RHS CLASS OF ’93 HOLDS 20TH REUNION ON OCTOBER 5
RHS Class of 1993 20th Reunion
Saturday, October 5
8pm – 12am
Hasbrouck Heights Hilton
650 Terrance Ave, Hasbrouck Heights, NJ
Tickets $70
Includes dinner, dancing, and socializing!
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Click here to buy tickets.
For more information, contact:
Kate Patton Regal
617-905-9339
[email protected]
MIDDLE SCHOOL MIXERS – Grades 6 Sept 27 Grade 7 & 8 Oct 4
RIDGEWOOD MIDDLE SCHOOL MIXERS
Sponsored by Ridgewood Recreation
and the NJ Governor’s Council
on Alcoholism and Drug Abuse
Village teens have the opportunity to come together as both George Washington and Ben Franklin Middle Schools join to form a “mixer”. Each evening offers students a chance to get acquainted with future classmates while enjoying music and dancing with DJ “RIDD”, refreshments, fun and games.
6th Grade – Friday, September 27th, 7:30 to 9:30 pm
7th/8th Grades – Friday, October 4th, 7:30 to 9:30 pm
(Ridgewood teens only)
The Anne Zusy Youth Center, 131 N. Maple Avenue
(NOTE: all parents must drop off and pick up youth in the rear lot of Village Hall at the Community Center entrance.)
A donation of $8 will be requested at the door. All donations will benefit the Community Center.
Adult chaperones are always needed. Please contact the Recreation Office at 201-670-5560 if you are able to volunteer.
photos by Girlz Dancewear Boutique
Girlz Dancewear Boutique Opens in Ridgewood
September 10,2013
Ridgewood NJ, Girlz Dancewear Boutique held its grand opening party in Ridgewood this past Saturday. The grand opening event featured a DJ, a face-painter, a candy-buffet and lots of free give-aways.
photos by Girlz Dancewear Boutique
photos by Girlz Dancewear Boutique
A GiRLZ boutique where fun and funky fashion meet!
An activewear boutique for GiRLZ size 4 to junior small in beautiful Ridgewood. We have activewear and loungewear, combat boots, and hip hop sneakers. Come visit our bling booth and customize your t-shirt, sweatshirt and sweatpants with whatever you can dream of!!!
Girlz Dancewear Boutique
12 S. Broad Street
Ridgewood, NJ 07450
201-652-4759
Email: [email protected]
Billy Crystal Tuesday, September 10th 7:30pm
Legendary Comedian, Billy Crystal, will sign his new book: Still Foolin’ ‘Em
Books available Sept. 10th
Billy Crystal coming to Ridgewood to sign his new book
Tuesday, September 10, 2013
BY VIRGINIA ROHAN
STAFF WRITER
The Record
BOOKENDS!
WHO: Billy Crystal.
WHAT: Signing “Still Foolin’ ‘Em: Where I’ve Been, Where I’m Going, and Where the Hell Are My Keys?”
WHEN: 7:30 tonight.
WHERE: Bookends, 211 E. Ridgewood Ave., Ridgewood; 201-445-0726 or book-ends.com.
HOW MUCH: Free with purchase of book ($28).
As Billy Crystal approached his 65th birthday, he thought about going out on the road with a new comedy act. And so, he started to write fresh material.
“I was feeling funny stuff about what I was doing and about what I was feeling and how I was maturing,” says Crystal, who pauses to chuckle about that euphemism. “And every time I finished one of them, it felt more like an essay than it did a routine and I said, ‘Well, let me see if this could be a book.’ I just started approaching it that way, and then, here we are.”
That book is “Still Foolin’ ‘Em: Where I’ve Been, Where I’m Going, and Where the Hell Are My Keys?” which Crystal will be signing at Bookends in Ridgewood tonight.
“I’m coming right from ‘Letterman’ to the bookstore,” he says.
9/11 Anniversary Prompts More Transit Security
By Dino Flammia September 10, 2013 5:24 AM
Mass transit officials are on high alert this week as we mark the twelfth anniversary of the September 11, 2001 terror attacks.
“We know we’re a target, as is every transit agency in the country,” said Jim Weinstein, executive director of New Jersey Transit. “So we take this seriously.”
While he wasn’t willing to share specifics, understandably, Weinstein said special efforts are underway from the agency’s police department. People can expect more cops, as well as K9 units, in major bus and train hubs across the state.
Federal officials have learned that the visibility of a police officer is the best deterrent to terroristic activity, according to Weinstein.
https://icareridgewood.org/
Ridgewood residents address utility board with concerns over tall poles
Monday September 9, 2013, 11:46 PM
BY CHRIS HARRIS
STAFF WRITER
The Record
More than 30 Ridgewood residents attended a hearing of the state Board of Public Utilities on Monday night to complain about the recent installation by the Public Service Electric & Gas Co. of taller utility poles in the village.
The hearing, which was held in the Bergen County Administration Building in Hackesnack, came two months after residents first complained about the 65-foot wooden poles, which soar above the treetops along Spring Avenue and Hope Street.
PSE&G officials say the new poles are necessary to connect high-voltage lines from a Fair Lawn substation with one in Paramus. They can handle wires transmitting up to 69,000 volts of electricity, PSE&G officials claim.
The BPU, which regulates all utilities in the state, scheduled Monday’s hearing last month in response to a petition signed by Ridgewood officials. Residents and members of the Village Council members say they are concerned that the new poles will pose a health hazard and that they will diminish property values in Ridgewood.
Some residents said they were concerned about the health effects of a chemical preservative coating the new poles. Alyssa Steinberger, said the poles give off a strong odor and that a number of residents, including children, have had bloody noses and exhibited bronchitis-like symptoms since the poles were put in place.
– See more at: https://www.northjersey.com/news/Ridgewood_residents_address_utitlity_board_with_concerns_over_tall_poles.html#sthash.1i8Pb3lV.dpuf
COMMON CORE PRESS CONFERENCE AT NEW JERSEY STATE BOARD OF EDUCATION : KEYNOTE SPEAKER: STEVE LONEGAN
100 RIVER VIEW PLAZA – ROUTE 29, TRENTON, NJ
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 11 @ 1 PM
KEYNOTE SPEAKER: STEVE LONEGAN WITH KIM BARRON (Bergen County); BARBARA AND BILL EAMES (Morris County); JAN LENOX (Concerned Citizens of Southern New Jersey) ROSEANN SALANITRI (Sussex County); NEWARK PARENTS; CAROLEE ADAMS; MORE.
This press conference precedes the last 2013 “Open Topic” session of the New Jersey State Board of Education that begins at 2 p. m. Registration for Personal Testimony at the session has passed. However, everyone is welcome to attend in addition to the Press Conference. If anyone else would like to speak at the Press Conference, please advise me no later than monday: [email protected]
Yogi Bear and the National Park Services denies 2 million bikers to ride in DC in honor of those who died on 9/11
NATIONAL PARKS SERVICE SAYS IT DENIED 2MILLION BIKERS TO DC PERMIT BECA– USE OF TRAFFIC DISRUPTION, RESOURCE MANAGEMENT From dcist.com
The conservative blogosphere has been buzzing today with news that the D.C. has denied a permit to 2 Million Bikers D.C., a group that’s planning a motorcycle rally on September 11 in response to the Million Muslim March planned for the same day.
The National Park Services confirms that it has denied the permit for the ride-only, non-stop event after looking at it in terms of disruption and resource management.
NPS spokeswoman Carol Johnson said the group’s permit application was examined like all others, using the Code of Federal Regulations. Johnson said the group had asked to ride through what’s called Memorial Core, near the Memorial Bridge, from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. with 2,000 motorcyclists. NPS decided that the large ride would require closures of important roadways, block access to Rock Creek and George Washington Parkways and would cause a severe disruption to traffic. A police escort would also be needed.
“It’s just a case of what they asked for in the permit applications,” Johnson said.
Belinda Bee, an organizer of the event, said she participated in a conference call with Sheila Gotha-Samuels, a permit assistant at the NPS, who said the permit was denied.
“She said it’s a weekday and the residents of D.C. would not like y’all very well,” Bee said, adding that they applied for the permit so they could “get in and out of D.C. as fast as possible.”
Bee said the group will still ride without a permit, which she said they didn’t need in the first place.
Johnson, however, said that Gotha-Samuels did not speak to the group about the application, which was denied by Robbin Owen, Chief of Park Programs.
“[Gotha-Samuels] did receive a call today from someone saying they were calling her because they had talked to her before, but they had not,” Johnson said. “She told them she didn’t know what they were talking about, explained that Robbin Owen handled the application and offered to forward the call to Robbin’s voicemail since she is off today.”
Bee said she has proof of the conference call and has provided it to The Blaze.
In case you’re not a regular reader of Twitchy or The Blaze, the Million Muslim March is being organized by American Muslim Political Action Committee, a fringe group led by a 9/11 truther. The 2 Million Bikers to D.C. Ride was then planned with the following goals:
1. WE, THE AMERICAN PEOPLE, WILL STAND BY OUR CONSTITUTION (AS WRITTEN, NOT AS INTERPRETED BY THE THIS OR ANY PREVIOUS ADMINISTRATION), WE WILL STAND BY OUR BILL OF RIGHTS (AS WRITTEN) AND WE STAND FOR AMERICA!
2. THIS EVENT IS TO OUR HONOR AND RESPECT THOSE WHO WERE KILLED ON 9/11 AND THEIR FAMILIES! IT IS ALSO IN REMEMBRANCE OF THOSE IN ALL OUR ARMED FORCES WHO FOUGHT THOSE WHO PRECIPITATED THIS ATTACK!
3. WE STAND AGAINST ANY “FUNDAMENTAL TRANSFORMATION OF AMERICA” BY THIS ADMINISTRATION OR ANY PREVIOUS ADMINISTRATION!
4. WE WILL NOT STAND DOWN WE WILL STAND UP IF NEED BE FOR OUR LIBERTIES. ** THIS IS A PEACEFUL “RIDE”. WE ARE NOT PROMOTING NOR DO WE CONDONE VIOLENCE OF ANY KIND! WE ARE RIDING TO SHOW OUR LOVE OF AMERICA AND THE SHINING EXAMPLE OF FREEDOM THIS COUNTRY PROVIDES TO THE WORLD!**
file photo by Boyd Loving
Hudson County Machine Politician Bob Menendez: Calls Syrian leader Assad a ‘pathological liar’
Monday, September 9, 2013 Last updated: Monday September 9, 2013, 3:03 PM
BY JOHN REITMEYER
STATE HO– USE BUREAU
The Record
U.S. Sen. Bob Menendez Monday said Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad is a “pathological liar” and that nothing he offered in American media interviews was convincing enough to stave off a U.S. military strike.
Assad’s Syrian regime is accused of attacking civilians with chemical weapons last month and President Obama is attempting to lobby support for U.S. military action in response.
Menendez led the Senate’s first hearing on the issue last week and is among those who fully support Obama’s call for action.
Speaking to reporters after a luncheon honoring the late Sen. Frank Lautenberg Monday afternoon in New Brunswick, Menendez called Assad “a war criminal.”
“I think Assad is a pathological liar,” Menendez said. “I think he will say anything in order to avoid the attack.”
He also said he didn’t expect the Syrian leader to admit in interviews that he used chemical weapons against those in Syria who oppose his regime.
“I don’t know war criminals who come forward and say, ‘Yes, I committed the act,'” Menendez said.
– See more at: https://www.northjersey.com/news/Menendez_Syrian_leader_Assad_a_pathological_liar.html#sthash.SsRBbY1j.dpuf
Obama’s endless Syria blundering
By Michael Barone
September 8, 2013 | 8:26pm
Blunder after blunder. That’s been the story of President Obama’s policy toward Syria.
In April 2011, Obama said dictator Bashir al-Assad “had to go.” But he did little or nothing to speed him on his way.
At an Aug. 20, 2012, press conference, in campaign season, he was asked about Syria’s chemical weapons and said “a red line for us is we start seeing a whole bunch of chemical weapons moving around or being utilized. That would change my calculus.”
On Aug. 21, 2013, a year and a day afterward, chemical weapons were used in large quantities in the Damascus suburbs, a 20-minute drive from UN inspectors.
The week before last, all signs — strong statements by Secretary of State John Kerry, leaks of detailed military plans — indicated that Obama would soon order what he described as “a shot across the bow.”
https://nypost.com/2013/09/08/obamas-endless-syria-blundering/
file photo by Boyd Loving
Politico: Cory Booker, liberal celebrity?
By MANU RAJU | 9/8/13 7:06 AM EDT
NEWARK, N.J. — Ambitious and Ivy League-educated, he’s a young African-American Democrat calling for a new era of post-partisanship in Washington.
Sound familiar?
But Cory Booker — who would be just the fourth popularly elected black senator if he wins — says he “would never want to be the next Barack Obama.”
“No,” Booker said flatly when asked if he could see himself in the White House someday. “I can see myself in a house painted white one day and get out of the house I’m in right now.”
The 44-year-old Newark mayor doesn’t want to follow in Obama’s footsteps — at least that’s what he claims. But as he appears poised to become the next New Jersey senator in the Oct. 16 special election, the two-term mayor may end up voting well to the left of the president — and become the biggest Democratic celebrity in town.
In a wide-ranging interview here, Booker said he’s opposed to trimming benefits on entitlement programs, even as the president has considered doing so as part of deficit talks. He said the bad actors from the 2008 financial crisis should “absolutely” go to jail, even as the administration has yet to put shackles on top Wall Street executives. Booker “absolutely” supports medical marijuana, even as the president is reluctant about legalizing it.
And Booker added that he’s deeply skeptical about military engagement in Syria, even as Obama calls for strikes against the Bashar Assad regime.
(Also on POLITICO: Booker: ‘My sexuality is not an issue’)
“My default position is against military engagement,” Booker said, though he cautioned he had not been privy to classified intelligence on Syria. “When it comes to my values, I’m a person who believes that America should do everything it can to promote, maintain and ensure peace.”
During his time in Newark, Booker has sparked liberal ire over his friendship with GOP Gov. Chris Christie, rankled some local Democrats and infuriated the late Sen. Frank Lautenberg and his inner circle. But despite that, Booker could very well be exactly what Democrats in Washington want: a liberal celebrity. Democratic leaders are eager for Booker to hit the fundraising circuit, stump for their candidates and energize their party in a way that virtually no other Senate Democrat can effectively pull off.
In some ways, Booker may end up being the Democrats’ version of Marco Rubio: an attractive, eloquent and press-savvy pol whose core beliefs are firmly in line with his base — but who may break from his party from time to time.
While Booker’s style has irked some Democrats, he has only sparingly broken with the left , like on school vouchers and education reform. Asked to identify the issues in which he splits from his party in Washington, Booker couldn’t do it. “In some ways, you’re going to have to tell me that. I know where I’m passionate, and I don’t first ask, ‘Does my party agree with this or not?’”
Chris Wallace to Obama Chief of Staff: Where Are the Benghazi Arrests?
by Evan McMurry | 9:56 am, September 8th, 2013
Following up on multiple questions regarding the proposed Syrian intervention and its fate in Congress, Fox News Sunday host Chris Wallace invoked the approaching one year anniversary of the attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, and asked White House Chief of Staff Denis McDonough why the perpetrators had not been brought to justice.
Wallace was especially interested in why the U.S. had not arrested Ahmed Abu Khattala, who has been charged with the crime but not arrested, despite having given interviews to several news outlets.
https://www.mediaite.com/tv/chris-wallace-to-obama-chief-of-staff-where-are-the-benghazi-arrests/
Ridgewood officials report safe season at Graydon Pool
Monday September 9, 2013, 9:21 AM
BY LAURA HERZOG
STAFF WRITER
The Ridgewood News
As the Graydon Pool summer season came to a close, officials reported that dire safety situations were avoided. However, as typically happens each year, there were still some searches for children, all of whom were eventually found safe and sound.
A well-trained staff is prepared to deal with Graydon’s unique physical features, pool officials said. But many lost-children situations can be avoided if patrons understand the importance of both communication and the pool rules, which are posted online and in the badge office, they said.
There were a few missing child searches in the pool this summer, but no children were “missing at a point where they were struggling in the water” and they were all found immediately, said Dan Burzinski, assistant manager and aquatics director at Graydon. As an example, he noted that one boy was swimming in an area where he told his parents he wouldn’t be.
“Usually it’s a communication thing, I find,” said Parks and Recreation Department Director Tim Cronin. “Parents should speak to their children. You have to communicate to that child. Don’t just say, ‘Go have fun, go swim.'”
West Bergen Tea Party Presents Bergen County Administrator Edward Trawinski
“Bumping Rights” Civil Service Reform
Join us 7 pm, Tuesday, September 10 , At the Larkin House , 380 Godwin Avenue, Wyckoff (1/4 mile North of Stop & Shop on the right)
Prior to accepting his current position as Bergen County Administrator in January of 2011, Ed Trawinski was a partner with the law firm Schenck, Price, Smith & King, LLP, a preeminent regional law firm located in Florham Park which celebrated its 100th Anniversary in 2012. He is a past member of the firm’s management committee. His practice centered on all types of real estate, land use and corporate transactions, financing, construction, environmental matters and leasing. He served as a Bergen County Condemnation Commissioner. Mr. Trawinski, a licensed, instrument-rated pilot, also practiced in the area of aviation regulatory law.
Mr. Trawinski joined the Kean Administration in 1988 as Assistant State Commerce Commissioner. While in Trenton, he directed programs designed to promote job growth and economic development and supervised the overall administration of the Department of Commerce and its offices of Economic Research, Division of Development for Small, Women and Minority Owned Business and Legislative Liaison. Mr. Trawinski served as the lead negotiator for New Jersey’s team for entities moving into the NJ waterfront development areas and chaired or served on numerous commissions, boards and authorities to help promote the economic development of New Jersey small business and enterprise zones. He served as special counsel to the Peapack Gladstone Land Use Board, counsel to the Boonton and Hasbrouck Heights Planning Boards, special counsel to the Teaneck Planning Board and counsel to the NJ Managed District Association and the Passaic River Coalition. He served as an Assistant Counsel to the NJ Planning Officials. Mr. Trawinski has also published and lectured extensively on corporate and land use topics.
Committed to community and political activities, Mr. Trawinski has served as a Fair Lawn Council member and Mayor, and currently serves as Deputy Mayor. He is a Trustee of St. Anne’s Church and is a member of the parish finance council. He is also a recipient of the Meritorious Service Award from the New Jersey Department of Commerce Division for the Development of Women, Minority Owned, and Small Businesses. He is a founding member and past Chairman of the Morris County Economic Development Corporation, where he served on the Board of Directors. He currently serves as a member of Bergen County Economic Development Commission and on various boards and authorities as the County Executive’s Designee.
Mr. Trawinski is admitted to practice law in New York and New Jersey and before the United States Tax Court, the Third Circuit Court of Appeals and the United States Supreme Court. He is a member of the Bergen and New Jersey State Bar Associations.
After earning a Bachelor of Arts in history from Fordham University, Mr. Trawinski received his law degree from Rutgers University School of Law in 1974 and a Masters of Law in Taxation from NYU Graduate Law School in 1979. A lifelong resident of Bergen County, Mr. Trawinski is the father of three children and proud grandparent of four grandchildren. He and his wife Diane reside in Fair Lawn.
More Information: 201 891-5918 ,[email protected] , https://www.westbergenteaparty.com/
Ridgewood Fashion Week : Femmebot Clothing
Sun, September 22, 2013 – Sat, September 28, 2013
Everybody can be “Femmebody”
Femmebot Clothing is a one-of-a-kind boutique in Ridgewood, NJ that puts the fun back into shopping! Come visit us to see why our motto is:”Fun. Fashion. Femmebot!”
New Looks are posted to their Facebook page every Monday
203 E. Ridgewood Ave.
Ridgewood, New Jersey 07450
