>Tasting Schedule / Upcoming Events
*Bellini Friday…..
*Wine Sampling Saturday…
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@ www.Supercellars.com
Or Click Below
https://www.supercellars.com/calendar?id=vJp5uYIr
John P Gray
“Son”
Patrick & Sons Super Cellars
32 South Broad St
Ridgewood,NJ 07450
(p) 201-444-0012
(f) 201-444-3070
(e) [email protected]
>Linked In Bergen County and the Ridgewood Chamber of Commerce present a Networking Event at Blend
Networking Event on Wed, May 04, 2011at 6:00 PM – 8:30 PM
Blend, 17 Chestnut st, Ridgewood Nj 07450 ,Cost: $10 per person
Wake the Kids, tell your friends, It’s time to announce our next networking event. It is going to be held at “Blend”, the event will be on Wednesday May 4th from 6:00 – 8:30 pm. The cost is only $10, please pay at the door. Blend will provide free food and will ahve a cash bar. Now some of you may be concerned about parking, let me put your mind at ease. There are many parking lost near Blend and after 6:00 pm the parking is free.
I have been asked by many members if we could have vendors at more events. Well, because Blend is so big, and we are getting the whole downstairs room, we will have plenty space for at least 10 vendor tables. If you would like to be a vendor, please call me at 201-447-1656 to reserve your spot. These spots go quickly, so don’t delay. Now if you want a spot you must bring your own table. Please call me for all the details.
This is going to be a super great event and I anticipate well over 150 people to attend. The air outside will be warm, everyone will be in a good mood, this is a fantastic opportunity to meet other Linked In members, netowrk and grow your business, share new ideas, or talk about your services.
If you are planning on attending, and why wouldn’t you, please confirm by calling me.
David Katz 201-447-1656
>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.
>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)
>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.
>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.
>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
CATO Institute
>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.”
>Laurie just picked up a recommendation from the soccer dads….that means more lights and turf in case you didn’t know where she stood….
From: “Robert F. Davies, Esq.”
Sender: [email protected]
Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2011 09:22:53 -0400
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Subject: [dadsnight-jokes] Laurie Goodman – please vote for her! Fw: Important Info — Please Forward [1 Attachment]
[Attachment(s) from Robert F. Davies, Esq. included below]
Dear Guys,
I think Laurie is terrific, and I urge you to get out and vote for her and for Sheila Brogan!
thanks,
Bob Davies
—– Original Message —–
From: Laurie Goodman
To: Laurie Goodman
Sent: Monday, April 11, 2011 8:47 PM
Subject: Important Info — Please Forward
Hello. I’m writing because you are someone who cares about Ridgewood’s schools. As you may know, I am running for re-election to the Ridgewood Board of Education. I’ve been serving on the BOE for three years, and I have so much more to give to our schools and our community.
I have helped achieve the following during my time on the Board of Ed:
• Installation of new District website and student information system with parent access to grades, attendance, etc.
• Creation and administration of Parent Survey; will be repeated annually
• Improved communication regarding budgets and referendum
• Prioritization and management of referendum/facilities projects
• Improved access to athletic fields for all Ridgewood youth
• Negotiation of contract with REA (teachers’ union) — ongoing
There is so much more I want to do, including:
• Improve communication
• Complete successful union negotiations
• Find more efficiencies in our budget
• Improve technology access and use by students & teachers
• Create improved methods for evaluating teachers
When I ran for the BOE three years ago, it wasn’t because of a single issue. Hot button issues come and go. Our schools need leaders who can explore a variety of complex issues with an open mind, and make thoughtful decisions, day in and day out, to balance the needs of our students with consideration for the taxpayers who fund our schools. You and I may not agree on every topic, but I have a proven track record of working hard on all the issues facing our schools, and I welcome alternate opinions.
The attached flyer gives more detail about me and my thoughts on the issues.
How you can help:
1. VOTE Laurie Goodman on Wednesday, April 27.
2. PLEASE FORWARD THIS MESSAGE NOW to your Ridgewood friends and neighbors.
Thank you,
Laurie
>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)
