file photo Boyd Loving of Robert Paoli
Salute to WW11 Vets
May 31,2013
ROBERT PAOLI
12:14 PM
Ridgewood NJ, Saturday, June 1st 2013 at Legionnaire Jack McCooe house at 12 noon American Legion Post 53 will honor 10 WW11 veterans. Some are legionnaires and others are from the community.
Kathleen Donovans office will be present for a special citation to each of them The ceremony will take place at Sean and Rosie McCooe house at 70 Walthery Ave in Ridgewood.
Honeybee colonies key to sustainability plan at Valley Hospital
Thursday, May 30, 2013 Last updated: Thursday May 30, 2013, 4:30 PM
BY JAMES M. O’NEILL
STAFF WRITER
The Record
Four stories up — out on the roof above the doctors, nurses and staff at The Valley Hospital’s Luckow Pavilion in Paramus — a new group of employees are busy at work creating a city out of wax.
Beekeeper Joseph Lelinho of Bee Bold Apiaries, demonstrates how bees make honey on the rooftop of the Valley Hospital’s Luckow Pavilion in Paramus, where they are keeping bees as part of an extension program to ‘go green.’
Valley has installed two colonies of honeybees in tall, pale cream boxes, which will produce honey the hospital plans to use in its patient food and also package to sell in its gift shop.
Each colony will likely produce up to 100 pounds of honey by season’s end. The beekeepers will harvest 30 pounds of that and leave the rest for the bees to eat through the winter.
“The hospital is trying to be as green as possible and this fits in with our goals for sustainability,” said Valley dining director Dawn Cascio.
https://www.northjersey.com/news/bergen/Honeybee_colonies_key_to_sustainability_Valley_Hospital.html
photo by Boyd Loving
Ridgewood school ceremony remembers the fallen
Thursday May 30, 2013, 5:16 PM
BY LAURA HERZOG
STAFF WRITER
The Ridgewood News
Candles glowed in dozens of paper bags arranged beneath the stage in the dimly lit Benjamin Franklin Middle School (BF) auditorium last Thursday.
Benjamin Franklin Middle School (BF) students created luminaries with messages to veterans for their Memorial Day Remembrance ceremony.
Decorated by BF students during their morning classes, each luminary was a small emblem of patriotism, decorated in red, white and blue. In exchange for their bags, many students donated to an organization that aids wounded veterans.
The luminaries were one aspect of what will become an annual tradition.
BF’s first Memorial Day Remembrance complemented Monday’s annual Memorial Day ceremony in Van Neste Square.
https://www.northjersey.com/news/209569271_Ridgewood_school_ceremony_remembers_the_fallen.html
FBI nominee Comey was held captive as a Bergen teen
Thursday, May 30, 2013 Last updated: Thursday May 30, 2013, 11:56 PM
BY SHAWN BOBURG
STAFF WRITER
The Record
He could be the country’s next top crime fighter, overseeing investigations into the most serious threats facing the nation.
But James Comey — President Obama’s pick to be the director of the FBI — got an unwelcomed introduction to law and order as a teenager in Allendale more than 35 years ago, during a brief and dangerous brush with a notorious criminal who had all of Bergen County on edge.
A man dubbed “the Ramsey rapist” held 15-year-old Comey and his younger brother at gunpoint after breaking into their Allendale home on an October day in 1977, one of a string of break-ins that included the rape of two area baby sitters. The Comey brothers, locked in a bathroom while the intruder searched the home, escaped through a window, only to encounter the man again on their lawn. The brothers ran back inside the house, locked the doors and called police, setting off a massive manhunt.
Ex-Microsoft manager plans to create first U.S. marijuana brand
By Jonathan Kaminsky
SEATTLE | Thu May 30, 2013 6:45pm EDT
(Reuters) – A former Microsoft executive plans to create the first U.S. national marijuana brand, with cannabis he hopes to eventually import legally from Mexico, and said he was kicking off his business by acquiring medical pot dispensaries in three U.S. states.
Jamen Shively, a former Microsoft corporate strategy manager, said he envisions his Seattle-based enterprise becoming the leader in both recreational and medical cannabis – much like Starbucks is the dominant name in coffee, he said.
Shively, 45, whose six years at Microsoft ended in 2009, said he was soliciting investors for $10 million in start-up money.
The use, sale and possession of marijuana remains illegal in the United States under federal law. Two U.S. states have, however, legalized recreational marijuana use and are among 18 states that allow it for medical use.
“It’s a giant market in search of a brand,” Shively said of the marijuana industry. “We would be happy if we get 40 percent of it worldwide.”
https://www.reuters.com/article/2013/05/30/us-usa-marijuana-idUSBRE94T0ZE20130530
Ridgewood Arts council urging people to pop in the Pop-Up Art Gallery
Wednesday May 29, 2013, 12:25 PM
BY LAURA HERZOG
STAFF WRITER
The Ridgewood News
New York City artist Marcela Carvalho has exhibited in the south of France, Finland, her native Brazil and is currently featured at the Amsterdam Whitney Gallery in Chelsea.
IMAGE OF ARTWORK COURTESY OF CRISTINA DEUTSCH
Artwork by Marcela Carvalho will be among the featured pieces on display during the first Pop-Up Art Gallery to be held in Ridgewood on May 31 and June 1.
This weekend, she is adding 31 N. Broad St. in Ridgewood to that list.
On Friday, May 31 and Saturday, June 1, the new Ridgewood Arts Council (RAC) is holding a “Pop-Up Art Gallery” that will feature about 18 artists, three from Ridgewood and many from New Jersey, according to RAC members, who hope to enhance the village’s growing reputation as a cultural destination.
Varian Fry ( wymaninstitute.org )
Catherine Taub, Ridgewood activist and historian of her hometown’s ‘American Schindler,’ dies at 64
Thursday May 30, 2013, 6:50 PM
BY JAY LEVIN
STAFF WRITER
The Record
Until Catherine Taub visited the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum 15 years ago, few knew that Varian Fry, who helped spare more than 2,000 artists, writers and others from Nazi persecution, spent his childhood in Ridgewood.
Ms. Taub, a village resident who died Tuesday at age 64, dedicated herself to perpetuating the legacy of the man known as the “American Schindler.”
She led the drive to rename a portion of South Monroe Street, outside West Side Presbyterian Church, “Varian Fry Way.” She got the Postal Service to issue a commemorative postmark in 2007, on the 100th anniversary of Fry’s birth. And she administered the Varian Fry Humanitarian Scholarship, awarded to a Ridgewood High School senior demonstrating the same “commitment to care” displayed by Fry.
https://www.northjersey.com/obituaries/Catherine_Taub_Ridgewood_activist_and_historian_of_her_hometowns_American_Schindler_dies_at_64.html
Architect discusses layout for Valley Hospital expansion plan
Thursday May 30, 2013, 5:04 PM
BY DARIUS AMOS
STAFF WRITER
The Ridgewood News
A series of architectural renderings depicting The Valley Hospital’s expansion proposal earned fleeting moments of praise from some Ridgewood Planning Board members Wednesday night, but scrutiny over the details and other aspects of the plan continued.
Architect Steve Evers, who specializes in health care facility designs, made his second appearance in the public hearing process for Valley’s request to amend the village master plan. If approved by the board and Village Council, the amendment will fundamentally permit the hospital to grow nearly twice as large as the existing facility.
The proposed construction will take place over two phases. Previous testimony by the hospital experts revealed that phase 1 will be completed between six and seven years, while the start of the second phase might be “a decade or two” away.
https://www.northjersey.com/news/209567021_Architect_discusses_layout_for_Valley_Hospital_expansion_plan.html
Twelve minutes’ exercise per week ‘enough to stay fit’
Just 12 minutes of intensive exercise per week is enough to improve your health if you are overweight, a study has found.
By Nick Collins, Science Correspondent
5:38PM BST 30 May 2013
Four-minute bursts of high-intensity exercise such as running on a treadmill, three times a week are enough to increase fitness, researchers found.
Overweight volunteers who undertook the regime for 10 weeks increased their body’s oxygen uptake – a measure of fitness – by 10 per cent and saw small decreases in their blood pressure and glucose levels.
Health guidelines generally state that we should undertake at least 150 minutes of moderate exercise or 20 minutes of vigorous exercise per week in order to stay healthy.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/10089411/Twelve-minutes-exercise-per-week-enough-to-stay-fit.html
HUGE MOVING SALE (Ridgewood)
HUGE moving sale–Fri. 5/31 & Sat. 6/1 8-4. EVERYTHING MUST GO!! Leaving the country. Includes HARDLY — USED Hunter Boots and Coach bags. TONS baby stuff, electronics, (Wii, Sony Video Camera and Sony Cybershot and more!) clothes, bikes, sporting equipment, art/crafts supplies, books, bags, kitchen/home items and so much more. Something for everyone! Everything is cheap. It has to go! Email me if you’re looking for any particular baby item. I probably have it!
Location: 611 Witthill Road off of S. Pleasant Ave in Ridgewood
GIANT PARKING LOT GARAGE SALE & RUMMAGE SALE “JUNE 1ST” (Paramus Woman’s Club)
The Woman’s Club of Paramus will be having a Giant Parking Lot Garage Sale and a Basement Rummage Sale and a Plant sale on Saturday JUNE 1ST, 8AM-4PM. Refreshments will be served. TONS OF GOOD ITEMS. TONS OF CLOTHES, BOOKS, COLLECTIBLE BASEBALL ITEMS & MUCH MORE.
w 65 Ridgewood Ave. Paramus. Directions. rt.17 north or south to the Ridgewood Ave,Ridgewood exit. Go 2 blocks to club. Club is between rt.17 & Paramus Road
Rained out Sale- Ridgewood NJ (146 S. Irving & 139 Liberty St. )
Due to rain we are holding a one day sale on May 31 9 am to 4 pm. We have added new items to our sale: treadle Singer Sewing machine in a beautiful cabinet, round Maple pedestal table with a leaf, artwork, chairs, unique folding chairs..books, toys, clothing, pocketbooks, kitchen ware, lots of toys, hand-made mirror out of chestnut moulding, adirondack mirrors, upholstery fabrics, flower vases, decorative items, antique mirror, child’s toy chest, and much much more…..Liberty St. is located off E. Ridgewood Av. in Ridgewood NJ, S. Irving is off E. Ridgewood and Spring but the Sale will be held on Evergreen for the S. Irving address. Mark your calendars and program your GPS, see you on Friday!!!
Saturday 6/1/13 10am-4pm + Sunday 6/2/13 1-4pm (“Last gasp” 3-4pm )
145 Phelps Rd. Ridgewood NJ 07450
Fabulous PICKER!! Unknown treasures, still pulling from attic and basement! OMG! Lots of Elephants + Eagles, political memorabilia, Antiques, French Clocks, Fabulous Porcelain figurines, Herend Soup Tureen, Bergen Auto Bronze sign, vintage Naval Epaulets, Kitchen, Basement, Attic, Jewelry, OH MY!!!
Architect details Valley Hospital expansion plan before Ridgewood board
Thursday May 30, 2013, 11:03 AM
BY CHRIS HARRIS
STAFF WRITER
The Record
RIDGEWOOD — Planning Board members and some 50 village residents were inundated this week with information on setbacks and buffers, as experts for The Valley Hospital continued plugging the facility’s proposed expansion.
Testimony during Wednesday’s Planning Board meeting zeroed in on questions and concerns raised nearly two months ago by the board, its experts, and residents.
An architect representing Valley, Steve Evers, led a power-point presentation that raised even more questions about the project, which would expand the hospital from 562,000 square feet to 995,000 square feet — enough room for 452 beds. The hospital also plans to add a 245,000-square-foot parking garage.
Most of Evers’ presentation focused on comparisons: Current conditions at the hospital site versus post-project conditions and how they’ll impact the surrounding neighborhood.
Photo of boy diving by James Porto.
Village of Ridgewood Summer Fun !
GRAYDON POOL MEMBERSHIPS NOW ON SALE
Resident fees are $110 per adult, $100 per child (ages 2 through 15) and $20 for seniors (62 and older). Non-resident adults will be charged $175 and children, ages 2 through 15, will be charged $155 for the13 week season.
Badges are now on sale and can be purchased from the comfort of home on Community Pass at www.ridgewoodnj.net/communitypass (Visa and MasterCard are accepted). In person registration assistance will be available Saturdays, May 11 and May 18, 10:00 am to 12 noon, at the Graydon Pool Badge Office, 259 North Maple Avenue. Badges may be purchased daily throughout the operating season, June 1st through Septemer 2nd.
Details are available at www.ridgewoodnj.net/graydon or you may call the Recreation Office at 201-670-5560 with any questions or if special accommodations are needed.
2013 SEASON
Saturday, June 1 – Monday, September 2
Daily – 10 a.m. to 7:30 p.m.
Holiday – July 4th, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Kasschau Shell Schedule for 2013
Fifty-five Years of Free Summer Entertainment Under the Stars
8:30pm at the Band Shell,Veterans Field, Ridgewood New Jersey
Behind the Ridgewood Public Library N. Maple Ave. Between Franklin and Linwood Aves.
Please bring a chair or blanket, Please do not cross over the baseball
field if a game is in progress.
https://theridgewoodblog.net/kasschau-shell-schedule-for-2013/
Ridgewood 4th of July Parade
July 4th in Ridgewood is a very special day that our entire area looks forward to all year. The theme for this year’s celebration is “Honoring our Declaration of Independence.” We are an all-volunteer community group that coordinates the day’s events and does not receive direct funding from the Village of Ridgewood.
https://theridgewoodblog.net/honoring-our-declaration-of-independence/
photo by Boyd Loving at Ridgewood REORG
Menendez donor gets probation
NEWARK, N.J. – A New Jersey man who conspired with his brother to violate federal elections laws has been sentenced to two years of probation. Associated Press
https://www.philly.com/philly/news/new_jersey/20130529_Menendez_donor_gets_probation.html
MAYOR’S OFFICE HOURS FOR RIDGEWOOD RESIDENTS – Saturday, June 1, 2013
Mayor Paul Aronsohn will be holding office hours for Ridgewood residents on the first Saturday of every month from 9:00 a.m. to Noon in the Council Chambers (Sydney V. Stoldt, Jr. Court Room) on the fourth floor of Ridgewood Village Hall. The next session will be Saturday, June 1, 2013.
For an appointment to meet with the Mayor, please call the Village Clerk’s Office at 201-670-5500 ext. 206. You may come to the Mayor’s office hours without an appointment, but those with appointments will be given priority.
NJ Spent $23M on Unemployment and Other Benefits for Jailbirds
A New Jersey state audit released Wednesday shows that prison inmates have been picking up unemployment checks, as well as healthcare and retirement entitlements, to the tune of millions of taxpayer dollars. According to the report by Comptroller Matt Boxer, New Jersey shelled out $23 million to jailbirds from June 2009 to April 2011. The checks came from jobless benefits, Medicaid, food stamps, pensions and other programs.
https://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2013/05/29/NJ-prisoners-welfare
