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Livingston Musician Enjoying Making Music Again

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By Steve Sears ivingston’s Robert Malone, current lead singer and rhythm guitarist of FarCry, had felt the miss of writing lyrics and making music.

He’s come full circle, and he’s loving the life again.

“When I was a young kid, I was chasing that record deal, the dream, the whole thing. Now, I have a different mindset. I do it because I enjoy it. It’s a passion. I do it for no other reason. I don’t do it for the money. I don’t do it for any exposure or hope that I’m going to be famous someday.

That’s not why I do it. I extremely enjoy writing music. And, you know, getting it out there, that’s the biggest thing to me.”

Malone, the founder and former lead singer of his own band, Malone, saw that venture come to an end in 1995, and in 2015 he joined the heavy metal band, FarCry. “They had two releases out already,” he says. “Obviously, I had done some things on my own prior to that. But yes, this (Balance) is the third release with the FarCry name.” FarCry, who record for the European label, AOR Heaven, released their latest album in late April, and “Broken Dreams” may be the album highlight song, the perfect comeback tune, especially after a year of Covid-19.

“I’ve done this for a long time,” says Malone. “At one point when I moved (to Livingston) in about 1997, I did take a little bit of a break from the music. I got married, had a daughter, played the husband and father role.” However, when he was contacted a few years back by a movie producer who had listened to and complimented some of his songs, “At that point,” Malone says, “it kind of sparked the flame again. And I just started writing, I just grabbed my guitar again. Sometimes the lyrics come first, and then you go back to put music behind it, and sometimes the music comes first, you just go the other way.”

Malone had 10 new songs, but no band, which is when

he found FarCry and its founder Pete Fry, another original New Jerseyan. “We made the commitment. We started writing together.”

Malone, 57, who has been in the professional music business for over 35 years, started out as a teenager in Bloomfield. He takes a few moments to relive it. “Do you remember the ‘Battle of Bands?’” he asks of the high school band contests. “We were the winner.” However, it goes back even further. “Actually, you know what really put me in this mindset? Tragedy brought me to music, and I lost a brother when I was just 13 years old, and he was 16 and in a motorcycle accident. That’s when it all began for me because, at that point, I was close to two cousins, one of them a musician and he played guitar and was opening up for Kiss at some of the local clubs. And at that point, I guess, pretty much to ease the pain, he moved in with me, and he started teaching me guitar and kind of filled the void and lessened the pain.”

Malone in 1997 married a Bloomfield girl, Andrea Favata, whom he met in 1983, post-Bloomfield High School, and they have a 20-year-old daughter named Alexa. “You know the musician’s life,” Malone says with a chuckle. “She put up with it for a lot of years and stayed by my side since day one.” And then there were his parents, especially his dad.

“I’ve got to attribute everything that I am doing today to my parents growing up. It may sound corny, but my father had passed several years ago, but growing up, he was 100% behind the music, to the point where it was unheard of. Other band members at the time, their parents were like, ‘Get a haircut,” or ‘Get a job.” My father was like, ‘Get in there, write those songs, and we’re going on tour.’ I had a great foundation to chase my dream.”

For more information about Robert Malone and FarCry, visit www.farcryband.net.

Photos courtesy of Robert Malone and FarCry

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From the Livingston Mayor’s Desk

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n Livingston, there is a rich and long tradition of volunteerism. We proudly trumpet having the best volunteers in the state.

There are many wonderful organization who work overtime to provide food to the hungry. Located in Town Hall, Livingston Neighbors Helping Neighbors runs the Community Hunger Outreach Warehouse (CHOW) food pantry.

LNHN also does crucial work helping to pay utility bills and other emergency payments for residents who have fallen behind.

Livingston Philanthropies Inc with Jeff Friedman, donates literally tons of food, toiletries and coats to the needy year-round.

We have strong chapters of traditional service organizations with fundraisers that the entire community enjoys.

Kiwanis hosts a Spring-time carnival which is a longtime favorite. Rotary has started a new Summerfest tradition and continues its Taste of Livingston. Livingston’s UNICO member, Nick Santinelli, is set to receive the UNICO National 2021 Joseph P. Cianci Humanitarian Award for his tireless service donating to food pantries.

The Lions Club just had it centennial celebration as it continues its fight against blindness. The National Council of Jewish Women run an annual full-scale back-to school clothing and supply store where everything is free for 100s of disadvantaged kids.

We have people who have faithfully volunteered their

time, effort and expertise on Town committees ranging from traffic, recycling, diversity and the arts and everything in between.

We have an incredibly well-staffed and well-trained volunteer fire department, an active police auxiliary, and a dedicated EMS who serve to protect all of Livingston.

We have our local YMCA which regularly assists in charitable work and particularly made a difference during COVID. We have hundreds of volunteers who clean trash off of our streets and parks as part of the annual “Pick It Up, Livingston!”

People, of course, also volunteer in their own way, offering to coach a sports team or provide service through a church, synagogue or temple. Another example is the Horseneck Motorcycle Club which is often looking for projects to help out on.

Our veteran’s organizations work hard, helping us to observe many holidays which both salute America and remember the sacrifices of those who serve in the armed forces.

We even have a group of Camuso Elves who set up our hugely famous holiday display and use it to raise money for the Saint Barnabas Medical Center Burn Center.

If you have free time and you are looking for an opportunity to jump in, do it. You will be with your friends and neighbors lifting up other people and keeping Livingston a great place.

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Livingston Youth Step Up For Indian COVID Relief

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n order to help India in its Covid-19 relief efforts, some of the elementary and middle schoolers from Livingston started a fundraiser and collected over $4,000 to be donated to two charities which were focused on Covid-19 relief in India. Part of their efforts included a Bake Sale and sale of handmade masks and jewelry that was organized on May 23 at the Livingston Oval. It was great to see the support that the town showed with over 200 people coming for the event to help support our youth leaders in their efforts. We are thankful for the support that the

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Tokyo Bound: Morris, Essex, and Passaic Residents Hopeful for Olympic Glory

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For some, the extra year gave time for rehabbing injuries, but for others, an extra year of training was not kind. Here is a round up of those athletes representing Morris, Essex, Passaic Counties at the 2021 Tokyo Summer Olympic Games. At the time of this writing, these are the qualified athletes.

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Livingston Library Receives Book Donations from the Livingston Multicultural Parents Association

ay is Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) Heritage Month, which recognizes the contributions and influence of Asian Americans and Pacific Islander Americans to the history, culture, and achievements of the United States.

Celebrations to honor this heritage month were held for the first time in Livingston this past month in the wake of the recent surging racial violence against the AAPI community members nationwide.

Feeling compelled to increase cultural andhistorical awareness to dispel stereotypes and prejudices held towards AAPI community, LMPA believes that one way to begin is to share AAPIs’ stories and voices.

Supported by Livingston Social Justice Committee and Livingston AAPI Youth Alliance, LMPA reached out to the Livingston Public Library in mid-April and proposed to donate AAPI-themed books. Despite the short notice and tight schedule, Mrs. Babcock and the staff at the library went out of their way to support LMPA’s effort.

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Over the last month, the LMPA has done more than arranging book donations to the Livingston Public Library; it has also donated AAPI-themed children’s books to all six Livingston elementary schools. Working with Mrs. Babcock, LMPA recruited 10 Livingston Schools students/Livingston High School alumni and made some book reviews videos to promote the donated books.

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Livingston Rabbi Honored as Part of 2021 Essex County Jewish Heritage Month Celebration

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By Steve Sears abbi David Vaisberg of Livingston’s Temple B’nai Abraham was recently recognized by the Essex County Board of Commissioners at their 2021 Essex County Jewish Heritage Month Celebration for his commitment, contributions, and dedication to the community and his congregation.

“It’s been a year of immense creativity,” Vaisberg says.

The annual event, held this year via a Zoom teleconference, was held on May 19.

Rabbi Vaisberg received both a letter and phone call, and Essex County Commissioner, Patricia Sebold, who nominated the rabbi and herself is a member of Temple B’nai Abraham, also texted him the good news.

Also honored were (posthumously) Frederic Pressman, the former vice president of religious living at Bloomfield’s Temple Ner Tamid, and Newark’s Weequahic High School Alumni Association treasurer, Arthur Lutzke. An extra delight during the program were prayers conducted and music performed respectively by former rabbinical assistant and now newly appointed Temple

B’nai Abraham Rabbi, Max Edwards, and cantor Jessica Epstein.

Rabbi Vaisberg, 37, who previously served at Temple Emanu-El in Edison and is in his second year with Temple B’nai Abraham, was honored for a few key things, one being his leading the temple’s technological upgrading efforts. “I’m not a computer programmer or whatnot,” he says. “I just believe in using tech to our advantage and understanding what’s out there. We need to be online, and one of the things that I brought to the synagogue when I started was streaming our services. Understanding that there are people who cannot be there in person who really need to be able to participate from where they are, and the biggest need for that is when people are sick and they can’t come in. We’ve had people during the high holidays who were in a hospital bed, and they could pull out their laptop or they could pull out their iPad or whatever they have, and they can at least experience part of that holiday spirit that they’re missing.”

Also recognized for his leadership as the senior rabbi of Temple B’nai Abraham, Rab-

bi Vaisberg is also an advocate of education, fights for social justice and against hate and anti-Semitism, and has worked with New Jersey Together in Essex County doing community organizing. “I think it all comes from trying to meet the needs of the moment,” he says. “I would much prefer just to be able to study and to read to pray and to call for something different. The times called for addressing the world in which we live in that is in a deeply troubling place. Virtual needs of people who are afraid, not only for the next day or month, but where’s this planet going to go? What is our nation going to look like? How are we going to leave this world a better place for our children, and how can we look our neighbors in the eye? We have an obligation to engage, and I believe that we are partnered with God. In this world, we have been given these skills to make a difference and we have to use them.”

According to the rabbi, the tribute shows that people both notice and care about what Temple B’nai Abraham is doing. “It tells us that our community really cares and that we are making some kind of an impact.

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For me, it’s very moving to be given this honor by the community in fewer than two years of my being here.”

For more information about Temple B’nai Abraham and Rabbi David Vaisberg, visit www.tbanj.org.

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The Value of Cord Blood Banking: What Pregnant Women Should Know

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By Chris Bauer MD re you currently pregnant and wondering about the value of cord blood banking? If so, then you are not alone. Cord blood banking has become more common in the last thirty years. There are private and public cord blood companies that can offer patients different options on how their cord blood can be used and stored. Public cord blood collection can offer therapies for other people and can offer opportunities for further research.

Cord blood collection is the process in which after the delivery of a baby, the blood from the umbilical cord is collected by the medical provider that did the delivery. Prior to her delivery, the mother will make the arrangements with the cord blood company and with her obstetrician. There are 28 cord blood banking companies in North America for patients to choose from according to The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists.

Most of the time the consumer will be provided with a cord blood collection kit that she will bring with her when she goes to deliver her baby. Cord blood can be collected

whether a patient has a vaginal or a cesarean section.

Several ounces of blood are needed in order to have a specimen that can be processed. If delayed cord clamping must be done to assist the health of the infant, then cord blood collection may not be possible.

Over 80 different medical conditions can be treated using material from cord blood banking. There currently is significant research into how more diseases can be treated using cord blood specimen. After the birth of the baby, the cord blood is collected. The cord blood is then stored and if the child develops one of the medical conditions where cord blood could be used as a treatment then the parents will let the cord blood collection company know and further arrangements will be made. Some of the more common medical conditions that can be treated with fetal cord blood include Sickle Cell anemia, type 1 diabetes, cerebral palsy, thalassemia, leukemia and lymphoma. In addition, some rarer diseases such as Fanconi anemia, DiGeorge Syndrome, and Severe Combined Immunodeficiency Disorder(SCID) can also be treated with cord blood.

The technology and research involved in fetal cord blood usage is rapidly growing every year. There is currently significant research and more clinical trials into how more diseases can be treated using cord blood specimen. The basis of cord blood collection is that inside the umbilical cord blood that is collected are stem cells.

Stem cells are cells that can form into the type of cells that the body needs at that time such as red cells, platelets, and white cells. These cells are from the babies own body.

There is very minimal risk for a potential transfusion to fail because of an incompatibility with blood type and antibody. Due to a families shared genetic information first-degree relatives (parents and siblings) and seconddegree relatives (grandparents and uncles, etc.) could potentially use the cord blood collected from one family member.

Cord blood collection could be greatly beneficial for any person. Schedule an informed conversation with your women’s health provider to answer any questions you may have about cord blood banking.

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Roseland Firefighter Perry Lee Stares Down Lung Disease One Step at a Time

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By Jillian Risberg e was in the fight of his life. New Jersey firefighter/veteran Fight For Air Climb member Perry Lee doesn’t take a second for granted after living through lung cancer and has been giving back ever since.

“Participating in this event (his seventh year) alongside my first responder brothers and sisters gives me a sense of solidarity and hope,” says Lee, who with Roseland firefighters ran over 780 steps of Red Bull Arena in 60 pounds of full turnout gear to support lung health, raising more than $1,400.

The firefighter started climbing in honor of his dear cousin Ann Kwong.

In 2021, he also climbed for Lung Cancer Survivor “ME,” the firefighter says. “I climb for those who can’t, breathe for those who can’t.”

“It’s more personal now because three years ago I was diagnosed with lung cancer, stage 1 — 83 ALK-positive. It’s rarer; I was very lucky and blessed in early detection,” says Lee. Symptomless (no shortness of breath, weight loss, chest pain or coughing), except a lone elusive one — he didn’t feel the need to get checked.

“My wife kept telling me ‘you have bad breath, go see the dentist,’” he says he came

across an English study where two percent of the people with bad breath turned out to have lung cancer.

Even the firefighter’s thoracic surgeon said he did not fit the profile.

“The doctor told me I have the lungs of a 40-year-old,” he says four days prior he had done a stair climb.

The 60-year-old waxes introspective on how he let this go for at least eight/nine years.

“I watched it for two, they said it’s not changing, you’re good, ‘see you soon,’” says Lee. “I thought, ‘see you soon’ meant until I had symptoms. It really meant I had to come back next year and I never did.”

There were many things he says he took for granted.

“The number one killer for firefighters is lung cancer,” Lee says because they’re regularly exposed to increased levels of gas, chemicals and smoke. Guys always have lingering coughs, asthma, hoarseness. But he didn’t have any of this.

According to studies, a higher number of Asian women never-smokers than men are being diagnosed with lung cancer.

“I’m on par with someone (who) smokes,” says the firefighter.

“So I went to the fund (Captain Buscio

Program for all New Jersey first responders), got my screening — cardiac baseline, pulmonary everything and they told me I had a shadow on the lung.”

Lee had to see a pulmonologist and was scared to share the news with his family, but his best friend had his back and accompanied him.

“The doctor told me to take care of this as soon as possible because I had let it lapse,” he says. “I went for the surgery May 1, 2019, and the preliminary exam (showed) it was

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Once at the hospital reality hit and Lee wanted out.

“I’m thinking my cousin, my father, my relatives who passed and 25 steps I’m going right out that door,” says the firefighter. “I’m not hanging here.”

He says he had wedge resection surgery where the mass was located, they isolated it, sealed off all the lymph nodes and removed continued on page 11

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A Father’s Message of Hope - Its Gonna Get Better

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by Gus C. Baxter very time I make a sweatshirt, I think of my dad. It’s been very healing and therapeutic.”

Caldwell’s Marissa Rozenfeld lost her father on October 16th, 2020 due to Covid-19 complications. Three weeks later, her grandfather passed away from Covid-19 complications. Rozenfeld, who has experienced more loss at the age of 24 than most of her peers, found comfort in one of the things she shared with her father: a love of music.

“That’s when I came across an old cassette tape of my father’s. He was a huge Phil Collins and Peter Gabriel fan. The last song [on the cassette] was ‘Its Gonna Get Better’ in his handwriting. I felt like this was a message from him, telling me that it’s going to get better, keep your head up.”

This message spoke volumes to Rozenfeld. Although she may not have known how, she kept faith that things would get better.

As a graphic designer, Rozenfeld explored creative outlets to begin her healing and commemorate the message of her father.

She decided to digitize her father’s handwriting. Initially, she thought about a tattoo, but remembering how much her father was against tattoos, she looked for other creative outlets.

“How else could I use my father’s words and a needle?” Her answer: embroidery!

In January 2021, Rozenfeld embarked on

her creative healing journey through her new Etsy shop. ItsGonnaGetBetter, a fashion collection featuring her father’s digitized handwriting, started with a new embroidery machine, a pile of blank sweatshirts, and the desire to channel her healing through art.

In the beginning, Rozenfeld thought some friends or family might buy a sweatshirt to support her healing journey. Six months later, ItsGonnaGetBetter has connected Rozenfeld with a supportive global community of families affected by Covid-19.

“It made me feel like, we’re not alone, there are other families going through it that are grieving and hurting. Even families that didn’t lose a loved one have felt the impact of what covid has done to them.”

With the success of this Etsy shop, Rozenfeld realized how much her father’s memory could help this community. “With each purchase, I donate a portion to the Covid 19 Solidarity Response Fund. This raises covid awareness. Pre-vaccine, this was funding a lot of the vaccine research, not only for the United States, but also globally. I’ve donated over $3000 since I’ve started this project to the Covid 19 Solidarity Response Fund. It’s been amazing.”

Rozenfeld could not have imagined the impact of her work. After connecting with families who have lost loved ones to covid, cancer, and other diseases, Rozenfeld began creating personalized sweatshirts.

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“I utilized my design background and started having people send me their loved ones’ handwriting and I would digitize a signature or a letter their loved one wrote them. I would then embroider their handwriting on the sleeve of the sweatshirt so that they could always look down and see their loved ones handwriting.”

ItsGonnaGetBetter has grown far beyond anything Rozenfeld could have dreamed of in January. She is so honored to be able to support this community and support her own healing at the same time. Moving forward, Rozenfeld wants to share her message with more people across many different communities.

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Perry Lee Stares Down Lung Disease... continued from page 9 the upper right lobe.

“Basically, I have one and a half lungs or less,” says Lee. “I’m clean for now; I have other nodes they’re watching.”

When he woke from the surgery — the firefighter says it was eerily quiet, peaceful and “I thought I died,” he says.

He has since gotten involved with the American Lung Association to push screenings and early detections — especially for firefighters.

“It’s just an hour of your time to go get checked,” says Lee. What he did to his family resonates.

The 60-year-old is still ou there and passionat about fighting fires and doing stair climbs, despite his medical ordeal.

Is it safe?

“You’re living, you’re alive,” his surgeon and oncologist told him. ‘I can tell you what your limit is— knowing your personality, though, it’s not gonna stop you. The only thing I advise: Use your head.’”

He’s doing just that.

“I’ve been given a second chance and I don’t want to waste it,” the firefighter says.

“There’s a reason for it, not just because my cousin passed or I have it. I feel it’s very im-

portant and should not be taken lightly.”

Lee says it means a lot to be able to spread the word about getting screened with as many people as possible, and American Lung’s support has been invaluable throughout his journey.

“In my state, which we call ‘clean, never cured,’ what to watch out for, if you’re having difficulties,” he says.

He saw what his cousin and others went through and it stuck with him.

“I tell people… you’re taking climbing stairs for granted, going for walks, runs, workouts, boating; whatever you do for recreation, even going to a supermarket you take for granted — every breath you take, you have no idea,” he says.

A stage four person Lee connected with told the firefighter he is the lung cancer community’s hope.

“You represent us, get the trials for us, meet with the government, get increased funding, meet the medical people, you are our voice,’ and that affected me more than anybody else,” he tells me.

According to the firefighter, he won’t let the disease define him.

“The message I have for everybody is to learn from my complacency,” says Lee.

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“Something white was just laying in the ground and I thought ‘what the heck is that?’

I looked closer and it really struck me that it was in the shape of an arrow. I picked it up out of the dirt and when I turned it over, it knocked my socks off,” Bodine said.

What he thought was an arrowhead originally, Bodine thinks he has found a spearhead. The white object has very ornate carvings on it. There is an Indian woman that is carved out with much attention to detail. He’s unsure of how long it has been on his property and he is desperately seeking answers. He’s talked with folks at the Hackettstown Library, local historical societies, and even a Centenary University professor. Someone even suggested contacting the Museum of Natural History.

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A Fourth of July Story

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By Richard Mabey Jr. here was a certain magic in the Summer of 1964. I was 10 years old and had just completed Mrs. Raimo’s fifth grade class. When I had started the fifth grade, Mrs. Raimo was known to us as Miss DelGiorno. In the early Spring of 1964, Miss DelGiorno announced to all of us that she was getting married on the weekend and that we would have a substitute teacher for the next week. I was shocked and broken hearted. For if truth be told, I had an incurable crush on Miss DelGiorno and now she was getting married!

Lenny Esposito was just about the biggest wise guy in all of Chapel Hill School.

As fate would have it, Lenny sat next to me in Miss DelGiorno’s fifth grade class. Yes, even at 67, I still more fondly remember my old fifth grade teacher as Miss DelGiorno.

Not only was Lenny Esposito the biggest wise guy in all of Chapel Hill School, he was also the biggest braggard. He once told a group of us boys that his father was an FBI Agent and that his father had a special scope machine, in his basement, that could see through walls. Even though I knew that Lenny was full of donkey dust, there was a tiny part of me that wondered if there was

any truth to Lenny’s outrageous tall tales.

It was the era of metal lunch boxes, that came complete with a little thermos.

I remember that I had a Popeye the Sailor Man lunchbox, that I had from the third grade. Lenny had a lunch box with a picture of Frankenstein on it. Fate and Destiny are such strange twins. One lunch time, Lenny sat across from my best friend, Stuart Steinhauser and I. In a brief moment of being kind and decent, Lenny showed us what he had stored in his lunch box.

There, setting beneath his wax paper covered peanut butter and jelly sandwich, was a small paper bag. Lenny then looked at Stuart and I with his wise guy smirk, “betcha you chumps wanna know what’s inside this bag?” To Lenny Esposito, we were all chumps. He rarely called any of the other boys by their names. We were all chumps to Lenny, because he was the selfappointed coolest kid in all of Chapel Hill School.

“I’ll tell ya’ what, for a nickel, I’ll let ya’ see what’s in this bag. Believe me, ya’ won’t be disappointed,” Lenny told us.

Lenny always spoke out of the corner of his mouth. He loved to watch the old gangster movies and he worked very hard to speak continued on page 13

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the way he imagined a hard-nosed gangster would talk. So, between Stuart and myself, we came up with the five cents. I cannot remember which one of us put in the extra penny.

Lenny grabbed the five pennies from the table then handed us his paper bag. Stuart held the paper bag and carefully opened it.

I took on the role of lookout for any of the teachers walking around the lunchroom.

And, to our surprise, there it was. A most incredible sight for sure. There must have been two dozen firecrackers in Lenny’s little brown bag.

Then to our surprise, Lenny offered us the deal of a lifetime. “Tell ya’ what chumps, for one thin dime, I’ll let you chumps have three of them firecrackers. Ya’ ain’t gonna get a better deal than that. I had all of 12 cents left in my pocket. And, that was reserved for the newest Batman comic book.

Instinctively, by telepathy, Stuart and I communicated an unspoken agreement and we both took out a nickel from our pants pockets. A cold sweat flowed from the pores of the palms of our hands as Lenny took the two nickels and nodded to Stuart, with his wise guy’s grin, that it was okay

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to take three firecrackers from the bag. In a flash of millisecond, Stuart put the three firecrackers in his right pants pocket. Stuart folded up the open end of Lenny’s little paper bag and handed it back to Lenny. The deal was done.

Stuart kept the three firecrackers in a plastic bag, in the wooden box, of his tree fort. Stuart and I agreed that on the Fourth of July, we would light all three firecrackers!

So, fast forward to the eve of the Fourth of July. Stuart came over to my house on the afternoon of the third of July. We set up the old pup tent in the backyard. Stuart had our three firecrackers, hidden in the bottom of his knapsack. The plan was to get up at the crack of dawn, run down the path at the end of Mabey Lane to the old Morris Canal.

And, there by the banks of the old canal, we planned on lighting our three firecrackers.

The anticipation, that night, was nerve racking. When the sun began to rise in the east, Stuart and I both instinctively awoken.

My heart was pounding like an old bass drum, as Stuart reached into his knapsack and pulled out the three firecrackers, safe and sound in the little plastic bag.

Stuart and I ran down the wooded path to the banks of the old Morris Canal. We ran to the big flat rock, just a few feet from the

path along the canal. We sat on the flat rock and Stuart pulled out the three firecrackers from his pants pocket. The sacred moment was here. As we prepared to take a leaping run down the path, Stuart lit one of the firecrackers and we ran with a speed that may very well had shamed the Flash.

From a few yards away, we waited and waited and waited. Finally, we decided to check on what had happened. When we reached the big flat rock, we saw that the fuse had burnt and so did the paper that the firecracker was wrapped in. Something was wrong. Could it be that Lenny conned us?

After a few moments of discussing the matter, Stuart and I agree to check out one of the other two remaining firecrackers.

I ripped open the paper wrapping of the firecracker. To our dismay, our hearts sank at what transpired before our very eyes.

Lenny had scammed us. The firecrackers he sold us were nothing more than sawdust wrapped in brightly colored paper.

Sadly, Stuart and I walked home, along the wooded path that early morning of the Fourth of July of 1964. We both had sacrificed buying comic books that week, only to be cheated by the biggest wise guy in all of Chapel Hill School.

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Legend had it that we weren’t the only kids who bought into Lenny’s firecracker scam. I often wonder whatever happened to Lenny Esposito. I think it was in the middle of my sophomore year at Boonton High School, that Lenny moved away. None of the other kids really missed him at all.

A sad commentary, to say the least. By the eighth grade we all came to know that Lenny’s father was never an FBI Agent, he just did odd jobs here and there. As strange as it may sound, I kind of felt sorry for Lenny.

I still keep in touch with my old best friend, Stuart. From time to time, in telephone conversations, we’ll recall the time we got scammed by Lenny Esposito.

Now, over 50 years later, Lenny’s scam artist legacy is still alive and well.

Richard Mabey Jr. is a freelance writer.

He can be reached at richardmabeyjr@ hotmail.com. Please put on the subject line: My Life Publications.

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I Remember Dad:

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By Richard Mabey Jr. y beloved father was a man who was immensely proud of the patriotic heritage of our family name. Dad and I spent a lot of time, from the time I was in my freshman year of high school, researching our family history. My father was always very proud of the patriotic aspect of the Mabey name.

Benjamin Mabey, a cousin of my great grandfather, was a true American hero. Benjamin was a Private in the Third New Jersey Infantry during the Civil War. Benjamin enlisted in the Union Army on May 29, 1861. He fought in several battles.

Benjamin was seriously wounded in battle.

His battle wound left him paralyzed from the waist down, for the rest of his life. Benjamin received a full honorable discharge from the Union Army on May 24, 1864. After he came home from being wounded in the Civil War, he spent the rest of his life in a wheelchair.

My grandfather’s brother, Earl Mabey, was killed in action in France during World War I. My Great Grandmother, Dora Mabey, never healed from having lost her son in war. I remember as a child, there were times when she would break down and

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cry, sitting in her rocking chair on the front porch of the old Mabey Homestead.

Dad and his brother, Edward, were both veterans of World War II. Dad’s cousin, Delbert McNeill, was also a World War II veteran. Two of Dad’s younger brothers, Carl and David, were veterans of the Korean War. And Dad’s nephew, Wesley, was a veteran of the Vietnam War. In the old Lincoln Park Museum, on Main Street, there were several boxes of old pictures that were kept in the bottom drawer of the filing cabinet in the museum. Art Smith, a fellow member of the Beavertown (Lincoln Park) Historical Society, had found an old picture of my Great Uncle Earl standing beside the smaller home of the Mabey Estate, that once stood at the corner of Mabey Lane and Main Street.

As a gift to my dad, Art had the picture of Great Uncle Earl enlarged and he took the time to frame it. It was a most beautiful tribute to my patriotic great uncle. During the 1990’s, we used to meet on Saturday mornings at the Lincoln Park Museum and set up shift times, in order to have the museum open from nine in the morning till five in the evening.

One Saturday morning, in the early Summer of 1991, Dad and I arrived at the

museum, about 10 minutes before nine, Art was waiting for us inside the museum. As we opened the door to the museum, there sat Art with a big smile on his face.

“Dick, I got something to show you,” Art said with a song in his voice. And then Art led Dad to one of the pegboard display stands to show my father the framed picture of Dad’s Uncle Earl. My father was quite taken with the picture. Here was the rugged outdoorsman, the Scoutmaster, the

long-distance truck driver, almost in tears.

Dad so sincerely and earnestly thanked Art Smith that Saturday morning, back in the early Summer of 1991. Art insisted that I take Dad’s picture, standing beside the photo of my father’s beloved uncle. Today, when I look at that picture, it brings back all of the emotions that transcended when Art showed Dad the tribute picture of Earl Mabey. continued on page 15

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Yogi Berra Museum & Learning Center and the Super Essex Conference Recognize 37 High School Athletes in Virtual Ceremony

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ontinuing a beloved tradition in local high school sports, for the ninth consecutive year the Yogi Berra Museum & Learning Center honored student athletes from member schools of the Super Essex Conference (SEC) in a celebration of the qualities that made Yogi Berra a national treasure. Recipients of the 2021 Investors Bank Best Teammate

Award, selected by their respective athletic departments, exemplify the strength of character, sportsmanship and supportive spirit that, though often unheralded, are vital to a team’s success – qualities that were on full display Tuesday evening, despite the ceremony being held virtually, instead of in the Museum’s theater.

Junior Vincent Militello, a student

I Remember Dad...

continued from page 14 Art Smith and my dad have since passed away. I miss them both very much. From time to time, I think about the tribute picture of my Great Uncle Earl. I wonder if it is still hanging in the Lincoln Park Museum.

Things change, new administrations come into an organization, I fully understand that.

But deep in my heart, I wonder what may have happened to that beautiful picture that Art Smith enlarged and framed for my dad.

I am all so grateful to the kind hearted generosity of Art Smith. I’m not sure if I

ever really thanked Art for framing the photo of my Great Uncle Earl. It is a most funny thing. Now at 67, I have an even deeper appreciation for all that Art Smith did to preserve the colorful history of Beavertown, the former name of the town of Lincoln Park. So, from earth to heaven’s gate, I most earnestly and sincerely thank you Art Smith!

Richard Mabey Jr. is a freelance writer.

He can be reached at richardmabeyjr@ hotmail.com. Please put on the subject line: My Life Publications.

athlete on Livingston High School’s Boys Varsity Wrestling team, has earned the Investors Bank Best Teammate Award. His coach said, “Vincent consistently helped with any function involving our team. He volunteered to take charge of some details before our practices and meets, so that I had time to get done what I needed to do.

And, he is respectful of all his teammates.”

“There has been so much personal sacrifice in the last 14 months,” said Eve Schaenen, the Museum’s executive director, in her welcome remarks to the students on Zoom. “Sports seasons were cancelled, or cut short, or modified to account for the public health crisis we have all lived through. And yet, your athletic directors still chose you as Best Teammate. What that says so clearly, this year more than ever, is that the qualities of a great teammate are identifiable in you… because of who you are as people, as much as who you are as athletes.”

The 37 winning students, together with

their parents, grandparents, coaches and athletic directors, had the opportunity to hear from special guest Bill Brown, Chief Retail Officer of Investors Bank, long-time sponsor of the event. In congratulating the recipients, Brown stated: “At Investors we always ask ourselves how we can make our communities better. We often talk in meetings about Yogi Berra as the model of a person who lifted the people around him.

The Best Teammate Award shows that you make your teammates better because of who you are.”

Participants also heard from Dale Berra, Yogi Berra’s youngest son, who spoke of his experience playing on the same team as his Hall of Fame father when Yogi managed the NY Yankees and Dale played on the team. The younger Berra reminded the students that being a great teammate isn’t just about statistics, but is about putting the team first, showing respect for others and persevering.

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Caldwell “Sometimes” Author Inclusion Advocate for the Excluded

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By Jillian Risberg elissa Brady Petrillo wants a world where everyone matters and is included.

So the high school English and special education teacher penned her first book to let autistic children know we acknowledge you and you are not alone.

In “Sometimes,” we learn that Samantha sometimes feels differently every day.

She describes how she communicates her feelings with others. The book highlights the importance of friendship, empathy and inclusivity in the modern world.

The idea behind inclusion is that every child should be an equally valued member of a school culture, according to Education Next.

Not shut out, scared, awkward, lonely or lost.

Autism spectrum disorder (ASD), a developmental disability that affects the way people communicate, behave or interact with others has no specific cause, and symptoms can range from very mild to very severe.

“I am thrilled and honored to share my first children’s book with the public,” Petrillo says. “When earning my undergraduate degree I completed a research project

studying disabilities in children’s literature (and found) a majority of books featured neurodiverse white males as main characters.”

That prompted the author to conceive a book narrated by an eight-year-old, biracial autistic girl.

“It is imperative autistic females can identify with Samantha as a character and we read books to children featuring people of color as main characters,” says the inclusion advocate, adding that readers also need to see neurodiverse characters to understand various perspectives.

She says books should serve as mirrors for children to view themselves and people who are different, as character representations.

It was in 2014 when Petrillo wrote the first version of “Sometimes” (the book is 20 pages long), then started her teaching career. By 2019 she sought representation, eventually deciding on Christian Faith Publishing.

Her time as a counselor at Camp Hope through the ARC of Essex County and as an educator inspired the author to write this book.

“Families with both neurodiverse and neurotypical children will better under-

stand the message of inclusion after reading ‘Sometimes,’” Petrillo says, adding the book is good for preschool through third grade but all youngsters and adults, not just Autistic can take something away from the story.

Looking back, one of her articles was included in Argosy, the student news of Mount St. Dominic Academy (all girls, Catholic high school in Caldwell) and when the educator saw her words in print she realized that language had power.

“I strive to make a positive impact with my writing and encourage others to not only write, but also take time to read, according to their interests,” she says.

The author certainly does… John Steinbeck’s “Of Mice and Men” is a favorite and when it comes to inclusive children’s literature: “My Brother Charlie” by Denene Millner, Holly Robinson Peete and Ryan Elizabeth Peete.

It’s important to Petrillo to keep advocating for our children and young adults.

She says one way to do that is by providing access to additional literature for individuals, parents and educators featuring characters of diverse ability levels. “(And) I am going to continue to support local businesses that employ adults on the

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New Acro and Tumbling Team Adds Excitement to Caldwell University

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By Megan Roche or Jenna Adams, the chance to coach a sport that she loves is a once in a lifetime opportunity. A former fourth grade teacher in South Jersey, when she heard that Caldwell University was adding an Acrobatics and Tumbling team, she couldn’t apply for the head coach position fast enough.

“I was a fourth grade teacher at a catholic school in South Jersey. I had started what I thought would be my life career as a teacher but I always knew in the back of my head that I loved acro and I wanted to be a coach. I had been looking around at tumbling places where I could help out.

I just wanted to be involved in my sport again. I knew if I ever got the opportunity to coach and the right school came up, I’d jump at it. I just love this sport and I’ve felt like I have more to give to the sport that has given me so much,” Adams said.

A star member of the Acro and Tumbling team at Quinnipiac University, Adams had a stand out career in her five years as a Bobcat, highlighted by making the National Championship finals during her senior year. She even served as a volunteer assis-

tant coach. She credits her time at QU with how she plans on coaching.

“I learned a lot and became just an all around better athlete from my time at Quinnipiac. I had an awesome career and just an awesome time in general. I loved QU, it was an awesome school and the coaching staff was amazing. We had the chemistry and we worked for eachother and were so fond of eachother,” Adams said.

A new sport to many, the teams com-

peting combine the best of competitive cheerleading and gymnastics. The cheerleading end of the sport is captured during the stunting and pyramid components of routines, while the gymnastics end of the sport is captured with the tumbling aspect of routines.

“It’s a combination of all the best of gymnastics and cheerleading. It has the stunting and the pyramid that you would find in a cheerleading routine, but it also has the tumbling passes that gymnastics

has. It is just a good combination and it’s intense, it’s exciting, it’s thrilling. People who wouldn’t be your normal viewers of gymnastics and cheerleading get really into it,” Adams said.

A typical meet has 12 rounds of competition, called heats. The meets go back and forth between the teams competing. Everything is based on timing and each team has their own mat, accompanied by the competition mat in the middle of the floor.

There is warm ups, compulsory events, followed by the acro events, pyramid events, a half time period, toss rounds, tumbling rounds, and the meet ends with the team routine.

Adams makes history not only by being Caldwell’s first head coach of the new program, but by also being the first Acro and Tumbling coach within the state of New Jersey. No other schools in New Jersey have a program currently.

“New Jersey has a lot of cheerleading and gymnastics talent within the state.

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Altruistic Caldwell Woman Gives Cousin Second Chance at Life

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By Jillian Risberg er selfless gift of a kidney is helping her cousin live the life he so richly deserves. And for Avie Bertaccini, the decision to donate the life-saving organ was a no brainer.

Allan R. was on dialysis for at least two years before the donation and was sick even before that, Bertaccini says.

“I found out he needed a kidney in February 2018 and knew I wanted to donate if we were a match,” says the yoga teacher, adding that she was recovering from her second C-section (third abdominal surgery) at the time and wrapping her head around having an infant again.

“My daughter had some developmental delays (since resolved, thankfully),” she says. “I was going through a lot on my own. I actually didn’t talk to him about being his donor for another year and a half.”

At a chance meeting with Allan (her second cousin/ their grandfathers were brothers), her commitment never waned.

“It had been on my mind the whole time,” she says of donating. “And I was searching for more out of life. It was hard to stay home and feeling a little bit isolated, pandemic aside. I found being an at-home parent very isolating.”

When Bertaccini was ultimately ready to offer her kidney, COVID hit — making it a complicated process. Everything from scheduling appointments, COVID tests, waiting for negative results, and finalizing safe childcare plans was seriously stress-inducing.

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On the list for a deceased donor, eventually Allan’s health declined enough he couldn’t wait anymore.

“I think he kinda felt like, ‘I’m gonna see if I can take her up on this,’” Bertaccini says. “That’s really not a guarantee either; we were lucky to be a match.”

They knew they were both A+. But much more goes into qualifying to be a living donor.

“If you can think of a test, I had it done,” she says. “I had to have CAT scans with the dye to look at my organ anatomy, ultrasound of my kidney, a test on my heart, everything. They would never have done it if there was a question about my overall health.”

Luckily Bertaccini got the green light, thinking about what it would be like for her children.

“Let alone the prospect of passing away, but to have a parent so ill was horrible to me,” she says. “Being on dialysis is life-ruining.”

Besides how sick you are, you can’t go anywhere because you have to be back for dialysis every other day.

“His daughter had already lived with him like that for a couple of years; it’s just terrible,” she says. “She is only 12; 11 at the time of our surgery. My daughter was 8. Even though he and I have a big age gap, our daughters are actually close in age. And his daughter was the only baby at my wedding.”

The yoga teacher doesn’t recall meeting her cousin until continued on page 20

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Kenneth Kunzman, West Orange Resident, Successful Attorney, and Philanthropic Leader Shares His Greatest Accomplishments

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By Lori Ramas enneth Kunzman, a West Orange resident was recently awarded an honorary doctorate from Seton Hall University. His prestigious accomplishment is the culmination of more than 56 years of compassion and servitude for his community.

Everywhere he goes, he leaves a trail of philanthropic accomplishments and gifts for the people and organizations he loves.

Kunzman shared that his story began in high school when he attended St. Peter’s Prep in Jersey City receiving a Jesuit education. It was impressed upon him to not only think of himself but to think of others.

That impression was reinforced by his studies in college at Holy Cross College in Worcester, Massachusetts. He fulfilled his education through charitable work that manifested into millions of dollars in scholarships and so much more.

While Kunzman never attended Seton Hall University, he did play basketball for Holy Cross, another of his many passions.

Later in his career as a trial attorney, he became a season ticket holder at Seton Hall, where he became good friends with the late Richie Regan, the athletic director at that time. Together, they formed the Pirate Blue Athletic Fund, where Kunzman is the co-founder and has dedicated his personal and professional talents for 40 years.

Meanwhile, Kunzman began his career

as a lawyer in 1965 at Connell Foley, a firm that’s been around since 1936. He’s since made partner and is now the number two attorney in the firm with a total of 147 lawyers. He worked together for 55 years with Adrian Foley, a man he admired who always looked out for other people and Kunzman added “is one of the most outstanding lawyers in the country.” While he has a passion for law, he also observed the need for people to have access to legal services who couldn’t afford them. He worked together with a member of his office, Mr. Meyer, by creating a foundation that raised money for those who couldn’t afford legal services. He took the role of chairman of the foundation and raised thousands of dollars.

Additionally, Kunzman realized that some people wanted to go to college but couldn’t afford it, especially families who needed their teens to work instead of study. As a lawyer, he had a very successful client, Mr. Bonner, who before passing away worked with Kunzman to set up a foundation and declared, “it’s time to give back.”

The Bonner Foundation was born and Kunzman sat as chairman of the board for 18 years. Their foundation has offered scholarships to 26 colleges totaling 5 million dollars each to help educate people in need and an additional million dollars to feed the poor.

The recipients of those scholarships are required to put in community service to qual-

Second Chance at Life... continued from page 18 she was a teen because when she was little, Allan was off in college and as a young adult, doing his own thing.

“Honestly, my first memory is the engagement party for his first marriage and I must have been 15 or 14 and he had long hair like a rock ’n’ roll guy.”

Bertaccini and her cousin now share an eternal bond.

He lives in Massachusetts and was being treated at a local hospital. She says she had the option of doing the surgery here at Saint Barnabas and they would medevac the kidney to him at Baystate Medical Center in Springfield, MA. “I learned the longer the kidney’s out of my body before it goes into him, the chance of success diminishes,” she says. “I didn’t want that to happen. Why go through all this and then not have it be as optimal as possible — so I chose to do it up there.”

Despite the positive outcome of the surgery, recovery took its toll.

“I don’t know if it’s just getting older or having it be my fourth abdominal surgery, but it was brutal; a very painful recovery,”

says Bertaccini. “I was very down for a while after, because this one had me sidelined for a good five/six weeks.”

Connecting with her own yoga teacher in a “masks-on private session,” the 40-yearold felt the sadness lift off her. After a few more weeks of practicing with teachers, she came out the other side and was back to teaching yoga by December 13.

More than seven months since the surgery, her cousin is doing really well and taking good care of himself.

“You have to have your anti-rejection drugs adjusted for the first couple of months, and he was released from that so they found the right combination,” she says. “April he was able to start his first fulltime job in quite some time between the pandemic and being ill.”

She couldn’t ask for more.

(I’m) just happy it went so well,” Bertaccini says. “(It) really means a lot to me that I was able to do it — and I just hope my daughters feel empowered to do something good if the opportunity crosses their path.”

From left: Family members celebrating as Seton Hall University confers an honorary degree upon Kenneth F. Kunzman, LL.B., center, at its 165th Commencement Ceremonies at MetLife Stadium on May 25, 20201 include grandson Albert James; son, Ken Kunzman, Jr.; wife Anne and daughter Anne James. Kunzman received the honorary degree for his significant contributions to society, and for his work which has realized the ideals and aspirationsto which Seton Hall is committed. Photo credit: Joy Yagid.

ify; the scholarship is entirely based on service to others. There have been 6 thousand graduations as a result of their foundation.

Kunzman said it moved him to watch them go to college because of the scholarships they were able to deliver.

Kunzman is a proud family man. He has 6 children, 17 grandchildren, and 4 great-grandchildren. He has lived in the same West Orange house for the last 50 years since he got married to his wife Anne Kunzman in 1965. Anne’s Father, Bernard

M. Dengan was mayor of West Orange from 1936 to 1952 with Dengan Park named in his honor.

He has advice for people who want to follow his philanthropic path; be a doer.

“Be a doer, don’t wait for someone to tell you what to do. When we had a new case come in, I would say ok here’s what I think we should do and do it rather than waiting for someone. When you go to work, be inspired to be a doer. To succeed, ask a lot of questions and take initiative.”

New Acro and Tumbling Team... continued from page 17 the area and pull people in. I still have to pinch myself that I get to do this job. It’s my dream job,” Adams said.

Adams is busy with the recruiting process and is hopeful to have enough girls to begin in the 2021-2022 school year. Meet season typically starts up in February, but practices are all year round. Coming from an athlete and becoming a coach, Adams has some key insight for her future athletes.

“I want to make a team that is going to have fun and enjoy coming to practice. I want them to want to get better for eacho-

ther and not just for themselves. This is such a new and incredible team sport. As many individual things that there are, you really have to work together to learn new things. Nobody has ever done this sport before, so having them come together and realize that they are all on the same page and learning the same things, it’s so important,” Adams said.

As she heads to Caldwell to pursue her passion, those interested can follow the teams progress at www.caldwellathletics. com/sports/acro. Interested athletes can connect with Adams via the recruiting form on the site.

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Sister Cities: West Orange, New Jersey, Meet West Orange, Texas

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By Steve Sears “Sister Cities” first.

An interview source from a sister city who has actually visited its Garden State counterpart.

Meritta Kennedy, newly elected to the City of West Orange Town Council on May 18, actually visited our West Orange in 2001. Not long enough to visit the Thomas Edison National Historic Site and other notable spots, but she was here.

“I remember it being a very welcoming town; pleasant to visit,” she says.

Much like her West Orange. Here’s another interesting tidbit. West Orange, Texas is neighbored by Orange, Texas. Sound familiar?

“Everybody knows everybody,” says Kennedy of the city she has lived in all of her life. “Everybody’s friendly and willing to help everyone.”

West Orange, Texas, has about 3,500 residents, much less populated than our West Orange of over 46,000 people. Also, the former is smaller in size, about 3 square miles to 12 square miles on our end.

West Orange, Texas, broke off from Orange in 1954 and was that year incorporated. “As far as the history, we were a big petroleum chemical area,” Kennedy says. “We have a lot of oak trees, and some well over 100 years old. And sassafras trees, of course, because the Adams Bayou runs through West Orange and feeds into the Sabine River.”

Western Avenue is the main road through West Orange, but Macarthur Drive is home to most of the commercial business. The last traffic circle in the entire state was in West Orange, and it was called Macar-

thur Circle. “You just kind of made a circle around instead of like red lights and intersections and all that,” Kennedy says of the circle that was recently removed in favor of a traditional intersection.

Fast food eateries (Wendy’s, KFC, Domino’s Pizza) dot the West Orange map, but a popular Mexican eatery, LA Cantina Mexican Grill, toes the city line. “We are very, very close to Orange,” says Kennedy. “Right within two miles you can see everything. They have the Old Orange Café and Catering Company, which has a step back in time atmosphere, you know, the pictures of the days gone by with that type of music, and we have a Robert’s Meat Market & Steakhouse in Orange, and Bluebirds Fish Camp and boat ramp has been there since I was a child. It’s overlooking the cut of our Sabine River, which we are right on.”

There is lodging outside the city of West Orange as well.

Two special holiday events take place annually.

Kennedy explains. “Holiday in the Park’ features ven-

dors, craft booths, and the like. We have the Christmas tree lighting around the first of December. Everybody comes, we have a gazebo in the park, a band will usually be there, and we sing carols.” The latter event features former town council member Carl Thibodeaux reading “The Cajun Night Before Christmas” in his Cajun dialect, and children of the city assist the mayor with the countdown to the tree being lit. Newly elected mayor, Randy Branch, this year will do the honors.

Kennedy also adds, “Bassmaster Elite (the professional bass fishing series) comes to our area as well.

They catch fish. We’re right on the coast, so that’s a big deal for us.”

“We do have a church in our city that is 100 years old,” says Kennedy.

“The church originally was called West Orange Baptist Church, but now, since other churches have broken off from it, it’s First Baptist Church West Orange, and it’s 119 years old.” Culture abounds nature-wise with the nearby Loann Gomez Nature Preserve, located

right on Adams Bayou, and in Orange with the Shangri La Botanical Gardens and Nature Center, which dates back to the 1950s. The Stark Museum of Art and the Orange Train Depot Museum are also short drive from West Orange.

The high school football team, the Mustangs, better known as the “Mighty Mustangs,” are very popular.

“They are state title winners,” says Kennedy. Defensive back Earl Thomas, who formerly played for the Seattle Seahawks and the Baltimore Ravens, is the local gridiron hero.

“Shipbuilding, petroleum - we had all that back in the era of World War II,” says Kennedy proudly. “That’s what we did back then, we built ships for World War Two.” She pauses, then says, “It’s very small, quaint.

We still ride horses down the street. Just a small town atmosphere where everybody knows everybody, kind of like Mayberry.”

To learn more about West Orange, Texas, visit www.cityofwestorange. com.

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