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Mount Olive Township Council President Joe Nicastro Announces Candidacy for Mayor
BY STEVE SEARS STAFF WRITER
MOUNT OLIVE - Mount Olive Township Council President, Joe Nicastro, is announcing his candidacy for Mayor. “I’ve been here 20 years,” Nicastro says of his time in Mount Olive. “I truly love this township, and I really love the residents of this town.” Nicastro’s ticket will be announced in April “I think it’s important to have somebody who can surround themselves with good people,” Nicastro says. “To listen to your vision, and do things to help you make that vision come true.” Robert Greenbaum, Mayor since 2012, will not run for reelection, therefore leaving the door open for Nicastro in 2023. “We (the township council) have been successful, and have been Republican for a long time,” Nicastro says. “By the time I run for mayor, I’ll be on council for 12 years and Council
President for 9, and it’s stayed Republican all 12.” Nicastro notes Greenbaum’s influence on his own service. “Rob’s been a great inspiration, a great mentor to me. He’s someone who cares about the town a lot, and it’s not about politics, it’s about what’s good for the residents. I’ve learned a lot from Rob. He still has a year plus to complete and still has a lot more he wants to accomplish.” While Nicastro cites as a major accomplishment the fact that Mount Olive residents have not had a municipal tax increase in the past 10 years, he knows there are always things that can be improved and worked on. “I do believe in keeping our water and our environment clean, and my whole platform is wanting to do more for the residents,” he says. “I want to maintain what we’ve been doing, but also improve more on working with the
residents, finding out the needs of people, and what we can do to help.” One of the things Nicastro wants to address is expanding the Mount Olive Food Pantry, working more with senior citizens, and looking at new, innovative ways to do things in town. “From the standpoint of the environmental side, adding more solar vehicles, adding more solar lighting, and things like that. We can save money, save the environment, and help protect our land as we always have. Mount Olive is 70% to 80% in the Highlands, and that’s a huge number. We have a ton of open space, we have a ton of trails, we’re launching two new parks, and we’re going to work on the beach area. I want to finish, obviously, the things that aren’t completed, but I also want to look into more things to help the residents of Mount Olive.”
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A great turnout for council president joe Nicastro’s announcement to run for mayor next year with over 125 people in attendance. Lakeview Tavern did a great job. The manager Michelle and her staff were incredible and the food was great.
Nicastro, who is originally from Garfield, moved to Mount Olive in 2004 because it was (and still is) a beautiful area. “We love where we are,”
Nicastro says of his Budd Lake side of town location and, even though new construction for residential developments has taken place in Mount Olive the
past few years, he states the township still has much open land, and that will not change.
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Mount Olive High School Grad Named Superintendent of the New Jersey State Police
BY STEVE SEARS STAFF WRITER
Pictured L-R are: Chuck Aaron, President of the Mount Olive Chamber, Mayor Robert J. Greenbaum, Mayor Matthew Murello, Senator Steven Oroho, Assemblyman John Di Maio and Patricia Schaffer, Chamber Video
MOUNT OLIVE - The Mount Olive Area Chamber of Commerce hosted their annual “Breakfast with the Mayors”
on Tuesday, February 8, 2022 at Liebenzell Retreat Ministries, 13 Heath Lane Long Valley. It was attended by several
business owners and residents of both townships.
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MOUNT OLIVE - Mount Olive High School graduate and school Hall of Famer, Colonel Patrick Callahan, was recently named Superintendent of the New Jersey State Police. Callahan was officially sworn is as Superintendent on January 12, 2022. Per Callahan, a 26-year trooper veteran, his roles both as Colonel and Superintendent are interchangeable. “The reason I am a cabinet member is because I’m the State Director of the Office of Emergency Management. Whether that’s a hurricane, whether that’s a snowstorm, whether that’s a pandemic, all roads run to the Office of Emergency Management from a planning logistics, finance, and coordination standpoint.” Callahan, who is 52 and whose dad was also a New Jersey State Trooper for 29 years, details his background. “I started out as a road trooper in Somerville, Washington Township, and Perryville, which I loved and still love to this day,” he says. “It was different every day.” He then served as a station detective and in other various roles, and in the wake of the 9/11 tragedy, he assisted the Attorney General’s office trying to get federal funding to all of the state’s 21 counties. “That was probably one of the hardest jobs I had,” he says. “It was literally a one-person show, and it was a heck of a learning experience. I got to work with federal, state, county, and local partners, and it was just a great learning experience for me.” Callahan’s next stop was as Chief Financial Officer for the division when Superstorm Sandy raged through the state. “I ended up soon after that being the Recovery Bureau Chief,”
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A Purim Message from Rabbi Yaacov Shusterman Chabad Jewish Center, Mt. Olive Purim is here, with its food baskets, Hamantaschen, groggers, and of course- kids dressed in all sorts of costumes and masks. These days, there is a lot to say about wearing masks. In the past, we would associate masks with fun and silliness, but now we know they offer protection. And, to be honest, sometimes, we find that there is a certain comfort about wearing masks. They allow us privacy when we want to be concealed. They allow us to become anonymous when we need to be. Of course, the best part is that masks are removable. When we get outside, we have the liberty to pull them off. Purim has many themes, and the mask is one of them.
Queen Esther hides her identity. Her very name means a secret. G-d is hidden throughout the story, leading the average reader to assume that it is a story of coincidence and fate. Yet, the scroll we read is called Megillat Esther. The word Megilla comes from the Hebrew root work - Legalot - to reveal, and Esther, of course, means a secret. Esther wrote the Megilla to reveal this amazing secret - there had indeed been a great miracle! If one would read the sequence of events, one would truly recognize that G-d, although hidden and sometimes masked, was truly always there orchestrating the events. And so on Purim, we dress up. We wear masks and costumes to change the way we
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Nicastro Announces Candidacy... FROM FRONT PAGE
“There’s one more development that’s going to be put up, probably during my term if elected, which will be over on the ITC north side of town. Homes and condos are going to go up there, but that’s the last use of land that’s buildable and residential. We have a lot of open space that we preserve land with, and I don’t want to change the dynamics of Mount Olive at all. I love what we have. I want it to be the great mixture it is.” Nicastro, who since 2005 has been co-owner with his wife Mary of My Life Publications which included Mt. Olive Weekly and now Mt. Olive Life newspaper, is also a member of the Mt. Olive Chamber and Lions. Nicastro is proud of the
township’s relationship with Morris County itself. “We have a great relationship with the county. I have a great relationship with our commissioners and we always did as far as the county goes. The county is very good to us; they’re very responsive and easy to access. Mount Olive is one of the larger communities, and we have a lot of shared services, and we’d like to keep expanding those shared services to provide to other communities. It’s important, number one, because we can do it, and number two, it helps us with revenue, and it helps the other communities with their revenue. We have a good relationship with a lot of the towns around us with all the services
that we provide.” For Nicastro, the prime goal is (and always has been) to serve. “Everything I feel like I can do to help residents just makes me feel good,” Nicastro says. “I have compassion for a lot of people that have needs, and I want to help those people.” The most important thing to Nicastro is the need to represent all residents of Mount Olive.” No matter your party affiliation, my job is to make sure all residents’ voices are heard and represented” Nicastro stated. I look forward to serving the residents if they so choose me as their next Mayor. Visit www.nicastroformayor. com for more information.
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Mount Olive Author Releases “Thru Eyes of REM” Fourth Narrative T~N~T and Complementary Book Series Wine Line
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Mayor Greenbaum Meets Daisy Troop 98253
MOUNT OLIVE - On Tuesday, February 15, Mayor Greenbaum met with Troop 98253. “This is one of my favorite things to do as Mayor of Mount Olive Township, meeting with the youth of our town,” Mayor Greenbaum commented. Daisy Troop 98253 of Budd Lake was excited to cap off their Democracy for Daisies badge with a visit to Mount Olive Township town hall. Mayor Greenbaum
met with the girls showing them the council chambers and talking to them about local government. The tour was capped off with a visit to the Mayor’s office where each girl got a turn to sit at the mayor’s desk. The girls were excited to see how they can one day play a role in government and make real change in their community. Their questions and comments were fantastic.
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AREA - The New Jersey Office of Attorney Ethics is accepting applications from attorneys and the general public to serve on the District X Fee Arbitration Committee, which works to resolve fee disputes between clients and attorneys in Morris and Sussex counties. The committee consists of attorneys and members of the public who are appointed by the New Jersey Supreme Court
to serve four-year terms. Public members are particularly important to the committee because they bring an indispensable and invaluable perspective to the process. The Supreme Court of New Jersey established the fee arbitration process as a low-cost and efficient method to resolve disputes in which litigants may believe their lawyers have charged unreasonable fees and
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From the Mount Olive Police Chief’s Desk
MOUNT OLIVE - In 2021, Mount Olive had nine (9) reported thefts of motor vehicles. These thefts occurred during daytime as well as nighttime hours. In the majority of these cases, cars were left unlocked and some had the keys inside. In addition to potentially having your car and/or valuables stolen, people run the risk of criminals using their garage door opener to enter their home. Living on the western end of Morris County does not make us immune from auto theft and other crimes. In late December 2021, a stolen car was driven to Sparta where one of the passengers was dropped off in a neighborhood and stole a car. The stolen car dropping off that car thief, then drove to the Flanders section of town and dropped off someone else. That individual stole a car. Police Departments across the state are seeing a similar trend in their jurisdictions. A rental or stolen car transports individuals to jurisdictions to steal cars. There is money to be made, and these criminals
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are not shy about traveling to western portions of the state to commit crimes of opportunity. In New Jersey the Use of Force and Pursuit policy was updated in December 2020. That policy states “There shall be a strong presumption against the initiation of vehicular pursuits based solely on motor vehicle violations.” This means officers may attempt to stop a car but once evasive maneuvers on the drivers’ part are initiated, officers may not pursue those cars. Officers are also prohibited from pursuing vehicles merely because they are stolen. It is my opinion that the criminals know this and are emboldened by it. I am concerned about the way these stolen vehicles are operated. They are often driven at high speeds in a reckless manner, putting the safety and welfare of the public at risk. Stolen vehicles have become a public menace on our roadways. In addition to cars being stolen we continue to see valuables that are left within view stolen from vehicles,
even those that are locked. In addition to this occurring in residential areas, we have seen this happen in shopping areas and when people are at the gym. Having property stolen is a tremendous inconvenience to our residents and increases the potential for identity theft. The Mount Olive Police Department is asking our residents to be vigilant about locking their cars and leaving valuables out of view. Doing so will help prevent you from being a victim and assist us in keeping stolen cars off our roadways. Chief Stephen Beecher
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AREA - Kevin Dorlon, family man, youth minister, business owner, and builder for 26 years is running for the 7th District Congressional seat for New Jersey. Kevin’s dynamic approach brings passion and commitment. He is a true representative of District 7 and an outspoken advocate for the people. Kevin is determined to be a voice for the people: “When Congress was initially established, its intention was to be a service by the people, for the people. Somehow along the way, it became a club of wealthy people far too removed from the day-to-day struggles and concerns of their constituents.” He adds, “we all know the issues we face. I am tired of hearing the same negative dia-
logue day in and day out. I believe it is time to start focusing on positive solutions.” Kevin resonates with every community member. He believes that in order to be successful as a congressman, you must truly know the people in your communities. He plans to take a different approach. He will be himself, tenacious and genuine, outspoken and passionate about the issues, to represent the people of the 7th District. Dorlon said “I care, I will listen and I will bring people together to simplify solutions, and get results for our district and our state.” Dorlon For Congress started as Kevin, his wife, Nina (Santos), a lifetime resident of Long Valley, and their four
children brainstormed, researched, and prayed, and it has quickly blossomed with overwhelming community support. Running on ideas of Family, Freedom, and Unity, Kevin’s campaign is taking flight. Kevin believes, “It is time to end government overreach. Let the parents decide how to raise their children, restore medical freedoms, allow small businesses to flourish, support the police, assist our elderly and veterans, help people with disabilities get into the workforce, and restore this district as the first step to restoring our nation.” Kevin Dorlon will bring change. Kevin Dorlon will be your voice. Kevin Dorlon for Family & Freedom.
Small Business Looks to Community for Support
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AREA - Sullivan’s On the Main is a popular Phillipsburg eatery and they are asking the public for help during COVID-19. According to the Go Fund Me established, the restaurant has been forced to close their doors amid rising COVID cases. “Over the years, the Sullivan family has supported the community, neighbors, friends, family, service members in our town. COVID-19 forced Sullivan’s to shut their doors in 2020 during the quarantine lockdown as many businesses had to unfortunately do. They persisted. COVID-19 has over stayed it’s welcome and unfortunately has left this family establishment to temporary close....again.” The Go Fund Me page was established by the restaurant staff in honor of the owner, Mack Sullivan. According
to the page, the Sullivan’s staff “hopes that as they recover from the complications and physical restraints that COVID-19 has left them with, some financial support will allow them the recovery time to return to their establishment serving as our towns staple.” The restaurant is known for burgers, sandwiches, soups, Italian specialties, steaks, seafood, creative French fries and
more. As of this writing, the Go Fund Me page has raised just over $3,000 of their $5,000 goal. “They do their best to give to the community, please, help support this local family as they recover from life altering effects of COVID-19.” To donate toward the Sullivan’s on the Main Go Fund Me page, visit www.gofund.me/ df94dcd8.
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with Saint Clare’s Let’s Talk the Misinformation About Cancer Radiation With Saint Clare’s Health A cancer diagnosis requires a multitude of important decision-making for patients and their families. From choosing an oncologist and surgeon, to understanding risk/benefits of chemo treatments, radiation therapy and many other considerations, often leaves patients feeling overwhelmed and frustrated. One important area of treatment that many cancer patients face is understanding and navigating radiation therapy. As the Chief of Urology at Saint Clare’s Health, Dr. Lawrence Friedman leads a team that is on the cutting edge of various treatments for cancer. This includes the use of advanced technology for radiation therapy that allows patients and their physicians greater choice for individualizing their treatmen. At Saint Clare’s Health, the most advanced radiation technology available, is delivered by TrueBeam. This technology offers the greatest advantage to individualize treatment plans
based upon the patients’ lifestyle or the time patients can devote to treatments, as well as assess the risks/benefits. “TrueBeam is an advanced, cutting-edge radiation therapy system that delivers a concentrated beam of radiation therapy to tumors in the body,” Friedman said. “It combines patient imaging, beam delivery and sophisticated motion management in order to precisely and accurately target tumors,” stated Dr. Friedman. “There are many benefits that are just not offered in standard radiation therapy, and the most important is that of time.” Standard radiation therapy is known as intensity modulated radiation therapy. This type of therapy usually involves 45 treatments spread out over nine weeks. Another alternative is cyberknife treatment, which is performed via five treatment sessions done in just one week. The most important differences between cyberknife and intensity modulated radiation therapy is time, as well as the
risk/benefits. “What we’re talking about with standard radiation therapy is multiple small slices of a treatment pie that add up to the total dose of what is needed. Meanwhile, on the other side of the coin you have cyberknife treatment, where you have much bigger slices of the pie in which you dish out the same total amount of radiation. You can understand from a lifestyle perspective the potential advantages of getting treatment done faster. However, there is an increased risk of side effects when you’re squeezing all of that radiation treatment into just one week,” explains Friedman. TrueBeam offers the possibility of achieving effective cancer treatment that allows for a middle ground between standard radiation therapy and cyberknife treatment. “It gives us the way to provide for a time sweet spot of two to three weeks where the patient avoids increased side effects and also saves time,” Friedman said. “It provides the flexibility to
Brushing and flossing ensures the removal of plaque and bacteria, which are culprits in tooth decay and gum disease. Periodontal disease is caused by a buildup of such bacteria and plaque. Brushing removes materials from the surface of the teeth, while floss gets in between teeth where toothbrush bristles cannot reach. The American Dental Association says that a combination of brushing and flossing is the key to good oral health. While both brushing and flossing are necessary, some oral health experts says that, if done correctly, flossing actually may be slightly more important since it gets to hard-to-reach spots where the most destructive microbes live. Oral hygiene does not just
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tailor the therapy to the patient’s wishes, their lifestyle, and their overall health. It’s a superior option.” The TrueBeam technology, a linear accelerator, which is non-invasive and pain-free, moves around the patient and can target tumors from nearly any angle, allowing the physician to deliver a prescribed dose of radiation to hard-toreach tumors. It does this by attacking the tumor using a three-dimensional approach. The precision of the TrueBeam technology is measured in increments of less than a millimeter. Friedman explains, “The sophisticated architecture of the TrueBeam machine synchronizes the way patients are positioned within the imaging motion machine along with the way the treatment beams deliver healing doses, even accounting for the movement created by the patient’s breathing. The combined treatment process is monitored every ten seconds throughout the procedure in order to maintain precise targeting on the tumor in question. It’s truly a marvel of medical architecture that helps to minimize the side effects of radiation therapy while targeting the cancer very effective-
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ly.” Friedman also underscored the concept that Saint Clare’s Health, a community hospital, entire approach is delivering high-quality and compassionate care. At a time when healthcare can seem to be dominated by monolithic impersonal institutions, one of Saint Clare’s points of pride is that the use of technology, such as TrueBeam, demonstrates that while the hospital offers the convenience of being located around the corner, it is also ahead of the curve. “We’re offering people the same state-of-the-art therapy in their own backyard that they are going to find at any major academic or medical center anywhere else in the area,” Friedman said. “People should also know that the TrueBeam technology can be used for almost any cancer out there. And again, you don’t have to go far to get that kind of wide-ranging and effective care.” In summary, Friedman emphasizes that no one department alone at Saint Clare’s is
behind the most effective care for cancer. Instead, the entire hospital takes on the responsibility together to tackle cancer treating each patient as family and developing the most advanced state-of-the-art treatment plan. “As with most cancer therapy, we take a team approach. You have to have a collaborative approach against cancer. We work diligently to make an uncomfortable situation as comfortable as possible,” Friedman said. “It’s not just the urologist or the oncologist fighting together with our patients to beat cancer. It’s the technicians, the nurses, and the support staff that all come together to make it happen. Together, we are dedicated to give the patient a positive experience and a good outcome against cancer.” For more information about cancer radiation therapy at Saint Clare’s Health, please call Saint Clare’s Health Center for Cancer Care at 973-9837300, or visit www.saintclare’s health.com.
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MOUNT OLIVE HIGH SCHOOL
Mount Olive Marauder Wrestling Wins Their First Group IV State Title
BY STEVE SEARS STAFF WRITER
MOUNT OLIVE TWP. Drama is the best word to describe it. Brick Memorial High School was the last stone in the path to Mount Olive High School’s first Group IV state wrestling championship, and junior Anthony Moscatello, who was still mourning the loss of his grandfather a week earlier, had all of his 190 lb. weight on his shoulders as he strode to the mat to take on Cory Martin in the final match on February 13 at Franklin High School. Moscatello won his bout against the Brick Memorial senior, 5 -1, and head coach Sean Smyth and his Marauders were 32 – 29 winners, Group IV state champions, and finished their historic season with a team record of 18 – 2. “I really wanted to win for him,” Moscatello says of his grandfather, who had also wrestled in high school. “He always told me that his favorite move was the cradle. He used to say, ‘I can always tell when you’re about to do it.’ That’s all I kept thinking of, was the cradle, and that’s my favorite move, too. I was hearing his voice in my head and just wanted to do my best for him. And I’m just happy that the team got a win, and I know he’s probably jumping up and down wherever he is right now.” Smyth says, “Our kids, they were ready to go. We trained all year for this week, we designed a very competitive schedule for
our team, and it prepared them for this week. This was a tough week. We wrestled multiple matches on multiple nights, day after day after day.” Indeed. On February 7, in the North Jersey quarterfinal and semifinal rounds, Mount Olive defeated first Lyndhurst, 70 – 0, and then Randolph, 66 – 11. On the 9th, in the sectional finals, Morris Knolls was defeated, 49 – 6, and on the 11th in the Group IV semifinals, the Marauders defeated Shawnee, 47 – 16, to set up the clash with Brick Memorial. “What our kids were able to do, and the way they were able to go out there and compete, I’ve never seen anything like it. I give my kids a lot of credit,” Smyth says. Smyth, who is in his 23rd season and has won over 300 matches at the helm, credits his seniors. “Riley Camoia has been phenomenal, Hunter Perez has been phenomenal, Tyler Bienuas has been phenomenal, and D.J. Ryerson has had an incredible season. You look at their records, and you’ll see they all have like six, seven losses. There’s a reason for that. Our schedule was designed so we didn’t want to go out there and pin everyone in 30 seconds. We wanted to go out there and grind it out for six minutes and make these guys ready to go. You don’t get better pinning everyone in 30 seconds. You get better by challenging yourself.” “I’ve had some great teams,”
Pictured are: Bottom Row Left-Right: Melvin Rodriguez, Nicole Herrera, Josh McGill, Dan Barra, DJ Ryerson, Hunter Perez, Brian Bienus, Riley Camoia, Michael Rodriguez, Bobby Hermann, Assistant Coach Dave Ryerson. Second Row: Tyler Bienus, Jack Bastarrika, Joseph Drew, Zak Kovach, Anthony Moscatello, Michael Machen, Matteo Eagleson, Lincoln Youtz, Jackson Youtz. Third Row: Tyler Cumming, Tyeler Hagensen, Connor Norris, Tanner Perez, Jekori Echeverri-Zapata, Brandon Beres, Kayla Garay, John Hermann, Carter Cofone. Back Row: Assistant Coach Corey Kozimor, Head Coach Sean Smyth, Assistant Coach Billy Romano, Gianna Ferrara, Juliana Moscatello, Victoria Eagleson, Assistant Coach Brian Schneider, Assistant Coach Dan Altamura, Assistant Coach Joe Barchetto.
Smyth says when asked how high he’d rank his current squad. “I’ve been very blessed to have some good talent here at Mount Olive, and I think you’d have to put this team up there as the best just because of the way they finished. Never to discredit anything any other wrestler has done for Mount Olive, because they’ve all been competitive.” And the built success goes beyond the mat. “This is an entire community buying into a program and buying into the coaches,” Smyth adds. “And not only did it come from the parents here in town, but the school administration has been super supportive of us. They’ve allowed
us to host numerous tournaments, match after match, at our place, and without the school administration’s support and the community support, this doesn’t happen. Everyone wanted one common goal, and we were able to put it all together.” And although the Marauders will lose a few seniors to graduation, the future looks bright. “The whole town has really kind of bought into wrestling here,” Smyth
says, “and our rec program here in town has been very successful over the years. Just this year alone, they won the tri-counties again. So yes, we will be graduating some top-notch seniors, but we do have a crop of young wrestlers who you did not see this year who will be stepping into the picture, who are probably ready to go. They’ll be making a name for themselves next year.”
But for now, there is time to savor the greatest win in Marauder wrestling history. “Right then and there, it was really awesome,” Moscatello says regarding the end of the Group IV final, “but when I got home, it really set in. I said to myself, ‘We’re like the best team ever to come through the school, and probably one of the best teams to ever come through Morris County.”
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LOCAL BUSINESS PROFILE Branda’s Italian Grill Enters Its Third Decade
BY STEVE SEARS STAFF WRITER
MOUNT OLIVE - As Branda’s Italian Grill enters its third decade in business, the reason for that longevity, and the reason for being open for business, is definitive for owner Claude Branda. “It’s basically the families,” Branda says. “Not my family, particularly, but the families that enjoy coming here. That’s what this is about. It’s not about my background, my heritage, and anything like that.” Branda has seen couples dine at his restaurant when dating who eventually got engaged and are now married and have children, and now those children have grown. “It’s quite a feeling. And then in a few years, those kids will be coming here with dates of their own, and maybe after that we’ll be seeing them getting married and see their kids be born, and you’re into the third generation.” “It’s about the families that come in here. It’s not about us.” Prior to the Branda’s Italian Grill unveiling, Branda worked in food distribution. “My father had a food distribution company he started in 1946, and I worked there from when I was about 19,” he says. “Actually, I worked there even when I was a kid, every summer and holiday. I worked there my whole life.” That family business closed in 1989, and Branda then did food distribution for Long Island’s DiCarlo Foods until 2001, when Branda’s Italian Grill opened its doors.
Branda’s Italian Grill is a very comfortable, 40-seat, BYOB located right off of Route 46 East on Mount Olive Road, near Routes 10, 80, and 206, as well as within shouting distance of the International Trade Center. Branda says, “For the people that are regulars and people that have come here, it’s very easy to get to, and it’s very safe. That’s the good thing, and we have plenty of parking for our customers.” And if you choose not to dine on site, takeout and delivery are available. “That’s always been our backbone, and through COVID especially, that was enormous for us,” Branda adds. Branda’s Italian Grill is dedicated to two things, both which complement each other. “I just think we make a good product, and the people know we make a good product, and they come,” Branda says. “So, I think it’s all about the food, and we treat the people nice. We treat them with respect, and we enjoy having people come in and enjoy our food. A lot of our satisfaction is having the people satisfied with what we put out, so that’s very important. You have to develop a relationship with the customers. We’re part of their day and they’re part of our day. It’s a mutual thing.” Joe Branda, 43, is Claude’s son and Executive Chef. A Hyde Park, New York, Culinary Institute of America graduate, he has ironed his skills by cooking at many top spots. Branda’s Italian Grill
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BY ELSIE WALKER STAFF WRITER
AREA - In 2014, a local team of 11 people participated in the Stephen Siller Tunnel to Towers (T2T) Foundation Walk/ Run in New York. (That foundation is named for Siller, an off-duty firefighter who ran from the tunnel to the towers in full gear on 9/11 to help, only to later lose his life on that day.) Little did the group from our area know but their participation would grow and from it, an idea to help first responders in our area. The 403 Reasons to Run Foundation was launched this past January. The name comes from the number of first responders (firefighters, police, and EMS) who gave their lives on 9/11. As the new foundation’s website notes, its vision is, “Modeled after the Stephen Siller, Tunnel to Towers Foundation, our foundation also honors and supports the fire, police and EMS communities, their families and members of our local communities that experience a catastrophic life changing event and are in need of assistance. Our vision is to do good things for good people, by whole heartedly continuing to support T2T and our local heroes.” Co-founder-CEO-President Jacqueline Pelleck, of Byram, was quick to note that though its name says “reasons to run” you don’t have to be a runner to get in-
volved or help. “We’re way more than just running. There is a job for anyone,” she said, giving helping with fundraisers as an example. It all began in 2014, Pelleck and her husband Michael were at the gym and saw something about that year’s Tower to Tunnel Walk/Run. Jacqueline Pelleck remembers saying, “We should do it!” They gathered some others and that year they had a team of 11 participate in the event. “It was the most moving event I’ve ever done,” she said. Inspired by the “do good” feel which permeated the event, the couple decided to do it again in 2015, spreading the word, and the team grew. It also got sponsors and did fundraisers. Every year, the team got larger as people saw what it was about. Phil Savarin, of Byram, is part of the team and noted how moving it is “when you come out of the tunnel and see the pictures of the fallen.” Last year, the group chartered four buses to carry a team of 210 people to the event. The team raised $17,000 which went directly to the Stephen Siller Tunnel to Towers Foundation. However, the Pelleck’s wanted to do more, something for the local community. With the assistance of one of their sponsors, Wayne Deitz of Skylands Risk Management to
AREA - The grand Legacy Castle on Route 23 in Pompton Plains has been the selected venue, fitting to celebrate the club’s 50 years of supporting Morris County first responders from Fire, local Police, New Jersey State Police departments and Emergency Medical Technician services on Thursday, May 5th, 2022. Weather permitting, outside displays will be available for the attendees from those services prior to the event. Trained personnel will greet guests and be available for questions and walkthrough. Stay-tuned in the coming months for additional information! Guests will be welcomed inside by magnificent 55-foot ceilings, hand-painted gold detailing, and a dual floating staircase featuring the richly worked Italian marble medallion at the base. In keeping with the ambiance, the 200 Club is proud to showcase professionally accomplished Soprano Laura Zupa D’Avella, who will lead the evening’s festivities with
The Star-Spangled Banner. Laura Zupa D’Avella, Soprano, has been performing professionally since 2005, when she made her debut in Verdi’s Il Trovatore under the baton of her late mentor and New Jersey State Opera founder Alfredo Silipigni. Her lyric soprano has delighted audiences in numerous concerts and operas throughout the United States, and her most recent engagements include performances with the Light Opera of New Jersey (LONJ), Opera New Jersey, Eastern Opera, Pacific Opera, and Empire Opera in such roles as Papagena, Adele, Susanna, Despina, Papagena, Gilda, Micäela, Frasquita, Mabel, and Josephine. In 2021, she debuted the role of heroine Elsie Bengough in Paul Ziegler’s well-received chamber opera, The Beckoning Fair One. She is a founding member of Savoy Faire, LONJ’s educational outreach ensemble and has been the soprano section leader and soloist for many churches including St. Peter’s Episcopal Chancel
In 2021, a local team of 210 people participated in the Tunnel to Towers Run/Walk in New York, raising $17, 000 for the Stephen Siller Tunnel to Towers Foundation.
connect them with attorneys to help them, the non-profit 403 Reasons to Run Foundation was born. “It is a chance to give back to the first responders in a meaningful way,” said Savarin, vice president of the new foundation. To help that giving back, the foundation will be holding fundraisers, two of which are coming up in June. On June 3rd, Psychic Medium Catherine McCall will be at the Byram Firehouse. McCall talks to people who have passed away, and shares messages from some with loved ones in the audience. Jacqueline Pelleck notes that McCall is “pretty amazing” as she asks questions and zeroes in on the recipient of a message. The other fundraiser is on June
10th. It is a golf outing at the Farmstead Golf and Country Club in Lafayette. People can sign up to play or to sponsor a hole, donate a door prize, etc. Information on both events can be found on the foundation’s website: www.403reasonstorun.org. The foundation has a seven-member board which draws on people from a variety of career backgrounds. Jacqueline Pelleck has been a teacher for over 30 years and teaches in the Mount Olive school system; her husband, Michael, the Co-Founder-CFO, has spent his life in the fire safety field and is currently Fire Official/Safety Officer for the Township of Roxbury. Vice President Savarin is a Process Management Analyst for Prudential Financial. Other board
members include Jamie Caravaggio, of Hopatcong, who has been a law enforcement officer for 16 years; Emily Mason, of Byram, an elementary special education teacher in the Byram School District, Jeri Quirk, of Byram, a labor and delivery nurse, and Todd Rudloff, of Byram, who works for Firefighter One LLC, a vendor for first responder equipment. In addition, Michael Pelleck is currently Assistant Chief of the Byram Township (volunteer) Fire Department and Rudloff is its Chief. Board members have been spreading the words about their new foundation, speaking to first responder groups, the community, family and friends, and letting them know about what it does. Those who would like a member to speak to a
group, can contact the foundation via its website. Besides their own fundraising efforts to help others, the foundation will advertise the fundraising events of first responder groups on its website and also support those events by attending and getting others to attend. Of course, they will continue to get together a team for the yearly Stephen Siller Tunnel to Towers Foundation Walk/Run in New York. This year, that event will be held on September 25th. For more information on 403 Reasons to Run Foundation, visit its website at www.403reasonstorun.org/. The foundation can also be found on Facebook and Instagram.
The 200 Club of Morris County Announces Laura Zupa D’Avella at 50th Golden Celebration Chicago). During the 2020-21 school year, she was proud to have been the Music Director and Conductor of a musical movie version of Jason Robert Brown’s Songs for a New World at MKA. Laura looks forward to returning to MKA as Music Director of Rodger’s
Choir, Central Presbyterian Church of Montclair, and St. Mary’s Abbey Delbarton. Laura received her Master’s Degree in Voice Performance and Pedagogy from Westminster Choir College and holds a BA in music from Barnard College of Columbia University. She is a NATS certified teacher and currently maintains an active private voice studio. www.lauravoice.com. For the past four years, Laura has served as the Co-Music Director of Montclair Kimberly Academy (MKA)’s Upper School musicals (Annie and
and Hammerstein’s Cinderella in March of 2022. Laura and her husband BJ reside in Essex Fells. They are proud parents to Ben and Liliana and enjoy giving back to their community. For six years, Laura was an active Trustee and then President of
the Essex Fells Foundation for Educational Excellence, an organization comprised of community members who provide financial support and enriching programs, including the annual musical, variety show, and assemblies for the students at Essex Fells School.
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Entourage Celebrates Expansion
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LUCIA GERBINO WORLEY, 93, passed away peacefully on February 9, 2022, at Hackettstown Medical Center. Lucia was born in Syracuse, NY in 1928 to Italian immigrant parents Luigi and Filomena Gerbino. She spent many days ice skating in her youth. Later she enjoyed singing and studying voice. She married in 1948 and moved to NJ when Esso employed her husband. She raised five children and made homes in Rahway, Mount Freedom, Mendham Township, Verona and restored a historic home in Flanders, her last residence, with her daughter Maria. From 1962 to 1964 the family moved to the Netherlands when her husband accepted an overseas assignment with Exxon. Lucia was an artist and sculptor and was highly active in the Morristown Art Association. She had exhibits of her work and sold several of her creations. She also invested her energies in legal reform organizations, New Jersey Women’s Battered Women, Morristown Women’s Club, taught art lessons, and was talented at refinishing furniture and sewing. She loved reading, history, entertaining and crafting. She was a charter member of the Mt. Olive Township Historical Society, a member of Mt. Olive Seniors, and was active with the Friends of the Mt. Olive Public Library. She is survived by two daughters, Thea Dunkle, Budd Lake and Maria Worley, Flanders, and one son, Arthur Worley, Netcong. Her two sons Michael and Christian predeceased her. Two sisters survive her. She has seven grandchildren and five great grandchildren. Lucia had a full creative life and at her request her remains will be interred with her parents in Syracuse NY. A celebration of life will be hosted later. Lucia touched many lives, and she will be missed.
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The History and Mythology of St. Patrick’s Day
BY HENRY M. HOLDEN STAFF WRITER AREA - There is one day a year when people of all ethnic groups can claim to be Irish. Saint Patrick’s Day, (or from Gaelic: Lá Fhéile Pádraig, “Day of the Feast-day of Patrick”), is a cultural and religious celebration held on March 17, the assumed death date of Saint Patrick (385 – 461). The original reason for the celebration was the arrival of Christianity in Ireland. More countries celebrate Saint Patrick’s Day than any other national festival. It is a public holiday in seven countries and is widely celebrated in the United Kingdom, Canada, United States, Argentina, Australia and New Zealand. The Potato Famine that struck Ireland (1845-52) led to the immigration of over one-million Irish to the United States, in one decade, although
it continued to a lesser extent into the early 20th century. When Irish immigrants brought St. Patrick’s Day traditions to the United States, the day evolved into a secular celebration of Irish heritage and culture. Saint Patrick’s Day became an official Christian feast day in the early 17th century. Celebrations involve parades, céilís, a social event at which there is Irish folk music, traditional dancing, shared folklore, leprechauns, and all things Irish. Pubs served green beer and the folks in Chicago dye the river green (a tradition dating back to 1962). Modern celebrations are still influenced by the Irish diaspora, the ethnic Irish and their descendants who live outside the island of Ireland and influenced by those that developed
in North America. What we know about Patrick is he wrote his own autobiography in the form of a Declaration. He was born in Roman Britain in the fourth century, into a wealthy Romano-British family, and became a fifth-century Romano-British Christian missionary and bishop in Ireland. The shamrock, a threeleafed clover is not only a feature of Celtic mythology, but it was also especially important in Irish legend in the spread of Christianity. The shamrock, aka the “seamroy” was a sacred plant in ancient Ireland. It symbolized the rebirth of spring. By the seventeenth century, the shamrock had become a symbol of emerging Irish nationalism. Saint Patrick tried to inform the Celts on the Holy Trinity,
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loved ones on St. Patrick’s Day to share a “traditional” meal of corned beef and cabbage. Cabbage has long been in the Irish diet, but it was at the turn of the 20th century that corned beef became popular. Irish immigrants living on New York City’s Lower East Side substituted corned beef for their traditional dish of Irish bacon to save money. They learned about this inexpensive alternative from their Jewish neighbors. One icon of St. Patrick’s Day is the Leprechaun. The original Irish name for these figures of folklore is “lobaircin,” meaning “small-bodied fellow.” They have appeared for centuries in Irish folklore. Belief in leprechauns stem from Celtic belief in fairies, tiny people who could use their magical powers to serve good or evil. In Celtic folktales, leprechauns mended the shoes of the other fairies. Though only minor figures in Celtic folklore, leprechauns were known for their trickery, which they often used to protect their mythical pot of gold. According to Irish mythology, butterflies move between worlds and bring messages and warnings. They are souls, waiting to be reborn on earth. Lep-
rechauns are the cultural symbol of Ireland, with their names translated from ‘shoemaker’. They were said to roam Ireland before humans, with a unique hat and red hair. In oral folklore, you can find their pot of gold at the end of a rainbow, so if you visit Ireland, be sure to look for a rainbow. The harp became cemented in the folk music tradition, everyday life, and popular culture of Ireland. The Harp of Daghda is a national icon in Ireland. Folklore says that evil gods stole the first harp from the Daghda, a king in Irish/Celtic mythology. Daghda’s music made people feel transformed. The absence of music caused sadness to pass over the country. Eventually the evil gods gave it back to them, and joy returned to the land. Now that you know some of the myths and legends from Irish folklore, you are safe to wander through the most rural parts of Ireland. And if you visit, don’t forget to visit, and kiss the Blarney Stone. According to this author’s mother who was born in County Cork, if you hang upside down by your knees and kiss the Blarney Stone you will be given the “gift of gab” or a talkative streak.
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CCM Names Gymnasium after Founding Athletic Director Jack Martin AREA - Surrounded by family, friends and numerous former athletes he had coached and mentored, Jack Martin was recently honored for his expansive legacy as the first athletic director at County College of Morris (CCM) when the college named its gymnasium after him. Martin was named the first director of athletics at CCM in 1968 and served in that position until his retirement in 2002. The college’s gymnasium which now holds his name includes his signature on the floor with the notation “Jack Martin Gymnasium.” “The house that Jack Martin built at CCM now bears his name” was the headline in the Daily Record article written by Ed Forbes, a close friend of the Martin family. On Saturday, February 19, Martin thought he was coming to the gym with his wife, Pamela, and daughter Devon Martin Jones and her husband, Parker, to watch his grandson Blake Jones at basketball practice. What he found instead were nearly 100 former Titan athletes, college officials, family, friends and coaching colleagues gathered to honor him at the dedication. The college started to develop its plans to name the gymnasium after Martin following his induction into CCM’s inaugural Athletics Hall of Fame in 2019. “If life is measured in impact, I don’t know anyone else who has impacted more people than you, Jack,” said Dr. Anthony J. Iacono, CCM president. “This is so special,” said Martin, overwhelmed with gratitude, who turned 80 on
February 5. “I am extremely happy for Jack and the Martin family. This is an honor that is well deserved,” said Jack Sullivan, who became CCM’s second athletic director when Martin retired. “I am grateful for his continued support of the County College of Morris Athletic department. I consider him a mentor who has influenced me immeasurably. I cannot think of a better way to show our gratitude than by having our gymnasium bear his name.” Along with directing and growing CCM’s athletic programs, Martin served as head coach of the men’s basketball team, working with hundreds of athletics during the course of his career at the college. He was recognized as part of his career for serving as past president of the Garden State Athletic Conference (1975; 1982 and 1989); chair of the Region XIX Standards & Ethics Committee (1988-2002); member of the Colonial Athletic Association NJ Executive Board (1988-2002); recipient of the Garden State Award (2004); charter member and tournament director of Morris County High School Basketball Tournament; Executive Committee member of the New Jersey College Basketball Coaches Association (1979-1992); and recipient of the Outstanding Achievement Award – Morris County AllSports Association and Special Recognition Award – New Jersey Special Olympics (1982). Martin served as the men’s basketball coach from 1968 – 1998, capturing eight New Jersey state titles, three Region XIX Championships and nu-
merous national tournament appearances. Currently, he is the winningest two-year college coach in New Jersey history (569 victories) and second alltime among two- and four-year colleges and universities. Martin developed a nationally recognized athletics program that produced 35 New Jersey State Championships, 29 Region XIX titles and the recognition of 85 athletics and academic all-Americans. His basketball program history includes eight New Jersey Garden State Athletic Conference Champions, three Region XIX (Delaware, Pennsylvania and New Jersey) Crowns, three National Tournament appearances, and 15 seasons with more than 20 victories. He also produced eight two-year college All Americans, a 1991/1992 team – 30-5 – ranked #1 in the nation and was voted New Jersey Sportswriters Coach of the Year multiple times (1977, 1979, 1989, 1991, 1992 and 1995). He is a longtime member of both the National Association of Collegiate Directors of Athletics (NACDA) and the National Alliance of Two Year College Athletic Administrators (NATYCAA) and served on a variety of national committees during his tenure. During his time on the NATYCAA Executive Committee, Martin secured a partnership with Pepsi-Cola North America (2004) to be the primary corporate sponsor. With former player Terry Ryan, Martin developed and initiated the NATYCAA/Pepsi Cup promoting athletic excellence at over 400 two-year community and
Veteran Peer Support Group Sessions Underway in Morris County
AREA - The Morris County Veterans Services Office and NewBridge Services have begun a bimonthly veteran peer support group, which meets the first and third Thursdays of each month. The 7 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. sessions are FREE to all veterans no matter their length of service or discharge status. Veteran Tim Slavin is facilitating and guiding the conversations among veterans to aid in healing and recovery. The veteran peer support group meets at the Morris County Veterans Service Office at 540 West Hanover Ave. in Morris Township. The entrance is at the rear of the Morris View Healthcare Center. For more
information and to register, contact NewBridge Services at 973-316-9333 or services@ newbridge.org. Veterans who were in combat or separated from family for extended periods may experience added life stressors, and peer support groups may help. “A peer support group for veterans is a way to come together to share stories of the stressors of deployment and the impact this stress has had on their lives,” NewBridge CEO Michelle Borden said. “It allows for an opportunity to forge connections of hope, recovery and support and to know they are not alone.” The veteran peer support group is one of three initiatives
approved by the Morris County Board of County Commissioners in September at the recommendation of Commissioner Deputy Director John Krickus, a U.S. Marine Corps veteran. The county launched a program to host veteran roundtables and social events last fall, and the county Department of Human Services is working to launch a veteran and family support counseling program soon. Krickus said in September that he wants veterans, including those who served in Iraq and Afghanistan, “to know that we not only honor their service on Veterans Day and Memorial Day, but we are here to support you every day of the year.”
(l-r) Jack Martin with his wife, Pamela, grandson Blake Jones, daughter Devon Martin Jones, grandson Trent Jones, and son-in-law Parker Jones at the dedication of the County College of Morris gymnasium in his honor. Photo credit: Joe Guerriero
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Morris County Mom’s Genius Idea Is a Convenient Germ-fighter
BY JILLIAN RISBERG STAFF WRITER
MORRIS COUNTY - Children’s car seats can harbor some of the nastiest bacteria buildup you don’t want anywhere near your child. Cleaning it yourself is not only a time consuming hassle; traces may be left behind. A Madison mom knows this all too well and was inspired to do something about it. “Studies show toddler car seats have more germs than a toilet seat, which is disgusting,” says mom of two, Lauren Siclare, who started BuckleBath to help parents tackle the common germ-filled problem. It started when the entrepreneur was in the preschool dropoff car line with her daughter. A teacher took her daughter out of her car seat and a crumby mess came out with her. “I was so embarrassed, ‘how does this happen?’” Siclare wondered. “My daughter is really clean and so is my car.” She then had her ah-hah moment and realized it was leftover snack crumbs from days prior. She promptly searched online for a cleaning service specific to children’s car seats, she even checked the Apple app store, but couldn’t find a mobile business solely dedicated to cleaning gear in driveways. This was the genesis of the business. “‘I needed to start in a market where there’s a densely populated community with a lot of young children,’ The entrepreneur researched and wrote her business plan while working at Google, she then left corporate America to see her mobile car seat cleaning and sanitizing company to fruition. Her venture became significantly more relevant during the pandemic as a result of hyper
awareness around sanitizing, disinfecting and removing germs. “The adoption of our service and the excitement around it was very organic and spread very quickly in the beginning,” says Siclare, of witnessing it firsthand. A month into the launch, she and her husband were in a restaurant when seated behind them they heard a woman and her friend talking about BuckleBath. The friend responded incredulously. “I was not shortsighted in knowing this potentially could be a nationwide brand but wanted to be strategic in proving out the concept locally,” says the entrepreneur. Siclare is incredibly grateful for her cleaning associates. She says the team’s dedication to quality has a huge impact. “If I didn’t have them out there executing and doing the cleaning themselves, I could never do this,” she praises their phenomenal effort. And the entrepreneur follows car seat manufacturer guidelines, using natural products because car seats have to be cleaned in a specific way. “That’s really important to note,” says Siclare. “We are strict about the protocols. I am a licensed CPS tech -- and sat through a four-day long, intense course to understand the rules and regulations behind car seats, then trained all my team members to do so.” After a stint on Good Morning America, there is a huge interest in BuckleBath franchises. “We’re still a newer business and don’t spend huge amounts of money on advertising so it’s not like you’re going to walk into a Starbucks and see some-
thing about BuckleBath unless it’s a flier a mom left behind,” the entrepreneur says, ‘word of mom’ has definitely helped. As of September BuckleBath is legally a franchise. It was a lot of work, according to Siclare — but as founder of the company her hope is to be able to provide jobs, through bringing on new franchisees who want to be business owners and are passionate about introducing BuckleBath to their community. “Our strategy is to grow and meet the demands of the requests we get every single day from multiple states and towns,” says the entrepreneur. “Because no one else does exactly what we do.” As we move into the warmer spring months, a new franchisee will be running New York City. “We are looking for individuals who are interested in opening a franchise.” We have always been careful to ensure the quality of the service is strong.” Next: Add North Jersey and New York franchisees to help BuckleBath grow and service some of the high demand areas they are not able to frequent on a regular basis. BuckleBath is interest-
ed in partnering with more of the right people to keep kids healthy in the car. “There’s complete chaos in the summer months,” says the entrepreneur. “We’re in conversations with someone in Florida to open a franchise there. They don’t have concerns about weather so we’re excited to see what BuckleBath in a different climate will do.” The branded vehicles are mainly used for in-driveway service and partnering with daycare centers to clean on site. Standard cleaning is $59. A more involved cleaning (child was carsick) $110. Your
own franchise: $32,000 (plus business expenses) $61,000. Siclare has a showcase of before and after pictures. Each appointment it’s the cleaning associate’s responsibility to pick up the gear, snap a picture — and prior to returning, take another photo to display the difference. The reactions are priceless, according to the entrepreneur. “Moms are blown away,” Siclare says. “They made this look brand new; it was so convenient, you saved me from buying another car seat,” are some of the comments she’s received about BuckleBath. And it’s why she started the
business in the first place — being available for moms, dads, nannies (or whoever it may be) during a stressful time and removing the heavy burden; it’s cumbersome to clean a car seat. “If we can take it off their hands, they’re really happy about it,” says the entrepreneur. She knows her business will stand the test of time. “There’s always going to be babies born, busy parents, caretakers and BuckleBath will always be relevant,” Siclare says. To book an appointment or for more information, visit www.bucklebath.com.
CúChullain Pipe Band of Morris County Celebrates 45 Years
142 Main Street Chester, NJ 07930 Cell: 908-914-7944 Office: 908-879-7010 etattersall@weichert.com www.ericatattersall.com CúChullain Pipe Band of Morris County Celebrates 45 Years. Photos courtesy of the CúChullain Pipe Band. R FOALE S
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Where to begin? This home shows like a model. Stunning four bedroom, two and one half bath colonial, situated in picturesque Panther Valley; is a must see. From your Stone front entrance to your beautifully private backyard this house has it all. Designer gourmet kitchen with custom cabinetry, granite counters, tile backsplash, recessed lighting, center island with breakfast bar, and top-of-the-line stainless appliances including Subzero refrigerator, Wolf range and oven, instant H2O, and wine refrigerator. Main level with beautiful hardwood floors. Kitchen opens into two-story family room with wall of windows and tons of natural light. Family room offers gas fireplace and private views. Work from home? No problem! Main floor offers an office! Laundry conveniently located on main floor. Primary bedroom with sitting room and two large walk-in closets. Primary bathroom offers double sink with granite counters and soaking tub as well as walk in shower. Spacious bedrooms with lots of closet space. Home offers one of the best yards in Panther Valley. Situated on corner lot at the end of cul-de-sac this yard offers tons of privacy. Double deck with gas line for grilling great for gatherings. Guest bathroom remodeled with double sink and granite counters. Entertain in your basement with bar and separate game room. 360 virtual tour available.
Beautiful 4 bedroom, 2.5 half bath contemporary colonial with tons of natural light. Follow exquisite slate walkway to welcoming open porch great to enjoy your morning coffee. Gourmet designer kitchen completely remodeled in 2011 w granite counters, ceramic tile floors, cherry wood cabinets, under cabinet lighting, tile backsplash, center island, wet bar, large walk in pantry, recessed lighting, and stainless steel appliances. HWF throughout. Sunroom w private wooded views and French doors leading to slate patio great for entertaining. Cedar plank siding freshly stained and all exterior doors and trim freshly painted. Spacious living room w stone surround wood burning fireplace. Dining room, w picture window, offers great natural light. Charming pocket doors to kitchen and dining room. Generous sized bedrooms w lots of closet space. Media room is wired for surround sound and features built in book shelves and tons of closets and storage space. Bathrooms updated w Corian counters and wood cabinetry. Primary bathroom with jetted tub. Primary bedroom w walk in closet, second closet, and ceiling fan. Professionally landscaped low maintenance yard. New gutters, alarm system, and water softener. 360 virtual tour available.
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Beautiful 3 bedroom, 2 and one half bathroom town home with finished basement. Great floor plan with open living space and tons of natural light. Kitchen features 42” maple cabinets, stainless steel appliances, granite counters, tile backsplash, recessed lighting, and breakfast bar. Brazilian hardwood floors on main level. Family room with gas fireplace with custom mantle and surround give the home warmth and elegance. Laundry conveniently located on main floor. The master bedroom has two walk in closets with custom storage systems and a gorgeous bathroom with dual sinks and huge walk-in shower with multiple shower heads. All bathrooms have been fully renovated. Two additional large bedrooms also have very generous closet space. Newer windows. Property is level to the rear and has a patio with gas hook-up for grill. 360 virtual tour available.
Charming three bedroom one and one half bathroom colonial built in 1850. Enjoy summer days on your lemonade porch or stroll into town for one of the many great restaurants and shops. Light and airy with high ceilings, large rooms, and tall windows this home is sure to welcome you. Beautiful kitchen with granite counters, stainless steel appliances, stylish white cabinets, recessed lighting and redwood hardwood floors. Enjoy wonderful dinner parties in your spacious dining room with hardwood floors and tons of natural light. Living room features hardwood floors and 6 inch baseboard molding. Enjoy chilly nights with your wood-burning fireplace featuring brick and wood surround. Dual stair cases from main floor to second floor. Basement currently used as crafting room and offers walk out great for storage.Spacious bedrooms with high ceilings and plush carpeting. Walk up attic. One car oversize garage. Public water, public sewer and natural gas. Close to Centenary performing arts theater! 360 virtual tour available.
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Immaculate four bedroom, two and one half bathroom colonial on picturesque property. Professionally landscaped w beautiful paver walkways. Custom kitchen w Thomasville cherry cabinets, granite counters, stainless steel appliances (features double oven), recessed lighting, tile backsplash and slate floors. Kitchen breakfast area features large bay window with bump out sitting area. Family room with brick surround wood burning fireplace and sliders to three season room with wall of window and stunning views of nature. Sliders off three season room lead to large deck with tons of privacy. Hardwood floors in dining, family, and living rooms. Living room with beautiful views great for gatherings. Spacious primary bedroom with walk in closet and ceiling fan; full bath with shower and upgraded vanity. Laundry conveniently located on first floor. Updated main bathroom with double sink, Corian counters, and new fixtures. Basement with French Drain great for storage or workshop or potentially finish. Oversized two car garage with additional loft storage. Natural gas. Air condition added 2004. Roof 2014. Generator hook up and portable generator. New attic stairs. 360 virtual tour available.
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AREA - It all began with Michael J. Smith 45 years ago. A.J. McCann, Pipe Major and 26-year member of the CúChullain (koo-hull-in) Pipe Band, gives the details in brief. “It was Saint Patrick’s Day, and he (Smith) was sitting in a bar in Mine Hill, New Jersey. He was a piper and he said, ‘You know, I think we should have a parade!’ He went out, got his pipes out of the car, and he walked down to the end of Main Street in Mine Hill - just him and a bunch of people behind him. That was the first parade, and that’s how he decided he was going to form a band.” That march of a dozen people was the beginning of the CúChullain Pipe Band, an organization dedicated to preserving traditional Celtic music. It still is the first pipe band ever established in Morris County. The CúChullain Pipe Band is a family-oriented group, which is the way Smith wanted it. “He didn’t want a band with a lot of tensions and rivalries because, over the course of years, you see bands come and go and a lot of it is due to infighting amongst members,” McCann says. “He was really big on making sure this stayed a family event. Since then, we’ve had people come, they joined the band at a young age, they go to college, they get married, they have kids, and now their kids are in the band.” Mike Houston is in his seventh year as a CúChullain Pipe Band member. He started piping at age 48, and now serves as the organization’s secretary. He says of his role, “It’s really just a matter of keeping communication going, doing what I can to recruit new members. Most of the members of the band have been around a long, long time. 96 Bald Eagle Rd You become Allamuchy a member Twp of the List Price $539,900
band, and you stay a member of the band; there’s not a lot of moving around. And I also like that it’s been in Morris County since 1977, it has a lot of history, and it’s also family-oriented.” McCann’s family is a perfect example. His two sons, Alexander and Matthew, now ages 18 and 14 respectively, have marched with him in the band since they were able to walk. “At three years old, they were marching down the street with me, but now they march beside me. My son is the Pipe Sergeant, he just got promoted this past year. For the people in the band, it’s a huge family that never ends. It just keeps on growing. Somebody can come back who’s been with the band and gone for 20 years can step right in and, boom, you’re back in the family again. We have a lot of fun doing what we do.” McCann’s wife of 26 years, Pam, also plays a major role. “She’s been very supportive,” her husband says. “She actually was a drummer in the band many years ago, a tenor drummer. She’s had her hands in it too, and now she got elected to be the band manager. She runs the band now.” John Garrity has served as President of the CúChullain Pipe Band for five years and has been a member for 15 years. He also arranges the band’s music. “I have access to bagpipe music writing software. Really, at this point in time, I’m also the piping instructor, so I try to keep the music interesting. I’ll find stuff on the internet, I’ll transpose it into the software, make a bunch of copies, and then we’ll go on Thursday night and have R fun.” FOALE S Garrity also enjoys the family element of the band.
“That’s the thing I’ve always loved about this band and why I would never think of leaving,” he says. “It is because of that whole family quality, and it’s absolutely true. When we go to parades, we’ll bring grills and just pick a side street, and we’ll just cook up some hamburgers or something. And when you go to practice, you’re not going just to practice. You’re going to practice to see these people. It’s just a beautiful thing.” As Pipe Major, McCann is in charge of the music execution, practices, conducting, and leading the band in parades – and there are quite a few during this busiest part of the year for the CúChullain Pipe Band. “I think we have four parades in March to do,” McCann says. The band either leads or participates in the annual Morristown Saint Patrick’s Day Parade, and also marches in parades in Denville, Hackettstown, West Orange, and East Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania during the year. The CúChullain Pipe Band is always looking for new members, and training is provided. “You’re never too old to pick it up,” Houston says. “We meet every Thursday night (at the Rainbow Lakes clubhouse in Denville), and John is the instructor. He put together this curriculum that everybody uses,Main so we really keep on the 142 Street same page,NJ learning the same Chester, 07930 things at the same pace. But we Cell: 908-914-7944 take new members at any time Office: during the908-879-7010 year.” Perhaps Garrity puts it best. etattersall@weichert.com “I love to play the pipes,” he www.ericatattersall.com says, “but the reason I go is just for the people I’m playing the pipes with.” For more information about the CúChullain Pipe Band, visit their website at www.cuchul119 Goldfinch Ct lainpipeband.com. Allamuchy TwpList Price $375,000
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NJStarz BY STEVE SEARS STAFF WRITER It’s an amazing photo – taken from a million miles away. Dr. Garrett Reisman, a United States astronaut, had the opportunity and he grasped it, taking a photo of his hometown of Parsippany from space. “You can see Route 46 and you can see 287,” he says. “But you can’t see that with a naked eye. It’s just kind of a grayish blur. And by the way, you only have a couple of minutes because you’re flying over it so fast – you’re moving at 17,500 miles an hour. So it was tricky, but I got it.” Reisman’s excitement over his field is evident in his voice. His dream as a child reached fruition, and now he is helping others with their ambitions through teaching. He had his mentors, and he’s become a mentor for many. Reisman was born at Morristown Memorial Hospital, and was raised in Parsippany. His dad, Robert, who passed away in 2002, had a huge influence on him when he was a youngster. “It’s amazing,” Reisman says. “He never pushed me to go into the same field or pursue the same interest that he had. But, now looking back, I became a mechanical engineer, and ended up going into aerospace just like him, despite the fact that he never overtly pushed me in that direction. But I think subconsciously I just wanted to be like my dad because I just had tremendous respect for him, and he was my biggest role model.” Reisman’s mom, Sheila, who lives in Florida, was another big supporter of his as he grew up, as was his sister, Lainie, who now lives in Washington, D.C. Space flight, and life as an astronaut, fascinated Reisman since he was a child. “I remember I had the Super Eight movie of all the Apollo missions, and I used to watch that thing over and over. I just loved everything about it, and I read every book in the Lake Hiawatha Elementary School library that had anything to do with rockets or airplanes. But I never thought I’d become an astronaut because – and stop me if you’ve heard this before - my mom is scared of flying.” The situation was remedied, however. “I eventually got her to fly with me in a small
NJ Starz: Garrett Reisman Hometown: Parsippany, NJ plane out here in Los Angeles. “I told her, ‘I’m taking my dad and my sister, so all three of us are going up. You don’t want to be the only one left that’s a miserable life! So why don’t you come on in so we all go down together,’” Reisman says with a laugh. The single engine plane ride returned to the runway it took off from safely. “We actually ended up having a nice day. We flew to Catalina Island, got lunch and came back. That logic actually worked.” In addition to is dad, Reisman mentions that he had some outstanding teachers in the Parsippany public school system. Among them was his Parsippany High School Physics teacher, Jerry Vandervoort. “Still to this day, as I’m teaching as a professor now at USC (University of Southern California), I’m still using what he taught me as a high school student. He inspired me, and definitely if it weren’t for him, there’s no way I would have been successful in my career as an engineer.” And Gary Vittorio, his wrestling coach at Parsippany High School, taught him a lot about being a leader and follower, a good teammate, and how to be a good person. Reisman attended the University of Pennsylvania as an undergrad and was mentored by professors Joe Bordogna and Bill Hamilton, and then headed to the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), where he met his doctoral advisor, Christopher Brennan. “One of the great things was a lot of them were able to make it to my (Endeavour) launch and be there as invited guests,” Reisman says. “That was like a great opportunity to say thank you.” Also at CalTech, Reisman met his wife, Simone. In fact, she was his flight student prior before they started dating. Both are the proud parents of an 11-year-old son, Buster, and a daughter, Bixby, who is 4. Prior to his initial 2008 launch into space, Reisman took part in Neemo5 as an aquanaut, where he spent two weeks underwater. He explains. “That was part of a training exercise. We call those analogues, where we kind of put ourselves into situations or environments that are extreme
and somewhat similar to what we will face in space, and that helps just because you can simulate things and you can practice and train. So we searched for these opportunities, and one was this Neemo mission where we lived at the bottom of the sea for two weeks, and because we’re saturated with nitrogen, there’s no quick way to come back. You have to go through a lengthy decompression process that takes about a day. So really, we’re about as far away from a hospital should something go horribly wrong when we’re down there, as far away in terms of time as you are in the space station. So that’s a real thing, you putting yourself in that kind of isolation. And that was helpful in getting that mindset, and plus it was a whole lot of fun.” STS-123, the Space Shuttle Endeavour, was his first orbit venture on the morning of March 11, 2008. He was delivered to the International Space Station for a 95 day mission and, while there, he walked in space for the first time. “Rick Linnehan was my partner,” Reisman says. “It was kind of a crazy mission for me. That was my first time being up in space, and three days into the mission I have to go out and do a spacewalk.” When he first opened the hatch, he said, “Whoa, that’s cool!” Reisman describes the “walk.” “You’re out there doing work. You’re kind of like a mechanic. You’re attaching cables and turning wrenches and doing that kind of work, but you’re wearing this ridiculously cumbersome suit. The suit itself is very familiar; how it fits you is exactly the same as it was down on earth. And then you look over your shoulder and you see the entire East Coast of the United States flying by below. There’s no way to prepare for that. You’re going back and forth between something very familiar and something completely surreal at the same time. and you try to ignore the surreal and focus on getting the work done, because it’s a lot of pressure when you do spacewalks. The time and the progress that you make out there is incredibly valuable to NASA.” His whole crew left him behind on the space station
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for a subsequent three months for Expedition 16 and 17. The former was commanded by Peggy Whitson, and the Flight Engineer was Yuri Malenchenko. He was with that duo for a month. “Our crew got a lot of work done. We we’re working pretty intensely through that whole period, but we were having a lot of fun, too. That was great.” Next, Russian crewmates, Sergei Volkov and Oleg Kononenko, joined him for Expedition 17. “That was a little different. I was the only American up there, and I was kind of doing my thing and they were doing their thing on their side, and there were some days we’d go the whole day without seeing each other. But we still were a pretty close knit crew. I had some really interesting experiences with those guys, and I’m still friends with
them too.” STS-124, the Space Shuttle Discovery, was next for Reisman, which returned him to earth in June of 2008, but STS-132, Space Shuttle Atlantis, headed back with Reisman on board to the International Space Station in May 2010. Following his space flights, he worked with SpaceX and currently serves as a Senior Advisor and consultant for them in addition to his USC teaching duties. “I had different leadership positions there in the company (SpaceX) and worked directly for Elon Musk.” His Astronautical Engineering teaching at USC is something he finds very rewarding. “It is very rewarding in a different way, especially when I have students that get really interested in the subject. I’ve had a number of students go off
and work at SpaceX and Boeing, at Axiom Space and Blue Origin, and when they come back and they talk about how the stuff that I taught them was useful and helped them on their careers, that is really nice. So, it’s kind of coming full circle.” Reisman, who with fellow astronaut, Mike Massimino, hosts a podcast called “Two Funny Astronauts,” is partnering with the Monmouth Museum at Brookdale Community College on a new Air and Space Wing. “I’m donating a lot of my personal items for that exhibit,” Reisman says. “That’ll be coming up and we’ll probably do a ribbon cutting and some kind of opening later this spring.” To learn more about Reisman, visit his website at www.garrettreisman.com.
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NJ Based Kiwimbi Liberates Kenyan Children with Powerful Knowledge
BY JILLIAN RISBERG STAFF WRITER
AREA - The power of education drives Kiwimbi’s potent partnership with underserved communities, vital for the future of children in rural Kenya. “It’s an opportunity to support incredibly underserved people and make a difference in the lives of (those) who live with so few opportunities,” says Lisa Connell, director of development and communications. Kiwimbi’s mission is to partner with underserved communities to create educational opportunities through locally run libraries and community learning centers. According to Connell, the educational system in Kenya was such that grade eight students had to pass the KCPE (Kenyan Certificate of Primary Education) with at least 250 out of 500 points on this national exam (given in English, not their native tongue) — otherwise they didn’t go to high school, it was the end of the road educationally. Then recently the government made secondary school a requirement, and everybody had the opportunity to attend high school. But the test now determines the quality of the secondary school where they can enroll. The secondary school system In Kenya is divided into levels: National, Extra-county, Sun-county and County. “Quality goes down, with each,” Connell says. “So a Sub-county school might have nothing more than an under-prepared teacher, 100 students and a blackboard. There are National schools, equivalent to good high schools in the US,” she says.
Connell says one of Kiwimbi’s Kenyan supporters shared that some high school’s don’t even have a science lab, so when they take the mandatory test at the end of secondary school and it was time to use a microscope in the exam, there were schools where kids had never seen one because their schools didn’t have science labs. To be offered a university spot they must pass another exam at the culmination of high school. Most of the secondary schools are boarding schools, crucial for girls especially, so they have the opportunity to focus on their education and not be required to devote time for chores and housekeeping. Kiwimbi runs many programs to support education in rural Kenyan, including an intensive program at 3 schools where small group tutoring, one-on-one mentoring and a daily lunch are the main components. If students walk 45 minutes to school and 45 minutes home for lunch that may or may not be there and have to walk back for afternoon classes, many of the kids… (i.e., girls) would not return for afternoon classes. So in preparation for their first national exam, Kiwimbi provides nutritious lunch for Grade Eight students. “Feeding not only gives them brain power and nutrition, the ability to concentrate throughout their day — it keeps them there so they can focus on their education,” says the director of development and communications. The students in these 3 schools passed the 2020 KCPE
at a rate of 63 percent, “Instead of the three percent average, usually achieved by similarily situated rural children, leaving a lot of 14-year-olds with no options,” she says. They are excited to see what March’s test will unveil. Kiwimbi also provides access to books, newspapers and other resources in their library, in satellite libraries they established and through regular delivery of books to the three schools they work with in the intensive program, as well as 72 schools in nearby villages. “Some of them come to us, either the class or the kids. Sometimes a teacher might get the books and bring them back,” the director of development and communications says the service is efficient. The Kiwimbi Community Centre was a rundown building owned by the county, now borrowed by Kiwimbi. They cleaned and painted the space, which houses the county’s (more than a million people) lone free public library. According to Connell, people come to charge their phones, read the newspapers, visit the museum, where they work on cultural preservation, and tailor and carpentry vocational programs. “We do outreach to three schools; an intense program includes daily lunch for the eighth-grade students, small group tutoring and one-on-one mentoring,” she says. “A government official named Kiwimbi as an Innovation Hub and installed fiber optic cable for more reliable Internet and a local NJ church (St. Luke’s in Gladstone) donated the money for us to put
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in solar panels. So we have reliable Internet, reliable electricity, which is hard to come by (and) great, safe drinking water, which is also hard to come by.” Video of a 45-minute walk two kids took from their home hut to the Kiwimbi Library introduced Connell to the incredible experience. Her time at Kiwimbi since February 2020 has been transformative. “I find it fulfilling and challenging in all the right ways to work towards supporting the efforts of the students,” the director of development and communications says they’re hard workers. She was attracted to this cause because of her commitment to education, years as a third-grade (and preschool) teacher. “I was a Big Sister in college, taught Sunday school with my kids and was a Brownie leader,” says Connell. “I started at Kiwimbi in more of an administrative capacity; the position grew over the last two years. I like the people I work with, our organization, Kenyan culture is fascinating and enriching to me.” In 2010 Lynne Rathgeber, Board Chair of Kiwimbi International reached out to Prof. Olubayi Olubayi as a friend to help become more involved with non-profit work for the most underserved. Over the course of their chat, Olubayi told her of his move back to Kenya after years as an American student and teacher. “Early education he was at risk of not proceeding to secondary school because of having trouble with math, and Kenya’s exam system weeded out children like him,” Rathgeber says. “He was fortunate and got help, earning a Ph.D. in microbiology.” The professor explained back then children in rural Kenya faced the same do-ordie exams. “Rural children, even the brightest, could not move ahead academically because their schools were too poor to teach them,” the Board Chair says Olubayi wanted to share educational opportunities with a new generation of children, and she wanted to help. So Rathgeber and the professor gathered a group of like-minded friends to develop the concept that became Kiwimbi — a Community Learning Center serves as a source of academic and vocational training, free to all and separate from, but complementary to, the public school system. “Kiwimbi” is a Swahili word meaning ripple. “That person will be able to earn a better living, support their family and benefit the wider community, spreading like a ripple through water,” she says, of the effect. It was a massive pursuit. Rathgeber had never been to Kenya, so in 2012 she, husband John and daughter Natalie took their first trip to witness it firsthand, engage with the people to understand if the Kiwimbi concept made sense and would be welcome, and learn about the communities benefiting from their educational opportunity. She calls it a diverse and beautiful country. “We didn’t see it all, but did see the big city (Nairobi), a bit of the largest slum in Africa (Kibera), high mountains (Mt. Kenya), vast plains (Masai Mara), spectacular game (lions, hippos, giraffes, elephants, hyenas, antelope, zebra, wildebeest… so many); industrious people walking
Outdoor learning at Kiwimbi’s gazebo.
everywhere, and smiling children thrilled to see their first white people,” the Board Chair says they fell in love. Seeing people make do on tiny farmsteads with mud huts, water from the river, no electricity, reliant on a changing climate Rathgeber calls an eye-opener. The children spread the word about the visiting “wazungu” (white people), wanted to hold their hands and tried to converse (on a limited basis), as well as see photos on their phones and ask questions. “When we sat with them with Olubayi and other adults and asked about their aspirations, they were hopeful (which) we encouraged,” she says. “The sad truth is without access to better education, for the vast majority those might be pipe dreams, and limited in vision by the world around them. If you have never seen or known of a scientist, mathematician, engineer, writer, a painter… how can you aspire to become one?” After visiting this distant world Rathgeber says they knew they were doing the right thing in establishing Kiwimbi there. COVID hits marginalized and underserved students hardest. Kiwimbi continued its impactful work throughout the pandemic, while Kenya closed down. Travel was restricted, schools closed the better part of a year, masks were mandated, the country was cautious. Kenya was fortunate to not have the number of first-year infections of other nations. “But with schools closed, children could not access what few resources they might have had, education came to a standstill for the majority of Kenyan children, especially in rural areas where books
were scarce and other services non-existent,” says the Board Chair, adding Kiwimbi worked within the restrictions and met with most of the children who depended on them. They met in small groups outside and a limited number had access to enter and borrow library books, which they took to various small-group meetings around the countryside. The months’ long break did not result in a setback; it provided many a chance to catch up with students from more affluent areas. The path to liberation is knowledge and Rathgeber says Kiwimbi takes this route. Rather than give “things” to their beneficiaries, they share knowledge. “This is empowerment, not handouts,” she adds if a young person is educated, they have the power to earn a livelihood, ensure their siblings education, get a job off the tiny farm or create a successful business. “They can make educated decisions about who to elect to power and envision a village, county or country serving the best interests of their families, determine how to accomplish that, and make it happen.” With knowledge they can mold their own world. Thousands of children with access to books and other resources they didn’t have before — in Busia County (western Kenya) impacted, Kiwimbi sees the program as one to develop. “Having implemented the idea successfully there, we plan to replicate the model so we can expand our geographic impact to other underserved areas,” Rathgeber says. To learn more, visit www. kiwimbi.org or text KIWIMBI to 41444 and donate. Volunteering is also welcome.
An Irish Story
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BY RICHARD MABEY JR. GUEST WRITER AREA - What force of nature could possibly bring a proud Protestant Dutchman and a shy Irish Catholic girl together, especially being that the lass from the Emerald Isle was 18 years younger than the gentleman from the land of windmills and wooden shoes? That magical and mystical force, of course, is love. In 1883, Catherine Cavanaugh, my great grandmother, came to America with her parents when she was only five years old. They first took up residence in Clifton. A few months later, the Cavanaugh family moved to Paterson. At the age of 16, Catherine worked in a silk mill in Paterson. Both of her parents also worked in the same silk mill. It was tough labor, requiring hard work for long hours. Somehow and someway, Catherine Cavanaugh met a Dutchman named Wesley Storms, who lived in a small farming town known as Beavertown. Wesley was a very shy, lonely widower, who lived alone in a very small home at the foothills of Hook Mountain. Wesley, my great grandfather, was 18 years older than Cather-
ine, my great grandmother. Now at 68, I deeply regret that I did not ask my grandmother, Bertha Storms Mabey, more about her mom and dad. However, I am ever so appreciative for the information that Grandma did share with me about her parents. Wesley Storms never did know his father. Wesley was born in 1860. Shortly after he was born, his father, William Storms, signed up with the Union Army. My great-great grandfather served in the 15th New Jersey Regiment. Sadly, he was killed in the Battle of Salem Church in May of 1863. It was a scar that was left upon Wesley’s heart, never to be healed for his entire lifetime. For Catherine Cavanaugh, working in a silk mill was very hard work. The men and women who worked in the silk mills in Paterson worked long hours for little pay. It was a tough life. Most of the people who worked in Paterson’s silk mills were immigrants. The Irish immigrants did not have it easy in the latter part of the nineteenth century. The prejudice against the Irish was very real in America. It’s painful to
admit, but none-the-less, there was very real prejudice against the Irish. In factories, stores, and other places of business, during the nineteenth century, it was not uncommon to see signs reading, “Irish need not apply.” Wesley Storms had a little farm in Beavertown. The greatest mystery is how it came to be that my great grandmother met my great grandfather. I remember my grandmother, Bertha Storms, told me that her father had close friends, who were also friends with her mother’s parents. In light of their age difference, and the fact that Wesley Storms was Protestant and Catherine Cavanaugh was a devoted Catholic, it is truly a miracle that they fell in love and married. As a boy, growing up in Lincoln Park (formerly known as Beavertown) one of my best friends lived in the very home that my great grandmother and great grandfather once lived in. The very home that my paternal grandmother grew up in. I was only in the home one time. It was a hot summer day and my friend, Robert, invited me in to have a glass of lemonade. I was about 10 years old at the time.
The silk mills of Paterson hired a lot of Irish immigrants. It was hard labor, requiring long hours in a working day.
I had only been in the kitchen of that dear old home, for about 20 minutes. But in that short time, I could feel the presence of my great grandparents. I was a very sensitive child, with a vivid imagination. As I sat at Robert’s kitchen table, as his mom poured cold lemonade in glasses for us, I could imagine my grandmother sitting in that very same kitchen as a little girl, eating supper with her mom and dad. I live in Central Florida now. I don’t travel up to New Jersey
Roseland’s Running 4 Answers Benefits Alzheimer’s Research
BY EVAN WECHMAN STAFF WRITER
AREA - Carolyn Mastrangelo of Roseland remembers the pain her whole family went through almost two decades ago. At that time, her mother became ill from having early onset Alzheimer’s disease and the toll it took on her loved ones was almost too much to bear. These memories will be with her this coming April 30 at Harrison Field in Roseland. There, her organization, Running for Answers will be holding a 5K race and 2-mile run/ walk to benefit the Cure Alzheimer’s Fund. This will be the 13th annual event which has raised well over $400,000 since its inception. Mastrangelo remembers fondly her mother, Pat Lepofsky, a registered nurse playing bridge around the house and always reading. However, when the Alzheimer’s illness hit her mother, they both knew things would take a quick turn for the worse. Her mother after a long battle, died in 2015, and Mastrangelo wants to make sure that other families don’t go through the same ordeal she was forced to endure. Mastrangelo, a professional fitness trainer and nutrition coach is aware of the ramifications of the disease. She recently said, “Alzheimer’s doesn’t just take away your memory, it takes away every-
thing you are until it leaves just a shell.” Organizing the event has been no easy task for Mastrangelo who is the primary founder, chairperson, and fundraiser for the event. She said she has performed most of the work at her kitchen table, rather than a fancy office. However, she is grateful other people have helped her through the years. She appreciates even the smallest donations and still gets excited each year around this time of year. According to her, the event has 3 primary missions. The first is to obviously raise money and awareness, but the second and third goals are to have a great race and create a fun event that the community can gather around. In past races, she has had great sponsors who have held mini tricky trays and given balloons to all the children. Though the event seems to almost run effortlessly as each year passes, Mastrangelo is aware there is always a substantial amount of work involved. Her efforts began almost 15 years ago when she was looking for a race in New Jersey that benefitted Alzheimer’s. Unfortunately, she couldn’t find a single race, so she was determined to organize her own.
She also carefully selected the Cure Alzheimer’s Fund which she said gives everyone the best chanced to find a cure for this disease. Mastrangelo is proud that 100% of the donations go directly to research. “The brain is tricky, and they (Cure Alzheimer’s Fund) are coming to a lot of dead ends, but this is the right organization, and they are coming closer every year,” Mastrangelo said. In 2020, due to COVID there was no race, but the organization still worked hard and raised a significant amount of money for research. This year, the effects of COVID will be closely monitored by Mastrangelo. However, she is confident that this year’s event will be a success because it is not only outside, but she is determined to take any cautionary steps to ensure everyone’s safety. Mastrangelo who has had many dedicated supporters through the years is still looking to add some sponsors to make this event larger. She hopes for the race to expand outside just the immediate area and become a significant race in the state of New Jersey. Since the pandemic has affected many small businesses in the area, Mastrangelo wants local owners to know she re-
mains both flexible and creative in finding partnerships that would work for all involved. However, she is aware every bit of help adds up to having a terrific event and said “I would like people to know that there are so many simple ways to help us: walk, run, donate, fundraise. Even easier than that is just spreading the word to others.” She can be contacted by interested parties through her website, www. Running4Answers.org. Though she is hoping for a big turnout, Mastrangelo, a mother of two daughters wants people to come away with a significant lesson about Alzheimer’s disease. One important fact that Mastrangelo wants people to be aware of is that this disease is more serious than many people think it is. She said, “it is not a key-losing disease.” By this, Mastrangelo emphasized that families should know that Alzheimer’s is more than just misplacing everyday items such as keys. Rather, it robs the whole family of time, memories, and is indeed very painful for all involved. “I don’t want to see anyone else go through this,” she said. “The idea that anyone else can get it is scary.”
that often any more. But when I do visit Lincoln Park, I always take time to take a walk by the home that my grandmother, Bertha Storms Mabey, grew up in. From the sidewalk, I look up to that modest home, atop a hill, and feel the presence of the ghosts of my great grandparents. All in all, I deeply regret that I didn’t ask my grandmother more about her childhood days. I regret that I didn’t ask her more questions about her parents, specifically the details of
how they met and fell in love. Sadly, those questions will never be answered. If you are blessed to have even one of your grandparents, alive on this side of Heaven’s Gate, please do consider talking to them about their childhood, their history, their legacy, their heritage. Truly, it will be time well spent. Richard Mabey Jr. is a freelance writer. He can be reached at richardmabeyjr@hotmail. com. Please put on the subject line: An Irish Story.
Rutgers Basketball Player Moves Forward with Foundation He Started During Pandemic
BY STEVE SEARS STAFF WRITER
AREA - Paul Mulcahy, a junior guard on the Rutgers University Scarlet Knights basketball team, created a vision in 2020, and that vision is flourishing. Mulcahy’s Grateful4 Foundation was started early during the Covid-19 pandemic, but the idea had percolated a few years prior. “It was an idea that I had for a couple of years dating back to sophomore year of high school, and I always wanted to do it,” says Mulcahy, who wears number 4 for the Scarlet Knights, therefore the “4” in the foundation name. “I never had time, and the pandemic gave me time to spend my resources in other areas. Also during that time, there was a lot going on in the world: a lot of indifference, a lot of separation between people, and a lot of people were on edge about the pandemic, about social issues, political issues,
whatever the case may be. I just figured that it was the best time to try to bring people together through an emotion that everyone can feel.” Mulcahy’s foundation has gained much traction in the two years since its beginning. From the outset, he asked his website visitors to record a short video detailing the four things they were grateful for, and then to nominate four others to do the same. “That got a great response from people,” Mulcahy states. “I think it was 23 states and like four different countries that people had sent videos from, and that was pretty cool. Between Twitter and Instagram, there was probably 75 videos, maybe 100.” And bolstered by that activity, he pushed forward. “I made a PLEASE SEE FOUNDATION, PAGE 19
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Centenary University First Lady Fondly Recalls Modern Pentathlon Days BY STEVE SEARS STAFF WRITER AREA - When you speak with Jeanne Murphy, the First Lady of Centenary University, you know that she is a person who cares about people and unity. Consider, for example, her opinion on the importance of the Olympic Games. “Sports, especially at the international level can really bring people and countries together - especially during this challenge of the global pandemic,” she says. “There’s something you appreciate about the Olympics every four years. It’s this really great event that you want to be part of and cheering on your country.” Murphy, who sat on the U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Committees, has embraced Centenary University and the Hackettstown community and she is part of a group that has initiated a yearlong lecture series at Centenary University for its students that transcends the Olympic Games. Murphy says, “It’s about the people, and the behind-the-scenes and years of preparation to be their best. “That’s what this lecture series is doing, just bringing in experts with a variety of backgrounds.” Murphy, who is the wife of Centenary University President, Dr. Bruce Murphy, grew up in Saint Louis, Missouri as part of an active family and childhood. A YMCA age group swimmer, she also took part in gymnastics and cheerleading. With a scholarship, she entered the Army Nurse Corps. “I thought that would be an interesting field,” she says. “I liked caring for people, and always had something
about sports in my mind, but just wasn’t sure how all that was going to fit together.” Murphy went through nursing school and officer training, and chose to be assigned to Brooke Army Medical Center at Fort Sam Houston military base in San Antonio, Texas. “Not only because I wanted to work at the burn unit,” she says, “but at that time it was the only burn unit in the military and one of the premiere ones in the country. So, I thought this would really get me involved with intensive care, to put all this knowledge to work, but also because I learned that the U.S. Modern Pentathlon team trained in San Antonio and Fort Sam Houston.” Her choice would lead to something significant. When not working, Murphy trained in each of the Modern Pentathlon disciplines (one-touch epée fencing, 200-meter freestyle swimming, equestrian
show jumping, and a final combined event of pistol shooting and 3200-meter cross country running). The United States team, which was seeking to get women involved after the sport was for the previous century only open to males. “Every country, not just the United States, was trying to form a women’s team and make an effort to try to get the Olympic movement, the IOC (International Olympic Committee) to recognize this as a sport for women. They had kind of dangled the carrot in front of me. I was already participating in their workouts, the morning swims and all that, so I was a known person, and they said, ‘If you can meet these male standards in the run and in the swim, we will put you on the team, and you will learn the three skill sports: equestrian, epee fencing, and marksmanship.” She achieved the standard in the run and swim, and she made the team. “It was
just incredible, but I had to do quite a bit of hustling to get up to speed and learn these other sports and work in the ICU for burns along with that. It was some long days and nights.” Murphy was afforded time to train for a year, and by that time other athletic and talented women had come into the program, and a contingent of five women started to train and other countries did the same. It wasn’t until 1996 that the Modern Pentathlon became an Olympic sport for women’s teams, but Murphy and the U.S. Modern Pentathlon women’s team formed in 1975 were able to go to the first World Cup in 1977, which was held in Poland, Sweden, and Great Britain. “It was my
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first time overseas,” Murphy recalls, “and it was just a really incredible experience. It was a competition that was not fancy, elaborate, or really with any high visibility, but it got everybody together and moving forward.” Positive change has always
been Murphy’s forte. “As I reflect, I believe I was part of a positive change, and development of new directions through sports, fitness, and health, that are making wellness things more accessible for people in general.”
Mulcahy says, “and Rutgers and the Rutgers Nation and the community - basically everywhere I go, somebody mentions it to me - they’ve helped me a ton, and the alumni base and everything has been great.” Mulcahy “lives” the Grateful4 Foundation daily, he himself keeping and writing in a gratitude journal. “It just helps perspective, and realizing there’s highs and lows in life,” he says. “But if you can keep a medium perspective about everything, and realize all the great things that there are that people down the block from you would love to have, it
makes a lot of situations better.” Mulcahy, a Human Resource and Sports Management major, has a five-year-goal for the Grateful4 Foundation. “We’re raising a lot of money to help a lot of people in a lot of different ways,” he says. “I would love to have a headquarters, a place to help people and really build a team, and just help as many people as possible.” For more information about the Grateful4 Foundation, visit www.grateful4foundation. wordpress.com or www.instagram.com/grateful4foundation.
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FROM PAGE 19 Mulcahy was able to gather over 100 toys so underserved families enjoy the Christmas season, and he has also worked with different soup kitchens. And soon, the goodness of the Grateful4 Foundation will be more visible. “We’ve partnered with this company, Spreadshop, that is going to help us put out a bunch of different accessories and clothing and things. And all the profit from that will go to the Foundation.” The Big Ten, the conference that Rutgers athletics competes in, has also helped. “The Big Ten did a documentary during my sophomore year about it,”
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Scientists note there is growing skepticism that the world will be able to keep global warming below 1.5 degrees Celsius during this century. According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, achieving that goal, which could prevent the more dire climate change-related forecasts from becoming reality, will require dramatic action over the next couple of decades. The 1.5 degree goal was a point of contention in the recent past, when many European countries felt limiting global warming to 2 degrees Celsius was sufficient. However, small island states felt that the 2 degrees model put
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Morris Museum Announces Kinetic Art Exhibition that Features 26 US and International Artists
AREA -The exhibition, A Cache of Kinetic Art: Timeless Movements, explores broad themes of the human experience and how time manifests in nature through 35 works of kinetic art. Created by 26 artists, these art objects are expressions of measuring, marking, embracing, and resisting time. This is the fourth and final installment of A Cache of Kinetic Art that launched in 2018 with Curious Characters. Timeless Movements will be on view March 18 through August 28, 2022. There will be a Member Preview on Thursday, March 17 that includes an exhibition viewing from 6-7 PM and an artist talk in the Bickford Theatre from 7-8 PM. “In 2017, the Murtogh D. Guinness Collection staff first envisioned a four-part series,
designed to provide exhibition space for artists responding to our challenge to connect contemporary audiences with 19th-century mechanical music, automata, and timekeeping technologies. Since that time, nearly fifty artists have shared their interpretations of ‘art-inmotion,’ embracing a variety of methods and materials,” stated Dr. Anne Ricculli, Curator of the Guinness Collection. Open to established and emerging artists, this juried exhibition explores a range of artistic talent, inventiveness in design, and a mastery of technique. Timeless Movements bridges the gap between vintage and contemporary kinetic art allowing visitors to experience the creativity of these newly created pieces in conjunction with the Morris
Museum’s historic and internationally-significant objects in the Murtogh D. Guinness Collection of Mechanical Musical Instruments and Automata. Included in the exhibition are 35 works by 26 national and international artists. The selected artists are: Miron Abramovici, Ginger Andro, Lawrence Berzon, David Bowman, Mackenzie Bullard, Ryan Buyssens, Yu Chenrui, Randall Cleaver, Michael Croft, Kyle Dries, Bill Durovchic, Glen Farley, Hao Feng, Chris Fitch, Daniel Fulco, Chuck Glicksman, Joshua Hudak, Bernard Klevickas, Sizhu Li, Bradley N. Litwin, Dina Priess dos Santos, Walter Rossi, Justin Schactman, Glenn W. Smith, Eliza Twichell, and Wade Warman. A team of esteemed jurists
brought their unique perspectives to judging this exhibition: Marion Harris, New York & London, UK: Private antiques dealer and curator; Michael Clerizo, London, UK: Journalist and author on watchmaking, and contributing editor for WSJ, Magazine; and Steven Parker, New York: Jewelry and automata designer/maker and Professor at the Fashion Institute of Technology (FIT). Visitors are encouraged to participate in-gallery and on social media to select the winner of the People’s Choice Award. Voting begins on Friday, March 18 and concludes on May 20. The winner will be announced during the Automatacon on Saturday, May 21. Leadership support for this exhibition is provided by Will and Mary Leland.
he played for 16 seasons. “Law & Order” premieres Thursday, Feb. 24, at 8 p.m. ET on NBC. *** Q: I was disappointed to hear that William Petersen and Jorja Fox will not be returning to “CSI: Vegas.” Was the plan for them to leave after just one season, or is the show not coming back at all? -- T.R. A: According to William Peterson, who also is a producer of “CSI: Vegas,” he only committed to playing Grissom for 10 episodes. Fox won’t be returning as Sara either, explaining that she doesn’t want the duo split up, that “wherever they go, they belong together.” Fortunately, Marg Helgenberger recently signed a contract with CBS to return as Catherine Willows after missing out on the first season of “Vegas” due to a prior commitment. Helgen-
berger starred in the first 12 seasons of the original “CSI” series and has been greatly missed in the “Vegas” spinoff. *** Q: I keep seeing ads for a new show called “The Endgame.” Who are the two actresses starring in it? I don’t think I’ve ever seen them before. -- S.P. A: “The Endgame” is a new series from NBC that was heavily promoted during the Winter Olympics and the Super Bowl. It stars Morena Baccarin as an arms dealer and criminal mastermind who has met her match in Ryan Michelle Bathe’s FBI agent. Baccarin is a Brazilian-American actress who has several series under her belt, including “Homeland,” where she played Jessica Brody. She then went on to play Leslie Thompkins in “Gotham,” where she
met her future husband, actor Ben McKenzie. She also played Gideon on the TV series “The Flash.” Bathe was a regular as Sara Holt on the hit series “Boston Legal” but is probably most recognized as Yvette on “This Is Us.” She’s married to Sterling K. Brown, who plays Randall on the show. Baccarin told TV Guide magazine that the show is “not telling a realistic story about the FBI and CIA chasing bad guys. We want this to be fun.” “The Endgame” airs Mondays on NBC at 10 p.m. ET. *** Send me your questions at NewCelebrityExtra@gmail. com, or write me at KFWS, 628 Virginia Drive, Orlando, FL 32803. (c) 2022 King Features Synd., Inc.
BY DANA JACKSON Q: I see that actor Anthony Anderson is in the return of “Law & Order.” Does this mean that his sitcom “Black-ish” got canceled, or is he able to do both series? -- E.S. A: The eighth and final season of the hit ABC comedy “Black-ish” premiered on Jan. 4. It appears the network chose to conclude the show despite it being a hit. During an appearance on the popular radio show “The Breakfast Club,” Anderson speculated that the show wasn’t renewed due to the high production costs. He added that they had a “nice eight-year run,” but that he would have liked to have “squeaked out 10 years.” Anderson is reprising his “Law & Order” role of Det. Kevin Bernard on the reboot of the original “Law & Order” series. Sam Waterston also is returning as Jack McCoy, whom
“Back to 15” -- There is no other plotline that I love more than when a character mysteriously goes back in time and gets to relive a period of their earlier life (“17 Again” is a favorite). So, I am all over this new series from Brazil in which 30-year-old Anita “hits control-Z in real life” and wakes up in her 15-year-old self’s bedroom. Discontented with the way her adult life has turned out, Anita is thrilled at
a chance for a do-over in the pre-iPhone olden days. Maisa Silva stars as the younger Anita and Camila Queiroz as the adult version. (Netflix) “Wasteland” -- “When it goes bloop ... bloop ... bloop ... get ready, here it comes.” And by “it” the interviewee means a most unfortunate bubbling up of filth in her bathtub. Reminiscent of the events made famous by Erin Brockovich, this fourpart docuseries unpacks the
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women who all work for different intelligence agencies in different countries pool their skills to track and fight a common invisible enemy in order to prevent World War III. But these aren’t Charlie’s Angels. If 007 was smart enough to work in concert with his equals to get the job done in half the time so he could get back home to his kids, he might be as tough as these women. Starring Jessica Chastain, Diane Kruger, Penelope Cruz, Lupita Nyong’o and Fan Bingbing. (Peacock) “No Exit” (R) -- Most people, upon finding a child trapped in a van in the parking lot of a highway rest area during a blizzard, would not merely tell the freezing, terrified kid to hang tight and then go back inside to silently try to figure out which
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GUGLIELMO MARCONI Enterprise | Wall Twp. | New Brunswick (1874 – 1937) Born in Italy, this celebrated inventor who won the Nobel Prize for his “contribution to the development of wireless technology” came to New Jersey in 1899 and did much of his pioneering work here in our state. Marconi stands out among some of the greatest pi-
CARL SAGAN Enterprise | Rahway (1934 – 1996) A 1951 graduate of Rahway High School, Carl Sagan was voted “Most Likely to Succeed” and went on to study astronomy at the University of Chicago and taught at Cornell University. He played a leading role in the American space program since its inception, serv-
span the pages of nearly every volume of American history. Their stories offer boundless hope and inspiration for millions of New Jerseyans.
oneers of radio communication who called New Jersey home, including Thomas Edison, Lee De Forest and David Sarnoff. Over a 15-year period, Marconi pursued his experiments in several locations from Highlands to New Brunswick, making Hoboken his American home. He shared the 1909 Nobel Prize in Physics with Karl Ferdinand Braun. In 1912, his wireless was renowned for saving those who
ing as a consultant and adviser to NASA since the 1950s. For his work, Dr. Sagan received NASA’s Exceptional Scientific Achievement Award. He also received the Public Welfare Medal, the highest award of the National Academy of Sciences, along with 22 honorary degrees from American colleges and universities. Sagan won a Pulitzer Prize for his book
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got into the Titanic lifeboats and made the world realize the value of his wireless system. Finally in 1914, he established a brand of the Marconi Wireless Telegraph Company in Wall Township, where he built his lab, dormitories and home. It is now the site of the Info Age Science/History Center, which seeks to preserve Marconi’s memory and excite young people about the field of science.
The Dragons of Eden: Speculations of the Evolution of Human Intelligence, and was the author of many bestsellers, including Cosmos, which became an Emmy and Peabody award-winning television series. An exceptional teacher and scientist, Carl Sagan was no doubt one of the best known scientists of the Twentieth Century.
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ALTHEA GIBSON Sports | East Orange (1927 – 2003) Born August 25, 1927 in Silver, SC, Althea Gibson grew up in Harlem. A trailblazing athlete, Gibson is often referred to as “Jackie Robinson of tennis.” She won 56 singles and doubles titles during her amateur career
in the 1950s before gaining international and national acclaim as a pro. Gibson won 11 major titles in the late 1950s, including singles titles at the French open. In 1957, she was the first African American to be voted by the Associated Press as its Female Athlete of the Year. She won the honor again in 1958. She
became New Jersey State Commissioner of Athletics in 1975, a post she held for 10 years. She then served on the State’s Athletics Control Board until 1988 and the Governor’s Council on Physical Fitness until 1992. Gibson died at East Orange General Hospital in 2003 at the age of 76.
SHAQUILLE O’NEAL Sports | Newark (1972) Born in Newark and spending his youth in the Central Ward, “Shaq” is one of the National Basketball Association’s most famous and formidable players. At 7’ 1”, 325lbs with a 23 shoe size, he is famous
for his physical stature. The number one overall draft pick in 1992, O’Neal was named the Rookie of the Year in 1992 – 93 and has gone on to win four NBA championships. He was named the NBA MVP in 2000, has been voted the NBA Finals Most Valuable Player
three times, is a two-time NBA Scoring Champion, and a 15time All-Star. Shaq is heavily involved with law enforcement agencies, has appeared in a number of films and, has released several rap albums, including his platinum debut album.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD General | Hackensack (1896 – 1940) Regarded as one of the greatest American Writers of the 20th Century, Fitzgerald was considered the voice of The Lost Generation of the 1920s
and wrote about the Jazz Age, a term he coined himself. He attended Newman Prep School in Hackensack, and Princeton University. After serving in the Army, Fitzgerald launched his writing career, during which he wrote more than 160 mag-
azine articles, numerous short stories, as well as four novels. His most famous work, The Great Gatsby, is often considered the classic example of the American novel. He is still one of the most influential novelists in American literature.
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Nolan Kasper Reflects on His Career as a United States Olympic Skier
Nolan Kasper skiing at Beaver Creek, Colorado. Photo credit Eric Schramm/U.S. Ski & Snowboard.
AREA - For former United States Olympic Slalom skier, Nolan Kasper, the memories are fond ones. “There’s always some really good memories around the Olympics,” Kasper says, looking back to his participation in the 2010 (Vancouver, Canada), 2014 (Sochi, Russia), and 2018 (Pyeongchang, South Korea) games. “There’s always sort of that nostalgia. Obviously, this is the first Winter Olympics I haven’t been in in the past decade, but I’m taking on new
challenges, and I’m excited with what’s ahead.” Then, there are the injuries. “And, with the way that my body feels, I think I’m happy not being there,” Kasper says with a laugh. Kasper, who still competes in an occasional duo slalom event in the World Pro Ski Tour, retired from skiing in 2018. He explains. “I’d gone a six-year span where I’d had seven surgeries - two on my hips, five on one of my knees.” But he worked his way back in
2017 and 2018. “I had finished that season after missing almost three years with an injury, and I was able to come back and I worked really hard, was able to execute what I needed to. I went from not racing for almost three years to qualifying for the Olympics, and even though I didn’t get all of my goals that year, I felt like I did what nobody expected to happen.” Kasper, 32, who was born in Morristown but grew up in Vernon from 1989 until 2000,
Nolan Kasper on the slopes. Photo credit U.S. Ski & Snowboard.
had two older brothers who were close in age that were on skis prior to him, and his dad was a ski instructor. “It was something we always did,” he recalls, “and they had night skiing, so we went after school skiing. It didn’t take too long for us to be able to ski all over that mountain. It wasn’t the biggest mountain, but I enjoyed being out there with my brothers and with my friends, so it definitely started there.” His selection to three Winter Olympics teams is certain-
ly a highlight, but perhaps Kasper’s biggest success was in the World Cup in March of 2011 in Slavonia, Croatia, when he took second place in the slalom. It should also be noted that, after hip surgery in September of that same year, he actually came back and placed fourth in the same event two months later at Beaver Creek, Colorado. Kasper, whose World Cup debut was in November 2009, remembers his first Olympic Games, and the Opening Cer-
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emonies. “It’s a special event, for sure. It happens once every four years, so there’s some time component where it’s not like our World Cup season where it happens every year, or the World Championships, where it’s every other year. Ski racing is not a huge sport in the United States, so it’s the time when people pay attention, and you really feel that when you’re at the event. I remember my first Olympics in 2010 in Vancouver, when I was able to do the Opening Ceremonies. That was one of the coolest experiences, being in that stadium in front of 80,000 people. That’s when you really felt like you were truly representing the country, walking out with the rest of the USA team.” Kasper worked in New York City for a few years following his retirement, and now attends the Stanford Graduate School of Business in California, studying to get a joint MBA degree in Business, and Environmental Research. “It was a fun and enriching experience - and a lot of hard work,” he says of his skiing career. And although now living on the other side of the country, holidays often find him back in the Garden State. “It was a great experience and always nice in those early years being in New Jersey, and I still have a lot of family there. I spend a lot of time up in the Kinnelon, West Milford, and Butler area.”
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5 Cooking Swaps to Help Manage Cholesterol
When cooking, keep in mind small changes that can make a big impact on heart health. High cholesterol is one of the major controllable risk factors for heart disease and stroke, with about 38% of American adults diagnosed with high cholesterol, according to the American Heart Association. It can be managed by getting levels regularly tested and making lifestyle changes like eating a hearthealthy diet. Reduce saturated fat – Select lean cuts of meat or opt for plant protein, limit processed meats, broil or bake rather than pan-fry meats and remove skin from poultry before cooking. Eat more fish – Fish can be fatty or lean, but it’s still low in saturated fat. Choose oily fish like salmon or trout, which are high in omega-3 fatty acids. Use liquid oils in place of solid fats – For roasting, sauteing and more, use non-tropical liquid vegetable oils like canola, safflower, soybean or olive instead of butter, lard or shortening. Lower dairy fats – Lowfat, fat-free or non-dairy milk can be used in many recipes instead of whole milk or halfand-half. Increase fiber and whole grains – Add high-fiber vegetables to meals, serve fruit instead of juice and try brown rice instead of white. These simple tips and better-for-you recipes like Chicken Tortilla Soup and Air Fryer Crispy (Un) Fried Chicken can help you eat healthy without sacrificing taste. Find tips for managing cholesterol and other risk factors at heart.org/cholesterol. Chicken Tortilla Soup This recipe is reprinted with permission from “Healthy Slow Cooker Cookbook, 2nd Edition.” Copyright 2018 by the American Heart Association. Published by Harmony Books, an imprint of Penguin
1/4 teaspoon pepper 1/4 teaspoon cayenne pepper (optional) 1/2-1 cup low-fat buttermilk 1/2 tablespoon hot pepper sauce (optional) 1/3 cup whole-wheat panko breadcrumbs 1/3 cup shredded or grated Parmesan cheese 4 boneless, skinless chicken breasts (about 4 ounces each), visible fat discarded, flattened to 1/4-inch thickness, patted dry with paper towels nonstick cooking spray
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In shallow dish or pie pan, whisk flour, parsley, oregano, pepper and cayenne. In separate shallow dish or pie pan, whisk buttermilk and hot sauce. In third shallow dish or pie pan, stir panko and Parmesan. Place dishes and large plate in row. Dip chicken in flour mixture then buttermilk mixture then panko mixture, turning to coat at each step
and gently shaking off excess. Using fingertips, gently press panko mixture so it adheres. Place chicken on plate. Cover and refrigerate 30 minutes. Lightly spray chicken with nonstick cooking spray. Arrange chicken in single layer in air fryer basket, working in batches if needed. Cook 10-15 minutes, or until chicken is no longer pink in center and coating is golden brown, turning once halfway through and lightly spraying with nonstick cooking spray. (Family Features)
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ion, sugar, ancho powder, garlic and salt. Cook, covered, on low, 6-8 hours, or on high, 3-4 hours. Preheat oven to 350 F. On baking sheet, arrange tortilla strips in single layer. Bake 8-10 minutes, or until crisp. Transfer baking sheet to cooling rack. Let strips stand 15 minutes, or until cool. Transfer to airtight container and set aside. When soup is ready, transfer 1 cup to food processor or blender. Stir in tortilla pieces. Let mixture stand 1 minute. Process until smooth. Stir mixture into soup. Stir in cilantro. Ladle soup into bowls. Sprinkle with avocado, bell pepper and reserved tortilla strips. Air Fryer Crispy (Un) Fried Chicken Recipe courtesy of the American Heart Association Servings: 4 1/2 cup all-purpose flour 2 tablespoons minced fresh parsley 1/2 teaspoon ground oregano
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Sustainable Family Meals from Farm to Table
Much time is often spent planning and preparing family meals, from choosing recipes to gathering ingredients and working in the kitchen. However, where that food actually comes from and how it’s made is an often-overlooked part of food preparation. Next time you lay out a weekly menu that includes recipes like this Bone-In Prime Rib, keep sustainability in mind by considering the practices put in place by America’s farmers. For example, the corn industry’s evolution in sustainability along with its documented environmental, economic and social improvements over the last several decades points to farmers’ willingness to embrace change. As the largest sector in American agriculture, corn farmers impact hundreds of thousands of jobs, infuse billions of dollars into the economy and care for critical resources while overseeing substantial improvements in production. The family farm belonging to Nathan and Nicki Weathers in Yuma, Colorado, includes 3,000 acres of irrigated crops and 300 cows. They harvest grain corn, which goes to a
Give your family meals a powerful boost with better-foryou recipes that pack a protein punch. Revamping the at-home menu with nutrition in mind can still include delicious dishes. Adding a nutrient-rich powerhouse like peanuts as a key ingredient in meals throughout the day makes it easier to zero in on health goals. In fact, peanuts rise to superfood status
feedyard, dairy or an ethanol plant, and silage, which is sold to local feedyards. According to Nathan, corn is the best feed available for his farm and makes his beef production more sustainable. “They go hand in hand,” Nathan said. “To be able to drive the protein market and meet the demands of the future, we have to be sustainable in both. We need to have protein and be able to grow it and have a feed source for pork and poultry. Corn is an efficient and economic feed source for all our protein.” Consider these ways the corn industry is continuing its efforts toward sustainable practices, according to the National Corn Growers Association’s Sustainability Report. Soil Conservation Healthy soils are the foundation of agriculture production and why corn farmers are committed to leaving land in better shape than they found it. Adoptions in conservation tillage and other soil conservation strategies have contributed to a reduction in erosion. Water Stewardship Farmers recognize the invaluable role water plays in
raising crops each year. They also know they must actively protect this resource for the benefit of their crops, their communities and the planet. Ecosystem Resilience With approximately 90 million acres planted annually, corn is grown in a variety of ecosystems. Supporting the health of those ecosystems requires active attention from farmers, who respond by using integrated pest management techniques, establishing wildlife habitats on their lands and more. Energy Efficiency Technology that enhances farmers’ productivity also help reduce the amount of energy and emissions required for corn production. Farmers provide a carbon reduction strategy through the production of ethanol and the support of the Renewable Fuel Standard, a program created by Congress intended to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and expand the nation’s renewable fuels sector while reducing reliance on imported oil. Minimal Waste Due to corn’s versatility, from animal feed to ethanol production and bioplastics,
by delivering 19 vitamins and minerals plus 7 grams of protein per serving. When it’s time for fueling up the family at the dinner table, pair Thai Chicken and Pork Skewers with Brussels Sprouts with Peanut Chipotle Vinaigrette for a protein-packed meal. Find more nutritious family-friendly recipes at gapeanuts.com.
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2 tablespoons chopped cilantro salt, to taste pepper, to taste 1 1/2 pounds boneless, skinless chicken breast 1 1/2 pounds pork tenderloin In mixing bowl, combine ginger, garlic, peanut butter, broth, soy sauce, chili oil, lime juice, honey and cilantro. Mix well and season with salt and pepper, to taste. Cut chicken and pork into strips and thread onto skewers. In non-metal container, marinate meat in half of peanut butter sauce 1-2 hours in refrigerator. Reserve remaining sauce for dipping. Heat oven to broil. Broil skewered meats until done, turning once. In pot, bring remaining sauce to boil and serve warm as dipping sauce. Brussels Sprouts with Peanut Chipotle Vinaigrette Recipe courtesy of Parker Wallace (parkersplate.com) on
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behalf of the Georgia Peanut Commission 2 pounds Brussels sprouts, halved peanut oil 2 tablespoons creamy peanut butter 2 tablespoons water 3 teaspoons champagne vinegar 2 teaspoons honey 1/8 teaspoon chipotle chili powder 1 pinch kosher salt, plus additional, to taste, divided orange or mandarin segments, for garnish fresh orange or mandarin juice, for garnish crispy fried shallots, for garnish crumbled French feta, for garnish chopped fresh mint, for garnish Preheat air fryer to 400 F. Lightly brush Brussels sprouts with peanut oil and place in fryer basket. Cook 1015 minutes, shaking halfway through. In small bowl, whisk peanut
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Experiencing the Paralympic Games Through the Eyes of a Former Competitor
BY MEGAN ROCHE STAFF WRITER
Randolph’s own Staci Mannella remembers the Sochi 2014 and PyeongChang 2018 games with pride. Mannella competed in both winter games as a member of the Paralympic Alpine Skiing team. When she was born in 1996, Mannella was diagnosed with achromatopsia. The condition limits her visual acuity to three feet and causes extreme sensitivity to light. Being a member of a ski loving family, Mannella quickly was brought up on the slopes. At the age of four, she was skiing downhill by holding onto a bamboo pole between two sighted skiers. By the time she reached the fifth grade, Mannella was competing for the Adaptive Sports Foundation race team at Windham Mountain. “When I first started, my parents were just grateful for the fact that I could ski so we could ski together as a family. I ended up really exceeding their expectations. I grew up skiing every weekend and then as a teenager, I ended up outskiing the instructors in the Windham Mountain program. I was told
that I should get involved in racing,” Mannella said. Inspired after a meeting with members of the US Paralympic Alpine Skiing team in 2008, Mannella began working toward her goal of representing the USA at the Paralympic Games. It all started when she was named to the developmental roster for Team USA three years after that inspirational meeting. In 2014, Mannella recalls her selection to the Team USA roster heading to Sochi for the Paralympic Games. “I was out skiing in Winter Park, Colorado and training. We had a feeling that we were going to make the team but you never know until its official. They named the team while we were out training. I remember being very excited. We all went out and bought a steak dinner together and celebrated,” Mannella said. In the 2014 Paralympic Games, Mannella placed just off the podium in sixth in both the giant slalom and slalom. One of her greatest memories from her competitive ski-
ing career came at the 2017 World Para Alpine Skiing Championships with a bronze medal finish in the super combined race. The competition in Italy was stiff and Mannella was not anticipating a podium finish. However, she highlights the importance of her favorite memories as moments when there were no spectators. “A lot of my favorite memories and moments come from the times when people weren’t watching. The medals are great but I also had a lot of opportunities to explore different places all over the world with people who were and are still very important to me,” Mannella shares. In 2018, as she arrived in PyeongChang, South Korea, her outlook on the games had not changed. In 2014, Mannella was overwhelmed with gratitude as she competed and 2018 was no different. “The first time I competed at the games, they tell you that its going to feel larger than life and it’s so big. It’s definitely true. Everything they tell you does not prepare you to compete on
a stage like that. When I was in Sochi, it was so intimidating. In 2018, it was the same thing. It’s not something that you become accustomed to. It’s still very exciting, but when you come in as a seasoned athlete you are looking at it from a different perspective,” Mannella shares. Her 2018 Paralympic Games results were still a top ten finish, placing ninth in the slalom, and tenth in the giant slalom and super-G. In fact, she wishes she was in Beijing competing in the 2022 Paralympic Games. “I think we often focus on the larger events like the Olympics and World Championships. I’ve been skiing for Team USA since I was 15 until I was 22. Those are malleable years and I owe a lot of who I am now because of how I’ve been impacted by my time as an athlete. If I could choose to be skiing right now, I would but I also recognize that right now I need to focus on school and my career beyond skiing so that’s been the sacrifice I’ve made,” Mannella says. A 2014 graduate of Morris
County School of Technology and a 2019 graduate of Dartmouth College, Mannella is now studying for her Masters at the School of Kinesiology
at the University of British Columbia. To learn more about Mannella, visit www.stacimannella. com.
she says she was blessed with excellent teachers who guided her, per se, back to herself. Notable among those who helped her were Francesca Pelaggi at the Morris County Art Association, who helped her rediscover and greatly improve her techniques with landscape and acrylic painting. Compton focused on her landscape painting for about three years before the COVID-19 pandemic came into full force, which prompted doors to close across the country and forced life to a grinding halt. The slow-down was a welcomed change for Compton, who used the time and the space to jump head first into her art. By then she had reacquired and refined her form in landscape painting— lonely, Hopper-esque landscapes somehow both cool and warm, with graceful renditions on early-morning and afternoon sunlight, and vibrant greens and blues. After the pandemic, however, she expanded her repertoire, bolstered by the challenge to try something new. She went ahead and started painting pets—dogs and cats—including her own golden retriever,
Maggie. The renditions come out beautifully, with particular note on the lifelike expression in the faces of each pet. “I paint them from photographs,” says Compton. “Some of the dogs I know, and others I get commissions to paint, and so I go over and meet the dog or cat. You kind of just get a feel for who they each are. It’s all in the eyes for me. Once you get the eyes, you really get the essence of the dog.” The hardest part of painting the pets for Compton is getting commissions of ones that have passed away. She never sets out to paint to do a lackluster job, but in such situations she feels an extra drive to get it just right. She notes that regardless of the circumstances of her painting of pets, she finds cats easier to represent simply because of the uniformity of their bodies’ shape. “The shape of their bodies is so similar that all you really need to do is alter their eye color, their fur, any minor details they may have on them that separate them from other cats, but that’s really it,” she says. “But with dogs, the expressions on the faces are so
different. They’re a lot harder to capture.” Compton says her greatest forms of inspiration from the professional art world are Vincent Van Gogh and Edward Hopper, two artists whose influences we can clearly see in her own work. But aside from these two giants, Compton has drawn her inspiration from the profound, mysterious beauty of the Irish countryside, especially western Ireland. She is filled and renewed at the richness of Irish landscapes, which almost always find a way to make it back onto her canvas. Her parents were born in Ireland and she is a first-generation American herself. “I love the greenery,” she says, “and of course the big skies and clouds. Ireland is such a beautiful country, and many of the paintings in my collection are directly from some of the sights I’ve seen there. But the look of a big blue sky, the sunset, the play on the light with the clouds, the way it all touches and plays
with the landscape—it’s just always struck me as magnificent and so uplifting, promising, regardless of where I’ve encountered it.” Compton relishes the fact that she can look out her window in Chester and see that interplay of light and land every day, and after the slow-down of the world as a result of the pandemic, she feels many other people stopped to see it as well. When she built her website—www.margaretcomptonart.com—she put up a quote as a welcome banner for guests; it reads “living in art.”
She confesses, “I really like that quote because to me, it’s always been a dream to get back to my painting. It’s a dream to be doing it, honestly. A pleasure and a privilege to be able to do this. I had been visualizing the day I’d get back into it for a long time. And it’s nice to be acknowledged. I feel like it’s my second act, and it feels really good to reinvent yourself and be recognized for it. It’s fun.” For more information on Margaret Compton’s artwork, please visit her website at www. margaretcomptonart.com.
Dogs, Cats, and Irish Landscapes: Chester Resident Margaret Compton is Inspired
BY ALEXANDER RIVERO STAFF WRITER
AREA - She was born and raised in Jersey City and as a young girl, exhibited a natural knack for the brush. Before she knew it, however, she was raising her precious children and working sales for AT&T in Manhattan, and the idea of easing into a stool and pulling up a fresh canvas was as distant to her as leaving everything to go backpack Europe. The children are older now, however, the AT&T job is a thing of the past, and Margaret Compton, Chester resident and forever artist at heart, is very much back to where it all began, and happy about it. “I started battling back in 2017,” she says, referring to the painting skills she knew were within her despite decades without touching a brush. She remembers feeling inspired to reawaken her skills after seeing a Van Gogh exhibit in New York in 2017 and walking away feeling both refreshed and as if a fire had been lit under her. She jumped right in. Within days, she began working on her craft at the Visual Arts Center in Summit, as well as at the Morris County Art Association in Morristown, where
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