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By Steve Sears 3-year-old Jack Scofield, a veteran of the United States Navy, took part in the D-Day invasion on June 6, 1944. The Battle of Normandy from that significant June day onward resulted in the eventual Allied liberation of Western Europe from control of Nazi Germany.

A great victory. “He is a tough, spirited man who loves his family, loves his country and has persevered through life’s trials and tribulations,” says his son, Chris Scofield.

Scofield is also a huge New York Mets fan, they World Series champions in 1969 and 1986. Asked who his favorite Mets player is, he responds, “(shortstop Michael ‘Scooter’) Conforto .” Ask him to name his all-time Mets team at all nine field positions, he responds, “You mean from the past?

Oh gosh, that’s hard.”

For Scofield, it’s hard to pick a favorite, but give him time and make him honorary manager, and you have to assume he’ll man the field with stellar performers who would take home a third baseball crown.

Speaking of “honorary,” those same New York Mets are set to honor Scofield with a special Citi Field tribute. Son

Chris and daughter-in-law JoAnn reached out to the Mets in July when they learned about the teams “Veteran of the Game” program and submitted an application. The club responded within a day to inform the Scofields that Jack had been selected. Scofield will receive an American Flag in an embossed case and be photographed with it by the staff at his long-term care facility, Boonton’s New Jersey Firemen’s Home. The photo taken, along with others, would be sent to the Mets, who will be producing a short video that will be a tribute to Scofield and his military career.

Scofield enlisted in the Navy at the age of 17 when he was a junior at Mountain Lakes High School. He was in Boot Camp for 5 weeks in Sampson, New York. He served on the LST 347 during the D-Day invasion at Omaha Beach, spent two years in the service, and was discharged in May 1946.

“We took in an LST, we carried about twenty-four tanks, and we unloaded them onto what we call rafts,” Scofield says in recollection, “and they took them in further to the beach.” Scofield, who stayed on the ship, recalls seeing bodies floating on the water. “I was only 17-years-old. I continued on page 6

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A VIEW FROM THE LEFT

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Want To Boost Economic Growth?

Tell Government To Spend Less

ark Shields is on vacation. This column is by Veronique De Rugy.

Intellectuals are supposed to speak truth to power. Unfortunately, some seem to be more interested in saying what everyone expects them to say, which only reinforces the status quo.

Thankfully, a few scholars are resisting this trend, fighting for what is true rather than what is popular.

Case in point: a recent Hoover Institution paper on “A Pro-Growth Fiscal Consolidation Plan for the United States” by economists John Cogan, Daniel Heil and John Taylor, which makes the case for a reduction in spending now in order to positively impact the economy.

It’s refreshing to see their research, considering that we live in a world where pundits and even economists bend over backward to make the case that more debt is not a problem and that more fiscal stimulus is desirable. Never mind that the arguments that intellectuals offer to defend these claims aren’t supported by the academic literature. Consider the mistaken notion that more spending will stimulate the economy and somehow reduce the debt burden of the policy in the first place. Research overwhelmingly confirms that, for a variety of reasons, the return of government spending on economic growth is much less than the money spent.

Then there’s the argument that interest rates are low and hence, it’s a good time to take on more debt -- despite the chance that variable interest won’t always be that low. But more debt, even at low rates, still means more interest payments. Before COVID-19, the United States paid close to $400 billion in interest payments annually, or 8% of our budget. It’s only going to get worse now. Japan, for instance, has a massive amount of debt, despite its 0% long-term interest rates. Its debt repayments are its second-largest budget item.

I wish reporters and economists would stop asserting, like The Wall Street Journal recently did, “The example of

Mark Shields Japan has shown that debts can rise for a long time, well above 200% of GDP, without sparking a fiscal crisis.” Really? I would have thought that Japan’s two decades of no growth and wage stagnation could be considered a crisis.

Moreover, Japan is quite different than the United States and can get away with more overall debt than we could.

That’s because most Japanese securities are held in the Social Security trust fund that’s owned by the government. This means that net public sector debt is actually significantly lower in Japan than in the United States.

Enter the new paper by Cogan, Heil and Taylor, which finds that, when faced with an inevitable debt explosion in our future, the only viable and desirable option is for Uncle Sam to limit expenditures as a share of GDP, around the 20% ratio that prevailed before the pandemic. The authors find that this approach avoids the “potentially large increase in future federal taxes.” Better yet, they actually find that the policy would boost both short- and long-term GDP. This research will be added to decades of empirical evidence that spending-based consolidations are expansionary in the long term and, sometimes, can boost growth in the short term, too.

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A VIEW FROM THE RIGHT

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When Reporters Babble ‘Without Evidence’

ne of the common tropes we see in everyday news coverage is the claim that something said

by President Donald Trump or his supporters is “without evidence.” This is a stark factual claim. Sometimes, it’s starkly wrong.

The hashtag #DefundNPR started trending on Sept. 1 after NPR tweeted this to 8.3 million followers: “President Trump declined to condemn the actions of the suspected 17-year-old shooter of 3 protesters against police brutality in Kenosha -- claiming, without evidence, that it appeared the gunman was acting in self-defense.”

Video evidence clearly shows a man holding a handgun approach the 17-year-old, Kyle Rittenhouse, while he is on his back, and Rittenhouse shoot him in the arm. You don’t have to justify everything Rittenhouse did to know there’s obvious evidence of acting in self-defense.

The actual article NPR linked in the tweet made no such boast of Trump acting “without evidence.” Reporter Alana Wise cautiously claimed: “Graphic video from the chaotic scene only tells a partial story. The shooter’s alleged actions have split onlookers on party lines.” But she failed to explain what the video showed.

The words “without evidence” are routinely applied to Trump’s statements about mail-in voting. On the “Today” show on Aug. 16, NBC’s Hallie Jackson said, “On Saturday, the president, without evidence, claimed mail-in voting to be, quote, ‘catastrophic.’” On the same show two days later, NBC’s Peter Alexander lectured saying, “The president, without evidence, keeps escalating his attacks on universal mail-in voting and defending recent policy changes at the Postal Service that critics warn could delay the delivery of ballots.”

But NBC is blatantly avoiding evidence from its own base in New York City. The city took six weeks to count a record 400,000 absentee ballots cast in the June 23 primary and didn’t certify

Tim Graham liberal Rep. Carolyn Maloney as the winner until Aug. 6.

When Maloney’s opponent, Suraj Patel, conceded last week, he complained that 11,000 ballots in the district remained uncounted. Thousands of voters also reported receiving their ballots late or never getting one.

If you’re a Patel backer, that would feel “catastrophic.” It would certainly feel “catastrophic” to Trump-hating reporters if Trump were to win a state with mail-in ballots by a narrow margin.

They would complain if it took weeks to count the ballots and if some ballots were never counted. No one believes they wouldn’t eagerly promote challenges to the integrity of the election.

See 2016.

Meanwhile, it’s sadly routine for liberal media outlets to make outlandish claims about Trump. The Washington Post editorial board recently published a hyperpartisan editorial claiming Trump “has done as much as any global actor to advance the cause of authoritarianism and undermine the free world. Mr. Trump’s most conspicuous aid to tyranny has been his relentless support for Russian President Vladimir Putin.”

There is overwhelming evidence that Trump’s policy toward Putin has been tougher than the Obama-Biden continued on page 6

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Boost Economic Growth... continued from page 4 is actually rooted in their scholarship and methodology, not just their conclusions.

Here’s why: The traditional objection against spending cuts is that they hurt demand (consumption), but this study shows that a reduction in spending actually increases consumption in the short run and into the long run.

That’s because, in the same way people tend to increase their savings during a recession due to fear of the future, consumers also consider the long-term tax implications of

today’s spending measures. They’ll increase their spending and investment habits in anticipation of future tax cuts -or, at the very least, no future tax hikes. The result is that the growth in output resulting from the spending restraint is driven primarily by consumption, which should be politically salient. The authors, however, also highlight that, as expected, investment reacts positively in the long run.

At a time when flawed arguments for more government spending and more debt are reemerging, this paper goes against the big government status quo and offers a

blueprint for us to not only regain control of our spiraling debt but also do so in a way that will boost short- and longterm economic growth by boosting demand and then investment.

Veronique de Rugy is a senior research fellow at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University. To find out more about Veronique de Rugy and read features by other Creators Syndicate writers and cartoonists, visit the Creators Syndicate webpage at www.creators.com.

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some people would see as a clear lie?”

Even the liberal-leaning Brookings Institution published a 2018 analysis concluding, “We should not slip into collective amnesia over the Obama administration’s weak and underwhelming response to Russian aggression.” Trump provided lethal aid to Ukraine; Obama didn’t.

But no one should expect the Biden-loving press to ever report that “Biden stated without evidence Trump

weakened American policy toward Russia.”

Tim Graham is director of media analysis at the Media Research Center and executive editor of the blog NewsBusters.org. To find out more about Brent Bozell III and Tim Graham, and read features by other Creators Syndicate writers and cartoonists, visit the Creators Syndicate webpage at www.creators.com.

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most of his life. He and his late wife, Jane, raised four sons.

Scofield also served as an usher at St. Mary’s Roman Catholic Parish, was one of the founding members of the Denville Little League, coached CYO basketball, and in 1952 was the first Democrat and youngest individual elected to the township committee.

“My family,” says Scofield, who will turn 94 in October,

when asked his definition of good fortune and a rewarding life. And he is elated about the Mets honor. “Oh, I will enjoy it,” he says. “Its’ really great, it makes my day.”

The Jack Scofield tribute video will be shown during a future game broadcast, will also be shown at Citi Field during the game, and be posted on the Mets’ social media channels.

When Reporters Babble... continued from page 4 “reset button” approach. In 2012, then-President Obama drew media cheers for mocking Mitt Romney’s suggestion that Russia was a threat. Trump upset reporters last fall by mocking Obama at a press conference in France for letting Putin take over Crimea in 2014, saying Obama was “outsmarted.” (How dare he!) PBS reporter Yamiche Alcindor emotionally objected and said, “Why keep repeating what

Mets Honor Naval Veteran... continued from front page am more scared talking about it now than I was then. It just didn’t register with me what was going on, really.” On the 15th of June, the ship Scofield and others were on was shelled and hit from 20 miles inland by the German gunfire.

Forced to abandon the ship, Scofield spent seven hours in a foxhole while the shots continued.

Scofield was born in Morristown but lived in Denville

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Comics Legend Hy Eisman & the Epic Life of an Old-School Raconteur

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By Jillian Risberg e’s the legendary cartoonist behind Popeye and The Katzenjammer Kids who’s been entertaining us for seven decades with his delightful storylines.

Hy Eisman also lent his immense talents (ghosting) to Kerry Drake, Little Iodine, Little Lulu, Archie and many more.

“But the most enjoyable was drawing the Little Iodine strip for the King Features Syndicate. I worked with Bob Dunn, who was the writer,” Eisman says. “It was the best 17 years of collaboration I ever had.”

The comics icon sold his sole original feature, It Happened in New Jersey to the (Newark Sunday News) in 1950 and did that for the next three years. The Glen Rock native grew up in Paterson so he knows plenty about the Garden State.

Now artist Marco Cutrone, veteran filmmaker Vincent Zambrano and cinematographer, Brian Timmons give us insight into the man behind the cartoons in ‘Hy Eisman: A Life in Comics’ — and they are aiming to finish the piece in time for Eisman’s 94th birthday in March 2021.

“Sometimes, I still can’t believe that we’ve brought this film as far as we have.

We are wholeheartedly grateful that Irwin Hazen, the talented multi-generational contributor to ‘The Flash’ and ‘Green Lantern,’ ‘Wonder Woman’ and ‘Dondi’ participated so he could show his reverence for his lifelong friend,” Cutrone says, adding that two months after they filmed, the 96-year-old passed.

International renowned illustrator, Greg Hilderbrandt also contributed. He is most recognized for his design of one of the earliest theatrical release posters for Star Wars in 1977. And you’ll hear the voice of Frank Thorne (best known for the Marvel Comics character Red Sonja) at the beginning of the trailer introducing us to Eisman.

According to Cutrone, it is a tremendous honor to co-produce this documentary.

“His generation is leaving us one by one and eventually there will be no one left to give us actual written or verbal accounts of the cartoon industry,” says the realist painter. “I felt his collection of chronicled events needed to be preserved for the history books.”

Cutrone says a few more shoots are still needed to help round out the story.

So he and Zambrano launched a GoFundme page to offset the cost of logging,

Marco Cutrone (L), Hy Eisman (center) Vincent Zambrano (R)

scripting, editing the footage as well as the potential rights and clearances, music, final mix, color correction, mastering and more.

“We still have a ways to go in seeing this production through. That will simply not be possible without the help of donors,” says the art professor, adding that all who con-

tribute will be credited at the end of the film.

He has mad admiration for the cartoon pioneer’s determination.

“Considering the hardships he had to overcome in his early life, he stayed the continued on page 10

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Recalling Morris Catholic’s Greatest Cross-Country Teams

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By Steve Sears om Donahue was only a Cross-Country Head Coach at Morris Catholic High School from 1972 through 1978.

But what he and his team accomplished in that short period, especially in 1974 and 1975, was astounding. The 1974 and 1975 clubs won the New Jersey Meet of Champions, becoming the first team to win backto-back titles. They also finished each season ranked #1 in New Jersey. The team also won five consecutive Parochial B titles from 1974 to 1978.

“Oh God, they were over the top good,” says Donahue, especially of the top ranked teams. “In the year 2000, The Star-Ledger, which covers the entire state, decided to name in every sport the team of the century. And Morris Catholic was named the team of the decade in the entire state for the 1970s.”

Prior to Donahue’s arrival, Morris Catholic had participated in thirteen seasons of Cross-Country, never having a winning season, always finishing below .500. In the following seven seasons, the club went undefeated in dual meets for seven years in a row. “That’s the first thing,” says Donahue.

“The second thing was the first year they went undefeated in dual meets and won

Photo courtesy of the 1974 Morris Catholic Yearbook

their league championship, which was the Paterson Diocesan Regional League. The second year, they won the Morris County title, but they didn’t win the state title, which kind of surprised me. For the last five years, they won numbers two through six in their county titles, they won five straight Parochial B titles, and two of those years they shut out the rest of the state in Parochial B.” Donahue says the 1974 and 1975 clubs

were special. “They were just all in,” he says, citing especially David Lamm (“Legendary,” he says), Marty Moratz, and Kevin Molteni among those who put the program “over the top.” “Totally committed,” Donahue says of the three and the rest of the team members. “And you have to have some talent; you can’t be talent-less.” Donahue is also quick to point out that Lamm, the Captain of the 1974 squad, was not a runner,

but a JV wrestler in a low weight class. In fact, he inherited quite a few of his runners from that realm. “Many of them (wrestlers) wear rubber suits and run continuous laps around the school to make weight. So, these kids are incredibly disciplined. They adapted very easily. And as soon as they got success, they were mine. So, David Lamm was a wrestler, and became just a tremendous runner.”

“I was on the ‘74 and ‘75 teams,” says Molteni. “I was a sophomore in ‘74. The camaraderie on that team was special, and the upperclassman talent was deep. ‘75 brought the pressure to continue the legacy with a younger band of characters. Somehow, we pulled it off. The word ‘Dynasty’ entered the campus lexicon.”

Donahue ran with the team almost every day and, according to Molteni, was faster than any of his runners. “He trained us hard and, out there on long runs, and during interval training at the edge of the anaerobic threshold, we transcended pain, and both honed our fitness, and forged our mental toughness.” Donahue, 70, and a member of the Morris Catholic Hall of Fame, was a 1971 graduate of Manhattan College who also took part in that school’s famed continued on page 12

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Comics Legend Hy Eisman... continued from page 8 course and made his dream come true,” the painter says.

And they are first generation Americans.

“I am the son of two immigrant parents and it makes me proud to be involved in this project about such a man for that reason,” he says. “I enjoy telling these stories of success and determination against all odds.”

The art professor’s connection to the legendary cartoonist goes way back — they first met when both were teaching at The Kubert School in Dover. Eisman started there in 1976.

“I knew there was something special about Hy Eisman when we had lunch in the teachers’ room,” Cutrone says. “I noticed that all the other teachers wanted to hear Hy speak and share his accounts of the early days of the comic industry.”

He had the same esteem for those he worked alongside during those formative years, as the teachers did for him, according to the painter.

“He educated us every day with exciting recollections of the comic industry,” Cutrone says.

Of the cartoon legend, the art professor calls him a multitalented virtuoso in many areas of comics and says nowadays, students often come to The Kubert School to specialize in an area of comics but only a handful become proficient in more than one aspect of this art form.

“Hy Eisman can do virtually everything himself,” says Cutrone. “At age 93, his hand is still steady enough to ink his own conceived storylines (and) he still has all of his wits about him, which allows him to make us guffaw at his cartoon humor.”

According to Eisman, doing a strip like Popeye, the basic gags were worked out years ago by the originator. What he does is a variation on the characters’ roles.

“Each character has a built-in role in the story,” the comics legend says. “And the story has certain set themes. Within that structure, Popeye goes fishing, he loves spinach, and he has an off and on relationship with Olive Oyl. Wimpy is the guy who’s always interested in hamburgers, Brutus is a menace, the Sea Hag is a witch, and so forth.”

He creates gags that fit the structure, then does drawings to illustrate the gags.

“The drawing and the gag are both important,” says Eisman. “Ideally, they should both be funny.”

He created his own impactful lettering and captures our attention with his very own, hand drawn compositions.

“This makes Hy Eisman extremely relevant to this day, as too many of us rely on a computer application to execute these things for us,” Cutrone says. “Hy never relied on a computer and he never had to. I

remember the day we were changing everything over to Google classroom at the school. As we left the meeting, I heard him say, ‘I think I just got Googled out of a job.’

Believe me when I say, that’s our loss.”

If you’re feeling nostalgic, luckily we’re treated to the cartoonist’s gifts to this day.

“Hy is still employed to draw, narrate and ink his two-syndicated stories,” says the painter. “There aren’t many comic artists in the world who can claim that. I don’t think there will be many like him in the future. It takes an immense talent to take those sour stories and turn them into unbiased life-lessons.”

The cartoon legend looks to the comic strips of yore.

According to Eisman, he read comics from the age of five and was inspired to become a cartoonist by Terry and the Pirates, Prince Valiant and Flash Gordon.

“Real drawing, real illustration,” he says.

“All along, I continued to look at the comics in the daily paper. But my inspiration came from the ones I grew up with.”

And Eisman has his process and tools down to a science.

“I first use a pencil to create the figures on the page, then ink them with pen and ink,” the comics icon says. “I do a rough composition in pencil of both the drawing and the words. This is on a plain sheet of 8 1/2 x 11 paper.”

He then transfers it to a 12 x 17 twoply sheet of heavy drawing paper (Bristol Board), using pen and ink, a T-square and triangle to set up the panels.

“It’s 100% rag paper — museum quality.

It stays white instead of yellowing, and the surface stays smooth after you erase on it.

This is important because after the inking is done, I erase the original pencil drawings.”

All his work is done in black and white, and the color is added later by the syndicate.

The decades long endurance and love for Eisman’s Popeye and The Katzenjammer Kids is directly due to the narrative ability and brilliance of Hy Eisman, since he is solely responsible for the charming story lines and all the artwork, start to finish, according to the art professor.

“That alone is an innate ability,” Cutrone says. “In a time when we sometimes seem to reward bad behavior with our attention, we should definitely make a point of thanking those who have put a smile on our face and took us to another place, even if for just a moment.”

The comics genius has always had a humble and unassuming way.

“It’s gratifying to learn of the impact I made in some people’s lives,” Eisman says of the documentary.

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Help Downtown Denville with the Downtown Denville Relief Fund

uring the pandemic, the non-profit Downtown Denville Business Improvement District (BID) created a fundraising effort to help support our lo-

cal downtown economy. Funds raised will award grants to several downtown Denville businesses, assist with funding community events to continue to re-energize downtown

The Great Denville Duck Race Is On....Virtually The Rotary Sunrise Club of Denville will be holding its annual Great Denville Duck Race on September 26th, however, during the pandemic it will be held virtually.

“The organizations biggest fundraiser has been holding the race for years and to skip one year would hurt our chances to do the great things we do for the community and internationally” boasts Jim LaSala, with Nancy Hess, co-presidents of the Club.

The Great Denville Duck Race has long been a favorite town tradition. While we’ve had to make some changes this year and move the fun online, we’ll still have a race and there will still be a Duck-o-Rating contest with great prizes and lots of chances to share your inspirations on Facebook and Instagram. Your purchase of a duck enters you in both the Virtual Race and the Decorating Contest while supporting Rotary’s great work. And as in every year, there will be a 50/50 contest. Last year’s winner won nearly $1,000.

The pandemic has brought about innovative ways to keep charities afloat. By creating it as virtual, one can stay socially distant and still be part of the fun from afar.

“Without this fundraiser, followed by the annual golf outing, we could not support, the police, fire department, town functions, Roots and Wings, the Massai Project, and so much more.” discusses Nancy Hess.

There are also sponsorship opportunities for the event from $200 – $1500 per sponsorship. This sponsorship will cover both Rotary the Duck race and our upcoming Golf Outing.

Stay tuned for more information about purchasing ducks and uploading your decorated duck picture, or email us at denvilleduckrace@gmail.com to buy a duck online, or to have a duck and/or 50/50 Duck dashed locally to your home, or to sponsor, please contact Rotarian Jeffrey Halpern, at 201.317.7527 or Jeffrey.halpern@randrealty.com And don’t miss the fun, virtually!

Denville, fund the implementation of new enhancements that adhere to new shopping guidelines, and offer recommendations and efforts to attract responsible commerce to the downtown. The economic impact of the State shutdown is staggering, and small town commerce had already been facing growing challenges over the past few years with the rise of corporate online giants like Amazon.

Now challenged with a near shutdown of the economy, downtown communities face an even larger struggle to re-open and regain the beautiful shopping, dining, professional and service experience it has always been.

The community’s support by donating to the Downtown Denville Relief Fund is crucial so it can continue to help small businesses, and continue to engage in beautification, capital improvement, and business recruitment projects all designed to make downtown Denville a great shopping and dining experience for its residents and visitors. Downtown Denville is an accredited member of the National Main Street Center, a partner program under Main Street New Jersey, and members of the Morris County Economic Development Center (MCEDC) and the Morris County Chamber of Commerce (MCCC).

Greatest Cross-Country Teams... continued from page 9 Cross-Country program. “TD (Tom Donahue) was well coached, and he applied that knowledge to our adolescent forms,” adds Molteni. “He gave us confidence to believe in our fitness, and mental toughness, and challenged us to employ those hard-earned weapons against our competition on the way to the finish line.”

“Morris Catholic’s rise to the top of the state was, at the time, kind of a shock to the other 35 (Morris County) high schools,” explains Donahue, “because it never even had a winning season. I was able to get the

kids to come out for the team in the early ‘70s. And the fact that we won six-consecutive county titles in Cross-Country as the smallest high school in the county was kind of unique.”

Molteni, now a pediatrician in Oregon, recalls that, after the 1975 season, the school purchased windbreaker jackets for the team with a custom logo that read: Morris Catholic X-C 1974-1975 Jersey’s Finest “It’s a pretty sweet memory,” says Molteni. “Thanks, Tom Donahue.”

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Rockaway Veterinarian Dr. Elizabeth Boggier Makes Childhood Vow to Help Fur Babies Live Their Best Lives

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By Jillian Risberg or someone who has always had an extraordinary soul connection with animals, it made perfect sense that Dr. Elizabeth Boggier went into overdrive when the Coronavirus hit close to home about how best to tend to the needs of her pet patients.

“Covid protocols have been put into place as per AVMA guidelines from the earliest of days,” says Boggier, owner of MountainView Veterinary Hospital. “PPE, strict sanitization

protocols, 24/7 ventilation systems in every room, curbside pickups for food and medication, virtual in-office visits conducted via Zoom, and expanding our telemedicine division are just a few of the many changes we’ve made to keep ahead of the pandemic.”

She calls the lockdown in March devastating.

“We were extremely fortunate to have been able to stay open Monday — Saturday through the pandemic and were not forced to lay anyone off,” says the veterinarian. “We do

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That sharp focus is what gets Boggier through veterinary medicine’s darkest moments.

Like when they had a pet come in who was extremely aggressive. After hospitalization, pain management and mild sedation, it became clear the pet had been severely beaten and suffered multiple contusions and blunt force trauma as continued on page 14

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Fur Babies Live Their Best Lives... continued from page 13 well as fractured ribs on BOTH sides of his chest.

“The bruising became more evident as the hours ticked by,” Boggier says. “This led to an investigation and subsequent arrest of a family member. We can only hope this helped at least one person escape a lifetime of physical abuse.”

Time and again the pet’s parents have spoken — with endless accolades for the vet, who they say always comes through.

“Dr. Boggier is far and away the best veterinarian,” says Nancy A., of Livingston. “First and foremost is her knowledge, medical expertise and demeanor. She has a true passion and love for her profession and it shows in her interactions with your beloved pets and with you.”

And what does Boggier feel makes her good at the job…

“Our pets speak to us all the time,” she says. “You just have to be still and listen.”

Her undeniable bond with animals dates back to childhood. Sure, the animals at the time were stuffed but nonetheless had a profound impact on the veterinarian’s young life.

“My stuffed animals were not just my friends, but the best of friends,” says Boggier. “They were always there when I needed a hug, or yearned to feel needed. I guess on

some level, I needed them as much as they needed me.”

According to Boggier, at the age of two Larry Lion was broken. A thoughtful babysitter offered to take Larry home for an “operation.” The vet still remembers feeling frightened for him, but her babysitter said not to worry, she’d take good care of him. The next day, Larry Lion came back home.

“It was at that moment, I knew I’d one day become a veterinarian and take care of other people’s much-loved best friends,” she says.

To follow her veterinary dream and see her practice come to fruition has been everything.

“I still remember the day I received the acceptance letter into veterinary school,” Boggier says. “Hands shaking, I thought about how this was going to change my life. I thank God for providing the opportunity to follow my passion as something deep inside my heart told me it was what I was meant to do.”

There’s nothing better than living your calling.

“You’d be hard-pressed to find a kinder veterinarian than Dr. Boggier,” says Melanie, of Rockaway. “Knowledgeable, sweet, attentive, caring… I could go on for days with adjectives but you get the point. She’s a true animal lover and it shows.”

The veterinarian says it’s extremely rewarding to sort out an issue for a pet patient.

“It’s a great joy when a client is aware of when their pet is ‘off’ or something just looks ‘different,’ Boggier says. “Early (cancer) diagnosis is key to long term survival and I am so very proud to be able to offer treatment options to our clients and their pets.”

She says the key is to avoid waiting on a problem until it is so advanced that the cost for resolution becomes considerable.

The vet’s compassion for her pet patients translates to every aspect of her practice.

“We provide Urgent Care until midnight Monday — Friday which allows both the team and the doctors to have competent help, as well as devote time to their families and mental well being,” Boggier says.

That means loving on her fur babies at home too.

“Fortunately, our three cats (S’Mores, EarGore and Manfred the dog) allow my family and our two dogs (Reagan the German Shepherd and Martha Mae the coonhound) to live in their house,” says the vet.

At MountainView Veterinary Hospital, she says they are more than a team, they’re family — and she has always offered her staff wise words.

“If at the end of the day, you can put your head on your pillow knowing you did what you thought was the right thing in your heart, I will always have your back,” Boggier says.

“This philosophy has never failed us.”

MountainView Vet is located at 101 US Highway 46 West, Rockaway. To learn more about MountainView Vet, visit www.mtnviewvets.com.

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Danceworks Finishes its 27th Season Strong… and Gears Up for Season 28!

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his spring was unlike any other at Danceworks, located on Route 53 in Denville. Like small businesses everywhere, the studio faced many new and unanticipated challenges as the world adjusted to life amid a global pandemic. When the Denville Public Schools announced a two-week closure in response to coronavirus, Danceworks quickly followed suit, wanting to be sure to

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do what was best for the dancers and families at the studio. During that time, it became apparent that life would not be the same for a long while.

Danceworks staff brainstormed ways to keep the dancers on track for their 27th annual recital, “Sweet Dreams”.

They were motivated to keep dance in the lives of the hundreds of students who needed this sense of normalcy

during an increasingly scary and unsettling time. Many platforms were considered including sending videos of class to the dancers, having the classes uploaded to a site for the dancers to access when they were able, and having live classes via a site like Zoom.

In the end, the studio decided to have a combination of continued on page 17

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Danceworks... continued from page 16 all of these resources so that the students could continue to rely on dance for normalcy, exercise and creative outlet. Within the first week, students were emailed their class’ routines for the recital and asked to practice at their normally scheduled dance times. Instructors videoed themselves explaining technique, choreography and spacing. They also smiled and gave their students small messages of encouragement to keep them going at home.

By week two, dancers had access to a private website full of resources. Each class had a link to their choreography for performance as well as warm ups, games, word searches, coloring pages and more! Dancers practiced at home and sent photos to the studio to show how proud they were of their progress. The dancers also participated in a studio-wide “TP Challenge” by recording a few seconds of themselves catching a roll of toilet paper, dancing, and throwing the roll “to the next dancer”. The montage was put to music and shared on the private website as well as social media.

By the end of the two-week initial closure, it was evident that things would not be returning to normal and the studio would not be able to open in the near future. So, Danceworks instructors turned to

Zoom to reconnect with their students and continue the season. At the studio, large monitors were installed in each dance room with web cameras and special microphones so that the instructors could see and hear their students well. Classes resumed according to their regular schedule and instead of physically coming to the studio, dancers logged into class from their living rooms, bedrooms, family rooms, kitchens and garages. It was a happy reunion!

Danceworks classes continued to work on their recital choreography as well as their dance technique via Zoom for the next three months, finishing their planned 33-week season strong at the beginning of June. Because their usual recital was not possible, the studio had planned a class-byclass in person recital at the end of June, but again plans were derailed as gatherings of that size were just beginning to be permitted. So Danceworks set the wheels in motion to put on a virtual recital via Zoom!

As the dancers prepared using their videos and website, Danceworks staff drove all over Morris County hand delivering trophies, plaques and medals to every dancer!

The dancers’ packets also included a printed program, a certificate of completion for their Zoom participation, and of course… some glittery stars.

Meanwhile, each dancer created a performance space in their home. Some went all out with decorations and balloons! Costumed and ready, the dancers logged into their Zoom classes and performed for the camera. Director, Christine Kohler edited each recorded number to improve sound quality and add the “Sweet Dreams” recital graphics. At the end of the video, each dancer was introduced individually and was able to show off their award… a special touch that never would have been possible during a live show! The videos were emailed to each class as a keepsake of this unusual season and unique performance.

As the studio prepares for the fall season, dancers are finally coming back to the studio in person! It is a long-awaited moment that will be one of the happiest in Danceworks history! Since the studio will need to operate at a limited capacity indoors, students will also continue to participate via zoom. Classes that exceed the maximum number of in-person dancers will rotate so that everyone who wishes can get a chance to dance in the studio on a regular basis. Students can also choose to participate in a 100% virtual fashion from home.

In preparation for the fall season, Danceworks has implemented many strategies in order to operate in our new normal. The

HVAC system has been outfitted with a UV light air purifying system. The studio is using environmentally-friendly, covid-approved sanitizing using an Ultra Low Volume sprayer between every class throughout the day. The studio will also be deep cleaned before classes each day. New traffic patterns will be implemented to streamline students’ entry and exit from the building.

A covid check will be performed at the door for each student. And Danceworks’ waiting room will remain closed for now to limit the number of people inside. Students will have social distancing markers on the floor and clear instruction regarding spacing. Classes will be modified with distancing in mind.

Danceworks is looking forward to getting back to business-as-usual and can’t wait to have the studio full of giggles and pirouettes once more. Danceworks has been operating in Denville since 1993. Owner and Director, Christine Kohler is certified by Associated Dance Teachers of New Jersey and Dance Masters of America. Students at Danceworks enjoy quality dance education from professional instructors in a supportive and non-competitive environment. If you would like to join Danceworks for their 28th season, please contact them at info@ danceworksdenville.com or visit their website at DanceworksDenville.com.

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Diary of a Scout Leader:

Meeting Mary, Once Again at Moe’s Sweet Shop

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By Richard Mabey Jr. Mary then asked me if I had finished painting Thorpe Hall, ur story so far: It is now Wednesday, late morning, on for my Eagle Scout project. I told her that I still had a long the twenty-fifth of June of 1969. I had just given my arways to go. Then, what Mary said to me, nearly caused me ticle, about what scouting meant to me, to Mr. Marino, to faint. Mary asked me if she wanted me to help her with the Editor-in-Chief of the Lincoln Park Journal. I was so very the painting. For one full second, I couldn’t believe my ears. I happy that Mr. Marino liked my article and told me that he tried not to stutter, when I told Mary that I would love to have planned on publishing in his next edition. her help me. Then Mary smiled, pulled out a napkin from the Now, as I walked up Boonton Turnpike, to Lincoln Park’s napkin holder on the table. She took a pen out of her pocket Main Street, I stood at a cross road of sorts. I had a quarter in book and wrote down her phone number. my pocket. I was deciding whether to save it or to walk over to “Here, call me, let me know when you want me to help Moe’s Sweet Shop and buy a comic book. My best friend, Stu, you paint,” was all Mary said as she handed me the napkin had called me last night and told me that the new 80 Page Githat she had written her phone number on. ant Batman comic book was now on the news stand at Moe’s “I’ll do that. Thank you, Mary,” I nervously replied.

Sweet Shop. After inwardly debating for a while, I decided to Then there was this big gap of silence. The other girls were walk over to Moe’s and buy the newest, big Batman comic holding back laughter. One of the girls actually began to gigbook. gle.

Moe’s Sweet Shop as it looked in 1969.

I opened the door to Moe’s Sweet Shop and there she was, I told Mary that I had come in to buy a comic book. Mary sitting at a table with a few of her friends, adorable Mary Tafano. They were either sipping and I said our goodbyes and I put the napkin in my shirt pocket. coffee or hot tea, I don’t know which it was. But, one thing that I do know, Mary looked inFrom the news stand, in the back of Moe’s Sweet Shop, I heard the girls giggling. Then credibly cute. My heart was beating like a big bass drum as I walked by her table and headed Joan, one of Mary’s close friends said, “boys are so stupid. Mary, doesn’t he get it that you to the back of the sweet shop, where the comic books were on display. like him?” I could see Mary looking over to me as I took the Giant Batman comic book from As I walked by her table, Mary looked at me, smiled and said hello to me. I sheepishly said the rack. hello back to her. Inwardly, I was shaking like a leaf. I made Barney Fife look cool, calm and “Oh, he gets it. He’s just very shy,” Mary said to her friend. When I overheard those words, collected. I had such a painful crush on Mary, but I thought for sure that she was dating the I think my heart actually stopped beating for a moment. I couldn’t believe it. Cute, sweet, cool cat, Tony Savorti. adorable Mary Tafano told her friends that she liked me.

“Richie, how’re you doing?” Mary asked me as I approached her table.

To be continued.

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I Remember Dad:

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By Richard Mabey Jr. here are moments in our lives where a single, solitary, seemingly mundane event, transpires to become a most monumental and sacred accomplishment in time. Such was the evening, back in the Summer of 1943, when my dad wrote a letter to his grandmother, Dora Dolson Mabey.

Dad wrote his letter to his grandmother from his bed inside the barracks at Hickam Air Field during World War II. Back then, the men of the United States Army Air Corps wrote letters on very, very thin paper to save on the cost of mailing.

I was only six years old when my great grandmother went Home to be with the Lord. But I still remember her talking about the letters that Dad wrote to her, when Dad was serving in the Seventh Army Air Corps during World War II. And one letter in particular had a profound effect upon my great grandmother.

I guess I was about four or five years old, when we used to visit Great Grandma Mabey at the old Mabey Homestead, in her stately living room. We lived in Clifton at the time. And, as a young child, I found the

Dad’s Letters to His Grandmother Mabey Homestead to be a most fascinating and enchanting place to visit. I had no idea, no clue, no indication that at the age of six, a most incredible and sacred turn of events would lead to the Mabey Homestead becoming my home for a long, long time.

Great Grandma Mabey had a rocking chair in her living room. She became a widow in 1936, at the age of 65, when my great grandfather, William Mabey, suffered a stroke and went Home to be with the Lord.

There was a loneliness that loomed deep in the eyes of Great Grandma Mabey.

In Dad’s legendary letter, that he wrote to his grandmother from Hickam Air Field, he shared with his grandmother, his heartfelt memories of his grandfather. Specifically, picking strawberries from Earl’s Meadow with his Grandpa. Of Dad walking down to the old Morris Canal with his grandfather.

And, very specifically, the time that Great Grandpa Mabey, Grandpa Mabey and Dad built the shed along Mabey Lane on Earl’s Meadow. It was a letter that my great grandmother dearly cherished.

I remember when I was seven years old and we were now living in the old Mabey Homestead. Dad let me climb the ladder to

A rare photograph of how the inside of the barracks of Hickam Air Field looked during World War II.

go into the attic with him. It was quite a big deal for a kid to climb up the attic ladder with his dad. I remember Dad asked me to help him look for the letters that he had written to his grandmother, while he was in the Army Air Corps. Sadly, we never did find the letters.

What became of Dad’s letters to his

grandmother is a great mystery, that at times still haunts me. My great grandmother was a very organized person. She had a very sensitive and caring heart. It’s just odd that the letters were lost.

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I Remember Dad... continued from page 19 was the long-distance truck driver, the Scoutmaster. He stood proud and loved his family and loved the Lord. Then, there was another side of my dad, that was a very sensitive and caring man. He secretly and quietly helped hundreds and hundreds of individuals; in the neighborhood, in his family, in scouts, in church, at work and in his community. My father had no tolerance for people taking advantage of him, but he would give the shirt off his back to someone in need.

I often wish that Dad and I had found the letters that he had written to his grandmother. It makes me very sad that they had gotten lost. I would have loved to have read my father’s recollections of his childhood, written when he was a young man at Hickam Air Field.

Life isn’t always fair. I cherish my ear-

ly childhood memories of Great Grandma Mabey sitting in her rocking chair, talking about Dad’s letters. It had a great affect upon me. I think it was a factor in my decision to become a writer. I remember how Dad’s letters had so deeply touched his grandmother. I realized then, at a very, very age, the uplifting power of words.

In dreams, I often go back to the memory of visiting Great Grandma Mabey. Of her talking about the letters that Dad had written her. And, specifically one very special letter where Dad shared with his grandmother, the fond memories that he held in his heart for his grandfather. O’ to turn back the pages of the calendar, for even just a few hours.

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It Happened In Our Town: Denville Goes Back to School… in the 1890s.

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By Peter Zablocki ids have been going to school in Denville since the year 1774. Back then, if the youngsters wanted a day off, someone would drop a piece of damp leather that would burn with a terrible odor into the charcoal pot in the fireplace within the one-room schoolhouse… Today, there is a bigger foe keeping them away from their regular learning schedules.

Whether it was missing school because of the Polio epidemic, or the Spanish Influenza, or the lack of coal to heat the building during the Great Depression or World War II, Denville students always made the best of it; and just like now, they never gave up. This is for our students, teachers, administrators, and staff out there who continue to make Denville proud…

The following is a firsthand account of attending the Union Hill School House in the 1890s – from the Denville Historical Society’s collection.

“As an eight-year-old boy, I attended a one room school in Denville Township. The school was in the Union Hill Section. We called it “Pigeon Hill” then. Miss Adelaide Hance was the teacher. She had 45 pupils and the grades were pre-primer (now kindergarten) through eight.

We used slates in those days. Some of the girls and ‘fancy boys’ had sponges tied to the frame with string, but most of us just brought a rag from home. The ‘dainty’ ones wet the sponges or rags in the proper way and from the proper source, but many of us used a quicker method. I think I need say no more, but I must add that eventually things were pretty ‘smelly.’

Seats and desks were ‘doubles’ – that is two sat together. Often a younger child was seated along with an older one so that he could be helped with his work.

The mid-morning recess was not for play. Two of the bigger boys went to the house next door and drew a bucket of water. I must tell you that this was truly an ‘old oaken bucket.’ Two of them, in fact, operated on a pulley wheel and chain. We let the bucket down until we heard a splash, then hand over we pulled it to the edge of the little well house, dumped the cool stuff into our pail, and trundled back across the field to school. Once back in the school room, the boys took the tin dipper from a nail and passed up and down the aisles until everyone had had his drink. I never tasted better water…

Noon hour was another matter. At the dismissal signal, the boys dashed outside to the coal bin. That was our favorite seat for the lunch hour. There would be a mad scramble to see how many could get a seat on the roof of the bin.

More than one scarp, with fists flying took place between contenders for the honor.

After lunch we would go down the hill to play in the [Den] brook… it was an ideal place to cool off on a hot day.

One day we decided to build a raft and go sailing. Two or three railroad ties from the mill race made a good foundation. For boards we tore apart the old water wheel which had at one time powered the paper mill. Nails had to be brought from home – but then all boys had pockets…

Sometimes we didn’t hear the bell and so we would be late for the afternoon session. When this happened too often, we’d post a lookout to give the signal. I can’t remember

being punished especially. Maybe the teacher didn’t relish our wet clothes and shoes. In the wintertime, a pot-bellied stove afforded the only heat. Those near it were in the tropics, those by the walls, in Greenland. Monday mornings found the ink frozen, so we would have to wait for it to thaw before doing our copybooks… About the year 1897, the teacher told us to take out slates home and leave them.

Modern times had come! We were to have paper and pencils!

There were no buses in those days. In the winter when the deep snows came, my father drove his team (of horses) and a pie-shaped wooden snowplow ahead of us to make a ‘track.’ Most of us walked from one to two miles to school…

The District Clerk, who was John Finnigan, Sr. at the time, came in once in a while to quiz the class…

There was but one teacher, but we respected her and she must have loved us and her job for we all gradated and took our places in society quite successfully. Perhaps the greatest lesson we learned was that leaning is not confirmed to the walls of any buildings but that it goes on and on as long as we live.”

You can still visit the very same one-room schoolhouse described in this story. After it was restored to its former glory by the Denville Historical Society, the school proudly stands in its original location on Openaki Road. We are also currently in the process of collecting funds to restore its sister school, the 1908 Union School House, directly across the street. Please contact us at info@denvillemuseum.org if you would like contribute to that endeavor.

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Humor Columnist Laverne Bardy Releases New Collection

n a time where we could all use a few laughs comes “Driving Backwards on a One-Way Street: A Savvy Senior’s Map to Finding Humor in Everything,” from the irreverent mind of New Jersey humor columnist Laverne H. Bardy.

Featuring 71 of the humorist’s favorite columns, “Driving Backwards on a One-Way Street” explores aging in America with a delightfully wicked humor and wit that appeals to any age. Divided into themes like “Oops!”, Bardy, who lives in Green Township by Newton, explores topics both timely and timeless.

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These stories will appeal to both.

Readers of a certain age will relate to the struggles of getting older while finding solace that they aren’t alone in finding themselves in embarrassing situations: Take, for example, flirting with a young, handsome waiter only to have him retrieve your walker a few moments later.

Meanwhile, readers of a younger age will learn just what they’re in for, like realizing that retired life might not be so glamorous as one thought: “What he loves most is going out for breakfast. Every morning. It was a treat the first 253 times…”

Bardy captures life’s little quips in a way that might

even make some readers blush. After a DNA test, she phoned her friend: “Elsa,” I said. “You’ll be surprised to learn I have a little Scandinavian in me.” “Size doesn’t matter,” she said.

“What’s important is that he’s kind to you.”

With content like this streaming from her fingers, it’s surprising to know that Bardy hadn’t always dreamed of being a humor columnist.

“I never consciously thought about writing a column, I just knew I enjoyed writing,” she said of the origins of her column, which for many years now has been nationally syndicated. “All my life I’ve been told that I am funny. It was early on, while the children were all in school, and I was sitting with a group of friends around my kitchen table, that I realized each of the stories we were relating were similar. And, they were funny.”

At the time, she was in charge of a PTA newsletter at her children’s school, so she began cataloguing everyday, relatable events and putting her unique touch to them.

Eventually she submitted a few columns to a local newspaper. They were accepted and her “career” as a columnist officially began. Decades later, she’s still at it.

“I can’t imagine ever starting a day without paying a visit to my office, sitting in front of my computer, and writing something. Anything,” she said of her passion.

“Writing is one of few occupations that a person can continue doing clear into senility.”

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Millburn Resident Selflessly Spearheads Town-wide Initiative to Make Masks

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By Jillian Risberg hen COVID-19 hit, Carisa Reilly knew she didn’t want to sit idly doing nothing. So the real estate broker and mom of three transformed into the powerhouse ‘Mask Lady.’

It all started with an email chat on Millburn/Short Hills WorkMom group, where several healthcare professionals mentioned they were desperate for masks. “And somebody said, ‘Can’t we just make these’ and Reilly said, ‘Oh my Gosh, yes.’”

So they started researching CDC-approved patterns and materials.

“There was a suggestion to put an extra filter in the mask,” says the real estate broker. “Like when you make the mask for nurses and hospital staff it needs to be more than just fabric and they really like to use those Swiffer (dry dust cloths) ‘cause they are electrostatic, so that’s what we did.”

“I literally bought the town out of Swiffer,” she says.

“People donated hundreds of Swiffers, fabric and elastic and I found nose guards that I could put in.”

David Merdinger, who owns a wholesale fabric supply (NJ Textiles) generously supplied them with hundreds of yards of fabric and elastic for masks and scrub caps, according to Reilly.

“We could not have done this without him,” she says. “He truly made all the difference.”

It was Merdinger’s wife who forwarded him Carisa’s email detailing what she was doing and he jumped right in.

“I saw it as an opportunity to help her, our community and our local hospitals,” he says. “I’m glad I was able to do my share. We have to thank Carisa for coordinating all the facets of this remarkable project.”

Several people in town had sewing machines but didn’t know how to use them.

“So we tried to organize, if you don’t know how to sew — donate fabric, cut fabric and elastic, assemble the pieces,” Reilly says. “It became very quickly a cottage industry, it was like managing a small factory remotely.”

That meant the real estate broker constructed the masks anywhere she could — in her basement, garage, bedroom, living room.

And she had help from her twin daughters, Madeline

and Abigail and many devoted volunteers. The group collectively called themselves The Mask Makers for NJ Workers, who would drop off their finished products at Reilly’s house.

“Because at that point really what we were focused on was protecting our essential workers and our vulnerable people and our social services,” says The Mask Lady. “And we made hundreds for our civil servants in town and Department of Public Works and all of our municipal workers.”

Reilly says the community was amazingly supportive.

“There were maybe 10 of us sewing these at home and we were being told publicly it’s actually probably a really good idea (to wear a mask),” she says. “So I was an early adopter of wearing a mask.”

For most of us, it’s the first time faced with a global threat like the Coronavirus. When Governor Murphy abruptly stopped school for thousands of Garden State kids, Madeline spent the bulk of her spring break in the garage helping her mom make masks.

She says she doesn’t really feel safe.

“It’s still kind of dangerous to go out and stuff,” the 16-year-old says, with The Mask Lady adding that they’ve tried to be pretty careful.

“It’s been hard for everybody but especially for kids it’s really changed their lives,” Reilly says.

By the end of March, early April she realized they’ve got to employ seamstresses because trying to produce 50/ masks a day on their own wasn’t going to cut it and there were healthcare workers who urgently needed them.

She reached out to Millburn Mayor Jackie Lieberberg, who offered her invaluable support. Next step was to raise $2,400.

“I put in $600 of my own money,” the real estate broker says. “In a week we had about $5000 or $6,000. That enabled us to crank them out. The goal was 1,200 (masks) in seven days. We did 1,200 in like 14 days and just had to keep doing them.”

According to Lieberberg, at the very beginning of the pandemic she had the opportunity to highlight folks who were doing exceptional work in town. That included Reilly, whose community-wide effort to make masks spanned

the healthcare workers, first responders and those exposed through their dedicated work with the public.

“It took a village but Carisa hired the sewers, sourced the material, employed people,” the mayor says. “I mean it was incredible what she did — really singlehandedly, running around delivering fabric, people donating fabric, and she perfected her craft. With each batch it got better and better. They’re (the masks) unique; I give her a tremendous amount of credit and she has another day job.”

And it wasn’t just Millburn, says Lieberberg. The real estate broker’s face coverings also went to an underserved population that otherwise wouldn’t have had access to face masks.

“It’s very gratifying that her generosity had no boundaries,” the mayor says.

By Executive Order towards the end of April all essential workers and frontline workers had to wear masks and if you were in a store you were required to wear a mask.

“Now we have a whole new group of people who need masks and it was still really hard to find them,” Reilly says.

“So we had to develop a different kind of mask because what we were doing for healthcare workers was very protective but also quite hot to have three full layers on your face.”

She and the Mask Makers felt they needed to regroup.

“So we came up with a completely different design that was two layers of fabric, lightweight, much easier to make,” says The Mask Lady. “And it was really important to me and still is to source as much as we could locally.”

They have produced more than 3,000 masks and scrub caps thus far. And she is involved in a Millburn/Short Hills volunteer gardening project, one more way The Mask Lady is giving back and making a difference.

Looking ahead, the real estate broker is also planning to take part in an initiative on Alignable.com called #mymoneystayslocal, which involves being a leader in the community to encourage people to support local businesses and services whenever possible.

She has a dedicated GoFundMe page and for further information, contact themasklady2020@gmail.com.

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NJStarz Kendra Goodwin Hometown: Randolph, NJ A young Kendra Goodwin – Kendra Goodwin

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By Steve Sears endra Goodwin (Allen), popular ice skater and ice dancer from the late 1990s and early to mid2000s, never competed in an actual Olympic Games.

However, she has “lived it” through her husband Jeremy, he was a coach at the 2018 Olympics in South Korea. “I guess I got to live it vicariously through him,” she states with a chuckle, “so that was pretty cool.

Just because my husband and I have this shared passion because he was a paired skater himself – we met through figure skating at the training center at the University of Delaware – and the rest is history. So, going to the Olympics, whether as a coach or as an athlete, that was just a huge moment for us as a family.”

Goodwin’s life has been rewarding. She has her family, her job as a high school Speech and Language Pathologist, and many rich memories of when she performed with some outstanding partners, they pairing their skating talents with hers to attain lofty heights.

The 37-year-old Goodwin has been married since 2010, and she and her husband have two children: 6-year-old daughter Kajsa, and a two-year-old son, David. “That’s what I’ve always wanted, a family,” she

says. “We all just love each other. That’s number one.”

Her job is number two. “Working with adults with disabilities, I’m so thankful I attained my master’s degree and focused on school.” She did have to leave competitive ice dancing, but if she didn’t, she wouldn’t have been (in her words, complete). “There was something else that I wanted in life other than figure skating. I’m very happy that I was successful in doing that.”

Goodwin was adopted after birth from Indonesia

by Tom and Cecilee Goodwin of Randolph. “I try to go home as much as I can,” says the Illinois-located Goodwin. Goodwin, who also has a sister, Anya, attended the University of Delaware, majored in Psychology, and minored in Linguistics, and received her Master’s in Speech Pathology from Northwestern University.

She teaches at Mundelein High School in Mundelein, Illinois.

Goodwin reflects with much gratitude about her younger days in Randolph. “I remember that it was a very safe community, very easy to walk around by myself – my best friend, Meredith and myself would spend hours outside and go to the beach right on our lake (Shongum Lake) and we’d just ride our bikes around for hours. Again, it was a very safe community;

Kendra Goodwin and Brent Bommentre perform - Jonathan Ferry/Getty Images

my parents never had to worry while we were out during the day. I remember doing Indian Princesses with my Dad. Indian Princesses is probably one of my fondest memories with my Dad, where we were able to do the camping trips and go hiking together with their (her friends’) Dads, and that was very enjoyable.”

Her Mom and Dad started Goodwin and her sister off in group skating classes at Mennen Arena when she was 5 years old. “My parents supported us fully,” she says, “and you have to have a lot of commitment for the sport, so we did decide to eventually go with just figure skating. I was doing dance as well as gymnastics, and then the figure skating all at one time, and we had to get to that point where we had to choose one.” Goodwin says that is one of the things she likes about her parents, is the fact that they exposed her to many things. She now does the same for her own children. “I think because of that my parents were very supportive, putting everything into figure skating for us. Without that support, I never would have gone as far as I have gone.” Goodwin fondly recalls her Dad, suit on for work, driving her to early morning practices at 6 a.m., where she would skate for a couple of hours and then head to Center Grove Elementary School. “That was every morning for me,” she remembers. She also did camps and skating camps in Canada, Colorado, and Lake Placid.

In middle school she discovered ice dancing, which she describes as “Ballroom on ice.” “I started ice dancing with my coaches at Mennen Arena – Colleen O’Connor and John Powell – they really got me into the ice dance part of it. You’re going to be with somebody when you’re out there competing out on the ice. That’s what I liked: the idea of being out on the ice with somebody else, practicing with them and performing with them, and not just being alone out there.” She continues, “The ability to express, that is a huge thing in ice dance.

I’m really very naturally introverted to be honest with you, and I think growing up with skating as a commitment kind of made it harder for me socially, so partnering was a huge social outlet for me where I was able to express artistically as well as socially, having somebody with me and learning that way.” continued on page 26

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NJ Stars: Kendra Goodwin...

continued from page 25 Goodwin’s initial two national pairings were with Paul Goldner and Ty Cockrum.

Her Mom, seeking an ice dance partner for Kendra, sent her photo to all the coaches around the United States. “I tried out with Paul first and it went really well. We developed a partnership. I was a freshman, I believe, in middle school, and our Moms drove us everywhere. He was from New York and I was from New Jersey; his Mom would drive 45 minutes to an hour to meet us in New Jersey, and then vice-versa we would go up to New York.” Cockrum was a little further away – Seattle, Washington. “We went out there, and the trial went really well,” Goodwin says. “The coach was great, and my parents were willing to give me the opportunity to let me move out to Seattle when I was 16 (she was a high school junior) to pursue ice dancing with Ty.” It was a culture change for her. “Not the typical teenage life,” she says with a laugh. “I grew up really quickly.”

Goodwin’s greatest success came with partner Chris Obzansky. Competing in the junior level, the duo captured 1st place in the 2000 Junior Grand Prix event in China, and they were also the 2001 United States Junior National silver medalists, and also finished 15th at the 2001 World Junior Figure Skating Championships. It was quite a run of success, and then the partnership bond was broken when Obzansky chose to serve as a Mormon missionary. “It was huge,” she says of their parting. “It really opened up my eyes to understanding his faith, in general just understanding the commitment in-

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volved. Not only did Chris have figure skating, but he also had his faith and religion, and I had to respect that. I couldn’t be mad at him for anything about it. I was very upset, but this was something that he felt he needed to do at that moment and time, and it was hard – it was definitely a challenge for me because of the sacrifices I had made with moving around, with moving to Delaware to skate with Chris. There’s a lot of sacrifice that goes into this sport, and a lot of times the girls sacrifice more so than the boys, because there are more girls that are looking for partners than boys. I felt like we were at a pivotal moment in our career, but there was nothing I could’ve done about it.

It was something Chris really wanted, and I had to support that.”

“At that time, we really could’ve been a very strong team nationally and internationally as we grew up if we had had a longer partnership.”

News spread of Goodwin’s seeking a new partner, and she found one in Brent Bommentre, whose close proximity to Goodwin’s Delaware (he was in Philadelphia) was perfect. And that wasn’t all. “I think our personalities really went well together,” Goodwin says. “Brent is very personable, he’s very friendly, very outgoing, very funny. I really appreciate humor, so there was a lot of laughing in our partnership.”

And serious skating as well. The team won a pewter medal at the 2004 United States Championships and also took part in 2004 Skate America and the 2004 Cup of Russia.

“I felt like it was a very positive experience

Jeremy Allen and Kendra Goodwin Allen and their children, Kajsa and David – Kendra Goodwin

with Brent.”

The partnership disbanded early in 2005, and Obzansky rejoined Goodwin on the ice for the rest of 2005 and 2006, and then Bommentre was back in 2008. “I feel like I really grew a lot through those partnerships,” she says, “even though there were many of them.” Her parents were fonts of wisdom once more, telling her that from each partnership she’d learn something new, and the same thing with the coaches.

“I really like that philosophy of not being fearful and just giving it a try and doing the best you can under those circumstances.”

Goodwin still occasionally laces on her skates. “I do – yes, I do,” she says with glee.

“I work very part-time and I do have a couple of students that I work with.”

Although inspired by fellow skaters in her life, her parents are tops to her. “Especially now that I am a parent, just looking back at everything that they did for me and for skating, and the trust that they must’ve had (for me) as a teenager moving out to Seattle on my own, I think that really promoted that hard work ethic and that really supported the belief in me and gave me more confidence. They trusted me and respected that and they knew I was going to be responsible and make good decisions.

Because of that, I grew as much as I did.”

Items to Include in College Students’ Quarantine Bags

illions of parents dropped their children off on college campuses for the start of a new school year in August. While that might not stand out in a normal year, 2020 has proven to be anything but normal.

Many colleges and universities grappled with how to approach the 2020-21 academic year as the world continued to battle the COVID-19 outbreak. Some schools chose to offer only remote learning and keep kids off campus entirely, while others offered in person classes and welcomed students back to campus. Still others created hybrid learning plans that combined remote learning with in person sessions.

Regardless of which option schools ultimately chose, it’s fair to say that many recognized the potential that the pandemic could once again upset the academic apple cart after the semester began, forcing students and educators to adjust to fully remote learning in much the same way they did back in March. In addition to that potential outcome, students who returned to campus must be prepared to enter quarantine if they or a friend, classmate or roommate tests positive for COVID-19. In anticipation of that, it pays for students to prepare quarantine bags in case they need to isolate

themselves at any point during the semester.

Clothing Few college students have exclusive access to washers and dryers in their dorm rooms or apartments. Shared laundry rooms will likely be off limits while students are under quarantine, so make sure to pack enough clothing to get through two weeks of isolation. Take inventory of your supply of pajamas, underwear and socks and purchase more if necessary.

Food and cooking supplies College students accustomed to eating their meals at the dining hall food may need to prepare their own meals while in quarantine. Stock up on nonperishable items, such as pasta, soup, rice, and cereal, that can be stored in your room for long periods of time without expiring. Bottled water can help you stay hydrated should you feel ill, while decaffeinated tea can help you stay warm should you feel chills. Bring along a mini refrigerator, a toaster or toaster oven, a tea kettle, some pots and pans, bowls and plates, and utensils as well.

Medical supplies Extra masks are a must-have when returning to campus,

and they can help students make it through quarantine as well. Masks can be worn when using restrooms or showers, even if students are attending schools that plan to isolate people who test positive in buildings that cannot be accessed by non-infected community members.

In addition to extra masks, make sure you have enough daily medical supplies, such as toothpaste, shampoo, body lotion or soap, deodorant, tissues, and disinfectant, to last through quarantine, which is typically no less than two weeks.

Technology While in quarantine, students will want to stay connected to the outside world and parents will no doubt want to check in as often as possible to see how their children are faring.

A reliable laptop, desktop or tablet can ensure students can chat with family and friends and even stay up-to-date with their schoolwork via the Zoom conferencing app. A backup phone charger also can make sure students stay connected throughout their quarantine period.

Quarantine bags can help students returning to college campuses this fall safely navigate their time in isolation.

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Half the Fun is Getting There

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By Laverne H. Bardy ur plane was scheduled to take off momentarily. My cousin and I stood at the airline counter and presented proof of who we are. I showed the photo on my license. Phyllis had a passport. The airline attendant looked at Phyllis’ passport, then at Phyllis, then back at the passport.

“This picture doesn’t look like you,” she snarled.

Wise-guy that I am I said, “Oh, pulleeease, nobody looks like their passport picture, thank goodness.”

“No,” she grunted. “This doesn’t look like you.”

She held up the passport. By George, she was right. The picture looked nothing like Phyllis, because she’d brought her husband’s passport by mistake.

Phillis and I doubled over with laughter, but stopped abruptly when the attendant informed us Phyllis could not enter the plane without photo identification. Me swearing that she really was Phyllis didn’t alter her decision.

Sweat formed on Phyllis’ forehead as she foraged through her purse, and came up with her Costco photo ID card. The attendant squinted, examined the picture, then waved us through, which neither of us understood because her husband’s passport picture looked more like Phyllis than her Costco photograph.

Because ours were last minute reservations we were stuck in the last row, next to the rest rooms. The seats were tight and

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ggs are for everyone, including babies and toddlers, according to the 2020 Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee that released its Scientific Report outlining nutritional recommendations for Americans.

For the first time, this committee, comprised of leading doctors and nutrition scientists, included nutritional guidance for younger children.

The committee recommends eggs as a first food for babies and toddlers since they provide eight essential nutrients that can help build a healthy foundation for life at a time when every bite counts.

Eggs provide nutrition for children and moms-to-be, as well. However, the report found most pregnant women and kids need more choline – an essential nutrient critical for brain health – in their diets.

According to research published in the “Journal of the American College of Nutrition,” 92% of pregnant women don’t get enough choline in their diets. Choosing foods high in choline, like eggs, can help pregnant women consume enough of this essential nutrient, helping a baby’s brain and

didn’t lean back. My knees narrowly missed touching my nose. It was hot. Suddenly, I didn’t feel well. I told Phyllis I needed to remove my tight, restricting bra or I was going to be sick. I asked her to cover me.

I had the window seat; Phyllis was on the aisle. She looked around and said all was clear.

I leaned as far forward as I could – which wasn’t far considering how close my seat was to the one in front of me – and unhooked my bra. Then, I worked magic in the most discrete way possible as I reached into the jacket’s sleeves, and bent each elbow in a way that allowed me to slip my bra straps over them. Once my shoulders were free, I reached under the front of my jacket and pulled the bra out. A pretty smooth operation, if I do say so.

Suddenly Phyllis, who had been standing in the aisle, concealing me from other passengers, fell over her seat and laughed so hard and for so long she was unable to catch her breath. The flight attendant came by and asked if there was something she could do, but Phyllis was incoherent.

Our goal had been to avoid attention, but instead we’d become the center of attraction. Everyone was looking. Everyone, while Phyllis continued laughing.

Finally, gasping, she gathered her wits.

“A man was behind me, in the out-cove between the restrooms. He must have been in the restroom when you began your strip, and came out in time to enjoy your entire act. By the time I realized he was there, your

puppies had already been freed.”

I was mortified. I wanted to fall through a hole in the plane. But, suddenly, I rethought the situation. I wasn’t going to let it bother me. I had done this man a service. Because of me he had a great story to share with his buddies; one I was certain he would embellish.

In the meantime, I couldn’t figure out how to leave the plane without him seeing me. Then I realized he probably never saw my face.

I had purchased an Easy-Pass ticket Online. When I arrived at the airport I brought my ticket to an Easy-Pass check-in machine and answered the prompted questions. One question stumped me so I asked a desk attendant for assistance. She requested identification. I reached under the top of my scoop neck blouse and whipped out my license and credit card, where I’d filed them for easy access. The attendant laughed loudly, and informed all surrounding attendants of my efficient filing system. I enjoyed a laugh with them and left for the plane.

Ten minutes later, while in the Ladies Room I heard the following on the loud speaker: Will Laverne Bardy please return to the check-in counter for her license and credit card, on which she can expect to find several new charges for the Home Shopping Network?

Laughing all the way, I retrieved my card from the same woman who had assisted me a few moments earlier.

It was time to enter the plane. A male

voice announced that passengers with an F or a B code on their tickets would be subject to security checks. I had neither an F or a B, but that same attendant was now standing at the gate with a security guard who was clutching a wand and pointing it at me.

“Why me? I asked. I don’t have an F or a B on my ticket.”

“Because we like you,” he smiled.

The attendant, with a huge grin, instructed the guard to pay special attention to my chest because knowing my penchant for storing things there, I could have a concealed weapon.

By now I was laughing hysterically, the attendant was howling and the guard, who was frisking me with his wand, was loving his assignment.

On my return trip, I lost my license in the airport. An armed guard found it but refused to return it unless I gave him my phone number. What could I do? He had a gun.

Laverne Bardy is the author of “Driving Backwards on a One-Way Street: A Savvy Senior’s Map to Finding Humor in Everything.”

How to order the book, as well as general information about Laverne, can be found at lavernebardy.com.

Eggs as a Nutrient-Rich ‘First Food’ spinal cord develop properly. Just two eggs provide more than half of the recommended daily amount of choline.

At only 70 calories, one egg contains 6 grams of high-quality protein and all nine essential amino acids. Eggs are also a source of vitamin B12, biotin (B7), iodine, selenium, high-quality protein, riboflavin (B2) and pantothenic acid (B5). Additionally, eggs contain lutein and zeaxanthin that can help protect your eyes from harmful blue light that comes from electronic devices.

The committee recommends introducing eggs when your baby is ready for first foods, which may help reduce the chances of developing an egg allergy.

In Your Kitchen Eggs are a nutritional powerhouse that contribute to health and well-being at every age, and there are plenty of ways to enjoy eggs beyond the basic boiled, scrambled or sunny-side-up. In fact, eggs work well in meals all day long. Toss hard-boiled eggs in a salad, top a sweet potato with an egg for lunch or try a spinach and mushroom frittata for dinner.

One simple way to introduce eggs as a first food is a soft and fluffy egg casserole.

You can also incorporate veggies for some added nutrition, since eggs can help you better absorb the nutrients found in vegetables, such as vitamin E and carotenoids like lutein and zeaxanthin.

You can adapt a Veggie Egg Casserole to your child’s development and motor skills by cutting small squares or making a simple mash.

Find more kid-friendly recipes and advice about introducing eggs to your youngest family members at EggNutritionCenter.org.

Veggie Egg Casserole Recipe developed by Stacey Mattinson, RD Prep time: 20 minutes Cook time: 40 minutes Servings: 4 Nonstick cooking spray 1/2 sweet onion 1 red, yellow or orange bell pepper 1 head broccoli florets 2 teaspoons canola, avocado or olive oil 1 dozen eggs 2 cups low-fat cottage cheese

1 cup shredded cheese 1 teaspoon baking powder 1 tablespoon flour salt, to taste pepper, to taste Preheat oven to 350 F. Grease 9-by-13inch pan with nonstick cooking spray.

Chop onion and bell pepper to age-appropriate sizes. Pick apart broccoli florets into small pieces and remove most of stems.

Heat medium-sized frying pan over medium heat. Add oil and swirl around pan.

Add onions and cook 3-4 minutes until they start to soften. Add broccoli and bell pepper.

Mix with onions and add salt and pepper, to taste. Cook 1-2 minutes then cover with lid to steam another 2-3 minutes until broccoli is bright green. Remove veggies from stovetop.

In large mixing bowl, beat eggs. Add cottage cheese, shredded cheese, baking powder and flour. Add veggies and salt and pepper, to taste. Transfer to prepared pan and bake 40 minutes.

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