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By Cheryl Conway

With every little

stitch they make,

a group of women have been meeting inRandolph to knit or crochet

essential items for children in

need.

Since January, women of

various ages and skill have

been gathering monthly inRandolph for Charity Knit-

ting, a new group established

by its founder Elizabeth Car-

ney of Randolph. Carney in-

vites volunteers into herhome two hours once a

month and guides them with

any patterns, techniques and

tricks so more items can be

produced and donated tocharity.

Charity Knitting provides

women with the opportunity

to advance or refresh their

skills in knitting or crochet-

ing without any cost, creates

an outlet for them to relaxand unwind and gives them

an opportunity to give to oth-

ers.

Knitting Group StitchesWith Heart And Hand To Warm Children

“It’s a fulfilling thing to

do, giving things to new

moms who don’t have any-

one making these things for

them,” explains Carney, ateacher in Randolph cur-

rently on maternity leave. “I

have a heart for kids.”

Carney, who has beenknitting since she was aboutseven years old, learned the

craft through her mother who

works as a pattern designer

for a yarn company, Kraemer

Yarn in Nazareth, PA.

“She’s my inspiration,”

says Carney, who is alsofounder of the Randolph

Knit School. “She’s made

lots of my clothes; she knits

for my kids now.”It was actually through

her mom that Carney came

up with the idea to knit for

charity.

Carney had attended her

mother’s knitting retreat at

the Pocono Plateau Camp

and Retreat Center this pastOct. when she met one

woman from PA who was

there knitting for charity, a

crises pregnancy center to beexact.

Local volunteers have

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been knitting items such as hats, scarves,blankets, and sweaters for Care One, a crisis

pregnancy center in Hackettstown; and the

children of WorldVision, a Christian human-

itarian organization dedicated to workingwith children and families faced with poverty

and injustice.“Everything is very simple,” in donating

to WorldVision, says Carney. “Anyone can

knit the things; they want simple things; plain

sweaters from everyone,” this way children

who are living in a group setting will not feelslighted if another child has a fancier sweater

or hat.

“Once you collect a box full of stuff, they

give it out to the kids,” explains Carney,

mother of four children and wife of a sup-portive husband who helps her so she can run

her charity knitting sessions.

The last meeting was Sun., March 20,

from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m.; the next session is set

for April 23 from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. Most of the

sessions are usually held on Sat. afternoons.Six women came out in Jan., six others

came in Feb., of various ages from 20, 30 to

retired to “grandmas who knit all day. One

woman brought a whole box of stuff,” mate-rials they can use in creating more items.

Others who came “just learned how to knit

with us.”

So far all women have attended but menare always welcome to come learn the craft,

she says.“All you need is a basic knowledge of

knitting or crocheting and we’ll help you with

the rest,” says Carney. “Anyone can come.

“Bring any supplies you might have,” like

yarn or needles. “We will have extra suppliesfor anyone who needs them. We will supply

the patterns or bring your own simple pattern.

If someone has yarn and wants to turn it over,

we can definitely use it.”

Volunteers were mainly concentrating onblankets so far since the crises center had

only one left. But, as of press time, eight

items had been completed.

Blankets can take four hours, a hat, a little

less “If you are working on it straight

through,” says Carney, who prefers knittingover crocheting because “it’s what I learned

first.” The volunteers usually start their pat-

tern then either finish it at home or bring it

Knitting Group... back for the next session.“We help you pick out a pattern then bring

it back next time,” she says. Everyone works

at their own speed but Carney says “we have

some tricks, bigger yarn and needles,” or

doubling the yarn. “We are trying to produce

a lot quickly.”Carney’s goal is to increase the number of

volunteers and then move the sessions to a

larger site such as the local library, church or

VFW Center.

For directions and to sign up online go tohttp://emc001.wix.com/knitschool. Carney

also runs the Randolph Knit School and

teaches beginning, intermediate and ad-

vanced lessons on knitting and crocheting.

“A lot of people say to me, ‘oh I used to

knit; I wish I didn’t give it up; wish someonecould show me.’” Charity Knitting is the per-

fect place to refresh those skills, and then

give that hand-knitted creation to warm a

young child.

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The Morris County Board of Freehold-ers honored a new Eagle Scout at theboard’s Feb. 10 meeting, lauding the

member of Boy Scout Troop 109 in Ran-

dolph79 for his hard work and positive effortsin his community.

The freeholders presented a certificate of achievement to Eagle Scout Patrick R. Jamesof Mendham, who was joined his parents atthe event, which was held to celebrate thepositive achievements of this young countyresident.

In presenting the certificate, the freehold-ers praised James for his willingness to helpothers and for completing the service project

that earned him the Eagle Scout rank.“We are honored to present a certificate to

this young man who is a future leaders of ourcounty,’’ said Freeholder Director Kathy De-

Fillippo. “The project this young man com-pleted to become an Eagle Scout took a greatdeal time and commitment on his part.

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An automobile crashes in Randolph,a child gets injured on a sports

field, a resident is experiencing

chest pain. People of all ages call for help.

What would happen if no one answered thecall? Who would respond to protect thelives of the community? Who would be

there to help?

Every day, emergency medical techni-

cians and first aiders from the Randolph

Rescue Squad answer the call of families,friends and neighbors who are in need of

assistance. Emergency responders are a

special type of people, with many different

reasons for answering the call of duty.

Some like the challenges and the adrenaline

rush, while others like to sharpen theiremergency skills and techniques. Every one

of them answers the call so that they can

help someone in need.

In response to the growing need for new

volunteer emergency medical serviceproviders, the Randolph Rescue Squad has

initiated a recruitment campaign for inter-

ested residents to learn how to “answer the

call” and serve the community. Althoughthe Randolph Rescue Squad accepts new

members throughout the year, it will begin

its 2016 new member orientation classes

the week April 11.Captain Todd Houston explained that

“The new member orientation program al-

lows a group of new members to learn the

core fundamentals of first aid and ambu-

lance operations as a team.” Each new

member will be paired up with an experi-enced emergency medical technician during

their training as mentor and to ensure they

get the most out of their training.

“This is a great way for interested resi-

dents to give the emergency medical serv-

ices a try,” said Bill Stroh, RandolphRescue Squad’s president. “If, after the

training and riding along with our crews,

the new member finds they want to con-

tinue on to become a full member of our or-

ganization, we’ll continue to provide moretraining and mentorship.”

The Randolph Rescue Squad has a vari-

ety of different levels of membership and

Rescue Squad Recruiting New Volunteersroles in the organization ranging from crew

chiefs and state certified emergency med-

ical technicians to first aid and CPR trained

drivers, as well as auxiliary members. The

organization is currently seeking new mem-bers at all levels.

The Randolph Rescue Squad will hold

new member information sessions and an

open house for those interested in joining

the squad on March 24 at 7 p.m. at its head-

quarters. For more information or to RSVP

email [email protected] or call 973-366-7900.


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By Jason Cohen

The Randolph Girls Basketball team

has not had the most successful sea-

son, but on fan appreciation night on

Jan.28, it did something much more impor-

tant than hitting a game winning three.

These young adults seized the opportunityand gave back to their community when

they donated $2,500 to the Jersey Battered

Women’s Services in Morristown.

According to its website, “it is a full-ser-

vice domestic violence and domestic abuse

Randolph Girls Basketball Raises Money For Women’s Shelter prevention agency with volunteer opportu-

nities. Services include a 24-hour hotline,counseling, safe house, transitional living,

children’s services, life skills education, vo-

cational counseling, batterers’ intervention,legal assistance, teen dating violence serv-

ices, and professional training, educationand youth prevention programs.”

The fundraiser was designed by the

girls’ basketball booster club, who came up

with three different charities for the team to

choose from.

After getting pledges ranging from fivecents to $1 per shot made, the teams- fresh-

man, junior varsity and varsity- competed

in a free throw shooting contest. Each

player took 100 free throws over the courseof a few practices, where Coach KristinTorres recorded how many were made.

Then each girl collected the money from

the pledges.

In a halftime ceremony against Morris

Knolls they presented the check to a repre-sentative from the shelter.

“Our players wanted to show how team-

work, dedication and hard work could help

others and contribute positively to such a

great cause,” Torres said. “We will continueto hold fundraising events in the future.”

The team hoped it would have a positive

impact on the girls from the youth recre-ation and travel teams who were invited to

the game.Kiera Cesareo, 18, a senior and a cap-

tain, told the “Randolph News” it feels

good to help other people and hopes the

younger girls in the basketball program will

continue this tradition of giving back. This

was the first social action or charity theteam has done, but Cesareo is no stranger

to lending in a hand to those in need as she

has volunteered at homeless shelters in the

past.“Donating to the shelter was all positiveand genuine,” she said. “As a program, we

selected the specific charity we wanted to

donate to because we felt we could make a

small, but meaningful impact. “The entire

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By Jane Primerano

Children who spend a few hours pick-ing up litter on their school yard don’tever think the same way about litter

again.

Liz Sweedy, Morris County Clean Com-munities coordinator, explained the benefitfrom public school litter cleanups fundedthrough the Keep Morris County Litter Freegrants. The school must conduct a littercleanup on at least two acres of school prop-erty. The property may include ball fields andwooded areas. The cleanup must be held be-tween April 15 and June 6 with participationof a minimum of 20 students with their adultsupervisors.

“The students who do the cleanups are

pretty grossed out,” Sweedy said.The $500 grants may be used for outdoor

receptacles for recyclables or trash or indoorreceptacles for recyclables only, according tothe county’s press release. These grants areawarded after the school submits required pa-perwork to the Morris County MunicipalUtilities Authority.

The county press release quotes Free-holder Christine Myers, the freeholder liaison

to the MUA. “This is a great opportunity toreinforce how important it is for them to carefor their own environment and will showhow it also improves our communities andour entire county.”

A second part of the Litter Free programis a poster contest for public school studentsin grades six through 12, Sweedy explained.The posters illustrate the ill effects of litteringand each school displays the posters drawnby its students, she said. Each school choosesthe two considered best and submits them tothe county. The four county-wide winnersare duplicated on recycling containers withthe students’ names and the date of the con-test. They are distributed to the schools of thefour winners.

“They are heavy-duty metal containersand they look gorgeous at the schools,”Sweedy said, adding each winning studentreceives a $200 gift card.

Sweedy is hoping more schools partici-pate this year. In 2015, 15 schools partici-pated, but in 2014, 21 schools were part of the contest.

During the cleanup portion of the LitterFree initiative in 2015, 495 students and adult

Students Help Keep Morris County Litter Freesupervisors cleaned up 148 acres and col-lected 45 bags of trash, 52 bags of recy-clables, 66 pounds of scrap metal and 56pounds of construction debris.

Not all litter is created equal, Sweedy con-

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Raritan River is damaging to birds and fish.The Raritan Headwaters Association pullednearly two tons of objects, mostly plastic,from the headwaters last year, Sweedy said.Clean Communities works closely with theRHA.

“Tiny pieces of plastic, plastic ties andsimilar things, get cut off and become brittle,

birds and fish ingest them,” she said.Clean Communities also works with the

Morris County Mosquito Control Depart-ment collecting tires.

“Last year they collected 966 tires,”

Sweedy said.Some municipalities sell stickers for tire

disposal and the Parsippany Transfer Stationtakes them on certain days. But the state tiregrant is no longer in place, so many countyresidents don’t have a convenient place to getrid of them. Some tire dealers do take oldtires for a small fee, but not all do, she added.

Additional information on the grants isavailable from Sweedy at 973-285-8393.

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Center Grove fourth and fifth

graders recently participated in the

National Geographic GeographyBee. Students took tests in each of their

classrooms and the students with the high-

est scores then competed against each

other in the final competition in the

school's gymnasium. Center Grove Princi-

pal Mario Rodas announced that fourth

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Fernbrook fourth and fifth graders

competed in the school's annual ge-

ography bee in Randolph. Principal

Danielle Soldivieri, from left, presented

fourth grader Brandon Lakind with a firstplace medal and recognized second place

winner Michael Marconi, a fifth grader. The

top students in each of the school's fourth

and fifth grade classes were invited to par-

ticipate in the final. Also pictured is teacher

Chris Kerr who helped organize the eventin the school cafeteria.

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T

hree students from Randolph High

School and one student from Mt.

Olive were selected as the winners

the annual Mayo Performing Arts CenterStudent Cover Art Contest.

Randolph High School juniors Ryan

Watson, Veronica Theobald and Savanna

Templeton earned the highest honors in the

contest from more than a dozen entries.

Their works will adorn the covers of MPAC

program books in the spring. Izzie Alvarezfrom Mt. Olive was named the middle

school winner.

The winners were announced at a recep-

Pictured at the Student Cover Art Reception, from left, is Ryan Watson, Randolph High School Art

Teacher Mercedes Ingenito, Savanna Templeton, Veronica Theobald.

Local Students Win MPAC’s 2016 Cover Art Contest tion in the theatre's Art Upstairs Gallery on

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Randolph High

School musicians

Kelly Sun, ChrisMantell and Matthew

Rosenblatt performed with

the New Jersey All-State

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Sun played the clarinet

in the prestigious All-State

Symphonic Band, Rosen-

blatt the trumpet and Man-tell the baritone saxophone.

The All-State Band is a very

selective group of the most

talented band musicians inthe state.

RHS Band DirectorDawn Russo said the stu-

dents successfully audi-

tioned for the region band

and were then able to audi-

tion for the prestigious All-State group. Only 160 high

school musicians were se-

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"Selection into one of

these bands is a huge honor,

a lot of work and a testa-ment to their dedication to

music," Russo said.

Scouts and Leaders from Hopatcong

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By Anastasia Marchese

It is difficult to encapsulate the work of Family Promise.Its mission statement explains it best; “Family Promise of

Morris County is a non-sectarian, not-for-profit organiza-

tion dedicated to ending the crisis of homelessness faced by

Morris County families by partnering with other public andprivate agencies, religious congregations and community vol-unteers to provide shelter, case management and mentoring

services leading to self-sufficiency.”

One of the main ways that Family Promise has served the

homeless community in Morris County has been through its

interfaith network. More than 70 area congregations open

their homes of worship on a rotating basis, to provide tem-porary food and shelter for those without housing. Many vol-

unteers throughout the county make this Emergency Shelter

and food available to those in need.

The new Our Promise drop in center does not provide

nighttime shelter, but is meeting many other pressing needsfor the homeless community in Morristown.

“We have two main focuses at the center,” said Joann

Bjornson, executive director of Family Promise Morris

County “providing for basic needs and case management.”

When people who are not living in a homeless situationthink of basic needs, there are many things that may not come

to mind. Bjornson noted how important access to bathrooms

and hygiene items are for those living without safe housing.

“Even just the dignity and respect of being able to have

access to clean, safe restrooms,” she said. “And things like

underwear, socks and feminine hygiene items.”Bjornson mentioned that the homeless population often

doesn’t have access to laundry facilities either.

“Their socks get wet and they have no way to wash them,

so instead of carrying around dirty socks, they throw themaway.”In order to help people clean and maintain their belong-

ings, the drop in shelter provides laundry cards.

There are so many other things that people may not iden-

tify as needs such as rain ponchos, sunscreen, deodorant, lip

balm and lotions.

“When you think about it, if you are spending most of yourtime outside, you need sunscreen.”

It is also important that during hot or cold weather, people

have access to the centers heating/cooling station, just to be

able to get out of the elements.

Try to imagine living life without a home to provide shel-ter and a safe place for taking care of general health and hy-

giene issues. Any woman who has been camping during her

period can understand the difficulty of feminine hygiene is-

sues without access to running water and toilets. Even the

costs of hygiene products can be prohibitive.Meeting these kinds of basic human needs and respecting

the dignity of the homeless population is a large part of what

the drop in center has to offer.

The second part of the mission is case management. This

Family Promise Opens New Drop In Center, Our Promise

is the opportunity to work with clients and understand their

current situation and how it is affecting them. It also means

finding services that they are eligible for and connecting themup with agencies or organizations that can meet these needs.

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points out Bjornson. “Minimum wage jobs

are often the most physically exhausting, but

how do you get to the next level? You are liv-

ing in poverty, how do you even imagine

that?Minimum wage jobs used to be enough to

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That isn’t doable on a minimum wage job.”If someone gets sick, then forget it. They

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cess to higher paying jobs which would en-

able them to afford housing.Some people may see a homeless person

with a cell phone and think that if they can’t

afford housing they shouldn’t have a cell

phone. Once again, if someone imagines

himself living without safe housing, the needfor a cell phone becomes instantly apparent.

It is also nearly impossible to secure employ-

ment without a phone number. The drop in

center provides charging stations for cell

phones as well.

Family Promise is also working with localhealth care professionals to provide health

care options.“People can use the ER for their medical

care,” says Bjornson. “They have no time for

prevention; there is no time for that, so it’smore reactive.”

Helping people find avenues of care be-

fore there is a crisis can keep them out of the

ER.

When the center first opened in July, it

was having mostly clients picking up their

mail and leaving. About 10-15 people a day

dropped in, but didn't really take advantageof the services being offered. Now, there are

between 25-45 people a day with about 125

unduplicated clients a week, with many peo-

ple staying to use the center, and speak with

the staff and volunteers.“The clinical staff is really helping peo-

ple,” reflects Bjornson.

The mission of Our Promise is not com-

pletely set as Family Promise continues to

figure out what the actual needs are and howto best address them. For 2016, the center is

considering the needs of people released

from prison and hospitals, and considering

how they can help these people find their

place in society.The center is able to do all this through the

use of government funding, and the charity

of various business, organizations and indi-

viduals. They have trained staff on site as

well as the valuable donations of their time

by volunteers. They are currently looking fora volunteer to help at the drop in center.

Anyone interested in getting involved ei-ther as a volunteer or through donations can

contact Our Promise at 973-644-0100 or our-

[email protected] drop in center is located at The First

Baptist Church of Morristown and is open

Mon. thru Fri. 1 p.m.-4:30 p.m.

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Moms Helping Moms Partners With Homeless Solutions Of MorristownBy Maryanne Christiano-Mistretta

Moms Helping Moms Founda-

tion, Inc., a non-profit charita-

ble organization has been

helping families who face financial dis-

tress help meet their babies’ basic needs.

Whether it’s providing access to essen-

tial baby supplies or connecting moms

with a variety of services to support them

during pregnancy and the first three years

of parenthood, such as parenting support,

child development education, financial lit-

eracy, and health and wellness.

When founded in 2011, the idea was

that no baby should have to go without

life’s basic needs.Through partnerships with community

organizations, schools, local government

and others, Moms Helping Moms has col-

lected and distributed tens of thousands of

diapers, clothing, formula, nursing sup-

plies, and countless other baby essentials

to hundreds of families in New Jersey.

President and Founder Bridget Cutler

started the organization “by accident”

when she began collecting excess baby

things her friends no longer needed. Cut-

ler said, “I had a large network of friends

with babies.”

With an assortment of baby products

stored in her garage, Cutler began her or-

ganization. She said, “We’re like a food

bank with diapers and babies.”

Six months ago Moms Helping Moms

paired with Homeless Solutions, Inc., in

Morristown, which began as Morris Shel-

ter Inc. in 1983, created as a private, not-

for-profit, tax-exempt organization. It

expanded to Homeless Solutions, Inc. and

provides shelter for homeless men,women and families.

Homeless Solutions sends Moms Help-

ing Moms a “wish list” for women with

children ages three and under. Then Moms

Helping Moms is able to provide the or-

ganization with diapers, strollers, and

clothing; filling in the gap of what food

stamps don’t cover.

Pictured from left, are Kate O'Conner, volunteer; Megan Deaton, secretary of board; and Bridget

Cutler, president/founder.

“You name it, we have it,” Cutler said.

“With the exception of car seats and cribs;

both have legal issues, we’d need to do

thorough inspections.”

Moms Helping Moms recently ob-

tained a $2,500 grant from National Dia-

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national recipients of the inaugural Funds

for Change grant. Cutler plans to use the

money to re-organize their space, allow-

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streamline their operational procedures.

Money is always the biggest challenge,

according to Cutler. She said, “We’re a

non-profit. We’re new. We don’t have ex-

perience with grant writing. Most of the

money is private donations. We’ve gotten

smaller grants here and there. We don’t

have any full time employees on staff. It’s

a constant work in progress.”

Time is another issue for Moms Help-

ing Moms since most of the volunteers atthe organization have children in pre-

school or younger. Cutler said, “To find

enough people to volunteer has been

tricky. I work two full days per week. I

have to get a sitter. We have a lot of fan-

tastic volunteers: a volunteer bookkeeper,

a volunteercoordinator; we would love to

be open all the time, but at this time we

don’t have the funds to pay somebody full

time.”

Most of the operational work is done

by Cutler and Megan Deaton, who works

as secretary. On Jan. 29, they had their

second annual Snow Ball fundraiser at

Stone House at Stirling Ridge in Warren.

Since their first diaper distribution in

2011, Moms Helping Moms has helped

provide close to 100,000 diapers, as well

as other essential baby supplies, to hun-dreds of families in NJ.

For more information, visit:

momshelpingmomsfoundation.org.

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By Cheryl Conway

Handbags from Lucy’s Gift in Morris-town carry much more weight than awallet, checkbook, lipstick and other

miscellaneous items.With every purchase, customers carry on

their shoulders an effort to help children withspecial needs and end violence. The pain of losing her husband five years ago lingers forowner Marisa Spagnoletti of Morristown, butsix months ago she found a way to channelher loss by opening a non-profit boutique toraise money for various charities such at theP.G. Chambers School in Cedar Knolls.

Spagnoletti opened Lucy’s Gift boutiquein Morristown in Oct. 2015 and donates 100percent of the proceeds to honor her late hus-band Maurice Spagnoletti, a prominent NewJersey banker tragically killed in June 2011,while working in San Juan, Puerto Rico.

As the founder of Lucy’s Gift, as well asthe Maurice J. Spagnoletti Foundation(MJSF), the former Florham Park widow hasmade it her mission to help children in need,victims of crime and honor those who serveand protect others.

Named after their 10-year old daughter,Lucy, Spagnoletti says “Lucy’s Gift is our giftback to the world. It’s just what I wanted todo. It has grown beyond my dreams. I don’thave a website or a Facebook page. I haveemails from people all over the country,” andplans to open a second boutique in a “majorretail strip mall.”

With a background in sales marketing-brand management, Spagnoletti had workedas a marketing director for Crowe Horwathaccounting firm in New York for 13 years,but when her husband was killed, her worldchanged.

Her business “started haphazardly” be-cause of her husband’s death. It began fromhelping a small charity and blossomed into anon-profit business.

Maurice had been good friends with theirdaughter’s doctor, John Connor. It wasthrough that friendship that Maurice came tosupport the Children of China PediatricFoundation (CCPF), a charity Dr. Connorsupports by performing free surgeries for or-phans.

“When my husband was murdered my

Handbags For Charity Carry Mission To Help Children And End Violence

daughter was very sick,” explains Spagno-letti. “The day after he was buried, we metDr. Connor in Morristown” to take care of Lucy who has been faced with health issues.

“Upon our return to NJ, Dr. Connor wasthere and will always be there for us,” Spag-noletti says. “I told Dr. Connor I would keep

my husband’s promise” as he labeled thedoctor their ‘hero.’

Instead of taking money for Lucy fromthose who sent donations after her tragic loss,Spagnoletti directed donations be sent to theCCPF in her husband’s memory.

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At its core, Black Oak Golf Club is a localclub where local individuals and familiesgather with golf as the center of activity, saysGeneral Manager and Director of Golf DanPasternak. “Certainly this is one of the finestand most beautiful 18-hole championshipcourses in the state,” he says, “and it wasn’tthat long ago that it was just a dream in theminds of the owners.”

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As donations increased, CCPF opened a rehabilitationtraining program for chronically disabled and post-surgicalorphans in his honor – the Maurice Journey of love supportand hope J. Spagnoletti Rehabilitation Program. After three

years, when she got back on her feet, Spagnoletti supportedthese efforts by holding small handbag auctions.

In 2012, “I started doing handbag events; women in largenumbers started buying handbags,” she says. By 2014, thisgrew to a sold out crowd. This led to an annual event in June,raising tens of thousands of dollars for charity.

After setting enough money aside, Spagnoletti decided toopen Lucy’s Gift to sell handbags on a regular basis for char-ity.

“My idea for selling handbags for charity has exploded,”says Spagnoletti. “I put the seed money in for the boutique,”in hopes to get money back to cover her salary and health in-

surance. After that, all proceeds will go toward helping oth-ers.

“I don’t have wealth,” explains Spagnoletti. “I created abusiness where all the net profits will go to the foundation,which go to our charities.”

Inside her boutique, Spagnoletti decorated using pink, blueand purple hues. She explains the pink represents children inneed; blue for the victims of crime; and purple for the purpleheart.

Through her foundation, MJSF has expanded its charityto children with special needs at P.G. Chambers School inCedar Knolls to support children in need; is helping victimsof crime by supporting domestic violence and sexual assaultsafe houses such as SAFE in Hunterdon; and aid charities that

support the Federal Bureau of Investigation, whose agents –and families – “inspire Marisa with their heroic efforts to pro-tect us domestically,” as explained in the MJSF mission state-ment.

“When you buy something, you want to know where yourmoney is going,” she explains.

Spagnoletti selected P.G. Chambers as a charity recipientafter meeting one of the mothers who sends both of her kidswho are in wheelchairs to the school, which provides the mostcomprehensive education and therapy programs for childrenwith disabilities.

“We met by chance,” says Spagnoletti about Annabella

Rossi, the mother of the two students at P.G. Chambers. “Atthat moment she was having a bad day; I was having a badday.”

Out of the 35 volunteers at MJSF, Rossi became her eighthvolunteer.

“She started coming to my house; we became friends.”Spagnoletti honored Rossi in 2013 when she presented herwith the Maurice Spagnoletti Foundation Caregiver Award.“Annabella is a role model to me.”

Every year, Spagnoletti presents the caregiver award to anindividual, a teacher, mother or nurse. In June 2015, she gavethe award to a woman named Tiffany who created a park fordisabled children near the Jets Training Facility. Tiffany’sdaughter also attends the P.G. Chambers School.

Lucy’s Gift specializes in mostly handbags, and jewelry.Featured are 200 handbags on display varying in color, priceand function, from popular name brands like Gucci, authenticlines, fake leather to unheard labels. Prices of bags range from$50 to $2,000.

“Handbags are my life,” she says. “The sky is the limit forus; we even carry men’s wallets,” and bags for men. “Withintwo months, we were able to triple our inventory.”

Customers can also find unique costume jewelry piecesand accesories, ranging from $18 to $350, as well as distinctunique items such as a wine tote, her number one seller foundin a Texas boutique.

“I travel the country and find really neat boutiques,” shesays, bringing back those rare items, such as a little mirrorthat attaches to an Iphone, to resell.

“When you come to my boutique, everything is sacred,”says Spagnoletti. “Our dream is to bring luxury to all women.I grew up lower income; I didn’t have money to spend. I al-ways dreamed I’d be able to provide fashion to everyone.”

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adorned with a barrette.To her surprise, Spagnoletti’s mission is

taking off. Concert-singer Naomi Miller, whowas singing in Italian on the streets in Mor-ristown, attended her grand opening; Spag-noletti has been getting emails of supportfrom around the country; and she recently ap-

peared on the NBC Today Show with AlRoker.

“After five years, I’m finding peace. Myhusband was brutally assassinated. Honoringhim was my life mission. The FBI is still in-vestigating the case,” she adds.

A prominent banker for Doral Financial,Maurice was shot and killed at the age of 57

by unknown assailants, June 15, 2011, whilesitting in his car in traffic on the highway.Employed with the company for just oneyear, he had been assigned to work in PuertoRico in Jan. 2011, says Spagnoletti.

“Justice is coming I believe that. The peo-ple who killed my husband will be broughtto justice. We seek justice for all. Hope issomething we have and something we haveto work for. Hope with positive action pre-vails. The men and women I’ve come toknow are beyond extraordinary; they are thereal heroes. ”

Part of Spagnoletti’s mission is to put anend to violence.

“My husband was everything to me,” saysSpagnoletti. “You don’t heal from violence.It is prevention, awareness and treatment that

will lead to end violence. In my very smallway I’m going to make an impact. It’s mymission to end violence and I will. I want myhusband’s memory honored. Nothing bringsmy husband back; my daughter needed herfather.”

She says, “My husband died a hero.” Tohonor him, MJSF plans to award a $1,500Future Hero scholarship to a junior collegestudent in need from Morris County who as-pires a career in preventing or stopping vio-lence. Eric Mohberg, whose fiancé was

brutally murdered 26 years ago, joined herMJSF board and is helping her create thescholarship.

At last year’s annual Handbag Auctionheld in June at the Hanover Manor in EastHanover, $30,000 was raised for the charities.Participants paid $75 for all “you can eat,”dancing, raffles, silent auction of handbagsand other items, and presentations by charityorganizations.

Through her mission, Spagnoletti has

rechanneled her anger to provide a healthyenvironment for her daughter. She explains,“I can only focus on positive so she can growup and be positive.”

“It’s amazing what could be done for thememory of one hero. Through all of this I’mreally finding peace. I was so low and so sad,but now I’m back. If I’m working 24 hours aday, it’s not work, it’s what I love to do. Iknow I never let him down. I feel my hus-band smiling when I can do things like this. Ido my little part in helping them; every yearI feel like I’m doing more.”

On her boutique wall hangs a framedpoem titled “Life Does Not Frighten Me AtAll.” A girl that Spagnoletti met one year agoat P.G. Chambers School read her that poem.“Honestly they teach me more,” she says.

Since then, Spagnoletti has adopted a classthere and “I go and visit her. Nothing fright-ens this little girl who has all these issues. Iwould sell my life for her.”

Spagnoletti has come up with a programin which companies pay people to volunteer.

“Corporations can give not to the founda-tion, but to the P.G. Chambers School. Forthat donation, we will train that staff. Let’sget people to commit to volunteer work.”

As a way to market and add new revenuesource for her boutique, Spagnoletti recently

started Lucy’s Gift Treasure Chest, in whichshe provides non-profits, fair priced trickytray or auction items. Her idea came aboutafter she gave a handbag to a church whoasked her for a tricky tray donation.

Lucy’s Gift is open Tues. and Wed., 11a.m. to 6 p.m.; Thurs., Fri. and Sat., 11 a.m.to 7:30 p.m.; and Sun. 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.

For more information, visit mauricejspag-noletti.com or [email protected].

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Tour the club on Sun., May 1, 1 p.m.-3p.m.

Please RSVP. Inquiries are welcome and

other tour dates are available Call 973-398-

0022; visit www.gsyc.org.

Club With Marina To Hold Open HouseOn Lake Hopatcong

Food! Beer! Music! Festivals! New

Jersey foodies, there is a fun filledfamily day planned with more than

20 gourmet food trucks, partnered with

some incredible bands for Sat., May 7, 10

a.m. to 6 p.m., at Waterloo Village Concert

Field in Stanhope.

Bring an appetite, lawn chairs and blan-kets. Dine on excellent food, while enjoy-

ing the beer and wine garden along with the

amazing sounds. Benefit for Eleventh HourRescue.

Admission is $5 per person; children 10

and under are free.

There will be children’s activities, ven-

dors and so much more! It's a gourmet won-

derland and it's all for a good cause! Moreinformation, visit www.justjerseyfest.com.

Food Truck And Music Festival ToBenefit 11th Hour Rescue

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The New Jersey Coalition AgainstHuman Trafficking and the National

Council of Jewish Women (NCJW),

West Morris Section, are co-sponsoring a

Fair Trade Fair on Sun., April 3, from 1:30

p.m. to 4 p.m., in the Davidson Room in theStudent Center at County College of Morris

in Randolph. The Fair, which is free and

open to the public, spotlights products that

are made by people paid a fair wage under

fair working conditions. More than 20 ven-

dors will offer fair trade products.Attendees will also learn all about how

human trafficking underlies many of the

goods on store shelves. Special guest

speaker Sarah Barasch-Hagans, a second-

year rabbinic intern from T’ruah: Rabbis

for Human Rights, will give an insightfultalk, titled “The People Behind the Label.”

Barasch-Hagans will point out how practic-

ing fair trade and worker justice helps con-

sumers to better “love their neighbors” and

“care for the stranger.” She will report fromthe Florida tomato fields about the people

behind the Fair Food movement and how in

our purchasing and advocacy we can con-

tinue to stand with them.

Barasch-Hagans has been called a “vi-sionary Jewish leader” for her work as one

of the founders of the BlackLivesMatter

Haggada. She is a third-year rabbinical stu-

dent at the Reconstructionist Rabbinical

College, based in Philadelphia.

The NJ Coalition Against Human Traf-ficking was founded in 2011 to fight the

crime of human trafficking and help its vic-

tims throughout our state. The coalition

consists of over 100 diverse organizations,

including community groups, faith-based

groups, government agencies and serviceproviders. The coalition's current focus is

on educating youth in hopes of preventing

the spread of this heinous crime.

Fair Trade Fair To Spotlight Products

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occer season will be kicking in again soon and with thatmore cases of kids getting hit with head injuries due to

heading the ball, running into posts or even anotherplayer.Measures have been taken by the United States Soccer

Federation to create a policy to limit head balls by youth play-ers. The new guidelines which may begin in the fall of 2016are expected to prohibit players 10 years old and youngerfrom heading the ball. The regulations also aim at reducingheaders in practice for players who are between the ages of 11 and 13.

Soccer organizations are not alone in taking initiativeswhen it comes to concussion, whether it involves minimizingor placing greater awareness on the impact a concussion canhave on an individual, especially if the brain is not allowedenough time to rest.

Dr. Catherine Mazzola, the director of Pediatric Neuro-logical Surgery at Morristown Medical Center and Dr.Richard Servatius at the Rutgers’ Stress and Motivated Be-havior Institute (SMBI) are conducting a study to understandhow head injury affects brain functions such as attention,learning and memory.

“Every year we see hundreds of kids with traumatic braininjury (TBI),” says Mazzola, who has been treating children

with TBI since 1995.Several young patients have come in to Mazzola’s care

that were concussed from heading a soccer ball or injured

during the game. Restricting head balls to younger playersmay protect those young brains, she agrees.“I think that’s a good thing,” says Mazzola. “You only

have one brain; it’s a good idea to take care of that brain.”The safety initiatives were brought on as a resolution from

a class-action lawsuit filed by parents and players in 2014against U.S. Soccer, FIFA and the American Youth SoccerOrganization regarding negligence in treating and monitoringhead injuries sustained from playing soccer.

According to that case, nearly 50,000 high school soccerplayers sustained concussions in 2010- more players than inbaseball, basketball, softball and wrestling combined, accord-ing to a New York Times article.

“That kind of contact with a ball can do damage to thebrain tissue,” says Mazzola, and may only be apparent on amicroscopic level.

One of the main obstacles in dealing with concussion isthat doctors can not diagnose a concussion based on a catscanor MRI, says Mazzola. A person may have no signs of a frac-ture or bleeding, but that does not mean a child’s brain hasnot suffered an injury.

Mazzola says more attention has been given on the issue

of concussion than it has in the past based on more studieson the impact that concussion can have on a person’s brain,especially when not given enough time to heal or rest.

“We didn’t realize how much damage is done when youhave multiple concussions,” says Mazzola. “We have moreawareness of long-term effects of concussion.” A child witha concussion will almost show signs of slow processing. Aftertime their cognitive performance will function.

“We’ve realized how important and damaging, how repet-itive or mild, brain damage is on the young brain,” she ex-plains. “Mild brain injury can affect that child’s cognitivelong-term outcome. The younger the child, the more vulner-able because the brain is not fully developed yet.”

Younger children who head a soccer ball also have neckmuscles not as strong as older children and can therefore facesome whiplash, she adds.

“The younger they are the more they are at risk for injury,”says Mazzola, co-founder of the New Jersey ConcussionCenter.

With the implementation of the ImPACT Test, a mini IQtest that can be taken online to measure a person’s perform-ance in certain areas - such as visual memory, auditory per-formance, accuracy and speed of processing information-specialists are more accurately able to realize if a person’s

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brain is healed enough to return to an activity.All high school athletes are required to

complete an ImPACT test online, usually be-fore their season begins so if someone gets aconcussion while playing a school sport they

can retake the test and measure any improve-ment over time. Players are not supposed toreturn to play “until previous score is within10 points from baseline,” explains Mazzola.

“It’s a timed test,” Mazzola explains.

“You can see sometimes that people have aproblem with visual learning,” or verbalskills, reaction time can be slower. Then intwo months, when they retake the test, the in-dividual may improve.

Five to ten percent of kids do not get better

after concussion, Mazzola says, and thereforeneed cognitive remediation, which requiresthem so seek a specialist for monitored care.Students can experience learning problemsafter faced with a concussion, especially if

the brain is not given enough time to heal.“There is a period of rest and rehabilita-

tion for those with concussion,” says Maz-zola. That message needs to get out toteachers, parents and coaches that these indi-viduals need to be given adequate time to

rest.“You have to give your body and brain

time to heal,” says Mazzola. “Coaches wouldsay ‘you just got dinged,’ but people are re-ally realizing that even mild brain injury isimportant. It’s just as important as having anankle injury or arm injury.

“They may look alright but they may notbe acting alright,” she continues. “When indoubt sit them out,” and have them be seenby a medical doctor or concussion specialist.“If you have any question, best thing is to pull

them out and let them rest no matter what youdo.”Putting a child back in a game puts the

player at risk of having a “second impact injury” which “can be lethal” in some cases,says Mazzola.

To measure when a child is ready to goback into a game, players must complete aReturn To Play (RTP) protocol to make suretheir balance and coordination are up to par;

that they are cognitively performing well,brain is performing well; and to make surethey are headache free, she says.

Some students, however, do not play asport and may miss the opportunity of havinga baseline ImPACT Test conducted. Mazzola

is offering this supervised timed test for freethrough her office at the NJ Pediatric Neuro-science Institute for any child who has had aconcussion within the past six months.

Testing began in July 2014 and will con-tinue through Nov. 2016. The approved studywill then be used to determine how quicklychildren recover from concussion and howtheir response time improves after concus-sion.

Participants can also get a copy of theirtest results to share evaluations with teachers

and coaches so they can understand if a childneeds more time for brain rest.Anyone interested in participating in the

Rutgers Concussion Study and wants a freeImPACT Test, should call Mazzola’s officeat 973-326-9000. The test is being offered toyouth between the ages of 11 and 18.

For more information on concussion, goto www.njconucssioncenter.com.

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Concussion Study...

Four up-and-coming opera singers

plan to showcase their talents as The

Metropolitan Opera Rising StarsConcert Series comes to Mayo Performing

Arts Center on Sat., April 2, at 8 p.m. The

program will feature Adam Diegel, Amanda

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Mesko, and Trevor Scheunemann. For

more than 125 years, the MetropolitanOpera has been the artistic home of the

greatest singers in the world. But the Met is

also the launching pad for the opera stars of

the future. Enjoy these performances by thenext generation of opera stars as they per-

form selections from the world’s most

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Mayo Performing Arts Center is located

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