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Ridgewood NJ, celebrating the first night of Hanukkah in Van Neste Square .
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Ridgewood NJ, old timers will remember the Ridgewood used to be a town so clean you could virtually eat off the side walk , but that was a long time ago . Just days after Earth Day the Village if a mess .
Earth Day is an annual event on April 22 to demonstrate support for environmental protection. First held on April 22, 1970, it now includes a wide range of events coordinated globally by EarthDay.org (formerly Earth Day Network) including 1 billion people in more than 193 countries. The official theme for 2022 is Invest In Our Planet.
Maybe it’s time to focus on cleaning up our own backyard ?
Location: Ridgewood Business district, E. Ridgewood Ave-Walnut Ave-Dayton St. around the Memorial Park at Van Neste Square
Bergen County’s best night time car show.
Friday, September 9, 2016
Open to the public at 6pm, no entrance fee.
Last year we had over 400 cars and trucks, with lots of other surprises.
Bring the family, have fun with the oldies, check out the big trucks, view the new, expensive and sleek cars, we have it all.
Stay for the music, dine in Ridgewood’s great restaurants -over 94 of them –
see who wins the TROPHIES at 8:30pm.
To enter your car for the show…
email info@ridgewoodchamber.com
or call 201-445-2600.
Check out our website to view past shows…
you will hear, they come far and near to be part
of the “awesome” car show.
See you on Friday, September 9, 2016
Car show in Ridgewood.
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“Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it” George Santayana
Ridgewood NJ, by destroying Village history and discarding those who made sacrifices in our past are we not trampling on the very foundations of what made the Village of Ridgewood ,the Village of Ridgewood?
There are hundreds of commemorative bricks in Van Neste Memorial Park and large commemorative markers associated with the 1995 restoration project, are we so willing to disregard the people and the past ?
Before Ridgewood got its name, it was called Godwinville in his honor. Godwin Avenue is now named after him. There are various other war memorials in Van Neste Square as well.
We should memorialize this caper with a village plaque to hubris and for the future generations to Trust but first Verify.Could have turned out quite differently without the hard and determined efforts to overcome those developers and some whom they called to dance to their opportunistic tune.
file photo by Boyd Loving
Apparently they are quietly going to pull up the bricks with donors’ names on them from when the park was fixed up as a resident project and move them somewhere so they can put more concrete down so they can put more lighting up. Do people even know this is happening? Does the entire town have to look like a German bunker? I like the bricks and for all these years have enjoyed showing friends my name on one of them. I don’t want them moved
file photo by Boyd Loving
Fixing things that need fixing is a great idea. This park however looks beautiful. Paver bricks might have a limited life span, but based on the appearance of these bricks they still have plenty of life. Why change them out for ugly concrete “decorative” paver blocks? How ridiculous.
Fix the things that need fixing. Don’t waste taxpayer money on demolishing perfectly nice things to make something else. So ridiculous. This is not like a living room that you feel like redecorating. This is a park with many commemorative markers. The fact that YOU don’t know any of these people commemorated on them does not make them meaningless.
