>Try-outs for the Ridgewood YMCA Breakers competitive swim team are announced
The Ridgewood YMCA Breakers competitive swim team will be holding try-outs on August 1st, 3rd and 5th and September 6th, 8th and 9th at the Ridgewood YMCA Oak Street branch.
Pre-registration is not required and swimmers may register on their day of their try-out. There is a $10 registration fee for try-outs. YMCA membership is not required to try-out; however swimmers invited to join the Breakers swim team must become Ridgewood YMCA members.
Registration will open at 4pm on try-out days and try-outs will take place from 4:30 to 6:30pm.
The August try-out dates are open to all swimmers ages 6 and up. The September 6 date is reserved for swimmers aged 9-12, September 8 for swimmers aged 8 and under and September 9 will be for swimmers aged 13 and over and make ups.
The swimmer’s age for try-out is based upon the age of the swimmer on December 1, 2011.
A full schedule is available at www.ridgewoodymca.org/try-outs
The Breakers Swim Team encompasses all ability levels, providing youth the opportunity to acquire the skills, self-discipline, confidence and physical conditioning to become the best swimmers they can be.
For additional details, please contact YMCA Swim Team Coach, Bud Rimbault at 201.444.5600 ext 319 or email brimbault@ridgewoodymca.org
Ridgewood Knights of Columbus Continue 4th of July Tradition by Sponsoring Drum and Bugle Corp.
Ridgewood-NJ-July 11, 2011: When the annual Ridgewood 4th of July parade ended in 2005, after the crowds dispersed and headed home to barbecue with friends and neighbors, Ridgewood resident and Knights of Columbus member Tim Bradley came upon a group of youths in the Graydon Pool parking lot that had marched in the parade. With nowhere to go, he invited them back to his home. What he was not prepared for was a bus carrying the entire Spirit of Newark Drum and Bugle Corps rolling up to his house.
Bradley and his neighbors had to scramble to gather enough hot dogs, hamburgers, and sodas to handle the deluge. The Corps was so appreciative of the warm reception they received, they gave the entire block a private performance. And so began an annual tradition and alliance between the Ridgewood Knights and the Spirit of Newark. Over the years, the post-parade celebration eventually worked its way from Bradley’s house to the Knights of Columbus Hall on South Broad Street.
The Spirit of Newark is part of Drum Corps International (DCI), a non-profit organization dedicated to junior drum corps activity. The Spirit of Newark is the only touring corps that hails from the inner city. A big part of the daily mission of the Spirit of Newark is to foster and encourage at-risk youth to stay in school and do well. However, because of the high rates of crime and poverty, there are more obstacles they must overcome.
“The art of drum and bugle corps is not only a unique and effective deterrent to gangs, violence, and juvenile delinquency for minority youth, but also an attractive and successful way to show them the outside / real world”, said Glenn Eng, Executive Director. “In addition, the college level training and performance demanded by drum and bugle corps competition further increases an inner city youngster’s appetite for success and better things”.
Pictured below, Tim Bradley presents a donation to Executive Director Glenn Eng to help support their activities. For more information, go to https://www.spiritofnewark.org/spirit_fund.php.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner (GYT’-nur) says many Americans will face hard times for a long time to come. He says President Barack Obama rescued the United States from a second Great Depression and will keep working to strengthen the economy. But Geithner says will be some time before many people feel like the country is recovering.
Geithner tells NBC’s “Meet the Press” that it’s a very tough economy. He says that for a lot of people “it’s going to feel very hard, harder than anything they’ve experienced in their lifetime now, for a long time to come.”
In accordance with N.J.S.A. 4:19-15.15, the Village of Ridgewood will be conducting a canvass of Ridgewood households to determine if they own a dog or cat. The canvassers have a valid photo identification card issued by the Village of Ridgewood. They will be canvassing during the months of July and August 2011. Please call the Health Department at 201-670-5500 ext 503 if you have any questions.
>White House Staffers Got a Raise Last Year, And You Did Not
John Cook — The White House released its annual salary report last week, and as usual, it’s nice to work for Barack Obama: Most staffers who were there for more than a year got a salary bump. A bigger one than you did.
The last time we checked in on White House salaries, we found that an astonishing 75% of continuing staffers got raises from 2009 to 2010—a huge number given the fact that, according to compensation experts, most companies had skipped routine raises that year in reaction to the economic crisis that the White House was busy failing to solve. This time around—from 2010 to 2011—the ratio is a little less dramatic. Of the 270 White House staffers who have been there for more than a year, 146—or 54%—received raises. The average salary increase was 8%. If you look at only staffers who got raises, the average increase was twice that.
>Ridgewood : A strange case of pedestrians leaping in front of moving cars
The Associated Press are sending a team of reporters to Ridgewood to investigate a strange case of pedestrians leaping in front of moving cars.
I wasn’t there, I didn’t see it, but news reports say the driver was issued a summons for failing to yield to a pedestrian.
I hope the driver fights it in court and shows you are right, that they just couldn’t stop their car at an intersection.
There seems to be a rash of Ridgewood citizens who at painted crosswalks or traffic lights leap in front of cars at the last moment. The odd thing is that all the jaywalkers in the middle of streets don’t seem to get hit. Ridgewood is a very strange place.
I have practiced for 30 years and never saw this till Obama. There are no shortages in China, nor Canada for that matter.
The reason Obama has had this affect are at least two fold : 1. The drug flows where the money is available. ie. since we are contracting dollars to healthcare, the drugs, and doctors for that matter, will flow to countries like China, where docs are already paid more than in many places in the USA. 2. the new FDA regs make it to where companies just won’t renew or develop. Thank you Mr. “president”.
>Citing Evidence They Call ‘Contradictory’ to Kagan’s Confirmation Testimony, 49 Lawmakers Call for Judiciary Committee Investigation Friday, July 01, 2011 By Terence P. Jeffrey
(CNSNews.com) – Forty-nine members of the U.S. House of Representatives–including the chairman of the House Oversight Committee, the chairman of the Republican Policy Committee and two presidential candidates–are pointing to evidence they say is “contradictory” to Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan’s confirmation testimony and calling for the House Judiciary Committee to investigate the matter. The lawmakers also say they believe that evidence already made public shows that Kagan must recuse herself from any court cases involving the health care bill signed into law by President Barack Obama while she was serving as Obama’s solicitor general.
“We respectfully call upon the House Judiciary Committee to promptly investigate the extent to which U.S. Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan was involved in preparing a legal defense of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) during her tenure as Solicitor General,” the 49 lawmakers wrote in a letter to Rep. Lamar Smith (R.-Texas), the chairman of the Judiciary Committee, and Rep. John Conyers (D.-Mich.), the ranking member of the committee.
>University Research funding is not the problem. It is a revenue source, not a cost
Research funding is not the problem. It is a revenue source, not a cost. The following, however, are some of the issues that have driven tuition higher:
1. A construction arms race, with universities spending millions and millions building fancier and fancier dorms, gyms, stadiums, and dining facilities that have nothing to do with teaching. Students today have far more amenities than they did 30 or 40 years ago.
2. Significantly increased costs of varsity athletic programs. Very few schools make money on their sports programs.
3. Significant declines in state funding. Because of the state budget cuts that have occurred during the past decade, most state schools receive less funding as a % of their total costs, and have to raise tuition to make up the difference.
4. Sharply higher healthcare costs for faculty and staff. Longer lifespans have also increased pension costs
>NRC Approves 20-Year License Renewal for PSEG Nuclear Salem Generating Station
(June 30, 2011 – Hancocks Bridge, NJ) – The Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) approved PSEG Nuclear’s request today to extend the operating licenses of Salem Generating Station Units 1 and 2 an additional 20 years.
“The license renewal of Salem is part of our ongoing commitment to provide safe, reliable energy to New Jersey and the region,” said Tom Joyce, president and chief nuclear officer of PSEG Nuclear. “Today’s milestone is the direct result of our employees past and present who have played a key role in our success.”
PSEG Nuclear filed its request for license renewal in August 2009. During the past two years, a dedicated team coordinated site inspections and audits by the NRC, provided volumes of additional information to the regulator and participated in several meetings where the public was provided with opportunities to offer comment on the proposed license extension.
“Many members of the public came out to support us during this process, speaking during the public meetings and writing letters supporting our continued operation,” explained Joyce. “We are pleased that the community continues to have confidence in our operation and we will work hard to maintain their trust over the extended life of the stations.”
Each Salem unit has a net generating capacity of approximately 1175 megawatts. Salem Unit 1’s previous 40 year operating license was set to expire in 2016 with Unit 2’s operating license expiring in 2020. The plants will now be licensed through 2036 and 2040 respectively.
Under the Atomic Energy Act, the NRC originally issued licenses for commercial nuclear reactors for 40 years. This timeframe was based on the amortization period generally used by electric utility companies for large capital investments. The NRC is also expected to announce a decision within the next few weeks regarding the license renewal of PSEG Nuclear’s single unit Hope Creek Generating Station.
Located together on a 740-acre site in Lower Alloways Creek, Salem County, the two Salem units and Hope Creek comprise the second largest commercial nuclear power facility in the United States. Together the three nuclear units generate enough power for approximately three million homes each day.
In New Jersey, nuclear power has played a leading role in meeting the state’s energy needs. In fact, more than 50 percent of the state’s electricity comes from nuclear power.
Salem and Hope Creek are subject to an ongoing, rigorous program of oversight and inspection by the NRC, led by four full-time inspectors onsite, as well as supplemental inspectors from the NRC regional headquarters. The plants also have their own extensive programs in preventive and corrective maintenance, equipment testing and monitoring and equipment replacement.
Over the past five years, PSEG Nuclear has invested more than $525 million in equipment upgrades and enhancements to ensure the continued safe operation of the two Salem units.
In addition to license renewal, PSEG Nuclear continues to explore the possibility of building an additional nuclear plant in Salem County. In May 2010, the company filed an application for an early site permit (ESP). Though not a commitment to build, the ESP would recognize the proposed location to be suitable from a safety, environmental and emergency planning standpoint. An NRC decision on the ESP is not expected until late 2013.
>Bergen County Executive Kathleen A. Donovan : “Pension and benefit reforms and budget cuts are not schemes. They are real responses to real issues.
(Hackensack NJ ) Bergen County Executive Kathleen A. Donovan said today that public employee pension and benefit reforms coupled with her massive budget cuts “will give Bergen County taxpayers both immediate and long term relief for the first time in years.”
According to Donovan, “The bi-partisan pension and benefit reforms enacted by the legislature that will be signed into law by the Governor reflect 21st century economics and practical needs. Coupled with my taxpayer friendly spending plan which cut $30 million from the proposed budget my administration inherited, Bergen County taxpayers are finally seeing the kind of prudent fiscal management that they have long been promised.
“Pension and benefit reforms and budget cuts are not schemes. They are real responses to real issues. The Christie and Donovan administrations have kept their promises.”
Ridgewood Charity Golf Classic 2011 Thu, June 30, 2011 Time: 10:00 AM – 7:30 PM Location: Ridgewood Country Club, Midland Avenue, Paramus, NJ
Ridgewood Chamber of Commerce and Ridgewood Veterinary Hospital presents: *Second Charity Golf Outing – June 30, 2011 – Ridgewood Country Club – Limited to 40 players
Golf Outing Schedule
Registration/Practice Range 10:00am-11:15am Putting Clinic 11:15am-11:30am Putting Contest 11:30am-12Noon
Buffet Luncheon 12Noon-1:00pm
Shot Gun Start 1:30pm-6:00pm
Hole in One 1:30pm-6:00pm
Open Bar 6:00pm-7:00pm Dinner/Awards 7:00pm-8:00pm Door Prizes: win dinner reservations at your favorite restaurants in Ridgewood. golf equipment and many other prizes.
HOLE IN ONE PRIZE
Sponsored by KEN SMITH MOTORS of Ridgewood Win a 2011 LINCOLN MKZ Hybrid!
Ken Smith Motors Ridgewood Franklin Avenue 201-444-2200
For more information and information about sponsorships call: Ridgewood Chamber of Commerce 201-445-2600 or at info@ridgewoodchamber.com
> New Jersey Delegates to the Constitutional Convention
David Brearly (1745–1790) Born near Trenton, Brearly attended the College of New Jersey (later Princeton) and then took up a career as a lawyer. He was an avid patriot, arrested by the British for high treason but rescued by a band of Revolutionaries. He was a member of the New Jersey convention that drew up the first state constitution, and during the war he rose from the rank of captain to colonel in the New Jersey militia. He was an active member of the controversial Society of the Cincinnati, although his greatest organizational commitment appeared to be his Masonic Lodge and the Episcopal Church. When he came to the Philadelphia convention he was only forty-two but already the chief justice of his state’s supreme court. Elegantly dressed, his wig carefully coiffed, Brearly seemed content to take a backseat to the delegation’s acknowledged leader, William Paterson. He took a leadership role at the ratification convention, however, presiding over its deliberations. President Washington appointed him a federal judge in 1789, and he remained on the bench until his death.
Jonathan Dayton (1760–1824) Only twenty-seven when he took his seat, Dayton was one of the youngest delegates at the Philadelphia convention. He was born in Elizabethtown, where his father, a local storekeeper, was active in local and state politics. Dayton graduated from the College of New Jersey in 1776 and immediately enlisted in the Continental army. During his military career he saw considerable action and apparently acquitted himself well, rising to the rank of captain by the age of nineteen. He was briefly a prisoner of war. When peace came Dayton returned to New Jersey and took up the practice of law. He sat on the New Jersey assembly for one year, from 1786 to 1787. He arrived late to the Constitutional Convention and entered into several of the debates—revealing in the process a hasty temper and a noticeable lack of political experience. Although he objected to some of its provisions, he signed the Constitution. When the new national government was established, Dayton became a leading Federalist, serving in the House of Representatives from 1791 to 1799. He proved a strong supporter of Hamilton’s fiscal policies as well as the controversial Jay Treaty with England. In 1806, however, Dayton narrowly escaped participation in Aaron Burr’s illicit expedition to conquer Spanish territory in the Southwest and establish an independent empire. Although illness kept him at home while Burr’s forces made their abortive conquest attempt, Dayton was indicted for treason. He was not prosecuted, but his national career was ruined. He remained in state politics, holding local offices and serving briefly in the assembly.
William Churchill Houston (c. 1746–1788) A graduate of the College of New Jersey, Houston was one of the few professional educators at the Philadelphia convention. He served as master of his alma mater’s college grammar school and in 1771 was appointed professor of mathematics and natural philosophy. In 1775 Houston became deputy secretary of the Continental Congress but joined the military once independence was declared. He was a captain in the Somerset County militia and saw combat at Princeton. He served in his state assembly during the war and on its Council of Safety. By 1779 he was back in the Continental Congress. Despite his political activities, Houston found time to study law and was admitted to the bar in 1781. His legal practice ultimately led him to resign from his academic position at the College of New Jersey. Houston was a New Jersey delegate at both the Annapolis and the Philadelphia conventions. His participation at the latter convention was brief since illness forced him to go home after only a week. The following year he died of tuberculosis.
William Livingston (1723–1790) At sixty-four, Livingston was one of the oldest men at the convention. Tall and reedlike, the son of a distinguished landholding family from New York’s Hudson Valley, Livingston was known to friends and enemies alike as the “Whipping Post.” Livingston rejected his family’s suggestion that he take up life as a fur trader or a New York City merchant, becoming a lawyer instead. Despite his aristocratic background, Livingston was a defender of popular causes in his native New York and an antiestablishment crusader during the 1750s. When the liberal faction he belonged to split over the Stamp Act in 1760, Livingston pulled up stakes and moved to New Jersey, where he built an elegant estate, Liberty Hall, and retired from public life to write poetry and live as a gentleman farmer. The Revolution ended Livingston’s seclusion. He served in both the First and the Second Continental Congresses, and when war began he became a brigadier general in the New Jersey militia. In 1776 he was elected the first governor of the state of New Jersey, a post he held for fourteen consecutive years. His duties as governor prevented him from attending every session of the Philadelphia convention, and he missed several weeks of debate in July. He was a supporter of the New Jersey Plan but worked tirelessly for ratification of the Constitution in its final form. Despite his many political commitments, Livingston managed to conduct agricultural experiments and to work in the antislavery movement.
William Paterson (1745–1806) Paterson was born in Ireland, but his family immigrated to America when he was only two years old, settling first in Connecticut and later in Trenton, New Jersey. The family prospered and Paterson was able to attend the College of New Jersey. After receiving his master’s degree, he took up the practice of law. During the war he served in the provincial congress, the state constitutional convention, and New Jersey’s legislative council. From 1776 to 1783, he was the state attorney general. After the death of his wife in 1783, Paterson retired from politics and devoted his energies to his legal practice. His selection as a delegate to the Philadelphia convention revived his political career. The five feet two inch Paterson—fastidious in his dress, mild-mannered, and modest in his demeanor—played a central role in the Constitutional Convention as the author of the New Jersey Plan. Although he left the convention after the issue of representation in the Senate was resolved, he returned to sign the Constitution. Paterson was a member of the first U.S. Senate and later governor of his state. From 1793 to 1806, he served as an associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court.
>Backyard Pool Swim Lessons Mon, June 27, 2011 – Tue, August 16, 2011 Time: 10:00 AM – 5:00 PM Location: YMCA, Your home
This summer, pool owners can take advantage of nationally renowned YMCA swim lessons in their own backyard. From June 27-August 16, the Ridgewood YMCA’s Backyard Pool program offers two-week sessions of eight, half-hour classes. A special one-week session of four half-hour classes, August 22-26, finishes out the summer.
There is also a choice of time periods – 10:00 am-noon, noon-3:00 pm or 3:00 – 5:00 pm. The program combines high quality swim instruction with ultimate convenience.
The Ridgewood YMCA has the largest Backyard Pool program in northern New Jersey. Instructors are highly qualified, trained and lifeguard certified. The choice of private, semi-private, or small group classes maximizes learning and helps children master swim skills. Parents find the home setting convenient for them and reassuring for their children.
Early registration for Backyard Pool is recommended, as sessions fill up fast. For session availability and fees according to group size, contact Janet Oliver, 201-444-5600 x 304 or email joliver@ridgewoodymca.org
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