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Ridgewood, NJ
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Fair Lawn Gym Dances For Orlando
FAIR LAWN, N.J. — Retro Fitness in Fair Lawn is dancing for Orlando. The gym is holding Zumba Fitness Master Class on Wednesday, June 22 for the GoFundMe page launched to aid Equality Florida, the state's LGBT civil rights organization. Donations to the Pulse Victim Fund will be distributed with help from the National Center for Victims of Crime to support families of the 49 people gunned down Sunday at a gay nightclub in Orlando. "At first we felt shocked and helpless like most people," instructor Dom Grit said. "We wanted to take that helpless feeling and make it into som…
Ridgewood, NJ
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Grant Provides Bergen County Foster Children With Horseback Riding Therapy
PARAMUS, N.J. — A $7,000 grant from the Ronald McDonald House Charity will provide therapeutic horseback riding lessons for children in Children's Aid and Family Services' Ridgewood and Paramus foster homes. Equine-assisted therapy helps vulnerable children to build confidence, trust, improve socialization and communication and learn to better control their emotions, according to a press release from the Paramus-based organization. “The children in our care have been severely abused and traumatized, and they have great difficulty trusting others,” President and CEO Jerry Binney said. “The…
Ridgewood, NJ
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Friends Rally For Son Of Bergen County Man Killed By Train
RAMSEY, N.J. — More than $30,300 had been raised as of Tuesday afternoon on a GoFundMe page to aid a Ramsey boy whose father was killed by a train on Thursday. Thomas L. Ryan, 27, was struck by a commuter train near the borough's Main Street grade crossing, NJ Transit officials said. The GoFundMe was launched Saturday by his friend to help secure 5-year-old Jack's future. "Tommy was a beloved friend to dozens, a dependable brother, a cherished son, and an outstanding father to Jack," the page says. CLICK HERE to donate.
Paterson, NJ
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Hospital Asks More Of Wayne Woman Missing Fingers
WAYNE, N.J. — More daunting than the fact that Karen Kwiecinski of Wayne won’t have all of her fingers again is that she’s not sure she’ll ever have the funds to pay the hospital that helped her heal. All the New Milford native has to do to put her confounding illness in the past is come up with $3,000 worth of co-pays for Hackensack University Medical Center. “It’s just funny,” said Kwiecinski, 42. “Insurance covered $250,000 for me and [HUMC] is still asking me for more. “If I pay them that then I won’t have a dime to live on.” More than $9,200 had been raised as of Saturday evening on …
Bergenfield, NJ
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Watch New Milford Pitmaster On Cooking Channel Tuesday
NEW MILFORD, N.J. — A New Milford pitmaster has rolled out his a new barbecue show on the Cooking Channel. Shannon Ambrosio's "Big Bad BBQ Brawl" debuted June 7 and airs every Tuesday at 10 p.m. The show chronicles Ambrosio on a road trip down south where he puts everything he's learned up north to the test. CLICK HERE for more.
Cliffside Park-Edgewater, NJ
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New Jersey Lawmakers Honor Cliffside Park Doctor
CLIFFSIDE PARK, N.J. — The New Jersey Senate and Assembly recently honored Cliffside Park doctor Aakash Shah for being saluted by the White House as a Champion of Change for the Affordable Care Act. The Bergen County Academies graduate is the founder of Be Jersey Strong, a student-led grassroots movement out of the borough that aims to ensure that every New Jersey resident who is eligible and interested in having health insurance is able to obtain it, the organization’s website says. Shah was honored by the White House in March for his work.
Paramus, NJ
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Oradell Library Opens Summer Reading To Adults
ORADELL, N.J. — The Oradell Public Library is opening its summer reading program to adults for the first time this year. The summer reading kick-off party will be on Wednesday, June 22 and will feature magician Brian Richards at 7 p.m.
Paterson, NJ
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Wayne Temple Welcomes First Female Rabbi
WAYNE, N.J. – Rabbi Meeka Simerly will become the first female rabbi at Temple Beth Tikvah in Wayne in mid-August. Simerly, of San Jose, California, will be joining in time to celebrate the synagogue’s 60th anniversary. Born and raised in Haifa, Israel, Simerly grew up as in a secular-Zionistic environment until moving to the United States in 1995. She rediscovered her Jewish roots and became musically active in several organizations in the South Bay area. “We are thrilled to welcome Rabbi Simerly as our new spiritual leader and to start the next chapter in Temple Beth Tikvah’s 60-year s…
Paterson, NJ
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Clifton Chef Aims To Prove 'Anyone Can Do It'
RAMSEY, N.J. — Josh Bernstein saunters across Ramsey’s farmers’ market with nothing but salt and pepper shakers and a bottle of olive oil in his basket. It’s 11:30 on a Sunday morning and Bernstein, the executive chef of Clifton’s Spuntino Wine Bar and Italian Tapas, has a 10-minute cooking demo for shoppers in an hour. He has no idea what he’s going to make. It has to be simple. It has to be quick. It has to make the crowd want to cook. “It’s a lot easier when you’re a trained chef,” said Bernstein, 28. “But cooking is just about inspiration more than anything else.” The Wayne native has…
Pascack Valley, NJ
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Montvale Mothers Give Each Other A 'Lift'
MONTVALE, N.J. — Christina Rottinger could barely walk the few blocks from her Montvale home to her twin son and daughter's bus stop in 2013. Now, she can run it. Rottinger is the one who put in the work, but she says she owes her life-changing success to fellow Montvale mother Anyssa Lucena, a nutritionist and fitness trainer. Life had taken a dark turn in 2012 for Rottinger, a once-muscular and slim carpenter’s daughter, when she suffered a blood clot in her leg. Exercising was impossibly difficult for Rottinger. She couldn’t walk down isles in supermarkets without leaning on shopping…
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