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>Our Lady of Mount Carmel
One Passaic St., Ridgewood, NJ 07450

Christmas Schedule 2011

SATURDAY

CHRISTMAS EVE
4:00pm
4:00pm (Auditorium)
5:30pm
5:30pm (Auditorium)
7:00pm
Midnight
(Carols begin at

11:30pm)

SUNDAY

CHRISTMAS DAY
8:00am
9:30am
11:00am
11:00am Spanish (Auditorium)
12:30pm

NO 5:30PM MASS ON CHRISTMAS DAY

SATURDAY, NEW YEAR’S EVE
(Vigil – Mary, Mother of God)5:30pm

SUNDAY, NEW YEAR’S DAY
(Mary, Mother of God)
8:00am
9:30am
11:00am
12:30pm
2:00pm (Spanish Mass)

NO 6:30PM MASS ON NEW YEAR’S DAY

>West Side Presbyterian Church
Christmas Service Schedule
6 South Monroe Street (on the corner of West Ridgewood Avenue), Ridgewood, NJ 07450

Christmas Eve
Saturday, December 24
4:00 p.m. Traditional Service of Lessons and Carols
with Brass, Children’s and Youth Choirs, and Handbells.
Prelude begins at 3:45 p.m.
Child care for preschool children in Nursery.
10:00 p.m. Christmas Eve Communion Service
with Chancel Choir, Westminster Bell Choir
and String Ensemble.
Prelude begins at 9:30 p.m.
Please note that the times have changed from previous years and there is no 2:00 p.m. service.

Christmas Day
Sunday, December 25
10:00 a.m. Worship: Carols from Around the World
Note: No Child Care, Chapel Service, Sunday School or Adult Groups

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Substance abuse specialist tells Ridgewood parents: ‘Be real with teenagers’

FRIDAY DECEMBER 23, 2011, 9:10 AM
BY KIMBERLY JONES
CORRESPONDENT
THE RIDGEWOOD NEWS

High school students should have science-based facts that help them understand the role alcohol can play in either having fun or ruining it, according to a psychologist and substance abuse specialist who spoke with parents at Ridgewood High School (RHS)

About 40 parents attended a program at RHS on Dec. 15 featuring Dr. Tim Silvestri, who presented “Straight Shots,” a program aimed at helping parents understand and deal with the issue of student substance abuse. Presented by the Ridgewood Municipal Alliance, this program, which was presented to sophomores earlier in the day, was a follow-up to a Parent 2 Parent meeting where parents discussed teenage drinking.

https://www.northjersey.com/news/136136983_Substance_abuse_specialist_tells_Ridgewood_parents___Be_real_with_teenagers_.html

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The Past and the Present
By Thomas Sowell

If Newt Gingrich were being nominated for sainthood, many of us would vote very differently from the way we would vote if he were being nominated for a political office.

What the media call Gingrich’s “baggage” concerns largely his personal life and the fact that he made a lot of money running a consulting firm after he left Congress. This kind of stuff makes lots of talking points that we will no doubt hear, again and again, over the next weeks and months.

But how much weight should we give to this stuff when we are talking about the future of a nation?

This is not just another election and Barack Obama is not just another president whose policies we may not like. With all of President Obama’s broken promises, glib demagoguery and cynical political moves, one promise he has kept all too well. That was his boast on the eve of the 2008 election: “We are going to change the United States of America.”

Many Americans are already saying that they can hardly recognize the country they grew up in. We have already started down the path that has led Western European nations to the brink of financial disaster.

https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2011/12/20/the_past_and_the_present_112470.html

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Defending Liberty and Security in Wartime
Ericka AndersenDecember 22, 2011 at 9:28 am(7)

The official end of U.S. operations in Iraq last week calls to mind controversial issues from the past decade. One of the most important intellectual and policy battles, which remains relevant today, is over how to defend both civil liberties and security in time of war. In other words, how should America defend itself from enemies at home and abroad while also preserving the freedoms that we enjoy and that make our country great?

People often say that we need to balance liberty and security. This implies that the two are opposed and that the more we have of one, the less we will have of the other. That’s an understandable way of talking, but it’s wrong. The truth is that neither liberty nor security can exist without the other. They are equally important to the United States and, indeed, are the twin reasons why this nation was founded.

Protecting individual liberty does not invariably hobble the nation’s defenses. Rather, as the Constitution recognizes, security and liberty are reinforcing: We “secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity.” Thus, we do not want, or need, to trade off freedom to achieve security. Nor should we assume that security, the first duty of government, is the enemy of liberty. As Cully Stimson and Andrew Grossman write in the latest installment of Heritage’s Understanding America series, “A threat to America’s security is also a threat to Americans’ liberties.”

https://blog.heritage.org/2011/12/22/morning-bell-defending-liberty-and-security-in-wartime/?utm_source=Newsletter&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=Morning%2BBell

>the Village of Ridgewood Christmas Tree 2011 

>NJ man who OD’d at party settles lawsuit for $4M

SADDLE RIVER — A man who overdosed on stolen drugs he ingested at a party in 2007 has settled his lawsuit with a pharmacy, several guests, the party’s host and the host’s mother for $4.1 million.

Scott Simon, then 17, said he took Xanax that was given to him by a former employee of a Ridgewood drug store and suffered permanent nerve damage as a result.

Simon’s attorney John Schepisi told The Record of Bergen County (https://bit.ly/vSM3gH) that one party guest was a former pharmacy employee who stole Xanax from the drugstore and gave it to Simon. Simon took the drugs at the party and fell into a coma.

https://www.app.com/article/20111223/NJNEWS10/312230045/NJ-man-who-OD-d-at-party-settles-lawsuit-for-4M

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Warner Quad
190 East Ridgewood Avenue
Ridgewood, NJ 07450

Theatre Office Number:
201-444-1235
For Showtimes and Tickets:
1-888-CLVW TIX

Pricing:
General Admission $12.00
Seniors $11.00
Children $9.25
Matinee Specials $10.00
Monday to Friday: All Shows Before 4 pm
Saturday, Sunday & Holidays: All Shows Before 2 pm

Clearview Cinemas reserves the right to exercise special pricing options for unique in-theatre experiences.

3-D Experience: Add $3.75 per ticket

Clearview’s Warner Quad
Showtimes for Friday, December 23, 2011

The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (R)
Daniel Craig, Rooney Mara
160 minutes 11:45 AM, 3:00, 6:30, 9:50
Digital Projection

Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol (PG-13)
Tom Cruise, Simon Pegg
132 minutes 1:00, 4:00, 7:00, 10:00

Alvin and the Chipmunks: Chipwrecked (G)
Jason Lee, David Cross
87 minutes 12:00, 4:30, 6:45, 9:30

Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows (PG-13)
Robert Downey Jr., Jude Law
128 minutes 1:15, 4:15, 7:15, 10:10
Digital Projection

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President Obama restores Pizza night after two month extension of payroll tax

Renato’s Pizza wins Best Pizza in Ridgewood 2011

What is the Best Pizza in Ridgewood 2011

The Ridgewood blog is proud to announce the winner of the 2011 best Pizza in Ridgewood Contest ; Coming in first place with with 27% of the vote Renatos Pizza followed by A Mano the 2009 winner with 13% and Sicilian Sun with 13 % of the vote and Brooklyn Pizza with 12% and Puzzo’s the 2008 winner with 10% of the vote .

Congratulations to all our participants

A Mano  74  13%(won VA,OH,RI and MI )
Renato’s Pizza  157  27% (won NJ ,PA,NY,VT, IL,IA,MN,FL,OK.AZ.and CA)
Puzo’s  58  10%
Brooklyn Pizza  72  12% (won MO and AK)
Sicilian Sun  76  13% (won GA ,MA and WI)
La Bella Pizza  49  8% (won WA)
Roma Pizza  12  2%
Pizza Fusion  41  7%
Ridgewood Pizza  38  7% (won TX)
Total Votes : 577
Total States 22

The tasters general concurred with the voting results remarking on how many extra ordinary places to buy great pizza in Ridgewood there are.

>Redistricting negotiations focus on merging two North Jersey areas