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We’re going to put you to sleep and put a tube into your lungs to help you breathe so you can rest and heal. I’ll be with you the whole time.” All they see are big glasses, a face shield, and a mask; a gloved hand holding theirs. Thankfully, they can’t see my eyes well up with tears. They can’t hear my thoughts of “Am I going to be the last person they talk to?” They can’t feel my heart breaking for them. Every intubation, every death guts me. My heart breaks for every family that has lost someone from COVID-19. I didn’t become a nurse to watch people die. I became a nurse to help, to heal. A lot of shifts end without progression, feeling unaccomplished and helpless. And it’s not just me. Every healthcare professional is in the same boat. We are all trying to help. We are all at the bedside, holding hands, wiping tears, providing reassuring words and comfort. We all cheer internally when we hear “Here Comes the Sun” over the loudspeaker, which is played every time someone with COVID-19 leaves the hospital. We all get upset when another one dies. We are all trying our very best for every single patient that comes into the hospital. They say the peak has hit, and I see the news that people are protesting, wanting to go back to work, wanting to go on vacations and travel and be out with friends. I wish I could take every single one of them with me to work. I wish I could let them see the destruction this virus has done and what it’s still capable of. This isn’t close to being over. Now is not the time to go out and celebrate because the numbers are finally starting to

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Morris-Sussex Sports Shouts Out Healthcare Heroes and Spring Sport Seniors

By Megan Roche hile they are usually covering all around high school athletics, Morris-Sussex sports has taken the initiative to highlight those on the front lines of the coronavirus pandemic. George Muha, the founder of Morris Sussex Sports, was trying to figure out a way to keep his business afloat as the coronavirus pandemic took hold. With a business that showcases high school athletics, how would one continue to honor the athletic prowess and skills that it takes to be a high performance athlete? Muha spoke to his team and has shifted his website to honor those on the frontlines with special trading cards. “I was looking at the news from a business perspective when this all first started. The whole world was collapsing, and I’m collapsing. Every single business in the world is taking a hit. I didn’t want to cut people back and lay people off. I made the decision to continue to work and I told them that we were going to continue with the trading cards. We felt it was the right thing to do to honor the parents and relatives of these athletes and the wives and husbands of the coaches who do so much,” Muha said. So far, those nominated have included alumni, parents, student athletes, and brothers and sisters. To nominate someone on the front lines of the coronavirus pandemic, just shoot Muha a Facebook message on Morris Sussex Sports or drop him an email at www.morrissussexsports.com. The trading cards are being processed as they come in with requests. Morris Sussex Sports covers over 40 high schools throughout the Morris County and Sussex County area. Muha and his team cover every game with scoring updates, player interviews, and sometimes even play by play live calls at certain games through-

out the year. More importantly to Muha, it’s about giving the athletes the attention that they deserve while many local news outlets have forgone covering high school athletics. “We mainly cover high school sports, and at the end of the day, we want to highlight the good within our community. We also feel that high school athletes are some of the best people in our areas. It’s not easy to be on a team for four years. It takes good grades, managing your time, sacrifice, you are doing all the right things. These kids are the most important part of our community and at this time, we need to love on these kids. We need to show them that they matter,” Muha said. Muha also wanted to make sure that Morris Sussex fans were staying healthy and taking the proper precautions during the coronavirus. Him and the team came up with a way of designing facemasks that when purchased, all monies are being donated back to those on the front lines at this time. More information on facemasks can be found on Morris Sussex Sports’ Facebook page. And what about those seniors who play spring sports who had their seasons taken away? Morris Sussex Sports is continuing to honor them too. Each day, Morris Sussex Sports is hosting podcasts where they talk with coaches and players from teams from around the area. The Morris Sussex Sports crew is working hard to highlight every sport and every coach from the 40 high schools that they cover. They are also having discussions with some of the local college sports teams in the areas as well. “We’re hosting a daily talk show from 3:00-5:00 pm. All of a sudden, especially for these seniors, this is what they were training for and it was taken away very quickly.

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s you probably already knew, the next six months of 2020 presidential campaigning are going to be ugly. I do not say this happily, but I do so based upon a lifetime of watching candidates run for election and reelection. Almost invariably, politicians return to what worked successfully in previous campaigns. Consider the most recent presidential election of 2016. When exit polls across the nation asked actual voters whether their opinion of the two candidates was favorable or unfavorable, their answers were Donald Trump 38% favorable and 60% unfavorable, and Hillary Clinton 43% favorable and 55% unfavorable. In the same survey, just 36% of voters found Clinton to be “honest and trustworthy,” while 61% did not. For Trump, the numbers were even worse: 33% saw him as “honest and trustworthy,” and 64% did not. It is fair to conclude that with numbers as bad as the ones real live voters gave the 2016 Republican nominee, the only reason Trump won an electoral college victory and the White House was because he was running against Clinton. The cold, hard truth is that if Trump had been running unopposed in 2016, he would have lost decisively. Now comes further nations evidence of Trump’s increasingly challenging situation in 2020. A sweeping survey of more than 22,000 voters in all 50 states, done by researchers at Rutgers, Northeastern and Harvard, found that every single governor won a higher rating than Trump on handling the coronavirus. This is not a partisan divide. The four governors who get the highest approval numbers on handling the pandemic are three Republicans a lone Democrat: Ohio Republican Gov. Mike Dewine (83% approval), Massachusetts Republican Gov. Charlie Baker (80% approval), Maryland Republican Gov. Larry Hogan (80% approval) and, the only Democrat

Mark Shields to get similarly high marks, Kentucky’s Democratic Gov. Andy Beshear (81% approval), whose numbers in his deeply red state are 30% higher than Kentuckians give Trump. Nationally, voters give their governors an average approval rating of 66% on their response to the pandemic, while these same voters give Trump just a 44% approval rating on his handling of the coronavirus. As of this day, it is clear that Trump, when faced with the biggest crisis of his presidency, has, in the eyes of most voters, failed to lead, to unite or to comfort the country nearly as well as the nation’s governors have done and are doing. Donald Trump, even his staunch supporters will admit in private, could not win a referendum by the country’s voters on whether they want him for a second term. His only hope is to relentlessly belittle, disparage, demonize and, yes, savage his opponent. It will not be pretty, but we have some idea -- because it worked once in 2016 -- what to expect. 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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he Great Toilet Paper Scare of 2020 has come to end, but don’t breathe a sigh of relief just yet. The Spring Meat Stampede is here. At my local Costco in Colorado Springs on Monday, fresh chicken breast was nowhere to be found. Nationwide, bacon prices doubled. Wholesale pork prices for ham, ribs and loins rose between 12% and 32% over the last seven days. COVID-19 outbreaks among the nation’s major meat processing plants have shut down nearly 20% of the country’s fresh pork production. Chinese-owned Smithfield Foods has shuttered five facilities so far because of sick and no-show workers; Tyson Foods warns “the food supply is breaking” and “millions of pounds of meat will disappear” by May 1 after the mega-corporation idled its largest pork plant in Iowa, a beef plant in Washington state and another meatpacking facility in Indiana. On Tuesday, President Donald Trump invoked the Defense Production Act to compel the nation’s biggest meat processors to stay open and stave off shortages. How exactly the feds will “address liability issues” (which Tyson Foods execs complained about to Trump) and force union leaders to comply remains unclear. Whether the order actually heads off mass hysteria is also iffy. As we saw with the toilet paper rush, Chicken Little-ism is contagious. Warnings about shortages induce shortages. Admonitions of “Don’t hoard the Charmin” failed in the face of mob behavior. Same with “Don’t hoard the hocks.” With meat prices rising, the economic landscape looks bleak. While gas is less than $2 a gallon, much of the nation is still locked down and off the streets, out of the cars and in no hurry to get on planes or trains. The latest Consumer Price Index summary reveals rising rent prices and costs of medical care services on top of spiking meat prices. With nearly 26 million Americans now out of work, signs of impending stagflation loom. That “V-shaped recovery” is more like a “P.D.” recovery: Pipe Dream. More candor from all the Beltway “experts” about what we face would be

Michelle Malkin helpful to our suffering citizenry. While we’re at it, this nation must confront the dangers of dependency on the globalized, homogenized methods of producing meat and other key products in our food supply, which is concentrated in the hands of a quarter of giant multinational corporations who press for unlimited alien workers in exchange for low food prices. An estimated 30% of America’s meat production employees are foreign-born. As usual, “Open Borders Inc.” reaps all the benefits while we’re left holding an empty grocery bag. Let’s remember: Tyson Foods was embroiled in an illegal immigrant smuggling racket two decades ago. The company has paid Swamp lobbyists like Republican Ed Gillespie millions of dollars to push for illegal immigrant amnesty. And Big Meat coordinates with refugee resettlement racketeers to import tens of thousands of cheap laborers from Asia, Africa and Latin America into the heartland. Just one example: Tyson fundamentally transformed Waterloo, Iowa, by working with faith-based government contractors to ship in thousands of lowwage Burmese refugees to fill jobs at the meat plant now at the center of a coronavirus outbreak. Since 2002, 9,143 refugees from 37 countries have resettled in Iowa (which doesn’t include so-called secondary migration, or friends and relcontinued on page 5

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Meet Your Denville PTA President Moms

By Megan Roche etween running a household, working a full-time job, attending sports games and dance recitals, these moms have also devoted their time as co-presidents of Denville’s K-8 elementary and middle schools. At Denville Life, we wanted to honor these hard working moms for all they do for Mother’s Day. Mary Ferrone and Jenny Darlington Mary Ferrone is a co-president of Riverview School’s PTA. The mom of two, a 9 year old boy and a 10 year old girl, Ferrone has been a member of the PTA as a class mom and volunteer for a few years. Ferrone works a full time job as a relationship manager for 401K and retirement plans by day, but really enjoys her work as a mom and PTA co-president. “I started just by volun-

Mary Ferrone and children.

teering so that I could see my kids during the day. I was a class mom and what I found was that there was so much good being done with the PTA and there weren’t enough volun-

Jenny Darlington and son.

teers. I started helping a little more each year. About three years ago, the entire board was stepping down and I found myself with an opportunity and to come in as the vice president. I re-

ally wanted to get involved and after one year, we found that the job of a president is really hard when you are working a full time job as well. The president at the time had asked me to

step up from vice president and become a co-president with her,” Ferrone said. Ferrone credits the other members of the PTA as to why they have been so successful with every proj-

ect that they have taken on. Ferrone has also learned a lot about herself and her children through her presidency. “Through the PTA, you cont. on page 19

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Denville PTA President Moms... continued from page 18 really meet people constantly and you build relationships based off of that. I have been able to expand my circle and force myself to be more outgoing. Our PTA and our school is like an extended family. To see my kids being happy and doing what they love to do, I’m able to really know my kids and I want to help them and their friends grow and express their interests,” Ferrone said. Jenny Darlington is a co-president of Riverview School’s PTA. The mom of one, Tucker, an 8 year old in third grade, works full time for Wyndham, while balancing a busy schedule. While working, her job enables her the ability to be available by email and with that flexibility, Darlington finds it easy to handle her PTA duties while working. “I love it and the flexibility with work makes it all possible.” Darlington said. “It’s most important to me that managing and identifying my priorities, and self care are present in my life everyday. I believe that those two things are so important between being a mom, working a full time job, and being a PTA president. That’s why having a co-president is so helpful, because we all work together and we’re all in this togeth-

er. The new norm is working moms doing the PTA stuff. We’re all in the same situation.” One of the major projects that the Riverview PTA helped out with was the addition of a sensory room at the school. The sensory room enables students to be stimulated in a different environment and allows teachers to de-escalate potential situations. The Riverview PTA raised money during their tricky trays to help fund the room in 2019. “All of the fundraising we did created a sensory room and we also put in an overhead projector in the gym that displays games on the floor. The things that Riverview School does makes me so proud to be involved in it and to send my kid to. There’s love, empathy, kindness, and the staff and faculty are teaching the kids the right things. It’s a wonderful place to be,” Darlington said. Jessica Schmucker Jessica Schmucker is the president of Valleyview Middle School’s PTA. Schmucker manages her 16-year-old son, 14 year old son, and 7 year old daughter. Schmucker also has an 11 year old stepson. On top of juggling family duties, Schmucker also

Jessica Schmucker and family.

works full time in international sales for Avis Budget Group. While a very independent person, Schmucker knows that to run a PTA effectively, she needs all the help she can get. “Reaching out and depending on other people is a big part of running a PTA. I had never really gotten involved when my boys were little, so I really came into this know-

ing nothing about running a PTA. I have a really great team behind me, everyone is extremely supportive,” Schmucker said. Schmucker credits the work that the entire board does for the kids at Valleyview. Schmucker was most proud when the board brought back the Holiday Shopping Bazaar after it hadn’t happened for a few continued on page 20

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Denville PTA President Moms... continued from page 19 years. Schmucker is grateful for the experiences on the PTA, happy that she took the leap to join. Overall, Schmucker loves being a mom. “I’m so proud of my kids for always coming out on the positive side of things. They are all successful in their own ways. My kids are very resilient and they haven’t let the bad things get them down.” Schmucker’s vice president Barbara Ammiano did not respond to the interview request. Aparna Mallampali Aparna Mallampali is a co-president of Lakeview School’s PTA. The mom of two is a stay at home mother, but has embraced her PTA president duties as her full time career. Nidhi, an eighth grader, and Neel, a fifth grader, bring Mallampali a sense of pride. “Being a mother in itself is something to be cherished. There is no other job which is more comprehensive. You are a nurturer, a confidant, a teacher and a protector, all rolled into one. I’m also very proud that they take pride in their Indian ancestry and don’t try to downplay it for the fear of being different. As a parent, I think we are most proud when our fledglings aren’t Member NJ Arborists Association Commercial • Residential Owner Operated

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reshen up family dinners by adding new ingredients like pecans, with natural richness and subtle sweetness coupled with irresistible crunch. Kitchen staples are being used to add twists to traditional dishes, so finding an item you can use to mix up classic family recipes is key. Pecans pack flavor, texture and nutrition all in one bite, and they have a long shelf life. Shelled pecans can be kept in airtight containers in the refrigerator for about nine months and for up to two years in sealed plastic bags in the freezer. While pecans are beloved in classic desserts, like pecan pie, they also offer a variety of nutrition benefits that can be added to nearly any meal. They are among the highest in “good” monounsaturated fats, contain 3 grams of plant protein per serving and are a source of fiber, flavonoids and minerals like manganese, which is essential for metabolism and bone health. Nearly two decades of research document the heart-health benefits of pecans.

In fact, according to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, scientific evidence suggests but does not prove that eating 1 1/2 ounces per day of most nuts, such as pecans, as part of a diet low in saturated fat and cholesterol, may reduce the risk of heart disease. One serving of pecans (28 grams) has 18 grams of unsaturated fat and only 2 grams of saturated fat. Add crunch to this Chinese Chicken Salad with Pecans by swapping out croutons, use chopped pecans as a flavorful and nutrient-dense coating for Pecan Chicken Meatballs and bake this Pecan Banana Bread as a nutritious and kid-friendly breakfast or snack to fill your home with a delicious scent. Discover more nutritious recipes at AmericanPecan.com. Pecan Chicken Meatballs Prep time: 10 minutes Cook time: 30 minutes Yield: 9 meatballs 1 pound ground chicken

1/4cup spinach, chopped 1 tablespoon fresh lemon juice 1 egg 1 teaspoon minced garlic 1/4 teaspoon onion powder 1/4 teaspoon paprika 1/4 teaspoon salt 1/4 teaspoon pepper 1/4 teaspoon cayenne pepper (optional) cup finely chopped fresh pecan pieces, divided

Heat oven to 400 F. Line baking sheet with parchment paper. In large bowl, mix ground chicken, spinach, lemon juice, egg, garlic, onion powder, paprika, salt, pepper, cayenne (if desired) and 1/2 cup pecans until well combined. Roll chicken mixture into 1 tablespoonsized meatballs. Place reserved pecans in bowl. Roll meatballs in pecans to coat then place on prepared baking sheet. Bake 20-30 minutes until meatballs are cooked through. Serve warm with sauces for dipping or over pasta. Chinese Chicken Salad with Pecans Prep time: 15 minutes Cook time: 10 minutes Servings: 4 Dressing: 1/4 cup pecan butter 1 tablespoon rice vinegar 1 tablespoon honey 1 teaspoon toasted sesame oil

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