June 20, 2012 THE VILLADOM TIMES II • Page 17 Ridgewood Notes Learn to speak Chinese Ridgewood Parks and Recreation is offering two language workshops for children: the Chinese Preschool Alternative and Chinese for Children. Registration is currently under way for these fall 2012 Chinese language immersion programs, which will be offered by the Language Workshop for Children. The Chinese Preschool Alternative for children ages three through five will be offered on Mondays from 1 to 3:30 p.m. The class will begin Sept. 17. Children will learn Mandarin Chinese along with traditional preschool activities such as organized play, arts and crafts, pre-reading, counting, drawing, stories, music, movement, original language-building songs, stories, and activities. The workshop builds fundamental early childhood skills such as self-confidence, imagination, reasoning, listening, creativity, socialization, and motor coordination while developing a child’s ability to speak a new language. Students attend class without a parent or caregiver. The cost is $375 for six classes. Children in kindergarten through grade three may participate in Chinese for Children. The class meets on Mondays from 3:45 to 4:45 p.m. beginning Sept. 17. Young children absorb a new language in an immersion environment filled with exciting and age-appropriate action games, visual aids, vocabulary-building songs, and other activities. The cost is $149 for six classes. Materials for both classes include a glossy, full-color LWFC Songs, and More Workbook/CD Set and LWFC Storybook, are available the first day of class at a cost of $29.95. Checks should be made payable to The Language Workshop for Children. No cash, please. Register online at www.ridgewoodnj.net/communitypass or in person or by mail at The Stable, 259 North Maple Avenue. Registration forms are on the recreation homepage at www.ridgewoodnj.net. Call (201) 670-5560 for details. Biddy Basketball players wanted Ridgewood Biddy Basketball registration is now open and may be completed online at www.ridgesports.org. This program is available to girls and boys in grade three through high school. A clinic for special needs children is also being offered. The registration deadline is Sept. 20. After that date, a $50 late fee per child is applied. For more information, call Dottie Capasso at (201) 445-9320. Book restoration celebration announced The Genealogical Society of Bergen County and the Ridgewood Public Library will celebrate the restoration of several books from the library’s collection on Tuesday, June 19. The 7 p.m. event will be held at the library, located at 125 North Maple Avenue in Ridgewood. Light refreshments will be served and the public is invited. The society’s 11 volume set, “Documents Relating to the Colonial History of the State of New York,” published in the 1850s, has been repaired and rebound. This set contains transcripts of Colonial-era documents and includes many citations for Bergen County, New Jersey places and persons. The set is indexed and can be easily searched and should be of great interest to both historians and genealogists. The books’ previous fragile condition meant the set could not be shelved with the rest of the Genealogical Society of Bergen County’s collection. With repairs and rebinding, the set is now more accessible to historians and genealogists with interests in documents for early New York or Bergen County. Books from the Ridgewood Public Library collection that have been restored will also be on display, including “Brooklyn Eagle Almanac” and the three-volume “Military History of Ulysses S. Grant” by Adam Badeau. After the celebration, all books will be available for use in the Bolger Heritage Center of the Ridgewood Public Library. Funding has been made possible in part through grant funds administered by the Bergen County Department of Parks, Division of Cultural and Historic Affairs through a General Operating Support grant from the New Jersey Historical Commission, a Division of Cultural Affairs in the Department of State. Art workshops available The Ridgewood Art Institute will hold new week-long summer workshops for young people. Charlotte Sullivan will teach from Aug. 6 through 10, and Laura Paray will instruct from Aug. 20 through 24. The cost is $185 plus a $30 membership fee for any non-members. To register, contact Charlotte Sullivan at (201) 747-1633 or sullivan. charlotte@gmail.com, or Laura Paray at (201) 857-8891 or laura@paray.com. The Ridgewood Art Institute has daily classes for young people every week and weekend. To view the schedule, visit www.ridgewoodartinstitute.org or drop by the art institute at 12 East Glen Avenue in Ridgewood. Water company (continued from page 6) Waldwick, and $4.95 in Ramsey. The rate for United Water of New Jersey is $5.30 per 1,000 gallons. On June 13, the Ridgewood Village Council adopted an ordinance that had been carried eight or nine times. That ordinance provides a schedule of new fees for metering services, billing of fire hydrants, and other services, including duplicate bills. This ordinance did not implement the water rate increase, which Moritz said is a separate matter and does not require a vote of the Ridgewood Village Council. Commercial zone (continued from page 5) the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection Green Acres Trust Fund, and $40,000 from Ridgewood’s capital balance fund. There was no objection to the finalized acceptance of the $155,000 expenditure for stream improvements to HoKo-Kus Brook. That project is intended to reduce flooding. Most of the funds for this work are from the U.S. Department of Agriculture. The council also approved an appropriation for firefighting equipment of $131,195, that will be covered by a sum of $118,076 from the United States Department of Homeland Security and $13,119 from Ridgewood’s capital bond ordinance.