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Local veterans speak out on protections for Old Glory

By Ron Leir Observer Correspondent

in each case by a 5-4 vote, thereby reversing a precedent set in 1968 when flag burnings by protestors at the Dems s might be expected, National Convention in Chiveterans’ advocates in cago roused jurists to ban the The Observer coverpractice.) age area applaud, in princiBut as much as they are in ple, President-elect Donald agreement to follow the law, Trump’s recent call for penallocal veterans’ proponents ties for anyone desecrating or are not persuaded by the high defacing the American flag. tribunal’s interpretation.

“That flag is our national Capitti, deputy mayor of symbol,” declared Kearny Kearny, said he would back longtime veterans’ leader a change in the law “to have Anthony Capitti, “and I think some consequences” for an if you’re going to willfully affront to the fl ag.

“I would burn the flag, you should be support that,” he said. “Why punished.” not?”

But, with one exception, Tom Witt, commander they say that meting out any of the Lyndhurst Veterans penalty should be provided Photo by Jennifer Parr Alliance, acknowledged that for through appropriate fedThis American fl ag was set afi re as a currently, “flag burning is eral legislation enacted by protest in New Hampshire in 2008. protected by the Constitution Congress. but it’s still a very unsavory And that is an approach mittee, it never came to the thing to do. Veterans have that even Trump’s defeated floor for a vote. been trying to pass a flag chief adversary – former But now that Trump has amendment for years. …

Democratic nominee Hillary made his pronouncement, the “Most vets I know are heavClinton – could live with, as time may be ripe for a reconily behind it – we’re in favor we were recently reminded sideration of the issue. In his

by Philadelphia.cbslocal.com. Nov. 29 tweet, the president- of flag protection because the flag symbolizes those who When she was serving as elect called for something less fought for it and shed blood U.S. senator of New York, punitive in the pocketbook for it and our way of life,” he Clinton co-sponsored – with but more serious for someone said.

GOP Sen. Bob Bennett of civic-minded when he said: Bob Salvini, the American Utah – the Flag Protection “Nobody should be allowed Legion’s Bergen County comAct of 2005, which mandated to burn the American flag – if mander for the past five years, jail time and a fine for anyone they do, there must be conalso supports an amendment convicted of “destroying or sequences – perhaps loss of “because the fl ag needs to be damaging a U.S. flag with the citizenship or year in jail!” protected – many have died primary purpose and intent To a man, each local vetto protect this country and to incite or produce imminent eran’s leader acknowledged the fl ag is our symbol.

Talk to violence or a breach of the that, as of now, burning the our POWs and you’ll fi nd out peace.” flag is a First Amendment that that little patch of red, The bill would have imright guaranteed by the white and blue is something posed a one-year prison term Constitution as a means of and $100,000 fine for burning protesting government action. that kept them alive. Desecrating the flag disrespects the flag – or two years behind (In 1989, and again in 1990, their memory. bars and a $250,000 fine for the U.S. Supreme Court ruled “Now, hopefully with the same offense on federal it was a protected action, first Trump, things will be differland. in the case “Texas v. Johnent,” he added.

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bled American Veterans Chapter 42 post commander, understands that today, flag burning is protected by the Constitution but it sticks in his gullet. “I don’t agree with that but you gotta follow the law.”

Like his peers, he’d prefer to see a change in the law but “the penalty should be left up to the courts – nothing too severe. To be honest, I’m more worried that [Trump] is going to privatize the V.A. (Veterans Administration), which I’m not happy about.”

Then there’s Nutley’s Steve Rogers, an Air Force veteran during the Vietnam War and a key part of the U.S. Naval Intelligence after 2001. Locally, as Public Affairs director, he has championed veterans’ issues on behalf of local vets.

“Trump is a great patriot and he loves this country,” Rogers said. “Now there’s a First Amendment right when they burn the flag. But the way that we change behavior is through education. We have somehow lost our way when it comes to educating our young people to the great accomplishments of this country. But we can’t legislate behavior – that has to come from the heart so that when you educate the young about the sacrifices made in WWII by our men on the fighting fields and by our women on the homefront, and tie that into what the stars and stripes are all about, they’re going to think twice before they burn the flag because, otherwise, they’ll be tramping on your mother, your father, grandfather and grandmother.”

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Fundraising drive launched to save church

By Ron Leir Observer Correspondent BELLEVILLE –

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earful that the ravages of a harsh winter will undo the renovations already done at the former Dutch Reformed Church, a local nonprofit is stepping into the breach.

“The Belleville Historical Society has set up a GoFundMe campaign for the church (at Rutgers and Main Sts.),” said society president Michael Perrone.

Perrone added that, “The funds have been exhausted for the steeple repair and the work needs to be completed ASAP. The steeple needs roof shingles and siding. We are hoping to raise $75,000.”

To view the campaign, people are invited to visit the society website, bellevillehistory.org or go directly to gofundme and type in Historic Belleville Church Steeple.

The church, which was

taken over six years ago by La Senda Antigua, a Spanish Evangelical congregation, had previously operated as a Reformed Church founded by the Dutch in 1697 at its present site.

As noted by the BHS, the church and its 320-year-old cemetery – which contains the graves of some 60 Revolutionary War soldiers and other historical figures – is listed as a national historic site. It is also on the New Jersey Register of Historic Places.

It has been enlarged and rebuilt three times during the last three centuries, the first alteration happening in 1725, and it was that church – with a ferry station nearby – that served as a fortification/lookout for American forces as the local militia command of the Essex Regiment led by Col. Phillip Van Cortlandt during the war against Britain.

During the three-day Battle of the Second River, which began Sept. 12, 1777, fought

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ing original foundations of the earlier versions, including the 1725 structure, and original brownstones, the BHS says.

In 2012, Hurricane Sandy badly damaged the church steeple, leaving its cross dangling precariously from the steeple-top.

La Senda Antigua received an emergency loan of about $40,000 to secure the property from the Township of Belleville, supplemented by a $250,000 Sandy relief grant from the state and reportedly about $30,000 raised by the Photo by Ron Leir church, for repairs and restoThe former Dutch Reformed Church. ration work, Perrone said.

But the damage from the outside the church, British Gen. Henry Clinton bombard- hurricane and subsequent ed the town from the opposite storms proved to be “a little more extensive” that what side of the river. Evidence of the church and its technical that fighting was uncovered advisers had originally estiin 1895 when, as the church mated, he added. was being altered to add on Perrone credited the pastor, a church hall, workers disthe Rev. Miguel Ortiz, and covered a British cannonball his dedicated congregation lodged in the south wall. for having “worked tirelessly The present-day structure to maintain and repair the was built in 1853, incorporat-

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But, he said, “the church has been at a standstill for quite a while now [and] they are out of funds and the roof shingles and siding on the 160-foot-tall steeple need to be installed and the church has no way of paying for it.”

And time is critical, said Perrone, “because if the plywood that was put up there this past summer, is exposed to the elements and we have a harsh winter, that plywood will warp and they’ll be back to square one. If that happens, we don’t know how the church will be able to survive.”

Perrone said the $75,000 fundraising goal is based on conversations he’s had with the pastor and a potential contractor. Renting of scaffolding would be a significant part of that cost, he said.

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Schuyler Co. 2 carries long family legacy

By Karen Zautyk Observer Correspondent

Schuyler Engine Co. 2 formally opened in 1916, founded by a group of local NORTH ARLINGTON – men led by George A. Eckardt, whose Meadow Brook his is the story of a volunteer fire company Dairy farm was located just off Schuyler Ave. (at that is celebrating its the foot of Noel Drive). The centennial this year. It is community’s first fire comalso the story of a family, pany, Hose Co. 1, had opened inextricably linked to that fire company for the entirety in 1910, but it was some distance from the still-rural of those 100 years.

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eastern side of town, where property was often endangered by fires erupting in dry, grassy areas, particularly the meadowlands.

Hence, Eckardt formed a committee, which began holding meetings in his farmhouse and, in fairly short order, raised enough

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nother “routine” traffic stop led to the arrest Nov. 26 of a motorist with a car containing drugs and a trunkload of stolen merchandise, Kearny police reported.

Police said that at 8:30 p.m., Officer Jonathan Dowie saw a 2008 Nissan speed through the crowded Wawa lot, disregard a stop sign and turn onto Harrison Ave. without signaling.

When he and backup Officer David Bush stopped the vehicle and asked driver Alpha Jalloh, 21, of Newark, for his credentials, the man reportedly was hesitant to open the center console and, when he finally did, threw his body sideways over it to block the officers’ view. This did not work.

Visible inside, police said, were a large quantity of baggies, one containing OxyContin. A search of the vehicle also reportedly produced a marijuana blunt, a digital scale with pot residue, a defaced pill bottle holding methocarbamol [Google says that’s a muscle relaxant], and another cache of empty baggies.

In the trunk, police said, were eight North Face jackets, three pairs of Timberland boots, three single (?) Timberland boots, one pair of Polo boots and one pair of UGGs -- the merchandise still bearing price and security tags and having a total value of at least $700. Many of the items appear to have come from Marshalls, but the KPD is trying to track it all down.

Jalloh was arrested on drug/ paraphernalia charges and for receiving stolen property worth more than $500.

••• Other recent reports from the Kearny police blotter included the following: Nov. 23 At 5 a.m., two residents of a home on the 100 block of Windsor St. reported that they had awakened to find a stranger sleeping on their living room couch. Officer Chris Manolis responded and roused an apparently highly intoxicated Michael Handlin, 25, of Kearny, who police said had no idea of where he was.

(Manolis reportedly also found an open door at the

residence, which could be how the sleepyhead gained entry.)

Handlin was arrested for criminal trespass and criminal mischief -- the latter charge linked to bodily fluids having been discharged on the sofa (perhaps unintentionally, but that is not known).

Nov. 24 Officers Jose Castillo and Jason Rodrigues responded to a 2 a.m. accident on the 100 block of Brighton Ave. and arrived to find a 2009 Toyota RAV4 overturned in the street, its “very shaken” driver -- Anil Ramai, 47, of Kearny -- standing nearby. Concerned about possible injuries, the cops summoned EMS, who transported Ramai to St. Michael’s Hospital, Newark. However, he was also charged, with DWI, reckless driving, driving the wrong way on a one-way street and operating an uninsured vehicle.

Nov. 27 At 4:15 a.m., Officer Mina Ekladious pulled over a 2014 Nissan he reported speeding, and swerving, northbound on Kearny Ave. near Laurel Ave. Police said driver Harvi Fajardo, 26, of Linden, was unable to produce a license and there was the odor of burning pot in the vehicle. Ekladious, with backup Officer Dominic Dominguez, reportedly found a large plastic bag of the drug and a partially smoked joint in the auto.

Both Fajardo and his passenger, Angela Bracamonte, 31, of Elizabeth, were arrested for possession of pot and paraphernalia. He was additionally given summonses for careless driving, being an unlicensed driver and possession of a CDS in a motor vehicle.

Police said Bracamonte had a contempt-of-court warrant from the Sacramento, Calif., Sheriff’s Office, which was notified but declined to extradite.

Nov. 30 The investigation into this case began after three Kearny youths -- aged 14, 15, and 16 -were confronted at 6:30 p.m., Nov. 19, at Veterans Field by two older males who reportedly threatened them and took their phones and $20. Officer Jose Resua took the initial

report, and Det. John Fabula conducted the follow-up investigation using phone apps to track the stolen devices, one of which was found possibly being used in Irvington.

With the help of Irvington

police, the KPD developed as a suspect a 17-year-old Newark male who allegedly had tried to sell one of the phones. The Essex County Sheriff’s Office helped narrow the search even further, locating the suspect’s

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At about 9:30 p.m. on the 30th, Fabula, Det. Sgt. Michael Gonzalez and Officer Daniel Esteves went to the residence see KPD page

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Turmoil dictating global policies

By Ron Leir

For starters, let’s look at Japan, courtesy of an analysis s we mark the 75 anwe’ve culled from thegloniversary of the attack balist.com compiled in July on Pearl Harbor, Dec. 7, 2015.

1941 – “a date,” as FDR put it, After its defeat by the Al“which will live in infamy,” we lies, Japan’s Constitution was mourn the loss of those 2,000+ amended in 1947 to mandate, people in uniform and civilunder Article 9, that the ians who perished that day. country would renounce its And we take in the fact that sovereign right to declare war fewer and fewer WWII surviand would no longer maintain vors remain to bear witness a military force. to the horrors of war which, it While it has pretty much seems, we – humankind – are abided by that self-imposed fated never to escape. restraint, the government’s The folksingers of my current leader, Prime Minister generation yearned for a time Shinzo Abe, has been pushing when we would “study war no for more money in the namore,” but on the other hand, tional budget to build up the there is probably some pracmilitary, despite vocal oppositicality to learning how and tion by Japan’s citizenry. why nations “lift up sword” Abe, according to thegloagainst each other – in the balist.com, is aligned with a theory, at least, that we can “powerful ultra-nationalist avoid repeats. lobby known as Nippon Kaigi In that context, let’s ex(Japan Conference)” which amine today’s geopolitical “insists that the American Oclandscape where – with the cupation and the Constitution passage of 75 years – we can see that things are very much emasculated Japan.”

Members of this lobby adtopsy-turvy: the old NATO vocate “restoring the Emperor alliances are shaky at best and to his pre-war divine position global relationships are shiftand cleansing the minds of ing with every Tweet. students sullied by left-wing

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teachers ….”

Then there have been the visits in 2013, by Abe, and in 2014, by two of Abe’s Cabinet ministers, to the Yasukuni Shrine to 14 Japanese war crime figures; the government’s denial that it coerced Korean women into becoming prostitutes for Japanese soldiers during WWII; and discrimination against ethnic Koreans and immigrants.

More recently, there is the ongoing enmity with China over conflicting claims to a string of islands in the South China Sea. President-elect Trump’s comments that Japan should be prepared to pay more for a defense force of U.S. troops stationed in the country or get its own nuclear weapons could further fuel the nationalist lobby’s campaign.

Similarly, Trump’s opposition to the U.S. signing the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade agreement with Japan and others could stir more hostility.

Meanwhile, the political tide appears to be turning in other countries as well.

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Britain, our old WWII ally, has turned inward by having reconsidered its ties to the European Union by going the Brexit route and where that will leave the Brits is anybody’s guess, especially if Scotland opts to go its own way.

In France – where there are several cemeteries containing the graves of thousands of American soldiers – Socialist President Francoise Hollande is not seeking re-election, leaving open the door to populist and far-right campaigners.

Greece, which has stayed alive with periodic infusions of cash from international and European lending sources, is teetering on the brink, along with Italy and Spain, each suffering from high youth unemployment rates and public unrest.

Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who must be trying to recreate the Ottoman Empire, is having a field day closing newspapers that dare criticize his policies and is pressing for a constitutional change that would allow him

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Australia has made a point of turning away immigrants and recently passed a law that would allow the continued detention of terrorists for years beyond their completed terms if they are deemed to be a continuing threat to local communities.

And in Myanmar, whose leader Daw Aung San Suu Kyi has been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, the military for the past several months has, according to the New York Times, uprooted thousands of Rohingya Muslims from their communities after nine local police officers were reportedly attacked and killed.

On the U.S. Homefront, Native Americans this week celebrated an apparent victory with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers denying a permit for the $3.8 billion Dakota Access pipeline to cross Lake Oahe. But the developer can appeal and the president-elect has said he favors the project.

All in all, 2017 promises to be another rousing year of conflict, heartache and plenty of lessons to absorb.

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on and off the clock. I also see the money they use – (their own) – to make for a better classroom.

Of course, teachers have unions and I’m fully in support of them. But here’s the thing – I started my job making $10.25 an hour and after five years, I recently received a 50¢ raise to $10.75 an hour.

Many of these folks need this job to put food on the table and work second jobs also. Other cities in surrounding area are paying anywhere between $13 to $16 an hour for the same teacher aide positions. I think we do a good job with the kids and help the teachers as well. Also, many aides have been laid off in

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the 2016-17 year as if we are weighing down the Kearny schools finances.

To the Kearny Board of Education or whoever oversees salaries – don’t you think it’s time for a raise for these workers? Yes, a very small pension is given and I mention that so it will not seem like I’m not sharing all our

benefits (no medical).

We can only work approximately 28 hours a week, so a little boost in wages might be in order. I’ve only been working as an aide for six years and no across-the-board raise has ever been given.

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Boat storage fire was arson, cops say

By Ron Leir Observer Correspondent

incident involving a fire at the location, although he put the time at about 3:15 p.m.

LYNDHURST – At the site, Valente said, scull (oar)-powered racing s families were vessels are stored outdoors making last-minute on racks in threes and when preparations for the the fire department respondThanksgiving holiday, one or ed, they found that “one had more mischief makers were been lit on fire and was fully bent on property destruc-

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Anthony Cureton, spokesman for the BCSO, said the incident has been classified as “arson” and remains under investigation.

Meanwhile, PRRA Presi-

dent Ben Delisle disclosed that this fire is the second deliberately set this year.

The prior incident was “a month or two ago,” he said.

“The motive is completely

puzzling,” Delisle said.

In the most recent incident, he said, there were actually two shells ruined see BOAT FIRE page

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It happened on Wednesday, Nov. 23, sometime during the daylight hours when retired firefighter Bob Muchnicki, a Kearny High alum and Lyndhurst resident, said he was walking in Bergen County Park South when he spotted smoke.

The smoke, he told The Observer, was coming from a rowing shell storage area near the Passaic River and “it was blazing away,” he said.

Muchnicki took photos to document what he saw.

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“Before we got there,” Valente said, “it appeared that one of the red fiberglass [shells] had been pulled from the top of the rack and that was on the ground burning.”

That vessel was “destroyed,” he said.

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Gas tax hike fuels anger by local drivers

By Kevin Canessa Jr. Observer Correspondent

We visited several local gas stations in the area and sampled customers either waiting for gas or walking near the service stat’s been a little over a month tions. While most were pleased since Gov. Chris Christie’s the price of gas dropped since new gas tax of 23¢ per gallon Nov. 1, most were still critical hit New Jersey drivers – but of politicians in Trenton who thanks to the continuing fall imposed the tax. of gas prices, the tax hasn’t hit “One of the perks of being people’s wallets as bad as origiin Jersey was the low price of nally projected. gas,” driver Leon McShane, of At the time the hike took efNew York City, said at a local fect – Nov. 1 – the average price gas station. “I work on this side for a gallon of regular gas was of the Hudson, so I always fill $1.99. At several spots in Kearny up here. In the past, the prices a week ago, regular was selling were much better on this side for between $2.13 and $2.19 a of the Hudson. Now, not so gallon.

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much. Don’t get me wrong, here, they’re still better in Jersey – but we gotta thank Gov. Christie for taking away one of the biggest perks of Jersey.”

At the same station, Corine Salzberg, passing through Kearny from her home in Montclair, wasn’t as kind as McShane. Salzberg says that even though gas prices have already dropped from Nov. 1, she’s tired of politicians and the way they treat taxpayers.

“I mean, don’t they screw us enough?” Salzberg said. “Look at the conditions of the roads in this state. The tax is sup-

posed to fix these roads. I want to know, why they let the roads get so bad in the first place?

If they did their jobs (elected officials) we wouldn’t have needed the tax – and the roads would be in better conditions than they are. I’m so tired of this garbage.”

Salzberg isn’t alone.

Another patron looking to fill up, a North Arlington resident who asked we not use his name because he works for the state, echoed Salzberg’s sentiments.

“We had a good thing going with one of the lowest gas taxes in the country,” he said.

“So what does Christie do? He makes it among the highest in the country. I’m tired of these politicians giving us the responsibility to fix the roads. If they had a clue, this wouldn’t have been necessary. And believe me – this is not an issue of Republicans or Democrats. They’re all clueless.”

According to gasbuddy.com, the average price for a gallon of regular gas in New Jersey is $2.29. The cheapest in the state is $2.05 per gallon at a Sam’s Club in Linden. The highest price is $2.99 per gallon at a Lukoil in Bernardsville.

Catholic Cemeteries collect food for needy

Catholic Cemeteries, a ministry of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Newark, kicks off its 13th annual Christmas food drive to assist those in need this season.

Non-perishable food items such as cereal boxes or soup cans are accepted for distribution to local food pantries to

help feed those who are less fortunate. Donors are asked to check the expiration dates on food before dropping them off.

Donations may be brought to cemetery and mausoleum offices during business hours now through Jan. 6.

A list of cemetery locations is available at www.rcancem.org/

FoodDrive.

Online monetary donations also are welcome at www. rcancem.org/donate.

“Feeding the hungry is one of the most basic acts of loving kindness and is one of the seven Corporal Works of Mercy,” said Andrew P. Schafer, executive director of Catholic

Cemeteries of the Archdiocese of Newark. “Donating to our food bank ministry on behalf of our departed loved ones is a charitable act and a loving gift that truly honors their memory in a tangible way.”

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Will you puh-leeze protect your cars?

By Karen Zautyk Observer Correspondent

-- involving drivers exiting such cars to use an ATM, dash into a store, drop off their kids, etc. – in the area of Kearny and Johnston Aves., Kearny Ave. and Rose St., and Kearny and Wilson Aves.

Following a Nov. 21 crime, police obtained a security video with the likeness of a probable suspect entering a 2011 Nissan Sentra and distributed it department wide. On

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Newark man, released from prison Oct. 31 after serving a sentence for a Kearny auto theft, was back in cuffs Nov. 23, arrested here for allegedly having stolen three more cars in the town in the interim, police reported.

You can credit the apprehension of William Hill, 46, to good police work.

Authorities said you can blame the ease of such thefts on drivers who, despite repeated public warnings, persist in leaving their cars running,

the morning of Nov. 23, Det. Sgt. Michael Gonzalez set up surveillance and, at 7 a.m., near a convenience store at Devon and Duke Sts., spotted Hill, who matched the description of the man caught on video, police said.

Hill was taken into custody and charged with three counts of burglary and threecounts of theft in connection with crimes committed Nov. 4, 19 and 21. He

was being held on $75,000 bail.

Authorities said Hill has a history of 27 prior arrests, including convictions for theft, larceny, receiving stolen property, aggravated assault and resisting arrest.

They said he was incarcerated from Feb. 14, 2006, to May 31, 2010, and from Sept. 7, 2012, to Oct. 31, 2016 -- the latter term in connection with a Kearny car theft.

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Last month, the KPD said, there were a series of incidents

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by EMS. No one else was hurt, according to reports. Police said the mishap occurred at around 2 a.m. when a car driven by Anil Ranai, 45, of Kearny, was traveling east – the wrong way – on Afton and, when turning onto Brighton, it hit a car parked in front of 124 Brighton and overturned. The driver was taken to St. Michael’s Hospital, Newark, for treatment. See blotter item on page 5.

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NPD: Alleged shoplifter assaults detective NUTLEY – Nutley police detective was assaulted by one of four suspects tied to local shoplifting incident – but three of the four were apprehended thanks to the quick thinking of the detective, the NPD announced last week.

Det. Thomas Perrota said he noticed four people leaving a local business on Dec. 1 without paying for a

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substantial number of items, according to reports. As the four reported suspects passed Perrota, one allegedly punched him and continued to flee.

It was then that Perrota gave out a description of the suspects and their direction of flight over police radios.

Shortly thereafter, police said they pulled over a 2000 Lincoln Town Car at the intersection of Bloomfield

Ave. and Harrison St., where they found two of the suspects – Mark Parker, 46, of Brooklyn and Dishawn High, 34, of New York City. Shortly thereafter, police located a third suspect, Godraheem Gravenhise (age unknown), also of Brooklyn.

A fourth suspect, later identified as Stephanie Parker, 28, of Pennsylvania, remains at-large.

When police searched the

Town Car, they said they found nearly $6,000 in merchandise, believed to have been taken from stores in Nutley and other towns.

High was charged with robbery, aggravated assault to a police officer, shoplifting, receiving stolen property and resisting arrest. High also had warrants out of East and North Brunswick and Secaucus and was remanded to the Essex County Jail on $50,000

bail.

Mark Parker was charged with conspiracy to commit shoplifting, obstruction, receiving stolen property and resisting arrest – and was released on his own recognizance, pending court.

Gravenhise was charged with shoplifting, obstruction, receiving stolen property and resisting arrest – and was also released on his own recognizance, pending court.

Holiday crackdown on drunken drivers KEARNY – Starting this Friday, Dec. 9, and continuing through Jan. 1, Kearny police will participate in New Jersey’s annual end-of-year “Drive Sober or Get Pulled Over” campaign, cracking down on drivers impaired by alcohol or drugs.

The KPD, as well as state

law enforcement, will conduct saturation patrols and sobriety checkpoints, looking for motorists who may be driving while intoxicated or under the influence of narcotics.

Through a combination of this high-visibility enforcement and public educa-

tion, the program -- a national effort -- endeavors to raise awareness about the dangers of impaired driving, which data show increases by nearly 10% at this time of year.

During the last five years, N.J. has recorded approximately 41,000 alcohol-related crashes resulting in more

than 800 fatalities. Last year, 29% of all motor vehicle fatalities in the state were alcohol-related. Nationally, more than 10,000 people die each year in drunk-driving crashes.

Authorities offer the following advice for the holiday season: • Take mass transit, a taxicab, or ask a sober friend to drive you home.

• Spend the night where the activity or party is held.

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• If you are intoxicated and traveling on foot, the safest way to get home is to take a cab or have a sober friend drive or escort you to your doorstep.

• Be responsible. If someone you know is drinking, do not let that person get behind the wheel.

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Belleville

Belleville Knights of Columbus Council 835, in conjunction with the National Federation of the Blind of New Jersey, will collect slightly used clothing, shoes, household items, kitchenware, toys & games, small appliances, electronics, sporting goods, books, CDs, baby items and videos on Saturday, Jan. 7, from noon to 4 p.m. at the K of C Hall, 94 Bridge St. A donation truck will pick up items at 4 p.m.

All bags and boxes should be marked “NFB.” All items donated are cleaned and resold in thrift stores. New items are also welcome. All donors will receive information regarding a federal tax deduction. The project funds programs for the blind.

Unable to drop off donations at the hall? Call GreenDrop at 888-610-4632 or visit www.nfbpickup.org to arrange a home pickup.

••• The Kevin G. Kennedy Civic Association sponsors a holiday toy drive for the children of Belleville on Friday, Dec. 9, from 7 to 11 p.m., at American Legion hall, 621 Washington Ave. Santa Claus will make a special appearance. Guests are asked to bring a toy or make a donation at the door. A buffet dinner with pizza will be provided.

••• The Belleville Public Library & Information Center is seeking volunteers to deliver and pick up books for homebound patrons. Those interested are asked to contact the circulation

desk.

The library is also offering these programs: • In partnership with Literacy Volunteers of America Essex & Passaic Counties, the library sponsors English tutoring at a non-refundable yearly fee of $25 for two hours a week.

For more information or to register, call 973-566-6200, ext.

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• The library continues its free Movie Mondays for all Belleville adults on Dec. 12 with a screening of “Room” (R / 1 hr., 58 mins.), with Brie Larson and Jacob Tremblay.

The program concludes Dec. 19, with “The Holiday” (PG-13 / 2 hrs., 18 mins.), with Kate Winslet and Cameron Diaz.

The movies are shown at noon.

Bring your own lunch or snack to enjoy during the film.

••• The Belleville Health Department has free flu vaccine available for township residents. For an appointment, call 973-450-3394.

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gift exchange. The hostesses for the evening are Barbara Toczko, chairwoman, assisted Kearny

by Debbie Weber and Debbie The PBGC, at 663 Kearny Lowry. The public is welcome.

Ave, hosts the East Coast Pro ••• Wrestlers live Friday, Dec. 9, at St. Stephen’s Seniors, 676 7:30 p.m. The main event feaKearny Ave., meet every first tures a six-man tag team match and third Tuesday of the featuring Greg “The Hammer” month in Hedges Hall. ReValentine, Andrew Anderson freshments are served at and the 500-lb Colossus vs. noon. After the 1 p.m. meeting, Gino Caruso, Kearny’s own there's a 50/50 drawing and Rocky Jones and the Merenthen bingo. New members are gue Warrior. Tickets are $12 in always welcome. A Winter advance by calling 201-991-6734 Celebration is planned for or $15 at the door.

Tuesday, Dec. 20, at noon.

••• Several 2017 trips are being The Chorus of Communities planned. For more informahosts its 27th annual holiday tion, call club president Alan concert at 7:30 p.m., Saturday, Henderson at 201-991-4771.

Dec. 10, at St. Mary’s Roman Catholic Church, 17 Monsignor Lyndhurst Owens Plaza, Nutley. A celThe township presents “A ebration of Christmas through Holiday in the Park,” Saturday, the ages, the concert will Dec. 19, from 6 to 9 p.m. in feature musical selections from Town Hall Park, Delafield Ave. Praetorius, Handel’s Messiah The rain date is Sunday, Dec. 11, Rutter and more. The organist at the same time. Enjoy music, is Gretchen Bilson Chiverton costumed characters, appearand Brandi-Leigh Miller will ances by Charlie Brown and Harrison be the soloist. Christina Rogers Snoopy, an Elf on the Shelf, The town hosts a blood drive debuts as musical director. free horse and carriage rides, a Thursday, Dec. 29, from 3 to Tickets are $15 for adults, $12 trackless train ride and more.

7 p.m., at the Harrison Comfor senior citizens and students Photos with Santa are free munity Center, 401 Warren St. and $30 for families of three as are roasted chestnuts, hot All donors will receive a $5 or more. Contact Karen at kacocoa, hot apple cider, donuts, Subway gift card. egg nog and coffee. A variety renski2@yahoo.com for more ••• of food items, along with arts information or to buy tickets.

Zumba classes are offered and crafts, will be available for ••• at Centro Romeu Cascaes, purchase.

The Woman’s Club of Ar308 William St. This one-hour lington, Evening Membership ••• class meets at 7:30 p.m. MonMary Lou Mullins’ next bus Department, meets Dec. 14 at 7 days with Jesus Cruz and 7:30 p.m. at the Henrietta Benstead trip to Atlantic City – a special p.m. Thursdays with Pinky Christmas party ride – is slated Center, 60 Columbia Ave. Jiteshkumar. Walk-ins are welfor Sunday, Dec. 11. RefreshKearny students will come. Admission is $7. Bring ments will be served going and present a Christmas chorus a towel and bring a friend. For performance and members coming home. Special gifts will more information, call 201-401- will partake in the annual be available on the bus and at

Resorts. Call Mary Lou at 201933-2186 to make a reservation and for time and departure location.

••• Monday, Dec. 19, is the deadline for submission of letters to Santa which may be deposited in Santa’s mailbox at the Lyndhurst Town Hall lawn. As a favor to Santa, the mailbox is maintained by the Department of Parks & Recreation and letters go directly to Santa’s Workshop in the North Pole. Remember that Santa needs the children’s addresses to answer all the letters, so make sure it is included before putting it in the mailbox.

••• Lyndhurst Public Library patrons are invited to sample the Mango Languages online language-learning system at no cost. More than 40 foreign language courses and 16 English as a Second Language (ESL) courses are available.

Mango Languages can be accessed through www.lyndhurstlibrary.org. Log in with a valid Lyndhurst library card number. Patrons can access this service from home. For more information, call Library Director Donna Romeo at 201-804-2478, ext. 7, or email romeo@lyndhurst.bccls.org.

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The Senior Harmony Club sponsors a New Year’s celebration at the Empire Club on Thursday, Dec. 29. Enjoy a family-style meal, drinks and dance music. The cost is $60.

For reservations or information, call Anna at 201-9392960.

2 years for role in $200M fraud

LYNDHURST – After pleading guilty to a role in what U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman termed “one of the largest credit card fraud schemes ever charged by the Justice Department,” a Lyndhurst man was sentenced last week to two years in prison.

Authorities said Vinod Dadlani, 53, owner of a Jersey City jewelry store, had used his business to further the international scam that resulted in more than $200 million in

confirmed losses to businesses and financial institutions.

Dadlani was indicted in October 2013 as part of a conspiracy -- led by others -- to fabricate more than 7,000 false identities to obtain tens of thousands of credit cards. He subsequently pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit bank fraud and was sentenced last Wednesday

by U.S. District Judge Anne E. Thompson in Federal Court in Trenton.

Dadlani is the 19th defendant to plead guilty in connection with the scheme.

According to Fishman’s office, the scam ring created fraudulent identification documents and phony credit profiles with the major credit bureaus; pumped up the credit of the false identities by providing bogus information about their credit-worthiness; then borrowed or spent as much as they could without repaying the debts.

Authorities said Dadlani's jewelry store was among the many locations used to incur the debts.

“During his guilty-plea proceeding,” Fishman’s office said, “Dadlani admitted he worked with other conspirators who came to his store and allowed them to swipe cards he knew did not legitimately belong to them.

Dadlani would then split the proceeds of the phony transactions with the conspira-

tors.”

Nationwide, the conspirators reportedly maintained more than 1,800 “drop addresses,” including houses, apartments and post office boxes, which they used as the mailing addresses for the false identities.

In addition to the prison term, Dadlani was sentenced to two years of supervised release and was ordered to pay a forfeiture of $411,000.

– Karen Zautyk

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Holocaust Museum trip eye-opener for kids

By Ron Leir Observer Correspondent HARRISON – “So much better than I expected,” said sixth-grader Maria Navarrete.

For seventh-grader David Torres, it was “a powerful experience.”

Sarah Valentin, a seventhgrader, found the lessons offered “compelling.”

These were only some of the rave reviews from students at Washington Middle School in Harrison who toured the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C., on Nov. 21.

For the third time, Washington School was the recipient of the Rubell Scholarship grant that subsidizes the cost of a one-day sojourn to the museum. A delegation from the school last made the trip in 2012.

Principal Michael Landy credited teacher Mary Anne Dunphy with laying the groundwork for each of the visits. Dunphy did graduate work in Holocaust Studies at Seton Hall and Kean University.

Michael Rubell, whose father was a Holocaust survivor, has taken it upon himself to award grants to various schools in New Jersey through the Jewish Community Center MetroWest.

According to Dunphy, typically, “six to 10” schools get to send groups each year.

For Harrison’s most recent trip, “we took 42 students from sixth and seventh grade and five teachers, along with Rubell; Lawrence Glaser, executive director of the N.J.

Photo courtesy Michael Landy

Students and teachers from Washington Middle School on the steps of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in the nation’s capital.

Commission on Holocaust Education; and two Holocaust survivors.

Some of the students’ older brothers and sisters had been to the museum previously, but to better prepare everyone going, teachers distributed literature sent by MetroWest to read and discuss.

Landy, who has been to the museum twice before as a teacher, said that a lot of care was placed in the building’s design.

“It’s four floors and when you enter, an elevator takes you to the fourth floor and it sort of corkscrews down and, as you walk through each floor, you’re going through a chronological journey of what it was like living through that period,’’ he explained.

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There is also an exhibition, “Daniel’s Story,” geared to elementary and middle school children, which relates what happened to Daniel, a fictional child whose life is a composite of true stories about children in the Holocaust.

Sixth-grader Nicholas Sanez “felt bad” for children like Daniel to have been “separated from their families. I couldn’t understand how children could be punished like that – it’s unacceptable.”

And seventh-grader Dakota Hatcher was similarly unnerved by “Daniel’s Story,” saying how sad she felt “that he was taken away from his family. He never saw his mom and dad again.”

Through its extensive collections, the museum informs visitors of the Nazi rise to power under Hitler, from 1933 to 1939, Aryan ideology, Kristallnacht, anti-Semitism,

the ghettos, a policy of extermination of European Jewry and the liberation of concentration camps by the Allies.

“The kids were very touched by what they saw,” said Dunphy. “Some were even emotional.”

Seventh-grader Sarah Valentin said she was surprised to learn that during the Holocaust period, “so many stereotypes were based on body type, eye color, shape of the nose” to credit or discredit a particular ethnic group. “I couldn’t believe there was such a thing back then,” she added.

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Nutley’s Rogers expected to announce run for Gov this week

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utley Commissioner and retired police Lt. Steven L. Rogers has

called a press conference for noon, Thursday, Dec. 8, at the Madison Hotel in Morristown, where he’s expected to announce his candidacy for the Republican nomina-

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Rogers retired from the Nutley Police Department in 2011 when he decided to run for commissioner. At retirement, he was the commander of the department’s Detective Bureau and was also the public-information officer.

In addition to his work as commissioner, Rogers also frequently contributes to the Fox News Networks as a commentator – and can often be seen discussing Donald Trump (he’s a special adviser to the presidentelect and helped run his New Jersey campaign) and terrorism.

Rogers served in the United States Air Force from 1970 to 1974. His began his police career in 1974 with the East Orange Police Department. In 1976, he transferred to the NPD, where he served until 2011. In 1986, he enlisted in the U.S. Navy Reserves where he remained until retiring as a lieutenant commander in 2004.

Rogers spent several years in Washington, D.C., as a member of the FBI’s JointTerrorism Task Force following the terror attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.

Rogers is the founder of the Steven L. Rogers Foundation, a group that says it’s “committed to educating, mentoring and preparing America’s future leaders.”

Editor’s note: Be sure to visit The Observer’s Facebook page at www.TheObserver.com/facebook for a recap of the press conference.

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Kardinal boys’ revamped hoop lineup shoots for respectability

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Golden Bears look to improve on McGuire’s first year It’s not known who was the first person to issue the idiom “Every cloud has a silver lining” but everyone from poet/rocker Henry Rollins to even Thomas the Tank Engine has used the popular phrase.

Well, it could be easily attached to the Lyndhurst boys’ basketball team.

The Golden Bears staggered somewhat to a 6-19 record in Tom McGuire’s first year as head coach.

The former Queen of Peace standout and former Golden Griffin head coach moved down the road a tad last year to take over at Lyndhurst and produced the dismal mark.

But McGuire can spin a positive out of a negative.

“It was the first time we qualified for the (NJSIAA North Jersey Section 2, Group II) state playoffs in a long time,” McGuire said.

And for a reward, the Golden Bears were paired with eventual Group II overall state champion Newark West Side in the first round.

“We had a new program looking for a new type of player,” McGuire

said. “It was the first step toward establishing the program that I hope to have. I think we took steps in the right direction last year.”

Another step was participating in two different summer leagues.

“The kids showed me a lot over the summer,” McGuire said. “It gives me high hopes for the future that they can play at a higher level. We’re going to find out who we are very early. We’ll know how the season will go.

We have to get out to a fast start.”

Leading the way for the Golden Bears this season will be 5-foot-10 senior guard Ed Albuquerque, who averaged seven points per game last season.

“Shot selection is always a major key for Ed,” McGuire said. “In the past, he would find a seat on the bench next to me because of poor shot selection. Now, he’s taking the ball to the basket more. He’s getting fouled.

He’s becoming more of an all-around player.” see VIEW page

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By Jim Hague Observer Sports Writer

T

he Kearny High School boys’ basketball team enjoyed a successful season in 2015-16, winning 16 games and earning a sense of respectability throughout the basketball community in New Jersey.

Now comes the hard part.

Head coach Bob McDonnell begins his fourth season with a ton of question marks.

“We lost a lot,” McDonnell said. “We graduated four starters. We lost a 1,000-point scorer (Joseph Baez) and a 700-rebounder (George Smyth). Those were tough losses.”

However, McDonnell believes that the Kards can rebound quickly and be a competitive force this season, despite the fact that the Hudson County Interscholastic Athletic League has eliminated the two-divisional format and has gone with just

Photo by Jim Hague

The Kearny boys basketball team graduated a ton of talent from last year’s 16win team, but looks to rebound with a basically new group. Kneeling, from l., are Samuel Reginald Myers, Steven Kyratzis and Eric Morales. BStanding, from l., are head coach Bob McDonnell, Joseph Stawicki, Gralen Vereen and Javon Jackson

one giant league.

It means that the Kardinals will have to face every team in Hudson County at least once.

“Do I think we have capable people to fill those slots?” Mc-

Donnell asked. “Yes, I do. It’s tough to replace four starters, but I think we’ll have a good team. Let’s see how it works see KARDINALS next page

Kearny wrestling coach Carratura dies

By Jim Hague Observer Sports Writer It was learned early Monday morning with incredible sadness that longtime Kearny High School wrestling coach Tony Carratura has died after a year-long battle with cancer.

Carratura was 58.

Carratura devoted more than 40 years of his life to the betterment of Kearny wrestling, whether it was the formation of the Kearny Recreation program through to the high school level, where he spent the last two decades as head coach.

Many of the standout Kar-

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Tony Carratura

dinal wrestlers were tutored under the watchful eye of Carratura, including the program’s all-time best wrestler,

1999 NJSIAA champion David Cordoba, who also finished second in the state twice.

Carratura was diagnosed with cancer in the summer of 2015 and sat out last season in a leave of absence with his assistants like Brian McDonnell running the team. In August, Carratura said that he had recovered from the cancer and was at that time, cancerfree, but the disease returned in October.

Funeral arrangements for the wrestling legend were still pending at press time. We will update with further news on the Observer’s website, www. theobserver.com.

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among the top 30 in the state in steals and assists.

If the Kardinals are going out.”

McDonnell likes his team’s to be competitive this season, they need a big season approach. out of Vereen.

“They’ve been working “We need him big time,” very hard,” said McDonnell, a retired Kearny police McDonnell said. “He has the ability to become a good officer. “They’re picking scorer. He’s been working things up nicely. I think the hard work will pay off. They on his jump shot a little.

He’s never had a problem played roughly 40 games together in the summer and getting to the basket. He’s fall. That’s going to be a help the team captain and he has to lead the way. He’s bigger as well. They know each and stronger than he was other pretty well. We have last year. He’s even grown some experience back from two inches. We’re counting last year, but not a lot.”

The most experienced vet- on him to do a lot for us and pick up some of the scoring eran on the roster is 6-foot slack we lost.” senior point guard Gralen Robert Myers is a promisVereen, who was an Honoring 6-foot-5 sophomore with able Mention All-HCIAL a ton of talent. honoree last year.

“He’s a slasher who can Vereen averaged eight points per game and ranked get to the basket,” McDonKARDINALS from

nell said. “He can get to the rim well. He just has to assert himself a little and get a little confidence in himself.

If he does, he can be a real good player.”

Javon Jackson is a 6-foot-1 senior who is a transfer from Pennsylvania who will have an immediate impact here.

“He’s a great jump shooter,” McDonnell said. “He can tend to be a little streaky at times, but he has a nice shot.

We need him to hit shots from the perimeter to open up our inside game.”

Samuel Reginald Myers – yes, all three names – is a 6-foot-2 senior and the older brother of the talented Robert.

“Samuel Reginald is a big-time rebounder and defender,” McDonnell said.

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Here’s hoping he’s more like the former NBA All-Star and Hall of Famer on the court and not off it.

Senior Steve Kyratzis is a 5-foot-8 guard.

“He’s our defensive stopper,” McDonnell said. “He’s a really strong kid who gives us all-out hustle.”

Michael Fitzpatrick is a 6-foot-4 junior forward.

“He has a lot of very good court smarts,” McDonnell said. “He knows where he’s supposed to be and gets good position all the time.”

Eric Morales is a 5-foot-10 senior who is a very good scorer and helps the Kards’ backcourt situation. Joseph Stawicki is a 6-foot-6 senior forward who provides rebounding and defense and can be a force inside for the Kards.

Isiah Wheeler is a 5-foot-9 sophomore who is lightning quick and also has good court sense and savvy.

“Isiah goes only one speed and that’s fast,” McDonnell

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The Kardinals open their 2016-2017 season at home Dec. 16 against North Bergen.

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“We have a lot of inexperience,” McDonnell said. “But the kids know their roles and have been doing a good job. All they need to do is fill their roles for us to be successful.”

The Kards will get to know how good they are come January.

“We have an eight-game stretch in January with games against Hudson Catholic, Dickinson, Lincoln and St. Peter’s, all within a three-week span,” McDonnell said. “Of our 25 opponents, 17 of them made the state playoffs last year. It’s going to be tough.”

But the Kardinals, under McDonnell, always find a way to persevere. This may have to be one of those times as well.

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Brian Podolski is a 6-foot-1 sophomore guard.

Junior Adrian Lopez is a six“He can score well,” McGuire foot junior point guard. said. “He’s still young, but we’re “I can see that he’s matured looking for a little bit of scoring a lot,” McGuire said. “He has a out of him. I expect more out tendency to become erratic. He of him.” has to play under more control.

Sophomore Benny Franchino When he lets himself become is a 5-foot-9 guard. overwhelmed by everything, “We’re trying to extend his that’s when he gets into trouble. (shooting) range,” McGuire Right now, he’s been a very Photo by Jim Hague said. “Basically, we made him good player. He’s learning that shoot 100 3’s a day to get shootThe Lyndhurst boys’ basketball team will be counting on its seniors this seabeing the point guard is a big responsibility. It’s not just drib- son. From l., are Elion Xhemajli, Joshua Pascual, head coach Tom McGuire and ing into habit for him. He’s the fastest kid in the team. He’s not Pete Lazaris. bling the ball up. The more he lacking in speed. And his configets to the paint the better. He provides leadership. I don’t ask “He sees the floor pretty dence is there as well.” has a cooler head and he’s more a lot from that kid. But he can well,” McGuire said. “He has Mike D’Alia is a 6-foot-3 under control.” hit the three well. He’s the kind to stay on the floor for us. junior.

Senior Pete Lazaris is a 6-foot of kid that the rest of the team Last year, he picked up a lot of “He’s a tall, lanky kid who senior forward. can look up to. He’s the most stupid fouls. With six seniors has a nice mid-range game,” “We need his hustle and his serious guy I have.” leaving, Kyle has to take more McGuire said. “He can shoot defense,” McGuire said. “He’s Kyle Logan is a 6-foot-2 junof a leadership role. He’s doing the ball. He’s showed a lot of the motor that makes us go. ior forward. things properly instead of being improvement.”

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Andrew Ellis is a 5-foot-10 junior guard who adds depth to the backcourt.

The Golden Bears open their season with Leonia at home Dec. 16. They also host the Bruce Bartlett Memorial Holiday Tournament with Palisades Park, Rutherford, Becton Regional, Fair Lawn, Lakeland, Hasbrouck Heights and Elmwood Park all joining Lyndhurst for the holidays.

After a tough first season, McGuire is settling in as the head coach.

“I’m definitely more comfortable,” McGuire said. “I’m looking forward to getting the kids to improve and I can see that improvement already.

We’re going to build this into a winner.”

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By Jim Hague Observer Sports Writer

will open up our outside game, our three-point game. I think our penetrators will be better. he Kearny High School I think it’s going to help our girls’ basketball team transition game. So having the posted a competitive presence down low is going to 13-13 record last year in a dehelp.” velopmental year for veteran Leading the way for the Karhead coach Jody Hill and the dinals is 5-foot-8 junior guard Kardinals.

Meagan McClelland, who has “I think these girls remembeen busy over the last few ber the experience of last weeks finishing up her comyear,” said Hill, whose team mitment to the United States lost in the Hudson County National 17-and-under soccer Tournament to eventual tourteam as a brilliant goalkeeper. ney runner-up Lincoln and McClelland stands to miss lost in the first round of the the first few games of the seaNJSIAA North Jersey Section son due to her USNT commit1, Group IV tournament. “That ments, but the talented point team was fairly young.” guard, who averaged 15 points Now, as the Kardinals preper game and six rebounds last pare for their Dec. 16 opener year in basketball, will be back against North Bergen, Hill soon enough. finds the Kardinals to be a year “Meagan had a phenomenal older, wiser and better. year for us,” Hill said. “Every “Last year, we were starting game, she stood out. She from scratch,” Hill said. “We dishes off with great passes, had a bunch of sophomores but she also has a great outside that we had to teach how to shot. She’s quick with the ball play varsity basketball. But and gets to the basket. She has they all got varsity experience. excellent speed. She’s a study They all learned our system. in what a point guard can do.

We have to expect that there Even though she’s only a junare better things to come.” ior, we named her as a captain.

One of the reasons for Hill’s She gets respect from her optimism is a legitimate inside teammates. She always wants game with a host of talented to do her best. She knows that forwards to play close to the a balanced team is a better basket. team. We need her to be a “We’ve always been guard playmaker and a creator. She strong,” said Hill, who was can handle that.” a stellar point guard during Senior Sydney Pace, the her playing days at Harrison multi-sport standout, returns High and later Pace University. to her spot at shooting guard, “But we really didn’t have an where she averaged eight inside threat last year. Now, points per game last year. Pace you’re going to see that we and McClelland comprise one have an inside game and that of the best all-around back-

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guards, will also figure prominently.

“Bre is a great team player who is very athletic,” Hill said. “She’s been also good in leading, telling people where to go. Savannah doesn’t make mistakes. She’s a feisty, good defender. She also makes shots.”

Sophomore Gianna Nigro, a 5-foot-6 guard, will be the back-up to McClelland at the point and may get the nod when McClelland is away for the first few weeks.

Photo by Jim Hague “She’s a nice back-up who The Kearny girls’ basketball team will be exciting to watch this season. can also play the two-guard Kneeling, from l., are Savannah Iverson, Diana DeSousa, Bre Costa and Jillian (shooting guard),” Hill said.

McCourt. Standing, from l., are head coach Jody Hill, Keziah Mitchell, Estefanie “I’m excited about this kid. I’m Dilone, Emilee Marshall, Natasha Magee and Sydney Pace. confident she can do the job and confident in her game.” courts in Hudson County. very tenacious down low and Sophomore Nayely Melen“I see a huge improvement helps us with her offensive ciano is a 5-foot-6 guard who is in Syd Pace,” Hill said. “Last rebounds to get more points a nice addition to the varsity. year, she was coming off the on the board.”

“She’s a passionate defender ACL (knee) surgery and she Hill is probably most excited who probably gets after the was a step slow. She wasn’t about 6-foot junior forward ball better than anyone on the confident at all. But now, she Estefania Dilone. team,” Hill said. “She attacks doesn’t even think about the “She only started playing the basket well off the dribble.” knee anymore. I really expect basketball her freshman year,” Junior Diana DeSousa is a her to have a standout season. Hill said. “But if all goes well, 5-foot-5 guard who a “pure She has great composure and she can be a major factor this shooter,” according to Hill. an excellent eye for the court. year. She has improved leaps “We’re going to get her the I think she plays well together and bounds. She always asks ball to make shots,” Hill said. with Meagan and that’s a real what she can do to be a better Junior forward Natasha plus.” player. Her hard work has paid Magee, a 5-foot-10 newcomer, Senior Isabel Fernandes, a off in her gaining confidence. is a former track athlete who 5-foot-7 small forward and soc- I’m pleasantly impressed with has joined basketball for the cer star like McClelland and how far she’s come.” first time.

Pace, adds athleticism to the So far that Dilone was “We’re working with her on Kards. named the team’s third capthe fundamentals, but she’s a “She’s one of the fastest tain. quick learner and very coachplayers on the team,” Hill said.

“She definitely has the size,” able,” Hill said.

“She’s a great defender and Hill said. “So does the team.

Sophomore Kaitlyn Aquino, great offensive rebounder.

We have inside players who a 5-foot-6 guard, is coming off She’s also our best jumper. She can contribute.” an ACL tear, so she’s coming gets nice lift off the floor. She’s Junior Emilee Marshall along slowly. Freshmen Skyler is one of those players. The Matusz, a 5-foot-6 guard, and 5-foot-11 junior will see conEliana Huancaya, a 5-foot-5 siderable playing time. So will guard, will remain with the 5-foot-10 junior Keziah Mitchvarsity. ell.

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Benjamin Pezzolla dead at 82 Benjamin A. Pezzolla (Benny), the brother of two local businessmen – Robert P. Pezzolla, general manager of The Observer and Frank Pezzolla, proprietor of Frank’s GMC, Lyndhurst – died at home in Manahawkin on Wednesday, Nov. 30, after a long and courageous battle with cancer.

He was 82.

Benjamin’s brother Robert says he and his brother were true opposites – Benjamin loved to hold on to mementos, where he preferred to give them away.

“He really cherished the things he collected,” Robert Pezzolla said. “He never took anything for granted. He was such a great man – a true

4 new lieutenants named by prosecutor JERSEY CITY – The Hudson County Prosecutor’s Office promoted four sergeants to lieutenant last Monday, Nov. 28, as they were sworn in by Superior Court Judge John A. Young Jr. at the county Administration Building.

The new officers are assigned to the prosecutor’s investigation unit.

The appointees are: Lt. Vincent Bonaccolta, Lt. Joseph Bonaccorso, Lt. Javier Toro and Lt. Clyde Washington.

Base salary for the rank of lieutenant is $123,867 a year.

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sweetheart. I’m really going to miss my brother – we all will, truly.”

Benjamin was pre-deceased by his father, Frank Pezzolla, and his mother, Mildred (Carino).

He is survived by his beloved wife of 58 years, Angela (Midge); a daughter, Bernadette Morrison and her hus-

band Robert; sons, John and his wife Paula, Benjamin and his wife Danielle and Christopher and his wife Joanna; and his three beloved granddaughters Nicolette, Ashley and Alyssa.

He is also survived by his brothers Frank Pezzolla and Robert Pezzolla, his beloved sister Teresa and many nieces and nephews.

Cremation was private, but a Mass celebrating Benjamin’s life will be offered Friday, Dec. 9, at 10 a.m. at Sacred Heart Church, 324 Ridge Road, Lyndhurst.

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37. *Like Tim Cratchit 39. Iron setting 40. Like Andersen’s duckling 41. Many times 43. World’s longest river 44. Bellhop, technically 46. Fork prong 47. Malaria symptom 48. School supplies staple 50. Pale gray 52. H in HMS 53. “____ there, done that” 55. R in rpm 57. *Tournament of Roses tradition 60. *Burning block 64. Lacy neckwear 65. Poe’s Morgue, e.g.

67. Guanaco’s cousin 68. Mountain ridge 69. Retirement plan 70. Cowboy movie 71. ____ farewell, past tense 72. Ensign, for short 73. Small songbirds DOWN 1. Shiny on top?

2. Lab culture 3. “Trade” without one vowel 4. Sunny prefix 5. Sowing machine 6. Author Bellow 7. *North Pole worker 8. Bring to an end 9. De Niro’s ride, 1976 10. Relating to ear 11. Classic board game 12. *Marines’ giftee

15. Checks out again at the library 20. Muse of love poetry 22. Blast maker 24. Herbalist’s bitter cure 25. *New Year stemware 26. ____ mortis 27. Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin meeting spot 29. *Stocking stuffer 31. Tallest volcano in Europe 32. “Gone with the Wind” actress 33. Monetary worth 34. Mideast V.I.P. 36. Whiskey grain, pl.

38. Strong desires 42. India’s first Prime Minister 45. Sales lure

49. *Prominent Christmas color 51. Like directory pages 54. Bone-chilling 56. Relating to velum 57. Legal prefix 58. In the sack 59. Learning method 60. Those voting “yes” 61. *A Christmas present given on the 26th 62. Black cat, e.g.

63. Needlefish, pl.

64. Mike Tyson’s punch 66. Big coffee holder

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CLASSIC GOOD LOOKS – This charming Cape Cod sits on a 45x90 lot and features a living room, dining room, bedroom, modern eat in kitchen and full tile bath on the first floor. The second floor contains two additional bedrooms. The large basement could easily be finished. Nothing compares at only $245,000.

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KEARNY MANOR – 4 bedrooms , 2 baths. Natural trim and a 50x 100 lot. Needs TLC. Asking $285,000

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Kearny - 1 Family - 1st Floor Has Foyer, Living Rm w/ Front Porch, Full Dining Rm, Den & Eat in Kitchen. 2nd Floor Has 3 Bedrooms & Ceramic Tiled Bathroom. Finished Walk Up Attic.

Full Semi-Finished Basement & Detached 1 Car Garage. Wood Floors & Oil Heat (Tank in Ground). Asking $241,250

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Kearny - 1 Family - First floor w/ Living Rm, Kitchen & Full Bath. 2nd Floor w/ 2 Bedrooms. Full Unfinished Basement w/ Half Bath & Laundry Area. Pulldown Attic. House Renovated Early 2014. Central Air & Forced Air Heating. Asking $239,000

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REDUCED! Kearny - Well Kept Single Family - First Floor w/ Living Rm, Dining Rm, Modern Eat in Kitchen & Full Bath. Second Floor w/ 3 Bedrooms & Full Bath. Finished Attic & Central Air. Finished Basement w/ Office Space, Laundry Rm & Bath. All Remodeled in 1999. New Roof, New Electric, New Hardwood Floors, New Siding & New Garage. Asking $355,000

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UNDER CONTRACT Kearny - Well Maintained 2 Family - Built in 1990. 1st Floor w/ Living Rm, Dining Rm, 3 Bedrooms, Kitchen & 2 Baths.

2nd Floor w/ Living Rm, Dining Rm, 2 Bedrooms, Kitchen & Bath. Ground Floor w/ 3 Finished Rooms, Bath & Laundry Hook-up. Corner Lot, 2-Car Attached Garage & Central Air. Asking $559,000

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KEARNY

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NEW PRICE! Kearny - 1 Family - Left side of Duplex w/ Foyer, Living Rm, Dining Rm & Eat in Kitchen on 1st Floor. 2nd Floor w/ 2 Bedrooms & Tiled Bath. Wide Driveway and Backyard. High SemiFinished Basement. Easy Walk to West Hudson Park and Local Shopping. Asking $174,900

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Kearny - 1 Family - Nice 1 Family w/ Good Sized Living Rm, Dining Rm & Eat in Kitchen on 1st Floor. 2nd Floor has 2 Bedrooms & Full Bath. Central Air & Unfinished Basement. Close to Transportation-Bus Stop on Corner. Asking $239,900

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Lyndhurst - 1 Family - Colonial w/ 2 Bedrooms, Living Rm, Dining Rm, Modern Eat in Kitchen, Foyer & 1.5 Baths.

Unfinished Basement. Driveway for 2 Cars. Above Ground Pool Motor is Broken. Oil Tank is Above Ground in Backyard.

Asking $295,000

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KEARNY

UNDER CONTRACT Kearny - 4 Family - 3 Apartments w/ 2 Bedrooms, Living Rm, Kitchen & Full Bath. 1 Apartment w/ 1 Bedroom, Living Rm, Kitchen & Full Bath. All Separate Utilities. Laundry and Storage in Basement. 2 Car Detached Garage. Asking $485,000

REDUCED!

Belleville - 2 Family - 1st Floor w/ 1 Bedroom, Bath, Living Rm, Dining Rm & Large Kitchen Area. 2nd Floor w/ 1 Bedroom, Living Rm, Dining Rm, Den, Kitchen & Bath. 3rd Floor w/ 2 Bedrooms. 2nd & 3rd Floor Used Together. Individual Heat, Gas & Electric. Asking $163,900

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Close to Transportation. Asking $295,900

Bloomfield - 1 Family - 1st Floor w/ Living Rm, Dining Rm, Kitchen & Sun Room. 2nd Floor w/ 3 Bedrooms & Bath.

Walk-up Attic on 3rd Floor. Full Partially Finished Basement.

Private Driveway & Detached Garage. Centrally Located.

Asking $218,900

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REDUCED! Kearny - Heather Glenn Condo - Second floor Condo w/ 2 Bedrooms, Living Rm, Modern Eat in Kitchen, Modern Bath, Laundry & Parking for 1 car. Balcony off Living Rm. Asking $189,000

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BACK ON THE MARKET! Kearny - 2 Family - 1st Floor w/ 2 Bedrooms, Living Rm, Eat-in-Kitchen & Bath. 2nd Floor w/ Bedroom, Living Rm, Eat-in-Kitchen, Den & Bath. Semi-Finished Basement w/ Rec Rm, Utility/Laundry Rm, Den & Bath. Asking $279,000

Kearny - 1 Family – Updated Cape w/ 3 Bedrooms, Dining Rm, 2 Full Baths, Kitchen & Nice Deck. Hardwood Floors, Central Air & 2 Car Garage. Basement w/ Large Rec Room & Laundry Rm. Asking $310,000

Kearny - 2 Family – 1st Floor w/ Living Rm, Dining Rm, Kitchen, 2 Bedrooms & Bath. 2nd Floor w/ Living Rm, Large Eat in Kitchen, 3 Bedrooms, Bath & Additional 4 Rooms & Bath on 3rd Floor. Full Unfinished Basement w/ Laundry Area.

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the Rev. Thomas DeWitt Talmage – who was to become a celebrated American preacher, outspoken abolitionist and champion of the Chinese – got his start at the Belleville church.

Talmage – whose brother, the Rev. Jonathan Talmage, spent his entire life as a missionary in China – was ordained on July 29, 1856, and installed as pastor of Belleville Reformed Church.

Early on, while delivering his sermon, the fledgling minister would get flustered organizing

his papers so, eventually, he abandoned his notes and “just started speaking off the cuff,” Perrone said.

After spending three years in Belleville, Talmage moved on to a large Reformed Church in Brooklyn that seated up to 5,000 worshipers.

“The young and gifted orator who preached his famous long sermons without any notes would eventually gain worldwide attention, author 50 books and have his sermons printed in over 3,000 newspapers,” Perrone noted.

29, a lone robber held up the Provident Bank at 249 Kearny Ave. and escaped with an undetermined amount of money. Last Wednesday, a suspect was reportedly arrested in Jersey City. We called the FBI, which said that since the man had not yet been charged federally, it could release no infor-

mation and referred us to Jersey City authorities. We then called the JCPD, which referred us to a media officer for the city, whom we tried to contact by phone and email. As of press time, there had been no response. If we ever find out the details, we will report them.

– Karen Zautyk

timing, we have the winter season to look – the one from the top of for [replacements],” the rack and the one im- he said. Each shell, he mediately below which, said, is made of carbon he said, melted. fiber, measures 60 feet Delisle placed the long and holds eight value of each of the rowers and a coxswain used, lost boats at (steerer). “between $5,000 and He said the associa$10,000.” A new one in tion has been stortoday’s market could ing its vessels at the run between $30,000 county park for the and $40,000, he added. past decade.

“We’re insured and, The PRRA, which fortunately, given the has 350 youth and adult

members from New York, Bergen and Essex counties and a few beyond, shares its boats with area colleges and high schools, he said.

While its primary mission is “to support youth rowing,” and to that end, sponsors “learn-to-row programs and community row,” along with “competitive programs for adults, collegiate and high schools.”

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leading to the entire church’s reconstruction three years later.

Two years in a row, the steeple was subjected to a double whammy when hurricanes struck in 2011 and again in 2012.

An historical footnote that further illuminates the importance of preserving this church relates to the role it played as a haven for newly arriving Chinese immigrants at a time of antiAsian sentiment during the late 19th century.

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on S. 20th St. in Newark and arrested the teen on three counts of robbery and one of conspiracy. He was subsequently remanded to the Juvenile Correctional Facility.

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KEARNY: 1 FAM, COLONIAL, CORNER PROPERTY, 3 BEDROOMS, 2 FULL BATH, HARWOOD FLOORS, MODERN EAT IN KITCHEN WITH QUARTZ COUNTERTOPS, CLOSE TO TRANSPORTATION

LYNDHURST: 1 FAM, COLONIAL, 3 BR, 2 FULL BATH, 1 HALF BATH, FULL UNFINISHED BASEMENT, 2 CAR GARAGE WITH LONG DRIVEWAY, CLOSE TO NYC TRANSPORTATION

KEARNY: 1 FAM, COLONIAL, 3 BR, 1 FULL BATH, 2 HALF BATHS, OPEN FLOOR PLAN, HARDWOOD FLOORS, NEWER ROOF AND WINDOWS, LOCATED NEAR PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION

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EDUCED PRICE R LYNDHURST: 1 FAM, COLONIAL, 2 BR, 1 FULL BATH, MODERN EAT IN KITCHEN WITH GRANITE COUNTERTOPS, FULL FINISHED BASEMENT, HARDWOOD FLOORS, LONG DRIVEWAY

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SCHUYLER from Arlington Volunteer EMS is now. The fire station on the east side was dedicated in 1995.

Other founding members in 1916 included Frank Eckardt Sr. (George’s brother), Henry Rodenburg, George Lentz, William Zurhiede Sr., Edward Maier Sr., Peter Bianchi and Joseph Bianchi.

George Eckardt was unanimously elected as the company’s first chief, his granddaughter Margaret Nichols noted.

George had four sons (more about them later) and one daughter, Clara, all of whom were raised on the farm -- which wasn’t some “garden” operation, but a real farm, with barn, milkhouse, farmhand quarters, horses, pigs and 10 cows.

In fact, until 1989 (by which time the property had changed hands), folks travelling along Schuyler Ave. could look down the hill and still see some horses in the corral.

Schuyler Co. 2 was just 5 years old when Clara was born, and as she grew, she worked there. Washing the floors. Every week.

She did that from girlhood to her early 20s, when she married and left home.

How do we know this?

Because Clara (Eckardt Mayer), a delightful font of local history, still lives in North Arlington. She celebrated her 95th birthday this past March and was a guest at Schuyler Co. 2’s 100th anniversary celebration Friday night.

Two of Clara’s brothers, Charles and William, followed in their father’s footsteps and became dairymen. Her other two brothers, George F. (the oldest) and Walter (the youngest) followed in their father’s footsteps and became firefighters.

Walter became chief of Schuyler Co. 2 in 1970 and was selected

as the borough’s Firefighter of the Year in 1997. Tragically, he suffered a fatal heart attack just a few months after receiving the award.

George F. served as a fireman until he entered military service during World War II. He was killed in action, storming Omaha Beach on D-Day -- June 6, 1944. The new Schuyler firehouse and a street near the old family farm have been named in his honor.

(Note to North Arlington officials: The street is called Eckhardt Terrace. That’s a misspelling. If you are honoring a hero, you should get his name right. It’s a short street. Correcting the signs shouldn’t be a major project. For shame.)

As Clara’s daughter Margaret Nichols -also a North Arlington resident -- noted in a congratulatory letter to Schuyler Co. 2 on the occasion of its centennial, the next generation carried on the family tradition.

George A.’s grandson Walter Eckardt was a North Arlington fireman until a change of residence forced him to resign, and granddaughter Diane Eckardt Piscal made local history in 1986, becoming the borough’s first female firefighter.

The family saga does not end there. Founder George A.’s greatgrandson Matthew Piscal joined the Fire Department at age 18 and is now a lieutenant. Another greatgrandson, Jeffrey Nichols (Margaret’s son), is chief of Schuyler Co. 2 -- exactly a century after his ancestor held the same job -- and this past Saturday, he was elected assistant chief of the entire borough department.

More? Just last month, great-granddaughter Marissa Piscal (Diane’s daughter; Matthew’s sister) was sworn in as an NAFD member.

In her five-page letter to Schuyler Co. 2, Margaret Nichols paid a beautiful tribute to the volunteers who serve, and have served, their community.

“While we are very proud of our bloodline in the Schuyler Firehouse,” she wrote, “we are also well aware that eight people in the past 100 years could never keep an organization together, and that is where all of you have played such an important role.”

She continued: “Each one of you has contributed to the growth and continuity of the Schuyler Firehouse. . . . You all have the same ideals as George Eckardt did -- that the Schuyler Firehouse is vital to the safety and well-being of the residents of North Arlington . . . . Each one of you, past and present members, has gone the distance to keep this much-needed organization going strong.”

Nichols explained that her mother, Clara – George A.’s last surviving child – had asked her to write the letter “to extend her most sincere gratitude to you all for keeping the dream and hard work of her father alive.”

And so they have, from the days of handdrawn hose carts to the first horse-drawn hook-and-ladder (purchased used from the Kearny FD in 1927 for $20) to today’s sleek, state-of-the-art engines and trucks. Schuyler’s firefighters, and the rest of North Arlington’s Bravest, have served with courage and commitment.

Nichols ended the letter as follows: “George Eckardt lived an abundant life, devoted to his family and his hometown. . . . When God called him home [in 1963] and his work here on Earth was finished, he left it in your hands for all of you to carry on. I am happy to say you did not disappoint him.”

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obituaries@theobserver.com Arlene M. Kapuscenski Arlene M. Kapuscenski died Nov. 17.

She was 66.

Arlene was a longtime resident of Kearny and was a dispatcher for Harrison and Kearny Cab Co. Arlene died in her home in Spotsylvania, Va., with her husband and son by her side.

Arlene leaves behind her husband Steven; a son, Jason; a daughter, Crisy; and five grandchildren.

Arlene will be greatly missed.

Jean A. Kozmor Jean A. Kozmor (nee Agentowicz), of North Arlington, formerly of Jersey City, died peacefully on Tuesday, Nov. 22, surrounded by her niece and nephew Patricia A. and Stanley M. Dunaj.

She was 99.

A funeral took place Tuesday, Nov. 29, from the Evergreen Funeral Home, Jersey City. A Mass of Christian burial was celebrated at St. Ann Polish Roman Catholic Church, Jersey City. Her interment was in Holy Cross Cemetery, North Arlington.

Born and raised in Eynon, Pa., Jean came to New Jersey and worked for RCA in Harrison for nearly 40 years, retiring in 1976, as an administrative assistant.

She took an active role within the Polish-American community. She was a former N.J. State Commissioner of the Polish National Alliance (PNA) and a former national director of the organization.

She was president of PNA Council 20, Jersey City, and was financial secretary of PNA Klub Polek Lodge 2676, Harrison.

Jean was also president of the General Pulaski Memorial Committee of Jersey City and assisted in organizing the Jersey City contingent for more than 17 Pulaski Day parades along Fifth Ave. in New York City.

Jean was the wife of the late 1st Sgt. Joseph F. Rovinski of Harrison, who was killed in the Battle of Anzio in World War II – and is buried in Nettuno, Italy. He was the first soldier to be killed in World War II from Harrison.

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Twenty years later, she married a prominent businessman of Jersey City, Edward P. Kozmor, with whom she continued to take an active interest in the Polish-American community. Her husband Edward became censor (comptroller) of the PNA, and together, they worked within the PNA and helped to raise funds for Alliance College in Cambridge Springs, Pa. Edward and Jean were married only two short years until his untimely death in 1965.

With all the hardships in her life, Jean A. Kozmor never wavered and continued to work for the good of all Polish organizations, and continued to help all who were in need. Within her lifetime, she met many prominent people including Pope John Paul II and Presidents Kennedy and Carter.

She was a dedicated parishioner of both St. Ann Polish and St. Anthony of Padua Roman Catholic Churches in Jersey City, and was a member of the Rosary Society of St. Ann Church.

Jean was the last survivor among her siblings – she was predeceased by six sisters and one brother. She is survived by several loving nieces and nephews, whom she held most dear.

In lieu of flowers, donations would be appreciated in care of the funeral home, in memory and honor of Jean.

Virginia Bannon

City and was a lifelong resident of Kearny.

She was a human resources administrator for Wilkata Box Company in Kearny for 35 years, retiring in 2002.

St. Cecilia’s Church was Virginia’s second home. As a member of the staff, she ran the food pantry, served on the Bereavement Team, was a member of the RCIA and served as a Eucharist Minister.

She gave her time to Literacy Volunteers of America, the Red Cross in Nutley and the Archdiocese of Newark’s “Protecting God’s Children.”

She is survived by two children, John M. Bannon and Joann Mc Neill (Harry); six grandchildren, Kaitlin, Cynthia and Paul Bannon and Eddie Boyarko Jr. and Ryan and Amanda Bannon; and two great-grandchildren, Raelyn McNeill and Mia Sanchez.

She was predeceased by her husband Paul; a sister, Joan Poplaski; and her son Edward.

In lieu of flowers, the family suggests contributions to the St. Cecilia Food Pantry.

Louis Coppola Louis Coppola, of North Arlington, died Dec. 2.

He was 88.

A Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated Tuesday, Dec. 6, at 10 a.m., at Queen of Peace Church, North Arlington. Cremation will be private. Everyone is to meet at the church. Arrangements are by the Armitage & Wiggins Funeral Home, Kearny.

Born in Newark, Mr. Coppola lived in North Arlington since 1957.

Mr. Coppola was a clerk with the United States Postal Service, Kearny, for more than 25 years. He served in

Prayer to St. Jude

Virginia Bannon (Shaw), 75, died Nov. 29 at Select Specialty Hospital, Rochelle Park.

The funeral Mass was Saturday, Dec. 3, at St. Cecilia’s Church, Kearny. Interment was in Holy Cross Cemetery, North Arlington. Condolences and memories may be shared at thiele-reid.com.

Virginia was born in Jersey

Most holy apostle, St. Jude, faithful servant and friend of Jesus, the Church honors and invokes you universally as the patron of difficulty and of desperate cases, of things almost despaired of Pray for me, I am so helpless and alone. Make use, I implore you, of that particular privilege given to you to bring visible and speedy help where help was almost despaired of.

Come to my assistance in this great need that I may receive the consolation and help of heaven in all my necessities, tribulations and sufferings, particularly(make your request here)-and that I may bless God with you and all the elect throughout all eternity.

I promise you, O blessed St. Jude, to be ever mindful of this great favor, and I will never cease to honor you as my special and powerful patron and do all in my power to encourage devotion to you. Amen.

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the United States Army from 1946 to 1948.

He was the beloved husband of the late Maria Coppola. The father of Laura Coppola, he was also brother of Marianne (Gary) Greeley and the late Joseph, Lawrence, Alfred Jr. and Gerald Coppola. Brother-in-law of Dorothy Coppola, he was also grandfather of Crystal, Valerie and Tyler. He is also survived by many nieces and nephews.

In lieu of flowers, donations to the American Heart Association or the American Diabetes Association would be appreciated.

Joan K. Faust Joan K. Faust (nee Frederick) died at home on Nov. 27.

The Armitage & Wiggins Funeral Home of Kearny handled private arrangements.

Joan was born in Forest Hills, N.Y., spent her youth in Wilkes Barre, Pa., and spent much of her married life in Kinnelon. She and her husband Howard retired to their riverfront cabin in Beach Lake,

Pa., 25 years ago.

Joan loved keeping busy with crossword puzzles. She enjoyed birding as her hobby and was a member of the National Audubon Society.

She is survived by her husband of 63 years, Howard C. Faust, her daughter and son-in-law Nancy and Keith Andrews, along with several nieces and nephews.

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