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East Hanover’s Johnny Kinney Inspires and Amazes

BY ALEXANDER RIVERO STAFF WRITER

EAST HANOVER - We are so much more than the sum of our parts. But if we took the parts of East Hanover native Johnny Kinney, summed them up, and multiplied them by the power of ten, he’d probably be more than even that number as well.

In November of 2020, after feeling a pain in his kneecaps while playing football, Johnny’s orthopedic surgeon found a tumor in his femur bone while conducting a rudimentary X-ray. Within twenty-four hours, that surgeon had contacted a colleague of his at Morristown Medical Center (MMC), and a couple of days later, Johnny was fitted by hospital staff with an immobilizing brace on that leg. In just a matter of a few days, the Kinney family’s life was turned upside down. A competitor by nature, Johnny spent weeks with a broken femur bone without telling anyone, and without anyone finding out.

“We had no idea,” says his mother, Gayle Kinney. “He has always handled pain extraordinarily well.”

The week after the original diagnosis, Johnny started chemotherapy, and by March of 2021, he had limb-saving surgery—a ten-hour procedure that for Johnny took seventeen

hours. The saving of his leg was a major concern for him and his family, and they were all relieved at the success of the operation.

“There were lots of complications with the loss of bloodflow to the leg, which would have turned his bone into a prosthetic bone if the blood flow couldn’t be restored,” says Gayle, “and over the next three days he had an additional three surgeries. But now we’re at a year later, and he still has his leg.”

Declared cancer-free on November 1, 2021, Johnny had his follow-up scans in early February 2022 to find that the cancer had metastasized into his right lung. On February 22, he went in for a thoracotomy on that lung. At the time of this writing, he is awaiting the same procedure to be done on his left lung, and after this, he will undergo another scan to show that the lungs are clear. The Kinney family will be proceeding with an immunotherapy medication, which has a much more positive outlook on patients with metastization of cancer cells into the lungs.

None of this, however, is enough to deter Johnny for a second. Both his parents and sister are extraordinarily proud

of him, not only for being able to pull through, but for doing so in such a heroic and unfazed manner.

“My son—the strength he has is simply inspirational to us as parents,” says John Kinney IV, Johnny’s father. “I feel I’ve become a better man in this entire process, that I should be the man he is. As a child, he just doesn’t have that fear. He just takes it all in stride. He assures us that everything is going to be just fine. He’s very candid.

He tells us not to worry.”

A passionate sports enthusiast, Johnny cites riding a bicycle again as a primary long-term goal he is striving to achieve. He counts Domino’s pizza and chocolate cake as some of his favorite foods, and basketball and football as his favorite sports to not only play but to watch, and study.

“He knows about the leagues, the history of the sports, the all-time greats,” says his mother. “He’s literally a genius when it comes to those things. And it’s impressive.”

Throughout this difficult journey, the community of East Hanover has gone above the call of duty in supporting the Kinney family, delivering everything from cards and posted notes on their doorstep

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to homecooked meals. The police department had a ramp installed to the Kinneys’ front door so that Johnny can access it with his wheelchair.

John says, “Throughout all of this, we’ve been completely overwhelmed by this community’s generosity. I can’t say it enough. If not for this township’s support, I don’t know where we would be. Knowing we have a homecooked meal waiting for us on any given one of these nights, knowing that there is a whole group of people legitimately concerned about what is going on and on what they can do to help us, all of this allows us to function, to go to work.”

Gayle adds, “It may sound silly, but all those random cards and messages—they mean a lot. That’s what helps me. To know that there’s a whole group of people out there thoughtful enough to keep us in mind and show that kind of support.”

Both John and Gayle Kinney made it a point to mention their younger daughter, Madelin, and the extent to which she has had to endure the arduous process of the last year.

Her mother calls her a “warrior child”, and her father is quick to point that she has been “struggling right there along-

side us the whole way.”

Marisa Jones, a close friend of the Kinneys, started up a Facebook page called “We Are Johnny Strong”, and documents the Kinneys’ heroic journey throughout the previous year. The page also shares pictures of Johnny and loved ones as they participate in a myriad of activities.

Asked what we can do to

help, Gayle is quick to respond: “More prayers, cards, messages. To know that there are so many people wishing us well in this difficult time helps more than anyone can ever know.

But if there is one thing that we do need is more prayers.”

To donate to the Go Fund Me, visit gofundme.com/f/zuj2xn-johnny-strong.

FLORHAM PARK - The Florham Park Special Services Department continued its excellent parent outreach and engagement and presented a parent lunch and learn, “Under Pressure: High Aca-

demic Achievement and Middle School Mental Health” on February 15th. District staff, along with Care Plus partner Veronica Chavarria, MSW, Licensed Clinical Social Worker, presented this important and

engaging workshop to parents and community members. The Special Services Department continues to provide targeted and meaningful training to parents and the community.

EAST HANOVER - The East Hanover Community Partnership is pleased to announce it will sponsor East Hanover’s Spring Restaurant Week that will take place from Saturday, April 30 through Friday, May 6, 2022. East Hanover Restaurant Week serves as an opportunity for Restaurants, Pizzerias, Delicatessens, Bakeries, Ice Cream Shops,

and all Eateries to show case their culinary talents and share them with the community. It also serves as an opportunity for the community to support local businesses and experience a taste of the town!

Participating Eateries will offer a variety of special promotions throughout the week like prix fixe menus, discounts, and special events.

You can find a list of participating eateries by visiting our website at www.EastHanoverPartnership.org or scanning the QR code below Don’t forget to post your pictures and tag us on Facebook and Instagram! Thank you for supporting East Hanover Restaurant Week and the local business community!

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FLORHAM PARK - Brooklake Elementary School has been inspiring and fostering the love of math through the formation of an after school Brooklake Bobcats Math Team program.

This team has been created to provide students in 4th and 5th grade with an exciting opportunity to collaborate and solve non-routine, complex math problems and participate in monthly math contests against other students worldwide. Students meet weekly with the Math Team Advisor to collaborate and practice problem solving together. The objective of the Team is to teach multiple

strategies for out-of-the-box problem solving, while students develop flexibility and perseverance to solve these problems. Our Mathletes collaborate and share their mathematical creativity, ingenuity and critical thinking skills with their peers in a fun, exciting way. The creation of this team helps to foster the love of math while bringing fun and excitement to mathematical problem solving.

Brooklake students compete individually in the Math Olympiads, which is sponsored by an organization called MOEMS (Math Olympiads for El-

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This year more than 170,000 students from over 6,00 teams worldwide are participating in the Olympiads. All 50 states and 39 other countries are represented. The contests consist of solving 5 non-routine complex math problems.

During the contests, students will work individually to solve problems, earning points for themselves, as well as the team. At the end of every season, every team member will receive a certificate of participation; trophies, plaques and pins are awarded to high scoring teams and individuals.

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After 70 Years, Florham Park’s Holy Family Parish Still Community Pillar Under Committed Pastor

BY ALEXANDER RIVERO STAFF WRITER

FLORHAM PARK - “The spirit of prayer,” says Holy Family Parish pastor Father Thomas Rekiel, “is very much alive here. We have families coming in with children. People happy to see one another. People volunteering all the time, happy to lend a hand with whatever it is that is needed. Very much alive indeed.”

Fr. Rekiel still begins every day in more or less the same manner—taking the stroll from his office in the rectory to the Holy Family Church itself, which he has pastored now for six years. For anyone that leaves his home country in search for a home elsewhere, as Fr. Rekiel did when he left Italy for the United States, it is a blessing to not only find one, but to find himself busy with the work of making it a better place for others.

“It’s a very joyful parish.

No matter what the activity— whether it’s Mass or Bible study or something else entirely—you feel the spirit of family abounding throughout. People come and volunteer of their own time all of the time.”

The parish was not spared its share of difficulties during the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic that ravaged the country, but it never wavered, with his leadership and the help of ranks of dedicated parishioners and volunteers, in doing everything it could to remain an active part of people’s lives through the past two years.

“People have been so generous in their time and money and effort over these past two years. Never once did I ever have to mention a thing. ‘Do this, do that.’ I could have closed my eyes and opened them later to see whatever had to be done not only done, but done well.”

Despite being a Florham Park parish now for seventy years, Holy Family receives many of its food pantry contributions from neighboring towns, like Livingston and others. The stocked pantry is a parish bulwark, a key ministry, running out of the basement of the parish grounds and replenished constantly by contributions both small and large. The pantry is run by the Ministry

to the Hungry, and the food itself is collected from donation baskets placed at three separate entrances to the church. The parish then sends the food out to feed the needy within proximity to the general area.

One of the more impressive waves of generosity he has ever seen, says Fr. Rekiel, has been in the private donations the parish often receives from anonymous parishioners.

“We stopped collecting donations with baskets during Mass and instead placed the collection bins in the back of the pews, and since then, the amount of donations coming in has increased by a wide margin,” he beams. Rekiel recounts how on one particular occasion, during the installing of a sanitizing air-conditioning system to purify the air after the COVID pandemic hit the world, parishioners noticed the ongoing installation processes and filled the church’s coffers with donations in no time, not only paying for the entire air conditioning unit plus the process of installing it, but having enough money left over for

FLORHAM PARK - Spring brings more than April flowers and May Day, as the Morris County Chamber of Commerce is welcoming in the warmer weather with two signature events open to both members and the general public.

The chamber will host the 16th Annual Not for Profit Conference on Thursday, April 28, at the Hilton Parsippany, 8-11:30 a.m. The event, this year titled “Reconnecting and Rebuilding: Lessons Learned,” will feature keynote speaker Jonathan R. Pearson, director of corporate social responsibility and executive director of

The Horizon Foundation for New Jersey. There also will be a panel discussion with local nonprofit leaders and the 2022 Not For Profit Excellence Awards presentation.

Then the chamber’s Annual Golf Classic will be held on Monday, June 6, at Spring Brook Country Club in Morristown, 10:30 a.m. to 8 p.m.

The day of networking and golf includes lunch, golf, a cocktail reception, a dinner buffet, the Business and Community Service Award ceremony and a silent auction. Non-golfers are welcome to join just the evening festivities.

Also planned are the Legislative Luncheon on April 26 and a Women in Business luncheon on May 18. To learn more about these events and/or to register, please visit the chamber’s website at www.morischanber.org and go to Events.

“These signature events of the Morris County Chamber of Commerce are excellent opportunities for both members and guests to gather, network and learn,” said Meghan Hunscher, chamber president. “They also give guests a wonderful feel for what the chamber has to offer businesses and nonprofits of all sizes. Please join us.”

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other things as well.

One thing Rekiel misses enormously, which he had to halt because of the virus, have been the dinners and coffee gatherings the parish organized every month, exclusively volunteer-run. “Parishioners, many of them anyway, are still very afraid to go out with the virus still around,” he laments.

“There is so much stress on our seniors because they’re afraid of getting sick if they come into close contact with someone who may be carrying the virus, and so they stay home as a result.”

The pastor tries his best to visit these parishioners in their homes, but is often disappointed to find that their fears of catching COVID prevents them from agreeing to visits. This worries Rekiel, as he knows the importance that the parish has on so many of these very seniors, and the loss of community and face-to-face interaction over time may have

damaging consequences to not only the health of the parishioners, but to the health of the church’s sense of community heading forward.

“We need the individual members of our community,” he says, “and while we understand the need to remain safe from this deadly virus, we acknowledge that this is a very stressful time for everyone involved, including us here at the church, and we know better days are ahead.”

Heading into its 70th year, Holy Family’s list of activities—outside of its daily Mass schedule—is an enthusiastic bid to restore hope in the community after the previous two years of restricted access due to the virus. There is a men’s group that meets for retreats once a month, back and operational on an in-person basis.

There are more Zoom meetings of all varieties—whether support meetings for parishioners that miss the weekly and

in some cases daily human contact they received prior to COVID, or Bible study meetings—that meet now on at regular intervals.

Aside from these activities, there is of course Rekiel’s prolife ministry, the Knights of Columbus that help tremendously with fundraisings, picnics, scholarships, and with Christmas and Easter decorations of the church grounds.

There are also various prayer and meditation groups, as well as family-based Confraternity of Christian Doctrine (CCD) meetings, which many families come and go through together.

For additional information about Holy Family Parish, a full list of its ministries, as well as a Mass schedule, please visit the parish’s website at www. holyfamilyfp.org. The church itself is on 1 Lloyd Avenue in Florham Park, and to reach the church by phone, call 973-3776350.

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Meet the Florham Park Radio Host Behind the Vino Diva Wine Aeration Straw

BY ALEXANDER RIVERO STAFF WRITER

FLORHAM PARK - Coffee is great. Many would agree that so is wine. But we can always make great things even better.

And that’s what brings us to Florham Park resident Shannon Holly and her wonderful invention, the Vino Diva Wine Aeration Straw.

Holly is a 25-year radio veteran and co-host of the syndicated morning drive radio show Lou and Shannon in the Morning (broadcasting out of 94.3 The Point on the Jersey Shore and on SoJo 104.9 Atlantic City). Friendly and enthusiastic, she recalls being infatuated by radio as a child, and “interviewing” family members at parties. She loves the job and what it gives her which, among other things, is an opportunity to be nosy about celebrity trivia, a particular specialty of hers, as well as more rewarding perks, like being nose-to-theground involved in important charity events, making a real difference in people’s lives, and meeting people from all walks of life. She says of her radio work, “It’s really, really satisfying to do the charity work especially and raise a lot of money to help people and children who are sick.”

Not too long ago, while with a friend over coffee, she noticed her friend’s plastic straw—which she had dropped into a piping hot cup of coffee—was melting right into the hot liquid. A spark went off in Holly’s imagination, and she went to work, committed to

coming up with a well-built straw that could withstand the heat of a fresh serving of coffee, all while allowing the person to enjoy their cup o’ joe without having to worry about staining their teeth.

Along the road of brainstorming and blue-printing, Holly began to take mental inventory of everything having to do with coffee straws, including the reasons for which people use them in the first place.

People use straws with their coffee to prevent or reduce stains on their teeth.

Enter realization number two: why not provide a similar product to wine drinkers? After all, the acidity in both coffee and wine are known to not only stain teeth in regular drinkers of either beverage, but reduce protective layers of enamel on teeth.

Holly contacted her good friend Ross Lazarov, an inventor with an engineering bend. Lazarov’s main area of interest up until then had been in providing new tools for the landscaping world. When he listened to Holly’s proposal, however, his mind started working on the new idea of the coffee/wine straw right away.

“He got right to work,” says Holly. “He started experimenting right away with everything he had at his disposal—lasers, all sorts of different tools.

Right from his house.”

Holly’s main goal with the product was to create not only a sturdy straw that one could use

for both coffee and wine, but one that could easily fit into a purse, clean while on the road, and—yes—aerate each sip of win, from glass to lips. Because why not. Period.

“As for the wine portion of the straw, what bothered me the most was that I didn’t want to wait for a freshly opened bottle of wine to air out,” laughs Holly. “It was impatience that brought me to my inspiration.”

Holly and Lazarov worked for weeks on prototype after prototype in his garage. When they finally came up with one that worked perfectly, Holly remembers the feeling of pure jubilance. “We were jumping up and down like little kids in the garage we were so happy,” she recalls. “We had gone through so many of them and finally to have one that worked in the way we had anticipated it working was a real thrill.”

The end result: A 100% portable, cleanable, reusable straw that allows you to deposit either coffee (from the “C” side of the straw) or wine (from the “V” side), as well as other drinks, right onto your awaiting palette without staining your teeth. For wine, the patented micro-port system fully aerates the vino with each sip, so that you don’t have to wait for the entire contents of the bottle to aerate in real-time, which we all know can be a huge drag.

The product comes with its own travel case and cleaning brush, and is made with FDAgrade aluminum.

The Vino Diva Wine Aeration Straw has been a hit since it came out, spreading to wine stores and vineyards and wineries across the country. Some of the Real Housewives of New Jersey even used them on air, to Holly’s surprise.

“I was watching the show on TV and saw them using it.

I was blown away and immediately offered to send them product to help me expand the

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Looking ahead, Holly says she would like to expand her product by partnering with someone like The Real Houswives of New York City star Bethenny Frankel, who sold her Skinnygirl brand to Jim Beam for a cool $100 million.

“I’d love someone like that

to Shark Tank me. I think we’d do great in taking this product to a new level. It’s doing well not only in wine stores and vineyards, but even in dentists across the country are starting to recommend it for keeping a white smile.”

For anyone interested in a Vino Diva Wine Aeration Straw, check them out on Amazon.

Rotary Distributes Dictionaries for Brooklake Elementary School Third Graders

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FLORHAM PARK - “Habit” was the word of the day as several Florham Park Rotary volunteers visited Brooklake Elementary School on March 25.

What has become an annual habit for perhaps more than twenty years in a row, per Rotarian Past President Bob Feid, was the distribution of dictionaries to each of the Third Grade students, who personally received their own dictionary. Students were encouraged to write their names in their dictionaries, and were assigned the word of the day – “habit”. Each searched for the word alphabetically in their dictionaries, and raising their hands to volunteer, one read the definition. Then volunteers were asked to use the word in a sentence. Interestingly, in three of the classes, students stated that “brushing their teeth after breakfast was a good habit”!

One student pointed out that the longest English word was listed in their dictionary. We found it on page 373 and it was 1,909 letters! One joked that was even longer than “supercalifragilisticexpialidocious.”

Another curious student

asked if the word “Constitution” was in the dictionary, whereupon we searched and confirmed that indeed it was, from pages 389 to 409.

The Rotarians stressed the importance of having a dictionary and building vocabulary as one way of improving and in leading successful lives.

“As you continue your education, at different levels of schooling, building a good vocabulary will be the foundation of leading successful lives,” advised Peter Nicolas, Rotary Sergeant-at-Arms. “Your teachers, in the Third Grade now, and later in your educational careers, will work with you. These dictionaries, courtesy of the Florham Park Rotary Club, are just a tool – but an important one.

Learning new words, and how to use them, should be an exciting world of discovery for you.

Have fun with it!”

In addition to word definitions and the Constitution, the dictionary also included Sign Language, a list of the United States Presidents and their bios, the latest list of planets (no Pluto!) and much more for students to explore in their own

time.

As the students also learned, the Rotary is an organization of business and professional persons united worldwide who provide humanitarian service, encourage high ethical standards in all vocations, and strive to build good will and peace in the world. A group of nice people who meet once a week to make the world a little better place to live.

George Gregor, Rotary President, shared one more tip when he suggested that everyone get a Library card. He explained that kids just have to know how to spell their first and last names. They would go in with their parents and would be given two cards - one for their wallet and a smaller one for their keychain. Then, whenever they get a book from the library and don’t know a word, they have their own dictionary so they can look it up!

To learn more about the Florham Park Rotary, visit www.florhamparkrotary. com and stop in at a breakfast meeting at the Florham Park Diner, held every Friday, from 7:47am-8:47am.

Obituaries

Robert A. Chiriani Robert A. Chiriani, 63, of Florham Park, NJ, devoted husband, father, son, brother, uncle, and friend, passed away peacefully at his home surrounded by his loving family on March 29, 2022.

Bob lived a wonderful, happy life with his adored wife of 40 years, Doreen Chiriani; his dearly loved children: Megan Belair, her husband Sean, and Joseph Chiriani; and his cherished granddaughter, Natalie Belair. Bob received his law degree from the University of Virginia in 2000. He retired as a Structured Finance Analyst in 2019 after 18 years at Standard & Poor’s. He was an active member in the Holy Family Parish choir. His greatest passion was camping and he enjoyed vacations with his family at beaches from Maryland to Maine.

Loving son of Marilyn Chiriani and the late Robert Chiriani, Sr. Dear brother of Diane Russo and Cheryl Valenti. Brother-in-law of John and Mary Pat Dale, Harry Oster, and Lisa Ingerman. Treasured uncle to his niece and nine nephews. Loved by extended family and close friends. He is preceded in death by his beloved mother-in-law Frances Dale and sister-in-law Renee Oster.

A private memorial mass was celebrated at Holy Family Parish in Florham Park, followed by the inurnment at Gate of Heaven Cemetery in East Hanover.

Ralph Marinello

Ralph Marinello, Jr. died unexpectedly on March 28th, 2022, at the age of 58 while at home. Ralph was born to the late Ralph Marinello,Sr. and Barbara Marinello in Brooklyn, New York in 1963. He graduated from Kean University of New Jersey with a degree in Criminal Justice. Ralph was an accomplished insurance professional, as well as respected in the insurance world as the Global Head of Claims, TPA Governance at AIG. He was not only a mentor to many but a friend that all looked up to. Ralph was blessed with a loving family. He was married to his best friend Nina (Salerno) Marinello for 34 years. Ralph helped raise his two beautiful children Ralph and Anessa with patience, discipline, and humility.

Ralph is survived by his wife, Nina; his son Ralph; daughter Anessa; mother; Barbara; his two brothers; Michael and John.

He is preceded in death by his father Ralph Sr. Donations can be made in Ralph’s name to St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital or Autism Speaks.

Peter C. Longo

Peter C. Longo passed away on Friday, April 1, 2022 at Morristown Medical Center.

He was 89.

He was born and raised in Morristown, New Jersey. Peter lived for 60 years in Whippany before moving to Boonton two years ago.

Peter was the Co-Owner & Vice President of Longo Electric before leaving the business.

He enjoyed, hunting, fishing, golfing and spending time with his family. He also was a member of the Morristown Knights of Columbus.

Peter is pre-deceased by his wife, Ann and his two sisters, Sylvia DeCroce and Geraldine Desiderio.

He is survived by his sons; John and wife, Debbie, Mark and wife, Joanne, and Peter and wife, Tracy; his grandchildren: Ryan, Kristen, John, Carly, Deserae, Luke, and Quinn; and his brother, Joe Longo.

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Members of the Florham Park Rotary visited Brooklake Elementary School Friday, March 25, to deliver free dictionaries to third graders. Front row, from left, are third graders Bella Romano, Ava Prizzi and Declan Zhang. Back row, from left, are Florham Park Superintendent and Acting Brooklake School Principal Steven Caponegro and Rotarians Peter Nicolas, Debbie O’Keefe, Club President George Gregor, Damion Bernard and Barbara Freda.

Louis Paul Commarato Louis Paul Commarato passed away on Sunday March 20, 2022 at Morristown Medical Center. He was 84.

He was born and raised in Caldwell. Louis lived in East Hanover, Newton, and Mine Hill before moving to Long Valley in 1988.

Louis was a service manager at Jim Salerno Buick GMC dealerships in Randolph and Newton for over 25 years.

He loved animals, the New York Yankees and the New York Giants.

Louis served in the United States Army. He reached the rank of Second Lieutenant and was also a tank commander before being honorably dis-

charged.

He was a firefighter for the East Hanover Volunteer Fire Department for many years. His service in the fire department ended when he sustained injuries battling a large fire.

Survivors include his loving wife: Kathleen “Kate” (nee-Myers); his daughters: Lori Owens and her husband Bill; Joy Barrett and her husband Greg; Terri Hesse & his son-in-law Anthony Hesse; Kimberlee A. Commarato; his son: Sean T. and his wife Jessica; his brother: Paul and his wife Marge Commarato; and his six grandchildren: Michael Barrett and his wife Rebecca, Billy Owens, Brittany Owens and her fiancé Alex Eleftheriou, Ava Hesse and her

fiancé Anthony DeRosa, Alexa Hesse, and Chase Barrett.

Please make donations in his memory East Hanover Volunteer Fire Department 323 Ridgedale Ave East Hanover NJ 07936 or visit http://ehfd.org/ donate.html

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FLORHAM PARK - About 6 years ago, the Knights of Columbus Council 2248 gathered a few members to just play a casual round of golf and ponied up to raise some funds to support travel for active military service men and women to travel home to visit family while on leave.

Enlisted personnel have to pay their own cost to travel, and the endeavor helped a few offset the cost that they could not afford.

Seeing an opportunity to make a difference, last year we organized a full golf tournament fundraiser. We expended the field to 88 golfers and brought on board several local corporate sponsors. We also had 60 plus local business and private sponsors advertise at the golf course. This enabled the cause to grow and provide funds to bring home 19 military service members for 2021.

This year the Bring Home A Hero charity golf tournament is happy have Atlantic Health System as a platinum presenting

sponsor, with Provident Bank as a premier course sponsor.

In addition, we have a Field of Honor that overlooks the course. Anyone can dedicate a sign to active, retired or part service members. Signs are $25 per person.

We are continuing to look for

and bring on board additional sponsors at all levels. Sponsor signs start at $150 for a hole sponsor and range up to premier level sponsorship.

The 2022 Tournament will be held at Knoll East Country Club, September 9. The event will feature a pre-round put-

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plan, shop for, and cook their own lunches. Four days a week, the students go to work, sampling jobs at a variety of sites throughout Morris County that partner with the district’s program.

Local job sampling sites include Barnes & Noble, Pioneer Freight, Applebees, Chopt, Little Duck Day School, Stuff a Mug, and Cornerstone Family Programs. The H.I.V.E.’’s transition coordinator, Mrs. Romano is always on the lookout for new places for the students to sample new opportunities.

Every Friday, the students participate in Community Based Instruction (CBI) trips, often partnering with other schools in the area. Throughout the years, they have hosted and attended CBI trips with students from districts across Morris County to broaden social interactions outside of the Hanover Park Regional High School District.

The students have a lot to be proud of. They have worked hard to begin to interact and explore experiences outside of the traditional classroom. They have donated canned goods to the InterFaith Food Pantry and holiday gifts to the Frontline Appreciation Group (FLAG). Although they have accomplished so much, the H.I.V.E. teachers and students have many goals they can’t wait to achieve including developing and running a multi-district craft fair and acclimating themselves to a community college environment.

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The Hanover Park Regional High School District’s transitional services program, Hanover’s Individual and Vocational Education program (H.I.V.E.) prepares these young adults for a life in which they will be citizens who make positive contributions to their community.

This program’s larger classroom looks like an apartment with a full kitchen, laundry, living, and dining area. The smaller classroom next door is where the “Busy Bees” conduct business producing, marketing, and selling creatively designed products such as gift bags containing delicious cake pops, chocolate covered pretzels, and cookies, themed blankets, mugs and water bottles, bowls and many custom-made items.

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Profits from the “Busy Bees” are used to support the H.I.V.E. program’s community-based instructional trips and supplies.

The students participate in physical education class each week through student memberships at Florham Park Fitness. They study personal finance with Affinity Bank, and they learn life skills through The DAWN Center. With their teachers, Mrs. DeFillippes and Ms. Lomio, they

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A Star in the Making: At 190 Pounds, Hanover Park’s Vin LaValle Takes Morris County Tournament

BY JILLIAN RISBERG STAFF WRITER

HANOVER PARK - Placing in a state tournament is an accomplishment for anybody, but for a freshman like Vin LaValle to take third in the state at the 190 pound weight class among predominantly seniors is extra impressive.

“My win to place and got that takedown in the last 30 seconds was my favorite part,” LaValle says he always had high goals for himself when it came to wrestling. “I’ve put in a lot of time and definitely grown a lot in the sport.”

And the athlete was named Region 3 Most Outstanding Wrestler.

With a wrestling lineage that goes way back, it seemed

inevitable the young athlete would pursue the sport.

“It’s in his blood, his dad was a three-time state champ, both of his uncles were state place winners,” says head coach, Tyler Branham. “But Vin’s also an extremely dedicated, hard-worker and not just during the season. It hasn’t happened overnight — it’s commitment to the sport he’s been able to achieve the level he’s at.”

And not long ago, they remembered the shutdown and no sports meets.

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When it comes to long term achievements, Branham believes the young athlete positioned himself just right.

“To be a state place winner as a freshman,” says the coach.

“I still see room for improvement, which is kind of scary for the rest of the state — he hasn’t reached his full potential yet. He has a high ceiling.”

LaValle aspired to be a fourtime state champ and as he took third in the state, he felt he fell a little short of what he wanted this year, so the athlete will refocus his attention and do everything he can to prepare for next season to get himself on top of the podium.

He’s inspired by the success of those in the sport who came before.

Growing up he watched Hanover Park alums, Joey Olivieri and Nick Raimo win state titles.

“Definitely guys I look up to,” LaValle says he also sees wrestling in his future.

“Probably wrestle in college,” he says. “It would be cool to go national after that, maybe make it a career.”

The preparation for high school wrestling can be intense.

LaValle does everything from weight training to cardio conditioning, a ton of drilling and live wrestling.

They’re starting the off season now with lots of lifting and the athlete does some freestyle wrestling.

“The big goal is the best freestyle and Greco-Roman wrestlers, Olympic style in August — so that’s what he’s started to focus on now a bit, getting ready for the National

Championships in Fargo, ND,” says Branham.

“He has the work ethic and I want him to continue to be focused — the sky’s the limit.”

Reflecting on what his high school legacy would be — LaValle wants people to remember him as a good athlete, a good person and hopefully state champ.

In free moments, he hangs out with family, his grandpar-

ents and gives back to younger children… with an intro to the sport he loves and helps them practice.

For students who want to follow in his footsteps, the wrestler says remember your goal.

“And keep working hard no matter what.”

According to the coach, Vin is the dream kid to coach.

“We’ve been fortunate at

Hanover Park to have some great wrestlers and great kids. Vin said he looked up to Raimo and Olivieri — they had older brothers they looked up to, so we’ve had a good run of role models and great wrestlers,” Branham says.

“He’s had people sort of lead the way for him. He’s very coachable and a great kid.”

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Morristown All-Girls High AcademyOldest of Its Kind in State - Remains a Beacon of Excellence

BY ALEXANDER RIVERO STAFF WRITER

MORRIS COUNTY - Onehundred-sixty-three years ago, the Sisters of Charity, a Roman Catholic congregation founded in Newark by Mother Xavier Mehegan, was commissioned by Bishop James Roosevelt Bayley to establish a school for young women in the state of New Jersey. Such a school would have been the first ever secondary school for young women in the state’s history. Formally established in Madison in 1860, the motherhouse of the school was then moved onto a parcel of land that, in a series of municipal adjustments over the next several decades, fell within the boundaries of what is today Morristown. The College of Saint Elizabeth—renamed Saint Elizabeth University in 2020—was founded in 1899 as a part of this greater complex. It is the oldest women’s college in the state and one of the first ever Catholic colleges in the United States to award degrees to women. Today, it is a state beacon of academic excellence and, under Principal Lynn Burek’s stewardship, looks to remain so.

“I’m always in awe and humbled by the history of the school,” says Burek, “as well as the amazing women who form the base of our alumnae.

I’m extremely proud to be in a position to continue that legacy and to build on it. We certainly nurture the past here as we prepare these girls for the future.”

Burek was the first lay person to ever become principal of the Academy when she did so in 2015. Prior to that, she

spent her entire professional life in the public school system as a teacher. The past seven years, she says, have been incredible for her, not only professionally in stewarding such a historic institution from its peak administrative position, but at a deeper, more personaly level as well.

“Every day here I have a chance to forge relationships with incredible people, whether administrative staff, teachers, parents, the Sisters of Charity, the trustees, and of course the students themselves,” she says. “ A typical workday for Burek includes morning announcements to the student body, where she always makes it a point to offer some inspiration for the day ahead. She then conducts meetings with the administrative team and teachers, and sometimes follows those meetings with several class observations, being present in the hallways and lunch periods, interracting with students, all the while maintaining communication with the Sisters of Charity, the trustees, and the parents.

“Working with the girls has to be my favorite overall part of the job,” says Burek. “It’s inspiring for me to be able to offer inspiration to them every day, to push them to live out the mission that the Sisters of Charity brought forth into the founding of the school so many years ago.” The five core values of that mission are charity, community, justice, service, and educational excellence.

Overall, says Burek, being

able to see the transformation of these women during this critical four-year span of their early lives is perhaps the single most rewarding part of her job for her, as well as to have the chance to play a role in it all.

The school’s campus today covers over 200 acres of land, including the university. Convent Station—a fully functional train station, is but a three-minute walk from the school’s doors, and many of St. Elizabeth students and staff members make use of it to commute to and from their homes. The Sisters of Charity themselves live on grounds adjacent to the school buildings.

They participate in activities with the students frequently and form a vital part of the campus’s daily dynamic. Primary among the sister’s roles is their serving as walking reminders of the institution’s illustrious past, and of the values for which staff and students should always be reaching almost two centuries after the school’s founding.

Over the course of an academic year, St. Elizabeth students organize and conduct several activities, each of which in its own way seeks to bring its community closer together in common cause.

There is, for example, Spirit Week, which coincides with the beginning of school athletics and is meant to bolster support for the school’s sports teams.

There is the Mother-Daughter Tea, which is a chance for mothers and daughters to dress up, as they would for high tea

at the Ritz, and spend some time together. The Calendar Party, another activity, is a class competition in which the students are assigned a particular season of the year on which to base competing performative skits, and partake in meals, decorating, and camaraderie. There is also the

Christmas Lighting Ceremony, in which the students sing carols, decorate the school, and have a great, festive assembly. All this is to say nothing of the school’s reputation for academic excellence, which has been—and looks to always will be—at the heart of every other initiative.

In an ever-changing world, it is refreshing to be able to see institutions as long-standing and successful as this one continue to uphold the very principles on which it built its sturdy reputation so many years ago. May the Academy of St. Elizabeth thrive on.

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Let’s Talk Lower Back Pain and What It Could Mean

BY MARK J. BONAMO GUEST WRITER DENVILLE - Lower back pain may be one of the most common ailments, but its regular occurrence does not mean that it is any less painful or challenging to manage. An understanding of the factors that contribute to lower back pain may help in prevention or treatment it once it occurs.

Dr. Rachid Assina, Chief of Neurosurgery at Saint Clare’s Health, diligently works with his patients as they manage every aspect of lower back pain, from prevention to treatment through recovery.

One important way to understand lower back pain is to being by understanding the vocabulary surrounding it.

“Lower back pain is described as any activity intolerance due to back symptoms, which can include pain from the truncal area all the way to the low back or buttocks area, and even down from the back to the leg area.” Dr. Assina said. “Lumbago, a non-medical term, describes back pain in the truncal area. Sciatica is pain generating from the sciatic nerve, the longest nerve in the body, which travels from the lumbar spine down the back of

your leg. Either way, the pain you experience comes from the interaction of the muscles, ligaments, bones, discs, joints and nerves in the area.”

There are several varieties of lower back pain. Acute pain can come from a sudden injury that could be a result of a sports injury, a car accident, or even from picking up a pen the wrong way from the ground, for example. “Acute pain also can be a result of any sudden phenomenon with no precipitating event,” Dr. Assina said.

“Sixty to ninety percent of adults will experience some level of back pain during their lifetime, and generally they are between the ages of 35 to 55 years old. Fortunately, about 90 percent who experience acute pain from injury and who are treated conservatively, will only take about four to six weeks for the pain to subside.

Approximately twenty percent of adults who experience lower back pain will result in chronic pain and last a lifetime,” explains Dr. Assina “The best treatment for many people, initially, should be conservative and based on common sense. This includes

bed rest for a few days and taking some over-the-counter medications, such as Ibuprofen or Aleve. Soon after, people can usually resume their daily activities as the pain subsides,” Dr. Assina said. “If the pain does not subside within eight to twelve weeks, then people can consider seeking additional help from their primary care physicians- then they can begin a more advanced pharmacological treatment regimen, such as a muscle relaxants or stronger non-steroidal inflammatory medications. Physical therapy can then also be considered as an additional treatment.”

Before following this type of treatment plan, Dr. Assina warns that there are certain “red flags” people should be aware that indicate health issues that go beyond lower back pain.

“There are certain signs of illnesses when treating lower back pain that could reveal infections, cancer and other serious illnesses, for example,” Dr. Assina said. “Treatment must carefully consider if the patient is already immunocompromised. Patients could be immunocompromised for a range of reasons, including having a

transplant, long-term medical steroid use, or HIV. Common infections, incontinence, loss of power or a foot drop, sudden weight loss, significant pain during the night, and muscle weakness are other factors that need to be considered as signs of more serious illnesses when proceeding with lower back treatment. These patients need to seek immediate assistance from their physicians,” stated Dr. Assina After taking the conservative approach, such as pharmacological treatment and physical therapy, and there are no ‘red flags,’ the next steps to take if the pain continues or worsens is for the primary care physician to initiate diagnostic imaging tests for further diagnosis. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is the most effective modality to examine the physical sources of persistent lower back pain- it shows muscles, nerves that can be compressed, and other soft tissue.

X-rays are effective in showing dislocations or fractures of the bone. For example, “One common source of lower back pain is having a herniated disc, which pushes on the nerves.

Dr. Rachid Assina, Chief of Neurosurgery at Saint Clare’s Health.

This causes local back pain, but also causes a lot of pain by putting pressure on nerve endings. This leads to numbness, weakness, and the wasting of muscles,” Dr. Assina said. “An MRI is very effective to see the source of the problem, such as a herniated disc, and then begin to effectively address it.”

There are certain preventive measures that can help avoid or minimize lower back pain. Exercise is critically important to strengthen core muscles and reduce back injury and pain. Cessation of smoking and weight loss are also very important.

“Posture is very important,” Dr. Assina said. “The curvature of your back when you are sitting or standing, whether you are working or not, affects your spine. Good posture, along with regular stretching and massages, can help the overall health of your spine and keep back pain at bay.”

“Saint Clare’s Health’s point of pride is its focus on providing individualized and compassionate care that patients have come to know and trust. When patients are experiencing lower

back pain, whether acute or related to more serious long-term illnesses, they want the convenience of receiving exceptional care- all close to home,” Dr. Assina shares. “Additionally, Saint Clare’s Health has all of the advanced technology as the other larger medical institutions do, so patients can be assured that they are receiving the state-of-the-art care.” This makes Saint Clare’s Health a unique place; a hospital that is around the corner, and ahead of the curve.

“I don’t consider Saint Clare’s Health to be a small community hospital when it comes to spinal issues. In fact, the hospital is very unique in that it provides any type of lower back pain treatments and operations necessary, whether it’s for deformities, tumors, acute pain, chronic pain, or anything else,” Dr. Assina said.

“Our patients do well here. The doctors and staff give our patients not just a chance to survive lower back pain. It gives them a chance to thrive.”

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Div. A: (From left to right) Bennett Glover – 1st, Robert Liu – 2nd, Nick DiCrescenzo – 3rd, Calvin Peterson – 4th, Mate Estrella – 5th and Toby Monks – 6th.

FLORHAM PARK - The Florham Park/Madison Knights of Columbus Swiss Style Round Robin Chess Tourney was played on Saturday March 26 from 8:30am to 12:00pm in the Holy Family Gym in Florham Park. In the “B” Division (3rd – 5th graders) there was a total of 13 players, with most playing 9 to 10 games and in the “A” Division. Because this is a “true” Round Robin Tournament most played almost everyone in their respective Division. 2 points were awarded for a win, a 0 recorded for a loss, and 1 point for a draw for each player. Then the average of games played and score accumulated determined the winners! So, if a player could go undefeated then their perfect score average and would be a “2”. In the B Div. most players played 9 to 10 games with 3 playing 12 or everyone in the field. And in the A Div. all played 9 games with 2 playing 10 games-playing all. It was clear to Mr. Joe O’Brien, tournament chairman, by the large # of games they all played, whether win or lose, they all greatly enjoyed playing the game of chess!

Div. B: Fourth grader Leo Orlovski, Briarwood Elementary in Florham Park, won the 1st place trophy, playing all excellent and efficient games winning all except 1 loss to Noah Shaughnessy, 5th grader at Central Ave School (CAS), in Madison. Orlovski’s highest average was 1.83! Ari Malho-

tra, a 5th grader at CAS, also played very well playing all 12 games, winning 10, with a 1.67 average. Two players tied for 3rd place, Shaughnessy, and Mathias Estrella, 4th grader, at St. Vincent Martyr School (SVM), Madison, also playing fine chess. Shaughnessy and Estrella had the same average of 1.56 with same # of wins and losses but time ran out for a playoff match so the Knights decided to award both the 3rd place trophy. Other fine play was turned in by Evan Malhotra (brother to Ari), same grade and school, took the 4th place ribbon, 1.45. Samantha Paparo, Washington Avenue School, 5th place, .78; and Shannon McNulty, 6th place, St. Therese, Mendham, .75 (also played all with 12 games). Other good chess players were: 5th graders – Cooper Loungo, and John Caravano; and 3rd graders Dominic Ospina, Patrick Fox, Teddy Muccifori, and James Caravano.

Div. A: Seventh grader and 1st place winner, Bennett Glover, Chatham Middle School (CMS) played diligent and fine chess winning all except one loss to Nate Estrella, 8th grader, at SVM, who placed 5th. Robert Lai, a 7th grader, at Ridgedale Middle School (RMS), Florham Park, played skillful chess also won all but lost to Grover and took the 2nd place trophy. Not knowing the chess ability of Glover, Mr. O’Brien randomly

matched the two together for their first game. Their game last about 50 minutes, the longest played, and both had the same score average of 1.78.

Because Glover won against Lai, by tournament rule with a tie in point average the 1st place was awarded to Glover for his win against Lai! Nick DiCrescenzo, a 6th grader, in Madison Middle School (MMS), took the 3rd place trophy playing strong chess with a 1.33 average. Calvin Peterson, a 6th grader at MMS, played fine chess, took 4th place ribbon with a 1.30. Nate Estrella, 8th grader, at SVM, seemed to play better toward the end as he was able to give Glover his only loss! Estrella’s average 1.22. And Toby Monks, a 7th grader at CMS, played very well taking the 6th place ribbon with 1.10. Other fine players were: 7th grader – Mario Bagnara, Andrew Popowicz; And 6th graders – Lucia Orlovski, Zack Wan, and Joe Caravano.

All players received a free chess game, and a hot dog lunch, Chips, cookie, and other refreshments!

“Judging by the “robust” cheers by all the players for the winners at the end of the tourney, “good sportsmanship” was truly displayed, and all had a great time!” said fellow Knight Joe Corriago who was also a player score tabulator along with Don Insera. Tom Fox, was the score keeper, and Pat Bianco handled the lunch duty!

Div. B: (From left to right) Leo Orlovski – 1st, Ari Malhotra, Noah Shaughnessy/Mathias Estrella – Sharing 3rd, Evan Malhotra – 4th, Samantha Paparo – 5th and Shannon McNulty.

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Ridgedale Middle School STEAM Lab

FLORHAM PARK - Pictured is the new Ridgedale School STEAM lab where our 7th grade students are being introducing to advance coding. This newly renovated wings, which was part of the district’s referendum capital projects, features flexible seating and resources to meet the curriculum needs of our STEAM initiative and provides students with the opportunity to work with robotics, coding, drones and a fully equipped TV Production studio that was provided by the PTA. “We are incredibly fortunate to have had the support of the community for passing the recent referendum project, which included the creation of our RMS STEAM lab as well as many other projects to upgrade our facilities and instructional spaces. Additionally, these initiatives and activities

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HANOVER - In 2022 these buzzwords circulate educational articles, medical journals, social media, news headlines and now school districts. As these terms reiterate you may be asking: What exactly is wellness? Why are we hearing about mental health now more than ever? How did wellness find its way into school systems? Most importantly, just what can be done?

Wellness is the embodiment of the mind-body-emotional-social experience. More concretely, wellness encapsulates Social, Spiritual, Emotional, Occupational, Physical, Intellectual, Financial and Environmental dimensions of the human experience. While each domain is independently important, the true gauge of wellness is the summative interaction of all dimensions. For instance an adult’s financial woes generate anxiety which then trigger physiological responses such as sleep loss, muscle tension and chronic worry. A teenager’s social rejection may spike anxiety and depress their mood which in turn detracts from their academic focus, hygiene and confidence.

We have learned that wellness is more than the sum of its parts; it is the balance of all parts interacting simultaneously both in symphony and in disarray.

Wellness, a concept studied for generations, is reaching a pinnacle of importance in 2022.

The American Psychological Association (APA) noted that a mental health crisis has been on the rise since 2007. In the past 15 years, Anxiety, depression and suicide attempts have increased at rates outpacing availability of psychiatrists, inpatient beds, and therapist availability.

This influx collided with our global pandemic in 2020 crushing our already overburdened pediatric systems of care. Children experienced significant levels of loneliness, isolation, anxiety, depression, substance abuse, child abuse and behavioral deifficulties while remotely learning from home. Access to in person social opportunities, to mental health resources and to daily routine were abruptly interrupted for 1.5 years. As needs surged waitlists for therapists, beds in crisis units, and psychiatrists reached an all time high. In tandem with student needs, faculty and caregiver/parental needs became increasingly evident. Teachers juggled remote instruction for their own children as well as for their students all while facing pandemic uncertainties. Parents were tasked with making daily micro and macro decisions for their children related to safety, academic access, socializing or lack thereof in the community all while attempting to stay afloat themselves.

The times of physical and emotional fatigue are unprecedented. In response to our children’s mental health crisis, significant staff burnout and caregiver fatigue schools are

welcoming wellness professionals into their districts in hopes of bridging the gap between overwhelming needs and under-resourced systems of care.

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), school wellness programs can have a positive impact on academic performance, improve students’ health outcomes, and reduce high-risk behaviors. Bolstering social and emotional learning, fostering meaningful student and staff relationships, teaching healthy social and academic habits, and empowering students to recognize and regulate their mind/ body/emotional experience is crucial now more than ever.

The leaders of Hanover Park Regional High School District (HPREG) recognized the dire need for wellness support in the schools and took action. In September 2021 HPREG hired Wellness Coordinator, Dr. Lisa Allgaier, to spearhead a district wide wellness program.

Dr. Allgaier, credentialed with a New Jersey psychologist license, a NJ school psychologist certification, a 200 hour Registered Yoga Teacher certification and professional experience in schools, hospitals, and outpatient facilities was eager to roll up her sleeves.

Dr. Allgaier’s wellness program began with acknowledging our schools’ frontline workers: our teachers. On day 1 of Professional Development training staff were asked to close their eyes and breathe. To notice the rise and fall of their chest, the temperature of their breath, the sensations in their bodies.

They were tasked to note their emotions and thoughts. She invited this hard working, committed staff to take a moment for themselves and determine their intention for the year. To envision a healthier version of who they are and what they need. Their words of intentions, displayed in both schools, serve as reminders that it is imperative to acknowledge we have needs, to assess our internal wellness temperature within the chaotic external world. To be mindful of our experience and respond with care.

This small but meaningful exercise was just the beginning of the district’s program and goals to become mindful of just how we are doing, to become equipped with coping skills and healthy habits and to reestablish our school community connections. Since this 1st day of school, Dr. Allgaier presented to 100% of freshman classes across 2 high schools introducing the concept of wellness, inviting students to engage in meditation and self-care assessments and strategies, and most importantly to empower youth that their everyday habits and decisions create their well being experience.

Before long Dr. Allgaier was running 5 wellness groups a week ranging in topics from Understanding and Managing Anxiety to Creating Healthy

Social Connections and Introduction to Mindfulness. She began individually counseling students suffering from psychiatric symptoms, chronic anxiety and social disruptions. In the late Fall Dr. Allgaier met with 100% of district teachers in small focus groups holding space for staff to discuss their emotional, physical, social and professional functioning and needs. The discussions generated patterned needs to inform wellness programming. One staff member requested a centralized location to acquire additional tips and tricks to improve their own wellness and their students’ wellness. A “Mindful Monthly Newsletter”was created in response to this request focusing on themes such as Managing Uncertainty, Fostering Compassion, Time Management and Preventing Burnout.

The Wellness Program’s 1st Parent/Guardian Workshop was facilitated in March 2022 addressing caregiver anxiety and modeling interventions and communication styles to incorporate at home. Beyond formalized workshops, Dr. Allgaier communicates with district parents/guardians via weekly consultative meetings, calls home to recognize their child’s progress and provision of community resources. As program momentum widened, community connections were established throughout the county. Dr. Allgaier began a Morris County Monthly Wellness monthly meeting with fellow public school wellness professionals to collaborate and provide peer supervision. She connects with community service providers such as DCP&P workers, therapists, hospital psychoeducation facilitators and guest speakers.

In April 2022 HPREG will host a speaker addressing teenagers’ safety and relationships with social media.

The integration of wellness and school has been exciting but Dr. Allgaier shares that this is just the beginning. Collaboration within the district, community and homes continues to grow and HPREG’s wellness program will grow with it. As our society collectively army crawls not only out of a pandemic but also a mental health crisis Dr. Allgaier and HPREG are taking a collective breath.

They taking the time to gauge the community’s wellness temperature, to acknowledge needs, and to make changes. The time is now; our wellness depends on it.

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Morris County Hope Hub Celebrates First Anniversary

MORRIS COUNTY - Morris County Sheriff James M. Gannon’s Hope Hub program hit its First Anniversary, marking over 150 situations in the program’s first year that critical services were brought to individuals or families identified as being at an acutely elevated risk of needing assistance.

The anniversary was marked with a breakfast celebration and review of Hope Hub accomplishments over the past year at the Morris County Office of Emergency Management offices in Parsippany Township.

Hope Hub, the second program of its type in the nation, is a multidisciplinary panel made up of law enforcement, social services, mental health services, healthcare providers, treatment providers and recovery specialists. When representatives of various agencies identify struggling individuals and families, Hope Hub’s panel of professionals tries to connect with them and link them to life-changing services.

Hope Hub is an expansion of the Sheriff’s Hope One project. Hope One is a mobile recovery access vehicle that has been entering communities for nearly five years to offer critical support to persons struggling with addiction. The goal is preventing drug overdoses and deaths, as well as offering mental health services.

Spearheaded by Hope Hub Coordinator Officer Chelsea Whiting, the Hope Hub panel meets each week to determine if an individual or family, identified as at-risk by law enforcement, the courts or services agencies and nonprofits, would benefit from various service sectors. Those applicable agencies then work together as a team to do a door knock or intervention.

It was on March 5, 2021, Sheriff Gannon and Officer Chelsea Whiting successfully launched Hope Hub. Because Hope Hub assisted in over 150 situations in just its first year, a Hope Hub Social Case Worker, Kim Cacciabeve, was added to

the team. We are working together to help individuals and families struggling in Morris County.

The Morris County Sheriff’s Office is proud to work with partners such as the Morris County Prosecutor’s Office, the Mental Health Association, the Center for Addiction, Recovery, Education & Success (CARES), the Morris County Chiefs of Police Association, Interfaith Food Pantry, Nourish NJ, Acenda Integrated Health, Family Promise of Morris, Child and Family Resources, the Morris County Department of Human Services, and more.

Sheriff Gannon believes these public and private partnerships in Morris County, New Jersey truly make a difference.

Are you working with someone at an acutely elevated risk, in need of various services? Refer them to the Hope Hub! www.morriscountynj.gov/ Departments/Sheriff/Community-Programs/Hope-Hub

Morris County’s Hope Hub team (l-r) Al Shurdom, a Clinician with the Mental Health Association of Essex and Morris; Morris County Sheriff’s Office Corporal Erica Valvano, Sheriff James Gannon, Hope Hub Coordinator Officer Chelsea Whiting and CARES Peer Recovery Specialist Carrie Bailey.

CCM President Iacono Named a 2022 ROI-NJ Influencer educational partners throughout the state and nation. One of the greatest rewards of leading a community college is cultivating relationships that create impact and change lives.”

Over the past year, CCM has been ranked as Best for Transfer Students and the #1 Community College for Associate Degrees in New Jersey, positioning itself as a frontrunner for preparing students for a four-year degree at a university or college. In addition to offering degrees, CCM has become one of New Jersey’s economic engines producing

MORRIS COUNTY - County College of Morris (CCM) President Anthony J. Iacono ranks amongst highly esteemed leaders in New Jersey as recognized by ROI-NJ on its 2022 ROI Influencers Power List in Higher Education.

This is the fourth time Iacono has been selected as a leader and influencer in higher education by ROI-NJ.

Iacono was credited for CCM’s investment in being a comprehensive college serving both degree seekers and workforce development students, as well as being the top community college in New Jersey for graduates who earn the best salaries as reported by PayScale for five consecutive years.

“Being named by ROI-NJ

as an influencer in higher education is an honor, especially when considering the exceptional depth of the many leaders across the State of New Jersey,” said Iacono. “CCM continues to grow because of the support from the local communities within Morris County, including students and parents, as well as our industry, community, business and

a highly educated and skilled workforce for regional employment. CCM’s Center for Workforce Development has launched apprenticeship programs resulting in a 90 percent employment rate for students in advanced manufacturing.

CCM is making it clear that its commitment to providing a robust education means that anyone in the community seeking an education has an opportunity to build an educational path meant specifically for them.

“Growing and expanding opportunities for our students and members of the commu-

nities we serve demonstrates the college’s commitment to truly being the community’s college, focused on positive impact and growth for Morris County,” said Iacono.

“Through the vision and support of our Board of Trustees, faculty, staff and administration and with the extraordinary support of state and national legislators, county commissioners and local officials, we continue to strive to make CCM a college and partner of choice for area residents and businesses.”

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Happy Birthday Morris County

MORRIS COUNTY - Morris County was born 283 years ago – or was it before that?

It’s not that the centuries have made us forgetful. It’s a matter of which calendar you use and in what part of the world you live.

It was 1752 when England

and its colonies, including New Jersey, switched from the Julian to the Gregorian calendar, moving our official birthday to March 15, 1739 from 1738.

Regardless, history records that Morris County was created by an act of the State Legislature on March 15, 1738/39,

separating it from Hunterdon County, one of the state’s largest counties of the period.

Named after Colonel Lewis Morris, then Governor of the Province of New Jersey, it originally included what are now the counties of Morris, Sussex and Warren.

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MORRIS COUNTY - County College of Morris (CCM) is excited to announce it will be holding its first in-person Open House since 2019 and it’s going all out to make this one as informative and engaging as ever.

Several academic programs will be holding special showcases to provide students with deeper insight into different courses of study. Participants also will be able to tour the college’s state-of-the-art facilities, labs and studios. And new this year for some fun and to obtain a solid understanding of the lay of the campus – the Land of the Titans – there will be a scavenger hunt and a raffle for those who take part. The winner will receive an Oculus

Quest 2 virtual reality headset.

The Open House will take place on Saturday, April 23, from 9 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. with two starting sessions at 9 a.m. and 10 a.m. Registration is required and is now taking place.

To register, go to www.ccm. edu/admissions/visiting-us/.

As always, the Open House will provide high school students, their families and adult learners with the opportunity to learn about the highly ranked education CCM provides to meet educational and career goals.

Those attending the Open House will be able to talk with faculty and explore the more than 100 degree, certificate and professional development programs CCM offers. They

also can learn about the support services and co-curricular programs CCM provides to ensure the success of its students, and discuss the admissions and registration process.

Included among its many distinctions, CCM is ranked #1 in New Jersey for best associate degrees and in the top 1.8 percent of the best community colleges nationwide by Intelligent. The college also continues to maintain its #1 position in the state in PayScale’s “Best Community Colleges in New Jersey by Salary Potential,” a distinction it has held for five years in a row.

To apply today, go to https:// www.ccm.edu/admissions/.

MORRIS COUNTY - The Morris County Board of County Commissioners unanimously introduced the county government’s 2022 Budget with no increase in the tax rate for a third consecutive year, while boosting funds for public safety and health, infrastructure projects, human services, education and economic development.

“We are pleased for the third year in a row to deliver a budget with no increase in the county property tax rate, while delivering excellent services to our residents,” said Commissioner Director Tayfun Selen.

The proposed $331.1 million spending plan insures the continuation of Morris County’s top AAA Bond rating – maintained for 46 years – with an anticipated $57.9 million fund balance representing a $1.7 million increase over last year. The 2022 Budget additionally prioritizes investments in education and cultural programs, including the $25 million creation of the Morris County Vocational School District’s new Career Training Center at the County College of Morris in Randolph.

“This budget is financially sound and should continue our AAA rating standing, with a strong investment in capital projects including $25 million for the 500 student expansion of the Morris Vocational School District providing skills training that will provide the skilled workers our country needs and bright futures for our residents,” from Commissioner Deputy Director John Krickus, Chair of the Board of Commissioners’ Budget Committee.

The budget dedicates

$68.3 million to public safety, with another $36.6 million earmarked for health and human services programs, with a focus on community-based human service initiatives, including Hope Hub, Hope One, Navigating Hope, veterans programs, employment training and senior nutrition programs.

“We have a mission-driven allocation of financial investments towards combatting substance use disorders and overcoming mental health challenges, working with valued nonprofits to address human service needs. A broad range of county government is involved, including human services, the Sheriff’s Office’s Hope One and Navigating Hope programs, and initiatives by the Prosecutor’s Office,” Commissioner Kathryn DeFillippo, a member of the budget committee.

Critical Community Investments The 2022 Budget contains approximately $34.3 million in educational, cultural and economic development incentives that service all 39 municipalities in Morris County.

Included are: • $18.9 million to support the County College of Morris, Morris County Vocational School District, the Rutgers Cooperative Extension and the Morris County Superintendent of Schools Office • $8.9 million to support the 20,394-acre Morris County Park System • $5.7 million for the Morris County Library and Morris County Heritage Commission • $816,000 for Economic Development and Tourism “Economic Development and Tourism spending is in-

creased over 2021 as we promote Morris County as the best place to live, work and play, and now work from home, as we emerge from the pandemic,” said Commissioner Deborah Smith, a member of the budget committee.

Critical Infrastructure Investments The 2022 Budget includes a $62.5 million Capital Spending Plan for the calendar year, offset by $30.4 million in grants. It prioritizes $14 million for road resurfacing of 25.6 miles in 15 towns, puts $6.83 million toward bridge and culvert projects, and dedicates $2.8 million for intersection improvements.

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Help Us Mine the History of Morris County’s Miners

MORRIS COUNTY - Morris County has a deep history of mining still visible today, from the names of locations such as Mine Hill Township and Richard Mine Road, to the pits and sinkholes marking the landscape and the remnants of historic mills that processed the bounty, including the Boonton Ironworks.

History has recorded the names of the mining barons; however, the miners have been largely forgotten.

Lost are the names, faces and stories of the people who migrated here from Europe in the early 1700s to dig the mineral-rich land by hand and those who followed, continuing to work the mines, mills and supportive industries well into the 20th Century.

“Our invitations to the public to assist us in compiling historical information for other projects has worked well, and we would love more information on the miners. The prize for us would be photographs,” said Jan Williams, a Cultural and Historic Resources Specialist for the County of Morris Office of Planning & Preservation, which is building the online project.

Morris County historians have gathered many names from census data in Morris County, and in some cases, for example, the 1880 Census for Teabo Mine in Rockaway Township even made a distinction between an individual who “Works in Mine” and a “Miner.” An explanation for that distinction is not available, but

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“Also included are those who made their living in service to miners: shopkeepers, physicians and contractors,” Williams added.

The Office of Planning & Preservation has been building online historical databases on everything from Morris County’s “Railroaders” and “Street Histories,” to veterans of United States military conflicts.

“Morris County’s Miners” delves into another, rich portion of Morris County history.

Did you know one of the first iron mines in the United States was located, around

1710, in the Mount Hope section of Rockaway Township?

Iron ore was a primary target of diggers back in the day, and Morris County was part of an entire northern New Jersey region whose economy was fueled by local mining for well over two centuries.

Vestiges of mining history, particularly iron mining, remain throughout Morris County.

Rockaway Township’s motto is “Iron Spirit”, and to this day its official seal includes a dark anvil. After breaking away from Randolph Township in 1923, Mine Hill Township took its name from the industry by which is was

Morris County Launches New Veteran & Family Counseling Service

MORRIS COUNTY - Morris County has launched a “Veteran and Family Support Program” under contract with the Mental Health Association to assist veterans in re-establishing themselves with their families and in the community after returning home from duty.

The Veteran and Family Support Program is designed to provide free psychotherapy services to veterans, as well as group counseling and support to their families and friends. MHA describes it as a holistic approach to help veterans reunify with family as the returning service members simultaneously deal with post traumatic stress disorder and other psychological barriers to readjusting to civilian life.

There also will be referral components that link veterans to employment, finance and other services necessary to their readjustment. The program is one of three launched by the Morris County Board of County Commissioners through the Morris County Department of Human Services to assist returning veterans of Operation Iraqi Freedom in Iraq and Operation Enduring Freedom in Afghanistan. However, the programs are open to all veterans.

“We began these programs out of respect for our returning service members and the difficulties they and their families face after they come back from a conflict to pick up their lives again. Sometimes they need to talk to other veterans who faced the same difficulties re-entering our society.

Some may find they need professional counseling, and their families may realize they too need some guidance in how to interact with a loved-one returning home from combat.

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erans, not only on Memorial Day and Veterans Day, but always,” said Commissioner Deputy Director John Krickus, a Marine Corps veteran.

“MHA is proud to stand with Morris County’s veterans; they are the best of us.

Trauma is real and impacts all of us, and veterans despite their bravery are still human.

And we all need help from time to time. The veterans were there for us and we will be there for them,” said MHA CEO Robert Davison.

The initiative was unanimously approved by the County Commissioners late last year and is being supported funds made available through the American Rescue Plan Act. The other programs

launched include “Peer to Peer Support Counseling” to facilitate veterans being counseled by fellow veterans who shared similar experiences, and “Veteran Roundtables & Events”designed to bring veterans together in social settings.

The programs are being overseen by Morris County’s Veterans Services Office.

To access the Veteran and Family Counseling Program or for more information, contact Michele Walsh at 973-3343496 ext. 515 or mwalsh@ mhainspire.org.

Veterans interested in this and other services provided through Morris County may check with the Morris County Veterans Services Office website.

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born, although the community more recently shed its old official seal, bearing mining implements, to adopt a more family-friendly image.

The Town of Boonton, which owes its very existence to The Boonton Ironworks built in 1830, has undertaken preservation and study of the former site, and received a Morris County Historic Preservation grant last year to further that effort.

If you have information you would like to share, including photos, corrections to the online history page or additions to it, please contact Jan Williams at: jwilliams@ morris.co.nj.us.

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Morris County 2022 Open Space Grant Applications Now Available MORRIS COUNTY The Morris County Office of Planning and Preservation has announced that the 2022 grant application for funding of open space projects under the Morris County Preservation Trust Fund are now available online on the Open Space Preservation website.

“Any of Morris County’s 39 municipalities and qualified charitable conservancies are eligible to apply for grant funding,” said Barbara Murray, the Morris County open space program coordinator.

The deadline for submitting open space applications and appraisals for 2022 funding isThursday, June 9, 2022.

Last year, the Morris County Board of County Commissioners approved recommendations by the county›s Open Space Trust Fund Committee to award $1.3 million in preservation grants for four open space projects, totaling 43 acres located in four Morris County towns.

The Open Space Trust Fund, which is part of the

county’s Preservation Trust Fund, has helped to preserve 17,682 acres throughout the county since 1994, using $293,220,418 generated by a preservation tax Morris County voters approved in November 1992.

In addition to open space projects, the county’s Preservation Trust Fund also helps finance farmland and historic preservation, county parkland acquisition, recreational trails project, and the purchase of residential properties prone to flooding.

“The story goes back nearly three decades ago when the then-Freeholders recognized that sound planning requires a balance of economic growth and the protection of natural resources. Our efforts to preserve open space in Morris County has always been supported by the taxpayers and goes to the heart of why people love to live and raise their families here, and why major corporations make Morris County their home,” said Morris County Commissioner Ste-

phen Shaw, who is the county governing board’s liaison to the Department of Planning and Preservation.

“With an established park system that is second-to-none in New Jersey and our continued expansion of a network of county hiking trails, we have preserved much more than just our surroundings.

We have improved upon an already high quality of life here that includes one of the lowest county taxes in the state, well maintained public infrastructure, top-rated schools, and safe neighborhoods, and we will continue to nurture it,” he added.

The review process for grant applications is handled by the Open Space Trust Fund Committee, which visits the proposed sites and makes final recommendations to the Board of County Commissioners by fall.

Additional information maybe be obtained by contacting the Office of Planning and Preservation at 973-829-8120.

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Vietnam Veterans Memorial “The Moving Wall” Coming to County College of Morris

MORRIS COUNTY - Residents from Morris County and beyond will have the opportunity to experience the poignancy and meaning associated with the Vietnam Veterans Memorial when The Moving Wall, a half-size replica, comes to County College of Morris (CCM) this July at the initiative of VFW Post 7333 of Randolph.

The Moving Wall will be on display July 7 – July 11 at the college, 214 Center Grove Road, Randolph, near Parking Lot 1.

The ceremonies begin on July 8 with proclamations from Randolph Township and Morris County. The Grand Opening will be on July 9 and include a prayer from Bishop Kevin J. Sweeney from the Diocese of Paterson and proclamations from the U.S. Congress and New Jersey State Legislature. There will also be a tribute to Gold Star families and a wreath laying ceremony. July 10 will include a prayer from Rabbi Asher Herson from the Chabad Center of Northwestern New Jersey and the singing of God Bless America. July 8 through July 10 also will feature rifle salutes and then the playing of Taps each evening at 8 p.m.

The closing ceremony will take place the morning of July 11 with a prayer from Reverend Timothy Clarkson from Union Hill Presbyterian Church in Denville, the Retiring of Colors and the collec-

tion of wreaths and any mementos left at the wall.

Visitors who lost someone in the Vietnam War will be invited to make a rubbing of their loved one’s name from the wall throughout the course of each day.

“Thanks to the efforts of State Senator Anthony Bucco and VFW members like Emerson Crooks and Jack Sassaman, we will be able to experience the Vietnam Wall and honor our fallen service members. Our goal is to help bring healing to veterans, families and friends who suffered through this divisive conflict,” said Bill Menzel from VFW Post 7333, the project coordinator. “The Moving Wall additionally is intended to educate youth about the Vietnam War and its impact on the nation and veterans.”

“We are honored to have been asked to host The Moving Wall at CCM to recognize all veterans, especially those who made the ultimate sacrifice, and to teach the next generation about the impact and lessons learned as a result of this time in our nation’s history,” said Dr. Anthony J. Iacono, president of CCM. Also supporting the efforts to bring the wall to the college are the Morris County Board of County Commissioners.

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built The Moving Wall. It has now traveled the country for more than 30 years.

This will be the second time The Moving Wall has come to Morris County. The first time was in Jefferson Township in 2004.

The cost to bring the wall to Morris County is estimated at $30,000 and donations

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BY DANA JACKSON Q: Did Adele ever reschedule her concerts in Las Vegas after she suddenly canceled them? I’m glad I didn’t buy tickets. -- B.D. A: The “Weekends With Adele” residency in Las Vegas was originally scheduled for Jan. 21 through April 16, 2022.

Unfortunately, she canceled the shows at the last minute, stating that, due to COVID and late shipments, the show wasn’t up to the standards she felt her fans deserved. She was widely criticized, though, as many had already made travel arrangements with expensive flights and hotel accommodations.

As far as a tour, Adele has two upcoming performances at London’s Hyde Park in July and has promised that the Vegas shows will “absolutely happen” sometime in 2022. Perhaps she’ll plan a multi-city tour in 2023.

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Live” and “The Ben Stiller Show.”

Odenkirk almost wasn’t here to wrap up Saul’s tale, having suffered a heart attack on the set last July. He credits the 12 minutes of CPR and repeated use of a defibrillator for saving his life.

While anxiously waiting for the upcoming season, be sure to check out Odenkirk’s recently published memoir, “Comedy Comedy Comedy Drama.”

He talks about his career as a comedy writer in the 1990s, his troubled relationship with his father, and how he became an action star in his 50s with the film “Nobody.”

Q: Who is the actor who played the British chemist in “The Dropout” on Hulu? He seems familiar to me. He was so good in the role and should certainly get nominated for an Emmy. -- E.C. A: He’s the multitalented

“The Oscars” (NR) -- If you missed the 94th Academy Awards live premiere on ABC, it’s now available to stream.

This year, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences had a much larger film collection to select nominations from than the previous year, due to a smaller number of films being released because of the COVID-19 pandemic. “The Power of the Dog” leads with 12 nominations, followed by “Dune,” “West Side Story” and “Belfast.” In the Best Picture category, 10 films were nominated, but only five of the directors of those 10 films were nominated for Best Director.

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“driving home 2 u” (NR) -Pop superstar Olivia Rodrigo got her start on Disney+ with a main role on “High School Musical: The Series,” and she’s back on the streaming platform -- this time in a documentary film showcasing her experience creating her very first album, “SOUR.” Rodrigo owned the charts last year as a force in pop music that hasn’t been seen in a while, and “SOUR” was an incredible success, with her first three singles dominating radio stations and music streaming platforms. Get to know a different, more humanized side of this young songwriter in “driving home 2 u.”

(Disney+) “The Fairly Oddparents: Fairly Odder” (TV-Y7) -- As the second longest-running television show on Nickel-

Stephen Fry, a British actor, writer, author, etc. He began as part of the comedy duo Fry & Laurie, as in Hugh Laurie (“House”), and kept audiences in stitches in British comedies like “Jeeves & Wooster” and “Blackadder.” His film career is equally impressive, winning accolades in “Wilde,” based on the life of Irish poet and playwright Oscar Wilde, and then later as an inspector in Robert Altman’s “Gosford Park.”

Fry’s most recent role of chemist with a conscience Ian Gibbons in “The Dropout” is certainly worthy of an Emmy nomination. His co-stars Amanda Seyfried and Naveen Andrews also likely will hear their names called when the nominees are announced July 12.

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“Fairly Odder” follows Vivian “Viv” Turner, Timmy Turner’s cousin, who begins a new life after her family becomes blended in with her father’s new wife and her new stepbrother, Roy. From the now older Timmy, she receives a gift to help her navigate her new life: our favorite, very odd, fairy godparents, Cosmo and Wanda! Premieres March 31. (Paramount+) (c) 2022 King Features Synd., Inc. Olivia Rodrigo in “driving home 2 u”. Photo Credit: Disney+

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LARRY DOBY Sports | Paterson (1923-2003) Larry Doby grew up in New Jersey and became the pride of Paterson. A star high school athlete, Larry joined the Newark Eagles in the Negro Leagues at only 17. After two years of military service during World War II, he signed with the Cleveland

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ond black manager in the Major Leagues. Widely respected as a talented athlete and manger, he had a profound influence on the game and was voted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1998.

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JACK NICHOLSON Arts & Entertainment | Neptune (1937- ) Jack Nicholson was raised in Neptune and graduates from Manasquan High School before heading to California to pursue an acting career. He found initial success as a writer and di-

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ALICE PAUL Historical | Mt. Laurel/ Moorestown (1885-1977) Alice Stokes Paul was the architect of some of the most outstanding political achievements on behalf of women in the 20th century. Born on January 11, 1885 to Quaker parents in Mt. Laurel, New Jersey, Alice Paul dedicated her life to the single cause of securing equal rights for all women. She founded the National Woman’s Party in 1914 and led the first

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AREA - Scan your favorite newspaper or news website this April 1, and chances are you will see some headlines that look doubtful. Read further, and you will find that some of those stories are complete hoaxes, because it’s April Fools’ Day. There have been several April Fool’s Day pranks that have caught the public’s eye through the years. One famous prank became known as The Great Spaghetti Harvest. In 1957, a BBC broadcaster announced that Switzerland had a heavy spaghetti crop for the year and even showed footage of people harvesting spaghetti off trees.

At the time, spaghetti was relatively unknown in the UK. Several viewers afterwards contacted the BBC for advice on growing their own spaghetti trees. CNN called this broadcast “the biggest hoax that any reputable news establishment ever pulled.”

But where do we get the strange custom of playing pranks on April 1? Well, nobody knows for sure. All we know is that the custom was known in Renaissance Europe but has roots much older than that.

Traditional theory places the origin of April Fools Day in the Roman Empire and dates it to the reign of Emperor Constantine. According to the story, a group of court jesters convinced Constantine to make one of them “king for a day.” Constantine obliged, and made one king for a day.

BY RICHARD MABEY JR. GUEST WRITER AREA - What spiritual connections lie dormant between man and beast? What lost communication, from a bygone era, still remains intact deep within the inner fiber of both man and beast? Could it be that we are guided and molded by forces so innately natural, that they gently call to the deepest core of our subconscious minds? Could it be that in early April, the calling of the majestic buck deer graced the inner fiber of a 13-year-old boy, marking him with a calling that remained fixed in the deepest chambers of his heart?

My grandfather, Watson Mabey, often told the story of the great, glorious, majestic buck deer that walked the woods at the end of Mabey Lane. Grandpa also had told me that the great buck could also be seen, from time to time, walking the path of the old Morris Canal.

Grandpa had worked the canal, from his youth, and eventually became the Chief Engineer of Incline Plane Ten East.

My sister Patti, my cousins and I would often sit at the feet of Grandpa Mabey, as he sat upon his chair in the living room of the old Mabey Homestead.

Grandpa was a most wonderful and enchanting story teller. He often told the family legends of the majestic buck deer. Grandpa always ended every tale about the magnificent deer, by telling us that whoever looked into the eyes of the majestic buck would be marked for a special calling for the rest of their life.

In early April of 1967, I was in the eighth grade, 13 years old, and I decided to take a walk down the forest path to the old Morris Canal, all by myself. It was a sunny, Saturday morning. The wild flowers were blooming along the forest path, that began at the end of Mabey Lane. I had no idea that magical morning, that my life was about to change forever.

As I walked the forest path, squirrels scurried about, jumping from tree limb to limb. Birds sang and chirped melodies to shame even the world’s greatest musical composers. Thistle stalks abounded between the maple, the oak and the elm.

There was a certain peace that filled the air in those magical wooded acres.

As I walked down the wooded path, I could not believe my eyes. There to the right of the narrow forest path, proud-

He decreed that it would be a day of cheerfulness, and thus created what came April Fools Day. The only problem with that story was it was a hoax. It was an April Fools Day prank, pulled by Boston University professor Joseph Boskin, on Associated Press reporter Fred Bayles, in 1983. Bayles reported the story, and the AP ran it, only to retract it days later. There is a good lesson here: Do not take as fact everything you read about April Fools Day. (But no worries, you can totally trust me!)

Many think the idea of April Fools Day goes back to Roman times, when a joyful festival called Hilaria, originally probably a spring equinox celebration, came to be celebrated on March 25. In Roman terms, March 25 was “the eighth of the Calends of April,” which associates the festival strongly with April 1, the Calends of April. However, there is no hard evidence to connect Hilaria with April Fools Day, so this is just another speculation by curious people.

People have hypothesized about the origins of this holiday, suggesting that it was part of the Roman Saturnalia, a Druid rite in Britain, with a carnival-like medieval celebration of the Feast of Fools.

But despite attempts to establish an earlier origin for the day, clear references to a tradition of fooling in April do not begin until the late Middle Ages.

It is possible that there is a glimpse of April Fools Day in Chaucer’s “Nun’s Priest’s Tale” (ca. 1390), which shows the rooster being fooled by, and in turn fooling, a fox. This occurs “Syn March bigan, thritty dayes and two,” or 32 days after March began, i.e., April 1. This would be an early, clear reference to the date, but scholars think the word “bigan” is a scribal error, and that the intended date was May 2, thirty-two days after March was over. Even if this is true, the existence of such a scribal error could suggest that medieval scribes expected hoaxes to occur on April 1.

But still, this does not qualify as hard evidence of an April Fools custom.

In France, “poisson d’avril,” or “April fish,” is the name for a person duped on April Fools Day. The first reference to “poisson d’avril” is from a 1508 poem by Eloy D’Amerval called Le Livre de la Diablerie, or The Book of Deviltry. However, from the context we can’t be sure if the author was referring to April 1 or to fools in general. The idea of the “April fish” seems to be the fact that fish were plentiful and hungry in the spring, and easy to catch. An “April fish” was more gullible than a fish at other times of the year.

Thus, a mere reference to an “April fish” does not itself prove there was a holiday on April 1.

Some sources, such as Charles Panati’s Extraordinary Origins of Everyday

Things, cite another 16th-century French origin: 1564, when the celebration of the New Year officially moved to January 1 by Charles IX’s Edict of Roussillon. According to Panati, the New Year had the celebration on March 25 because of the arrival of spring, with a week-long observance ending on April 1.

Panati further claims: “Frenchmen who resisted the change, and others who forgot about it, continued partying and exchanging gifts during the week ending April 1.”

The real history of New Year’s observances in France is more complex, with different regions celebrating at various times. As early as 1507, books printed in France indicated that people were beginning the year on January 1.

Besides, Panati does not provide any concrete evidence of any of his claims in the form of modern-day accounts or surviving invitations–not even for the claim of a week-long celebration, which is necessary to involve April 1 in the New Year change. In all, we will have to consider his story to be real, or a hoax on all of us.

The first certain reference to April Fools Day comes from a 1561 Flemish poem

by Eduard De Dene. In the poem, a noble person sends his servant on crazy, fruitless errands. The servant recognizes that he is running on “fool’s errands” because it is April 1.

An April Story

Majestic Buck was engraved upon the deepest chambers of my heart. Perhaps Grandpa’s legend was not a fairy tale, perhaps there was a great depth of truth to the old Mabey Legend.

At the age of 13, in early April of 1967, I felt my grand-

father’s gift of story telling fill my heart. I had looked the Great Majestic Buck Deer in the eye. I was now marked with the gift of a special calling. I knew deep in the chambers of my heart, that the great buck had blessed me with the calling of story telling.

There was no doubt in my heart.

None at all.

Richard Mabey Jr. is a freelance writer. He can be reached at richardmabeyjr@hotmail. com. Please put on the subject line: An April Story.

Kidz World Pediatric Dentistry & Orthodontics A photo from 1932 of my grandfather, Watson Mabey, proudly standing in his backyard, of the home he built at the end of Mabey Lane.

ly stood the majestic buck. It was a most surreal moment in time, it all seemed like a dream.

Slowly and steadfastly, the old, tall buck came walking toward me. It was as frightening as any horror film I had ever seen at the old State Theater in the nearby town of Boonton. The antlers of the powerful deer seemed to reach out three or four feet from the majestic buck’s skull. As the deer came ever so close to me, I shuttered.

I stood my ground. It was not so much that I was being brave and fearless, it was actually quite the opposite. I remember being so taken and overcome with fear that my legs would not move an inch. You read about such moments in time, you dream about such moments in time, but this was a moment that was all so real, as frightening as it was.

My heart began beating like a big bass drum. Sweat filled the crevices of my hands, like little pools of water that clung to my palms. The carotid sinuses in my neck pounded in a fast-paced rhythm. As the deer, ever so slowly, ascended closer to me, I remembered the very words of Grandpa Mabey.

The Great Majestic Buck was the central character of a family legend. It was at least a dozen times that Grandpa told me the legend of the Great Majestic Buck. The Mabey legend was that whoever looked the stately deer in the eye, directly in the eye, was a marked man.

That from that point on, the person who stood steadfast to the great deer and looked him square in the eye would be so marked for a special calling, that his or her life would never, ever be the same.

The deer was now only about 10 feet from me, when the grand beast stopped and threw

his head back, as if he was about to attack me. Something kept me from running down the forest path. I felt the presence of my grandfather, standing beside me, saying to me, “stand your ground, Richie, stand your ground.”

And then the Great Majestic Deer lowered his head and slowly, steadfastly began once again to walk toward me. My body shook like the last leaf hanging upon a twig of a maple tree, in the midst of an April breeze. I thought that my heart was going to burst, it was beating so hard and all so fast.

The Great Majestic Deer was now about four feet from me. I was frozen. I could not move.

And, with all the courage that I could dig deeply from within the core of my soul, I looked the huge beast deep in its eyes. The grand deer looked back at me and flung its head back in a fury.

Then lowered his head, turned around and ran into the thick of the April forest. I felt a deep blessing succumb my heart, mind, and soul. I had looked the Great Majestic Buck deep into his eyes and he looked deep into mine. From that point on, I would never be the same.

I walked down the forest path. As I stood within eye’s view of the old Morris Canal, l could see the foundation of my great grandfather’s icehouse.

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Keeping fresh fruit around the house provides a healthier alternative when your sweet tooth comes calling. Understanding how and when to buy at the peak of ripeness (or just before, in some cases) can help you avoid food waste while keeping your doctor happy.

Consider these simple tips for recognizing ripe fruits: Strawberries: Check the area at the top of the berry near the stem and leaves. A ripe strawberry is fully red; green or white near the top means the fruit is underripe.

Watermelon: The “field spot,” or the area where the melon sat on the ground, should be yellow, and a tap on the rind should produce a hollow sound.

Cherries: Flesh should appear dark with a crimson color and feel firm.

Blueberries: Similar to cherries, color should deepen to dark blue. A reddish or pink color may be visible in unripe berries.

Blackberries: Look for a smooth texture with-

out any red appearance. Because blackberries don’t ripen after being picked, they tend to spoil quickly.

Cantaloupe: You should detect a sweet smell, and the melon should feel heavy upon lifting.

Peaches: A sweet, fragrant odor should be apparent. Skin should feel tender but not soft.

Pineapple: Smell is again an important factor for pineapple – a sweet scent shows it’s ready, but a vinegary one likely means it’s overripe.

Raspberries: Generally follow the same rules as blackberries. Best eaten within a couple days of purchase, a bright red color represents ripe berries.

Bananas: A ripe banana features a peel lightly spotted without significant bruising. Your best bet may be to purchase bananas still slightly green and allow them to ripen at home.

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Hearty, Wholesome Dishes to Support Immune Systems

If feeding your family wholesome meals is a daily goal, keep in mind you can serve up tasty foods that also feed your immune system by including ingredients like mushrooms. With their earthy flavor, mushrooms – like many other fruits and vegetables – can also play a positive role in supporting a healthy immune system.

Studies at Oregon State University concluded there are a variety of micronutrients important for supporting a healthy immune system.

Consider that three of these nutrients (vitamin D, selenium and B vitamins) can be found in mushrooms, meaning these family-friendly recipes for Roasted Chicken Thighs and Veggies with Mushroom Orzo Risotto; Grilled Portobello Gyros with Yogurt Dill Sauce;

Creamy Spinach, Mushroom and Lasagna Soup; and Asian Barbecue Sesame Salmon with Noodles and Veggies can help you add all-important nutrients to your family’s menu.

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Grilled Portobello Gyros with Yogurt Dill Sauce Recipe courtesy of Emily Weeks of “Zen and Spice” Cook time: 15 minutes Total time: 25 minutes Servings: 4

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and Lasagna Soup Recipe courtesy of Emily Weeks of “Zen and Spice” Cook time: 30 minutes Total time: 40 minutes Servings: 4 1 tablespoon extra-virgin olive oil 2 cloves garlic, minced 1 medium onion, small diced 8 ounces crimini mushrooms, sliced 1 jar (24 ounces) marinara sauce 1 can (15 ounces) diced tomatoes 2 tablespoons tomato paste 2 teaspoons balsamic vinegar 1 teaspoon granulated sugar 1 tablespoon dried basil 1/2 teaspoon salt 1 teaspoon oregano 1/2 teaspoon black pepper 1 bay leaf 3 cups vegetable broth 6 lasagna noodles, broken into pieces 1/2 cup heavy cream 5 ounces fresh baby spinach 1 cup whole-milk ricotta cheese 1/2 cup shredded mozzarella cheese, for topping Heat large pot over medium heat.

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Roasted Chicken Thighs and Veggies with Mushroom Orzo Risotto Recipe courtesy of Emily Weeks of “Zen and Spice” Cook time: 50 minutes Total time: 1 hour, 10 minutes Servings: 4 Chicken: 8 boneless, skinless chicken thighs salt & pepper, to taste 6 tablespoons unsalted butter 16 ounces crimini mushrooms, quartered 3 zucchini, sliced in half moons 3 large carrots, thinly sliced 4 sprigs fresh rosemary, leaves removed and roughly chopped 4 cloves garlic, minced Orzo: 4 cups chicken or vegetable broth 1 tablespoon unsalted butter 1 tablespoon extra-virgin olive oil

1 small yellow onion, diced 2 garlic cloves, minced 16 ounces crimini mushrooms, finely chopped 1 cup uncooked orzo pasta 1/8 teaspoon black pepper 1/3 cup white wine 1/3 cup shredded Parmesan cheese To make chicken: Preheat oven to 450 F. Pat chicken dry. Season with salt and pepper, to taste.

In large skillet over medium-high heat, melt butter. Sear chicken until browned, 4-5 minutes on each side.

In large bowl, toss mushrooms, zucchini, carrots, garlic and rosemary. On large baking sheet, spread vegetables. Nestle chicken into vegetables. Drizzle with butter and juices from pan.

Bake 20 minutes until chicken is cooked through and vegetables are tender.

To make orzo: In small pot over medium-low heat, warm broth.

Using skillet from chicken, add butter and olive oil over medium heat. Add onion, garlic and mushrooms. Cook, stirring occasionally, until onions soften, 3-4 minutes.

Add orzo and black pepper. Stir and cook 2 minutes.

Add white wine and cook until evaporated, about 1 minute.

Add warm broth to orzo 2/3 cup at a time, stirring until liquid is absorbed. Repeat with remaining broth, waiting until last batch is absorbed before adding more. Remove from heat and stir in Parmesan.

Serve in individual bowls with chicken and roasted vegetables atop mushroom orzo risotto.

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MORRIS COUNTY - The Morris County Chamber of Commerce honored local community and business leaders Margaret Nordstrom and Jane Kurek at its 101st Annual Meeting Luncheon March held March 3 at the Parsippany Hilton.

Nordstrom was honored with the Alex DeCroce Public Leadership Award. She is administrator of Borough of Chester and immediate past-executive director of the New Jersey Highlands Council. She also served as a Morris County commissioner from 1999 to 2012, including as Commission director 20062008. Nordstrom has received numerous awards for her activities in environmental protection, citizenry and government leadership and sits on a number of councils and commissions.

She noted she tried to retire was drawn back to work after a few months of not being busy enough for her liking.

“This is a life-time achievement award but I’m still working,” she joked. “And I will continue working for as long as

God allows it.”

Kurek was honored with the Saint Clare’s William P. Huber Award for Outstanding Community Leadership. She is the former exective director of The Provident Bank Foundation, where she was responsible for implementing the foundation’s vision and strategies. Throughout her career Kurek focused on providing leadership to nonprofits to help them achieve their missions and continues her involvement in retirement.

She is a trustee of CASA of Morris and Sussex Counties, board treasurer of The Compassionate Friends Foundation, an advisory board member of First Night Morris County and serves on numerous other nonprofit councils and committees.

She looked back fondly on her time as executive director of The Provident Bank Foundation, with its mission of enhancing the quality of life in the communities The Provident Bank serves, including nonprofit, which she said hold a special place in her heart.

“Together we can truly make changes in the years

ahead,” she said.

The meeting also featured keynote speaker Kevin Nepveux, vice president, launch excellence, at Pfizer, Inc., who discussed the unprecedented effort of the pharmaceutical industry to jointly work to find a vaccine for COVID-19, accomplishing what usually takes five to 10 years in just over 12 months.

He said the company achieved this by: Taking steps in parallel instead of sequentially.

Selecting a formula quickly.

Streamlining the government review process.

Accelerating the manufacturing process, including expanding from three sites to 20.

Innovating, such as building an electric substation for power, making their own dry ice and attaching GPS devises to every shipping package.

“We took a normal business paradigm and smashed it,” Nepveux said. “We bet everything on this. We believed we had the vaccine.”

Chamber president and CEO Meghan Hunscher shared

highlights from the organization’s centennial year, 2021, and discussed the chamber’s vision for the future.

“The pandemic brought us closer together in many ways and the lessons we have learned will endure as we continue to fulfill our mission to connect, convene, facilitate, inform, collaborate and advocate for our members,” she said. “At the chamber we are committed to providing the opportunities for members to raise their visibility.”

In addition, Tayfun Selen, director of the Morris County Board of County Commissioners, spoke of the county’s Small Business Grant Program, which is providing $10 million in American Rescue Plan Act funds to county small businesses negatively impacted by the pandemic.

“It is all of our responsibility to spread the word about this grant program,” he said.

Selen encouraged small businesses in need of COVID-relief funds to visit morrisocuntysmallbusinessgrant.com.

Margaret Nordstrom (left) and Jane Kurek were the award winners at the 101st Annual Meeting Luncheon of the Morris County Chamber of Commerce.(Credit MC Ward)

best of anyone.

“You just grow with the pain and out of that becomes compassion to help others and keep our loved ones’ memories alive,” says Schmidt.

She has precious recollections of her beautiful, caring, charismatic, loving, smart, funny daughter.

“Everything changes when you lose a child,” she says you miss all those little things you experienced together.

And a heartbreaking new normal sets in.

They’re educating the parents, the public, especially the youth because they’re buying drugs off Snapchat and social media.

“Every drug (crack, cocaine, heroin, Xanax, methadone) is riddled with Fentanyl and these 10, 11, 12, 13-yearold kids are dying,” Schmidt says their life matters. That’s the ‘One Pill Can Kill’ campaign.

“They want to get high but they die. Their sudden death is like a traumatic shock to all of us.”

According to the CDC, there were an estimated 100,306 drug overdose deaths from opioids in the United States during the 12-month period ending in April 2021.

Schmidt noticed slight behavior changes (‘she was a little more angry’) in her daughter but didn’t think much of it.

Alyssa assured her it was nothing, ‘mom, just leave me alone.’

“I thought it was growing pains,” says Schmidt. “Never expected to go upstairs and

find her gone, never in a million years.”

Her pain became passion and Alyssa’s mom dove into Angels Across America, to support every family as much as she can.

“I miss her dearly and love comes from what I’m doing now,” Schmidt says it’s for all those moms who found their child dead or got a phone call saying their child is dead.

And she has company in her grief, having met MaryBeth Moore Zocco, who started Ryan’s Ride in 2019 after the loss of her 25-year-old son Ryan Moore from fentanyl poisoning on 12/17/2018.

Shortly after the first ride, the Orlando mom began The FRoM Project (Forever Ryan’s Mom) to keep his memory alive by sending handmade personalized cards to grieving parents all over the world.

They honor and remember loved ones taken too soon by substance use disorder overdose or fentanyl poisoning.

“Alyssa was my whole world, my best friend, we loved to cook together, shop together, did everything together, she’d come home from work, we’d talk for hours… and she’d tell me about her day.”

How do you pick up the pieces and move forward — according to Schmidt; honor them ‘and talk about our children as much as we can to whoever will listen.’

She held ‘Celebration of Life for Alyssa’ and joined the Wayne Alliance. This year will be her fifth annual can-

dle-lighting on International Overdose Awareness Day. Angels Across America supports all the grieving families and their loved ones, who are deeply loved and missed.

They educate the public and youth on the dangers of illicit drugs, every street drug is extremely addictive and using can have dire consequences.

Leslie (Billy) Smith owns Angel’s trailer. Smith lost his son, Jeremy, 30, a construction worker who fell off a building.

He was put on Oxycodone for the pain. When the prescriptions ceased — he turned to street drugs and it’s what killed him.

Schmidt says tell your kids you love them every day and about the inherent risks out there.

“The heartache is unbearable some days but we keep pushing forward to honor and

love all the angels we lost,” she says. “When I do their pictures, graphics — make a video talking to their moms, I feel like I know each one of them.”

Kids are fragile today, COVID has made things worse… and there is much self-medicating going on.

Either you die or live this road of recovery every day, they struggle — nothing good comes out of doing any kind of drug.

“Alyssa’s dreams were shattered because she made a mistake,” Schmidt says she blamed herself. “How did I not know, what if I did this, what if I said that; I beat myself up to this day and friends say stop, she made the choice.”

Recalling all their amazing milestones and accomplishments you boasted and bragged about, while also thinking: ’G-d knows what

Honoring Late Daughter, Mom Channels Pain into Passion

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AREA - The visual impact of seeing 500+ children’s faces of loved ones lost gazing out from the trailer to scare the heck out of the youth is a powerful wake-up call: ‘this could happen to me’ — Stay Away From Drugs.

It was Angels Across America’s first Event in Kissimmee, Florida — the camper will travel from state to state to create awareness, vital to save lives— and it meant everything.

“We were excited for our first rollout. Moms who lost their children wanted to see the picture of their child ‘cause that’s the only memory we have now,” says Susan Schmidt.

For Schmidt, the loss of her daughter is crushing torture, as though her soul has been ripped from her body. Alyssa is forever with her heart and always on her mind.

It was May 28, 2016, when her world imploded.

“I live with the heartache of losing my daughter every single day. She was 20 years old and I found her in her bed, she made a choice by snorting heroin and it killed her,” Schmidt says after a year she got on Facebook and learned other moms experienced the same loss. That’s when she knew she needed to do something.

“I had to learn about all this because I had no clue and there are a lot of naive families out there,” she says at first she was ashamed, ‘I raised her well, she went to Catholic school, came from a good family,’ how could this happen.

Because addiction doesn’t discriminate, and will take the

they’re getting into.’

It’s a lonely place to be after losing a child.

“I’ll do these events, then it hits you. Becomes so overwhelming where I’m quiet and within myself for days,” she says she can’t function. “Then go, go, go and break down again; it’s horrible. Or go upstairs and lay in my daughter’s bed and just cry.”

Her goal is to prevent kids from overdosing.

“Be afraid, be very afraid because you can’t come back from dying,” says Schmidt, of getting them to think before making a potentially fatal choice. “I can’t bring back any of our children we lost,” says Schmidt.

To learn more, search Angels Across America on Facebook.

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NJStarz NJ Starz: Jennifer Jones Hometown: Randolph, NJ Jennifer Jones recalls the night vividly.

“Sue Simmons came on the 11 o’clock news, and she said, ‘Radio City Music Hall has just hired their first African American dancer to be a Rockette.” I said to myself, ‘I wonder who that is?’ And it was me! They didn’t tell me that I was the first one.”

The year was 1987, and Jones was invited to be on field during the Super Bowl XXII halftime show. The game, a Washington Redskins 42 – 10 win over the Denver Broncos, was somewhat forgettable, but Jones taking part in the intermission was news, and it led to, in her words, “15 years with the Rockettes, and then I did Broadway after that, so it was a beautiful 20 year professional dancing experience.”

“I was mostly raised in Randolph,” says Jones, who was born in Newark on August 1, 1967. “I went to sixth grade there, but we moved there a year before, when I attended The Pingry School in Basking Ridge for one year, and then I went to Randolph schools, from where I graduated high school and then eventually attended CCM (County College of Morris).”

Jones was a trailblazer, and she followed in her parents’ footsteps. “I’m biracial; my mother (Linda Lourie, originally from Rockaway) is white, my father (Booker T. Jones, born in Saint Louis, Missouri) is black, and they got together in the 1960s when that wasn’t fondly looked upon, an interracial relationship.” Jones is the middle child of three sisters. Her older sibling is Kara, and the younger is Patricia. “But we call her ‘Peaches,’” Jones says.

Jones enjoyed her time in Randolph. “Of course, it’s a great educational system that they have there, which is one of the reasons why my parents moved there, but there was some racial tension. My sister and I were in the minority group. There were some hard times, but I have a great core friends. We actually just went to St. Augustine last September, just the five of us, after we hadn’t seen each other in over 20 years, and it was like we picked up from yesterday, like we never left off.”

After high school, Jones went to CCM and originally applied to be a business major with the notion that she would open up a dance studio. However, the urge was there to be a dancer, so she changed her major to dance. The love of that art had been instilled in

her at a young age. “My parents started me dancing when I was around five or six,” Jones says. “They had combined dance classes; it was like tap with gymnastics. All I can remember is that I loved the way the sound the tap made against the linoleum floor. There was something about that sound that I loved, so much so that my parents got linoleum flooring in the basement, just a piece of it. My father’s office was down in the basement, and whenever he was down there working from home, I would go down with my tap shoes on and just tap-tap-tap.

He never complained once, if you can imagine that.”

While at CCM, Jones was very busy. In addition to her studies, she was part of a modern dance company called “Beyond the New Jersey Turnpike”, which was eventually shortened years later to just “Beyond”, and she was also trekking to the Broadway Dance Center in New York City, where Frank Hatchett was her mentor. “I was really big into jazz because I was going to be a Broadway star,” she says. Again, it was her parents that opened her and her sisters’ world up to the beauty of performance. “Our parents took us to Broadway all the time, and I saw The Wiz five times. And then we would wait backstage after the show at the stage door and get autographs, and I knew one day I wanted to walk out of that backstage door. I didn’t know how or anything, but all I knew is I wanted to be the one walking out. So my goal was to be on Broadway. And to me, I equated Broadway with jazz dancing, and so I took ballet for the technique, which is the core of any type of dancing, and I took some tap classes. So I was going back and forth between CCM and New York, taking classes, learning the art of auditioning and how to find an audition. I also started making friends in the city, and I had one friend who knew a lot of Broadway people, and I started meeting people.”

Then in 1987, when searching through an industry publication for dance roles, Jones bypassed a printed mention of an open audition for the Radio City Music Hall Rockettes. A friend encouraged her to attend that audition, telling her she’d be a perfect Rockette.

Jones, not envisioning being chosen and a bit hesitant, eventually convinced herself to go. “I wasn’t even going to go to the audition. I was always nervous at auditions.

So I thought I would go and try to clean up some of the cobwebs, get better at auditioning.” When she arrived, the line was wrapped around Radio City Music Hall, and she thought, ‘Maybe I should just go take my Frank Hatchett class.’ Instead she remained, and was taken with a group to a rehearsal hall. “They put us in a line. I was stretching, and it was very intimidating. Everyone was beautiful and had long legs, and I thought, ‘Just let me get through this audition.’” After being measured for the approved Rockette height, she made the cut and headed to the floor for a tap routine – in character shoes.

“When it was over, I was going to the back of the room to get my bag, and the stage manager came up to me, and he said, ‘Jennifer, we’re going to give you a call back. Bring your tap shoes and bring your picture and resume.”

She went to the call back, and sealed the deal. Jones recalls, “I think it was just maybe a few months later that Violet Holmes, the choreographer at the time, called me and she asked me if I wanted to do the Super Bowl halftime show.

That’s when I accepted the her offer.”

And then the NBC News broadcast with Sue Simmons.

“My mother called me and she said, ‘Jennifer is that you?!’ and I said, ‘I don’t know.’ Nobody said anything, only later to find out that it was me.”

Jones was then put through media training, given mock interviews to get used to the real interviews that she would eventually do as the first official African American Radio City Rockette.

Another one of Jones’s proudest Rockette moments is when she performed at the Tony Awards in the Broadway revival of 42nd Street in 2001. The ensemble won the Tony Award that same night for Best Revival of a Musical.

Jones was also the first African American Miss Morris County (1989), owned and operated the Jennifer Jones Dance and Fitness Studio in Rockaway from 1990 – 1993, and was the first to kick off CCM’s “I Got It Right” billboard campaign.

Jones, who retired in 2002 and is a member of the Rockette Alumnae Association as well as the Rockettes of Color Alumnae, is currently married to husband Jeffrey DeBarbieri, and has two children, Zachary and Isabella. She is a happy and grateful woman, and has funneled that gratitude towards awareness in a worth-

while initiative that for her hits very close to home. She explains. “I wake up grateful every morning. In 2018 I was diagnosed with stage three colon cancer. I was healthy my entire life: I had a professional dancing career, and I was vegetarian for over 20 years. And when I was diagnosed it was, first of all, a surprise.” Jones went through eight rounds of chemotherapy, and then had surgery the end of 2018. “In 2019 I was deemed cancer free, and I’ve been cancer free ever since. I went to Memorial Sloan Kettering and had an almost all-female team, which makes it very comfortable for me to speak about it, and I do a lot of work with the Colorectal Cancer Alliance. I do speaking engagements about colorectal cancer and awareness, and try to spread the word that the colonoscopy age has lowered to 45 instead of 50. So, I wake up grateful every morning, first of all for my health, for having a roof over my head, for having food on the table, for my family, for my children, for my parents, and for my job.”

Her colorectal cancer battle and survival has redirected how she wants to live her life – a life that continues to be filled with good things. “I have a children’s book coming out the end of the year,” Jones says, “and I have my memoir that will be coming out in 2023, and various other projects that I’m working on. I’m able to shift focus to things that will benefit me and hopefully benefit others.”

For more information about the Colorectal Cancer Alliance, visit www.ccalliance.org. To learn more about Jones, visit www.rockettejenn. com.

Photos courtesy of Jennifer Jones

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