August 27, 2014 Edition of The Observer

By Karen ZautykObserver Correspondent

NUTLEY – Fire hoses didn’t work.

Boom-boxes didn’t work. Will “fogging” do the job? Only time will tell.

The “job” is to drive the

starlings from DeMuro Park, where they reportedly have been roosting in massive numbers.

Roosting and pooping.It’s the pooping that has the

township concerned. “They’re lovely little birds,”

said Nutley Commissioner

Mauro G. Tucci, “but when they roost in the thousands, they create a problem.” Which is why, for several nights last week, the park was temporar-ily closed for “fogging,” the spraying of an “environmen-tally responsible” aerosol called Methyl Anthranilate.

On Aug. 11, Tucci, director of Parks & Recreation, sent out an email alert to Nutley resi-dents explaining the situation and noting that the town had contracted with a company called the Bird Doctor Nation-

By Ron LeirObserver Correspondent

EAST NEWARK –As summer’s clock winds

down to the start of classes for the fall term, East Newark Public School is making all kinds of preparations to wel-come students and staff back in style.

Newly installed Superinten-dent/Principal Patrick Martin recently ticked off a list of improvements that staff and borough workers have done to enliven the century-plus-old building.

“We’ve undergone a huge facelift,” said Martin. Among the improvements he listed were these:

* All classrooms have gottennew window shades. “Many didn’t have any to begin with,” he said.

* The school’s early child-hood center, located in the borough rec center, had a new air-conditioning system and a new refrigerator installed.

* A borough maintenancecrew was doing some repairs in the school’s boys’ bathroom and came across original floor tiles, Martin said, so that floor-ing has been restored.

* The school’s kindergartenclassroom – whose wall color-ing probably has remained untouched for many years – is being painted, along with a

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KEARNY –

Hopes by Kearny to secure a developer for the old Koppers

Coke Peninsula Redevelop-ment site have taken one step forward and two steps back.

Kearny and Tierra Solu-tions, the owners of two of the three parcels in the South Kearny meadows area targeted for redevelopment, teamed with the Hudson County Improvement Au-thority, the third property owner, to jointly market the moribund site for new

ratables in hopes of maximiz-ing the future value of the property.

To that end, the HCIA – acting on behalf of all three – invited prospective devel-opers to submit proposals which were eventually nar-rowed to a short list of two: The Morris Companies and

Cleaner/Matrix.On Aug. 13, the HCIA board

of commissioners authorized its representatives to desig-nate The Morris Companies as the prospective developer – but only for the HCIA-owned Koppers site – and to

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KEARNY –

On an early August night, a few weeks ago, Kearny’s Julie

Kelley recalls her husband Ed calling her to the win-dow of the couple’s Morgan Place home and inviting her to look next door where the beacon from his flash light was focused.

It was there, caught in the glow from the beam, that she saw them – two raccoons straddling the space between the attic and roof of 47 Mor-gan Place.

After the couple snapped a photo, Kelley downloaded the image from her camera and sent it to Mayor Alberto San-tos, who, in turn, forwarded it to the town’s Health Depart-ment.

“It worries me,” Julie Kelley told The Observer. “I have to live here. I don’t want rac-coons in my house.”

Bill Pettigrew, a municipal public health inspector, said: “It was brought to our atten-tion by a neighbor that a fam-ily of raccoons – a mother and two offspring – were living inside the home at 47 Morgan Place.”

That location has been well-known to the depart-ment since fall 2010 when the house was vacated and the Kelleys began to be plagued by various property issues: water spewing from a broken pipe in the basement, rats oc-cupying a dilapidated garage, an unsafe exposed outdoor pool, backyard overgrowth, and now, animal squatters.

To deal with the prior prob-

lems, the town capped the leak, tore down the garage, filled in the pool and cut the grass, placing tax liens on the property owner’s tax bill for the cost of the work.

As for the raccoons, Pet-tigrew figured the animals were getting in and out of the building through gaps in the roof eaves, in the front and rear of the house. So he enlisted the aid of the town’s public works crew to cover up the gaps with plywood and,

with an assist from Bergen County animal control officer Bob Harris (contracted by Kearny on an as-need basis), rigged an outside trap with cat food and water along the eaves designed to allow an animal in but once inside, it could not return; it could go only one way – out.

“I also saw an opening at the base of the first floor where the siding meets the porch and we boarded that up, too,” Pettigrew said. “We also set up three traps on the

grounds in the backyard.”It was in one of those traps

that, soon after, “one of the offspring was caught,” he said. And, a few days after that, a skunk was found in a trap.

The Kelleys were con-cerned that possibly the mother raccoon and her other offspring remained inside the house, but Pettigrew told The Observer he felt that wasn’t the case.

“I put out more food inside the trap, plus food and water outside the ledge, about a foot away from the trap, as a lure, and, next day, I saw fresh claw marks on the siding and I saw that the food was gone and the water dish was tipped over on its side, so my guess is they got outside and we won’t see them inside any-more,” Pettigrew said.

“There are raccoons all over town,” he said. “It’s just nature. They even travel through the sewer system.”

And – like other animals in the wild – they may carry rabies or other diseases so it’s best to avoid contact with them, Pettigrew cautioned.

To catch a raccoon

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The town boarded up holes along the base of the porch and along the roof eaves of 47 Morgan Place to keep out critters and it set up traps outside the attic and in the backyard.

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North Arlington Mayor Peter Massa has appointed an eight-

member committee to inter-view Geraldine and Truman Road residents to learn the extent of sewer backups into basements and to team with the borough engineer to com-municate possible solutions to residents.

In the meantime, the borough awaits the results of a camera inspection of the sanitary sewer system in the Geraldine Road area to ascertain the reasons for the backup flows.

The committee members are residents Mark Tylenda, Craig Josloff, Lenny Aluotto, Ray Martin, Steve Delpome

and Lawrence Maleszewski, along with Borough Council-men Richard Hughes and Tom Zammatore.

Hughes said sanitary sewer problems in the area date back decades. “The sewer backups in that neighbor-hood are probably 40 years old. We need to determine if the problem has gotten worse over the years and, if so, how many people are impacted by sewage backups.”

Zammatore said: “I believe we first need to determine the cause and scale of the problem and then determine the best, most cost-effective solution.”

At the Aug. 14 mayor/coun-cil meeting, the borough’s consulting engineer Thomas Lemanowicz said the camera

inspection appeared to show no major structural prob-lems with the sewer line that would explain the backups.

Councilman Joseph Bianchi wondered if rain water was contributing to the problem,

based on a recent visit to the area during a heavy rain storm when he said he saw four inches of rain coming off the hill across Schuyler Ave. and onto roads in the neigh-borhood.

Whether that’s the case or not can’t yet be determined, according to Lemanowicz, who added that efforts will be made to stem the inflow of rainwater into the sanitary sewer line.

Massa names sewer committee

Members of Harrison/East Newark Elks Lodge 2326 recently visited Elks Camp Moore for special chil-dren to cook dinner for more than 140 campers and

counselors. Campers were treated to a choice of a spaghetti and meatball or cavatelli pasta and broccoli dinner, served with garlic bread and lemon ice for dessert.

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North Arlington’s Kayla Raquel was one of 100 students who

attended a national career exploration camp for deaf and hard-of-hearing students at Rochester Institute of Tech-nology, Rochester, N.Y.

Raquel, who starts her sen-ior year this fall at Mountain Lakes High School, partici-pated in Explore Your Future, a six-day career exploration camp at the National Techni-cal Institute for the Deaf on the RIT campus. Campers got

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Fifteen Nutley students from both elementary schools and high school

participated this summer in the township Department of Public Affairs’ Nutley Corps program.

Corps members are volun-teers of all ages who assist the Public Affairs Depart-ment, headed by Commis-sioner Steve Rogers, in vari-ous capacities “to meet the needs of residents,” Rogers said.

“Beginning in July, and continuing into August, these kids came twice a week, on Tuesdays and Thursdays, four hours a day, to work with our department and help in any way they could,”

Rogers said.Among the activities they

were called on to lend a hand were visiting and writing letters for senior citizens, checking up on local veter-ans, and conducting video interviews of World War II veterans to get their first-hand accounts.

“Those taped interviews are going to be given to the Nutley library and will also be sent to the Library of Con-gress [as documentation of] the everlasting contributions our veterans made during World War II,” Rogers said.

“We’re going to continue with this Corps effort all year long,” the commissioner added.

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NORTH ARLINGTON –

As part of this year’s road improvement program, North

Arlington will be repaving four streets, covered under a $452,773 contract awarded to DM Fernandes of Elizabeth, said Mayor Peter Massa.

The cost of the contract is partially offset by a $79,200 federal Community Develop-ment Block grant that was awarded the borough in 2013.

The streets to be repaved are: Stover Ave., from River

Road to High St.; Bogle Ave., from River St. to Ninth Ave.; Noel Drive, from 38 Noel Drive to Second St.; and Bel-mount St., from Prospect Ave. to York Road.

Massa also said the bor-ough received a 2014 CBDG road improvement grant of $100,000 which will be used to repave Halsey St. and Moore Place. Additionally, the borough received a $149,000 2014 road improvement grant from the state Department of Transportation that will help finance the repaving of

Eagle St., from River Road to Riverview Ave. The contract bids for the projects covered under the 2014 grants have not yet been awarded, but Massa said the borough will move quickly to get the other road projects underway.

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A call from a concerned citizen about a suspicious individual led to the early -morning arrest Aug. 18 of a Kearny man on multiple charges, Kearny police reported.

The caller notified headquarters at 5:20 a.m. that a man was possibly breaking into vehicles in the area of Chestnut St. and Oakwood Ave. Officer Ben Wuelfing saw and detained the suspect, Andrew Worth, 22, at Midland Ave. and Beech St., and also saw a clear plastic bag containing suspected marijuana protruding from Worth’s back-pack, police said.

After arresting him on the drug charge, Wuelfing searched the pack. Police said it was found to contain: a Garmin GPS, a Magellan GPS, a Verizon cell phone, sunglasses, a digital camera, a wristwatch, a new padlock still in its packaging, a silver ring, two iPods, a Bank of America Visa card and more than $300 in loose change and currency.

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Worth was charged with receiving stolen property,

credit card theft and possession of marijuana and drug paraphernalia.

Other recent reports from the KPD blotter included the following:

Aug. 15At 10 p.m., a call came in

from Quick Chek reporting that a shoplifter had just fled the store. Officer Glenn Reed got a description and direction of flight, and Officer Wuelf-ing spotted the suspect on Chestnut St. Jose Rodriguez, 40, of Newark -- allegedly in possession of 27 packs of gum and four cans of Red Bull -- was brought back to the store, identified and arrested. Police Chief John Dowie said this marked the 15th time since 2009 that Rodriguez was arrested by the KPD for shoplifting or on warrants for same.

Aug. 16Officer Daniel Esteves, re-

sponding to a 6:20 p.m. accident on the Passaic River bridge in South Kearny, found that an SUV operated by Jackeline Garcia, 31, of Elizabeth had rear-ended an auto. He also found that a 2-year-old boy in Garcia’s vehicle was not in a proper car restraint, and that she had a sus-pended license and a warrant out of Fairfield, police said. She

was charged on those violations and also with careless driving and failure to exhibit vehicle documents.

Aug. 18At Kearny and Midland

Aves. at 7:45 p.m., Officer John Fabula spotted a man whom he knew to be the subject of a Kearny warrant for terror-istic threats stemming from a domestic dispute. After this was confirmed, Hector Reyes-vendrell, 32, of Newark was arrested and brought to head-quarters.

Aug. 19Following an investigation,

Det. Michael Gonzalez arrested Carlos Flores, 39, of Newark in connection with the theft of a purse from an 82-year-old Kearny woman at ShopRite on Aug. 7. Police said Flores had also used the woman’s credit card in Newark. He was charged with credit-card theft and theft of property lost or mislaid. The purse and its

contents were recovered and returned to the victim.

Aug. 20Det. Gonzalez and Lt. Tim

Wagner, on assignment in the area of Walmart at 3 p.m., saw a Honda with a broken wind-shield and missing vent win-dow enter and leave the store lot. Stopping it on Harrison Ave. for the vehicle violations, they reportedly detected a strong odor of raw marijuana and saw drug paraphernalia in plain view.

Police said the driver, Christian Rosa, 21, of Harrison, admitted to pot possession and produced from the console two digital scales and a container with four large plastic bags of the drug. He also consented to a search of a backpack that reportedly held four more bags of the suspected drug, six packs of glassine bags, a marijuana grinder, a box of 80 sandwich bags, a bag with pot residue, and 43 rounds of 9 mm. blank ammunition.

Rosa’s car was impounded and he was taken to HQ, where the marijuana was weighed and found to amount to 56.3 grams, police said. He was charged with possession of the drug and paraphernalia, possession of more than 50 grams, possession with intent to distribute, driving with a suspended license, operating a MV while in possession of a CDS and operating a MV with a cracked windshield.

Officer Peter Blair was on Pulaski Skyway traffic duty at 5 p.m. when he spotted a 2008 Audi with no front license plate. Checking the vehicle on his mobile computer, he found that the registered owner had a suspended license and a Cranford warrant, police said. Carlos Gonzalez, 30, of Belleville was charged on the aforementioned offenses and with failure to surrender a suspended license.

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By now, you surely have heard of “The Ice Bucket Challenge”

wherein people are video-taped pouring ice water over their heads in the name of charity. The stunt is raising awareness of, and donations for, the fight against ALS (amyotrophic lateral scle-rosis), also known as Lou Gehrig’s disease.

But there is another “chal-lenge” out there, performed in the name of abject stupid-ity. Or insanity. Or both. It’s known as “The Fire Chal-lenge,” and if you haven’t heard of it, you’re probably an adult. If you are a par-ent or guardian, you damn well ought to learn about it, because it’s endangering your kids.

The best we can determine, the first “Fire Challenge”

video was posted on YouTube back in April 2012. Today, there are multiple videos. And there have been multiple injuries but, amazingly, no deaths. Yet.

Last week, the N.J. Division of Fire Safety issued an alert to first responders in the Gar-den State. It reads as follows:

“A disturbing new trend is manifesting itself online on social media sites such as Facebook and YouTube called ‘The Fire Challenge.’

“The fire challenge in-volves teenagers pouring an ignitable liquid . . . on their bare skin and igniting it while another teenager takes photos or video of the event. [We have deleted the type of liquid cited, although several kinds are used.]

“The photos and video are subsequently uploaded to the

various social media sites for the world’s online commu-nity to watch and share. The imbecilic act is supposed to elicit laughter as onlookers and internet viewers watch the reaction from the person who is on fire. . . .

“Several news stories regarding the practice report that when young survivors are interviewed, most say they didn’t give much thought to the possibility of being in-jured or killed and they didn’t realize the fire would be so intense.

“Since many of these re-ported incidents involve the ignitable liquid being poured on the chest, emergency responders must be particu-larly aware of the potential for serious respiratory burns when treating victims, in ad-dition to the obvious external

burns.”Repeat: Kids are pouring

flammable liquids on them-selves and setting themselves on fire.

Repeat: Most say they didn’t give much thought to being injured or killed and didn’t realize the fire would be so intense.

Part of our still semi-sane brain wonders if the whole thing is not some sort of hoax. (The reported death of a teen-ager in Buffalo was apparently untrue. Apparently true was the Aug. 24 news story about a North Carolina mother ar-rested after filming her son performing the stunt.)

In the videos, the subject usually stands in a bathtub or shower stall, presum-ably so water to douse the flames is readily available. Except, when you’re going

up in flames, it takes only a millisecond to be seriously burned.

In at least one video, a panicked youth, torso ablaze, runs from the bathroom into another room. How he didn’t set the house, as well as him-self, on fire is not known.

If you are seeking some profound analysis of the Fire Challenge phenomenon, you won’t find it here. We are simply dumbstruck.

Perhaps the best summation about the warped mindsets behind all this is in a parody photo we saw online: A hospi-tal patient, swathed in band-ages head to toe, is holding a phone. The caption reads, “How many ‘likes’ did I get? #FireChallenge”.

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Morris’s legal representative is Theodore A. Schwartz, a former deputy state attorney general and environmental law pioneer who is now a partner in the Lyndhurst law firm of Scarinci Hollenbeck.

HCIA Executive Direc-tor Norman Guerra said that when it came down to add-ing in costs to remediate the environmentally compromised 25-acre Kearny-owned former Standard Chlorine parcel and the 30-acre former Diamond Shamrock property owned by Tierra Solutions, the devel-oper wasn’t persuaded to buy in to the concept of an all-inclusive project.

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undertaken by the developer would be expected to serve as a “cap” for the property, he added.

Guerra said that Kearny representatives “did sit with [the developer] on their piece” in an effort – thus far, unsuc-cessful – to include the town’s property as part of the compa-ny’s overall development plan. The town may continue to press its case with the devel-oper, he added.

As for the Tierra parcel, Guerra said that, “there was no offer for that property by any of the [prospective devel-opers].”

If and when the HCIA and The Morris Companies can nail down a deal, Guerra said the 40-year-old company – which has offices in Ruther-ford and Florida – figures to build “close to 2 million square feet of big box warehousing” on 138 “buildable” acres of the Koppers site.

With additional work like “infrastructure and road ac-cess” to be undertaken by the company, Guerra figured that total build-out would “take a good six months,” once the

project got off the ground.Kearny Mayor Alberto

Santos, reached on vacation, had this observation on the situation: “We’re exploring with Tierra developing our two sites together. … There is a developer interested but not from Morris. … The town doesn’t oppose the Morris designation; however, it’s in the town’s interest to explore other developer interest for the town-owned Standard Chlorine site. I think the town can achieve better financial terms that way.”

Incidentally, the mayor add-ed, “Any matters relating to utilities or PILOTs (Payments

in Lieu of Taxes) on any of the sites, including Koppers, can’t be done without the town’s agreement.”

Asked by The Observer why the HCIA elected to go with Morris over their competi-tor, Guerra said that while the overall “numbers from both were pretty comparable,” the rival firm’s submission proposed “phased” payments whereas with Morris, “we’d get paid up front.”

Among the completed industrial developments Mor-ris lists on its website are: a 440,000 square foot Barnes & Noble facility, a 420,000 square foot Canon USA build-

ing and a 605,732 square foot Proctor & Gamble warehouse, all in South Brunswick; and a 733,688 square foot Wakefern building in Jamesburg.

Looming over the whole situation is a plan by NJ Tran-sit to develop a micro-grid as a power source in the Peninsula redevelopment zone which is pending a federal funding review. And, if the agency gets its way, it’s unlikely that any new tax revenues will be generated from that use.

“If [NJ] Transit wants the property,” said Guerra, “they’re just going to have to take it through condemna-tion.”

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This calm, medium-size grey and white senior cat is age 10. Stotsie’s shots are up-to-date and he has been neutered.

For more information, call 201-229-4600. Many other adoptable animals can be seen at the shelter’s website http://www.petfinder.com/shelters/NJ29.html. Check the shelter’s website for updated hours of

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The owner of a Franklin Ave. business under con-struction in Nutley has been a victim of repeated break-ins, according to police.

In the initial incident, on Aug. 19, police said the owner arrived at the shop – which is being renovated for the new business – and found the front door open and scaffolding – valued at about $150 – placed outside, missing.

In a subsequent episode, on Aug. 20, the owner told police that a rear steel door had been pried open and that a circular saw, priced at $150, and a Ryobi grinder, priced at $75, had been re-moved. A witness reported seeing a vehicle parked in front of the store with two males inside at the time of the incident, police said.

In the third case, on Aug. 21, police said that someone

tried to pry open the rear door and, in doing so, dam-aged the dead bolt and the door.

Police said detectives are continuing to investigate.

Police are advising bike owners to lock away their bikes as a precaution in the wake of two cases of bicycle theft from outside locations on Kingsland St. that were reported during the week.

In the first incident, Aug. 19, a Kingsland St. resident reported the theft of their son’s Huffy DS5 mountain bike, black with yellow ac-cents, with white shock cov-ers, valued at $150. Police said the bike was last seen in the rear of the resident’s house.

And, on Aug. 22, another Kingsland St. resident told police their bike was miss-ing when they went outside

to get it. They said they’d placed it overnight in the driveway in the rear of their house. It was described as a Huffy mountain bike, blue with purple streaks.

Among other matters listed on the NPD blot-ter for the past week were these incidents:

Aug. 18A Warren St. resident

reported a computer scam. Police said the resident’s computer was frozen with a screen message demanding that the resident pay $300 through Money Pak to the “Department of Justice” for alleged violations.

A motor vehicle stop, along Washington Ave., resulted in the arrest of Fernando Torres, 20, of Belleville, on charges of possession with intent to

distribute drugs, possession with intent to distribute drugs within 500 feet of a park (Monsignor Owens Park), possession with intent to distribute drugs within 1,000 feet of a school (Washington School), pos-session of marijuana and possession of drug para-phernalia. Torres was also ticketed on charges of un-safe vehicle, failure to sig-nal turn and possession of drugs in a motor vehicle. He was taken to Essex County Jail on $25,000 bail with no 10% option.

Another motor vehicle stop for alleged speeding, on Rt. 21 North, led to the arrest of Glenn Corrasco-Lopez, 26, of Union City, on active warrants from Union City and Edgewater. The driver was also issued sum-monses charging him with driving while suspended, failure to exhibit license, failure to exhibit insurance, failure to exhibit registra-tion, expired license, unin-sured motor vehicle, care-less driving and speeding.

Aug. 19Police were called to a

Passaic Ave. location on a report of illegal dumping. Police said they found 10 black garbage bags filled with rock and cement on the property line at Friedland Road. A canvas of neighbors to learn the source was unsuccessful, police said. DPW was alert-ed to remove the debris.

A resident reported the theft of about $16,000

worth of assorted jewelry from their home during the last two and a half weeks. Detectives are following up. The resident’s location wasn’t disclosed by police.

Someone removed a stone bearing a Coeyman Ave. resident’s house number from the resident’s front lawn. Police searched the area but came up empty.

Aug. 20An apparent identity

theft victim told police that someone had charged several California-based transactions totaling $4,600, dating from April, to their PayPal account, all of which were unauthorized. The victim was entered in a regional database as an ID theft victim, police said.

A Howe Ave. resident reported being the recipi-ent of multiple annoying phone calls during the past few weeks from the same Ontario phone exchange where the caller – who re-fers to the resident by their first name – is continually requesting remote access to the resident’s computer.

Aug. 21Another identity theft

victim reported that two credit cards – one from Capital One bank that has since been canceled and the other, unknown – were opened in their name. That victim has been entered in the national data base for ID theft, police said.

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Whenever Netflix re-leases new shows, they always put a

little tag under the graphic that says “New Episodes.” The other day, “Happy Val-ley” had that label and at first, it seemed like it might be a comedy.

But it was far from it.Turns out “Happy Valley”

is an incredible new police series, exclusive to Netflix in the United States (created by the BBC), with a six-episode run.

The six episodes were as intense as any TV as there’s been in quite some time.

It’s a show with two dis-tinct plots that have a major connection. One story line surrounds police Sgt. Cathe-rine Cawood, played by Sarah Lancashire, who comes from a most dysfunctional family.

She divorced after her daughter killed herself, right after the daughter had a child that was fathered by a rape. The father of the child, Ryan, is Tommy Lee Royce, played by James Norton. Cawood’s sister is a recovering heroin addict. And her son wants little to do with her.

The second plot surrounds Kevin Weatherill, a down-on-his-luck bookkeeper who wants to send his daughters to private school. But he can’t afford the tuition. So, he asks his boss and long-time friend Nevison Gallagher for a raise in salary.

But Gallagher declines the offer at first.

To fix this, Weatherill de-vises a plan where three men he knows — including Royce — will kidnap Gallagher’s daughter, Ann, and demand

ransom. The four will split the ransom, ideally, and Weatherill will have more than enough money to send his daughters to the private school.

Sounds like the movie “Fargo” in way, doesn’t it, where Jerry Lundegaard has his wife kidnapped to make money from her dad?

And of course, just like in “Fargo,” you can rest assured in “Happy Valley,” it’s just not as simple as kidnapping

someone, a ransom demand — the criminals get the ransom and everyone lives happily ever after.

No, it’s not even close to that — and that’s why “Happy Valley” is intense and unpredictable.

So much goes wrong over the course of six episodes for Cawood and Weatherill. But it’s hardly the kind of stuff you’d be able to sit back and forecast.

The follies of the two lead characters are what make this new series so great. Nothing one witnesses can be seen as predictable. Not at all. But for the sake of not spoiling the six episodes, we’ll leave it at that.

Though the show is filmed entirely in England, it’s very easy to follow. The accents aren’t thick. And the town, in West Yorkshire, is a lot like our local towns — with lots of hard-working, middle-class families.

Perhaps the only drawback to the show is that it’s loaded with violence and graphic imagery — but that all gets lost in the incredible writing and incredible storylines.

The episodes were so good that this writer watched them all in a seven-hour span.

If you’re looking for a new Netflix show, and you enjoy suspenseful police dramas that aren’t necessarily about police procedure, “Happy Valley” will keep you want-ing more. And the good news is there’s already a second se-ries planned for just around this time next year.

(Are you in a band? Starring in a show? Live in our readership area? We want to know about it. Send an email to [email protected] and we’ll feature you, your band, etc).

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The Woman’s Club of Arlington recently awarded scholarships

and/or stipends to Meghan Donnelly, Samantha Ayala, Susana Freire and Alexan-dra Cordon, all students at Kearny High School.

Donnelly won the club’s $500 scholarship. She is a member of the National Honor Society, participated in the Responsible Educa-tive Adolescence Can Help (REACH) club in her junior and senior years and served on the Student Government Association for all four years in high school. Donnelly also volunteered for the Salvation

Army, SADD, Sunday School at St. Cecilia’s and the art studio at Kearny High. She plans to go to the University of Mississippi and major in a field where she will be of service to others.

Ayala and Freire both won the English medal and a $100 stipend.

Ayala is an outstanding student, athlete and musi-

cian. She is the treasurer of the National Honor Society and the vice president of the Engineering Club. Ayala has been a piano teacher for two years and is a member of the Piano Guild of America. She also played on the high school softball league and participat-ed in several volunteer activi-ties. Ayala plans to enroll at NYU and study communica-tion disorders.

Freire is a member of the National Honor Society. She started the Engineering Club and, as a senior, served as club treasurer. She was president of the Latin Club, a member of the high school marching band, played clarinet in the philharmonic band at Our Lady of Fatima Church, did volunteer tutoring at the Sal-vation Army, took part in the Student Government Associa-tion, and ERASE. Freire plans to go to NJIT for computer engineering.

Cordon won a $100 schol-arship from Hudson County Community College where she plans to study nursing. She has been involved with the Student Government Organization, the Critics Cafe Book Club, and has volun-teered for the Ticket to Read summer program at Lincoln School, and community pro-jects, such as the annual Pas-saic River Cleanup. She also holds down two jobs, both at daycare centers.

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Arlington Woman’s Club Corresponding Secretary Una Phelan (l.) and Membership Secretary Joan Jablonski (r.) con-gratulate scholarship recipients. From l. are: Phelan, recipients Susana Freire, Samantha Ayala, Alexandra Cordon and Meghan Donnelly and Jablonski.

Students from Nutley and Bloomfield were among 53 outstanding high

school seniors who success-fully completed an intensive three-week science and math study program at Caldwell University, Caldwell.

To qualify for the pro-gram, now in its fourth year, students had to be the first generation in their family to attend a post-secondary school.

Nutley residents Sabrina Lopez and Ada Zheng and Bloomfield’s Melanie Moreno, Melissa Moreno and Han Nguyen were among those accepted.

Among other things, the students researched sustaina-ble farming, water quality and environmental health in the labs, on campus or on various field trips.

As part of their research, students used 3D design technology and the univer-sity’s Aquos interactive digital boards, watched a real-time surgery via the interactive theater at Liberty Science

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The students showcased their final projects at a cel-ebration Aug. 1 with an audi-ence of 200 including teach-ers, principals, area legislators and family members. They “exceeded all expectations” in presenting “a research-driven technologically-based scientific presentation,” said Professor Brenda Peterson, program director and as-sistant director of nursing at Caldwell.

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had been used for storage for years has been emptied and cleaned, to be converted to a small group instruction area. With all other available rooms occupied, this was seen as the best alternative for the use of this space, Martin said.

* Ninety laptops and mobile carts priced at $120,000 that were ordered months ago – but whose delivery was delayed –have finally arrived.

“These are very important,” Martin said, “because our stu-dents will be using them this school year for the new state-mandated PARCC [Partnership for Readiness of Assessment for College & Careers] testing.”

When teachers report on Sept. 2, they’ll have two days of in-service technical training so they will also get oriented to the use of the new computer equipment, Martin said.

The first round of PARCC testing is scheduled in March 2015 and the second round in May. But, to help students ac-climate to the computers and to use another measurement to see whether they are achieving state benchmarks, the school will administer an in-house practice run of a PARCC-like test in November 2014 and February 2015.

If there are marked differ-ences between scoring results on the practice tests and the PARCC tests, Martin said school staff will have some ba-sis for making an independent assessment of the results.

Students return for a half-session of classes on Sept. 4 and, the next day, the fall se-mester swings into full session for everyone.

But before everyone gets down to the business of educa-tion, the school is throwing a welcome-back party for its 200-plus youngsters. “We’re calling it an ‘ice-cream social, ’’ Martin said. “We’ll close off N. Third St., between Davis and Central Aves., to traffic and give the students a chance to enjoy ice cream and music to kick the school year off on the right foot.”

On July 23, the East Newark Board of Education authorized a field trip for 60 students and 15 staffers to the Central Park Zoo in New York as the culmi-nating activity for the school’s summer school program. For many of the kids, it marked the first time they’d traveled across

the Hudson River, according to Martin.

For many, it was also their first exposure to a llama, goats, sheep and other animals which they were allowed to feed and pet.

Their journey to Manhat-tan also took them down Fifth Avenue for an up-close look at landmarks like Tiffany’s, Rock-efeller Center, the New York Public Library’s main branch and Empire State Building, all of which they’d researched before the trip.

Martin said the school is

hoping to expand its offering of field trips during the school year as a way of widening chil-dren’s awareness of the world outside East Newark.

As morale boosters, Martin has welcomed public displays of student art work along interior school stairwell walls and has, himself, taken a hand in not only brightening school décor but also adding to stu-dents’ cultural appreciation, by posting photos and capsule biographies of such artists as Billie Holiday and Renoir.

And he’s experimenting

with subtle ways of prompting youngsters to begin think-ing about future careers by hanging in hallways, at kids’

height, small mirrors with printed tags below, reading, for example, “Possible future Attorney.”

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BellevilleBelleville Elks, 254 Wash-

ington Ave., host a Type O blood drive Wednesday, Aug. 27, 5 to 9 p.m., for Belleville residents and all surrounding communities. No appoint-ment is needed. Priority is for Type O blood but all types of blood will be accepted. The entire process takes less than one hour. Donors must be at least age 17, weigh at least 120 pounds and be in generally good health.

East NewarkWest Hudson Brave Women

Fighting Breast Cancer meets on the last Friday of every month from 7 to 9 p.m. at the East Newark Senior Center, 37 President St. For more information, call Emma at 201-998-6828, Rosa at 201-246-7750, Fatima at 973-485-4236 or email [email protected].

HarrisonHoly Cross Church sponsors

a bus trip to the Taj Mahal, Atlantic City, on Sunday, Aug. 31. The bus departs from Holy Cross School, 15 Frank E. Rodgers Blvd. S., at 10 a.m. Refreshments will be served in the school basement at 9:15 a.m. A $30 donation is requested, with a $25 return in slot play. For reservations, call Joan at 973-481-2434. (Leave your name, phone number and number of people attending).

KearnyThe Class of 1964 of St. Ce-

cilia High School is holding a 50th reunion dinner Saturday, Oct. 4, 6:30 to 10:30 p.m., at Mama Vittoria Restaurant, 160 Franklin Ave., Nutley. Those interested in attending are asked to contact Kathy Mc-Court Jackes [email protected] or 908- 303-9993; Kathy Walsh Vecchio at [email protected] or 973-865-0402 or Nancy Branin Waller at [email protected] or 201-889-6229 by Sept. 25.

The community is invited to enjoy food and music at an Hispanic Festival Sept. 7 at St. Cecilia’s Church, 120 Kearny Ave., in the church’s parking lot. A Spanish Mass will be offered at the church at 12:30 p.m. and the festival begins at 2 p.m. Email [email protected] for more information.

Kearny High School’s class-es of 1954 and January 1955 host a 60th reunion luncheon on Sept. 19 at the Spring Lake Manor, Spring Lake, at noon. For information and reserva-tions contact Phyllis Glass McCartin at 732-458-5162 or [email protected]. Guests are welcome.

Our Lady of Sorrows Church, 136 Davis Ave., begins its annual nine-week St. Jude Novena with Monsignor John J. Gilchrist Monday, Sept. 8, at 7 p.m. All are welcome.

The Woman’s Club of Arlington hosts an Autumn Harvest Social Tuesday, Sept. 9, 1 to 3 p.m., at the Girl Scout House, 635 Kearny Ave. Ad-mission is free. Members and non-members alike may bring friends interested in joining the club as well as children, grandchildren, sisters, moth-ers, etc. for a fun, social afternoon.

To attend, contact Jennifer Cullen at 201-991-6612 or Ted-die Jablonski at 973-248-6500.

Kearny UNICO hosts these events:

• A bus trip to Caesars in Atlantic City departs Sunday, Sept. 14, from the parking lot of Kearny Federal Savings, 614 Kearny Ave., at 8:30 a.m. Cost is $30, with $25 in slot credit back from the casino. For tickets or additional informa-tion, contact Lou Pandolfi at 201-368-2409 or 201-693-8504.

• “Wheels for Vic,” a fundraiser to purchase a power wheelchair for Kearny resident Victor Muniz, will be held Sunday, Oct. 5, at 1 p.m., in the former Boystown gym,

499 Belgrove Drive. Tickets are $30, which includes a raffle, lunch and live music. Muniz was paralyzed after a tree branch fell on him during a 2008 summer storm. For tickets or more information, contact Pandolfi, Joseph Sgalia at 201- 998-6879, Rossana McLaughlin at 201-407-7262, or Judy Hyde at 201-991-5812. The committee also welcomes both monetary and/or gift donations for this event.

Kearny Lions Club sponsors a bus trip to Sands Casino, Bethlehem, Pa., Sept. 27, leav-ing from 60 Kingsland Ave. at 9 a.m. Price is $35. Tickets include $20 for slots and a $5 food voucher. For tickets, call Alvin at 201-997-9371, ext. 18, or Jo Ann at 201-998-3018.

LyndhurstThe Lyndhurst Health

Department is collecting donations for students in need. Backpacks, marble composition books, note-books, dividers, loose paper, crayons and 3-ring binders are requested. Drop off donations at the Health Department, 601 Riverside Ave., Suite 1, Mon-day to Friday, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., through Aug. 31. People with children in need of school supplies are asked to contact the Health Department at 201-804-2500 to schedule a pick-up of the needed supplies. Be prepared to give child’s gender and grade level.

Lyndhurst Public Library, 355 Valley Brook Ave., has purchased vouchers to the American Museum of Natu-ral History in New York City through its library member-ship program. Each voucher can be redeemed for free general admission and one special exhibition, film, or live animal exhibition of the visi-tor's choosing. The vouchers are available in the library's children's room to patrons with a valid BCCLS Lynd-hurst Library card. For more

information, call the library at 201-804-2478, ext. 7, or email [email protected].

The library hosts "The Daily Life of the Civil War Soldier" Wednesday Sept. 10, at 6:15 p.m., presented by speak-ers from LetHistoryLive.net. Space is limited and registra-tion is necessary. To register, call or email the library.

The Lyndhurst Health De-partment announces the fol-lowing programs. To register, call the department at 201-804-2500.

• Registered dietician Elizabeth Nossier offers healthy diet tips at a breakfast forum hosted by Clara Maass Medical Center, but held at the Health Department, Friday, Sept. 12 at 10 a.m.

• A bi-annual chiroprac-tic screening, conducted by Lyndhurst chiropractor Marco Ferrucci, is also set for Sept. 12 at 8:45 a.m. The screening includes a digital postural analysis.

• A bi-annual women’s health clinic, arranged through a partnership with Clara Maass Medical Center, is scheduled for Wednesday, Oct. 1, at 9 a.m. It includes education on breast self-ex-amination and a PAP test and is open to township residents ages 18 and over.

The Township of Lyndhurst hosts a Labor Day Weekend Antique and Craft Fair on Sunday, Aug. 31, at Town Hall Park. There’ll be live music throughout the day, a wide selection of specialty foods and a children’s play area. For more information, call 201-321-2756 or email [email protected].

Guest of the fair are in-vited to give blood at the Blood Center of New Jersey’s bloodmobile from 11:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Donors must be at least age 17, bring a sign or picture form of ID and know their Social Security number. There is no upper age limit

for donors provided they meet health requirements. For those who have recently traveled outside the U.S. and for other eligibility questions, call the blood center at 973-676-4700, ext. 132, or 1-800-652-5663.

Registration is open for a walk to benefit the American Diabetes Association set for Sunday, Oct. 5, at Riverside County Park, Riverside Ave. (entrance on Valley Brook Ave.) Participants must check in at 9 a.m. and the walk be-gins at 11 a.m. The event will include vendors, health semi-nars and activities for kids. To register, visit www.diabetes.org/lyndhurstwalk.

Interested participants may register now for Lyndhurst Police Emergency Squad’s 3rd annual 5k run set for Sunday, Oct. 5, beginning at 8:30 a.m., at the Recreation Center, Val-ley Brook and Polito Aves.

Water stations and emer-gency personnel will be set up throughout the course.

Visit www.lpes5k.com to register online, for a printout and mail-in application, or to get an application by mail. Anyone interested in being a sponsor is invited to email [email protected].

Kick off the NFL season by joining the New Jersey Meadowlands Commis-sion and the Bergen County Audubon Society on a free, 2-hour guided Back to Football bird walk Sunday, Sept. 7, 10 a.m. to noon, in DeKorte Park. Prizes will be awarded to the first people who see any bird species with the same name as a pro football team, such as: cardinal, raven, falcon, eagle, seahawk (osprey), giant (great) egret and giant (great) blue heron. All seven team bird species can be seen in the park. Check meadowblog.net for last-minute weather up-dates. Participants are asked to sign a standard liability release

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The area treated borders Wilson St. and Van Winkle, Margaret and Bloomfield Aves., where park neigh-bors reportedly have had to repeatedly clean extensive guano from cars and roofs and lawns, etc. (If you’d like to see what a mess masses of starlings can create, search Google Images for “starling droppings.” You might be surprised.)

In addition to being unsightly, the starlings’ excrement can pose a health hazard, Tucci said, since the spores become airborne. Be-sides, he added, “the smell is unbelievable.”

According to the commissioner’s email, the EPA has classified Methyl Anthranilate “as a naturally occurring flavorant and it has been declared GRAS (Gener-ally Regarded as Safe) by the FDA.”

“It’s a food-based chemical,” Tucci told The Observer, noting that it is used to flavor grape gum and candy.

The alert explained, “Methyl Anthranilate’s method for bird control is a pain stimulus in the trigemi-nal nerves which are found in the throats and mucus mem-branes of the beak and eyes.” (Tucci put it in layman’s terms: “It irritates their nasal passages.”)

“Almost all animals have these nerves,” the email noted, “yet only birds have a negative response to Methyl Anthranilate. Birds ‘feel’ Methyl Anthranilate as pain, while mammals, including humans, sense it as a grape scent.”

When an area is “fogged,” the “target birds begin to associate the pain to the site. They are trained, with multiple applications, that the site is painful and they seek a new location.”

“Until now,” the email said, “there have been few options for the control of flocks of birds that invade and contaminate a site other than killing them. This fogging

method will not kill the birds, it will simply cause them to not like coming to this area anymore.”

Tucci assured your cor-respondent that the chemi-cal irritates the birds, but “it doesn’t harm them.”

“I would do anything not to harm them,” he said.

The Bird Doctor “fogged” the park at dusk, when the starlings come home to roost. Tucci had described prior roostings as resembling “something out of Alfred Hitchcock’s ‘The Birds’.” We visited DeMuro on Sunday evening and saw some sort of feathered creatures flocking to the trees, but we could not tell if they were starlings. In any case, there did not seem to be an inordinate number. so perhaps the project has been a success. We await word.

Tucci told us that the town-ship had previously tried to drive away the starlings with the help of the Nutley Fire Department’s hoses. Do not fret. This did not resemble riot control. “It was a gentle hosing,” the commissioner said.

“We just sprayed them with water.”

When that didn’t work, the town installed sonic boom-boxes in the park, not for music, but to play the call of a predator bird. This was sup-posed to stress the starlings. It did not.

“We’ve called everybody” for advice, Tucci noted. Fish

& Wildlife, the Audubon Society, et al. The Bird Doctor was finally contacted after a Nutleyite made that sug-gestion at a Township Com-mission meeting. Tucci said each “fogging” application was costing $895, for a total of $4,475.

By the way, according to its website, the Bird Doctor Nationwide is the “Official Pest Control Company of the N.Y. Yankees.”

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Kearny police said the shooting, which they de-scribed as an “isolated incident,” occurred about 1:30 p.m., Monday, Aug. 18, in Riverbank Park, but it was not reported until the following morning.

The man, a township resi-dent, was walking his canine north along the river between Bergen Ave. and Afton St. when the dog was hit in the left side by a small projectile, fired from either a pellet gun

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By Jim HagueObserver Sports Writer

The Nutley High School football team posted a 5-5 record in 2013. With

any luck, that record could have been dramatically better.

“We lost three games where we had leads going into the fourth quarter,” said Nutley head coach Tom Basile, who enters his third season as the head coach of the Maroon Raiders. “We have to do a better job of finishing football games. That’s our goal this year. We have to finish better.”

Basile said that the Maroon Raiders’ season ending victory over Wayne Valley, a game where Nutley came from be-hind to win, has been a giant stepping stone into the 2014 season.

“We’re using that game as a springboard,” Basile said. “We have a lot of kids coming back from that team. It’s a different year, with a different sched-

ule, but with a lot of the same kids, we feel good about our chances. The kids have really been receptive. I couldn’t be any happier.”

The Maroon Raiders will face different foes such as Caldwell, Weequahic and Irvington in 2014, shifting divisions in the Super Essex Conference.

“We have good senior lead-ership,” Basile said. “We have good impact players.”

One of the impact contribu-tors will be senior quarterback Rob Melillo (6-2, 190). Melillo was the junior varsity quarter-back for the last two seasons and gets his chance to finally start this fall.

“He did bide his time,” Basile said of Melillo. “He runs smart. He runs more like a fullback than a quarterback. He is smart with the ball and has a gun for an arm. His ac-curacy is good and manages the offense well.”

Senior Frank Malanga (5-9, 180) is the returning starter at fullback.

“He’s a hard-nosed run-ner who is also a good lead blocker,” Basile said. “He runs our Veer option and misdirec-tion well.”

The key to the Raiders’ of-fense is junior running back Craig Merkle (6-0, 195).

“A year ago, we tried to bring him along slowly and he ended up being our lead-ing rusher and tackler,” Basile said. “He did everything for us, running, catching passes, scor-ing touchdowns (11). We real-ized midway through last year that he was our best player. He’s everything and more.”

The other running back is junior Devin Merritt (5-9, 170), whose father, Dave, is the defensive backs coach for the New York Giants.

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Nutley should be an improved football team this fall. From l. are Jason Hoffman, August Mustardo, Jesse DeFuria, head coach Tom Basile, Joe Iorio, Devin White and Kevin Davis.

The newest member of the First Family of West Hudson soccer arrived last Monday.

Christian Michael Rusek was born on Monday, Aug. 18, 2014, weighing in at eight pounds, six ounces. He’s the first child for Harrison High School head coach Mike Rusek, who had a reason to miss the Blue Tide practice session the next day, leaving the du-ties for the newborn’s grandfather and uncle to carry on.

Mike Rusek begins his 15th season as the head coach at Harrison, where he now coaches with not only his brother, John, but with his father, Mickey.

This year, things will be a little different for the head coach in the family, because of his new family obligations.

“I find myself running home after practice now,” Rusek said. “I tell everyone, ‘It’s time to go. I have to go home and be with my son.”

But in most aspects, things won’t change one iota with the Blue Tide’s immensely successful boys’ soc-cer program. The Blue Tide should once again contend for top honors in the Hudson County Tournament, which

they won last year, and in the NJSIAA Group I ranks, where they lost in the overall state title to Newton last Novem-ber.

In fact, the 2-1 loss in the state championship was the lone blemish in what had been a perfect 22-0-1 record up until that cold, dreary day at the College of New Jer-sey in Ewing. The Blue Tide won 19 of their 22 games via shutout last year. They featured the state player of the year in senior defender/do-everything Modou Sowe. It was definitely a year to remember, cul-minating in county and state sectional titles.

But the Blue Tide graduated a lot of key members to last year’s 22-1-1 team, including the immensely talented Sowe, now at Ramapo College after amass-ing an astounding 19 goals as a defender last season.

“I was looking at our stats from last year and we lost a total of 75 goals to graduation,” Rusek said. “That’s a lot. You always believe and hope that the seniors who are left can carry on and hope that others now get the opportu-nity to play where they

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who also serves as the backup quarterback. Junior receiver Anthony Condito (5-10, 170) is also a quarterback.

“All three are going to be on the field at the same time,” Basile said. “We feel pretty fortunate to have all three play quarterback.”

Senior Jason Hoffman (6-1, 230) is the starting tight end.

Senior Kevin Davis (6-3, 230) is a returning starter at offen-sive tackle, joined by junior August Mustardo (6-0, 195). Senior Jesse DeFuria (5-9, 215) returns to his starting slot at guard, joined by junior Devin

White (5-10, 195).The center is senior Joe Iorio

(5-10, 190), who is a converted fullback.

“Joe started the season last year as our starting fullback,” Basile said. “We moved him back to center this year. He played center as a little kid, so he knows what he’s doing.”

The Maroon Raiders will utilize a 3-4 defensive set this season to better use their per-sonnel.

“We felt that we had a lot of talent at linebacker, so we made the transition to 3-4 to get them all on the field,” Basile said.

Senior Austin Brendel (6-2,

190) joins Hoffman at defen-sive end, flanking DeFuria at nose guard.

Merkle is a standout at outside linebacker. He made 81 tackles to lead the team last fall. Merritt is the team’s other outside linebacker.

Malanga and Iorio return to their starting slots at inside linebacker, so the Maroon Raiders have three returning players at linebacker. Not many teams have that kind of experi-ence at that position.

Seniors Kevin Goudie (5-9, 165) and Chris Ammiano (6-1, 170) are the cornerbacks.

Russo returns to the safety slot, where he earned All-SEC

and All-Essex County honors a year ago, tying for the state lead in interceptions with eight. Incredibly, Russo made six of those interceptions in two late-season games.

Andrew Aiello (5-9, 170) is a senior who starts at the other safety slot.

The Maroon Raiders open the 2014 season against neigh-boring rival Belleville at Bel-leville on Sept. 12.

Basile really likes the make-up of his team.

“They have formed a little bit of a bond,” Basile said. “They really worked hard together in the offseason. We have a great group of leaders, a group

of kids who do everything to-gether. They hang out together off the field. They really are buddies. We profess that we’re not a team, that we’re the Nut-ley football family. But that’s for real with these kids. They really are a family.”

And if they can figure out a way to close out games this season, maybe they will return to the state playoffs.

“That’s what we’re hoping for,” Basile said. “We wanted to establish a tradition of con-tending for a state title every year.”

This could be the year that the Maroon Raiders make a return to glory.

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his team.“We do have a good number

of seniors this year,” Rusek said. “We do have about half of last year’s team back. I just hope this is a group that can carry us a very long way.”

Leading the returning play-ers is senior goalkeeper Nick Araujo, who was the one to record those 19 shutouts a year ago.

“I feel very good about that position,” Rusek said. “Nick is a solid keeper.”

The Blue Tide utilizes what Rusek dubbed “a flat back four,” instead of the traditional sweeper/stopper formation on defense.

The center defenders are seniors Rodrigo Esquivel and Ali Lathgar, both of whom are capable and experienced. The other two backs are senior Marcelo Esquivel (Rodrigo’s identical twin brother and good luck trying to determine which one is which) and sen-ior Alexis Burga.

So the Blue Tide have some experience and strength along their back line.

One midfielder slot belongs to senior Jorge Castro, who compiled seven goals and had 10 assists last year.

“He’s a good distributor,” Rusek said. “He’s also a good defensive midfielder.”

The other midfielder is jun-ior Cristian Marquez, who had six goals in limited action last year, but five of those scores came in the NJSIAA state tournament.

“He really came on at the end of the season,” Rusek said of Marquez.

The center midfielder is re-turning senior starter Leandro Gonzales, who is a three-year starter in the Harrison mid-field. Gonzales had 10 goals and 10 assists last season.

“We’re hoping that Leandro can lead us if we’re going to get things done this year,” Rusek said. “If we’re scoring goals, he’s the one who will be behind a lot of it.”

Junior David Inahuazo is another key contributor in the midfield.

Up front, the Blue Tide wel-comes back senior Ali Lakhrif, who had 12 goals last year, including the big lone goal in Harrison’s 1-0 victory over Kearny in the Hudson County Tournament semifinals.

“He’s definitely going to get his chance to score,” Rusek said of Lakhrif, whose family is originally from Morocco. “He has a good, strong leg.”

The other forward is senior Christian Restrepo, who gets a chance to crack the lineup this fall.

“He’s finally going to get a

chance to play,” Rusek said of Restrepo.

The Blue Tide begins their season Monday, Sept. 8 against New Milford.

There is something else to be excited about. The Blue Tide will, indeed, face Kearny in the regular season at Red Bull Arena in Harrison on Saturday, Sept. 27 as part of a girls’-boys’ doubleheader on that day. No need for wait-ing and hoping for a county tourney showdown. The two will meet in a regular contest in late September in the state’s

premier soccer palace.“It should be a great day of

soccer,” Rusek said. “I know our kids are very excited about it. As long as it’s a good day weather-wise, it should be a great crowd.”

Needless to say, the Blue Tide should be in the thick of county and state playoff runs as well – like they always are.

“I like to hope so,” Rusek said.

However, this time around, Rusek does it as a father. And there can’t be any more re-warding feeling than that.

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The Harrison soccer team looks to repeat on last year’s dream season, when the Blue Tide won 22 games, captured the Hudson County Tournament championship and earned the NJSIAA North Jersey Section 2, Group I title as well. In front row, from l., are Jason Sellmeyer, Rodrigo Esquivel and David Inahuazo. In back row, from l., are David Penaherrera, Christopher Crespo, Maciej Gaus and Jose Carrera.


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Joe Fischer knows exactly what the new head football coach at Belleville High

School has to do – because he’s done it.

In 2004, Fischer inherited a Belleville football program that was in the midst of the state’s longest losing streak. At first, it didn’t get better for the Buccaneers, as they lost all 10 games during Fischer’s first season.

But in 2005, the 33-game losing streak ended with a dramatic win over Paterson Eastside. Two years later, the Buccaneers did the unthink-able and qualified for the NJSIAA North Jersey Section 1, Group IV state playoffs for the first time since 1984.

Fischer then stepped aside to take care of his young fam-ily.

The Buccaneers were 1-9 last season and struggled to make it to the end of the year,

so Fischer can relate to what the new coach has to tackle as he takes over.

The new coach? None other than Joe Fischer.

The former coach of the Buccaneers is now the current head coach of the Buccaneers, returning after a seven-year respite.

And Fischer inherits a lot of the same headaches he incurred when he came to Belleville from Immaculate Conception of Montclair a decade ago.

“I knew it was going to be a challenge,” Fischer said after a spirited practice last week. “But when I came the first time, we didn’t even have a field.”

The Buccaneers were forced to play all their games on the road that season due to trou-bles at Doc Ellis Field, which has since been totally restored and renovated to make it a beautiful facility.

“We have 64 kids now in the program, including 22 fresh-

men,” Fischer said. “We have kids who want to play football. Things are definitely looking up. We’re definitely moving up.”

Fischer said that the first obstacle was instilling a sense of decorum and pride.

“The attitude was the first challenge,” said Fischer, who posted a 10-30 record during his first tenure as head coach. “We’re working on changing the attitude every day. It starts with the kids having to show up every day, ready to work.

They have to be accountable. I think at least 95% of the kids bought into that idea and the others are no longer here.”

Fischer has faith in restor-ing the Belleville program and giving it a sense of pride.

“I can see the potential,” Fischer said. “We’ve put in a system on offense and a system on defense. We’re not asking kids to do things that they cannot do. So we can improve right away. We will do what we do well and keep on moving forward.”

Fischer said that he wants to get all of his players involved.

“Our goal is to go two-pla-toon (meaning different play-ers on offense and defense, like what’s done in college and the NFL),” Fischer said. “Right now, we maybe have three kids who go both ways and that’s out of necessity. We want to have our players play.”

Fischer will run a multiple set on offense, with its basis being the Delaware Wing-T.

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The Belleville football team hopes to improve with once and current head coach Joe Fischer (c.). From l. are Michael Ramirez, Jeremy Jones, Michael Baylock, Fischer, Craig Jackowski, Nick Nardachone and Victor Samaniego.


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junior quarterback Joey Ri-vera (5-10, 170).

“He’s very athletic,” Fischer said of Rivera. “He’s very fast and runs the offense well. He’s probably going to be our leading rusher this year. He’s our best runner and has a great first step.”

Sophomore Brian Rivera (5-11, 150 and no relation to Joey) is the team’s starting running back.

“He started last year as a freshman,” Fischer said. “He’s a good athlete.”

The fullback is another sophomore in Terrence Best (5-10, 180).

“He’s blocking well,” Fis-cher said. “He’s an intelligent kid who knows the offense and knows how to block.”

Senior Manny Lascarro (5-9, 170) is the team’s resident wingback/wide receiver.

“He’s the fastest kid on the team,” Fischer said. “He’s very athletic.”

Lascarro is also a champion in tae kwon do, so Fischer likes his hands.

Senior Michael Ramirez (6-0, 190) is a four-year varsity player at wide receiver.

“He goes up and gets the ball,” Fischer said. “He has good hands.”

Junior Jared Collazo (5-11, 170) is another wide receiver. Collazo has just joined the program for the first time.

The tackles are senior Vic-tor Samaniego (6-0, 270) and junior Jeremy Jones (6-3, 280), so the Bucs have good size at the bookends.

Senior Nick Nardachone (6-2, 230) is at guard. He’s another four-year player and a returning starter from last year. Nardachone, who is also a standout wrestler, is a player to watch on both sides of the ball.

Senior Michael Baylock (5-10, 250) is another returning player at guard.

Sophomore Craig Jack-owski (6-0, 180) is the starting center.

Nardachone has been moved outside to defensive end to key the Buccaneers’

4-4 defensive formation. Sen-ior Ibn Whitfield (6-0, 200) is the other defensive end. Sophomore Andre Vasquez (5-10, 175) will get time also at defensive end.

“He’s lightning quick,” Fis-cher said of Vasquez.

Samaniego and Baylock are the defensive tackles.

Lascarro and Ramirez are players to watch at linebacker.

Senior Anthony Jett (5-11, 150) is a fixture at corner-back, along with Brian Rivera. Joey Rivera is the team’s free safety.

The Buccaneers open their

season early, facing Snyder on Friday, Sept. 5 at Doc Ellis Field. They then face Nutley Sept. 12, also at home.

In fact, Belleville will play seven of their nine scheduled games this season at home, so that gives the Buccaneers an advantage over their oppo-nents.

“Seven home games, seven Friday night games,” Fischer said.

Fischer likes the makeup of his team.

“I like the attitude,” Fischer said. “We weeded out the kids who were negative.”

Fischer also likes his coach-ing staff.

“They all played college football, so they know what it takes,” Fischer said. “That’s important to me. They’re all positive people. We put to-gether a nice coaching staff.”

Fischer also thinks that the Buccaneers will be better this year.

“We should improve,” Fischer said. “We should be competitive.”

It’s definitely a new era for Belleville football.

“That’s right,” Fischer said.He should know.

Boy Scout Troop 97 of Lyndhurst recently attended Camp No-Be-Bo-Sco in Blairstown. During the week-long program, the boys at-tended classes to earn Merit badges, which will help them advance towards the rank of Eagle Scout.

The 27 scouts who attend-ed camp achieved a collec-tive goal of 90 Merit badges in more than 25 scouting fields of interest. The boys participated in kayaking, cooking, first aid, nature, wilderness survival, fishing, rifle, woodcarving, swim-

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At 9:40 p.m., Officers Brian Wisely and Tom Sumowski responded to a noise complaint at Davis and Wilson Aves. and arrived to find two men “screaming at each other” on the street. As the officers tried to sepa-rate them, Juan Ramirez, 18, of Kearny report-edly hit the other man, a 39-year-old township resident.

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for simple assault.

Aug. 21Officer Wisely, on

patrol on the 500 block of Devon St. at 3 p.m., observed 19-year-old Fabian Arroyo of Kearny, who he knew was wanted on a $10,000-bail burglary warrant from Kearny. This was confirmed and Arroyo was arrested.

Aug. 22Officer John Travelino,

on Pulaski Skyway traf-fic detail at 8 a.m., saw an individual walking near the now-abandoned Skyway Diner while ap-parently rolling a mari-juana cigarette. Police said after the officer’s olfactory senses con-firmed his suspicions, he recovered a joint and a small baggie of pot and arrested Angel Cotto-Reyes, 30, of Newark for possession of the drug and paraphernalia

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Hudson County Com-munity College, Jersey City, recently conferred dean’s list honors on the following students who live in The Observer’s coverage area:

Seungchan An of East Newark; Andre Amorim, Natasha Camargo,

Jonathon Francis, Magda Gaus, Claudia Lasso, Stephanie Rodriguez, Krystian Szymczyk and Daisy Vinanzaca, all of Harrison; Ale-jandro Arias, Marcus Calero, Armando Callo, Fiorela Caro, Luis De Sousa, Thiago Decar-

valho, Shirley Disbrow, Magdalena Feliciano, Eli-sha Figueroa-Rodriguez, Richard Green, Camila Moyano, Robert Noristz, Wilson Ortiz, Paulo Cesar Salazar and Amy Salgado, all of Kearny; and Nutley’s Louis Petronico.

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Thomas Tucci Jr. of Nutley was recently sworn in as the newest commissioner at the

Passaic Valley Sewerage Commis-sion (PVSC), following his nomina-tion by the governor and confirma-tion by the state senate. The position is unsalaried.

Tucci, whose brother is Nutley Commissioner Mauro Tucci, joins Kenneth Lucianin of Passaic on the commission, which still has five of its seven seats empty since Gov. Chris Christie displaced all but one (Lucianin) of its members, its then-executive director and more than 100 employees in 2011 in the wake of a patronage scandal.

It’s unclear when, if at all, the governor plans to fill the remaining vacancies.

“We look forward to working with Commissioner Tucci in the com-ing weeks and months to plan the future of PVSC. Tom has excellent experience in public works and infrastructure projects, and I know we will benefit from his outstand-ing knowledge and expertise,” said PVSC Executive Director Michael DeFrancisci.

Tucci is currently the township manager for Cedar Grove and brings to his post an extensive background in engineering, construction tech-nology, public works and public administration. Tucci received his Bachelor of Science degree in engineering from New Jersey Insti-tute of Technology (NJIT), and has taken numerous graduate classes at Rutgers University in the master of public administration program.

He also holds a certificate in Con-struction Technology from NJIT and has been certified as a public works manager by Rutgers University-New-ark. He holds several professional licenses and is active in a number of professional societies such as the New Jersey Society of Municipal Engineers, the Building Officials As-sociation of New Jersey, the Public Works Association of New Jersey and the New Jersey Municipal Man-agers Association.

Chief among his responsibilities at PVSC will be helping the facility recover from Superstorm Sandy.

“I am looking forward to assisting the Passaic Valley Sewerage Com-mission rebuild and modernize the plant, so that we can be responsive to the needs of the ratepayers and our 48 municipalities. PVSC is an impressive facility and their mission is vitally important to the citizens of this region. My hope is to help the PVSC continue to recover quickly from Superstorm Sandy,” Tucci said.

The PVSC serves 1.4 million resi-dents spread across Bergen, Essex and Hudson counties.

PVSC gets Nutley representative

Tom Tucci Jr. (l.) takes the oath from Kenneth J. Lucianin.

Stewart’s Drive-in, a longstanding Kearny business at 938 Passaic Ave., is on the mar-ket. The property is just south of the Cpl. Osbrany Montes de Oca Memorial (Belleville Turnpike) Bridge.

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Irene Chickene Irene Chickene, 93, passed

away Aug. 22 at Clara Maass Medical Center in Belleville.

Visiting will be on Tuesday, Aug. 26, from 4 to 8 p.m. at the Armitage Wiggins Fu-neral Home, 596 Belgrove Dr., Kearny. A funeral Mass will be on Wednesday, Aug. 27, at 10:30 a.m. in St. Stephen’s Church, Kearny, and burial will follow at Holy Cross Cemetery. To leave online condolences, please visit www.armitagewiggins.com

Irene was raised in Missouri where she received her degree in nursing. Shortly after that, she served overseas during World War II and was an Army nurse, eventually mov-ing to New Jersey.

After staying home raising her family, Irene returned to nursing at the former West Hudson Hospital in Kearny. She later worked both at the Kearny Board of Health and as a school nurse.

Irene is survived by her loving and devoted family. She leaves behind three daugh-ters Mary and Nancy both of Kearny and Terri Watson with her husband Danny of West Caldwell. She is also survived by her grandchildren Carly and Jack Watson, her sister Beulah Foster of Missouri as well as nieces and nephews. She was predeceased by her two daughters Frances and Susan.

In lieu of flowers, kindly consider a donation to the Wounded Warrior Project.

Barbara ChoinskiBarbara Choinski (nee

Milewski) of North Arlington peacefully entered into eternal rest surrounded by her family after a short illness on Mon-day, Aug.18. She was 64.

Funeral services were under the direction of the Mulligan Funeral Home, Harrison. A funeral Mass was held at Our Lady of Czestochowa Church, Harrison. Her interment was in Holy Cross Cemetery, North Arlington. For infor-mation, please visit www.mul-liganfuneralhome.org.

Born in Police, Poland, she lived in Harrison for two years before moving to North Arlington and living most of her life there. She worked as

a secretary for Accurate Tool and Die in North Arlington for many years. She was a parish-ioner of Our Lady of Czesto-chowa Church.

Barbara is survived by her mother Henrika Grygielko, sisters Irene Bishop and Teresa Kociecka, her lifelong companion John Adler, aunts Helen and Hedwig Grygielko, nieces and nephews, Heather Bishop, Antoni and Przemek Milewski, and Pawel and Jacek Kociecki She is also survived by her cousin Ambassador Kosowicz of Los Angeles.

The family would appreci-ate donations to Our Lady of Czestochowa Church, 115 S. Third St., Harrison, N.J. 07029 in loving memory of Barbara.

Jesus Garcia Jesus Garcia, of Kearny, died

Aug. 23. He was 63. Arrangements were by

the Armitage Wiggins Fu-neral Home, 596 Belgrove Dr., Kearny. The funeral service will be held Tuesday, Aug. 26, at 11 a.m. from the funeral home and burial will follow in Holy Cross Cemetery.

He is survived by his wife Miguelina, son Oscar and stepchildren Ivan, Rocio and Jose Fermin, a brother and sister and five grandchildren.

Maria Fatima Meyer Maria Fatima Meyer peace-

fully entered into eternal rest on Tuesday, Aug. 19, surround-ed by her family and friends.

Born in Lombacdamaia, Azores, Portugal, Maria lived in Newark most of her life before moving to Harrison in 2010. She was a parishioner of St. James Church, Newark.

She is survived by her loving children Barbara, Shana, Jen-nifer, Frederico and Stephanie; dear siblings Grace Ambro-sio, Leonel, Emanuel and Joe Rocha, seven grandchildren and one great-grandchild. She is also survived by many nieces, nephews and cousins. She was predeceased by her mother Maria Rocha and sis-ter Maria Doceu.

Funeral services were under the direction of the Mulligan Funeral Home, Harrison. A funeral Mass was held at St. Stephen’s Church, Kearny. Her interment took place in Holy Cross Cemetery, North Arlington.

For information, please visit www.mulliganfuneralhome.org.

John Muscarella IV John Muscarella IV, 27, of

Kearny died Aug. 22 after his long battle with Cystic Fibro-sis.

Visiting will be at Armitage and Wiggins Funeral Home, 596 Belgrove Dr., Kearny, Friday, Aug. 29, 4 to 8 p.m. A funeral service will be held Saturday, Aug. 30, at 10 a.m. at the funeral home, with inter-ment in Holy Cross Ceme-tery. Condolences can be sent to www.armitagewiggins.com.

He was the beloved son of Debbie Farrell Muscarella and the late John Muscarella III; brother of Tina Santiago (Ar-senio), Jessica Muscarella and the late Amanda Muscarella; uncle of Anthony, Joshua, Atianna, Alexsis and Arsenio. He was the nephew of John Beasley and is survived by several other uncles, aunts and cousins.

John was a strong person and fought a great fight. He was a diehard Jets fan. As per John’s wishes, please do not attend his wake in a suit, but put on your favorite T-shirt and jeans and come to the funeral home to celebrate his life.

In lieu of flowers, the family will be accepting donations at the funeral home or make a donation in John’s memory to The Cystic Foundation, 2 Uni-versity Plaza, Suite 312, Hack-ensack, N.J. 07601-6210. (www.cff.org).

Linda List Currie Rogers

Linda List Currie Rogers, born to Peggy and Edwin List in Newark, on May 21, 1947, passed away Aug. 18 in King-wood, Texas.

Linda grew up in Kearny,

where she raised her family with her husband, George, before moving to Kingwood in 1991. She worked as a Weight Watchers leader for 10 years; office manager for Kingwood Funeral Home for five years; and administrative assistant for the Lifelong Learning Dept. at Lone Star College in New Caney, Texas, for the past six years.

Linda was preceded in death by her parents; and first hus-band, George Currie. She is survived by husband, Everett Benson “Buddy” Rogers Jr.; sons, Scott Currie (Patty), Sean Currie (Theresa), and John Currie (Gretchen); sister, Diane Michaliszyn (Joseph); brother, Edwin List Jr.; grand-children, Aiden and Kylie Currie; Christopher and Bryan Currie; Ian, Anna, Peter, Luke and Joseph Currie; niece, Meaghan List; nephews, Jason List, Andrew and Matthew Michaliszyn; stepchildren, Jeane Rogers, Kathy Rogers Mayeux (Gordon), Everett Benson Rogers III (Terry), and Timothy Rogers.

A Mass of Christian burial was celebrated at St. Martha Catholic Church on Aug. 25 and interment followed in Houston National Cemetery. For those desiring to make a memorial contribution, please honor Linda’s love for children by sending donations to either Ronald MacDonald House or to St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital.


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North Arlington public schools announce the 2014-2015 school year be-gins on Wednesday, Sept. 3. Students will attend half-day sessions for the first three days of school, Sept. 3 to 5. Full-day ses-sions begin Sept. 8.

Following is the half-day schedule for the el-ementary, middle school and high school as well as the full day-schedule. No lunches will be served until the first full-day session on Sept. 8.

• Elementary Schools: Half-day sessions will be from 8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Full-day sessions will be from 8:30 a.m. to 3 p.m., with lunchtime from 11:30 a.m. to 12:15 p.m. Students may be as-signed by their teachers to remedial class and/or homework labs which

will be conducted from 3 to 3:30 p.m.

Children should not ar-rive at school earlier than five minutes prior to the bell. The exception to this is Jefferson School grades K, 1, and 2 where parents have the option of dropping children off at the Hedden Terrace entrance at 8:20 a.m. and driving off. (This is designed to avoid traffic congestion at 8:30 a.m.)

• North Arlington Middle School: Half-day sessions for grades 6 to 8 will be conducted from 7:50 to 11:50 a.m. Stu-dents should not report to school earlier than 10 minutes before the bell.

Regular sessions will run from 7:50 a.m. to 2:20 p.m.

Students may be as-signed by their teach-

ers to extra help and/or study groups which will be conducted from 2:30 to 2:50 p.m.

• High School: Stu-dents will report directly to their first period class at 7:45 a.m. on the first day of school, where they will pick up their schedules for the year. Half-day sessions will be conducted from 7:45 a.m. to noon. Full-day ses-sions will run from 7:40 a.m. to 2:15 p.m.

Any new students in grades 9 to 12 who have not yet enrolled are ad-vised to check the North Arlington public schools’ website www.narlington.k12.nj.us for all required paperwork. Contact the high school guidance office at 201-991-6800, ext. 2053, to schedule an appointment to register.

NA public schools open Sept. 3

Caring for an ill, aging, or disabled person can be a rewarding experience. However, depending on the level of care required and other demands on the caregivers time and energy, it can also become an overwhelming respon-sibility. When this occurs, it may be time to explore other home-care options, such as hiring a private caregiver.

Barnabas Health Home Care suggests individu-als ask themselves the following questions when considering hiring a pri-vate caregiver:

• How much time is required to help care for the individual at home? Is this likely to increase or decrease over time?

• What skill level is nec-essary to provide the best care for the individual at home?

• Are family members and friends capable of providing the necessary

care without any one individual becoming over-burdened?

• How does the ill, ag-ing, or disabled individual feel about having a private caregiver assist with his or her care?

If the decision is made to hire a private caregiver, consider the following questions in your search for appropriate care:

• What services would be required of the car-egiver?

• Is the individual employed by an agency or organization licensed by the state?

• What specific services will the caregiver pro-vide?

• Will the patient’s Medicare pay for the service? If not, determine exactly how services will be paid.

• What are the qualifi-cations of the person or persons rendering care?

• Will the same person

or persons always be available, or will it be nec-essary to adjust to many different caregivers?

• Does the agency or or-ganization offer flexibility, making care available on weekends, at nights, and on holidays, for example?

• How does the agency or organization ensure that its employees treat their patients and patient families with respect?

Barnabas Health Home Care provides services to people of all ages in the comfortable environment of their own homes, such as assistance after coming home from the hospital after surgery or illness, a medication management program to help avoid medication errors, among many other services.

For more information about Barnabas Health Home Care, call 973-243-9666 (northern and central NJ) or visit home-healthnj.com.

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August 27, 2014 Edition of The Observer