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By Karen Zautyk Observer Correspondent KEARNY –

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n unoccupied two-family home at 64 Laurel Ave. was severely damaged by a fire of unknown origin early last Friday -- a fire that took nearly two and a half hours just to bring under control.

One firefighter was reported injured during the blaze.

KFD Chief Steve Dyl said the first alarm came in at 12:02 a.m. for the three-story, wood-frame house, located between Hillcrest Road and Alpine Place. Despite the response of all KFD units and three other departments, the fire was not declared under control until 2:26 a.m.

Authorities believed the home had been unoccupied for at least a year, but people reportedly had been seen in or about the property on occasion.

According to Dyl, mattresses, beer cans Photo by Kevin Canessa Jr.

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A look at the exterior of 64 Laurel Ave., Kearny, 15 hours after a two-alarm fire tore though it on Friday, March 24.

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Feds raid Kearny Ave. rooming house

By Ron Leir Observer Correspondent

Today, the 28-year-old man occupies a cell at the Westchester (N.Y.) County KEARNY – Jail, awaiting arraignment on a Until last Monday, March 20, federal charge of conspiracy to Chukwuemeka (AKA Emeka) distribute large quantities of Okparaeke was living in a an analogue of fentanyl. studio apartment in a roomThe federal investigation ing house at Kearny Ave. and focuses on the period from Halstead St. October 2016 to March 2017.

Fentanyl and its analogues are characterized by federal agents as “synthetic opioids that are significantly stronger than heroin, and are major contributors to overdose fatalities.”

In a press release, Acting U.S. Attorney Joon H. Kim, of the Southern District of New

York, said: “The defendant’s alleged scheme combined one of the gravest current threats to public health – highly addictive and potentially lethal opioids – with a very modern criminal tool – the darknet.

“Okparaeke allegedly sold fentanyl-like controlled substances through an online

black market to conceal the nature of the transactions and his identity. I want to thank our partners at the U.S. Postal Service for bringing Okparaeke’s alleged criminal exploitation out of the dark.”

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Robert Szczesniak, who has a finance degree from Rider University, was a PruKEARNY – dential Financial associate manager and a member of hirteen new probathe Saddle Brook Volunteer tionary firefighters, Fire Department. His dad is including the fire a former chief of the Haschief ’s son, are now riding brouck Heights Volunteer KFD rigs.

Fire Department.

Although they completed Jason Ostanski, who has their training and were a fire science degree from assigned tours as of Feb. NJCU, was a volunteer fire18, the recent snowstorm fighter for North Arlington delayed their official swearand a custodian for the N.A. ings-in and pinning of KFD Board of Education. badges until last Tuesday at Photo by Diane D. Tilley Edmund McKeown, a a Town Hall ceremony.

Fire Chief Steve Dyl, (l.) with his 13 new probies, following their offi cial sweargraduate of Queen of Peace This year’s class matches ing-in March 21.

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High School, North Arlingthe size of the unit that ton, previously served as a graduated in September 2015 and-file members each has Mathew Popola, who has member of the Bethlehem, – the biggest since the class “less than two years experi- a business management Pa., Fire Department and as of 2005 with 10 members, ence” with the department, degree from FDU, was a a KFD dispatcher. according to Chief Steven he said. lieutenant with the RoseThomas Witt, a KHS Dyl. “That’s almost 50% of our land Volunteer Fire Departgraduate, previously worked Eight recruits were hired available firefighter staff ment. He previously worked for UPS and has been active in early 2016 but two of [not including fire superifor Atlantic Ambulance and with the Kearny Generals those are already gone. ors],” Dyl said. as department supervisor and Kearny Little League.

Dyl told The Observer The newly-hired firefight- for Home Depot.

Several of the new hires that the most recent apers who took their oaths of George King III, who has will have their salaries and pointees were named from office last week were: a liberal arts degree from benefits paid through a feda state Civil Service certifiMathew Piscal, recipiBergen Community Coleral Staffing for Adequate cation list that came out in ent of the class Academic lege, previously worked for & Emergency Firefighter March 2016 and that list is Award, is a former lieutenthe TSA and as a security Response (SAFER) grant “good for three years.” ant with the North Arlingofficer for River Terminal, And that’s a good thing ton Volunteer Fire DepartKearny. His dad is KPD Dep- awarded Kearny. It provides funding for two years with since Dyl is already planment and the holder of a uty Chief George King. the stipulation that the town ning to ask the town to hire degree in fire science from Wilfredo Lopez Jr., a takes over that obligation in more before the list runs out NJCU. graduate of Hamilton High the third year, according to to replace an ongoing surge Haley Girdwood, the third School, Fishers, Ind., previthe chief. of anticipated retirements. female member of the KFD, ously worked as a personal At the swearing-in cereBy May 1, the chief fighas a degree in health scitrainer and as a teacher’s mony, Dyl said that given “a ures to be “six short” of the ence from Eastwick College, aide at Washington Acadlot of new faces” now in the department’s 102-member Nutley. Her uncle Victor is a emy, Belleville. department, he’s relying on Table of Organization – the KFD captain.

Daniel Gurkas, who has a the remaining veterans to maximum number of perJeremy Ho, who studied biology degree from Rutgers “making a support network sonnel allowed by town criminal justice at RutUniversity, was a substitute grow” by “taking the new ordinance – due to a combi- gers University, previously teacher with the Kearny guys under their wing.” nation of retirements, one served as a state corrections Board of Education and a The chief said he was imresignation and one termiofficer at Northern State lifeguard with Kearny Rec. pressed by the new group’s nation.

Prison, Newark.

His brother Joseph is also a solidarity.

“I haven’t seen Beyond that, Dyl said, 12 Francis McCallister, who member of the KFD. this strong of a bond in a additional spots could be attended Montclair State Steven A. Dyl, a Kearny while,” he added.

Of the 13, vacated by KFD members University, was an assistant High School alumnus, is Dyl said seven are “lifelong eligible for retirement. office manager for NY/NJ studying engineering at Kearny residents” while the As a result of the thinning Rail LLC and coached JV Stockton University, Galrest have “relocated to the of the ranks, currently 38 of soccer for St. Peter’s Prepar- loway Township. His dad is Kearny area.” the department’s 68 rankatory School, Jersey City.

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remove one dogwood tree at the site and will pay for the pavers and monument” while the town would pitch in with the benches and flag poles.

for PSE&G to replace its aging power facility at S. Fifth and Bergen Sts. with a new 69kV electrical substation.

After discussion about noise and light issues, the

board granted the utility site plan approval, allowing it to proceed with the project in the town’s Community Commercial zone.

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Typically, said Michael aside a portion of Riverbank Neglia, the town’s consulting Park as a “Peruvian Heritage engineer, “there’s a six-week Park.” lead time” for ordering such Association representatives items.

Yanina Paz and Hugo Tejeda Paz told The Observer that told the mayor and Town the association will need Council last Tuesday that the an estimated $25,000 for its park would serve as a symbol share of the project and that “to recognize the contribuit would be holding fundraistions of the Peruvian comers and seeking donations to munity” and “preserve the come up with the cash.

Peruvian traditions.”

Riverbank Park, a municiPlanning for the park began pal recreation facility, curfive years ago, Paz said. rently has sections dedicated The site targeted for the to the contributions of Irish park would be along the Americans (Irish Heritage west side of Passaic Ave., off Park), Scottish-Americans Peden Terrace.

(Wallace Glen) and ItalianTejeda said the association Americans (Christopher wants to erect a 7-foot-tall, Columbus Park). black granite obelisk with the map of Peru engraved on its – Ron Leir surface, surrounded by ovalshaped brick pavers.

Utility to build There would also be two new substation park benches and flag poles, he said.

HARRISON – Tejeda said the group The Harrison Planning hopes to have everything in Board voted last Wednesday, place in time for celebrating March 22, to clear the way Peruvian Independence Day on July 8.

Mayor Alberto Santos said he would be “happy to see it come about” by that date but added a cautionary note that “there’s still a lot of work to be done” before their goal can be realized.

Clarifying the group’s Photo by Ron Leir responsibilities, Santos said, PSE&G will be replacing this substa“the association will pay to tion on S. Fifth St. in Harrison.

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t 2 a.m. on Sunday, March 19, Kearny police responded to the report of a “serious accident” at the intersection of Belgrove Drive and Woodland Ave., where they found that a 2008 Mercedes had apparently rear-ended a 2015 Jeep.

Prior to the arrival of Officers Derek Hemphill and Chris Medina and Sgt. Jack Corbett, the Mercedes driver

had reportedly fled the area on foot. The operator of the Jeep, a 47-year-old Kearny man who suffered back and abdominal injuries, provided the other driver’s description and direction of flight, and Medina found the suspect near Belgrove and Clark St., police said.

Nicholas Matos, 21, of Kearny, was brought back to the accident scene, where he

was reportedly identified by the victim, who was taken to St. Michael’s Medical Center in Newark. Police said Matos had suffered minor cuts and was checked by Kearny EMS but declined medical assistance.

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••• Other recent reports from the Kearny police blotter included the following: March 17 At 7 p.m., Capt. David Feldhan and Officers Michael Gontarczuk and Jose Castillo were called to the 100 block of Sanford Ave., where, apparently following some sort of verbal altercation, a man had reportedly smashed the windshield of a ‘98 Dodge pickup with a shovel. [It is not known if the altercation and/or the shovel were snow-related.]

Joao Figueiredo, 39, of Kearny, was charged with criminal mischief, possession of a weapon (the shovel) and possession of same for an unlawful purpose.

March 18 At 4:30 p.m., a parking dispute that was snow-related brought Officers Alan Stickno, Sean Wilson and Stephen Hroncich to Boyd St., between Chestnut St. and Kearny Ave., where a 36-year-old Kearny man alleged that he had been assaulted by Raymond Adames, 34, of Kearny, police said. Both parties would just have been referred to court to file complaints, police said, but Adames ended up under arrest on a Union Township MV warrant. Police in that jurisdiction were notified.

••• Det. Michael Andrews, on off-duty uniformed detail at BJ’s at 9:30 p.m., followed Earl Holloway, 50, of East Orange, into the store lot and, police said, detained him for questioning based on two observations: 1) Holloway’s jacket pockets were bulging, and 2) Andrews had not seen him buy anything.

As the detective was escorting him back into the store, the suspect reportedly broke free and ran toward Passaic Ave., but Andrews tackled him and turned him over to Sgt. Corbett and Officer Jonathan Dowie, who had arrived on scene.

Police said the pocket bulges turned out to be hot dogs and beef, valued at $119.50. In a search incident to arrest,

Holloway was allegedly found to be in possession of one glass pipe and one Provident Bank card bearing the name of a female.

Holloway ended up in the Hudson County Jail, charged with: shoplifting, resisting arrest, credit card theft, possession of drug paraphernalia, and on two open warrants -- $2,500, Newark, assault, and a no-bail NCIC warrant from the Essex County Sheriff.

••• At 11 p.m., Officers Hemphill and Jason Rodrigues observed two individuals emerge from the weeds off E. Midland Ave. and head toward a parked Honda, from which the officers said came the “overpowering odor” of another sort of weed. Guilherme Lazzarini, 21, and Matthew Mendez, 20, both of Kearny, were charged with possession of pot and paraphernalia and use of pot.

Additionally, driver Mendez was issued a summons for possession of a CDS in a MV. March 19 At 3:30 a.m., Officers Gontarczuk and David Bush were called to a shoplifting in progress at Walmart, where store security pointed out suspect Vesttese Tullis, 26, of Newark, who allegedly was found to have stuffed $731.49 worth of items -- clothing, batteries, deodorant, soap -- into a backpack and purse.

Police said she also had a cut plastic straw containing suspected heroin residue (not sold at Walmart).

Tullis initially gave her name as Sydieah Cruz, but a fingerprint check revealed her true identity, police said. She was charged with shoplifting, possession of heroin and drug paraphernalia, hindering apprehension, and on two contempt warrants: no bail NCIC warrant, Essex County Sheriff, and $100, Newark.

By 10 a.m., she was en route to the Hudson County Jail.

••• At 4:20 a.m., at Kearny and Linden Aves., Officers Rodrigues and Richard Pawlowski came upon a 1998 Honda, its engine running and its driver, Jose Costa-Silva, 49, of Kearny, asleep at the wheel, police resee KPD page

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By Ron Leir Observer Correspondent

and detours associated with the job.

And it will provide the town KEARNY – with “construction advisootential transportaries” that will be posted on tion headaches may be websites operated by PVSC plaguing Kearny motor- and the town and “will deliver ists from two different sourc- construction notices to all es – one for several weeks residents and businesses and the other for the better within the work zone” to keep portion of a day. everyone apprised of the work First, the town will have to come. to deal with periodic road As part of the project, PVSC closures and detours that will is getting Kearny’s permisbe triggered by an emergency sion to hook up to local fire sewer job along Schuyler Ave. hydrants to access a water in the Second Ward. supply needed to facilitate the The other situation involves repairs. Mayor Alberto Santos closing off a portion of Passaid the PVSC contractor will saic Ave. to vehicular traffic mix the water with cement. for a special event on a day in Santos said the project will May. require the use of an estimatAs for the first issue, the ed “half a million gallons” of Town Council voted last water which, he added, “will Tuesday to authorize the Pas- be metered for payment.” saic Valley Sewerage CommisPVSC will coordinate times sion (PVSC) to proceed with for accessing the pumps with the rehabilitation/concrete the Kearny Fire Department. relining of the Kearny-HarPVSC has pledged to “furrison-Newark (KHN) branch nish and install the appropriinterceptor sewer. ate protective equipment (ie: That section of sewer line backflow preventers) and in Kearny stretches under flow meters” that will proSchuyler between Duke and vide “weekly readings” to the King Sts. – a seven-block-long town. stretch.

All overtime costs incurred PVSC Chief Engineer John by the town for public safety Rotolo said the cost of the job personnel and the town enhas been projected as $3,611,111. gineer will be reimbursed by As outlined by the resoluthe PVSC. tion approved by the council, Looking ahead to the other the job “is being initiated as traffic conundrum, town ofa result of the existing failed ficials will be preparing for condition [of that sewer] another food truck rally being discovered as a result of road planned by the Kearny PBA depressions observed [on Local 21 for Saturday, May 6, Schuyler] and cracked and at the Frank A. Vincent Mabroken sewer pipes discovrina on Passaic Ave. ered as a result of closed-cir“In anticipation of large cuit CCTV inspections.” crowds attending” the event, As that work unfolds, PVSC the PBA has requested the “will be implementing timeclosure of one lane on Passaic specific lane closures and Ave. between Bergen Ave. and detours” during two construc- Afton St., beginning at 9 a.m., tion phases: and “full closure,” starting at • north along Schuyler 10 a.m., through 7:30 p.m. from Bergen to King St., from Mayor Santos said that the March 27 to April 14, (partly union will also need apcovering the Easter holiday proval from Hudson County period) and, to implement these closures • south along Schuyler from since Passaic Ave. is a county Duke to Bergen, from April 15 roadway. to May 14.

Santos said the Kearny PVSC is handling the Police Department is being six-week job this way “to asked to map out detours off minimize the impacts to the Passaic “to several streets.” general public, local residents The intent, Santos said, is and local businesses,” the to “spread the traffic out so resolution says. it doesn’t impede the flow on PVSC will coordinate with any one block.” the Kearny Police Department As an example, he said, in planning the lane closures

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worried that cars may end up being shifted onto Peden Terrace, a hill street where, he reminded his colleagues, drivers normally have a tough time safely maneuvering away from parked cars.

In response, the mayor said he’d ask the KPD traffic unit to review its detour plans with the councilman’s admonition in mind and to share its final plan with the governing body before the May event.

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Four years after his death, Jose Cespedes is still missed

By Kevin Canessa Jr. pril 12 marks the fourth anniversary of the death of Kearny High School alum Jose Cespedes. I’d like to tell you about this remarkable young man who left this world way too early.

I first met Jose in 2007, when I was the editor of this newspaper. We put out a request to Kearny High School for teens who were interested in writing a weekly column for The Observer called “Bridging the Gap.” “Bridging the Gap” was the brainchild of Lisa Feorenzo, who was publisher of the newspaper, several years before this. The idea was to allow budding journalists a chance to show their talents. It was also a chance for the younger generation to show older generations that young people weren’t all about roaming the streets all the time, and that, indeed, some were very bright – and had opinions and beliefs that were truly relevant.

Jose was one of the few who responded at the time – and he was the only one who would regularly submit columns. In fact, there were times we had to hold his columns because we had to give others a chance to be published. But the truth is – this is meant as no disrespect to our other Bridging the Gappers from the era – no one came close to the work Jose submitted.

He was vibrant. He was deeply principled. He stood by every single belief he espoused. And in the midst of Hudson County, a bastion of Democrats, he was proudly a conservative Republican. And

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he let that be known without hesitation.

Jose and I had something in common. We were both deeply involved in a news story in Kearny that involved KHS alum Matthew LaClair and KHS teacher David Paszkiewicz. While I don’t want to rehash that story, Jose was staunchly in Paszkiewicz’s corner. And he was not afraid to go after this newspaper despite the editorials we wrote that were highly critical of Paszkiewicz and the Kearny School Board for the way it handled the situation.

In a sense, he was the ombudsman of this newspaper, even though, unlike The New York Times, we didn’t have an ombudsman – or more simply, a public editor or journalist whose job it was to critique our coverage of everything.

He was not afraid to call us out. He was not afraid to say he believed we covered the story unfairly. He was not worried about whether we’d still offer him the column space after he wrote that we were “extremely biased” in our reporting.

This was only one of the many reasons why Jose Cespedes was such a wonderfully unique human being.

Four years ago, he died at 22 after battling liver disease for six months.

He had his entire life ahead of him – and was taken from this world entirely too soon.

And yet, it was so obvious just how much this young man meant not just to The Observer and to me, but to everyone with which he came into contact.

The 2012 alum of Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Maine, was the subject of a remarkable feature obituary after his death. So many spoke glowingly of him.

La’Shaye Ervin, his Bowdoin classmate, was one of them.

“He was just a really giving person,” Ervin told Bowdoin’s student newspaper. “He cared about politics and was the reason why I voted every time. He would play ‘Hail to the Chief’ and go to the polls. He was always involved in everything.”

Of course, the shame of it – among other things – is that Cespedes was so keen, so bright, that one wouldn’t have been shocked if he’d gone on to have a political career, one that might have even brought him to Pennsylvania Ave. one day. I can’t help but think he would have been a volunteer for the current president’s campaign in 2016 had he not succumbed to the awful disease that took him from us.

That’s the kind of person Jose was, though. He would have given the shirt off his back, even for a Democrat, if needed.

He left behind his family, including his mum, Sandra Getler, who still lives nearby.

But he left behind a legacy that could only be matched, never surpassed.

Jose Cespedes may be gone.

But he will never, ever be forgotten.

This world is just not the same without him.

Odds & ends • I’d like to take the time thank each and every person who reached out to me over these last few weeks following my grandmother’s stroke and ultimate death. I couldn’t be more grateful for the outpouring of love.

She was so proud of her Irish heritage, and so it was just fitting that she left this world on Friday, March 17 – St. Patrick’s Day. Indeed, we were all sad, but my family took incredible comfort knowing she died on such a special day … and that she was reunited with her husband (my grandfather), Thomas Sr., and the three sons – Thomas Jr., Patrick and Matthew – who all died before her.

Again, thank you, one and all!

• I will preface this by saying Kearny Library Director Josh Humphrey was the first friend I made, back in 1985, when I moved from Jersey City to Kearny. What Humphrey continues to do at the library is nothing short of amazing.

There are so many things going on at the library that I wonder how he sleeps at all.

The latest program at the library is something I wrote about last week – free WiFi hotspots that are available at the library now for patrons to sign out for a week at a time.

They program is designed for those who do not have Internet at home – and you’d be surprised just how many people don’t have home Internet.

The hotspots allow people out of work to do job searches at home, kids without Internet at home to do schoolwork and so many other things that we often take for granted.

This is a tremendous program, among many others, that Humphrey has implemented in the time since he took the reign at the library.

Well done, Josh. Well done, indeed.

• Happy 30th birthday, on April 1, Mookie (MIL)! Love you.

That’s all for now. Thanks, as always, for reading. See you back here in three weeks.

The opinions expressed herein are solely those of the writer, Kevin Canessa Jr. Contact Canessa at kc@theobserver.com or on Facebook or Twitter @kevincanessa.

Your feedback is welcome and encouraged.

A story in last week’s Observer incorrectly listed the community where Kearny DPW Director Gerry Kerr worked before he came to Kearny. Kerr spent 11 years with Teaneck’s DPW.

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Ficeto is UNICO’s ‘Man of Year’

erald Ficeto has been named Kearny UNICO’s Man of the Year, Joseph Sgalia, president of the Kearny Chapter of UNICO National, has announced.

“Jerry Ficeto has done so much for our community that this is truly a well-deserved honor,” Sgalia said.

Ficeto is a lifelong resident of Kearny. He attended Roosevelt and Lincoln schools and graduated from Kearny High School in 1970. Ficeto earned a bachelor’s degree from Montclair State College with a major in music education and a concentration in percussion studies.

He later went on to earn a master’s degree from the New Jersey City University, majoring in music education with a concentration in conducting.

Ficeto has been married to his wife, Denise, for 38 years.

They have two daughters, Ashley (Brian) and Alyssa (David).

Ashley and her husband, Brian Oliveira, are expecting their first child in August.

Ficeto began his advocacy for the arts while still in Kearny High School. He took on scores of private students to assist his own private teacher. While attending Montclair State, he taught in the Kearny Music and Art Summer School during the ‘70s.

In the mid 1970s, Ficeto joined forces with the Pioneer Boys of America to help rereform the Pioneer Boys Drum and Bugle Corps. Ficeto served as its director for two years.

Prior to his career in teaching, Ficeto was a professional musician. He performed with the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra, the Hanover Wind Symphony, the Jersey Swing

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Jerry Ficeto

Jazz Orchestra, the Roseland Ballroom and has recorded for Universal Studios, Nickelodeon Studios and NBC. As an active professional, Ficeto was the principal percussionist with the American Musical Theater Ensemble,

the Hunterdon Hills Playhouse and played or conducted in over 300 musicals. He’s also performed with the Drifters, Duprees, Tokens and the Crests.

Ficeto began his teaching career with Kearny Public Schools in 1993. He has served as the assistant band director at Kearny High School. He also served as the instrumental music director/conductor for the KHS musicals as well as its stage director for many years.

Presently, Ficeto is the director of bands at Franklin School, Kearny. He is also the director of bands and small ensembles at Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken.

As a founding member of the West Hudson Arts & Theater Company (W.H.A.T.), Jerry has worked to bring the arts and art education to the West Hudson community.

As an active professional percussionist in the New York Metropolitan area, Ficeto continues to be a clinician, adjudicator and educator for jazz ensembles and bands for local, state and regional festivals.

His students range from beginners to adults.

Ficeto will be honored at a dinner Sunday, April 30, at The Fiesta in Wood-Ridge.

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Town sues for full share of meadows cash T KEARNY – he Town of Kearny is taking the state to court to try and compel payment of $1.7 million it says it’s owed as a meadows tax sharing recipient.

A resolution passed by the municipal governing body last Tuesday authorizes the town to file a lawsuit against the State Treasurer to get the money.

The resolution says that the N.J. Sports & Exposition Authority had “advised the town that it would receive a total amount of $3,555,212 from the intermunicipal account in 2016.”

However, the town says there is still an outstanding balance of $1,711,388.

Mayor Alberto Santos said that for 2017, the town is supposed to receive $4.3 million.

Payments are scheduled to be made on a quarterly basis, in May, August and November.

Santos said that Ridgefield – one of the six recipient communities in the meadows district – has filed suit in Bergen County, naming both the State Treasurer and the governor as defendant parties.

He said that North Arlington was expected to file a lawsuit also.

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As explained by the Kearny resolution, the state legislature in 2015 “changed the formula of tax sharing – via the Hackensack Meadowlands Agency Consolidation Act – “whereby the former payers into the account were relieved of their obligations and intermunicipal tax payments to the town and other municipalities would be funded by a new tax on hotel rooms in the meadowlands.”

And, under that same legislative provision, the resolution notes that, “In the event sufficient assessment revenue is unavailable in any year to pay all the required meadowlands adjustment payments to municipalities in the meadowlands district, the State Treasurer shall provide [the NJSEA] with such funds as may be necessary to make all of the required payments to

those municipalities.”

All six recipient meadows communities failed to get full funding for 2016. The NJSEA acts as a conduit to distribute those funds.

NJSEA spokesman Brian Aberback said: “As the Authority receives tax sharing revenue, it will continue to distribute the funds in accordance with the law.”

Without the revenue, Kearny can expect “a detrimental impact” on its 2017 municipal budget, given the revenue shortfall.

How that shortfall would be addressed has yet to be assessed, according to town CFO Shuaib Firozvi, who said that Kearny’s governing body expected to introduce the budget at its March 28 meeting.

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Tarrats said that the Kearny were the New York Field location where the suspect Office of Homeland Security was apprehended was beInvestigations, Fairfax County lieved to be “one of the loca(Va.) Police Department, the tions he was associated with.”

Office of the Attorney General The release from the U.S. in Virginia and the MiddleAttorney’s Office further town (N.Y.) Police Departalleged that, as part of the ment. conspiracy, the suspect reEmily Tarrats, a spokesperceived the illegal drug packson for the U.S. Postal Serages “from suppliers abroad, vice’s New York Division of repackaged the analogues Inspection Services, told The into smaller quantities, and Observer that Okparaeke had shipped them to customers been arrested in Kearny on using post offices throughout March 20 for his involvement the New York-New Jersey in the receiving and trafficking area.” of fentanyl analogues and for To communicate with cususing the Postal Service as an tomers and coordinate sales, RAID from

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The building the feds raided.

the suspect – according to the release – used an online marketplace on the “darknet,” which is “accessible only through a special software program that allows users to mask their identity through

a process of encryption and decryption between numerous peer-to-peer connections. “[The suspect] used extensive measures to conceal his identity, including measures to encrypt his internet traffic and communications sent from his cell phone. Under an alter ego, he boasted about his exploits as a darknet drug trafficker online, where he also posted a short story detailing his criminal activities and his success at evading law enforcement.”

Nonetheless, attorney Susanne Brody of the Federal Defenders for the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York, who is representing

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Okparaeke, said she expects her client to enter a not guilty plea.

Brody told The Observer that Okparaeke is a U.S. citizen, “born in Newark,” and is a “student, working on a medical degree and doing a residency with a doctor” whom she did not name.

She said she’s working with two of the suspect’s family members to arrange for bail.

The complaint against Okparaeke is being prosecuted by the White Plains, N.Y., Division of the U.S. Attorney’s Office, and Asst. U.S. Attorney Gillian Grossman has been assigned the case.

Building manager was witness to federal raid

By Ron Leir Observer Correspondent

stationed at the corner of initials DEA on the men’s ported they were on hand to istration and U.S. Postal Kearny and Halstead St. suits. assist agents from the U.S. see SIDEBAR page told The Observer that after The N.J. State Police reDrug Enforcement AdminKEARNY – she reported for work MonAt around 7:30 p.m. last day morning, she saw sev154 MIDLAND AVE. • KEARNY • 201-998-0205 Monday, landlord Len Rosen- eral vans parked outside 344 • Pierogis OLISH MERICAN berg started getting nervous Kearny and men she believed • Fresh & Smoked Kielbasa calls from tenants at a room- were cops of some kind • Potato Pancakes ing house he owns at 348 standing nearby, apparently • Blintzes Kearny Ave. keeping watch.

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To which she said she Any purchase The landlord said he imme- answered: “Because I can see $25 or more diately phoned the local poyour badge.” The man smiled Cannot be combined. Exp. 4/30/17 lice department who reportand shrugged, she said. edly told him they weren’t Joe Markowitz, the building involved and really couldn’t manager for 348 Kearny told tell him anything.

The Observer that sometime Turns out that various in the early evening he saw federal law enforcement three “hazmat guys” – one agencies had the two-story in an orange suit and two in rooming house at 344 Kearny white – going in and out of staked out for the better part the building. of the day on the suspicion After a while, Markowitz that an alleged drug distrisaid, “they stopped going in.

• The Harrison Public School District will sponsor an Exposition on April 20th in the high bution suspect – ChukwueWhen they came out, they school cafeteria for parents of currently enrolled and new pre-school children. meka Okparaeke – was at that got sprayed. Then four other • Refreshments will be served; there will be activities for children, including face-painting location. That suspect was, guys, also in suits, came and balloon art; and there will also be a display of children’s artwork. eventually, arrested. inside with big plastic bags.”

• Exhibitors will be available to explain services available to parents, such as: But to civilians on the out- Eventually, they came out, side, it was all a mystery. too, he said.

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Kearny teen nabbed after Newark chase A KEARNY -Kearny teenager, one of three people in an SUV stolen from this town, was arrested in Newark on Friday after a police chase near the

Newark-Belleville border, authorities reported. But, as of press time, it was not known whether the youth had any connection to the theft itself.

The saga started at 5 a.m.

last Thursday, March 23, when a resident of the 100 block of Maple St. in Kearny notified the KPD that he had awakened to find the sliding glass door in his kitchen wide open and off its track. Reportedly,

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Also missing was a 2012 Ford F250 truck that had been parked in the driveway. Police said that vehicle was later found abandoned a few blocks away. But on Friday, The Observer was told that a second vehicle, a 2013 Nissan Rogue SUV, had also been taken from the property.

The Nissan reportedly was spotted Friday by Newark

Cops target crosswalks for enforcement action LYNDHURST – The Lyndhurst Police Department will be out in force during the next several months vigilantly enforcing the state law requiring drivers to stop for a pedestrian in a crosswalk.

As part of the enforcement effort, plainclothes cops will be deployed as “decoys” within crosswalks.

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Drivers found guilty of violating the law are subject to fines of up to $200, two driver’s license points, 15 days community service and insurance surcharges.

Pedestrians also have a responsibility under the law, as follows: “No pedestrian shall suddenly leave a curb or other place of safety and walk or run into the path of a vehicle which is so close

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police, who pursued it along Lincoln Ave. in the north district of that city. Police said it was occupied by at least three people, who bailed out when it stopped, but the cops caught and arrested one -- identified as Justin White, 18, of Kearny.

The KPD recovered the Nissan and had it towed back to Kearny. White reportedly remained in Newark’s custody and had not yet been charged in Kearny.

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that it is impossible for the driver to yield.”

Pedestrians must also “obey pedestrian signals and use crosswalks at signalized intersections.”

Pedestrians who violate these laws face a $54 fine.

Statewide, between 2007 and 2009, there was an overall 19% decline in recorded traffic deaths but the number of pedestrian deaths has risen in recent years.

Between 2001 and 2009, there were 1,356 pedestrian fatalities in New Jersey and in 2009 alone, there were 6,026 pedestrians injured in motor vehicle traffic.

In April 2010, New Jersey lawmakers amended the crosswalk laws requiring drivers to “stop and stay stopped for a pedestrian crossing the roadway within any marked crosswalk.”

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Deliveries will also be available. The cost is $12 for adults, $10 for senior citizens and $7 for children. For more information or to place an order, call 973-485-9478.

••• Harrison American Legion Post 282 hosts its annual police and fire awards ceremony 2 p.m., Sunday, April 2, at the Elks Lodge, 406-408 Harrison Ave. For more details, call Bob Gerris at 973-483-7305.

••• As part of a community celebration of Youth Art Month, Kearny Bank, 534 Harrison Ave., will be displaying artwork by students from Harrison’s Washington Middle School during regular banking hours through the end of March.

Youth Art Month is a nationally recognized program that stresses the value of art education for all children, encourages support for quality school art programs and promotes art material safety.

April 1.

••• The Rosary Society of Our Lady of Sorrows, 136 Davis Ave., hosts its monthly meeting Thursday, April 6, at 3:30 p.m. in the church basement.

A police officer from the Kearny Police Department will give a talk on home security.

••• West Hudson Arts and Theater Co. announces open auditions for its Spring musical, “A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum,” for Wednesday, March 29, at 7 p.m., at the theater, 65 Oakwood Ave. Please prepare a musical-theater selection of your choice and bring your music in the appropriate key. An accompanist will be provided. Visit www.whatco. org for more details and an audition form. Show dates are June 8, 9, 10, 16 and 17.

••• Liberty Family Success Center, 341 Kearny Ave., hosts these upcoming programs: Bloomfield • Let’s Chat! English group Job Haines Home and Hackmeets Tuesday, March 28, ensack University Medical Kearny from 1 to 2:30 p.m. Practice Center, Mountainside HospiElks Lodge 1050, at 601 English speaking skills. tal, present: “How to Achieve Elm St., hosts a breakfast • Nutrition 101 convenes and Maintain a Healthy Thursday, March 30, from Heart,” on Friday, March 31, at on April 9, from 9 to 11:30 12:30 to 1:30 p.m. Collect 11 a.m. at the Job Haines Home, a.m. The cost is $6 for adults and $3 for children 12 and healthy recipes, watch exer250 Bloomfield Ave. Heather younger. The menu includes cise videos and learn ways to Farrell, a certified critical eggs, bacon, sausage, Taylor shop healthy on a budget. At care nurse and manager of Ham, hash browns, pancakes, night, NJ Family Care Enrollcardiovascular services at toast, French toast, coffee, tea ment has a session from 5 to Hackensack UMC Mountainside Hospital, will discuss how and juice. Call Michele at 201- 7 p.m.

991-6360 for more details.

• Liberty FSC is closed on to keep a heart healthy and ••• Friday, March 31, for adminissigns and symptoms of heart The Kearny Public Library tration day. disease. This free program inFor more information, call cludes refreshments. For more continues its series of Saturinformation and to RSVP, call day Family Film Matinees with the center at 201-622-2210.

••• Donna Plotnick, 973-743-0972, new release “Fantastic Beasts & Where to Find Them” (ratComedy duo Andre and ext. 133. ed PG-13/133 minutes), a preCirell perform for the Fraterquel to the blockbuster Harry nal Order of Eagles 2214 at the Harrison • The Harrison-East Newark Potter films, on Saturday, April Copestone Lodge, 225 Kearny 1, at 10:30 a.m.

Ave., on Friday, March 31, 7 to Elks sponsor a chili cook-off The film will be screened 11 p.m. Dinner, drinks and a April 22, from 3 to 6 p.m. The tricky tray will also be offered. entry fee is $10. First-, second- in the lower level of the Main Library, 318 Kearny Ave. Tickets are $40 in advance. and third-place winners will Donuts and light refreshCall 201-991-9865 or 201-898receive awards and prizes. ments will be served.

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Sign up at the lodge, 406-408 For more information, call ••• Harrison Ave., or call 201-410the library at 201-998-2666 or The annual Brother8705 for more details. visit www.kearnylibrary.org. hood Luncheon takes place • The Elks also sponsor a ••• Wednesday, April 19, from fish fry on Good Friday, April First Baptist Church of noon to 2 p.m., at the Salva14, from 4 to 8 p.m. at the Arlington, 650 Kearny Ave., tion Army Kearny Corps, lodge. The menu includes hosts a free clothing giveaway 443 Chestnut St. The event is fried shrimp, fried of baked from 9 a.m. to noon, Saturday, hosted by VFW Auxiliary Post fish, baked potato or French

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AARP Chapter 2051 and Clara Maass Medical Center present “The Impact of Hearling Loss” at noon, Wednesday, April 5, at the Belleville Senior Center, 125 Franklin Ave. Lunch will be served. To register, call 888-724-7123.

••• The Woman’s Club of Belleville hosts its annual tricky tray at The Chandelier, 340 Franklin Ave., on April 6.

Doors open at 5:15 p.m. Dinner is at 6:30 p.m. Tickets are $40. For more information and tickets, call Judy Nucci at 973751-2960.

••• St. Anthony Church sponsors a blood drive at the parish, 63 Franklin St., Saturday, April 22, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.

To donate, one must be at least 110 lbs., have eaten prior to donating, have ID and have had lots of water before donating. Call 201-251-3703 for more details.

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••• St. Stephen’s Seniors, 676 Kearny Ave., meet at 1 p.m. every first and third Tuesday of the month in Hedges Hall. Refreshments are served at noon. Attendees are invited to participate in a 50/50 drawing and bingo. New members are always welcome. For more information, call club president Allan Henderson at 201-991-4771.

partment hosts its bi-annual Women’s Health Screening on Wednesday, April 5, at 9 a.m. This screening, done in partnership with Clara Maass Medical Center, includes a free exam and PAP test performed by Dr. Decca Mohammed. A Clara Maass nurse educator will provide information on breast cancer. Call 201804-2500 for an appointment.

••• The Lyndhurst Emblem Club sponsors a trip to Lyndhurst “Menopause the Musical” at Knights of Columbus Coun- the Bergen Performing Arts cil 2396 announces a fundCenter, Englewood, on March raiser to benefit its scholar30. ship fund, “A Night with the A bus leaves from the LyndCameos,” a New Jersey oldies hurst Elks Lodge at 6 p.m. group, on Friday, April 28, at Cost is $40, including show Sacred Heart School, 620 Val- and transportation. ley Brook Ave. Tickets are $40 Checks should be made and include dinner, coffee/tea payable to Lyndhurst Emblem and soda and dessert (BYOB/ Club No. 72, P.O. Box 9413, no one younger than 21 admit- Lyndhurst, N.J. 07071. Specify ted) and music. Doors open if bus transportation is deat 6 p.m., with dinner served sired. at 7 p.m. For tickets, call Tim For more information, conSuter at 201 280-1819 or send tact Cindy at 973-482-5408 or an email to timothysuter@hot- Karen at 201-939-3688. mail.com or Nick Garafola at ••• 201-935-5988 or send an email The Lyndhurst Department to nacraft1@aol.com. of Parks & Recreation offers ••• swim lessons for kids ages 4 The Ladies Auxiliary of the to 15 at the Lyndhurst CommuMasonic Club of Lyndhurst nity Pool. The spring session hosts a spring auction at for Swim America begins noon, Sunday, April 2, at the Saturday, April 22, and runs for Masonic Club, 316 Riverside eight weeks.

Ave. Entrance is $5. Call Joan Download an application Cataldo at 973-743-0976 for from the Parks Department more information. website or get one from the ••• Parks Department at 250 Cleveland Ave. The $130 fee Lyndhurst Parks & Recreamay be paid by check (payable tion Commissioner Tom Dito Township of Lyndhurst), Maggio sponsors a trip to the cash or credit card.

Stony Hill Inn for a “Carnival Registration deadline is in Venice” on Thursday, May 11. A bus will leave from the NJ Wednesday, April 18. RegisTransit lot by Shoprite at 10:30 trants are taken between 8 a.m. and 4:30 p.m. first-come, a.m. and return by 3:30 p.m. first-served. No registrations The $45 ticket includes a will be accepted at the pool faluncheon consisting of focaccia bread, salad, pasta, chicken cility or by mail. Call the Parks Department at 201-804-2482 parmesan, sausage and if unavailable during normal peppers, mixed vegetables, business hours. potatoes, two complimentary ••• drinks, dessert, coffee, tea AARP Kingsland Lyndhurst and soda, transportation and Chapter 4866 sponsors a trip entertainment. Tips are not included, however. Suggested to Pigeon Forge and Smokey Mountains, Sunday, April 23, tip is $1 per person.

Tickets are limited. Call the to Saturday, April 29. The trip includes admission to Parks Department ASAP at 201-804-2482 to reserve a seat. the Titanic Museum, Soul of ••• see AROUND TOWN page The Lyndhurst Health De-

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Bringing the blaze under control was complicated by fire within the walls, the chief said. Those walls and the ceilings had to be ripped open to expose and quench the flames within.

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occupants were allowed to return home.

In addition to the KFD, crews from Harrison, North Arlington and Jersey City were at the scene of the blaze. North Arlington, Belleville and Bayonne provided back-up coverage for the town.

Dyl said a fire-watch crew remained on site all night in case flames reignited. At midmorning Friday, they were still there.

As of press time, the exact cause of the blaze was still being determined.

KFD Chief Inspector Juan Barroso is in charge of the investigation.

RCAN cemeteries donate to local food charities Catholic Cemeteries, a Ministry of the Archdiocese of Newark, recently presented checks to two, local Catholic charities that provide food to the area’s poor, low-income and homeless families. The funds come from parishioners and visitors who donated at one of five Catholic cemeteries’ mausoleum locations during the Christmas season.

The money supports the work of the Emergency Food Network of Catholic Charities and the Missionary Sisters of Charity.

“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.

“Donating food on behalf of a departed loved one truly honors their memory in a tangible way, and is a mitzvah

or a wonderful gift that cannot be repaid. We encourage our cemetery visitors and community to help feed the marginalized within our archdiocese not just at Christmas time, but year-round because that’s when it’s needed.”

The Emergency Food Network of Catholic Charities, Cranford, coordinates and supports a network of food pantries, donor churches, schools, community groups and volunteers by providing assistance and emergency food supplies to 50 food centers in the Archdiocese of Newark.

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Lyndhurst softball: A year older, a year better The Lyndhurst High School softball team had a very young roster a year ago, including replacements at the key positions of pitcher and catcher.

“Our goal was to be above .500,” said Lyndhurst head coach Emily Ringen. “And we wanted to get to the states (the NJSIAA North Jersey Section 2, Group II playoffs). I think the year before, we relied too much on Jenny (Tellefsen, now a success at the JUCO softball level at Florida State College at Jacksonville). We needed to build our pitching and catching. I did a lot more teaching and coaching and that’s what I like to do.”

Ringen realized one major thing.

“Softball is a game that is based on pitching,” Ringen said. “We needed to develop our pitcher.”

So Olivia McMullin became the Golden Bears’ main hurler.

“Olivia set the tone for herself,” Ringen said of the right-hander, who is now a senior. “We look to continue that this season.

Absolutely, she’s the key.

She makes us competitive. She throws hard and she’s very disciplined.

She took the time to take pitching lessons and went all the time. She’s very focused and very dedicated. She puts her blood, sweat and tears into it.”

Junior Jenna Ricciardi is the team’s catcher.

“She’s always been a catcher,” Ringen said.

“She played right field as a freshman, because we wanted to get her in the lineup. But Jenna is a catcher. And she’s a good one. I think that Olivia and Jenna are a good match together. They’ve grown more as softball players. They both have an interest in the game.”

Junior Ava Ruggier is the team’s first baseman.

Ruggier was with the Golden Bears’ varsity squad for most of last season after transferring from Paramus Catholic.

“She was our DP (designated player) a lot last year,” Ringen said. “She swings a good bat. She is the only lefty in our lineup. She swings the bat well. She loves the game and has a strong focus.”

Junior Makenzie McMillan is the Golden Bears’ second baseman.

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Photo by Jim Hague

The Lyndhurst baseball team will look to its deep pitching staff to lead the way this season. From l., are Isaiah Figueroa, Frankie Venezia, Dave Mitchell, head coach Pat Auteri, Greg Benarick, Nick Matarazzo and Max Vigliotti.

By Jim Hague Observer Sports Writer

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he Lyndhurst High School baseball team won 19 games last year, earned a share of the North Jersey Interscholastic Conference-Liberty Division championship with Harrison and advanced all the way to the NJSIAA North Jersey Section 2, Group I title game against Parsippany.

Needless to say, the Golden Bears just might be hard pressed to duplicate that success this season.

“We lost five starters from that team,” Lyndhurst head coach Patrick Auteri said.

“You just don’t replace that kind of leadership. We lost our top pitcher (Nic DiTommaso), our top catcher (Eddie Rivera), our shortstop (Vincent Dorio), our top outfielder (Matt DeMarco) and another

outfielder (Evan Kelly). It’s a big transition to play without them. They got us going all the time. They were great kids with great attitudes.”

So it’s going to be hard for the Golden Bears to regroup after losing so much talent.

“It’s one of our big challenges this year,” Auteri said.

“When that door opens after the last practice before the start of the season, it should be interesting to see who steps up and does that job.

It’s more than what they did on the field. It’s more so what they did off the field to get the team ready. They were all great kids.”

Auteri is hopeful that the Golden Bears gained some of that togetherness with a recent trip to Florida, where they played five games, all considered scrimmages in the eyes of New Jersey high school baseball. The Golden

Bears have a 0-0 record right now, despite what happened in Florida.

“The faculty and staff in our school were all supportive of the trip,” Auteri said. “And I got to see the team camaraderie come together. They spent time together in the hotel rooms. I think it brings a team together. It helps develop our chemistry.”

The Golden Bears have a solid pitching staff that will also bring the team together.

Sophomore Frankie Venezia is the ace of the staff.

The right-hander won six games last year as a freshman, including some huge victories down the stretch.

Venezia has undergone a huge growth spurt since last year, sprouting up three inches or perhaps more.

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his shoulders and arms,” Auteri said of Venezia. “He has developed into a man.

You can see his velocity has gone up as well. He’s playing baseball all year round in travel leagues and club teams. He’s pitched our main games. He has ice in his veins and has tremendous stuff.”

Venezia has a tenacious slider.

“It’s still as nasty as it was,” Auteri said. “He touched up on a few mechanics and worked on his length. He’s a lot more downhill with his approach, so that’s going to make him more successful.”

Although he’s only a sophomore, Venezia is getting some looks from major NCAA Division I schools.

Senior Nick Matarazzo is the team’s No. 2 pitcher.

The righty was the team’s No. 3 hurler last year.

“He got some key varsity experience last year,” Auteri said. “He has a live arm and his curve ball has looked good in the scrimmages.”

Senior right-hander Dave Mitchell is back for his final season. Auteri is hoping to keep Mitchell healthy this season.

“He hasn’t been able to stay healthy his whole career,” Auteri said. “But he throws hard. We just can’t keep him on the field.”

Junior Nick Cutola will see time either as a long reliever or spot starter.

“He’s working his tail off in the role of middle relief,” Auteri said.

Diminutive Isaiah Figueroa is another pitcher.

“For a little kid, he throws hard,” Auteri said of Figuer-

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Senior Nick Matarazzo fires a pitch during a recent scrimmage against Mahwah.

oa. “He’s going to pitch for us. We have the arms. The question mark will be how they perform.”

Junior Matt Tomko replaces Rivera as the team’s catcher.

“He has big shoes to replace,” Auteri said of Tomko, whose older sister Grace was a standout soccer player. “He works his tail off.”

Senior Ryan Donohue, the standout bowler, is the team’s first baseman.

“He’s one of our varsity returning starters,” Auteri said. “He’s the glue to the infield. If you get the ball near him, he’s going to make the play. He has to hit a little bit this year.”

Figueroa is the second baseman.

“He’s hitting the ball,” Auteri said. “He makes good contact.”

The shortstop is standout senior Nick Carnevale, who was the team’s No. 3 hitter last year and batted better than .400.

“He’s our best defender,”

Auteri said. “He has the ability to hit to all fields.

It’s key to have him back and in the three hole. I’m sure that some (NCAA) Division I schools will come to look at him.”

Venezia and Cutola are sharing third base duties.

Junior Jonathan Karlok is the Golden Bears’ starting left fielder.

“The kid can fly,” Auteri said. “He’s going to get his share of hits.”

Max Vigliotti is the centerfielder this year, moving over from left field.

“He’s going to be our leadoff hitter,” Auteri said.

“He has a nice left-handed swing. We also need him to perhaps pitch a little.”

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Senior Peter Lazaris is the team’s right fielder, sharing time with designated hitter James Podolski, also a senior.

“Lazaris is a big, strong kid,” Auteri said. “Podolski is one of our seniors who we need to perform.”

The Golden Bears open the 2017 season April 1 against Becton at 12 noon at the Lyndhurst Recreation Center complex.

“I definitely feel like we’re a work in progress,” Auteri said. “But the team has potential. We have to come together already. Now we have to put it all together. If we do, we can be there, right at the top of the league.”

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She’s a tough kid. She played football when she was a kid.”

Anybody who once played football with and against the boys is tough enough to play varsity softball.

The shortstop is sophomore Angela Downey, who is another excellent athlete on the Bears’ roster.

“She’s a very good hitter,” Ringen said. “She’s doing well. Last year, we had her in the outfield, but we moved her to short and she’s doing well. She’s a very versatile player.”

Mackenzie Kelly is a freshman and younger sister of former Lyndhurst Photo by Jim Hague baseball standouts Evan The Lyndhurst softball team will be solid thanks to the performance of the Golden Bears’ senior leaders. From l., are and Nolan. She’s the starthead coach Emily Ringen, pitcher Olivia McMullin, outfielder Jennifer Wartel and assistant coach Diana Auteri. ing third baseman for the “We have a very talented Sophomore Gabriela Golden Bears’ softball team Ringen said “We’re molding her into a third baseman.” freshman class,” Ringen Schnur is the team’s left this spring.

Amber Fasig, another said. “We’re going to keep fielder. She is also the “She’s going to see time at freshman, will also see time five freshmen with the var- team’s No. 2 pitcher. third base and shortstop,” at third. sity.”

Centerfield duties will be shared by two freshmen, Madison Schaefer and Morgan Laverty. Both of Morgan’s two older sisters, Monica and Brooke, played softball at Lyndhurst.

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the starting right fielder.

The Henning sisters, namely junior Anna and freshman Elaina, will play significant roles with the Bears. Anna is a reserve second baseman and Elaina catches and plays outfield.

Freshman Alyssa Musto will be the team’s backup first baseman.

The Bears open the season April 3 against Leonia.

Ringen is very optimistic about her team’s chances.

She’s almost certain that the Bears will be better than an 11-win team this year.

“I have been very excited since the second day of practice,” Ringen said.

“We’re young and talented.

We’re going to make noise with our bats this year. My assistant coach (Diana Auteri, sister of the head baseball coach Pat) noticed on the second day of practice that we had our best day of practice in four years. We got right into it.”

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Blue Tide looks to roll once again on baseball diamond

By Jim Hague Observer Sports Writer

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t was one of the biggest feel-good stories of the 2016 high school baseball season in northern New Jersey. Harrison High School, known forever for its soccer prowess and recently because of its success in boys’ volleyball, had a tremendous baseball season a year ago.

The Blue Tide won 21 games, won a share of the North Jersey Interscholastic League-Liberty Division title (the first divisional baseball title in school history) and advanced to the NJSIAA North Jersey Section 2, Group II quarterfinals before falling to eventual champion Parsippany.

A 21-7 record during baseball season was a remarkable turn of events for head coach

Jairo Mendez and his program.

“Every year is a new year,” Mendez said. “We do have some returnees back from last year. Those guys know what it takes to be successful.

Hopefully, there will be some carryover from that. I’m hoping that we can get some good leadership from the returnees and everyone else feeds off it.”

One of the key returnees is junior right-handed pitcher Julio Ortiz, who won seven games last season.

“He emerged as a top pitcher for us,” said Mendez, himself a great pitcher first at Kearny High School and later Montclair State.

Junior Dustin Huseinovic, who missed a good portion of last season with a wrist injury, has returned 100% healthy for this season.

Huseinovic, a standout football player in the fall, is being converted into a pitcher this

Photo by Jim Hague

The Harrison High School baseball team will count on pitchers, from l., Anderson Vasquez, Julio Ortiz, Mike Oeckel and Dustin Huseinovic.

season.

“He is going to be one of our main guys,” Mendez said. “He has a live arm.”

Junior Anderson Vasquez is another competitive pitcher.

Sophomore Mike Oeckel is a right-handed hurler as well, as is junior Jake Ruiz.

“It’s great to have the pitching depth that we have,” Mendez said. “We just need them

now to be more consistent.

It’s basically an inexperienced pitching staff. We need the pitchers to build confidence.

They have to learn how to become pitchers instead of just throwing.”

If there’s someone who can teach the fine points of pitching, it’s Mendez.

Handling the pitching staff is four-year starting catcher Mike O’Donnell.

“He has the experience and the knowledge of the game,” Mendez said of the talented senior, a three-sport (football, basketball and baseball) standout. “I hope he has patience with the younger, inexperienced pitchers. He has to step them up and help them to keep their focus. It’s been my privilege to have been able to coach him for four years. It’s his last year and he’s going to continued next page

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give it his all.”

O’Donnell is clearly one of the best athletes in the school’s history.

The first baseman is Andrew Valente, who was on the team last year, but in a reserve role.

Ray Chico is a sophomore who will get time at second base with junior Raul Acosta.

Chico may also see time on the mound in a relief role.

Junior Eddie Mieles is the team’s shortstop. He saw limited action last year.

Vasquez and junior Jason Calderon are sharing time at third base.

Huseinovic will man left field when he’s not pitching.

Ortiz takes over in centerfield when he’s not on the mound.

Oeckel, Ruiz and junior Alex Vargas are all in the mix for

playing time in the outfield.

There is one glaring note to make about the Blue Tide.

There are only two seniors on the roster.

“We’re very young,” Mendez said. “Our thing this year is that we’re always trying to be competitive. We’re going through some growing pains right now. They might be inexperienced, but they are

listening and learning. They’re retaining the information we’re giving to them. If they continue to learn and apply that to the field, they should be fine.”

Mendez is also working his way back to health after recent surgery.

“I’m getting better each day,” said Mendez, who has not returned to full-time coaching,

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getting help from assistants Charlie Comprelli and Anthony Ferriero.

The Blue Tide begin the season April 1 at home against NJIC rival Wallington.

“It should be a good season,” Mendez said. “It may take a while for us to get going, but we have a good group.”

Jairo Mendez wouldn’t have it any other way.

Scouts collect food for the needy Cub Scouts from Kearny Pack 305 showed that a “Scout is Helpful” by running a food drive to benefit the food pantry of St. Stephen’s Church, Kearny.

On Feb. 17, the Wolf Den delivered several bags of nonperishable food donated by Scout families and the community.

The Wolves led this service project working hand in hand to help feed the hungry.

Active volunteering is central to Scouting, because it teaches and reinforces the tenets of Scout law.

Scouts are to be trustworthy, loyal, helpful, friendly, courteous, kind, obedient, cheerful, thrifty, brave, clean and reverent.

Kearny’s Troop/Pack 305 was organized in 1933 and continues to provide youth leadership training to boys and young men in Kearny,

Harrison, East Newark and surrounding towns. Boy Scout meetings (grades 6 and older) take place Thursday nights at 7 p.m. Cub Scout meetings (kindergarten through grade 5) are on Friday nights at 7 p.m.

All meetings take place in Hedges Hall in the lower level of St. Stephen’s Church in Kearny.

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tration and U.S. Postal Service investigators.

At some point during the day, Markowitz said, “one of the tenants told me he saw one guy running [from 344] and being chased up Halstead where he was caught.”

Markowitz said he tried to elicit information from several of the men in suits, to no avail, until finally, one of them reportedly told him that no one in his building was in harm’s way.

By about 9:30 p.m., everyone had gone, he said.

Some of the mystery is unraveled in a document filed with U.S. Magistrate Judge Judith C. McCarthy, Southern District of N.Y., by U.S. Postal Inspector Brad Ruggieri, a member of the Prohibited MailNarcotics Team, on March 17, presumably

in support of an application of a warrant to search 344 Kearny.

Ruggieri says Okparaeke’s name came up during a federal investigation into the use of a darknet website AlphaBay Marketplace – one of a series of “online black markets” used for the sale of items like drugs, guns, fake passports and child pornography – which “can only be accessed through The Onion Router, a software program that was originally developed by the U.S. Navy ….”

Ruggieri alleges that Okparaeke was using certain applications on his cellphone to “exchange encrypted messages” with illegal narcotics customers and was using USPS envelopes to illegally receive narcotics – some from Hong Kong – and transport them to customers.

Ruggieri alleges that Okparaeke was observed placing large plastic bags – later found to contain used rubber gloves, digital scales, backing from stamps, along with white powder residue believed to be a fentanyl analogue – in trash receptacles in Kearny.

As for the building at 344 Kearny, records in the Kearny construction office show that in November 2015, the building owner, listed as J.R. Verona LLC of Alpine Place, Kearny, was granted a variance by the local zoning board to convert a firstfloor space then used as a tanning salon to six apartments, thereby making the entire building a rooming house.

Building permits to do so were issued in April 2016. There has been no allegation of any wrongdoing by the owner.

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one new driveway along S. Fifth and the existing switchgear building driveway on Bergen will with a basement. be moved slightly to the • Two transformers west, thereby requirwith 17.4-foot-high com- ing a reconfiguration of bination isolation and some on-street parking sound walls. and meters.

• One 13kV prefab The board granted switchgear unit. the utility land use • Two pad-mounted variances from restricstation light and power tions on height and transformers. front, rear and side yard • Grounding, site setbacks, along with exlighting and three ceptions from landscapground-mounted ing, fencing and wall 43.9-foot-tall lightning design standards. protection masts.

PSE&G plans to use The new station the property at 531 will be surfaced with Bergen as a temporary crushed stone and “lay-down” yard for adsecured with an 8-foot- ditional space to accomhigh ornamental fence modate soil stockpiling, atop a retaining wall material storage and along the south proptemporary construction erty line, otherwise trailers. screened by a 10-footThe utility was rephigh precast wall. resented at the board Several street trees hearing by the Weiner will be planted along S. Law Group of ParsipFifth and Bergen. pany.

The utility will install In other business, the NEWS from

board agreed to defer, to April 6, a public hearing on an application by Golden Brick Improvement Development Co. of Wayne (John Chen, member) for approval of site plan and variances for construction of a 36-unit apartment building with a small commercial unit and off-street parking at 730-738 Harrison Ave. The applicant proposes to tear down an abandoned gas station on the 13,672-square foot project site and put up a four-story/43.5foot-high building of 32,157 square feet.

Golden Brick acquired the property from the estate of Lois Lincoln of Spring Lake Heights in September 2016 for $725,000, according to the deed registered for the transaction.

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ing account of Harrison’s arrest: After police received NORTH ARLINGTON – a call of a man asleep at the wheel of a Denali 22-year-old truck in the diner parkOrange man ing lot, they arrived to who fell asleep at the wheel of his SUV find a sleeping Harrison.

After several window outside the Arlington knocks, Harrison finally Diner on March 22 at 2 a.m. probably wishes he woke up. An officer on remained awake. That’s the passenger side of the because someone in the vehicle (one was also stationed on the driver’s diner saw him sleeping side, too) reportedly for an hour and alerted noticed the handle of police and when cops a gun sticking out of finally woke him up, they found he possessed Harrison’s right pants pocket. a cache of drugs and a Harrison was then orloaded gun, the North dered to place his hands Arlington Police Departon the steering wheel ment said last week. and not to move.

Ramel A. Harrison reHe complied. mains behind bars at the In plain view, in a Bergen County Jail after container that wasn’t a police say they found a Bersa Thunder 380 DLX proper prescription pill .380 caliber pistol in his bottle, were the suspected Xanax tablets. pocket along with 48 After they found the Xanax pills, 73 vials of suspected crack-cocaine Xanax, police called for and 12 bags of suspected a Bergen County K-9 Unit. The dog, once marijuana. on scene, led police Police Chief John to a void in the SUV’s Hearn gave the follow-

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KPD from ported. The officers turned off the ignition and removed both the keys and the driver from the vehicle. After FSTS and an Alcotest, he was charged with DWI. March 20 Another shoplifting, this time at Wawa, was reported at 11:15 p.m. Sgt. Glenn Reed and Offic-

ers Castillo and Mina Ekladious arrived to find that Officer Jean -- having completed an off-duty assignment elsewhere -- had already detained suspect Keith Thomas, 47, of Newark, who had allegedly tried to steal $121.31 worth of Red Bull energy drinks.

He was turned over to the on-duty cops and in a search incident to arrest was reportedly

middle console. There, police found the suspected crack-cocaine and marijuana.

The gun Harrison reportedly possessed had been reported stolen from Pennsylvania.

Harrison, who was remanded to the BC Jail without bail, was charged with these crimes: possession of marijuana under 50 grams, possession of CDS Xanax, unlawful possession of a prescription legend drug, possession with intent to distribute in a school zone, possession of CDS cocaine, unlawful possession of hollow point ammunition, receiving stolen property, unlawful possession of a weapon (firearm), possession of CDS marijuana with intent to distribute, possession of CDS Xanax with intent to distribute and possession of CDS cocaine with intent to distribute. found to be in possession of a TD Bank Visa card and a Lane Bryant credit card -- neither in his name -- and a baggy containing traces of a CDS. Thomas was charged with shoplifting, creditcard theft, possession of drug paraphernalia and on a $500 Elizabeth warrant for driving while suspended.

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obituaries@theobserver.com Leonard Rivchin Leonard Rivchin, of Naples, Fla., formerly of Kearny, died March 22 in Naples.

He was 72.

Leonard raised his family in Kearny. He served in the United States Army Reserves and retired from the Kearny Police Department before moving to Naples.

Leonard is survived by his two children, Jeremiah and Susan; two brothers, Sidney and David (Marge) Rivchin; and a niece, Jessica (Adam) Spunberg.

He was predeceased by a son, Joshua.

Services were private.

Donations in his memory may be made to the Alzheimer’s Support Network, 660 Tamiami Trail North, Suite 21, Naples, Fla. 34102.

Fuller Funeral Home, Naples, Fla., was in charge.

Daryl Cormier Daryl Cormier, of Kearny, died March 21.

He was 56.

Visiting and a service took place at the Armitage & Wiggins Funeral Home, 596 Belgrove Drive, Kearny. Cremation was private.

Daryl is survived by his wife Fatima, his father Leo, children Shane and Brianna Cormier, his stepdaughter Jessica Castilho and his sisters Terri Drew (Bill), Sandra Panetta (Frank) and Dawn Cormier. Also surviving is his granddaughter Marina.

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sider a donation to Children’s Miracle Network or The Imus Cancer Center for Children at Hackensack Medical Center.

Kari Kaminski Kari Kaminski, 45, of Cresskill, died March 22.

Visitation was at the Armitage & Wiggins Funeral Home, Kearny. Cremation was private.

Born in Kearny, Kari was a longtime Clifton resident before moving to Cresskill.

She graduated from Seton Hall University in South Orange and Barry University in Florida with a master’s degree in social work. Kari served as a social worker, and later, a yoga and a reiki instructor.

Kari was the daughter of Betty (nee Chiariello) and the late Leon Kaminski; mother of Ella, Jacob and Sidney; and was the sister of Kristi Delacruz and her husband Charlie. She was also the aunt of Lea and Jason.

Genny Modzelewski Genny Modzelewski, 91, of Kearny, died March 25.

A funeral service will be celebrated at the Armitage & Wiggins Funeral Home, Kearny, on Friday, March 31, at 11 a.m.

Interment will be in Holy Cross Cemetery. Visitation is on Friday from 9 to 11 a.m. at the funeral home.

Born in Newark, Genny lived in Kearny for 70 years. She most enjoyed spending time with her family and taking care of her grandchildren.

Genny was the loving mother of Debbie Pereira and her husband Joseph, Terry Alfano and her husband Joe and the late John Modzelewski; dear grandmother of John and his wife Erin, Joseph, Jeremy, Jennifer and the late Michael. She was the great-grandmother of Michaela and Caitlin.

Charles P. Dluzniewski Charles P. Dluzniewski, 85, died Tuesday, March 21, at Clara Maass Medical Center, Belleville.

The funeral was from the Thiele-Reid Family Funeral Home, 585 Belgrove Drive, Kearny. A funeral Mass was celebrated at St. Cecilia Church, Kearny. Entombment was in Holy Cross Cemetery, North Arlington.

Mr. Dluzniewski was born and raised in Harrison and lived in Kearny for the last 60 years.

He served in the Air Force from 1952 until 1956.

Charles was a wireman for Western Electric in South Kearny, then AT&T and then ITT Corp., Nutley, working 30 years before retiring in 1983.

He was a member of the Knights of Columbus, St. Cecilia Council 6928, Fourth Degree, Kearny.

Charles is survived by his wife, Margaret “Peggy” (nee Duff); three children, Patricia Roemer (Ray), Richard Dluzniewski (Stephen) and Mary Ann Lennon (John). He was the grandfather of Lau-

Elaine & John Hopton Loving Memories of You...

Mom & Dad You brightened up this world And so very selflessly, Gave everything you had And brought much joy to me You guided me so wisely And you’re so sorely missed each day, And the only comfort is the memories That will never fade away You were both so special, And, although losing you brought pain, You are now both together And one day we’ll meet again Love, the Family

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ren Incorvaia (Manny), Ryan Roemer (Kristina), Kyle and Kelly Lennon and the greatgrandfather of Layla Charlize Incorvaia and Jackson Roemer.

He was the brother-in-law of Maureen Connaghan and the uncle of Charles and Louise Dluzniewski.

In lieu of flowers, the family suggests contributions to St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital (stjude.org).

Condolences and memories may be shared at www.thielereid.com.

Samir Shenouda Samir Shenouda, 78, of Summit, formerly of Kearny and Komombo, Egypt, died peacefully with his loving family by his side on March 20.

In 1970, Mr. Shenouda immigrated to the United States from Egypt in search of the “American Dream” with only $100 in his pocket. He worked various jobs until becoming the proprietor of Ali Baba’s Mobile

Diner No. 1 in Jersey City and then later was a self-employed real estate entrepreneur.

Very devoted to his Coptic faith, he paved the way for thousands of Coptic Orthodox Egyptians to immigrate to the United States. He and his wife, Narges, were proud founders of St. Mary and St. Mercurius Coptic Orthodox Church in Belleville, which was established in 2002 and now ministers to over 300 families.

Samir served on the church’s board.

Mr. Shenouda was the beloved husband of Narges Shenouda (nee Kallini), the devoted father of Maged Shenouda and Christina Shenouda and her husband Christopher Porrino, the cherished grandfather of Max and Peter Porrino and the loving brother of Victoria Nakhla, Philib, Victor and Fayez Shenouda and the late Samira Massoud. see OBITS page

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A Message from the Harrison Water Department: The Harrison Water Dept. will flush hydrants throughout Harrison beginning the week of April 17th 2017. Crews will work Monday through Friday between 9p.m and 1a.m. to minimize customer inconvenience. The flushing program is expected to last for about 5 weeks. Ending May 19th 2017.

Flushing removes harmless minerals that collect in the water mains. The project is part of the Town routine maintenance program to assure high water quality.

Flushing hydrants help to maintain the integrity of the distribution system by keeping the water lines clean. It is also necessary for fire protection because flushing ensures that the hydrants are working properly.

During the flushing process, customers may experience low water pressure or discolored water. While the water is safe to drink, customers may prefer to wait until it runs clear before drinking or washing clothes or dishes.

Residents with questions or problems can call the Harrison Water Department at 973-268-2431. Website www.townofharrisonnj.com.

PASSAIC VALLEY SEWERAGE COMMISSION “Protecting Public Health and the Environment” CONSTRUCTION ADVISORY - TOWN OF KEARNY The Passaic Valley Sewerage Commission (PVSC) will begin the process of rehabilitating the Kearny-Harrison-Newark (KHN) Branch Interceptor Sewer on Schuyler Avenue between Tappan Street and King Street within the Town of Kearny.

PVSC, its General Contractor (Montana Construction Corp, Inc.) and Subcontractor (Spiniello Companies) anticipate that the rehabilitation work in Kearny will commence in late March 2017 and, weather-permitting, that the work will conclude by early May 2017.

Most of the duration of this work will have minimal traffic impacts, but there will be intermittent parking and traffic disruptions on Schuyler Avenue, including periods of lane closures and detours. The Passaic Valley Sewerage Commission recognizes that the nature and duration of this project will have an impact on the local community. However, the infrastructure work, which is being performed on an emergent basis due to the failed condition of the interceptor, is critical to ensuring the health and safety of area residents and businesses.

Throughout the course of the project, PVSC will continue to provide updates to residents and commuters regarding the status of the work. The precise timing of the work is subject to change due to weather or other factors. Motorists are encouraged to check the home page of the PVSC website at www.nj.gov/pvsc for further travel information as well as https:// www.pvscsewers.com for specific information related to PVSC’s Phase V Facilities Inventory and Condition Assessment Analysis Program, which also includes the rehabilitation of the KHN Branch Interceptor Sewer.

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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.

begins at dusk. A golden egg will be hidden and the lucky winner will receive a large chocolate-filled basket.

Parents are encouraged to stay with their children during the event. April 15 is the rain date.

The event is open only to North Arlington Nutley residents.

The North Arlington Health For more information, call Department, in conjunction Nutley Parks & Recreation at with Clara Maass Medical 973-284-4966 between 8:30 a.m.

Center, hosts a free lunch and 4:30 p.m. & learn program, “Feeling ••• Breathless,” on Thursday, The Nutley Parks & RecreaApril 13, at noon in the Senior tion Department is conductCenter, rear of the Health Deing registration for spring partment building, 10 Beaver tennis lessons. Barry Rubach, Ave. an accredited member of the Join John Chacko, RespiraU.S. Professional Tennis Astory Therapy director of Clara sociation and former collegiate Maass Medical Center, and champion, supervises the learn more about respiratory program. Classes range in age issues and the many ways groups starting with first grade these illnesses are being and continuing through eighth treated. Asthma, chronic grade. The program develobstructive pulmonary disops skills such as technique, ease (COPD), emphysema and stamina, speed, reflexes and chronic bronchitis are serious imagination. The program lasts lung conditions that can make five weeks. day-to-day function challengOnline registration is now ing at times. available at register.commuA light lunch will be served nitypass.net/Nutley. Forms and free blood pressure may also be turned in to the screenings will be offered.

Parks & Recreation DepartThe event is open to resiment, 44 Park Ave., prior to the dents of surrounding commu- first session on Friday, April nities.

7. Classes are filled first-come, Registration is required; call first-served. Lessons are given the North Arlington Health at Msgr. Owens Park. For more Department at 201-955-5695. information, call 973-284-4966, ••• between 8:30 a.m. and 4:30 p.m.

Queen of Peace Knights of ••• Columbus again sponsor the The Tri-County Camera Yankee Doodle Circus for two Club of Nutley announces its shows, 1:45 p.m. and 4 p.m., on April meeting schedule. All Sunday, April 2, at the Queen meetings are at Nutley High of Peace High School gym, School in the teachers’ caf191 Rutherford Place. Preeteria and begin at 8 p.m. The sale tickets, priced at $18 for schedule is as follows: adults, include two free admis• April 4 — Join the Trisions for children ages 18 and Club competition, in which younger. Tickets sold at the the top three New Jersey door are $18 per adult and $7 clubs enter 40 images each to for kids, so order your tickets compete for an annual trophy, ahead of time by calling 201with scoring by three outside 988-0183 or by going online judges. to www.getcircustickets.com.

• April 18 — Participate in the Competition in Nature Nutley (cannot show human hand) Nutley youngsters in grades and print images, with judg2 through 6 are invited to paring by club members. ticipate in the Great Flashlight • April 25 — Club memEgg Hunt, sponsored by the ber Bob Laura shows how to Department of Parks & Recrea- use layers in Photoshop to tion, on Thursday, April 13. combine images or to modify More than 1,500 toy- and parts of an image, and then candy-filled eggs will be scatcombine the results to protered around Reinheimer Park duce an outstanding image. for the hunt. The park is on Anyone may attend club Bloomfield Ave. across from meetings, but only members the Recreation Annex Building. can enter the various compeChildren should meet by the titions. For more information, playground equipment to begin email the club president at the festivities. The egg hunt alfanojim@gmail.com.

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A funeral Mass was celebrated at St. Mary & St. Mercurius Coptic Orthodox Church, Belleville. Interment was in Holy Cross Cemetery, North Arlington. Parow Funeral Home, North Arlington, was in charge.

In lieu of flowers, the family would appreciate donations to St. Mary and St. Mercurius Church, 125 Academy St., Belleville. N.J. 07109 . (http://. paypal.me/stmarystmercurius).

Dominick J. Tramontana Dominick J. Tramontana, of Harrison, a longtime member and officer of the Harrison/East Newark Elks 2326, died March 20, at St. Michael’s Hospital, Newark, after a long illness.

Funeral services were under the direction of the Mulligan Funeral Home, 331 Cleveland Ave., Harrison. A funeral service took place at the funeral home. Interment was in Holy Cross Cemetery, North Arlington.

Predeceased by his wife Debra (nee Vryhof) and his parents Santo (Bob) and Filomena (Phyllis), he is survived by sev-

eral cousins, his father-in-law David Vryhof and his brothersin-law and their wives.

Dominick was a graduate of Hudson County Community College and was an usher at Holy Cross Church, Harrison.

The family would like to thank Larry Bennett and Rick Ferriol for their support during Dominick’s illness and Dr. Hamid Shaaban for his compassionate care of Dominick.

In lieu of flowers, please consider contributions to the Elks’ Camp Moore, 406-408 Harrison Ave., Harrison, N.J. 07029, in loving memory of Dominick.

Florence Frerichs Florence Frerichs (nee Devine), of Harrison, died Friday, March 24, at Alaris Health at Belgrove, Kearny.

She was 92.

The funeral was conducted from the Mulligan Funeral Home, 331 Cleveland Ave., Harrison. A funeral Mass was celebrated at Holy Cross Church, Harrison. Interment was in Holy Cross Cemetery, North Arlington.

For directions, or to send condolences to her family, visit

www.mulliganfuneralhome.org.

Born in Harrison, she was a lifelong resident of Harrison.

She loved life and family and was a devout Catholic. Florence was a parishioner of Holy Cross Church, Harrison, a member of the Altar Rosary Society and was also a Holy Cross senior citizen.

She was a beautiful person inside as well as outside. She lived her life as the quote says: “Live every moment, laugh every day and love beyond words.”

She was predeceased by her husband Edward (2014), her daughter-in-law Frieda Frerichs, her son-in-law George Hallam. She is survived by her loving children, Edward Frerichs, Elaine Dobosh (Joseph), Claire Hallam and Ruth Gerris (Bob), and her brother-in-law Fred Frerichs, her eight cherished grandchildren and five great-grandchildren. She is also survived by many nieces and nephews.

In lieu of flowers, the family requests donations be made to Children Specialized Hospital, in care of the funeral home, in loving memory of Florence.

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