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By Megan Roche auren Larson has been consistently posting her daily struggles of being a frontline worker during the COVID-19 pandemic. She shares her personal stories on her Facebook page about what she is seeing everyday while working in healthcare. A therapeutic recreation director at CareOne in Morristown, Larson knows how important keeping up morale is at this time. “I thought it would be a good idea for people to see a glimmer of happiness. It’s been really stressful for everybody, for our employees and our residents. I wanted to start this as a small gesture whether it was a letter or a picture that a kid drew, something to bring happiness to our staff or our residents during this difficult time,” Larson said. Wanting to help raise spirits, Larson began the CareOne Smiles initiative. Sharing her plea on her personal Facebook page, she is urging people to send something small to brighten a patient or employees day. “Laughter is the best medicine, I’ve been raised on that since I was a little girl. It really makes a difference and one smile can go a long way. You helping and giving out a helping hand can really change someone’s outlook on the world and can make their day that much better for something so small,” Larson said. Larson is on the frontlines of the pandemic, along with all her coworkers. While CareOne is a nursing home, they also provide physical and occupational therapy services as well. Through her honest Facebook posts about what it’s like on the front lines, Larson has shared her first hand account of what this time looks like for her and many others in her position. “It’s hard because of the families that can’t come to visit. A lot of our residents don’t understand why their families can’t come to a certain extent. Our residents are lonely and our staff have really become like a second family. We’re holding their hands, praying with them, wiping their tears. We’ve become a family through this and we’ve grown attached to them,” Larson said.

Through the CareOne Smiles initiative, Larson wants everyone in the community to get involved. The project doesn’t take much time or effort, just a simple drawing or a simple note of encouragement has been going a long way for these frontline workers and CareOne residents. “It can be something very generic. You can just write, ‘Dear Whoever’. I’ve been reaching out to schools and Girl Scout communities. Anything positive, it can be a picture, a little letter, a child’s drawing, just to bring happiness to someone who is either 95 or works in housekeeping, food service to as high up as our administrator. It doesn’t really

matter, this will help anybody,” Larson said. So far, the reaction from the residents and staff has been overwhelming. Larson could never have imagined how great the impact would be. “We can read a letter to our residents and I can see their faces just light up. Knowing that there is a glimmer of hope and that the sun will always shine and every day we go through this is another day closer to this being over, it’s making a difference,” Larson said. Donations and cards can be mailed to ATTN: CareOne SMILES, 151 Madison Ave, Morristown NJ, 07960.

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t is a common, if not especially honorable, practice in American politics for a candidate and her campaign to prefer to run not against their actual opponent on the ballot but rather against the most unpopular caricature of the opponent’s party. That explains why Democrats, for close to three decades after the election of 1932, when Franklin Roosevelt crushed Republican Herbert Hoover by 18% in the popular vote and carried 42 of the then 48 states, continued to run against “Herbert Hoover Republicans.” Ignored was Hoover’s humanitarian record during World War I, when through his leadership, 7 million Belgians were rescued from certain starvation. Republicans’ preferred opponents were often painted as “George McGovern Democrats,” after the South Dakota Democrat who, as an all-out critic of the U.S. war in Vietnam, lost 49 of the nation’s 50 states to Richard Nixon in 1972. Overlooked by many of the attacking Republicans -- a number of whom, as young men during Vietnam, were “chicken-hawks,” who hypocritically endorsed a policy of U.S. military escalation while avoiding (through graduate school deferments or previously undiscovered bone spurs) personal participation -- was McGovern’s heroic war record as the 22-year-old pilot of the Air Corps’ hardest-to-fly plane, the B-24, through 35 combat missions and earning of the Distinguished Flying Cross. But, as we all know, politics ain’t beanbag. But President Donald Trump has chosen a different Democrat, beyond former Vice President Joe Biden, to run against in 2020. Apparently, Trump is unaware that in the last 148 years, exactly three U.S. presidents have been able to win more than 51% of the popular vote in consecutive national elections. They were Democrat Franklin Roosevelt (who actually exceeded that total in four presidential wins) and Republican Dwight D. Eisenhower, the widely popular supreme allied commander of the U.S. Allied Forces that vanquished Adolf Hitler’s Germany. And who was the third political powerhouse in this formidable trio? The 44th U.S. president, Barack Obama of Illinois. It is generally agreed that Trump won, and Hillary Clinton lost, Wisconsin and

Mark Shields Michigan in 2016 because of the dramatic drop-off from 2012 (-12.4% in Michigan and -12.3% in Wisconsin) among African American voters, especially in Detroit and Milwaukee. When Obama ran, for the first time in American history, younger black voters voted in greater proportion than did younger whites. The highest voter turnout among any racial, ethnic or gender group in the entire electorate with Obama on the ballot was black women. In 2012, for the first time, black Americans voted at a higher rate than did white Americans. With Obama campaigning, 2 million more Latinos voted than had voted in the previous election. Two million more Blacks voted, and 600,000 more Asians voted as well. With his continuing unsubstantiated accusations against his immediate predecessor of having committed “the greatest political crime in the history of our country,” Trump guarantees Obama’s central role in the continuing campaign debate. It is a fight Trump wants and a fight Trump can only lose. Whatever Barack Obama’s liabilities might have been as chief executive, at the difficult task of winning presidential elections, he is an authentic heavyweight champion. 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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ook out. An “army of contact tracers” is about to be unleashed on America. Corporations, political lobbyists and government bureaucracies all win. Privacy, freedom and family autonomy all lose. Big time. You may have already heard of the aptly named House Bill 6666, sponsored by Illinois Dem. Bobby Rush. Known as the Testing, Reaching and Contacting Everyone (TRACE) Act, the legislation would allocate $100 billion in public funding to “eligible entities” to “conduct diagnostic testing for COVID-19, and related activities such as contact tracing, through mobile health units and, as necessary, at individuals’ residences, and for other purposes.” The cash could be used to hunt down infected individuals, quarantine them in their homes for undefined periods under unknown conditions and subsidize a hiring spree of untold thousands of trackers from nonprofits, schools and medical facilities. As for “other purposes,” the proposal does not define them -- leaving Swamp public health bureaucrats and their pet grantees’ imaginations to run wild. What recourse or appeals process to citizens have when the “experts” get diagnoses and assessments wrong? Or when, say, homeschool families refuse to submit to intrusive phone call monitoring or forced quarantine? What are the opt-in or opt-out mechanisms? H.R. 6666 is silent on all these fundamental issues of autonomy and sovereignty. Feel safer yet? This federally supported surveillance-state bonanza comes on top of the $631 million in Centers for Disease Control funding for contact tracing already in the pipeline after the passage of the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act, plus another $75 billion in proposed contact-tracing spending embedded in the House Democrats’ supplemental stimulus bill known as the HEROES Act. Who benefits? Let’s take one prominent entrant into the “digital transformation services” arena: a company called MTX. Founded in Albany, New York, and now based in Frisco, Texas, the small software company is raking

Michelle Malkin in hundreds of millions of tax dollars to construct “virtual call centers” of 25,000 COVID data-mining agents. In Chicago, MTX has partnered with Google to create an app so residents can “pre-register” for the vaunted coronavirus vaccine and receive alerts on treatments and testing. In Georgia, the company nailed a five-year government contract for a new online contact-tracing platform. In New York and Massachusetts, MTX’s mission has spread to monitoring jobless claims and child care facilities. Lynn Davenport, a Texas public school mom and student privacy activist, reports that MTX is “also donating its newly launched tracking application to all public school districts in the U.S.” Generous... or opportunist? As Davenport and other education technology watchdogs who have documented the proliferation of billions of dollars in invasive student data-mining schemes often remind us: “When it’s free, YOU (and your children) are the product.” Never forget: The price of “free” apps is access to your kids’ search engine queries, website and video browsing, and undoubtedly just around the corner: their temperature, weight and mental health. Contact tracing makes sense for some types of infectious disease epidemics. But with something as widespread as COVID-19, with possibly hundreds of millions of asymptomatic continued on page 6

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Local Agency Offers Host of Programs Online Career Help, Support Groups, Children’s Activities

irtual has become the new reality at Project Self-Sufficiency in Newton as the non-profit agency has pivoted to serving clients via video chat platforms and over the telephone due to the ongoing public health crisis. In addition to distributing record amounts of food to local families, the agency is now hosting support groups, career workshops, parenting forums, and other helpful gatherings online. All services are provided under the auspices of the Sussex County Family Success Center, which is funded by the New Jersey Department of Children & Families. All forums are free and open to the public. Interested participants are encouraged to call the agency to obtain log in information. Noted author, life coach and motivational speaker Diane Lang hosts Motivation Monday, covering topics ranging from stress management to combatting loneliness. Tuesdays are devoted to playful sessions for parents and children and hosted by staff members from the agency’s Little Sprouts Early Learning Center. Career Center Staff hosts Workforce Wednesday sessions where participants can receive help with resume development, inter-

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he Land Conservancy of New Jersey preserved the 63-acre Heere’s Farm in Harmony by acquiring a farmland preservation easement. Permanent preservation of this beautiful farm will help to ensure the viability of farming in Warren County well into the future. The property, located at the end of Esposito Road, was preserved by Bob and Sharon Santini, whose family has been working with The Land Conservancy for over a decade to preserve farmland throughout Warren County. This most recent easement acquisition features a rolling landscape and spectacular views of the Delaware Water Gap. Adding this farm, which will continue to grow corn and soy as it has for many years, expands the preserved farm belt in this portion of Harmony Township all the way to the Delaware River. “I am thrilled that we were able to work with the Santini family to protect this scenic and productive farm. Protecting this land will further expand a preserved farm belt in this part of the township, and in Warren County,” said

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Diary of a Scout Leader:

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By Richard Mabey Jr. ur story so far: It is the first day of summer vacation of 1969. I am 15 years old and have just completed my sophomore year at Boonton High School. It is nearing high noon and I have spent the entire morning painting Thorpe Hall of Saint Andrew’s Episcopal Church, for my Eagle Scout project. After eating my lunch, a man comes to the door and begins banging on the door and demanding that I let him in. Fortunately, I had locked the door. I try to huddle out of sight of this man, who is continuing to hammer on the door and scream for someone to let him in. Shortly after that, my mom knocks on the door of Thorpe Hall. My sister, Patti, is with Mom. I clean up and we all go to Moe’s Sweet Shop. Cute Mary Tafano is at Moe’s. To my utter surprise, Mary asks me to her birthday party on Saturday. Our story continues. It was about 3:30 in the afternoon, when we got home to the old Mabey Homestead on Mabey Lane. My sister Patti, who was 10 years old at the time, ran outside to play on the swing set with her friends from the neighborhood. I needed to talk with my mom, so I volunteered to help Mom with supper. As Mom peeled and cut the carrots, I peeled and cut up the potatoes. I told my mom, in detail, all about what had

happened with the seemingly deranged man pounding on the door of Saint Andrew’s Thorpe Hall. I remember this moment so very well. Mom held my hand for a moment and simply said to me, “Jesus was with you. Jesus protected you from that horrible man. Richie, you must remember that. Always remember that Jesus is always with you.” Mom’s kind words brought comfort to my heart. As I watched Mom peel and cut the carrots, as I peeled and cut the potatoes, I saw the love in my mom’s eyes. And, I then realized, perhaps for the first time in my life, that with every cut of the carrot in her hand, Mom was showing her love for her family. In this very plain and ordinary act of cutting carrots, Mom was saying “I love you” so ever soft and gently. For this was a sacred moment. As sacred as the sacrament given in the most beautiful chapel on the planet. I looked out at the back window, from where I sat at the kitchen table. There was my sister swinging on the swing set with a little girl from the neighborhood. There was the clicking of the kitchen clock, hung up just to the left of the back kitchen window. There was the voice of my mom humming the tune of “How Great Thou Art” as she sliced and cut the stack of carrots in front of her. Yes, this was a continued on page 21

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Diary of a Scout Leader... continued from page 20 moment in time that touched the deepest chambers of my heart. “When your Dad comes home, you’ll have to tell him about that man who pounded on the door at Saint Andrew’s Church, while you were painting,” Mom said to me in a gentle, but firm voice. “I will Mom, I will,” I replied. “I’ll worry about you tomorrow, you know that, don’t you?” “I know you will, Mom,” I replied. “I love you Richie, I don’t want anything to happen to you. You understand?” Mom said to me, as she continued to cut up the carrots into thin pieces. I felt a lump in my throat as I held back my tears. It was not all that often that my Mom told me that she loved me, in the days of my teen years. “I love you too, Mom,” I said to Mom as I cut a potato into small cubes.

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I Remember Dad:

Dad’s Letters from Hickam Airfield

By Richard Mabey Jr. y beloved father often told me that while he was at Hickam Airfield during World War II that he often got so very homesick. Dad told me that when all of his buddies got leave and went off base, he usually stayed in his barracks and wrote letters home, while sitting up in his bed. For the most part, most of these letters are gone. Letters that Dad wrote to his mom and dad, his sister Violet, to his seven brothers and of course, to my mom. During my freshman year of college, back in the Fall of 1971, while attending County College of Morris, I had the afternoon off from the grocery store that I worked at in Whippany. I remember visiting my Grandma Mabey. We had lunch together at her kitchen table in Towaco. Sadly, by that time, Grandpa had gone Home to be with the Lord. Grandma lived with her daughter, Violet, at the kennel that my Aunt Vi owned and operated. I remember this moment so very well. Grandma and I had chicken noodle soup. Grandma asked me if I had planned on signing up for the service. At that time, the Vietnam War was still going on and my grandmother was concerned that if I joined the army that I might have to go to Vietnam. I remember, it was such a serious conversation. Outside the kitchen window, we watched Aunt Vi’s dogs run and play in the side yard.

As Grandma and I ate our chicken soup and sipped iced tea, Grandma told me to wait just a minute that she would be right back. Grandma left the kitchen and I could hear the creak of the stairs as she ascended the staircase to her bedroom. In a few minutes, Grandma returned to the kitchen and sat at her place at the kitchen table. She had in her hand a stack of letters, tied together with a blue ribbon. Grandma slowly untied the blue ribbon and handed me one of the letters in the stack. The letter was addressed to Grandma’s old home at the end of Mabey Lane. The envelope read that it was from my dad at Hickam Airfield. I wanted to be sure that it was okay to read the letter. So, I double checked with Grandma. She simply replied, “Richie, if I didn’t want you to read it, I wouldn’t have given it to you.” So, I took the letter out of the envelope. The letter was postmarked from back in July of 1943. The letter was written on very thin paper and had been mailed to Grandma via U. S. Airmail. I began reading the letter. It deeply touched my heart. In the letter, Dad wrote about how much he missed everyone. He wrote about Hickam Airfield. How the food was okay but nowhere near as good as the meals that Grandcontinued on page 23

My grandparents, Bertha and Watson Mabey, on their wedding day. I am immensely grateful to Grandma Mabey for sharing with me, the letters that Dad wrote her from Hickam Airfield.

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The barracks of Hickam Airfield during World War II. I so very much regret not knowing which one of the barracks was where Dad stayed.

I Remember Dad... cont. from page 22

Dad standing beside a B-25 Bomber Plane at Hickam Airfield.

ma cooked for him. Dad wrote about the pine trees that were abundant in his yard and in the forest that surrounded his home, back

in Lincoln Park. Dad wrote about his new-found friend, Tommy Andrews from Haskell. He wrote about how much he was learning about how to repair the many airplanes of Hickam. And, he wrote about the hundreds and hundreds of airplanes that filled the hangers and fields of Hickam. There was not one single, solitary word from Dad that he was scared that the Japanese might attack Hickam Airfield again. Although, there were many times that Dad told me that there were many rumors of another Japanese attack. I suppose that Dad kept a stiff upper lift, so as not to worry his beloved mother. I was 18 years old when I read that letter. After lunch, I dried the lunch dishes while Grandma washed them. Aunt Vi was out for the day, at a luncheon for the German Shepherd club that she belonged to. That afternoon Grandma and I sat at her kitchen table and Grandma gave me more of Dad’s letters to read. There was a repeating theme in all of the letters, that Dad

couldn’t wait to come back home to his hometown of Lincoln Park. That afternoon, Grandma also showed me her old photograph album of black and white pictures that Dad had sent her from Hickam Airfield. I was so dearly grateful to my grandmother for sharing that side of my dad. A side of Dad, I would have never gotten to know, if Grandma had not shared her letters and pictures with me. That year, I wrote an essay for my English Composition class about Dad’s service at Hickam Airfield. I included a bit of the afternoon when Grandma shared Dad’s letters and photos with me. I am proud to say that I got a grade of an A on that essay. Somewhere, in my boxes and boxes and boxes of my writings, I think I still have it. Regretfully, I couldn’t find it right now. I hope and pray that I still have it. Servicing and repairing airplanes at Hickam Airfield would hardly be the kind of thing that a Hollywood producer would cast

John Wayne for in an epic World War II movie of heroism and true grit. But, still, none-the-less, it was a real service to the war effort. There are no words to define how very proud I am of my dad’s devoted and dedicated service to the Seventh Army Air Corps during World War II. Sadly, when my dad was still on this side of Heaven’s Gate, I just did not thank him enough for his service to our country. It is something that I deeply regret. Oh, so deeply regret. Perhaps you have a loved one, a neighbor, a friend, who served his or her country in the armed services. Please do consider taking the time to thank them. Truly thank them from your heart. You will never know how deeply they will cherish your kind words of appreciation for their sacrifice. Richard Mabey Jr. is a freelance writer. He can be reached at richardmabeyjr@hotmail.com. Please put on the subject line: My Life Publications.

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Very Hungry Caterpillar Inspires Virtual Lessons at Albrook School

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