Morrsitown & Mendam Life December 2022

Big Red Santa Brings Happiness to All Ages

By Steve Sears

For Bob Smith, it may have started in 2009, but you can tell during discussion with him that he’s had the Santa Claus goodness within him all along.

Just ask Emily.

Although in his words he was terrified when he first dressed up as the Big Red Santa and the event was a suc cess, it was best defined by little Emily, who the next day visited the event organizer and thanked them for bring ing a real Santa Claus. “And it was because I was nice and I had a real beard,” Smith says. It mattered not to Emily that the red Santa suit Smith wore was older, that his beard was short, or whether it was sprinkled with baby powder. What mattered was Smith’s kindness to her, which Emily returned the following year, she showing up with a gift for the Big Red Santa.

“I think 90% of Santas find their way into the role by someone asking them to fill in for somebody that can’t make it,” Smith says. “I think 100% of the people who get that question are kind of reluctant to do that because they’ve never done it before.”

Smith wasn’t reluctant when first asked thirteen years ago. He filled the role, but was concerned his voice wouldn’t be correct or he’d say something wrong. The request came from a group called Rainbows for All Children, a nationwide group which meets with and supports children who had a parent pass away during the year and are grieving. Smith recalls the instructions he received at that time. ‘They said, ‘We’ve got all the toys, we’ve got the bag. Just show up, everything’s tagged, call up the kids, take the picture, and off you go.’” The group had available a Santa Claus suit from K-Mart, and Smith took care of the rest. “I had this very short George Clooney beard,” he says. “It really wasn’t quite right, and I peppered it with some baby powder, be cause I was not going to wear a previously used polyester beard. Then I threw on a white turtleneck to cover the lack of beard.”

After his first appearance, Smith returned the suit and

thought nothing more about dressing up as Santa Claus –until the following September, when he was asked by Rain bows for All Children to do it again. This time, not only was the child called up, but Smith also asked the parent who had lost a spouse to head forward as well. Smith explains. “I would say, ‘What would you like for Christmas?’ and ‘How have you been?’ I realized it’s about the family.”

During his first eight years as Santa Claus, Smith would do just a gig or two per year. In addition to the Rainbows

event, he would get calls to do Breakfast with Santa get-to gethers. As he started to get more requests for appearanc es, he then began to buttress his Santa skills. “For the first eight years, I had no idea that there were Santa Claus orga nizations,” Smith says. “There are Santa Claus groups that will help you hone your skills in terms that if you’re going to see 200 kids in a day, one or two of them are going to be on the autism spectrum. How do you handle that? How do you deal with sensitivity in terms of questions? If some body asks, ‘Can you bring grandma back?’ There’s that part of it, the part in the chair, which we call ‘Chair Time.’ And then there’s also the business side of it.”

For the record, Smith now dons a custom-made Santa Claus suit, and his appearances aren’t limited just to the Christmas season. During this past summer, he had three Christmas in July gigs. Also, it took about six or seven years to convince Mrs. Claus (Smith’s wife, Pam) to make appear ances with him. “The Knights of Columbus, every time they saw her, they said, ‘You’re coming to the Breakfast with Santa, too?’ and she would say, ‘No, no, no.’ I just bought her the dress, and once she had the dress, she was okay with it, and said it was a lot of fun. And Mrs. Claus is an integral part of the Santa experience.”

For more information about the Big Red Santa, visit www.bigredsanta.com.

The Big Red Santa and Mrs. Claus (courtesy of Bob Smith)

Berkeley Heights 9-Year-Old Sings About Diwali on Sesame Street

By Steve Sears

Cookie Monster, Elmo, and Rosita of Sesame Street recently had to sing about and celebrate the five day and night festival of Diwali on air. They had help from 9-year-old Rhea Gorhe of Berkeley Heights, who was selected to appear side-by-side with the cast dancing and in song.

“It aired around October 17th, almost two months ago on YouTube,” says a very happy Gorhe. “My family and I watched the video on TV right after we discovered it aired.”

Juily Kolhatkar, Rhea’s mom, says her daughter felt right at home on the show. After all, Sesame Street has been a favorite show of the family for years, and is obviously great for learning. “Sesame Street is such a respected and loved platform for education, as well as fun! We are thrilled that Rhea could sing a beautiful song to celebrate and showcase her culture with all the Sesame Street viewers. The video has already garnered over 159K views on YouTube. That’s the magic of Sesame Street!”

The process started when Gorhe was doing a play at the Wharton Institute for the Performing Arts Summer Camp in Berkeley Heights. Her teacher, Sophia Angelica, helped her act and sing, and Angelica’s mom, talent manager Susan Rybin of Rybin Talent, provided the audition opportunity. “At first, I didn’t think I would make it,” says Gorhe of being selected. “I sang the song ‘A Million Dreams’ from The Greatest Showman for my audition. But then Miss Rybin called me and said ‘Rhea, you‘ve got your first gig!”

The excited fourth-grader then listened to her mom make outfit suggestions, and she went with her dad to New York City for a precautionary COVID-19 test, and recording and taping sessions on separate days. She then had a stylist do her hair, and watched the other episode of the Sesame Street “Around the World” series being recorded. Says Gorhe, “I had a great time and a wonderful experience. As for the recording, I sang bits of the song in pieces and had a blast recording my first song.” And how many takes did it take to get a clean, 1:38 second video? “A LOT of takes, too many to count!”

The number of takes being what they were, the entire process was a thrill for the youngster. The most exciting part for Gorhe was in the end, where she wore a traditional Indian outfit for the shoot. “When I finished, everyone was congratulating me on my first ever taping. I felt tired but extremely happy.”

Gorhe, who had a few short solos on the video and has always had a passion for singing under the guidance of Angelica and also her voice teacher, Sadie Pepitone, would like to keep singing and recording. She also has some advice for others youngsters for not only singing and dancing, but every endeavor. “If you doubt yourself during a first experience, just remember that it was your first try, and to trust the outcomes.”

“It was unbelievable! It all happened so fast,” says Kolhatkar. “We were so thrilled and proud of her that she made it to Sesame Street on her own in just one shot!”

To view the video, visit www.youtube.com/ watch?v=eOudPTDMTLQ&t=22swatch?v=eOudPTDMT LQ&t=22s.

Rhea Gorhe (credit Juily Kolhatkar)

Berkeley Heights Painter Seeks Transcendence on the Canvas

By Alexander Rivero

Katie Weiss spent a good portion of her life in Queens, Brooklyn, and on the Upper West Side before coming over to Berkeley Heights, where she has lived for the past twenty years. She earned a bachelor’s degree from the University of Connecticut in Clothing and Textiles, and a graduate degree in Painting from Queens College.

Now, Weiss spends a good portion of her life in nature and in museums, which serve as the primary sources of nourishment for the lush, dreamlike scenes she captures on her canvas.

Her world is one of light, shadow, and space—open marshlands and rolling hills, games of light on the silhouettes of faceless pedestrian, urban streets

hiding from the noon sun under the dark shade of skyscrapers. To look at them is to relive an instance you recall but cannot quite place, a nostalgia for a moment that perhaps never occurred. There is a longing to each of these subjects that instills a sense of pause in the viewer, however quiet the scene, or however busy. One’s eyes linger on each painting before they turn to the next.

Weiss painted and drew as a kid, but it was the art history classes she took at UConn that tilted what may have been a curiosity over to a love. Indeed, she describes her feelings when first exposed to collegelevel courses on classical culture and Renaissance painting as having “fallen in love” with these worlds,

moments in her life she looks back to as ones of profound changes in her own sensitivities, interests, and ways of seeing her world.

“After graduating,” she says, “my interests moved beyond the fields that I studied, and I took a few art classes. What I really did was redirected myself, and aside from studying art I also became a high

school art teacher to pay the rent.”

She taught studio art at Flushing High School in Queens and, during her private time, acquainted herself with her own

capacities as an artist.

In the thirty years she taught high school art, she supplemented her education with deep dives into the worlds that interested her most. She

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Bus Approaching, 20 x 30 inches, 2007, oil on canvas.

Katie Weiss in her home studio.

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rest of the Dutch Masters. She fell in love again—this time with the Impressionists, and later on again, with the American Hudson River School of painters.

Nature, too, plays a big role in the quiet, internal grind of her artistic exploration.

“I love movies and novels, but nature is the main inspiration for me,” she says. “I walk every day, and nature is always changing. Even the winter landscapes that appear plain and unchanging at first sight, change day to day. The sky changes, even if the trees stay the same.”

Weiss also notes that she takes regular day trips into Manhattan to spend hours upon hours gazing up at the paintings at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

The most difficult thing for Weiss to determine in all of her craft, she says, is knowing when she is finished with a painting. Like the winter skies, a painting also is in a perpetual state of change and evolution, she says, and it is a difficult task to put one’s foot down and refrain from adding anything new to a canvas that has

no clearly defined way of indicating it is complete.

Equally difficult is the act of picking out a favorite painting of hers, namely because, she laughs, her favorite tends to be the one she has finished most recently. There is a great deal of sense to this.

“You’re continually growing as an artist,” she says, “so naturally your most recent work is always the one. You look at it and tell yourself, ‘I really got the shadows in that one, or the sense of wind.’ But also I can look at something I did twenty years ago as if though it was done by someone else. As if though it were something on its own. And that’s also pretty cool.”

As for future work and projects, Weiss says she hopes to just be able to continue painting for as long as she can, and will continue her work with Frontline Arts in Branchburg, NJ, which she assures does plenty of excellent work with veterans.

For more information on Katie Weiss, please visit her website: www. katieweissart.com, or email her at kweiss3@verizon.net.

Morristown’s Tara Bernie Has Been Blessed with a Career She Loves

By Steve Sears

From the time she was a little girl, Tara Bernie wanted to be a reporter.

“On Sesame Street, there was a character nicknamed Guy Smiley,” Bernie says. “He was a reporter, he wore a trench coat, hat, and had a microphone in his hand. And he would come flying in from the side of the screen with whatever his report was. Whatever he was doing, I just was so enamored with that, and I was so excited every time he would just come flying in and give me up to date information. I would always joke that I was him, a reporter. I would use my thumb as my microphone; just as some girls would be in the mirror with a hairbrush singing, I would be reporting.”

Bernie, who is originally from Las Vegas, but was raised in Kearny, also enjoyed writing and was very inquisitive while growing up. “I think that all sort of came together as a reporter,” Bernie says. “And so, when I was looking at schools, I knew I needed to find one with a good communication department and

journalism department.”

She found both at William Paterson University in Wayne, where she wrote news articles as well as doing news reports for the school’s television station, and snared two key internships while there. “They were very big on getting internships, because that’s obviously where you learn a lot of stuff that you could never learn in the classroom, and you’re making connections. And those connections helped me get my first job.” Her first internship was with CBS News and Dan Rather, and her second was with Howard Stern – after approaching a security guard at David Letterman Theater and asking him to give her letter of introduction and photo to Stern. “A year later, my phone rings at 7:00 in the morning, and it’s Gary Dell’Abate from the Howard Stern Show. He says to me, ‘Howard is on the air and he wants to talk to you.’ Her internship interview was conducted on air. She visited the studio the next day and was in, and then got a Productions Assistant job with WNBC. “I worked every holiday,

every weekend, every shift, but I didn’t care. I just loved doing it. I was right where I wanted to be.”

After WNBC, Bernie and her husband moved to California, and she then worked for 18 years with Access Hollywood as a Senior Field Producer. She initially got a job at KNBC as an Entertainment Producer, but Access Hollywood was right across the lot. “Prior to me leaving KNBC, I would work with Access Hollywood in tandem. I met a few people over there, so I literally walked across the parking lot and asked, ‘Are you guys hiring? I need a new job,’ And they said, ‘Oh my God, yes!’ We would love to have you.’ And I was there for 18 years. That was incredible, because it was just an amazing job doing, again, everything that I’ve ever wanted to do, and it was still a daily news grind that I loved. It just happened to be the field of entertainment with celebrities.”

Bernie, after a nine-month stint at Daily Mail TV as Senior Correspondent, where she wrote longer news stories and delivered them on air, then had

another nine month stint with “People the TV Show” (in conjunction with People Magazine) as a Senior Content Producer.

“It was great working with the people at People Magazine, because here is this well known established brand that gets a-list celebrities on their covers and interviews,”

Tara Bernie (courtesy of Tara Bernie)

Whitehouse Station Native Serves with the Next Generation of U.S. Naval Aviation Warfighters

Whitehouse Station, New Jersey, native is serving in the U.S. Navy where naval aviators learn the skills they need to fly missions around the world.

Ensign Austin Westfield, a 2017 Delbarton School graduate, joined the Navy one year ago.

“I joined the Navy because I wanted to fly naval aircraft,” said Westfield.

Skills and values learned in the Navy are similar to those found in Whitehouse Station.

“I have learned that diversity is important and is a great asset to the mission,” said Westfield.

Westfield serves as a student pilot with Training Squadron 27, a primary flight training squadron, located at Naval Air Station Corpus Christi, Texas.

“I enjoy the atmosphere of professionalism here,” said Westfield. “It is very competitive but helpful at the same time.”

The air training program focuses on the increased complexity of today’s aircraft. After successfully completing the rigorous program, naval aviators earn their coveted “Wings of Gold.”

After graduation, pilots continue their training to learn how to fly a specific aircraft, such as the Navy’s F/A-18 Super Hornet fighter attack jet, the F-35 Lightning strike

fighter jet or the SH-60 Seahawk helicopter. These aircraft take off from and land on Navy aircraft carriers at sea.

Navy aircraft carriers are designed for a 50-year service life. When the air wing is embarked, the ship carries more than 70 attack fighter jets, helicopters and other aircraft, all of which take off from and land aboard the carrier at sea. With more than 5,000 sailors serving aboard, the aircraft carrier is a self-contained mobile airport.

Aircraft carriers are often the first response to a global crisis because of their ability to operate freely in international waters anywhere on the world’s oceans.

Since USS Langley’s commissioning 100 years ago, the nation’s aircraft carriers and embarked carrier air wings have projected power, sustained sea control, bolstered deterrence, provided humanitarian assistance and disaster relief, and maintained enduring commitments worldwide.

“The aircraft carrier is our U.S. Navy’s centerpiece, our flagship, and a constant reminder to the rest of the world of our enduring maritime presence and influence,” said Rear Adm. James P. Downey, USN, Program Executive Officer (PEO) Aircraft Carriers. “These ships touch every part of our Navy’s mission to project power, ensure sea control, and deter our adversaries.”

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Bernie says. “We worked in tandem with them to use a lot of their material on our show.”

Bernie, who lives in Morristown, has been volunteering with Morristown ONSTAGE and the Morris Educational Foundation since 2014. “Morristown ONSTAGE is the biggest fundraiser for the MEF, and this will be their 16th year this March doing the show,” she says. Bernie used to see the show every year, and at one point reached out to the organization. “We had a meeting, and I walked out of there not only being the host of the show, but helping to produce it. And so, from that time on it has just grown production wise and money wise. What MEF does is they provide grants back to the public schools within the Morris school district.”

Bernie, who is a mom to two daughters, Grace (21) and Leyla (19), talks about how she’s always been able to handle challenges, which she has indeed had. A

year and a half ago, she was diagnosed with thyroid cancer and had to have a thyroidectomy (she is cancer-free now for a year), and prior to that her husband passed away suddenly five years ago. “Just having to be horrendously independent from a very young age,” she says, “I just kind of always had to put myself out there and then, once I gained more confidence along the way, especially in my career, I knew that I could do certain things just because I felt confident in what I could do. So that kind of brought the confidence there in my career. And then in my personal life, it’s been interesting to see how I’ve been able to use that when certain challenges come up.”

Bottom line, her job has been nothing short of a dream come true.

“I still love what I do and I’m so blessed and so pleased and happy that I’ve been able to have a career in something that I absolutely love.”

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With more than 90 percent of all trade traveling by sea, and 95 percent of the world’s international phone and internet traffic carried through fiber optic cables lying on the ocean floor, Navy officials continue to emphasize that the prosperity and security of the United States is directly linked to ready sailors and a strong Navy.

“Maintaining the world’s best Navy is an investment in the security and prosperity of the United States, as well as the stability of our world,” said Adm. Mike Gilday, Chief of Naval Operations. “The U.S. Navy—forward deployed and integrated with all elements of national power—deters conflict, strengthens our alliances and partnerships, and guarantees free and open access to the world’s oceans. As the United States responds to the security environment through integrated deterrence, our Navy must continue to deploy forward and campaign with a

ready, capable, combat-credible fleet.”

Serving in the Navy means Westfield is part of a team that is taking on new importance in America’s focus on rebuilding military readiness, strengthening alliances and reforming business practices in support of the National Defense Strategy.

“The Navy is important because it’s a force that displays our power and national outreach,” said Westfield.

Westfield has many opportunities to achieve accomplishments during military service.

“My proudest accomplishment has been being accepted into flight school,” added Westfield. “It’s an honor to be a part of the rich history and tradition of naval aviation.”

As Westfield and other sailors continue to perform missions, they take pride in serving their country in the United States Navy.

Summit Police Department Assists Officer Karen Stenstrom Sauers

The Summit Police Department, Summit Fire Department, Summit PBA Local #55, Summit FMBA #54, Summit Volunteer First Aid Squad and city officials are joining together to raise awareness about the immediate need for a living donor kidney transplant for Summit Police Officer Karen Stenstrom Sauers.

Karen was diagnosed at age 24 with polycystic kidney disease, an inherited disorder in which clusters of cysts develop primarily within the kidneys, causing them to enlarge and lose function over time. At the time of diagnosis, she was told that one day she would need a kidney transplant to prolong her life. Now is that time.

Raised in Summit from the age of eight, Karen Stenstrom was a scholar and an athlete. She was co-captain of the women’s lacrosse team, graduated from Summit High School as part of the Class of 1989 and pursued a degree in education at Boston College. After graduation, Karen returned to Summit, began teaching in Newark public schools and volunteering on the Summit Volunteer First Aid Squad.

As she watched the twin towers fall on September 11, Karen realized that she was meant to serve the community in a different way and enrolled in the John H. Stamler Police Academy. She is now a valued and decorated police officer in Summit and has served the community faithfully for more than 20 years.

Karen met and married Jon Sauers, also a Summit Police Department officer, and is a co-

parent to Andy, age 20, and the devoted mother of 13-year-old twins Tommy and Maggie. None of her immediate family or relatives are a match for a kidney transplant so her life depends on receiving a donor kidney. Karen is a patient with the Living Donor Institute at Cooperman Barnabas Medical Center. The program allows patients with chronic kidney disease to receive kidney transplants from living donors and deceased donors as soon as possible.

While receiving a kidney from a deceased donor would prolong Karen’s life for a handful of years, a living donor kidney would extend Karen’s life expectancy for 10 to 15 more years.

“Officer Karen Sauers is one of the kindest and most positive individuals I know,” explains Summit Police Chief Steven Zagorski. “Throughout her distinguished career with the agency and now on this difficult journey, she has shown great strength and commitment. As colleagues and friends, we want to do everything possible to help find a potential donor. Please consider learning more about it.”

For more information on the process of kidney donation, visit https://www. CBMCLivingDonor.org. Please include the code KARENSAUERS if completing the health history questionnaire so all potential matches are connected to Officer Sauers.

For more information on Officer Karen Stenstrom Sauers and the Summit Police Department go to https://www.cityofsummit.org/police or contact Nikki Griffiths at 908277-9472.

Morris County’s Own Rob Asaro - Funny, Fearless and Found Himself

By Jillian Risberg

An unlikely pair travel cross-country in Rob Asaro’s new play Lost Again, inspired by the playwright and Parsippany native’s own adventures on the road as a stand up comic. Most recently it had its limited run at The Tank in New York City.

Lost Again is about two mismatched strangers paired up by a mutual friend: Ilona Young, a type-A, know-it-all travel blogger on a cross-country assignment and Casey Calvino, a jaded comedian on a tour of the US. Their story is one of identity, pain, adventure, friendship, moving on and moving forward. Each act takes place in a city or town, en-route from New York to Los Angeles. The story is part misadventure, part self-discovery and part buddy dramedy.

Viewers are sure to take something away from Asaro’s wild comic adventure.

“They feel a little understood — it’s very specific feelings,” the funny man says this project deals a lot with regret, also what matters and the meaning of things. “I hope people walk away like, ‘I feel that way too, it feels good that someone expressed some

of these ideas,’ but also if they’re laughing and having a good time. I’m a comedian so… I want people to enjoy themselves.”

Asaro hopes Lost Again, which he wrote after adapting it from his 10-episode series — can have life beyond the play.

“You live it; like when you’re doing this,” he says that’s all there is. “I’m obsessed with it.”

The script was a finalist at the Austin Film Festival pitch competition in 2021.

“I write these projects and fall in love — some you’re with for a long time, go back or adapt in a certain way,” says the comedian. “You become invested. Not just write it and hope somebody says yes,” Asaro says he wants it to live in some capacity.

Hence his desire to produce, act and write his own work: whether it be a web series, play or pilot, and get it to Netflix or HBO.

“I never just wanted to act and never just wanted to write. It was about being able to do both,“ Asaro says it’s tough to navigate when you’re a hyphenated sort of talent. “Many show business folks only want to see you one way: just an actor, a comedian, a writer.”

So the funny man keeps going — hoping

to grow and get better to surprise his friends and colleagues who know him.

“If I can surprise them that means I am (evolving) because they know my style,” he says it takes tons of devotion. “It’s hard to have a normal life when you do this sort of thing.”

He shared that show business can be tricky and there can be attitudes, egos and a sinister undercurrent in certain ways. His advice to young people starting out: stay away from the element that doesn’t make you feel good or you don’t trust. Instead, surround yourself with plenty of good, talented people.

And patience is important.

“Be where you are,” says Asaro. “You can’t rush the process. It takes a while to develop not only your comedic voice but what interests you to write about.”

According to the comedian, he wasn’t a sophisticated child but had a keen understanding of comedy. He says one can learn to be funny if you immerse yourself in it and find your voice.

At three or four his mom took him to the mall, where he pretended to be a dancing mannequin and that connected him with

his first agent — who sent him on a cereal casting call.

“Mom brought snacks for me and they told her there were no snacks in the office. After that she wouldn’t bring me in because of the snack policy,” Asaro says. “The joke growing up was always, ‘I didn’t get to be a messed up child actor because my mother wasn’t allowed to bring in a baggie of Chex Mix.’”

Seinfeld was an early influence, he adored

The dental group kids LOVE and their parents trust!

Norm McDonald… and the early Simpsons were amazing.

At 14-years-old, Asaro asked his dad to use vacation money to take a standup class. And the rest is history.

“He took me into the city once a week for the class,” the funny man says when it concluded he went to Stand Up NY on the Upper West Side.

“Did my set there; I was 14 performing when everybody else was in their late 20s,” says the comedian. “It was an interesting experience.”

Asaro has toured the country performing and is the founder of the nationally known Emerson College comedy troupe: Chocolate Cake City that’s still there 20 years later. He relocated to Los Angeles right out of college, studied with Second City, and returned to NYC in 2006.

The funny man grew up in Parsippany.

“It’s a different mentality, different energy, different speed, a different sense of humor,” Asaro says of the area and NYC, that shaped him significantly.

From there for years he tried to make short films; do standup, sketch comedy and improv, web series, one-man shows.

While sets involving topical humor are not the comedian’s thing, “I like comedy that comes from within” — he admits the 24hour (in your face) news cycle was hard to ignore.

And he says it feels nice to be out there again in the city, working through and living the creative and rehearsal process.

“Being in those spaces… with people who are jazzed to be there and excited about the work,” says the funny man, adding that Zoom never felt real.

His dream is to make Lost Again as a series and constantly produce work. He adapted another piece, Light at the Diner (various vignettes), to perhaps do on stage — about a bunch of people who enter a diner on a weekday night and their different experiences.

“I would love to have a production company one day and be able to produce this work, employ all my friends, collaborators and people I find funny who should be working all the time,” Asaro says.

“I would like to be successful where I could give people that I feel deserve it (amazing, wonderful talents) a platform.”

For more information, visit www. robasaroshow.com.

CCM Athletics Presented with Champions of Character Award

The Athletic Department at County College of Morris (CCM) – from student/athletes and coaches to administration and staff – recently gained additional confirmation of their success with a Champions of Character Award from the National Junior College Athletic Association Region XIX.

The award recognizes outstanding results in the character development of student/athletes and coaches by embracing the five core values of respect, responsibility, integrity, servant leadership and sportsmanship. Additionally, the award recognizes institutions that demonstrate outstanding involvement in the community, which results in positive character development through sport.

“It is such an honor to have our student/athletes, their coaches and the staff who support them recognized with this prestigious award,” says Jack Sullivan, director of Athletics at CCM. “The college places a very high emphasis on developing and supporting athletics who succeed both on and off the field, and we’re pleased to have Region XIX recognize those efforts.”

While the Titans have won many honors and championships over the years, this is the first time CCM Athletics has been recognized with this award.

To learn more about Athletics at CCM, go to www.ccm.edu/athletics/

A Winning Recipe to Feed Game Day Fans

Settling in for an afternoon of gridiron action calls for football food from dips and appetizers to full-blown feasts. Whether you’re a diehard fan, casual observer or just there for the game time grub, a full day of “homegating” requires flavorful eats to refuel the crowd.

One of the easiest ways to take your menu from benchwarmer to superstar status is to add foods from one of the country’s top authentic Mexican food brands, Cacique, to your playbook. For example, flavor-packed, heaping Cheesy Chorizo Nachos can score a touchdown at your gathering, even among the pickiest of fans. When the game is on the line, call on this dish to keep your team satisfied from kickoff to the final whistle.

Made with crumbly, creamy, pleasantly milky queso fresco; authentic real cheese queso dip that’s ready in minutes; robust, spicy pork chorizo; fresh-tasting Crema Mexicana; and small-batch homestyle salsa, this shareable dish can feed a houseful of hungry fans. Ready in less than an hour, it’s a perfect solution for pregame baking so

it’s ready just before the coin toss.

To find more game day recipes, visit CaciqueInc.com

Cheesy Chorizo Nachos

1 package Cacique Pork Chorizo

1 package Cacique Queso Blanco Queso Dip

1 can (15 ounces) refried beans

2 tablespoons water, plus additional, if necessary

1 bag (12 ounces) tortilla chips

1 package Cacique Ranchero Queso Fresco

1/2 cup Cacique Crema Mexicana

1 large jalapeno, sliced thin

2 radishes, sliced thin fresh cilantro leaves, for garnish guacamole, for serving Cacique Mild Homestyle Salsa, for serving

In large nonstick skillet or well-seasoned cast-iron pan over medium-low heat, cook pork chorizo, using spoon to break it up. Stir regularly until completely warmed through and deep brown, scraping crispy bits from bottom of pan.

Microwave queso dip 2-3 minutes until heated through.

In medium bowl, thin refried beans with

water. Beans should be thick but nearly pourable; add additional water 1 tablespoon at a time, if necessary.

Heat oven to 350 F.

To assemble nachos, add half the tortilla chips to 13-by-9-inch rectangular baking dish. Use spoon to drizzle half the queso dip and half the refried beans evenly over chips, distributing as evenly as possible. Sprinkle with half the crumbled queso fres-

co. Repeat with remaining chips, queso dip, beans and crumbled queso fresco. Bake 5-8 minutes until crumbled queso fresco softens and queso dip is creamy.

Remove from oven then drizzle with crema Mexicana and scatter pork chorizo over top. Garnish with sliced jalapenos, radishes and fresh cilantro. Serve with guacamole and salsa. (Family Features)

Appetizers are many people’s favorite part of a meal. From dips and finger foods to little treats and fried pieces of perfection, there is a wide array of considerations for a pre-meal snack. Some appetizers are much more appropriate at certain events. For example, buffalo chicken wings are best enjoyed on game days, salads are normally served at showers and vegetable trays are a typical Thanksgiving Day classic.

However, there are recipes that are too easy to make and too satisfying not to serve at almost every festivity you and your family attend. This Easy Crab Rangoon shines above the rest for many reasons, but the main point of this heavenly sample is it’s easy to make and bake.

This appetizer is placed in the oven until it’s golden brown, topped with little green scallions with a creamy filling all packaged in a crispy outer layer.

Plus, the cream cheese is mixed with luscious amounts of crab meat. This is a seafood lover’s dream. Actually, it’s any appetizer lover’s dream.

An Appetizer Worth the (Short) Wait

To make this mouthwatering recipe, you only need a handful of ingredients and a few kitchen tools.

The little bites of perfection come out of the oven steaming hot, waiting to be topped with more crunchy, fresh scallions. Once they have cooled for a few moments, they are ready to be devoured.

This bite-size, savory snack will be all the rage at family dinners and parties with the kids alike. They fit perfectly in the palms of hands and within a few bites, they are gone and your loved ones are asking for seconds.

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Easy Crab Rangoon

Servings: 12 Nonstick cooking spray 12 wonton wrappers 4 ounces cream cheese, softened 4 ounces lump crabmeat

1 scallion, sliced thin, green and white parts separated 1 teaspoon fresh ginger, grated 1 teaspoon soy sauce

Heat oven to 350 F.

Spray muffin pan with nonstick cooking spray. Press wonton wrappers into muffin cups. Lightly spray wrappers with nonstick cooking spray and bake until lightly browned, 6-9 minutes. Let cool slightly.

In medium bowl, beat cream cheese

until smooth. Combine with crabmeat, scallion whites, ginger and soy sauce. Fill each wonton wrapper with filling. Bake until filling is heated through, 6-8 minutes.

Sprinkle with scallion greens. Serve warm. (Culinary.net)

A Crunchy, Caramelized Delight

When it comes to fall, certain foods become an iconic representation of the season. Sweet treats are certainly part of the seasonal traditions for many families, especially when they call for the versatile flavor of apples.

You can make your next family dessert a hit with the rich taste of Country Caramel Apples, a simple take on a classic fall treat that calls for just three ingredients. Just carve out round pieces of apple, insert toothpicks into each bite then let little ones help roll on the caramel dip and crushed pecans.

An option like the Envy apple, which has been referred to as “the ultimate apple experience” for its consistently balanced, refreshing sweetness coupled with a crisp, elegant crunch, adds just the right texture. Easy to spot with their crimson red skin over a golden background that practically glows, the apples are naturally descended from Braeburn and Royal Gala apple varieties, bred by farmers who use time-honored plant-breeding methods. Plus, the apples’ bright white flesh is naturally slow to brown when sliced, so they stay fresher longer.

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Country Caramel Apples

3 Envy Apples crushed pecans caramel dip

Using melon ball scoop, carve out round apple pieces by starting at skin and rotating inward.

Insert one toothpick into each apple piece.

Place crushed pecans in small bowl.

Roll round apple pieces in caramel dip then crushed pecans.

Place coated apple bites on serving tray and refrigerate until ready to serve. (Family Features)

Morris County Launches Interactive Story Map to Celebrate 20 Years of Historic Preservation Trust Fund

Morris County is celebrating the 20th Anniversary of the Morris County Historic Preservation Trust Fund by launching an interactive, online story map of all historic sites found in the county, specifically offering background information, photos, video and geographic data on all sites that benefited from county historic preservation grants.

“We hope this story map can make the public more aware of the many historic treasures that are in our midst, and also acknowledge the strong support the Commissioners have shown toward historic preservation that contribute to the high quality of life here in Morris County,” said Ray Chang, Historic Preservation Program Coordinator for the Morris County Office of Planning and Preservation.

The story map was created by the Office of Planning and Preservation to celebrate the 20th Anniversary of the grant program.

The Historic Preservation Trust Fund was established by the Morris County Board of County Commissioners after voters overwhelmingly approved a referendum on Nov. 5, 2002, to allow a portion of the Morris County Open Space & Farmland Preservation Trust Fund to be used for historic preservation.

“This has been an exceptionally successful and well received program, with nearly $46 million being committed to assist in the preservation, protection and restoration of 122 historic properties since the first grant was issued in 2003,” said Commissioner Stephen Shaw, the board liaison to the county Office of Planning and Preservation.

“Almost everywhere you go in Morris County, you can point to a place, a building or a monument that represents a specific era in our history, from the days Native Americans lived here and Europeans began to settle in, to the American Revolution, the industrial revolution and beyond.

Morris County has a wealth of sites and structures embodying the American story, and our trust fund has helped to preserve

that,” he added.

The story map is based in part on digital mapping data provided by the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection Geographic Information System, as well as data on historical properties compiled by the New Jersey Historic Preservation Office. A legend is provided identifying various levels of historical determinations afforded different sites.

However, the story map dives deepest into Morris County historic sites, specifically the 122 sites afforded grants through the Historic Preservation Trust Fund over the past 20 years. Using the GIS mapping, visitors may navigate to all 122 Morris County sites easily and view photos, background information and, where available, videos and audio presentations that provide a fuller understanding the sites’ significance.

The videos can be watched on YouTube with captions for better accessibility.

The Historic Preservation Trust Fund considers grants for the acquisition, stabilization, rehabilitation, restoration or preservation of historic resources by municipalities, qualified non-profits and the county. Many sites have received multiple grants over the years for various stages of preservation, from planning to actual construction.

Applications are reviewed by the volunteer members of the Morris County Historic Preservation Trust Fund Review Board, and the board ultimately recommends each year to the County Commissioners what projects should be provided grants and the amount of each grant.

The new story map introduces visitors to the 11-member review board.

Historic resources must be listed or certified as eligible for listing on the New Jersey and National Registers of Historic Places, to be eligible for the program.

The map is available to view at www.storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/ e6da96eb190a4c8e94bab06dcd1b8e7e

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A Remembrance of the Real Santa of Main Street

By Richard Mabey Jr.

There are people who touch our hearts and lives, to whom we will not truly appreciate their kindness till years and years have passed. Such is the case of my remembrance of the Real Santa Claus of Main Street. It was a long standing tradition, of the Mabey clan, to spend Christmas Day at the old Mabey Homestead. From the day I was born till I was six years old, my parents and I lived in Clifton. Every Christmas Day, we would sojourn westward on Route 46 to the little hamlet of Lincoln Park, where my great grandmother, Dora Mabey lived.

I remember we would arrive at the old Mabey Home stead, early in the morning. I was a shy and sensitive child, so the abounding number of relatives that would congre gate at the old farmhouse, would seem all so overwhelm ing to me.

I don’t know at what age I had any degree of conscious remembrance of the dear, kind, elderly man who was the Real Santa of Main Street. I remember him fondly as a very kind man with a gentle spirit. He would knock on the door of the old Mabey Homestead, sometime during the late morning on Christmas Day, all dressed in his Santa Claus gear.

My dad was the fifth of nine children, so on Christmas Day the Mabey Homestead abounded with children, my many cousins. Santa would arrive with a big burlap bag strung over his shoulder, with a gift for each and every one of my cousins, my sister and myself. I remember the gifts were not expensive at all. Some were actually hand made toys. While some had a clue of having been passed down from another child, who had outgrown the little toy

car or doll.

My mom and dad, my sister Patti and I moved into the old Mabey Homestead in the early Autumn of 1959, short ly after Great Grandma Mabey went Home to be with the Lord. I was six years old that Christmas. I remember won dering if the real Santa would still be knocking on the door on Christmas Day. To my happy surprise, the real Santa did come by to visit us, with presents for my sister and I.

I never learned the name of the Real Santa of Main Street. My grandfather, Watson Mabey, one time told me that he thought that he lived in this little house at the end of Clover Lane. When I was about 10 years old, I walked down Clover Lane, stood at the front yard of that little home and wanted to knock on the front door and see if that was in fact, the home of the real Santa. Sadly and regretfully, I didn’t get the courage to knock on the door. That little home was torn down many years ago, to make room for a larger, modern home.

My Aunt Vi once told me that she thought that the Real Santa of Main Street lived in a little home in Towaco, just past the Lincoln Park border. I don’t think anybody really knew who this kind hearted soul was. It’s one of the great est mysteries of my childhood.

The Christmas of 1961, when I was eight years old and in the third grade, was the last time that the Real Santa of Main Street ever came to visit us on Christmas Day. I once asked my father if he knew who this gentleman was. He endorsed Grandpa Mabey’s theory.

In deep fondness, I remember the Real Santa of Main Street. I think about him from time to time. My intuition tells me that he was not a wealthy man at all. I think he

From 1953, a photo of the Real Santa Claus of Main Street. Yours truly sitting upon the lap of Santa, with my mom and dad.

was actually quite poor. Somehow and someway, he ac cumulated toys for children in the neighborhood. Most of the toys he gave to us, were handmade. He was truly the real Santa Claus of my childhood.

Richard Mabey Jr. is a freelance writer. He can be reached at richardmabeyjr@hotmail.com.

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A New Year’s Day Story

By Richard Mabey Jr.

Can love be limited? Is it possible that God’s blessings can reach beyond our limited human understanding of time and space? Are the flames of sibling love, between two sisters, able to transition to a world beyond this world that we humanly know? Is it possible, that love is the greatest force in the universe?

On November 11, 2019, my mom, Janet Kemmerer Mabey, had heart surgery to replace her Aortic Valve. After the surgery, my sister Patti and I were elated that Mom still had a few years left upon this earth, before it would be her time to be called Home to be with the Lord. But by the first of December, it became painfully obvious that Mom’s time upon this earth, was coming to a close.

It was in early December of 2019 that Mom’s general practitioner, told my sister and I that it was time to set up for Hospice home visitations. It was a deeply sad time.

My mother was great stickler for cleanliness. But, I confess that with the influx of nurses and home care professionals, it was tough to keep Mom’s bedroom as neat as a pin. In December, when there were no Hospice personnel at our home, I would read Mom excerpts from the Holy Bible. Mom would then gently fall asleep. But even as Mom would sleep, ever so peacefully, I would continue to read the Bible to Mom.

I remember that it was in the second week of December, that I was reading Mom her Bible, Mom fell asleep. I continued to read the Bible to her. Mom suddenly awoke and begin talking about her plans to have a New Year’s Day party. It was a long standing tradition of

Mom and Aunt Alice, in 1996.

the old Mabey Homestead, as far back as I can remember, that New Year’s Day was a time of open house and home-cooked food for the old family farmhouse.

When Mom awoke, she spoke as if we were still living at the old Mabey Homestead, rather than the reality of now living in our Florida home. And, one of the things Mom spoke about that afternoon, was that she was looking forward to seeing her sister Alice on New Year’s Day. Mom began telling me what needed to be done to prepare for the big New Year’s Party.

As Mom would tell me that I needed to clean all the baseboards, vacuum the rugs, Mom would look me in the eyes and say, “oh Richard, I can’t wait to see my sister Alice again.” I remember this went on for a good half-hour, then Mom drifted off to peaceful sleep.

I stayed at Mom’s side. Even though Mom was sleeping, I read her some passages from the Book of John. About an hour later, Mom woke up again and told me immense details of the New Year’s Day Party that we had just had. Mom

recalled the memory of the dream that she just had, complete with the most tiny details of the splendid party that she had just been a part of.

Then, Mom looked at me and simply said, “Richard, it was so good to see my sister Alice again. It was all just so good.” Then Mom closed her eyes and once again drifted off to sleep.

On the night of the twenty-third of December of 2019, my beloved mother went Home to be with the Lord. It was a sad moment in time. Looking back now, three years later, I still remember how real Mom’s dream was to her.

Could it be that on some level it was all so very real? That on some Heavenly plain, Mom did see her sister Alice Kemmerer Knothe in spirit, that was as real as anything on this physical plain.

I am not a theologian by profession. I do know this though. God is a source of immense love and compassion. The rest is left to the beliefs of my dear readers.

Richard Mabey Jr. is a freelance writer. He can be reached at richardmabeyjr@hotmail.com.

Prevention is Key Helps Educate Public on Substance Abuse Relief

By Elsie Walker

Substance abuse doesn’t have one

face. An abuser could be an elderly individual, a youth, or an adult struggling with life who found “relief” in a drug or alcohol. For those who want to move from abuse to recovery, there’s help: the non-profit organization Prevention is Key (PIK). Located in several counties, its Development Director, Laura Jennings Pitt of Pompton Lakes, explained, “Our bottom-line goal is to create a stigma free community. …we offer programs that will help individuals at all stages of recovery to find their way back to a meaningful life, and so, we don’t require abstinence of our participants but… we strive to meet them where they are.” But, PIK is not just for those with an addiction; it offers help to family and friends who are trying to support them in recovery. Also, it has prevention education programs. PIK offers its free services through its brick-and-mortar CARES (Center for Addiction Recovery Education and Success) centers, its mobile units, and its 24-hour hot line. Recently, Pitt talked a little about her role and gave an overview of PIK’s services.

Pitt is the organization’s first Develop

ment Director. Prior to her, everyone in the organization seemed to take some part in handling fundraising and it’s just become too big of a task for it to be managed in that way. “They needed to implement a central ized strategy led by someone who’s got the skills and the vision to deliver on the prom ises of the development department and that’s what brought me here to this organi zation,” explained Pitt.

In addressing PIK’s offerings, Pitt noted that there are five physical CARES loca tions: one in Essex County (Newark), two in Morris County (Dover and Rockaway), and two in Burlington County (Burlington County and Burlington City). “They’re a place where you can come and be part of a community that makes you feel welcomed. They’re really helpful for individuals who are just getting started in their recovery journey because they give them a place to go [where they] can be away from sub stances and around people who are encour aging and supportive and positive and just want to be there for them [when they need us],” shared Pitt. There’s peer support for both those in recovery and the people sup porting them, where someone coming to the center is matched with someone with

Those in the mobile unites reach out to substances abusers by building trust and creat ing a stigma free environment.

a similar background who’s gone through recovery or has supported someone going through recovery. The centers offer a vari ety of meetings (NA, AA, etc.) plus various educational offerings which include Narcan training in recognizing an overdose and ad ministering Narcan. Administering Narcan to someone who is overdosing can reverse

the effects of an overdose and save their life.

Pitt shared that there’s a monthly recov ery recognition breakfast at the Rockaway location where individuals who are in or ex ploring the idea of recovery can meet with each other as well as network with some of

the providers PIK works with. The breakfast includes speakers who talk about the different services that are available and then there’s a story of recovery. The breakfast takes place the second Monday of every month.

PIK also has mobile recovery units such as HOPE 1 for Morris County plus mobile units in Essex and Passaic counties. Through these units, connection is made with those homeless individuals struggling with substance abuse. “The way that we get the word out about where the mobile recovery units are going to be is in partnership with the sheriff ’s offices, and those locations are publicized so we strive to make those units accessible to the communities,” shared Pitt. Building trust is the first step. Those struggling with addiction may not immediately ask to see a social worker or mental health professional or seek treatment for recovery. The mobile units give out homeless care packages, which are assembled at PIK’s general locations. What’s in the packages may vary but they contain things like food, personal hygiene items, toiletries and clean underwear. The unit will give rides to a place a homeless person

might want to go to get a meal or shower or take the person to an appointment and then return the person to where they feel safe. It is through interactions like this that the trust is built so that the connection is there when the individual is ready to take the first step to recovery.

Jennings noted that in Passaic County, part of a care package is fentanyl test strips. Using these strips, a person can check for the presence of fentanyl in other substances such as heroin. This is part of “harm reduction”. Fentanyl is deadlier than other substances and Pitt noted that it can kill a person on the spot. PIK realizes people receiving its packages can still be abusing. Checking for fentanyl’s presence could keep a person from killing themselves by taking something laced with it. The idea is that the abuser will live longer with a chance of recovery in their future.

Besides the mobile unit and CARE centers, PIK has a 24-hour telephone recovery support line. “…if you don’t find our mobile recovery unit and you can’t come to our physical center. you can call us anytime,” said Pitt. She noted that it is not only for people who are struggling with substance use but also anyone who’s affected by it.

The hotline number is 973-625-1143.

PIK offers events during the year addressing education, recovery, and fundraising. Its website lists what’s upcoming, ways to volunteer, and also includes a “shop” area where people can buy items to encourage those in recovery or as a way to support PIK by buying a gift for someone.

While, as its website notes, PIK ”relies on many trusted relationships with private foundations and government agencies to sustain and advance its mission”, fundraising is needed. According to its website, “There are over 27,000 individuals with a diagnosed SUD in the communities served by Prevention is Key, plus many others who struggle with problematic and chaotic use without any official diagnosis.” The funds PIK raises helps it to provide its services. An example of a fundraiser was the online #PIKYourWhy on social media for Giving Tuesday in November. The organization encouraged supporters, friends, peers, and loved ones to post why PIK is important to them with a button for people to click to donate. Also, people can donate at any time to the organization by going to a tab on its website: preventioniskey.org/donate

Pitt shared about a special fundraiser in

the upcoming year. Looking ahead, on May 24, 2023, there will be a Road to Recovery event at the Windlass in Lake Hopatcong. There will be a sunset cruise, a tricky tray, and a speaker who has used PIK’s services and is in long term recovery.

For more information on PIK, people can call 973-625-1143 or visit it online at preventioniskey.org.

Here a PIK staff member gets out the word on what harm reduction is in an interesting, visual way.

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