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Volume 4, Number 18 • Thursday, September 20, 2012

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A Publication of the Hudson Reporter • Nine Weekly Newspapers Serving Hudson County • Stories updated continuously at www.hudsonreporter.com

Something other than football? Hoboken-heavy Bombers rugby team kicks off season

PRACTICE MAKES PERFECT – Members of the Bayonne Bombers Rugby team work up to their season opener on Sept. 8.

By Al Sullivan

Jersey City fashion designer Deanna Ellis will show five contemporary looks from her spring/summer 2013 women’s wear line. Pictured here: one of Ellis’ swimsuit designs.

Reporter staff writer

played high school and college football, and when I was done, I wanted to do something,” said Terry Matthews, founding member of the Bayonne Bombers, Hudson County’s only men’s rugby team. “The funny part is that I worked in the school pub in the off-season and played football in the fall. All the bouncers were rugby guys. They were always saying, ‘You have to play, you have to play.’ But I thought it was crazy.” Now most of the current players come from Hoboken, with a few from other parts of Hudson County such as Union City and Jersey City as well as Bayonne. Matthews, who just stepped down as athletic director for Hudson Catholic, happened to be at the Caven Point football fields in Jersey City on a late August night as the team got ready for practice. The upcoming season home opener will be held on Sept. 8 at the 16th Street Park. Jokingly, Matthews told the current team members during an interview, “I’m telling him about when real guys started the team before you guys came along.” They all laughed.

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Jersey City Fashion Week debuts this weekend E. Assata Wright Reporter staff writer

ew York Fashion Week – which debuted the spring/summer 2013 offerings from some of the world’s top designers – recently wrapped in Manhattan and drew the likes of Kim Kardashian, Amy Adams, David Beckham, Alicia Keys, Sarah Jessica Parker, and Anna Wintour’s icy glare. As is typical, there were glitzy parties, beautiful models, and stilettos. (For anyone who cares, the trends for next season seem to include lace, seriously plunged necklines, cutouts, and wedged platform heels.)

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The event is the brainchild of Desha Jackson, founder of the DLJ Give to Live Foundation. Jersey City Fashion Week, she said, “will bring people out to support emerging designers while at the same time raising money for local charities. It allows people to support [four organizations] while doing something fun and entertaining.” The Jersey City-based DLJ Give to Live Foundation, the lead sponsor of Jersey City Fashion Week, typically uses sports and entertainment events to raise money for small communitybased charities, Jackson said. Designated events throughout Fashion Week will benefit Art House Productions, Dress for Success, the Boys and Girls Club of Hudson County, and York Street Project. Event venues

‘Emerging designers are the ones who are actually doing the more interesting, avant-garde designs.’ – Engie Hassan

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Classified

p. 9

Critter Corner

p. 6

Death Notices

p. 4

Open House Directory

p. 13

And it all seems like a fitting warmup for the inaugural Jersey City Fashion Week, which will get underway this weekend. The eight-day event will open Friday, Sept. 21 with a VIP reception at Michael Anthony’s Restaurant and continue with soirees at various venues across the city. In a twist on the official Fashion Week shows held each spring and fall in Paris, Milan, and New York, Jersey City Fashion Week is specifically designed to raise money for local charity and arts organizations.

include Liberty National Golf Club, the Historic CRRNJ Terminal in Liberty State Park, and VB3. The marriage of fashion and charity fundraising is not new. For many years the mainstream fashion industry has raised money for African AIDS organizations, hurricane relief, earthquake victims, hunger relief, the homeless, and other charities.

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