15 April 2020
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Vol. CXXXII, No. 49
MORE ON THE INSIDE With time on your side, perhaps it’s a good idea to think about improving your home now. See Pages 10 & 11
BELLEVILLE • BLOOMFIELD • EAST NEWARK • HARRISON • KEARNY • LYNDHURST • NORTH ARLINGTON • NUTLEY
Harrison’s K of C donate thousands to area parishes
RINGING
BELLS By Jim Hague ogsmar@aol.com
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By Kevin Canessa kc@theobserver.com
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ere’s some more great news. Our Lady of Grace Council No. 402, Harrison, of the Knights of Columbus, has donated hundreds of thousands of dollars of late to local parishes. Grand Knight Thomas K. Dolaghan, who once served as the Chief of the Harrison Fire Department, says the donations were made possible by the sale of the council’s former building on Frank E. Rodgers Boulevard. The first to benefit was the Our Lady of Fatima Society of Holy Cross Church, Harrison. The Knights gave them $200,000 to help them complete the floor and to restore pews at the church building. The overall project cost around $350,000, Dolaghan said. “The Knights’ donation is a major gift to start the fundraising campaign,” Dolaghan said. “The Knights have been supporting
Lyndhurst High School head football coach Rich Tuero personally delivered more than 80 state championship rings to his players’ homes amid the Coronavirus pandemic. Most remarkably, he did it all on his own.
his is a sports story that will certainly warm the cockles of your heart, even in today’s emotionally trying COVID-19 coronavirus crisis. In fact, it’s the best “feel good” local story – news, sports or otherwise – that has ever been written by this writer in nearly 40 years of popping out words, phrases and clauses. Here goes: By now everyone knows – and if you don’t know, then you’ve been living in a cave for the last six months – that the Lyndhurst High School football team won the NJSIAA North Jersey Section 2, Group II state championship last November. It was the first football state championship that the Golden Bears celebrated since the 1983 season. So to make the season even more memorable, Lyndhurst head coach Rich Tuero – who was already a candidate for sainthood before last week – wanted to purchase rings for each of his 88 players, as well as team managers and cheerleaders.
Photo by Jim Hague
See KNIGHTS, Page 19
See RINGS, Page 9
N.A. girl makes masks for those who need them the most By Kevin Canessa kc@theobserver.com
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ith our world in need of masks to cover our faces, one North Arlington
girl decided she was going to take action to help with shortage. Gabriella Kaminski saw that many on the front lines didn’t have the proper masks. And, she saw that others were also doing the same.
So she’s been using her time in quarantine to make and donate the ones she made to area hospitals. The 15-year-old North Arlington High School student, her mom says, has so far donated masks to the Jersey City Medical Center, but
she also hopes to donate more to St. Joseph’s in Paterson. In a world where so much is changing, isn’t it great to know there are some, like Kaminski, who still want to be there for others? Doesn’t get much better than that.
IMPORTANT COVID-19 INFORMATION FOR Hudson, Bergen & Essex Counties Hudson County Testing Center: Hudson Regional Hospital, Secaucus. By appointment only. H Pre-screening required. 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. weekdays. Call (201) 388-1097. Essex County Testing Center: Weequahic Park, Newark. By appointment only. Pre-screening E required. Call (973) 324-9950 to schedule appointments or for hours/days of operation. B Bergen County Testing Center: Bergen Community College, Lots B & C, Paramus. Must be NJ resident & symptomatic. 500 tests per day. Asymptomatic patients will not be tested. More information may be found at www.theobserver.com and inside this edition.
