Category: Village of Ridgewood

>The Governor Elect meet with Newark’s Mayor Cory Booker yesterday and repeated his commitment to charter schools and to improving public education, especially in urban areas. Mr. Christie also said his first executive order as promised in the campaign will be to freeze unfunded mandates and new regulations for ninety days. He also said he will ask the state comptroller to conduct an audit of government spending.Christie also took time to remind members of the Legislature that people have voted for change.

With the voters overwhelming rejection of the Corzine administration the Ridgewood blog would like Mr. Christie take a strong stance to assure the fairness of the electoral process and begin an investigation of the flood of absentee ballots received this past election . The state received a 180,000 absentee ballot requests and some 3,000 forms were submitted where signatures didn’t match the one on file with county clerks. New Jersey voters have a right to expect their votes are counted fairly without concerns that they the voters would not be disenfranchised.This would go a long way to assure the sanctity of the electoral process in the future.

the Staff of the Ridgewood blog

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>Congress will vote on Healthcare Reform this week. Today, we have sent 2 busloads to Washington, DC for a “Congressional House Call”

If you were unable to attend the trip to Washington, please consider making a “Congressional House Call” locally. Tell Congressman Rothman and Senators Lautenberg and Menendez to vote NO on the Obama/Pelosi/Reid health care takeover. The goal is simple: today, activists like you show up at key Senate and Congressional offices in your state with your own message telling them to keep their “hands off your health care.”

The procedure will be: Arrive, go into the office and register your opposition in writing. As we do not know how many people can participate during the work week, consider putting your request in writing ahead of time if you are pressed for time. If you cannot visit, please FAX your letter or CALL during the afternoon beginning at noon. A FAX is more effective than an email. A personal visit is more effective than a FAX.

If you need help composing a letter, several letters have been written that you can use “as is” or as a template for you to personalize. https://www.njteapartycoalition.org/Contact-Your-Congressman.html

Many who intended on visiting local offices have made the trek to Washington. We do not have a “group” attending, but please attend with a friend or as an individual. The suggested schedule is as follows:

12:00 noon
Congressman Steven Rothman
Hackensack, NJ Office
25 Main Street, Suite 101
Hackensack, NJ 07601
201-646-0808
201-646-1944 (fax)
OR
Congressman Scott Garrett
266 Harristown Road Suite 104
Glen Rock, NJ 07452
(201) 444-5454
(201) 444-5488 (fax)

1:30 p.m.
Senator Bob Menendez
One Gateway Center, Suite 1100
Newark, New Jersey 07102
973-645-3030
973-645-0502 (fax)
AND
Senator Frank Lautenberg
One Gateway Center
Newark, New Jersey 07102
973-639-8700
888-398-1642
973-639-8723 (fax)

If you cannot make both location and times, at least show up at ONE. If you are not from the immediate area, go to: https://americansforprosperity.org/nov5 for your congressional representative and their office nearest to you. Time grows short and opportunities to make a difference are important especially now.

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Please join Congressman Scott Garrett for a live Web Townhall this Thursday night at 7 p.m. to discuss H.R. 3962, the health care legislation currently under consideration in the House of Representatives.

RSVP by clicking here:
https://www.ustream.tv/channel/rep-garrett-live-from-washington-dc

Email your questions in advance or during the townhall to [email protected].

>One day only. Saturday 11-7-2009 9AM to 5PM All nice stuff. priced right. Some furniture. lighting ; books ,clothes. nick knacks etc.
No early callers please.

570 Barnett Place ( off Mulberry place )
Ridgewood, NJ

>Chil­dren and na­ture…and Gray­don

Our strug­gle to pre­serve Gray­don has in­spired a pa­per pre­sent­ed at a con­fer­ence and sum­marized on a Psy­chol­o­gy To­day blog by Uni­ver­si­ty of Wash­ing­ton psy­chol­o­gist Peter H. Kahn, Jr., PhD. His book The Hu­man relation­ship with Na­ture ex­plores the deep sig­ni­f­i­cance of chil­dren’s in­ter­ac­tions with na­ture and the un­for­tu­nate long-term conse­quences for both them and the en­vi­ron­ment when th­ese are lost. Read his blog en­try here or from a link on our home page. Click on Read­er Com­ments (be­low the text of the blog en­try) to check out Mar­cia’s exchanges with Dr. Kahn and the coau­thor of his pa­per.

In the past few years an en­tire move­ment has grown around the pre­cepts of sim­i­lar­ly mind­ed ex­perts, such as Richard Louv, au­thor of Last Child in the Woods: Sav­ing Our Chil­dren from Na­ture-De­fic­it Di­s­or­der and six other books. Louv is chair­man of the Chil­dren & Na­ture Net­work. The im­por­tance to chil­dren’s de­vel­op­ment of na­ture and un­struc­tured play has been stressed by the Amer­i­can Acade­my of Pe­di­atrics, the Amer­i­can Public Health As­so­ci­a­tion, the Cen­ters for Dis­ease Con­trol and Pre­ven­tion (CDC), and many other or­gani­za­tions of high re­pute.

Louv writes in the book, for ex­am­ple: “A wi­den­ing cir­cle of re­search­ers be­lieves that the loss of na­t­u­ral habi­tat, or the dis­con­nec­tion from na­ture even when it is avai­l­able, has enor­mous im­pli­ca­tions for hu­man health and child de­vel­op­ment. They say the qual­i­ty of ex­po­sure to na­ture af­fects our health at an al­most cel­lu­lar lev­el.”

Among many fas­ci­nat­ing studies on the Net­work’s web­site is a sum­mary of a re­cent re­port from the Uni­ver­si­ty of Illi­nois. The re­search­er cites doc­u­men­ta­tion, for ex­am­ple, that chil­dren with AD­HD have few­er symp­toms af­ter out­door ac­tiv­i­ties in na­ture-filled en­vi­ron­ments and that col­lege stu­dents achieve bet­ter re­sults on cog­ni­tive tests when their dor­mi­to­ry win­dows view na­t­u­ral set­tings. This is clear­ly an al­ready-rich area that is ripe for greater study.

Coali­tion sup­port­er Diane Pala­cios, who spott­ed a link to Kahn’s ar­ti­cle on the Ridge­wood Blog, in­s­tant­ly rec­og­nized its im­por­tance and de­liv­ered or sent copies to all mem­bers of the Vil­lage Coun­cil and its Gray­don Pool Com­mit­tee. Aware­ness, ini­tia­tive, com­mu­ni­ca­tion—a fine way to get the mes­sage out.

We’ll be back soon with more au­tumn pic­tures of Gray­don. If you’d like to share your best Gray­don pho­tos, tak­en in any sea­son, send them to us in dig­i­tal for­mat. The park is so pic­turesque that we’re con­sid­er­ing pro­duc­ing a 2011 Gray­don cal­en­dar. It’s love­ly through­out the year at the beach in our back yard.

Swimmingly,

Suzanne Kelly and Marcia Ringel, Co-Chairs
The Preserve Graydon Coalition, Inc., a nonprofit corporation
“It’s clear—we love Graydon!”
[email protected] www.PreserveGraydon.org

>The Ridgewood Board of Education
bond referendum vote on December 8th

COME TO A COMMUNITY PRESENTATION
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 30
7:30 p.m.

GEORGE WASHINGTON MIDDLE SCHOOL AUDITORIUM

>More Obama Propaganda videos surface

More disturbing videos of young school children singing praises to President Obama, quite a shock. What seemed like an aberration now appears to be a troubling pattern. Maybe “epidemic” is a better word. Here is just a sample with each video creepier than the last.

ELEMENTARY EPIDEMIC: 11 Uncovered Videos Show School Children Performing Praises to Obama

https://bighollywood.breitbart.com/jjmnolte/2009/11/04/elementary-epidemic-11-uncovered-videos-show-school-children-performing-praises-to-obama/

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the Ridgewood blog staff

Congrats!!! Chris Christie

now its time to drive the dirtbags into the sea lol !!!!!

“Tomorrow we will take back New Jersey back for our families. Tomorrow we will take back New Jersey for our friends,” Christie said. “Tomorrow we begin to build that greater New Jersey for our children and grandchildren. I want my children to raise their children in this state. I want your children to raise their children in this great state.

“Starting tomorrow, we are going to pick Trenton up and turn it upside down.”

Chris Christie

>…sounds suspiciously like the “anonymous parent” who went onto Facebook, printed out photographs of RHS seniors drinking at parties, and stuffed them into the mailboxes of administrators and coaches at RHS with a note saying that “my child doesn’t drink”. Whoever was responsible for that should be truly ashamed of themselves. Lorenz is wonderful and is trying to do the right thing – binge drinking is becoming a serious problem in all communities. That being said, the punishments are quite severe, especially for those attending the parties to be social and not drinking themselves. Not an easy solution…..

Yes, it is most definitely true that a parent printed out the Facebook photos, evidently with kids circled in specific pictures, and sent them to coaches and administrators at RHS. While some pictures were recent, others were from events over the summer and last spring. The kids believe it is a parent of a senior who is looking for any edge in the college admissions process and would love to see some kids “dethroned” and their applications marred. It’s a very sad commentary to be sure on the state of affairs and to what lenghts some parents will go to to give their kids a leg up.

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>What is RHS going to do with the athletes and other individuals who participate in extra curricular activities? Don’t they have power to mete out punishment to our children for offenses committed even while off campus?

Did we forget that the legal age for drinking was 18 when we grew up and is now 21 – to the dismay of many college presidents. Whenever society has tried prohibition, it has made things worse. On college campuses today, binge drinking has become a serious problem. Prohibited from learning how to drink responsibly within their local communities, students go off to college having no such reference. Ask yourself this, would you rather have your child learn about the unpleasant effects of over-drinking while under your supervision, that is, while in high school with their friends and living at home or away at college with kids you don’t know? In which environment is your child safer?

So, why the hypocrisy as adults, we drink? Our children are going to drink. The only question is how do we teach them to do so responsibly and to look out for one another when they do? Might it be best that the police department and the parents deal with the situation as they see fit and leave our ever eager to parent, public school system to the task of teaching?

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Central Business District Merchants Plan to Blast Village Council on Wednesday Night – Catsup Sandwiches on Menu?

Led by Ridgewood Chamber of Commerce President Doug Seiferling, Ridgewood’s Central Business District shopkeepers and property owners plan to be out in force for Wednesday evening’s Village Council Work Session to air their gripes over increased parking fees.

The Fly has spotted “Roll Back the Parking Rate Increase” petitions in numerous East Ridgewood Avenue establishments over the past few days. It is reported that all signed petitions will be presented to Village Council members during Wednesday’s meeting.

It is also rumored that Councilwoman Anne “Suck it Up” Zusy’s recent letter to the editor of The Ridgewood News will be the primary focus of comments planned by Mr. Seiferling.

Catsup sandwiches anyone?