gets excited each year around this time of year.

According to her, the event has 3 primary missions. The first is to obviously raise money and awareness, but the second and third goals are to have a great race and create a fun event that the community can gather around. In past races, she has had great sponsors who have held mini tricky trays and given balloons to all the children.

Though the event seems to almost run effortlessly as each year passes, Mastrangelo is aware there is always a substantial amount of work involved. Her efforts began almost 15 years ago when she was looking for a race in New Jersey that benefitted Alzheimer’s.

Unfortunately, she couldn’t find a single race, so she was determined to organize her own.

She also carefully selected the Cure Alzheimer’s Fund which she said gives everyone the best chanced to find a cure for this disease. Mastrangelo is proud that 100% of the donations go directly to research. “The brain is tricky, and they (Cure Alzheimer’s Fund) are coming to a lot of dead ends, but this is the right organization, and they are coming closer every year,” Mastrangelo said.

In 2020, due to COVID there was no race, but the organization still worked hard and raised a significant amount of money for research. This year, the effects of COVID will be closely monitored by Mastrangelo. However, she is confident that this year’s event will be a success because it is not only outside, but she is determined to take any cautionary steps to ensure everyone’s safety.

Mastrangelo who has had many dedicated supporters through the years is still looking to add some sponsors to make this event larger. She hopes for the race to expand outside just the immediate area and become a significant race in the state of New Jersey.

Since the pandemic has affected many small businesses in the area, Mastrangelo wants local owners to know she remains both flexible and creative in finding partnerships that would work for all involved. However, she is aware every bit of help adds up to having a terrific event and said “I would like people to know that there are so many simple ways to help us: walk, run, donate, fundraise. Even easier than that is just spreading the word to others.” She can be contacted by interested parties through her website, www.Running4Answers.org.

Though she is hoping for a big turnout, Mastrangelo, a mother of two daughters wants people to come away with a significant lesson about Alzheimer’s disease. One important fact that Mastrangelo wants people to be aware of is that this disease is more serious than many people think it is. She said, “it is not a key-losing disease.” By this, Mastrangelo emphasized that families should know that Alzheimer’s is more than just misplacing everyday items such as keys. Rather, it robs the whole family of time, memories, and is indeed very painful for all involved.

“I don’t want to see anyone else go through this,” she said. “The idea that anyone else can get it is scary.”

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