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wo second-graders and their families from Kennedy Elementary School in Roxbury Township are inspiring their community to stick together through art. Cassidy Zeis from Erin Allen’s second-grade class and her friend Olivia Van Handle from Kathy Byrne’s class partnered up to show how a community can come together through art while still being apart during social distancing. Alli Zeis, Cassidy’s mom shared, “They created a video to get a few friends to do art and created a project which is now hanging on the fence at their school. We created a second video so we can get the rest of our community to participate and other communities to come together through art as well.” Cassidy and Olivia explained, “We wanted to prove that our community can still stick together while being apart through social distancing, so we created a virtual art project. We asked a group of our good friends to paint sticks from their yards and to leave them by their mailboxes. Our moms picked them up 24 hours later and we created our community’s first work of art. Now we are challenging you to pair up with a friend or another family and get others in your neighborhood to help create and display our next community art piece. Take a video of your art piece and

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challenge the next group to keep our community and others connected through art.” Adding, “Here are some tips, be very clear in what you want. Keep it simple and use art items that are convenient and environmentally friendly. Be sure to follow social distancing rules. Make sure you wash your hands and cover

your coughs and sneezes and request that your friends do the same especially when doing their art. Get permission before displaying your artwork if you mount it in a public area. Take pics #WeStickTogether and #WeStickTogetherRoxbury and most importantly, have fun! Let’s stick together Roxbury!”

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Twas the Night Before Tomorrow By Claudia Ehrgott (with pickups from the original poem “Twas the Night Before Christmas” Twas the night before tomorrow And in every room Our family was thinking about doom and gloom Our masks were all ready so as to take care In hopes that the quarantine’s end would be there We were all nestled all snug in our beds, While visions of gatherings danced in our heads And you with your zinc and me with my C Had just settled down to get some Z’s. Anything to be well is OK with me. When out on the lawn there arose such a clatter, I sprang from my bed to see what was the matter. Away to the window I flew like a flash, Tore away the nightshade and threw up the sash. The moon on the breast of a Spring budded tree Made me think, there is hope, maybe we will be free! When what to my wondering eyes did appear

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But a COVID-19 super-hero, she is here, she is here! With a cape and a crown, so peaceful yet strong, I knew in a moment it won’t be that long. More rapid than impalas, she sprang and she ran, She leaped and she spun and shouted “I can”! Now Virus! now Droplets! now Fever! now Cough! On Distancing! on, Protection, on, Hope, on, Prayer! To the ends of the Earth, bring back what you stole, Put an end to this Pandemic and let us be whole! As a hot sun can burn through the thick clouds, May the virus be squelched and not be allowed! Her power and determination was something to see Her energy was inspiring, please let it be! She fought like a warrior, we know she will be queen, Of the memories we will have of 2019! Away she flew as quickly as she came, Giving us our lives back, despite the losses, what a shame. So as you reflect in the years yet ahead, COVID-19 will not win, we will be alright, so she said! © Claudia Ehrgott

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A VIEW FROM THE LEFT

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here will be no graduation festivities this spring at dozens of American colleges and universities, including Ohio State, Brigham Young, Howard, Swarthmore, Notre Dame, Duke, UCLA and Yale. That means this year’s graduates and their closest relatives and friends will not have the benefit of sitting on hard chairs and listening to the commencement speaker. As someone who has, on 15 different occasions, tested the patience as well as the attention span of graduation audiences, I semimodestly offer the proud but uncelebrated grads of 2020 the generic commencement speech they will not have to sit through. The speaker should always remember the wise counsel of President Franklin Roosevelt, a man who knew how to give a successful speech: “Be sincere; be brief; be seated.” My own favorite opener, to assure those present that they would not be subject to a filibuster was this: “As King Henry VIII said to each of his six wives, ‘Don’t worry; I won’t keep you long.’” Believe me, in the long history of oratory, no listener has ever said to any speaker, “Boy, that was a really good speech, but it was too short.” The graduation speech includes some practical advice for the young graduates from the sage veteran on the stage. My personal favorite was the late Art Buchwald’s timeless charge to a graduating class at his alma mater, the University of Southern California: “We, the older generation, have given you a perfect world. So don’t screw it up.” Graduates have a civic responsibility to engage in public life, and, yes, that includes politics. They deserve to know the inescapable political truth: “In every political campaign you’re ever in, you will invariably encounter somebody on your side you wish devoutly was on the Other Side.” Graduating seniors deserve the unvarnished truth: “Yes, life is unfair. For example, no one really cares at all if a banker writes a bad poem. But pity the poor poet who writes a bad check.” Every graduate must be told the following: “Call your mother.” We’re not

Mark Shields talking email or text messaging. Because she knows you better than you know yourself and because she loves you, your mother wants to hear your voice to know how you really are doing. Not all presidents have railed about and against “fake news.” Franklin Roosevelt, the only American president ever elected four times, used to read and devour five newspapers every day. One evening, with a first edition of The Washington Post, President Roosevelt, who was under the weather read the front-page headline: “FDR in Bed With Co-Ed.” Immediately, the president, laughing, called the Post and requested 100 copies of the paper. He wanted to distribute them to his friends. The embarrassed Post immediately corrected the headline to “FDR in Bed With Cold.” Finally, we should all be reminded of our responsibilities to one another and our debt to those who went before us: “Always remember that each of us has been warmed by fires we did not build; each of us has drunk from wells we did not dig. We owe no less to those who come after us, and, together, we can do even better.” Happy graduation. 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 100% MailedNewspaper Flanders, NJ 07836

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nti-patriot hatred never rests. Hollywood has launched a new character assassination vehicle targeting the late great Phyllis Schlafly. “Mrs. America” debuts on FX on Hulu this week with liberal actress Cate Blanchett starring as the traditionalist Catholic conservative activist who defeated the so-called Equal Rights Amendment in the 1970s and went on to helm the influential Eagle Forum until her death at 92 in 2016. Blanchett, who also served as executive producer on the project, denies any bias against Schlafly and points to the entire movie staff’s refusal to speak with any of her family members as proof of its neutrality. But blocking input from those who knew the phenomenal matriarch, lawyer and author of more than 20 books conveniently allowed the Tinseltown fable-tellers to fabricate calumnious scenes out of thin air -- including a fantastical depiction of Schlafly’s devoted husband, Fred, forcing the female conservative icon to have sex against her will. With the couple both deceased and family members unable to defend their marriage of 44 years, nobody and nothing stood in the way of Blanchett and Co. disseminating a cunning lie crafted to cast conservative women as abused captives with no independent agency behind closed doors. Anne Schlafly Cori, one of Schlafly’s six children and chair of the Eagle Forum, vigorously refuted Blanchett’s depiction of her mother in trailers released ahead of this Wednesday’s premiere. “Her acting is cold, cruel, and calculating,” she told Vanity Fair. “Phyllis Schlafly was warm and gracious and her beliefs were sincere. Women idolized Phyllis Schlafly.” I can testify to this firsthand. As a young conservative writer in the early 1990s, the Phyllis Schalfly Report greatly influenced my views on education, feminism, multiculturalism and immigration. (For my first newspaper column photo at the Los Angeles Daily News, I even emulated her trademark bun.) I admired Schlafly’s intellect, vigilance, style, grace,

Michelle Malkin prolific output and commitment to family. In my travels as a journalist, I met legions of women inspired by Schlafly to run for school board and local and statewide offices on behalf of their families, faith and nation. Schlafly was as down-to-earth in person as her column voice and TV debates -- and contrary to a Wall Street Journal movie reviewer’s attack on her “resentment” and “rage,” she was the quintessential happy warrior with a twinkle in her eyes. Far from the “lone wolf” portrayal of Schlafly in “Mrs. America,” Schlafly was constantly surrounded by old and new proteges and mentees. After publication of my first book, “Invasion,” in 2002, I was honored to receive an “Eagle Award” from Schlafly and the Eagle Forum for “articulate leadership in bringing the truth to the American people.” A plaque signed by Schlafly hangs in my home office. I am just one of thousands of conservative activists, volunteers, elected officials and media personalities who have received the honor since 1972. The “Mrs. America” that nationalist conservatives honor was ahead of the curve on the issues that defined the presidential campaign of Donald Trump, whom she endorsed in March 2016. Long before “drain the swamp” became a MAGA meme, Schlafly had called out continued on page 5

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Phyllis Schlafly... continued from page 4 the “secret kingmakers” of the Republican establishment in her seminal book, “A Choice Not an Echo,” way back in 1964. Those East Coast power brokers and financiers propped up liberal GOP ciphers, she wrote, to “preserve their America Last foreign policy” and “foreign giveaways.” Today, the new generation of donor-class elites work in backrooms to serve the same “Open Borders Inc.” agenda -- and many are embedded in the Trump White House undermining it from within while stabbing American students, workers and taxpayers in the back. If Pat Buchanan is the godfather of “America First,” Phyllis Schlafly is its godmother. For decades, she relentlessly lambasted globalism, unfair trade deals and border anarchy -- earning derision from both the establishment left and right in Washington (along with the smear merchants at the Southern Poverty Law Center) as being “racist,” anti-Semitic” and “bigoted.” Highlighting one of the Eagle Forum’s most important reports in 2014 on “How Mass (Legal) Immigration Dooms a Conservative Republican Party,” Schlafly called out the cheap foreign labor lobby suppressing American workers’ wages. Importing 1 million new foreigners every

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The Albrook School Students Attend Nursing Professor on Good 2020 Mmun Conference Hygiene When Grocery Shopping During Pandemic

aldwell University Nursing Professor Kathleen Ann Kelley, DNP, MSN, RN is providing vital information on how to practice good hygiene when going to the grocery store during the coronavirus pandemic. Kelley originally recorded a video for social media and because it was so popular she was asked to share it with the wider community. “I put together this video after seeing so many people contaminating themselves due to improper use of the mask and gloves while at the food store,” said Kelley, director of undergraduate nursing education. Kelley, who has a trauma and critical care nursing background, provides information on how to put masks and gloves on and off properly, packing the car, what to do when taking your groceries into your home and cleaning your reusable bags. Among her tips, she emphasizes putting on hand sanitizer before taking the mask on and off, making sure the sanitizer gets in between your fingers, how to take the gloves off without touching your skin and much more.

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odel Montessori United Nations was an excellent opportunity for Albrook’s upper elementary students to go to New York and present solutions to solve world problems. Before they attended, they had to write position papers and speeches on their topics and raise money for their trip. This year, some students from Albrook attended along with Ms. Hicks, Director of Human Resources, as their lead. The presentation topics were Illegal, Unreported, and Unregulated (IUU) Fishing the United Nations Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 14 and Food Security SDG 2, serious topics for elementary students to address. While spending time in New York the delegates took part in a flag bearing ceremony representing the countries they were assigned, listened to speeches, made motions and were asked to create real-life solutions to real-life problems. Two of our students were even chosen to be on a special project committee. In two days, they produced two extensively edited documents detailing comprehensive solutions to complex problems. The maturity, dedication, and efforts put forth by all of the delegates were beyond commendable.

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Denville Sunrise Rotary Club Honors Students

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ervice Above Self” is the motto of Rotary International. Cities all over the world look for ways to raise money, which benefits their towns. Twelve years ago, the Denville Sunrise Rotary initiated a program to award township students whose extra-curricular, volunteer efforts could be recognized. These young people committed themselves to all kinds of assistance to groups beyond school activities. These included, but were not limited to tutors, nurses’ assistants, Senior Center volunteers, Library readers, Homeless meal preparation and distribution, children’s activities, religious organizations, and any number of Denville Civic activities. With cooperation from the Advisors of Valleyview Middle School and Morris Knolls

High School, candidates are nominated for our student awards honor. This semester’s nominees are Kerri Shaw and Anna Staltari. Kerri is a member of the National Honor Society, runs winter and spring track, and is a member of the Interact Club, including volunteering at Santa Land. She has worked in the Hudson Valley Food Bank, collected school supplies for lower income families, organized a Charity Benefit for the American Cancer Society and participated in Student Government at Morris Knolls High School. Kerri is deciding which college to attend from the five colleges she was accepted at. Anna is an eighth-grade student at Valleyview Middle School. She is co-captain of the Valleyview Mock Trial Club and was to star in the Spring Musical Production of “Legally Blonde”. She is a

coach for Hub Soccer, an aide at St. Mary’s Church CCD, sold Christmas Trees at Knuth Farms, an assistant at Denville Library programs and a volunteer at the Lakeview Fun Fest for the past five years. She has sung the National Anthem at the Mayor’s Inauguration, Dedication at the Courtyard of Mayor Dwyer, the Denville Triathlon and Opening Day for Denville Little League PAL. The students and their parents are invited to a Rotary meeting, where their Advisors introduce the students, highlighting their individual achievements. Each student is awarded a Certificate of Merit and a $100.00 cash gift. Denville Sunrise Rotarians are proud to honor these students and acknowledge their service to the community.

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Long-term Care – It’s Not Just Nursing Homes

he Arc/Morris opened its first group home for people with developmental disabilities in 1983. From the very beginning, our work was predicated on providing normal homelike environments. In the years since, assisted by local officials and caring people in neighborhoods throughout Morris County, development continued. Today, The Arc/Morris provides housing and services for more than 120 adults. We are your neighbors. We are also a crucial part of the non-institutional longterm care system in New Jersey. And then there was a pandemic. One morning, a group home resident was discovered by staff to have fallen out of bed. An ambulance was called, and he was taken to the hospital. The next day, he was diagnosed positive for corona virus. The news hit like a ton of bricks. And so began a whirlwind of activity to try to meet the incredible challenge of supporting adults with developmental disabilities in group homes and apartments across Morris County. The day programs we also operate were closed in early March. But you can’t close someone’s home. And you can’t leave adults with developmental disabilities alone for 14 days to shelter in place. Our residents require 24/7 supervision and support. And that means daily, roundthe-clock staffing. Just like in a nursing home. Only we’re

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hould a person hear that a couple “tied the knot,” it’s immediately known that they got married. But just when and where does the term “tying the knot” come from? The phrase “tying the knot” is steeped in tradition, though the origins of the phrase remain open for debate. One origin story states that tying the knot can be traced back to the Roman empire, when brides wore girdles that were tied in knots, and the groom had to eventually untie those knots to consummate the marriage. Tying the knot also may be traced to the custom of handfasting. The marriage contract was established between a bride and a groom by joining their hands together and tying them. Although accounts vary as to whether the hands were tied only during the ceremony or later, this is believed to be an ancient Renaissance or Celtic tradition. Others speculate that the phrase traces its

origins to Hindu weddings in which brides and grooms tied a necklace of flowers as part of wedding tradition. Yet another theory suggests that the phrase can be traced back to the knotted string that supported beds prior to the use of metal springs. Therefore, in order to make a marriage bed, couples first needed to tie the knot. Knots also represent a difficult-to-break bond, which is why they have long been associated with marriage. In one unity tradition, couples may braid or knot together three strands, with one representing the bride, one symbolizing the groom and the third representing God as they join together in faith. Similarly, the phrase “getting hitched” is associated with knot-tying as well. The saying implies that two people are being tied together just like a horse is tied, or hitched, to a wagon.

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I Remember Dad: Dad’s Old Ford Ranger Trucks

By Richard Mabey Jr. y father had a great fondness and appreciation for Ford Ranger Trucks. Dad had two different Ford Rangers, in the course of about two decades, from around 1985 till 2005, Dad always owned a Ford Ranger. He simply loved them. His first Ford Ranger was red in color with gray trim. Dad’s second Ford Ranger was white in color. There was an era, between 1985 and 2005, where Dad was the only one in our neighborhood in Lincoln Park who owned a pick-up truck. My father had a very kind heart, so it wasn’t uncommon on a Saturday afternoon for Dad to drive one of the neighbors, in his Ford Ranger, to one of the big home improvement stores to buy lumber, or an outdoor children’s swing set, or a barbecue grill, or a whole list of oversized products that simply would not fit into the trunk of a car. It was just one reflection of the goodness that abided in the chambers of my dad’s heart. I remember one morning, in the Summer of 1995, Dad still had his first Ford Ranger, the red one. Dad and I both got up early one Saturday morning, to bring the recycling to the recycling center at the end of Main

Street in Lincoln Park. We filled the back of Dad’s Ranger with bags of aluminum cans, glass bottles, plastic bottles and bundles of newspapers. It was one of those things that I cherished doing with my dad. After we dropped off the recycling, Dad and I stopped off to Moe’s Sweet Shop for breakfast. We had parked on Zeliff Place. Well, we were sipping our coffee, waiting for our breakfast, when one of Dad’s former scouts came in with his young son. Dad was surprised to the gentleman, who had been a scout in Boy Scout Troop 170, back in the mid 1970’s. John introduced his son, who appeared to be about eight years old, to Dad and I. And then little Johnny was coached, by his father, to tell my dad something that he dreaded to tell Dad. The boy began to tell my dad that he dinged the driver’s side door of Dad’s truck when he opened the car door too strongly and too widely. John told my dad that he figured the truck belonged to my father, because of all the scouting decals on the truck. My dad did cringe just a little. But, he assured the nervous little boy that it was okay. My dad told the boy that he was sure that he didn’t mean to hit his truck on purpose. Then Dad invited John and his son to sit down with

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us, which they did. It was a grand and wonderful little reunion. We reminisced memories of the glory days of Troop 170. And, Dad encouraged little Johnny to join Cub Scouts. We all walked out of Moe’s Sweet Shop together. Dad nonchalantly noticed the big ding in the door of his Ford Ranger. As Dad drove homeward bound, up Main Street, he simply said to me, “it was worth a ding in my truck to see John again and to meet his son.” And, I know in my heart of hearts, that Dad really meant those words.

Sometimes, when I’m in a grocery store parking lot or the parking lot of one of those big box stores, I might come across an older Ford Ranger. It’s so funny. In a matter of a second or two, just walking by an old Ford Ranger, it can bring back a thousand and one memories. The old cherished memories of a bygone era. Oh, to simply ride with Dad, one more time, in his old Ford Ranger. Richard Mabey Jr. is a freelance writer. He can be reached at richardmabeyjr@hotmail. com.

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This Spring Welcomes A Robust California Avocado Season

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he 50th anniversary of Earth Day on April 22 can be a good time for everyone to take some time to get outside, even if current conditions mean a community event to celebrate isn’t available. Fortunately, there are plenty of ways to honor the Earth in your own backyard. “You don’t need to leave home to celebrate Earth Day. Remember, nature starts at your back door,” explains Kris Kiser, President of the TurfMutt Foundation, an organization that encourages outdoor learning experiences, stewardship of green spaces, and care for living landscapes for the benefit of all. “Get outside, mow your lawn, trim bushes, plant a butterfly bush. By becoming a steward of your yard, you are helping the planet. At the same time, you’re supporting your health and well-being, which is increasingly important as families spend more time at home.” What You Can Do Here are six tips to celebrate Earth Day without ever leaving home: 1.Get outside. Your backyard is an outdoor living room and safe place for pets and kids to play. Science proves spending time in your family’s yard is good for your health and well-being, and so important today as everyone looks for creative ways to stay well while being confined to the home. Researchers have found that people living in neighborhoods with more birds, shrubs and trees are less likely to suffer from depression, anxiety and stress. 2.Make the outdoors a family project. Take your loved ones outside to assess your space. What’s working well? What could be improved? What can you plan to do together in your backyard? Anything needing to be cleaned up? Make a plan to expand or spruce up your yard.

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2 Large Pizzas from Gourmet Section 2 Large Pizzas w/any 2 Toppings, 2 Large Plain Pizzas, 3 Super Large Strombolis, (Meat or Veggie) & 80 Blazing Hot Wings, 3Ft Hero (1 ft. Italian, 1 ft. Turkey, 1 ft. Roast Beef)

18" Assorted Mini Sandwich Platter, 48 Mini Sandwiches, Minimum 12 of Each Variety

$132.17 $69.73 $258.75 $72.00 -19.78 SAVINGS 28% -38.22 SAVINGS 29% -83.80 SAVINGS 32% -24.00 SAVINGS 33%

49.95+tax $93.95+tax $174.95+tax $48.00+tax TAKE OUT • DINE IN • DELIVERY • CATERING $

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FAMILY COMBO

MUSSEL MANIA

1 Large Cheese Pizza 1 Order Wings, 1 Order Mozzarella Sticks & 1 2-Liter Soda

1 Large Cheese Pizza Fried Calamari, Baked Ziti, House Salad w/ choice of Dressing & 1 2-Liter Soda

2 Large Cheese Pizzsa 1 Large Order Mussels 1 Large Salad

$33.80 - 7.95 SAVINGS 24%

$39.80 - 9.95 SAVINGS 25%

$43.80 - 11.30 SAVINGS 26%

25.85+tax