April 16, 2014 Edition of The Observer

By Ron LeirObserver Correspondent

KEARNY –For more than two decades,

it sat – carefully preserved – in a Pennsylvania residence.

Next month, however, the Purple Heart medal awarded posthumously to a long-dead Kearny serviceman will be re-turned to the soldier’s home-town to be stored in a place of honor.

Bill Sweeney, outreach coor-dinator for the Kearny VOICE (Veterans Outreach Informa-tion Community Education) project, co-sponsored by the local American Legion Aux-iliary and American Legion, said the medal was conferred on Army Pvt. Wilfred J. Warhurst Jr., a World War II veteran killed in action Jan. 19, 1945, in Europe.

Warhurst’s name is engraved on a bronze plaque, along with the names of other Kearny hero veterans, that is part of a permanent display mounted in the lobby of Kearny Town Hall.

Sweeney said that last September, Tony Cappiti, the-then commander of the United Veterans Organiza-tion of Kearny, got a call from Army Capt. Zachariah Fike and his nonprofit organization Purple Hearts Reunited, which collects lost medals and seeks to return them to recipients or

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Two neighboring West Hud-son communities have been shut out in their bids to snag federal funding to hire more firefighters.

Kearny Fire Dept. and Harri-son Fire Dept. each applied for a share of SAFER (Staffing for Adequate Fire & Emergency Response) grants but each was

turned down.For Kearny, it was the third

rejection in as many years; for Harrison, the second knock-down.

Kearny had applied for $1,974,525 to pay 15 new fire-fighters’ wages and benefits for two years; Harrison had sought $6 million to subsidize

36 new firefighters for two years.

In a denial letter sent to Kearny Fire Dept., SAFER overseers said, “In fiscal year 2013, FEMA (Federal Emer-gency Management Agency) received over 1,500 SAFER applications requesting more than $1.67 billion in federal

assistance. The large number applications received and the finite amount of avail-able funding resulted in many worthy applicants not being funded and underscores the highly competitive nature of this program.”

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NEWARK –

The U.S. Environmen-tal Protection Agen-cy (EPA) announced

last Friday, April 11, that it plans to undertake the most costly public water-way cleanup in its 43-year history.

At a press conference held at Newark Riverfront Park, EPA Regional Admin-istrator Judith A. Enck said the agency will remove 4.3 million cubic yards of toxic sediment from the lower eight miles of the Passaic River, from Newark Bay to the Belleville/Newark border.

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KEARNY –

Fred Kuhrt died doing what he loved best – giving of himself to

others.His former employer, the

Kearny Board of Education, is honoring the automotive technology instructor’s self-lessness by establishing the Fred Kuhrt Scholarship Fund to benefit students interested in advancing in the technical field.

Kuhrt, a 34-year teacher at Kearny High School who had planned to retire this sum-mer, was in his classroom on Jan. 9 when he suddenly col-lapsed and died. He was 58.

A scholarship fundraiser has been scheduled for April 26, from 6 to 11 p.m., at the Irish American Association, 95 Kearny Ave., featuring live entertainment, raf-fles and 50/50s, beer, wine and food. A $50 donation is requested. Tickets are available from family mem-bers, the bartenders at Snug Harbor or Bob Walenski at Kearny High.

A 1973 Kearny High alum who played football and ran track, Kuhrt always loved tinkering with anything on wheels, his wife Debbie said. He worked for L.J. Kennedy Trucking Co. on Schuyler Ave. and an automotive garage on Dukes St. before enrolling at the-then Kean College in Union to get a de-gree in industrial technology.

Loved ones, colleagues and friends remember Kuhrt as a renaissance man of sorts.

Aside from his passion for vehicular maintenance which he passed on to his enthralled students, many of whom went on to careers

in the automotive indus-try, Kuhrt’s enthusiasm for sports and the outdoors was also contagious among his young apprentices.

At KHS, he coached fresh-man football, helped run the rifle team and chaperoned the German Club on several field trips.

A devoted camper – he frequented the Great Di-vide in the foothills of rural Sussex County – Kuhrt was big into fishing and hunting, deploying bow and arrow and muzzle-loader shotgun, Debbie recalled. He was president of the Oswego Fishing Club of Kearny and Saxton Falls Rod & Gun Club in Warren County.

Walenski, head custodian at KHS and a longtime pal, said his wife Susan was a

sharpshooter with Kuhrt’s rifle team. “He came to my wedding and I went to his son’s [wedding]. We used to go shopping together for tools at Harbor Freight in North Bergen. He was more family than friend.”

Former colleague Bill Gay-dos, KHS science chairman, said: “Fred could fix any-thing. And he had great rap-port with his students. Often, he would stay and work with them on a class project ‘till 4 or 4:30 [p.m.].”

And he was the family photographer, documenting

travel and other adventures, Debbie said.

Yet, as much as he enjoyed being active and interacting with nature, he also made time for books. “He was a history fanatic and he was an expert on big battles in mili-tary history,” Debbie said.

But above all else, it was clearly Kuhrt’s attachment to the motor pool that con-sumed many of his waking hours. He was a member of the Wanderers Car Club of Sussex County and the MG

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Saturday’s opening cer-emony for the North Arlington Recreation

Girls’ Softball season took on a political twist.

Mayor Peter Massa, a Demo-crat, complained that he was snubbed by League President Mike Tetto when Tetto picked Republican Councilman Joseph Bianchi to throw out the honorary first pitch at Al-lan Park. Bianchi is hoping to unseat Massa in the municipal election in November.

Massa griped that Tetto’s selection process amounted to a “political endorsement” of his opponent. It should be the mayor who gets the honor of addressing the crowd at the home opener, Massa said, “particular when, as mayor, I sign off on resolutions author-izing all the improvements made to the field.”

“And, I supported, along with the other Democrats on the council, giving Mr. Tetto

[and other recreation groups] a $2,000 stipend to bolster their program,” Massa said.

Asked about the mayor’s charge, Tetto said he was a registered independent and that the mayor was “upset he didn’t get called up [to speak] because it’s an election year. Last year, the mayor and coun-cil didn’t even show up for our opening day.”

Tetto said he picked Bianchi for the honor “because he’s heavily involved with our program, even without having any kids or grandkids playing for us. He returns my calls, he goes down [to Allan Park] to help out and he was in support

of lights for the field.”But Tetto said the Demo-

crats on the governing body reneged on a promise he says was made last year to put in the lights. “We were told the field will be so bright that, ‘you’ll be able to see Allan Park

from outer space,’ ’’ he said.The way things are now,

Tetto said, he’s going to be hard-pressed to find sufficient playing and practice time for the 180 girls on the combined rosters of his 18 teams, ranging from the younger kids to high school age.

While Bergen County has provided new fields at River-side County Park, only Field 1 is available to his girls soft-ball teams and they’ll have to compete for field time with North Arlington Little League, Queen of Peace softball and Queen of Peace baseball.

And, at Allan Park, where the girls’ games are played on weekends, if North Arlington High School is playing there on a weekday and its game runs late, there’s even less time to use the field for prac-tice, Tetto said.

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Fife, 73, is spending time in St. Michael’s Medical Center, Newark, where he is recovering from surgery.

The hospital declined to provide any information but Councilman James Doran, who is serving as Fife’s cam-paign manager for this year’s municipal election season, said that Fife was experi-

encing chest pain early last week and went for tests.

“An echocardiogram showed that his aortic valv e was blocked,” Doran said. So Fife had an operation last Thursday to replace that valve, he said.

Doran said Fife was ex-pected to remain in the hos-pital for five days and then undergo outpatient cardiac therapy for a few weeks.

“He should be a new man in about six weeks,” Doran said.

Until Fife is ready to return to duty, Doran said that Town Council President Michael Dolaghan and the various municipal depart-ment heads will look after town business.

NUTLEY –The state has awarded

Nutley $2.75 million in tran-sitional aid this year that Revenue & Finance Com-missioner Tom Evans said would somewhat offset the pain of a municipal tax in-crease triggered by a devalu-ation of the Roche property.

Evans said that the special compensation corresponds to the diminished share of municipal, school and county taxes that Nutley will realize as a result of demoli-tion at the Roche site, which its owners plan to vacate by sometime in 2015.

Had Nutley not received the aid package, the owner of an “average” house as-sessed at $314,000 would have faced a municipal tax increase of $109 but, with the aid, the tax impact is reduced to a projected $72 increase just on the munici-pal portion of the 2014 tax bill, Evans said.

This is expected, he said, despite the fact that overall municipal spending is up by less than 2%.

Because the aid is a “spe-cial category” of transitional aid -- designed to offer tax relief to a municipality that experiences an extraor-dinary loss of property value by providing a “partial adjustment” to cover that lost value – Nutley won’t be saddled with the fiscal monitoring by the state that normally accompanies the granting of transitional aid, Evans said.

“The state recognizes that Nutley ranks in the 96th percentile of the state’s Best Practices checklist so for that reason we won’t be included in the traditional fiscal oversight program,” he said. “We’re seen as a well-managed municipality.”

Evans said that Nutley would have to reapply in 2015 for the special aid as the township continues to transition to a future with-out Roche.

The property owners have hired a marketing firm to find a buyer for its property, which overlaps Nutley and Clifton.

KEARNY –A Franklin School sixth-

grader in Kearny faced dis-ciplining in the wake of an incident that happened out-side the Davis Ave. school last Thursday.

Sources said that two sixth-graders, best of friends, were waiting for classes to start that morning. After one of them report-edly hid the other’s cellular phone, her friend allegedly removed a kitchen knife from a backpack and dis-played it.

At that point, sources said, other students reported the incident to teachers. The Juvenile Aid Bureau respond-ed, but sources said there was no threat made and no one had been injured.

There was no lockdown of the school and police worked with school administrators to calm everyone. Administra-tors were pleased with the police response. A school resource officer was tempo-rarily reassigned to Franklin from Kearny High.

As rumors spread through the community about the incident – especially with it happening the day after multiple students had been stabbed by another student at a school near Pittsburgh, – phones reportedly were ring-ing off the hook around town.

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NUTLEY –

The temperature was bone-chilling and the rain was falling in tor-

rents, but undeterred by the nasty weather, members of the Nutley Volunteer Emergency & Rescue Squad were out in the storm, turning a Lincoln Town Car into a heap of scrap metal.

They had to, for inside the vehicle, a man was trapped.

For 45 minutes, using the “Jaws of Life” and other extrication devices, they worked diligently at their task, smashing windows, ripping

off the roof and doors and otherwise dismantling the auto, until they could safely secure the victim with a neck brace, move him onto a backboard and then gently lift him onto a gurney for transfer to the waiting ambulance.

Even though he had no injuries whatsoever.

It was all part of a simulated heavy-rescue drill, played out before an appreciative audience of Boy Scouts, who watched the entire procedure protected by a large canopy, graciously provided by the squad. (We weren’t kidding about the rain; it was like something out of “Noah.”)

The drill was held the night

of April 7 in the lot behind the EMS headquarters on Chestnut St., just east of Passaic Ave.

The Scouts, members of Nutley Troop 142, had volunteered to serve as “victims” for a first-responder training course, and the squad was happy to comply, utilizing a car from an anonymous donor. (Poor car. It went from four-door sedan to no-door convertible in under an hour.)

We had expected that the kids might be lying scattered

around on the ground, but if that were ever in the plans, the downpour put an end to any such scenario.

The Scouts, aged 11 to 16, still got to be “victims,” though. Inside the HQ building, they were bandaged and fitted with various splints and braces -- and they received instruction on how to use first aid equipment.

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In the movie, “The Mis-fits,” Gay, the cowboy character played by Clark

Gable (in what would turn out to be his last film) tries to persuade two buddies to join in a “mustanging” enter-prise.

“Beats wages, don’t it?” Gay asserts.

The implication is that you get to keep your freedom by living life on your own terms.

Hearing that phrase echo in my mind, just a few days later, I thought of Jeff Bahr, my former Observer col-league and friend from Bloomfield who was killed April 10 while riding his be-loved 2012 Triumph Explorer motorcycle in West Buffalo Township, Pa.

Jeff was the kind of fel-low who liked to go his own way, carve out his own path – (he loved to play drums but never for a band and he ran like the wind but never went out for the school track team) – and the entertaining and instructive “One-Tank” trip columns he wrote for The Observer evidenced two of his lifelong passions: writ-ing and motorcycling.

If Jeff were writing about the day trip he’d made to the Keystone State that fateful day, he’d be sure to point out, for example, that West Buffalo Township was a rural 38-square mile area of Union County, Pa., pock-eted by dairy farms and a population of 2,795 (as of the 2000 Census) and featuring as a unique attraction, the 63-foot-long, King-post truss Hayes Covered Bridge, built in 1882 and named to the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.

Longtime associates and loving friends of Jeff, includ-ing fiancée Maria Cirasella, reminisced about their fallen

comrade Sunday during visitation at the Levandoski Funeral Home, Bloomfield.

Lifelong friend Joe Ap-pleton, who attended the same kindergarten class in Oak View School, Bloom-field, said that, already at age 10, Jeff had accumulated an astounding vocabulary, reinforced by a voracious ap-petite for reading.

Jim McDowell, now a resident of Dingmans Ferry, Pa., who met Jeff as a teen, remembered Jeff confid-ing that he was thinking of quitting school. “He told me, ‘The teachers just don’t get me,’ so I asked him what he intended to do with himself and he thought about it and finally he said, ‘I’ll just be-come a wordsmith.’ ‘’

And so he did.“The way he processed

things was amazing,” Mc-Dowell said. “The angle through which he viewed things had a perspective like no one else. And he could find humor in everything. He could always find a way to make you laugh.”

Jeff ’s writing career started by accident, Appleton said, when he was working for an environmental lab and his employer asked him to write something about the com-pany. He went on to write for local newspapers, magazines and book series.

He was a contributor to “Weird NJ” and “Weird Vir-ginia,” the “Armchair Read-er,” “Amazing & Unusual USA: Hundreds of Extraordi-nary Sights” and Backroads: Motorcycles, Travel & Ad-venture magazine, a monthly publication that circulates on the East Coast.

Brian Rathjen, who, with his wife Shira Kamil, pub-lishes Backroads, has en-joyed reading Jeff ’s prose for more than a quarter

century. “We’ve been friends and biking pals,” he said. “Last August, when Jeff had his cancer – and I had had cancer myself – we were a mutual support team. We kind of lifted up each other.”

As for the articles Jeff sub-mitted, Rathjen said the au-thor’s copy “had a fresh and vibrant style” and invariably featured “a wealth of bizarre and interesting knowledge.” And, Rathjen added, “If we needed to fill space at the last minute, you could always rely on Jeff to provide some-thing. He was always upbeat, positive, one of the most unique guys I’ve met.”

Jeff ’s ability to draw people out amplified his story-tell-ing talent. As McDowell put

it, “People fascinated him. He got them to open up.” And that probably explained why he was a CB radio op-erator. And why he outfitted his motorcycle helmets with radio units so he could carry on conversations with bike buddies while he was riding to share his adventures on the road with them.

Jeff ’s fixation with bikes began officially in 1985 when, according to biker buddy and Netcong resident Paul Alesi, he got his first cycle, a Nighthawk 950. “He kept it for a year, sold it and got a 550E Suzuki. And then he went to a Suzuki Intruder 700,” Alesi said. “He’d take that up to New Hampshire to visit his sister.”

Warwick, N.Y. resident Dave Erfer, who rode with Jeff for the past 15 years after they met at a Backroads rally, figures his pal went through “eight or nine” bikes in his lifetime.

“The bike he was using when he was killed he’d had only two weeks,” Erfer said. “He said it was ‘close to per-fect’ because it had anti-lock brakes, traction control and cruise control.”

“The biggest thing about Jeff was, he always knew his history about the places he visited,” Erfer said. “We used to say that riding with Jeff was like riding with Google because of all the facts he could recite.”

“I’m going to miss our morning wake-up calls. In fact, he called me at 9:10 [a.m.] the morning he died on his helmet intercom to tell me he was on his day ride to Pennsylvania. I was enroute to work. An hour later, he was dead.”

As he was working his way through his recovery from throat cancer, Jeff would work out in the basement of Appleton’s home. And, a week before the fatal acci-dent, Appleton recalled, Jeff “rode his bicycle eight miles to try and get his wind back. He was so overwhelmed that he could do that, he pulled over and cried.”

For some reason, Appleton said, Jeff had a fascination for skyscrapers and high structures. “He’d drive any-where to find one of those huge radio towers.”

Maybe now, Jeff is look-ing down from the ultimate height and realizing that he’s achieved all that he set out to do and that those he’s left behind appreciated – and were inspired by – the effort.

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KEARNY –

Kenneth Pincus is Kearny’s new health officer.

Pincus, a resident of War-ren, was hired last Tuesday night by the local governing body at an annual salary of $99,500, effective May 1. He replaces John Sarnas, who retired April 1 after a four-dec-ade-plus career in the health department.

Pincus has worked since 2006 as principal registered environmental health special-ist for the Westfield Regional Health Department in West-field. Before that, he was registered environmental health specialist for the Edison Department of Health from 1995 to 2006. And, prior, he was a part-time registered en-vironmental health specialist for the Middle-Brook Regional Health Commission in Green Brook from 2004 to 2010.

This will mark Pincus’s first time serving as a certified municipal health officer.

Still, Mayor Alberto San-tos said he’s persuaded that Pincus is a good choice for the job.

“We had nine applicants of whom all but one had a mu-nicipal health officer license and extensive experience in local health departments,” Santos said. “We interviewed two with the most experi-ence.”

“We feel Ken is highly credentialed, who, in addition to possessing a license, has other certifications related to the health care field and is a seasoned health profes-sional who will continue the tradition established by John Sarnas during his more than 40 years with the department,” Santos said.

Santos said that Sarnas will make himself available on a volunteer basis to help with the administrative transition.

Pincus’s professional resume lists him as licensed by the state Department of Health as a registered envi-ronmental health specialist, lead inspector/risk asses-sor and certified retail food standardized trainer. He’s also listed as licensed by the state Department of Environmental Protection as a commercial pesticide applicator and a certified community noise

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Working in the health field “has been my passion,” Pincus told The Observer last week.

While he has had no prior work-related experience in Kearny, Pincus said he has driven through the West Hud-son area many times.

In his previous job, Pincus

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Bloomfield’s Niav Berutti, an eighth-grader at St. Thomas The Apostle School, Bloomfield, is the Veterans of Foreign Wars District 4 winner in the Patriot’s Pen Competition.

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By Karen ZautykObserver Correspondent

KEARNY –

Kearny police reported last week that they have closed two cases dating

to 2012, “one crime solved through DNA, the other, the old-fashioned way,” said KPD Chief John Dowie.

The latter involved the Sept. 30, 2012, armed hold-up of a liquor store at Seeley and Kearny Aves. At about 8 p.m. on that date, a lone bandit, wielding an automatic handgun, robbed the shop and then fled on foot, running east on Seeley.

The investigating officer, Det. Scott Traynor, reviewed

surveillance tapes, noting the type of weapon used and the gunman’s clothing -- a dark-colored, hooded sweatshirt and a black ski mask -- and later linked these details to a similar crime in Bayonne, Dowie said. Traynor kept up with the case, working with police in that city and de-veloping information from

his street sources. He subse-quently identified a possible suspect -- 25-year-old Bayonne resident Jonathan Jeffery.

Last month, after evidence was presented to the Hudson County Prosecutor’s Office, warrants were issued for Jef-fery’s arrest on weapons and armed robbery charges in Kearny.

The alleged perp, already lodged in the Hudson County Jail in connection with his Bayonne arrest, was brought to KPD headquarters on April 4 for formal processing and was then returned to his se-cure habitat.

The second case concerned the Nov. 1, 2012, burglary of a gas station at Belgrove Drive and Passaic Ave. The culprit, Dowie noted, had taken ad-vantage of the fact that the sta-

tion had no electrical power in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy, broke in through a garage window and absconded with cigarettes, lottery tickets and cash.

Responding to the scene were Det. Michael Gonzalez and Det. Stephen Podolski, who recovered probable DNA evidence. This was sent to the State Police lab for process-ing, and last month a probable suspect was ID’d, Dowie said.

That suspect, Brian Kinney, 30, of Kearny, had also been linked to a series of robberies at Payless shoe stores in Kearny and Newark, police said, and was incarcerated at the Essex County Jail. On April 4, he was processed there on the additional Kearny charges of burglary and theft.

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Brian KinneyJonathan Jeffery

Senior Airman Christopher Silva, formerly of Kearny and a member of the Harrison American Legion, sent the Legion post an American flag that was flown in combat in Afghanistan on Dec. 4, 2013, on a B-1B Bomber in support of Operation Endur-ing Freedom by the 9th Expeditionary Bomb Squadron.

Silva was raised in Kearny but moved to Brick when he enlisted in the Air Force in 2009. He just finished his second tour of duty and is stationed at Hohenecken, Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany, with his wife Sara and son Christopher Jr.

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By Anthony J. MachcinskiObserver Correspondent

Music lovers looking to cherish the oldies will have their op-

portunity on April 25 when the band Park Avenue plays at the brand new Riva Blue in Lyndhurst.

Park Avenue was created three years ago and consists of keyboard player John Lepore, drummer Mark Sole, bassist Mike Cardinale, guitarist Or-lando Sanzari and singers Bob D’Angelo, George Kistner, Joe Caporella and Mike Fede.

While the band itself is green in terms of experience playing as a group, the indi-viduals who make up the band all benefit from decades of performing throughout the area. Members of the group have played with such bands as Sidewalk Symphony, Jersey Sound, and the Russ Marlow Show Band.

“We perform music from the ’40s through the ’70s,” said D’Angelo, adding that the group features songs from bands such as The Duprees, The Four Seasons and even some Motown hits.

D’Angelo fell in love with music at a young age, carrying on his dad’s passion.

“My father played the guitar, and he used to come to my school and play,” D’Angelo said. “I played the guitar in Natural High (the younger D’Angelo’s first band) and I used to sing on the corner when I was young.”

D’Angelo became a singer after listening to much of the music of the ’60s and ’70s.

“I said to myself, ‘I want to learn these harmony parts,’” D’Angelo said. “I used to sing the harmony parts in the re-cord. I’ve always heard music since I was a tot. It was just in the blood.”

D’Angelo’s career continued

to grow and by 1974, he had started his first band, Natural High, and began singing at several local venues includ-ing the Jetty and Big Joe’s Pub, both in Bloomfield.

“I just love singing and I love music,” D’Angelo said. “I just love entertaining.”

The band has played at many of the area’s best loca-tions, including the Whiskey Café in Lyndhurst, The Chan-delier in Belleville and will open Riva Blue.

“You really have to hear us to appreciate (our harmo-nies),” D’Angelo said. “People come up to us after shows and thank us and tell us that we were really great.”

The band’s harmonies have the power to send lovers of the oldies back in time on a musical adventure.

On the band’s cover of Mel Carter’s “Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me,” D’Angelo, Fede and Kistner all harmonize behind

the vocals of Caporella, creat-ing the soothing, romantic croon that Carter intended the song to hold.

The band also thrills on Jackie Wilson’s ’50s classic “Lonely Teardrops.”

During Park Avenue’s cover, D’Angelo takes the lead while Fede, Kistner and Caporella harmonize behind him. Even with the passing of decades since Wilson released “Lonely Teardrops,” Park Avenue helps breathe life into a song that may have fallen by the way-side over time.

For D’Angelo, getting out and performing in front of large crowds is the ultimate pleasure.

“There’s nothing like getting yourself out there,” D’Angelo explained. “We prefer the larger crowds, naturally, but we just like being out there singing.”

D’Angelo said the band has several tour dates already

booked throughout the sum-mer and will continue to perform songs from their most recent CD, “Back in the Day.”

D’Angelo hopes that the band will continue to expand its horizons and perform at new venues, including some outside the state.

“We’re working on trying to get up to the Poconos,” D’Angelo said. “They just opened up a few new places up there. Atlantic City is al-ways another possibility.”

Park Avenue will play Riva Blue in Lyndhurst on Friday, April 25, at 9 p.m., and will follow that up with several performances at The Whiskey Café in Lyndhurst and The Es-sex Bar & Grill in Bloomfield.

Riva Blue is located at 525 Riverside Ave. in Lyndhurst above King’s Court. For more information on Park Avenue, including its CD “Back in the Day,” visit the band’s website at www.parkavenj.com.

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Photo courtesy www.parkavenuenj.comIn red jackets, from l., are George Kistner, Joe “CAP”, Bobby “D”, Mike Fede. In back row, from l., are Orlando Sanzari, Mike Cardinale


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On April 4, at 6 p.m., pursuant to an ongoing narcotics investigation and armed with a search warrant from the Hudson County Prosecutor’s Office, Kearny vice detectives paid a visit to an apartment on the 300 block of Kearny Ave.

When the occupants refused to open the door, the officers employed a battering ram (a/k/a “knock, knock tool”) to gain entrance. Police said a search of the premises produced 96 grams of marijuana, a batch of marijuana cookies, a half-dozen psilocybin (psychedelic) mushrooms, 17 Xanax tablets, numerous empty plastic bags, a digital scale and $638 in cash.

Arrested were Christopher Reyes, 36, and Randy Val-verde, 25, both of whom were charged with possession of more than 50 grams of pot, possession with intent to dis-tribute, intent to distribute within 1,000 feet of a school

(Kearny High) and 500 feet of a public library, posses-sion of the mushrooms and prescription drug with intent to distribute and possession of drug paraphernalia.

In addition, police said, Valverde had outstanding warrants from East Newark, Belleville and West Caldwell. His bail was set at $10,000; Reyes’, at $5,000.

Other recent reports from the KPD blotter included the

following:

April 6Officer Ben Wuelfing,

on patrol at 4 a.m., saw a Jeep make an illegal turn at Kearny and Bergen Aves. and stopped the vehicle at Halstead St. Police said the driver, Max Salazar, 41, of Kearny, was found to have a suspended license. He was also reportedly found to have a strong odor of alcohol about his person and to be unsteady on his feet. While Wuelfing was conducting

field sobriety tests, back-up Officer Chris Medina ob-served an open bottle of beer in the Jeep, police said.

When Salazar “violently resisted arrest,” Wuelfing employed OC spray, to no ef-fect, police said. Salazar then allegedly elbowed Medina in the chest, threw the bottle at him and kicked Wuelfing. When the cops had to wres-tle the belligerent man to the ground, which was covered in shattered beer-bottle glass, Medina suffered lacerations to his hand, police said.

Salazar, who reportedly refused to take an Alcotest, was charged with two counts of aggravated assault on a po-lice officer, resisting arrest, DWI, driving while suspend-ed, possession of a weapon (the bottle) and having an open container of alcohol in a motor vehicle.

April 8Officers Jordenson Jean

and John Fabula, patrolling

on the 200 block of Brighton Ave. at 3:15 p.m., observed Ruthann Hatfield, 48, whom they knew to be wanted and confirmed she had outstand-ing warrants from Cinnamin-son and Moorestown. She was taken to headquarters for processing and the other jurisdictions were notified.

April 10At 5 p.m., vice detectives

saw Nestor Carr, 25, of

Kearny operating a motor vehicle at Wilson and High-land Aves., confirmed that he had a suspended license and also learned he was the subject of a North Arlington warrant, police said. Carr was accompanied by Stacey Perez, 22, of Kearny, who reportedly had a warrant out of Kearny. Both were taken into custody.

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By Anthony J. MachcinskiObserver Correspondent

Tim and Scott Bixler may not have been alive when their great-grandfather helped de-velop Kearny’s Manor section in 1926, but the twin brothers and co-owners of The Bixler Group have taken up the fam-ily real estate business.

Originally born in Kearny, the brothers joined their great uncle at The Bixler Group in 2002 after graduating from St. Lawrence University.

“At the time, there weren’t many corporate jobs and it was an opportunity for (my brother and I) to work to-gether,” said Scott Bixler. “So after college, my brother and I decided to talk to my great uncle about coming back to Kearny.”

The Bixler Group, besides being a family business, was a great spot for the brothers to settle. With Scott’s back-ground in real estate and Tim’s insurance background, the pair could work in their field under the same roof.

“It has always been real es-tate and insurance,” Scott said. “My brother tends to do about 90% of the insurance and I handle about the same amount of real estate.”

Scott said the real estate market was something that always intrigued him, but the chance to help someone achieve his or her dreams keeps him motivated.

“I love working with people within the community,” Scott explained. “It’s great to walk away from a closing table, but even better to know you just fulfilled someone’s dream.”

With 115 years of service to Hudson and Bergen County

over five generations, Scott believes that the family’s history separates them from other realtors in the area.

“Within the community, we’ve been around so long that people knew my dad and my uncle,” Scott said. “There’s just a lot of history with us in town.”

Scott explained that families have bought their homes from the twins’ father or grandfa-ther, then sold them later in life through them.

“My grandfather sold a customer a house and we have those files still in the basement,” Scott said. “I can walk in the basement and put our hands on a file from the 1940s.”

Scott believes that having the extensive history of the home on file is not only an ad-vantage, but also an important piece to show to prospective home buyers.

“We can take (the file) to a listing and show them what the house looked like in the 1940s,” Scott said. “It’s a niche that we have.”

Scott believes that The Bixler Group’s success stems from its long history and hands-on ownership.

“I think a lot of it has to do with that we’re a family-owned business that’s been around a long time,” Scott said. “We’re a smaller mom and pop where we, as the owners, are constantly hands on.”

He continued, “My great uncle sold someone a house in the ‘60s and now they’re look-ing to sell it and they came to us because they remember the service he gave them.”

However, things weren’t always easy for the twins.

“When the market crashed in 2008, it was a struggle,” Scott said. “It made us work harder. We figured that if we could make it through that, we could make it through any-thing and we’ve built it back up since then. We’ve brought our name back to the strength it always was.”

As for the future of The Bixler Group, Scott hopes to continue to strengthen the family business.

“We’re trying to stay small, but surround ourselves with other good agents,” Scott said. “We’d like to get a few more

strong agents and not make it huge, but keep it small and strong.”

The Bixler Group is located at 758 Kearny Ave. in Kearny.

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EPA spokesman Elias Rodriguez said the agency has estimated it will cost as much as $1.7 billion to enact a cleanup plan still being assembled but it still cannot predict how long the job will take to do. And it won’t be until early 2015 that the plan will be finalized, after the agency hears from the public, he added.

One reason the cleanup figures to be so expensive is that it calls for “bank-to-bank dredging … followed by cap-ping of the river bottom,” the release said.

The EPA said it consulted with the state Department of Environmental Protection, U.S. Army Corps of Engi-neers, U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, “with out-reach to representatives of

the many communities along the lower Passaic River” over seven years to develop the cleanup plan.

The EPA will hold three public hearings to outline the plan as it now stands, the ini-tial one slated for May 7 at 7 p.m. at the Portuguese Sports Club, 55 Prospect St., Newark.

Another May hearing – the date and location not yet fixed – will be held in Kearny and a June hearing is to fol-low, again date and location to be determined, in Bel-leville.

People can also submit written comments by mail to: Alice Yeh, Remedial Project Manager, U.S. Environmen-tal Protection Agency, 290 Broadway, N.Y., N.Y. 10007-1866 or by email to: [email protected]. For more information, call 212-637-4427.

“High concentrations of dioxin, PCBs and other con-taminants in the lower eight miles of the Passaic River are a serious threat to the peo-ple who eat fish and crabs from this river,” Enck said. (Catching crabs is prohibited and there are “Do Not Eat”

advisories posted for all fish in the lower Passaic.)

“The EPA’s proposed cleanup plan will result in a cleaner river that protects people’s health and increases the productive use of one of New Jersey’s most important natural resources and creates jobs during the cleanup. Do-ing less is not good enough for this river or the people who live along it,” Enck said.

According to the EPA, the Diamond Alkali plant in Newark that produced Agent Orange and pesticides in the 1960s “generated dioxin that contaminated the land and the river.” An additional 100 or so companies “are poten-tially responsible for gener-ating and releasing” other pollutants into the river.

The lower 17 miles of the river, running from New-ark Bay to the Dundee Dam at Garfield, are part of the Diamond Alkali Superfund site and from 1983 to 2001, extensive cleanup work was done on land at the Dia-mond Alkali facility and in the streets and homes near it. In 2012, an EPA-approved contractor dredged, treated

and removed 40,000 cubic yards of dioxin contaminated sediment from the river near the plant. And in 2013, EPA oversaw dredging of about 16,000 cubic yards of “highly contaminated sediment” from a half-mile stretch of the river along Riverside County Park in Lyndhurst, outside of the lower eight miles. That work is ongoing.

A long-term study of what to do about contami-nated sediment in the 17-mile stretch is still being done by a group of about 70 corporate entities known as the Lower Passaic Cooperating Partners Group with EPA oversight.

Meanwhile, the EPA is focused on the cleanup of the Passaic’s lower eight miles where “there is an ap-proximately 10-to-15-foot deep reservoir of contaminated fine-grained sediment,” of which 4.3 million cubic yards – enough to fill MetLife Sta-dium twice – “will be dredged and removed” and a protec-tive cap consisting of stone and two feet of sand and will be placed over the 5.4 million cubic yards of contaminated sediment that would remain on the river bottom.

EPA says the dredging would remove nearly 18 pounds of “highly toxic” dioxin, more than 35,000 pounds of mercury, in excess of 15,000 pounds of PCBs and nearly 2,000 pounds of DDT. The toxic mix would be “pre-pared for transport by rail for incineration and/or disposal in landfills.” An estimated 7% of the stuff “may require incineration at out-of-state facilities in the U.S. and Canada.”

Along the shore, however, the cap will be “one foot of sand and one foot of materi-als to support habitat for fish and plants.”

After it has a final cleanup plan in place, EPA will under-take engineering and design work “in the following years.”

EPA says it will continue to “pursue agreements to ensure that the cleanup work [being proposed for the lower eight miles] be carried out and paid for by those responsible for the contamination at the site.”

The draft plan for the lower eight mile cleanup can be found at: http://www.epa.gov/region02/passaicriver or at http://www.ourpassaic.org.

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Harrison East Newark Elks Lodge 2326 recently held its annual Hoop Shoot Awards Ceremony. The top three winners received trophies and all players were treated to a pizza party. From l., are Ulysses Rodriguez, Lolly’s Barrera, Sergio Flores, Adrian Jimenez, Anthony Zamora and Eddie Mieles. In back, from l., are Elks Youth Activities Chairman Larry Kelly and Exalted Ruler Larry Bennett.

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The letter said that each ap-plication is evaluated and rated on the basis of four review cat-egories: “clarity of the project description, demonstration of financial need, impact on daily operations and realization of cost benefit.”

No specific explanation was provided, to either Kearny or Harrison, as to why their ap-plications were denied.

Kearny Fire Chief Steven Dyl

said that the premise of his ap-plication was to bring the total number of personnel up to a “full T.O.(Table of Organiza-tion) to 102.”

Now, Dyl said, “I guess it’s back to the drawing board. It’s frustrating. We had a set plan for what we intended to do.”

Kearny Mayor Alberto Santos, who has acknowledged that both the Police and Fire Departments are working under shorthanded conditions,

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In Harrison, Fire Director Harold Stahl said the town would, at some point, file a new application.

“The year before [FEMA] told us we didn’t ask for enough,” Stahl said. “So, this time around, I thought we were in line to get funded.”

With current staffing of 29, getting the additional 36 re-quested positions filled “would have brought us up to the T.O. of many years ago,” Stahl said.

For now, he said, “we’re still alive and well.”

And, on April 9, the town’s governing body voted to authorize the purchase of two 2014 4-Wheel-Drive Ford Ex-pedition SSVs (Special Service Vehicles) from Breyer Ford of Morristown for a total of

$74,603 under a 3-year lease/purchase arranged through the Cranford Police Cooperative Pricing System.

Stahl said the vehicles would be replacements for two 18-year-old jeeps and would be “large enough to move men and equipment, particularly when we have recalls of off-duty men in multi-alarm fires.”

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The Sisters for Hope, one of the many teams that raise money for Cystic Fibrosis research, will be participat-ing in the walk. Sisters for Hope was formed by Edward Garcia and his sister, Jennifer Amos, to raise funds for a cure after Garcia’s daughters, Dominique and Rosalie, were diagnosed with the disease.

Garcia said the Cystic Cystic Fibrosis Foundation receives no government fund-ing for research and relies solely on private donations.

Cystic Fibrosis is a life-threatening, genetic disease that impacts about 30,000 children and adults in the U.S. In people with CF, a faulty gene causes the body

to produce abnormally thick, sticky mucus that can clog the lungs, pancreas and other organs. This can lead to se-vere respiratory and digestive problems. One in 31 Ameri-cans is a symptomless carrier of the defective CF gene. A person must inherit two such genes, one from each par-ent, to have the disease. CF is not contagious and affects each individual differently. Therefore, one should not make a generalized as-sumption about the health of someone with CF. Some people with CF are in good or even excellent health, while others are severely limited by the disease. When the CF Foundation was started in 1955, a child with CF was not expected to live to attend elementary school. Today, dramatic advances in CF

research and treatment have greatly improved the quality of life and life expectancy for people with CF.

Cystic Fibrosis is a devas-tating disease that robs many children of their childhood. It requires a strict adherence to various medications and respiratory treatments to keep airways clear. A simple cold can become a hospital stay. The disease has many degrees of sickness.

Dominique Garcia was se-verely affected by it. She was

ill most of her young life and had to be connected to an ox-ygen tank for about a year of her life. For a while, a double lung transplant improved her condition, but was not a cure. She still had difficulties and many hospitalizations. Three years after her double lung transplant, Dominique lost her lifelong battle with Cystic Fibrosis in 2009.

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First honors:Grade 4A – Samantha

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Grade 4B –Kara Bren-

nan, Blaise Edwards, Jessica Guanci, Amanda Incalcaterra, Natalie Mazgaj and Anna Claire Sems.

Grade 5A – Andrew Bowl-ing and Lauren Dungan.

Grade 6A –Gianna Astriab, Gianna Glover and Sophia Ruggier.

Grade 7A – Emma Caama-no, Robert Caamano, Jamie

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Grade 8A – Francesca Bello, Jonathan Bergold, Louis Bizien, Melissa DeFrancesco, Matthew Duane, Emily Ed-wards, Alexa Gallo, Elizabeth Kawalek, Abigail Lopez, Olivia Lord, Thomas Ripp and Ava

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Grade 4B – Christopher D’Ambrosio, Sofia Mantrana and Orestes Matos.

Grade 5A – Christopher Rudolph

Grade 6A – Christina Al-

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Grade 7A – Rena Casalinho and Gabriella Ocampos.

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Grade7A – Caitlyn Irwin, Michael McGeehan, Caragh Openshaw and Francesca Petrullo. Grade 8A – Daniela D’Angelo, Arianna Magalias, Benjamin Margulies, Diana Paterno, Nikolas Theodoraco-poulus and Robert Dungan.

Washington Ave. crash

Photos by Ron Leir

A NJ Transit bus emerging from the company’s Washington Ave. terminal at Hancox Ave. in Nutley and turning south was in collision with a southbound passenger car. Emergency responders extracted a 28-year-old Belleville woman from the vehicle and a Nutley ambulance took her to Clara Maass Medical Center for observation.. No summonses were issued, police said.

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around townBellevilleBelleville Public Library and

Information Center, 221 Wash-ington Ave., holds a Teddy Bear Tea Party for children on Saturday, May 3, at 2 p.m. Reg-istration closes April 28.

Belleville Irish American Association sponsors a trip to Cape Cod, Martha’s Vineyard, Boston and Mohegan Sun Ca-sino, June 2-6. Cost is $485. For an itinerary or more informa-tion, call Pat at 973-751-5308 or email [email protected].

Belleville Elks Lodge 1123, 254 Washington Ave.. hosts a blood drive on Saturday, April 19, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Donors must be at least age 17, weigh at least 120 pounds, bring a signed form of ID and know their social security number. For more information, call the New Jersey Blood Center at 973-676-4700.

BloomfieldBloomfield Public Library,

90 Broad St., announces:• Egg Hunt for kids ages 18

months to 5 only on April 16 at 11 a.m.

• Book Club on Monday, May 5, from 6:45 to 7:45 p.m., to discuss Ha Jin’s novel “Wait-ing.” For more information or for help in locating a copy of the book club selection, call the Reference Desk at 973-566-6200, ext 502.

Oakeside Bloomfield Cultur-al Center, 240 Belleville Ave., hosts a Tricky Tray fundraiser on Friday, May 9, at 6:30 p.m. Tickets, available only in advance, are $25. To purchase tickets, call 973-429-0960.

HarrisonThe Peruvians United of

Harrison will conduct a food drive on April 20 from 11 a.m.

to 3 p.m. in front of Harrison Town Hall. All of the food will be donated to Holy Cross Church.

KearnyKearny Public Library, 318

Kearny Ave., announces:• Uncle John’s Puppets per-

formance will be held Thurs-day, April 17, from 4:30 to 5:30 p.m.

• There’ll be a screening of a Disney Double Feature of “The Jungle Book” at 1 p.m. and “The Jungle Book 2” at 2:30 p.m. on Wednesday, April 16.

Registration is not required for these programs, but seating is limited.

• A book sale continues through Thursday, April 17, during normal library hours. Patrons will find a huge selec-tion of donated and discarded hardcover and paperback books. Books are a quarter each or five for $1.

Kearny High School’s Project Graduation sponsors a Vol-leyball Tournament on Friday, April 25, in the school’s gym-nasium, 336 Devon St. Contact Melissa Dyl for information at 201-978-8257. There will be a 50/50 raffle Friday, June 20, after graduation ceremonies. The winner need not be pre-sent. Tickets are $10. To pur-chase or sell tickets, contact Sandy Hyde at 551-265-8969.

Kearny UNICO sponsors a fundraising bus trip to the Showboat Casino in Atlan-tic City on Sunday, April 27, leaving from the parking lot of Kearny Federal Savings Bank at 8:30 a.m. Tickets are $30 and can be obtained by calling Lou Pandolfi at 201-368-2409.

LyndhurstThe Humane Society of Ber-

gen County, 221-223 Stuyvesant Ave., meets April 22 at 7 p.m. to elect officers.The public is invited to see the shelter and meet the board of directors. For more information, call 201-896-9300.

The New Jersey Meadow-lands Commission will hold a free Earth Day concert, featur-ing Spook Handy, Tuesday, April 22, at 7:30 p.m. at the Meadowlands Environment Center, 2 DeKorte Park Pla-za. Doors open at 6:45 p.m. To register, contact Don Torino of the BCAS at [email protected] or 201-230-4983.

Learn how the N.J. Invasive Strike Team is working to ad-dress the spread of non-native species that threaten the envi-ronment and natural resources on Wednesday, April 23, from 7 to 9 p.m., at the MEC. It’s open to all ages. Admission is $5; $4 for MEC members. Regis-tration is recommended and appreciated. To register, visit www.njmeadowlands.gov/ec.

Registration is required for a Ladybug craft program for grades 1 to 4 at Lyndhurst Pub-lic Library, 355 Valley Brook Ave., on Monday, April 28, 3:30 to 4:15 p.m. Call the library at 201-804-2478 to register.

Lyndhurst Health Depart-ment, 601 Riverside Avenue, Suite 1, hosts a free Women’s Health Clinic, in partnership with Clara Maass Medical Center, on April 25, at 9 a.m. The clinic will provide educa-tion on breast self-examination and a pap smear. This event is open to female township residents age 18 and older. For appointments, call 201-804-2500.

Dr. John Favetta will conduct free eye screening Wednesday, May 7, at 10 a.m., at the Health

Dept. He will test for vision acuity, visual field and glauco-ma. Call for an appointment.

Polish American Citizens Club, 730 New Jersey Ave., presents a Polka Mass dinner dance on Saturday, April 26, from 6 to 11:30 p.m. Tickets are $35. For tickets, call Alice at 201-935-3830 or Loretta at 201-438-3513.

Lyndhurst Veterans of For-eign Wars Post 3549, 527 Valley Brook Ave., hosts a Karaoke party on Friday, April 25, at 7 p.m. The VFW hall is available to rent for all occasions. For more information, call the post at 201-939-3080.

North ArlingtonNorth Arlington Public Li-

brary, 210 Ridge Road, offers:• ESL Group Class on Tues-

days starts April 22. Visit or call for more information.

• Historical Fact and Fiction Club meets Thursday, April 24, at 10 a.m.

• Saturday Afternoon Poets celebrate National Poetry Month April 26 from 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. with a poetry read-ing and music performance. All ages are welcome.

• YA Movie Day for grades 6 and up will be held Friday, April 25, at 3 p.m.

• Comics Club for grades 6 and up meets Wednesday, April 30, at 3:30 p.m.

• Origami for grades 4 and up is held Monday, April 28, at 3:30 p.m.

• Woman’s Club Craft is available for grades K to 5 Tuesday, April 22, at 6 p.m. Registration is required. Call 201-955-5640, ext. 126. To regis-ter, just leave a message.

Senior Harmony Club an-nounces the following trips:

• Sands Casino, Thursday,

April 24. For reservations or information, call Florence at 201-991-3173.

• Westchester Broadway Theater to see the musical “Ragtime,” Thursday, May 1. Reservations must be made ASAP. Call Anna at 201-939-2960.

NutleyOur Lady of Mount Carmel

Church, 120 Prospect St., hosts a Home-made Pasta Dinner Saturday, May 3, at 6 p.m. Tickets are $10 for adults, and $6 for children ages 12 and younger. Visit the rectory to purchase tickets. All proceeds benefit the church’s CCD program.

Registration is open for the Nutley Parks and Recreation Department’s “Let’s Get Moving,” for ages 3 to 5, to refine motor skills and increase balance. Classes begin April 22. Two sessions are available: Tuesdays at 1 p.m. or Thursdays at 9:15 a.m. Online registration is available at nut-leynj.my.gov-i.com/recreation or at the Recreation Depart-ment, 44 Park Ave, reachable at 973-284-4966.

Nutley Police Department holds its next Neighborhood Watch meeting April 24 at 7 p.m. at the Municipal Building on the third floor. This meet-ing will focus on identity theft and learning about common scams.

Nutley Public Library, 93 Booth Drive, announces:

• Earth Day Story Time, Monday, April 21, at 7 p.m.

• Friends of the Library book sale, April 24 to 26, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. each day. Stock up on hardcover books, paperbacks, CDs and DVDs. Donations will be collected April 21 to 23.

Nutley Commissioner Steven Rogers, director of the Department of Public Affairs, encourages all local artists interested in par-ticipating in the Fine Art Alliance of Nutley Art Show and Cocktail reception, to submit their registration forms now.

The event will take place on Saturday, April 26, from 6 to 9 p.m., at the Nutley AMVETS Post 184, Park Av-enue, and will feature local artists of various disciplines such as photography, paint-ing, sketches and sculptures. A suggested donation of $5 will be accepted at the door

with 100% of the proceeds going to the Nutley AmVets.

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Yantacaw School, Nutley, kicks off Yantacaw Walks first Walk-to-School on Wednes-day, April 23, with a walking parade, guests, and giveaways.

Students will pledge to walk to school with a minimum commitment of once a week and different grades will com-pete to tally the most walks. Students will also work to-gether to meet a school-wide goal of miles logged.

Drivers are asked to be aware of children walking to and from school by slowing down, especially approaching crosswalks. Drivers should exercise caution, obey all traffic laws, look both ways before turning, avoid texting while driving, and expect the unexpected.

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of physical inactivity are a national health threat, with a growing number of children developing diseases once seen only in adults, such as Type 2 diabetes, heart disease, and fatty livers,” warns Jackson.

“When more students walk to school, we establish healthy habits, reduce traffic conges-tion and air pollution around the school, and increase stu-dents’ confidence and inde-pendence. We’ve found that students who walk to school arrive refreshed and ready to learn,” says Yantacaw Princi-pal Annemarie Carollo.

Yantacaw Walks was in-spired by a November 2013 talk that Dr. Jackson gave in Nutley in which he conveyed the urgency of the public health crisis caused by a lack of exercise among children. “Not only is it our responsibil-ity to educate our students, we must support them in devel-oping healthy lifestyles for the long haul,” says Superinten-dent of Nutley Public Schools Russell Lazovick. “Walking to school is a simple part of the solution. As Jackson puts it, ‘Health happens in neighbor-hoods, not doctors’ offices.’”

Yantacaw Walks is a Shap-ingNJ project funded in part by a $10,000 grant from the Partners for Health Founda-tion. The grant was awarded to the Health Department to fund program components such as walk-to-school pledg-es; route improvements and signage; kick-off and weekly walk-to-school events; class-room and school-wide chal-lenges; educational materials; and education and promotion through traditional and social media channels.

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“We decided it would be nice for us, through the VOICE, to partner with the Kearny Museum and let them take custody of the medal so it could be safely stored there and available for display to the public,” Sweeney said.

The medal presentation is expected to happen sometime during the May 26 Kearny Memorial Day observance, he added.

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This particular day – which, according to Belsky, happened more than 20 years ago – “he came and said, ‘Look what I found,’ ’’ she said. It was the Purple Heart medal, “in pristine condition, a beautiful tribute.”

Belsky said she called the V.A., only to be told that Warhurst had no known survi-vors and that she should look after it, which she did. “I kept it in my jewelry box,” she said.

And there the medal sat until sometime in 2013 when she happened to be talking to a friend whose husband was, by coincidence, a Purple Heart winner who knew about Fike’s organization. And Belsky, remembering the mystery medal, decided to reach out to him.

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His organization has be-come a sort of clearinghouse for those medals. “People who

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By Jim HagueObserver Sports Writer

For the last 40 years or so, George Steel has heard all the jokes about his name.

And no, he’s not the famous professional wrestler.

“I’ve heard it all the time,” said Steel, a lifetime Kearny resident. “I have to explain that I’m not a Yale professor like he is. Everyone calls me ‘The Ani-mal’ because of him. We have a lot of fun with the name.”

Steel is also a coaching lifer. For years, Steel helped to run the Kearny Generals youth football program. He was also an assistant football coach at Queen of Peace under several regimes, including the state championship team coached by Andy Cerco.

“I’ve been back and forth at Queen of Peace,” said Steel, who also served as an assistant

under head coaches Tom Fer-riero and Ed Stinson.

For the last few years, Steel has been an assistant football coach at Morris Catholic in Denville.

This spring, Steel took on a different challenge – becom-ing the head softball coach at Queen of Peace.

“I think this year’s team can be a little more productive than last year’s team,” said Steel, who was an assistant softball coach at QP last year under Mike Flynn. “To be honest, we had only one scrimmage game (in the preseason) because of the weather. We used the first couple of games as practice for the rest of the season.”

With that in mind, Steel isn’t too concerned about the team’s 2-3 start. The Golden Griffins defeated Dwight-Englewood and Harrison, before falling to Secaucus and Lyndhurst last

week.“We scored six runs in the

seventh inning to beat Dwight-Englewood,” Steel said. “We hit the ball real well.”

Steel feels that better times are ahead.

“I think when the girls can get on a little bit of a roll,” Steel said, “I think we can compete with anybody. We’re going to do better. I knew the last part of the schedule was going to be tough. I knew we would have a slow start. But we’re now to the point in our schedule where we’ll get some wins.”

Leading the way is senior pitcher Gabby Lombardozzi, a three-year veteran on the mound for the Golden Griffins.

“She’s not overpowering, but she has good control,” Steel said. “She does what I ask her to do. She throws strikes. If she

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At 28 years old, Jairo Mendez is not far re-moved from his playing days, when he was an excellent pitcher, first at Kearny High School and later on, Montclair State.

But Mendez feels he’s ready for the challenge of being a high school baseball head coach. Thus the reason why he took over the Harrison High School program this season, after Sean Dolaghan stepped down for family obligations.

Mendez, who had been an assistant coach with the Blue Tide for the past four years with Dolaghan, had an inkling that the program would be his toward the end of last season.

“He told me that he was going to step down because of his family,” Mendez said. “Sean rec-ommended me for the job and spoke highly of me. I think that helped put me in a good spot. I felt like I was ready. The challenge is always exciting.”

Mendez said that he didn’t get that much grief from his closest friends in Kearny, taking over as head coach at the neighboring rival school.

“Maybe I heard things when I first started,

but not now,” Mendez said. “In fact, my friends were all congratulating me and wishing me luck more than anything.”

Mendez was asked about the transition, go-ing from assistant coach to head coach.

“It really has been pretty easy,” Mendez said. “My assistant coaches (Jimmy Morais, Charles Comprelli, Paul Herbster, Jose Morillo, Alex Delgado and Joe Wroblewski) have all helped me out a lot. It’s been okay. I’m not there to make friends. I’m there to teach them about baseball and teach them life skills. It’s al-most like being the boss of a company.”

The Blue Tide has enjoyed a good start to Mendez’s first season as head coach, winning five of their first seven games.

Leading the way is senior right-handed pitcher Tommy Dola-ghan, the former coach’s nephew, who has done everything and anything leading the Blue Tide.

Dolaghan has won his first two decisions, in-cluding a 10-2 win over Dickinson of Jersey City last weekend. Dolaghan

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The Queen of Peace softball team is spearheaded by the play of its senior captains. From l. are Nikki Sammartino, Melissa Gallo, head coach George Steel, Gabby Lombardozzi and Raychel Piserchia.

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can stay ahead in the count, she’s good. But if she pitches from behind, she gets in trou-ble.”

The catcher is freshman Ashley Ruivo, who is a rarity behind the dish being left-handed.

“She’s one of the few girls who was willing to go behind the plate,” Steel said. “Gabby picked her. Gabby wanted Ashley to be the catcher. If she gets time behind the plate, she could be a good one. She also has good speed.

She’s one of our faster play-ers.”

The first base duties are being shared by a pair of seniors. Senior captain Melissa Gallo has been a hot bat in the early going, batting almost .500.

“She’s hitting the ball well,” Steel said. “She has improved tremendously. She put a lot of time in during the offseason to get better and it’s showed.”

The other senior first base-man is Samantha Martinez, who has been solid offen-sively.

“She just needs to improve defensively,” Steel said.

Senior Sarah Lopez is the team’s second baseman. Lopez, who is also a part of the famed QP cheerlead-ing squad, is a newcomer to softball.

“She hasn’t played a lot, so she needs a little work,” Steel said of Lopez.

Senior Adrianna Gian-gregorio and freshman Jane Amadeo are also seeing time at second base. Amadeo has a bright future as a pitcher.

“She’s a good all-around

player,” Steel said of Amadeo.The shortstop is senior

veteran Nikki Sammartino, who has been a mainstay there since she was a fresh-man. Sammartino was an Observer Athlete of the Week last season.

“She’s hitting the ball well, batting better than .600,” Steel said.

Sammartino is headed to Rutgers-Newark in the fall.

Senior Kristen Vitale, an-other first-year player, is the third baseman.

“She’s doing a good job defensively,” Steel said.

Junior Jamie Nemeth is the Golden Griffins’ left fielder and the team’s fastest player.

“She’s our leadoff hitter and one of the fastest kids I’ve ever seen,” Steel said.

Senior Raychel Piserchia is another captain, along with Sammartino, Gallo and Lom-bardozzi, and the starter in centerfield.

“She’s one of the best hit-ters on the team,” Steel said. “She’s also very good defen-sively.”

A pair of seniors, Tori For-tunato and Kyra Gil, is split-ting time in right field.

Senior Dana DeAnni will get a chance to pitch, spelling Lombardozzi, from time to

time.Steel said that he ran into a

small obstacle recently, when there weren’t enough capable players to field a competitive junior varsity squad.

“We did a little search in the school and a couple girls came out,” Steel said. “We needed to get more people involved to keep the pro-gram moving. We don’t have a feeder program like some of the public schools. Some come to us never having played softball before, so it’s a little bit of a hindrance.”

But the Golden Griffins have survived the tough times and should thrive as the sea-son moves forward.

“The girls are talented,” Steel said. “They’re trying hard and they want to play. As a coach, that’s all you can ask for. You want girls who want to play.”

The Golden Griffins are scheduled to face some of the area’s top competi-tion, like North Arlington and Kearny, in the weeks to come. Steel wants to get his team to the NJSIAA Non-Public B North state play-offs. They will need a few more wins before they can even consider such a lofty perch.

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“He has the most experience of anyone on our staff,” Men-dez said of the former Observ-er Athlete of the Week. “He’s been battling since Day One. He throws all of his pitches for strikes and mixes up his pitch-es well. He changes speed well and hits his spots.”

Senior Sebastian Sanchez is another top returning hurler. The right-hander has a lot of confidence in his pitches.

“He’s not overpowering but he keeps it low and gets a lot of support from his teammates,” Mendez said of Sanchez.

Sophomore Markise Valen-tin is another solid pitcher.

“He comes from all differ-ent angles,” Mendez said. “He comes from the side, over the top, anywhere. And he has a lot of movement on his pitches.”

Junior Josh Williams is the team’s lone left-handed pitcher.

“He reminds me of Cliff Lee,” Mendez said of Williams, referring to the Philadelphia

Phillies’ ace. “He challenges hitters and changes speeds. He has very good location and he’s going to be a good one.”

Senior Moises Roque is an-other solid pitcher, as well as seniors Kishan Patel and foot-ball star Adam Huseinovic.

“I think Adam is going to be a key pitcher for us,” Mendez said. “He has the ability to shut the door.”

Look for Huseinovic to be the Blue Tide’s closer this season.

The catcher is junior Miguel Zorrilla, who is an excellent defensive backstop.

“He is handling the pitchers well,” Mendez said. “He works hard and is a student of the game.”

Seniors Ricky DeSilveira and Danny Gerris are sharing the first base duties. Gerris is a transfer from St. Peter’s Prep.

“Ricky is very good defen-sively,” Mendez said. “Danny hits the ball well and hits it all over the field.”

Valentin is the returning starter at second base. When Valentine is on the mound, junior Jordan Villalta steps in.

Valentin was clutch Satur-day against Dickinson, deliver-ing two RBI.

Dolaghan and Roque share duties at shortstop, alternat-ing depending upon who is pitching. Roque had three hits and three runs scored against Dickinson.

Third base duties belong to Sanchez. When Sanchez is on the mound, sophomore Craig Ruff takes the mound.

Left field responsibilities fall on the shoulders of Williams and when the lefty is pitching, then senior Brian Carr is out

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in centerfield. He might be known as a football player, but Mendez likes what Huseinovic brings to the diamond.

“He’s a good all-around baseball player,” Mendez said. “He has good power and could be our cleanup hitter.”

Huseinovic had two RBI in the win over Dickinson.

The right field duties are being shared by senior J.P.

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The Blue Tide survived a tough early season schedule in fine fashion. The 5-2 record comes as no surprise.

“I’m very excited about this team,” Mendez said. “It’s a pleasure to be with the kids. I know we will be competitive.”

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By Jim HagueObserver Sports Writer

When Emily Ringen took over the Lynd-hurst High School

softball program earlier this year, she wondered who would become the Golden Bears’ top pitcher, ever since Casey Zdanek graduated and took her immense talents to Drew University.

However, Ringen had a good idea which way she would lean to give the ball to, namely junior Jenn Tellefsen.

“I knew Jenn’s travel (team) coaches and I spoke with (former Lyndhurst coach) Elaine (Catanese),” Ringen said. “I had 100%confidence that Jenn would be our No. 1.

I knew that she was predomi-nately an infielder, but that she was a pitcher first. I knew that she was capable of step-ping right in and doing well for us.”

Tellefsen was already pre-paring to take over the key position.

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For the season, Tellefsen is batting .400 with three homers and 14 RBI.

For her efforts, Tellefsen has been selected as The Observer Athlete of the Week for the past week.

“She really has been great,” Ringen said. “She has tremen-dous speed in her pitches. Batters are simply not getting around on her. The momentum she has had has been great. She keeps the ball inside and outside. She has a good pace of the game. She gets the ball and fires it in.”

“Ever since I was younger, I was taught to control my speeds,” Tellefsen said. “I don’t even begin to learn a new pitch until I can control it. I think

that throwing hard doesn’t matter unless you have con-trol. I concentrate on throwing strikes more than anything else. I concentrate on finishing my pitches and that’s helped with my control.”

But 95 punch outs compared to just five walks? That’s im-peccable control.

“I’m very surprised I have that,” Tellefsen said. “I’ve worked on all my pitches, but I never expected this.”

While it’s easy to focus on what Tellefsen does on the mound, she’s also a ferocious hitter as well, evidenced by the clutch homer against Leonia.

“She bailed us out in the Leonia game big time,” Ringen said. “She hit an absolute shot and like that, we were up

three.”Tellefsen said that she was

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“Alyssa Pipon got hit by a pitch right before I got up,” Tellefsen said. “She said, ‘It’s your turn to hit the ball.’ I just hit the ball and ran. I was so relieved it was a home run, because I was able to drive my teammates in.”

Ringen said that Tellefsen is a dangerous hitter as well.

“She’s up there to hit,” Ringen said. “Her power is unbelievable. She’s an elite softball player, both as a pitcher and a hitter. You don’t get to see a lot of girls who play softball all year. But that’s what Jenny does. She plays 10 months a year. She’s taken a

good control of this team and helping out the other pitchers and catchers. I’m very im-pressed.”

“I like to think of myself as being a pitcher who can hit,” Tellefsen said.

Ringen can’t sing Tellefsen’s praises enough.

“She’s doing all the right things right now, on the mound, in the batter’s box,” Ringen said. “She’s also a very good student.”

It means that Tellefsen would be someone that the col-leges would want to look at.

“I’d love to play softball in college,” Tellefsen said. “I am trying to go either Division II or possibly Division I. I have a lot of confidence in myself right now. I also think we can

go pretty far this season.”When the season ends at

Lyndhurst, Tellefsen will play for the New Jersey Pride, a quality travel program based in Fairfield.

“But I love playing with my Lyndhurst teammates,” Tell-efsen said. “We all get along great.”

“She’s a funny kid,” Ringen said. “She has a lot of one-lin-ers that make everyone laugh. She jumps right in with eve-ryone. She’s very friendly and very respectful. She’s matured nicely on the field and in the classroom.”

As long as Tellefsen keeps pitching and hitting the way she has been thus far, the Lyndhurst softball team can go a long way.

Commissioner Steven Rog-ers and the Department of Public Affairs in partnership with the Nutley Public School Nurses are sponsoring a Food Allergy Awareness Program

in recognition of Food Al-lergy Awareness Week , May 11 to 17.

Food Allergy Counse-lor Sloane Miller presents “Myths About Food Allergies”

on Tuesday, May 6, at 7 pm. at Nutley Public Library, 93 Booth Drive.

Miller will examine myths and facts about food allergies and discuss her experiences

living life to its fullest with multiple food allergies. Miller is a licensed psychotherapeu-tic social worker and has a coaching practice that focuses on helping people live with

food allergies.Call the Health Department

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Such a joy, this pre-cious girl will be a delightful companion for any lucky fam-ily. Luna also was surrendered with a bad skin infection but she has made a remarkable recovery with the help of the shelter’s staff. Her owners will have to keep an eye on this issue and will probably have to take her on routine vet checks to make sure she is in tip-top shape. Not only was her skin in bad shape, this chunky monkey is in pretty poor physical shape. Luna will

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• The Harrison Public School District will sponsor an Exposition on April 24th in the high school cafeteria for parents of currently enrolled and new pre-school children. • Refreshments will be served; there will be activities for children, including face-painting and balloon art; and there will also be a display of children’s artwork.• Exhibitors will be available to explain services available to parents, such as:

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Parents will also have the opportunity to learn about our different pre-school centers and the registration procedure to follow for the 2014-2015 school year.

• Registration of new students for the Harrison Public School District’s free pre-school program will begin shortly. • Enrollment in this program is open to resident children who will be three years old by October 1, 2014.• The registration process will be explained at a meeting on April 24th to take place at Harrison High School beginning at 6:30 p.m. Registration Packets will be distributed for the first time at this meeting.• In addition, parents will learn about the different pre-school centers that serve our children and several exhibitors will be available to explain other free services available to parents.• Beginning April 25th parents of new pre-school children may also pick up registration packets at the Harrison Residency Office, 620 N. Frank E. Rodgers Boulevard. • Parents may return completed registration packets to the Residency Office beginning May 5th, but only after making an appointment to register by calling 973 268 7825. • Early registration is recommended, as children are placed in pre-school centers on afirst-come first-served basis.• Parents may call 973 268 7825 with any questions.

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they wanted. (Being Boy Scouts, they know a lot of knots.)

When the task was done, Squad members lifted the board and flipped it over, so that Randall was suspended in air, face down. He remained safely immobile, despite the force of gravity. Good work, kids!

Although the evening’s

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Troop 142 is trying to earn the “Messengers of Peace” award that will be presented in May at the N.J. State Po-lice/National Guard Campo-ree in Sea Girt.

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Using social media, “the initiative lets Scouts from around the world share what they have done and inspire fellow Scouts to undertake similar efforts in their own communities, encouraging the completion of a Good Turn in your community and helping others.”

As their community

service project, the local Scouts wanted to help the Rescue Squad.

The Scouts learned much and the Squad members had the opportunity to continue to perfect their already impressive skills.

The drill also provided learning opportunites in other ways. While the Scouts

were outside, watching the first responders’ rescue efforts at the car wreck, we heard one of the Scout leaders say, “This is what happens when you drink and drive . . . or when you text and drive.”

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Tessie BabinskiTessie (Truskolawski)

Babinski, 100, a resident of St. Joseph’s Seniors Home Nurs-ing Center and Assisted Liv-ing, Woodbridge, and formerly of Basking Ridge and Kearny, passed away peacefully on Monday, April 7.

Tessie was the wife of the late Chester Babinski, her be-loved husband of 57 years.

Visiting was scheduled for Tuesday April 15, at the Armitage and Wiggins Funeral Home. 596 Belgrove Drive, Kearny, from 4 to 8 pm. A fu-neral Mass will be on Wednes-day, April 16, at 10 a.m. at Our Lady of Czestochowa Church, 115 S. Third St., Harrison. Inter-ment will follow in Holy Cross Chapel Mausoleum, North Arlington.

Tessie was devoted to her family, her faith, and her friends. She worked at RCA in Harrison for many years and loved to read, knit and crochet.

She is survived by her two sons, Edward and his wife Pauline of Uxbridge, Mass., and Raymond and his wife Judith of Basking Ridge; grandson Paul and his wife Kristin, grandson David and his wife Nikki; granddaugh-ter Elizabeth Baker and her husband Brent; granddaughter Katherine Thompson and her husband Bryan; and six great-grandchildren Allison, Emily and Samantha Babinski, Tessa Baker and Reese and Cole Thompson.

In lieu of flowers, please make a donation in her memo-ry to St. Joseph’s Seniors Home Nursing Center and Assisted Living, 1-3 St. Joseph Terrace, Woodridge, N.J. 07095.

Ellis BeesleyEllis “Norman” Beesley, 92,

of Manasquan, passed away on April 10 at Manatee Memorial Hospital in Bradenton, Fla.

He was born Nov. 22, 1921, in Kearny. He was raised in Kearny and was a graduate of Kearny High School.

He worked for DuPont as a research scientist and attended Newark College of Engineer-ing.

After Pearl Harbor was at-tacked, he signed up with the Army Air Corps as a fighter pilot. He served in the Army Air Corps from 1942 to 1945,

and flew 42 missions over Italy. His last year was spent in a German POW camp after his plane was shot down.

In 1948 he married Eileen Farrell and worked as a fire-man with the Kearny Fire De-partment until retiring in 1985. After retiring he moved to his summer home in Manasquan and wintered in Ellenton, Fla. He enjoyed fishing, boating, shuffleboard and traveling to many destinations.

Mr. Beesley is survived by his wife of 65 years, Eileen (nee Farrell) and is also sur-vived by two sons, Dr. Ellis N. Beesley Jr. and his partner John Silkey and Philip E. Beesley and his wife Eileen, and four grandchildren, Scott Philip and his fiancee Bethany Smith, Claire Catharine, Robert and Ryan. Also surviving are sev-eral nieces and nephews.

Visitation was slated for Tuesday, April 15, from 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 p.m., at the Neary-Quinn Funeral Home, 39 South St., Manasquan. A Mass of Resurrection will be held on Wednesday, April 16, at 9:30 a.m. at St. Denis Church in Manasquan. Cremation will be private.

In lieu of flowers, dona-tions may be sent to Alzhei-mer’s Association, 400 Morris Ave., Suite 251, Denville, N.J. 07834-1365 or a charity of your choice. For more information or to post a tribute, please visit www.neary-quinnfuneral-home.com.

Margaret Koscielecki Margaret Koscielecki died

April 8. She was 88. Born in Harrison, she lived

most of her life in Kearny. Pri-vate arrangements are by the Armitage and Wiggins Funeral Home in Kearny.

Margaret was a secretary at State Farm Insurance Com-pany in Lyndhurst.

Wife of the late Henry, she is survived by her children Christine Yanuzzi and Denis Koslecki, her brother Joseph Zubko and her beloved grand-children Allisyn, Daniel, Pat-rick and Andrew all of whom she was so devoted to and proud of. A memorial Mass will be scheduled in the near future at St. Cecilia’s Church.

Frank S. LamendolaFrank S. Lamendola died

April 9 at home. He was 86. Born in Hoboken, he lived

the past 50 years in Kearny. Arrangements were by the

Armitage and Wiggins Funeral Home, 596 Belgrove Drive, Kearny. A funeral service was held at the funeral home, fol-lowed by entombment in Holy Cross Cemetery. To leave on-line condolences, please visit www.armitagewiggins.com.

Frank served in the Army Air Force from 1947 to 1949. He owned Aztec Spackling in Kearny. He was a member and past president of Kearny UNICO and had been the grand marshal of the Colum-bus Day Parade.

Husband of Judi (nee Dunn), he is survived by his son Marc F. Lamendola and his daughter along with her husband Tina Marie and Brian Bartel. He was the brother of Caroline DiNardo and the late Paul La-mendola, and brother-in-law of Sandra Lamendola and Roger and JoAnn Dunn. Also sur-viving are his grandchildren Aidan and Tristan Lamendola and Jillian Bartel.

In lieu of flowers, kindly consider a donation to the Imus Center at Hackensack Medical Center.

Dolores MachadoDolores “Pidge” Machado,

entered into eternal rest on Tuesday, April 8, surrounded by her loving family. She was 81.

Pidge was born April 3, 1933, to Frank and Genevieve Shel-drick (nee Trembley) in East Newark. She was raised at 26 Reynolds Ave. in East Newark, before moving to Harrison and lived most of her life there.

She worked as a bartender at The Odd Couple, Dunphy’s Hawaiian Palms, The Library Bar & Inn, all in Harrison, and at My Place in East Newark for many years. In her free time, Pidge enjoyed playing bingo at many of the local churches.

Wife of the late Armand Machado and the late Joseph Choffo, Pidge is survived by her beloved children, Frank (Theresa), Joseph, Jr. (Barbara) and Mike, dear stepchildren, John and Gail, cherished brother Andy Sheldrick, loving grandchildren, Dan, Melissa, Nicol, Jeanne Marie, Leanne, Frank II, Joseph III, Megan and

Andrew and 13 great-grand-children. She is also survived by many nieces, nephews and cousins. She was predeceased her daughter Colleen, siblings Mary Cooper, Genevieve Brown, and Frank Sheldrick and her stepdaughter Dana Machado.

Funeral services were under the direction of Mulligan Funeral Home, 331 Cleveland Ave., Harrison.

In lieu of flowers, the family requests donations to help defray the funeral costs, care of Mulligan Funeral Home.

Helen C. Yankowski Helen C. Yankowski of East

Newark passed away Tuesday, April 8, at The Renaissance Rehabilitation and Care Center in Lincoln Park, at the age of 92.

Funeral services were under the direction of the Mulligan Funeral Home, 331 Cleveland Ave., Harrison. A funeral Mass was held at Holy Cross Church, Harrison. Her Inter-

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Prayer to St. JudeMost holy apostle, St. Jude, faithful servant and friendof Jesus, the Church honors and invokes you univer-sally as the patron of difficulty and of desperate cases,of things almost despaired of Pray for me, I am sohelpless and alone. Make use, I implore you, of thatparticular privilege given to you to bring visible andspeedy help where help was almost despaired of.Come to my assistance in this great need that I mayreceive the consolation and help of heaven in all mynecessities, tribulations and sufferings, particularly-(make your request here)-and that I may bless Godwith you and all the elect throughout all eternity. I promise you, O blessed St. Jude, to be ever mindfulof this great favor, and I will never cease to honor youas my special and powerful patron and do all in mypower to encourage devotion to you. Amen.

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KEARNY ELM COURtKearny’s Best Keptsecret 732 Elm St.1 BR for $850 NYC Commuter Bldg Call

Alan (201)955-4334 or PJ (973)922-1555 ext 1

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KEARNYNewly renovated,hardwood floors.

Laundry onsite.HT/HW included. 2 BR start at

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KEARNYConvenient Location

Large 3R, 1BR,includes HT/HW$825/month +

security. (512) 994-4986

KEARNY 4 rent ByOwner 2 & 3 BR Apts.Newly Renovated. AllUnits Have W/D Hookup & BasementStorage. Most unitshave A/C. RentsRange from $950-$1475 + Utilities. 1 ½months security +Good Credit required.Close to NYTransportation. Nopets. Call 201-998-8226. Between thehrs. 6am-4pm.Monday-Friday forAppt.

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Party Hall For Rent

• Affordable • A/C • Nice Setting201-889-6677201-572-1839

BELLEVILLE 2nd fl. 2BR’s, Belleville Nutleyborder. W/D Hook up.HT/HW included$1300/month.Avl. Jan.1st 862-201-6166.

BELLEvILLE

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Kearny 738 KearnyAve. $700/month.Deposit required. 551-226-0566.

Currently Available1700 sq.ft., 5 officesw/bath & receptionarea at 564 UnionAvenue, corner ofGreylock, in Belleville.Professional office,Restaurant, or otheroffice use. Call (973) 202-8580

KEARNY 1 ½ rooms.HT/HW included. Nopets. $850/month 1 ½security + 1 monthrent. (201)997-0590


KEARNY 3rd fl. 1 BR,LV, Kitchen. No pets.No smoking. Electricheat. $800/month +utilities. 1 monthsecurity required.Available. 201-842-0981

N. ARLINgtON 2 MOTHER

DAUGHTER HOUSESTO BE BUILT.

12 ARLINGTON AVE.CALL FOR DETAILS.

O’HARA AgENCY(201) 997-6300

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HARRISON 2bedrooms, kitchen,LR, bathroom.Recently renovated.Close to PATH.Available. (201)376-3184

KEARNY Nail Salonfor sale or equipmentfor sale. 973-229-2786

NUTLEY 250 centerSt. 600 square feet,busy street, CurrentlyDry Cleaner. OwnerLooking to Retire. CallFrank 973-943-3633

KEARNY 1 BR apt..No pets. A/C. 1 ½Months Security.$979/month. 551-655-1619.

BELLEVILLE 1Bedroom apt. HT/HW& Gas included. A/C,refrigerator, Stove.New carpet &cabinets. 1 CarParking. $1000/month.No pets. Avail.immediately. (973) 284-0904. Askfor Al.

BELLEVILLE 5rooms, $1,075/month.HW included. 1 ½month security. Nopets. 732-572-6885 or732-789-5154

BELLEVILLE 2 BRmodern apt. WithCentral air & Heat.Parking Space. 1 ½month’s security. Nopets. Available Now. (201)424-0957

BLOOMFIELD

BLOOMFIELD 1st. fl 2BR. Apt. w/ drivewayavl. 1 month security.Available May 1st. 862-215-7039 or 646-529-4292

KEARNY 3 BR’s.Extra Large Rooms.$1250/month. HT/HWincluded. RecentlyRenovated. Kitchen,Bath, HW floors,Refrigerator. 1 monthsecurity. No fees. Avl.May 1st. No pets. 973-216-9470.

KEARNY 4 rooms, 3rdfl. Refrigerator, 1 ½months security.References. Separateutilities. No pets.$875/month. (201)815-6870

KEARNY 2,000sq.ft.Modern 3 bedroom,central air, hardwoodfloors, laundry hook-up, attic storage. Nopets. $1500/month.(201)997-1514

KEARNY Large 2bedroom apt. Justrenovated. All utilitiesincluded. 1-1/2 monthssecurity. No pets. Nosmoking. $1200/month(201)452-2542

KEARNY 1st floorapt. 2 bedrooms, LR,DR, Kitchen andbath. SeparateUtilities. $1300 + 1month security. W/Dhook-up. AvailableImmediately. Call201-207-8029.

KEARNY Large 1 BRapt. Featuring newkitchen, never usedstove & refrigerator.New ceramic tilebathroom. LargeBedrooms. Space foroffice. Lots of closetspace. H/W floorthroughout. Ceilingfans in each room.$1,200/month +security & utilities. Nopets. 201-991-6942.


KEARNY 6 total room.1st fl. Renovated apt.Large LV/DR, No pets.$1,700/month + 1month security.HT/HW included. 201-306-0892 after5pm.

BELLEVILLE Studio &1 bedroom apts.,$750-$1050. HT/HWincluded. 1-1/2 monthssecurity. Availablenow. Multiplelocations. (201)509-8315


HARRISON 4 Family,plus Restaurant/Bargreat incomeproducer. All BrickBuilding. Call Rose732-496-2453 Formore info.

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KEARNY Arlingtonsection. 3 largemodern rooms.Ground fl. H/W floors.Tile kitchen. Laundryfacilities. Parking.Close to NYtransportation.$890/month. Call 908-240-9302

KEARNY 4 BR’s Idealfor large family.$1650/month. 1 monthsecurity. Avl. Now.201-674-1473 or 732-602-4043

KEARNY 4 LargeRooms, EIK, LR, DR,Tile Bath. W/W Carpet,Heat/HW Included. Nopets. Security(201)998-2584

KEARNY ArlingtonSection. 1st floor, 2bedrooms. $1250/mo+ utilities. 1 monthsecurity. C/A, securityalarm, modern kitchen,bathroom, coinwasher/dryer. 1 offstreet parking.Available May 1st.(201)991-8240

KEARNY 2 family, 2ndfloor, 3 bedrooms (1big master bedroom),2 full baths, largekitchen, new carpet &hardwood floors,dishwasher, DR, largeLR, laundry room,attic, central AC/HT.private parking.$1750/month +utilities. 1 monthsecurity. Close toPATH, park & school.Available now. Nopets. Call (201)955-1093 after6pm or (201)452-1796

BELLEVILLE 1 BR,LV, Bathroom, kitchen.$825/month. Utilitiesincluded. 1 monthsecurity. No petsAllowed. No smoking.Available May 1st. 973-634-7261

HARRISON 5 roomapt. Dead end St.Utilities not included.No pets. Please callafter 7pm 973-784-3635

KEARNY 1 BR Apt.Located 1 block fromCity hall. H/W floors.HT/HW included.$900/month. 1 monthsecurity. No pets. Formore Info. Call Carlos201-306-2994.

BELLEVILLE 1 BRApt. Available now. 1½ month’s securityrequired. Utilitiesseparate. No smoking.No pets. Please LeaveMessage. 973-202-1919.

KEARNY ArlingtonArea. 5 rooms, 1 bath.1-1/2 months security.$1200 + utilities. Nopets. (201) 213-1871

BLOOMFIELD Retailstore for lease. Cornerstore avl. No foodPlease. Avl. June 1st.800sq ft. privateparking lot available.Call 973-566-0333.


KEARNY 2 BR apt.1st fl. Dead end St.W/D Hook-up. $1,100+ 1 ½ month’ssecurity. Avl. May 1st.201-246-1797.

KEARNY 3 Bedroom.1 ½ Baths. Kitchen,DR, LR. No laundry,No parking, No pets.$1250/month + 1 ½months security.(201)246-7652 or(862) 588-9816.

KEARNY Studio forrent. Utilities Included.$650/month. 1 monthsecurity. Call (201)772-8318. Rento Estudio,utilitdades incluido.$650. Un mes degarantia. Llamar al(201) 772-8318.

KEARNY Updated 2ndfloor apartment. EIK, 3bedrooms, bathroom,living room. Washerdryer hook up. HT/HWNOT included.Available June 1st.Call 201.341.6757.

BELLEVILLE 2 roomStudio apt. Utilitiesincluded. $700/month.1 month security.Available May 1st.973-454-1002

BELLEVILLE 2 roomStudio apt. Utilitiesincluded. $700/month.1 month security.Available May 1st.973-454-1002

KEARNY 2nd fl. 2 BR,Newly Renovated.New Hardwood Floors.Plenty of closets. Useof Yard. $1,300/month.Separate Utilities. 1 ½months security. Avail.May 1st or 15th 201-920-9308

HARRISON Newlyrenovated, 3BR, 1Bath. Close to Path.$1,600/month. 1month security.Laundry hook-up. Avl.Now. Call after 5pm201-933-1458.

HARRISON 2nd Fl. 3BR apt. LR/DRkitchen. $1400/month+ Utilities. 1 monthsecurity. No pets. Call201-618-0712 or 201-401-8138.

KEARNY Modern 4room apt. Good ClosetSpace. $1,150/month.Supply own utilities. 1month security. Nosmoking. No pets.Available June 1st.201-997-0659.

BELLEVILLE 2nd fl. 2bedroom. HT/HWincluded. 1 monthsecurity. No pets. Nosmoking. Avl. May 1st.973-759-7077.

HARRISON Small 1bedroom apt.$775/month. 1 monthsecurity. Separateutilities. HT/HWincluded. AvailableMay 1st. (973)484-8030

HARRISON Basementapt. 2 bdrms, kitchen,LR, DR, bathroom, useof patio. Available May1st. (973)351-5512(862)900-6266

HARRISON 3rd fl.Large Bedroom.Kitchen, LR, DR, walk-in closets. Lots ofcloset space. $1,000/month. 1 ½ monthssecurity. No pets. NoSmoking. NearTransportation. Avl.May 1st. 862-371-9418.

BELLEVILLE 2 familyHome, 2nd fl. 2 BR,Kitchen, DR, WoodFloors. $1100/month.1 month security. Heatnot included. No pets.Available Now. 973-666-0797.

HARRISON 3Bedroom, $1400/mo +utilities. 1 ½ monthssecurity. No pets. 1 yr.lease required. Avl.Now. 973-610-5858.

HARRISON 110Passaic Ave, 1st floor.2 bedrooms, LR,kitchen, bathroom.Available May 1st.$1050/month.Separate utilities. 1-1/2months security. (973)704-4246 (201)889-8749

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KEARNY Room forrent. female preferred.Kitchen use. Near NYTransportation.Available Now. 201-719-0380.

EMPLOyMEnT

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FT Driving InstructorWanted. Must haveclean driving record,

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N.ARLINgtON Newlyrenovated, 2 LargeBR’s, Large LV & EIK.$1,200/month, 1 ½month security. HWincluded. Close to allmajor transportation.Available May 1st. 201-522-4470

N.ARLINgtON 1Bedroom Apt. HT/HWincluded. Parkingspace. No pets. 201-342-2206.

N.ARLINgtON 2room studio. HT/HWincluded. $700 +security. Available May1st. (201)991-5938

HARRISON Room Forrent, Single Femalepreferred.Responsible. Nosmoking. Call after5pm 201-467-1300

LYNDHURSt 2nd fl. 2BR. Separate utilities.$1,200/month. 1month security. Nopets. Available Now.Near NYCTransportation. 201-370-9105

N.ARLINgtON 26Gold St. 3rd fl. 2 BR,LR/DR. Kitchen.Supply own HT/HW.No pets. W/D Hook-up. $1,200/month + 1month security. 732-887-1744

Moving Sale Diningroom set, 2 bedroomsets, priced to sell.Call 201-997-3914

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LYNDHURStFurnished Studio, 1block from Train &Bus. $875/month +Security. IncludesUtilities & cable. 201-438-1987

HARRISON 1 room forrent. Private entrance& bathroom. Oneperson preferred.$550/month. Cable &Internet included.(973) 525-3860.

Sales Local retail furniturestore seeks provensalespeople for P/Tand F/T positions.Hours will include

Saturdays and nights.Apply in person:

Mace Bros Furniture512 Kearny Ave.

Kearny, NJ.

HARRISON 107 DavisAve. 2nd floor. 3bedrooms, LR,kitchen, bathroom.Available May 1st.(973)941-2220

LYNDHURSt 1bedroom apt. in 2family. $1000/month. 1month security. Heatincluded. No smoking.No pets. Available May1st. (201) 933-3676

N.ARLINgtON 1bedroom. AvailableMay 1st. No petsSeparate utilities.$950. 1 mo. security.(201)467-1551

LYNDHURST 1 room.1st floor, shareapartment.$600/month. Utilitiesincluded. Studentpreferred. (201)667-5920

N.ARLINgtON 1Bedroom, 2nd fl. Nopets. No smoking.$875/month + utilities.Available June 1st. 1½ Month Security.201-965-5837.

HARRISON Room forrent w/privatebathroom. Separateentrance. 1st floor.$550/month. Utilitiesincluded. 1-1/2 monthssecurity. No smoking.No pets. (973)573-7333

KEARNY Room forrent. Utilities, cableand Internet included.Available May 1st .(201) 898-3527

KEARNY Room f/rent.Female preferred.Utilities, Wi-Fi &Directv included.$550/month. 1 monthsecurity. Available May1st. Private entrance.(862)588-4818

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RUtHERFORD 2bedroom, 1st floor andfinished basement.Washer/dryer hook-up,driveway, backyard,across NYtransportation. Nopets. $1900/monthincluding heat.(201)981-9349

HARRISON Room forrent. Big closets.Female preferred.Near PATH &transportation. Sharekitchen. No smoking.No drinking. Availablenow. Utilities & Directvincluded. Se hablaespañol. (973)485-9464(551)697-7226

Yard Sale – 11 AcmeSt. Belleville, NJ. OffBrighton, across BellaCasa. April 18 & 19.9am-1pm.Miscellaneous items.

HARRISON 2bedroom, LR/DR,kitchen. No pets.$1050/month. 1-1/2months security.(973)380-9007

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Caregiver needed.Live In 5 days split.English Speaking.

Trans. NorthArlington. 201-507-5970 or Call June

551-486-5210

EMA Landscaping Service• Tree Cuts • Trimming • Retaining Walls •

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Looking for NightDrivers. Full Time.

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505 Schuyler Ave.Kearny, NJ

"AUTO BODY SHOP(NEWARK,NJ)LOOKING FOR

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Call 201-939-8551for interview.

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KEARNY Furnishedroom for rent. Call(973)715-2625 or(973)216-8624

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NEWARK 1st fl. 2 BR,LV, EIK. 1 monthssecurity. $1,200/month+ Utilities. No pets. Nosmoking. Avl. Now.973-634-5704.

CLERK tYPIStBILINgUALPT position to

perform various officeduties & assist the

public. Computer expwith MS Office req.

Bilingual in English &Spanish preferred.

$11.03/hr, 24.5 hr/wk.For residency req and

applic, go towww.kearnynj.org.

App deadline04/25/14.

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Car Club of North Jersey and he won many trophies in car shows he entered.

“He saved a 1969 MG clas-sic which he restored and which he brought into his automotive class and took the car down to its frame and rebuilt all the engine parts,” Debbie recalled. “He gave the students a broad spectrum of knowledge.”

“The last project he was working on before he died was restoring a BSA (Bir-mingham Small Arms) motorcycle from the ‘60s for an international festival [this

month],” said Debbie. “In fact, it’s still sitting in Kearny High School.”

In late February, Debbie noted, the KHS PTA present-ed the school library with an automotive book in memory of Kuhrt and several students “spoke about how [their former teacher] inspired and guided them towards con-tinuing their desire to pursue the automotive craft. Each student expressed how they want the school to continue the program for future stu-dents.”

One former student, Joseph Ferreira, who now runs New Body Collision on Columbia Ave., credited Kuhrt with

being an active mentor in encouraging him to pursue an automotive repair business. “He was a real great guy – he was the one who got me into cars,” Ferreira said.

“When I was going to Kearny High, I lived around the block from New Body and when I was in my fresh-man year, I worked there part-time,” Ferreira said. “Mr. Kuhrt used to stop by and check up on me to see how I was doing.”

“There’s probably another 50 if not more – including people working for the town now – that Mr. Kuhrt inspired to like this trade,” Ferreira added.

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April’s theme for Apostle of the Month at Queen of Peace Elementary School, North Arlington, was to draw a poster to remind everyone to “Care for All of God’s Creations.” Princi-pal Terri Suchocki chose the best from each class. The winners are, back, from l.: Lizbeth Garcia 5B,Chris Anderson - 6A, Mar-cella Padilla 8A, Kayla Gagvancella - 7B and Kimberly Murillo 7A. Front, from l.: Jonathan Deleon 4A, Aleksey Jimenez 4B and Max Rueda 5A

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with lights, Tetto said. “We are the only town that doesn’t have lights [for girls]. Our Lit-tle League fields have lights. Why only boys?”

Meanwhile, at the request of Councilman Dan Pronti, the Borough Council is debating whether to install lights in the

parking lots of Allan Park and Zadroga Field. The borough engineer is preparing a cost estimate.

Pronti, a Republican, said he’s pitching the idea as a crime deterrent, particularly at Zadroga Field where, he said, there are ways for people to enter through wooded areas or openings in the fence and

passing cops patrolling Schuy-ler Ave. have no way to view the field parking lot.

But Democrats Al Granell and Tom Zammatore are skep-tical about Pronti’s suggestion. Zammatore said police have reported no criminal activity in those locations since 2011. And, he said, putting in lights could simply encourage more

people to congregate there. Pronti, however, said there have been unreported crimes, including two break-ins to the Corsi House at Allan Park.

Granell said a better solu-tion might be to “lock the gate at Allan Park at night to limit access to the parking lot after dark,” but only if it’s warranted for security rea-

sons. Recreation Commission meetings could be held at the senior center next to Borough Hall or the recreation house in front of Allan Park, since both are illuminated, he said.

Zammatore said the bor-ough should “get data from the Police Department that shows where crime is a prob-lem” and then get an estimate for lighting those areas.

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Before dealing with missing medals, Fike was a collector of military antiques. “It broke my heart to see military items being discarded,” he said.

Then, one day, his mother brought him a Purple Heart medal awarded to Pvt. Cor-rado Piccoli of Watertown, N.Y. “It symbolizes so much,” Fike said. So he set to find the soldier’s family so he could give them the medal. It took a year but he did it.

And so began his quest in earnest.

Now a member of the Vermont National Guard, Fike said: “I do my Army thing from 9 [a.m.] to 5 [p.m.] and from 9 [p.m.] to midnight I dedicate to my [Purple Hearts United] foundation and I do [medal] returns on weekends. I’ve done 80 returns so far. On April 12, I’ll be in Kansas City. I’ve gone as far as Los Angeles and, pretty much, all over the U.S.”

Back in the ‘40s, Fike said, “people would tend to hide their valuables and medals in their house and, over time, they’d forget about them. Then the family sells the house and the new occupants would find these missing med-als in attics and other hiding places.

“In one case, a soldier got married before going to war where he is killed and is awarded the medal. His wife moves back to her family, she passes on and her kids find the medal – now they’re reunited with it and the memories of their dad.”

In another case, Fike re-called, a multi-generational family didn’t realize their father’s medal was missing. “There’d been a rift and the family members hadn’t been close for maybe 55, 60 years. Then after I was able to bring them the medal, they had their first family reunion day. I got to see three generations come together and now they’re closer than they’ve ever been.”

Initially a one-man enter-prise, Fike said he’s now aided and abetted by 10 research vol-unteers, including a national genealogist, who help locate medal recipients and/or fami-lies. Once a contact is made, he schedules a medal return ceremony. “They’re profes-sionally framed for free for

the families and we get a guest speaker, like a congressman or local dignitary. We need to do that for the families. It’s what they deserve.” Fike always makes the presentation.

The framing service, travel and related costs typically run “around $1,200,” Fike said. “The first two years, I was funding that but now we rely on donations to my non-profit.”

Memorial Day returnHe said the Kearny private’s

medal “will be framed, hope-fully with his picture if we can get one, and an Ameri-can flag,” when he makes the delivery on Memorial Day. “I’ll be doing two returns that day, both in New Jersey,” he said.

To reach Fike’s organization, people can email him care of [email protected].

An obituary of Pvt. Wilfred J. Warhurst Jr. retrieved by Kearny Library Director Josh Humphrey from an old news-paper clipping said that he had lived at 92 Devon Terrace, and was a former student at Kearny High where “he be-came a member of champion sprint relay teams…” Before entering the service, “he was employed at the Pollak Manu-facturing Co. in Kearny.”

The obituary said that Warhurst “was inducted into the Army in January 1943. He trained at Camp Pickett, Val., and at Camp Davis, N.C., before being assigned to over-seas duty in February 1944. He was attached to a unit of an advanced anti-aircraft artil-lery battalion on the Western Front.”

According to Fike’s research, Warhurst was serving with the 320th Infantry Regiment, 35th Infantry Division, which advanced to Arlon, Belgium, Dec. 25-26, 1944, “and took part in the fighting to relieve Bastogne, throwing off the attacks of four German divi-sions, taking Villers-laBonne-Eau, on Jan. 10, 1945, after a 13-day fight and Lutrebois in a five-day engagement.” On Jan. 18, “the Division returned to Metz to resume its interrupted rest.” Then, the obituary says, Warhurst “was seriously wounded in action in Belgium on Jan. 12 [and] died a week later, Jan. 19, at an Army sta-tion hospital in Luxemburg.”

Warhurst, who was 27 when he died, was buried at Luxem-bourg American Cemetery in Luxemburg.

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Nutley resident Terry Chalk is congratulated by Commissioner Steven Rogers on the occasion of his 99th birthday celebration April 4 at the Old Guard.

“Terry is part of a generation that sacrifi ced so much in order that those of us living today can enjoy the freedom and liberty we have. At age 99, he has seen the great wars, the Depression, and the shaping of the greatest nation on earth, the United States of America,” Rogers said.

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Born in Mt. Carmel, Pa., on November 12, 1921, Helen moved to New Jersey where she met and married Michael C. Yankowski of Harrison.

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Nearly 200 female stu-dents from 14 high schools in Hudson County – including Kearny High – and the sur-rounding area attended the first annual 2014 Women in Technology Symposium at the Hudson County Community College Culinary Arts Confer-ence Center, Jersey City, on March 26.

The day-long event, de-veloped and hosted by the HCCC Center for Business and Industry (CBI), provided information on career oppor-tunities for women in tech-nology and STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) related fields.

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Development Director Sheila K. LaMagra; Soundsense, LLC founder Bonnie Schnitta; Jersey City Board of Educa-tion teacher Melissa Marks; and HCCC Center for Online Learning Executive Director Vivian Lynn.

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NORTH ARLINGTON – Construction of the new Rip

Collins Athletic field complex in North Arlington is proceed-ing on schedule and should be finished by fall 2014, school officials predicted.

In a prepared press release, Schools Superintendent Oliver Stringham said that excava-tion work is being done to lay the groundwork and founda-tion for what will be the new athletic field, track and new buildings.

Stringham said construc-tion crews (from Rochelle Contracting of Landing) are on the River Road site doing all the infrastructure work, now that the district has secured approvals from the state Department of Environmental Protection.

Joseph Ricciardelli, president of the North Arlington Board of Education, said last week, “I don’t see any reason why we won’t be playing on the new field this fall.”

“We’ve had delivery of all the irrigation materials and piping,” Ricciardelli said. “We’re putting additional drainage under what will be our new turf field and our new buildings are going to be raised an additional foot higher than what the state asked for” to off-

set any potential flooding from future storms over overflows from the nearby Passaic River.

Ricciardelli said the school board will, at some point, be purchasing a “Zamboni-like” machine that would be used to vacuum away any excess water and/or debris from the field as needed. “Our staff will be trained how to use it,” he added.

As an added precaution, according to board member George McDermott, the field will be covered with a large tarpaulin during the off-season for protection against the ele-ments.

The project, funded under a $3.3 million public referendum previously approved by North Arlington voters, will provide the school district with a new artificial grass field that it can use for high school football, baseball, track and soccer, plus team locker rooms and bathrooms, a storage facility, a coach’s meeting room, con-cession stand, press box and scoreboard, public bathrooms, walkways and fencing.

The complex will also be available for use to the bor-ough Recreation Department.

Ricciardelli said the board plans to “open the facility six or seven days a week for the

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“My parents immi-grated from Portugal and both worked hard in America to buy a nice house in a nice suburb,” says Santos, a senior who is soft-spoken, humble and quick to smile. “My father is a diesel me-chanic and my mother works cleaning houses. We are a really close fam-ily. I saw how hard they worked and knew I had to work just as hard on my studies.”

Santos was also named the Outstanding Senior in his major – civil and en-vironmental engineering. He has a 4.0 GPA and is ranked first in his senior class. He holds seven scholarships and belongs to four honor societies. He attends the Albert Dorman Honors College and worked as an NJIT tutor for two years, where he helped hundreds of students improve in chemistry, physics and statistics.

Though he majors in engineering, he has a mi-

nor in business, and be-longed to a student team that competed in a Global Investment Research Challenge, developing a report for a stock recom-mendation and present-ing it before a panel of Wall Street experts. He

was the only engineering student chosen by the School of Management to participate in the contest.

This past summer, San-tos worked as a summer intern at Langan Engi-neering and Environmen-tal Services.

NA student ‘outstanding’ in many ways

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