Ridgewood NJ, in the Schedler Ad Hoc Committee Presentation to Village Council , it appears nothing has changed and the committee seemed to disregard all efforts of by local historians ,neighbors and friends of Schedler .
The committees presentation to the Village Council was basically reduced to a full on push for more ball fields at Schedler and nothing else matters .
The report suggest the Schedler was nothing more than a use of open spaces funding as a land grab for sports fields .
Like parking the need for ball fields in town has been questioned and the complete lack of transparency of field use has lead to little taxpayer support .
Yeah, yeah, yeah, all I know is that when things go wrong on the sports field parents kill each other and attack the coaches on the field, and their kids if their kids don’t win get hell at home, insane amount of pressure on kids nowadays that lead to taking drugs, not avoiding drugs but taking drugs. It’s a myth that it is so great for character.
What about organized music, bands and orchestras?
Listen, most kids enjoy a natural spontaneous pick-up sports game, in the street or on an empty field, without adults managing them, THAT is how they learn socialization.That is the way it used to be before kids were over scheduled. Sometimes I see it on a school playground during a time when school is closed and fields not in formal use.
What about organized music, bands , orchestras, chorus, what about organized theater, putting on plays, what about living in a family where you have to share and CARE and learn limits and boundaries, even having a pet, dog or cat will do to teach socialization and sensitivity to others. ORGANIZED SPORT DOES NOT TEACH SENSITIVITY TO OTHERS ANY MORE THAN AN ARMY BEING ATTACKED BY THE ENEMY ARMY. Students both girls and boys too, should be required to take ballet or modern dance. That is how one can learn team cooperation, physical emotional , good health and eating habits. Comraderie, bodily expression, understanding body language that can’t be put into words . TRUE interpersonal SENSITIVITY.
Organized sports are over rated. Way over rated. Dare I say; they are bad. Dance dance dance. Ballroom, ballet , modern, not dancing with the stars , but dancing at school, a public school dance program in the gyms.
Ridgewood NJ, Ridgewood Ice Hockey will be holding a FREE clinic for all Ridgewood Hockey Players this Sunday, September 10th @ 10:50 am – 12:10 pm at Floyd Hall in Montclair, NJ.
All ages and skill levels are welcome (Unfortunately Ridgewood High School players can not participate due to league rules). Our Coaches from the High School, Middle School, and Squirt teams will be on hand and will be on the ice to work with the players and organize different activities. Full Equipment required.
The Ridgewood Ice Hockey Foundation will be there as well selling Ridgewood Ice Hockey merchandise.
We will also be holding an equipment swap, plenty of gear available in all sizes. Perfect for the new player or someone looking for some roller hockey gear. We have lots of gear.
Please let your fellow hockey players, friends and neighbors know. We know there are many future hockey stars in Ridgewood, time to get them involved in Ridgewood Ice Hockey!
Ridgewood NJ, Ridgewood HS Football kickoff dinner was August 26 . The Ridgewood Football season kickoff dinner was hosted by the scholarship committee. .Ridgewood Scholarship Committee President Rich Barclay remarked that Ridgewood football will surpass $1 milion in scholarship money this season.
The Legendary Ridgewood Football Head Coach Chuck Johnson spoke at kickoff dinner along with Senior starter Vincent Riggio and Senior Tight End Pete Marshall spoke to the crowd.
According to Varsity Aces the Football Public School Top 20 Countdown ,Ridgewood ranks Number 5 in our pre-season poll.
Schedule :
9/8 @ Hackensack (Hackensack, NJ)
Location: Hackensack High School
9/15 Paramus (Paramus, NJ)
Location: Ridgewood High School
9/28 @ NV – Old Tappan (Old Tappan, NJ)
Location: NV – Old Tappan High School
10/6 Passaic (Passaic, NJ)
Location: Ridgewood High School
10/13 Bergen Tech (Hackensack, NJ)
Location: Ridgewood High School
10/20 @ Kennedy (Paterson, NJ)
Location: Kennedy High School
10/27 Passaic County Tech (Wayne, NJ)
Location: Ridgewood High School
11/4 @ Eastside (Paterson, NJ)
Location: Eastside High School
Kids, by definition, are impressionable. They know only what they know, what they’re given to know and what they’re interested in knowing. And then that knowledge, often in the form of prompts, is applied.
Years ago my family was seated with the Drobnis family at dinner when talk turned toward the Vietnam War. Mike Drobnis said that after he was drafted he joined the Coast Guard.
His son, Danny, about 10 at the time, grew excited.
“Dad,” he said, “you were drafted?”
“I was,” his father answered.
“Wow,” said Danny. “What round?”
But impressionable cuts all ways, thus, by now, Bill Henel should have known better, should have cut himself a break and watched something else. Or read a book.
Henel was a Brick, N.J., Little League umpire for 20 years, and a member of its board of directors for 25 years.
“But this is my last year,” he wrote. “I’m tired of trying to tell kids about sportsmanship. It’s hopeless, and TV shows the worst of them as funny and cool. A sad state.”
His son, Danny, about 10 at the time, grew excited.
“Dad,” he said, “you were drafted?”
“I was,” his father answered.
“Wow,” said Danny. “What round?”
But impressionable cuts all ways, thus, by now, Bill Henel should have known better, should have cut himself a break and watched something else. Or read a book.
Henel was a Brick, N.J., Little League umpire for 20 years, and a member of its board of directors for 25 years.
“But this is my last year,” he wrote. “I’m tired of trying to tell kids about sportsmanship. It’s hopeless, and TV shows the worst of them as funny and cool. A sad state.”
“My kids tried RBSA softball camp for the first time and LOVED it. I highly recommend it. The counselors taught them great skills. The great thing is it was only $90 a week. You can also pay extra for private lessons for hitting, fielding and pitching.”
Parents are investing more and more time, money, and emotional effort into their kids’ sports — despite what the research shows is best for kids.
by: Kirsten Jones Neff | July 9, 2016
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A few years ago, when our youngest was 12, he waited for a pause in dinner conversation, then cleared his throat and told us that he did not want to play competitive sports anymore. For a moment, the family was stunned into silence.
Full disclosure: for the past decade, we’ve been that family, the one living and breathing our kids’ sports: driving cars full of cleated kids to remote, windblown corners of California to set up goals, sell cookies, shoot photos, run the clock, keep stats and even, yes, coach the teams. We’ve split up to attend different events and foregone family vacations to fly to other states for tournaments. Even as I write, I’m in the midst of organizing a trip to San Diego for my daughter’s high school lacrosse team.
Devotion to our children’s athletic endeavors has “paid off”: our oldest child competes on her university’s beach volleyball team, and our second was recruited to play college lacrosse. Because their sports required huge investments of time and money, my husband and I vowed to never get ahead of our children. They had to be eager to make sacrifices (miss school dances, family vacations, etc.) and at least appear thankful for our financial and logistical support. As it turned out, both daughters love their sports, despite the sacrifices involved. When our son began to play soccer, basketball, and lacrosse, we assumed the status quo: a yearly calendar jam-packed with sports priorities. It was jarring to hear he wasn’t happy. What did we do wrong?
By Christopher Baxter and Matthew Stanmyre | NJ Advance Media for NJ.com
on December 09, 2016 at 11:15 AM, updated December 09, 2016 at 10:15 PM
The state Legislature will hold hearings to examine the conduct of the nation’s leading maker of artificial sports fields, FieldTurf, after a report that the company made millions selling high-end turf for years after knowing it was falling apart.
Sen. Nellie Pou (D-Passaic) said Friday the Senate Commerce Committee wants to hear from top officials at the company, Montreal-based FieldTurf, as well as school districts and local officials to determine the extent of the alleged fraud.
“Millions of dollars in taxpayer funds were spent on this product that the company reportedly knew was defective and after its own executives began sounding alarms within the organization about the product failure,” Pou said in a statement.
Ridgewood NJ, the Ridgewood Maroons scored 24 unanswered fourth quarter points to defeat Montclair, 31-20, preserving their undefeated season at the North Jersey, Section 1, Group 5 semifinals at Ridgewood.
Ridgewood will now take on third-seeded Passaic Tech in the sectional final on the weekend of Dec. 2-4. Last year in the final Passaic Tech beat Ridgewood, 27-0.
Montclair had led 14-7 at halftime behind its explosive offense and very opportunistic defense. Down 20-7 in the fourth quarter , Ridgewood Quarterback Jack Barclay connected with Drew Granski on a 54-yard touchdown reception making it a 20-14 game. With that ,the momentum shifted to the Maroons recovering a fumble on the first play from scrimmage on Montclair’s ensuing possession then ,scoring another touchdown .
The Ridgewood defense forced a punt by Montclair and then on a 3rd-and-8 from the Montclair 48, Barclay connected with Dan Romero for a 35-yard catch.Zach Feagles finished the drive with his second five-yard score to put Ridgewood ahead 28-20. Another fumble by Montclair was just icing on the cake giving Ridgewood a field goal to pull out a win .
Ridgewood Girls Travel Basketball, Biddy Recreational Basketball & Ridgewood Hoops Club invite you to join us for a celebration of basketball and to “kick-off” our season. Welcome to our inaugural Midnight Madness event…
Activities for the entire family!
Saturday, November 19th
5:30pm-9:30pm
Ridgewood High School Gyms 1 & 3
Admission is FREE
Food tent, skills competition, appearance by one of the Harlem Globetrotters, musical performance by Take 4, RHS coaches
Karen Keyes & Mike Troy, giveaways and much more…
Open to all players (boys & girls K-8th grade), their siblings and parents.
Funny because a neighbor to habernickel has emailed over and over again about a dead tree that needs to be removed before someone is seriously hurt and the date she was given was 12/27. Crazy yet our children play fall ball there and marroons soccer. But 12/27 is acceptable???
Yet the village managed to add commercial lighting to the parking lot within a month of a private non profit sharing business start date to allow this business to hold late night restaurant style living but cannot remove a dead tree that may injure a child until 4 months after tha fact. Crazy!!! Why can an excess of village tax payers dollars be used to assist a private business , but cannot be allocated until December to remove a tree that could seriously hurt someone?
Redshirting is the practice of postponing entrance into kindergarten of age-eligible children in order to allow extra time for socioemotional, intellectual, or physical growth. This occurs most frequently where children’s birthdays are so close to the cut-off dates that they are very likely to be among the youngest in their kindergarten class. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redshirting_(academic) )
A gifted athlete will always shine. Parents hold back because they think that one more year will make their kid a gifted athlete. Doesn’t work that way.
A ridgewood parent held his son back because the boy was small. Got news for them, dad is small too. One year won’t make him taller.
I have heard of parents holding back in 8th grade. Manipulating the system. And yes, taxpayers pay for the red shirting. One year 2 eighth grade best friends were magically held back at the expense of taxpayers. I don’t know if the gamble paid off. Never saw the names in the sports pages.
Do you think all day K will stop this problem? It is just another gift for a minority of taxpayers. Taxes are the gift that keep on giving.
Ridgewood NJ, according to a report on NorthJersey.com, Bergen Tech is dealing with too many injuries and was not able to compete in Thursday’s scheduled game against Ridgewood.
Sources say the Knights informed Ridgewood head coach Chuck Johnson on Tuesday afternoon that injuries against Cliffside Park and a player suspended had left the Knights short-handed to play the undefeated Ridgewood Maroons, ranked No. 2 in latest Bergen Record public rankings.
Bergen Tech is a member of the North Jersey Super Football Conference. The Knights were 0-5 before Thursday’s forfeiture to undefeated Ridgewood, who is also ranked No. 19 in the NJ.com Top 20.
Ridgewood Nj, No the new Village Council is not calling in reinforcements just yet . On Wednesday night council meeting the Village Council Acknowledgement of 2016 National Achievements by athletes of Taekwondo All In.
Youngmin Kim Head Coach of Taekwondo All In, 33 Chestnut st Ridgewood. He has run this program to find athletes and introduce sport taekwondo. Taekwondo All In have two different programs one which is recreational taekwondo and one sports taekwondo. Our recreational taekwondo provides with learning respects, discipline, focus, and team work through training. As many people thought Taekwondo is only one of martial arts, but also taekwondo is one of core Olympic sports. I was one of sport taekwondo athletes in Korea. Our sports taekwondo programs provide detailed skills and dreams of becoming an USA Olympian.
Our team has participated from local championships to international championships. We have gradually dominated in local and National championships within 3years. Our athletes achieved more than 60 medals from National and International championships within 2 years. At the first our national championships was last year July 4 in CA San Jose. 6 athletes participated in the championships, earning 7 medals. In this year, 15 athletes more than double from last year participated in National Championships earning 26 medals. In this year National Championships, every athlete made at least one medal. In order to make this happen, athletes dedicated their time and efforts from State championships to National championships. They trained more than 10 hour in a week. That was why our athletes deserved their results in National championships medals.
National championships is to path for Olympic. In order for athletes to participate in national championships, they need to qualify from State championships. Once they qualified state championships, athletes can go to National championships. It is very hard to prepare for National Championships because National Championships is only once a year; therefore, so many athletes have intensive training to participate in this big event. All most over 6000 athletes participate in a year. Only 30% of athletes can receive a medal. Athletes who participate in World class level can allow to participate in Team Trial once they have a medal in National Championships.
Ridgewood NJ, Fox news reports The Pequannock Panthers started their season a week later than expected after a nasty outbreak of hand, foot and mouth disease (HFMD) commonly known as coxsackie virus that has been spreading across northern New Jersey.
The Coxsackie virus or HFMD, caused by coxsackie viruses, usually causes fever, malaise, rash, and small blisters that ulcerate. The most frequent locations for the blisters/ulcers are on the palms of the hand, soles of the feet, and in the mouth. Coxsackie virus was first isolated from human feces in the town of Coxsackie, N.Y., in 1948 by G. Dalldorf.
Prevention is difficult; avoid direct contact with anyone with HFMD, and their stool, saliva, and blister fluid. Hand washing and cleaning of items handled by HFMD patients are the best additional methods for prevention.
The virus prompted the cancelation of games and after-school events at a number of high schools including Pequannock, High Point West Milford and Kinnelon, which just reported 8 cases.
Possible cases of the virus have been reported at a half-dozen high schools in New Jersey. But the state’s Health Department says that is not worth panicking over because outbreaks this time of year are common. In fact last year, there were six and the year before that 23.
HFMD usually occurs in children but can occur in adults. HFMD usually resolves in about 10 days with no scarring, but the person may shed coxsackie virus for several weeks. Lab tests for coxsackie viruses can be done, the vast majority of infections are diagnosed by clinical features (HFMD blisters/ulcers), but this may change with the onset of new outbreaks and causes of severe HFMD. There is no specific treatment or vaccine available for coxsackie virus infections.
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