Join us for an exciting, informative evening of cocktails, four-course dining, open bar, music, dancing, “special guests,” and silent auction.
Monday, May 9, 2016
6:30 – 10:30 pm
Seasons
644 Pascack Road
Washington Township, NJ
Washington Twp. NJ, Please join us as we honor Dr. Dara Richardson-Heron and these outstanding women:
Honorary Legacy Host – Joan Groome, Executive Director of the Ridgewood Chamber of Commerce
Young Leader Award – Charlotte Samuels, Ridgewood High School Senior and youngest Triple Crown Swimmer
Beacon of Light Award – Gina Plotino, President, GMP Consulting, Inc. and founding member
of Women United in Philanthropy (WUIP)
Woman of Action Award – Assemblywoman Valerie Vaineri Huttle 37th District Assemblywoman
The program will also feature five “stand out” men from our community who will be there to “stand up” for Bergen County women.
Tom Toronto, President of Bergen County United Way
Anthony Cureton, Immediate Past President Bergen County, NJ NAACP
AJ Luna, Director of Bergen County, NJ Veterans Services
Jeremy Lentz, Executive Director of the Teaneck International Film Festival
Anthony Johnson, WABC-TV News journalist.
Featuring “Dancing through the Decades” Arthur Murray Ridgewood
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Ridgewood NJ, The RHS Maroon Award recipients have been announced. Those with media permission to be named are Coleman Clauss, Aaqib Hassan, Reid Bushnell, Bridgette Parratt and Camryn Muller.
The Maroon Award is a recognition bestowed on students nominated by their teachers for working hard towards extraordinary positive changes in behavior/grades, committing a random act of kindness without expecting any recognition, and/or doing the right thing when “nobody” was looking.
Hillsdale NJ, The Pascack Valley Regional High School District voted 6-1 to pass a policy they say is designed to protect transgender students’ rights. The district said the policy is needed to comply with anti-discrimination laws.
The policy allows transgender students to use restrooms and locker rooms based on their gender identity. Hummm what could possible go wrong with that ?
According to NBCNEWYORK The policy follows several other New Jersey school districts that have passed similar measures. But one school board member hinted the debate is far from over, saying he expects lawsuits to be filed against the district.
The meeting was the second time the proposal has been put up for a vote. The school board tabled the issue in February after parents and residents rightly voiced concerns.
Ridgewood NJ, When a bright, happy preteen evolves into a self-absorbed or anxious teenager, apprehensive parents can’t help but wonder, “What’s wrong with my child?”
The answer could be “nothing,” other than the typical struggles adolescents have always faced, says Jeffrey Leiken, author of “Adolescence is Not a Disease: Beyond Drinking, Drugs and Dangerous Friends – The Journey to Adulthood” (www.Leiken.com).
As CEO of Evolution Mentoring International, Leiken provides mentoring for teens and young adults, going beyond the typical work of a therapist by building a relationship so that they come to see Leiken as a trusted confidant who answers their late-night text messages and isn’t quick to label them.
“I don’t start with the premise that there is something wrong with them that needs to be fixed,” Leiken says. “The teens and young adults I work with often are saner than the system they are in – a system that seems to forget we are raising humans, not building robots.”
Parents sometimes get caught up in that system, too, but in many cases they just need to chill, he says.
Leiken says parents who want to prepare teenagers for the day they will venture out on their own should:
• “Great advice, wrong source” – Enlist the aid of other adults. Parents are puzzled when they give excellent advice that their teenager promptly ignores. But adolescents often discard words of wisdom from their parents that they would embrace if the guidance came from someone else. That’s why it’s important to enlist the help of other adults who can offer coaching, training and guidance to the teen. • Avoid letting fear be the guide. Too many parents are on edge, worried that if their teen isn’t in the top 1 percent of the high school class, they will be denied hope for economic prosperity, status and independence. Their anxieties can rub off on young people who become hesitant to take risks for fear of endangering their future. Instead of scaring them, parents need to encourage teens to step outside their comfort zones and take risks that will help them grow into confident, well-rounded adults. • Help teens eliminate choices. One popular bit of advice parents hear is they should encourage teenagers to keep all their options open. That sounds like a good strategy, but isn’t. In reality, parents need to encourage teens to eliminate options – such as for colleges or careers – that aren’t and never will be right for them. The teens’ decision-making abilities will increase as a result.
“Parents also need to realize they don’t have to become experts in raising teenagers,” Leiken says. “They just have to become expert in raising their own teenager.”
About Jeffrey Leiken
Jeffery Leiken (www.Leiken.com) is the CEO of Evolution Mentoring International and is co-founder of HeroPath International. Leiken also is author of “Adolescence is Not a Disease: Beyond Drinking, Drugs and Dangerous Friends – The Journey to Adulthood.” He has presented at TED in Athens, Greece; guest lectured at Stanford University; and facilitated programs for teenagers on three continents and in seven countries, among other accomplishments. He has a master’s degree in educational counseling.
Ridgewood NJ, The Ridgewood Blog has just learned that employees of the Village’s Streets and Parks Departments have been ordered to remove any campaign signs, specifically those belonging to Ramon Hache, found erected on Village owned properties.
This bizarre directive comes just months after many Village owned properties were literally plastered with “Vote Yes For Parking” signs and Village Attorney Matthew S. Rogers indicated that there was NO LOCAL ORDINANCE that prohibited the erection of election related signage on Village owned properties.
So Ms. Sonenfeld, if there is NO LOCAL ORDINANCE THAT PROHIBITS THEM FROM BEING ON VILLAGE OWNED PROPERTIES, why are Mr. Hache’s campaign signs being torn town by Village employees?
Ridgewood Nj, NJ.COM is reporting that Josh Gottheimer received $1,000 from former disgraced former NJ Senator Bob”the Torch,” Torricelli . “The Torch” was the subject of a lengthy federal ethics probe that ended his political career in 2002.
Robert Guy Torricelli (born August 27, 1951), nicknamed “the Torch,” is an American politician who served as the United States senator from New Jersey from 1997 to 2003 and a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from New Jersey’s 9th district from 1983 to 1997. From 1999 to 2000, he served as the chairman of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee.
The Torch, as he’s known, was forced out nearly 13 years ago following a series of seamy revelations that he’d accepted lavish gifts from David Chang,a businessman North Korean ties which in turned prompted the Senate Ethics Committee to issue a formal letter of admonishment.
Many credit Torricelli’s swift fall from grace because he was so good at alienating fellow Democrats and was incapable of taking any blame for his misdeeds. Others say his lavish lifestyle ,expensive watches and suits rubbed too many people the wrong way .
Ridgewood NJ, The League of Women Voters will sponsor a Candidates’ Night for those running for Village Council . The Candidates’ Night will take place in the Village Hall Court Room, Wednesday, April 20th from 7:30PM to 9:30PM. All are invited to attend to learn positions on local issues.
Reader says the election is less than a month away and I don’t know where any of the candidates stand on important issues.
Do they have websites? Is there any campaign material? If the Ridgewood News were truely an unbiased local paper they would send questions to the candidates for answers and publish all responses.
I know that the League of Women Voters will have a forum but I expected more. What if the forum does not adress my questions?
What do you think the village should do about parking in the CBD? Do you think that we even have a parking problem?
Do you think that the housing density should be 25 units per acre? Do you think that it should be higher or lower?
How many high density projects can the congested downtown absorb?
Will you challenge the latest Valley Hospital Plan and ask for more concessions?
What can be done to end the cycle of empty-nesters fleeing the town because of high taxes? Do you think that there is a benefit to offer a tax break to stabilize the demographics and prevent an overflow of students in our schools?
Will you ask that all council and committee members disclose all conflicts of interest – perhaps without being asked by an angry and skeptical public?
Sheila Brogan horrified the assembled multitude that night at BF and sure enough, her comments have returned to haunt us many times over. They were quickly turned into PowerPoint slides by Valley’s attorneys. Our elected BOE hires the Superintendent of Schools, not the reverse, and should have stood firm, acting as a staunch defender of students’ and teachers’ health, safety, and ability to learn and teach in peace and health. That defection was one of the harshest blows in this nearly decade-long fight to prevent Ridgewood from becoming Valleywood. Ms. Brogan’s failure to support the children and teachers was a terrible and unexpected blow. She has a great deal to answer for and should stop running for reelection to the BOE.
ANY psychologist would never (unless paid by Valley) have backed up her testimony, and they know it. And she was elected to look out for the children in this district ? It was a pathetic statement then, and it still is.
Brogan is ridiculous. She talks about previous construction in the schools while construction took place. What is being proposed here is a minimum of 6 years of noise, construction, traffic, dust, etc. That’s a world of difference from any project previously undertaken in the schools. And even if it was, to whom did she speak, in order to come to the conclusions she posted. She’s unqualified.
When did she become a construction or engineering expert? She’s a publicity hound who just loves to get her name or photo in the papers – well she accomplished her goal big time with her absurd comments. Since she has no kids in the schools, how objective do you think her comments are? She and her pal Sonnenfeld are a real pair. Sonnenfeld tells her what the party line is, and Brogans spits it out
I think you are giving way too much credit to the effect that ridiculous speech Mrs. Brogan gave on the members of the PB, or anyone else that has seen it. Any sane adult easily came to the conclusion that she was either getting something from Valley, getting even with somebody, or whatever. The only thing the tape of that “opinion” should be used for is to show how low Valley is willing to go for any type of support from residents of this community. It really was an insult to the intelligence of any parent of a Ridgewood student. Quite frankly, I don’t know why anyone has not called for an apology.
Ridgewood NJ, Village Manager Roberta Sonenfeld explaining what the Village spent $295,000.00 on for designs that were not approved yet…followed quick by a change order for $120,000.00 to switch to Design D. Enjoy. Thank Charlie Nowinski for bringing this up at the Village Council meeting.
Jack Rowe, an 18-year-old high school student from St. Paul, Minnesota, sat in the front row of a Donald Trump rally in Eau Claire, Wisconsin last weekend, sandwiched between two friends.
He had caucused for Trump in Minnesota for the very first time a few weeks earlier. Freckled and grinning, he sported a red “Make America Great Again” hat and a gray Trump t-shirt.
Rowe had some thoughts on Trump’s rhetorical treatment of women, which had been dominating the news lately thanks to the Republican front-runner’s comments about punishing women who have abortions. Mainly, Rowe said, it’s a non-issue.
“Misogyny was an issue about maybe 60, 80 years ago,” said Rowe. “That’s not an issue today. There are a lot bigger fish to fry…You know, ISIS is chopping off heads. We’ve got 19 trillion dollars in debt.”
Young men like Rowe are a common sight at Trump rallies around the country: Mostly white, they travel in packs and frequently wear Trump’s signature “Make America Great Again” hats, pumping their fists and cheering loudly as protesters get hauled out by security. They document their political activity like any good millennial would, recording their outings on Snapchat, Instagram and Twitter.
They are dudes, jocks, preps and just-your-average college and high school kids. But on the campaign trail, they’ve come to be known simply as “Trump Bros.”
CHICAGO (Reuters) – Scientists in Brazil have uncovered a new brain disorder associated with Zika infections in adults: an autoimmune syndrome called acute disseminated encephalomyelitis, or ADEM, that attacks the brain and spinal cord.
Zika has already been linked with the autoimmune disorder Guillain-Barre syndrome, which attacks peripheral nerves outside the brain and spinal cord, causing temporary paralysis that can in some cases require patients to rely on respirators for breathing.
The new discovery now shows Zika may provoke an immune attack on the central nervous system as well.
The findings add to the growing list of neurological damage associated with Zika.
According to the World Health Organization, there is a strong scientific consensus that, in addition to Guillain-Barre, Zika can cause the birth defect microcephaly, though conclusive proof may take months or years. Microcephaly is defined by unusually small heads that can result in developmental problems.
Brazil said it has confirmed more than 940 cases to be related to Zika infections in the mothers. Brazil is investigating nearly 4,300 additional suspected cases of microcephaly.
In addition to autoimmune disease, some researchers also have reported patients with Zika infections developing encephalitis and myelitis – nerve disorders typically caused by direct infections in nerve cells.
Wall Street Journal – Congressional Letter Highlights Awkward Consequence of MetLife Case
Apr 11, 2016
By Ryan Tracy
A letter sent to Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew by a member of Congress on Monday highlights the awkward international consequences of a U.S. federal judge’s decision to rescind federal oversight of MetLife Inc.
Rep. Scott Garrett (R., N.J.), chairman of the House Financial Services Committee’s subcommittee on capital markets, wrote to Mr. Lew asking how, after the decision, the U.S. now will proceed with applying new regulatory standards to insurers designated “systemically important.”
The awkward subtext: The U.S. effectively has promised other countries it will apply tighter standards to MetLife, but the federal government no longer has the authority to do so. That could be reversed if the Obama administration wins the case on appeal, a process that could take months.
Mr. Garrett’s criticisms are ones long held by the U.S. insurance industry and state insurance regulators regarding the Financial Stability Board, a group of global regulators from the U.S. and other countries.
On July 18, 2013, the FSB published a list of insurance companies it called “globally systemically important insurers” and agreed they should face tighter supervision. The Treasury Department, the Federal Reserve and Securities and Exchange Commission are U.S. representatives on the FSB. Since the FSB operates by consensus, Mr. Lew and other FSB members effectively endorsed the list of globally systemically important insurers.
That has long irked the insurance industry and regulatory critics such as Mr. Garrett, who point out the list was developed before U.S. regulators on the U.S. Financial Stability Oversight Council decided to apply stricter rules to domestic insurance companies. MetLife was on the July 2013 FSB list, along with rivals American International Group Inc. and Prudential Financial Inc., but MetLife wasn’t designated “systemically important” in the U.S. until December 2014. Prudential received the label in September 2013, and AIG received it July 8, 2013.
Mr. Garrett on Monday asked for a series of documents from Mr. Lew related to the FSB work. He also asked whether Mr. Lew plans to continue pursuing the stricter international standards the U.S. has agreed to apply to MetLife, now that the court has rescinded the federal government’s authority to do so.
MetLife is still overseen by state regulators, including in its home state of New York, and it is possible those regulators could take the view the firm deserves stricter rules because of its size and potential impact on the economy. But state regulators aren’t part of the FSB—a fact that has long frustrated them—so it is far from clear that they would keep up the U.S. end of the international bargain.
A Treasury spokesman didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment.
Mr. Lew previously has said that the U.S. and international processes for determining “systemically important” firms are separate and that U.S. regulators made their own decision about applying stricter rules MetLife and the other firms without regard to any international agreement.
Ridgewood NJ, In recognition of National Work Zone Awareness Week, Public Service Electric and Gas Company (PSE&G) urges customers to stay alert when driving near work zones. When driving in and around work zones drivers must be attentive and alert to changes – changes that a distracted driver may not notice in time to prevent an accident.
“Every day we have hundreds of employees working in the street to keep the lights on and homes safe and warm,” said John Latka, senior vice president of electric and gas operations for PSE&G. “To ensure their safety and yours, please slow down and pay full attention when driving through work zones.”
PSE&G crews are continuously working on projects to improve electric reliability and ensure that we can continue to support a safe, clean and reliable gas system well into the future. To ensure traffic moves safely, PSE&G employees, local police, and licensed and approved contractors provide cones, flagmen and signage at work sites, as needed, to minimize interruptions.
National Work Zone Awareness Week is an annual spring campaign to encourage safe driving through work zones. Driver-related factors that affect work zone crashes include speeding, in-vehicle distractions and inattentive or aggressive driving. In 2014, the most recent year for which national data is available, distracted driving was a factor in 16 percent of fatal crashes in work zones, while speeding was a factor in 29 percent.
Location: Memorial Park at Van Neste Square, E Ridgewood Ave and Oak St
Every year we have an awareness and fundraiser event for Salivary Gland Cancer. We take over a local park in Ridgewood New Jersey and we have averaged a little over 600 people each year in the past years.
All proceeds benefit the Matthew Sayles Foundation for Salivary Gland Cancer.
The foundation is a New Jersey Not for Profit Organization. We are an IRS 501c3 not for profit IRS # 30-0717213
Location: Ridgewood Public Library, 125 N. Maple Ave., Ridgewood, NJ 07450
Ridgewood NJ, Summer is just around the corner! Come and see the new Fashion Trends and colors that would be most beautiful on you.
Please note that on any purchase, you are giving back 10 percent to WEST BERGEN MENTAL HEALTHCARE.
For more than 50 years, West Bergen has provided counselling and psychiatric services to youngsters, families and individuals in need.
In support of Autism Awareness Month, We invite you to…
Come and see the new Fashion Trends and colors that would be most beautiful on you.
Fashions by: W by Worth will be presented by Christina DeCarlo
For a preview, visit wbyworth.com/christina-decarlo
West Bergen Mental Healthcare will receive 10% of any items purchased that day.
West Bergen is a leading provider of mental health services and programs for youngsters and adults on the Autism Spectrum.
