I’m not going to disparage Valley service as their paid and volunteer workforce deserve better. Having said that, I am extremely disappointed in the actions of the hospital over the past several years and also disappointed with some trustees and foundation members who live in Ridgewood but apparently haven’t protested the shameful suit by the hospital. In my mind, their silence means tacit approval of these dealings which I find quite offensive to our residents.
A renewal of the hospital site should been simply that and the wishes, laws and decisions of this community should have respected. I will not boycott my doctors who are caught in the middle but I will no longer support the hospital nor will I hold some villagers in the same regard.
Valley has already lost to HUMC. They’ve wasted 8 years trying to railroad a plan through that never had a shot at passing. Now at best they’ll get a watered down version of their plan which will be way too little and way too late to compete with Hackensack and Meridian.
If your kid falls off his bike take him to Valley – a boycott won’t accomplish anything. Sure, go ahead and have your babies at Valley too. Valley is a decent neighborhood hospital – run by people whose ambitions greatly exceed their abilities.
Reader says Deputy Mayor Albert Pucciarelli should resign
If the deputy mayor’s firm still does work for Valley, i think he should either resign from the council or have his firm agree they wont represent Valley for a period of at least two years after everything is resolved. Clearly, Al can’t participate in any discussions involving Valley and this is a time where we need our entire council in place. Valley has declared war against the Village and the Village needs to be at full force to respond.
Former Director of the Department of Pediatrics at The Valley Hospital 2010 letter
Check out Cannalito’s other letter (from 2010), https://www.northjersey.com/opinion/on-expansion-of-the-valley-hospital-1.941110?page=all
In it, he says “I suggest that the Valley administration, if it has not already done so, explore the option of moving the hospital out of Ridgewood, then consider converting its campus in one of three ways: as an in-patient and out-patient mental health and/or drug treatment and rehabilitation center, a nursing care facility or housing.
“It is often better to deal with someone or something you are familiar with and know, even if it is not ideal, than take a risk of dealing with an unknown person or thing. Ridgewood residents should carefully consider that.”
I wonder if he got his playbook from that attorney who unsucessfully suggested if zoning for a house on Ridgewood Avenue wasn’t changed to two homes, it might become a drug rehab.
Police, hospital staff rehearse for armed crisis in Paramus
OCTOBER 19, 2014, 7:04 PM LAST UPDATED: SUNDAY, OCTOBER 19, 2014, 7:10 PM BY STEFANIE DAZIO STAFF WRITER | THE RECORD
Begin scenario: A gunman takes a woman hostage at a local hospital and shoots aimlessly toward patients and their nurses on the third floor.
A security officer yells down the hallway, “Run and hide, we have a man with a gun.” Those who aren’t bedridden — or haven’t already been shot — scatter. Others lock their doors or draw the curtains around their beds. They hold their breath as the gunman comes closer.
A team of police officers advances, clearing corners and rooms until they find the gunman and his hostage. They train their weapons on him.
End scenario.
There wasn’t really an active shooter at The Valley Hospital’s Robert and Audrey Luckow Pavilion in Paramus on Sunday afternoon. But hospital staff, volunteers and local and county law enforcement agencies practiced this drill and several others as if there had been.
“One of these drills came to fruition,” Paramus Mayor Richard LaBarbiera said. “Preparedness, you can’t say enough about it.”
Nearly a year ago, police responded to the county’s first ongoing shooting incident, which happened at the Garden State Plaza in Paramus. The gunman fired randomly and later killed himself in the mall.
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In the month since a Liberian man infected with Ebola traveled to Dallas, where he later died, the nation has marinated in a murky soup of understandable concern, wild misinformation, political opportunism and garden-variety panic.
Within the escalating debate over how to manage potential threats to public health — muddled by what is widely viewed as a bungled effort by government officials and the Dallas hospital that managed the first case of Ebola diagnosed in the United States — the line between vigilance and hysteria can be as blurry as the edges of a watercolor painting.
A crowd of parents last week pulled their children out of a Mississippi middle school after learning that its principal had traveled to Zambia, an African nation untouched by the disease.
On the eve of midterm elections with control of the United States Senate at stake, politicians from both parties are calling for the end of commercial air traffic between the United States and some African countries, even though most public health experts and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said a shutdown would compound rather than alleviate the risks.
KATHLEEN DONOVAN FOR BERGEN COUNTY EXECUTIVE BOB AVERY & BERNADETTE COGHLAN-WALSH FOR BERGEN COUNTY FREEHOLDER
Bergen County’s first woman executive leans on experience in bid for second term
OCTOBER 19, 2014, 3:08 PM LAST UPDATED: SUNDAY, OCTOBER 19, 2014, 5:48 PM BY JOHN C. ENSSLIN STAFF WRITER | THE RECORD
Kathleen Donovan has held a variety of public jobs over the last 30 years, including public defender, assemblywoman, county clerk, Port Authority commissioner. Now, as Bergen County executive, she is seeking a second term.
While many people have helped her along the way, Donovan, a Republican from Rutherford, said she’s never really had anyone she would consider a mentor in politics.
That’s probably because in most cases she was the first woman to hold the job, Donovan said.
“Generally, you look to another woman, and there just weren’t any,” she said recently during an interview. “You had to figure it out yourself.”
Donovan was the first woman to represent the South Bergen legislative district 36. When she became county clerk in 1988, she was the first female constitutional officer in the state’s history. She was the first woman to chair the Port Authority commission, which she joined in 1994. In November 2010, she became the first woman elected Bergen County Executive.
In speeches, she sometimes reminds her audience that her mother was born at a time when women did not have the right to vote. In light of that, she considers it a “huge honor” that she has been elected several times and is part of government.
Donovan had a say in crafting the job she now holds. She was part of a charter commission that designed the county executive form of government approved by voters in 1985.
She was one of about 40 people who ran for the nonpartisan charter study commission.
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Left to right are RHS Principal Tom Gorman, Siobhan Winograd, Jacqueline Hennessey, Steven Correll, and Keith Dawkins
The newly elected officers of the Ridgewood High School Alumni Association. Thomas Gorman, principal of RHS and a Class of ’87 graduate, said more than a dozen people attended the Sept. 30 meeting where Keith Dawkins was elected president, Jacqueline Hennessey (Class of ’87) was elected vice president, Steven Correll (Class of ’88) was elected treasurer, and Siobhan Winograd (Class of ’91) was elected secretary.paul mccubbin https://rhs1977.blogspot.com/
RHS Alumni association to strengthen tradition
OCTOBER 17, 2014 LAST UPDATED: FRIDAY, OCTOBER 17, 2014, 12:31 AM BY JODI WEINBERGER STAFF WRITER | THE RIDGEWOOD NEWS
The Ridgewood community is pioneering a path to help support the district’s high school through an alumni association.
Last month, the ad-hoc group formalized itself by electing four officers and creating a board of trustees.
Their first official meeting on Sept. 30 was followed days later, on Oct. 2, with a dinner for alumni at Novo Restaurant.
Thomas Gorman, principal of RHS and a Class of ’87 graduate, said more than a dozen people attended the Sept. 30 meeting where Keith Dawkins was elected president, Jacqueline Hennessey (Class of ’87) was elected vice president, Steven Correll (Class of ’88) was elected treasurer, and Siobhan Winograd (Class of ’91) was elected secretary.
“On some level it was kind of a no-brainer for me [to be involved] in that I’m a RHS alum, my boys – I have an eighth-grader and a fifth-grader – will be RHS alum,” Dawkins said. “The school did a lot for me, and it’s going to do a lot for them.”
Dawkins said he envisions the association being a “powerful network that gives back into the Ridgewood ecosystem,” but short-term he’s excited about the “passion and enthusiasm” from the community.
“[Superintendent] Dr. [Daniel] Fishbein got an email from an alumnus who lives in China and he wants to not be left out,” Gorman said. “It’s growing. A lot of people who couldn’t make it [to the meeting] said, ‘I want to be involved. Get my name on the list’.”
Time to Get to Know Rep Scott Garrett October 19,2014 the Staff the Ridgewood blog
Since most of New Jersey media only offers a one sided caricature of Scott Garret and refuses to cover Scott. We decided it was time to get to know Scott though a short Bio and a few highlights of what he has been doing in Washington.
Scott opposes President Obama’s “too big to fail” policy and any expansion of it.
Scott has been at the forefront of reforming the the banking industry always looking to balance consumer and corporate interests and decrease redundant expansive unnecessary regulation .
Scott has pushed the IRS to answer questions on targeting US citizens based on their first amendment rights .
Scott has been a very strong proponent of Religious freedom and a staunch supporter of Israel unlike his his opponent and most democrats .
Scott opposed the Present’s military plan on ISIS which has now proven to significantly lacking and some would say candidate Obama also did.
In 2006, Scott helped make the Musconetcong river a part of the National Wild and Scenic River System.
Scott has continually pushed for more oversight , transparency and accountability from the Federal Reserve and government-sponsored enterprises known as GSE’s ( Freddie Mac , Fannie Mae )
Since his election to Congress in 2002, Scott has become a leading advocate of tax relief and pro-growth economic policies, earning him awards and accolades from a number of national taxpayer and small business groups.
As a senior member of the House Budget Committee, Scott is on the frontline of efforts to rein in runaway government spending and shrink our country’s ballooning national debt.
A member of the House Financial Services Committee since his election to Congress , Scott has been at the forefront of public policy deliberations dealing with issues related to the financial services industry. Over the years Scoot has developed a considerable expertise in areas ranging from securities and finance to insurance and regulatory oversight, un like many of his critics .
At the beginning of the 112th Congress, Scott was selected to serve as the Chairman of the Financial Services Subcommittee on Capital Market and Government-Sponsored Enterprises. In this role, Scott presides over the subcommittee with jurisdiction over the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and government-sponsored enterprises (GSEs) Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. In addition, the subcommittee also handles all matters related to capital markets activities such as business capital formation and venture capital, as well as derivative instruments.
As founder and Chairman of the Congressional Constitution Caucus, Scott is highly respected among his House colleagues as an authority on constitutional issues. Founded in 2005, the Constitution Caucus provides an effective forum for education on constitutional principles and discussion on the appropriate limitations of congressional action.
Reader says Ezekiel is referenced more in the Book of Revelation: Ezekiel J. Emanuel the final Solution for Obamacare
Ezekiel is referenced more in the Book of Revelation than in any other New Testament writing.[19] To take just two well-known passages, the famousGog and Magog prophecy in Revelation 20:8 refers back to Ezekiel 38–39,[20] and in Revelation 21–22, as in the closing visions of Ezekiel, the prophet is transported to a high mountain where a heavenly messenger measures the symmetrical new Jerusalem, complete with high walls and twelve gates, the dwelling-place of God where his people will enjoy a state of perfect well-being.[21] Apart from Revelation, however, where Ezekiel is a major source, there is very little allusion to the prophet in the New Testament; the reasons for this are unclear, but it can be assumed that not every Christian orHellenistic Jewish community in the 1st century would have had a complete set of (Hebrew) scripture scrolls, and in any case Ezekiel was under suspicion of encouraging dangerous mystical speculation, as well as being sometimes obscure, incoherent, and pornographic.[22]
OCTOBER 17, 2014 LAST UPDATED: FRIDAY, OCTOBER 17, 2014, 12:31 AM BY BETSY MURPHY CORRESPONDENT | THE RIDGEWOOD NEWS
Barbara and Gary Kolesaire, owners of The Tobacco Shop, held a grand opening of their brand new Davidoff Smoking Lounge last week.
It was an elegant affair, featuring a red carpet for those entering the Chestnut Street establishment. On the ground floor, people were sharing wine and conversation, nibbling from an array of hors d’oeuvres; others settled in on balcony chairs, cigars in hand.
The Kolesaire’s sons were greeting arrivals.
Scott Kolesaire, 29, spent three years in the family business and is now with Davidoff’s AVO division in Florida. AVO, he tells listeners, “is named after the man, a jazz musician, who wrote ‘Strangers in the Night’ for Frank Sinatra.”
Tim, 26, is in finance, but assures listeners he remains a cigar enthusiast.
“Because I smoked a pipe,” Gary says, recalling how he got into the business. “I graduated from college and started to go to the Wooden Indian on Ridgewood Avenue. I’m a people person. It was something I loved.”
He beams and says, “Here we are, 35 years and still expanding.”
It’s showtime for the Doomsday set. As the lethal virus crosses America’s doorstep, prep kits and gas masks are flying off shelves and fringe survivalists are going mainstream.
Jason Charles knows the exact moment he will lead his wife and five kids out of their Harlem home, pile into a car, and take off for the wilderness. It will be not long after Ebola reaches the population of New York City, hospitals overflow, and looting begins—when the first riots break out on the streets of Manhattan.
“Right now it isn’t bad, but if the first case happens in New York, you start hearing about hundreds or thousands of people getting sick and it shotguns through the city, then you want to start getting your plan together to leave,” says the 37-year-old fireman and dedicated prepper. When that happens, he says, “it’s a free fall, that’s the system breaking down.”
But the moment of evacuation is delicate. Skipping work, pulling the kids out of school—all of these decisions have lasting consequences. “If you leave too early, you look like an idiot; if you leave too late, you could be dead,” Charles says.
Nationally, the number of Americans concerned that Ebola will shoot through the population is skyrocketing. According to a Wednesday poll by the Harvard School of Public Health, 52 percent of Americans surveyed said they believe the country will experience a large outbreak in the coming year, while 38 percent said they believed they or a family member would be infected. To be sure, there have been just three cases diagnosed in the U.S.
Reader says Time to Boycott Valley and all doctors associated with it
Time to Boycott Valley and all doctors associated with it. Dr. Cannaliato (Mahwah) suggests that Valley move. We agree, I’m sure Meridian can take this property and make it work in its current size? Renew within, you wasted so much time asking for unrealistic increases that you now deserve to fail. Don;t forget to blame the town for your failures too. Pascack Valley and Hackensack now seem like great alternatives for the 6% that are now suffering in Ridgewood. Remember, what Valley is asking for not one single resident would be allowed to do. Follow the rules of the H-Zone and Master Plan. Now shut up and accept the town decisions. Dr. Cannalialto calls our boycott actions childish and spiteful? Valley’s actions are Bulling with funds to do so. Some residents would now rather die in an ambulance than be taken to Valley!
Reader says Valley is just a bully in Need of New Management
Let us not forget the reason why Valley is a no, should be a no, and will always be a NO! Detriment, Detriment, Detriment! Valley makes me sick, not that sick, I won’t go there anymore! I believe Valley has both bully’s and morons at the helm. They are the spiteful ones who don’t give a darn about anyone but themselves. I saw in an article after their defeat that mentioned they should accept this decision and put forth reasonable variances that should be accepted if they need more room here and there…just like everyone else in this town. You are a non taxpaying pompous bully-Valley…stop the nonsense and conform.
No Judge, in his right mind is going to overturn this decision. By the time your mess is over, most of us will be long gone. Ridgewood needs to just get a Public Defender, for free, like Valley’s taxes. Don’t make all the taxpayers suffer! Let’s all figure that 2% cap increase on taxes for sure now. We figured on it anyway? Christie, is looking pretty good now? U liberal holes! “Boycott Valley “signs from CRR soon? I doubt it, a little to Politically Incorrect (but true)?. Enjoy the WE
Reader says Valley Should Sell out to far better run HUMC
HUMC along with Legacy Partners did a true “renewal” of Pascack Valley by renovating and modernizing the EXISTING building of Pascack Valley. Google HUMC PV.com and you will see 128 single patient rooms with new equipment and a wide array of services. They did so, without wasting huge sums of money and without being hostile and disruptive to the host community . In HUMC PV , Westwood now has a well functioning for profit hospital properly sized in a proper location which pays its fair share of municipal taxes. A win win for all .
Valley could/ should have taken this course of action to widen its regional coverage instead of attempting to close PV but they took the low road again. The courts saw right through Valley’s doubletalk and their legal machinations failed. Same will happen with their combative attempts to bully the village into a improper overbuild. Maybe a few Valley trustees with integrity and smarts would consider approaching HUMC/Legacy partnership and seeing if they would be interested in buying Valley and renewing it like PV to be a further part of their wide network. If valley is incapable of plotting out a future beyond over expanding on a wrongly situated property then let others.
