Category: Village of Ridgewood

>Ridgewood Co-op’s Scholastic Book Fair

Step right up and join the Co-op for their Scholastic Book Fair on May 4th & 5th. This year’s theme is Book Fair Carnival. There will be raffles, crafts and a souvenir “carnival” picture. Bring the kids to this fun-filled event and encourage an early love of reading. It’s a great opportunity to stock up on summer reading for the kids. The fair will run from 9:00am-3:00pm on May 4th and 9:00am-3:00pm & 6:00pm-9:00pm on May 5th. The event will take place in the East Room of the Ridgewood United Methodist Church at 100 Dayton Street in Ridgewood.

A nonsectarian school, The Co-op also offers morning and afternoon classes for 2, 3 and 4-year-olds, as well as Mommy & Me classes and Kindergarten Enrichment. Setting the school apart from other nursery schools, The Co-op is organized and run by the parents. This enables parents to actively participate in their child’s early learning experience. Music, physical education, field trips, indoor and outdoor play time and an in-house library are just a few of the experiences to which the children are exposed as supplements to the daily education plans.

For more information on the school or to set up an appointment to visit, please call (201) 447-6232 or email the school at [email protected].

>Suicide Rates in U.S. Increase as Economy Declines, CDC Researchers Find
By Molly Peterson – Apr 14, 2011

Suicide rates in the U.S. tend to rise during recessions and fall amid economic booms, according to study from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Suicides reached a record high of 22 people per 100,000 in 1932 during the Great Depression, CDC officials said in a report published online today in the American Journal of Public Health. That was double the rates seen in 2000, when 10 people per 100,000 took their lives as the economy prospered, the study found.

The study is the first to link business cycles and suicide rates among specific age groups, according to the Atlanta-based CDC. People in their “prime working ages” of 25 to 64 years old are the most likely to commit suicide during recessions, the study found.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-04-14/suicide-rates-rise-in-u-s-as-economy-declines-cdc-study-finds.html

>NJEA : Socioeconomic Status with failure in Education

Whenever I’ve had a discussion with Ridgewood teachers about school choice for inner city children, they always scoff at the idea. Explaining that school choice wont matter because it can’t make up for the lack of parental involvement. That the failure of the urban education system rests with the socio-economic conditions of the children and their parents. Only more money will solve the issue. Which is a socialist’s solution for all of society’s ills. We will never be able to raise the standard of living for the uneducated to that of the educated no matter how much money we give them. As we see now, we are running out of money.

The solution is to empower families by providing a system of education that they can hold accountable for the failure or success of their children’s education.

If parents seem uninvolved in the inner cities, perhaps it is because they don’t feel like they have a stake in the system. It is like all else around them, government controls everything. Give the power to choose and they will make sure their children excel. The way out of government dependence is education. And the folks who work in government know this. Keep people stupid and ensure that the government has a purpose; taking care of them. Create independence and we need less government. It is truly an insidious system when the political establishment and government workers do everything they can to ensure poverty and thus guarantee their jobs.

>Garage Sale April 15th and 16th (303 Kenilworth Rd. Ridgewood, NJ)

children’s clothes, men’s clothes, toys, baby equipment, pictures, frames, furniture, kitchen goods, etc.

>NJSIAA official: Future still uncertain

The New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association continues to face an uncertain future. (McGarry, Press of Atlantic City)

https://www.pressofatlanticcity.com/sports/njsiaa-official-future-still-uncertain/article_59cacdaa-9e9b-53a1-aae6-d4752bbb912c.html

>Christie proposes 7-bill package to change tenure to demand accountability and reward good teachers

Gov. Christie Wednesday sent to the Legislature a package of seven bills that he maintains would get at the root of problems in New Jersey’s public schools by changing the teacher tenure system to reward the best and brightest educators. (Hester, New Jersey Newsroom)

https://www.newjerseynewsroom.com/state/christie-proposes-7-bill-package-to-change-tenure-to-demand-accountability-and-reward-good-teachers

>There Is No Male-Female Wage Gap

A study of single, childless urban workers between the ages of 22 and 30 found that women earned 8% more than men

By CARRIE LUKAS

Tuesday is Equal Pay Day—so dubbed by the National Committee for Pay Equity, which represents feminist groups including the National Organization for Women, Feminist Majority, the National Council of Women’s Organizations and others. The day falls on April 12 because, according to feminist logic, women have to work that far into a calendar year before they earn what men already earned the year before.

https://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704415104576250672504707048.html?mod=WSJ_hp_mostpop_read

>NJ Wastes Millions on Clothing Allowances for State Workers: Report
By Beth DeFalco

New Jersey spent more than $3 million this fiscal year on clothing allowances for white-collar workers who aren’t required to wear uniforms, according to a new report from the state comptroller.

Under collective bargaining agreements, New Jersey provides an annual clothing allowance for uniforms to certain employees of $700 a year for full-time workers and $350 for part-time workers. The allowance is a flat amount included in payroll checks and doesn’t require that employees provide a receipt.

https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/NJ-Wastes-Millions-on-Clothing-Allowances-for-State-Workers-Report-119773899.html

>Jefferson on Government:
“With all these blessings, what more is necessary to make us a happy and prosperous people? Still one thing more, fellow citizens — a wise and frugal government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, which shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned. This is the sum of good government, and this is necessary to close the circle of our felicities.”

– Thomas Jefferson
First Inaugural Address
March 4, 1801


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>Perverted TSA Continues to harness US Citizens with patdown 6 year old


Parents of 6-Year-Old Girl Pat Down at Airport Want Procedures Changed
Selena and Todd Drexel Say They’re ‘Struggling to Explain’ Screening to Daughter

April 13, 2011

The family of the 6-year-old girl who received a pat down at airport security in New Orleans said today there needs to be a different screening process for children.

“We struggle to teach our kids to protect themselves, to say ‘no, it’s not ok to touch me in this way in this area,” the girl’s mother, Selena Drexel, said. “Yet here we are saying it’s ok for these people.” If we don’t find other ways we’re making them more vulnerable, she said.

Drexel and her husband, Dr. Todd Drexel, of Bowling Green, Ky., appeared this morning in an exclusive interview with “Good Morning America.”

https://abcnews.go.com/GMA/parents-year-girl-pat-airport-procedures-changed/story?id=13363740

>Garrett Slams President Obama’s Deficit Reduction Plan 

WASHINGTON, DC, April 13, 2011 – Rep. Scott Garrett (R-NJ), Vice Chairman of the House Budget Committee and Chairman of the Republican Study Committee’s (RSC) Budget and Spending Task Force, issued the following statement today in response to President Obama’s speech on his so-called deficit reduction plan:

“If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again. The president needs go back to the White House, formulate a new plan, draft a new speech and then try again. Not only does his proposed plan fail to meet the deficit reduction benchmarks set by his own fiscal commission, it doesn’t even come close meeting the benchmarks set by House Republicans. The president needs to take the fiscal crisis facing our country seriously by offering a credible deficit reduction plan that balances the budget in ten years or less without raising taxes on Americans.”

>Abbott funding has done well for lawyers’ pockets but little for kids

Circle Wednesday, April 20, on your calendars and remember to pay close attention to news events that day. That’s when the state Supreme Court hears oral arguments in the latest round of lawsuits seeking to dump more of your money into failing schools. (Ingle, Gannett)

https://www.courierpostonline.com/article/20110413/OPINION02/104130318/1005/OPINION/Abbott-funding-has-done-well-lawyers-pockets-little-kids

>Robert Menendez: Democrats must seize energy debate

The Senate Democrat who presided over the loss of six seats in 2010 says his party can make gains in 2012 by seizing the debate over gas prices, the budget and federal spending. (Goode, Politico)

https://www.politico.com/news/stories/0411/53069.html#ixzz1JOazhiUE

>Christie tells crowd at Cape May Airport he plans to make failing teachers re-earn tenure

Gov. Chris Christie brought his case for education reform to a cavernous airport hangar Tuesday, warning the state’s entire budget hinges on the issue. (Fletcher, Press of Atlantic City)

https://www.pressofatlanticcity.com/news/breaking/christie-tells-crowd-at-cape-airport-he-plans-to-make/article_e040d6de-652d-11e0-8387-001cc4c002e0.html

>Easter in the Park, Ridgewood Chamber of Commerce

Saturday, April 23rd 11am to 2pm AT 10am – Breakfast with the Easter Bunny at Smith Brothers -Call for reservations: 201/444-8111 FREE – AT Memorial Park at Van Neste Square, join the Easter Bunny with a parade; parents will be able to take pictures of their children sitting on the Bunny’s lap; There will be lots of fun things oing on in the Park for families to do. The Ridgewood News has provided a TROLLEY -Bunny Express – which will travel throughout the business district, taking families to stores where there will be fun projects going in and out of the stores. All activities are free. At www.experienceridgewood.com – you will find all the stores that are participatiing and their locations – print it out and bring it to Ridgewood on Saturday, April 23 – Bring your rewards card for extra savings! Information: 201/445-2600