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A different approach to traditional fall gardening
A different approach to traditional fall gardening
OCTOBER 10, 2014 LAST UPDATED: FRIDAY, OCTOBER 10, 2014, 12:31 AM
BY BETTY WIEST
THE RIDGEWOOD NEWS
Fall is a fabulous time for plantings in your perennial garden. But are you tired of the mums, asters, cabbage and kale that seem to flood the landscape? OK, there are many instances that these plants are rightfully engaging whether used singly for or massed. They are reliable and last fairly long into the fall season. Depending on the weather, kale/cabbage can last well into January.
There are several other outstanding plants noted for their performance in the waning months of the year. Here are some of my favorites:
Montauk daisies are at the top of my list for fall color. I rank them as a superb plant with its pure white petals, yellow center and shiny thick waxy leaves. Montauk daisies are herbaceous perennials and confirm to the “classic” daisy look similar to Shasta daisies. Taxonomists have decided (after the third try) to currently classify it Nipponanthemum nipponicum. You can find it in Montauk, Long Island but it is indigenous to Japan and a plant of China. It is happiest when grown in full sun. It can grow to a height of 3 feet, but I discovered that if you pinch it back around July 1 (or remember by the 4th of July), the stems will not get so leggy. This past growing season I managed to pinch back a large mass of them on my front walkway; another smaller section by my driveway was not pinched back (I just forgot). The plants by the walkway are looking real good with strong stems and plenty of blooms; the ones by the driveway are long and leggy, spilling out onto the drive and making for fine footwork trying to avoid them when I get out of the car. Montauk daisies can withstand frost; freezing temperatures will brown the leaves and ruin the flowers.
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CHRIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH “SECOND-CHANCE” BLESSING OF THE ANIMALS
Photo credit: Boyd A. Lovin
CHRIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH “SECOND-CHANCE” BLESSING OF THE ANIMALS
Ridgewood NJ, Families and children of all ages were invited to a Blessing of the Animals celebration on Sunday October 12, 2014 at 3 PM, at Christ Episcopal Church, 105 Cottage Place in Ridgewood.
Everyone was invited to bring their favorite pets: dogs, cats, rabbits, goldfish, stuffed animals . . . any beloved “creatures,” great or small. A short service celebrating all animals was followed by individual blessings of each animal. Refreshments were served.
Some orphaned dogs and cats who are eligible for adoption from the Ramapo-Bergen Animal Refuge in Oakland were also be present.
The service was held at the outside altar, which is by the entrance to the Nursery School on Franklin Avenue.
Many churches hold Blessing of the Animals celebrations on the first Sunday in October, honoring St. Francis of Assisi, the patron saint of animals, whose feast day is October 4. The Christ Church celebration on the 12th provides a second chance for anyone who missed the prior week.
Christ Episcopal Church is located at 105 Cottage Place, at the corner of Franklin Avenue, in Ridgewood, NJ. For more information, call the church office at 201-652-2350 or visit the website at christchurchridgewood.org.
More photos to come
Photo credit: Boyd A. Loving
Village of Ridgewood Seeking Residents to Volunteer to Serve on the Green Team Advisory Committee
Village of Ridgewood Seeking Residents to Volunteer to Serve on the Green Team Advisory Committee
The Village Council is looking for residents who are interested in volunteering to serve on the Green Team Advisory Committee. This Committee is looking for residents who are interested in making Ridgewood a sustainable community; and/or are LEED Certified; and/or have working experience with sustainable practices such as solar energy; and/or have experience in obtaining grants for sustainable purposes.
All interested residents should fill out a Citizen Volunteer Leadership form (found on the Village website), and send it with a cover letter and a biography or resume to:
Heather Mailander, Village Clerk
Village of Ridgewood
131 North Maple Avenue
Ridgewood, NJ 07451
Deadline for submissions is October 27, 2014.
Readers says The best defense against heart disease is a very healthy lifestyle.
Readers says The best defense against heart disease is a very healthy lifestyle.
Valley can build separate buildings. That’s what I thought it was doing. Buying up all that land.
It can use its present location for Maternity for example and other buildings for other things.
Don’t kid yourself no. 2. Cancer has NOT advanced very much since the 1950s. Get it and find out for yourself.
The best defense against heart disease is a very healthy lifestyle.
Life style is 80 percent of health which includes a healthy environment. No traffic pollution no poison on lawn that gets into water spoils ecology causes nerve damage and CANCER !!We should be discouraging traffic from CBD. POLLUTION. YIKES!!
There are many hospitals around this area that have the same wonderful!! easy cancer cures as Valley. We don’t need Valley here at all. Growing up I was 15 miles from a hospital and survived to tell about it.
Are you aware of what was on News Hour a few days ago, channel 13 with Judy Woodruff, and in the Atlantic magazine this past Sept.
A proposal, written by a bioethiscist that people age 75 refuse all medication because statistics of millions of people PROVE that after that age health declines very precipitously and painfully and the cost of prolonging life not worth it emotionally, physically. It’s very painful for most people. We’re talkin fancy western countries. Not to mention financial and using resources that would be best used to save young people. Very much antibiotics that are becoming and are ineffective now from overuse.
Now that would put Valley out of business so very fast. They are counting on sickies 80 years and over for their survival. They said so at meetings.
But UP UNITL ABout age 75 it’s mostly in our control. Very much so. If we keep the lifestyle and environment clean. If we don’t live the correct lifestyle Valley, can’t really do anything significant for us despite their hype.
Valley should spread out. with multiple buildings. Why are they such pigs.
Reader says time for Valley Trustees to Show their faces
Reader says time for Valley Trustees to Show their faces
During the Planning Board process Valley demanded a list of all members of the CRR to, among other things, establish their legitimacy as an organization and to limit the individuals’ ability to comment publicly. The CRR complied.
Now it’s time to out Valley’s Ridgewood-based supporters starting with Councilwoman Hauck. She was elected by Ridgewood tax payers who are now clearly the target of the organization she supports. She should renounce her support of Valley to fight the lawsuit or resign the Council. Now.
It’s also time to publish the list of attendees at the various Valley fundraisers. Let’s call these people out when you see them in town. Ask anyone still sporting an “I support the Valley Renewal” bumper sticker how they feel about Valley now. Valley is using the money you contributed to raise our taxes. Is this what you guys had in mind?
Upstarts join New Jersey health insurance market dominated by big three
Upstarts join New Jersey health insurance market dominated by big three
OCTOBER 12, 2014, 11:00 PM LAST UPDATED: SUNDAY, OCTOBER 12, 2014, 11:03 PM
BY LINDY WASHBURN
STAFF WRITER
THE RECORD
For decades, the world of health insurance in New Jersey has been dominated by huge companies with billions of dollars in assets and millions of customers. But later this year, residents who shop for their own insurance will have a choice of two new companies — one launched by young tech entrepreneurs and the other a non-profit cooperative.
The two upstarts are Oscar Insurance, the brainchild of Joshua Kushner, scion of the Kushner real estate fortune, and Health Republic Insurance of New Jersey, conceived by the Freelancers Union, an association of independent workers, and funded with loans from the federal government. If they succeed, they may just goad the traditional behemoths of insurance into a different way of doing business. And by increasing the competition for people who buy their own coverage, they may already be helping to hold down premiums.
“These innovative new entrants are shaking things up for the entire industry,” said Ceci Connolly, managing director of PriceWaterhouseCoopers’ Health Research Institute, which recently released a report asking, “Who will be the [health care] industry’s next Amazon.com?”
– See more at: https://www.northjersey.com/news/upstarts-join-new-jersey-health-insurance-market-dominated-by-big-three-1.1107824#sthash.VaD64Zjx.dpuf
American suicide bomber’s travels in U.S., Middle East went unmonitored
American suicide bomber’s travels in U.S., Middle East went unmonitored
By Adam Goldman and Greg Miller October 11
VERO BEACH, Fla. — There were no U.S. air marshals watching the newly clean-shaven passenger on the transatlantic flight, no FBI agents waiting for him as he landed in Newark in May 2013 after returning from Syria’s civil war.
As the 22-year-old Florida native made his way through a U.S. border inspection, officers pulled him aside for additional screening and searched his belongings. They called his mother in Vero Beach to check on his claim that he had merely been visiting relatives in the Middle East. But when she vouched for him, U.S. officials said, Moner Mohammad Abusalha was waved through without any further scrutiny or perceived need to notify the FBI that he was back in the United States.
Earlier this year, after returning to Syria, Abusalha became the first American to carry out a suicide attack in that country, blowing up a restaurant frequented by Syrian soldiers on behalf of an al-Qaeda affiliate. His death May 25 was accompanied by the release of a menacing video. “You think you are safe where you are in America,” he said, threatening his own country and a half-dozen others. “You are not safe.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/american-suicide-bombers-travels-in-us-middle-east-went-unmonitored/2014/10/11/38a3228e-4fe8-11e4-aa5e-7153e466a02d_story.html
U.S. lacks a single standard for Ebola response
U.S. lacks a single standard for Ebola response
Larry Copeland, USA TODAY8:11 p.m. EDT October 12, 2014
Corrections and clarifications: A previous version of this timeline gave a different date for Thomas Eric Duncan’s first visit to Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital. The hospital revised the date.
ATLANTA — As Thomas Eric Duncan’s family mourns the USA’s first Ebola death in Dallas, one question reverberates over a series of apparent missteps in the case: Who is in charge of the response to Ebola?
The answer seems to be — there really isn’t one person or agency. There is not a single national response.
The Atlanta-based Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has emerged as the standard-bearer — and sometimes the scapegoat — on Ebola.
Public health is the purview of the states, and as the nation anticipates more Ebola cases, some experts say the way the United States handles public health is not up to the challenge.
“One of the things we have to understand is the federal, state and local public health relationships,” says Michael Osterholm, director of the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy at the University of Minnesota. “Public health is inherently a state issue. The state really is in charge of public health at the state and local level. It’s a constitutional issue. The CDC can’t just walk in on these cases. They have to be invited in.”
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2014/10/12/examining-the-nations-ebola-response/17059283/
West Bergen Tea Party Presents Rich Danker, Campaign Manager Jeff Bell for Senate This Tuesday 7pm
West Bergen Tea Party Presents Rich Danker, Campaign Manager
Jeff Bell for Senate This Tuesday 7pm
“Proud To Be An American”
Battle for control of the Senate
Rich Danker, Campaign Manager
Jeff Bell for Senate
Join us 7 pm, Tuesday, October 14
At the Larkin House , 380 Godwin Avenue, Wyckoff
(1/4 mile North of Stop & Shop on the Right)
More information:201 891-5918 conservative_caucus@aol.com Twitter: westbergentp
About Jeff Bell
Jeff Bell has worked at the highest levels of American politics and public policy for over forty years. In 1978, at age 34, he became the New Jersey Republican Party nominee for U.S. Senate when he defeated four-term incumbent Clifford Case. As the first major candidate to win on the theme of tax cuts, he produced television ads for Ronald Reagan’s 1980 presidential campaign using the same message. He later worked as an advocate for the bipartisan Tax Reform Act of 1986 with Jack Kemp and Bill Bradley, the man who defeated him in the 1978 general election.
A graduate of Columbia University, Jeff went on to serve in the U.S. Army in Vietnam, where he was an intelligence advisor to the South Vietnamese infantry during the Tet offensive. Upon returning home, he joined the national presidential campaign staff of Richard Nixon in 1968 and later went to work for Ronald Reagan in 1974. He developed Governor Reagan’s first proposals for federal tax and spending reduction when Reagan ran for president in 1976. During the 1980 campaign, Jeff was elected from New Jersey as a Reagan delegate to the Republican national convention.
From 1988-2000, Jeff served as president of Lehrman Bell Mueller Cannon Inc., an economic forecasting and consulting firm. From 2000-2010, he was a principal of Capital City Partners, where he worked on promoting comprehensive immigration reform, the Bush Administration’s faith-based initiatives, and combating human trafficking, among other issues. In 2009, he was among the co-founders of the American Principles Project, a public policy organization dedicated to advancing conservative ideas derived from the principles of the American founding. As Policy Director, he headed its monetary reform initiative aimed at renewing sound money by restoring the dollar’s value in gold. He resigned from that position in February 2014 to run for U.S. Senate.
Jeff is the author of two books, The Case for Polarized Politics: Why America Needs Social Conservatism (2012), for which he was interviewed by the Wall Street Journal and Rush Limbaugh, and Populism and Elitism: Politics in the Age of Equality (1992). His articles have been published in the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, Weekly Standard, National Review, and various other outlets. He has served as a fellow at Harvard’s Kennedy Institute of Politics, visiting professor at the Eagleton Institute at Rutgers University, the DeWitt Wallace Fellow in Communications at the American Enterprise Institute, and as a board member of the American Conservative Union and Campaign Finance Institute. From 1978 to 1980, he served as the president of the Manhattan Institute.
Jeff and his wife Rosalie have been married since 1983 and have three sons and one daughter ranging in ages from 19 to 28 as well as a one-year-old granddaughter.
“And Thine Eye Shall Not Pity”
Here are some powerful words from Cheryl Bass, who wrote to the New Jersey Jewish News:
“And Thine Eye Shall Not Pity”
It is time for the Jewish people to take a close look at Senator Cory Booker and realize that the upcoming election affords us an opportunity to end his political reign in office. He is looking to put through legislation called REDEEM – Record Expungement Designed to Enhance Employment.
Those who have been convicted of non-violent crimes would get a “second chance”; another program to come down the pike right behind other failed programs also espousing “second chances”. They are not second chances when they become multiple chances.
Opportunity has been given through many programs at great expense; and the results are abysmal.
The United States is only 5% of the world population, but we have 25% of the world’s prison population. The percentages work out that way because of the many criminals. Maybe the criminals should stop committing crimes.
What Cory Booker is looking to do with this REDEEM ACT is:
1) change criminal responsibility to 18 years of age
2) expunge or seal records of juveniles of non-violent crimes before they turn 15
3) place limits on solitary confinements of juveniles
4) petition court to seal criminal records. Sealing records keep them out of FBI background checks requested by employers.
Enough already. Cory Booker was Mayor of Newark for many years. He was re-elected to that position. Opportunity was his to bring down unemployment (unemployment is higher than ever), reduce the crime rate of Newark (double the national average), improve the educational system (whatever became of the millions from Facebook), and in general improve the entire city of Newark (population has left the city and blighted areas from the 1967 riots remain).
Booker has even looked to get bi-partisan support from Rand Paul of Kentucky. Kentucky has half the population of New Jersey; the crime rate is below the national average. Kentucky’s capital is Frankfort with a population of 25,527; Newark’s population is 10 times that at 277,140. With all due respect Senator Rand Paul (R- KY), find another issue to attach your name to.
Last month, in the Parsha, Shoftim we read, “…And Thine Eye Shall Not Pity”: if you keep excusing crimes and letting the criminals be exonerated for those crimes, then those criminals and others who closely are watching are only encouraged to commit bigger crimes.
As Jewish people we cannot condone, we cannot excuse, we cannot overlook.
Do not encourage criminals to commit worse.
Do not vote for Cory Booker. Cast your vote for his opponent, Jeff Bell.
Cheryl Bass,
Spotswood, NJ
Hacking a big danger for small business
Hacking a big danger for small business
OCTOBER 12, 2014 LAST UPDATED: SUNDAY, OCTOBER 12, 2014, 1:21 AM
BY JOYCE M. ROSENBERG
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
THE RECORD
NEW YORK — It’s not just big businesses like JPMorgan Chase, Target and Home Depot that get hacked. Small companies suffer from intrusions into their computer systems, too.
The costs associated with computer and website attacks can run well into the thousands and even millions of dollars for a small company. Many small businesses have been attacked — 44 percent, according to a 2013 survey by the National Small Business Association, an advocacy group. Those companies had costs averaging $8,700.
JPMorgan Chase said the attack on its computer servers during the summer compromised customer information from about 76 million households and 7 million small businesses.
Target Corp., Michaels Stores Inc. and Neiman Marcus also have reported breaches of their computer systems in the past year, as did Home Depot Inc., whose customers include small contracting companies.
Typically, businesses must have a computer expert find the source of the attack, and systems have to be purged of harmful software like viruses. When websites are shut down, revenue can be lost.
– See more at: https://www.northjersey.com/news/business/small-business/hacking-hurts-little-firms-too-1.1107551#sthash.VSIhemP3.dpuf
Not every food is helped by putting it in the refrigerator, scientists say
Not every food is helped by putting it in the refrigerator, scientists say.
OCTOBER 12, 2014 LAST UPDATED: SUNDAY, OCTOBER 12, 2014, 1:21 AM
BY JOHN PETRICK
STAFF WRITER
THE RECORD
Distinguished scholar, microbiologist and Rutgers University professor Dr. Don Schaffner would like to impart some personal wisdom upon the general public in an effort to educate those who might benefit from his insight: He eats his peanut butter at room temperature only.
“I personally just don’t like cold peanut butter, so I keep it out of the refrigerator,” Schaffner said. And he’s not just talking Skippy, or Jif. He means natural peanut butter, without any preservatives. While other food safety experts, in an abundance of caution, might say he’s living dangerously, you know what, says the renowned food scientist and unabashed peanut butter lover? It ain’t gonna kill ya.
“In my house, it doesn’t stay around for more than a couple of weeks. And I have never experienced it going rancid, within that time frame. If you expect to keep it around for a month or more, if you eat peanut butter that slowly in your house, then maybe you should think about putting it in the refrigerator. But within a couple of weeks, I’ve never had a problem.”
– See more at: https://www.northjersey.com/food-and-dining-news/food-news/not-every-food-is-helped-by-putting-it-in-the-refrigerator-scientists-say-1.1107531#sthash.uY117VDw.dpuf
N.J. tells Ridgewood to obtain open space or lose ‘green’ funds
N.J. tells Ridgewood to obtain open space or lose ‘green’ funds
OCTOBER 12, 2014 LAST UPDATED: SUNDAY, OCTOBER 12, 2014, 1:21 AM
BY CHRIS HARRIS
STAFF WRITER
THE RECORD
RIDGEWOOD — The village is in the market for nearly 2 acres of open space — and it must acquire it to replace a playground that officials sold off some 30 years ago.
Village Manager Roberta Sonenfeld said the state Department of Environmental Protection first noticed that the South Broad Street playground had been developed for low-income housing in 2012 — three decades after the Bergen County Housing Authority purchased the plot from Ridgewood.
Because the village receives funding from Green Acres, a state conservation program, the land it sold — under state mandate — had to have remained “recreational or conservational” in nature.
Sonenfeld said that until that missing open space is replaced in the village five times over, Ridgewood cannot apply for Green Acres grants.
Outstanding funding also is being withheld by the state for Habernickel Park on Hillcrest Road.
Village officials said last week that Ridgewood ended up netting $60,000 from selling the land to the county in 1982. Now, it will need to purchase 1.9 acres of new open space to rectify the situation.
Sonenfeld said last week that she “started looking for tracts of land that would work” as “pocket parks” soon after assuming her office during the spring.
– See more at: https://www.northjersey.com/news/n-j-tells-ridgewood-to-obtain-open-space-or-lose-green-funds-1.1107617#sthash.bFvSLCDr.dpuf
Readers says Valley’s Board of Trustees needs to be accountable for this adversarial action
Readers says Valley’s Board of Trustees needs to be accountable for this adversarial action.
The Valley Board of Trustees/Directors has not only allowed but financially rewarded the mismanagement of this now disgraced entity for it wrongful and failed attempts to bully the entire region.
The names of Valley directors should be made public so they can directly hear the wide annoyance at the poor decisions of its management team including the latest slap in the face to our village who has hosted and subsidized their tax free entity which is a farce to be discussed in detail another day.
First there was the Pascack Valley fiasco where Valley tried to sue to close that hospital agaisnt the wishes of that region instead of capitalizing on a golden opportunity to cheaply purchase a properly situated location that would have expanded their regional scope and market share while appeasing two communities. Valley’s lack of vision and their unethical legal maneuvering failed causing much lost of respect and goodwill and likely much business from that area , now Valley and its Board are repeating the same error that will further tarnish their standings in our community and the legacies of their predecessors.
The management and Board of Hackensack Hospital showed itself to be more attuned to the marketplace and prepared and likely will be again when other opportunities arise. Valley’s embarrassing doubletalk and repeated attempt to blatantly overdevelop a limited site despite knowing past rulings and objections reveals arrogance, incompetence and their over reliance on past back room brokering instead of sound management . To try to force something so sizeable and detrimental upon this town against its wishes was a Valley blunder and PR disaster and this high handed suit just tops off their list of errors.
There needs to be accountability for this adversarial action. Again, who are the Board of Trustees/ Directors? Time for them to be identified and properly addressed in good form for wearing blinders and showing disregard. I fully support and stand with the rightful decisions of our planning board and council and will gladly pay more taxes if that is what is required to fend off an hypocritical entity that argues positions without merit solely out of self interests and employs distasteful tactics to boot.
Our town reps were recognized by our residents for their thoroughness and integrity in this wasteful fiasco and my hope is that they wont feel pressure to succumb to the pressure tactics of a bully. Valley and its loud lawyers can scream like petulant children who don’t get their way to an absurd request . They can rant and threaten all they want but the resolve of this community to stand up for itself and its future generations will remain . High time for the Valley’s Board of Trustees to step up and stop the nonsense once and for all or face the music from the community
