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Upper Saddle River
Upper Saddle River recently joined 6,500 after school programs and over a million Americans across the nation to celebrate the Eleventh Annual After School Alliance’s Lights on After School Day. The celebration, held at the Cavallini School, highlighted the importance of after school programs and the value they bring to the community. A proclamation of recognition was issued by Mayor Ken Gabbert and the Upper Saddle River Council. Gabbert attended the recent ceremony with Councilwoman Joanne Minichetti. A magic show was performed by Joe Fischer, a magician who has taught magic lessons to the kids in the district’s after school program for the past 15 years. Upper Saddle River’s popular after school program has served over 1,000 children and their parents for the last 21 years. The non-profit 501C-3 charitable organization was co-founded by Director Pahaka September, when the school principal asked parents to set up an after school program. It was one of the first after school programs to obtain state licensing in New Jersey. The cost to parents has remained reasonable because non-profit organizations do not need to profit from working parents and their children. Eighty-one children participate along with eight teachers. Susan Greenbaum Gross, president of the USR After School Program, said, “We are very proud of the high quality program offered to our town’s children. Upper Saddle River has one of the finest after school programs in New Jersey. Children are not warehoused or baby-sat, they are engaged and stimulated by the daily themed enrichment
District celebrates its after school program
Left: Pahaka September, Upper Saddle River After School Program Director; Dr. Monica Browne, Upper Saddle River Schools Superintendent; Susan Greenbaum Gross, president of the Upper Saddle River After School Program; Jacque Heath Hunter, Upper Saddle River After School Program Board Trustee; and afterschool kids at the Lights on Afterschool celebration. Right: USR Borough Administrator Ted Preusch, USR Board of Education member Dante Ferrarie, USR After School Program President Susan Greenbaum Gross, USR Councilwoman Joannne Minichetti, USR After School Program Director Pahaka September, and USR Mayor Ken Gabbert.
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courses and the opportunities to learn to socialize with each other. Pahaka comes up with innovative ideas like holding an annual apple beauty contest where kids learn about apples (the contestants), judge the ‘‘beauty contest,’ and then compare and sample various types of apples after the winner is crowned.” Over the years, participants in the after school program have created felt murals, sewed pillows, saved a cow with a broken leg, and raised money for Facing Forward Foundation to help two children receive major facial reconstruc-
tion. Students have participated in a collaborative variety show with 90-year-old actors at the Actors’ Fund Home in Englewood, rocketry, sports, field trips, and more. The program has obtained a grant from Rockland Electric Company that enabled every child to build a solar car, solar hot air balloons, and replace light bulbs in their homes with energy-efficient CFLs. Many Girl Scouts have worked on community service projects and Gold and Silver award projects with the kids in the borough’s after school program.
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