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Riverview PTA Bowling League Celebrates 50th Anniversary

The Riverview PTA Bowling League celebrated its 50th anniversary this past June.

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By Megan Roche n 1975, four Denville women had a dream. The dream was to create a bowling league for area women to help support the Riverview PTA. 50 years later, the organization is still going strong.

The organization mainly supports the school through gifts and donations.

“We have given gifts from the League to Riverview School since the very first year. Our gifts were specific items suggested by the Principal, George Deamer. After many years, we donated to the Scholarship fund, in honor of George Van Atta. A monetary award to a graduating, gifted high school senior who had attended Riverview was given. Mr. Van Atta was a principal who died, very young, while at Riverview in the 80s,” Kim Luer, President of the League, said.

Luer’s mother, Theresa, has bowled in the league for 49 of those 50 years.

Since 2010, awards for one fifth grade student from each class has been given by the league. These students are picked by the teachers. These awards are for outstanding sportsmanship. Initially it was savings bonds, now they are certificates with gift cards to a sporting goods store. These 5th grade students are honored at the Riverview Awards Ceremony at the end of the school year.

Women in the league bowl each Thursday and do not need to have a child in Riverview Elementary School to be part of the league. Bowlers must be at least 18 years old and there is no age limit.

The league is also fully sanctioned by the United States Bowling Congress.

“We get league awards at the end of season dinner, we get prize money at the end,” Luer said.

The real fun part? Anyone who bowls a 200 in the league gets a very unique prize.

“Their prize is a giant-sized Hershey chocolate bar,” Luer said. “You’ll hear people through the year that get really close to bowling that 200 and they get so upset because they want that candy bar.”

This year is special for Luer on a personal note as her oldest daughter is now bowling alongside her and her mother.

“I always thought it was really cool that I was in the same league as my mom. But when my daughter Aurora told me she was interested, it was just such a cool moment to have three generations bowling at the same time in the same club. In 50 years, this is the first time that something like this has ever happened,” Luer explained.

At the awards dinner in June, awards were presented to all bowlers. The group also spent time reflecting on the last 50 years.

“We call it a ‘fun’tastic league instead of a fantastic league because while it is sanctioned and we’re getting prize money, but we also are truly a family. Everyone steps up to help each other in all aspects of life,” Luer said.

The league will begin its 51st season in September and is actively seeking new members. Those interested in joining should email Luer at riverviewptabowling@gmail.com.

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100 Years Ago This Month: Historical events from July 1925

The month of July has been home to many historical events over the years.

Here’s a look at some that helped to shape the world in July 1925.

• The Boeing Airplane Company test flies its first passenger aircraft, the Boeing Model 40, on July 7.

• Ralph Samuelson becomes the first person to perform a ski jump on water while performing at a water carnival on Lake Pepin in Minnesota on July 8. Samuelson eventually earns the nickname “The Father of Waterskiing.”

• Ecuadoran president Gonzalo Córdova is arrested and removed from office by the Military League on July 10.

• The Scopes Monkey Trial begins in Dayton, Tennessee, on July 10. Scopes is ultimately found guilty of violating the Butler Act and fined $100 on July 21.

• English high school student Phyllis Green breaks the world record for the women’s high jump on July 11. The 17-year-old Green becomes the first female competitor to jump higher than five feet.

• A mob of 200 white residents of the logging town of Toledo, Oregon, kidnap 29 residents of Asian descent on July 12. The kidnapped residents are placed on a train bound for Portland. Five mob leaders are ultimately arrested and one of the residents

is eventually awarded financial damages for violation of his civil rights.

• Archaeologists in what is now the Czech Republic discover one of the oldest ceramic figurines in the world on July 13.

The roughly four-inch artifact is estimated to be from before 24,000 B.C. • A flood wall collapses on July 17 after several days of heavy rains in Hong Kong.

Eighty people are killed after a landslide sparks the collapse of the wall.

• The first volume of Adolf Hitler’s autobiographical manifesto Mein Kampf is published on July 18.

• Britain enacts the first Palestinian Citizenship Order, 1925, on July 24. The act officially defines a Palestinian for the first time and remains in effect until 1948.

• American lawyer, orator and politician William Jennings Bryan, who ran for president three times between 1896 and 1908, dies in his sleep on July 26. Bryan’s death comes just five days after he obtained a guilty verdict in the Scopes Trial.

• George Seldes is ordered to leave Italy on July 27. Seldes was in the country as an American correspondent for the Chicago Tribune and refused to alter the tone of one of his dispatches that was critical of the Fascist government led by Benito Mussolini.

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Little Sure Shot Annie Oakley

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By Henry M. Holden nnie Oakley (born Phoebe Ann Mosey; August 13, 1860 – November 3, 1926) was an American sharpshooter and folk heroine. If you were born toward the end of the 20th century you probably have not heard about Annie Oakley. She developed hunting skills as a child to provide for her impoverished family in western Ohio.

Annie’s father was 61 years old at the time of Annie’s birth and became an invalid from hypothermia during a blizzard in late 1865, dying of pneumonia in early 1866 at age 66.

Born in 1860, Annie was the sixth of Jacob and Susan’s nine children, and the fifth of the seven

surviving.

Because of poverty following her father’s death, Annie did not regularly attend school as a child, although she did attend later in childhood and in adulthood.

In the spring of 1870, Annie was “bound out” to a local family to help care for their infant son. They had falsely promised her fifty cents per week (equivalent to $12 in 2024) and an education. The couple had originally wanted someone who could pump water and cook and who was bigger. She spent about two years in servitude, to them, enduring mental and physical abuse. Once, the wife put Annie out in the freezing cold without shoes, as a punishment because she had fallen asleep over some mending. Annie

referred to them as “the wolves.” Even in her autobiography, she never revealed the couple’s real names.

Annie began trapping before age 7, and shooting and hunting by age 8, to support her siblings and her widowed mother.

She sold her hunted game to locals in Greenville, and to shopkeepers such as Charles and G. Anthony Katzenberger, who shipped it to hotels in Cincinnati and other cities. She also sold game to restaurants and hotels in northern Ohio.

At age 15, she won a shooting contest against an experienced marksman, Frank E. Butler, whom she married in1876 at the age of 16,but no children were ever to come forth from the union.

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joined the Buffalo Bill touring circus in 1885, performing around the United States and in Europe.

Audiences were stunned to see her shooting a cigar from her husband›s hand or splitting a playing-card edge-on at 30 paces.

Her skills paid off, the mortgage on her mother’s farm when Annie was 15.

The following year (1886) they signed up for the Buffalo Bill Wild West Show. Annie was featured as the “Lovely Lass of the Western Plains, Little Sure Shot, the one and only Annie Oakley.”

She earned more money on her tours than anyone except Buffalo Bill himself.

Tired of living in hotels the couple built a house in Nutley N.J.. The only odd thing about the house was it had no closets. She had

become so used to living out of suitcases that she decided she did not need or want closets. From 1892 to 1904, Oakley and Butler made this their home in Nutley.

Annie soon became well known throughout the region. On Thanksgiving Day 1875, the Baughman & Butler shooting act was being performed in Cincinnati. Traveling marksman, and former dog trainer Frank E. Butler, (1847–1926), an Irish immigrant, placed a $100 bet per side (equivalent to $2,900 in 2024) with Cincinnati hotel owner Jack Frost that Butler could beat any local fancy shooter.

Frost arranged a shooting match between Butler and the 15-year-old Annie, saying, “The last opponent Butler expected was a five-

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After missing his 25th shot, Butler lost the match and the bet. Another account says that Butler hit his last shot, but the bird fell dead about 2 feet beyond the boundary line.

According to a modernday account in The Cincinnati Enquirer, it is possible that the shooting continued on page 5

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Annie Oakley... continued from page 4 match took place in 1881 and not 1875. It appears the time of the event was never recorded. Biographer Shirl Kasper states the shooting match took place in the spring of 1881 near Greenville, possibly in North Star as mentioned by Butler during interviews in 1903 and 1924. Other sources seem to coincide with the North Fairmount location near Cincinnati if the event occurred in 1881.

Oakley promoted the service of women

in combat operations for the United States armed forces. She wrote a letter to President William McKinley on April 5, 1898, offering the government the services of a company of 50 ‹lady sharpshooters› who would provide their own arms and ammunition should the U.S. go to war with Spain.» She never received a reply.

After a railroad accident in 1901, Oakley was severely injured but recovered after temporary paralysis and five spinal operations. She left the Buffalo Bill show in

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1902, and began a less taxing acting career in a stage play written especially for her, The Western Girl. Oakley played the role of Nancy Berry who used a pistol, a rifle and rope to outsmart a group of outlaws. The after effects of the accident forced her into less stressful taxing routine. She toured in a play written about her career. She also instructed women in marksmanship, believing strongly in female self-defense.

Her stage acts were filmed for one of Thomas Edison’s earliest Kinetoscopes.

Throughout her career, it is believed that Oakley taught more than 15,000 women how to use a gun. Oakley believed strongly that it was crucial for women to learn how to use a gun, as not only a form of physical and mental exercise, but also to defend themselves. She said: “I would like to see every woman know how to handle guns as naturally as they know how to handle babies.”

In 1904, sensational cocaine prohibition stories were selling well. Newspaper magnate William Randolph Hearst published a false story that Oakley had been arrested for stealing to support a cocaine habit. The woman arrested was

a burlesque performer who told Chicago police that her name was Annie Oakley.

Most of the newspapers that printed the story had relied on the Hearst article, and they immediately retracted it with apologies upon learning of the libelous error. Hearst, however, tried to avoid paying the anticipated court judgments of $20,000 (equivalent to $700,000 in 2024) by sending an investigator to Darke County, Ohio, with the intent of collecting reputation-smearing gossip from Oakley’s past. The investigator found nothing.

Oakley spent much of the next six years winning all but one of her 55 libel lawsuits against newspapers. Oakley collected less judgments than the total of her legal expenses.

Oakley died on November 3, 1926, and her husband Frank Butler followed her in death just 18 days later. According to B. Haugen, Butler was so distraught he stopped eating and dies 18 days later.

He was buried next to Oakley’s ashes in Greenville, Ohio.

Her story has been adapted several times for stage, musicals and films, including Annie Get Your Gun.

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When You Get A Bad Medical Report: Never Give Up! Never Ever Give Up!

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By Richard Mabey Jr. f you get a bad medial report from your doctor, the last thing you ever want to do, is to feel sorry for yourself. And, above all, never ever give up hope.

Never give up hope!

First and foremost, pray for your own healing. That may sound like it’s being selfish. But it’s really not.

When you are faced with a serious illness, it is a time Celebrating 50 Years

when you need to know that God will guide you, in all ways. The good Lord may lead you to talk to a friend about your illness, and your friend may have the name of a doctor who specializes in treating your very specific illness.

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One of these doctors, well meaning, had guided me to looking into Hospice Care. I knew in my heart of hearts, that I wasn’t ready for that step, quite yet.

Keep the fight alive in your heart and mind. Be courageous and bold in your fight to survive and to live as long as you possibly can.

Go within to find your truth.

Read the holy scriptures of your faith. Pray and pray and pray for healing. Not to sound like a broken record, but never giver up! Never give up!

I read and study about Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy, two to three hours a day. I keep my mind open to all healing avenues. You cannot always count on just treating a disease with just pharmaceutical prescriptions. I am not putting down conventional medicine, but it is important to read and study and investigate cutting edge

healing modalities.

I just cannot stress it enough. There is real power in praying for your own healing. It may sound like it’s being selfish. But it’s not.

God loves you more than you can possibly ever imagine.

For us, as humble humans, to understand the infinite wisdom of God, is like trying to explain Einstein’s Theory of Relativity to an ant.

God loves you more than you will ever know. Never underestimate the power of prayer.

Not to sound like a broken record, but read, study and investigate any and all cutting edge healling modalities for your specific illness. There is real healing power in having hope, burning in your heart. Keep the flame of hope burning brightly in your heart.

In December of 2023, my cardiologist was well meaning when she told me that she estimated that I had about two years left to live. You see, in HCM the Left

Ventricle becomes very thick and hardened. So much so that it loses its ability to have the elasticity to fully pump blood. Fro the most part, most HCM patients can be traced to have a genetic mutation of the MY-H7 Gene.

Since December of 2023, I have never ever allowed my heart and mind to fall into despair. Living in despair and feeling sorry for oneself, is walking in the valley of death, the dark forest of hopelessness, the trail to defeat. If you are facing a serious illness, please keep your chin up. Fuel the fire of hope, in your heart, with solemn and earnest prayer. Never give up! Never surrender! Never ever give up!

Richard Mabey Jr. is a freelance writer. He has recently had two books published. He currently hosts a YouTube Channel entitled, “Richard Mabey Presents.”

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The Jersey Devil Spooks South Jersey

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By Henry M. Holden or centuries, people across southern New Jersey and Delaware have allegedly encountered a horse-headed flying demon. Legend has it that in the dense woods of the New Jersey Pine Barrens lurks a mythological beast known as the Jersey Devil.

With the head of a horse, the wings of a bat, and talons fitting a dragon, the Jersey Devil has terrorized the imaginations of New Jersey residents for almost 300 years. It is commonly believed that the demonic being was the cursed progeny of a bewitched Quaker woman and escaped to the bogs where it could be heard wailing and killing local prey.

The story of the Jersey Devil is an authentic folk

legend. It is as varied as the number of people who claim to have seen or heard him. For over two decades, tales have circulated about the nocturnal ramblings of a creature emerging from the mists of a lonely desolate marsh. As interest in the supernatural has also given rise to an increase in demon -fledged, tales that have grown to blend folk belief with South Jersey history.

To understand the legend of the Jersey Devil, we must first know his birthplace. It is a remote region extending 1,700 square miles across southeastern New Jersey.

It is a giant aquifer with dense stands of white cedar trees. Inside, the air is calm, still and cool - the shade is heavy. The cedar stands throughout the

swamp stain the streams red with tannic acid. One area of stunted trees is called the Pygmy Forest.

While many consider it a barren wilderness, twentyseven varieties of orchids grow there. In the early days, travel was difficult because the cedar swamps were great obstacles. Some roads are old Native trails.

Others are old stagecoach roads. Some roads are paved; others are r0cky and rutted. Roads led to places named Hog Wallow, Double Trouble, Sooy Place and Mary Ann Furnace.

These names date back to pre-colonial times when settlers first came to New Jersey.

One of the most famous stories tells of a place called Leeds Point. On a stormy night in 1735, a Quaker woman gave birth to a child

during a thunderstorm.

The room flickered with candlelight. The wind howled. Some believed her to be a sorceress. The impoverished woman, known as Mother Leeds, was believed to have other children – as many as twelve. Some say the child was born deformed. Some say she cursed the child because of her dreadful straits. Other accounts say the child was born normal and took on odd characteristics later, such as an elongated body, winged shoulders, a large horse-like head, cloven hoofs, and a thick tail.

According to legend, the child was confined until it made its escape either out the cellar door or up the chimney. The Jersey Devil had been born.

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the country’s only state demon, the Jersey Devil is described as a kangaroolike creature with the face of a horse, the head of a dog, bat-like wings, horns and a tail. But the descriptions vary depending on the viewer.

For decades this mysterious creature is said to prowl through the marshes of Southern New Jersey and emerge periodically to rage through the towns and cities.

The most widely held belief about the origin of the Jersey Devil is that Mrs. Leeds, a resident of Estellville, was distressed when she learned she was expecting for the thirteenth time. In disgust, she cried out, “Let it be the devil!”

The story continues that the child arrived, and it was a baby devil. The creature

Some people have described it as a kangaroo-like creature with the face of a horse, the head of a dog, bat-like wings, horns and a tail.

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According to the legend, Jane Leeds (sometimes called Mother Leeds) fell in love with a British soldier and was cursed for her crime. This was around the Revolutionary War era.

At the time of its birth, there was a noisy and dangerous thunderstorm. The room’s candle lights flickered. The wind howled.

Some believed that she was a sorceress.

Some versions of these incidents vary

depending on the viewer.

It was Mays Landing where a Mrs. Leeds became pregnant and when the baby was delivered Mrs. Leeds rejected her baby, wishing a stork would deliver a devil. Thus, a winged devil was born. Some versions also have a clergyman subsequently attempting an unsuccessful exorcism.

Belief in the Jersey Devil (aka Leeds Devil) is quite real and based on records of concrete experiences. Reliable people, including police, government officials, businessmen and many others whose integrity is beyond question, have witnessed the Devil’s activities or so they say.

To this day, people traveling down the Garden State Parkway or the Atlantic City Expressway have reported sightings of “something” or tell stories of strange events.

Many continue to believe that the legendary being is still around disturbing the region and will continue to do so for generations to come.

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Morris County’s Jordan Toma Champions Education for All

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By Megan Roche ordan Toma will be the first to tell you that his struggles through school left a profound impact on him.

“When you are younger, you don’t really know yet what is going on,” Toma said. “But I could tell that something wasn’t right academically.

All the kids around me would understand our classwork but I didn’t.”

Toma went through countless frustrating days at school and eventually found himself suffering from anxiety and panic attacks before he would get on the bus. Those panic attacks led to him missing multiple days of school a month.

“My parents brought me to every psychologist throughout New York, New Jersey and Connecticut.

They tried putting me on medication, they tried everything and it really took a toll on how I saw myself. I had all these problems and I would go to all these doctors and I just wanted to give up,” Toma said.

Toma recalls telling himself that life was always going to be a struggle for him. Throughout middle school, he never passed an assignment independently.

After getting an assignment to write a paper before his first day of high school at Seton Hall Prep, Toma began eagerly working with a tutor

to get off on the right foot his freshman year.

“I wanted to change my life; I wanted to hand in this paper and earn a grade for myself so I worked really hard. I thought it was going to be this big moment for me so I really worked hard and I finished the paper and I handed it in. When I handed it in, I felt good because it was the first time that I actually handed something in on my own. I felt like a regular kid,” Toma recalls.

Two days later, Toma ended up in a conference with the teacher who strongly believed the paper was plagiarized.

“He didn’t believe that I had written it and just handed it back to me with a big x on it. I started crying and when I got home, I told my parents that I was never going to school again.

I pushed myself and I still failed. I kept saying, what’s the point of all this? Nothing is ever going to get better,” Toma recalls.

After missing three months of school, Toma failed out of Seton Hall Prep.

Heading back to Hanover Park High School, he found himself back to being the same Jordan he was during elementary and middle school.

When it came to his senior year, after applying to colleges, Toma received countless rejection letters.

He was on the line to

receive one from Centenary University but after Toma’s mom drove to the school personally to advocate for her son, he was conditionally accepted into the school’s Step Ahead program.

“The program was basically set up where if you wanted to go to Centenary, you had to go to this summer program. It was eight weeks where they took your cellphone away from you and you had to follow this strict structured schedule,” Toma said.

Toma fought his mom on the decision to attend but ultimately enrolled in the program.

“That program changed my whole life. I started to figure out the best way that I learned, I started to piece things together. I did an assignment on my own and I handed it in and I got my first grade back in my whole life and I got an A. I couldn’t believe it. That was the moment that I realized that I had been selling myself short my whole life,” Toma said.

After that summer program in 2008, Toma eventually found himself walking across the stage four years later with a bachelor’s degree. Now, he’s championing accessible education for all kids.

His brand, “I’m Just a Kid With an IEP,” reflective of his own experience with Individualized Education Programs, has become a

rallying cry for students feeling marginalized in school environments. Toma regularly travels across the country as a motivational speaker, sharing his story of resiliency with kids and adults alike.

At the heart of Toma’s work is the mantra: “My struggle is my strength.” He invites audiences to wear their hardships like badges of honor and to use them as fuel for growth.

“You are going to struggle in your life with whatever it is. But you are going to have to figure out a way to overcome it. At some point in your life, you are going to find your gift, that thing that you are naturally good at. But the good thing is, you are going to take that same strength that you had to use to overcome your biggest hurdles, and be able to apply it to your gifts, and that is where you are going to use your strength,” Toma said.

Jordan Toma, a Morris County resident, is one of the nations #1 ranked motivational speakers.

Toma has channeled his message into a bestselling book; I’m Just A Kid With An IEP. “It took me two years to write it…I typed it at my kitchen table and I selfpublished it. I sold over 150,000 copies worldwide,” Toma said.

Through it all, Toma comes back to what he learned from those formative years at Centenary

University.

“Everything that I do, I give it my all and I put it out there. I owe it to my struggle…where I’m at now? I wouldn’t be here if I didn’t struggle. It really is the reason why I am so successful today,” Toma said.

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North Jersey Actress Celebrates First Off Broadway Show and TikTok Stardom

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By Megan Roche or Lexis Trechak, it’s been a busy few months. The North Jersey actress recently closed her first off Broadway show, something which she says was “exciting, thrilling,” and unlike anything else she’d ever done.

Trechak, who has been a dancer since she was two, began posting content on TikTok in 2019. Thanks to her brother and his self-built backyard rollercoaster, Trechak first posted a behind the scenes video of the coaster’s construction and saw it go viral. From then on, it became her own goal to go viral herself.

“I literally remember telling myself that I was going to go viral. I had one video go viral and I was hooked,” Trechak said.

From that first rollercoaster video, Trechak threw herself into making dance related TikTok content. From skits about different dance teachers she had to participating in viral dance trends, Trechak was invested.

A Temple University graduate with a degree in Speech Pathology, Trechak took the summer after graduating to pursue musical theater. With plans to go to graduate school, Trechak moved in, ready to start the next chapter. However, her summer musical theater experiences stayed with her and made her really begin to think about her career. A day after moving in to her grad school apartment, Trechak quickly moved out and began to look for theater jobs.

“Every person I told that I was considering leaving grad school was not surprised. They all told me that they weren’t surprised that my heart wasn’t into being in grad school. I’ve been a dancer and actress my whole life, so I

really wanted to give this thing a shot,” Trechak said.

While much of her TikTok content is based on the positive side of dance, Trechak tries to accurately portray what her world looks like as an up-and-coming dancer.

From the hours spent in audition rooms to dealing with major injuries, Trechak tries to show it all to her followers.

“I really want to share my authentic journey as an actor.

I see a lot of people who do this career and share their journey but it’s not as realistic as it should be. I want to show the people what actually happens as a professional actor. It is not all glamour and fame. As upsetting as it is to get cut, it’s the truth. There are going to be 10 billion nos before you get that one yes,” Trechak said.

After touring for the past two years as part of the cast of How the Grinch Stole Christmas, Trechak booked her first off-Broadway show, Maddie. Maddie, a musical about a young couple, Nick and Jan, who move into a new apartment, discover a message on the wall that was scrawled by a 1920’s actress named Maddie. Maddie takes over Jan’s body and seeks to fulfill her dream of becoming a star. The story explores love, ambition, and the clash between the past and the present. Trechak played the role of Jan’s best friend, Sally.

“It was a new experience for me to play a principal role.

I’m ensemble through and through and I love being in the ensemble. It is so much fun, I love to dance. This role was really cool because I had been really insecure about my voice as a singer for a very long time. I had really worked on my voice over the past year and when I got cast as Sally, all of that hard work paid off because I got to be in a role that

Lexis Trechak, a North Jersey actress, was recently cast as Sally in the off-Broadway show “Maddie”.

actually sang a song during the show,” Trechak said.

Maddie closed in early June, but it was an experience that Trechak won’t soon forget. According to her, her life is just a dream come true.

“The life that I’m living isn’t too far off from the one I’d joke about in school. I always said I wanted to be famous and getting to perform as my job is what the dream always was. To get to actually say this is my work and my job is just unreal,” Trechak said.

To learn more about Trechak, visit www.lexistrechak.org.

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Netcong Resident Related to Declaration Signer

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By Elsie Walker ooking at the Declaration of Independence, there are the signatures of many historical figures. But for one Netcong resident, a certain name stands out. It is the name of a relative that she’s traced back through her genealogy and is related to through a grandfather: Dr. Benjamin Rush. Dr. Rush’s proud relative is Amanda Rush.

The latter Rush has gathered information on Dr. Rush from a variety of sources. Recently, she shared some tidbits of information from what she has found which introduce her relative and just some of the things he did.

Amanda Rush’s research shows that her descendants were from England. The first to be born in America was John Harvey Rush in 1712. He lived in Byberry, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, as it was described in those days. A son, Benjamin Rush, was born on December 24, 1745 in Byberry.

Through looking at various sources, it was discovered that Benjamin Rush went abroad as a student to study medicine at a college in Edinburgh, Scotland from 1766 – 1768. After he came back home, Dr. Rush ran a medical practice and was a leading physician and civic leader. Rush was elected to the Second Continental Congress in 1776 and was a signer of The Declaration of Independence.

Looking at the different information she gathered, Amanda Rush pointed out that research shares that signing the Declaration of Independence was dangerous and some signers feared for their lives.

Amanda Rush said that what she is most proud of Dr. Rush for “was that he stuck up for the country, wanted it to be independent, and signed the Declaration of Independence.”

Dr. Rush died in 1813. Besides signing the Declaration of Independence, he was a leader in education and health.

His study of mental disorders led him to be one of the founders of American Psychiatry. He was for free public schools and improved education for women. Also, he was opposed to slavery.

As for the more personal side of his life, Amanda Rush has done some research into that, too.

Dr. Rush’s father-in-law Richard Stockton, the governor of New Jersey at the time, was also a signer of the Declaration of Independence. Rush had married Stockton’s daughter, Julia, on January 11, 1776. They had 12 children.

My Dearest Julia, is a book of love letters written by Dr. Rush while courting Julia Stockton and afterwards, which were preserved by Julia Rush Biddle Henry, a great great granddaughter and made into the book. Amanda Rush was able to get a copy of it and has included it as part of her Dr. Rush research.

Among Dr. Rush’s friends were John Adams and Benjamin Franklin. From Macculloch Hall Historical Museum in Morristown, Amanda Rush was able to get a booklet with copies of the text of preserved historical letters. One is from Abigail Adams to Julia Rush. They were also great

friends.

Another piece of research is a 1991 Star Ledger newspaper clipping. It is about a tradition at a cemetery at a Presbyterian Church in Pluckemin, New Jersey concerning the gravesite of a buried British soldier from the revolutionary war, William Leslie. What is the connection between Dr. Rush and a buried British soldier?

Looking at Wikipedia, Amanda Rush had learned the story of Dr. Rush and the Leslies. During the time that Dr. Rush was abroad studying medicine, the Leslies gave him room and board. A deep friendship was formed. When the war broken out, Rush received word from the Leslies that young William Leslie was serving in the British army and fighting in the war. After the battle at Princeton, which was won by the revolutionaries, Rush received word that young Leslie was one of the casualties. Rush appealed to George Washington, that Leslie get a military funeral. Leslie did, with Washington in attendance. Each year, the Daughters of Britian Empire put a union jack on Leslie’s grave. Amanda Rush visited Leslie’s resting place last year. She said she thought she’d stop by and honor his grave, noting that her family had started in England.

Amanda Rush has done quite a bit of research into Dr. Rush and sums it up this way: “It’s an honor to know where you came from, and who you came from, and what they did before you.”

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Good Golly Miss Molly

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By Henry M. Holden t first glance, searching for the real Molly Pitcher, the legendary heroine of the American Revolutionary War, seems about as pointless as searching for a needle in a haystack. Nevertheless, legendary figures hold a fascination and usually contain a kernel or more of historical authenticity. In the case of the patriot-cannoneer Molly Pitcher, culling the fictitious from the real can be a challenge. She has held a revered place in the patriotic lore of the American Revolution, right next to Betsy Ross, while real female patriots such as Deborah Sampson, a revolutionary soldier (a.k.a. Robert Shurtleff), are rarely mentioned in survey history texts.

More than two-and-a half centuries after the Revolution, Molly’s popularity succeeds, extending even into the virtual world of cyberspace by Web sites that allow browsers to discuss whether Molly Pitcher was a feminist. While all this good-natured speculation has not led to any new information or for that matter anything of substance, it is quite probable that historical research can still render some interesting insights about Molly and, more important, about the role of women who served in the military during the American Revolutionary War. Perhaps you have not heard of her, but if you travel southbound on the New Jersey Turnpike, at mile marker 71, you are just one of the tens of thousands of travelers who see a sign for Molly Pitcher, and a Rest Area for motorists and truckers. There are thousands of motorists who pass the sign but keep on driving, because everybody must be

going somewhere.

But who was Molly Pitcher and what did she do to deserve special recognition?

Molly Pitcher was born on October 13, 1754, near Trenton. In 1768, she moved to Carlisle, Pennsylvania, where she met William Hays, a local barber. They married on July 24, 1769.

Molly Pitcher is a Revolutionary War heroine and a nickname given to a woman who fought in the American Revolution. She is most often identified as Mary Ludwig Hays, who fought in the Battle of Monmouth in June 1778.

Her fame is derived from her reputation of continuously delivering pitchers of cold water to the thirsty American soldiers, and cold water, to cool the cannons. When her husband was injured by a fatal cannon shot she took his place on the firing line. Some have called her one of the first American feminist.

It was a blistering hot day on June 28, 1778, when ten thousand British soldiers engaged thirteen thousand American troops during the battle of Monmouth. One of those Continental troopers was seventeen -year-old private Joseph Plumb Martin, of the Connecticut Regiment.

More than half a century passed before Martin decided to publish a memoir of his Revolutionary War experience; It included, a woman, whose husband had belonged to an artillery unit and was mortally wounded. Martin called it, “one little incident.” continued on page 15

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Miss Molly... continued from page 14 “While attending her husband’s wounds and while reaching for a cartridge, a cannon shot coming directly from the enemy landed between her legs near the lower part of her body, without doing any damage other than tearing her petty coat in half. Looking at it with apparent unconcern she observed that it was lucky it did not pass a little higher, for in that case it might have carried away something else and continued her occupation.”

The actions in the story of Molly Pitcher are generally attributed to Mary Ludwig Hays, who was married to William Hays, an artilleryman in the Continental Army. She joined him at the army’s winter camp at Valley Forge in 1777, and was present at the Battle of Monmouth, where she served as a water- carrier. Her husband fell from a cannon shot and she took his place swabbing and loading the cannon and was later commended by George Washington. (as recorded

by Joseph Plumb Martin in his memoir published in 1830,) Washington praised Molly and conferred on her the brevet of captain, hence her title Captain Molly. He also said that she should have a pension for the rest of her life.

Then, French officers who had enlisted in the American’s regiment loved her and had the pleasure of giving “Marie” a token of their appreciation by showering her with their extra silver coins.

Earlier that year, festivities had been planned to celebrate the 150 anniversary of the Monmouth battle. Stamp collectors petitioned the U.S. Post Office Department for a commemorative stamp to mark the

anniversary. After receiving several rejections, New Jersey congressman Ernest Ackerman, a stamp collector himself, enlisted the assistance of the majority leader of the House of Representatives, John Q. Tilson.

Postmaster General Harry New a suspected antifeminist steadfastly refused to issue a commemorative stamp specifically acknowledging the battle or Molly Pitcher. In a telegram to Tilson, Postmaster New explained, «Finally, however, I have agreed to put a surcharged title on ten million of the regular issue Washington 2-cent stamps bearing the name ‹Molly Pitcher.›» There has been criticism that there was no substantive evidence that a “Molly Pitcher” ever existed. However, one eyewitness account does count. and in addition, there is one account written less than a week after the battle. The writer in question was a medical Doctor Waldo, a physician who was with the Continental Army who wrote in his diary three days later and what he writes is Vitaly important. The following words are taken from his diary.

“One of the camp women with me and I must give a little praise for her gallant, whom she attended in the battle. Being shot down she immediately took of his gun and cartridges, and like a Spartan heroine, fought with astonishing regularity discharging the piece with as much, bravery and destruction as any soldier present.”

There are so many legends surrounding Molly Pitcher that some historians believe her story is a combination of several people. Although there has been ample research

done mostly by her descendants. An independent review of the documents has led some historians to conclude that Pitcher cannot be identified with certainty. Most sources identify her birth name as Mary Ludwig, daughter of Maria Margaretha and Johann George Ludwig, and identify her first husband as William Hays (also sometimes referred to as John Hays), who was in the artillery.Hays fought in the Battle of Monmouth in Freehold, New Jersey, on June 28, 1778, a brutally hot day. His wife was present as well, and she made countless trips to a nearby spring to fill pitchers of cold water for soldiers to drink and to pour over their cannons to cool them down.

As legend has it, the soldiers nicknamed her Molly Pitcher for her tireless efforts. But the legend only began with her new name.

According to accounts, Pitcher witnessed her husband collapse at his cannon, unable to continue with the fight.

She immediately dropped her water pitcher and took his place at the cannon, manning the weapon throughout the remainder of the battle until the colonists achieved victory.

According to the National Archives, a witness documented her heroic acts, reporting that a piece of a cannon ball passed through her legs on the battlefield, leaving her unscathed: After the war, Mary Hays married George McCauley, and some forty-four years after the war the state of Pennsylvania awarded her with an annual pension of forty dollars for her heroism at Monmouth.

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I Remember Dad: The Motorcycle Man

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By Richard Mabey Jr. n the Spring of 1946, my Dad returned home from having served at Hickam Airfield during the Second World War. Home was the house that Dad’s father, Watson Mabey, built around 1918. Dad’s family home was located at the end of Mabey Lane in Lincoln Park.

The garage, that to the best of knowledge still stands, was built by Dad and his brother Edward, just before they both enlisted to serve in the armed services during World War II. When Dad came home from the war, he worked as a truck driver for Moon Carrier in Paterson. Dad saved his money and very soon bought a motorcycle.

Despite the protests of his mom, Bertha Storms Mabey, Dad drove his motorcycle all around Lincoln Park, Towaco and Boonton.

There was one place in Boonton that was Dad’s

favorite place to visit, that of his brother Earl’s home on the 600 block of Boonton Avenue. Dad would often visit his brother and his brother’s wife, Eleanor. For across the street from his brother’s home, was the Kemmerer Homestead, where my mom, Janet Kemmerer lived. Mom was the youngest child of the nine children of Edmund and Lydia.

Mom was the Manager of the Bakery Department of the A&P Grocery Store in Boonton. It was my Aunt Eleanor who gave Mom Dad’s mailing address at Hickam Airfield. And, about once a week, Mom would send Dad homemade cookies or pies.

Mom loved to read books and would often read while sitting on the long, rock wall that stood in front of the Kemmerer Homestead along Boonton Avenue.

There was a tall maple tree

near the sidewalk of the old Kemmerer Homestead.

And Dad would sit upon his motorcycle, beneath the shade of the maple tree, and talk and talk and talk with Mom. At first Mom’s Dad did not appreciate my father all that well. The Kemmerers were very strict Methodists. And, Grandpa Kemmerer did not want his youngest daughter talking to a man who drove a motorcycle.

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Long story short, Dad did not sell his motorcycle right away. He kept in the

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old garage at the end of Mabey Lane and would borrow his brother Edward’s car, to travel to Boonton to visit Mom. Soon after Dad stopped riding his motorcycle to the old Kemmerer Homestead, that he began gaining favor with my maternal grandfather.

One day, when I was in my early twenties, on a visit with Grandma Mabey, Grandma told me more about Dad’s love for his motorcycle. That even after Dad retired his motorcycle and kept it stored in the garage, Dad would go into the garage and just sit on the motorcycle for long periods of time.

I often wonder where I would be if Dad had not decided to retire his motorcycle.

For truly, Grandpa Kemmerer strongly disapproved of Mom talking with a man who drove a motorcycle.

To the best of my

knowledge, the old garage at the end of Mabey Lane still stands. Also, to the best of my knowledge, the rock wall along the 600 block of Boonton Avenue still stands.

Before my soul leaves this physical body, I want to return to Lincoln Park, walk down Mabey Lane and just look at the old garage, where Dad once retired his shining motorcycle.

Also, I plan on walking along the 600 block of Boonton Avenue. And, if I get the courage, just sit upon that old rock wall for a minute or two. I do hope I get to visit these two landmarks, before I pass.

Fate and Destiny are strange twins. I often wonder where I would be if Dad chose not to retire his motorcycle. Many times, over the years, Mom told me the story of how her father first disapproved of Dad talking to her, because of his motorcycle. From Earth to

Dad on his motorcycle, during the Summer of 1946.

Heaven, thank you Dad for retiring your motorcycle all those years ago.

Richard Mabey Jr. is a freelance writer. He has had two books published.

He currently has a daily YouTube program, entitled “Richard Mabey Presents.”

Richard can be reached at richardjamesmabey@gmail. com.

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leventh Hour Rescue is set to receive a $5,000 grant investment from national nonprofit Petco Love in support of their lifesaving work for pets in Northern New Jersey.

Petco Love is a national nonprofit leading change for pets by harnessing the power of love to make communities and pet families closer, stronger, and healthier. Since its founding in 1999, Petco Love has invested nearly $410 million in adoption and other lifesaving efforts. And Petco Love helps find loving homes for pets in partnership with Petco and more than 4,000 organizations — like ours — across North America, with nearly 7 million pets adopted and counting.

“Our investment in Eleventh Hour Rescue is part of more than $12M in investments recently announced by Petco Love to power local organizations across the country as part of our commitment to create a future in which no pet is unnecessarily euthanized,” said Susanne Kogut, president of Petco Love. “Our local investments

are only part of our strategy to empower animal lovers to drive lifesaving change right alongside us. We launched Petco Love Lost, a free national lost and found database that uses photo-matching technology to simplify the search for lost pets.”

“This investment will go incredibly far in allowing us to continue our lifesaving rescue work. The cost of rescue, transport, food, shelter, and general and emergency vetting can be overwhelming, and the number of pets in need only continues to grow. We’re tremendously grateful to Petco Love for their generosity to the rescue community—we consider them a true partner in the work we do,” said Kelly Miller, President of Eleventh Hour Rescue.

Eleventh Hour Rescue is a nonprofit, nokill, animal rescue located in Flanders, New Jersey that has been serving Morris County, New Jersey since 2004. In the 20+ years since its founding, Eleventh Hour Rescue has saved nearly 50,000 pets, including dogs, cats, rabbits, and Guinea pigs, from

euthanasia. Largely volunteer-run, EHR is both kennel and foster-based with a storefront housing cats in the Rockaway mall and an adoption center and thrift-shop in the Roxbury mall.

For more information about Eleventh Hour Rescue, visit ehrdogs.org. Learn more about Petco Love here: petcolove.org.

About Eleventh Hour Rescue Eleventh Hour Rescue, based in Morris County NJ, is a primarily volunteer run, no-kill rescue that saves animals on Death Row from high-kill shelters. Eleventh Hour Rescue dogs and cats are cared for by our compassionate and dedicated team of volunteers and staff. Whether in foster homes, our kennel or adoption centers, each dog and cat receives a clean and safe living environment, fresh food and water, medical attention, and most importantly an abundance of love and care until they find their FURever homes. We are dedicated to educating the community about the animal over-population problem and the importance of spaying and neutering. All funds

go directly to supporting our animals and their needs. We are an eligible charity under federal code 501(c)3 founded in 2004.

About Petco Love Petco Love is a life-changing nonprofit organization that makes communities and pet families closer, stronger, and healthier. Since our founding in 1999, we’ve empowered animal welfare organizations by investing nearly $410 million in adoption and other lifesaving efforts. We’ve helped find loving homes for nearly 7 million pets in partnership with Petco and organizations nationwide. Our love for pets drives us to lead with innovation, creating tools animal lovers need to reunite lost pets, and lead with passion, inspiring and mobilizing communities and our more than 4,000 animal welfare partners to drive lifesaving change alongside us. Is love calling you? Join us. Visit PetcoLove.org or follow us on Facebook, Instagram, X, Threads, and LinkedIn to be part of the lifesaving work we lead every day.

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