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By Megan Roche elly Korovich didn’t want the spirit and magic of the Easter Bunny to fall by the wayside, even during the coronavirus pandemic. She had originally planned on dressing up as the coveted childhood character for her own two children, but then decided to spread as much happiness as she could. Korovich, who was last seen hopping around neighborhoods in Roxbury, dressed as the Easter Bunny, was visiting families. She encouraged the parents at the homes she visited to maintain social distancing, but to show their children that in light of what is happening in the world, there are some things that have still remained normal. “We keep getting more and more limitations on what we can do. I was upset for my own family about not being able to visit the bunny. I was kind of down about not being able to continue with the tradition; it’s something they look forward to, I look forward to doing that with them. I just decided to purchase a costume and bring the magic to them. I had originally planned just to do it for my own family but then I decided to just pick a weekend and go around as the bunny and keep hope alive,” Korovich said. Korovich’s own children didn’t get a chance to head to the mall and see the bunny, something she and her husband, and her little girls, look forward to each year. Not wanting to lose out on the special moment, Korovich got creative and ordered a bunny costume. She plans to have an egg hunt with her children, take photos with them, and still let them enjoy the holiday. When Korovich came up with the idea to travel around, she invited a few families via Facebook. She spent the weekend prior to Easter, from 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., visiting local families throughout Roxbury. Each family got to interact with the bunny,

and the bunny even left special treats about the yard for the kids to find. As she hopped along the neighborhoods, every age group was happy to see the bunny out. “Even the adults who would drive by as I was hopping along, their expressions were just as happy as the kids were,” Korovich said. “The adults were waving and saying hi to me, they were super excited too.” Every parent was grateful for what she did, and each child she came in contact with had nothing short of a smile on their face. There were no issues with social distancing, and everyone heeded all warnings and obeyed the rules. For Korovich, the experience couldn’t have gone any better. “We had told every child that the bunny was safe, and he just wanted to come around and let everyone know that. All of the kids were excited and so happy. I made sure each kid saw me hopping along. I wanted to make it special for them still, even though we are in the middle of this pandemic. I wanted to let them know that even with all of this going on, the special things they always have each year, are still going to be there, no matter what.” As a school counselor at Roxbury High School for nine years, Korovich has seen the impact of what is happening mentally to a lot of people during quarantine. With many people stuck inside their homes, with no escape, she hoped by dressing up as the Easter bunny and bringing joy to people, that she reminds them of what is truly important at this time. “Continuing the normalcy and letting them know that there are things you can still rely on. Obviously not as small as the Easter bunny, but you can count on your family and your friends and we’re all still together. We’re able to support each other and still find happiness amongst the chaos that is happening around us.”

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Mount Olive Girl Scouts Donate to First Responders

o thank the first responders for what they are doing in light of the coronavirus, Mount Olive Troop 99615 donated Girl Scout Cookies to the Flanders Fire Dept. The donations were received with gratitude and the fire department is looking forward to enjoying the cookies as they work hard on the front lines to battle the coronavirus.

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omebody close to President Donald Trump could, in a burst of candor, tell him that he does not know everything to be known about the history of the filibuster in the United States Senate -- or even the origin of the infield fly rule in Major League Baseball. But nobody, absolutely nobody, should ever dare to suggest that this president has not completely mastered everything there is to know about American popular television. Lest we forget, only one American president, before he came to office, was the host/star/ dominant personality for 14 years of a network prime-time TV show, which, in its debut season, actually averaged 20 million viewers a show. That was Donald Trump’s “The Apprentice.” So, how to explain, in the midst of this once-in-a-century pandemic that has paralyzed the world, why Trump, who leads two-hour televised briefings on what our -- make that (SET ITAL)his(END ITAL), when there’s good news to deliver -- federal government is doing to save lives and find a cure, has watched his own poll ratings drop. Trump is the lone elected executive who’s using daily television briefings to inform her or his constituents whose job-rating numbers are dropping. When asked how “your state’s governor” was leading in the midst of the coronavirus terror, 74% of Americans -- both Republicans and Democrats -- gave their state’s leader a positive rating, while Trump’s numbers, after an initial blip up, have fallen to 46% favorable and 51% unfavorable. This is not a partisan matter. In the swing state of New Hampshire, where just 41% of voters approve of the president’s leadership on the virus, Republican Gov. Chris Sununu wins high marks from 73% of his constituents (including 61% of Democrats), and in Ohio, Republican Gov. Mike Dewine, who does a daily TV briefing in his signature lowkey manner, has won 80% approval for his leadership in the most recent state

Mark Shields poll. New York’s Gov. Andrew Cuomo, a Democrat, does a daily televised briefing -- brimming with facts, encouragement, empathy and good grammar -- and, in one recent poll, won the approval of 81% of New Yorkers. What these governors do not include in their reports to the citizens are attacks on political opponents, large dollops of self-pity about how they are not appreciated, personal smears of reporters who dare to ask an unflattering question or deliberately inaccurate misinformation. These governors are more concerned about how the families and communities in their states are coping, and how the public sector can be more helpful, than they are about censuring anyone who failed to appreciate their flawless leadership. Sorry, Mr. President, I know it’s painful to confront, but you are not “good” on television in the spring of 2020. Your daily exposure on the tube is not helping the situation. Politically, you’re hurting yourself and only helping Joe Biden and the Democrats. To find out more about Mark Shields and read his past columns, visit the Creators Syndicate webpage at www.creators.com. COPYRIGHT 2020 MARK SHIELDS DISTRIBUTED BY CREATORS.COM

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The Grand Farce of American Social Distancing

his week in Colorado, our statewide stay-at-home order was extended until April 26. Gov. Jared Polis urged everyone to wear a mask of any kind while outdoors. Local groceries are limiting customers to one every 120 square feet of the store. For the first time, my neighborhood playground on Tuesday was wrapped in bright yellow “CAUTION” tape. And in Brighton, Colorado, a father was handcuffed in an empty park by three police officers for playing T-ball with his 6-year-old daughter and wife. We are not a serious country. America’s “social distancing” campaign has gone both too far and not far enough. The restrictions and guidelines are arbitrary, irrational and unevenly applied. While children’s swings and slides are now crime scenes, golf courses and pickleball courts in my city are wide open. Weed and booze stores are considered “essential.” Ice cream, dessert joints and fast-food outlets with takeout and delivery services are still operating. But family-owned, sit-down restaurants that have been staples in our community have been forced to shut their doors after decades in business. Barbershops and hair salons here were ordered to close three weeks ago, but government employees on landscaping crews who cut grass -- like the ones I’ve seen all crammed together in a city truck -- are still earning paychecks subsidized by the taxpayers sidelined from their jobs in the name of safety and public health. In my state, and across the country, private gyms have been forbidden spaces for the masses for weeks. But if you’re a celebrity or Beltway elitist, you can still stay in shape while sanctimoniously taping public service announcements telling everyone else to stay at home. Jennifer Lopez and Alex Rodriguez have been racking up social media clicks by sharing cozy family quarantine videos and coping tips from their multi-million-dollar Florida mansion. “We all need to take care of ourselves,

Michelle Malkin mentally and physically, and also be respectful of the health and well-being of others. At a time when people need to stay apart, we can still find other ways to feel togetherness. Stay connected, and most importantly, stay safe,” Rodriguez tweeted to his 1.2 million fans. Yet, last week, the power couple was caught by paparazzi exiting a Miami gym whose front-door sign read: “This gym is not open. Stay home stay safe.” Actors Mario Lopez and Mark Wahlberg have also become quarantine time favorites, sharing dance routines, home workouts and homeschool scenes to show their commitment to self-isolation. But last week, the buff Hollywood bros ventured out to a posh Los Angeles F45 Training facility to tape a partner workout together (with a two-person film crew) that they told their viewers to replicate in their apartments or backyards. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s personal trainer bragged that until last week, she was working out at the private Supreme Court gym. “Everybody’s been shut down,” trainer Bryant Johnson told Law360, a legal news and analysis website. “The only reason why I didn’t shut the justice down is because, hey, she ain’t having it,” Johnson said. Translation: We are not “all in this continued on page 5

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continued from page 4 together,” like the cliched hashtag saying goes. The privileged among us get VIP gym access during lockdown, while ordinary Americans are cooped up inside doing pushups in the living room, lunges through the bedroom, makeshift treadmill runs in slippery socks across the kitchen floor, and bicep curls with their jugs of laundry detergent. Wealthy LA denizens were still flocking to trendy farmers markets last week -- until they were shamed on Nextdoor and other social media outlets. Throngs descended on the D.C. Maine Avenue Fish Market last weekend in defiance of stay-at-home orders. Mardi Gras partiers and spring break students formed contagion-friendly mobs while authorities sat on their hands. Philadelphia hoodlums are still holding tailgate parties with carloads of boozers. New York subways remain stuffed to the gills with commuters on trains and platforms. But cops in Florida did crack down on a pastor in Tampa for holding services at his megachurch, and police in New Jersey arrested 15 attendees at an Orthodox Jewish rabbi’s funeral. Mandatory mass isolation (or at least

the illusion of it) is an efficient way to instill hysteria and disrupt lives but a poor means of actually protecting the most vulnerable. Selective social distancing is a futile exercise in virus virtue signaling. Either we’re all in or we’re all out. You can’t attribute curve-flattening to “social distancing” if huge swaths of people never practiced it or opted out when convenient. How long must we carry on the charade? Public health autocrat Anthony Fauci insists we must continue living like this until there are “no new cases” and “no new deaths” -and until a vaccine (which his control-freak pal Bill Gates is working overtime to foist on the world) is in place. This is nuts. The zero-cases/zero-deaths standard doesn’t exist for any other pandemic. We’re strangling ourselves in CAUTION tape, riddled with holes, for show. Pretense is a pointless cure worse than any infectious disease. Michelle Malkin’s email address is MichelleMalkinInvestigates@protonmail. com. To find out more about Michelle Malkin and read features by other Creators Syndicate writers and cartoonists, visit the Creators Syndicate website at www.creators.com. COPYRIGHT 2020 CREATORS.COM

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Covid-19: Freeholders Provide Emergency Funds To Food Pantries

he Morris County Board of Freeholders has approved a $28,000 COVID-19 emergency allocation to assist four major food pantries that provide nourishment on a daily basis to many hundreds of in-need residents and families across Morris County. These food providers are dealing with increased requests for assistance during this current crisis and are hard pressed to meet the demands, especially as churches and social and civic groups that are important providers of donations are closed during this crisis. County allocations of $7,000 apiece have been approved unanimously by the Freeholder Board for the Interfaith Food Pantry, Nourish NJ, Table of Hope, and Trinity Lutheran Food Pantry in Dover. The money is to be used by each organization to help meet its most pressing needs. The four major food pantries that are getting county funding also help provide supplies to smaller soup kitchens that operate in towns across the county. “Residents in Morris County, like elsewhere in the nation, are struggling due to this crisis; many are unemployed and trying care for their families,’’ said Freeholder Director Deborah Smith. “Many are turning

to food pantries for help, so we wanted to assist them to help our residents.’’ “Our food pantries and soup kitchens provide such an important service to our county community, no more so than now when so many families are worried about when they will get their next paycheck and how to provide for their loved ones,’’ said Freeholder Kathy DeFillippo. Many working families are down to one or no paychecks, and no income, but have to pay rents and mortgages and utility bills. They also may be having food insecurity, something food pantries and soup kitchens can help remedy during this period, Freeholder DeFillippo said. She also suggested that county residents consider reaching out to older or disabled residents or others in need during this crisis and consider shopping for them when they go to supermarkets, so they can stay safely away from potential contamination. Food pantries and soup kitchens across the county are asking for food and volunteer and monetary donations. The following is a list, with contact information: Boonton: Boonton Food Pantry 973-402-9419 ext.634 Evengel Church of God 973-263-1787 Women’s Infants and Children’s Clinic (WIC)

800-427-3244 Butler: United Methodist Church 973-838-2026 St. Anthony’s Church 973-838-0031 Chester: Chester Food Pantry 973-879-2548 Denville: Denville Food Pantry 973-625-8300 ext.269 St. Clare’s Meals on Wheels 973-625-6010 Dover: First Memorial Presbyterian Church 973366-0216 Women’s Infants and Children’s Clinic (WIC) 800-427-3244 First United Methodist Church 973-3661804 Grace United Methodist Church 973-3663681 Salvation Army 973-366-0764 or 973-3660875 St. Mary’s Parish 973-366-0184 Faith Kitchen and Food Pantry at Trinity Lutheran Church 973-366-2821 Florham Park: Holy Family Church 973-377-7190 Hanover Twp.: First Presbyterian Church of Whippany 973887-2197 Jeﬀerson: Milton United Methodist Church 973-697-

3194 Star of the Sea R.C. Church 973-663-0211 Hurdtown United Methodist Church 973663-1216 Lincoln Park: Lincoln Park Municipal Building 973-6946100 Madison: Meals on Wheels 973-593-3095 Mine Hill: Township Municipal Building 973-366-9031 ext. 62 Montville: Kiwanis Food Pantry 973-216-7649 Morris County (and regional): Table of Hope 973-267-8912 Interfaith Food Pantry 973-538-8049 ext. 12 Nourish NJ 973-267-0709 Trinity Lutheran Church 973-366-2821 Morris Plains: Interfaith Food Pantry 973-538-8049 ext. 12 Morristown: Hendrickson Smith Food Pantry 973-4559802 Meals on Wheels 973-538-2160 ext.211 Table of Hope 973-267-8912 Nourish NJ 973-267-0709 Interfaith Food Pantry 973-538-8049 ext. 12 Women’s Infants and Children’s Clinic (WIC) 800-427-3244

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Teens Lead Social Distancing and New Way to Worship God

o practice social distancing due to COVID-19, the Christian Drama School of New Jersey changed the way Good Friday worship has been done for the past 20 years. The popular Cross Carry and Good Friday Youth Worship Service was changed so that a great crowd would NOT follow the traditional 4 mile Cross Carry walk. Instead of 35 teens taking turns helping one person who plays the role of Jesus carry the cross, the teen playing the role of Jesus, his sister, and the pastor carried the cross only 1 mile. Instead of the typical worship, teens practiced social distancing by rehearsing and performing through Zoom conferencing. They retold the story of the arrest, trial, crucifixion, and resurrection of Jesus by dancing and acting out the scriptures. The voice and movement of each teenager was recorded and edited together to create a totally new way to worship God this Good Friday. Timmy Johnson, age 18, played the role of Jesus. His sister, Mary Johnson, and Rev. Kim Padfield Urbanik, helped

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A Community Partner During a Time of Crisis

ince their formation, community colleges have seen their communities through many challenging times, including the training of veterans from World War II and the unemployed during the Great Recession of 2007-09. During this current time of crisis, community colleges, their faculty, students, graduates, staff and administration once again are making significant impacts in their communities. Along with helping students to move forward with their education in an online format, County College of Morris (CCM) is offering assistance to the community to support residents during these challenging times. Since March 30, the campus has been serving as a COVID-19 Testing Center for Morris County in coordination with the Morris County Office of Emergency Management, the Morris County Sheriff’s Department, Morris County Park Police, Randolph Township Police Department and Atlantic Health System. Helping with that effort are staff from CCM’s Departments of Public Safety and Plant and Maintenance, who are serving as traffic directors, site monitors and in other roles as needed. The college also has donated equipment to Morristown Medical Center, including five ventilators, 325 N95 masks and 3,00o

gloves. In addition, at the request of Atlantic Health Systems, the college’s engineering lab coordinator is creating face shields on the college’s 3-D printers for healthcare workers. The shields are being created based on specifications provided by Atlantic Health. The college is able to create about 15 a day. Meanwhile, CCM graduates are working in healthcare facilities throughout the county and region as nurses, respiratory therapists and radiographers. Included among them are two recent graduates, Jeremy Friedland ’19, of Parsippany, a graduate of the Nursing Program; and Melanie New ’19, of Vernon, a graduate of the Respiratory Therapy Program, both of whom are on the front line of helping COVID-19 patients at Morristown Medical Center. Another is Cassidy Grady ’19, of Lake Hopatcong, a graduate of the Respiratory Therapy Program, a full-time night respiratory therapist at Saint Barnabas Medical Center. CCM has trained approximately half of the nurses and roughly 90 percent of the respiratory therapists who work in Morris County. “County College of Morris is proud to support our healthcare providers. Many of these individuals are CCM alumni. For this

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USA Twisterz Shatters Records at State Championships

SA Twisterz competed in the USA Gymnastics XCEL State Championship the weekend of February 8th and 9th. On February 8th, the XCEL Silver team placed 1st in the state out of 29 teams with a total team score of 114.100. Emeile Greenlee of West Caldwell finished 1st All Around in the 9 year old senior age group and broke the state all around record with a total score of 38.225. She placed first on the bars, balance beam, floor, and tied the state record on vault. Giuliana D’Angelo of West Caldwell finished 1st All Around in the 8 year old junior age group and broke the state all around record with a score of 38.050. She placed first on bars and vault as well as broke the state record on vault Emma Roche of Cedar Grove placed first on vault and floor. Team members of the XCEL Silver team include: Olivia Crossman and Emma Roche of Cedar Grove, Giuliana D’ Angelo, Emelie Greenlee, Isabella Petriw, Ella Vinitsky, Sophia Szura, Olivia Mabee of West Caldwell, Rylee Gordon of North Caldwell, and Kaitlyn Tedesco of Montville. On February 9th, the XCEL Bronze team placed 2nd in the state out of 19 teams with a total team score of 112.850. Tessa Nappi of West Caldwell finished 1st All Around in the 7-8 year old junior category with a total

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