May 18,2016
the staff of the Ridgewood blog
Ridgewood NJ, Bergen LEADS class of 2010 picture. Stacy Antine and Roberta Sonenfeld. Classmates, friends, united in their efforts to stick it to Ridgewood. Perhaps this explains why Healthbarn is asking Ridgewood residents to forward there emails to Village Manager Roberta Sonenfeld?
From the Healthbarn website ; Stacey Antine is a registered dietitian who holds a Master’s of Science in Food, Nutrition and Dietetics from New York University. Alarmed by the long list of lifestyle diseases (obesity, heart disease, diabetes, etc.) faced by children today, she founded HealthBarn USA to connect children to natural foods and where they come from. Expanding her commitment to help families eat healthier, she started HealthBarn Foundation and it’s first project Healing Meals, a food gifting program for ill children with cancer and serious blood disorders and their families.
That is an organization for developing leaders. It is a great reference for the Health Barn Administrator.
Not quite the same as college roommates
Is BegenLeads a partisan organization, or does it accept and graduate individuals regardless of political affiliation?
The Village Manager seems to try to help her fellow Bergen Leads graduates. Isn’t her HR hire a Bergen Leads graduate? Preferring local residents for municipal hiring does not make it easy for a VM to favor friends from different parts of the county.
Scandalous!
Roberta’s days of political favors are coming to an end. It is absolutely no coincidence that a friend of hers got the lease for a business in a residential neighborhood. Antine has absolutely no right to be running her business in a residential neighborhood and Sonenfeld pushing her highly contested lease application through is unethical. And unscrupulous. And right in character for our soon-to-be-ousted VM.
Breath of fresh air *choke*cough*gasp*
There are a good many businesses being run in residential areas of the village, at least this one is paying rent ti the village. People in this town should stop bitching about every little thing and get on with there lives.
5.09 might be right home offices galore new economy. Have to raise revenue to live and pay taxes etc
Valley …over..we lose. Garage….over..maybe not. Election…over..we win. Teachers….boring.
What can we bitch about???? How about a business in a residential neighborhood?
At least we are getting some money back from that wasted money spent on the horse farm.
It should have been developed into 55 and over housing, but that never happened.
Bergen Leads is not partisan. It is a leadeship and development program. You meet other leaders while in the program. This type of “networking” is appropriate.
“Monthly seminars challenge participants to dissect issues, debate viewpoints and develop approaches to community problems, most notably through an annual class project and Public Forum. A robust leadership curriculum, coupled with individual assessments and executive coaching, fosters the personal and professional growth of each participant.
Alumni of Bergen LEADS (ABL) stay informed and connected through service projects and social activities. They share their expertise as mentors, speakers or site visit hosts, raise scholarship funds and recruit/screen applicants– all the while furthering their involvement in the civic life of our community.”
Non-Alumni of Bergen Leads (NABL) hereby object to the fact that the municipal workplace is being invaded by a clique of self-appointed “elites” showing an troubling amount of interest in scratching each others’ backs, and nobody else’s backs but their own!
10:03pm – keep watching. This business may cost someone their job at the village hall.
WELL,WELL, WHAT CAN WE SAY, ONE SCAM AFTER A NOTHER , OVER AND OVER , WOW , PEOPLE OF THE COUNCIL GET THE BROOM AND START SWEEPING IN JULY. her and lap puppy too.
Have known Ms. Stacey Antine for the past 40 years. I am very surprised of her career choices. From her youth into adulthood, she was cruel and often mocked and ridiculed others who were overweight or different. Now she is this fake caring person making a living teaching children. Sorry, it’s hard to believe she is “woke” or had a moment of clarity.
More high school popularity contests on the Ridgewood Blog. Get over yourself if you’re in your forties or fifties. Have you never grown up!?