Nov. 13, 2013 Observer

By Ron LeirObserver Correspondent

KEARNY – Local Democrats – facing a

lone independent candidate – maintained a stranglehold on local government with an 8-0 majority on the Kearny Town Council and Demo-cratic Mayor Alberto Santos retaining the mayoralty with

no opposition in the Nov. 5 municipal election.

In nearby North Arlington, meanwhile, the two remaining Republican incumbents on the Borough Council withstood a challenge by Democrats and the GOP even gained an additional seat in that local contest.

Borough Democrats, how-ever, continue to hold a 4-3

majority, with Democratic Mayor Peter Massa able to vote as a tie-breaker.

Republicans Richard Hughes and Joseph Bianchi each won the right to a third three-year term on the gov-erning body and newcomer Daniel Pronti will join them as the third GOP member. Pronti will serve out the unexpired term of former Councilman

Steve Tanelli, who gave up his seat to make a successful run for freeholder last November.

The unofficial tally, as re-ported by the Borough Clerk, had Bianchi on top with 1,985 votes, followed by Pronti with 1,935 and Hughes with 1,889. For the defeated Dems, incum-bent Peter Norcia led the way with 1,738, and newcomers

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A Nutley chiropractor has pleaded guilty to submitting false billing documents to five insurance companies, col-lecting more than $89,000 to which he was not entitled, the N.J. Attorney General’s Office announced last week.

Under a Nov. 4 plea agree-ment, the state will recom-mend that Joseph Salomone, 45, be sentenced to four years in state prison. Salomone also agreed to make full restitution to the companies he defraud-ed, authorities said.

Sentencing is scheduled Dec. 19 in Hudson County Superior Court.

Salomone, who reportedly had practices in Jersey City and Paterson, directed his office workers to complete periodic reevaluation forms on a number of auto accident victims using pre-determined information unrelated to an actual assessment of the pa-tient, the AG’s office said.

Accordingly, an investigation by the Office of the Insurance Fraud Prosecutor determined that the patients’ medical records did not accurately reflect whether they needed to continue chiropractic care with Salomone or perhaps needed a change in their treat-ment plan.

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KEARNY –

They’re trying to bring back the pride.

For the past several years, students and staff at Kearny High School have grown accustomed to a hybrid existence: normal everyday instruction in an environment of partly cordoned off hallways and classrooms, scaffolding and outdoor classroom trailers.

At some point, soon, district administrators say, work will resume on the long-stalled, multi-million dollar project designed to graft new classrooms, a new cafeteria and a grand five-story atrium onto the 90-year-old high school.

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Teacher Gary DiVincenzo (l.), senior Shannon Stoia and Principal Al Gilson and the newly decorated photo wall.

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KEARNY –

When the Kearny Board of Educa-tion reorganizes in

January 2014, it will feature a reversal of fortune, reflect-ing a new 6-3 majority voting bloc aligned with Bernadette McDonald, who had been ousted as board president in June by the old majority.

In the Nov. 5 general election, voters tossed out the current board president Robert O’Malley and re-turned McDonald to her seat, along with two newcomers – Barbara Cifelli-Sherry and Samantha Paris – who had aligned themselves with Mc-Donald. All were running for three-year seats. Incumbent George King opted not to seek a new term.

The unofficial tally, as recorded by the Town Clerk’s office, had Cifelli-Sherry leading the pack with 1,743 votes; Paris garnered 1,687; McDonald, 1,641; and O’Malley, 1,087.

Daniel Esteves – appointed to the board a year ago in place of Deborah Lowry when she was declared in-eligible to serve – ran unop-posed for the lone two-year seat and was credited with 1,161 votes. A write-in drive for Judy Hyde fell well short of that total.

So the new majority will look like this: McDonald, Cifelli-Sherry, Paris, Cecilia Lindenfelser, James Doran and Sebastian Viscuso on one side, and John Leadbeat-er, John Plaugic and Esteves on the other.

In an interview last week, McDonald, who’ll be starting her fifth consecutive term as

a board member in January, said she was “thrilled” by the vote tally. “I’m glad people came out,” she said.

McDonald – whose cam-paign team had placed “over 250” lawn signs ask-ing residents if they’d “Had enough?” with what she char-acterized as a divisive board – said the team’s goal is “to have a board that works together,” that the board should be focusing on “staff, students and [school] taxes.”

One immediate priority, she said, should be to “get Midland Ave. done,” refer-ring to the recent undertak-ing of the long-awaited con-version of the old tire factory and later private school at Midland Ave. and Elm St. into some classrooms and new offices for central staff and board meeting rooms, which should free up the old board offices at Franklin School for additional instruc-

tional space.Cifelli-Sherry, who served

14 years on the Town Coun-cil through 2009, has been an outspoken critic of the board at its meetings and was so dispirited by what she called the “air of adversity” that pervaded the board ses-sions, that she decided to get involved.

“We need to remember we’re all on the same side when it comes to the stu-dents, teachers and parents,” Cifelli-Sherry said. “We’ve got to get past special agen-das.”

Instead, she wants to “get input from teachers and administrators” on how students’ performance levels, as measured by mandated proficiency tests, can be im-proved. And she’s hoping the board can get moving again to complete the high school reconstruction project. “My granddaughter is now a

student there and I’m hoping she’ll see a complete school by the time she graduates,” she said.

Paris said she got into the race because “the board is now out of control.” Its members have been more concerned with “who did what to whom” in the past, instead of educational issues, she said. “We should stick to the task at hand and do what we were elected to do. We should be focused on cur-riculum and things that kids need, like better technology.”

And, Paris said, “All kids should have access to text-books. In some classes, teachers don’t have enough books so they have to make copies for the students. … There’s no standard instruc-tional policy or attendance policy.” Since the district has

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BELLEVILLE –

Firefighters from 11 mu-nicipalities in the region came to Belleville this

past Saturday to aid a fellow firefighter in need by giving blood.

They, along with members of the public, came to answer a distress call put out by the township and the Fireman’s Mutual Benevolent Asso-ciation (FMBA), on behalf of rookie Firefighter Kevin Lis-senden.

Belleville Fire Department Battalion Chief Tim Buck-ley, who helped organize the blood drive, said that on Oct. 28, Lissenden was involved in an accident in his private car on Rt. 495 that resulted in him being hospitalized and in need of blood transfusions.

A report published by NJ.com and attributed to police, said that a 2005 Nissan Maxima traveling east on Rt. 3, at around 3:30 a.m., went out of control as it moved onto Rt. 495 in North Bergen, spinning around several times before climbing the curb and hitting a guardrail.

The driver, Lissenden, was taken to the Jersey City Medi-cal Center for treatment of multiple injuries, the report said.

On its website, the New Jer-sey FMBA said that Lissenden “suffered major trauma” and that “due to the accident and surgeries, Kevin is in need of our help.”

Lissenden, who attended St. Peter’s College, Jersey City, worked as a pipefitter before applying for a firefighter posi-tion with the Belleville Fire Department. He was appoint-ed to the department, along with eight other recruits, on April 24, 2012.

Carl Piscatowski, one of those nine rookies, was at Fire Headquarters on S. Frank-

lin Ave. on Saturday to give blood. He and Lissenden were assigned to ambulance duty on the same rotation. They took turns driving.

“He’d work and then go home to his family – just like me,” Piscatowski said. “That’s what he enjoys.”

Lissenden and his wife De-siree have three children.

Belleville Firefighter Jim Coponi, who will start his 25th year on the job in February, called Lissenden “a great guy, easy to work with, conscien-tious. He’s a good kid – always there if you need something.”

Between 10 a.m. and 4 p.m., Saturday, a dozen volunteers from the Blood Center of New Jersey set up accordion cots

for donors and extracted one pint of blood from each donor.

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KEARNY –

ANewark man, who is said to have more than two dozen aliases and

nine Social Security numbers, was arrested last week on robbery and weapons charges after a confrontation at the

Rite Aid Pharmacy on Kearny Ave., during which one arrest-ing officer was slashed with a razor.

The suspect, 30-year-old Luis Torres, has a history of 30 prior arrests, eight of them in Kearny, Police Chief John Dowie said.

At 10:15 a.m. on Tuesday, Nov. 5, KPD Officers Vanessa Sevillano and Frank West were

dispatched to Rite Aid on the report of a shoplifter fighting with employees.

Sevillano arrived first to find the fracas in progress at the rear of the store. When she attempted to take Torres into custody, he resisted, police said.

The suspect had apparently lacerated his hands during the store fight, and in the struggle to restrain him, Sevillano came

into contact with his blood.Then, as West helped Sevil-

lano handcuff Torres, West was slashed on his hand with a razor in the suspect’s posses-sion, police said.

Both officers must now be sent for treatment due to exposure to the blood, Dowie noted.

Torres has been charged with: robbery; two counts of aggravated assault on a police officer; resisting arrest; two counts of throwing bodily fluids; unlawful possession of a weapon, and possession of a weapon for unlawful purposes.

Police said he also had an outstanding no-bail warrant out of Clifton.

Dowie noted that this was Torres’ 31st arrest. His eight prior arrests in Kearny in-cluded charges of shoplifting, possession of hypodermic nee-dles, and aggravated assault on an officer, the chief said, and were recorded in August 2005, June 2006, July 2006, May 2007, July 2009, August 2011, July 2012 and October 2012.

In the last instance, Dowie said, Torres feigned needing medical assistance and was taken to Jersey City Medical Center. While there, he report-edly tried to escape through a bathroom ceiling.

Last week, the chief reported, Torres again said he required treatment. This time, he was taken to Clara Maass Medical Center -- and then to the Hudson County Jail.

Shoplifting in Kearny has been on the increase.

As of Nov. 1, Dowie noted, the KPD had recorded over 200 shoplifting reports, “more than in all of 2012.”

“And,” he added, “the holiday season isn’t even here yet.”

His 31st arrest; 9 in Kearny alone

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Arlington Woman’s Club of Kearny collected 95 gifts suitable for infants or toddlers at its annual baby shower for the benefi t of the Salvation Army of Greater Kearny on Oct. 8. The Salvation Army of Greater Kearny also serves North Arlington, Lyndhurst, Harrison and East Newark. For further information on the programs provided by the Salvation Army of Greater Kearny, call 201-991-1115 or visit http://www.use.salvationarmy.org/USE/www_use_NewJersey.nsf/vw-dynamic-arrays/9742166AED19ED7885257AD2006773D2.

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We also used to read about space exploration and how any day, we’d be catching up to the Soviet Union’s Sputnik launch. And we did.

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Thus are we presented with the image of space as a double-edged sword – like the constellation of Orion beck-oning but also threatening would-be space voyagers.

To ignore the possibility of new worlds awaiting our discovery is wrongheaded. Who knows how long our planet will last, given the rate at which we’re running out of natural resources by choking our air, polluting and drying up our waterways, felling our forests, despoiling the land, over-consuming.

One day, perhaps, as our Earth is threatened with extinction, we will be see-ing droves of people fleeing – in privately manufactured spacecrafts – to those distant ecto-planets as a last refuge.

And, when they arrive, as a final irony, will they be locked up – or turned away – as illegal immigrants?

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Fugitive Safe Surrender af-forded nonviolent offenders with outstanding New Jersey warrants the chance to turn themselves in to authorities and, in return, likely receive “favorable consideration” from the justice system.

The total head count of those who surrendered was not available at press time, but as of Friday, the penul-timate day of the four-day program, a reported 2,951 fugitives had shown up.

Authorities were said to be expecting at least 1,000 additional surrenders by the project’s conclusion last Saturday afternoon.

The official final tally was to be announced Tuesday morning by N.J. Attorney General John J. Hoffman.

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Superior Court and Mu-nicipal Court judges adjudi-cated the cases, and public defenders and prosecutors were present.

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By midday, the line stretched down the block and around the corner -- a scenario repeated each of the four days.

When the Hudson pro-gram was announced last month, Hoffman empha-sized that it was not an offer of amnesty. However, participants would “receive favorable consideration . . . [which] typically results in significantly reduced fines and/ or probation require-ments instead of incarcera-tion.”

Only individuals with nonviolent-offense warrants from state or local jurisdic-tions in New Jersey were eli-gible, and participation also was limited to U.S. citizens and legal residents.

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Lyndhurst Police Det. Capt. John Valente said Brian J. Hope, 50, was observed can-vassing without the proper license along Ridge Road on behalf of an organization called “Real Hope for Kids” on Monday, Nov. 4.

However, Valente said subsequent investigation disclosed that “Real Hope for Kids” was a non-existent entity devised by Hope who, they said, informed local mer-chants that he was collecting signatures for a petition he intended to sent to the United Nations to pressure all coun-tries to adopt tougher laws dealing with the sentencing of people convicted of sexual crimes against children.

After an individual signed the petition, Hope would then ask the signer for a donation to help the cause, Valente said. As an incentive to get people to donate, Valente said Hope stapled various de-nominations of money to the petition to make it appear that other businesses had provided donations.

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At the time he was stopped by police, Hope had $300 in his possession, but it’s unclear how much of that, if any, he’d collected from merchants, Valente said.

“Hope claimed that since he is not a 501(c)3 organization of the IRS code, as documented on his petition, he did not ac-cept donations for charitable purposes; therefore, all money received was his to keep,” said Valente. “He claimed that the signed petitions were sent on to the United Nations.”

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Hope was released after police issued him a summons, pending a court appearance.

Other incidents logged by Lyndhurst Police during the past week included these:

Nov. 6At 4:48 a.m., police discov-

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Nov. 5At 9:32 p.m., police respond-

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Nov. 4At 8:33 a.m., police were

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Nov. 2At 3:43 p.m., police received

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Prompting the comment were two cases of conspicuous consumption, the first oc-curring at 10 p.m. Nov. 1 near Kearny Ave. and the Belleville Turnpike. There, the Vice Unit had under surveillance a vehicle in which the passenger appeared to be using a con-trolled substance.

As the officers approached the car, he reportedly stuffed five -- yes, five -- bags of marijuana into his mouth and “began to chew rapidly.”

“The detectives curtailed

his chewing,” Dowie said, and recovered all five. A sixth bag was found on the floor of the vehicle, along with a cigar, commonly used to ingest the drug, police said.

Taken into custody and charged with possession of pot and of drug parapherna-lia was a 16-year-old Kearny youth. Following processing at headquarters, he was turned over to a grandparent.

On Nov. 5, at 1 p.m., police received a report of three individuals attempting to pass counterfeit cash at the Kearny ShopRite on Passaic Ave. The trio fled in a car with Georgia plates, which was located and stopped on Passaic by Det. Michael Gonzalez.

As Gonzalez and backup Of-

ficer Jack Grimm approached the vehicle, the front-seat pas-senger was said to be “franti-cally stuffing” currency -- $100 bills -- into his mouth. The officers removed him from the car and managed to “coax some of the remnants from his mouth,” Dowie said.

Asked what he was doing, the man reportedly answered, “I’m eating the money.”

Arrested for allegedly ut-tering counterfeit bills were: Peter Clarke, 19, of Newark; Adantae Blake, 19, of New-ark, and Saturn Michel, 19, of Orange.

Clarke, the one reportedly with the appetite, also was charged with tampering with evidence.

Gonzalez is conducting the

follow-up investigation along with the U.S. Secret Service, which is said to be “very” in-terested in the three suspects.

Other entries (entrees?) on the KPD blotter included the following:

Nov. 1At 9:30 a.m., Officer Brian

Wisely, responding to calls about a disorderly person on Chestnut St. near Dukes St., encountered Arthur Smith, 49, drinking a can of Natty Daddy beer, which he dis-carded on the ground, police said. Initially cautioned, Smith – who has no known address -- was seen a few minutes later emerging from a store with another Natty Daddy and began arguing with Wisely. Smith was arrested for disor-derly conduct and issued sum-monses for drinking in public, littering and refusal to obey a police officer.

Officer Adriano Marques, driving on Harrison Ave. at 10:30 a.m., was flagged down by a man who said he had just found a gun in a damaged storage trailer he was cleaning out. Marques recovered the weapon, a 9 mm. automatic. The investigation is continu-ing.

Pursuant to an investiga-tion begun in October, Det. Gonzalez arrested 22-year-old Claudio Rodrigues of Kearny on one count of identity theft. Rodrigues, an employee of a

local restaurant, allegedly had stolen the identity of a co-worker and used the informa-tion to apply for a car loan at a Jersey City dealership.

Nov. 2At 2:30 p.m., Officer John

Fabula, responding to a report of burglaries into several vehicles, found that at least four -- two on Beech St. and one each on Magnolia Ave. and Stewart Ave. -- had been entered. Reviewing security videos, Fabula identified as a suspect Daniel Schrier, 40, of Kearny, and within the hour located and arrested him. Police said Schrier agreed to cooperate and consented to a search of his home, where two stolen GPS units and a cell phone were recovered. He was charged with burglary, at-tempted theft and theft.

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By Ryan Sloan

Now that its TV run is over, it’s time to ex-pose a little bit about

the incredible AMC show “Breaking Bad” for those who have never seen it – and for those who should really take the time to binge-watch it on Netflix or some other way.

It’s the story of Walter White (played by Bryan Cranston), a down-on-his-luck high-school chemistry teacher with lung cancer (he never smoked a day in his life) and Jesse Pinkman (played by Aaron Paul), Walter’s former chemistry student who is hardly what one would call a model for-mer student.

Walt’s brother-in-law, Hank, is a DEA agent – and in the opening episode of the series, at a family party, Hank is seen telling the entire family about the meth epidemic in America.

In the course of their dis-cussion, Hank invites Walt on a ride-along to see a meth bust. During the ride-along, Walt learns how lucrative the meth business is – a one-pound bag of it could net a dealer $40,000. As the ride-along progresses, and as Hank prepares to partake in a meth bust, Walt suddenly eyes Jesse trying to escape the meth house.

From there, Walt “be-friends” Jesse – and the two, as the title says, break bad.

Hank goes from being a well-liked high-school teach-er at the beginning of the series to one of America’s most noted meth “cookers.”

“Cooker” is the term used to note someone who makes meth. And who better to cook a drug that requires numerous chemicals than a brilliant chemistry teacher? And he does it with some-one who is well versed in making meth in Pinkman.

Are you starting to see how this is developing?

What’s perhaps most re-markable about this show – you’ll see it once you watch it – is that it’s written so brilliantly, so magnificently, and acted so superiorly that you find yourself identifying more with Walt and Jesse,

criminals, than you do Hank and his fellow DEA agents.

What you’ll find is you want to see Walt succeed in his business, despite know-ing how dangerous it is – and how illegal it is. What you’ll find is every ethical bone in your body goes out the window because the show is that compelling.

I’m only giving you a small taste, too, of what you’ll get with this show. You’ll also get to meet Hank’s wife, Sky-ler, and son, Walter “Flynn” Jr. There’s his sister-in-law Marie. And there are so many other unbelievably compelling characters you’ll meet. They’re so compel-ling, when you finish watch-ing the series, you’ll find yourself actually missing

the show, longing for more episodes.

BE WARNED — THERE ARE TONS OF SHOCKING MOMENTS.

There are, however, a few things you should know be-fore watching this show.

It’s not suited, at all, for a young audience. No one 18 or younger should be watch-ing this show. In fact, I’m not so sure anyone under 21 should be watching it.

There is an inordinate amount of graphic violence in the show. It’s realistic violence – and a true indi-cator of what happens in the world of meth. But it’s violent, nonetheless. And you have to be aware of that before watching the show.

Lastly, you’ll see scenes

and actions you never thought were possible. At all. Someone told me to “brace” myself before watch-ing “Breaking Bad,” and that was exactly what I needed. And it’s exactly what you’ll need to do.

Sir Anthony Hopkins, just last week, penned a letter to Cranston to tell him he binge-watched the show in just a week’s time, and he found the acting and writing to be the very best he’d ever seen – ever. Imagine that. These are the words of one this generation’s greatest-ever actors.

“This work of yours is spectacular – absolutely stunning,” Hopkins wrote to Cranston. “What is extraor-dinary is the sheer power of everyone in the entire pro-duction. What was it? Five or six years in the making? How the producers (yourself being one of them), the writ-ers, directors, cinematogra-phers, every department – casting etc. managed to keep the discipline and control from beginning to the end is (that over used word) awe-some.

“Thank you. That kind of work/artistry is rare, and when, once in a while, it occurs, as in this epic work, it restores confidence. You and all the cast are the best actors I’ve ever seen.”

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KHS Principal Al Gilson turned loose veteran photog-raphy instructor Gary DiVin-cenzo to do a little redesigning of his own by focusing on a section of the school’s lobby entrance where school fliers and announcements were taped on the wall.

To DiVincenzo, it was an affront to a visitor’s eyes, an insult to the school’s once pristine interior.

“Look at the architecture,” he said, gesturing toward the high ceilings, carefully styled designs and wainscoting. “Today, you could never afford to put marble and hardwood walls in a public school build-ing. Unfortunately, this marble hasn’t been polished in 50 years – something that would probably cost $20,000 to do – which is not in the budget.”

Heeding the principal’s plea “to do something to make it more classy” by creating a photo montage, DiVincenzo willingly responded to the challenge.

“I decided to show the histo-ry of Kearny High School over the years,” he said, through a pictorial review.

And clearly, Kearny High has had a treasure trove of memorable achievements to draw from: particularly in the interscholastic athletic arena and, most notably, in soccer. As chronicled by Wikipedia, the Kardinals boys soccer team has won 16 NJSIAA Group IV championships

since 1946, the girls soccer team won the North I, Group IV state sectionals in 2007 while the cross country unit has captured many county, conference and state champi-onships.

So, going with that strong suit, DiVincenzo enlisted the aid of members of his ad-

vanced photography class and, together, they poured over hundreds of pages of old KHS yearbooks dating back to 1927, which, luckily, were available from storage in the principal’s office.

The research began last winter and DiVincenzo credited two of his students

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With a 4-year-old child at Roosevelt School and another one, 19-months-old, soon to enter the school system, Paris wants very much to foster a new attitude on the board.

“I went to Kearny High School and I’m a CPA,” Paris said. “Many of us who are Kearny graduates are success-ful and we’re proud of where we came from. We want the same for our children.”

Elsewhere in The Observer coverage area, there were con-tested races for school board in Lyndhurst and Nutley, with mixed results.

In Lyndhurst, two incum-bents – Christine Melleno and James Cunniff – lost their

seats and a third, James Hoop-er, didn’t run. The three newly elected board members – Jo-seph Abruscato, Ronald Szwec and Susan Alcuri – aligned themselves under the slogan “Experience, Leadership and Accountability.”

Abruscato, a former town-ship commissioner who previously served one term on the school, works as a school counselor for the Sayreville public schools. Alcuri is a retired Lyndhurst educator. Szwec is an accountant.

The unofficial vote tally, as reported by the Town-ship Clerk, was: Alcuri, 1,604; Abruscato, 1,419; Szwec, 1,186; Dennis Jankowski, 787; Cun-niff, 598; Melleno, 537; and Jeremy Guenter, 506.

In Nutley, incumbent Charles Kucinski, the board president, retained his seat while incumbent James Kuchta lost his. Newcomers

Daniel Carnicella and Kenneth Reilly will occupy the other seats. The unofficial vote tally was recorded as: Kucin-ski, 3,543; Carnicella, 3,209; Reilly, 2,738; and Kuchta, 2,571. Incumbent Ryan Kline didn’t run.

Kucinski, who has served six three-year terms on the school board, is operations chief

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Auditions will also be held at Bergen Community College, Ender Hall, 400 Paramus Rd., Paramus, from 4 to 6:30 p.m., on Dec. 2 and 3. Callbacks, if needed, will be at Nutley Lit-tle Theatre on Dec. 4.

Evening performances at Nutley Little Theatre will be on Feb. 7, 8, 14, 15, 20, 21 and 22,. Matinee performances are on Feb. 9, 16 and 22. More dates may be added. Dickson Lane of West Orange is director. E-mail [email protected] with any questions about casting.

In “Children of a Lesser God,” a naive speech therapist joins the faculty of a school

for the deaf to teach lip-read-ing. He meets Sarah, deaf from birth and estranged from the world. “Children of a Lesser God” won a Tony Award for Best Play.

This play has special cast requirements. The role of James Leads requires an actor skilled in American Sign Lan-guage (ASL) and this role has already been cast. The role of Sarah requires an actress in her 20’s to 30’s who is prefer-ably prelingual deaf; this role has not yet been cast.

Casting requirements for the other available roles in-clude a man in his 20s to play a person with residual hearing and the ability to read lips; a man in the 40-60 age range; a woman in the 40-60 age range; a woman, age range 30s-40s; and a teenage girl, also a lip reader with residual hear-ing. The production will also require two ASL interpreters who will work in an unpaid capacity to sign speech-to-sign and sign-to-speech throughout rehearsals and performances.

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The date is sometime during World War II (the front of the bus bears a ‘Buy War Bonds’ message). The place is the intersection of the Belleville Turnpike and Ridge Road/Kearny Ave. The view is looking east down the hill toward Schuyler Ave. Just like in the 1940s, the building on the northeast corner houses a restaurant on the ground fl oor. It used to be Sally’s; today it is a Chinese eatery. And the bus? We can’t make out its number, but the route was ‘Kearny-Rutherford via Ridge Road.’ Historical note: The road that became the Belleville Pike was the fi rst in North Arlington, laid out in the early 1700s by Dutch settler Arent Schuyler. He needed a route for wagons to carry ore from his copper mine in the meadows, over the hill and down to a dock on the Passaic River.

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Tickets for “Music at the Mansion” are $10 per per-son and are available at the door. Seating begins at 2:30 pm. Light refreshments will be served. For more infor-mation, contact [email protected] or call Oakeside at 973-429-0960.

Carol Erickson breathes new life into the Great American Songbook sing-ing standards by beloved composers Cole Porter, Irving Berlin and George and Ira Gershwin, among oth-ers. She has been invited to share these wonderful songs with audiences throughout New Jersey, New York and Pennsylvania. Erickson is a vocal student of Mia Norrie of Montclair. She is a mem-ber of the Schumann Music Club of Essex County and The Montclair Music Club . She was a vocalist at multiple fundraisers sponsored by the Salem Roadhouse Café in Union. Erickson has per-formed at The Metropolitan Room, The Crossroads in Garwood and Skippers Plane Club in Newark as part of Carrie Jackson’s Vocal Col-lective. She has been known to sing on occasion for her patients at Mountainside Hospital where she was em-ployed for 40 years.

Singer and comedian Warren Schein, nicknamed “The Velvet Mist,” has been performing on stages from New York to Los Angeles for over two decades. He has played lead singing roles in many stock and Off Broad-way performances. Warren is also an actor and voice-over artist for TV and radio. He has recorded for such well know advertisers as The His-tory Channel, Nickelodeon,

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Hudson County Com-munity College Board of Trustees recently accepted a historic gift of more than 230 works of art from the per-sonal collection of Benjamin J. Dineen III and Dennis C.

Hull. The board also voted to name the new gallery space in the college’s library/class-room building at 71 Sip Ave., Jersey City, after Dineen and Hull. (The library/classroom building is currently under

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County Community Col-lege (HCCC) President Glen Gabert, the Dineen-Hull gift is a landmark for the HCCC Foundation Art Collection,

which recently passed a milestone of 500 works of art.

“This is the largest gift the Foundation Art Collec-tion has ever received, and obviously we are very grate-ful for the generosity of Mr. Dineen and Mr. Hull. They have been great advocates and supporters of the col-lege and our community for some time, and we are proud to call them friends,” Gabert said.

Dineen and Hull’s donation includes contemporary art, largely works on paper, from major and emerging New Jersey and American artists. The gift also includes a sig-nificant amount of ephemera and provenance documenta-tion affiliated with the works and a number of reference books that will be utilized in the college’s library.

A reception to salute the pair was held at the college on Oct. 28, with nearly 200 people attending, including friends and colleagues of Dineen and Hull, and artists whose works they have col-lected.

At the gathering, Gabert said: “This is a historic day for the college. The naming of the gallery is not because of the Dineen-Hull gift. The name is to celebrate two wonderful lives.”

Dineen has been a member of the Hudson County Com-munity College Foundation Board of Directors for some time and was instrumental in starting the HCCC Founda-tion Art Collection. Over the years he and Hull have been generous contributors to the college’s fine arts program and the Foundation Art Col-lection, providing gifts of art and financial donations.

Dineen worked in the world of finance and banking and is now at United Way of Hudson County, and Hull is a retired teacher who now works at the Brodsky Center for Innovative Editions at Rutgers.

As life partners, they be-gan building their personal art collection in earnest when Dineen was on the board of the Jersey City Museum. The couple not only became knowledge-able about the young artists

whose works they admired and purchased; in many instances they welcomed the artists as friends, and assist-ed in advancing the artists’ careers.

When they became part-ners, the couple began pri-marily collecting works on paper, which then expanded to include sculpture, pottery and much more. “We never expected our collection — which fills every wall and cabinet of every room in our home — would be this exten-sive,” Hull said.

“You have to love a work of art. It has to speak to you,” Dineen said. “And then, it just pulls you in,” Hull added.

Dineen said his interest in collecting began as a young-ster when he assembled and painted model cars from kits, then moved on to col-lect Matchbox cars, then to works of art, and for a time, he co-owned a gallery in New York.

Throughout their partner-ship the couple has dedicat-ed their time, expertise and resources to individuals and organizations. In addition to serving on various boards — including the Hudson County Chamber of Com-merce, Jersey City Museum, City Without Walls Founda-tion, and the Hudson County Community College Foun-dation — Dineen and Hull have been advocates for the gay, lesbian and transgender community.

Dineen and Hull say that they are making this dona-tion to the college because they know their collection will be well looked after, and because they hope to encourage others to donate to the HCCC Foundation Art Collection. Additionally, they hope their gift will encour-age others — especially young people — to begin collecting for themselves.

When it comes to donat-ing, Hull said, “It’s better to be known for what you gave rather than what you had.” As far as collecting, Dineen observed, “You don’t have to have a lot of money to col-lect. You have to find some one thing you really love and build upon it a little at a time.”

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around townBellevilleBelleville Elks Lodge 1123,

254 Washington Ave., hosts its monthly breakfast on Sunday, Nov. 17, from 9 a.m. to noon. Cost is $6 for adults and $3 for children under age 3. Children under age 3 are admitted free. The breakfasts are held the third Sunday of every month from September to May. If there are three or more inches of snow, breakfasts are can-celled.

BloomfieldBloomfield Art League

invites the public to its art exhibit at The Art Garage, 211 Glenridge Ave., Montclair, through Nov. 30. Works by lo-cal artists will also be on sale.

Anyone wishing to join the league is invited to call the Civic Center at 973-743-9074, e-mail [email protected] or sign up the day of the reception.

KearnyThe Presbyterian Boys-Girls

Club, 663 Kearny Ave., holds its annual Turkey day dance for teens only on Friday, Nov. 15, from 7 to 10 p.m. Prizes will be given to the best dancers. The dance will be supervised by Kearny teachers and mem-bers of the PBGC Board of Directors.

Kearny Public Library, 318 Kearny Ave., hosts a free screening of “Planes” (PG / 91 mins.) at 4 p.m. on Friday, Nov. 22. Dusty Crophopper, a cropdusting plane, dreams of competing in a world-famous aerial race. The film will be shown downstairs. Popcorn and light refreshments will be served. All are welcome.

A fundraising bus trip for Kearny High School’s Project Graduation to the Sands Ca-sino and Outlet Mall in Beth-lehem, Pa., is scheduled for Sunday, Dec. 8, from 8:30 a.m. to 6 p.m. The bus leaves from Kearny Federal Savings Bank, 614 Kearny Ave. Cost is $30 (receive $20 in slot dollars and $5 food voucher). For tickets or more information contact Judy at 201-991-5812 or e-mail her at [email protected] or call Sandy at 551-265-8969.

The Kearny High School Class of 1983 will hold a 30-year reunion on Nov. 30. For more information, contact Re-

union Central at 888-333-6569 or e-mail [email protected].

The Rosary Society of Our Lady of Sorrows Church, 136 Davis Ave., meets Thursday, Nov. 14, at 7 p.m. in the church basement. Margaret Abrahams, coordinator of the Domestic Violence Response Team of Hudson County, will speak.

The Salvation Army of Greater Kearny, 443 Chestnut St., will hold its annual Kettle KickOff on Thursday, Nov. 14, at noon at Kearny Town Hall.

It offers classes in basic computer skills, e-mail and Mi-crosoft Office Suite, Mondays and Tuesdays, from 10 a.m. to noon. There is a fee of $30 per 12 hours of instruction.

For more information, call the Salvation Army at 201-991-1115.

The Scots American Club, 40 Patterson St., will par-ticipate in the Blood Center of N.J.’s Super Community Blood Drive on Tuesday, Nov. 19, from 2:30 to 8 p.m. Donors can schedule an appointment or walk in. To schedule an ap-pointment online, visit https://www.membersforlife.org/bcnj/schedule.php Donors will be entered in a sweepstakes to win two tickets to the Super Bowl at Met Life Stadium in February and receive a Super Community Blood Drive wrist-band. The Super Bowl Host Committee is sponsoring the Super Community Blood Drive to raise awareness of the criti-cal need for blood donations.

The Evening Membership Department of the Woman’s Club of Arlington offers a presentation on collectibles by John Labrincha of the Kearny Gold Store on Wednesday, Nov. 13, at 7:30 p.m., at the Hen-rietta Benstead Center, Colum-bia Avenue, Kearny.

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Children’s Room, 355 Valley Brook Ave., hosts a Native American Headband Craft program, for grades Pre-K to 3, on Monday, Nov. 18, from 3:30 to 4:15 p.m. Registration is required.

The Polish American Citizens Club, 730 New Jersey Ave., hosts its 90th anniversary celebration on Sunday, Nov. 17, from 1 to 5 p.m. Admission is

$65. For more information, call 201-438-9723.

The Woman’s Club of Lynd-hurst is collecting non-perish-able food items, plus turkeys, hams and lasagne, along with gift cards for ShopRite or Stop & Shop, as part of a food drive for the local Food Pantry, 253 Stuyvesant Ave. Monetary do-nations can be sent c/o Diane Cichino, 481 Roosevelt Ave., Lyndhurst, N.J. 07071.

The club will also spon-sor a pizza contest on Dec. 9 at 6 p.m. at the Lyndhurst Senior Building, 250 Cleveland Ave. Many local pizzerias are donating pizzas to be judged. Cost is $5 per person. The winning pizzeria will receive a banner to display in their front window. Money raised for this event will benefit the club’s charitable projects. For tickets, call Janet Ricigliano at 201-935-1208.

For more information on membership in the Woman’s Club, contact Marilyn Falcone at 201-933-6459.

Lyndhurst VFW Post 3549, 527 Valley Brook Ave., hosts Karaoke on Friday, Nov. 22, starting at 8 p.m. The VFW hall is also available for rentals for all occasions. For more information, call the post at 201-939-3080.

Lyndhurst Health Depart-ment hosts a blood screening on Friday, Dec. 6, at the rec-reation room at 601 Riverside Ave. Appointments begin at 8 a.m. The screening includes a chemistry profile, cholesterol level, blood count, and thyroid level. This service is available to Lyndhurst residents ages 18 and older for a $20 fee. Pre-registration is required. Call 201-804-2500. Payments can be submitted in cash or checks payable to Medical Laboratory Diagnostics.

The New Jersey Meadow-lands Commission announces the following events:

• Staff from the Woodford Cedar Run Wildlife Refuge will bring some of their owls to the Meadowlands Environ-ment Center, 2 DeKorte Park Plaza, on Sunday, Nov. 17, from 1 to 2:30 p.m. Admission is $5/person; $4/MEC members. For more information, call 201-460-8300 or visit www.njmeadowlands.gov/ec.

• The Third-Tuesday-of-the

Month Walk with the NJMC and BCAS will be held on Tuesday, Nov. 19, 10 a.m. This free two-hour walk of Mill Creek Marsh in Secaucus features raptors, waterfowl and fall migrants. Participants meet at the marsh entrance at 10 a.m. (directions are on mead-owblog.net in the left-hand column). Check meadowblog.net for last-minute weather updates. Participants must sign a standard liability release. To R.S.V.P., contact Don Torino of the BCAS at [email protected] or call 201-230-4983.

North ArlingtonThe North Arlington Fire

Department is conducting a food drive for the Queen of Peace Food Pantry, collecting canned and dry goods and non-perishable food items. Containers are located inside Borough Hall.

Food will also be collected during the Volunteer Fire Department’s annual Santa Claus parade on Saturday, Nov. 30, starting at 9 a.m. At noon, Santa and friends will be at the Fire Headquarters, 3 Legion Place.

North Arlington Public Li-brary, 210 Ridge Rd., sponsors these events:

• Children’s author Kather-ine Rizzuto will discuss and sign her new book “Poodles Don’t Play Tennis” on Thurs-day, Nov. 14, at 6 p.m. Meet one of the dogs from her story. Books will be on sale for $10 each. (Exact change is greatly appreciated.) Kids in Pre-K- to grade 3 are welcome and regis-tration is strongly recommend-ed. Call 201-955-5640, ext.126, and leave a message with the name or names of those regis-tering and how many copies of the book are desired.

• Harvest Craft, sponsored by the N.A. Women’s Club, is slated for Tuesday, Nov. 19, at 6:30 p.m. for grades K to 5.

• Comics Club, for grades 6 and up, meets on Wednesday, Nov. 20, at 3:30 p.m.

• YA Movie Day, for grades 6 and up, is offered on Friday, Nov. 22, at 3 p.m.

Registration is recommend-ed for these programs. Call the library at 201-955-5640.

North Arlington Woman’s Club sponsors a bus trip to Sands Casino, Bethlehem, Pa.,

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The Senior Harmony Club of North Arlington will sponsor an overnight trip to Pennsylva-nia to see the Christmas show “Sight and Sound,” National Christmas Museum, Koziars Christmas Village and Country Kettle Village, Dec. 5-6. For information, call Anna at 201-939-2960.

North Arlington Senior Activity Center, 11 York Rd., host a holiday party on Friday, Dec. 6, starting at 10 a.m. with bingo, lunch at noon, gift raffle at 1 p.m. and dancing from 2 to 3:30 p.m. For information and reservation, call 201-998-5636.

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• Biennial Nutley Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony will be held Sunday, Nov. 17, at 2 p.m., “to recognize Nutley people who have achieved outstanding accomplishments beyond the boundaries of Nutley.” Tickets are $40. Call 973-284-4929 for information.

• Pen to Prose Writer’s Group meets Monday, Nov. 18, at 6:30 p.m. The group is free and open to the public.

• 1990’s Trivia Night for Adults is held on Tuesday, Nov. 19, at 7 p.m. Winners will each receive a $10 Starbucks gift card. Register at http://nut-leylibrary90strivia.eventbrite.com.

• Dr. Who Celebration is slated for Thursday, Nov. 21, at 7 p.m. A Dr. Who costume contest, trivia and British foods are in the offing. Regis-ter online at http://nutleypub-liclibraryforteens.wordpress.com.

• The Laying of the Cor-nerstone Commemoration is scheduled for Saturday, Nov. 23, at 11 a.m., to kick off the library’s Centennial Celebra-tion. Join the library’s Centen-nial Committee, the Board of Trustees, Friends of the Nutley Public Library, local legisla-tors and officials, and state and local library representatives to commemorate the original cornerstone laying of Novem-ber 1913.


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In 2010, the zoo welcomed over 500,000 visitors for the first time in its history and fin-ished the year with 511,655 visi-tors. In 2011, attendance was 525,507 and in 2012 attendance was 560,402. A new attend-ance record has been set every year since 2005, when 211,449

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“We have made tremendous improvements to Turtle Back Zoo and the large turn-out of visitors each year shows how popular our zoo has become. Introducing new natural habi-tat exhibits like the Sea Lion Sound with sea lions, sting rays and sharks, along with our Carousel, Treetop Adventure Course, miniGOLF Safari and Train Ride attractions make coming to Turtle Back Zoo a fun, learning adventure for children and families,” DiVin-cenzo said. “We would not be here without the continuing support of our loyal visitors, sponsors, volunteers and staff. We look forward to seeing

everyone next year for even more adventures, excitement and family fun,” he added.

Mitchell and Rodriguez pushed their daughters on a double stroller through the entrance gate at Essex County Turtle Back Zoo at about 2:45 p.m. on Nov. 2. It was their daughter Luna’s fourth birthday, and the family took advantage of the sunny fall day to take their daughters to a special place that they love to visit.

The parents said Luna and Soli both enjoy riding on the miniature train and getting up close to the animals in the Essex Farm Petting Zoo. Luna said her favorite animals were the penguins, while her sister Soli said she liked the llamas.

In recognition of the mile-

stone, DiVincenzo, Turtle Back Zoo Director Brint Spencer and Zoological Society Execu-tive Director Adam Kerins pre-sented the family with a gift basket filled with toys, stuffed animals and merchandise from Turtle Back Zoo, along with a one-year membership to the Essex County Zoological

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Essex County Executive Joseph N. DiVincenzo, Jr. (second from r.) and Turtle Back Zoo Director Brint Spencer (l.) present Donald Mitchell and Jennifer Rodri-guez of Avenel and their daughters 3-year-old Soli and 4-year-old Luna, with a gift basket as the 560,403rd visitors to Essex County Turtle Back Zoo during 2013.


By Jim HagueObserver Sports Writer

Andre Francisco and Kane McDermott re-member watching the

Lyndhurst High School cross country teams, led by former Observer Male Athlete of the Year Patrick Rono (currently running at the University of Arkansas), and thought then that they would love to enjoy some of the same success when

they both arrived at Lyndhurst.“Right before my eighth

grade year, I noticed that they would win a lot,” Francisco said. “I thought that I would like to be a part of that win-ning, too. I wanted to carry on the tradition.”

“I think it’s something we always wanted,” McDermott said. “We wanted to be able to win the sectional like other Lyndhurst teams.”

However, when Francisco

and McDermott entered Lynd-hurst a few years ago, the idea of Lyndhurst winning another NJSIAA North Jersey Sec-tion 2, Group I state sectional championship seemed a little farfetched, especially with superstar Rono long gone.

That didn’t dissuade Fran-cisco or McDermott.

“Since freshman year, it was something we worked for,” said

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The NJSIAA state soc-cer playoffs have moved into the semifinal round.

Most of the local teams have, unfortu-nately, been eliminated from contention.

Except two old reli-able teams – and then one relative newcomer.

It’s only fitting that both Kearny and Harri-son’s boys’ soccer teams are still fighting for the chance to be a state sec-tional champion. After all, the Kardinals and the Blue Tide represent the best in high school soccer. Both programs have been established as two of the very best New Jersey has to offer for a very long time.

Since the NJSIAA went to a playoff for-mat in the mid-1970s, Harrison has won an astounding 14 state championships. Only Chatham has won more in the state. Kearny has captured nine state titles, tied for fifth most in state history.

So it’s almost ex-pected that both teams would be contending for state honors – Harrison in Group II and Kearny in Group IV.

Both the Kardinals and the Blue Tide, the top seed in their re-spective brackets, won their first two respec-tive games in the state playoffs.

The Blue Tide, top seed in North Jersey Section 2, Group II, rolled to their two wins, defeating Ridgefield Park, 6-0, in the open-ing round, then toppling Newark Tech, 3-0, in the second round last Friday.

The Kardinals, the top seed in North Jersey Section 1, Group IV, knocked off Roxbury in the first round, 3-0, then shook off a tough battle from Clifton, 1-0, in the second round.

The Kards were now scheduled to face fourth-seed Bergen Tech in the semifinals of the sectional at Harvey Field, while the Blue Tide were set to take on Caldwell in the semis at Harrison High, with both games going on approximately simul-taneously a quarter mile apart on Schuyler Avenue.

Harrison head coach Mike Rusek admitted that it was only fitting that Kearny and Har-rison would both be battling for state titles at this juncture of the season.

“November is always a fun time for soccer in West Hudson,” said Rusek, who was a stand-out player at Kearny during his high school days. “Both of our

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The Lyndhurst boys’ cross country team won the NJSIAA North Jersey Section 2, Group I state championship Saturday at Warinanco Park. From l. are Xavier Locke, Anthony Dell Aquila, Abreham Mindaye, Andre Francisco, Dylan Stanko, Stephen Covello, William Hooper, Kane McDermott and Joseph Senak.

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schools are traditionally fo-cused on state tournaments. We’re both the top seeds. It’s that time of year.”

Rusek, whose team toppled Kearny, 1-0, in the semifinals of the Hudson County Tour-nament last month, always holds his relationship with Kearny close to him.

“I always root for Kearny in the state tournament,” Rusek

said. “If we both were able to win, that would be wonder-ful.”

The Blue Tide, still un-beaten with a 20-0-1 record, is enjoying its best season since going undefeated in the 2002 season, posting a 24-0-1 record that year.

One of the major reasons for the Blue Tide’s success has been the play of senior forward Jose Neto, who leads the team with 25 goals.

“Jose is really clicking at the right time,” said Rusek, who hopes that the Blue Tide can capture their first state title since 2008. “He’s been the leader of the team. He’s getting better, getting more and more goals each month. He’s always around the goal and always attack-ing. He likes being the one who has the pressure on his shoulders. It’s great to have a player like that on your side.”

The other standout player for the Blue Tide has been senior defender Modou Sowe, who is one of the most diverse players in the state and clearly an All-State can-didate. Incredibly, Sowe has tallied 19 goals, including five already in the state tourna-ment.

“I really believe that he will go further than any player I’ve ever coached,” Rusek said of Sowe. “We’ve had a lot of very good players, but he’s going to succeed at a higher level.”

The other key to the Blue Tide’s success has been their defense, which has posted an incredible 17 shutouts this year in 21 games.

“Modou takes pride in that as well,” Rusek said.

Kearny head coach Bill Galka was not pleased with the way his team was playing prior to the state tournament. The Kards lost to rival Har-rison, then lost an independ-ent regular season game to Morristown.

“I talked to the team a little bit after that game and told them that they wouldn’t have a chance to move forward if they kept playing that way,” Galka said. “I don’t know if they took that game (Morris-town) lightly, but they took the talk we had to heart and have played well.”

The Kardinals had to face some adversity, when stand-out goalkeeper Sebastian Ferriera went down with a shoulder injury, so backup Michael Barros has been outstanding, collecting two shutouts in the state tourney.

“He made some key saves,” Galka said. “He was the

backup, but trained hard all year and now it’s his turn.”

The Kards have been getting scoring from differ-ent people, not just leading scorer Andres Pesantez. For example, Kevin Tapia was the hero against Clifton, scoring the game’s lone goal.

“We’re getting scoring from different areas,” Galka said. “That has helped.”

Both teams have not sur-rendered a goal in the state playoffs. That means one thing: It’s very hard to lose if you don’t allow the opponent to score.

Galka also agrees that it’s good for local soccer when both Kearny and Harrison are doing well in the state tourney.

“I think most people want to see both teams make a run,” Galka said. “We’re final-ly playing strong and tough. We’re starting to play much better at the right time.”

The third local team still alive in the state tournament is Nutley’s girls’ team, which advanced to the semifinals of the North Jersey Section 2, Group III bracket.

It’s the furthest that Nut-ley has ever advanced in the state playoffs.

Coach Mike DiPiano’s team moved on with a 2-1 win over Millburn last week, keyed by Victoria Healy’s clutch late goal.

The Maroon Raiders were slated to face West Morris in the semifinals, also earning a home game.

It means a great amount of excitement in November for the local soccer teams, two old favorites and one invigor-ating newcomer.

Photos by Jim Hague

LEFT: Harrison defender Modou Sowe has been brilliant in the NJSIAA North 2, Group II playoffs, scoring five goals in two games, enhancing his All-State pos-sibilities. RIGHT: Kearny midfielder Kevin Tapia was the hero in the Kardinals’ 1-0 win over Clifton, advancing the Kards to the North 1, Group IV semifinals.


McDermott, now a junior and a member of the cross country team. “Having the other teams do well set a higher standard for us.”

“Especially after a guy like Pat Rono and the great legacy he left, we just fought together as a team to carry on the tradition.”

Sure enough, the Lyndhurst boys achieved the unthinka-ble Saturday, when they won the North 2, Group I state championship at Warinanco Park in Elizabeth.

The Golden Bears held off two-time defending sectional champ McNair Academic of Jersey City to win their first state title since the Rono-led team in 2010.

Francisco led the way for Lyndhurst, finishing second overall to Sondy Polanco of Secaucus. Francisco complet-ed the race in 17:53.62.

William Hooper was next for the Golden Bears, finish-ing fourth overall in 17:57.49. McDermott was next, placing

sixth overall in 18:04.19.All three of the Golden

Bears’ top finishers are juniors, meaning they all will be back next year to try to defend their title.

Lyndhurst head coach Mi-chael Pichardo believed that his team had a great chance to win the state sectional trophy.

“I figured we were the favorites, but I didn’t want to say anything to the kids,” Pichardo said. “We knew we had a great chance. It was just a matter of them having their A game and they did that. It’s a testament to the kids. They bought in since they were freshmen and worked very hard.”

Pichardo said that the race was won by the dedication of his middle runners.

“At the first mile, I noticed that it was Polanco, then Andre, then three McNair runners,” Pichardo said. “We had to do something about that. But then, Billy (Hooper) ran by two of the McNair kids and gave us a gutsy per-

formance.”McDermott followed suit,

with Dylan Stanco coming in 12th overall in 18:30.52, Abre-ham Mindaye coming in 13th in 18:44.07 and Xavier Locke placing 14th in 18:47.55.

Having those three run-ners come in one after an-other sealed the deal for the Golden Bears.

Anthony Dell Aquila rounded out the litany of Golden Bear runners, placing 21st overall in 19:13.07.

Locke and Dell Aquila are only freshmen. This is defi-nitely a program on the rise, as Mindaye is the lone senior. Every other runner returns.

“It’s a testament to the kids, because we lost one of our top runners, Steve Covello, to mononucleosis and he’s been out almost all year,” Pichardo said. “It meant that the younger kids had to step up. The kids re-ally run for each other. They all want to come through for their teammates. They’re as tough as nails.”

Pichardo couldn’t say

enough about top runner Francisco.

“He’s terrific,” Pichardo said. “He’s been our consist-ent leader. He wants it the most.”

Pichardo didn’t want to compare his last champion with the current bunch – ex-cept in one area.

“They’re getting to have that edge,” Pichardo said. “That team in 2010 had a swagger about them and this team is getting there. This team wanted to get a taste of what the other teams achieved and they got it. But they’re still hungry. I’m hop-ing that this is just the tip of the iceberg. It’s very satisfy-ing.”

Pichardo believes that the Golden Bears have a shot this Saturday at finishing among the top three teams at the overall Group I champion-ships at Holmdel Park, which would give them a chance to compete again one week later at the NJSIAA Meet of Champions, also in Holmdel.

“We have a lot of hard

work ahead of us, but they’re capable of qualifying,” Pichardo said. “It was great to see them come together and get this one. I’m very excited for them. They have matured and come a long way. This was a huge first step for them. It’s a young team and we bring everyone back.”

Pichardo likes the state of the program.

“We have depth,” Pichardo said. “We have about 10 kids who could run varsity. When has that happened before? This group really pushed each other and it paid off.”

“This is amazing,” McDer-mott said. “We really did have high hopes coming into the season. We expected to do something good this season. This was our year. It’s tremendous that we’re all coming back next year. Hopefully, we can repeat.”

“It’s really exciting,” Fran-cisco said. “We’ve all worked so hard together. We push each other and this is the result.”

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“He’s just phenomenal,” Kearns said. “Every week, I keep saying that I can’t ask for more and he keeps giving me more. His work habits are incredible. He wants to suc-ceed in everything he does, whether it’s in football, in track or in the weight room. I saw right away that this kid was a winner.”

Momnohin has guided the Golden Griffins to a 5-4 re-cord, which was good enough to secure the No. 4 seed in the NJSIAA Non-Public Group 1 state playoffs. They will play at home at the new Riverside County Park facility Friday night at 7 p.m. against a very familiar face.

When the Golden Griffins face St. Anthony of Jersey City in the opening round of the state playoffs, they will see former QP head coach Ed Stinson on the sidelines with the Friars. Stinson spent two seasons as the head coach of the Griffins (2008 and 2009).

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ity, under the lights. No one could have imagined that was possible.

“Without a doubt, I couldn’t have written a better script any better than what has hap-pened,” Kearns said.

A year ago, the Griffins struggled keeping players on the field. One after another, the players fell victim to injury.

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“We took things a little differently,” Kearns said. “We spent a lot of time with conditioning and weight room training. We know how to rest their legs. Everyone is healthy, thank God, and we’re keep go-ing on the right track.”

Of course Momnohin is the engine who makes the Griffins go. He’s having an All-State caliber season.

“Everyone knows he’s go-ing to get the ball,” Kearns said. “And when he gets the ball, good things are going to happen. It’s magic. He’s just a very special kid. What he’s done has been unbelievable. No matter what point of the game, he gets this look on his face and he’s just gone. He has that extra step that most people don’t have. And when

he uses it, he’s gone. It’s been like Bill Belichick inheriting Tom Brady. I give the ball to 5 (Momnohin’s jersey number) and 5 goes.”

But the team is not all Momnohin.

“Tajier Jefferson has been an absolute moose,” Kearns said. “He’s playing well on both sides. The offensive line has been tremendous. Antho-ny Villano is great, running and throwing. Everyone has really jelled together nicely. I couldn’t have asked for any-thing more.”

So the Griffins get a home game in the states. It’s a per-fect setting for what should be a great game.

“Everyone is buzzing about getting a home playoff game,” Kearns said. “It’s great for the school. There should be such a great crowd there. Everyone is excited about it.”

And one thing should be duly noted, according to Kearns.

“Queen of Peace is back,” Kearns said. “Some people said that the place is dying and the end is near. Well, we’re back and we’re going to be here for a very long time.”

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the old Metro Stars, among others.

And there were Kardinal coaches like Doc Lough-ridge, who steered basketball squads during the 1940s, and Bob Kirk, who guided soccer squads to several state titles in the ‘60s, for example. Others of more recent vintage in-cluded Ralph Borgess Sr. and Jr. for football and Jim Cifelli for track.

“I’m a Kearny High grad, Class of 1972,” DiVincenzo said, “so I remember these were winning coaches.”

Also included in the photo mix were shots of student activities and clubs from the various school eras.

“The hardest part was put-ting it together,” Shannon said, “because of the measurements [of the panels] we had to fit.”

To prepare the approxi-mately 50 photos picked for mounting, DiVincenzo had the

students scan the images from the yearbooks and sent them to a New York photography firm, Adorama, to insert them on metal plates which were then framed and arranged in the form of panels that were affixed to the lobby wall.

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“Now when you walk into our building, it just pops,” said Gilson. “I think the photog-raphy class and Mr. DiVin-cenzo did a great job with this project. And, as the school construction job advances, we want to do more of this type of thing in different parts of our building.”

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Millar, ranked among the na-tion’s “winningest boys soccer coaches” by ESPN for his Kardinal coaching from 1975 to 2006, said the montage serves as a big morale booster for students and staff alike.

“It takes the veteran staffers here, in particular, back to the different eras in our history. You can remember the great teams, the championships, that those people represented in the photos helped estab-lish,” he said.

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nutritional supplements, ex-tra nutritious foods, and med-ical equipment and supplies. Its special adult program, “Pharmaceutical Services for Adults with Cystic Fibrosis” covers insurance co-pays and the organization also has a special program for short-term and emergency finan-cial assistance.

For information on Bowl for Awareness or NJSOCF programs call 973-595-1232, or visit www.njsocf.org.

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On Thursday, Nov. 14, Belleville FMBA Locals 29 and 229 will sponsor a “Casino Night” fund-raiser for Jeff Tamburri, brother of Belleville Fire Dept. Lt. Bill Tamburri, who was left paralyzed by an accident.

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Daniel Castro and Jean Wil-liams garnered 1,736 and 1,729, respectively.

In their campaign material, local Dems took credit for restructuring the borough’s debt, getting the county to renovate playing fields in Riv-erside County Park for bor-ough use and engineering the sale of the old transfer station property. And they slammed the GOP incumbents for what they characterized as big spending habits, voting for an expensive suit against a regional water utility and neglecting redevelopment op-portunities. But voters didn’t buy it.

Asked to assess the damage to his party, Massa blamed a disappointing voter turn-out, coupled with local GOP benefiting from the “long coattails” of the huge victory margin of Gov. Chris Christie in his bid for re-election, plus “the local Republicans put up candidates who were popular with voters.”

“But, like they used to say in Brooklyn,” Massa added, “wait ‘till next year! The local Democrats will regroup and fight for the good of the com-munity. And I’m anticipating I’ll be voting on some ties to break.”

Bianchi, who said he felt “humbled” by voters return-ing him to office, agreed that Christie’s walloping of Dems challenger State Sen. Barbara Buono “had a lot to do with it.” Also, by and large, he said, “the people we ran against nobody knew.”

Over the next three years, Bianchi said, residents can look forward to a “bright future” with new revenues flowing to the borough “as the New Jersey Meadowlands Commission begins sell-ing off properties in North Arlington.” With those funds, Bianchi said, “we can start doing things for our children and we can start concentrat-ing on fixing our streets and sidewalks.”

Back in Kearny, First Ward Councilwoman Alexa Arce handily defeated a bid by independent challenger Alex Valdez to unseat her by a margin of more than 3-to-1, with Arce garnering 541 votes to Valdez’s total of 161.

Valdez, 21, a member of the Kearny Municipal Utilities Authority who is completing a political science degree at

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Konopka, 50, had no oppo-sition for the seat. Although this will mark his first elec-tive office, he has served on the Kearny Zoning Board of Adjustment for 13 years, the last two as chairman. “After Madeline decided to retire, the mayor asked me if I would consider running for a council seat in the Second Ward where I’ve lived for almost 17 years,” he said.

A 32-year employee of the Passaic Valley Sewer-age Commission, where he’s worked since age 18, Konopka said he aims to work with his council mates to “keep taxes in line” and to provide for a “better quality of life.” One priority, he said, would be to implement a plan for a new pump station to prevent resi-dential and business flooding on the east side of Schuyler Ave. He’s also keeping an eye on the proposed Schuyler Crossing residential develop-ment.

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Carol Jean Doyle and Fourth Ward Councilman Michael Landy, each running uncon-tested, were returned to their seats.

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“There is value to [the state-mandated] 2% budget cap so long as inflation is around that level,” the mayor said. But he said any gains

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Guests receive complimen-tary breakfast, goodies, raffle tickets for door prizes and will have the opportunity to take a photo with Santa so bring a camera. All proceeds will go to “Toys for Tots” to help brighten the holidays for local families, many of whom are still recovering from the

devastating effects of Sandy.

Apple-bee’s and participat-ing restau-rants in New Jersey, operated by Doherty Enterprise, Inc., have raised a combined total of more than $3 million for “Toys for Tots” over the past 14 years. Dol-lars raised in each

community benefit that local community. To raise addi-tional funds for the program, Applebee’s is also offering paper “gift packages” for $1 each that will be prominently displayed in the restaurant.

To purchase tickets to Breakfast with Santa, call or stop by Applebee’s in Clifton. To find an Applebee’s in your neighborhood, visit www.ap-plebees.com.

Santa returns to Applebee’s Dec. 7 for a breakfast with families and friends that benefi ts “Toys for Tots.” Advance tickets are required.

Santa visiting Applebee’s

Volunteers needed

/theobservernj


Frances A. Oldknow Frances A. Oldknow (nee

Winship), 84, of Ocean Grove, formerly of Kearny, died on Nov. 7.

Arrangements were by the Armitage and Wiggins Funeral Home, 596 Belgrove Dr., Kearny. A Mass of Christian burial was held at St. Cecelia’s Church, Kearny. A service was held by the Eastern Star Liberty Chapter, Kearny. A private cremation was held.

Born at the U.S. Navy Hos-pital in Port O Prince, Haiti, Mrs. Oldknow lived most of her life in Kearny before moving to Ocean Grove 10 years ago. She was an el-ementary school teacher with the North Arlington School System for 30 years retiring in 1992.

She was a member of the Eastern Star Liberty Chap-ter, Kearny, the Arlington Women’s Club and the West Hudson Optimist Club.

She was the beloved wife of 59 years of Robert J. Oldknow; mother of Keith J. Oldknow, Sharon O. Marshall (Steve), Kent R. Oldknow (Joan) and Marlynn Frances Haslund (Leif); grandmother of eight grandchildren; aunt of Michele, Maura and sever-al other nieces and nephews.

In lieu of flowers, dona-tions to the American Cancer Society would be appreci-ated.

MaryAnn RokosnyMaryAnn Rokosny (nee

O’Malley), of North Arling-ton, formerly of East New-ark, died on Nov. 8 at home.

Arrangements are by the Armitage and Wiggins Fu-neral Home, 596 Belgrove Dr., Kearny. A Mass of Christian burial will be officiated on Tuesday, Nov. 12, at 11 a.m. at Queen of Peace Church, North Arlington. Interment will be in Holy Cross Cem-etery.

Mrs. Rokosny was em-ployed at West Hudson Hospital, Kearny for over 35 years. She was a member of the Ladies Auxiliary Compa-ny B Fire Department, North Arlington.

She was the beloved wife of 54 years of Charles T. Roko-sny; mother of Patricia (John) Svec, Charles J. (Heather) and John P. (Danielle) Rokosny and the late Joseph Roko-sny; and sister of Martin (Eda), Richard (Annette) O’Malley and the late Larry (late Marge) O’Malley.

She was the grandmother of Lauren, Michael, Jennifer, Kristian, Madison, Tyler and Trevor. She is also survived by many nieces and nephews.

In lieu of flowers donations to the John Theurer Cancer Center Hackensack Univer-sity Medical Center Breast Division or The Patient Access Network Foundation would be appreciated.

Louise Torta Louise Torta ( nee Manfre-

donia) 79, of Kearny died on Nov. 3 at home.

Arrangements were by the Armitage and Wiggins Funeral Home, 596 Belgrove Dr.,Kearny. A Mass of Chris-tian burial was officiated at Holy Cross Church, Harrison. Interment was in Holy Cross Cemetery.

Mrs. Torta was a retired Hi-Lo operator with La Torraine Coffee Company, Secaucus for over 20 years. She was born and raised in Hoboken

before moving to Kearny in 1974.

She is the beloved mother of Donna (John) Pomponi, sister of Lorraine Manfredo-nia and the late Philip Man-fredonia, grandmother of An-thony Pomponi, aunt of John and Marc Prezioso, Theresa Al Hakem and the late Ralph and Philip Manfredonia.

In lieu of flowers donations to The St. Jude’s Children’s Research Hospital, P.O. Box 1000, Dept. 142, Memphis, Tenn. 38101-9908 www.st.jude.org would be appreciated.

Wilfred Armitage & Wiggins Funeral Home

596 Belgrove Dr. • Kearny, NJ 07032(201) 991-0657

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Mark G. Wiggins, Manager N.J. Lic. #3916John W. Armitage, Director N.J. Lic#2642

You will feel as if friends of family have taken over when you entrust funeral arrangements to the Wilfred Armitage Funeral Home. The family-owned firm has been in business for 75 years, serving genera-tions in West Hudson and South Bergen. Its beautiful facilities, in a setting reminiscent of a colonial mansion, reflect the graciousness and tact of its understanding personnel.

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When it comes time to having your last will and tes-tament prepared you will be asked--who do you chose to serve as your executor? The executor is the person you select and name in your will to identify and protect the assets you leave behind pending distribution to your named beneficiaries. Be careful who you choose to serve as executor. Sometimes people will name someone to serve who really should not be selected. Persons with histories of substance abuse or serious financial difficulties of their own are not recommended candidates. Persons who are procrastinators by nature or who have serious emotional distractions are probably not a good choice. Persons with no business sense also may not be a good choice.

Yet I have seen all such persons selected to serve as executors of estates sometimes with disastrous results. In many instances persons such as those described above will steal money from the estate which they can easily do since they have custody of the deceased person’s as-sets. The procrastinators may fail to seek professional advice to file the required income and estate tax returns which can result in thousands of dollars tax liability that may even deplete the entire estate, or they may simply do nothing at all while the assets decrease in value over time and estate bills remain unpaid. A poorly selected executor might even neglect a decedent’s home, fail to insure it, and create potential liability to beneficiaries of the estate if an accident occurs on the icy front sidewalk.

A few years back I had a case involving an executor--one of eight surviving children named in their father’s will. Two of the other children named in the will came to me to find out why no assets had been distributed to anyone years after their father had died. We went

to court and forcibly obtained copies of all of the ex-ecutor’s records. My clients’ suspicions were borne out--their brother the executor had plundered their father’s estate to pay for his own child’s tuition and other personal expenses. The money was all gone, the executor’s house was in foreclosure and he had filed for bankruptcy. Why the father had named only one of his eight children as executor--instead of two or more named as co-executors--is beyond me.

You need to know well and trust the person named as your executor. Sometimes co-executors are a good idea to help each other and maybe even keep an eye on each other. Sometimes co-executors are a really bad idea, especially if your pool of candidates for the job does not get along; you also want to avoid creating a potential for disputes. Some clients want to name one of their children as executor simply to avoid hurting their feelings than if they were not named. I always ask clients to think twice about that reason and about their ultimate choice for executor… usually the ini-tial hurt feelings will be balanced out in the end by a properly settled estate and happy beneficiaries.

The foregoing comments are for general informa-tion purposes only and are not a substitute for legal advice. You should consult an attorney about the facts affecting your specific situation. Richard M. Maus-ner is an attorney with over 30 years experience in probate and elder law with offices at 110B Meadow-lands Parkway, Secaucus and in Holmdel, New Jersey. He is a member of the National Academy of Elder Law Attorneys, Inc. He can be reached at 201-617-9100. Copyright © 2013 Richard M. Mausner, Esq.

Legally Speaking By Richard M. Mausner, Esq.

Choosing Your Executor –Think Twice Before You Do

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Vice detectives were on the 100 block of Kearny Ave. at 5:20 p.m. when they stopped a motorist for careless driving and detected the odor of mari-juana, police said. The driver, Anthony Chaparro, 25, of Jersey City, reportedly turned over two bags of suspected pot and was charged with possession and the MV offense.

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Boiling Springs Sav-ings Bank has been named one of the Best Banks to Work For. The program, which was ini-tiated in 2013 to identify, recognize and honor the best banks to work for in the nation, is a project of American Banker and Best Companies Group.

To be considered for participation, banks had to fulfill the following eligibility requirements:

- Have at least 50 employees working in the US;

- Be a commercial bank, thrift, mutual as-sociation, mutual savings bank, savings and loan association or a savings bank.

In all, 35 banks achieved “Best Bank”

status in this inaugu-ral program, of which Boiling Springs Savings Bank was the only bank in New Jersey listed for this prestigious award. The full Best Banks to Work For list is featured in the November issue of American BankerMa-gazine and is available online at AmericanBank-er.com.

Determining the Best Banks to Work For involved a two-step process. The first step consisted of evaluating each participating bank’s workplace policies, prac-tices, and demographics. This part of the process was worth approximate-ly 25% of the total evalu-ation. The second part consisted of employee

surveys aimed at assess-ing the experiences and attitudes of individual employees with respect to their workplace. This part of the process was worth approximately 75% of the total evalu-ation. The combined scores determined the top banks and the final ranking. Best Compa-nies Group managed the overall registration and survey process and also analyzed the data and used their expertise to determine the final rankings.

For more information on the Best Banks to Work For program, visit www.BestBankstoW-orkFor.com or contact Jackie Miller at 877-455-2159.

Boiling Springs Savings ratedamong ‘Best Banks to Work For’

Lyndhurst Health De-partment would like to thank the many people, organizations, and local businesses that volun-teered and contributed to its Annual 5th Grade Health Fair. This event would not have been possible without the volunteer work and donations from AAA, Anne Rooney of Sacred Heart School, Bergen County Health Servic-es, Clara Maass Medi-

cal Center, Chili’s of East Rutherford, Elaine Sica of Lyndhurst Public Schools, Gentle Dental, Gloria Hopf, Haley Chiropractic, Lyndhurst High School Peer Leaders, Lynd-hurst Police, Lyndhurst Sports Complex, Lynd-hurst Volunteer EMS, Meadowlands Area Y.M.C.A., Medieval Times, North Arling-ton Bowl-O-Drome, Wendy’s, Williams

Center Cinemas, and the Woman’s Club of Lyndhurst. Kudos also go to Mr. Bruno’s and Shop Rite of Lyndhurst for providing food for our volunteers on the day of the event. Last, the following pizzerias generously donated pizza parties for our participating 5th grade classes: A-1, Chris’, Foschini’s, Francesca’s, Gencarelli’s, Josie’s, and Mr. Bruno’s.

‘Fair’-minded folks

Lyndhurst staff, students, and local businesses participating in the Health Department’s Annual 5th Grade Health Fair.

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