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Box 96, Midland Park, NJ 07432-0096 Total Window & Wall Fashions Page 2 THE VILLADOM TIMES I, II, III & IV • November 20, 2013 Early deadline notice Due to the Thanksgiving holiday, the deadline for the Dec. 4 edition of Villadom TIMES will be Tuesday, Nov. 26 at noon. All press releases and photos must be received by that deadline. The staff wishes our readers a safe and enjoyable holiday. Villadom Happenings Gingerbread Creation Contest announced The McFaul Environmental Center in Wyckoff invites the community to join its Gingerbread Creation Contest. Individuals and groups may enter a gingerbread house or make something entirely different. Entries will be judged by “People’s Choice.” Ribbons and certificates will be awarded in various age group categories. Registration, along with a $5 registration fee, is required by Nov. 25. Visit www.wildlifecenter@co.bergen.nj.us. Gingerbread entries may be dropped off at the environ- mental center between Dec. 2 and 8, during regular office hours. Group size is not to exceed eight members. The maximum base size for the gingerbread entries is 18”x18.” Excluding the base, the entry must be edible. Foil wrapped candies are acceptable. Voting will take place from Dec. 8 through 29. The James A. McFaul Environmental Center is located at 150 Crescent Avenue in Wyckoff. Lauretta’s to host Shop & Nosh benefit Sal Lauretta for Men in Midland Park will host its second Shop and Nosh Night on Thursday, Nov. 21 from 6 to 9 p.m. The men’s clothing shop will donate 18 per- cent of the evening’s proceeds to Jewish Family Service of North Jersey. Customers are invited to enjoy previews of new designer collections, update their personal wardrobes, or find a holiday gift. The shop is located at 621 Godwin Avenue in Midland Park. For details, call (201) 444-1666. Village Menorah Lighting set The Village of Ridgewood and the Jewish community will hold its first Chanukah Menorah Lighting at Van Neste Square on Wednesday, Nov. 27. The ceremony will begin at 5:30 p.m. and will feature music and refreshments. All are invited to this free event. The park is located on East Ridgewood Avenue in Ridgewood. Fyke sets meeting, Christmas Bird Count Fyke Nature Association will meet on Friday, Nov. 22 at 8 p.m. The group will gather at the Allendale Municipal Building located at 500 West Crescent Avenue in Allen- dale. The association will host its 62nd annual Christmas Bird Count on Dec. 14. Teams will cover a 15-mile diameter circle centered on Lake Erskine. At least eight teams will be in the field from dawn to dusk. The count is part of the nationwide 114 th Christmas Bird Count organized by the National Audubon Society. All Seasons Chamber Players announce 33 rd concert season The All Seasons Chamber Players’ 33 rd season will begin with “The French-Russian Connection,” a set of cello pieces by Rachmaninoff, Shostakovich, Faure, and Tchaikovsky performed by cellist E. Zoe Hassman. These pieces will be followed by the light-hearted “Musique de Cour for Flute, Violin, and Piano” by Jean Francaix. The second half of the program will feature the powerful and romantic Arensky “Trio in D Minor for Violin, Cello, and Piano.” The “French-Russian Connection” will be performed at 2 p.m. on Dec. 8 at the Ridgewood Public Library, 125 North Maple Avenue, and at 2 p.m. on Jan. 19 at the Mahwah Public Library at 100 Ridge Road. Performers are professional musicians who also play for major area orchestras, Broadway shows, and summer music festivals. All Seasons includes flutist Brenda Sakofsky of New City, New York, violinist Robert Law- rence of New York City, cellist E. Zoe Hassman of New York City, and pianist Jean Strickholm of Demarest. The ensemble will be joined by Guest Artist Jacqueline Schil- ler-Audi of Paramus and Associate Artist Ron Levy of Teaneck. Co-director Robert Lawrence will introduce each musical selection to the audience with personal pro- gram notes. The ensemble’s upcoming programs will include “From Marais to Martinu” in January, and “Fantasy!” in March. To join a team, call Stiles Thomas at (201) 327-3470. For more information, contact John at (201) 327-1483 or jbro29@optonline.net. John Fell House hosts Holiday Tea On Dec. 10, the Fell House Tea Committee will host its Annual Holiday Tea. This event will be held from noon to 2:30 p.m. at the Fell House, 475 Franklin Turnpike in Allendale. The event will feature a three course luncheon in the historic house, which will be beautifully decorated for the holidays. The cost is $45 per person and reservations are required. Call Theresa Salameno at (201) 825-2840 or e-mail lschropp@optonline.net. Proceeds from the event benefit the John Fell House. The John Fell House is owned, operated, and maintained by the Concerned Citizens of Allendale, a 501c3 non-profit dedicated to the preservation of the house as a self-sustain- ing community center through grants, fundraisers, and pri- vate donations. For more information about the John Fell House and the Concerned Citizens of Allendale, e-mail thefellhouse@gmail.com. Special hours announced for railroad exhibit The Mahwah Museum has announced special holiday hours for the Donald Cooper Railroad. The railroad – a 15 Small Business Saturday rewards consumers, businesses on Nov. 30 Small Business Saturday is slated for Nov. 30 and area residents are invited to participate in this special event, which highlights the benefits of shopping locally. Local business people are an integral part of the com- munity and deserve support. These businesses are always there to help the many organizations that rely on their gen- erosity for the success of their events. On Small Business Saturday, everyone will have the chance to thank these businesses by shopping locally. Start your holiday shopping early this year. Not only will you find unique items for everyone on your gift list, you will also save gasoline and enjoy the personal service of folks who are friends and neighbors. You might even decide to buy yourself a special treat as you support small businesses: the backbone of the community. Small Business Saturday is an opportunity to discover all the great, convenient shopping local businesses have to offer. Shoppers can look forward to some great deals. Those who use their American Express cards at participat- ing locations will receive a special discount. Be sure to look through this newspaper’s Nov. 27 edition for specials from the participating businesses. Small Business Saturday is an American shopping holiday held on the Saturday after Thanksgiving -- one of the busiest shopping periods of the year. First observed on Nov. 27, 2010, Small Business Saturday encourages holiday shoppers to patronize brick and mortar businesses that are small and local. In 2010, the holiday was conceived and promoted by American Express via a nationwide radio and television advertising campaign. All Seasons Chamber Players The public is welcome. For more information, call (201) 768-1331 or visit http://www.allseasonschamber- players.org. x 20 foot HO scale model – will be open on Fridays from 6 to 9 p.m. from Nov. 29 through Dec. 20. A special holiday treat for children, this railroad operates 10 trains, including Thomas the Tank Engine. Youngsters delight in the realis- tic subway that runs at their eye level. The model contains street fairs, a skateboard park, a subway system, construc- tion sites, and a replica of the Great Falls of Paterson. The Donald Cooper Railroad is also open on weekends from (continued on page 30) November 20, 2013 THE VILLADOM TIMES III • Page 3 Upper Saddle River Board of education expected to approve Leo Club This week, the Upper Saddle River Board of Education is expected to vote on whether to establish a Leo Club for the sev- enth and eighth grade students at Cavallini School. (At press time, the school board’s vote was scheduled for Monday, Nov. 18.) The school club would be sponsored by the Lions Club, and the Cavallini chapter would be a companion organization to the Leo Club recently established at Northern Highlands Regional High School. Like Lions Clubs, Leo Clubs welcome male and female members. “We are most appreciative of the gener- ous donation from the Saddle River Valley Lions Club. We look forward to using the money to establish a Leo social service club in our middle school and hope to impact our greater community in a positive manner,” USR Superintendent of Schools Dr. Monica M. Browne told Villadom TIMES. Saddle River Valley Lions Club Presi- District has ‘14 openings in its Integrated Preschool The Upper Saddle River School District has announced openings in its general edu- cation three- and four-year-old Integrated Preschool Program. Applications are avail- able for the September 2014 program. Applications for general education students may be obtained on the district website at usrschoolsk8.com, or by calling the Reyn- olds School at (201) 961-6300. The Integrated Preschool Program is a nursery school program that incorporates the education of special education children with that of general education preschoolers. Special education youngsters are placed in the program through an evaluation process performed by the Special Services Depart- ment. Children in the program will attend class five half-days a week at Reynolds School. The four-year-old program meets from 8:30 to 11 a.m. Three-year-olds will attend from 12:15 to 2:45 p.m. Applicants will be screened in early December. Additional applicants will be placed on a waiting list. The openings will be offered by Dec. 20. Tuition for the 2013- 14 school year is $3,750; the tuition for the 2014-2015 school year will be determined in June 2014. To be eligible, a general education stu- dent must be three or four years of age on or before Oct. 1, 2014. A birth certificate, copy of immunization certificates, and four proofs of residency will be required of students admitted to the program. The deadline for applications is Dec. 2. For additional information, call (201) 961- 6500. dent Jerry Michota explained that the Lions would be providing a stipend for the teach- ers who run the proposed club. “We’re trying to get a sense of commu- nity with the kids so they understand the importance of collecting for charities such as Center for Food Action, or hosting other events to help the community,” Michota said. “We hope they will continue through the high school level, and when they get older, perhaps they will become Lions and continue that way.” Dr. David Verducci, Upper Saddle River School Board trustee-elect and chairman of the Saddle River Valley Lions Club’s Leo Committee, explained that the Lions’ effort The Leo Club logo at Northern Highlands was facilitated by Superintendent John Keenan. Verducci, the recently-retired superintendent in Glen establishment, teachers Bernice Reesbeck Rock, and Keenan worked out the details to and Kim Hayes stepped up to serve as lay the groundwork for the club. When the advisers. regional school board approved the group’s (continued on page 31) Page 4 THE VILLADOM TIMES III • November 20, 2013 Area Highlands board stops further talks on send/receive The Northern Highlands Regional High School Board of Education has put a stop to any further discussion of a send/receive relationship with Midland Park High School. In a brief email sent to Midland Park Superintendent of Schools Dr. Marie Cirasella following a Northern High- lands board meeting on Nov. 11, Highlands Superintendent John Keenan said his district’s board “has decided that a send/receive relationship with Midland Park is not some- thing we wish to pursue.” He noted that he and the board had been following articles in area publications regarding Midland Park’s interest in the shared arrangement. “As you know, in addition to the overall number of stu- dents, there are many issues involved with such a relation- ship,” Keenan said in his eight-line note to Cirasella. “I want to thank Mr. Keenan and the NHRHS Board for taking the time to meet with us,” commented Midland Park Board President William Sullivan. “As both boards knew, there are many issues involved with a send/receive agree- ment of this magnitude, and I believe they gave it the same serious consideration that our board did.” The previous week, Midland Park trustees had them- selves voted not to commission a feasibility study exploring a joint arrangement with Highlands, saying that they have no interest in closing Midland Park High School or even exploring options. The school has 330 students in grades 9-12. Class size ranges from a low of two students per class in French to a high of 30 in physical education. Band has 54 students and chorus has 43. “The Midland Park Board of Ed. must move on and con- tinue to address our own facilities issues,” said Sullivan. “At this time, no other districts have expressed an interest to receive our high school students. We do however, have an exciting Share & Grow pilot program that we’re working on with the Waldwick Schools, and we continue to look at (continued on page 31) Nursery school holds Open House The Ho-Ho-Kus/Waldwick Cooperative Nursery School will host an Open House on Friday, Dec. 6, from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Parents and their preschoolers are invited to stop in to see the classrooms and meet with the teachers and cur- rent co-op members. Classes for two-, three- and four-year-old children, and Mommy & Me (for children 18-24 months) are available for the 2014-15 school year. The nursery school offers various educational enrichment programs including music, foreign languages, and yoga. Extended day options are also avail- able. HWCNS provides a unique co-op opportunity for par- ents wishing to assist in their child’s classroom, or parents may choose non-participating co-op status. Located at 400 Warren Avenue in Ho-Ho-Kus, the co-op is a state-approved, non-profit, and non-sectarian school. For details, e-mail info@hohokuswaldwickcoop.com. Children hold the masks they used in a classroom produc- tion of ‘Les 3 petits cochons’ (‘The 3 little pigs’) which was directed by Madame MacLaren (right) and Madame DeLuca November 20, 2013 THE VILLADOM TIMES III • Page 5 Ho-Ho-Kus Mayor forms committee to review website redesign by Jennifer Crusco Ho-Ho-Kus Mayor Thomas Randall has decided to form a committee that will review ways to improve the borough’s website. At last week’s council session, Randall said he had already asked Council- man Steve Shell to serve on the committee. The mayor then asked Councilman Doug Troast if he would also be part of the group; Troast agreed. Randall said he would also be speaking with residents regarding their potential service on the committee. The mayor noted that some initial, informal research had involved looking at award-winning websites. However, he said the bulk of the project would be under way in 2014. The mayor asked Borough Clerk Laura Borchers to keep the website on the coun- cil’s agenda. He also said he had spoken with Ruthanne Frank, the borough’s web- master. Borough Administrator Don Cirulli noted that website redesign can be expen- sive, sometimes in the range of $25,000. “That’s not what we’re talking about,” Randall said. “So we’re just gathering information,” Cirulli clarified, and the mayor responded in the affirmative. Post-meeting assertions that the borough had hired a Web designer were dismissed by an informed source. According to that source, the borough is looking into having someone work on improvements to the municipality’s website, but has not received any quotes or bids and has not hired anyone. The process is still in its infancy, the source said. The recent push to update Ho-Ho-Kus’ website came when resident Robert Earl expressed his dismay with the borough’s current offering. At a recent Ho-Ho-Kus Council session, Earl said the information being presented is not timely. He indicated that, when he last visited the website, the most recent council agenda was from May 21 and the last batch of minutes was dated April 23. He urged the borough’s officials to use the website to keep the community better informed. The resident pointed out that Saddle River has up-to-date information available online, and said he was disap- pointed by Ho-Ho-Kus’ website. He indi- cated that, during a previous discussion, the council had told him the borough did not have the financial resources to constantly update the website. This year, he said, he had noticed that there are a number of Ho-Ho-Kus websites. The resident claimed he had found nine or 10 sites for Ho-Ho-Kus departments and organizations. He expressed his view that the borough does not have a vision for how to use the (continued on page 8) Page 6 THE VILLADOM TIMES III • November 20, 2013 Allendale Chamber seeks sponsors for Allendale Avenue planters The Allendale Chamber of Commerce is looking to advance its Streetscape Revitalization Project by installing additional planters along Allendale Avenue and is looking for persons or organizations willing to sponsor a planter. Spearheaded by Allendale State Farm Agent Ed Kalpa- gian, the Beautification Committee still has 12 planters available, at $350 each. A plaque with the donor’s name Above and left: Planters adorn downtown Allendale or in memoriam is displayed in each planter. The 10 park benches that were part of the initial project have been sold and installed, and residents and visitors are seen enjoying them regularly. All planters will soon be planted with flowers appro- priate for the holiday season. The summer plantings were contributed by committee members Borst Landscape and Rohsler’s Allendale Nursery. Rohsler’s also donated a couple of the planters. The Beautification Committee will also gladly accept donations of any monetary amount, and a planter will be designated for the general support of patrons. The plaque will read: “Donated by the Generous Support of the Allen- dale Residents”. All donations are tax deductible. Please make checks payable to The Borough of Allendale, noting in the memo field “Allendale Streetscape Revitalization Project (ASRP)”. The Chamber of Commerce is working closely with The Borough of Allendale, a 501(c)(3). Anyone interested in sponsoring a planter is asked to contact Kalpagian at 201-818-1900 for questions or infor- mation as soon as possible or visit www.edkalpagian.com. Ho-Ho-Kus November 20, 2013 THE VILLADOM TIMES III • Page 7 District plans December BYOD program rollout Monday, Dec. 2 is the target rollout date for the “bring your own device” program at the Ho-Ho-Kus K-8 Public School. Commonly known as BYOD, the program will allow students to use their own technology devices, includ- ing laptops, tablets, and e-readers, during school hours for approved educational purposes. Ho-Ho-Kus Superintendent Deborah Ferrara explained that the plan is to have BYOD available to the entire eighth grade next month. If the initial plan is a success, she said, the staff would look into offering the program to the entire middle school population. Last week, Ferrara said a letter would be going home in anticipation of the eighth grade rollout. She pointed out that permission slips must be in order, and students and parents must become familiar with the expectations for use of per- sonal technology within the school. Daniel Cazes, the director of technology Ho-Ho-Kus shares with the Upper Saddle River School District, has been working to set the stage for BYOD. In a previous inter- view, Cazes explained that the initial step was the introduc- tion of a common platform: Google Apps for Education. This platform, which has been in place since last year, is a free Web-based office suite that includes e-mail and col- laboration applications designed exclusively for schools and universities. Google Apps for Education is not tied to Windows, Macintosh, or a specific piece of hardware. The Google Apps for Education website indicates that more than 14 million students and teachers now use this system, including those at the University of Notre Dame and the University of Westminster. The website also states that this platform allows people to study together in real time and across distances. Users control their own data, Ho-Ho-Kus children are invited to participate in a Scavenger Hunt sponsored by the Ho-Ho-Kus Chamber of Commerce. The event will be in progress from Nov. 25 through Dec. 2, and will require participants to answer a list of questions pertaining to local businesses. Ho-Ho-Kus Chamber of Commerce Vice President Kelly Velasquez noted that the hunt will provide exposure for local businesses that choose to take part in the event, and three local children who answer all of the questions correctly will win prizes for their effort. Velasquez explained that the public school will be hand- ing out the list of questions to interested students. Ques- tions, she said, might include the colors that appear on a business’ logo. The Chamber also reported that this year, for the first time, the Ho-Ho-Kus Tree Lighting will be held on a week- day evening – Friday, Dec. 6 from 6 to 7:30 p.m. – when the borough’s businesses will be open. The ceremony will take place at the tree near Ho-Ho-Kus Borough Hall, which is located at 333 Warren Avenue. This annual event will be a collaborative effort by the Ho-Ho-Kus Chamber, the Girl Scouts, the fire depart- ment, and the ambulance corps. Santa will be on hand, and the fire department and ambulance corps will be supply- ing seasonal treats. Hot chocolate and s’mores are on the menu. The Dec. 6 festivities will also include a Gingerbread House Contest for local children. This contest is being handled by the Girl Scouts. Children are invited to enter a gingerbread creation to be judged. All are welcome. Remember to dress for the weather and bring a camera! by Jennifer Crusco Scavenger Hunt, Tree Lighting set Google Apps backs up the information, and everything is automatically saved in the cloud; that is, the platform is 100 percent Web-powered. E-mails, documents, calendars, and other information can be accessed and edited on a wide variety of mobile devices or tablets. In the spring, Ho-Ho-Kus worked on getting students onto the system on a small scale. Individual students received access to the platform at the request of a teacher. This was done as a trial or for special needs, Cazes explained. Preparations for BYOD also involved the improvement of the infrastructure so it would be able to handle an increase in users. This included an upgrade of the school’s network and the addition of wireless access points within the build- ing. Cazes said a password will be required to access the system. The school will have a secure wireless network that can only be accessed by computers and devices owned by Ho-Ho-Kus, with a guest network for students. Although students will have access to the Internet for research purposes, users will not be able to access websites with undesirable content. The BYOD policy states that teaching staff members, “in considering the use of privately-owned technology, will ensure such approval does not provide any advantage or benefit to the pupil who owns such technology over the (continued on page 8) Page 8 THE VILLADOM TIMES III • November 20, 2013 Ho-Ho-Kus Website Team has shining season The Ho-Ho-Kus Boys and Girls Cross-Country Team is pictured with coaches Raz Avraham and Shawn Sterbinsky after their victory at the Scarlet Middle School Cross-Country Invitational held recently at Darlington County Park. (continued from page 5) Web. He also questioned the cost of maintaining the mul- tiple websites and whether the additional sites were com- peting with the borough’s official online presence. He said Facebook pages are not a substitute for an up-to-date web- site. At that time, Mayor Randall agreed that the agendas that are posted should be timely. He also pointed out that the borough had made use of social media sites to get mes- sages out to residents, adding that Councilman Shell and his peers on the governing body had been working on these postings. However, Randall said the use of these sites was not meant to be a substitute for the official website. The resident said it would be helpful if there were a par- ticular methodology in place for using the website. The mayor pointed out that other borough-based orga- nizations such as the Ho-Ho-Kus Community Emergency Response Team and the Ho-Ho-Kus Police Department have their own websites. However, the resident said he finds this confusing. The resident agreed that the links to the various Web pages make sense, but urged that someone on the council should be made responsible for the borough’s website. He noted that this recommendation would allow for better con- trol and guidance. District planning December BYOD rollout (continued from page 7) pupil who does not own such technology. The teaching staff member will not approve the use of privately-owned technology if the teaching staff member determines the use would be advantageous or beneficial to the pupil who owns such technology over the pupil who does not own such technology.” Students who do not own their own devices will be able to borrow one for use during school hours. The BYOD policy specifies that the district will not assume responsibility for any privately-owned devices, nor will staff members be responsible for the effective use or technical support of those devices. These responsibilities will fall on the students. Loaning and/or borrowing devices between students will not be permitted. Students who wish to use a personally-owned electronic device within the Ho-Ho-Kus Public School must read and sign an agreement that expressly states that the student will take full responsibility for his or her own device. A parent or guardian must also sign this agreement, which requires the student to list the make, model, and serial number of the device to be used. The agreement states that the student is responsible for the proper care of his or her personal device, including any costs of repair, replacement, or any modifications needed to use the device at school. Students are responsible for keeping their devices charged. Students must agree to only use appropriate technology as directed by teacher, and the school reserves the right to inspect a student’s device if there is reason to believe the student violated board policies, administrative procedures, school rules, or engaged in other misconduct. November 20, 2013 THE VILLADOM TIMES III • Page 9 Page 10 THE VILLADOM TIMES III • November 20, 2013 Dear Readers: It’s hard to believe that 2013 is coming to a close. So much has happened this year and we thank you for being a part of it. In April we hosted the 6 th Annual 5K Run/1 Mile Walk. It was a beautiful day with close to 800 regis- tered runners and walkers. For the 3 rd year in a row our presenting sponsor was Massage Envy Spa of Waldwick along with 54 other local businesses. Pro- ceeds from the 5K were donated to two local heart organizations (Sean Fisher Foundation and Hope with Heart). We were also able to donate (5) $500 scholarships to a graduating senior from Waldwick High School. Additional donations were made to the Booster Club, Waldwick Ambulance Corps, Waldwick CERT, Waldwick Volunteer Fire Depart- ment, The Golden Club, The American Legion, Waldwick Police Department and The Valley Hos- pital Butterflies Program. Please mark your calendar for the 7 th Annual 5K Run/1 Mile Walk set for Sunday, May 4, 2014. In October we hosted our 1 st Annual Disco Dance Fundraiser at St. Luke’s Church. The event had an 11 piece band, 30 auction items and attracted 300 guests. We were able to donate $3500 to Shelter Our Sisters -- non-profit agency that provides housing for women and children who are victims of domestic violence. We are in the process of planning our 2 nd Annual Disco Fundraiser for 2014 - date TBD. In case you didn’t know, the Waldwick Chamber is comprised of many other towns. We have business members from Ho-Ho-Kus, Midland Park, Wyckoff, Franklin Lakes, Upper Saddle River, Ramsey & Paramus. We are also a member of the ICC (Inter- Chamber Consortium) which gives our members exposure to 16 Bergen County chambers. If you have a business and would like to gener- ate more exposure then join the Waldwick Cham- ber. We are your one-stop connection to help you increase visibility in the community and cultivate new relationships. We meet the 3 rd Wednesday of each month at 8:30 AM. Our complimentary breakfast meetings allow us to share business ideas, network and col- lect important information (www.waldwickchamber. com) The Waldwick Chamber of Commerce contin- ues to implement new programs and exciting events throughout the year. Please let us know what your business is doing so we can help you promote it for you. ‘What one business can do is great, but what we can do collectively is amazing!’ Remember, Small Business Saturday is Novem- ber 30 th – the heart of the community stays strong when you shop local!! May you have a blessed and safe holiday. With warmest regards, Christine Figliuolo, President Waldwick Chamber of Commerce November 20, 2013 THE VILLADOM TIMES III • Page 11 Next phase of streetscape project gets the go-ahead The next phase of the streetscape project on West Prospect Street in Waldwick may finally be moving forward. The Waldwick Borough Council last week agreed to allow Randy Revelrey, the owner of the Hair Cottage property, to lay the underground conduit and install the pedestals for the period light fixtures now so that he can pour the concrete for the new sidewalk before the onset of winter. The holdup was that the original agree- ment between the town and the Waldwick Community Alliance, which spearheaded the streetscape project, stipulated that the work would be done block by block, and that all the property owners on the block would have to commit to the project before beginning work. Neither Revelrey nor the Rite Aid was ready to commit until now. Each property owner, not the town, paid for the sidewalks. “It will really clean up the corner. I don’t see a problem. We can get Rite Aid to jump Helping veterans Waldwick American Legion Ladies Auxiliary Vice President Jan Richer Toms and Squadron Commander Steve Toms (front right) display the check for $250 received from the Waldwick Lions Club for the One Box-One Soldier Program which sends care packages to our troops serving in Afghanistan. Pictured at front left is Lions Club and Legion member Rick Rickley. Back row: Waldwick Mayor Thomas Giordano, Commander Vic Borelli, Mike Echevarria, VFW Commander Tom Shuckman and Donald Post. in,” WCA President Chuck Wanamaker told the council. “I don’t think you are making the wrong call. Randy wants it right for the spring. It’s in everybody’s best interest.” The agreement with the WCA calls for the town to underwrite the cost of the fix- tures, which are supplied by PSE&G. Bor- ough Administrator Gary Kratz said the $10,000 cost to buy and connect the lamp posts will have to come out of the council’s 2014 budget, since no funds are provided in this year’s budget. “There is no detriment. The town can wait to buy the lights,” said Councilman Greg Bjork. Revelrey said he expects to present his proposal for the redevelopment of the ¾- acre corner property to the town this spring. Plans call for a townhouse-style residen- tial project with underground parking and access from Harrison Avenue only, thus his interest for a pedestrian-friendly sidewalk on West Prospect. Page 12 THE VILLADOM TIMES III • November 20, 2013 Local history items sought The Waldwick Public Library has part- nered with Waldwick High School to build a digital, online archive of the borough’s local history. The library and WHS are requesting area residents to look through their scrapbooks, photographs, newspa- per clippings, event pamphlets, and other memorabilia for items regarding Wald- wick’s past. Memorabilia may be brought to the following locations: Waldwick Public Library, 19 East Prospect Street; Waldwick Middle School and High School, 155 Wyckoff Avenue; Crescent School, 165 Crescent Avenue; and Traphagen School, 153 Summit Avenue. The idea for the project grew out of meetings for Waldwick High School’s 50th anniversary celebration. Erin Hummel, media specialist at Waldwick High School, and Lori Quinn, director of the Waldwick Public Library, decided to team up to collect artifacts from the borough’s past. Hummel works with students who conduct research on local history, and Quinn is in the pro- cess of opening of the library’s local his- tory room. Two programs will be produced from one set of historical information. Items to be added to the digital col- lection will be returned to the owners. Memorabilia that will not be returned will be housed in the library’s local history room. This room, known as the Waldwick Heritage Room, was added to the library during the last renovation. Library staff is currently cataloging information for public use. The room is expected to open early in 2014. Hummel and Quinn want keep the proj- ect rolling. They ask that residents bring historical items to one of the four drop off locations by Jan. 15, 2014. Tub grinder will be leased The leaf tub grinder sitting idly at the Waldwick recycling center will be leased, netting the boroughs of Waldwick and Ho-Ho-Kus, which own it jointly, $500 a month each. RVH Mulch Supply of Wyckoff , which now runs Waldwick’s leaf compost facil- ity, will lease the equipment for the next three years. The company maintains a veg- etative waste transfer station and compost sales operation on the property behind the Boston Market off Wyckoff Avenue. “It’s would just sit there doing nothing for three years,” said Borough Adminis- trator Gary Kratz. “Lack of use is no good for it.” “We asked for more, and they said no,” explained Councilman Don Sciolaro. He said the company will operate, maintain and insure the equipment. The two municipalities have no need for the tub grinder since RVH took over the leaf dump last year. RVH pays Waldwick a rental fee and transports free of charge the borough’s leaves and yard debris to an approved state facility for disposal. Ho- Ho-Kus gets a reduced price for the dis- posal of its leaves. It may also utilize the site for the disposal of its vegetative waste other than leaves at a cost less than what RVH Mulch Supply normally charges its other customers. November 20, 2013 THE VILLADOM TIMES III • Page 13 Town, school officials to meet on parking woes “It’s a volume problem, not a speed problem,” Waldwick Police Lt. Ed Webber said of the traffic situ- ation on Idalane Street. The one-block roadway behind Waldwick High School/Middle School is used by par- ents to drop off and pick up their teenagers before and after school hours to the chagrin of residents, who say drivers block or turn around in their driveways, double park and speed down the street. After hearing from residents and much discussion, Mayor Thomas Giordano said the borough would reach out to school officials to see if there is anything the schools can do. “The problem is not just on Idalane. Every school has a problem. The cars have to go somewhere,” said Councilman Don Sciolaro. Lt. Webber, who had previously recommended alter- nate parking as a means of alleviating resident concerns on Idalane, had been asked to review his proposals and attend last week’s meeting of the mayor and council to answer questions. “I sympathize with the residents. I know it is frus- trating, but it’s a nuisance thing. We don’t have any speeding or accidents. We don’t have any legal author- ity to tell people not to drive on a public roadway. The only thing we can do is restrict parking,” Webber said. His previous suggestion had been to restrict parking to one side of the street on alternating days; and limiting parking to the south side of the street from 2:30 to 3:30 p.m. on school days. Lt Webber said limiting parking to one side of the street increases visibility and allows for two lanes of traffic so cars can get in and out. “It’s a good starting point. It worked in Gateway,” he added, referring to restrictions placed on that street adjacent to Crescent School, which had experienced similar traffic prob- lems. “Enough is enough. You have to do something about it,” resident John Skorupa told the council. “If I should come home one day and my daughter is dead or the house has burned to a crisp because the ambulance or fire truck could not get through, you’ll pay for it,” he added. Among the suggestions given by the residents were closing the access gate from the school to the street, forcing cars to use the school property, and providing a turn around at the end of the street by building a cul- de-sac. Webber said that closing the access to Idalane will move the traffic to West Prospect and other neighbor- ing streets, as happens with all schools. “The parents don’t belong on the street at the det- riment of the residents,” said Lawrence Miller, who’s lived on the street for 43 years. He suggested the school stagger dismissal times to reduce congestion. Board of Education President Dawn Monaco, pres- ent at the meeting, said staggering the times would not be an option. She said an informal survey had deter- mined that only a small percentage of students gets picked up on Idalane. Acknowledging that it only takes a few people to cause a problem, however, she said that perhaps the schools could send a letter out to parents asking them to be conscious of the situation. “Alternate parking is not convenient to anyone. Why is it our responsibility? The school should provide enough of an area for the kids to be picked up,” said Liz Rutkowski. Councilman Frank Palladino expressed concern that if the street opens up, drivers will speed instead of slowing down. “It’s safer,” he said, wondering how to decide on which side of the street to restrict parking. Page 14 THE VILLADOM TIMES III • November 20, 2013 Waldwick Watch Flu vaccines still available The Waldwick Health Department still has a limited amount of flu vaccines available. Anyone interested in receiving the vaccine may contact Public Health Nurse Carol Shepard at (201) 444-3914 or cshepard@waldwicknj. org to schedule an appointment. Those individuals with Medicare Part B should bring their card, so Medicare may be billed directly. For all others, the cost is $25. The health center is located at 22 Whites Lane. Bank hosts Thanksgiving Food Drive Pascack Community Bank, located at 64 Crescent Avenue in Waldwick, will host a Thanksgiving Food Drive to benefit the clients of the Center for Food Action. CFA will be providing all the fixings for Thanksgiving dinner to over 3,000 families in the coming weeks. Pas- cack Community Bank will be collecting items through Wednesday, Nov. 20. The community is invited to contribute 12 to15 pound frozen turkeys, bags of carrots, supermarket gift cards, apple or cranberry juices, canned fruit, Parmalat milk, canned vegetables and yams, coffee and tea, canned gravy, sugar, flour, baking mix, cranberry sauce, may- onnaise, salad dressing, nuts, trail mix, raisins, pumpkin pie filling and ready pie crust, rice, and stuffing. Bags of potatoes, apples, and onions are also requested. For more information, visit www.pascackbank.com. Church hosts 50 th Annual Holiday Fair The Waldwick United Methodist Church located at 25 Franklin Turnpike will host its 50 th Annual Country Fair on Saturday, Dec. 7. Hours will be 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. The event will feature Christmas items, food, jewelry, gift baskets, handmade crafts, baked goods, and more. Children are invited to have their photo taken with Santa. Lunch will be available for purchase from 11a.m. to 4 p.m. The menu will include homemade soups, chili, hot dogs, burgers, grilled cheese and chicken salad sand- wiches. The church, founded in 1787, holds Sunday services at 10:30 a.m. Through out the year, the congregation holds a variety of programs that are open to the community, including a family concert, a Valentine’s Day musical show, an Attic Treasures Sale, a fish dinner, and a Straw- berry Social. For more information, call (201) 652-5130 or visit www. waldwickmethodist.weebly.com. Free Anti-rabies Clinic is this week The Waldwick Board of Health and Northwest Bergen Regional Health Commission will hold its annual free Anti-rabies Clinic on Thursday, Nov. 21. Rabies vaccina- tions will be available from 6:30 to 8 p.m. at the depart- ment of public works located at 19 Industrial Road. Residents from Waldwick and the surrounding communi- ties are welcome to bring their dogs on leashes and cats in carriers. Retractable leashes are not recommended. Rabies vaccinations are required for all dogs and cats by four months of age. The vaccine is not recommended for pets under 12 weeks old. For details, call Northwest Bergen Regional Health Commission at (201) 445-7217 or visit www.nwbrhc.org. Friends seek new members Members of the community are invited to join the Friends of the Waldwick Library, a group that works to support the library. In its endeavor to create an educational, technological, and cultural hub, this group sponsors many programs, including all the special events for the children’s summer reading program, the museum pass program that allows residents free admission to The Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum and the American Museum of Natural History, and the redesign of the library’s website. The group meets at 1 p.m. on the fourth Monday of every other month at the library located at 19 East Pros- pect Street. Meetings will be held on Nov. 25 and Jan. 27, March 24, May 19, and Sept. 22, 2014. For more informa- tion, call (201) 652-5104. Chamber plans Holiday Party The Waldwick Chamber of Commerce will hold its Holiday Party on Dec. 9. The event will be held from 6 to 9 p.m. at the Village Grill located at 71 Crescent Avenue in Waldwick. The cost for members is $15. Tickets for non-members are $20 each. Tickets purchased at the door will cost $25. For details, visit www.waldwickchamber.com. Post collects coats for kids American Legion Post 57 in Waldwick is collecting gently used and new coats for Paterson school children who attend kindergarten through grade three. Post mem- bers note that hundreds of children brave the cold without coats. Donations may be dropped off after 5 p.m. at 46 Frank- lin Turnpike in Waldwick. For details, contact Commander Steve Toms at (201) 637-9189 or teamtoms@verizon.net. New England comes to Waldwick The Waldwick Library will present “Greasy Luck: Tales of a New England Whalerman” on Thursday, Nov. 21 at 7:30 p.m. This fully costumed, living history produc- tion will feature actor David Emerson as Leland Emerson, captain of the whaling ship Sarah Ann in the year 1843. Learn about life at sea and the tribulations of working as a whaler. Mature audiences of all ages are welcome to this special event. To register, call (201) 652-5104. The library is located at 19 East Prospect Street in Waldwick. This program is sponsored by the New Jersey Council for the Humanities Horizons Speaker’s Bureau. November 20, 2013 THE VILLADOM TIMES III • Page 15 Babysitting course beats out the mall for teens’ time Thirty Waldwick teens spent an afternoon during their teachers’ convention vacation not at the mall, but at the public library participating in a workshop on babysitting. The two-hour interactive session was part of Public Health Nurse Carol Shepard’s outreach effort to partner with other community groups, reach all levels of the popu- lation and do her job “outside the box.” “The evaluations we received back from the young people gave very thoughtful answers, which showed they were interested and paid attention. All the students but one thought the program had been worth their time,” Shepard said. “We, the presenters, thought it went terrific and was very worthwhile,” she added. Each participant received a certificate of completion upon turning in the anonymous evaluation form. Shepard, along with Det. Sgt. Douglas Moore, WALVAC Capt. Tammi Moses and Library Director Lori- Ann Quinn shared information and personal experiences, offered tips and advice, and asked the teens questions to elicit their concerns and the pitfalls they themselves had encountered so as to make the information more mean- ingful. The format also allowed for individual interaction with the presenters during a break halfway through the session. The emphasis was on safety, for the sitters and for their charges. Staying focused on the children, getting proper Det. Sgt. Douglas Moore speaks to the group Traphagen School hosts fundraiser On Tuesday, Dec. 3, the Barnes and Noble Bookstore at 765 Route 17 South in Paramus will sponsor a fundraiser to benefit Traphagen Elementary School. The store will donate a percentage of all books, CDs, DVDs, Starbucks, games, and gift items purchased by shoppers who mention the Traphagen School fundraiser. There will be a special story time at 3:30 p.m. that will feature Traphagen teachers reading their favorite books. At 7 p.m., there will be a musi- cal performance by Mr. Sileo and the fifth grade band. For details, e-mail traphagenpso@yahoo.com. instructions from the parents, having emergency contact list, not letting callers know they are alone, know about medications, have basic knowledge of first aid. “Pay attention to the children… Cell phones are a dis- traction. Use only in an emergency,” cautioned Moore, who also handed out a safety tips sheet. “Always think ahead to what they might do while you are watching them,” said Moses, who also gave tips on how to handle children with special needs and how to keep them occupied. Librarian Quinn addressed the parents of the sitters as well as those who hire sitters, cautioning them to provide very defined direction. Shepard also spoke about the task of actually getting a babysitting job: compiling a resume, seeking references on prospective employers, interviewing strategies, etc. She prepared a folder with practical information gathered from the internet and locally and told participants to read it carefully, keep it handy and add to it as appropriate. Shepard said she is looking for other partnering oppor- tunities within the community to offer programs for any age group. She said her one requirement is that the pro- gram be serious in nature. Contact her at (201) 444-3914. Page 16 THE VILLADOM TIMES III • November 20, 2013 Ho-Ho-Kus Jottings Council announces schedule changes Due to the New Jersey League of Municipalities meet- ing, the Ho-Ho-Kus Borough Council has cancelled its Nov. 19 meeting. In December, the council will hold only one session. That meeting will take place Dec. 17 at 8 p.m. The council generally meets on the third and fourth Tuesday of the month. Unless otherwise noted, sessions take place at 8 p.m. in borough hall, 333 Warren Avenue in Ho-Ho-Kus. ‘Treasures from Ho-Ho-Kus’ for sale The Contemporary Club of Ho-Ho-Kus is offering “Treasures from Ho-Ho-Kus,” a revised version of the Ho- Ho-Kus Hostesses (1975) cookbook for $20. The updated version contains favorite recipes, some of which are over 100 years old, from residents, past and present U.S. Presi- dents, the Ho-Ho-Kus Inn, and the Hermitage. Proceeds benefit various charities. To obtain a copy, call Sandra Alworth at (201) 447-1438. Copies are also avail- able at Ho-Ho-Kus Borough Hall, 333 Warren Avenue. Happy seniors Members of the Senior Lucans of St. Luke’s Church in Ho-Ho-Kus recently enjoyed a four-day trip to Boston, which also included stops at Salem and Worcester. The group, which boasts 100 members and meets on the second Thursday of the month at the church, takes several trips throughout the year. Call the church rectory at 201-444-0272for further information. Auxiliary hosts Ladies Night Out The Ho-Ho-Kus Fire Department Ladies Auxiliary will host its Ladies Night Out on Thursday, Nov. 21. This annual shopping event will be held from 7 to 10 p.m. at the Ho-Ho-Kus Fire Department at 52 Sheridan Avenue. Vendors will be selling jewelry, cookware, gifts, health and beauty products, and more. Proceeds from the event will benefit the auxiliary’s charitable causes. of $10 per family. The railroad display is located in the Ho-Ho-Kus VFW building at 620 Cliff Street in Ho-Ho-Kus. Free parking is available. Visit http://ramapovalleyrailroad.com for addi- tional information. Model railroad opens to the public The Ramapo Valley Model Railroad, a holiday tra- dition in Bergen County for over 52 years, will open its doors to the public on Nov. 24 and Dec. 1, 8, and 29 from 1 to 4 p.m. The massive, permanent layout features every- thing from modern windmill farms to an operating drive- in movie theater. Admission to the show is $4 for adults and $1 for children under the age of 12 with a maximum Seniors set fall schedule The Ho-Ho-Kus Seniors group meets the second and fourth Tuesdays of the month at the Hermitage Education Center at 335 North Franklin Turnpike in Ho-Ho-Kus. Beverages and desserts are served at noon, and programs begin at 1 p.m., or as noted. The seniors will travel to the Hunterdon Hills Play- house on Dec. 13. The outing will include lunch and “A Branson Country Christmas.” Residents age 55 and up are welcome. Contact Joan at (201) 444-4896 for program information. For trip infor- mation, contact Sue at (201) 444-7235. Memorabilia sought Area residents are asked to provide photos, newspa- per clippings, post cards, maps, aerial photos, and simi- lar items featuring the area surrounding VFW Post 192 on Cliff Street and the Hopper-Zabriskie Cemetery on First Street in Ho-Ho-Kus, prior to 1966. These items will be used for a local history project. All materials will be returned after scanning and copying. Contact Stanley Kober at (201) 445-1121. November 20, 2013 THE VILLADOM TIMES III • Page 17 Finders Keepers already under way in region Devon Fine Jewelry has brought the popular Finders Keepers jewelry giveaway back to the region. The event, which began Monday, Nov. 18, will continue through Saturday, Nov. 23. This year, Devon’s “elves” will be giving away 26 bags – each one filled with a spe- cial piece of jewelry from DFJ. The elves then wait nearby to see that each bag is found. Nancy Schuring, owner of Devon, began this annual treasure hunt as a way to thank area residents for their loyalty and support. DFJ is now celebrating 34 years in busi- ness. The bags are being hidden in plain sight in 12 communities, including Mahwah, Oakland, Ramsey, Ho-Ho-Kus, Ridgewood, Glen Rock, Midland Park, Allendale, Waldwick, Franklin Lakes, Wyckoff, and Hawthorne. Images of all of the gifts are available on Facebook. Once again, DFJ is providing clues to the hiding places. Clues are available on Facebook, Twitter, and via a special e-mail list. E-mail sara@devonfinejewelry.com to be added to the list. A few years ago, Finders Keepers caught the attention of the New York media and suddenly TV channels ABC, NBC, CBS, NJ News 12, and FOX Business network were carrying the story. Radio stations such as 1010 WINS and CBS News Radio also followed the progress. Because of the dra- matic amount of media coverage Finders Keepers got, the store was inundated with phone calls and lots of people stopped in to ask for clues. By the end of the week, the bags were being discovered in an average of just three minutes. Here are a few stories from a prior Find- ers Keepers event: • After one elf put a bag in front of the Waldwick Walgreens, Peggy slammed on her brakes and leapt from her car to pick up a 14kt yellow gold, diamond and sapphire bracelet worth $1,300. • Ellen, a waitress at Kinchley’s in Ramsey, got what must have been the best tip of her career when she found a bag con- taining a $600 emerald ring. • A young couple from Midland Park finished their visit to Ramsey Route 17 Shop Rite with a bang. They walked out the store, she spotted the white and gold Devon bag, and found herself the new owner of a diamond ring worth $600. • Sharp-eyed Mike spotted a gold and Nancy Schuring and Julie white bag on the fancy bench outside the Franklin Lakes Market Basket. He reached inside and found a $1,500 gold and diamond necklace. His wife was thrilled. • A bag containing a pair of $1,000 dia- mond earrings was put outside a Wyckoff Dunkin Donuts. The woman on her lunch break from her bank job who found them could hardly believe her luck at the discov- ery. • James works across the street from Home Hardware in Waldwick. He'd just picked up a small item when he spotted the white bag on a storage chest just outside the store. He couldn't stop smiling when he realized he was the new owner of an18k yellow gold three stone blue topaz ring worth $600. • In Oakland, a young man stopped by at a Starbucks, spotted the white and gold Devon bag, and was almost too shy to pick it up. The elf persuaded him that he was the proud owner of a 14kt white gold diamond pendant. With all the elves having so much fun, Schuring decided she had to put one last piece out herself. She chose the most valu- able item; a $3,000 sapphire and diamond ring to place at Zabriskie Pond because it is the iconic symbol of Wyckoff. Sneak- ing through the woods around the pond, she put the white bag on a fence post near the covered bridge—where it was quickly menaced by a large black crow. A young man riding by noticed the bag and crow and pulled over—but he also saw Schuring in the woods. He asked if the bag was hers. She said, “No, it’s yours.” He told Schuring that he had a feeling that she would put a bag there, he just didn’t know when. Page 18 THE VILLADOM TIMES III • November 20, 2013 Blue Moon event to aid Wyckoff Meals on Wheels Members of the community are invited to Blue Moon Mexican Café’s Dec. 1 Com- munity Night. Proceeds from this event will benefit Wyckoff Meals on Wheels. Those who wish to participate in this fundraiser are invited to visit Blue Moon’s Wyckoff location at 327 Franklin Avenue (in the Boulder Run Shopping Center) on Dec. 1 from 11:30 a.m. to 9 p.m. Lunch, dinner, takeout and delivery orders, catering, and gift cards purchased that day will help sup- port Wyckoff Meals on Wheels. Members of the community who wish to participate in this benefit must present the café with the Community Night flyer, which is avail- able online at www.bluemoonmexican- cafe.com. Twenty percent of the receipts from Community Night (excluding taxes and gratuities) will be donated to Wyckoff Meals on Wheels. For over 32 years, Wyckoff Meals on Wheels has been delivering food to town- ship residents in need. Run by a corps of about 40 volunteers, this service is avail- able to all residents regardless of age or income. The mission of Meals on Wheels is to fulfill a need for balanced nutrition for people who may be unable to prepare meals for themselves. Wyckoff Meals on Wheels is a non- profit organization. The group does not receive any national or local government funding. Over the years, Wyckoff Meals on Wheels has received generous gifts from the community, sometimes in memory of former clients. These donations have allowed this group of dedicated volunteers to continue its service. Recently, the group was running low on funds, and had to consider the possibility of doing away with add-on services, such as the well-received Birthday Baskets. These baskets filled with muffins and other good- ies from the Market Basket are delivered to clients who are celebrating their birthdays. Wyckoff Meals on Wheels also provides deliveries of food staples that help tide people over during weather related emer- gencies. Items include juice, soups, and other shelf-stable foods that can easily be pulled out of the pantry for a quick, nutri- tious meal. This group of volunteers never rests. Weekday meal deliveries continue year- round – even on holidays. Christmas Day 2013 and New Year’s Day 2014 both fall on Wednesdays, and Wyckoff Meals on Wheels volunteers will be delivering both days to ensure that their clients have every- thing they need to enjoy well-balanced meals on those holidays. For more information on receiving this service, to volunteer, or to make a donation, contact Alma Mader at (201) 891-4840. For further information regarding the upcoming Community Night at Blue Moon, call Kathy Scarpelli at (201) 891-1820. November 20, 2013 THE VILLADOM TIMES III • Page 19 Historic home hosts Holiday Open House The community is invited to the annual Holiday Open House at the VanVoorhees- Quackenbush-Zabriskie House in Wyckoff. This year’s event will be held on Saturday, Dec. 7 from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. The home is located at 421 Franklin Avenue. The Open House, which has been held nearly every year since 1976, will show- A view of the VanVoorhees-Quackenbush-Zabriskie House case the house decorated for the holiday season, complete with wreaths and gar- lands of fresh greens designed specifi- cally for this occasion by volunteers of the Wyckoff Area Garden Club. Built in 1730 and added onto in 1824, the Zabriskie House is one of the finest examples of American architecture in northern New Jersey. Antique-filled rooms reflect the Dutch colonial heritage that dominated this region during the 18 th and early 19 th centuries. Although it was used as a home by the VanVoorhees, Quacken- bush, and Zabriskie families, the structure was also used as a village store, tavern, candy store, hotel, and ballroom. Today, the house and gardens represent the Grace Zabriskie home, her gift to the Township of Wyckoff in 1964. The Zabriskie House, which is man- aged by a board of trustees, underwent repairs late in 2012. During the Holiday Open House, visi- tors are welcome to enjoy self-guided tours. Cookies and mulled cider will be served in the home’s lovely period dining room, and holiday music will add to the festive atmosphere. All area residents are invited to this special event. Students who are studying New Jersey history this year may espe- cially appreciate the experience of being in a local historic home during the holiday season. There is a fee of $5 for adults; $3 for senior citizens and children under the age of 12. Page 20 THE VILLADOM TIMES III • November 20, 2013 November 20, 2013 THE VILLADOM TIMES III • Page 21 Police chiefs invite parents to drug awareness program by John Koster Wyckoff Police Chief Benjamin Fox, Franklin Lakes Police Chief Joseph Seltenrich, and Oakland Police Chief Edward Kasper have teamed up to present a drug aware- ness program to parents from the FLOW area on Tuesday, Nov. 19. The program will be held at 7 p.m. at Indian Hills High School, 97 Yawpo Avenue in Oakland. The commu- nity is invited. The chiefs’ informative program will assist parents in understanding how severe the use of heroin and prescrip- tion pain killer drugs is in the FLOW community. Parents will learn how quickly a child can become addicted to pre- scription pain killers, and then move on to heroin, a cheaper alternative. “Parents will learn how their child can quickly become addicted to prescription pain killers, and then move on to heroin use because of the cost of the pills,” Chief Fox said last week. “While the situation is not unique to Franklin Lakes, Oakland, and Wyckoff, it’s here. Many of our chil- dren are addicted and parents need to know what to watch for to protect their children.” A drug expert from the Bergen County Prosecutors Office will provide be on hand to discuss how teens who are addicted will do anything to get drugs. “Parents will hear (the expert) say how teenagers who get addicted to these drugs will do anything to get drugs,” Chief Fox said. “When he says anything, he means it.” In recent months, a number of teens and people in their early 20s have been arrested for pain killers and heroin -- a drug that has become more widely used in recent years. “We did some research for the Municipal Alliance about drug arrests over the past 10 years and over the last three or four years the increase in heroin arrests has been just stag- gering,” Chief Fox told Villadom TIMES. “It went from the point where 10 years ago we never saw heroin to the point where heroin now accounts for the majority of drug arrests.” Towns outside the Wyckoff, Franklin Lakes, and Oak- land nexus have had similar issues. In Glen Rock, a stu- dent at Glen Rock High School was recently arrested for his second attempt to sell heroin to an undercover officer. Students in a number of schools say heroin is readily avail- able and relatively cheap. “Don’t be a parent who puts his or her head in the sand and says ‘Not my child,’” Chief Fox added. “Way too many parents of teenagers who are deeply involved in this prob- lem have said ‘I never would have believed that my child would get messed up with this.’ Locally, we have had stu- dents with straight A grades and scholarships dealing with addiction. It is destroying lives.” Chamber: Santa coming to Wyckoff The Wyckoff Chamber of Commerce’s Santa Comes to Wyckoff and Annual Tree Lighting Ceremony will be held Friday, Dec. 6. (Rain date: Dec. 9.) All are invited to enjoy this special visit from Santa and Mrs. Claus, and to share the magic of the tree lighting ceremony. The event will include be refreshments and holiday music. Santa and Mrs. Claus will travel through Wyckoff on a fire truck, meeting and greeting children and their families at various locations. Santa’s first stop will be at the Cedar Hill Plaza at 4 p.m. He will be at the Wyckoff Shopping Center at 5:15 p.m., Main Street at 5:45 p.m., and the May- flower Shopping Center at 6 p.m. He will travel through the Wyckoff Square Shopping Center at 6:45 p.m. and then make stops at the Rock Ledge Plaza at 7 p.m. and at Boul- der Run Shopping Center at 7:15 p.m. Santa’s last stop of the evening will be at Wyckoff Town Hall for the tree light- ing ceremony at 7:45 p.m. Please note: Santa will not be getting off the truck at Main Street, Wyckoff Square Shopping Center, or Rock Ledge Plaza stops. Be sure to bring cameras to record this festive annual event. For more event information, visit www.wyckoffcham- ber.com. Mr. and Mrs. Claus with friends at a previous event. Page 22 THE VILLADOM TIMES III • November 20, 2013 The hero under the fading whitewash At one great moment in history, John F. Kennedy may have saved the world from a nuclear catastrophe. Unknown to the American public, a U.S. pilot named Rudolph Anderson had been shot down and killed over Cuba by Soviet hot-heads. Some of Kennedy’s advisers - - the same sort of people who bombed Germany and Japan into rubble when the issue was no longer in doubt and killed thousands of French and Korean civilians -- urged a massive air strike on Cuba. Kennedy, an independent thinker who used his advisers as advisers and not as mentors, decided to keep talking. He brokered a deal with the Soviets that got the Soviet missiles out of Cuba and caused them to lose some face. (He quietly took our own missiles out of Turkey, but nobody knew about it while he was alive.) The alternative Kennedy wisely rejected -- a bomb- ing that could easily have gone nuclear -- would not have destroyed America, just the major American cities at a cost of tens of millions of American. Check out some photo- graphs of what Germany and Japan looked like in 1946 to imagine what it would have looked like. European Russia and urban China, however, would also have been totaled and the nuclear fallout would have contaminated the entire Eurasian continent. Russian joke: “When the sirens sound, go to the subway and take your bed sheets. There is sure to be a shortage of shrouds.” Kennedy may have saved world civilization. He deserves a hero’s honor for that. The rest of his career consisted of bold bungles long covered by a coat of whitewash thick enough to plaster the fossilized bones of a tyrannosaurus rex. We need to remember that. The four-hour broadcast of “JFK” chips off some large bits of the whitewash and leaves others in place. Advance warning: Evan Thomas is one of the writers brought in as a talking head, and since we worked at the same newspa- per 40 years ago and his books sell a lot better than mine, my dark blue eyes may occasionally flash green with envy. Having read his books while glowering and sulking, I grudgingly admit that Evan never deliberately distorts facts. He just makes more money than I do, and that, of course, is unforgivable. Now let us chip some whitewash. Joe Kennedy comes off as ambitious, but his ambition is somewhat normalized by PBS. He is shown as being anti-interventionist when some people argue that he was anti-British. Franklin Delano Roosevelt took him off the case as ambassador to the United Kingdom because he objected to FDR’s moves to get the U.S. into the war. It was worse than that according to Sey- mour Hersch, who reports that when anti-Nazi Germans asked for American political support to overthrow Hitler, Joe Kennedy betrayed the German anti-Nazi group to their own government. This would have been a death sentence, except that Joe Kennedy reported them to the Abwehr (military intelligence), which was also involved in plotting against Hitler. The anti-Nazi Germans were spared for four more years until they tried to kill Hitler and were hanged. Did Joe cost us a chance to get rid of Hitler without getting into another war? That should have been mentioned. The show tells us that John Kennedy’s first willful col- lege choice was Princeton, but his father insisted on Har- vard. JFK actually started Princeton, but could not cut the academics. My daughter, an honors graduate of Princeton, says everybody there knows the real story. JFK’s father then wangled his son’s way into Harvard. FDR also attended Harvard. According to Thomas Fleming, FDR thought our real enemies were the Prussian militarists -- the same people who wanted to bump off Hitler, and the same men Hitler later hanged after they tried to kill him. PBS skipped that one. JFK, under his father’s wing, wrote a book called “Why England Slept,” which praised Neville Chamberlain for buying time by knuckling under to Hitler at Munich. Bogus! In 1938, the Germans would have gotten a very bloody nose had they attacked the Czech border fortresses if Britain and France rallied to attack Germany in the West. Instead, the best “German” tanks used to invade France two years later were Czech-made, while the German-made tanks could not stand up to the much better French tanks. Militarily, the Germans should have lost the Battle of France. They won because the Hitler-Stalin Pact turned the French Left against their own government and because the French ultra-Right was anti-Semitic and pro-Nazi. Blather about mighty German tanks is a useless cliché. The best World War II tanks were Russian, then French. The Anglo- Saxons, the Italians, and the Japanese were in a four-way tie for worst place. The heroic personal aspects of JFK are amply and accurately covered. He was a sickly boy who made him- self worse by taking all sorts of medications that further undermined his health, but he had tremendous courage in the face of pain and the prospect of an early death. While more people than we care to remember lied to get out of World War II, JFK lied to get into the Navy and then passed up a safe stateside job in military intelligence to seek out combat. PT-109 got some mild paint chipping. PBS shows PT- 109 in combat. Kennedy’s actual combat before that awful night when the boat was rammed was almost nil. The narra- tor, however, questioned Kennedy’s seamanship in getting a small 70-knot PT boat rammed by a big 40-knot Japanese destroyer, but appropriately honored his courage and initia- tive in saving most of his crew with an arduous three-mile swim. A fair assessment would be that Kennedy was a bun- gler before the ramming of PT-109, but a hero afterward. He got two medals for clumsily losing a boat and two men, but saving 10 others. This may have started a pattern ful- filled during the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962. Kennedy’s political career was marked by the same courage. He had to climb stairs by putting first one foot, then another, on the same step, while his back hurt terribly, but he shook hands from dawn to dusk running for Con- gress. He collapsed in the street at the Bunker Hill Parade, but was on his feet the day after and won the Democratic primary, then easily carried the Congressional election. He Varsity victory was 29. PBS left out the part about the Kennedy family’s intense admiration for Senator Joseph McCarthy, the accused witch hunter of communists in the U.S. government. Bobby Ken- nedy was one of McCarthy’s top legal advisors. Many, if not most of the people McCarthy accused, were actually guilty. JFK was absent from McCarthy’s censure hearing, as Lyndon Johnson pointed out. This was no accident, nor was it sheer laziness. By this time, JFK had been diagnosed with Addison’s disease, an adrenal failure associated with low energy and early death, but when his jealous rival for the White House, Johnson, had this reported, the documentary hon- estly reports that the Kennedy family lied about it, and the American people fell for it. Joe Kennedy, meanwhile, brought in Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr. -- one of FDR’s sons -- to proclaim that he and JFK were both five-year service veterans during World War II while Hubert Humphrey was, at least by implication, a World War II draft dodger. Things like that mattered in the 1950s. Humphrey, who had a fine record on labor rights and civil rights, lost out. The PBS show mentions that Chicago and West Virginia were close in the election and that Kennedy won by one- quarter of one percent. In fact, Joe Kennedy put the fix in with the Chicago Mob and West Virginia crooks and that is probably why Jack got elected. This has been reported many times and confirmed. Nixon might have won on a recount in 1960, but passed up the chance. The show honestly reports that JFK was not much inter- ested in civil rights except as the violent mistreatment of African Americans played into the hands of Soviet pro- pagandists, PBS implies that the credit he received for the Cuban Missile Crisis was perhaps overstated: Khrushchev had already turned back the Soviet blockade-buster ships when JFK reached out to make a deal. The fact that JFK instinctively declined to invade Cuba when the Russians had 43,000 soldiers and tactical nuclear weapons there is clearly to his credit. That shining moment cannot be taken from him, nor can his enormous physical courage in push- ing his sickly body through what must have been absolute torture. His last year as president saw progress in civil rights and a sanctioned coup in Vietnam that led to a war where 58,000 Americans later died and Johnson and Nixon -- who actually brought the civil rights legislation onto the books -- got to take the all the blame for Vietnam and little or none of the credit for ending segregation. The American Experience “JFK” is a whole lot more accurate and responsible than the Oliver Stone feature film of the same name, where Kennedy is murdered with the complicity of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, corporate war con- tracts, Cuba exiles, and a segment of the gay community. The American Experience, in fact, simply shows Jack and Jackie taking a second honeymoon in Dallas followed by the news of his death, and the assessment that he might have been a great president had he not been murdered. Tune in next week to find out who probably killed him. Northern Highlands varsity field hockey team won their second state level game against Wayne Valley 2-0. The two goals were scored by senior captain Lauren O’Keefe (1) and junior Caroline Quinn (16). Northern Highlands record is now 20-1. (Photo courtesy of Joanie Troast.) November 20, 2013 THE VILLADOM TIMES III • Page 23 Allendale Notebook Avenue in Allendale. For more information on the club contact Joseph Chinnici at joseph.chinnici@td.com or (856) 266-7647. BHMAA presents ‘Alice in Wonderland’ The Brookside/Hillside Music and Arts Association will present “Alice in Wonderland” in the Brookside Middle School auditorium on Nov. 22 and 23. The performance will begin at 7:30 p.m. Tickets are $5 when purchased in advance and will cost $8 at the door. For additional infor- mation, visit www.bhmaa.org. The school is located at 100 Brookside Avenue in Allendale. Book Sale benefits library The Lee Memorial Library holds an ongoing sale of used books in the lobby during regular hours. Fiction, non- fiction, children’s books, tapes, and videos are available at bargain prices. The books are priced from 25 cents to $1. The sale is sponsored by the Friends of the Library. Pro- ceeds go directly to the library for purchase of new materi- als. Highlands hosts ‘Have 2 Have It’ The Northern Highlands Regional High School Home and School Association will hold its “Have 2 Have It” fund- raiser on Thursday, Dec. 5. The parents of Highland stu- dents are invited. The benefit will be held from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. in the Cultural Arts Center at the high school, 298 Hillside Avenue in Allendale. In addition to the contests, a complimentary light lunch will be served. The event will feature eight prizes, includ- ing (but not limited to) a 13-inch Apple MacBook Air, a Neiman Marcus shopping experience, a 50-inch Samsung flat screen Wi-Fi TV, and a portable gas generator. Tickets are $10 each, $50 for a book of six tickets, and $80 for two books. All proceeds will benefit educa- tional and co-curricular programs at Northern Highlands Regional High School. Winners do not need to be present. For more information, visit www.northernhighlands. org/page/3605 or contact Nancy Levin at (201) 788-5984. Shmoop now available The Lee Memorial Library at 500 West Crescent Avenue in Allendale now offers the Shmoop database. Shmoop allows residents to prep for the SAT, ACT, and AP exams, and offers study guides for literature, Bible, poetry, Shakespeare, mythology, best-sellers, Dr. Seuss, pre-algebra, algebra, algebra II, geometry, biology, U.S. history flashcards, DMV, and careers. Students may take full-length practice exams, and review the results with in- depth answer explanations. For more information, contact Samantha McCoy at (201) 327-4338 or mccoy@bccls.org. Board of education to meet The Allendale Board of Education will meet on Monday, Nov. 18 at 8 p.m. The session will be held in the Brookside School Library located at 100 Brookside Avenue. The com- munity is invited. Rotary Club welcomes new members The Allendale/Saddle River Rotary Club welcomes new members to its weekly meetings. Sessions are held at 8 a.m. on Wednesdays at Louie’s Place, 29 West Allendale Library offers investment research center The Lee Memorial Library now has Morningstar, Inc. online available to Lee Memorial Library patrons. This investment research center offers an extensive line of prod- ucts and services for individuals, financial advisors, and institutions. Designed specifically for libraries, Morning- star Investment Research Center is an easy-to-navigate online database with comprehensive data and analysis of over 41,000 investments. To access the program from home, visit allendale.bccls. org or visit the library to use the resource from a public computer. The library is located at 500 West Crescent Avenue. Volunteers sought The volunteer nursing home outreach program, Grow- ing Relationships and Making Memories, is seeking vol- unteers to form relationships with socially isolated nursing home residents. Many nursing home residents have no one to visit them. Similar to a Big Brother/Big Sister philosophy, GRAMM builds individual relationships through activities such as sharing stories, playing games, reading, watching sports/ television, sitting outside, writing letters, or just offering companionship. GRAMM is seeking volunteers who can visit one hour a week for eight weeks. The program is held at the Allendale Nursing Home in Allendale. Call Maryann Greco at (201) 934-6174 or e-mail gramm07@verizon.net. Free museum passes available The Lee Memorial Library, located at 500 West Cres- cent Avenue in Allendale, has free passes for the American Museum of Natural History and the Montclair Museum in Montclair available to Allendale patrons. Each family is allowed up to four passes into the American Museum of Natural History. A deposit is not required. To obtain passes for the Montclair Museum, a $40 deposit is required when a pass is picked up. The deposit is refunded when the pass is returned. Two passes are avail- able. The free pass program is sponsored by the Friends of the Lee Memorial Library. For further information, call (201) 327-4338. XYZ Club meets The XYZ Senior Citizens Club of Allendale meets on the first and third Friday of the month at the Calvary Lutheran Church, 165 West Crescent Avenue at 11 a.m. Allendale residents who would like to participate in club activities are welcome. Free health consultations offered The Bergen County Department of Health Services offers a free health consultation program in the Allendale for adult residents. Staffed by a public health nurse, guid- ance and referral services are provided for health mainte- nance. Monitoring of health history, and height, weight, and blood pressure checks are offered at each visit. Residents are assured of complete confidentiality of health informa- tion. In addition, residents are made aware of county and state programs that are available. Contact Jean Manus at (201) 818-4400, extension 211 for specific dates and times. Library offers notification service The Lee Memorial Library is now keeping track of new books published by a list of authors and will notify interested patrons when new books are published and put books on hold for patrons who have subscribed to the new service. Choose from a list of 12 popular fiction and mys- tery authors. Stop by the library and select favorite authors any time the library is open. The Lee Memorial Library is located at 500 West Crescent Avenue in Allendale. Page 24 THE VILLADOM TIMES III • November 20, 2013 Obituaries Frances T. Birch Frances T. Birch, nee Houlihan, of Ho-Ho-Kus, for- merly of Teaneck, died Nov. 9. She was 82. She was a homemaker and a parishioner of Saint Luke’s R.C. Church in Ho-Ho-Kus. She is survived by her children Joseph Birch of Memphis, Tennessee, Patrick Birch of Los Ange- les, California, Mary Ann Dunn of Las Vegas, Nevada, Kathleen DeAngelis of West Milford, and James Birch of Ridgefield Park. She is also survived by 13 grandchildren, and one great-granddaughter. She was predeceased by her husband Joseph F. Birch and her brother Walter Houlihan. Arrangements were made by Vander Plaat Funeral Home in Wyckoff. Memorial donations may be made Ho-Ho-Kus Volunteer Ambulance Corps, 55 Sycamore Avenue, Ho- Ho-Kus, NJ 07423 or West Milford Township First Aid Squad, 619 Ridge Road, West Milford, NJ 07480. Donald E. Brooks Donald E. Brooks of Wyckoff, formerly of Gutten- berg, died Nov. 12. He was 62. He was a certified public accountant for PriceWaterhouse Coopers in New York and a partner of the firm for many years. Along with his wife Gina, he was the owner and breeder of thoroughbred racehorses on the East Coast. He is survived by his wife of Gina (Cicioni) Brooks and his sons Gregory B. Brooks of New York City, Steven A. Brooks of Wyckoff, and David J. Brooks of Baltimore, Maryland. He is also survived by his mother June Gold of Lake Worth, Florida and his brother Raymond Brooks of Sebring, Florida. Arrangements were made by Vander Plaat Funeral Home in Wyckoff. Memo- rial donations may be made to Turning for Home Inc., P.O. Box 300, Bensalem, PA 19020. Ophelia D. Farnsworth Ophelia D. Farnsworth, nee Vuono, of Ridgewood died Oct. 14. She was 90. She was a member of Our Lady of Mount Carmel Church in Ridgewood, where she was a Eucharistic minister and an honorary member of the Rosary Altar Soci- ety. She is survived by her children Priscilla Farnsworth of Ridgewood and Craig Farnsworth of Saratoga Springs, New York. She is also survived by two grandchildren. She was predeceased by her husband Alpheus Farnsworth. Arrangements were made by C.C. Van Emburgh Funeral Home in Ridgewood. Memorial donations may be made to the Bergen County Animal Shelter, 100 United Lane, Teter- boro, NJ 07608 or to the Ramapo-Bergen Animal Refuge, Inc., 2 Shelter Lane, Oakland, NJ 07436. Leonetta M. Kachadurian Leonetta M. Kachadurian, nee Canonico, of Waldwick and Florida died Oct. 15. She was 83. She attended Saint Luke’s School in Ho-Ho-Kus and Rutgers University. Prior to moving to Florida in 1972, she and her husband owned and operated Lexington Cleaners in Glen Rock. She also worked part-time as a bookkeeper for Kilroy’s Wonder Market and was a real estate sales associate for over 35 years. She is survived by her sons Richard J. and Thomas H. Jr. and two grandsons, all of Lakeland, Florida. She was predeceased by her husband Thomas H. Kachadurian Sr. Arrangements were made by C.C. Van Emburgh Funeral Home in Ridgewood. Lynette F. Corsale Lynette F. Corsale, nee Vivino, of Mahwah, formerly of Paterson, Wayne, and Upper Saddle River, died Nov. 8. She was 68. She was a member the Upper Saddle River Woman’s Club and of the Valley Hospital Auxiliary, which she served as treasurer for two years. She also helped sup- port battered women and visited Bergen Pines with gifts for the aged. She was a parishioner of Church of the Presen- tation in Upper Saddle River. She is survived by her hus- band Stephan O. Corsale and her children Francine Moran of Park Ridge, Stephen V. of Mahwah, and Brian of Alam- eda, California. She is also survived by two grandchildren and her siblings Candice Vivino of Florida, Melissa Vivino Corso of New York City, Alfred Vivino of Maryland, and Arthur Vivino of Lincoln Park. Arrangements were made by Marrocco Memorial Chapel in Clifton. Shirley T. Dahlin Shirley T. Dahlin, nee Frawley, of Waldwick, formerly of Chicago, Illinois, died Nov. 10. She was 85. Before retir- ing, she was a receptionist at West Bergen Mental Health Center in Ridgewood. She was a parishioner of the Church of the Nativity in Midland Park where she also served as a Eucharistic minister. She was a member of Saint Luke’s Senior Group. She is survived by her children Gary P. Dahlin, Teresa Montag, Richard F. Dahlin, Thomas M. Dahlin, William J. Dahlin, and Mary Penczek. She is also survived by 12 grandchildren and two great-grandchildren. She was predeceased by her husband Richard W. Dahlin. Arrangements were made by Vander Plaat Funeral Home in Wyckoff. Memorial donations may be made to the Ameri- can Stroke Association, 7272 Greenville Avenue, Dallas, TX 75231. Spencer Ainsworth Jones Spencer Ainsworth Jones of Ridgewood, formerly Springfield, died Nov. 11. He was 90. He was a U.S. Army Corps of Engineers veteran of World War II. He attended Rutgers University, where he earned a bachelor’s degree in business. He had worked for the Chubb Corporation for 35 years, retiring in 1983 as the treasurer of the corporation and vice president of Chubb & Son, Inc. While with Chubb, he participated in the company’s bowling and golf leagues. Prior to his long career with Chubb, he was a CPA with Arthur Young & Co. He is survived by his first wife Claire, and their sons Christopher G. Jones of Brooklyn, New York and Robert B. Jones of Ridgewood. He is also survived by his half-brother William II of North Carolina. He was pre- deceased by his wife Rose and his siblings Richard, Wil- liam, Margaret, and his half-brother Carlberg. Memorial donations may be made to Children’s Aid and Family Ser- vices, 200 Robin Road, Paramus, NJ. Bertram J. Kersen Bertram J. Kersen of Franklin Lakes, formerly of Ber- genfield and New Milford, died Nov. 10. He was a U.S. Army veteran. He was a graduate of Dwight Morrow High School and Long Island University. He was the publisher of the Hudson Dispatch and Paterson News and was in the magazine and distribution business for the Hudson County News, Metropolitan News, and the New York Times. He is survived by his wife Beth M. Kersen and his sons Law- rence, Lowell, and David Kersen. He is also survived by three grandchildren and his sister Sorie Hecht. Arrange- ments were made by Louis Suburban Chapel in Fair Lawn. Memorial donations may be made to a charity of choice. Doris E. Landre Doris E. Landre of Ridgewood, formerly of Wyckoff, died Nov. 6. She was 90. She was a U.S. Navy WAVES vet- eran of World War II. She was a graduate of Barnard and earned a master’s degree from Smith. In a 30-year career at the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, she rose to the position of secretary to the board of commission- ers, the highest ranking woman in the agency. She was a member of West Side Tennis Club, the Skating Club of New York, the Ridgewood Woman’s Club, the Garden Club of New Jersey, and the College Club of New Jersey. Memo- rial donations may be sent to the Ramapo-Bergen Animal Refuge, Inc., 2 Shelter Lane, Oakland, NJ 07436. Dorothy M. Ledden Dorothy M. Ledden, nee Magarelli, of Ho-Ho-Kus, for- merly of Ridgefield, died Nov. 10. Before retiring, she was employed by Unilever of Englewood Cliffs. She is survived by her husband Ronald K. Ledden Sr., and her daughter Dorothy Ledden-Henry. She is also survived by three (continued on next page) November 20, 2013 THE VILLADOM TIMES III • Page 25 Obituaries (continued from previous page) grandchildren and her sister Angela Lanza- lotto. She was predeceased by her son Ronald K. Ledden Jr. and her sister Octavia Carabellese. Arrangements were made by A.K. Macagna Funeral Home in Cliffside Park. Memorial donations may be made to Saint Jude Children’s Research Hospital P.O. Box 2151 501 Saint Jude Place, Mem- phis, TN 38101-2151. Marie Tina Moroni Marie Tina Moroni of Mahwah, for- merly of Hasbrouck Heights, died Nov. 7. She was 92. She is survived by her daughter Louise Moroni of Hasbrouck Heights and Religious Notes Tree of Memories ceremony set The community is invited to Feeney Funeral Home’s Tree of Memories Cer- emony on Monday, Dec. 2. The service will be held on the front lawn of the funeral home located at 232 Franklin Avenue in Ridgewood. Attendees are invited to bring an ornament that symbolizes the life a loved one to be placed on the tree. Anyone who knows someone who might benefit from being at the ceremony is encouraged to invite him or her. After the commemorative service, cookies and coffee will be served. For details, call (201) 444-7650. Remembrance Tree dedicated The Vander Plaat Funeral Home of Wyckoff and Olthuis Funeral Home in Midland Park will hold the annual Tree of Remembrance ceremony on Monday, Dec. 2. The service will be held at 7:30 p.m. at the Cedar Hill Christian Reformed Church located at 422 Cedar Hill Avenue in Wyckoff. The eight-foot tree will be decorated with ornaments personalized with the names of the deceased. Family members are invited to take the special ornaments home follow- ing the service. Preceding the dedication there will be a community outreach workshop, “Grief and the Holidays,” from 6:30 to 7:15 p.m. The workshop will be held in Fellowship Hall at the church. All are welcome. Thanksgiving service set The community is invited to a Commu- nity Thanksgiving Service on Sunday, Nov. 24 at 5 p.m. The service will be held at the Christian Reformed Church located at 183 Godwin Avenue in Midland Park. Other Midland Park churches will also be partici- pating. All are invited. Fellowship and a dinner will follow. Attendees are encouraged to bring a cov- ered dish to share. Monetary donations will benefit CUMAC and the Midland Park Love Fund. For more information, contact the church at (201) 445-4260, churchoffice@mpcrc. org, or pastor@mpcrc.org. her sisters Mildred Sonzogni of Oradell and Virginia Michel of Wyckoff. She was predeceased by her husband Dr. Elio Moroni. Arrangements were made by Hen- nessey Heights Funeral Home in Hasbrouck Heights. vived by 10 grandchildren, 12 great-grand- children, three nephews, and one niece. She was predeceased by her husband Frank and her daughter Irene Sansalone. Arrange- ments were made by Van Emburgh-Sneider- Pernice Funeral Home in Ramsey. Elizabeth “Betty” Mras, nee Givone, of Midland Park died Nov. 8. She was 73. She was the office manager for Care Chiro- practic for over 20 years. She was a parish- ioner of Saint Elizabeth’s R.C. Church in Wyckoff. She is survived by her sons Thomas C. of Midland Park, and Christo- pher T. Sr. and Douglas T., both of Virginia Beach, Virginia. She is also survived by six grandchildren and her siblings Linda Mor- rison of Westwood, Joyce Salvi of Wyckoff, Robert Givone of Belvidere, and Michael Givone of Byram Township. She was pre- deceased by her husband Thomas S. Mras. Arrangements were made by Vander Plaat Funeral Home in Wyckoff. Memorial dona- tions may be made to Saint Jude Tribute Program, P.O. 1000, Dept. 142, Memphis, TN 38148-0142. Thomas J. Watts of Pompton Lakes, for- merly of Midland Park, died Nov. 11. He was 61. He was employed at Mack Boring & Parts Company in Union. He is survived by his partner Deborah L. Morone and his siblings Jennifer Kearny, Betsy Miller, James Watts, Charles Watts, and Clifford Watts. He is also survived by five nieces and nephews. Arrangements were made by Vander Plaat Funeral Home in Wyckoff. Memorial donations may be made to the Ramapo-Bergen Animal Refuge, Inc., 2 Shelter Lane, Oakland, NJ 07436. Elizabeth ‘Betty’ Mras Mary J. Pisciotta Mary J. Pisciotta, nee Silvestro, of Upper Saddle River died Nov. 8. She was 97. Fol- lowing an early career at the New York Rehabilitation Hospital in West Haverstraw, New York, she was a homemaker. She was a parishioner of the Church of the Presenta- tion in Upper Saddle River. She is survived by her children Mary Lee Mannes, Judy Uzzo, and Joanne Johnston. She is also sur- Thomas J. Watts Edwin J. Weaver Edwin J. Weaver of Mahwah died Nov. 7. He was 81. He was born in Mahwah. He was the owner of the Community Shoppe, “Weaver’s,” until he retired in 1988. He is survived by his wife Betty (Kelly) Weaver and his children John Weaver of Little Silver, Richard Weaver of Georgia, Laura Mattson of Mahwah, and Beth Peterson of Cape May. He is also survived by six grand- children and his brother William Weaver of Florida. Arrangements were made by Van Emburgh-Sneider-Pernice Funeral Home in Ramsey. Memorial donations may be made to the Mahwah Fire Department Company #1 or the National Parkinson’s Foundation. Page 26 THE VILLADOM TIMES III • November 20, 2013 Latest ‘Thor’ picture puts action above clarity by Dennis Seuling “Thor: The Dark World” is the God of Thunder’s third appearance on the big screen, following “Thor” (2011) and “The Avengers” (2012). Chris Hemsworth, with bulging muscles and a voice so deep it could make boulders trem- ble, is back in the title role, complete with magical hammer and red cape. One wonders if this garb is necessary or just a reminder that most self-respecting superheroes wear capes. Wardrobe issues aside, Hemsworth is the perfect human incarnation of a comic book character. This time around, someone or something has unleashed the Aether, a red-hued, floating, liquid substance that looks like a combination of Twizzlers and Christmas tree bunting -- a nasty fluid that can invade the bodies of those unfor- tunate enough to come in contact with it. To make mat- ters worse, the Nine Realms are coming into alignment, a rare occurrence that will create portals from one world to another, allowing Malekith (Christopher Eccleston) and his band of Dark Elves the chance to attack Asgard, to avenge a thousands-year-old feud. Meanwhile, on Earth, scientist Jane Foster (Natalie Port- man), who has not seen Thor for two years, toils with her assistant Darcy (Kat Dennings) and eccentric head scientist Erik Selvig (Stellan Skarsgard). That does it for the muddled premise. There are so many missteps in this movie that it is hard to know where to begin. Let’s start with the plot, such as it is. Director Alan Taylor starts off with an exposition-filled prologue that includes a lot of information -- some of it crucial, some of it not -- while the viewer eagerly awaits the first appearance of Thor. Not a terribly imaginative director, Taylor relies on plenty of action in the form of numerous battles, lots of hammer scenes, and a panoply of mayhem, making the film merely a carbon copy of many superhero films that have gone before. The uniqueness of Thor is lost. Now there are modern weapons blazing, hand grenades, and anti-aircraft guns rat-tat-tatting at low-flying aircraft. Is this a story of the Norse god or a “Star Wars” installment? Back once again with highfalutin pronouncements, usu- ally filmed from a low angle to lend him god-like stature, is Anthony Hopkins as Odin, Thor’s father. Looking pretty goofy with an eye patch and Santa Claus beard, Hopkins is hard to take seriously since his interpretation is worthy of a “Saturday Night Live” skit rather than a major motion picture. Thank goodness there is one redeeming feature in this mess of a movie, and that is Tom Hiddleston as Loki. This actor absolutely commands the screen, and he does it with a minimum of pizzazz, relying on sheer talent and a pierc- ing look to convey the enigma that is Thor’s crafty brother. Often, it appears that Hiddleston has lost his way from a far better movie. He is definitely an oasis in a desert of Loki (Tom Hiddleston) and Thor (Chris Hemsworth) in ‘Thor: The Dark World.’ mediocrity. Not your standard villain, Loki is textured. One never really knows what is going through his mind. He assesses developments as they occur and constantly shifts his plan, like a computer processing information. The film is in 3D. Predictably, Thor’s hammer and other assorted weapons come flying at the audience again and again. The 3D glasses darken the screen image, which might be appropriate for a movie subtitled “The Dark World,” but the technique is used less to enhance the storytelling than to allow theaters to add an extra $5 to the admission price. Save money and, if you must, see this in the standard 2D version. Rated PG-13 for stylized violence, “Thor: The Dark World” is a busy, noisy, muddled movie that places action above clarity and reduces its title character to a pawn in an unimaginative undertaking. Cook Up Some Business! Advertise your restaurant in The Villadom TIMES. You’ll reach over 47,000 households. 201-652-0744 www.villadom.com November 20, 2013 THE VILLADOM TIMES III • Page 27 Phony family attempts drug smuggling Will Poulter, Jennifer Aniston, Jason Sudeikis, and Emma Roberts pretend to be a family in order to smuggle drugs in ‘We’re the Millers.’ by Dennis Seuling “We’re the Millers” (Warner Home Video) is a road-trip comedy that takes its cue from “The Hangover” by offering lots of R-rated gags and preposterous situations that lead to sitcom-type dangers. David Burke (Jason Sudeikis) is a small-time pot dealer who prides himself on the fact that he will not sell to kids. When he is robbed of his stash and cash, he is left in serious debt to his supplier, Brad (Ed Helms). To make good -- and assure his own health -- David must become a big-time smuggler by bringing Brad’s latest shipment to the U.S. from Mexico. To give himself cover as a normal family man, he convinces his neighbors to pre- tend to be part of his family. His neighbors include stripper Rose (Jennifer Aniston), wannabe customer Kenny (Will Poulter), and tattooed and pierced streetwise teen Casey (Emma Roberts). The film’s premise is an interesting one, and several of the gags land, but a lot of opportunities are squandered on predictable bits “borrowed” from other movies. Anis- ton is very funny, but Poulter steals every scene he is in with spot-on comic timing. Be sure to watch all the way through the end credits; there are some neat surprises. The Blu-ray/DVD combo pack contains an extended cut of the film, outtakes, deleted scenes, and several behind-the-scenes fea- turettes. “The Vivien Leigh Anniversary Col- lection” (Cohen Media Group) marks the 100th anniversary of two-time Oscar winner Vivien Leigh’s birth with four Brit- ish films that convinced David O. Selznick cast her as Scarlett O’Hara in “Gone with the Wind.” In “Fire over England” (1936), Leigh portrays Cynthia, a lady in waiting to Queen Elizabeth I, who catches the eye of English spy Michael Ingolby, played by Leigh’s future husband, Laurence Oliv- ier. “Dark Journey” (1937) is a romantic thriller that takes place in Sweden during World War I. Leigh is Madeleine, a spy assigned to learn the plans of a German officer (Conrad Veidt). In “Storm in a Teacup” (1937), a newspaper reporter (Rex Harrison) assigned to do a story on a local politician finds himself falling in love with the politician’s daughter (Leigh). “St. Mar- tin’s Lane” (1937) is a comedy co-starring Charles Laughton as a street performer who spots young pickpocket Libby (Leigh) and brings her into his act. Bonus features on this two-disc Blu-ray release include two featurettes with Vivien Leigh biographers and original theatrical trailers. “Russian Ark” (Kino Lorber) is remark- able in that it consists of one unbroken 96- minute tracking shot through the halls of the Hermitage Museum in Saint Petersburg, Russia. The film is shot from the point of view of an unseen narrator as he explores the museum and travels through hundreds of years of Russian history, from encoun- ters with Catherine the Great to a sumptu- ous recreation of the last Royal Ball held in the White Palace in 1913. Special features on this Blu-ray release include a making-of documentary including cast and crew inter- views. “JFK 50 Year Ultimate Collector’s Edi- tion” (Warner Home Video) is a five-disc box set containing the Blu-ray edition of (continued on Crossword page) Page 28 THE VILLADOM TIMES III • November 20, 2013 DVD releases (continued from Restaurant page) Oliver Stone’s provocative motion picture “JFK.” On Nov. 22, 1963, President John F. Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas. Lee Harvey Oswald (Gary Oldman) was arrested for the crime and subsequently shot by Jack Ruby (Brian Doyle-Murray), who claimed to have been avenging Ken- nedy’s death. An investigation concludes that Oswald and Ruby each acted alone, but Louisiana District Attorney Jim Garrison (Kevin Costner) remained skeptical. Assem- bling a trusted group of people, Garrison conducted his own investigation, bringing about a backlash from power- ful government and political figures. The impressive cast includes Jack Lemmon, Sissy Spacek, Joe Pesci, Walter Matthau, Tommy Lee Jones, Kevin Bacon, and John Candy. Special features include a new documentary, “JFK: To the Brink,” a segment from Stone’s “Untold History of the United States,” the re-mastered documentary “John F. Kennedy: Years of Lightning, Day of Drums,” deleted and extended scenes, commentary by Stone, and the feature film “PT 109.” “Planes” (Disney) is clearly Disney’s post-“Cars” attempt to franchise all forms of transportation into the world of animation. Dusty is a crop duster with dreams of a once-in- a-lifetime chance to take on the world’s fastest fliers in the greatest air race ever. Dusty is well-intentioned, but has two major problems: He is not built for speed and he is afraid of heights. His courage is put to the test as he aims higher than anyone ever imagined. Plot points between “Cars” and “Planes” are similar, with the primary difference being that the animation artists in the latter take their talents skyward in a number of razzle-dazzle mid-air soaring and swooshing effects. Voice talent is provided by Dane Cook and Stacey Keach, who don’t bother to give a distinguish- ing touch to their characters. Extras on the Blu-ray/DVD combo pack include deleted scenes, a mini-documentary on the world’s most famous aviators, and two behind-the- scenes featurettes. “All the President’s Men” (Warner Home Video) is being released during the 40th anniversary of Watergate. Based on the best-selling book by Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein, the movie deals with the Watergate burglary and the investigation that ultimately brought down Presi- dent Richard Nixon and his administration. Nominated for four Academy Awards, the film has lost none of its origi- nal power. Director Alan J. Pakula led an impressive cast of Oscar-winners Robert Redford, Dustin Hoffman, and Jason Robards in a gripping, procedural drama that made journalism look exciting, dangerous, and essential. Bonus features on the two-disc Blu-ray release include the new documentary “All the President’s Men Revisited,” com- mentary by Redford, and several behind-the-scenes fea- turettes. “Ambushed” (Anchor Bay) looks at the dark, seductive underbelly of Los Angeles from the point of view of two of its seedier denizens, mid-level drug pushers Eddie (Gianni Capaldi) and Frank (Daniel Bonjour). They want a chance to hit the big time. Unfortunately, their attempt to achieve their goal by ripping off their middleman in a murderous bid sets off a dangerous chain of events involving a ruthless crime boss, a dirty cop, and the federal agent chasing them all. This direct-to-video flick is far from the caliber one expects from a theatrical feature. 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Help me in my present urgent petition. In return I promise to make your name known and cause you to be invoked. St. Jude, pray for us all who invoke your aid. Amen. Say three Our Fathers, Hail Marys and Glorias. Publication must be promised. This novena has never been known to fail. This novena must be said for 9 consecutive days. My prayers were answered. Thank you, St. Jude. kr Prayer to St. Clare Ask St. Clare for 3 favors, 1 business, 2 impossible. Say 9 Hail Marys for 9 days with lighted candles. Pray whether you believe or not. Publish the 9th day. “May the Sacred Heart of Jesus be praised, adored & glori- fied today & every day.” Request will be granted no matter how impossible it seems. Publication must be promised. Thank you for answering my prayer. kv RELIGIOUS Thank You St. Jude cont. from preceding page Prayer to St. Jude May the Sacred Heart of Jesus be adored, glori- fied, loved and preserved throughout the world now and forever. 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You who gave me the divine gift to forgive and forget all evil against me and that in all instances in my life you are with me, I want in this short prayer to thank you for all things as you confirm once again that I never want to be separated from you in eternal glory. Thank you for your mercy toward me and mine. The person must say this prayer 3 consecu- tive days. After 3 days, the request will be granted. This prayer must be published after the favor is granted. 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The trips include Windham Mountain on Jan. 11, Hunter Moun- tain on Jan. 18, and Mount Snow in Vermont on Jan. 25. This program is open to skiers in grades sixth through 12 who attend Ho-Ho-Kus schools, Brookside School and Northern Highlands High School in Allendale, Cavallini and Bogert schools in Upper Saddle River, and students who reside in Upper Saddle River and attend other schools. The cost of the three trips, including luxury coach trans- portation and lift tickets, is $370. Students may sign up for individual trips, the cost of which is outlined in the regis- tration form. Registration forms will be available on the Upper Saddle River website, www.USRToday.org, at borough hall, and at the schools. Space is limited. Those who register will be accommodated on a “first come” basis. Parents who are interested in becoming chaperones, Leo Club (continued from page 3) At this time, Verducci said over 20 students have signed up for the Highlands-based Leo Club and another 10 are involved in the application process. Alexandra Lesnik is the current club president, Clau- dia Carollo is vice president, Stella Wang is treasurer, and Samantha Wei is secretary. In January, the students will make a presentation to the SRV Lions Club regarding their current projects and their plans for the future. While conducting additional research into the Leo Club through Lions International, the local Lions learned that Leo Club members can be as young as 12. “We asked the Upper Saddle River Board of Educa- tion about establishing a club at the middle school, and the Saddle River Valley Lions approved it this month,” Ver- ducci said last week. If the board approves the establishment of Cavallini’s club, Verducci noted that its members would be able to “drop right into the high school club.” He added, “They will have built-in friends and sponsors at the high school.” Club members have a good deal of flexibility in their projects, Verducci said. “We (the Lions) don’t dictate what the projects are,” he said. The hope is for sight- or health- related projects, but students are encouraged to improve their local communities by meeting specific needs. “Our goal is to facilitate and encourage the value of ser- vice,” he added. He said teens do not attain instant adult- hood when they turn 18. As a result, he said students need early exposure to opportunities to made good decisions. According to the Lions Clubs International website, the Leo Club was launched in December 1957 by Lion Jim Graver, a baseball coach at Abington High School in Penn- sylvania. Graver worked with his fellow club member, Wil- liam Ernst, to get the club started at Abington High. The organization’s members created the Leo acronym, which originally signified leadership, equality, and opportunity. Equality was later changed to experience. A decade after the original Leo Club was formed, Lions Clubs International adopted this school-based community service effort as an official association program. Michota reported that there are now Leo Clubs in 139 countries. Last year, the SRV Lions Club was able to donate $80,000 to sight-related and other charities, Michota said. He explained, “Most of our money goes to St. Joseph’s School for the Blind in Jersey City and other sight-related organizations.” In April 2014, the local club will hold a celebration in honor of hitting the $2 million mark in donations since it was founded in 1958. For more SRV Lions Club information, visit www.srv- lions.org. The Saddle River Valley Lions Club serves five communities: Mahwah, Ramsey, Allendale, Saddle River, and Upper Saddle River. Meetings are held the first and third Tuesdays of the month at 7:30 p.m. at Doubletree Hotel, 180 Route 17 South in Mahwah. New members are welcome. and those who require additional information may contact Chairman Esau Ali at (201) 934-9075. Auxiliary hosts Holiday Luncheon & Boutique Members of the Valley Hospital Auxiliary’s Saddle River Valley Branch. The Saddle River Valley Branch of the Valley Hospi- tal Auxiliary will hold its Annual Holiday Luncheon and Boutique on Tuesday, Dec. 3. The event will be held from 11 a.m. to 2 30 p.m. at the Ridgewood Country Club at 96 West Midland Avenue in Paramus. The boutique will feature gift items from Neiman Marcus, Tiffany & Co., custom made Santas, Spring Lake toys, jewelry, Park Luxury sporting accessories, and more. Tickets are $55 and include lunch and valet parking. All are invited. Proceeds from the event will benefit the auxiliary’s $1.5million pledge for the expansion of the breast surgery program at the Luckow Pavilion of the Valley Hospital and Valley Home Care’s Butterflies Program, a palliative care and hospice program for children. Call (201) 745-8275 for tickets and additional informa- tion. Anyone who is unable to attend, but would like to sup- port the auxiliary, may make a donations at valleyhealth. com/auxiliary. Health coach to speak Natural foods chef and holistic health coach Christine M. Okezie will present “Why Blood Sugar Matters: Prevent- ing and Reversing Chronic Disease” to the Saddle River Valley Residents Club on Thursday, Dec. 5. This morning coffee social will be held at 10 a.m. in the adult solarium at the Upper Saddle River Library, 245 Lake Street in Upper Saddle River. For further information about the group’s activi- ties and club membership, visit srvrc.org or e-mail membership@srvrc.org. The club welcomes residents of Saddle River, Upper Saddle River, and neighboring towns. Learn holiday decorating tips Ken Norman of Colony Florist will create two center- pieces at a Tuesday, Dec. 10 program on decorating for the holidays. This 7 p.m. event will be held at the Upper Saddle River Library, 245 Lake Street in Upper Saddle River. Norman’s demonstration will feature a holiday table cen- terpiece and one featuring an urn. Registration is required; call (201) 327-2583. The centerpieces will be given as prizes at the conclu- sion of the program. Holiday Senior Gift Drive to begin The Jewish Community Organization of Northern Bergen County is collecting holiday gifts for area seniors in need. The annual drive will take place from Dec. 1 through 20. JCO invites the community to take a gift sug- gestion from the club’s board posted in the Saddle River Post Office located at 177 East Saddle River Road. Dona- tions will benefit Bergen County seniors in need. The JCO, a non-profit organization serving the Saddle River Valley area, supports local and national charities. For more information, contact: jconbc.info@yahoo.com. Green Voices to discuss ‘Flight Behavior’ Bergen Highlands United Methodist Church, Church of the Presentation, and the Upper Saddle River Environmen- tal Committee invite the community to the second program of the Green Voices Environmental Film and Book Series on Wednesday, Nov. 20. The program will provide a discussion of Barbara Kingsolver’s novel, “Flight Behavior.” Kingsolver’s book explores the scientific, financial, and psychological intri- cacies of climate change. The discussion will be held at Bergen Highlands UMC located at 318 West Saddle River Road in Upper Saddle River. For more information, call (201) 327-3960 or visit bergenhighlandsumc.org. Residents invited to Holiday Party The Saddle River Garden Club and Valley Club invite residents of Saddle River to a Holiday Party on Dec. 8. This annual event will be held from 4 to 6 p.m. at Saddle River Borough Hall located at 100 East Allendale Road in Saddle River. The party will feature a poinsettia tree made up of plants sold by the garden club. Anyone interested in buying a plant may contact Linda Vernooy at (201) 327-8567. We welcome press releases from our readers. Items may be sent to editorial@villadom.com. Deadline is Wednes- day at noon the week prior to publication. Send/receive (continued from page 4) opportunities that could put Midland Park in a position to receive students from another smaller district,” he added. The board president had indicated previously that one district had inquired a while back about sending its stu- dents to MPHS but nothing had come of it. North Haledon’s efforts to pull out of the Manchester Regional district and send its high school students to Midland Park in the early 2000s were thwarted when the NJ Supreme Court ruled that dismantling Manchester would alter the racial and ethnic balance at the more urban school, harming the stu- dents’ education. Concern about the need for facilities upgrades in the district, Sullivan had pursued a study at the urging of residents who cited additional educational offerings and co-curricular activities, better athletic fields, and cost sav- ings as reasons for exploring options. Residents expressed similar reasons in person at a packed Midland Park Board of Education meeting earlier this month, but failed to per- suade the board. Page 32 THE VILLADOM TIMES III • November 20, 2013