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Montville Girls Basketball Make History With Winning Season
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By Jason Cohen ontville girls’ basketball had many losing seasons. But, earlier this month, it became the first girls’ team in school history to make it to the semifinal round of the state tournament. On March 3, the second-seeded Montville girls’ varsity basketball team lost to third-seeded Old Tappan, 54-42, in the semifinal round of the NJSIAA North Jersey, Section 1, Group 3 state tournament. Additionally, the Lady Mustangs’ set the record for most wins in a season with 22. “I know our seniors were proud of the 22 wins,” said Head Coach Derek Lynn. When Lynn, 36, became head coach nine years ago the team had lost 72 straight games. In fact, his first year as coach, the team went 0-24, which he described as a “humbling experience.” “It was a challenge,” he said. “When I took over the job the team was very bad.” Lynn was the fourth coach in four years, therefore there was never a consis-
tent coach that was able to build a rapport with the girls and help them become better players. At 27-years-old, he felt it was imperative to not only help the team win, but to turn around the program as well. “There wasn’t much of a commitment from the players to play basketball or get better at basketball,” he recalled. “Back then, it was unfortunate that losing was always contagious.” He knew he had to start from scratch, so with rigorous practices and drills, the program slowly began to head in the right direction. According to Lynn, his third year as coach was when things began to click. They finished that season 14-12 and have been .500 or above since. “I joke with the team that we hadn’t been over.500 since I was born,” he said. As he worked to build their morale up and teach them skills, the girls began to buy in and eventually the wins came. Lynn explained that the turning point
of the season was in January, when the girls beat High Point and Morris Catholic, schools it normally lost to. Three games later, however, things took a turn for the worse when starting point guard Bella Vito tore her ACL in early February. They played the last 10 games of the season without her and never made any excuses. One girl who was part of this magnificent season was senior Amanda Gorski. After all of the losing in the team’s history, Gorski is proud her team helped change the perception about the program. “Being on the most successful team in Montville history was such an amazing experience,” Gorski said. “Going into the season, we knew we had the potential to be really good, because although we lost two starters last year, we had a lot of strong returning players as well as two very athletic freshmen. She explained that with high expectations, the girls set tough goals. Some of continued on page 2
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All Kinds Of Health Screenings Offered In Montville April 7
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he Montville Township Health Department will hold a Health Screening Program on Saturday, April 7, from 8 a.m. to 11 a.m. in the Health Wing of the Montville Township Municipal Building, Montville. A SMAC blood screening for residents of Montville, Boonton Township and surrounding towns, 18 years of age and older, will be offered at a cost of $22. In addition to the blood screening, other screenings currently being arranged include blood pressure and podiatry. Health educators from Morristown Medical Center Community Health will be
available to share health information. Also available will be a PSA Screening (Prostate Specific Antigen) for a charge of $25, a TSH Screening (Thyroid) for $22, T3 Uptake (Thyroid) for $7, T4 (Total Thyroxine, Thyroid) for $7, Hemoglobin A1C (Glucose) for a $15, Homocysteine & hs-Cardiac Risk Panel for $32, Vitamin D, 25 OH, Total for $22, and also Hepatitis C Antibody Screen for $20. Payment will be by check or cash only. Pre-registration is required. To make an appointment or for further information, call the Montville Health Department at 973-331-3316.
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Montville Girls Basketball... continued from front page the goals were to give up under an average of 40 points, get 20 wins and to make it past the second round of states, which had never happened in Montville girls’ basketball history. Gorski also gave credit to Lynn. In the past, the team ran a man defense, but this year
he had them use a 3-2 matchup zone, which allowed it to be a dominant force on the defensive end. “When he first became coach of the team the program wasn’t very good,” she recalled. “He really turned the program around, and I am so grateful to have been a part of that.”
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Two Lazar Students Chosen For Honors Chorus
antina DiBenedetto and Raelle Lamela, two students from Robert R. Lazar Middle School, in Montville, are among only 275 junior high students from across Northern New Jersey who were chosen to sing in the North Jersey School Music Association’s 2018 North Jersey Junior High School Regional Honors Chorus. The two eighth grade students auditioned in February and had their first rehearsal on March 1. More than 400 students from throughout Northern New Jersey competed for an opportunity to participate in the concert, which was schedule to be held March 18. “We are very proud of these students,” said music teacher Kathy Zajac. “The NJS-
MA Regional Honors Chorus is a prestigious performing group. I am very proud of their accomplishments. To be chosen to participate in this chorus is not only an honor, it is an extraordinary experience.” To win a spot, both students prepared a memorized song and two scales. “I screamed at the top of my lungs and had a mini dance party,” said Lamela about how excited she felt when she learned she had been awarded a spot. “Music is a part of my life. I can depend on it. Music is a passion of mine.” DiBenedetto’s reaction was slightly more subdued. “I was shocked,” she said. “Singing is something I do for me. It helps me to relax. I enjoy it. I love to sing.”
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Eighth grade students Raelle Lamela and Santina DiBenedetto, from Robert R. Lazar Middle School, are two of only 275 junior high students from across Northern New Jersey who were chosen to sing in the North Jersey School Music Association’s 2018 North Jersey Junior High School Regional Honors Chorus. Photo by Sue Marinello.
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Discover Books And So Much Inside Thomas Edison’s Library
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By Steve Sears hen visiting the Thomas Edison National Historic Site in West Orange, one may “find” Thomas Edison himself inside his three-story library, which doubled as his office and research center in Building #5. Theresa Jung, assistant superintendent at the site, explains, “It is rare to find a site that still has, not only the historic buildings but also the original furnishings that were in those rooms. It almost looks like Thomas Edison might walk around the corner and join the tour.” Both Edison and his staff used the library regularly for 44 years. Usually the first room a visitor sees when they enter the main laboratory building, there’s too much to absorb during one visit. On the shelves are books and journals from around the world on scientific and technical topics, and on display are artifacts that will keep those with varied interests busy during a self-guided tour. About 10,000 books populate the li-
brary, and as far as Jung knows, there is evidence that they used something like the Dewey Decimal System to keep books in order. And if that first number boggles the mind, consider this about the entirety of the Thomas Edison National Historic Site: there are 400,000 artifacts in the museum collection and five million documents in the archives; not all are on display; many are preserved in storage areas. A few noteworthy things, among so many, wife Mina Edison sent a cot from their nearby Glenmont home in Llewelyn Park for her husband to nap on since he often worked many hours. It’s nestled between a set of bookshelves. Near the library’s third floor, a huge clock read 3:26, the hour and minute hands ceasing movement when Edison breathed his last at age 84 on Oct. 18, 1931. No explanation for the mysterious clock stoppage has ever been found. Hanging on shelving near the entrance are the pictures of the five United States continued on page 7
A newer statue of Thomas Edison greets site visitors. Photo by Steve Sears.
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Thomas Edison’s Library... continued from page 6 Presidents in office during a good portion of the years the plant was in operation: Theodore Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson, Warren Harding, Calvin Coolidge, and Herbert Hoover. It is not known if a president ever visited while in office, but the site has photographs of Franklin D. Roosevelt circa 1920 and Herbert Hoover from 1928 visiting the West Orange laboratory, perhaps during campaign stops. The inventor’s desk, which was locked by his son Charles on the day of his death, but reopened by his wife in 1947 during the celebration of the great man’s 100th birthday, is also on view, its contents well protected by glass. An honorary Academy Award received in 1929 due
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Legacy Of Greystone Lives On After Demolition
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By: J.L. Shively reystone Park Psychiatric Hospital stood for more than 100 years and had become a wellknown, if not imposing sight in Morris Plains, until its demolition in 2015. Despite the loss of this building, Greystone’s memory has lived on and has even become a source of inspiration for the many people who rallied around it. This memory has not only inspired continued discussion on the topic of Greystone and medicine but has given strength to the preservation efforts of similar structures. The current exhibit at Acorn Hall, “The Cutting Edge: Medicine in Morris County 1876–1976,” is an example of this inspiration. This exhibit ties in with the 125th anniver-
sary of the Morristown Medical Center and “pays tribute to the medical history in Morris County,” states Exhibit Curator Kim Smith. This exhibit is planned to be on display until June 3, says Smith. The Historical Society also had a series of lectures planned to tie in with this exhibit, the next being “Woody Gutherie’s Wardy Forty: Greystone Park State Hospital Revisited,” which is set for Sun., March 24 at 2 p.m. at Acorn Hall. The last of these programs is the Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum bus trip, which is set for Thurs., April 12 to Sat., April 14. The first lecture held in collaboration with this exhibit was given by Rusty Tagliareni and Christina Mathews, co-authors of the Images of America
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Local Soccer Coach Raises Funds To Equip Colombian Youth With Soccer Gear And Skills For Better Life
By Cheryl Conway s a soccer player since he was four and coach for the past decade, 26year old Sebastian Castillo-Giraldo’s current goal is to pay it forward and help youth from his native country. Castillo-Giraldo of Wharton has started a Go Fund Me page to purchase training equipment and provide soccer clinics to hundreds of inner city children of Colombia. The children he aims to reach live in the city of Medellin as well as Supia, Caldas, the town he was born. He plans to travel in May for ten days, May 13-May 23, with three of his soccer students and a friend, Marc Reynolds of Succasunna, a photographer/filmmaker who will be documenting the trip. “It’s time I pay it forward to those who are less fortunate and give approximately 300 kids an opportunity to use soccer as a vehicle to improve their lives,” Castillo-Giraldo states on his Go Fund Me site. “The game has allowed me to attend college and has shaped me to be the human I am today.” Castillo-Giraldo grew up in Colombia, during the time of civil war, which had ended in 2016 when the peace treaty was signed, he explains. While conditions were rough, Castillo-Giraldo says “soccer was big in my town.” He started playing at the age of four; continued to play when he came to U.S. with his parents in 1998, in the fourth grade; playing at Morris Hills High School in Rockaway and college, at both County College of Morris in Randolph and the Centenary University in Hackettstown, before becoming a soccer coach 10 years ago. Castillo-Giraldo has been a soccer coach in Mt. Olive, in its camps and premier soccer program; ran the select soccer camps at Morris Hills now called Morris County Summer Select; and has been the first assistant coach for the men’s soccer team at CCM since 2017. Through soccer, “you learn discipline, hard work, determination and team work,” says Castillo-Giraldo, teaching assistant and graduate research assistant at Monmouth University. “Those kids need it,” he says about the children in Colombia, “to help them move up in the ladder of life. “Colombia is a third world country;
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soccer is a tool to avoid falling into drug use and alcoholism,” he continues on the Go Fund Me page. “It’s a beacon of hope as well as a stimulator to dream big and achieve success in life. As a world history graduate student at Monmouth University, Castillo-Giraldo is currently writing his master’s thesis on “How Soccer Explains the World.” It was in the first week of December 2017 when Castillo-Giraldo started his Go Fund Me page to help youth in Colombia. A family friend who works for the government in Colombia has identified and connected Castillo-Giraldo with youth teams most in need. Mt. Olive Soccer Club “donated a plethora of new gear,” says Castillo-Giraldo. About 90 percent of its donations are brand new and include uniforms, soccer socks, shorts, sweats, sweaters and jerseys. Kinnelon High School donated some gear as well. Most needed now is the financial support, he says, as his goal is to purchase 200 brand new Adidas balls that cost $3,000. “I can’t have soccer clinics unless I have balls for the kids,” he says. “Balls are really expensive.” The ones he plans
to provide are expected to last three to five years and are “ideal for their practices and their games,” he says. Funds will also cover costs for cones and ladders as well as shipping boxes of equipment; soccer clinics for kids with proper training skills; followed my minitalks to discuss “the power of soccer.” His plan is to help 20 youth teams with proper equipment and gear. He estimates that the boys and girls will be between the ages of 8 and 15. “I’ll be running clinic and drills,” he says, with two to three practices daily. While cycling is popular in Colombia too, Castillo-Giraldo says the “predominant sport in Colombia is soccer. It’s a passion you learn to love and you hold dear to you. The whole country plays and the whole country watches them, the Colombia National Team, national pride. Even with all the unrest, when our country was being torn to pieces,” he explains how soccer provides a sense of pride “that brings the whole country together.” He now wants to share his love for soccer. “When I was a little kid playing in Colombia, I had great coaches that didn’t know me,” he says. “I think it’s only right continued on page 11
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Local Soccer Coach Raises Funds... continued from page 11 to share my knowledge of soccer with those kids so they can move forward. Everyone in my family has played soccer, like it’s in my blood, in my DNA. “Race doesn’t matter, class doesn’t matter, religion doesn’t matter. It’s just the talents and skills each person brings to the table what truly matters.” Reynolds, who met Castillo-Giraldo about seven years ago when he became his eldest son’s soccer coach of Villa at NJ Dynamo, couldn’t agree more and looks forward to the trip. “I love the game of soccer; I have three sons who play,” says Reynolds. “I believe soccer should be accessible to everyone regardless of income or anything else. I know the happiness it brings and I feel
everyone deserves that.” With plans to video their trip, Reynolds says “it’s about me telling a story. This to me is a story worth telling. It’s about soccer, but it’s more about humanity and giving back. I hope to capture the happiness we bring to the kids that we meet. I also want to capture Sebastian’s big/generous heart.” Donations are still being collected through May 1. “We need your help to raise as much money as possible to spread as much hope as we can,” says Castillo-Giraldo. He and his fellow travelers will self-fund their flights and expenses. With a goal to collect $4,500, as of press time $1,095 has been raised. Donate at https://www.gofundme.com/ soccer-clinics-for-kids-in-colombia.
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5 p.m. to 7 p.m. in the Health Wing of the Montville Township Municipal Building, Montville. The fee for this screening is $35. Pre-registration is required, and appointments will be scheduled on a first-come firstserved basis. Reservations can be made with the Montville Health Department by calling 973-331-3316.
Montville Recreation Hosts Music Program For Tots
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he Montville Recreation Department will be sponsoring a Tiny Tunes music program from April through June for infants through 5-yearold children and their care provider. The program explores fin-
ger-plays, sign language, counting, the basic scale as well as non-vocal music using rhythm instruments. Children and adult care-providers are encouraged to participate together, enhancing their musical excontinued on page 13
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Fresh Home Upgrades For Spring
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fter a long winter cooped up indoors, spring is the perfect time to start re-imagining your home and making upgrades that create a fresh, welcoming vibe. These project ideas – some big, some small – can help breathe new life into your home so you’re ready to enjoy your favorite rooms to the fullest. Air it out Months of closed windows and doors can make any room feel dusty and stale. As soon as temperatures allow, throw open the windows and skylights to let the fresh air chase away the remnants of winter. It’s a perfect time to launder window treatments and clean area rugs. After a few passes with a carpet cleaner, allow rugs to air-dry outdoors. If you’re considering an update to the overall decor, changing out these textiles is an easy and affordable way to create a new look. Just donate the used drapes and rugs after cleaning instead of bringing them back into the room. Shift your outlook When contemplating changes to a room’s aesthetic, most people focus on the floor, walls and elements like furniture and accessories. As some homeowners are discovering, there’s a whole other space waiting to be discovered. The ceiling, a fifth wall of sorts, opens up endless creative design opportunities. Whether you’re seeking more natural light, access to fresh air, a sense of spaciousness or a way to bring sophistication to a room, a skylight may be just the solution. For example, Velux room-darkening and light-filtering blinds can add a splash of color just where you least expect it, and they’re efficient in shielding your space from the sun,
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Legacy Of Greystone... them. Greystone itself was designed by architect Thomas Kirkbride and first opened its doors in 1876. It was one of the last of an estimated 15 Kirkbride structures remaining in the U.S. and was heralded as the largest, single foundation building in the world until the construction of the Pentagon. It is largely the fascination with the architecture, which is not likely to be seen again, that rallied groups around saving the structure and rallies them still in an effort to continue to preserve the past. It is this message that Tagliareni and Mathews express in their discussions of Greystone and their ongoing efforts to save similar abandoned places. After the demolition of Greystone, the group Preserve Greystone did not so much
continued from page 8 nal demolition of the building. Tagliareni and Mathews also created and maintain the website entitled Antiquity Echoes, which archives the many abandoned locations they visit. “Abandoned buildings are temporary,” explained Tagliareni at the first of these lectures, “and we don’t greatly like these buildings being abandoned.” This lecture was the first of a two-part presentation held by Tagliareni and Mathews entitled “Greystone’s Legacy.” The second of these discussions was set to be held on March 11 at the time of this article. “These buildings are extensions of the community itself,” Tagliareni expressed at this discussion, explaining the drive behind a desire to save
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dissolve but become something new. The group gave it’s 501c3 status to the emerging group, Preservation Works. The president of Preservation Works, Christian J. VanAntwerpen, describes the rise of the group and his involvement in it as an “interesting journey,” which he states began with watching an episode of the show “House M.D.” which features the doctor being admitted into Greystone. It was this, VanAntwerpen states, “ignited his interest in these types of buildings.” His story is very similar to many others’ sudden fascination with these giant, abandoned structures. The foundation of Preservation Works was laid at a conference held in Traverse City, MI at the restored Kirkbride building. This conference, VanAntwerpen states, was held “smack dab between two Kirkbride buildings;” Greystone, on which demolition had just begun at the time of the conference, and Fergus Falls in Minnesota, which Preservation Works is currently trying to help save. The mission of Preservation Works, VanAntwerpen explains, is to “provide resources” for the community in which these buildings stand to assist them in saving these structures. Utilizing what was learned after the demolition of Greystone, the group helps to advocate the reconstruction and repurposing of buildings
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group. Classes will take place, beginning April 17, at the Montville Community Field House. The cost is $100 for eight sessions. For more information, call the Montville Recreation Department at: 973-331–3305 or visit www.montvillenj.org.
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with their devices. A Hands-Free Faucet Imagine the convenience of having a kitchen faucet turn water on or off, without a touch. Faucets with hands-free technology, such as Moen’s MotionSense Wave single-sensor models, allow users to easily activate the faucet with the wave of a hand. Great for when your hands are too full or messy to turn on the faucet, the technology also minimizes the spread of dirt and germs, since there’s no need to touch the faucet to start the flow of water. It’s just the type of smart upgrade to attract house hunters of all ages -- and easy on the wallet, with options available for under $300. Bright Lighting Smart lighting dimmer and sensor systems allow you to turn lights on and off remotely with a smartphone, and can be customized to perform certain actions, such as slowly growing brighter as you wake up or turning off automatically when you leave your home – providing added convenience and customization for prospective buyers. These systems are especially useful when you’re traveling– allowing you to turn your lights on and off remotely, so your home doesn’t look empty while you’re away. Pic-
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