August 28, 2013 THE VILLADOM TIMES III • Page 23 Allendale Notebook Payments are due by Sept. 3 and may be sent to ANC, P.O. Box 431 Allendale, NJ 07401. For more information, e-mail eveningsocialanc@gmail.com. Chamber planning Festival Day The Allendale Chamber of Commerce will meet Sept. 10 at the Allendale Bar and Grill, 67 West Allendale Avenue. This dinner meeting will begin at 6:30 p.m. The group’s agenda includes a discussion of Allendale’s Festival Day, which is set for Oct. 5. RSVP to Adrienne Tenbekjian at (201) 327-8411. The Chamber meets the second Tuesday of the month. ESL class forming The Lee Memorial Library, located at 500 West Cres- cent Avenue in Allendale, will offer English as a Second Language classes on Tuesdays and Thursdays beginning Sept. 17. These one-hour sessions meet at 11 a.m. The conversational class, “Let’s All Speak English!” allows participants the opportunity to sharpen their Eng- lish language skills and make new friends. The class will include speaking, listening, reading, and writing exercises. Class size is limited and preregistration is required. To reg- ister, call the library at (201) 327-4338. to sign up for the Bergen County OEM’s fall 2013 CERT training program. Classes will begin Monday, Sept. 16 and run weekly through Nov. 4 from 7 to 9:30 p.m. at the Bergen County Law & Public Safety Institute in Mahwah. CERT training includes modules in disaster prepared- ness, medical operations, fire suppression, light search and rescue, disaster psychology, terrorism awareness, animal preparedness, and incident command. This year, the program has been expanded to include training for County Animal Response Team certification. The CART training will begin on Nov. 11 and continue weekly through Dec. 2. Participation in CART is encour- aged, but not required as part of CERT training. For more information about Allendale CERT, or to enroll in the training, contact Pete Branigan at gpballendalecert@yahoo.com or call (201)790-4404. CERT seeks new members The Allendale Community Emergency Response Team is seeking new members. Interested individuals are invited Press releases for this column may be e-mailed to editorial@villadom.com. Deadline is Wednesday at noon. SRYT holds auditions for ‘Seussical’ The Saddle River Youth Theatre will begin its 2013-14 season with auditions for the fall musical production of “Seussical.” Auditions will be held on Saturday, Sept. 7 from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Auditions are for character place- ment only; everyone gets a part. There will be four casts of “Seussical.” The SRYT Youth Musical Program will run from September through November with eight public performances in mid-Novem- ber. For more information or to register for an audition, visit www.sryt.org, call the box office at (201) 825-8805, or e-mail srytheatre@aol.com. The theater is located at 37 East Allendale Avenue in Allendale. The Saddle River Youth Theatre, founded in 1996, is a non-profit, 501(c)3 organization. Learn CPR The Allendale Volunteer Ambulance Corps and the Lee Memorial Library will present Friends & Family CPR classes on Sept. 7. Sessions will be held at 10 a.m. and 1 p.m. at the library located at 500 West Crescent Avenue. This course teaches the lifesaving skills of adult hands- only CPR, child CPR with breaths, adult and child AED use, infant CPR, and relief of choking. This course is for people who want to learn CPR but do not need a course completion card. The course is ideal for students, new par- ents, grandparents, babysitters, members or employees of religious institutions who assist at services, and others interested in learning how to save a life. The free course is limited to 16 students per session. Donations to the Lee Memorial Library or Allendale Vol- unteer Ambulance Corps will be accepted. To register, call (201) 327-4338. Newcomers to host Family Barbecue The Allendale Newcomers Club will host a Family Bar- becue on Saturday, Sept. 7. The event will be held from 3 to 7 p.m. and will include the barbecue, snacks, and bever- ages. Attendees are encouraged to bring lawn chairs and swim suits and towels so they can take a dip in the pool. (Rain date: Sept. 8.) The cost to attend is $20 for adults and $5 for children. Eagle Scouts (continued from page 4) help over the years. Wachino noted that Dworkin’s passion for Scouting and dedication to the Scout Law and Scout Oath helped him to attain Eagle. Tengi began his Scouting career at age eight, joining Allendale Cub Scout Pack 252 as a Tiger Cub. He ascended the ranks to Webelo along with his fellow Scouts and bridged to Allendale Boy Scout Troop 59 in the spring of 2007. His best memories of Scouting have been travel opportu- nities. His favorite trips included the West Point Camporee, the New Jersey State Police Camporee, Cooperstown/ Baseball Hall of Fame, rafting down the Lehigh, backpack- ing the Appalachian Trail, hiking the Gettysburg National Battlefield, canoeing at Floodwood, the 2010 National Jam- boree, and the Bahamas sailing trip. His most memorable Scouting event was his trip to the Philmont Scout Ranch during July 2012. He backpacked nearly 100 miles through the Sangre de Cristo Range of the New Mexican Rockies. The biggest accomplishment of the trip was the ascent of the tallest mountain on the Philmont Ranch, Mount Baldy, at an altitude of 12,441 feet above sea level. Tengi’s Eagle project was to construct eight large benches for Camp NEJEDA, a Stillwater facility that caters to those with juvenile diabetics and their families, helping them better understand and manage their disease. A juve- nile diabetic camper himself, Tengi found Camp NEJEDA very helpful. Working on the project, Tengi received help from a huge volunteer base. He would like to thank all the Scouts and adults who helped him along the way, including Garry Johnson, Tommy Johnson, Jim Welton, Kevin Denier, Ste- phen Novak, (Tengi’s mentor), Charles Zoeller, Richard Brooke, Ronald Wachino, Christopher Latham, Dan Cun- neen, and Scoutmaster Marc Dworkin. He also thanked all of the organizations and individuals who donated funds for the project, especially Daniel B. Smith, director of FTBO, Inc. Novak began Scouting as a Tiger Cub in Pack 59 in first grade. He was active in the pack until he bridged into Troop 59 as a fifth grader. When he was in seventh grade, he accepted his first leadership position in the troop: assistant patrol leader. Soon afterward, he became Troop 59’s quar- termaster. Since then, he has held various leadership posi- tions of increasing responsibility, including patrol leader, assistant senior patrol leader, and senior patrol leader. In the fall of 2012, Novak helped form the new Ventur- ing Crew 59, which he has served as co-president. During his tenure as a BSA member, he has participated in a majority of Troop 59 outings and the high adventure trips of Philmont (2012), Bahamas (2011), Ten Mile River Summer Camp (2007-2011), and National Youth Leader Training Camp (2012). For his Eagle Project, he remodeled a clothing distri- bution room in the Gathering Place Church/Jericho Road Homeless Shelter in Paterson. The room, which was previ- ously dirty and cluttered, now resembles a large walk-in closet. The project took seven months with planning and work combined. Outside of the Scouting program, Novak, a senior at Northern Highlands, has participated in multiple school activities such as marching band and Transition Project, a mentoring program to support the underclassmen. He recently completed his EMT training. He thanked the many people who have supported his Scouting career, including Marc Dworkin, Ray Iannacone, Dan Tengi, Tom Zambrotta, Mike Guarnaccia, Chuck Zoeller, Dan Cunneen, and especially his mentor, Kevin DeNiear. He also thanked his parents, who serve as Troop Com- mittee chair and Troop Committee member/Assistant Scoutmaster, for their support of him and all the Troop 59 Boy Scouts.