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NAACP hosts its annual backpack giveaway at Mackay Park.
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SEPTEMBER 2025
SHARED PASSION HOPES FOR TEENS GET REGIONAL FOR POETRY DOWN TO FIX ON
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Mentors, enterprise, and students team up for in-the-trenches apprenticeship program BY HILLARY VIDERS OF NORTHERN VALLEY PRESS
Thanks to Englewoodʼs Business Apprenticeship Program, 24 students this summer gained valuable experience and skills to help prepare them for careers in tomorrowʼs competitive job market. Now in its 12th year, the Business Apprenticeship Program pairs Englewood residents entering their junior or senior year of high school with local businesses, and the results might prove lifechanging. The program is funded by the City of Englewood and managed by The Zone of Bergen Family Center (BFC) under the leadership of Mitch Schonfeld, CEO and president, and the North New Jersey Chamber of Commerce (NNJCC), with support from Englewood Health. A selection committee reviewed each application and placed apprentices with local businesses. The interview process began the week of April 15, and applicants were notified by May. Apprentices worked 25 hours a week from Monday, July 1, through Friday, Aug. 8, including two hourlong business-skills workshops each Wednesday.
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OLD TAPPAN
ʻDare to Be Youʼ — Tami Luchow headlines PCATʼs Poetʼs Cafe Sept. 14
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OETRY TAKES center stage at the Presbyterian Church at Tenafly on Sunday, Sept. 14, at 4 p.m., when the churchʼs adventurous arts outreach program welcomes acclaimed poet, artist, and changemaker Tami Luchow to headline a Poetʼs Café. Church leaders say they are honored to host Luchow, a Tenafly resident whose work reflects themes of inclusion, empowerment, and creativity. Weʼre told attendees can expect to be inspired by her recently published collection as well as her lifeʼs philosophy, which challenges audiences to live fully and authentically. In addition to being a published poet and artist, Luchow brings a remarkably varied background: she is a leadership consultant, keynote speaker, writer, actor, and former journalist with NBC News. She also once competed internationally as a ski racer. Today, she leads workshops nationwide on leadership, belonging, diversity and inclusion, and self-care. Her programs ask participants to actively consider how workplaces and communities change when we
DEER WOES
All welcome to hear expert at Old Tappan Borough Council meeting Sept. 15
BY MICHAEL OLOHAN OF NORTHERN VALLEY PRESS
Tami Luchow, acclaimed Tenafly poet, artist, and changemaker, headlines the Poet’s Café at the Presbyterian Church at Tenafly on Sept. 14. explore what it means—and feels that we are all unique.” Her like—to be different, whether workshops encourage participants to embrace her guiding visibly or invisibly. Luchow embodies the belief that “our strength as people is See POETRY page 164
A senior Department of Environmental Protection biologist will provide local and regional options to Northern Valley and Pascack Valley officials in Old Tappan to address concerns about deer overpopulation, potential deer tick-spread Lyme disease and increasing motor vehicle accidents caused by deer. The DEP presentation, by NJDEP Senior Biologist Brian Schumm, will include a question and answer period for officials and the public, on Monday, Sept. 15 at 7:30 p.m. at the Old Tappan Borough Council meeting. Schumm tells Northern Valley Press, “While a lone municipality can certainly achieve a meaningfully reduced population size with significantly reduced deer–human conflicts, a regional approach to deer man-
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HAPPY CAMPERS
B ck in time...
Laughter, music, and the sounds of play sweep the grounds of the First Presbyterian Church of Englewood, Aug. 18–22. Hillary Viders.
31 students, two teachers, and a principal— Kristin Beuscher visits Old Tappan’s tworoom, wooden schoolhouse in 1900.
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