On Saturday October 12, 2013 The Ridgewood Guild will sponsor the most fun-filled event ever! This event takes participants on a treasure hunt throughout town, making stops at local businesses, collecting items, and answering questions pertaining to Ridgewood.
Tag teams of 5 people will began the race at 1:00pm and continued on until 4:00pm where all teams will come together at a secret location for a Happy Hour with specially priced drinks. What a great way to support the town, and have some fun on a Saturday afternoon before Halloween! Costume dress is suggested and encouraged, but not a requirement.
More Upside to Government Shut down : the Obama administration’s ongoing efforts to wreck the U.S. economy has been put on hold
By Ben Goad and Julian Hattem – 10/06/13 12:07 PM ET
Regulators and proponents of stronger protections warn that rulemaking delays will jeopardize public safety and health. But some conservatives say the reprieve from red tape is welcome, even if it doesn’t last long.
“We’re very pleased that the Obama administration’s ongoing efforts to wreck the U.S. economy with more and more heavy-handed and colossally expensive regulations has been put on hold,” said Myron Ebell, director of the right-leaning Competitive Enterprise Institute’s energy and environment center.
“By and large, the people writing those regulations and trying to get them promulgated are not in the office,” he said.
Thousands of workers from U.S. regulatory agencies have been sent home indefinitely as Congress tries to reach an agreement on legislation to restart the government. Several agencies are operating with fewer than 10 percent of their usual workforce.
Regulatory activities have fallen by the wayside, as remaining workers must limit their focus to the most crucial functions to protect lives and property.
The effects can already be seen in the Federal Register, where new regulations and draft rules are published daily.
Steve and Lorraine Lonegan greet supporters at River Edge Day at Veterans Memorial Park. (Photo by Donald MacLeay)
NJ Senate Battle Is Fought in Suburbs
Lonegan Goes After Booker Where the Newark Mayor Is Weakest
By
HEATHER HADDON
How does a dyed-in-the-wool conservative win a U.S. Senate seat in New Jersey, a blue state with 732,000 more registered Democrats than Republicans?
For Steve Lonegan, it comes down to hammering his Democratic opponent, Cory Booker, where he is weakest—in some of New Jersey’s suburbs and conservative-leaning areas. And polls show that Mr. Lonegan could pick up some of these votes, especially among whites and men.
“I want the libertarians, I want the tea partiers, I want the conservatives, I want the Reagan Democrats,” said Mr. Lonegan after Friday’s debate against Mr. Booker. He said the Democrats who go to church on Sundays and the “shooting range on the weekends” are his target voters.
Cory Booker in Ridgewood photo by Boyd Loving
Mr. Booker, the mayor of Newark and a national figure among Democrats, leads in recent polls by about a dozen percentage points for an open U.S. Senate seat. The margin, while still comfortable, is closer than expected for the Oct. 16 race.
Christie calls for school vouchers at Orthodox Jewish gathering in Teaneck
Sunday, October 6, 2013 Last updated: Sunday October 6, 2013, 11:20 PM
BY KATHLEEN LYNN
STAFF WRITER
The Record
TEANECK — Governor Christie made a pitch Sunday for school vouchers — which he tried unsuccessfully to get through the Legislature — to an Orthodox Jewish group concerned about the cost of private religious schools.
Speaking at the Orthodox Union Advocacy Center’s second annual legislative breakfast in Teaneck, Christie didn’t specifically focus on religious education, but said the state has 200 failing schools — which he called “failure factories” — and argued that children in those districts deserve the chance for a better education.
More than 500 people turned out to hear Christie, who is running for reelection in November against Democratic state Sen. Barbara Buono.
The Orthodox advocacy group is trying to get public aid for families struggling with the cost of religious schools. Affording a Jewish education is “the No. 1 kitchen-table issue in our community,” Josh Pruzansky, regional director of Orthodox Union Advocacy, said Sunday before introducing Christie at Congregation Keter Torah
YWCA School Vacation Program – October 14 Children K to 6 Grade
YWCA’s October Vacation Day Program Includes Trip to Lentini Farm The YWCA Bergen County is offering its Vacation Day program for children in grades K-6 on October 14, 2013. Kids will enjoy a trip to Lentini’s Farm in Newton, NJ. Day’s events will include a corn maze, hay maze, hay ride, apple cider, pumpkins, tire crawl and petting zoo, supervised by YWCA’s trained child care staff. Event is open to families already enrolled in YWCA Before & After School Programs as well as to those who are not.
The YWCA Vacation Day program provides full day care from 7:30 a.m. to 7:00 p.m. on designated school holidays. Based at the YWCA’s 112 Oak Street, Ridgewood facility, the program is supervised by the YWCA’s trained child care staff. The fee is $55 per child per day for families that are currently participating in YWCA Before or After School programs, and $75 for non-participating families. Advance registration is required. To register call 201-444-5600, ext. 352 or visit www.ywcabergencounty.org for details and registration forms. YWCA Before and After School Programs are offered at schools in seven Bergen County districts: Allendale, Cresskill, Dumont, Old Tappan, Oradell, Ridgewood, and Westwood. An after kindergarten program is available in Oradell. All programs are licensed by the State of New Jersey, Department of Children & Families.
Who will be billed?
All patients who are treated and transported by our ambulance will be billed. We will use a third party billing company to bill a patient’s insurance company. Village residents or Village employees will not have to pay anything beyond what the insurance company provides. Non-residents will receive up to three bills, at which point the Village will have the option of cancelling the debt.
Will I be billed for an emergency call even if I don’t ride in the ambulance?
If no treatment was provided, there will not be a bill. If treatment is provided without transportation, a reduced bill may be issued.
What will it cost me?
This program will collect money from a patient’s insurance company and not from the patients themselves. The Village will collect payments from the insurance company and will not seek co-payments from our residents.
What if I can’t pay or don’t have insurance to cover the cost? Can I still be treated?
Treatment will be provided prior to asking for any insurance information. No patient will be denied treatment or transportation. If the patient does not have insurance, a bill will still be sent; however, the Village will have the discretion to cancel the debt.
What are the benefits for the Village of implementing a billing program?
This program will allow the Village to generate funds to help cover the budget for Ridgewood Emergency Services.
What will the town do with the revenue generated from the billing program?
All funds generated through billing will be used to support the ambulances, emergency service programs, and the volunteers.
Please call 201-670-5570 x101 or email [email protected] with any questions.
Fund Raising
With all the uncertainties surrounding us these days – the economy, terror threats, military conflicts abroad – there is one certainty you can count on – your Ridgewood Emergency Services volunteers are here to serve you and your family in time of need. When emergencies strike, chances are that your call to 9-1-1 will bring the Emergency Services volunteers to your door.
Please take this opportunity to show your support for your public safety volunteers. Emergency Services conducts only one fund drive a year and we count on the generous support of our neighbors to assist us in assisting you. Please make checks payable to F.O.R.E.S.T. (Friends of Ridgewood Emergency Services Teams).
F.O.R.E.S.T. is recognized as a charitable organization under section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code, so your contribution is tax deductible.
Treasury Secretary Jack Lew Can not quantify those who Signed Up for Obamacare
October 7 2013
the staff of the Ridgewood blog
Ridgewood NJ, Treasury Secretary Jack Lew refused to answer Fox host Chris Wallace’s simple question : : How many people have signed up for Obamacare?
Wallace pressed the question , “I’m going to ask you one last time,” ,”because, forgive me sir, you haven’t answered it: do you not know how many people signed up, which would seem to indicate another major software glitch, or is it that the numbers are embarrassingly small?”
Lew stalled ,”Chris, our metric for this week was, could people get online, get the information they need to make an informed,” said Lew, sidestepping the straightforward question. “They have been getting that information. We are confident that they are gohttps://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/treasury-secretary-stonewalls-when-asked-how-many-have-signed-obamacare_759310.htmling to make the decision — they have 6 months to make the decision.”
The fact the US Treasury Secretary could not even come up with a simple answer in and age where webiste like Google analyze your every search and federal agencies like the NSA read all your emails seems a bit ridiculous .
The glitch plagued launch of Obamacare was initial blamed on high web traffic , then hackers but its becoming clearer that the whole system is flawed .
According to Forbes , Exchange agencies have walked back high-traffic hype .
“Other exchanges have had to pare down their initial statistics. Covered California, that state’s subsidized insurance exchange, initially claimed that its website had received 5 million hits on October 1. They later had to revise that number down 87 percent, to 645,000. KUSI-TV in San Diego is reporting that not one policy has yet been sold on the California exchange.”
https://www.forbes.com/sites/theapothecary/2013/10/03/enrollment-in-obamacares-federal-exchange-so-far-is-in-the-single-digits/
Yahoo! News gets over 110,000,000 Estimated Unique Monthly Visitors according to some estimates 8.53% of all internet traffic and when the site crashes its major news .
As wee have seen the Hacker problem is more and issue of privacy concerns for both identity theft and political targeting from both the IRS and other government agencies . Given the recent IRS scandal of Tea Party Targeting and the NSA spying on all Americans these fears seem well founded .
other sources https://www.journalism.org/2011/05/09/top-25/ and https://www.ebizmba.com/articles/news-websites
Ridgewood councilman wants legal fees paid
Sunday October 6, 2013, 9:54 AM
BY CHRIS HARRIS
STAFF WRITER
The Record
RIDGEWOOD — Fourteen years ago, as Tropical Storm Floyd battered North Jersey, Village Hall flooded and its phone systems went down. In a bind, the then-governing body turned to one of its own for help: Councilman Thomas Riche.
Officials passed an emergency resolution awarding the councilman’s North Haledon-based firm, Extel Communications, a contract to restore — and eventually upgrade — the building’s telephone equipment.
It turned out to be a lucrative and lengthy deal for Riche — netting him more than a quarter of a million dollars over the years, according to village records from 2002 to the present.
But an accounting mix-up uncovered in May — that Extel had been paid twice for the same job in 2012 — sparked a debate over whether the councilman’s longtime dealings with the village violated ethics codes. In the end, Riche pulled his contract with the village.
Now, the councilman is asking the village to pay for legal fees he incurred this summer when consulting with attorneys about the ethics allegations.
Mayor Paul Aronsohn confirmed that last week the council had discussed behind closed doors reimbursing Riche’s legal fees, but would not comment further. He did say the matter is to be discussed publicly at a meeting.
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED TORNADO WATCH 543 IN EFFECT UNTIL 5 PM EDT THIS AFTERNOON FOR THE FOLLOWING AREAS IN NEW JERSEY THIS WATCH INCLUDES 5 COUNTIES IN NORTHEAST NEW JERSEY BERGEN ESSEX HUDSON PASSAIC UNION IN NEW YORK THIS WATCH INCLUDES 9 COUNTIES IN SOUTHEAST NEW YORK BRONX KINGS (BROOKLYN) NEW YORK (MANHATTAN) ORANGE PUTNAM QUEENS RICHMOND (STATEN ISLAND) ROCKLAND WESTCHESTER
Ridgewood Emergency Management :Hazardous Weather Outlook for Late Monday into Tuesday — Heavy Rains Possible
The remnants of Tropical Storm Karen in the Gulf of Mexico are forecast to converge with moisture in the Western Atlantic Ocean and are forecast are expected to impact our area late Monday into Tuesday in the form of heavy rain. Numerous heavy showers and thunderstorms might develop and move across the region. Hourly rainfall rates might briefly reach 1 inch per hour.
The National Weather Service has not yet issued any advisories, watches or warnings. Nonetheless, now is the time to prepare. Don’t wait until Monday before making plans. Visit oem.ridgewoodnj.net for preparedness information.
posted at 1:01 pm on October 5, 2013 by Ed Morrissey
Remember when the media rushed to talk about transparency in the Barack Obama “Hope and Change” era? Good times, good times. Leonard Downie, who once worked as the executive editor of the Washington Post and wrote a novel about Washington corruption and the Iraq War, finds a bigger and non-fictional problem in the successor to George W. Bush. Downie gives the Post a preview of his report from the Committee to Protect Journalists which outlines the Obama war on reporters and their sources:
“A memo went out from the chief of staff a year ago to White House employees and the intelligence agencies that told people to freeze and retain any e-mail, and presumably phone logs, of communications with me,” Sanger said. As a result, longtime sources no longer talk to him. “They tell me: ‘David, I love you, but don’t e-mail me. Let’s don’t chat until this blows over.’ ”
Sanger, who has worked for the Times in Washington for two decades, said, “This is most closed, control-freak administration I’ve ever covered.”
Many leak investigations include lie-detector tests for government officials with access to the information at issue. “Reporters are interviewing sources through intermediaries now,” Barr told me, “so the sources can truthfully answer on polygraphs that they didn’t talk to reporters.”
The investigations have been “a kind of slap in the face” for reporters and their sources, said Smith of the Center for Public Integrity. “It means you have to use extraordinary measures for contacts with officials speaking without authorization.”
Boehner: House will not pass bill to re-open government until Obama agrees to negotiate
Posted by Anita Kumar on October 6, 2013
Speaker John Boehner said Sunday that the House of Representatives will not pass bills to re-open the federal government or raise the debt limit unless President Barack Obama comes to the negotiating table.
“He knows what my phone number is, all he has to do is call,” Boehner, R-Ohio said on ABC’s This Week with George Stephanopoulos.
In his first extended TV interview since shutdown Tuesday, a defiant Boehner placed the blame for the fiscal impasse firmly on Obama, who has refused to sit down with House Republicans until they re-open the government at current spending levels.
“The president just can’t sit there and say, ‘I’m not going to negotiate,’ ” Boehner said.
Boehner said that there aren’t enough votes in the Republican-led House to simply re-open the government with no other strings attached.
“There are not votes in the House to pass a clean (continuing resolution),” he said.
But Democrats immediately called that claim false, arguing that 195 Democrats and 21 Republicans are ready to vote for that bill.
“Put it on the floor, and let’s see if you’re right,” Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y. said in an interview on ABC after Boehner spoke
Ridgewood Daffodil Planting
Sun, October 20, 2013
Time: 12:00 AM
Ridgewood, NJ 07450, Ridgewood, NJ 07450
The Conservancy for Ridgewood Public Lands seeks your help!
We are embarking on a project to plant 6,000 daffodil bulbs in town. In order for this project to succeed we need to recruit individuals who will help us plant. Our planting day is Sunday, Oct. 20, rain or shine, so please mark your calendars!
This October community project will involve-the planting of thousands of daffodil bulbs throughout town. Our goal is to make this an annual tradition. The project will culminate in April with a Daffodil Festival; this will be an opportunity to celebrate, with the community, the success of this project and to showcase some of the other accomplishments of the CRPL’s initial year.
In order for this project to succeed, we need your help! We need to recruit individuals, families and members of community groups to come and plant with us. We will be approaching schools, businesses and organizations. We would like to encourage families to make this a project, (bulbs could be planted in memory/honor of family members and/or friends).
The CRPL and Project Pride will donate 6,000 daffodil bulbs to the community. Contributions will ensure the continuation of this project next year.
We would like to plant in the following areas:
Ridgewood schools
Main streets leading in and out of town
Entrances to park areas
Bare spaces in the downtown area
The Conservancy for Ridgewood Public Lands
P.O. Box 123
Ridgewood, New Jersey 07451
Tiara Jewelers Anniversary Event
Sat, October 19, 2013 – Sat, October 19, 2013
Time: 3:00 PM – 7:00 PM
Tiara Jewelers Anniversary Event will take place on Oct. 19th ,2013 between 3:00PM -7:00PM.
Today’s marketplace is changing rapidly, and Tiara Jewelers is changing with it. A family owned and operated business, Tiara specializes in jewelery and watch sales and repairs of all kinds.
Tiara also specializes in purchasing your “pre-loved” pieces that are outdated or you’re just plain tired of! Tiara offers not only beautiful diamond engagement rings but also alternative metals such as silver and stainless steel pieces.
Access Ridgewood ‘13 :Embracing Our Abilities, Disabilities, Special Gifts and Special Needs
Fri, October 18, 2013 – Sun, October 20, 2013
Time: 10:00 AM
Library, Village Hall, BF Soccer Field, Various Village Locations includine, Village Hall, Ridgewood Library and Ben Franklin Field
Access Ridgewood ‘13 :Embracing Our Abilities, Disabilities, Special Gifts and Special Needs
Friday, October 18
Students: Ridgewood educators will organize discussions, films and/or activities in each of the Village’s elementary,
middle and high schools. (Throughout the day)
Seniors: All Ridgewood seniors will be invited to a special program “Senior Nutrition – Eating Well as You Get Older,”
(Village Hall Community Center … 10:00am – 11:00am)
Families: There will be a Pumpkin Painting family party for Ridgewood special needs children (elementary and middle
school) and their parents with pizza, drinks and ice cream. Special Needs Art instructor Marcia Matthews will lead
children in creating monster face craft bags. (Public Library Auditorium 5:00pm – 6:30pm)
Teens: All Ridgewood special needs high schoolers will be invited to a “twilight” dance party with DJ, food and drinks.
(Village Hall Community Center … 7:00pm – 9:00pm)
Saturday, October 19
Young Kids: Marlene Pillow (singer/special needs educator) and library staff will host a program for young children, “The
One and Only You!” (Public Library Auditorium … 10:30am-11:15am)
Organizations: Various organizations will be on hand in the Village Hall courtyard to share information about services
for those with disabilities. (Village Hall Courtyard … 12:00pm – 3:00pm)
Performers: Young performers of various abilities will take to the public library stage to sing, dance and play music.
(Public Library Auditorium … 1:00pm – 1:30pm)
Models: Young models of various abilities will take to the public library runway in fun, dramatic fashion.
(Public Library Auditorium … 1:30pm – 2:00pm)
Restaurants: Various Ridgewood restaurants will be on hand to provide our performers, models and everyone else with
free snacks and refreshments! (Village Hall Courtyard … 2:00pm – 3:00pm)
Sunday, October 20
Soccer Fun: Young soccer players from the Ridgewood Soccer Association Special Needs program will mix it up with
Village Police, Firefighters and other special guests. (Benjamin Franklin Middle School Small Field … 1:00pm – 2:30pm)
Clergy: There will be a special interfaith service held at the First Reformed Church, a congregation comprised primarily of
young adults with developmental disabilities. (303 Prospect Street … 7:00pm – 8:00pm)
Open to Everyone … Free to Everyone … Captioning Available …
For more information, please contact
Mayor Paul Aronsohn at [email protected]
Bergen County freeholders move toward merging County Police, sheriff’s forces; override Donovan’s reorganizing veto
Wednesday, October 2, 2013 Last updated: Thursday October 3, 2013, 4:02 PM
BY JOHN C. ENSSLIN
STAFF WRITER
The Record
The Bergen County freeholders took the first step toward merging the County Police into the Sheriff’s Office on Wednesday, a move that appears certain to provoke a legal challenge from County Executive Kathleen Donovan.
A second and related legal battle also loomed when the freeholders voted to override Donovan’s veto of changes to the county code that explicitly give the board the power to reorganize county government.
The merger ordinance’s introduction and the override were approved by identical 6 to 1 votes, with Democrats David Ganz, Joan Voss, Steve Tanelli and Tracy Zur joining Republicans John Felice and John Mitchell.
Republican Freeholder Maura DeNicola cast the lone dissenting vote on both measures.
