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Ridgewood’s interfaith community joins together to remember

FRIDAY, APRIL 20, 2012
BY KIMBERLY JONES
CORRESPONDENT
THE RIDGEWOOD NEWS

Members of the Jewish, Muslim, Christian and Hindu communities came together at Temple Israel on Sunday to honor the memory of lives lost in the Holocaust and to celebrate the sense of interfaith unity.

A member from each participating faith read relevant excerpts and poems that were interspersed with songs during the Interfaith Religious Leaders of Ridgewood’s 26th annual Interfaith Holocaust Remembrance Service.

https://www.northjersey.com/topstories/ridgewood/148213195_Interfaith_community_joins_together_to_remember.html

In Nothing We Trust
Americans are losing faith in the institutions that made this country great.
by Ron Fournier and Sophie Quinton
Updated: April 21, 2012 | 5:43 p.m.
April 19, 2012 | 4:00 p.m.

MUNCIE, Ind.—Johnny Whitmire shuts off his lawn mower and takes a long draw from a water bottle. He sloshes the liquid from cheek to cheek and squirts it between his work boots. He is sweating through his white T-shirt. His jeans are dirty. His middle-aged back hurts like hell. But the calf-high grass is cut, and the weeds are tamed at 1900 W. 10th St., a house that Whitmire and his family once called home. “I’ve decided to keep the place up,” he says, “because I hope to buy it back from the bank.”

Whitmire tells a familiar story of how public and private institutions derailed an American’s dream: In 2000, he bought the $40,000 house with no money down and a $620 monthly mortgage. He made every payment. Then, in the fall of 2010, his partially disabled wife lost her state job. “Governor [Mitch] Daniels slashed the budget, and they looked for any excuse to squeeze people out,” Whitmire says. “We got lost in that shuffle—cut adrift.” The Whitmires couldn’t make their payments anymore.

https://www.nationaljournal.com/features/restoration-calls/in-nothing-we-trust-20120419?print=true

Bolger Fitness Center offers “Be the Winner” program

FRIDAY, APRIL 20, 2012
BY GLORIA GEANNETTE
MANAGING EDITOR
THE RIDGEWOOD NEWS

The recent awards night for the Bolger Fitness Center (BFC) “Be the Winner” program celebrated the weight losses and fitness gains of the group’s seven participants. The final weigh-in determined that Kevin Tarleton was the winner, having lost the highest percentage of body fat over the course of the program. Tarleton was a second-time participant in the program and a two-time winner.

https://www.northjersey.com/topstories/ridgewood/148213475_Fitness_enthusiasts_are_all_winners_.html

Hackensack University Medical Center Begins $92M Renovation of Former Hospital
Written by Sabrina Rodak | April 20, 2012

Hackensack Medical Center and Plano, Texas-based LHP Hospital Group have begun a $92 million renovation of the former Pascack Valley Hospital in Westwood, N.J., according to a Record report.

HackensackUMC and LHP Hospital Group plan to reopen the 128-bed acute-care hospital as HackensackUMC at Pascack Valley in mid-2013.

https://www.beckershospitalreview.com/strategic-planning/hackensack-university-medical-center-begins-92m-renovation-of-former-hospital.html

Lightning warning goes online for Ridgewood

SATURDAY, APRIL 21, 2012
BY EVONNE COUTROS
STAFF WRITER
THE RECORD

RIDGEWOOD — A long-awaited lightning detection system is up and running at two of six large sports fields in the village.

The system is designed to warn of lightning strikes within a 20- and 10-mile radius and send email and text notifications of strikes in the area.

“It’s the same system used by the county,” said Brian R. Pullman, chief of emergency services for the village. “It’s reliable. Other towns use it. It’s got a successful history.”

The system — from Weather Decision Technologies — went live hours after a presentation by Pullman and the village’s emergency management director, Brad Mason, at Wednesday’s public council meeting.

https://www.northjersey.com/news/148362065_Lightning_warning_goes_online.html

Ridgewood author’s first novel is a study in luck

Friday, April 20, 2012

BY JOSEPH CRAMER

CORRESPONDENT

The Ridgewood News

With the recent national spotlight on the lottery, it is easy to view luck from a purely monetary state of mind. But as local author Lilian Duval would likely tell you, there is far more to chance and fate than a large sum of cash.Experiences with chance have not only shaped the Ridgewood resident’s outlook on life, but also determined the direction of her first novel, the recently published “You Never Know,” which follows several decades in the life of “an accidental lottery winner,” as Duval refers to her central character, Tobias.

“It’s really a study in luck,” Duval said, summarizing the philosophy behind her novel. “Even the most determined person who doesn’t believe in fate is bound to be affected by events out of his of her control.”

https://www.northjersey.com/arts_entertainment/148213705_Local_author_inspired_by_brushes_with_fate_.html

Nina Powers Ridgewood resident sentenced for drugging Alzheimer’s patient
Apr 21, 2012 12:22 PM EDT

HACKENSACK, N.J. (AP) – A live-in home health care worker who drugged an Alzheimer’s patient with sleeping pills to make caring for her easier has been sentenced to nine months in prison.

Nina Powers also must serve five years probation under the sentence imposed Friday. And the 59-year-old Ridgewood resident cannot work as a home health aide for anyone who is under 18 or mentally impaired.

https://www.njherald.com/story/17648912/aide-sentenced-for-drugging-alzheimers-patient

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