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Inside:Borough News....................................3Bob Batch............................................4Library Events....................................5Health Center......................................8Douglas E. Hall....................................9Church Information..........................10www.EdgewaterResidential.com

Councilman Kevin P. Doran takes the oath of offi ce for his fi rst full term on the Borough Council from State Senator and North Bergen Mayor Nicholas J. Sacco as Mrs. Doran, (Melissa) holds the Bible. The Doran children are from left, Lyla, Lainie and Jack. Read more on page 9.

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Edgewater’s Good News Monthly Community Newspaper Volume XXIV, No. 6 June 2011


Senior Contributing EditorBob Batch ([email protected])

ChairmanSergio Fernández de Có[email protected]

CTOChristopher [email protected]

The EDGEWATER RESIDENTIAL is published monthly and provided to the residents of Edge-water. Those who wish to volunteer are welcome in this major effort to publish a community pa-per. Financial contributions are also welcome. All rights reserve. No part of this newspaper may be reproduced without the express written consent of the Edgewater Residential.All correspondence, including ads, contributions, and requests for subscriptions, should be directed to the publisher at Edgewater Residential.Interested in writing for the EDGEWATER RESIDEN TIAL? Drop us a note at [email protected] with your contact information and the best way to reach you.


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Edgewater“A Great Place to Live”

From the desk of Gregory S. Franz - Borough Administrator

Independence Day Celebration – The Edgewater Mayor and Council along with the Recreation Department are proud to present fireworks at Veterans Field on Friday, July 1 with a rain date of Monday July 5. Veterans Field will open to the public at 6:00 p.m. for children’s entertainment and activities, music, and food. The event is free except for the cost of refreshments. Bring a blanket and chair and watch the spectacular show produced by the Serpico Family of Newton, New Jersey’s International Fireworks Company since 1906, overlooking the George Washington Bridge and New York City skyline. The Edgewater trolley bus will operate along River Road and Undercliff Avenue between 5:30 p.m. and 10:30 p.m. so leave your car at home and walk and ride to the event. Inflatable rides, face painting, clowns, balloon toss are all available for the children, no alcoholic beverages permitted.

Route 5 Rock Stabilization Project – The New Jersey Department of Transportation will be performing a rock slope stabilization project along New Jersey Route 5 in Edgewater. This project calls for the removal and stabilization of rock along the cliff face. The work calls for approximately 28 days of full closure of Route 5 to perform the most dangerous work first. The borough requested that this work not commence until school ends in June so school transportation is not effected. At the conclusion of the 28 day closure, Route 5 will be open to east bound traffic only during working hours and during morning and afternoon peak hours, bi-directional traffic will be permitted. The Edgewater Police along with the Cliffside Park and Fort Lee Police Departments will work collectively in an attempt to keep traffic flowing and provide ample signage.

Borough Hall Moving Day – The Edgewater Police and Municipal offices are tentatively scheduled to move into the new Borough Hall at 55 River Road the weekend of June 17. Borough offices will be closed Friday, June 17 and Monday, June 20 and will reopen to the public on Tuesday, June 21 so that Borough staff can close down the old facility and prepare to open the new facility. We ask for residents’ cooperation if we do not respond in a timely manner during this period. Staff will be onsite and email and telephones should be operational by Saturday, June 18; however, we may be distracted in attempting to organize the offices and files. The Police Department should be operational in the new facility by Sunday, June 19; however, residents should not see any interruption in emergency service during this transition.

Crossing Guards NeededThe Edgewater Police Department is in need of crossing guards for the 2011-2012 school year.

Edgewater residents 18 and older can apply by filling out an application in the office of the Borough Administrator of Borough Hall. A valid New Jersey Drivers License is preferred. Standard back-

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Community Celebrations

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I would like to wish everyone a happy and healthy new year and welcome back to the council Councilman Doran and Bartolomeo. I speak for the rest of the governing body that it is a pleasure working with these two gentleman and they are truly assets to the Borough of Edgewater. It is a pleasure working with councilors who make great listeners fi rst and evaluate and analyze information in order to make a fair and equitable decision. I must say that the governing body as a whole including Councilman Dr. Jordan, Councilman Vidal, Councilman Monte, and Councilman Henwood are of similar caliper and are truly assets to the community as well as a pleasure to work with. As we begin 2013, I would be remiss if I did not briefl y discuss 2012 and how this year will be remembered by many of its new beginnings, its tragedies, and resilience. One of our new beginnings being our new George Washington Elementary School, even though the schools are operated by a separate Board of Education, the opening of a new school is certainly a community wide event. Education is the foundation of any successful community and I want to thank the Board of Education for their diligence and hard work in providing the children of our community a safe and technologically advanced facility to help foster our children’s growth and experiences. A few other new beginnings we had this year is the appointment of a new Police Chief William Skidmore, who along with his department in cooperation with Emergency Management Coordinator Robert Christensen protected our residents during Hurricane Sandy. Also, with the creative thinking of the governing body, we introduced three new quality of life initiatives for residents to recreate and be proud of living in Edgewater. We invited a farmers market to Edgewater so

that residents and families can buy affordable, locally grown produce. We have invited Stone Point Farms back for next year and we are hoping more residents take advantage of this truly novel experience. Through the cooperation with our Recreation Department, we initiated a free summer concert series and family volleyball out doors at the marina. These two unique family events made me proud to be mayor of our community. It was truly fun to watch Edgewater families come together weekly and listen to music and play volleyball in a small town atmosphere. It seems most of our hardship came towards the end of the year with Super Storm Sandy. It is for this very reason I made a point to invite our volunteer emergency service personal to this meeting after a several year absence for a public swearing in of new offi cers. As I thanked them many times already since the storm, I thank them again for being there for our residents in time of need, their dedication and hard work was exemplifi ed during Hurricane Sandy. Not many people are willing to get out of a warm bed at 3:00am when it is 30 degrees to answer someone’s cry for help, but I am proud to say these men and woman did this for two weeks straight, many going home to see their families once a day for 30 minutes for a hot shower and change of clothes and back at the fi rehouse or squad building ready for the next call. On Monday October 29, the evening of the storm when the tidal surge literally consumed any land along the shore line, I have never seen anything like it. Water, in a matter of minutes, rose to levels I have never seen nor any other resident who has been here a lifetime. I am saddened to say that approximately 150 homes and businesses were affected by the tidal surge receiving in some cases 4 to 6 feet of water in the ground fl oor and those properties along

River Road with basements, a basement full of water including fi rst fl oor water damage. This water damage is compounded by the approximately 60 motor vehicles that received water damage from fl ooded parking lots and streets. Our marina building on River Road and Route 5 received water damage for the fi rst time since its construction, and we received dock and bulk head damage as a result of the hydrostatic pressure of the tidal surge. I am happy to say we did not lose a single boat and only minor damage to one boat. The borough is grateful to its marina staff especially Tom Jacobson, who along with the public works department, worked before, during, and after the storm, so that no boats were lost. The First Aid Squad also received water damage and has temporarily displaced the squad to work out of the old borough hall; the squad should be operational in their building within the next few weeks. Public Service Electric & Gas hosted daily conference calls for government offi cials and emergency management personnel to discuss the progress of power restoration. I became extremely frustrated by Saturday November 3 with the town at 100% outage. I have to admit, I did lose my cool after queuing up on the question and answer session and listening to the other mayor’s complain about sections of towns out. When it was fi nally my turn, I unleashed my fury like never before explaining that Edgewater was still at 100% outage, how can these other towns complain about sections out when my whole town was out? Earlier that week I personally spoke with Congressman Pascrell, Senator Menendez, Senator Sacco, and Assemblywoman Jimenez to advocate for my community, they were very receptive and they did make calls on our behalf since the calls I received from PSE&G did mention they received calls from their offi ces. Even with

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Edgewater“A Great Place to Live”

From the desk of Gregory S. Franz - Borough Administrator

Independence Day Celebration – The Edgewater Mayor and Council along with the Recreation Department are proud to present fireworks at Veterans Field on Friday, July 1 with a rain date of Monday July 5. Veterans Field will open to the public at 6:00 p.m. for children’s entertainment and activities, music, and food. The event is free except for the cost of refreshments. Bring a blanket and chair and watch the spectacular show produced by the Serpico Family of Newton, New Jersey’s International Fireworks Company since 1906, overlooking the George Washington Bridge and New York City skyline. The Edgewater trolley bus will operate along River Road and Undercliff Avenue between 5:30 p.m. and 10:30 p.m. so leave your car at home and walk and ride to the event. Inflatable rides, face painting, clowns, balloon toss are all available for the children, no alcoholic beverages permitted.

Route 5 Rock Stabilization Project – The New Jersey Department of Transportation will be performing a rock slope stabilization project along New Jersey Route 5 in Edgewater. This project calls for the removal and stabilization of rock along the cliff face. The work calls for approximately 28 days of full closure of Route 5 to perform the most dangerous work first. The borough requested that this work not commence until school ends in June so school transportation is not effected. At the conclusion of the 28 day closure, Route 5 will be open to east bound traffic only during working hours and during morning and afternoon peak hours, bi-directional traffic will be permitted. The Edgewater Police along with the Cliffside Park and Fort Lee Police Departments will work collectively in an attempt to keep traffic flowing and provide ample signage.

Borough Hall Moving Day – The Edgewater Police and Municipal offices are tentatively scheduled to move into the new Borough Hall at 55 River Road the weekend of June 17. Borough offices will be closed Friday, June 17 and Monday, June 20 and will reopen to the public on Tuesday, June 21 so that Borough staff can close down the old facility and prepare to open the new facility. We ask for residents’ cooperation if we do not respond in a timely manner during this period. Staff will be onsite and email and telephones should be operational by Saturday, June 18; however, we may be distracted in attempting to organize the offices and files. The Police Department should be operational in the new facility by Sunday, June 19; however, residents should not see any interruption in emergency service during this transition.

Crossing Guards NeededThe Edgewater Police Department is in need of crossing guards for the 2011-2012 school year.

Edgewater residents 18 and older can apply by filling out an application in the office of the Borough Administrator of Borough Hall. A valid New Jersey Drivers License is preferred. Standard back-

ground checks are performed and guards need to report to posts by 6:45 a.m. and again by 2:00 p.m.


Community Celebrations

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By Bob BatchWay back in the days when I fi rst

started driving a car it seemed like a big inconvenience to earn a license because the law required it – but it was required, so that’s what everybody did. There had been a time many years earlier before cars clogged the gradually developing roads, when no-one needed a license. A person could buy a car, if they could af-ford it, and drive around, when the car ran, with impunity. Crashing into things at break neck speeds of up to fi fteen miles per hour.

When I got my license, I, and most of my peers, wise asses that we were, thought paying for the privilege to drive was unnecessary and unfair. It should have been our right to drive. Likewise, insurance was another burdensome re-quirement that the ‘State’ imposed on the populous in some Orwellian overreach by evil forces.

In our somewhat deluded brains we were sure that our skills behind the wheel would always carry the day, and nothing bad would ever happen to us when we drove. So why would we need insur-ance? All those notions changed after the fi rst accident. As time goes on, we start to recognize the value of regulations on certain aspects of life, even if we don’t particularly like them.

Maybe by the time you read this, in a week or so, the intense outcry over as-sault weapons and gun ownership will have already been forgotten. And if it

is, forgive me for bringing it up again. I know a lot of people get sick of hearing about it. I just don’t understand how we, as a society, became rational about regu-lating one potentially deadly device, the automobile, and so irrational about regu-lating and even deadlier device, the gun.

A lot of people seem to feel that laws are not going to stop people from getting guns and killing people (which is true) so therefore there is no reason to have laws or curbs on gun sales. Well, regula-tions on drivers and traffi c laws haven’t stopped auto accidents and completely eliminated the death rate from crazy driv-ing, but we wouldn’t abandon traffi c laws and stop signs in light of that. Would we? As much as I hate waiting at red lights, I can’t even imagine what would happen without them in our over -crowded neigh-borhoods.

The only drawback I can see to treat-ing guns the same way we treat cars is that if registration is anything like going to Motor Vehicles there would be a lot more shootings at whatever agency handles it.

There is also a somewhat irrational fear gun devotees harbor that the govern-ment, which they generally fi nd ineffi cient and ineffective (and they are probably right) is going to muster a complicated campaign to seize the guns of patriotic vigilantes to take control of the govern-ment that they are already in control of…. or something. If you are really going to try and take over the control of the coun-try with or without guns, I think the multi-

national corporations beat you to it.Anyway, after all the years of car reg-

istration you don’t see the government taking people’s cars away (although I wish they would) unless they are some sort of drug dealer or felon which is to say, they should. This is what we em-power Police and Federal Agencies to do. We collectively sanction the actions of these forces, which sometimes make mistakes or act improperly, but the alter-native, vigilantism and mob rule would be far less desirable.

There seems to be a sentiment among some that if we all carry guns around, ready to fi re at the slightest sign of trouble, all of these problems of dis-turbed people taking up arms in irratio-nal moments of lunacy will somehow be deterred. Truly, this is the concept of fi ghting fi re with fi re. It is also a lot like accidently burning your house down with the gas barbecue grill. Now people who are not raving maniacs, but maybe just nervous bad marksmen, will have the chance to fi re into crowds of innocent by-standers. I feel safer already!

For years responsible people with only the desire for hunting and sports shooting, and maybe in some cases pro-tection, have owned guns. Generally, hunters and sportsmen have a healthy respect for the dangers of rifl es and pis-tols. In the same way as a responsible motorist who wouldn’t hand his car keys to someone unqualifi ed to drive, most gun owners take some pretty obvious

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“Storytime Yoga with We Play Yoga!”Parents/caregivers who value fi tness and exercise will have children who value the same. Join Adra, of “We Play Yoga,” as she seamlessly blends a storytime ele-ment with basic Yoga poses. The 10:30 class is intended for children 14 Mos. to 2 years while the 11:30 session will accom-modate children ages 2 years and up.

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for the smallest of hands and coordinated by both Sue Price and Kaosar Syed, “Tiny Hands” provides little ones with an op-portunity to express themselves through “free-art” while honing eye-hand and fi ne motor skills. This also provides both care-giver and child with a wonderful oppor-tunity to bond! Please enroll through the library website.

1, 8, 15, 22, Friday: 4:00 PM: “Wee Read”: 4:00 PM: Gr. 2-4: The Wee Read Book Club is wildly popular and abso-lutely ideal for even the most reluctant of readers! Great books, great kids, great discussion and great pizza! Please enroll through the library’s website.

2, Saturday, 11:00 AM: “Saturday @ The Movies”: “Hotel Transylvania”: Gr. K+: Halloween.. in February?!? Who’d have dared to believe such a thing! Re-freshments provided. Please enroll via the library website. Children MUST be ac-companied by an adult for the duration of the fi lm.

4, 11, 25, Monday; 3:30 & 4:30: “Bed-time Yoga with Adra”: Ages 3+: Adra’s Yoga programs have become incredibly popular, and provide caregivers with the tools they need to teach relaxation, medi-tation and self-hypnosis techniques to

their children! Bedtime need NOT be a nightmare!

4, 11, 25, Monday; 4:00 & 5:00 PM: “Kids in the Kitchen with Whole Foods!”: Chef Reema Mahmood runs this excellent and incredibly popular program. Thyme and Thyme again, the library has attempted to curry interest in a juvenile cooking program. Reema, sagely, pro-vides the children with hands-on opportu-nities to craft their own delicious delights to take home and share with friends and family! Enrollment via website is manda-tory, drop-ins will be turned away.

5, 12, 19, 26, Tuesday: 4:00-5:00 PM: “Bookworms Bookclub”: Join Sue and a great group of kids as they read and dis-cuss the months’ title and current events that may tie-in to the book. The Book-worms Bookclub crew is always laughing and having a wonderful time! Refresh-ments provided. Please enroll through the library’s website.

6, 13, 20, 27: Wednesday, 11:30 AM: “Babies’ Lapsit” Infants Up to 18 Mos: A sing-along time, a simple storytime, a fun for my caregiver and me time! This popular program affords your infant an opportunity to socialize and begin to de-

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Have you ever had bad dreams that can be truly frightening nightmares or feel that you are being tired down to your bed by restrains?If you have terrible nightmares, we can con-clude that in most cases you are stressed out and it attracts a bad spiritual influence. Also if you cannot sleep well, your mind that has some negative thoughts like worries, anxiet-ies, and fears for your future so on attracts negative energy. Remedies for Sleep Paralysis and Spiritual Restraints Breathing MethodsBreathing methods offer good approach. If you cannot move and there is nothing you can do about it, in order to regain your own spirit, you should try catching your breath.As you are lying down, try to breathe from the lower stomach area below the belly but-ton. The idea is to provide your body with fresh oxygen. Try breathing in, and if you are able to repeat this deep respiration several times over, strangely enough you will find that the evil spirits have parted from you. One of the secrets of this breathing method is that as you breathe, light will enter your body. When that happens, the negative influ-ences that are holding you down will let go. At that moment, you will be free. This is how to escape through the breathing method.

Positive Thinking and Self-ReflectionAnother method is to change your perspec-tive into a positive one. The fact that spiritual influence can approach you is evidence that the wavelengths given off by your mind and the wavelengths of the negative energy are the same, so in this case you should reverse the situation. You must eliminate any think-ing about negative things and look towards the light. Think only about wonderful, posi-tive things within your mind. This is another method for dealing with this threat.

Another strategy is to practice self-reflec-tion. Even if the weight on your chest pre-vents your body from moving and you can-not move your hands either, that does not mean that this restraint is extending into your head. Therefore, while lying down, engage in self-reflection. If you find yourself in such a situation, it means that as some point up to the prior day you have been having trouble with human relationships. In this situation, try thinking about the person with whom you get along the least, a person about whom you get along the least, a person about whom you think, “I can’t stand him”, or, “If only she wasn’t around.” If there is someone in your life who fits this description, then try think-ing of him or her and practice self-reflection, then try thinking of him or her and practice self-reflection. In any event, start with apolo-gizing to this person.

Giving ThanksNext, another method is giving thanks.One day is like a lifetime. If you live by this philosophy, then the end of each day corre-sponds to the end of your entire life. So you should give thanks by saying something like this: “It is my turn to leave this world. Now I can return to a pleasurable world. Looking back over my life on this earth, I can say that I truly had a good life. Thank you so much. Even if I should die here and now, I am sat-isfied.” By giving thanks like this, you will drive them away. This is another method for dealing with the problem. The next time you experience a bad dream, I suggest that you try our some of the methods explained above. Also before going to bed, if you practice breathing with positive thinking and self-reflection, and giving thanks would make you sleep well.

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Question from reader: I am currently car-ing for my mother, who is suffering from de-mentia and who will soon turn eighty-two. Please tell me how I can best go about in-teracting with her.Answer by Master Okawa: At your moth-er’s age, it is not at all surprising that she should be suffering from senility and de-mentia. Just because a person has become senile does not mean he or she cannot enter the heavenly world. It is likely that some sort of damage has been done to your mother’s brain, and she cannot precisely convey the thoughts of her soul to her body, thus un-able to move about, as she would like. My father, who passed away at the age of eighty-two, had a tumor in a part of his brain and thus was unable to interact freely for about seven months before he died. When he passed away, though, he wrote a haiku poem a day or two after dying and sent spiritual messages to me. The poem can be found in the book, ‘Saburo Yoshikawa’s Spiritual Messages: Sermons after Return-ing to Heaven 1’. Thus, we can see that even if the brain – the “mechanism” that allows our bodies to move – sustains an injury and our bodies are unable to perform their usual range of motions, our souls remain unharmed. Our souls are normal and in their original state. My father’s soul became younger after death; one or two months after he passed away, his soul was already around sixty-fi ve years old, and then the years continued to fall away, until he returned to his forties. In this way, the soul is intact, so there is nothing to worry about even in your moth-er’s case. The fi nal days of her life may be

a little painful to her, but the suffering she might experience before death will turn into an overwhelming sense of liberation when she passes over to the next world, and will eventually give way to deep feelings of hap-piness. When you care for an elderly person, you are likely to hear all manner of complaints: “My legs won’t move. I cannot get out of bed. I am in excruciating pain because I cannot get my thoughts across. My mind is fi ne, but everyone around me is treating me like I’m crazy…” Everyone experiences restrictions on their freedom when they become old. However, when we pass on to the next world, we feel like the cicada, which has sprouted wings. We feel light, free, and hap-py. People bound for Heaven will feel happi-ness after they have died. People destined for Hell are different from this, but those go-ing to Heaven will feel happy after death. Your mother, who has dementia, is likely causing you and your family to experience inconvenience on her behalf, and is most likely suffering herself. I believe that your mother is apologizing to everyone around her from within her own heart. It is undoubt-edly a diffi cult time for you and the rest of your family, but the happiness awaiting your mother in the next life will be extremely strong. Families that take care of the elderly might have a sense of obligation of giving returns or they might be thinking that they them-selves will also be taken care of someday; either way, it is a practice of love. Persever-ance is also a practice of love. Furthermore, if someone is affl icted with Alzheimer’s dis-ease in his or her later years, this is in no

way an indication that that person has led a mistaken life. Just like any other machine, the human body will weaken with age – the brain and the other organs will lose their ability to function properly. Even though the body might weaken, the soul is perfectly well. It is for this reason that you should watch what you say, because there is a high possibility that the person’s soul can under-stand every word that you utter. I feel that the day is already fi xed when your mother will be “welcomed home,” so until that time comes, I feel that your family is given the ground to develop its love by putting it into practice toward your mother. There is nothing to worry about – defects of the fl esh have absolutely nothing to do with your mother’s ability to ascend into the heavenly world.

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Caring for the Senile

Have you ever had bad dreams that can be truly frightening nightmares or feel that you are being tired down to your bed by restrains?If you have terrible nightmares, we can con-clude that in most cases you are stressed out and it attracts a bad spiritual influence. Also if you cannot sleep well, your mind that has some negative thoughts like worries, anxiet-ies, and fears for your future so on attracts negative energy.

Remedies for Sleep Paralysis and Spiritual Restraints

Breathing MethodsBreathing methods offer good approach. If you cannot move and there is nothing you can do about it, in order to regain your own spirit, you should try catching your breath.As you are lying down, try to breathe from the lower stomach area below the belly but-ton. The idea is to provide your body with fresh oxygen. Try breathing in, and if you are able to repeat this deep respiration several times over, strangely enough you will find that the evil spirits have parted from you. One of the secrets of this breathing method is that as you breathe, light will enter your body. When that happens, the negative influ-ences that are holding you down will let go. At that moment, you will be free. This is how to escape through the breathing method.

Positive Thinking and Self-ReflectionAnother method is to change your perspec-tive into a positive one. The fact that spiritual influence can approach you is evidence that the wavelengths given off by your mind and the wavelengths of the negative energy are the same, so in this case you should reverse the situation. You must eliminate any think-ing about negative things and look towards the light. Think only about wonderful, posi-tive things within your mind. This is another method for dealing with this threat.

Another strategy is to practice self-reflec-tion. Even if the weight on your chest pre-vents your body from moving and you can-not move your hands either, that does not mean that this restraint is extending into your head. Therefore, while lying down, engage in self-reflection. If you find yourself in such a situation, it means that as some point up to the prior day you have been having trouble with human relationships. In this situation, try thinking about the person with whom you get along the least, a person about whom you get along the least, a person about whom you think, “I can’t stand him”, or, “If only she wasn’t around.” If there is someone in your life who fits this description, then try think-ing of him or her and practice self-reflection, then try thinking of him or her and practice self-reflection. In any event, start with apolo-gizing to this person.

Giving ThanksNext, another method is giving thanks.One day is like a lifetime. If you live by this philosophy, then the end of each day corre-sponds to the end of your entire life. So you should give thanks by saying something like this: “It is my turn to leave this world. Now I can return to a pleasurable world. Looking back over my life on this earth, I can say that I truly had a good life. Thank you so much. Even if I should die here and now, I am sat-isfied.” By giving thanks like this, you will drive them away. This is another method for dealing with the problem.

The next time you experience a bad dream, I suggest that you try our some of the methods explained above. Also before going to bed, if you practice breathing with positive thinking and self-reflection, and giving thanks would make you sleep well.

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By Douglas E. HallThe Borough Council reorganized for the

new year on Jan. 7, swearing in Councilman Anthony Bartolomeo and Kevin P. Doran, each for a fi rst full three-year term. Coun-cilman Vincent Monte was elected Council President. Councilman Bartolomeo had been fi lling the unexpired term of Councilwoman Neda Rose, who retired and moved to North Carolina. Councilman Doran had been fi lling the unexpired term of Mayor Delaney, who moved up to mayor after the death of the late Mayor Nancy Merse on March 10, 2011.

Mayor James Delaney also announced the appointments of two new police offi cers: “offi cers Konstantinas Savrides and Dan Mas-suda, two Edgewater born and raised residents to supplement our current 27 sworn offi cers.

“Ms. Savrides will be graduating from Rutgers University with a Masters Degree in Social Work, an invaluable degree to possess as a police offi cer. Mr. Massuda has been an Edgewater professional for several years as a member of our volunteer fi re department serv-ing alongside his father Joe and a full time employee in our Public Works Department. We welcome you and wish you a long and safe career as part of Edgewater’s fi nest. These two hires represent the Mayor and Council’s commitment to the safety and protection of our residents,” Mayor Delaney said.

The following borough offi cials and agencies were also reappointed for 2013: En-gineering, Neglia Engineering of Lyndhurst; borough planner, Kathryn Gregory; borough attorney, Philip Boggia; risk manager, David

Vozza, bond counsel, William Mayer, auditor, Steven Wielkotz; electrical engineering, Ap-plied Adaptive Solutions of West New York, grants consultant, Millennium Strategies of West Caldwell, Administrative Agent for Af-fordable Housing – Community Grants Plan-ning and Housing of East Windsor.

Reappointed to the Planning Board were Councilman Bartolomeo, Iris Borman, Howie Levine, and Mike McPartland. Newly ap-pointed to the board is Robert Christiansen, who is a former Board of Adjust man chair-man.

Reappointed to the Board of Adjustment were Tom Ford, who for several years was a member of the Planning Board and Domenic Rea. Reappointed to the Recreation Board were Chris Carluccio, and Mike Armstrong

Reappointed to the Housing Authority was Regina Oates. Reappointed to the Rent Leveling Board were Judy Wanger, Margo Taylor, Barbara Khal, and Joseph Criscuolo. Named for another term on the Welfare Board Marie Christensen

Emma Kelly and Dr. Lorraine Cella, school superintendent, were reappointed to the Library Board. Thomas Watson Green is a new appointment to that board.

Reappointed to the Cultural and Histori-cal Committee were Chairman Douglas E. Hall, Sheila Olaksen, James S. Trager, Su-san Candee, Linda Farrell, LoriLee Harding, Joyce Bellfi eld and Ruth Paci. Adrian Rodri-guez was appointed as a new member to this committee.

Borough reorganizes with new councilman, police and other appointments

By Douglas E. HallSuperintendant of Schools Dr. Lorraine

Cella reported to the Board of Education on Thursday, Jan. 24 on a new video produced by Bergen County Prosecutor John Molinelli’s offi ce which will be made available to teach-ers for training in responses to violent intrud-ers in schools.

Few details on the content of the video were disclosed as it has been designed for release for viewing only by school person-nel. The video is not to be show to parents or children any anyone not employed in a school system, Dr. Cella explained. The limitation on who gets to view this video was placed by the prosecutor for security reasons.

Dr. Cella along with other superinten-dents from the county’s school districts was introduced to the video at a regular meeting of superintendents on Jan. 14, at which Prosecu-tor Molinelli was a guest speaker.

Molinelli said the video, along with an-other to train police, had been in the works for two years and its release at this time was not a response to the recent shootings at the Newtown, Conn. school. He also said that the video addresses events that occurred during shootings at schools across the nation over the past 10 years.

The local school district’s response to the Connecticut school shooting is largely to plan improved video surveillance in the Eleanor Van Gelder School, which in some sections is more than 90 years old. Dr. Cella met with Police Chief William Skidmore shortly after the shooting of school children in Newtown, Conn. and discussed improving school secu-rity. She has said that the new George Wash-ington School has state-of-the art security.

Among the security programs now in place at the two local schools are lock-down drills.

School Board learns of Security Video from Prosecutor

Feb. 2: Joyce Kilmer, composes the poem “Trees” in Mahwah,” 1913. The poem was set to music by several composers, but the music that became the most popular was composed by Otto Rasbach in 1922. Edge-water is a Tree City, by the fact that it has a Tree Board or department, a tree care ordi-nance, a Community Forestry Program, and an Arbor Day observance and proclamation.

Feb. 6: Construction plans for six two-family brick houses on the north side of Russell Avenue are announced by R.H. Reid of New York, 1910. These houses still stand,

just west of the Post Offi ce entrance.Feb. 8: Army Capt. Charles W. Charles,

husband of Edgewater entertainer, actress and author Go-Wan-Go Mohawk, dies, 1925. He is buried in the Edgewater Cemetery, next to his wife, who died in 1924.

Feb. 14: Fort Lee artist Paul Ortlip, who painted many scenes of Edgewater, including shad fi shermen, dies, 2008.

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Fire Department Elects Chief and Offi cersBy Douglas E. Hall

The Edgewater Volunteer Fire Department recently has elected offi cers for 2013. Patrick Chevalier has been elected chief succeeding Robert Christiansen.

Other new offi cers are Thomas Jacobson, Deputy Chief; Robert Jacobson, Captain; An-thony Iafelice, 1st Lieutenant; Ronald Frato, 2nd Lieutenant; Jonathan Tarabokija, 3rd Lieutenant and Joseph Massuda, 4th Lieu-tenant.

These new offi cers were recognized at the Borough Council reorganization on Jan. 7.

State Senator and North Bergen Mayor Nicholas J. Sacco administers the oath of offi ce to Councilman Anthony Bartolomeo as his daughter Natasha holds the Bible as his wife, Barbara (in red jacket) looks on.

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Mass Schedule: Monday thru Friday 8:00am in the Parish Center Chapel on Edgewater Place. Saturdays at 5:30pm in the Church. Sundays at 8:00am and 11:00am in the Church. Sacrament of Reconciliation Saturdays 4:30pm in the Church or by ap-pointment.

We are a people with open arms to warmly receive you into the com-munity. There are programs, ministries, clubs and continuing edu-cation for the young through the more mature. We are a people and place to meet God, be loved, healed, reconciled

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a worshipping community can help interpret and magnify the message.

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velop motor skills while giving caregivers an opportunity to expand upon their so-cial networks! Please enroll via the library website.

***February 6th, the library will show a matinee movie in place of the usual story-time program.

6, 13, 20, 27: Wednesday, 4:00 PM: “Chess Club”: Ages 7+: For those chil-dren who have a basic understanding of Chess.

***This session, “Winter Session I,” is CLOSED. Winter Session II enrollment will begin on Friday, March 1, and run through Wednesday, March 6th. Once availabe slots are fi lled, a wait-list will be created by the online enrollment program. Please sign-up via the library’s online cal-endar.

7, 14, 21, 28: Thursday: 4:00 AM: “Starter Chess” Ages 5-6: An introducto-ry Chess program for those children who have had little or no exposure to Chess and its principles.

***This session, “Winter Session I,” is CLOSED. Winter Session II enrollment will begin on Friday, March 1, and run through Thursday, March 7th. Once availabe slots are fi lled, a wait-list will be created by the online enrollment program. Please sign-up via the library’s online calendar

7, 14, 21, 28: Thursday: 10:30 AM:

Mother Goose Group Storytime”: Ages 18 Mos+ OR Capable Walkers: A story-time and sing-along program for those children who have outgrown Baby’s Lapsit. We play with bubbles, puppets and instruments while listening to stories and singing songs! Join Jamey for this always well-attended Storytime program. Please enroll through the library’s online calendar.

***February 7th, the library will show a matinee movie in place of the usual story-time program.

12, Tuesday: 7:00 PM: “Tuesday @ The Movies: “The Perks of Being a Wallfl ower”: Ages 13+: The library will be airing this powerful fi lm on it’s release date AND we’ll welcome Ben & Jerry’s staff as they lay-out an Ice-Cream sundae bar for us! Join your friends, grab some awesome ice-cream, and see what all this Wallfl ower fuss is about! Please enroll via the library website. NO child under the age of 13 will be admitted due to the fi lm’s PG-13 rating.

13, Wednesday: 5:00 PM: “’Library Bakery: Valentine’s Day Cookies with Suzanne and Kelly!”: Gr. K+: Library staffers have a sweet tooth, and we are going to help satisfy YOURS with a “deco-rate your own Valentine’s Day cookie pro-gram!” The best part of your Valentine’s Day cookie? Sharing it with someone you

love! Space is extremely limited, so please enroll via the library website at your earli-est convenience. Drop-ins will be turned away due to the nature of the program.

14, 21, 28, Thursday: 5:00 PM: “Gui-tar with Joe”: Gr. 4+: Joe provides ba-sic to intermediate instruction. Enrollees MUST provide their own instruments, available through rental at various music stores, and NO child younger than grade 4 will be admitted due to the demands of the program.

21, Thursday: 7:00 PM: “Holistic Treatments for ADHD and Other Learn-ing Disabilities with Andrew Amigo”: Young Adults and Adults: Licensed Chi-ropractor and Holistic Practitioner An-drew Amigo will provide information about cutting edge, non-medicinal treatments and share new therapies that he, and other homeopaths, are using to great ef-fect. These non-invasive treatments and therapies have been subjected to peer reviewed studies… and the results are impressive. If this issue is close to your heart, please join us for this very special hour-long discussion. A question and an-swer session will follow Mr. Amigo’s pre-sentation. Please enroll via the library website or contact the library at 201-224-6144.

Library Events continued from Page 5

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this added pressure it still took to Wednesday November 7 at approximately 4:30pm to restore power 100% to our community. I would be remiss if I do not mention the progress at Veterans Field. Work continues and yes, Hurricane Sandy has placed us behind the eight ball in regard to our time table. Our goal was to have the little league fi eld ready to open for the 2013 baseball season along with selected areas of the facility. Due to the recent cold weather as well as damage to drainage systems installed prior to Hurricane Sandy, our hopes of opening for the spring of 2013 have been diminished. However, work continues and we are hopeful for a late 2013 opening and I look forward to planning our grand opening celebration bringing back a bigger and better fi reworks display. Just recently, the council adopted a new zoning ordinance to permit a new high rise zone, Ordinance 1485-2012 was adopted after many Cliffside Park neighbors, as well as some residents voiced their concerns about this ordinance which creates a new MXD-1, MXD-2, and MXD-3 zones and to amend and supplement certain other regulations. The change was the result of a recommendation from both the Zoning Board and Borough Planner that will result in the creation of “vistas” along the Hudson River, or the creation of more views to the river and Manhattan skyline that often is obscured as a result of midrise development. The concerns of those residents in attendance were growth in density and traffi c. The Borough Planner provided information that high rise development results in less use of municipal services and school age children. Also, any site plan approval is required to submit a traffi c analysis before any development can be approved.

I am also pleased to announce our appointment of two new police offi cers Konstantinas Savrides and Dan Massuda, two Edgewater born and raised residents to supplement our current 27 sworn offi cers. Ms. Savrides will be graduating from Rutgers University with a Masters Degree in Social Work, an invaluable degree to possess as a police offi cer. Mr. Massuda has been an Edgewater professional for several years as a member of our volunteer fi re department serving alongside his father Joe and a full time employee in our Public Works Department. We welcome you and wish you a long and safe career as part of Edgewater’s fi nest. These two hires represent the Mayor and Council’s commitment to the safety and protection of our residents. We begin 2013 with preparing our yearly budget. The fi nance department has just about completed the 2012 budget closeout and with the temporary budget resolution on today’s agenda providing the necessary funding for the borough to operate. Over the next few weeks the council will be meeting with department heads and initiating the budget process. As in years past, the mayor and council’s commitment is to provide the best service at the best cost keeping our taxpayers in mind. We are hopeful that the additional costs as a result of Hurricane Sandy, and the budgeting for what has become a changing weather cycle, do not force us to make cuts in other areas. The council continues to work with departments and staff in becoming the most cost effective and effi cient governments in Bergen County. I am proud of the Edgewater staff, its professionals, the council and I, who work tirelessly for our residents and families. I wish each and every one of you a healthy, happy, and prosperous New Year.

Mayor’s Re-Organization Address continued from Page 3 Bob Batch continued from Page 4safety precautions. Still, tragic acci-dents do occur.

At the same time criminals, who have no regard for the safety of others and perhaps not even themselves have also owned guns which they ultimately intend to use without regard to safety and legal requirements. Think back to the hoods in the old ‘Untouchables’ shows or mob guys in any crime drama. These are the sort of people who are encouraged by being able to have access to rapid fi re machine guns at bargain store prices with a couple of hand grenades thrown in with every dozen you buy at the local ‘Guns R Us’. They are just defending themselves from the government too.

Another fear fuelling all the gun ma-nia besides the government is the ‘End of the world’ or a ‘Complete breakdown of the economy’ or any other idiot apoc-alyptic prediction you want to name. All the ‘Doomsday Preppers’ whatever their reason for expecting the sky to fall, are stockpiling weapons they plan to use to fend off hordes of survivors who are go-ing to try to take their food and shelter by force after the coming cataclysm.

This hopeless, fearful message of an end to the world, or the world we know, is rampant in our culture. It’s in books, T.V. movies, and religion. Sadly, most of the buttressing of this thinking comes from religion, or rather some interpreta-tion of Biblical texts, specifi cally point-ing to the exact time of the end that’s been erroneously predicted at least a dozen times since the middle eighteen hundreds when this idea came into vogue. All the other stuff, meteors wip-ing us out, polar shifts, and apocalyptic scenarios are just people dreaming up stuff to sell books and T.V. programs.

Anyway, if the post-apocalyptic world is going to be sitting around in an un-derground bunker with automatic weap-ons and dried food waiting for ancient aliens to come rescue us, count me out. I hope that deadly meteor lands right on top of me when it hits before it comes to that.

What would be nice is if real religion would take up the cause of putting out a stronger message of realistic hope to counteract this nonsense, along with some of that ‘Swords into plough shears’ stuff. Yes, the world is going to end for everyone just the way it always has, but usually no-one knows the time or circumstance. While we are here though, it’s our job to make the most of life, and do our best to promote Chris-tian values, values that transcend mere religious preferences, charity, honesty, service and caring. If we had more of that we’d probably have less stockpiling of guns and mass shootings.

By Douglas E. HallThey came by the score, big dogs and

small, mostly held tightly on leashes, some small dogs held in arms. The cats came in cages and carrying cases. They all showed up at the Community Center on Saturday, Feb. 2, for the borough’s annual free rabies vaccina-tion clinic, sponsored by the Edgewater Board of Health.

More than 60 pets received their shots

given by Dr. Bill Freedman of Animal General Hospital and his assistant Domenic Depalma.

Lynn Minetti, Board of Health secretary issued dog and cat licenses for this year, and Eileen Chichin Health Board department head and Patti Dalton, also of that board, registered rabies certifi cates. State law requires that all dogs be vaccinated and licensed. Borough law also requires the same of all cats.

February: Time for Licensing and Shots for Pets


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