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THE OBSERVER | WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 2013
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PARK from Owens Park,” again an inappropriate use for parkland, and one which must be removed. “Therefore,” Sumoski wrote, “the Township must indicate what steps it will take to remove any remaining parkland diversions … by February 15, 2013, or the funding for this project will be put into jeopardy of cancellation.” Asked about the situation recently, Tucci said the township Department of Public Works uses land near the park as a “staging area” for
its recycling operation but, “at least prior to 1970,” those locations “were never used as parkland.” However, Tucci said, “Somewhere along the line, the Parks & Recreation Department erroneously included it as part of our park roster.” And, Tucci said, on Sept. 4, Green Acres advised the township that it was persuaded that the listing of the DPW facility as part of local parkland “appears to be a bona fide error” and needn’t be disrupted, nor must the cell tower go “because it’s not part of our parkland.”
Tucci said that as a result of the township having been able to amply document its claim, the state “is going to initially release 50%” of its pledged funding. The balance, he said, will come after the township conducts a survey of the Owens Park site and conducts a public hearing on the issue. Asked for the state’s position, Larry Hajna, a spokesman for the state Department of Environment Protection, which administers Green Acres programs, said that Nutley has sent documents and photos to support its contention that the properties
at issue “were never held for recreational purposes.” Hajna said the information provided by Nutley included site plans from the mid-1970s and 1980 and photos showing the area where debris was collected by the DPW, along with affadavits from former township employees supporting Nutley’s position about the separation of Owens Park from the area devoted to the “collection and dropoff of DPW materials.” Based on the evidence submitted, the state has concluded “that the township’s posi-
tion has merit,” Hajna said. So the state will release $375,000 of the committed Green Acres funding now and the rest after Nutley completes the hearing process, he said. Apparently, the cell tower [just beyond the multipurpose field] won’t be an obstacle to Nutley getting the money. Although the Owens Park field is removed from the DPW recycling staging area by a parking lot in between, Tucci said the township plans to put up a “solid wooden fence and plantings” to separate the two sites. – Ron Leir
Traveling icon coming to Lyndhurst church St. Michael the Archangel Church, Ridge Road and Page Ave., Lyndhurst, will host the traveling icon of Our Lady of Czêstochowa on Monday, Sept. 30. The icon is expected to arrive at St. Michael’s at around 11 a.m. and remain through the evening. There will be special prayers for life in English after the noon Mass, and in Polish
after the 7 p.m. Miraculous Medal Novena. This icon comes from Czêstochowa, Poland, and travels throughout the world for the purpose of praying for the intercession of Our Lady for life. Before visiting St. Michael’s, the icon will have traveled more than 40,000 miles and visited 24 countries. This traveling copy of the icon was
blessed at the monastery of Jasna Gora in Poland, where the original is kept. St. Luke the Evangelist is believed to be the original artist of the painting, also known as the “Black Madonna,” in which Mary is depicted holding the Christ Child. This sacred picture was brought from Jerusalem through Constantinople and arrived
in Poland in 1382. Miracles associated with the painting have been documented from this time onward, according to Polish Catholic tradition.. King John II Casimir Vasa crowned Our Lady of Czêstochowa as Queen and Protector of Poland in 1656, following a Polish victory over a much larger Swedish invading army.
The Rev. Stanley Kostrzomb, pastor of St. Michael’s, said: “I am happy that St. Michael’s is one of the parishes that the traveling icon will visit. Our prayers will be united with the prayers of all those people of the places where this image of Mary stopped. This will make a difference in the promotion of the culture of life.”
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