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Today, Tomorrow, and Moving Forward: Life in Our Community Beyond the Pandemic

Frank L. Cahill, Publisher Barbara Freda, Sales Manager Nicolas Limanov, Photographer Brian Lanigan, Contributing Writer Christine Mercado, Contributing Writer Sharon Maroldi, Contributing Writer Luis A. Matos, Distribution Manager

Parsippany’s Good Scout Awards | 8

Boy Scouts of America, Patriots’ Path Council, honored eight local citizens at the Fifth Annual Parsippany Good Scout Award Dinner recently at the Hanover Manor in East Hanover.

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PHHS Senior Peter Nardi will attend Misericordia University and will be majoring in Physical Therapy

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Aneesh Kakirde Named MPAC Music Student of the Month | 16

Aneesh Kakirde, a senior at Parsippany High School was nominated by Gregory Dalakian. Dalakian said “Aneesh is well-deserving of the MPAC Outstanding Jazz Musician award because as long as I have known him (the past 6+ years) he has always tried to improve himself as a saxophone player

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Lily loves to cuddle, lay on your lap and be a couch potato About Parsippany Focus Parsippany Focus was founded on October 1, 1989 by Publisher Frank Cahill. Parsippany Focus is the only dedicated newsource, publishing local news and information for the past thirty years exclusively for Parsippany-Troy Hills.

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Today, Tomorrow, and Moving Forward: Life in Our Community Beyond the Pandemic

“Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose.”

- Lyndon B. Johnson

Mayor Michael A. Soriano It goes without saying, but never in our country’s history have we faced what we are encountering as Americans at this moment. COVID-19 has shaken our country to the core, our eyes have been fixed to the dangers of this pandemic. All of us are praying for a harmonious outcome that may still be months away. But if history has shown us anything, we are a resolute people, determined to live, learn, and grow to be better than we ever were before.

Right now, we’re still learning how to function in our new circumstances, as individuals, as family, as a community, and as a country, and that has come with many challenges. But we face them head on, and we move forward, determined to reflect on our past actions to shape our futures for the better.

What we do today matters greatly, and we must see this pandemic through. We are seeing that social distancing is beginning to improve new case numbers. This is the hardest part to follow, as we want so desperately to go back to normal. We just aren’t there yet. As much as we miss our daily routines, even the plainest ones, we cannot return to our pre-pandemic conventions too early, as we may see another spike.

But there are new routines that we can employ – we must help out our small and local businesses right now, more than ever. Buying locally keeps more money in the Parsippany economy, and helps our neighbors and our community. We need to reach out to people in our neighborhoods who may be at-risk, like seniors and people with disabilities, and make sure they too have the resources and access to essentials as well. And we need to be mindful that even unintentional actions can result in spreading this virus to those who are most vulnerable to it.

experts say it is safe to do so, which again I will stress, we are not at that point yet. But when that time does come, we need to respect and help the many who have lost loved ones during this pandemic, but were unable to hold traditional ceremonies – regardless of the cause of death. As for local government, once the health situation is under control, we will turn our full attention toward rebuilding the economy. Like a freight train, it will take some time before it gets back up to full speed.

But focus and determination will drive us to move this engine forward.

Moving forward, we must focus on the economic hardships felt by countless families and businesses in Parsippany-Troy Hills, and we must look at ways to relieve the financial stress. We will work to build long-term resiliency to better prepare both our healthcare and our local economy in case another pandemic rears its ugly head our way once again. We also need to strengthen our community ties to build a better support network for each other, whenever another disaster strikes, great or small. Our greatness comes from our union and our individual contributions to building its unyielding strength.

This is at the core of our identity, both as Parsippany residents, and as Americans. What drives us now acts as a guiding light, and lays the groundwork, the foundation for our children and grandchildren to improve on the course we’ve laid out, or take an even better direction. What we do today, what we do tomorrow, and what we do moving forward – that will make all the difference.

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PARSIPPANY GOOD SCOUT AWARDS

Eight Parsippany Residents Receive “2020 Parsippany Good Scout Award”

Honorees Gordon Meth, Brothers Ibrahim and Yusuf Yoldas’, Patricia “Miss Pat” De Vita, Leonardo A. Fariello, Chairperson Robert Peluso, Honoeees Anthony Franco Pizzeria Owner Anthony and Jennifer Postiglione and June Madia

Boy Scouts of America, Patriots’ Path Council, honored local citizens at the Fifth Annual Parsippany Good Scout Award Dinner recently at the Hanover Manor in East Hanover.

This year’s honorees were Brothers Yusuf and Ibrahim Yoldas, Patricia “Miss Pat” De Vita, Leonardo A. Fariello, June Madia, Gordon Meth, and Anthony Postigleone.

The event recognized these outstanding citizens for their community service, as evidenced by their leadership and interests within the Parsippany community, and for their embodiment of the values of the century old Scout Oath and Law in their personal and professional lives. The event chairman was Parsippany Good Scout Award

Recipient Robert Peluso.

Parsippany is a part of the Boy Scouts of America, Patriots’ Path Council which serves 17,000 youth in over 400 Scouting units in communities throughout Middlesex, Morris, Somerset, Sussex, and Union Counties.

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discipline and commitment in all clients whether they be children, teenagers or adults. By combining toughness of the mind and body through character development and physical stamina, its clients are able to excel in every aspect of their lives, making them happier and healthier people.

1 United Mixed Martial Arts House is Yusuf and Ibrahim Yoldas’ way of giving back to the community and enjoining all of its members into a strong and fit family.

Patricia “Miss Pat” De Vita Paraprofessional; Parsippany Board of Education Director; Miss Pat’s Summer Bible Camp Born and raised in Paterson, Pat graduated in the top 10% of her class from John F. Kennedy High School in 1974. She has been married to Dave for 22 years, the last 19 living in Lake Hiawatha. She has one biological daughter, two stepdaughters and two step granddaughters.

Teaching was a second career for Pat. She has worked for lawyers, accountants and civic

companies before working for and purchasing a plastics brokerage company. In 2005 a woman from Pat’s church (who was a retired teacher) told her, “You are a born teacher. It’s a gift, and you have it!”

So she started teaching Sunday School, and she still does! At that church, Pat helped facilitate a ministry for children on the autism spectrum and their siblings where they could come and play with children from the church, thereby building and teaching social skills and tolerance. Next came a Summer Bible School program she began at the church and later moved to her home. Miss Pat’s Summer Bible Camp was born!

In 2008, Pat was employed by the Parsippany School District to work with children in the special needs program at Lake Hiawatha School.

The program is primarily for children on the autism spectrum, and Pat continues to help them with their social skills, tolerance and communication every day of school.

Says Miss Pat, “I love what I do and am grateful for all the children I have had the pleasure of raising, teaching and mentoring. I feel privileged and am so proud of all my kids.”

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Leonardo A. Fariello Forest Ranger and Land Manager Wildlife Preserves Leonardo Fariello grew up in Whippany next to the Whippany River. As a boy, he could run for miles and earned the nickname “Running Deer.” He has always been an outdoorsman with an interest in nature. He is an advocate for open space, land, wildlife, wildlife habitat preservation and environmental protection.

As a teenager, Len lived a carefree life outdoors in the woods along the Whippany River. Eventually he moved to the rural mountains of Rockaway Township, where he built a camp under a rock shelter and lived off of the land. As a young adult, he lived in the Ozark Mountains of northern Arkansas, where he bought land, built a farm and made a living raising cattle, growing crops, mining quartz crystals, and wild crafting medicinal roots and herbs. After living in the wilderness for 10

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years with no electricity, no telephone or television, and no plumbing, he moved back to New Jersey.

While camping at Troy Meadows in Parsippany, he was offered a job as a forest ranger for Wildlife Preserves, where he began his career posting and patrolling the wildlife sanctuary and catching poachers and illegal trappers.

Len eventually got involved in community affairs and served as mayor of Hanover Township and a member of the Hanover Township Committee for 10 years. During his tenure on the township committee, he helped expand the township’s park system by several hundred acres and wrote several land use ordinances designed to save land and trees, and to control growth and development.

He is one of the founding Scoutmasters of Troop 155 in Whippany. He serves as an assistant Scouts BSA leader and a merit badge counselor for Nature, Indian Lore, Mammal Study, Reptiles and Amphibian Study, Environmental Science and

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CONGRATULATIONS CLASS OF 2020

Peter Nardi to Attend Misericordia University Parsippany Hills High School Senior Peter Nardi will be attending Misericordia University and has been accepted into the 6 1/2 year Physical Therapy program.

He will also be playing Lacrosse for the University.

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He is the son of Peter, Sr. and Elizabeth Nardi, and lives in Rainbow Lakes.

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CONGRATULATIONS CLASS OF 2020

Brandon Verderber to attend Centenary University Brandon Verderber, a senior at Parsippany Hills High School, will be attending Centenary University in the fall.

Brandon will be majoring in Criminal Justice and playing Lacrosse. Brandon is looking forward to his next adventure at Centenary and playing for the Cyclones.

He is the son of Maureen and Anthony Verderber.

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MPAC STUDENT OF THE MONTH

Aneesh Kakirde Named MPAC Music Student of the Month Students from Parsippany, Florham Park, Randolph, Chatham, Roxbury, Succasunna, and Kinnelon have been named as Mayo Performing Arts Center’s April Music Students of the Month – Outstanding Jazz Musicians.

The students will receive a certificate for their honor from MPAC and will be featured on the Music Student of the Month page on the MPAC website.

Typically, MSOM honorees are recognized onstage prior to an MPAC event. With MPAC’s schedule suspended, that is not possible, but MPAC believes it remains important to recognize the achievements of area music students.

Students were nominated by their teachers and were chosen by the Theatre’s Education Department based on their commitment to and excellence in the performing arts. The Theatre will honor a group of students every month throughout the season and invites area teachers to nominate students for this honor.

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program is supported by The Walter F. and Alice Gorham Foundation, Inc. Aneesh Kakirde, a senior at Parsippany High School was nominated by Gregory Dalakian. Aneesh is well-deserving of the MPAC Outstanding Jazz Musician award because as long as I have known him (the past 6+ years) he has always tried to improve himself as a saxophone player, but more specifically, a jazz saxophone player. He has been a member of our Jazz Band at Parsippany HS since his freshman year and is always willing to solo any opportunity he can get. He leads by example in his improvisation skills and encourages others to improvise as well. I am very proud of the jazz musician he has become and I know he will have a bright future.

Other honorees include Liam Bill, Grade 8, Ridgedale Middle School; Florham Park; John Crane Grade 12, Randolph High School; Randolph; Casey Delsandro; Grade 11, Chatham High School; Chatham; Paulie Kemmerer; Grade 11, Roxbury High School; Roxbury; Justin Masi; Grade 8, Eisenhower Middle School; Succasunna; Alessio Mennonna, Grade 12, Kinnelon High School; Kinnelon; an Kevin Tish, Grade 8, Randolph Middle School; Randolph; Mayo Performing Arts Center, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization, presents a wide range of programs that entertain, enrich, and educate the diverse population of the region and enhance the economic vitality of Northern New Jersey.

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PARSIPPANY GOOD SCOUT AWARDS

2020 Parsippany Good Scout Award June Madia Event Coordinator Parsippany PAL Wrestling

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Citizenship in the Community. He teaches Scouts how to identify plants, tree leaves and animal tracks, and takes them out to breeding ponds in Parsippany to study frogs calling in the night.

He· the author of A Place Called Whippany, Wild Adventures of Running Deer and Fun Guide to Nature. He is co-author of Journey Through Olde Whippany, and the former editor of the Citizens for Controlled Development newsletter.

Len is the land manager for Wildlife Preserves, Inc. He works at Troy Meadows in East Hanover and Parsippany, and at Great Piece Meadows in Fairfield, Lincoln Park and Montville.

He is assistant Scoutmaster of Troop 155, a member of the Hanover Landmark Commission, and land conservation chairman of the Sierra Club Loantaka Group.

June’s career in promoting a wrestling program in Parsippany began 28 years ago when her son, Chris, began his wrestling career at Brooklawn Middle School and Parsippany PAL. June knew nothing about wrestling but became a staunch supporter when she saw what the sport offered Chris, a Parsippany Hills High School Hall of Fame honoree in 2016. She was the team mom and booster club president during her son’s high school years.

Just after Chris graduated from Rutgers, where he wrestled Division 1, his high school coach, Matt Ciampa, suggested starting a feeder program, the Junior Vikings, in 2003. The program started with eight wrestlers but quickly grew to 35 in the first (Continued on Page 19)

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year. By 2010, the program had 65 wrestlers, a staff of amazing and dedicated coaches and the support of the Parsippany community. In that same year, the Junior Vikings were asked to merge with the Parsippany High School program and the Par-Troy Wrestling Club was formed. Its motto is, “One Town. One Team.”

An important part of the Parsippany community is the PAL, which gave the wrestlers a home base and has been extremely supportive of the program. So when the Par-Troy Wrestling Club was asked to become a part of the Parsippany PAL family this year, it seemed like a natural progression. June came full circle from when Chris was wrestling as a PAL Panther back in the day. Now known as the Parsippany PAL Wrestling team, with Albert Fornini as head coach, the group continues to receive an abundance of support from the PAL and the Parsippany community.

The extraordinary coaching staff, as well as her family keep June going because during the wrestling season she is never home. Hence her husband becomes the wresting widower. The coaches and board members value every single wrestler in the program, from kindergarten to eighth grade, and all those who continue through high school and beyond, which makes Parsippany PAL Wrestling team a valuable feeder program.

All the wrestlers, including June’s grandson, Max, put their heart and soul on the mat.

Years later, when wrestlers give June a hug and tell her how wrestling helped to shape their lives, it is priceless and makes her journey worthwhile.

June will continue to be part of this great wrestling community and give back to the sport that gave so much to her family and to so many other families in Parsippany.

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2020 Parsippany Good Scout Award has been in the Kiwanis Club of Greater Parsippany for nearly 15 years.

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Gordon Meth, P.E. Transportation Engineering Expert Witness Robson Forensic Governor if NJ District Kiwanis International

He is a past president of the Kiwanis Club of Greater Parsippany and is on his second stint as governor of the New Jersey District. He is very active in the Institute of Transportation Engineers (ITE).

Gordon Mech moved to Parsippany-Troy Hills from Toronto, Canada, 24 years ago. Professionally, Gordon is an expert transportation engineering witness for Robson Forensic, and prepares reports for litigation throughout the United States.

He has a bachelor’s and master’s in civil engineering from The University of Waterloo, and an M.B.A. from Montclair State University. He is a licensed professional engineer in 20 states, The District of Columbia, and one Canadian province.

Gordon has been the president of the Board of Trustees of the Parsippany Child Day Care Center for the past ten years, and in that capacity he has overseen the center transform from losing about 10% per year to restoring a reserve fund, upgrading infrastructure and replacing the playground. Gordon

He is a past president of the New York/New Jersey Metropolitan Section ofITE, is a past chair of the Northeastern District of ITE, is the current chair of the ITE Traffic Engineering Council and is currently on the International Board of Direction for ITE. Gordon coached intramural soccer for 12 years until two years ago. Gordon and his wife, Suzanne, have two sons: Kyle, who is a sophomore in computer engineering at NJIT, and Jake, who is a junior at Parsippany High School.

Jake is a member of Parsippany High School Key Club.

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CCM Moves All Summer Sessions Classes Online

To protect the health of its students and to allow them to better plan for moving forward with their college education, County College of Morris (CCM) is moving each of its five Summer Sessions to an online format this year. Registration is now open for both the summer and fall with classes starting as early as May 26. A decision regarding the format for Fall Semester classes has yet to be made.

“CCM is offering a full selection of online classes this summer, along with its fall programs and classes, to support students so they can stay on track to meet their academic and career goals,” says Dr. Anthony J. Iacono, CCM president. “We also are pleased to announce that CCM has received a generous amount of student support funding from the federal government as part of the CARES Act. These funds can be used for tuition for those who would like to pursue a college education but are faced with financial issues. The funds can also be used to address life challenges, such as food insecurities, housing issues and even car repairs, that could sideline a student’s progress.”

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EDUCATION

The Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi Inducts Sara Scopellito Sara Scopellito was initiated into The Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi, the nation’s oldest and most selective collegiate honor society for all academic disciplines. She is a current student at The College of New Jersey.

Sara is a 2017 Graduate of Parsippany Hills High School where she was a member of the Key Club, Big Brothers Sister, National Honor Society, French Honor Society, and Red Cross Club.

They are among approximately 30,000 students, faculty, professional staff, and alumni to be initiated into Phi Kappa Phi each year.

Membership is by invitation only and requires nomination and approval by a chapter. Only the top 10 percent of seniors and 7.5 percent of juniors are eligible for membership. Graduate students in the top 10 percent of the number of candidates for graduate degrees may also qualify, as do faculty, professional staff, and alumni who have achieved scholarly distinction.

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PHHS Vikings Honored with “Championship Rings�

Members of the Parsippany Hills High School Vikings Football team, North Jersey Section 2 Group 3 NJSIAA State Champions, received championship rings.

In addition to the rings all the players received their official certificate from New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association.

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Shammas Selected to the New Jersey Super Lawyer List For the sixth year in a row, Damian Christian Shammas has been selected to the exclusive Thomson Reuters New Jersey Super Lawyer list. The distinction is shared by a mere 5% of attorneys in the State of New Jersey.

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The Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi Inducts Maurizia De Palma Maurizia De Palma was recently initiated into The Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi, the nation’s oldest and most selective collegiate honor society for all academic disciplines.

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HEALTH AND FITNESS NEWS

Plasma Donations from Recovered COVID-19 Patients Needed Vitalant – working in conjunction with its hospital partners – has launched a program to treat COVID-19 patients with blood plasma donated by individuals who have recovered from the disease.

This blood component, known as “convalescent plasma,” contains antibodies that may provide seriously ill patients an extra boost in fighting the disease.

There currently are neither vaccines nor proven treatments for COVID-19, because the virus is so new. Although trials for a vaccine are underway, it is expected to be months before one is approved.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has identified and approved convalescent plasma treatment as an “emergency investigational new drug.”

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Norma Hernandez: Vitalant Montvale’s first convalescent plasma donor.

“This is an example of the medical and research communities coming together to effect real change during this pandemic,” said Maria De Los Angeles Muñiz, MD, Medical Director at Vitalant’s Montvale, NJ location. “Convalescent plasma is a promising response tool for fighting COVID-19 in patients, and potentially for those working on the front lines.”

Vitalant is collecting convalescent plasma – by appointment only – at its locations in Montvale, Paramus, and Parsippany, NJ. Those interested in donating plasma are encouraged to apply through the Vitalant website Vitalant.org/covidfree.

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