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Passaic County Veterans Champion for the Care Our Veterans Deserve

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By Jillian Risberg ith Veteran’s day right around the corner, if you served in the military — it’s reassuring to know you have someone in your corner, and that person is Passaic County Veterans’ Officer: John Harris.

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“I advocate for the veterans who live within Passaic County,” says Harris, a Vietnam War veteran. “And that means getting their health benefits, filing compensation claims, the appeals, going to the Board of Veterans Appeals; a multitude of things.”

According to Harris, he’s also partnered up with Supportive Services for Veteran Families (SSVF) Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Newark and established a stakeholders group.

“That has grown now from Passaic County into 10 counties and entails clothing closets for veterans, unmet needs fund and we help those that are really are in need,” he says.

Harris took over the Passaic office in 2012 after 32 years with the Paterson Fire Department.

He’s been a member and vice president of the Paterson Veteran’s Council for many years, along with president Tony Vancheri.

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“And we’ve always been advocating for the benefits for veterans,” Harris says. “When this position was available, I took it and I am an accredited veteran’s service officer.”

Reaction to veterans has changed with the times.

“Drastically,” says Harris. “I know when I came back (he was in the Marines from 1966 to 1970), there was no homecoming, just put on your civilian clothes and stay low-key.

“And the VA didn’t want any part of us back then either,” he says. “It was like ‘you’re done with your services here, that’s it; have a good life.’”

According to Harris, what happened next is everybody started falling ill.

“Between the agent orange that was used in Vietnam and the dioxins that were a part of that, all the cancers I’m seeing — so many of those,” he says. “I mean, 40 and 50 years later guys are getting sick because the dioxins hide in continued on page 12

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National Winter Activity Center Announces Rebrand as Winter4Kids

head of the winter season, the National Winter Activity Center is Winter4Kids. Winter4Kids is programs, a facility (National Winter Activity Center) and the most committed and passionate team of individuals. It offers mentoring, meals, equipment and experiential winter learning for school age youth. Still located in Vernon, NJ, The National Winter Activity Center is the nation’s only 501(c)(3) nonprofit winter facility, dedicated to im-

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proving the lives of youth through winter activity. The aim is to leverage the “dark days of winter” and challenge the children to be much more active. This season Winter4Kids will accommodate almost 3,100 youth.

From new lifts and trails, to an upgraded lodge along with state of the art, fully automated snowmaking, Winter4Kids welcomes a host of new upgrades. With the addition of a Nordic Center in 2019 and a

Doo Wop Group will Perform at Wayne Library

n Wednesday, November 13, 2019 the Wayne Public Library’s Lunchbox Learning program will feature “The Wildcats”. Doors open at 12:00 p.m. for light refreshments. The program runs from 12:30 – 1:30 p.m. This program is free and open to the public. This is a family friendly program. The Wayne Public Library is a barrier free building.

The Wildcats are a group of seniors who met in Bergen Community College’s (Paramus) Institute for Learning in Retirement. They bonded over their love of doowop, and perform across Bergen, Passaic

and Rockland Counties in New Jersey and New York.

The group broke off from a larger chorus, “Sing Sing Sing”, directed by Barbara Heitmann of Oakland, NJ. Ms. Heitman is still their musical director, but this group specializes in “Doo Wop” from the 50’s and 60’s. The Wildcats perform at Malls, Senior Centers, Retirement Communities, Libraries, Community Centers and many Clubs and Organizations.

This program is sponsored by The Wayne Public Library and the Friends of the Wayne Public Library.

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27,700 square foot lodge addition complete with full kitchens, expanded equipment rooms and a cafeteria coming online during the summer of 2020, the program and venue will be poised to accommodate 10,000 kids annually by 2023.

“The goal for the National Winter Activity Center has always been to increase access to incremental, life changing, winter activity in children across the country.

Through Winter4Kids, our original vision remains the same as aspects of the vision have been amplified,” said Schone Malliet, Founder and CEO of Winter4Kids. “At our core, winter activities are a means to end for the kids, and our programs makes unimaginable dreams inevitable opportunities.”

Winter4Kids program school age youth receive experiential learning, life changing values from coaching mentors and are provided with the appropriate equipment, clothing and healthy meals over the course of six sessions.

Winter4Kids Progress • Nordic Center – Fully deployed this year, the Nordic Center features a 1.5KM loop with snowmaking and lights, supported by a new lodge with eating, equipment and storage areas. In conjunction with the Norwegian Ski Federation and Winter-

4Kids board member, Helen Ingebretsen, a “ski play” component has been developed for fun freestyle runs.

• Winter Activity Club – Participating in programs will cultivate young enthusiasts who return year over year, have a love for the outdoors, and a desire to sustain their progress. An annual trip with parents and guardians is planned.

• Team Winter4Kids - This program molds young athletes by supporting events and activities that are recreational, organized (US Ski and Snowboard), and interscholastic (NJISRA and USCSA). The development of the competition facilities supports high level Alpine and Nordic events as well. This year, we will host a NOR AM Cup Parallel Slalom event, as well as Regional FIS competitions with US Ski & Snowboard.

“We’re being very intentional about being a resource for the winter sports community,” said Malliet. “Embracing a love for the outdoors, while acquiring skills, our participants look forward to new opportunities for their lives. Improving health, better attendance in school and the joy of new perspectives creates inflection points for these kids. We make a difference!”

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A VIEW FROM THE LEFT

A VIEW FROM THE RIGHT

Republican Sense of Humor

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wenty years ago, former U.S. Transportation Secretary, President of the Red Cross and future North Carolina Sen. Elizabeth Dole was a decidedly long-shot candidate for the Republican presidential nomination -- an honor her husband, former Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole had won four years earlier, only to lose in the general election to Democratic incumbent Bill Clinton.

Then out of elective public office for the first time in 36 years, Bob Dole was most often seen as the television pitchman for a product promising to improve erectile function. Curious about why Elizabeth Dole, a certified dark horse, was running for the White House, I asked humorist Mark Russell, who explained.

“If you were married to the test pilot for Viagra, you’d do almost anything to get out of the house.”

Bob Dole was that most special of political leaders who subscribed to John F. Kennedy’s thesis: “There are three things which are real: God, human folly and laughter. The first two are beyond our comprehension, so we must do what we can with the third.” Of all the politicians I have covered, none -- certainly no Republican -- has done more for and with humor than Robert J. Dole the favorite son of Russell, Kansas.

He had been President Gerald Ford’s running mate in the photo-finish 1976 election won by Democrat Jimmy Carter, leading to this Dole insight: “I don’t know how many people run for vice president and for president and lose both.” Of the vice presidential nomination, custom of which somehow dictates that no one who covets it be seen overtly seeking to be chosen, Dole wisely observed: “The vice presidential nomination is like the last cookie on the plate; everybody insists they don’t want it, but somebody

Mark Shields always takes it.”

Someone as exceptionally witty as Bob Dole sometimes gets credit for great lines whether or not he was the author.

Take this one, following the obvious tension between him as Senate Republican leader and GOP House Speaker Newt Gingrich, who had disparaged the consensus-builder Dole as “the tax collector for the welfare state.” When Gingrich’s public popularity in the polls plummeted precipitously, the story goes, he sought the counsel of the older, wiser Dole.

“Why do so many people take such an instant dislike to me?” asked a shaken Gingrich. Dole’s succinct explanation: “Because it saves them time.”

Bob Dole could disarm with his candor. He once observed: “Some of us in the Senate are uncomfortable taking honoraria (for speeches before groups). I am uncomfortable taking campaign contributions. So I compromised. I decided to take both.”

My personal Dole classic: Once, at a White House ceremony, there standing continued on page 6

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I wrote the book on the Obama administration’s “Culture of Corruption” 10 years ago, including a thick and sordid chapter on the Beltway swamp creatures of the Biden family. See-noevil liberals scoffed at my catalogue of back-scratching, shady Delaware deals and Wall Street funny money: What nepotism? What ethical lapses? What corruption?

Now, Hunter Biden himself, the youngest son of former Vice President and Democratic presidential front-runner Joe Biden, finally admitted this week what Daddy’s pooh-poohing pals have long (publicly) denied: “I don’t think that there’s a lot of things that would have happened in my life if my last name wasn’t Biden,” Hunter confessed on ABC’s “Good Morning America” Tuesday.

Well, knock me over with a feather and plaster-cast my shocked face.

On cue, the Dems’ favorite “GOP strategist,” swamp lobbyist wife and anti-Trump loudmouth Ana Navarro Cardenas, cooed over Hunter’s “self-awareness” and “humility.” But even as the theatrically humbled Hunter admitted his privilege (staged the morning before Biden the Senior faced off for the fourth high-stakes Democratic presidential debate), he insisted he was as “qualified” as “anybody else” for his $50k-a-month gig at Ukrainian natural gas company Burisma Holdings.

After all, Hunter puffed: “I was vice chairman of the board of Amtrak for five years. I was the chairman of the board of the U.N. World Food Program.

I was a lawyer for Boies Schiller Flexner, one of the most prestigious law firms in the world.”

Hold up, Sonny Boy. Reciting a litany of your unqualified domestic appoint-

Michelle Malkin ments to bolster the qualifications of your foreign gigs lacks -- what’s the word? -- self-awareness. “GMA” hostess Amy Robach, who had promised a “no holds barred” grilling, whiffed on fully informing viewers about Hunter’s lifelong biography of conflicts of interest and cashing in.

The Burisma “mistake” is a feature, not a bug, in the bubble-protected life and times of Delaware’s dirty Democrat dynasty. I repeat: --Hunter’s first job, acquired after Joe Biden won his 1996 Senate reelection bid in Delaware, was with MBNA. The credit card conglomerate and top campaign finance donor forked over nearly $63,000 in bundled primary and general contributions from its employees to then-Sen. Biden -- who secured his custom-built, multimillion-dollar house in Delaware’s ritziest Chateau Country neighborhood with the help of a leading MBNA corporate executive.

Average Joe went on to carry legislative water for MBNA in the Senate for years. continued on page 6

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Beltway Bidenspawn-Ship... continued from page 4 --Hunter quickly ascended to senior vice president at MBNA by early 1998 and then scored a plum position in the Clinton administration’s Commerce Department, specializing in “electronic commerce” before returning to MBNA three years later as a high-priced “consultant.” While he collected those “consulting” (translation: nepotistic access-trading) fees, Hunter became a “founding partner” in the lobbying firm of

Oldaker, Biden and Belair in 2002.

--William Oldaker was Papa Biden’s former fundraiser, campaign treasurer and general counsel -- a Beltway barnacle whose Democratic machine days dated back to Teddy Kennedy’s 1980 presidential bid. Under Oldaker’s mentorship, Hunter lobbied for drug companies, universities and other deep-pocketed clients to the tune of nearly $4 million billed to the company by 2007.

Then-Illinois Sen. Barack Obama personally

Republican Sense of Humor... continued from page 4 next to each other were former presidents Jimmy Carter, Gerald Ford and Richard Nixon -- or, as Bob Dole identified them, “See No Evil, Hear No Evil and Evil.” He could be caustic.

Reflecting upon his Senate leadership, Bob Dole once spoke with pride about what he had worked on successfully and where he had made a difference: passing the Americans with Disabilities Act, working to pass the Voting Rights Act, compromising and collaborating with Democratic House Speaker Thomas Phillip “Tip” O’Neill to

shore up and save Social Security and helping create the Martin Luther King Jr. national holiday. Pretty serious body of work for a man of such wit.

Boy, could we use a party leader and a Senate leader who, yes, makes us smile and chuckle but who also makes such a large and positive difference in our nation.

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requested and secured cozy taxpayer-subsidized earmarks for several of Hunter’s clients.

--Hunter also was a top official at Paradigm Global Advisors, a hedge fund holding company founded with Joe Biden’s brother, James, and marketed by convicted finance fraudster Allen Stanford. As Paradigm chairman, Hunter oversaw half a billion dollars of client money invested in hedge funds while remaining a lobbyist at Oldaker, Biden and Belair. The ill-fated venture went bust amid nasty fraud lawsuits.

--The Biden Bro received a $500,000 loan from the family’s longtime donor, “friend” and Ukrainian-American businessman John Hynansky, which helped bail Uncle James Biden out of debt he racked up while renovating a massive, south Florida beachfront estate. Hynansky was also entangled in a messy Delaware real estate deal with Biden pal and convicted campaign finance and tax fraudster Chris Tigani, who spent two years in prison for laundering political donations through straw donors to Biden’s presidential campaign committee.

--Hunter then snagged a seat on the board of directors of taxpayer-subsidized,

stimulus-inflated Amtrak, where he pretended not to be a lobbyist, but rather an “effective advocate” for the government railroad system serving the 1-percenters’ D.C.-NYC corridor.

And all of this was before Qualified-As-Anybody-Else Hunter snagged his lucrative foreign gigs in Ukraine and China (not to mention the humiliating interlude when he was booted from the Navy Reserve in 2014 for cocaine use while “working” as a public affairs officer -- a cushy, part-time job he secured only after finagling waivers for his age and a previous drug offense).

The law license Hunter is so proud of earning was conveniently protected from review and revocation.

Bidenspawn-ship has its privileges -- lavishly underwritten by “Average Joe’s” half century-long career on the public teat.

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Passaic County Hosting Caregiver Appreciation Day Celebration

n November 19, from 9:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m., the Passaic County Department of Senior Services, Disability, Veteran’s Affairs, and Preakness Healthcare Center will be hosting Caring for You: A Caregiver Appreciation Day. Registration opens at 9:00 a.m. The event will be held at Preakness Healthcare Center at 305 Oldham Road, Wayne.

Guest speakers will include Shelley Steiner, LSW and Support Group Coordinator for Alzheimer’s New Jersey, Heather Shasa, Retail Registered Dietician at ShopRite of Little Falls, Beth O’Connor, Regional Manager of Veterans Home Care LLC, and Eric Goldberg, Esq. of Mandelbaum Salsburg.

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November Book Talk at Wayne Library

ust finished your workday? Unwind from the day at our Monthly Monday Book Talk. We’ll generally meet around the end of each month to talk about a variety of books focusing on Historical Fiction, Foreign Settings, and/or Multicultural Stories.

Our next title is There There by Tommy Orange which we’ll discuss on Monday November 25, at 6:15-7:15 p.m. in the Board Room (upstairs). A novel that grapples with the complex history and identity of Native Americans follows twelve characters, each of whom has private reasons for traveling to the Big Oakland Powwow. Jacquie Red Feather is newly sober and trying to make it back to the family she left behind in shame in Oakland. Dene Oxedrene is pulling his life together after his uncle’s death and has come to work the powwow and to honor his uncle’s memory. Edwin Frank has come to find his true father. Bobby Big Medicine has come to drum the Grand Entry. Opal Viola Victoria Bear Shield has come to watch

her nephew Orvil Red Feather; Orvil has taught himself Indian dance through YouTube videos, and he has come to the Big Oakland Powwow to dance in public for the very first time. Tony Loneman is a young Native American boy whose future seems destined to be as bleak as his past, and he has come to the Powwow with darker intentions--intentions that will destroy the lives of everyone in his path. Fierce, angry, funny, groundbreaking--Tommy Orange’s first novel is a wondrous and shattering portrait of an America few of us have ever seen. There There is a multi-generational, relentlessly paced story about violence and recovery, hope and loss, identity and power, dislocation and communion, and the beauty and despair woven into the history of a nation and its people.

Books will be available approx. 4 weeks before, at the Reference desk. Please contact Eleana at cordovae@waynepubliclibrary.org or 973-694-4272 ext. 5406 if you’d like to join.

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To Find Her Daughter, Pamela’s Determined Search

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By Richard Mabey Jr. have the honor and pleasure of knowing Pamela Reynolds Ross, since the first grade. For the most part, we were in each other’s classes all through grade school.

We were very good friends. We stayed friends all through high school, but in attending a regional high school, sadly we lost a bit of the close friendship that we shared in grade school. Truly, Pamela is one of the kindest individuals whom I have ever known in my entire life.

Pamela has been working very hard, for several decades, to find her biological daughter, whom Pamela gave up for adoption when she was only 17 years old. This was back in 1971. It was a different time then, a different culture. Nobly, Pamela signed adoption papers, thinking that would be best for her baby daughter.

As the ink hit the paper, on the adoption papers, Pamela was truly alone. She was offered no legal counsel at all. She was offered no psychological counseling at all. The powers that be assured Pamela that she was doing the right thing. That giving up her baby daughter was for the best for her little daughter.

In a room, the size of a closet, Pamela signed the adoption papers. Then, in a matter of seconds, her precious baby was whisked away from her, never to be seen by Pamela ever again.

The biological father of Pamela’s beloved baby girl was

a 24 year old Vietnam Veteran, whom Pamela had fallen deeply in love with. Dreams of marriage, a cottage, a white picket fence, were shattered, when the love of Pamela’s life, left her and shirked his responsibilities to help Pamela raise her beloved baby girl. Sadly, Pamela’s boyfriend at the time, suffered from a serious case of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder.

Fast forward to the present time. Pamela simply wants her biological daughter to have the option to have the opportunity to meet her, if she wants. Pamela’s daughter is now 48 years old and would be capable of making that decision on her own. In Pamela’s own words, here is her perspective in a nutshell.

“The whole point is this: I’m not trying to replace the adoption family or win custody. I never wanted to put my daughter through a tug-a-war. I simply would love to know she is well. Importantly, she should have her vital health history. I’ve asked if someone would kindly contact her and let her know our contact information. At the age of 48, she can choose what she wants to do with that information.”

So without further ado, here are the essential clues to the identity of Pamela’s biological daughter, whom Pamela relinquished for adoption back in 1971: Pamela gave birth to her baby girl on January 18th of 1971, at Chilton Hospital in Pompton Plains, New Jersey.

The adoptive father was an accountant. The adoptive mother was a registered nurse. The couple had a six year old son, at the time they adopted Pamela’s baby girl. Sadly, Pamela has not been able to find a court or agency that will attempt to contact the woman who Pamela gave birth to and relinquished for adoption.

The adoption process took place on November 16th of 1971 at the Morris County Courthouse in Morristown, New Jersey. The Adoption Agency, Department of Children and Families, was also located in Morristown. The adoptive couple were both of the Roman Catholic faith.

From all indications, it appears that this couple lived in Morris County in 1971.

Sadly, these are the only clues that Pamela has, in her search to locate her biological daughter. Pamela is now 66 years old. Her biological daughter, whom she gave up for adoption, is now 48 years old. Pamela is more determined than ever to find her daughter. Pamela is emotionally prepared, if her biological daughter does not want to talk to her or see her. But for Pamela, she just longs to know if her daughter is healthy, safe and sound.

If any of these clues ring a bell for you, please do contact Pamela. Her email address is: paross@visuallink.com.

Regardless of how far reaching it may seem, if you know anyone for whom these few clues fit, please do contact Pamela. It would mean so very much to Pamela.

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Passaic County Veterans Champion...

continued from front page your fat cells. And that’s where I start coming in and helping them get their claims filed and get the medical help they need.”

By the time American forces finally withdrew in 1973, roughly 2.7 million US soldiers had fought in Vietnam, and more than 58,000 had died, according to history.com.

“I think there’s about 750,000 left, that’s it,” Harris says.

“And you always ask, ‘what did they do to us.’ And then we had contaminated water.”

We can each do our part to make a difference when we come across a veteran.

“If you see a veteran who is in dire need of help — because we have so many veterans that are suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder, from multiple deployments, even as far back as World War II, you can volunteer to help out in different programs within your own communities,” Harris says.

With everything veterans faced once they returned home, they were often told to ‘suck it up and get over it,’ but he says you don’t.

As a Vietnam (combat) veteran, Harris has been through the system himself.

“Most of us who advocate for veterans today are Vietnam veterans,” he says. “One of the biggest things that came about in 1979 because of Vietnam veterans is the vet centers.”

They’re part of the VA but separate from them in freestanding buildings, away from the big VA. “They deal strictly with PTSD, a lot of our female veterans are suffering, they have help for them — whether it’s

military sexual trauma (and more); they save lives,” Harris says.

According to the Veterans’ Officer, we’re very lucky in North Jersey since we have a center in Bloomfield and another one in Secaucus.

“I do numerous referrals,” Harris says. “I probably refer people there every week and I know that’s a place where they can get help.”

He says veterans tend to isolate themselves when they’re suffering and with that comes self-medication, which really gets them in trouble. Suicide rates among vets are dangerously high.

“We did a veterans suicide initiative because they say the average is 22 a day,” Harris says. “Even one is too many.”

That data was from a 2012 report, while 2014 analysis reflects an average of 20 veterans a day died from suicide.

And they’re not going to reach out and ask for help, so Harris says they hold gatherings and seminars to connect with the veterans to make sure to get information out there.

“A lot of times I’ll get a phone call from a family member, ‘gee, my brother needs help, my son really needs help or my daughter needs help, they’re suffering.’”

Harris asks if they’re willing to receive the help because that’s the key.

“Sometimes with that little helping hand you could save a life,” he says. “I’ve seen it happen numerous times.”

They want to prevent letting it get to the point where a veteran doesn’t see any other way.

“I’ve had a couple who’ve taken their lives and it does a lifetime of damage to the family because they start blaming

themselves (even though) it’s not their fault,” Harris says.

If you do see someone suffering, the Veterans’ Officer says to give him a call, give the VA a call — and if it’s really imminent, call 9-1-1.

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lot of help out there and a lot of services being offered by the VA.” They have clinics now in Paterson and Hackensack. Specialty medical procedures have to be done at the VA Medical Center in East Orange.

“But for general practice, primary care and all that — the VA clinics are outstanding,” Harris says. “I get a lot of people that say they’ve never signed up for the VA and I give them the direction on how to do it the quick way instead of filling out some form, sending it in and waiting for an answer. I send them in person to get in the system.”

He finds out exactly how they are suffering, when they served — and what they did when they served.

“That answers a lot of questions as to whether they’re going to have a service connected disability; whether it’s an illness, injury, wounds, they need psychological help — and that’s what we do here.”

How one contributes during Veteran’s Day is an individual preference; if you volunteer at a veteran’s clinic, visit veterans who are hospitalized or in nursing homes.

“Pay them a visit ‘cause a lot of them are lonely; get a little group together,” Harris says. “If you want to help financially, make a donation to one of your local groups — the VFW, the American Legion, the Marine Corp. League, they all do things to help veterans.”

Whether it’s having bingo at the veteran’s home in Paramus or in Lyons, it’s something to say, ‘you’re not forgotten.’

“Just come out and support, especially in the towns, the cities,” Harris says. “We’ve actually brought most of the monuments to McBride Ave in Paterson and made the

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Hayden Heights Veterans Memorial Park. On Veteran’s Day and Memorial Day we have services there and actually get a good turnout.”

It’s so important to get the word out about these events, the Veteran’s Officer suggests announcing it in the local papers and radio station.

“Try to get people to respond and pay honor to these veterans,” Harris says. “You have to remember all the freedoms that we have are because of veterans.”

And the sense of camaraderie among vets is everything.

“I think that’s what keeps us going,” Harris says. “I belong to the VFW, DAV, American Legion, I’m a life member of the Marine Corp. League and like my fellow marines; it’s a brotherhood, there’s no two ways about it.”

He calls it his ‘lifetime sentence’ and says they respect each other for what they accomplished.

“One thing I notice when we’re together we never talk about the war, never tell war stories,” the Vietnam vet says.

“Those who’ve been into combat don’t tell war stories. We just remember the funny things and try to keep each other up.”

He says they attend reunions of those they served with, a group of vets who Harris grew up with in Paterson head to Veteran’s Day services every year, and they all go out to lunch afterwards.

“A lot of the restaurants, big chain outfits now give veterans a free dinner or lunch on Veteran’s Day and that’s a great thing,” Harris says. “More businesses should do this.

Makes you feel proud that you did serve.”

From a young age, he says he knew he wanted to follow in the footsteps of his father, a World War II veteran.

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“He was a draftee at 30-years-old,” Harris says. “That’s a little bit old at the time but he was proud of his service. He served in France during the war and I was proud of him; I used to see his uniform hanging in the closet.”

The Veterans’ Officer also had a lot of friends enlisting in the Marine Corp. from Paterson at the time. He was only 17-years-old and had to have his parents sign for him.

“I could still remember bringing the recruiter home and my father looking at me, ‘are you out of your mind,’” Harris says.

The Vietnam War was starting to escalate — this was 1966, but Harris stood firm and told his father this is what he wanted to do.

“He reluctantly signed for me and I went,” he says. “The war part of it we could have done without, but the rest of it was a pretty good experience.”

According to Harris, many veterans are able to run on adrenaline — it comes from being a combat vet, but after a while they crash and may even fall through the cracks. That’s what makes him especially proud to be part of the Passaic County Veterans.

“Not that I’m looking for a pat on the back because I’m not into that, but I feel good that I helped somebody today and I helped somebody that was probably looking for help years ago and never got it,” Harris says.

“Getting somebody into VA healthcare, getting them their benefits, getting them a compensation award for injuries or illnesses changes lives,” he says.

So if you do one thing this Veteran’s Day, go up to a veteran and say, ‘thank you for your service.’

“And just honor them in that way,” Harris says.

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I Remember Dad:

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By Richard Mabey Jr. n early November of 1945, my Dad came home from the war. It was a wonderful, joyous time for my Dad. My Dad served in the Seventh Army Air Corps at Hickam Air Field during the Second World War. Hickam Field is adjacent to Pearl Harbor. One portion of the base’s border actually touches the border line of Pearl Harbor.

Dad was sent, with hundreds of other men, to help clean up the terrible damage that had desecrated Pearl Harbor and Hickam Air Field. Even to just days before Dad went Home to be with the Lord, he could hardly even talk about the devastation and destruction that the Japanese attack had left.

Dad worked on some of the greatest planes of World War II. Among them were the infamous single seater fighter plane, the P-51 Mustang. And, also the B-25 Mitchell bomber plane. Dad learned to become a good airplane mechanic during his time of service at Hickam Air Field.

Japan surrendered in early September of 1945 and in early November 1945, Dad returned home to his Mom and Dad and brothers and sister, in their humble home at the end of Mabey Lane in Old Lincoln Park. This was the very home that my Dad was born in. The very home that my Grandpa Mabey built, when he was a young man.

I think that the Thanksgiving of 1945 was very special and very dear to my father’s heart. He spoke of it continued on page 15

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The Thanksgiving of 1945, is the very time when my Dad and his brother, Edward, went hunting for a turkey in the woods behind their home. Grandma often told me how they came home with a turkey, both of her sons taking credit for having been the better aim. It was always a friendly, good-willed debate between the two brothers that extended throughout both of their lives.

The Thanksgiving of 1945, is also the time when Dad began setting up his elaborate train village. There was a little hall area, just outside of Dad’s bedroom. It was there that Dad built a long wooden table, upon which to set up his imaginative train tracks, filled with homes and stores along the tracks.

It was also the era in which my Dad got his first real, full time job as a truck driver for Moon Carrier, located in Paterson, New Jersey. After a few years of working for that company, Dad and his brother Edward started their own business, Mabey Trucking and Rigging. They rented a small trucking terminal in Paterson. The company flourished for many years.

Whenever my Dad spoke of the Thanksgiving of 1945, he would have a twinkle in his eye and a bit of a smile on

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his face. I regret that I never videotaped some of my father’s recollections and stories of life “right after the war.”

It was a phrase that Dad often used. It was a marker of sorts. There was the time “before the war,” and the time “after the war.” I think it marked, for my father, his days of boyhood and then his days when he became a man.

World War II was a mark of manhood for my Dad. I loved my Dad with all my heart. My Dad went Home to be with the Lord in May of 2006. I still deeply mourn his passing. There were so many stories that Dad would tell about his time at Hickam Air Field and about his return home to peace time, when the war ended. I think that the Thanksgiving of 1945 was one of the most special thanksgivings in my father’s life.

Dad loved the old Mabey Estate. So much so that when his grandmother, Dora Mabey, passed away in 1959, Dad bought the old Mabey Homestead. It still stands on the corner of Route 202 and Mabey Lane, a testament to the carpentry skills of my great grandfather, William Mabey.

This was the very home where Mom and Dad raised my sister, Patricia, and I. My Dad was a dedicated Scoutmaster of Boy Scout Troop 170 of Saint Andrew’s Episcopal Church. Dad served as Scoutmaster from 1965 till 1993. Dad loved scouting.

He had a deep conviction that it was a good and worthy thing for a boy to be a scout and learn self reliance, morals and how to use a compass.

I can still hear the echo of my late Uncle Ed, “I know you took the first shot at that turkey, Dick. But, I’m telling you brother, it was my shot that got that old Tom Turkey.”

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Casa Arturo Offers Fresh Cuisine as its Passion

By Tina Pappas t’s a love affair with fresh cuisine and pleasing his patrons when it comes to Arturo Morocho’s passion. As owner of Casa Arturo, located at 75 Main Street in Little Falls, (where the former Toscania Trattoria restaurant was located) he says he always gets pleasure in making sure his patrons leave very satisfied from his restaurant.

Originally from Ecuador, Morocho has lived in the U.S. for the past 19 years and has made restauranteering an art form. It was a dream of his to open up his own place, and the dream became a reality. Casa Arturo offers a variety of fish, pasta chicken, along with an extensive list of specials served daily.

“I’ve owned this restaurant for the past two years and five months and it has consistently been growing, mainly because of word of month and I’m grateful for that,” Morocho explained.

“I used to work at Justin’s in Hawthorne as head waiter and I learned a lot working there. But I had wanted to take a chance and challenge myself for some time so I did it. Our cuisine here is Italian Continental and I have a wonderful chef and staff.”

Growing up in Ecuador, he married his sweetheart, Bertha, right after graduating high school. They are now raising four children. The restaurant has become a real family business for them, with his children helping out when they can.

“I had just graduated high school and was newly married but my wife and I realized that there just wasn’t any opportunity to grow back in our home town,” he recalled. “So we migrated to the states in 2001. My oldest child, a daughter and is now 18, helps me couple of times a week in between her college courses as head waitress. She’s doing great and

people really like her. My son who is 14, also helps me out as a busser, when he’s not in school or studying.”

When asked if he think his own children might follow in his footsteps, Morocho was a little unsure.

“They really are helpful and have a great work ethic but I feel they want to follow different paths,” he said. “They realize that you have to follow your heart in this and love it because it’s long hours - up to six days a week when you have to be at your restaurant. It takes dedication and commitment so if you’re just in it to make money, you’re not going to get very far.”

Morocho said his patrons typically come from the surrounding areas, such as Woodland Park, Totowa, Cedar Grove, Clifton, Wayne, the Caldwells, and of course, Little Falls. He said he has developed a clientele of loyal regulars as well, which he is on a first-name basis with. Many of their repeated requests for menu items are his stuffed artichoke and stuffed fig appetizers. Osobucco entrees, which are shanks of either lamb, pork or veal, are his popular entrees.

The family now hails from Bogota, N.J. and have recently opened up a second restaurant that features Colombian cuisine called “Bertha’s.” Morocho said the venture is going well so far. As an entrepreneur, he said the key is always to keep making his patrons happy and keeping things from getting repetitive and redundant, especially when it comes to his menus.

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We offer different kinds of fish, depending on what the market has, such as Chilean sea bass, halibut. We just like to change it up as much as we can. My customers really love that. Our restaurant is a very welcoming place where you can come to enjoy our food and feel you are at home but eating out.

Morocho also likes to get creative and come up with new dishes at least a month in advance to be ready to serve them to his patrons. He has an array of early bird specials served between 4 p.m. and 6 p.m. daily, as well.He added that he tries to buy minimally, in order to ensure freshness to his patrons with each appetizer or entree he serves to them.

“I just don’t want the food getting old,” he noted. “I only buy around five pounds of an item to make sure everything is always the freshest it can be. That’s always a priority here.”

One of Morocho’s vision for Casa Arturo

is to expand the space one day, if the opportunity presented itself.

“I would love to have the place grow and seat more people,” he said. “We get very busy here, especially on the weekend nights. We’re busy here weekdays as well.”

Casa Arturo was recently featured on the “On The Road” series on Cablevision’s News12 and spotlighted in The Record.

Some local patrons, who dine regularly, were on hand and said the food served is always fresh and delicious, which keeps them coming back.

“I absolutely love Arturo’s daily, specials,” said Danielle Furtenbacher, of Cedar Grove. “The food is always fresh.”

Scott Lowe, also of Cedar Grove, echoed the sentiment.

“His dishes are always delicious and the entree I just had here tonight, a pork dish, was fantastic.”

Morocho said he felt very touched by all the support for his restaurant he’s has received the past few years.

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A Holiday Roast to Remember

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Anthony Wayne American Legion Post 174: A “Family” Who Serves

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By Danielle Incognito and Steve Sears he Wayne American Legion is located at 55 Mountainview Blvd, Wayne, NJ. The American Legion Family of Post 174 boasts that they have “set their goals very high.” They believe in “not only giving back to our Veterans who we all know deserve it, but also to our Community, State, and Nation.”

The American Legion, Inc, is a US wartime veteran organization formed in Paris, on March 15, 1919, by three officers of the American Expeditionary Forces (AEF). The American Legion was chartered by the US Congress on September 16, 1919. It is headquartered in Indianapolis Indiana, and has a legislative office in Washington, DC. The Legion played a leading role in the drafting and passing of the Servicemen’s, otherwise known as the “GI Bill” According to The American Legion Website, “The American Legion is a nonpartisan, not-for-profit organization with great political influence perpetuated by its grass-roots involvement in the legislation process from local districts to Capitol Hill. Legionnaires’ sense of obligation to community, state and nation drives an honest advocacy for veterans in Washington. The Legion stands

behind the issues most important to the nation’s veterans community, backed by resolutions passed by volunteer leadership.”

The American Legion’s success depends entirely on active membership, participation and volunteerism. The organization belongs to the people it serves and the communities in which it thrives.

The Anthony Wayne American Legion Post 174 was chartered in 1932. Since then Post 174 has been dedicated to aiding our active military personnel, our veterans, and their families as well as our community.

“We achieve this through various programs and fundraisers,” says a proud Joseph Fricker, a Navy cold war submarine veteran and the current commander at post 174, who also boasts of the American Legion itself.

“The American Legion is the largest veteran organization in the United States and recently celebrated its 100th anniversary.”

American Legion Post 174 is, in Fricker’s words, “a family consisting of 3 groups all aiming to achieve a common mission.” He provides detail. “The Legionnaires, my fellow service men and women who actively serve or served in the United States military. We currently have 130 members. It is also important to mention the eligibility

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requirements have recently changed and now any veteran whom has served since Pearl Harbor is eligible to join us.” In addition, there is a Ladies auxiliary, consisting of spouses of active duty personnel or veterans or female descendants of active duty personnel or veterans, which numbers120 members. Then, there is the Sons of the

American Legion (SAL), consisting of male descendants of Active duty or veterans, currently with 117 members.

“I would also like to acknowledge our largest program,” says Fricker. “The American Legion Riders consisting of 140 members. Every member is required to belong to continued on page 22

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one of the above groups, or a member of another post in good standing. These members are motorcycle enthusiasts whom ride for charitable causes.” Post 174 also has an Honor Guard detail who provide services for deceased veterans, as well as provide honor services for local parades, holidays and ball games.

The organization is led by many. In addition to Fricker, First Vice Commander is John Swank, Second Vice Commander Mike Sturm, Third Vice Commander Chris Sedlock, Finance Bill Rucci, Chaplain Hank Tankski, Judge Advocate Barry Fitzpatrick, Adjutant Ed Sutton, Sgt at Arms John Alexander, and Executive Committee Scott Degen, Mark Sikder, and Ed Elliott.

Fricker adds, “It is important to realize the officer positions and titles come with duties but there are no ranks among us; we are all equal.”

The Wayne American Legion boasts the generosity and hard work of its members.

On its website it was proud to say that, “During the Christmas season, 2018, the American Legion Family of post 174 gave away 20 meals to veterans in need.” They delivered everything from Turkey or Ham to Apple pie directly to the homes. They announced that they were very grateful for the donations.

They are also expecting the same for the upcoming holiday season as well. The American Legion Family of Post 174 are accepting donations once again for Thanks-

giving and Christmas dinner for Veterans as well as those in need in our community and county. All donations can be brought to the Post. “To thank the community for whom we serve, Post 174 is currently accepting nonperishable food and monetary donations for the upcoming holiday season,” says Fricker.

The family of Post 174 hold several fundraisers and projects to raise money to aid servicemen, vets, their families and the community. These include a breakfast served every 3rd Sunday of the month, tricky trays, pig roasts, Christmas tree sales, motorcycle runs, the summer tour, chili cook-off, cook outs and more. “The funds generated,” says Fricker, “enable us to provide a multitude of donations.” These include Post 174 raising $13,000 for to COTA (Children’s Organ Transplant Association), funds to sponsor two vet dogs to aid two disabled servicemen, supplying the entire meal for 20 families each on Thanksgiving, Christmas and Easter, holding an annual Easter egg hunt, an annual drive for Toys For Tots (a three-day event from November 22 - 24 with bands free with a toy donation). “Post 174 annually sponsors approximately four young men to attend Boys State program at Rider University, (and) last year Post 174 collected to send a tractor trailer full of supplies to flood areas in Texas, has had rides and made donations to children’s autism, and collected money for Jayden continued on page 23

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American Legion Post 174... continued from page 22 Singer, a disabled young man and one of our post’s disabled youth. And let us not forget,” says Fricker, “the existing programs available through the post for the American Legion programs such as the Oratorical contest, the safety poster contest, scouting BSA, just to name a few.”

The Anthony Wayne Post 174 welcomes new members. They write, “If you are interested in becoming a member of the Legion, Ladies Auxiliary, Sons of The Legion,

and or the American Legion Riders please call or visit our Post. We are no longer your grandfather’s Post. The American Legion sponsors and supports many programs and gives away thousands of dollars in scholarships. For info on this visit www.Legion. org.”

Fricker adds, “In addition to the aid we at post 174 try to provide there are many programs available to our veterans thru the American Legion and its membership, and

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The New Jersey Federation of Women’s Clubs Celebrates Its 125th Anniversary

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By Steve Sears he New Jersey State Federation of Women’s Clubs of GFWC (General Federation of Women’s Clubs) has quite a past. 125 years to be exact.

But, what this large group of Garden State women are doing now to better the current and pave the path for the future ensures another 125 years and more.

Originally founded in 1894, the NJSFWC at one time had more than 40,000 members. There are approximately 6,500 current members, with 184 clubs statewide.

Mary Wolfe, a member of the Woman’s Club of Vineland, is also current state President. “The purpose, as it says in our Mission Statement, is to provide opportunities for education, leadership training, and community service through participation in local clubs, enabling members to make a difference in the lives of others one project at a time.” She then adds, “What distinguishes NJSFWC from other volunteer organizations is that we do not have a single focus.

Our member clubs across New Jersey select projects that are relevant to their members and address the needs of their communities. At the same time, NJSFWC offers clubs structure and support in their pursuit of community service.

Clubs have the opportunity to join together with other federated clubs to make their impact on a project even more significant.”

And, the tradition continues. Wolfe adds, “One way clubs work together is in support of the State Project, which is currently CASA, Court Appointed Special Advocates of New Jersey. Our clubs are working to raise public awareness of the organization and provide monetary and in-kind do-

nations. Just one example - this month clubs have been collecting craft items, such as coloring books and crayons, which will give the children in foster care an activity to do while their CASA volunteer and other adults are in discussions. Since the beginning of NJSFWC, clubs have worked tirelessly in support of legislation that is of significant importance to our Mission. Just recently, club members were

asked to contact their legislator on the same day (Monday, September 23) to urge support for Miranda’s Law. (Miranda Vargas School Bus Driver Red Flag Act). This was done in conjunction with our international organization, General Federation of Women’s Clubs, which is headquartered in Washington, DC. President of GFWC Mary Ellen Brock is continued on page 27

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Wolfe also claims that communication with members state-wide is sometimes challenging as well. “I think we’re making strides with that through our website (njsfwc.org). Whereas previously all information was sent to club presidents, now all members have access to our state newsletters, projects ideas, etc.”

Birthday #125 is being celebrated as only the NJSFWC knows how: by serving others. “Early in this administration,” says Wolfe, “the Shining Future Endowment Campaign was started to enable NJSFWC to continue our work well into the future.

Since the beginning of NJSFWC, most of our successes have been self-funded. But now we are looking to outside organizations for donations. Our dedicated website (www. njsfwcshiningfuture.org) was established to educate potential donors and provide a means to donate. With the funds, we hope to increase scholarships, work with organizations dedicated to helping survivors of sexual abuse and human trafficking, conduct a Membership Awareness Campaign and invest funds to ensure the Federation will continue its important work for the next 125 years.”

In addition, on November 16, the date of this amazing federation’s founding, the NJSFWC will hold a Day of Service. Clubs will be collecting and donating items for college students. “These items will be donated to Embrella (formerly Foster and Adoptive Family Services) for distribution to college students who have aged-out of the Foster Care System and do not have family support that is so vital to young people starting college,” says Wolfe.

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Temple Beth Tikvah Honors Past Presidents

t a recent Shabbat service and celebratory brunch, a group of former Presidents of Temple Beth Tikvah, 950 Preakness Ave. Wayne, were honored for their years of service. Temple Beth Tikvah was founded in 1956 as a Reform congregation. Beth Tikvah means

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Full Menu, Prices & Online Ordering Available at afpizza.com CATERING SPECIAL

15% OFF Any Catering Order over $300

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The Perfect Mix of Restaurant, Pizzeria & Home Delivery Now with 9 great locations serving Northern NJ

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To All of Wayne & Surrounding Areas

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Not valid on dine-in. With coupon. Cannot be combined with any other offer. Cannot be used with gift cards. Expires 11/30/19.

Online order code: 2off1130.

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Not valid on dine-in. With coupon. Cannot be combined with any other offer. Cannot be used with gift cards. Expires 11/30/19.

Online order code: 5off1130

2 CHEESE PIES $ 99 + Tax

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Online order code: 2pies1130

OPEN 7 DAYS • Next to Trader Joes

WAYNE • 1176 Hamburg Tpk. •

15% OFF

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Cannot be combined. Expires 11/30/19

973-633-8800