FIRE DEPT OPEN HOUSE – Sunday, October 15th 1:30pm – 3:30pm
October 13,2017
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Ridgewood NJ, The Ridgewood Fire Department, 201 East Glen Avenue, invites residents to their Annual OPEN HOUSE on Sunday, October 15th from 1:30pm to 3:30pm. Events will include Fire Extinguisher Training & Demonstration; Engine Ladder & Rescue Company Demonstrations. Refreshments will be served.
Raindate: October 22, 2017
VILLAGE COUNCIL TOURS
October 12,2017
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Ridgewood NJ, Tomorrow begins the first of a series of tours lead by our village council Walktoberfest ambassadors! Learn about Ridgewood’s rich history—and bright future—from our very own governing body of the Village of Ridgewood.
First tour is tomorrow with Ramon M Hache at 11am
Sign up here: ridgewoodwalks.com — with Susan Traina Knudsen.
October 12,2017
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Ridgewood NJ, The Taylor Aguilar Scholarship Fund seeks to raise scholarship funds for children with special needs to honor Taylor’s memory. Taylor and her brothers MJ and John were born on March 5, 2007. Shortly after birth Taylor was diagnosed with Down Syndrome and a heart defect, which required surgery to repair when she was just 6 weeks old.
Taylor began to experience issues with her lungs when she was 2 years old. She braved her way through numerous lengthy hospital stays and various surgeries, including the removal of a large part of her intestine and a tracheostomy. Ultimately, Taylor’s ailments proved to be too much and she passed away on October 16, 2014.
The Fund seeks to keep Taylor’s memory alive by helping other children with special needs through various fundraising efforts. The Fund is a 501(c)(3) tax exempt organization. As such, all donations are tax deductible.
Please join us for Oktoberfest to be held at the Stable in Ridgewood, NJ on Saturday October 21st @1pm! All proceeds will be used towards the Taylor Aguilar Scholarship Fund.
Tickets are $40 for adults and $15 for kids over 5 (kids 5 and under are free). Ticket price includes a variety of Oktoberfest foods and all the ale that you can hold down. We will have entertainment for the kids, a 50/50 raffle, and the awesome live band: Little Nikki’s Radio!
We look forward to seeing you there! Parking in Graydon Parking Lot (walk through Graydon or Maple Field to the Stable). Additional parking on Mastin (across Maple Ave from the Stable).
Tickets :
Sat, October 21, 2017
1:00 PM – 5:00 PM EDT
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Location
The Stable
259 North Maple Avenue
Ridgewood, NJ 07450
October 11,2017
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All Ridgewood High School parents and guardians are invited to a casting call to participate in Jamboree 2018- Jamboree Night Live! A musical revue of television through the years!
Ridgewood NJ, Become a part of this wonderful RIDGEWOOD TRADITION by joining our cast and crew! Over the past 72 years, Jamboree has presented an original musical revue, raising over $1.4 million dollars for need-based college scholarships for graduating RHS seniors.
So, come join the fun! No talent required! Everybody gets in!
CASTING CALL DATES AND TIMES (select one):
Monday, October 16, 7 p.m.
Wednesday, October 18, 7 p.m.
Tuesday, October 24, 7 p.m.
All dates will be in the Ridgewood High School Campus Center.
It’s so easy to sign up just go here to register online.
Performances are February 7, 8,9, & 10 and rehearsals begin January 3rd!! Producers for this production are Carrie Johnson, James Sharo, Meghan Bracken and Tony Cambria! They can be reached via email at [email protected]. After several years as music director we are honored to have Bronwen Eastwood as Director, with the incredible creative team of Maggie Devita-Set Construction/Crew, Steve Friedes Music Director, Holly Cocuzzo-Choreography, Wayne Angelbeck-Costumes and Stage Managers Mark Mulvey and Nick Lewis.
Don’t want to be on stage? Help is always needed behind the scenes, and non-RHS parents are welcome to join the Stage Crew, or volunteer in many other ways!
The RHS Jamboree Scholarship Committee is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization. Please note that ALL SENIORS, not just those with parents/guardians in the show or backstage, are encouraged to apply for the RHS JAMBOREE SCHOLARSHIP! Speak with your guidance counselor for more information.
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file photo by Boyd Loving
October 12,2017
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Ridgewood NJ, the Ridgewood Village council gave American Legion Post 53 Commander Bob Paoli the key to the Village . Most people in town know Bob through the Gold Star Mother’s Day , Memorial Day , Veterans Day , Grand Marshall 2017 July 4th Parade ,or the “oldest man” at Jamboree . Bob told the council , “its important for everyone to get involved ” . Bob praised all the volunteers and all the work they do .
file photo by Boyd Loving
Traffic Alert
October 11,2017
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Ridgewood NJ, Ridgewood Police issue a traffic alert. Overnight milling and paving previously scheduled for Broad Street on Wednesday 10/11/17 has been moved to Monday 10/16/17. The milling and paving of Broad St. between Franklin Ave. and Hudson St. Will take place at night and begin at 8pm. Starting at 6pm, no parking will be permitted in the parking lot at the intersection of E. Ridgewood Ave and Broad St. as well as all of Broad St. Franklin Ave will have two-way traffic under the railroad tracks all night during this construction.
We have flogged the tired horse that is the small business ills of their business plans and exactions of second seating ln on peak business volumes ,general growth of their small to medium sized businesses.
Not one business is safe from the risks of completion ,social change,consumer trends and e commerce and Amazon and big box store
massive parking and long hours all of which creates even more competiton..even the big box stores face virtual competiton of Amazon,Walmart,Clothing and other E retailers.
These competitive global issues are not the responsibility of the towns taxpayers to fix with massice cap ex for comuter and shoppers raised garages .Local. shoppers circle the district and park and walk where we can and get out of our cars and get some needed exercise.
no store owners your parking excuses are killing the taxpayers patience and the towns budgets if we build some half pint Garazilla
Amazon and E commerce won’t stop their charge and e should Mill Pave
reconstruct always and install Parking Kiosks in the existing surfed lots.
How long must this debate go on. PS The town businesses do not intend to modify their employees parking habits.lits first come and first serve like everything else in life.ll
photos courtesy of Boyd Loving’s Facebook
October 12,2017
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Ridgewood NJ,An on-duty uniformed Ridgewood PD Patrol Officer was attacked by a large mixed breed dog on Wednesday afternoon, 10/11. The officer had approached a single family home located on Alanon Road in an attempt to make a notification for another agency. The dog, who was not property restrained while accompanying its owner in the home’s back yard, bit the officer twice. The victim was transported by marked police car to The Valley Hospital for treatment of non-life threatening injuries (a single puncture wound and scratches). Ridgewood PD Patrol Division supervisors and a representative from the Village of Ridgewood Health Department were observed interviewing the dog’s owner during the incident investigation process. It was reported that the dog’s owner was issued at least one summons by the Health Department representative.
October 11,2017
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Ridgewood NJ, Jeff Voigt is spitting toxic nails from his mouth on Facebook, desperately sticking to his published LIES. There is NO GARAGE SUBCOMMITTEE, Jeff. None. Do you think if you state this lie enough times it will somehow become true? He claims that the Mayor is on the committee and one other council member. NOT TRUE, there is no subcommittee. He states that the mayor should step off the committee. How can she step off a committee that does not exist? In the person of Jeffrey Voigt have an elected official who lies openly, publicly, frequently and viciously. This is not what our Village deserves. This is not what people voted for when they were duped into thinking he was a straight shooter.
https://www.vibby.com/watch?vib=m1PngO1DN
October 11,2017
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Ridgewood NJ, Calling all veterans! Please join us on Saturday, October 28, as we host a FREE event honoring your service! The afternoon will feature Major Lester Bornstein and a “Those Who Have Served” panel. Light food and refreshments will be served, and we will also have tables dedicated to health screenings/information and veteran services. Space is limited, so please call 1-877-283-2276 to register today!
October 11,2017
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Ridgewood NJ, The Ridgewood Knights of Columbus Council #1736 held their annual stickball tournament on Saturday, October 7, on Passaic Street in Ridgewood.
Now in its eighth year, the Ridgewood Knights of Columbus, in partnership with the Run for Hope Foundation and Our Lady of Mount Carmel Church, sponsored this community stickball tournament to benefit recently homeless men and women who struggle with addiction, through Mt. Carmel’s Homeless Retreat Ministry. The Homeless Ministry Retreat is a spiritual program to help transform lives for the recently homeless. Through the retreats – one for men and one for women – homeless participants experience hope, faith, and unity through a caring network of men and women from varying socio-economic conditions. All proceeds from this year’s event will be donated to the Homeless Ministry Retreat.
As with previous years, members of Ridgewood’s fire and police departments entered teams, as well as the Village Council. This year’s top prize went to the Skittles Team, made up of Max Gieselmann, Luke Nataro, Brian Skettini and Matthew Favieri.
Perhaps it would be beneficial to also have a management expert and a planning expert present. The management presentation could include things like;
how to mislead your customers so that your product is believed to be in short supply. How to purchase an new building while allowing the infrastructure that delivers your product to be wholly inadequate. And how to overcharge some customers without getting caught (need this one)
The planning session could be all about not being able to provide your product while pointing blame at everything else including some half baked climate theories. Should include a session on how not to upgrade storage, capacity, or delivery while agreeing to increased demand.
These would be interesting.
Just a thought – Since employees need a permit card (displayed on the dash) to be able to park in the reserved spots in the lots, doesn’t the Village have the license plate of the cars that are supposed to park in the designated spots in the lots?
If they do, can they ticket the offenders?
If the Village does not have that information, should they both have it and use it?
Every employee who parks on the street is effectively taking two parking spots. The one with the vehicle, and one reserved (and thus unused) spot in a parking lot. That does not seem ethical or fair. Neither does it help the downtown parking crunch, indeed, it magnifies the problem.
The Village needs to check the lots to see how many employee spaces go unused, and then reduce the number of reserved spots. That would be simpler and less expensive than trying to enforce a system of no employee parking on the streets.
They might also enforce the “no repeat parking” rules on the street.
file photo by Boyd Loving
October 11,2017
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Ridgewood NJ, according to Ridgewood Professional Firefighters FMBA Local 47 this week is National Fire Prevention Week . It is observed during the week (from Sunday to Saturday) in which October 9th falls . October 9th is the day commemorating the Great Chicago Fire.
The Fire Prevention Week commemorates the Great Chicago Fire. On the 40th anniversary (1911) of the Great Chicago Fire, the Fire Marshals Association of North America (FMANA); the oldest membership section of the National Fire Protection Association (NFPA), sponsored the first National Fire Prevention Day, deciding to observe the anniversary as a way to keep the public informed about the importance of fire prevention. In May 1919, when the NFPA held its 23rd annual meeting in Ottawa at the invitation of the Dominion Fire Prevention Association (DFPA), the NFPA and DFPA both passed resolutions urging governments in the United States and Canada to support the campaign for a common Fire Prevention Day. This was expanded to Fire Prevention Week in 1922. The non-profit NFPA, which has officially sponsored Fire Prevention Week since its inception, selects the annual theme for Fire Prevention Week.
The first Presidential proclamation of Fire Prevention Week was made in 1925 by President Calvin Coolidge. The National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) continues to be the international sponsor of the week.
When President Calvin Coolidge proclaimed the first National Fire Prevention Week on October 4–10, 1925, he noted that in the previous year some 15,000 lives were lost to fire in the United States. Calling the loss “startling”, Coolidge’s proclamation stated: “This waste results from the conditions which justify a sense of shame and horror; for the greater part of it could and ought to be prevented… It is highly desirable that every effort be made to reform the conditions which have made possible so vast a destruction of the national wealth”.
October 10,2017
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Ridgewood NJ, As part of the One Book, One District initiative, Ridgewood Schools will host it’s first Tech Night for parents and guardians Wednesday, October 11, 2017 at Benjamin Franklin Middle School, 7pm. Please join the presentation on the Ridgewood Public Schools’ use of educational technology and its security. Following the presentation will be breakout sessions led by school administrators on themes and topics discussed in Dr. Catherine Steiner-Adair’s… book, The Big Disconnect: Protecting Childhood and Family Relationships in the Digital Age. Even if you have not yet had the opportunity to read the book, you will easily be able to participate in the discussions.
