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Graydon Pool Memberships and Aquatic Programs

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Please visit the Graydon Pool homepage at www.ridgewoodnj.net/graydon to learn about membership rates, program offerings and pool amenities. Be sure to bookmark our Graydon homepage on your computer for future special events and program offerings. Opening day for Graydon Pool is Saturday, June 6th.

2015 season memberships may now be purchased online via Community Pass at www.ridgewoodnj.net/communitypass. Be sure to refer to your online confirmation when purchase is complete for detailed information on how to obtain your photo identification badge. Preseason in-person assistance will be available at the Graydon Pool Badge Office (on-site at the pool) on Saturday, May 9 and Saturday, May 16, 10 am to 12 noon each date.

Aquatic programs, including the Graydon Swim Team and instructional and recreational swim, are also available online at Community Pass, or you may review levels and print program registration forms from our Graydon homepage referenced above. Meet the Aquatic Staff and learn more on the following dates at the pool: Saturday, June 6th, 10 am to 1 pm, and Saturday, June 20th, 10 am to 1 pm.

American Red Cross Waterfront Lifeguard Training (recertification/bridging and new) is available through Ridgewood Parks and Recreation. Details/registration are also available on the Graydon Pool homepage.

Summer is fast approaching, so sign up now. For more information please call 201-670-5560.

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Larry Maxam: The real meaning of Memorial Day

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By Dennis McCarthy, LA Daily News

POSTED: 05/21/15, 6:28 PM PDT | UPDATED: 2 DAYS AGO

Larry Maxam was his name, and before we begin filling our propane tanks, roasting the hot dogs and cracking open a beer, I’d like to tell you his story.

Because, to me, he is the perfect face of Memorial Day. The guy we should all be thanking this weekend.

Sometimes we lose track of what Memorial Day is all about. It’s not a patriotic celebration of military might, but a remembrance of the 1 million plus casualties of all our wars who never made it home.

Most of them were still kids, really, like Maxam.

His buddies from Vietnam say he was a friendly, quiet guy who wore his Mormon religion on his sleeve right next to his corporal stripes.

“Other guys would go out, get rowdy, whatever, but not him,” says Larry Clinesmith, who shared a foxhole with Maxam. “He was quiet, always looking to help the new guys coming into the platoon.”

No one ever made the quiet kid from California as a hero.

The night he died, Feb. 2, 1968, Maxam was in charge of a fire team of four men protecting part of a defensive perimeter set up around the Cam Lo District Marine headquarters.

Sometime around midnight, the VC — Viet Cong — threw everything they had at the perimeter. Maxam spotted a hole in the defense where a large group of VC was gathering for a full frontal attack.

He got there before they could break through, set himself up behind an abandoned machine-gun placement, and began firing.

What happened next earns you the Medal of Honor.

https://www.dailynews.com/lifestyle/20150521/larry-maxam-the-real-meaning-of-memorial-day

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Ridgewood Bear Sighting !

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Bear Sighting

May 24, 2015
Dear E-Notice Residents,

The Ridgewood Police Department (RPD) has chased a bear up a tree on Highland Avenue. RPD is working with the NJ Department of Fish and Wildlife to handle this situation appropriately.

The current approach is to continue to station officers with the bear until nighttime when we will wait for the bear to descend from the tree. We have decided to wait until nighttime as the area is abuzz with barbecues and activity and do not want this to be disrupted. We will have an RPD unit monitor the bear’s location as best as possible going forward.

To resolve this incident, the most important thing residents in the area can do is not to have garbage out (this bear was in our community to eat) and to take bird feeders in.

Going forward as a community we need collectively to take measures to discourage bears from wandering into Ridgewood. It is really imperative that garbage is secured – rifling through the garbage to find food is the primary reason that bears come into residential neighborhoods. The existence of bird feeders is also a problem and attracts wildlife such as bears. More information on bears and what residents can do can be found at the NJ Department of Fish and Wildlife’s website – www.njfishandwildlife.com.

Best regards,

Roberta Sonenfeld

Village Manager

201-670-5500, ext. 203

-PLEASE SHARE THIS INFORMATION WITH YOUR NEIGHBORS-

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Ridgewood Police Issue Traffic Alert Monday May 25th

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Roads Closed Due to Memorial day Run

Ridgewood NJ, Various roads on the East Side of Ridgewood will be closed starting at 7:30am for the Memorial Day run. Main roads including Linwood Ave E.Ridgewood ave E.Glen Ave and Franklin Turnpike will be affected. If your planing to travel through town plan an alternate route to avoid delays.

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Anthony Daniels, families hope to find bone marrow match at Ridgewood Run

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MAY 24, 2015    LAST UPDATED: SUNDAY, MAY 24, 2015, 7:07 AM
BY AIMEE LA FOUNTAIN
CORRESPONDENT |
THE RIDGEWOOD NEWS

Delete Blood Cancer will host a donor drive tent at The Fred D’Elia Ridgewood Run 2015 on May 25 at Veteran’s Memorial Field.

The purpose of the drive is to find bone marrow matches for those suffering from blood diseases, including 23-year-old Ridgewood resident Anthony Daniels, who has Hodgkin’s lymphoma.

“Our goal is to find a match for Anthony as well as numerous others fighting the good fight against blood cancers,” said Mayor Paul Aronsohn. “It’s quick, it’s easy, and it’s so very important.”

Aronsohn helped organize the tent.

“The idea came to me from a mutual friend of mine, Ridgewood resident Linda Scarpa, and Anthony’s father, Kevin Daniels, who suggested the Memorial Day Ridgewood Run as a venue for another drive,” the mayor said. “I thought the idea was great and immediately contacted Gail Kislevitz, who then reached out to the North Jersey Masters board, which embraced the idea.”

“Our family’s been blessed with such outreach from friends, school mates, acquaintances and strangers,” Kevin said. “The support has been first-rate from our mayor and our new friends at North Jersey Masters.”

https://www.northjersey.com/community-news/organizers-hope-to-find-a-match-1.1341859

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Progress needed in level of leadership

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MAY 22, 2015    LAST UPDATED: FRIDAY, MAY 22, 2015, 12:31 AM
THE RIDGEWOOD NEWS

Progress needed in level of leadership

To the Editor:

The current controversy about sidewalks for Clinton Avenue illustrates how paralyzed community leadership is in our town. Going back to arguments about the size of newer PSE&G power poles, it seems that the only way community improvements can be made over the objections of a very small group of residents is when the ultimate authority to do so is entirely out of the council’s hands. Ridgewood needs to progress beyond the “not this, not that” level of leadership in community development.

We have got to move away from Washington, D.C.’s political gridlock and realize that “NO” is NEVER a plan. We are extremely fortunate in having talented and committed villagers, both as residents and leaders, but we seem to have a cumulative inability to articulate systems-wide community solutions that move us in a positive direction.

Access to Ridge School is a traffic disaster that never goes away. One cause is the utter failure in long-term planning that allowed for dead end streets without sidewalks, lack of “walkable” right of ways accessing the rear of school properties, and the failure to install sidewalks on access streets.

The solution is obvious, but it means residents of some streets have to give up their current street designs and also accept parking in front of their houses. If any one group of residents can convince the council to veto system-wide community improvements for our town, no matter what the issue, then the council essentially abdicates its leadership responsibilities to other sources of authority.

This is as very sad outcome indeed.

Martin Walker

Ridgewood

https://www.northjersey.com/opinion/opinion-letters-to-the-editor/letter-to-the-editor-progress-needed-in-level-of-leadership-1.1340459

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Ridgewood church upgrades get retroactive OK

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MAY 23, 2015    LAST UPDATED: SATURDAY, MAY 23, 2015, 1:21 AM
BY CHRIS HARRIS
STAFF WRITER |
THE RECORD

RIDGEWOOD — The Planning Board has retroactively approved work that had been performed four years ago on the Godwin Avenue grounds of the World Mission Society Church of God.

The religious group submitted an application to Ridgewood’s Planning Board last year, not long after village officials discovered the unauthorized work while inspecting the World Mission Society Church of God’s property.

The board’s approval during a meeting Tuesday night grants the religious institution required permits for the repainting of the stripes in the parking lot, the installation of solar-powered light fixtures and the addition of pavement and retaining walls.

The church also plans to plant shrubs along its property’s borders, providing a buffer for neighbors, who have complained about noise generated by congregants whose car headlights also shine into their homes. Work will also be done to improve drainage at the site.

https://www.northjersey.com/towns/ridgewood-church-upgrades-get-retroactive-ok-1.1341376

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Memorial at Ridgewood church honors congregants who made ultimate sacrifice

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MAY 23, 2015    LAST UPDATED: SATURDAY, MAY 23, 2015, 8:25 AM
BY DARIUS AMOS
STAFF WRITER |
THE RIDGEWOOD NEWS

Walter Francis Livingston III grew up with a Mayberry-type life in Ridgewood. He was president of the Student Council at Ridgewood High School, where he was also captain of the varsity football team and a distinguished member of the Class of 1939.

He later attended Franklin and Marshall College, graduating with his classmates in 1943.

Like many boys of his time, Livingston would join the United States Marine Corps Reserves, eventually earning the rank of lieutenant.

Called to active duty in January 1944, the 23-year-old, Brooklyn-born Livingston was killed in action some six months later in Guam; his body laid to rest in the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific in Honolulu.

Waldwick resident Joanne Bonwick is too young to have ever met Livingston. She might not know any of his relatives either.

But one thing of which Bonwick is certain: She considers Livingston her family.

https://www.northjersey.com/community-news/a-tree-grows-in-remembrance-1.1341494

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The Ridgewood Public Library will be hosting a program on Graydon Park on July 23rd at 7pm

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The Ridgewood Public Library will be hosting a program on Graydon Park on July 23rd at 7pm, and welcome you all to share stories, photographs and also join us, please feel free to reach out with any questions. Thanks!

Sarah Kiefer‎
Ridgewood Public Library
Local History Librarian · Ridgewood, New Jersey

GRAYDON POOL MEMBERSHIPS and AQUATIC PROGRAMS

Graydon Pool Memberships and Aquatic Programs

Please visit the Graydon Pool homepage at www.ridgewoodnj.net/graydon to learn about membership rates, program offerings and pool amenities. Be sure to bookmark our Graydon homepage on your computer for future special events and program offerings. Opening day for Graydon Pool is Saturday, June 6th.

2015 season memberships may now be purchased online via Community Pass at www.ridgewoodnj.net/communitypass. Be sure to refer to your online confirmation when purchase is complete for detailed information on how to obtain your photo identification badge. Preseason in-person assistance will be available at the Graydon Pool Badge Office (on-site at the pool) on Saturday, May 9 and Saturday, May 16, 10 am to 12 noon each date.

Aquatic programs, including the Graydon Swim Team and instructional and recreational swim, are also available online at Community Pass, or you may review levels and print program registration forms from our Graydon homepage referenced above. Meet the Aquatic Staff and learn more on the following dates at the pool: Saturday, June 6th, 10 am to 1 pm, and Saturday, June 20th, 10 am to 1 pm.

American Red Cross Waterfront Lifeguard Training (recertification/bridging and new) is available through Ridgewood Parks and Recreation. Details/registration are also available on the Graydon Pool homepage.

Summer is fast approaching, so sign up now. For more information please call 201-670-556

 

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Ridgewood Touch-A-Truck puts smiles on kids’ faces

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LAST UPDATED: FRIDAY, MAY 22, 2015, 12:31 AM
THE RIDGEWOOD NEWS

Touch-A-Truck puts smiles on faces

To the Editor:

My 22-month-old grandson was absolutely thrilled each and every time he got to climb aboard the different vehicles stationed at last week’s Touch-A-Truck event held at Van Neste Square. And in addition to his excitement over all of the shiny vehicles, he was mesmerized by the truck related stories that were read during the Ridgewood Public Library’s Special Truck Storytime, which was held right at the event site.

Needless to say, my wife and I had as much fun watching him (if not more) as he did actively participating in the event itself.

Clearly, Touch-A-Truck would not have been possible without the employees who volunteer to staff it, nor without approval of Village Council members. So, I offer a big thank you to all of the men and women who put smiles on our family’s faces that day by being there with smiles on their faces, and thanks also to the members of our Village Council who agreed to fund this very special day.

Hopefully, a 2016 Touch-A-Truck event is in the planning stages already.

Boyd A. Loving

Ridgewood

https://www.northjersey.com/opinion/opinion-letters-to-the-editor/letter-to-the-editor-ridgewood-touch-a-truck-puts-smiles-on-kids-faces-1.1340416

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2015 Village of Ridgewood Budget Presentation May 27th

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2015 Ridgewood Budget Presentation – Hearing May 27th

Budget Presentation at Introduction of the 2015 Budget on April 22, 2015

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For the Official State Budget Document

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The Budget Hearing will be held May 27 at 7:30pm in the Village Hall Court Room. The Village Council will vote on the budget at the end of the hearing.

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Meet the Manager – Saturday, May 23 9:00AM to Noon

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May 22, 2015

Ridgewood NJ , Village Manager Roberta Sonenfeld will hold office hours for Ridgewood residents and business owners on Saturday, May 23 between the hours o f9:00AM and Noon. This is an opportunity to share your thoughts and provide input to Roberta. These sessions will be scheduled at 15 minute intervals and will be held in the Court Room – on the Fourth Level of Ridgewood Village Hall. Please contact Beth Spinato at 201-670-5500, ext. 203 to make an appointment. Walk-ins are welcome but should realize that the schedule may already be booked. We will announce the schedule for these meetings on a monthly basis.