June 12, 2013 THE VILLADOM TIMES II • Page 23 Ridgewood Notes Church holds Candlelight Cafe, camp program Christ Episcopal Church, located at 105 Cottage Place in Ridgewood, will hold a Candlelight Café Open Mic Night on June 15 from 7 to 9:30 p.m. The event will feature local talent. For more information, or to participate as a performer, call Sue Ullrich at (201) 327-8668. This event is free and open to the public. Refreshments will available for purchase and the proceeds will support the future Great Hall. Registration is under way for the church’s musical theater camp, Arkeology. Participants will hear the familiar Bible story about Noah and his family from the animals’ perspective. The camp is open to children ages four through 12 and will be held Aug. 19 through 23 from 9 a.m. to noon. Registration for the camp is required. Call (201) 6522350 to request a registration form, or visit www.christchurchridgewood.org to register online. Ridgewood Y hosts Open House On June 15, the Ridgewood YMCA will host a 6 p.m. Open House for its International Camp Program. The camp program offers teens an exciting cultural experience while A presentation by Rave On! rolled down the curtain on the Ridgewood Library’s concert season with a rollicking tribute to Roy Orbison. The audience clapped in time and applauded the high-energy performance. Lead singer Chris Roselle did a spot-on version of Orbison’s best-known songs along with his own signature version of Buddy Holly, the featured singer in Roselle’s Ridgewood Library concerts in previous years. “He really sounds like them,” Program Director Tony Matthis said before the concert, always one of the top crowd-pleasers. “You close your eyes and it’s like listening to the radio.” Backed by Pete Farley on bass guitar and background vocals and Don Guinta on drums and background vocals, Roselle offered the audience an array of Orbison’s hits. The American singer, Roselle said, once performed in London in 1964 and the Beatles opened for Orbison until matters reversed themselves. Without being unduly academic, Roselle spanned back to the 1940s and demonstrated how what had once been country music verged into the early days of rock and roll in the later 1950s and early 1960s. Ridgewood Library concert seasons usually feature a balance of classical, ethnic, soul, and nostalgia programs, with local talent whenever possible. Kayo Toda, an internationally-known marimba virtuoso, gave her farewell performance at the library before relocating to Japan. Chinese dancers and traditional youth musicians have also balanced performances with popular classics on the violin, jazz singers, the Celtic harp, and the ever-popular Irish tradi- Rave On! closes concert season they complete service projects abroad. During the Open House, parents and teens will receive information about this summer’s program, along with the opportunity to ask questions of camp directors and previous program participants. This year’s camp program will be held from June 29 through July 9. Participants will visit the Dominican Republic, where they will build and repair homes for families in need and complete important reforestation work. The International Camp Program is open to teens in grades 10 through 12. For information or an application, visit www.ridgewoodymca.org/icp. To register for the Open House, contact Gary Imhoff at gimhoff@ridgewoodymca.org or call (201) 444-5600, extension 313. The Ridgewood YMCA is located at 112 Oak Street in Ridgewood. Garden space available The Ridgewood Parks and Recreation Department invites residents to join the Community Garden. During the summer, residents are invited to use the 10’x12’ parcel at Maple East Park to plant flowers, vegetables, and herbs, and be responsible for the garden’s upkeep. For more information, call (201) 670-5560. To register for a garden plot, visit The Stable at 259 North Maple Avenue and fill out a registration form. The cost to participate is $50 per plot. Learn about Irish history Una McGinley Sarno, Ph.D. of Ridgewood will present a video about Irish history, an overview from Newgrange to 1916, to the Irish American Unity Conference, 5th and 9th Chapter on Wednesday, June 12. The program will be held at 7:30 p.m. at Christ Church, 105 Cottage Place in Ridgewood. All are welcome. For information call (201) 384-7911. The IAUC is a human rights organization working for peace with justice in a reunited Ireland. The members of Rave On! tional and modern songs by Kitty Kelly, one of the greatest crowd-pleasers. Matthis said next year’s schedule is not yet ready for publication, and some smaller summer programs would be scheduled in the not-too-distant future. J.KOSTER Valley’s Paramus rooftop hive (continued from page 17) hormones, purchase more organic foods, educate the community about nutritious and “socially just” foods, minimize or reuse food waste, use ecologically protective food packaging, and support humane agriculture systems. Initiatives conducted in support of the pledge include buying local produce from Catalpa Ridge farm in Sussex County, the hospital’s commitment to buying cage-free eggs, promoting “Meatless Monday,” and a partnership with the community supported agriculture program offered by Hesperides Organica, a farm in Warwick, New York. “We have always been big supporters of locally produced food, and what could be more local that producing your own honey?” said Director of Food and Nutrition Services for Valley Dining Dawn Cascio. “We also like the idea of supporting the declining honey bee population while enhancing our community’s gardens, foliage, and trees,” In fact, Paramus’ newest residents will help pollinate a two-mile radius around the Luckow Pavilion, increasing the yield of flowers, fruits, and vegetables over an 8,700acre area. Concerned about their sting? Not to worry. “Honeybees are very docile and rarely sting except by accident or in defense of a beehive, because use of its stinger is lethal to a honeybee,” said Eric Hanan, cofounder of Bee Bold Apiaries, which supplied and will maintain the honeybee hives for Valley. “Honeybees are not aggressive and are not interested in us or our backyard barbecues or drinks.” “The New Jersey Department of Agriculture promotes and encourages urban bee keeping,” Cascio added. “We want to do all we can to be as ‘green’ as possible to the environment.”