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Florham Park Author Publishes Young Adult Book Series

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FLORHAM PARK - For Amy Meislin Pollack, it’s taken a while, over 60 years in fact.

But finally, her in-her-head created character from fourth grade has finally surfaced between book covers.

Pollack in the spring released her first book, The Adventures of Jelly Bean. Published by Austin Macauley Publishers, Pollack’s offering is about the adventures - or misadventures, if you will – of a cute, raven-haired, pigtailed fourth-grader whose true best friend is her dog, Roger-Over.

Pollack takes the reader back to the 1960s, when she was tasked in the classroom

to keep her classmates entertained. No doubt, her teacher’s reasoning for nudging the young Amy was twofold: she also noticed a brewing creativity. “When I was in fourth grade, my teacher – and you always remember a good teacher very vividly - she would have me come up to the front of the room when I was nine years old, and tell these stories about this little girl named Jelly Bean that I would tell off the top of my head,” Pollack recalls.

“Even former classmates remember Jelly Bean, and I say, ‘Really? This was 60 years ago!’ I just had fun telling these stories, and the kids seemed to

like it. It became like a regular thing in my classroom.”

Pollack, who taught students from elementary school to college, wrote down the stories she told, but never did anything with them. They sat for years, occasionally revised, as Pollack went to work as a teacher and raised her family.

Her mother-in-law would occasionally encourage her onwards. “She would always say, ‘Whatever happened to your children’s stories, they were so good? Can you work on them some more? Whatever happened to them?’ That was very meaningful.” Also, her sixthgrade students would offer lov-

East Hanover Community Partnership to Sponsor a Townwide Business Week

Left to right are some of the EHCP Directors:John Deep, Michael Martorelli, Vinny Bove, Artie Dorey- President, Michael Choi. Picture taken during the community wide Reusable Tote Bag distribution day in April.

EAST HANOVER -The East Hanover Community Partnership is pleased to sponsor a town wide all category Business Week from Monday, July 25 through Sunday, July 31, 2022!

“East Hanover Business Week was created in effort to drive business to our local establishments in the height of summer when traffic is typically slower.” According to Artie Dorey, who is the President of the East Hanover Community

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“When the Partnership sponsors an event that supports our businesses and provides a benefit to the customers at the same time, it’s a win for everyone.” said Dorey.

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ing critique, but Pollack’s Jelly Bean tales still lay aside idle for the most part.

It was when the COVID-19 pandemic hit that Pollack found herself with free time and revisited her writing. “COVID was my silver lining, because by this point, my children were all married and I had grandchildren that I was babysitting for,” she says. “I became busy with that, and they (my children) all work, and they were all depending on me to be there.

But along came this pandemic where it wasn’t permissible to do much of anything. So, I said to myself, it was either cleaning all my closets or finishing my book.”

Pollack, who resides in Florham Park, chose the latter. After revising yet again her manuscript, she sent it out to publishers and, after getting nearly 30 rejections, she one day got an acceptance letter in the mail. “It was surreal,” she says.

The author admits that Jelly Bean is a bit the Amy Pollack of her youth, an also says the girl’s beloved pet, Roger-Over, is a reliable amigo. “My dog in the story is a pretty important

The Adventures of Jelly Bean.

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part of it, like a comfort to her,” Pollack says. “When nobody else listens and really has time for her, that’s life. The dogs play such an important role, they’re always there.”

There’s much more to come in possible future books. Jelly Bean will certainly grow and mature, and Pollack will help the young woman along as she takes on a life of her own. “She will get older, and that’s my plan,” Pollack says.

And Pollack is certainly enjoying the ride. She’s finished the work she started many years ago, sent out queries, suffered the rejections until the wonderful first ever acceptance, and now has her loyal readers.

“The most exciting thing I have to say was hearing all the people, or everyone who told them to me, make their positive comments, and the ones that posted them on Amazon and with the publisher. That was really gratifying. I knew I was pretty self-critical as a writer, and I knew parts were pretty good and other parts that could be improved on, but since I taught writing for all those years and had read up on the writing process so much, there comes a point where you just can’t correct it.”

The Adventures of Jelly Bean is available both online at Amazon.com and BN.com, and at Barnes & Noble bookstores.

Hanover Park High School Grad Wins #700 as Mountain Lakes Coach

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BY STEVE SEARS STAFF WRITER HANOVER - Hanover Park High School graduate and Randolph resident, Tim Flynn, won his record-setting 700th game as head coach of Mountain Lakes High School boy’s

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Meet the Man Who Wrote the Hanover Park High School Alma Mater

HANOVER PARK -Eugene Thomas, former choir director at Hanover Park High School, had made the trek south from his current home in Maine to the Thursday evening, May 26, 2022 Hanover Park High School choral concert.

No doubt as he drove for those six and 1/2 hours, he reflected on his many years spent at the school, and the many memories of the people that he worked with. On the flip side of that coin, his former students thought so much of him that, on this special Thursday evening, they had planned for weeks via social media to head up on stage and join the chorus and sing a very special song, the Hanover Park High School Alma Mater, which Thomas wrote in 1968.

“It was a great time,” Thomas says of the evening of the 26th. “We enjoyed the concert.

I had like 20 of my former students show up just to join, one from as far away as South Carolina.”

Those 20 students, as well as the 50-member current choir, joined forces on stage and all sang together: From Atlantic’s churning shore, to the peaceful Delaware, In this land that we adore,

there’s a school beyond compare.

Hanover Park so bold accept our loud acclaim.

Lift high the black and gold for Alma Mater’s name.

“I was delighted,” Thomas says enthusiastically while recalling the song’s genesis.

“When I wrote that thing, I wrote a script because they didn’t have an Alma Mater.

I didn’t even know whether it would go, but it did. When we closed each year, the final number of the final concert of the year was always the Alma Mater. For us, it was something that we did. But the fact that had continued without me there, that somebody else thought highly enough of that number and they use it, too, I was very pleased, excited, and honored.”

Thomas, 88, graduated from Indiana University in Pennsylvania, earning both his bachelor’s and master’s degrees in Music Education. He taught for six years in Pennsylvania and then moved to New Jersey in 1965, when he began teaching at Hanover Park High School.

While there, he also sang professionally in New York as a tenor and counter tenor, and was Minister of Music of the

First Presbyterian Church in East Hanover, and Calvary Presbyterian Church in Florham Park. He taught at HPHS from 1965 until his 1990 retirement.

Thomas was not only involved in the music program, but also the drama program as well, he in charge of shows in the fall and spring, with an additional children’s show towards the end of the school year as well.

“There’s so much,” Thomas says. “As a matter of fact, one year I was also the assistant girls track coach. I have great memories of that school. I loved not only the chorus and teaching private, multiple lessons, but I also was able to teach a course called Fundamentals of Music, which was not fundamentals, it was quite advanced. Some of the students that went through that course were able to pass over their first year of college because it was very, very advanced. I had great students and I had great support from the rest of the music department.”

“The 25 years I had there was probably the best 25 years of my life,” Thomas says. He again revisits Thursday evening, May 26. “We (he and his students) had a good relationship. Just after the concert that

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Flynn, who has coached at the school since 1979, was first introduced to the sport in eighth grade. “A friend of mine and myself, we actually hitchhiked over to the high school, and he said, ‘This is a sport we’re going to play when we’re in the spring.’ And I saw my first lacrosse game at Hanover Park High School in 1968, and I immediately fell in love with it. The action and the physicality just looked like fun.”

At that time in the Garden State, only 12 teams existed.

Now there are close to 300 that play the sport.

When Flynn was hired in 1979, then head football coach and Athletic Director, the late Doug Wilkins, threw all his support behind Flynn and boy’s lacrosse. “He opened the doors for our program, he gave us all the support in the world,” Flynn recalls. “Not every lacrosse coach coming in gets that tremendous support.” Wilkins was always there with words of encouragement. “The people that take the journey with you are the ones that you remember. It was a lesson Doug taught me a long, long time ago. He said, “After a while, the wins and losses, they’re going to fade, and it’s the kids

that you’re dealing with.’ We have an alumni game every five years, and last year we had 173 ex-players come to the game. I never picked up a ground ball or scored a goal. Those kids those kids and their families bought in to what we’re trying to do. We have, I think, pretty tough standards. I don’t think it’s an easy place to play. It’s very competitive and you have to compete against sometimes your best buddies. But the kids put themselves on the line every single day, every time we go out there.”

Under Flynn’s helm, the Mountain Lakes boy’s lacrosse teams have won 10 Group I state titles, five overall state crowns prior to the beginning of the Tournament of Champions in 2004, and three TOC championships since it began.

Flynn, who is also former president of the New Jersey Lacrosse Coaches Association and a former trustee of the New Jersey chapter of US Lacrosse, was also named Star-Ledger New Jersey Coach of the Year in 1987 and 1989, and the New Jersey Coaches Association Coach of the Year in 1988 and 1993. In addition, Flynn received in 1990 the Len Roland Sportsmanship Award, in 1997 the Garden State Games Distinguished Service Award, en-

tered the NJSIAA Hall of Fame in 1995, was inducted in 1998 into the New Jersey chapter of US Lacrosse Hall of Fame, and the Montclair State College Lacrosse Hall of Fame in 2009.

Finally, in 2012, Flynn as head coach led the US U-19 Team over Finland, 2 – 1, for a Gold Medal Championship at the U-19 World Championships.

Flynn recognizes the support of many people, especially his family. His daughter, Kim, is a former Mountain Lakes scorekeeper. “She’s now a proud mom in Chatham, and I have to play against my grandsons,” Flynn says. “I’ve actually coached against my son in law, who coached at Roxbury, coached at Chatham, and also coached in college. And then, the number one person as far as I’m concerned, is my wife, who is the most supportive person,” says Flynn, 68, of his partner, Betsy. “She gets to know the kids, gets to know the families, makes me look good in terms of reminding me about things that need to get done. She really helps in so many different ways. And I think if you ask anybody in Mountain Lakes, you’re going to hear that same thing. All the ex-players love her, and she just contributes so much.”

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night, I must have had my picture taken 50 times.”

Thomas’s song, and the words he wrote back in 1968, still sit on two separate pieces of sheet music. There is without a doubt a legacy attached to it.

When you look at the words, you can imagine Thomas writing them 54 years ago, and picture the many spring concerts which were appropriately ended with the lyrics lovingly belted out by the choir. “I’m very proud to have done that,” Thomas says of the Alma Mater. “But I’m really pleased that the people who sing

he’s coached is his favorite, Flynn’s answer is lovingly blunt. “It’s always the team I’m coaching right now. It’s apples and oranges. You remember certain groups for great things, and you’re always striving to make it so that the kids that are

Hanover Park High School Alma Mater. Photos courtesy of Eugene Thomas.

it like it. That’s important to me, and I absolutely loved working

at Hanover Park.”

right now in the program kind of remember those things, kind of think about them. We have a serious motivational factor here: they buy in, they want to be a part of that tradition. They put up with all the they put up with, all the things we put them

through, the parents support it, and it works. To me, every single kid that put on the uniform is part of our family, and we just feel great in honoring the guys that have been here, and we try to honor them every time we take the field.”

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Christian Drama School Nurtures the Faithful

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BY JILLIAN RISBERG STAFF WRITER AREA - Rev. Kim Padfield Urbanik’s passion for people and connecting them with Jesus’ word runs deep.

Feed the hungry.

Clothe the naked.

Nourish the thirsty.

Heal the sick. Welcome the stranger.

Visit the prisoner. And what does it take to bring faith to life?

“It has to do with the (Holy) Spirit. Most people I’ve met have some sense of spirit,” Urbanik says. “I happen to think no matter what God loves you and if you don’t believe in God, God believes in you.”

Rev. Kim has inspired many faith journeys among the youth and says, “Faith is caught, not taught.”

She says it’s important for everyone to know that Christian Drama School loves and welcomes all people — and this is not any particular church view, they have the whole spectrum of humanity.

Urbanik founded CDS (an after-school program for intergenerational students K-12) in 2000 with the support of local pastors and students from several area churches.

She wrote a play, ’According to Women,’ the story of Jesus from women in the bible’s point of view, and flips things around and does plays where they have to act out opposite things — if they do the Grinch they have to be a Sneech or turtle.

“I’m holding it all together; I’m the glue — people of faith and people without faith. And I’m not the judge,” says Urbanik, citing Mother Theresa’s quote about being ‘a pencil in God’s hands.’ “Sometimes you have to be sharpened because growing and evolving is what it’s all about.”

According to Rev. Kim, ‘Acting is Believing’ is both CDS’s slogan and her teaching philosophy — she helps her students ``feel into” their roles.

“You can’t be a good actor unless you believe that you’re the character,” Urbanik says in the process of doing that, in the faithful parts of the play, one’s faith grows. “The Holy Spirit works different ways — in the spring we carry the cross and God works a lot

through that because the story of Christ is powerful. When they act it out it becomes part of them.”

Other acting teachers teach you how to control your body, your voice, your mind, your feelings, and Rev. Kim says you’re considered a good actor if you can make the audience feel a certain way.

“It’s all about you controlling them,” she says this is completely different. “CDS is all about letting God work through you.

That’s transformative for the kids, which has nothing to do with me because they have to do the praying and become the character.”

Their struggle and endurance since COVID hit encompassed the school closing on March 16, 2020 and CDS took everything online and over Zoom. Then the pandemic got worse.

They ended up performing the school play in Urbanik’s backyard come June and filmed the production without an audience. The cast at least had the experience.

“Then we do our Good Friday Cross

Carry… instead of having one young man and all the followers in a worship service from the Rockaway Valley United Methodist Church to the Denville Community Church, there’s a picture of one boy (who played Jesus) and me carrying the cross,” says Rev. Kim. “It was hard on all the students, in terms of isolation.”

Drama school isn’t about the play, according to Urbanik — it’s about the interactive social community that’s built between all the ages. It’s about working together toward a common goal.

“You’re building a parent/child relationship, community relationship, also an interfaith relationship,” she says 99 percent of the people there are Christian but different denominations and political views.

“We need to act like Jesus and one of those things is loving everybody. If you’re not loving everybody, you’ve decided this group doesn’t matter.”

People are drawn to the program because it involves the whole family. There is a great sense of community

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and faithfulness that continues even after students graduate high school and college.

A former CDS student, Erin Hurley Sheffield, recently texted Rev. Kim and she shared with her students ‘you need to know this person, she runs a theater in Pennsylvania — and there’d be no drama school if it wasn’t for her.’

“She was 13 or 14-years-old when she came to the Community Church in Mountain Lakes, where I was a pastor for nine years and joined a youth group because of her cousin,” Urbanik says Erin and Kate were so enthusiastic about what she was doing it helped everything else work. “I have many students who make me better than who I am, so I’m always learning too.”

And CDS partners with

Heart for People (H4P), connecting American schools with five schools in Uganda to encourage cultural exchange and accountable international aid.

Former CDS students, Sarah Harrs (Save the Children) and Emma Worrall (finishing up at Princeton Seminary to be a pastor) traveled to Uganda in 2019 to visit the schools.

“When we go there it’s helpful because our presence gives teachers and students hope that there’s somebody who cares about them on the other side of the world,” says Urbanik.

“And it helps the kids in the US because it expands their minds about life and how lucky they are to be here.”

Hope is a big thing: If you give people hope you’ve given them a lot.

And you get the sense that

you should step up.

“How we do that is with fundraisers,” Rev. Kim says this enables them to send money to the schools whenever they need help.

She says she has the best job in the world… gets to see students transform, sometimes the actual moment.

According to Rev. Kim, witnessing those transformations are very special.

“I get a teenager (boy or girl) who comes in with issues and when they turn themselves over to the play or whatever role they’re playing — it’s there and you can’t deny it. It has to do with self worth,” she says.

To learn more about CDS, visit www.christiandramaschool.org.

Morris County Ranks in Top 25 Healthiest Communities in America

AREA - Morris County ranked among “The 25 Healthiest Communities in America” in a new analysis of health and wellness in 3,000 communities across the United States released by U.S. News & World Report in collaboration with CVS Health.

The “Healthiest Communities” report is the fifth annual analysis conducted by U.S. News & World Report with Morris County consistently ranking among the top.

The new report ranked Morris County 16th nationwide and first in New Jersey, just after the county was ranked healthiest in New Jersey in a separate national study released in April by the University of Wisconsin Population Health Institute and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.

“This is wonderful news.

Morris County is continuously ranking among the top healthiest places to live in America, and as these studies repeatedly underscore, there are important factors that contribute to these findings,” said Tayfun Selen, Director of the Morris County Board of County Commissioners.

“All of these studies cite our excellent economy and employment opportunities.

They note the strength of our education system as well as our residents’ access to health care and healthy lifestyles, and our access to parks and green spaces. These are aspects of Morris County that all of us in the public and private sectors have worked over the decades to maintain and improve, and I believe these reports inspire us

to continue our efforts to make Morris County the best place to live, work and raise a family,” Director Selen added.

The Healthiest Communities rankings from U.S. News & World Report evaluates 89 factors that fuel and form the health of residents across nearly 3,000 U.S. counties and county equivalents. Counties were assessed on a 100-point scoring system tied to how they perform relative to one another across 10 health-related categories, ranging from education and the economy to community vitality, equity, infrastructure and public safety.

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Morris County & Arts Community Unveil Plaque to Viki Craig

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AREA - Art in the Atrium (ATA) Co-founder Viki Craig was honored with a plaque unveiled in Morristown by the Morris County Board of County Commissioners, The Craig Family and Morris Arts during a ceremony at the Morris County Administration and Records Building in Morristown, where ATA began 30 years ago.

Charles Craig and Lauren LeBeaux Craig, Viki Craig’s husband and daughter, hosted the ceremony with Morris Arts Director of Galleries Lynn Seibert and Morris County Commissioner Deputy Director John Krickus next to the plaque on the 5th Floor of the Atrium Gallery.

“It’s been three years since we lost Viki Craig and two years since we first planned a

dedication here to this wonderful, brilliant and visionary woman, and I want to say thank you to Charles and Lauren for continuing her legacy. … It is so fitting that we are going to have Viki Craig’s plaque here, overlooking the atrium where she founded Art in the Atrium,” said Commissioner Krickus.

He noted that Morris County has only two other plaques of honor on the 5th Floor of the atrium: One for Frederick W. Knox, Jr., who served as a Freeholder from 1978 to 1988, and the other to Ilene St. John, who served as Clerk of the Board from 1991 to 2008.

“I am just so proud to represent my parents who had the vision and tenacity to keep this going for all these years.

And I am excited that my mom

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It’s a culmination of just so much,” said Lauren LeBeaux Craig.

The plaque is located just outside the Morris County Commissioners public meeting room. ATA took its name from the county’s five-story building atrium, where the Craig Family launched their nonprofit volunteer art organization with the mission to educate and exhibit African American fine art in Morristown.

The plaque unveiling was timed to coincide with Juneteenth celebrations this weekend, which honors the date June 19, 1865, two months after the Civil War ended, when Union General Gordon Granger delivered the news to enslaved communities

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Lauren LeBeaux Craig, Commissioner Krickus and Charles Craig pulled a veil off the plaque honoring the late ATA Co-Founder Viki Craig.

in Texas that they had been freed by the Emancipation Proclamation two and a half years earlier.

ATA’s annual exhibition, the largest of its kind in the state of New Jersey, has been a successful showcase of art by both emerging and established artists. Viki Craig died in December 2018, but her family continued her work.

During 2020 and 2021, when the COVID-19 pandemic made it impossible to keep the Atrium Gallery open to the public, a planned plaque dedication to Viki Craig was postponed. But ATA still showcased its artists virtually with the support of Morris County and the Board of Commissioners.

This year, ATA’s atrium ex-

hibit is part of Morris Arts’ new exhibit, REEMERGENCE AND RENEWAL, which was set up last month and will run through Sept. 2. It exhibits a total of 138 artworks by 46 talented artists who offer a sense of renewal through their vibrant imagery, vivid colors, compelling designs and their underlying sense of humanity.

The fourth and fifth floors of the atrium exclusively showcase ATA’s presentation -- 70 works by 24 African American artists entitled “Black Revival!” The works include a wide range of styles and media – utilizing acrylic, multimedia assemblages, textiles, and photos in abstract and figurative compositions.

Most of the artworks are available for sale, with de-

tails and pricing provided in the free catalogues available in the elevator lobby areas on each floor. The catalogue also is available online at www. morrisarts.org.

The Atrium Art Gallery is free and open to the public during business hours, 8:30 am-4:30 p.m.

Morris Arts is a not-forprofit organization founded in 1973 dedicated to building community through the arts.

Using the arts to inspire, connect and engage, Morris Arts serves as a resource for Morris County with a special focus on arts programming in the community and in the schools, arts advocacy, and support of the Morris Area community of artists and arts organizations.

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Welcome Madlen Rizkalla, New Community Connections Celebrates One-Year Anniversary Briarwood Elementary Principal

Superior Court Assignment Judge Stuart A. Minkowitz of the Morris-Sussex Vicinage addressed the Community Connections anniversary gathering today.

Steve Caponegro, Florham Park Schools Superintendent with Madlen Rizkalla, new principal of Briarwood Elementary School at a recent Board of Education meeting

FLORHAM PARK - Mrs. Madlen Rizkalla comes to Florham Park with 16 years of elementary school experience.

For the first 12 years of her career, she taught at various elementary grade levels including kindergarten, first, second, and fourth grade. During the latter part of her teaching career, she was a reading interventionist.

In 2018, she was appointed vice principal of Claremont Sheriff James M. Gannon talked about the important role Community Connections now plays in helping people in the community who get caught up in the legal system.

AREA - Morris County Sheriff James M. Gannon, the Honorable Stuart A. Minkowitz and Morris County Prosecutor Robert J. Carroll are proud to announce the one-year anniversary of Community Connections.

A ceremony was held in the Meeting Room of the Morris County Board of County Commissioners in Morristown to celebrate the milestone.

Guest speakers included Sheriff Gannon, Morris-Sussex Vicinage Assignment Judge Minkowitz, Chief Assistant Prosecutor Meg Rodriguez, Vicinage Chief Probation Officer Michael Lasko and Community Connections Coordinator Officer Justin Sudol.

Working with the New Jer-

sey Administrative Office of Courts, the innovative Community Connections program is first of its kind to connect court-involved individuals to an array of services.

Community Connections links individuals to recovery support, mental health services, and social services.

Serving as a pilot program for the State of New Jersey, the program has already proven to be successful with connecting over 80 individuals to life-changing services.

The Morris County Sheriff’s Office, the Successful Transition and Re-Entry Program (STAR), the New Jersey Administrative Office of Courts and the Morris County Prosecutor’s Office are suc-

cessfully working together to provide support to court-involved individuals struggling with substance use and mental health disorders.

The Mental Health Association (MHA) and Prevention is Key’s Center for Addiction, Recovery, Education & Success (CARES) also are essential partners in providing these life-saving resources.

Court involved individuals who want to contact the program can fill out the online referral form on the Morris County Sheriff’s Office Community Connections web page or by simply scan the QR code on the Community Connections brochure.

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Elementary School, which serves approximately 700 PreK through 5th grade students in Franklin Township, Somerset County. Mrs. Rizkalla earned her BA in History from Rutgers University and her MS in Educational Leadership from the University of Scranton.

She is a mom to three children. Elijah, her eldest, will be entering his freshman year of high school. Jacob, her middle

son, will be starting sixth grade and her youngest daughter, Julia, will be entering third grade.

Mrs. Rizkalla lives with her husband, John, and her family in Bridgewater.

Mrs. Rizkalla considers herself a lifelong learner and is incredibly excited to join the Florham Park Public Schools family as the new principal of Briarwood Elementary.

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CCM President Anthony J. Iacono Named an ROI-NJ Influencer in Manufacturing

AREA - County College of Morris (CCM) President Anthony J. Iacono has been recognized by ROI-NJ on its 2022 ROI Influencers List for Manufacturing. From energy and electronics, to fabricated metal, to chemicals and food products, ROI-NJ recognizes the wide and deep impact of New Jersey’s manufacturing industry helping to drive the state’s economy. It is estimated that over the next decade, advanced manufacturing will need to fill 3.4 million jobs.

To meet the ever-growing demand, Iacono successfully partnered with industry and local officials to open the college’s state-of-the-art Advanced Manufacturing and Engineering Center(AMEC) on the Randolph campus during the COVID-19 pandemic. The $11 million, 31,500-squarefoot facility now provides a pipeline of a new generation of workers, while also enabling current employees to update their skills and create innovative solutions.

“I am honored to be named

by ROI-NJ to the Influencers List for Manufacturing and to be among such an inspiring and accomplished group of recipients,” remarked Iacono.

“Along with our exceptional team of faculty, staff and administration, the college is supported by the community and business and industry partners, who help us achieve our mission of ensuring that students are equipped with the best education possible, including utilizing the right technology and tools.

AMEC “should be a model for every county college in the state,” according to ROINJ.Manufacturing in New Jersey isn’t just prevalent, it is a sprawling industry represented in all 21 counties with more than 9,000 manufacturing businesses, and nearly 2,000 more when including STEM and engineering firms.

Manufacturing employs nearly 340,000 residents in New Jersey. In addition, statistics show the sector contributed more than $54 billion to the state’s GDP in 2021 — nearly 10 per-

cent of the total.

“In this facility, students learn cutting-edge technology and can earn an associate degree with the option to enter the workforce directly or transfer to any of our university partners to earn a bachelor’s degree. The apprenticeship pathway provides paid onthe-job training in two of the hottest fields today – engineering and manufacturing,” says Iacono.

The apprenticeship program currently holds a 93 percent job placement rate. Along with excellent job prospects, the manufacturing field pays well with an average starting salary of $65,000 to $85,000 plus benefits after completing an apprenticeship. AMEC was awarded a $4 million CareerAdvance USA grant from the U.S. Department of Labor to provide this program to candidates at no cost.

CCM is a comprehensive college serving both degree seekers and workforce development students and is the top community college in New Jer-

AREA - Moody’s Investors Service again issued its top, AAA rating of Morris County’s financial stability in a review of $5.2 million in county guaranteed bonds offered for facility improvements at the County College of Morris.

“The county has built a deep bench of civil servants and outside professionals to implement its policy objectives. This, plus a combination of a strong statewide institutional framework and highly conservative budgeting, has allowed the county not only to strengthen its finances, but to do so while providing various forms of assistance to its local government,” Moody’s wrote in its latest analysis.

The AAA rating benefits everyone in Morris County “The importance of this AAA rating is that taxpayers – from working people maintaining a single-family home to business owners facing a volatile economy – are spared hundreds of thousands of dollars annually in taxes when Morris County or a local town needs to borrow money under the county umbrella to finance important projects, like building a school or improving key public facilities. It allows us to take advantage of the lowest possible financing rates possible, much like a homeowner with an excellent personal credit rating,” said Tayfun Selen, Director of the Morris

County Board of County Commissioners.

County College of Morris The capital improvements at CCM, outlined earlier this year in the Morris County 2022 Capital Budget, range from building modifications and updating heating, ventilation and air-conditioning systems, to improvements to accessibility and dealing with storm water.

Morris County Took Advantage of Historically Low Interest Rates “To save taxpayer dollars, and as head of the budget committee, I recommended and the board agreed to expedite a $26 million upgrade and funding for the 9-1-1 Communications

sey for associate degree graduates who earn the best salaries as reported by PayScale for five consecutive years. Iacono recently was selected as a leader and influencer in higher education by ROI-NJ for the fourth time. For more informa-

tion about CCM, visit www. ccm.edu or call 973-328-5000.

Photo: County College of Morris President Anthony J. Iacono with U.S. Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg and Congresswoman Mikie Sherrill during a May

26 visit to the college’s stateof-the-art Advanced Manufacturing and Engineering Center (AMEC) to discuss workforce development and successful job readiness programs.

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By moving early on those important projects, Morris County avoided the current, higher rates.”

Moody’s Findings on Morris County Financial Stability Credit Strengths • “Substantial tax base and diverse economy” • “Strong wealth and resident income” • “Additional financial flexibility provided by reserves outside the Current Fund” • “Conservative financial management practices” Rating Outlook Moody’s: “The stable outlook reflects our expectation that the county’s financial position will remain strong over the near term and that the county will continue to benefit from its substantial and diverse tax base and above-average resident wealth and income.”

HIGHLIGHTS FROM THE LATEST MOODY’S REPORT “The pandemic has not had a major impact on the local economy. After spiking sharply in the early stages of the pandemic, the unemployment rate has recovered. As of March 2022, the county’s unemployment rate was 3.2%, lower than the 4.1% state and 3.8% national levels. The tax base includes roughly 80% residential and 18% commercial/industrial values. There is, of course, a very substantial amount of public park land and numerous non-profit entities which are not included on the tax rolls.”

“The county also has a significant retail and corporate presence, including many Fortune 500 companies. The largest taxpayers include major pharmaceutical, retail, and financial firms and there is no material concentration in the tax base.”

Pandemic Planning Key to Morris County Maintaining AAA Rating In a report issued January 2021, Moody’s cited Morris County’s financial planning

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“Although the pandemic has had a negative impact throughout the state, Morris County’s credit quality has not been impacted. The county created a COVID-19 Strategic Planning (Advisory) Committee which meets regularly and has implemented a variety of measures to reduce the impact,” Moody’s noted.

In a February 2021 publication on the economic benefits of addressing the pandemic through public, private and nonprofit partnerships, Moody’s also cited Morris County’s work with Atlantic Health System and the State of New Jersey in operating the Morris County Regional COVID-19 Vaccination Center in Rockaway Township. Fewer pandemic cases boosts the local and state economy, with the added benefit of improving finances for health care facilities, Moody’s concluded.

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By Mark J. Bonamo majority of Americans focus on their daily nutrition to

lose weight, boost immunity for better health and/or to maintain strength and energy. However, the keys to success for achieving these goals can be found by increasing one’s overall knowledge about the relationship between the nutritional values of foods and their impact on metabolic and immune function.

While this sounds simple, the messages we hear about diet plans and programs are often confusing at best, and impossible to follow at worst.

However, we can make the correct food choices by simply arming ourselves with accurate information.

According to Liz Silverthorne, Director of Food and Nutrition Services at Saint Clare’s Health, “At a time when immunity has become an even more critical factor in the face of the COVID pandemic, the need to have a positive eating plan is a key way to protect and prolong life.”

“We need to realize that what we put into our bodies impacts the way we look, the way we feel, and our overall immune health,” said Silverthorne. If there is a positive to the recent global pandemic, is that it forced us to reexamine the importance of focusing on our nutrition and health overall.

“You could see this heightened awareness when the vitamin and mineral shelves in the grocery stores were completely wiped clean,” she added.

“Poor nutrition and diet have a link to obesity, which leads to a state of chronic inflammation in your body that makes it harder to fight off infection. The importance of eating healthy and

making certain your vitamin levels are up as part of fighting obesity has been demonstrated very prominently in the last two years,” Silverthorne added. “It could affect the severity of any illness, including COVID.” While the fight against COVID has been at the forefront of health concerns since the pandemic first emerged in March 2020, there is always a constant struggle against a regular biological phenomenon that impinges on health: free radicals.

The human body is constantly experiencing oxidative stress. Oxygen in the body splits into single atoms with unpaired electrons. Electrons like to be in pairs, so these atoms, called free radicals, search throughout the body to seek out other electrons so they can become a pair. This causes damage to cells, proteins and DNA. Free radicals are associated with human disease, including certain cancers, atherosclerosis, Alzheimer’s disease, Parkin-

- some people don’t know that acupuncture is covered by some insurances - so that all gets taken care of. Once all of that is out of the way, then the client comes back to my office and we do an initial consultation.”

Discussed at this point is the patient’s health history, and health intake forms are filled out. “We treat the whole body, so even if you’re coming in for neck pain, we’re asking all sorts of questions about sleep, about digestion, because this all plays a role in your health. We go through this very detailed health history, talking about things like diet and lifestyle.

Then the patient is brought back to a treatment room, and made very comfortable on the treatment table.” The patient’s tongue is checked (“We can see a little bit more about what’s going on inside the body based on the appearance of the tongue,” Tripi explains), pulse qualities are taken on both hands, and these two evaluations, paired with the patient’s symptoms, help create a proper treatment plan. “We will then choose different acupuncture points that we find suitable for that individual, and before we get started, we swab down all the acupuncture points with some alcohol, and then the very fine needles are inserted into those points. It’s pretty painless; there are some spots that can be a little sensitive. And then typically, once they’re in, most people don’t really feel anything. They might feel a sensation of heaviness or pressure around the acupuncture points, and depending on the person and the situation, sometimes we add some electric stimulation to the needles as well.”

Once the client is set up, the lights are dimmed, heat lamps if needed are turned on, and soft music plays while the needles are in for 30 – 40 minutes. The patient is checked on halfway through the session, and there is a call button in case an issue arises and staff has to be notified. “If based on the person and the situation we think that they might need some of the cupping

or the gua sha, that’s done at the end of the treatment, and that also is very comfortable. Most people really enjoy that; it kind of feels like a deep tissue massage, and sometimes we’ll also recommend herbs. We even use different herbal sprays topically, or things like Tiger Balm, which can be helpful for certain conditions.”

When exiting the room, the client typically feels relaxed.

“One of the reasons for that is that neuro chemical release, so there’s a lot of endorphins,” Tripi states.

Mount Olive Acupuncture & Wellness clients come from all over Morris County, nearby Hunterdon and Warren counties, and from further locations.

Mount Olive’s access to all the major and local highways – especially Route 46, which is the business’s doorstep – is a huge plus to anyone desiring treatment. There are two other acupuncturists besides Tripi onsite. Brittany Chambers does more of a Japanese style acupuncture and a therapeutic herb called Moxa. Ozlem Duman, originally from Turkey with a background in dental medicine, came to the United States and leaned towards alternative medicine, choosing acupuncture as her practice. “They’re both very passionate about helping people and are both interested in treating, as am I, a variety of conditions,” Tripi says.

Prior to COVID-19, Mont Olive Acupuncture & Wellness was out in the community, offering free acupuncture for those needing de-stressing. They’ve now continued this, and recently held an “Acupuncture Happy Hour” for folks of all ages. Tripi explains. “If it’s something that they can’t afford, or maybe it’s just something they want to try out before signing up for a series of treatments, that’s a good time to do that.”

Mount Olive Acupuncture & Wellness is located at 1 Old Wolfe Road (at the Lakewood Plaza Shopping Center) in Budd Lake. For more information, visit www.mtoliveacupuncture.com.

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MOUNT OLIVE - Kearstin Tripi had the background – all the education and experience to make her business a go.

Working in 2016 at an office in Wayne while simultaneously buttressing her skills by seeing clients privately in her home, she then a year later set up shop for her Mount Olive Acupuncture & Wellness in a small office at the back of 1 Old Wolfe Road in Budd Lake.

Eventually, she moved in 2018 to a bigger office in front of the same building, and that’s when the business started to rapidly grow.

“Acupuncture can treat everything from pain to infertility,” Tripi says. “Some of the major things that it does is help reduce inflammation in the body, and it also can be preventative medicine. It’s also great for things like stress, helps to increase circulation, it can help balance hormones in the body, and it does release different neurochemicals in the brain. I always tell people, ‘It’s almost like telling your brain what to do, and telling your body what to do, and your body really does the healing.’ The acupuncture kind of just helps to give it some direction.”

Tripi and her team also offer some dietary and lifestyle counseling in addition to acupuncture.

Tripi, a Fairleigh Dickinson of Madison graduate with a BA in Biology, initially apprenticed in Long Valley. She also attended a three-year acupuncture program, and studied an additional two years as a postgrad to learn more about the benefit of Chinese herbs, and then successfully passed three national board exams and a New Jersey licensing exam as well.

Tripi takes the reader through a patient visit. The comfort starts upon entrance.

“Once they set foot inside our front door, we welcome them in, and our receptionist will get them set up with some paperwork if they haven’t done so already, and also maybe with a cup of water or tea,” she says.

“We do take insurance as well

son’s disease and many others.

They also may have a link to aging, which has been defined as a gradual accumulation of free-radical damage.

Silverthorne emphasized that while free radicals are in some ways something that people can’t avoid, they are also compounds created in our bodies that are the result of certain self-inflicted environmental factors.

“Lifestyle choices, such as the excessive use of alcohol and smoking, can accelerate the activity of free radicals as they attack our cells and over time cause chronic conditions and diseases,” Silverthorne said. “Again, we always have to be mindful of what we put into our bodies.”

Fortunately, there is a natural weapon against the deleterious effects of free radicals: antioxidants.

Antioxidants are substances that can prevent or slow damage to cells caused by free radicals. In certain ways, they are the police force of the human body because antioxidants hunt free radicals, acting as compounds that inhibit oxidative damage. By doing so, they stun and stop the chemical reactions that can produce free radicals and the chain reactions that damage the cells of organisms

Liz Silverthorne, Director of Food and Nutrition Services at Saint Clare’s Health

and cause illnesses.

Silverthorne noted that the search for the natural antioxidant weapons to combat the negative effects of free radicals can be found on your plate, especially in fruits and vegetables.

“Certain superfoods are rich in antioxidants. They give you the biggest nutritional bang for your buck,” said Silverthorne.

“Diets high in a variety of fruits and vegetables will give you all the antioxidants you need.”

Silverthorne also noted a starting approach to assessing one’s health is knowing your body mass index. “Weight has a significant impact on overall health, and the body mass index helps you to keep an eye on it,” Silverthorne said, noting the index number is based on height in relation to weight. “The higher that number is, the more likely you are to be susceptible to chronic illnesses, such as diabetes or heart disease.

Silverthorne hoped people take those initial and important steps toward better nutrition and immunity by challenging people to start eating one meal a day that doesn’t come from a package and working toward a goal of five servings of fruit and vegetables a day.

“The best thing you can do for yourself is to take a deep look at your diet. After you do, make some changes,” said Silverthorne, pointing out that Saint Clare’s offers outpatient nutrition counseling as part of its community approach to health. “Get enough fruit and vegetables. Get enough water. Your body will thank you, and so will your family and friends.”

For more important information on nutritional programs at Saint Clare’s Health, please call 973-989-3156 or visit https://www.saintclares.com/ services/diabetes-services/outpatient-nutritional-counseling/

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FLORHAM PARK - The Florham Park Volunteer Fire Department has been proudly serving the community for 125 years but staffing shortages have strained their ability to provide this essential service.

They last welcomed a new member to the fold in December 2020. Since then, they lost two members to retirement and relocation.

“It was the same case in 2021 — we lost two,” says Assistant Chief Jeff Zuendt. “We didn’t supplement so our ranks continue to dwindle.”

For those who considered becoming a firefighter, but were hesitant to take the next step… Zuendt says they are normal people. Interested in joining?

“Have a conversation with us, message us on Facebook, Instagram,” Zuendt says call them (973-377-3241), fill out an application at florhamparkfiredepartment.org or stop by the Firehouse, at 315 Brooklake Road on any Monday night after 7:30pm.

Florham Park doesn’t have any female firefighters. But the assistant chief says they hear from guys attending fire school that there are more females involved in classes now. And they encourage anyone (male or female) who has the zeal to go for it.

“I’d take 15 female firefighters, if they want to show up today,” says Zuendt. “(When it comes to) strengths and weaknesses — because not everyone will go on a roof, and is comfortable crawling down a dark hole — we’ll fig-

ure those out and put your talents to use.”

Besides responding to over 400 calls a year, fire alarms and training; the department is everywhere.

“We’ll deliver the Easter Bunny, we are part of the Little League parades, baseball opening day, the (big) Fourth of July ceremony,” says the assistant chief. “There’s a lot of different aspects to what the fire department does and how it supports the community.”

And they have activities used to strengthen the department.

Drill nights are Mondays with the exception of holidays.

According to Zuendt, they drill on vehicle extrication, to structural fires, to search and rescue, to ventilation and roof activities; all aspects of the fire service.

“We were (also) doing once a month social gatherings; in January we had our awards dinner, in December Christmas dinner, in November Octoberfest — and that’s part of team-building,” he says. “You get to know who you’re working with.”

The bravest are treated to a few perks, according to Zuendt… free pool membership, free pet membership and the camaraderie is a huge benefit.

The best firefighters have the commitment and itch to do the job.

“It’s the desire to be a fireman; you have to have a love for it — to help other people,” says the assistant chief. “You do it for free, a lot of time goes into this.”

Zuendt does. He’s been a volunteer firefighter for 20 years.

“I grew up in Mahwah and a sign said they’re actively recruiting junior volunteers 16+. I was 16-years-old (at the time) and thought, ‘this is a good idea,’” he says he fell in love with it and built a brotherhood and friendships.

He works full-time in the financial industry while volunteering an extra 15 to 20 hours a week with the department, which requires him to come up with training drills. And he says there are people who put in more than that.

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“Since we are a volunteer department, (it’s all about finding balance between) work/ family life and putting time towards this,” he says that includes managing time to spend with his newborn. “It’s difficult but you can find a way.”

New Jersey offers some small scholarships to college students.

“We ask all recruits to take Fire 1, which is over 240 hours and then we encourage them to continue to take classes.

There’s Fire 2, Fire Officer, Incident Command System (ICS), Vehicle Extrication,” says Zuendt. “In Florham Park we also do an Ice Rescue

specialty — our guys learn to rescue victims when they fall through the ice or on weak ice.”

In the nine-year span the assistant chief has been with the department they have not lost anybody to a house fire.

“We’ve seen one to two house fires a year and three to four close calls a year, meaning: a chief or police officer put out something burning on the stove that extended to the cabinets,” he says.

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Florham Park Fire is hoping to stay a volunteer organization amid the nationwide struggle to get volunteers.

“It’s expensive to live in New Jersey, so people focus on their careers and don’t have time to take from their families for Fire 1. But once you take Fire 1, you’re a fireman for life,” Zuendt says they recently had a gentleman in his 60s go through Fire 1… he wanted to do it and he’s one of their best members nowadays.

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BY JILLIAN RISBERG STAFF WRITER AREA - With their upcoming 90th anniversary on the horizon, Morristown National Historical Park (MNHP) has enlisted nationally recognized New York artist Xiomaro to create fine art photographs of the park’s key features: Ford Mansion (Washington’s headquarters), Jockey Hollow (troops were encamped), and the Cross Estate (semi-abandoned mansion).

Join the park’s artist-in-residence for a kickoff meet and greet at Jockey Hollow Visitor Center.

When it comes to his pictures, Xiomaro says he challenges people to view them more critically (from a design/ color/composition point of view) and not accept as they were taught in a superficial way growing up, without the context of history.

The artist took his Cross Estate Mansion chandelier photograph as he lay on the floor looking up.

“The photo gives a different perception,” he says at first sight, it might resemble a metallic snowflake. “Provoke folks to look at ordinary things we see everyday differently.”

One may care less about the history and just want to enjoy the art.

“It also may provoke or inspire others to delve deeper into the history,” says the artist.

He says much can come from this and photography is in its golden age now.

According to Xiomaro, there’s a tradition in the park service of ‘interpretation.’

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because history is composed of many layers and ways to convey.

“In the past many of the exhibits I’ve done with/or for the park service have had this interpretive element — where each picture would be accompanied by text I wrote to tell the story,” but the artist says for this exhibit, they decided to go the more traditional museum/gallery approach with photo captions as identifiers.

This leaves it up to the viewer to interpret what those photographs mean to them, much the way one might if they listened to lyrics of a song or read a poem.

If one wants further information about the image, in terms of historical representation — feel free to speak with the visitor’s center or a ranger.

“I want them to appreciate the images for what they are,” Xiomaro says to have unfettered access where the public cannot go (like the Cross Estate Mansion) allows him to spend days there soaking it in

and taking pictures.

“For me it’s not just photography, but the experience of coming as a visitor behind the scenes — helps inform the work I do.”

The skillful examination of something in his own house, neighborhood or that no-one else sees may change the artist’s perspective, which drives a lot of his photography.

“Care less what the object is and more about the colors, texture or how it’s juxtaposed,” says Xiomaro, who processes all pictures in his (dry darkroom) studio, from inception to frames.

Nikon D810 digital is his current camera of choice and he uses an additional camera for street photo shoots in Times Square (NYC) but says there are other ways.

“With this exhibit I’m taking a dozen people (on photo walk) along Wick Farm/trail and showing them even with a smartphone they can get intriguing, artistic photographs,” the artist says he knows his

own photos resonate when someone points out a detail he didn’t notice.

“Or something in the composition or subliminal,” says Xiomaro. “I learn about my own photography and aesthetic through other people’s comments because I’m too close to it — and it’s very satisfying that the pictures connect with people in a deep, emotional way.”

He first fell in love with photography as a teenager, at the time a musician with a basement band.

Back in the 70s it was more complicated and cameras were expensive. It wasn’t accessible for a teenager with not much money.

With digital photography on the scene, it was more attainable for someone to pursue as an art form.

After he beat cancer in the early 2000s, Xiomaro reassessed his life and felt the need to move in a new artistic direction.

To overcome the ensuing

Xiomaro

depression, the artist visited national parks, where he wandered and took casual photos with a simple digital camera.

“I eventually got rid of the band, then as a solo singer/ songwriter I performed at coffeehouses and universities in the Northeast,” he displayed the photos at those concerts and said in some cases those photos attracted more attention than the CDs he sold. “It got me thinking maybe photography is something I should pursue more seriously.”

In 2009 he was accepted to Weir Farm’s artist-in-residence program, where he lived for a month and created a photographic collection; the park itself later wanted to use some of those photographs.

It triggered the publication of the book (Weir Farm National Historic Site) and the attention of Sen. Joe Lieberman, who sponsored the bill to create that park and wrote the book’s forward.

“Then other parks in the

Northeast started connecting with me and asked me to photograph theirs in a similar fashion (more artistic), Morristown was one of them,” says Xiomaro. “I’ve been working with them for five years now.”

The renowned artist has at least two more New Jersey (next year) exhibits in the works but can’t announce what they are yet.

A curious person by nature, he continues taking pictures because he likes to push himself.

“It’s a little risky ‘cause sometimes when I push (that’s) weird for people to get but sometimes they do, you have to try,” Xiomaro says on occasion he buys a different lens or tries another technique to switch things up. “What is nice about working with various parks — with each project a new challenge hopefully injects freshness to the photos I’m taking.”

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BY STEVE SEARS STAFF WRITER

AREA -Alex Mabey responds to the question very definitively when asked if her guitar is her best friend.

“I would say more than that, God is my best friend,” Mabey says. “Because that’s who I go to. He gives me the music, and that’s the channel. The guitar is, but it’s just more of like a tool, and it’s like a companion, but it’s not my best companion. But we’ve definitely gone through a lot together.”

It’s been a nice career for Alex Mabey, and quite a road back to where she is today.

Mabey, a singer, songwriter, and musician, will soon be unveiling her newest album offering, The Waiting Room, and she’s had help doing it. More in a moment.

Mabey currently lives in Nashville, and she couldn’t have landed in a more appropriate place. “It’s the spot that always made sense for me to be in,” Mabey says happily.

“Because I was 18 years old when I moved here, and I just wanted to do music. So that’s

the place where I knew to go, because I loved country music, and I felt like it was more fitting to me for me than being in Los Angeles or New York, per se. So, I came here and I ended up meeting a lot of really close friends and people I stayed in touch with in the business over the years. I was only there for one year to begin with, and then I left. I first went to school at Belmont University, which is the music school here in Nashville, and I was studying music business, because I had already been writing songs and, not to say that I didn’t need to major in songwriting, but I felt that I could learn more from learning about the business because that was something I had no idea about.”

Mabey, now 31, left Nashville but continued to make her music, but eventually returned.

However, she was to have her obstacles. And after putting a halt to her career to deal with pain, both emotional and physical, she needed to rediscover and be again who she was: a

performer. A performer who, through that very pain, which included poor health, a failed young marriage, and many other things that brought her down, wants to inspire and, perhaps most of all, aid others in realizing that there is a hope and a radiant light. “I really just wanted to sit and think about what the experience truly was,” she says. “What was it? Where was I? It wasn’t just pain. It wasn’t just emotionally and physically with the illness and everything,” Mabey says, exhibiting a deep heart, which is reflected in her prior works, but which you know is again forthcoming in her new material.

“I had written all the songs already before I made the name,” she says of the aptly-titled The Waiting Room. “It just felt like the name of the album because of what I’ve gone through.

It’s the period of time before you have your answer or your dream come true, or your miracle that you’ve been praying for and waiting for.”

Mabey is no stranger to

yard in the pool, and the UB40 version of “Red Red Wine” came on, and that’s been one of my favorite songs for as long as I can remember.” Wondering if she could approach the classic tune, originally written by Neil

Diamond, in a new way, she and McMahon ended up redoing it, titling their newer version “Red Wine.”

The duo knew they had something special, and sought permission from Diamond to release it. “He so gracefully said we could release it, which is really cool,” Tia Tai says.

“So, we’re technically co-writers with Neil Diamond.”

Since that first official release, Tia Tia’s feet have not yet hit ground. She has also copenned a tune for Justin Bieber (more to come), and herself releases one new single per week.

Tia Tia describes what

Alex Mabey doing what she loves (courtesy of Alex Mabey)

hard work in her realm, and has for almost 15 years developed an eager fan base for her music. She previously released Dancin’ in Dirty Feet (2009), Banks of the Sky (2010), Bring Me Back, When I’m Far (2014), and Enough (2017). The before mentioned titles alone give a hint to Mabey’s story and timeline and emotions. The Waiting Room is next up, with new

songs being released in August and the fall, and Mabey knows in what direction she’s headed.

“I think the whole theme of the album is finding freedom,” she says. And when she decided that she had to do it independently to move forward with her new album, she asked for help via a 39-day, $45,000 Kickstarter campaign. She kicked the campaign off in the

fall of 2021, and by December, those who believed in her and her music came through.

Although concentrating now on The Waiting Room release, Mabey is also considering planning a new work as well. “I always am because this has been my life,” she says.

For more about Alex Mabey and her music, visit her website at www.alexmabey.com.

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AREA - Techno dance singer and songwriter, Tia Tia, recalls that summer day with her boyfriend, Ryan McMahon, by the pool.

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Blast from the Past: Sterling Hill Mining Museum, New Jersey’s Gemstone of Geology

BY HENRY M. HOLDEN STAFF WRITER

outdoor area, to take home with them.” Rock Discovery is great add-on to the tour for private groups, especially school groups, scouts, and birthday parties.

Sterling Hill is the treasure chest of minerals. Dubbed the florescent capital of the world, together with the nearby Franklin Mine, 2.5 miles to the north, more than 350 different mineral species have been found here — a world record for such a small area. More than two dozen of these are found nowhere else on Earth.

Almost 90 different mineral species have been documented as fluorescent. Geology. com explains what causes fluorescence in minerals. Quot-

ing from the website: “All minerals can reflect light. That is what makes them visible to the human eye. Some minerals have an interesting physical property known as “fluorescence.”

These minerals can temporarily absorb a small amount of light and an instant later release a small amount of light of a different wavelength. This change in wavelength causes a temporary color change of the mineral in the eye of a human observer.”

The color change of fluorescent minerals is most spectacular when they are illuminated in darkness by ultraviolet light (which is not visible to humans) and they release visible

light.

The mine has tours at 10:00 am and 1:00 pm weekends only. Please call 973-209-7212 in advance to make a reservation for the tour. Reservations cannot be done online. Tours are not self-guided; you need to go out with a guide.

Private tours are available for groups of at least 15 paying people. Please call to discuss details, availability, and reservations. Reservations should be made at least 2 weeks in advance for private tours. Please call 973-209-7212 between the hours of 10:00 am and 3:00 pm. For more information on the Sterling Hill Mining Museum, visit www.sterlinghillminingmuseum.org.

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The entrance to the museum displays the ore cars used to get the ore out of the mine and to market. (Courtesy Sterling Hill Mining Museum)

AREA - Before becoming the Sterling Hill Mining Museum, it was a zinc mine. The Dutch arrived in the 1600s looking for iron and copper. The value of zinc as a minable commodity didn’t take off until The New Jersey Zinc Company incorporated in the late 1800s.

“It took time for mining and science to catch up and discover that there are minerals here that are found nowhere else in the world,” said William Kroth, President Sterling Hill Mining Museum, Inc. Have you ever seen rocks glowing in the dark or walls changing colors? Inside the mine is a tunnel where you’ll see a wall of dull, brown rocks that begin to glow in vivid greens, oranges, blues, and purples when the ultraviolet lights turn on.

“Come have a fun scientific adventure when you take our underground mine tour,” said Kroth.

“Along the way, you will visit our two museums, go inside the mine itself and see mining equipment, a drilling and blasting demonstration, and the world-famous fluorescent “Rainbow Tunnel” among many other enticing displays. Our tour is sure to engage people of all ages and interests.”

Nestled in the small town of Ogdensburg, New Jersey, the mine which once was one of the world’s richest zinc ore deposits and renowned zinc mine is now a world-famous rock museum.

“Our mine run dump area is perfect for avid mineral collectors,” said Kroth. It is available and is recommended for avid rock collectors 18 and older.

There are two main sections to our mine run dump, the International pile and the Local

pile. The International pile contains diverse minerals from all over the world that people can dig through. The Local pile contains hundreds of tons of high-grade zinc ore that was derived from the Sterling Hill Mine itself. Much of the ore in the local pile is full of highly fluorescent minerals. There is a shed on the mine run dump which has a shortwave ultraviolet light in which collectors can check their rocks and see if they do fluoresce.

“Because the mine is a constant 56 degrees year-round, we attract visitors who come to cool down in the summer, and warm up in the winter months,” said Kroth.

Another fun activity is sluice mining. This is a perfect activity for children. Just like panning for gold, children (or mom or dad) can purchase bags of sand that are pre-loaded with gems and minerals or a bag pre-loaded with fossils, or “Motherlode” bag which is a larger mixture of both. The sand mixture is then slowly poured into a tray which is dipped into a water feature to unveil the treasures inside.

Although there are about 35 miles of tunnels, you will be guided through about 1,300 feet of generally level tunnel inside the mine. There are no train rides involved.

It is a walking tour, so wear comfortable shoes. It is also

wheelchair and stroller accessible.

Along the way, guides will stop at various stations and explain the equipment, history, working conditions, and geology of the mine. Visitors do not need flashlights or headlamps and will see the lamp room, the shaft station, mine galleries dating to the 1830’s, and much more. Although there are 25 levels to the mine, the tour is only for the first level of the mine, visitors do not go down to any lower levels.

“One of the most anticipated exhibits in the mine is the Rainbow Tunnel,” said Kroth.

“This is an area of the mine wall where the intensely fluorescent zinc ore is exposed.”

When subjected to shortwave ultraviolet light, the walls fluoresce bright green and red. The red is calcite, and the green is willemite, which was one of the main zinc ore minerals mined here.

“The Rock Discovery Center provides children with a great introduction into geology,” said Kroth. “Guides discuss and educate the children on the three different rock types. Then, the guides focus on six different rocks and how they were formed and why they are important to us today.

Each participant receives their own collecting box and after the presentation get to collect the rocks discussed, in a large

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To Find Thy Truest Inner Gift

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BY RICHARD MABEY JR. GUEST WRITER AREA - This is a true story of one Boy Scout’s journey to find his place in the sun. If truth be told, it could be the story of any one of us, as we walk life’s path and sometimes struggle to find our hidden gifts and talents.

Johnny Wilkerson (I changed his name) was a Second Class Scout of Boy Scout Troop 170 back in January of 1985. Johnny was 12 years old and was having a hard time in scouting. He was not good at pioneering skills. Whenever Johnny tied the lashings for a tripod, or a camporee gateway, or a bridge for a stream, his frappings would come undone.

Johnny also did not excel at knot tying, map and compass, first-aid skills, or semaphore flag signaling. At the time, my dad was Scoutmaster of Boy Scout Troop 170, and I was Assistant Scoutmaster. It was in the middle of December of 1984 that Johnny told my dad that he was going to drop out of scouting. My father asked Johnny to stay on board for just a little while longer, that he would find something in scouting that would click for him.

The idea came to my father, one evening after supper while he was reading the newspaper.

Dad immediately told me of

his idea and asked me what I thought of it. Dad told me that he was going to put Johnny in charge of coordinating the entire Boy Scout window display for Boy Scout Week. I remember telling Dad that I thought it was a great idea.

So, the next Friday night, at the scout meeting, Dad talked to Johnny alone. Dad asked Johnny if he wanted to take on the big job of being in charge of the entire Boy Scout window display. I remember Dad telling me later that at first Johnny was very hesitant to take on the big responsibility. But my dad encouraged Johnny by telling him that he believed in him.

Well, Johnny took the bull by the horns. It was a funny kind of thing. It was actually quite heartwarming. At the next Friday night scout meeting, Johnny came to the meeting with a shoebox. Johnny showed my father what was inside the shoebox.

When Johnny opened his shoebox, my dad later told me that he was all so surprised.

Johnny had made up about a half-dozen pipe cleaner figures.

Johnny told my dad that each pipe cleaner was going to represent one of his fellow scouts.

But that wasn’t all that was

inside Johnny’s shoebox. Johnny then showed my father a miniature signaling tower that he had made up of tree branches. Johnny had used lashings to build this little tower. I remember Dad told me that he was quite impressed with Johnny’s imaginative handicraft skills.

Boy Scout Week is traditionally in the first full week of February. It begins with the first Sunday of the month and ends on the following Saturday.

Back in 1985, Boy Scout Week began on Sunday, February third and ended on Saturday, February ninth. Well, it was on the first Saturday morning of February, that the scouts of Boy Scout Troop 170 met at Belle Fleur Flower Shoppe.

Dad had asked me to be the scout leader to watch over the scouts as they built their scout window display. Dad also told me that he wanted Johnny to be totally in charge of leading the other scouts, while they were creating the scout window display.

I was the only scout leader to watch over this small miracle. Johnny simply took charge of the day. There was no doubt this was Johnny’s moment to shine in the sunlight. And, something very special hap-

pened that morning. The other scouts quickly developed a new respect for Johnny. For this was no longer Johnny, the scout who could not tie lashings. No, this was Johnny, the scout who had a vision of how he wanted the scout window display to look. There was no doubt about it, Johnny was completely in charge.

Well, long story short, Johnny’s scout window display won First Prize, of all the scout troops in the entire Boonton District! This was quite an honor. For at that time, there were at least a dozen neighboring towns that made up the Boonton District of the Morris-Sussex Area Boy Scout Council.

And, the truth of the matter was that Boy Scout Troop 170 owed it all to Johnny Wilkerson.

Johnny was never to be the same in his scouting journey.

A new inner confidence was awoken in Johnny. Johnny began growing in his scouting skills. He actually became one of Troop 170’s best semaphore signalers. He had taken the time and effort to learn the fine art of sending messages through using two flags, to send semaphore communications to another scout, a considerable distance away.

FROM PAGE 11 Tia Tia was born and raised in Randolph, and growing up within an hour of New York City, she thought being an actress was her calling. She and her mom would head to auditions for different commercials, but by her junior year, her mom knew her daughter had other aspirations. “She would say, ‘Tia, I really don’t think you want to do this. You write songs all the time in your room. I think that’s more your passion.’ And she was right. I went to a songwrit-

ing camp that summer before college and just fell in love, and went to Belmont University for one year where I was a major in songwriting, and just was able to be immersed in that industry, in that world, a little bit more. I was always writing songs, but I moved to Nashville to really get better at writing songs, and then was doing so much interning and writing with people that I dropped out of college and then signed my first publishing deal with Sony ATV in Los Angeles.” Eight

months after signing that contract, she moved to the moved West Coast permanently and has remained there.

Tia Tia feels songwriting was always in her being. “I think it was always in me. I just started writing songs as a kid before I even really knew what I was doing. I think I actually realized that I just love trying to describe something. When you’re writing songs, you’re basically describing something that’s already been said a million times, but trying to say it a

little bit of a different way. And that’s always really inspiring to me. And also, I just love a good melody, I just love writing something that gets stuck in my head for days. I think that’s also really inspiring, whenever you can put together a melody that you haven’t heard before.

That’s always really fun.”

It has been a nice three years for Tia Tia. She is the co-writer of the song, “Off My Face,” which appeared on Bieber’s Grammy-nominated, platinum selling album, Justice. She and

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The Scouting Journal was the official newspaper of Boy Scout Troop 170.

Here is the front-page story of the first-place prize earned by Troop 170, for their scout window display. I distinctly remembered that Johnny did not want to be recognized in the article.

I have no idea where Johnny is now. In 1994, we had a big Boy Scout Troop 170 Reunion Dinner. Sadly, Johnny did not attend it. Even though I’ve changed Johnny’s name in this story, it’s my hope that he just

may recognize that I have honored him, 37 years later.

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

her close collaborator, Jake Torrey, wrote it in 20 minutes.

“Jake did a one pass on the mic, and then that song sat around for six months. No one wanted to cut it. And then, by literally the grace of God, Scooter, Justin’s manager, loved it and played it for Justin, and he loved it, and then he recorded it. I didn’t even get to hear the song until it came out, which is really crazy. I’m still in disbelief. Every time I hear it or see him sing it, I just immediately cry.”

Tia Tia’s goal is to continue to release a new single every four weeks, and maybe one or more of those will soar higher than the rest. “In five years, I want to have a number one song as an artist on the radio, and I want to be able to tour in whatever capacity that means, just because that’s what I really love to do, and a big reason why I decided to release my own music.”

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NJ Starz: Darren Prince Hometown: Livingston

One might look at celebrity agent and sports marketer Darren Prince and envision a highlight reel life, and you would be right. He has, after all, through his Prince Marketing Group, represented Earvin “Magic” Johnson, Carmen Electra, Chevy Chase, and the late boxing champions Muhammad Ali and Joe Frazier.

But lurking behind that success were the demons in his life, primarily addiction to prescription drugs, and how he has battled those demons and is on the playing field as a teammate for others who are suffering as he did.

He is also the author of the best selling book, Aiming High: How a Prominent Sports and Celebrity Agent Hit Bottom at the Top, which was published 10 years after he one day dramatically turned his life around. Prince has also started his own 501c3, the Aiming High Foundation, where 100% of the proceeds provide treatment for those suffering with substance abuse and mental health issues.

“I won’t do press, I won’t do speeches, I won’t do anything unless it comes up,” Prince says of his past. “I can walk into a Fortune 500 corporate meeting, and I’m going to find my opening to talk about it while I’m alive. I can’t tell you I’ve never left a corporate meeting where someone wasn’t impacted. And all of a sudden, you now leave as a friend much more than the business side of it, because of the vulnerability and the accountability. Just putting myself out there like that, it’s not something most people are comfortable doing.”

Prince then adds, “And I still make mistakes every day. I like to think I make a better-quality mistake every day.”

Prince, 52, moved with his family - his dad Martin, mom Andrea, and sister Stacey from Hillside to Livingston in 1977. He attended both Mount Pleasant Elementary and Junior High schools, and Livingston High School. “It was a big class, 500 kids, and I just never really felt comfortable in my own skin. I just always kind of felt like an outcast. I was in special education and small classrooms, and even in big classrooms I was isolated into special groups.” As a member of those latter groups, he and his friends were looked down upon by other classmates, which created inadequacies and insecurities. “I kind of grew up a bit of a mama’s boy, and my dad was my closest friend in the world. May he rest in peace. And we had a very close family bond, and I would just not feel comfortable, was riddled with anxiety, when I wasn’t around them. Even sleepovers, the times when I would go to a friend’s house, I remember feeling homesick and wanting to run back to my

family, but I would just suck it up and do it. And all of that I just explained, I look back and would say that’s why I was a prime candidate for drug addiction.”

When he was age 14, Prince was at a sleepaway camp in the summertime, where he would enter a dangerous realm which would scar him for almost 25 years. “I had terrible stomach pains one night, and now when I look back, I realize it was anxiety. The counselor took me to the nurse, and she gave me this green liquid (Demerol) in a cough syrup that tasted disgusting, and while walking across the softball field within a few minutes, my life changed forever. I felt at that moment that I was introduced to the world, and the minute I got back to my bunk, I felt like Superman. Every bit of fear, every bit of anxiety and self doubt that I was not worthy enough, I think it just went away in that moment.

I felt so super confident, and I just knew something special was happening, and I needed more of it.”

For three straight weeks, Prince acted as if he were ill, just to get some more Demerol and a feel good feeling. It continued until his parents came for a visit and they put a stop to it. The seed, however, was planted, and he would be hooked.

A few months later, Prince got started collecting baseball cards, and he turned that hobby into a business. With money he made from odd jobs, he would buy all his friends’ card collections, and if he wasn’t buying their collections, he was buying all the current top cards like Wade Boggs, Darryl Strawberry, Tony Gwynn, and Roger Clemens, and would trade those cards for older ones that his friends got from their dads and their grandfathers and their uncles. “Players that we never heard of, like Joe DiMaggio, Roger Maris, Babe Ruth, Willie Mays, Hank Aaron – those were the ones that were worth the money,” Prince says. “I wanted the ones that were worth the money.” Little by little he accumulated the best cards, and he realized he had accumulated almost $9,000 worth of old baseball cards. He went to his dad and asked to insure them, and his dad asked him how he had accumulated that much money in baseball cards. “I just lit up like a Christmas Tree,” Prince says.

“When he looked at me with his eyes wide open, that moment changed my life, because I know a lot of people that have relationships with their mom and dad, or don’t have relationships with their mom and dad, but what it gave me was a sense of confidence. My dad expressed interest in something with his son who was classified with such a severe learning disability. That was so excit-

ing.” A few weeks later, Prince headed to a baseball card show at a New Jersey Holiday Inn. “My dad had ignited something inside of me, and I was going to show the world that Darren Prince was somebody.

I made $1,000 on that Sunday afternoon at age 14. The light bulb just went on, and not only in his head, but also my Uncle Joe - may he rest in peace - and they went out, raised a bunch of money from an investment group, and I paid the investors back literally within weeks, at a substantial profit.”

After a while, the card business lost its luster for Prince, but he was starting to meet athletes at conventions. He got introduced to Muhammad Ali’s agent, Harlan Werner, and an ensuing event the duo held with the legend earned Ali’s compliments. From there in 1993, Prince worked with Frazier, and eventually also worked with Pamela Anderson, Dennis Rodman, and many more.

Reeling from near bankruptcy from another venture but at the same time enjoying the representations he had with some of the bigger names in entertainment and sports, at age 24 while on a fishing trip he mentioned his desire to his dad of becoming a full-time sports agent. “I said to him, ‘Dad, I really want to be an agent, but I just don’t have eight years to go to law school.” The elder Prince dropped his fishing pole and said to his son, “Lawyer?

Why do you need to go to law school? Do you realize the relationships you have right now? There’s not an entertainment lawyer on this planet that would not give their right arm to have the relationships you have.”

After his dad then suggested Prince speak with Magic Johnson, the duo met in a Michigan hotel room, and Prince told Johnson he wanted to start a marketing agency, and wanted him as his first client. Johnson said, “Get yourself a good entertainment lawyer, and I’m signing with you two years. If you don’t use me to knock on every door, to bring in all the celebrities you can, I’m going to fire you before the two-year contract is up. Because life isn’t about how successful I become. It’s how successful I make you and everybody else around me. It’s a domino effect.” “That just taught me the power of leveraging,” Prince says.

Prince at that time stopped doing harder drugs, but also started to experience painful sciatica, which was caused by the stress of being a sports agent. For five years, he legally went to physicians to get pills and felt on top of the world again. He was representing the icons, the best in their respective fields. However, he now doesn’t recall much from 2004 to 2008, when he had a few

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overdoses and his life was becoming hell.

Finally, on July 2, 2008 it all came to a head. “That’s when I found the willingness and took an action,” he recalls. “This was literally the one time in life I had to take desperate action. I had diarrhea, vomiting, felt like I was crawling out of my skin, sweating and chills.”

Worse yet, Prince was suicidal. He headed to the bathroom, locked the door, and was ready to take pills, but instead he fell to his knees, pills in his hand, and screamed at the top of his lungs to God, “I can’t do this! I cant do this without you!” while he felt a hot sensation over his right shoulder.

With his pills in one hand, he dumped and flushed them, and then said, ‘Help me stay sober,

one day at a time. Get me out of hell, and I’ll help take others out with me.” He then headed to a local church and an addict’s recovery group. Nobody cared what he did for a living, who he worked for, his income status, or his accomplishments.

Instead, they embraced him as a person.

He was on his way to being clean, sober. “I’ve kept my word for almost 14 years,” Prince says. He started to build a different type of self-esteem that he had never gotten from anywhere else. Those few hours were the most important hours of his life. “The worst day of my life,” he says.

“Is now one of my very best.

I started to find my soul. That day I found my purpose.”

Another happy thing was

the fact that his dad, in the last eight years of his life, got to enjoy a sober son. Prince, who knew his job would never be done, recalls the final moments they spent together. “The day he died, I held his hand in Saint Barnabas Hospital and said, ‘Your son…I’m going to touch and change the world with my story. You never saw me have kids, but God’s got a plan for me to save other mommy and daddy’s kids out there.”

And Prince, who currently lives in California with his loveable dog, Rodney, defines a happy life with just five words.

“Being of service to others.”

And he’s living that happy life.

For more information about Darren Prince, visit www.officialdarrenprince.com.

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We would like to introduce you to the NJ Hall of Fame where it states on their website The accomplishments of Garden State citizens

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James Florio Camden, Metuchen (1937- ) As a Congressman and Governor, Florio was noted for his environmental record, including authorship of the Superfund law to clean up the nation’s most polluted sites. He was also the winner of a John F. Kennedy Profile in Courage Award.

Alice Waters Chatham (1944-) Influential chef who attracted national attention for promoting food education in schools and for being a leading advocate of a stimulus package that works to give every child in the public school system a healthy breakfast and lunch.

Patrick Ewing Englewood Cliffs (1962- ) Voted by ESPN the 16th greatest college basketball player of all time, he led Georgetown to the 1985 NCAA championship and was College Player of the Year. He was with the NY Knicks for 15 of his 17 NBA seasons and an 11-time All Star. In 1996 he was voted one of the 50 Greatest Players in NBA History. He was also a two-time Olympic Gold Medalist (1984 & 1992).

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Dick Vitale Dick Vitale was born and raised in East Rutherford. He graduated from Seton Hall University and coached basketball at Garfield High School; his alma mater East Rutherford High School; and Rutgers University (assistant coach). Vitale joined ESPN soon after its launch in 1979 and serves as the primary college basketball analyst. Vitale has called close to 1,000 games and his enthusiastic broadcast style has introduced many “Vitale-isms” that are now household phrases including “Awesome Baby,” “PTP’er” (prime-time player), “Diaper Dandy” (freshman star), and “All-Windex Performer” (ferocious rebounder). In 2008, Vitale received the sport’s ultimate honor when he was inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame as a contributor.

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Stay on alert. Not all apps are completely safe (even the ones you can access from trusted stores) and not all filters are foolproof. Keep close tabs on what your kids are downloading by reading comments and reviews, and regularly monitoring what kind of content they see.

Middle School and High School Kids Continue talking about privacy. You can never have too many conversations about privacy. What seems like harmless sharing on social media can be quite revealing. For example, frequent posts about visits to a favorite store or restaurant can allow a predator to begin tracking behavior patterns that make your child a target. It’s also important for kids to understand how their privacy settings work. For example, settings that allow exposure to friends of friends make their visibility to strangers much broader than they may realize.

Help manage their online

cording to the survey. To help save money on their weekly grocery bills while still buying high-quality products, one of the top tactics shoppers have used is purchasing food from value brands. One such option is bagged cereal from MaltO-Meal, which is available in 36 ready-to-eat flavors so you can find a variety that appeals to each family member at an affordable price. With a commitment to quality and great taste, families can count on the wide selection packaged in re-sealable bags with a fun and colorful new look.

“Our survey found cold cereal is the No. 1 choice for breakfast during busy mornings,” said Mike Porter, MaltO-Meal brand director. “We’ve

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Shop Alone When shopping with other members of your family, like your children or significant other, the odds of straying from your list can increase. To help limit the chance of being coaxed into buying things you don’t actually need, go alone and stick to your list.

Scan Sales Flyers Grocery stores run various promotions each week that

However, college students are easy prey for identity theft and worse. Remind them what’s at stake if they fail to protect their identity and private information, like where they live and what they do on a regular basis.

Teach smart practices.

With all the independence that comes with college life, this is an ideal time for your student

to take personal responsibility for his or her online security, including learning about virus protection, updating software, avoiding scams and backing up data.

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reputation. Behaviors that once resulted in a day or two of hallway chatter can now live forever. Documenting mischief online is only fun until it spills over into real life and everyone sees those mistakes in full color – including prospective future employers.

Be clear about your position on bullying. From the safe distance of a screen, it’s easi-

er for kids (and adults) to say things they’d never say in person. Teach your kids to handle problems constructively offline and avoid engaging in attacks on others through social media, email and other platforms.

College Students Reinforce the risks. Once they’re on their own, kids may feel more liberated to make their own choices online.

can help you save on everything from meat and eggs to ice cream and other frozen foods. A simple way to save is checking the weekly ads at the grocery stores in your area.

Shopping at a different store than usual may allow you to take advantage of different sales, and those items are often located in prominent areas of the store, like near the entrance or at the end of aisles, to make them easy to find.

Use Rebate Apps While rebates don’t always provide the same up-front savings of some other methods, such as traditional coupons, you may see a greater savings in the long run. With a variety of free options out there, you can register and start earning

cash back almost immediately. For greatest savings, pair rebate app savings with store loyalty discounts and credit card cash back rewards.

Look for In-Season Produce When you’re shopping on a budget, sticking to in-season produce can get you the most bang for your buck. When fresh fruits and vegetables are out of season, stores typically charge more for them since they’re not as readily available. Planning your meals around in-season produce can not only help save money, but also put the best-tasting fruits and veggies on the table.

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