American Red Cross Concentrated Lifeguard Training Course
Wed, July 11, 2012 – Fri, July 20, 2012
Time: 12:00 AM
YWCA Bergen County, 112 Oak Street
Cost: $370 per person
The YWCA Bergen County is offering an American Red Cross Concentrated Lifeguard Training course beginning July 11th, 2012. Participants must be age 15 or older and take and pass a swim test on Saturday, July 7th at 1:30pm. A $10 test fee is due at registration.
This five-day concentrated course prepares students with the CPR, First Aid and lifeguard techniques necessary for employment as a professional lifeguard. Classes will be held July 11th, 13th, 14th, 18th and 20th from 9am to 5pm at 112 Oak Street, Ridgewood. The course fee is $370. Call the YWCA Aquatics Department at (201) 444-5600, x3270 or visit www.ywcabergencounty.org for details.
The YWCA Bergen County is dedicated to eliminating racism, empowering women and promoting peace, justice, freedom and dignity for all. We are the area’s largest provider of child care services, a recognized leader in health and fitness programs, and operator of the county’s only Rape Crisis Center. Celebrating nearly a century of commitment to our community, today we improve the lives of thousands of women, girls and their families.
…the fly has learned that Robert Greenlaw former Director of Emergency Management, Director of Emergency Services and Director of Northwest Central Dispatch who now lives in Ohio has been seen in Ridgewood recently.
Speculation continues to swirl in certain groups that Mr. Greenlaw is being interviewed by the current Council for the position of Public Safety Director. This after the skyrocketing Police and Fire overtime, compensatory time, sick time and vacation that the current Police and Fire management are unable or unwilling to control. Mr Greenlaw who is also know for is organizational skills and his ability to recruit volunteers may be asked to combine redundant equipment and services of the three dept.
He also may be asked to recruit or combine the Emergency Services volunteers into the Police and Fire ranks to reduce cost. This in light of the newly elected Council member call for lower taxes and reduced cost.
A geothermal energy company with a $98.5 million loan guarantee from the Obama administration for an alternative energy project in Nevada — which received hearty endorsements from Energy Secretary Steven Chu and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid — faces financial problems, and the company’s auditors have questioned whether it can stay in business.
Much like Solyndra LLC, a California solar-panel manufacturer with a $535 million federal loan guarantee that went bankrupt, Nevada Geothermal Power (NGP) has incurred $98 million in net losses over the past several years, has substantial debts and does not generate enough cash from its current operations after debt-service costs, an internal audit said.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/jul/4/lights-go-dim-on-another-energy-project/
Lawyers Have Already Drafted 13,000 Pages of Regulations for New ObamaTax Law
Posted by Jim Hoft on Thursday, July 5, 2012, 12:37 AM
It’s a lawyer’s dream!
Officials have already drafted 13,000 pages of new regulations for the new ObamaTax law.
FOX News reported:
With the Supreme Court giving President Obama’s new health care law a green light, federal and state officials are turning to implementation of the law — a lengthy and massive undertaking still in its early stages, but already costing money and expanding the government.
The Health and Human Services Department “was given a billion dollars implementation money,” Republican Rep. Denny Rehberg of Montana said. “That money is gone already on additional bureaucrats and IT programs, computerization for the implementation.”
Stuck with McGreevey’s White Elephant Christie: ‘Disappointed’ in Giants, Jets over suit vs. American Dream “Xanadu” expansion
Governor Christie on Tuesday expressed his displeasure with the recent filing of a lawsuit by the Giants and Jets to try to stop a planned expansion of the American Dream Meadowlands project.
School districts’ anti-bullying funds range from $38K to only $36
Some 371 New Jersey school districts are receiving funds to reimburse them for costs incurred last year under the state’s new anti-bullying law although for many, the money may not go very far.
The state Department of Education awarded just under $1 million to 371 districts, with amounts ranging from $38,519 in Camden, to $46 in Oradell, and $36 in the Haledon Borough School District.
Charter schools grants ranged from $9,166 for the Paterson Charter School for Science and Technology, to $123 for Hoboken Charter School. (Rundquist, The Star-Ledger)
Christie Caves on “Obamacare” may let U.S. run N.J.’s health exchange
Gov. Christie said he was considering letting the federal government set up the state health insurance exchange required by the federal health-care overhaul to allow individuals to buy coverage.
He also said he was not sure New Jersey needs to expand Medicaid under the federal law because the state’s program that covers the poor and disabled already is extensive.
The Republican governor made the comments on Fox News’ Fox and Friends show, one of four national television appearances he was making Tuesday, a day after he told New Jersey lawmakers during a special session he called that they should cut taxes. (Associated Press)
JOIN THE INTERNATIONAL WIBIT 50 METER SPLASH CHALLENGE
WIBIT CHALLENGE might be the next Olympic Sport
Will you field a team?
Ridgewood NJ , On Wednesday, July 25th, Ridgewood Parks and Recreation will host a tournament relay race with the Wibit (rain date is 7/26). All patrons who have passed the Deep Water Test are eligible to participate.
All must have a Graydon membership or purchase a daily pass.
Join as an indiviual ($6 fee) or as part of a 5-man team ($25 to July 20, then $30). Register early for a free t-shirt (limited supply). Prizes include a $100 gift card to the first place team with their team picture on display for the season, and $50 gift cards per team will be awarded for 2nd and 3rd place.
Don’t miss the fun! Refreshments will be served for participants and their families. The registration form and details can be located at www.ridgewoodnj.net/graydon.
Senator Joe Kyrillos : Right now the only certainty they have is that Trenton Democrats will fight tooth and nail against letting people keep more of their own money
Kyrillos: “Dems to Taxpayers- We’ll Only Cut Your Taxes if We Can’t Spend Them First”
Senator Joe Kyrillos (R- Monmouth) issued the following statement in response to Governor Christie’s call for immediate action on tax relief for New Jersey families and businesses:
The Democrats’ budget plan makes it clear: they will only give money back to the taxpayers if they cannot find a way to spend it first.It should be the other way around. We should be giving tax relief back to families and job creators first, then spending what we can afford.Our economy will only turn around if middle income families, job creating businesses, and out-of-state employers looking for a place to relocate have some certainty that our state is getting more affordable and government is committed to living within its means.
Right now the only certainty they have is that Trenton Democrats will fight tooth and nail against letting people keep more of their own money.
Patients prefer wrist route to blocked vessels
(Hackensack N.J.) Record
Updated 12:06 p.m., Wednesday, July 4, 2012
HACKENSACK, N.J — For decades, physicians treated blocked heart vessels by snaking a thin tube from an artery in the groin up to the heart area. But now some cardiologists are adopting a method that goes through the wrist instead of the groin, an approach European physicians have used for years.
Using the wrist – to look for a blockage or to treat one – causes fewer complications and allows almost immediate mobility afterward.
The procedure, known as radial artery catheterization, usually involves less time in the hospital, which means lower costs, and requires a short recuperation period, according to cardiologists.
“Patients love it. If they’ve had a catheterization done from the groin and then through the wrist, they never want to go back,” said Dr. Janet Strain, director of cardiac clinical research at Valley Hospital in Ridgewood, N.J.
Former Ridgewood resident Mike Janke and RHS alumni to paint Ridgewood’s sky for 4th of July
Tuesday July 3, 2012, 12:58 PM
BY LAURA HERZOG
STAFF WRITER
The Ridgewood News
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Former Ridgewood resident Mike Janke is an artist who literally paints the sky.
For about 15 years, Janke has been one of the people behind the Ridgewood Independence Day fireworks display. Formerly a private fireworks contractor, he now works with the company Fireworks Extravaganza, which has lit up the Ridgewood skies for the past four years on July 4.
“We call ourselves artists, and the sky is our canvas,” said Janke, who was raised in Ridgewood and attended Ridgewood High School.
IN CONGRESS, JULY 4, 1776 The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America
When in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. — That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, — That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security. — Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world.
He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.
He has forbidden his Governors to pass Laws of immediate and pressing importance, unless suspended in their operation till his Assent should be obtained; and when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend to them.
He has refused to pass other Laws for the accommodation of large districts of people, unless those people would relinquish the right of Representation in the Legislature, a right inestimable to them and formidable to tyrants only.
He has called together legislative bodies at places unusual, uncomfortable, and distant from the depository of their Public Records, for the sole purpose of fatiguing them into compliance with his measures.
He has dissolved Representative Houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly firmness his invasions on the rights of the people.
He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected, whereby the Legislative Powers, incapable of Annihilation, have returned to the People at large for their exercise; the State remaining in the mean time exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within.
He has endeavoured to prevent the population of these States; for that purpose obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations hither, and raising the conditions of new Appropriations of Lands.
He has obstructed the Administration of Justice by refusing his Assent to Laws for establishing Judiciary Powers.
He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries.
He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harass our people and eat out their substance.
He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures.
He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil Power.
He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation:
For quartering large bodies of armed troops among us:
For protecting them, by a mock Trial from punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States:
For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world:
For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent:
For depriving us in many cases, of the benefit of Trial by Jury:
For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences:
For abolishing the free System of English Laws in a neighbouring Province, establishing therein an Arbitrary government, and enlarging its Boundaries so as to render it at once an example and fit instrument for introducing the same absolute rule into these Colonies
For taking away our Charters, abolishing our most valuable Laws and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments:
For suspending our own Legislatures, and declaring themselves invested with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever.
He has abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of his Protection and waging War against us.
He has plundered our seas, ravaged our coasts, burnt our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people.
He is at this time transporting large Armies of foreign Mercenaries to compleat the works of death, desolation, and tyranny, already begun with circumstances of Cruelty & Perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the Head of a civilized nation.
He has constrained our fellow Citizens taken Captive on the high Seas to bear Arms against their Country, to become the executioners of their friends and Brethren, or to fall themselves by their Hands.
He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has endeavoured to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian Savages whose known rule of warfare, is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions.
In every stage of these Oppressions We have Petitioned for Redress in the most humble terms: Our repeated Petitions have been answered only by repeated injury. A Prince, whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people.
Nor have We been wanting in attentions to our British brethren. We have warned them from time to time of attempts by their legislature to extend an unwarrantable jurisdiction over us. We have reminded them of the circumstances of our emigration and settlement here. We have appealed to their native justice and magnanimity, and we have conjured them by the ties of our common kindred to disavow these usurpations, which would inevitably interrupt our connections and correspondence. They too have been deaf to the voice of justice and of consanguinity. We must, therefore, acquiesce in the necessity, which denounces our Separation, and hold them, as we hold the rest of mankind, Enemies in War, in Peace Friends.
We, therefore, the Representatives of the united States of America, in General Congress, Assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the Name, and by Authority of the good People of these Colonies, solemnly publish and declare, That these united Colonies are, and of Right ought to be Free and Independent States, that they are Absolved from all Allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain, is and ought to be totally dissolved; and that as Free and Independent States, they have full Power to levy War, conclude Peace, contract Alliances, establish Commerce, and to do all other Acts and Things which Independent States may of right do. — And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of Divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes, and our sacred Honor.
New Hampshire: Josiah Bartlett, William Whipple, Matthew Thornton
Massachusetts: John Hancock, Samuel Adams, John Adams, Robert Treat Paine, Elbridge Gerry
Rhode Island: Stephen Hopkins, William Ellery
Connecticut: Roger Sherman, Samuel Huntington, William Williams, Oliver Wolcott
New York: William Floyd, Philip Livingston, Francis Lewis, Lewis Morris
New Jersey: Richard Stockton, John Witherspoon, Francis Hopkinson, John Hart, Abraham Clark
Pennsylvania: Robert Morris, Benjamin Rush, Benjamin Franklin, John Morton, George Clymer, James Smith, George Taylor, James Wilson, George Ross
Delaware: Caesar Rodney, George Read, Thomas McKean
Maryland: Samuel Chase, William Paca, Thomas Stone, Charles Carroll of Carrollton
Virginia: George Wythe, Richard Henry Lee, Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Harrison, Thomas Nelson, Jr., Francis Lightfoot Lee, Carter Braxton
North Carolina: William Hooper, Joseph Hewes, John Penn
South Carolina: Edward Rutledge, Thomas Heyward, Jr., Thomas Lynch, Jr., Arthur Middleton
Georgia: Button Gwinnett, Lyman Hall, George Walton
Bergen County Executive Kathleen A. Donovan Wishing All A Happy Independence Day
I think it’s also important to reflect for a moment on the meaning of this day and the incalculable value of liberty and political freedom we enjoy as Americans.
Ours is a truly unique nation, whose ancestors battled for liberty and created an oasis of freedom that has attracted people from around the world to our shores. The American Dream – the right to own your property, worship as you wish, vote for whomever you want – is still alive more than 230 years since Thomas Jefferson and the Founding Fathers courageously declared that ours would become a new, independent nation that allows its citizens to chart their own course in life.
And let us not forget the men and women of our Armed Forces who serve our country so bravely.
We live in the greatest county in the greatest country on the face of the earth.
I hope you all enjoy this very special All-American holiday!
On this day in 1776, the Continental Congress voted for independence from Great Britain.
On this day in 1776, the Continental Congress voted for independence from Great Britain. Of the 13 colonies only New York did not vote for it. They abstained because the delegates from that colony lacked orders. They came a week later. So even though New York did not vote for independence, when the time came for the signing, their delegates were able to put their name to it.
John Adams thought that this day would be celebrated as America’s birthday for it was on this day that we chose to be free.
“It ought to be commemorated as the day of deliverance by solemn acts of devotion to God Almighty.”
After 236 years of freedom, let us not trade it way for a false sense of security.
