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Non-Profits Donate Backpacks To Elementary School Students for donations and they responded generously.

Hazel and Washington both received backpacks from World Organization for Positive Action (WOPA). Background on WOPA can be found on the website below.

This is the fifth year that WOPA has donated to both Hazel and Washington Schools.

Cynthia Hadley-Bailey, WO Rotary Club President Elect told the

“West Orange News” that once Mordecai’s request for backpacks was received, the organization immediately wanted to help.

“As the President-Elect of the West Orange Rotary Club, I immediately sent an email to our board and membership to request donations and there was such an outpouring of generosity,” she said.

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On Sept. 7, members of the West Orange African Heritage Organization (WOAHO) and the West Orange Rotary Club handed out 140 backpacks to the kids.

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Sandra Mordecai, president of the West Orange Board of Education, explained that she organized the backpack giveaway at Kelly Elementary School as well as Hazel and Washington Schools. She reached out to both organizations

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Non-Profits Donate Backpacks... continued from page 2 cious and gave them an opportunity to go to each classroom to meet students and let them know about the rotary and hand out the backpacks. She introduced them as “bucket-fillers.”

Some of Kelly’s fifth grade students helped unload and organize the backpacks for distribution.

“It was such a pleasure for me and other rotarians, Chris Alevras, Karen Ziegler, Fatima Maia and Peter Horn to be of service,” she said. “This opportunity to donate backpacks to Kelly School falls within the tenets of service upon which Rotary was founded and we are always happy to help our West Orange students and community.”

The Rotary Club of West Orange is a service club that has been in existence since 1928 and is a member club of Rotary International. It is one of more than

31,600 member clubs of Rotary International (RI) worldwide that work to promote peace through understanding and friendship.

Its members work year round to fulfill the Four Avenues of Service. To that end, the West Orange Rotary Club actively participates in providing college scholarships, providing every third grader in West Orange with a dictionary every year, funding a local summer camp for disabled children, Camp Merryheart and local food banks as well as many other community organizations.

Internationally, it supports many service projects including, but not limited to Gift of Life, Polio Plus, Rotaplast, Pedals for Progress, Help the Children Hear, Pure Water for the World, ShelterBox USA as well as student and adult exchange programs.

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West Orange Urges Seniors To Complete Surveys

he Township of West Orange is in the midst of an online Senior Citizen Needs Assessment Survey and has also distributed approximately 1,000 printed surveys in English and Spanish.

The Needs Assessment is provided through the West Orange Health Department and mainly funded by a grant from The Partners for Health Foundation located in Montclair. The survey was developed in conjunction with Montclair State University Center for Research and Evaluation on Education and Human Services or CREEHS and the results will be evaluated by the MSU team.

This survey will be online at www.westorange.org /seniorsurvey until Oct. 31. Now that a large quantity of the surveys has been distributed, the West Orange Health Department urges residents 55 years and older to com-

plete the surveys and return them to Town Hall in rooms 203 and 207 at the Health Department Offices, at the Mayor’s Office in room 106 or in the drop box at the rear entrance to Town Hall.

Surveys may also be returned to the library, Recreation Department or to the Health Department Senior Bus/West Orange Jitney.

The Health Department will collect completed printed surveys at the senior houses from the managers, so they will also be included in the final results. The answers in the printed surveys will be entered into the computer to be tabulated along with the surveys completed online.

For more information on how to obtain a senior survey or help completing one, contact Patricia Duffy at 973-325-4105, or Susan Iovino at 973-325-4131.

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By Cheryl Conway elcome to the new West Orange News publication.

Readers can expect the same great positive stories local to the area, but at the same time enjoy the smaller, compact paper easier to take along and even keep intact without pages falling out. The new format is really a blend between a newspaper and magazine.

“The only difference is the size and the cover,” says Joe Nicastro, co-publisher of New View Media Group LLC along with Mary Lalama. “We still will have news and local articles. In fact the actual size of the image area is exactly the same in length at 10” just the width is 7.5” instead of 10.”

New View Media Group currently publishes 14 monthly newspapers and four bi-monthlies, covering stories in 42 municipalities, mailed for free to more than 190K homes and businesses.

The Flanders couple began their newspaper company MJ (My Jersey) Media back in 2004, starting with the Mt. Olive Weekly.

That grew to eight papers, to 15 in 2015 when they added seven new publications in the Eastern part of N.J. and changed their name to New View Media with an idea to

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“have a new view on media,” says Nicastro.

Since then, they added on four more bi-monthlies in the northeastern region of N.J. stretching into Passaic County with the publication of the Hometown News.

“I am always looking for ways to improve the product,” says Nicastro regarding the recent style change of his papers. “After discussion with many readers over a period of time the same suggestion was being said. They wanted a magazine type publication that would not have pages fall out when moved and something smaller that is easier to handle.

This was a tough decision as the printing costs are about 15 percent higher than the large size. But I wanted to make sure the readers get what they want to keep the papers longer which will help advertisers.”

While photos have always been included, the publications attract readers with a larger colorful photo on the front cover.

“It allows us to feature a large local photo on the front cover and as well as offer our advertisers some other advertising options,” says Nicastro, adding that he is pleased with all the positive feedback he has received so far.

“I have to say in my 30 years of publishing I have received more positive responses to the magazine format than anything else I have done,” he says. “I even received calls from many small businesses looking to advertise.”

Here are a couple of the emails received applauding the change: “ I love the new look of paper, so much easier for people to take with them! Awesome! Liz M, Mt.Olive.

Dear Editor: Thank you for such a wonderful Wayne Hometown News booklet. It ‘s so convenient to hold and very legible. The articles are interesting and quite informative, the advertisers are great.

Keep up the good work. Camille.

While style has changed, content will still focus on all positive news local to the community- from schools to government, people, organizations, places of worship, libraries, non-profit groups, volunteer services, children’s programs, scouts and fundraisers.

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For Memorial Day, readers will be encouraged to send in photos of loved ones lost in the service; and for Veterans Day, readers can submit photos of their family members who served.

Readers are welcome to send in photos from Halloween to be posted online at www.mypaperonline.com.

For the November issue, readers are asked to submit names of veterans as well as photos and information regarding when and where they served. Any story ideas about giving or helping others, with Thanksgiving coming up, are also welcome.

Email photos and ideas to: readers@newviewmg.com by Nov. 1.

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andy reigns supreme on Halloween. Candy compels trick-or-treaters young and old to don costumes and spend hours scouring neighborhoods for the best treats. Kids know which houses give out full-sized chocolate bars and which are offering other coveted goodies. Although consumer spending in October may not be as high as it is during the holiday season, Halloween shopping is considerable. Here is a look at some notable statistics for the season.

• Financial resource The Balance states that 171 million Americans celebrated Halloween in 2016. Total spending for the holiday reached more than $8.4 billion, which was an all-time record.

• Around 65 percent of Americans plan to celebrate Halloween, including getting dressed up or handing out candy. The U.S. Census Bureau says 41.2 million trickor-treaters are children between the ages of five and 14.

• The National Retail Federation says 70 percent of Americans hand out candy, spending around

$25 per person on sweets.

• The amount of children in Canada participating in trick-ortreating was up 1.4 percent between 2015 and 2016 — totalling 3,870,938, according to Statistics Canada.

• Roughly $418.8 million was spent on candy, confectionery and snack foods at large retailers in Canada in October 2015.

• According to a survey conducted by RetailMeNot, the average Canadian plans to spend $178 on Halloween.

• Many people associate Halloween with children, but the day gives everyone the chance to dress up. The NRF estimates that Americans will spend more money on adult costumes than those for children. Witches, pirates, vampires, Batman, and cats are the most popular adult costumes.

• Halloween is celebrated in many different countries. In addition to the United States and Canada, areas of Europe, Asia and Latin America have their own Halloween celebrations.

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41st Annual Morristown Craftmarket Sunday Oct. 20-22

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he Morristown CraftMarket, now celebrating its 41st consecutive year as a nationally acclaimed and charitable fine art and craft show featuring 150 gifted artists from more than 25 states throughout the country, will be held Friday, Oct. 20 through Sunday, Oct. 22 at the Morristown Armory.

The show hours are: Fri., Oct. 20, 5 p.m. to 9 p.m.; Sat., Oct. 21, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.; and Sun., Oct. 22, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.

“For four decades, the Morristown CraftMarket has received acclaim as a major cultural and charitable event not only in New Jersey but throughout our nation,” said Show Director Geoffrey Price, a member of the not-for-profit and all-volunteer Kiwanis Club of Randolph Township, which sponsors and runs the Morristown CraftMarket.

“The thousands of patrons who come each year to our show at the Morristown Armory know that we showcase extraordinary, one-of-akind and limited edition fine arts and crafts - all made in America by American hands - and that all our profits go to charities,” said Price.

The exhibiting artists will display and sell their original and magnificent creations in jewelry, leather, ceramics, metal, glass, wood, furniture, mixed media, wearable fiber and more.

Premature Birth is a National Health Crisis A Silent Auction will be run throughout the show in loving memory of Robert James “RJ” Nelson, III, a brave baby boy who was born 13 1/2 weeks premature and fought hard for the right to live for 82 days (April 6 - June 27, 2016).

The Silent Auction will put the spotlight on premature birth which the March of Dimes calls “the leading cause of death of babies in the U.S.” (Premature Birth Report Card, www.multivu.com) Proceeds from the Silent Auction will benefit the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit of Morristown Medical Center (“Sam’s NICU”), which helps premature babies and their families. The Silent Auction will conclude on Sunday, Oct. 22 at 5 p.m. at the show. Winners need not be present.

RJ’s mother, Claudia Nelson, is spearheading the Silent Auction and will help to run the large booth in the show where it will be

held along with other supporters of Sam’s NICU community, including family members who had to deal with health problems - many of them tragic - with their babies.

Claudia Nelson and her husband Bob Nelson will bring RJ’s twin sister Annalise to the show.

“No parent or family ever imagines that their baby/babies will come early,” said Claudia Nelson.

“You get thrown into a world that becomes a whirlwind of emotions, similar to a roller coaster. This roller coaster becomes your life, your heart, your home. It is truly an honor and privilege to be part of the 41st Annual CraftMarket, and the awareness we can spotlight onto Sam’s NICU at Morristown Medical Center and premature birth.”

Premature birth - which affects babies of all races and ethnicities is a leading cause of disabilities in babies that can affect their whole lives. (www.marchofdimes.org).

About 1 in 10 babies is born prematurely each year in the United States, according to the March of Dimes. (www.marchofdimes. org) “The numbers are staggering, as is the emotional and often financial toll on the families struggling through premature births,” said Price. “Premature birth is a health crisis in America. These babies are crying out for us and we need to listen to and help them.”

Opening Night Reception The Morristown CraftMarket will host an Opening Night Reception on Friday, Oct. 20 from 5 p.m.

- 8pm for patrons who are at least 21 years old. Beer and wine will be sold. continued on page 8

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Crews Roll In To Local Playground To Build Skate Park

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By Stefanie Sears est Orange’s citizens’ wish of getting their own skate park is finally coming true!

Crews arrived Wednesday, Oct. 4, to begin construction at Jenkins Playground.

There has been a high demand for a skate park for years. Thanks to research conducted by Director of Recreation Bill Kehoe and Assistant Director Edwin Johnson, plans to build the skate park are now coming to fruition since being kicked off earlier this year.

Considering that West Orange lacks extra land, the greatest hindrance was finding a sizable area.

“The skate park issue in West Orange has gone back 15 or 16 years,” says Mayor Robert Parisi.

“Those kids are probably parents now, but around 2000, a very significant effort was made by some youngsters in town and submitted a petition to then Mayor McKeon with several hundred names on them requesting skate parks. So the town, in 2002, I was a member of the council at the time when John McKeon was mayor, we took some initiatives; we did what we could to try to figure out a location, but we just could never make a location work. The location has been the biggest issue all these years.

We spent the last several years try-

ing to find locations around town while at the same time getting feedback from the community.

You don’t have to really drive far in town to see kids skating at any various venues around town.

“So after striking out on a couple different locations, we had neighborhood meetings and thought this current location with the fire department right next door was a good location,” he continues, “We put some plans together to see if we could make that work and then invited those in the neighborhood to a meeting at the fire headquarters and based on that we’re going to go forward with it. We did some research and we’re pretty comfortable that this location is going to be the right one and we’re happy after what amounts to 15 years to finally be able to bring that to the community.”

The proximity of the fire station is also a plus for safety reasons and to have a municipal government presence nearby.

About $225,000 in town funding financed the project.

“That’s what we allocated to build it,” says Parisi. “We think that will be more than enough.

It’s pretty much the cost; we were pretty comfortable with the projected cost. That also includes some modifications to the existing

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izza continues to remain a popular comfort food and go-to staple for quick, family-friendly meals. Statistics Brain reports that 93 percent of Americans eat at least one piece of pizza per month. Five billion pizzas are sold worldwide each year, and the United States accounts for three billion of those pizzas. The average person will eat 46 slices of pizza

each year. The world can thank Raffaele Esposito for creating the first pizza that resembled the pizza the world knows today. Esposito created the pizza for Italy’s Queen Margherita when she visited Naples in 1889. The crust was garnished with tomatoes, mozzarella and basil to represent the national colors of Italy: red, white and green.

Women’s Shelter Founder Seeks Donations For Her Birthday

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n Oct. 4, Sandra Ramos- the founder of Strengthen Our Sisters (SOS) domestic violence shelter for women- turned 76 years old. In lieu of presents, she is seeking tax-deductible donations to keep the shelter running. All proceeds will directly assist women and children in need as monies will be used to pay the

mortgage, sewer and other fees.

SOS takes in all people that no one else would, sometimes without a voucher. In honor of Ramos’ 76th birthday, she is hoping that you will donate $7.60, $76, $760, $7,600, or even $76,000, to her organization. The website is www. strengthenoursisters.org.

park to accommodate the skate park. And also, we’re going to add some security cameras and a few other things to make sure that the people feel comfortable and that the neighborhood feels comfortable as well.”

There will be about six different structures and will take up about 70 X 70 feet. According to Parisi, they will be mixed up periodically to determine what are being utilized the most.

However, as of right now, there are no additional plans for any other accommodations for the park being put into motion.

“Kids’ interests and activities

change over time,” said Parisi.

“Skateboarding wasn’t hugely popular when I was a kid, but it is now, and I’m happy to be able to provide that outlet for those kids, especially since we’ve tried for so many years to get that done. Our obligation to provide the resources based on the demand of the community also means a variety of opportunities for kids of all different tastes and interests to find those resources available to them in our community.”

State contractor American Ramp Company will construct the skate park.

Morristown Craftmarket... continued from page 7 Clothing Drive Big Brothers Big Sisters will be collecting gently used clothing items throughout the show. Receipts will be issued for tax-deductible donations of clothing items accepted at the collection truck located near the parking lot.

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A coupon for $2 off the $10 admission price is available online at www.MorristownCraftMarket. org. Children under 12 with an adult are free. The show is barrier free for disabled persons and pet-friendly so well-behaved dogs and cats on a leash are welcome.

There is plenty of free parking.

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Under DiVincenzo’s leadership, the county’s collection program has been expanded to include household hazardous waste, old computers and electronic equipment, used tires and paper shredding. In addition, the Household Hazardous Waste and Computer and Electronics collection days are held in the spring and fall.

The Essex County Computer and Electronics Recycling Day is for Essex County residents only. Residents are not charged when they bring materials, but they must provide proof of residency at the site. Commercial businesses may not drop off materials. For more information, call the Essex County Utilities Authority at 973-792-9060 or visit www.ecuanj.com.

he community is encouraged to bring unwanted computers, telephones and other electronic devices to the Essex County Computer and Electronics Recycling Day Oct. 21 at the Old Essex County Hospital Center.

The event will take place from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m., and is sponsored by the County of Essex and the Essex County Utilities Authority.

“Recycling computer hardware and electronic devices helps remove lead and other dangerous chemicals from our waste stream, which is important for us and our children,” said Essex County Executive Joseph N. DiVincenzo. “With your participation, we can do our part to protect the environment.

Our collection days are very popular and I am glad our residents understand the importance of recycling.”

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School Delay In Hurricane Torn USVI Invites More Backpack, Lunch Box And Supply Donations ry instruction services offered privately or through contracted N.J. school districts in 21 cities in Essex County.

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By Cheryl Conway ost hurricane conditions in United States Virgin Islands have delayed schools from starting so why not donate a backpack or lunch box to help displaced kids get off to a good start once school is in session?

West Orange resident Phyllis Johnson hopes to collect 1,000 book bags by the end of the month and hand deliver them to USVI with a group of volunteers. She has organized the U.S. Virgin Islands Book Bag Drive through her business, Progressive Educators LLC, an educational resource company in West Orange.

Johnson, who also works as a substitute teacher in the West Orange schools, has been collecting the book-bags and lunch boxes in various local stores since last month. She and her volunteers set up a school supplies donation table at Staples in West Orange on Sept.

16, and at Kmart in West Orange on Sat., Sept. 23, from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. and on Sunday, Sept. 24.

“They have offered to price their book bags at a discounted price to support our cause,” says Johnson. She hopes to be at the local Shoprite next, she says.

At the stores, folks have been buying bags at discounted prices and donating them to the drive to provide school supplies to the students affected by Hurricanes Irma and Maria in September.

School was supposed to start Oct. 9 for St. Thomas and Oct. 16 for St. Croix but “because of category five [hurricanes], schools are not up and running,” she says. Instead the schools are being used as shelters.

As of press time, she had already collected 82 backpacks and lunch boxes with Disney characters, markers, coloring books, notebooks, erasers and other supplies, she says.

Progressive Educators is also collecting can openers so USVI residents can open all of the canned goods being donated to them.

They ‘are not used to opening cans; they are used to fresh,” she says. Her goal is 100 can openers; they so far collected 25.

Donations of book-bags, lunch boxes, school supplies and can openers can be mailed to Progressive Educators, 200 Mt. Pleasant Ave., West Orange, N.J., 07052. A supply box has been placed right at the front door for those willing to drop off items.

The collections will continue through Oct. 31 so they can deliver items once school opens at USVI. As a former special education teacher in reading and language arts in St. Thomas from 1991 to 2009, Johnson has many colleagues, students, friends and family who have been affected by the hurricanes in the USVI. While “Essex County is my home,” Johnson says her she went to work in St. Thomas years back for a “change of pace.” Her plan to stay for one year extended for ten years, she says.

Johnson began Progressive Educator’s in Jan. 2014 as a vendor of New Jersey Department of Education. Her educational services include English language enrichment classes for adults and children, after school homework help and home, tutorial and supplementa-

gia, Kenya, St. Thomas Virgin Islands, and Uganda, with tutorial services, school materials and books.

For more information, visit Progressive Educators LLC at www. facebook.com/progressiveeducatorsnj; or call 973-669-2819.

ness interaction during the “Dos and Don’ts of Networking Biz 2.0 Workshop,’’ at 7:30 p.m. in the library meeting room.

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Special Ed Teacher Draws On Personal Struggles At Speaking Engagement

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By Anya Bochman iagnosed with Tourette Syndrome and quite knowledgeable of its challenges, Robert Naturale of Caldwell was the natural choice to speak on the topic recently at a Morris County school district.

Naturale, a teacher at Montville Township High School for the past 15 years, spoke at Morris Hills and Morris Knolls High schools in Rockaway on Oct. 5 and 6. Traditionally, the township schools host an assembly in the fall in conjunction with that year’s summer reading.

As the chosen speaker, Naturale was selected to address the student body and hold a Q&A session.

Naturale teaches special education science in Montville, holds a Special Ed Certification, a master’s in school counseling, is married and has three children, two of whom are currently in college.

Surprisingly, it wasn’t until he was of college age himself that he was first diagnosed with Tourette Syndrome.

Tourette is part of a spectrum of tic disorders and, unlike in Naturale’s case, is typically diagnosed at onset in childhood. The condition is characterized by multiple motor tics and at least one vocal tic.

Though the tics can be suppressed temporarily, prolonged suppres-

sion results in growing discomfort.

Some common tics are eye blinking, coughing, throat clearing, sniffing and facial movements.

“A lot of people think of [Tourette] like that “South Park” episode, where a person curses a lot,” Naturale says of common misconceptions. “Less than 10 percent [of those afflicted] actually curse.”

According to the science teacher, people also commonly inquire if the tics are controllable; to explain, he likens them to attempting to suppress a sneeze. He also points out that the general public is typically unaware that Tourette Syndrome comes with a host of comorbid issues, such as learning disabilities, anxiety and depression.

As Naturale is both a sufferer of the condition and someone quite educated on the subject, he was an ideal candidate for the recent speaking engagement.

This year’s summer reading choice was “Front of the Class: How Tourette Syndrome Made Me the Teacher I Never Had” by Brad Cohen. The book, which was later turned into a TV movie, chronicles the struggles of a young man who overcame misconceptions about his condition and became a teacher, helping others like him cope with the syndrome.

The story closely parallels Natu-

rale’s own upbringing; the teacher likens himself to an “average Joe” who works hard and has a family, yet faced a number of challenges growing up.

“I grew up coping with a disability,” Naturale says. “It was a matter of ‘turning it into lemonade.’”

Part of his program to help students with Tourette Syndrome – and himself – is what he calls his “Five Point Strategy:” the comprehensive set of behaviors consists of developing communication skills, educating people to improve tolerance and acceptance, honing social skills, embracing sports and athletics, finding a trusted adult (besides

one’s parents) to confide in and developing self-reliance.

“There is definitely a correlation between my having Tourette’s and being a Special Ed teacher,” says Naturale, who receives Cognitive Behavioral Therapy in addition to his Five Step Program. “I struggled in school myself. There are very smart people with disabilities who need a leveled playing field.”

His next goals are to pursue a Drug and Alcohol Counselor Certification, and follow in Cohen’s footsteps with an autobiographical self-help book in his future.

“I like helping the young population,” Naturale says.

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