Vol. XII: No. 12 December, 2016 “Our Community... Your Stories” The Independent Leader in Local News In is Issue... Community Calendar Page 2 • Open for Business Page 3 • e Tradition of the Dreidel Page 4 • Nature in Your Back Yard Page 6 • ShopRite Wines and Spirits Giſt Center Page 7 • e Legal Insider Page 8 • PCRRO Toy Drive Page 10 Assemblyman Giblin & Oliver - Annual Toy Drive Jack Corradino is Certified by the Supreme Court as a Civil Trial Attorney www.corradinoandpapa.com My Mowimmy Po Polsku - Se Habla Espanol Assembly Speaker Emeritus Sheila Y. Oliver and Assembly- man omas P. Giblin today called on residents, businesses and organizations in the 34th legislative district to support their 2016 Holiday Toy and Book Drive, which last year handed out hundreds of toys Continued on Page 10 Assemblyman Giblin Christmas and Hanukkah on the Same Day, First Time Since 1959 For the fiſth time in just 111 years, Christmas and Hanukkah will overlap this year. e last time this occurred was in 1959. e first night of Hanukkah falls on Christmas Eve and the final night of Hanukkah is New Years Day. is year both Christians and Jews can celebrate their foundational be- liefs on a common date.
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Vol. XII: No. 12 December, 2016“Our Community... Your Stories”The Independent Leader in Local News
In This Issue...Community Calendar
Page 2•
Open for BusinessPage 3
•The Tradition of the
DreidelPage 4
•Nature in Your
Back YardPage 6
•ShopRite Wines and Spirits Gift Center
Page 7•
The Legal InsiderPage 8
•PCRRO Toy Drive
Page 10
Assemblyman Giblin &
Oliver - Annual Toy Drive
Jack Corradino is Certified by the Supreme Court as a Civil Trial Attorney
www.corradinoandpapa.comMy Mowimmy Po Polsku - Se Habla Espanol
Assembly Speaker Emeritus Sheila Y. Oliver and Assembly-man Thomas P. Giblin today called on residents, businesses and organizations in the 34th legislative district to support their 2016 Holiday Toy and Book Drive, which last year handed out hundreds of toys
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Assemblyman Giblin
Christmas and Hanukkah on the Same Day,
First Time Since 1959
For the fifth time in just 111 years, Christmas and Hanukkah will overlap this year. The last time this occurred was in 1959. The first night of Hanukkah falls on
Christmas Eve and the final night of Hanukkah is New Years Day.This year both Christians and Jews can celebrate their foundational be-liefs on a common date.
“Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.”
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Young at Heart Club • The Young At Heart Senior Club Will Meet The First and Third Tuesday of the month at the fel-lowship hall of The First Presbyterian Church on Maplewood Ave. at 12:00 pm. Refreshments will be served from 10:30am to 12:00pm. The next meeting of The Young At Heart Club will be held on Tuesday December 6th 2016. Come socialize, make new friends and play bingo. All are welcome to join the club. Be a guest for the day or go on our trips.
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CLIFTON PUBLIC LIBRARY PAWS for Reading 2016-2017
Come and spend 10-15 minutes reading to one of our vol-unteer therapy dogs in a calm, relaxed, fun, and educational setting! This is the perfect reading environment for nervous
or reluctant readers or if you love dogs!At Main Memorial Library every other Saturday 10-11AM2017: Jan 7- Jan 21 - Feb 4 - Feb 18 - March 4 - March 18 -
April 1 - April 15 - May 13 - May 27 You may reserve an appointment two weeks in advance.
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Bridge Group • The Clifton Library is offering a BRIDGE GROUP for 2016-2017. The group will meet at Clifton Main Memorial Library from 12:00-4:00PM on every Wednes-day: October 2016, November 2016, December 2016, January 2017, February 2017, March 2017, April 2017.The Main memorial Library is located at 292 Piaget Ave. Questions please phone 973-772-5500 or visit www.cliftonpl.org.
East Jersey Trout Unlimited East Jersey Chapter Trout Unlimited, 33 W. Passaic St. (American Legion Hall), RochellePark, NJ speaker is Tim Flagler. His topic will be “What is happening now on New Jerseytrout streams”. Ac-companied by video he will discuss catching fish, fish, bugs, andpopular patterns. The meeting is Wednesday night No-vember 9th and starts at 7:30,admission is free. For further in-formation contact Christopher Henrickson at 347-581-6361. ast
Mah Jong Group • The Clifton Library is offering a MAH JONG Group for 2016-2017. The group will meet at Main Memorial Library from 12:00-2:30PM on the following Fridays: November 25, 2016, December 23, 2016, January 6 & 20, 2017, February 3 & 17 & 31, 2017, April 28, 2017. We would appreciate anyone experienced in playing Mah Jong to assist the beginners.The Main memorial Library is located at 292 Piaget Ave.
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Open for Businessby Nicholas J. Veliky
This past week the Clifton community was shocked at the news of the passing of former mayor and councilwoman Gloria Kolidziej. The city of Clifton has had members of the Kolidziej family in local government since 1978. Joe, who was elected to the Clifton City council in 1978, died two years later, giving way to a life of public service for his wife Glo-ria. Gloria was elected to the city council and subsequently served as Mayor for two terms. Currently Golria’s son Joseph serves on the Clifton City Council. Mayor Kolidziej was a vibrant part of this community. As a result of her hard work and dedication to the city, there now stands one of Clifton’s crown jewels, the Clifton Art Center, which after many years was named in her honor. Under-neath her kind disposition was a strong professional woman who was focused, determined and whose influence on this community will be surely missed.Assad Akhter, a member of Congressman Bill Pascrell’s staff, has emerged as the frontrunner to fill the open seat on the Passaic County Freeholder Board left vacant as a result of Freeholder Hector Lora’s resigning his county position to take the reigns as the mayor of the city of Passaic. Passaic’s mayor Dr. Alex Blanco, a democrat, resigned his post in dis-grace after pleading guilty to accepting $110,000 in bribes. Lora’s term on the Freeholder Board was to expire in Decem-ber of 2018. Others that were considered for the seat on the Freeholder board were; Carol Cuadrado, Senator Nellie Pou’s Chief of Staff and Domenick Stampone, Mayor of Haledon.Congratulations are in order for former Wyckoff Mayor Kev-in Rooney who was recently sworn into office as Assembly-man in New Jersey’s 40th District. The vacancy in the 40th was the result of Scott Rumana’s appointment to the New Jersey Superior Court. The 40th has become a point of con-tention between warring factions of the Republican Party in Passaic and Bergen County. All three seats in the 40th will be up for election in November, 2017. The first GOP tickets to emerge, to fill the district seats, is made up of Passaic County Clerk Kristin Corrado for Senate, and former Wykoff Mayor Chris DePhillips and Wyckoff Mayor Kevin Rooney for the two assembly seats. What once seemed to be a ticket with united party backing, will now have to duke it out in what is expected to be an expensive and drawn out primary race.Passaic County Republicans are a divided bunch with former County Chairman Peter Murphy, one of the architects of the Corrado Team, wielding a tremendous amount of influence on the county executive committee, in spite of the fact that he does not hold office in that committee. County Clerk Kim Corrado, the only Republican currently holding an elected county position, held a kickoff event for her Senate run which attracted a crowd of about 500. If the Republicans are ever able to focus their energy on get-ting candidates elected instead of fighting within, they would certainly give the Democrats a run for their money. Until then, its one party ruel in Passaic County.Congratulations are in order for Imre Karaszegi, Jr. on his appointment to the Superior Court of New Jersey. Karaszegi, was flanked by his Mother Julia, wife Maria, and son Imre III, as Assignment Judge Ernest Caposela administered the oath. Karaszegi is well respected and loved in the judiciary commu-nity as evidence by the countless acco-
Clifton Centennial is offering plush animals, coffee cups and water bottles the Clifton Centennial committee has announced that t-shirts are being sold by the CHS History Club. They are only $10 for sizes up to XL and $13 for 2XL and 3XL with the Centennial logo design on the front and “I Am a Part of Clif-ton History” on the back. Proceeds from the sale of the t-shirts will be used to purchase time capsules for each school in Clifton. Available at Clifton City Hall.
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The Tradition of the Dreidel
2016 Bonding Pays for Dwasline Sidewalks
To the Editor:Since the Dec. 1, 2015 Coun-cil meeting where this coun-cil approved the construc-tion of Dwasline sidewalks, the public has continually been lied to about where the money for this $250,000 (and counting) project came from. This council and ad-ministration has continually lied to the public and the re-porters covering Clifton in that the money is coming from leftover money from previous bond ordinances. In fact, the Nov30th article states the council approved moving “$197,000 from 2015 road bond ordinance and $100,000 from previous bond ordinances”. This is a total lie.
When any contract is award-ed by the council, the CFO must include a certification showing which account the funds are available in to pay for this contract. This in-formation is available to the public through an OPRA
request which I completed. When the Dwasline Road sidewalk $250,000 contract was awarded the CFO cer-tified that the funds were available in account #04-215-55-954-407. My OPRA re-quest revealed that account #04-215-55-954-407 entitled Dwasline Road Sidewalks was created on Sept 12, 2016 as a result of the 2016 Capi-tal Bond Ordinance 7311-16 in that $350,000 was moved into this account on 9/12/16.
Since time and time again, this council told the public and the reporters the money was coming from previous bond ordinances, I ques-tioned the creation of this “Dwasline Road Sidewalk Account” and asked for any transfers in/out of this ac-count and what accounts the money into/out of came from. The answer from the city clerk’s office was clear “ this account #04-215-55-954-407 did not exist as of 12/31/14 or 12/31/15 and was created on 9/12/16 as a result of the 2016 Capital Or-dinance 7311-16”. Clearly,
we the taxpayers of Clifton were lied to by this council.
If you read the 2016 Capital Ordinance 7311-16 in which it must be detailed where and for what this money will be spent, it does not state any portion of this bonding money will be used for the new construction of side-walks. What it states is mon-ey will be used for “renova-tions and repairs to various roads, curbs and sidewalks”. Clearly, this is misleading and a false representation to the investors who purchased these bonds as there is no way the new construction of sidewalks on Dwasline could be classified as a renovation or repair. As a side note, as of today not one of the 46 roads listed on the 2016 Bond Or-dinance has been repaved. Yet, the Dwasline sidewalk project was started.
It is time the taxpayers of Clifton hold this council ac-countable and responsible for lying to the public. Trust and honesty is the backbone for good government. It is time we clean house.
Mary Sadrakula 340 Dwasline Road
Editors Note: Ms Sadrakula is a former Clifton Council-woman.
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The traditional Chanukah dreidel (spinning top) is a throwback to the times when the Greek armies of King An-tiochus controlled the Holy Land. The powerful regime passed a series of laws out-lawing the study of Torah. The Jews were compelled to take their Torah learning “underground.” Jewish children resorted to learning Torah in outlying areas and forests. Even this plan was not foolproof, for the enemy had many pa-trols. The children therefore brought along small tops that they would quickly pull out and play with after secreting away their texts, so that they could pretend to be merely playing games.The Chanukah dreidel games are a salute to these ancient Jewish heroes.The classic dreidel is a four sided spinning top made of wood, plastic, or clay. On the four sides of the dreidel ap-pear four letters from the He-brew alphabet—nun, gimmel
, hey , and shin. These four letters are an acronym for “nes gadol hayah sham”—”a great miracle happened there.”You can use one Dreidel or you can, accelerate the pace of the game by supplying each player with his/her own dreidel. Two or more play-ers (the more the merrier!). To make the game interest-ing there is an “Ante” of nuts, pennies, nickels, chocolate coins or anything of your
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Nature in Your Backyard By
Don Torino
Taking Time for Thanks this Holiday Season. . .
Anyone who works, volun-teers or cares about our en-vironment knows how dif-ficult it could be at times. One battle ends and another comes to our attention. At times there are so many im-minent issues that you can-not decide where to begin.
Unawareness,Indifference and human greed towards the environment can make the most enthusiastic lover of the earth throw in the towel and look for another line of work. Many times just when you think you have just about had enough and it’s time to
give up, there is something special that happens. An ex-perience that rises up to re-mind us we owe many people countless thanks for helping our Environment. Last month I had the great pleasure of visiting The Benjamin Franklin Middle
School in Teaneck. Jessie Go-rant a teacher at the school teaches a Suburban Biodiver-
sity Class. They asked me if I could come in to give them a
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The rave reviews keep coming for the Cuellar Family Markets’ new liquor store, ShopRite Wines and Spirits, located in the former Path Mark location at the corner of Clifton and Pau-lison Avenues. The Holiday Season is coming fast and time is running short to find that perfect gift. ShopRite Wines and Spirits Gift Center has the answer for those hard to please. The Gift Center has a wide selection of ready made and custom li-quor gift baskets perfect for holiday gift giving and are convenient, you can just “grab and go”. With ShopRite Wines and Spirits in house cus-tom engraving you can personalize any bottle to mark the occasion in an even more special way. Engraving services start at $5.
ShopRite Wines and Spirits feature the wine of the Month. For the holiday season their choice is Pessimist by DAOU Vineyards. The Pessi-mist is a blend of Syrah, Petit Sirah, Zinfandel and Tannat. The wine demonstrates classic old world style with the fruit-forward characteris-tics of California.Its good to know that in addition to a complete selection of sparkling wines and holiday spirits, ShopRite Wines and Spirits also offers every-thing from mixers, chips, snacks, frozen snacks and hors d’Oeuvres making party planning a breeze. Regardless if it is a well-planned cel-ebration or friends unexpectedly stopping by ShopRite Wines and Spirits is your one stop for this holiday season.
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The Legal InsiderNew Jersey’s Price Gouging Law
By Jeffrey W. Pompeo, Esq.According to the New Jer-sey Division of Consumer Affairs (“DCA”), which is part of the Office of the New Jersey Attorney General, more than 2000 consumer complaints for price goug-ing were reviewed following Superstorm Sandy, which is considered the second most costly hurricane in U.S. his-tory. It hit New Jersey on October 29, 2012. About 200 businesses were investigated for price gouging, with 27 lawsuits having been filed.
STATE OF EMERGENCYNew Jersey’s price gouging law applies during a declared
State of Emergency, and thirty days thereafter, and prohibits “excessive” price increases, which is defined as those that are more than 10% higher than prior to the State of Emergency.
The law contains an excep-tion: prices may increase if they represent additional costs imposed by the seller’s supplier or additional costs of providing the goods or services during the State of Emergency, but the higher price may not exceed 10% of the mark-up from cost, compared to the mark-up from cost prior to the State
of Emergency.A State of Emergency refers to a natural or man-made di-saster or emergency declared by the President of the Unit-ed States, the Governor or a municipal emergency man-agement coordinator. EXAMPLESPrice gouging applies to merchandise and services and typically takes place with respect to purchases of food, gasoline, hotel rooms and other items, such as genera-tors.
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following:
*** a hotel that raised its nightly rate after the storm from $71 to $219, a 208% in-crease*** a gas station that charged $5.09 per gallon of premium gasoline, a 34.2% increase*** a landscaping com-pany that sold generators marked up between 82% and 155%.
PUNISHMENTPunishment for price goug-ing, for the first offense, in-cludes civil penalties of up to $10,000 and $20,000 for the second and each subse-quent offense. Each sale of merchandise is considered a separate offense.
Besides civil penalties, those who engage in price gouging also face criminal penalties.
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All 27 of the lawsuits re-ferred to above were settled. The result: $1 million in civil penalties, reimbursement of costs to the state and restitu-tion to victims.
Jeffrey W. Pompeo, Esq. is an attorney with the law firm of DiFrancesco, Bateman, Kunzman, Davis, Lehrer & Flaum, P.C. in Warren, Som-erset County (908-757-7800) and Clifton, Passaic County (973-458-9174). Jeff has been a member of the New Jersey Bar since 1982 and has
been a columnist for Jersey Insider since 2005. He was the host of the game show “In the Know” and host and producer of the televi-sion show “Close Up”. He can be reached at [email protected].
Price GougingContinued from page 8
and books to kids ages 3 to 15.“The holidays are a wonder-ful time, but for families that may be struggling, they can also be stressful,” said Gib-lin (D-Essex/Passaic). “This drive hopes to ease some of that burden and allow fami-lies to enjoy the holidays, without worrying whether they will be able to afford gifts for their children.” This is the seventh holiday toy and book drive organized by Oliver and Giblin. Last year’s drive collected over
300 items. Donations of new toys and new books will be accepted from Monday, November 21st through Tuesday, De-cember 13th, 2016. All dona-tions must be new, for chil-dren ages 3 to 15, and should be unwrapped.Donations may be dropped off at:• Assembly Speaker Emeri-tus Sheila Y. Oliver’s District Office, 15-33 Halsted Street, Suite 202, East Orange. Drop-off hours are 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday through
Friday. For more informa-tion, contact Cameron Jones or Geri Woods-Coles at 973. 395.1166. • Assemblyman Thomas P. Giblin’s District Office, 1333 Broad Street, Clifton. Drop off hours are 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Monday through Friday. (Note: building is closed between 12:30 and 1:30 p.m.) For more information, contact Lolita Cruz at 973.779.3125.
hand creating a school land-scape using more plants that were native to the area. These wonderful students, intelli-gent, kind and ethnically di-verse had a number of ques-tions ready for me. I could see how much they cared, I heard it in their voices and could see it in their eyes. If I ever needed a reminder that there are more people, than I
can imagine, who care about the environment the message was delivered, loud and clear. If I doubted there was a future generation that cared about
our planet, my doubts were soundly put to rest. I left the school feeling renewed, revi-talized. More than anything, I was reminded that I needed to thank so many people for the programs and the aware-ness of our environment that we have today. Since it is the holiday season I thought it would be more than appropriate to start say-
ing thank you.I first need to thank the many incredible teachers, like Jessie Gorant for bringing the love of nature to the next genera-
tion. To say our young people are our future is a great un-derstatement, so a big thank you to all of you great educa-tors, please keep it going!I also owe thanks to the many people work and care for our many local nature centers and parks. No matter if it’s a big or small preserve, these good folks go above and be-yond every day to make sure places like the Meadowlands Parks that we love so, are bet-ter places for both wildlife and people. Thanks guys, you are very much appreciated.I also want to thank the hardworking people from NJ Dept. of Fish & Wildlife and the US Fish & Wildlife Service. These are the good people that helped bring the Bald Eagle, Osprey and Peregrine Falcon back from the brink of extinction. De-spite budget cuts and often-unfriendly environmental regulations, they continue to do their jobs helping to pre-serve open space and protect endangered species. They are always there when I call and need their help, thanks for all
of you do!And maybe more than any-one I need to thank the many good people I know and the many more I have yet to meet. These are the people who call their representa-tives, write letters and do what they can when, because of adversity, our backs are against the wall. These people volunteer to plant milkweed, create home wildlife gardens, help injured wildlife, take their children and grandchil-dren out for nature walks and teach them about the beauty of a cardinal and the joy of a chickadee. These are the people that genuinely care to make a difference and are al-
ways there when we need them most. They are and always will be the backbone of the environ-mental move-ment. Thank you! The work you do is most important. It is how I find the strength to con-tinue to do what
I do. Please keep it going, we need all of you more than we ever have. This Holiday season I will take the time to thank the many people who do so much every day to help our environment. Make no mis-take, on January 1st , it will be time for all of us, includ-ing myself, to stand up and get back to work doing all that we can do tp protect our environment, now more than ever.
For more information on Bergen County Audubon So-ciety go to http://www.ber-gencountyaudubon.org/
Thank You!continued from page 6
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choosing. A flat surface such as floor or wide table works best for dreidel spinning. Most Important, a Chanukah Festive Mood!The setup and play - All play-ers sit around the playing area. The “ante” is equally divided amongst all play-
ers. Everyone takes a turn at spinning the dreidel; the one with the highest spin has first turn. (Nun is highest, then gimmel, hey, and shin.) If there is a tie for highest, those who tied spin again. Every-one puts one piece of the ante into the pot. The person who has first turn is followed in clockwise direction by all the others. Player A spins the dreidel in the interest of speeding up the game, some
may knock down the dreidel mid-spin instead of waiting for it to come to a rest. If the dreidel lands on a Nun –Ab-solutely nothing happens. Nun stands for the Yiddish word nul, which means zero. After your turn, the player to your left takes a spin.Ifyou landed on a Gimmel –You get to take the whole pot! Gimmel stands for gantz, which means whole. Every-one, including the winner,
puts another unit in the ante pot, and the person to your left spins.Sometimes your dreidel will land on a Hey –You get to take half of the pot. Hey stands for halb, half. If the dreidel landed on a Shin – it is the worst. You now have to put another unit into the pot! Shin is for shenk, that means give. The endgame is the lesson this game has taught. We are
overjoyed about the miracles and wonders G d did for our ancestors. Throughout Cha-nukah this is constantly on our mind—even when we are involved with fun and games!
Playing the Dreidel!
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PCRRO AnnualChristmas Party & Toy Drive
The Passaic County Regular Republican Organization re-cently held their annual Holiday Party and Toy Drive. Along with the donated toys from those attending the event, this year the Wayne Hills High School Football Team and Cheer-leaders did a tremendous job collecting new toys. The toys collected will be donated to St. Joseph’s Childrens Hospital and charities in Clifton.Pictured are Passaic County Chairman John Traier, County Vice-chairman Barbara Roca, AnneMarie Custer of Wayne and Santas youngest helpers Gianna and Antonia Ramaglia.
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