PARSIPPANY — Parsippany Police Department’s Communication Center received a call reporting a motor vehicle crash with injuries in the area of Jacksonville Drive and Glassboro Road on Sunday, September 4 at 7:38 p.m.
Vehicles hit during the accident
Upon arrival of responding officers, they observed a 2015 Chrysler Town and Country that had struck an unoccupied parked 2000 GMC Sierra, which was then set in motion and crashed into an unoccupied parked 2017 Hyundia Sante Fe and an unoccupied parked 1968 Chevy.
Vehicle hit during the accident
Members of Parsippany Volunteer Ambulance, along with a MICU, were also on scene removing the driver of the Chrysler, identified as Frederick Stringham, 39, Parsippany, from the vehicle.
Once he was removed from the vehicle he was placed under arrest by Patrol Officer L. Nicos for Driving While Intoxicated.
Due to the injuries received during the crash, he was transported to Morristown Medical Center for treatment.
While at the hospital, Mr. Stringham was issued summonses for Driving While Intoxicated, Reckless Driving and Failure to Maintain Lane.
Stringham was released into the custody of a family member pending his court date.
Editors Note: A criminal complaint is merely an accusation. Despite this accusation, the defendant is presumed innocent until he or she is proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt in a court of law.
PARSIPPANY — If you were driving around the east side of Parsippany on Thursday, September 8 and you saw a motorcade police cars, school buses, Mayor James Barberio, Council Vice President Robert Peluso and a dozen convertibles, then you witnessed the Parsippany High School Football team motorcade.
The motorcade started at the High School on Baldwin Road and stopped at thirteen different homes picking up the seniors until it finished on Vail Road and then the motorcade continued back to the High School to celebrate with food in the cafeteria.
The Parsippany Redhawks football team has a home conference game vs. Mountain Lakes on Friday, September 9 at 7:00 p.m.
Parsippany High School
Joey Radler, #80
Joey Radler, #80
Good Luck Joe Radler
Council Vice President Robert Peluso and members of the PHS Football Team
Good Luck Christian Riedinger
Christian Riedinger, #9
Council Vice President Robert Peluso and Mrs. Braen
The Parsippany High School Cheerleaders
Kyle Braen, #67
Michael Sorresse, #81
Michael Sorresse, #81
Varsity Football Players
Go Vinny Pellicani
Vinny Pellicani, #2
The Parsippany High School Cheerleaders
Good Luck Michael IIic
Let’s Go Michael IIic
Michael IIic, #40
Jeff Wear, #53
Jeff Wear, #53
Let’s Get Mean for 2016
John Burk puts in Work!
John Burk, #71
Varsity Football Players
Council Vice President Robert Peluso with the varsity football players
Robert Hockey, #23
Robert Hockey, #23
Robert Hockey, #23
Varsity Football Players
Abu Iqbal, #50
Youssef Riad, #44
Hustle, Hit, Never Quit!
The cheerleaders knocking on Jenkens Josaphat’s door
Jenkens Josaphat, #1
Mayor James Barberio and Council Vice President Robert Peluso with the cheerleaders
PARSIPPANY — Parsippany residents will be able to get their annual blood panels on Thursday, September 15 at the Parsippany Community Center for $21.00. The Parsippany Community Center is located at 1130 Knoll Road, Lake Hiawatha.
Called the SMAC blood test, the township offers the program one a year to residents, for convenience. For those people who don’t have insurance, or don’t go to see their doctors as often as they should, MedLabs Diagnostics will be administering the blood screen test. The screen includes numbers for glucose, cholesterol, liver, and kidney function, among other tests. Additional testing, for thyroid, prostate, B12, and hemoglobin, can be done on that same morning for an extra fee.
Twelve hours of fasting is required and patients do need to register in advance, before September 13. Results will be made available to patients and their preferred primary care physicians within 7 to 10 days.
PARSIPPANY — Parsippany resident Frank Elmo, a Master Saxophonist, will be making a special appearance at Kafe Mozart, 2900 Route 10 West, Powder Mill Plaza West, Parsippany on Thursday, September 8 starting at 6:30 p.m.
Along with Frank on the piano will be Jon Amodeo, also a longtime Parsippany resident, who owns Amodeo Music, which is a full-service music production company and recording studio serving songwriters, artists, producers and publishers. His clients include television/radio producers, advertising agencies, singers, songwriters, composers, musicians, and students.
New York session player Frank Elmo early on toured and performed with the likes of Vic Damone and Mel Torme. At that time studied with sax greats Lee Konitz and George Coleman among others. Soon started touring and recording with Southside Johnny and the Asbury Jukes, (6 albums and 2 world tours), Julian Lennon (2 world tours and 3 albums), Duran Duran and Powerstation, (world tour and Live Aid Concert in Philadelphia) plus performances with Stevie Wonder, James Taylor, Phoebe Snow And Take 6 at Carnegie Hall which led to many major pop recordings including a triple platinum album with Joe Cocker (One Night Of Sin).
A veteran of many jingle and movie soundtrack sessions including Coke, Pepsi, Cadillac, Cheerios etc. Films including Naked in New York, Lucky Numbers and 9 1/2 Weeks.
Elmo worked with producers Phil Ramone, Ron Saint Germain, Patrick Leonard, Charlie Midnight, and Jon Rollo to name a few.
In 2001 was a featured performer at the Pori Jazz Festival in Finland with The Spirit of Life Ensemble.
Frank continues to perform and record throughout the Tri-State Area with the Real Deal Big Band, The Mike Treni Band, and The Dalton Gang, in addition to doing many freelance gigs of all types and teaching many private students.
Kafe Mozart, opened in February 2016 serves homemade fresh salads, homemade soups, burgers, panini’s, savory crepes, sweet crepes, and entrees. Open Tuesday through Sunday it features an outdoor garden patio, which is dog friendly. To make a reservation please call (973) 998-7788. For more information click here.
PARSIPPANY – Parsippany resident Fatimah Hassan, ‘18OD recently received the 2016 VSP Marvin R. Poston Leadership Award at the National Optometric Association’s (NOA) 48th annual convention in Chicago.
The award is named for Marvin R. Poston, OD, who along with several other optometrists, formed what is now known as VSP Vision Care. The award is presented to an individual who demonstrates a commitment to leadership and service in optometry, as determined by a committee of VSP employees. Hassan is the third individual to receive this award and also received a $2,500 prize.
A Nutley High School graduate, Hassan earned her undergraduate degree from Montclair State University. Currently enrolled in Salus University Pennsylvania College of Optometry (PCO) program, Hassan serves as the president of the PCO chapter of the National Optometric Student Association (NOSA).
About Salus University Salus University, founded as the Pennsylvania College of Optometry in 1919, today is a diversified, globally recognized professional academic center of learning that offers a wide range of degree programs in the professions of Optometry, Audiology, Physician Assistant, Public Health, Education and Rehabilitation for the Blind and Visually Impaired, Biomedicine, Occupational Therapy and Speech-Language Pathology. Salus operates four clinical facilities in the Philadelphia area that provide highly specialized vision, hearing and balance, and speech-language pathology services. The University has more than 1,100 students, including PhD candidates, and more than 12,500 alumni worldwide. For more information, please visit www.salus.edu.
PARSIPPANY — Kiwanis Club of Greater Parsippany Foundation is hosting a “Grand Tasting” benefitting the Camp Nejeda, serving children with Type 1 Diabetes since 1958, and other charitable projects on Thursday, October 20 starting at 6:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. at the Hanover Manor, 16 Eagle Rock Avenue, East Hanover.
Cost is $60.00 per person and includes a Dinner Buffet, Hors d’oeuvres, Fine Wines, Craft Beers, Single Malts, Select Spirits, Silent Auction and much more. Tickets are available through Kiwanis Club members. Click here to visit website.
Tickets are available by sending checks made payable to “Kiwanis Club of Greater Parsippany Foundation,” P.O. Box 5342, Parsippany, New Jersey 07054, or through Eventbrite, by clicking here.
You can also pay by credit card through Liquor Outlet Wine Cellars 289 Myrtle Avenue, Boonton. You can call Liquor Outlet at (973) 334-1331.
Kiwanis Club of Greater Parsippany Foundation is a registered 501(c)(3) nonprofit foundation.
Camp Nejeda has been in continuous operation since 1958 and at our present location since 1960. They are funded by the Camp Nejeda Foundation, Inc, a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization.
Camp Nejeda is located at 910 Saddleback Road, Stillwater, New Jersey.
At Camp Nejeda youth with diabetes are given the opportunity to live, if only for one or two weeks, in a world where having diabetes is the norm and where there is no need to explain blood sugar testing, finger pricks, insulin injections, ketones, ‘lows’ (insulin reactions), boluses or ‘carb’ counting because everyone here already understands.
Camp Nejeda children with diabetes are free to be just children. This normalizing of their condition combines with both formal and informal educational moments to promote good diabetes management and healthy, active living.
The addition of Family Camps and other Extended Programs offered throughout the year provides the empowering fellowship and educational opportunities for individuals with type 1 diabetes of all ages and for their families.
As the only facility of our kind in New Jersey and its neighboring states, Camp Nejeda hosts children, teens and families from across the region. While most are from New Jersey, New York and Pennsylvania, we have regular campers from Connecticut, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia and elsewhere. Diabetes does not discriminate based on race, religion, gender, geography, or class and neither does the Camp Nejeda Foundation. We welcome our campers from all walks of life and all backgrounds.
Camp Nejeda is fully licensed by the New Jersey Department of Health and accredited by the American Camp Association. ACA accredited camps meet up to 300 standards for health, food service, safety, and program quality.
The Camp Nejeda Foundation subsidizes the cost of camp for all our campers and provides additional financial assistance to approximately 30% of our campers each year. Campership awards range from 20% to 100% support. Most awards are for 100%.
PARSIPPANY — Kiwanis Club of Greater Parsippany Foundation recently made a donation to Housing Partnership.
“Thank you Kiwanis Club of Greater Parsippany for supporting the Housing Partnership for Morris County, Inc., said Katheryn Luther, Resource Development Director.”
The success of the Housing Partnership is in our homeowners who directly impact the community in which they reside as stable members of their county, township and school district. We strive to create good neighbors!
Who is the Housing Partnership?
After Ashley Conway and her husband tied the knot, she says “something in both of us clicked” and they were finally on the same page when it came to becoming homeowners. They also knew they would need to begin preparing for what was unfamiliar territory for the young couple. Neither of them knew the first thing about buying or owning a home, but they did know where to go to get the help they needed.
“Mike and I wanted to make sure we knew exactly what to expect and how to navigate the entire course of homeownership with confidence,” says Conway.
A friend recommended they contact the Housing Partnership in Dover, NJ.
The Housing Partnership, a NeighborWorks HomeOwnership Center, is a financial literacy education resource center for home buyer education and financial coaching in northern NJ. The Partnership empowers communities by providing monthly home buyer education classes, free one-on-one financial coaching, including budgeting and credit counseling, as well as foreclosure intervention services. The goal is to educate homebuyers with the resources to maintain their homes.
In 2015 the Housing Partnership proudly helped 100 families realize their dream of purchasing their first homes thereby reinvesting $19 million back into our local economy.
The Housing Partnership values its relationships with member banks who help fund education classes and provide low interest mortgage products to our clients. Special rates make purchasing more affordable and establish long-term low risk homeownership. All foreclosure services are grant funded. This is an increasing challenge as New Jersey now leads the nation in foreclosed properties while the funding streams are getting smaller.
The Housing Partnership is also the administrator for several local municipalities for Affordable Homes. Interested parties register on the website at www.housingpartnershipnj.org or (973) 659-9222. Purchases are available to both low and moderate income households through a lottery when units are available. Buyers will be excellent candidates for homeownership as they will have completed the education series.
The Kiwanis Club of Greater Parsippany Foundation Inc. awards grants from the proceeds of various annual fundraisers. Applications are reviewed three times during the year at Foundation meetings.
The Kiwanis Club of Greater Parsippany is part of Kiwanis International, a global organization of member-volunteers, dedicated to changing the world, one child and one community at a time. See the Kiwanis International web site by clicking here.
Kiwanis Club of Greater Parsippany meets weekly at Empire Diner, 1915 Route 46, Parsippany. For more information, click here.
PARSIPPANY — Parsippany-Troy Hills School District opened this morning for the school year 2016-2017. The students arrived eager to meet their new teachers, see their friends and to start learning.
The sign in front of Littleton School where classes started this morning at 8:55 a.m.Ms. Tiesi, third grade teacher at Littleton School and student teacher Nicole Gallo. Ms. Gallo is a student at Caldwell University.Ms. Tiesei’s classroom at Littleton Elementary SchoolEmpty classes waiting for the return of students this morning
Most Morris County area schools opened yesterday but Parsippany students got an extra day of sleep. Parsippany schools opened today, Wednesday, September 7.
Parsippany High School and Parsippany Hills High School opened for the 2016-2017 school year at 7:40 a.m. and classes end at 2:25 p.m. (Click here for Parsippany High School Bell Schedule and Click here for Parsippany Hills High School).
Brooklawn Middle School and Central Middle School opened at 7:55 a.m. and classes end at 2:46 p.m.
All Elementary Schools start at 8:55 a.m. and classes end at 3:25 p.m.
This school year contains 184 school days, with four days reserved for snow days.
Safe Driving Tips from AAA Every fall, over 55 million children across the United States head back to school. With 13 percent of those children typically walking or biking to their classes, AAA warns drivers to be especially vigilant for pedestrians before and after school hours. The afternoon hours are particularly dangerous – over the last decade, nearly one in four child pedestrian fatalities occurred between 3:00 p.m. and 7:00 p.m.
Launched in 1946, AAA’s School’s Open – Drive Carefully awareness campaign was created as a way to help reduce child pedestrian fatalities and injuries. Here are several recommendations from AAA regarding ways drivers can help to keep kids safe:
Slow down. Speed limits in school zones are reduced for a reason. A pedestrian
struck by a vehicle traveling at 25 mph is nearly two-thirds less likely to be killed compared to a pedestrian struck by a vehicle traveling just 10 mph faster.
Come to a complete stop. Research shows that more than one-third of drivers roll through stop signs in school zones or neighborhoods. Always come to a complete stop, checking carefully for children on sidewalks and in crosswalks before proceeding.
Eliminate distractions. Research shows that taking your eyes off the road for just two seconds doubles your chances of crashing. And children can be quick, crossing the road unexpectedly or emerging suddenly between two parked cars. Reduce risk by not using your cell phone or eating while driving, for example.
Reverse responsibly. Every vehicle has blind spots. Check for children on the sidewalk, in the driveway and around your vehicle before slowly backing up. Teach your children to never play in, under or around vehicles.
Watch for bicycles. Children on bikes are often inexperienced, unsteady and unpredictable. Slow down and allow at least three feet of passing distance between your vehicle and a bicyclist. If your child rides a bicycle to school, require that he or she wear a properly fitted bicycle helmet on every ride. Find videos, expert advice and safety tips at ShareTheRoad.AAA.com.
Talk to your teen. Car crashes are the leading cause of death for teens in the United States, and nearly one in four fatal crashes involving teen drivers occur during the after-school hours of 3:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. Get evidence-based guidance and tips at TeenDriving.AAA.com
PARSIPPANY — Most Morris County area schools opened today, Tuesday, September 6, but Parsippany students got an extra day of sleep. Parsippany schools will open on Wednesday, September 7.
Parsippany High School and Parsippany Hills High School will open for the 2016-2017 school year at 7:40 a.m. and classes end at 2:25 p.m. (Click here for Parsippany High School Bell Schedule and Click here for Parsippany Hills High School).
Brooklawn Middle School and Central Middle School will open at 7:55 a.m. and classes end at 2:46 p.m.
All Elementary Schools start at 8:55 a.m. and classes end at 3:25 p.m.
This school year contains 184 school days, with four days reserved for snow days.
Safe Driving Tips from AAA Every fall, over 55 million children across the United States head back to school. With 13 percent of those children typically walking or biking to their classes, AAA warns drivers to be especially vigilant for pedestrians before and after school hours. The afternoon hours are particularly dangerous – over the last decade, nearly one in four child pedestrian fatalities occurred between 3:00 p.m. and 7:00 p.m.
Launched in 1946, AAA’s School’s Open – Drive Carefully awareness campaign was created as a way to help reduce child pedestrian fatalities and injuries. Here are several recommendations from AAA regarding ways drivers can help to keep kids safe:
Slow down. Speed limits in school zones are reduced for a reason. A pedestrian
struck by a vehicle traveling at 25 mph is nearly two-thirds less likely to be killed compared to a pedestrian struck by a vehicle traveling just 10 mph faster.
Come to a complete stop. Research shows that more than one-third of drivers roll through stop signs in school zones or neighborhoods. Always come to a complete stop, checking carefully for children on sidewalks and in crosswalks before proceeding.
Eliminate distractions. Research shows that taking your eyes off the road for just two seconds doubles your chances of crashing. And children can be quick, crossing the road unexpectedly or emerging suddenly between two parked cars. Reduce risk by not using your cell phone or eating while driving, for example.
Reverse responsibly. Every vehicle has blind spots. Check for children on the sidewalk, in the driveway and around your vehicle before slowly backing up. Teach your children to never play in, under or around vehicles.
Watch for bicycles. Children on bikes are often inexperienced, unsteady and unpredictable. Slow down and allow at least three feet of passing distance between your vehicle and a bicyclist. If your child rides a bicycle to school, require that he or she wear a properly fitted bicycle helmet on every ride. Find videos, expert advice and safety tips at ShareTheRoad.AAA.com.
Talk to your teen. Car crashes are the leading cause of death for teens in the United States, and nearly one in four fatal crashes involving teen drivers occur during the after-school hours of 3:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. Get evidence-based guidance and tips at TeenDriving.AAA.com
PARSIPPANY — The Woman’s Club of Parsippany-Troy Hills recently conducted its AnnualCollection of NewSchool Supplies to donate to the children living at Jersey Battered Women’s Service (JBWS) of Morris County shelters.
Woman’s Club of Parsippany-Troy Hills with some of the school supplies collected at Boiling Springs Savings Bank. Club members Claudia McCarthy, Bernadette Cicchino, Bank Branch Manager and club member Stephanie LiCausi, club member Joan Garbarino and club member and Domestic Violence Awareness Chairman Cathy Haney
JBWS provides a safe house and transitional living accommodations for victims of domestic abuse and their children. Umbrellas for the children and their mothers were a special request this year. The umbrellas are needed for those rainy days when the children have to wait for the school bus or walk to school. Woman’s Club members and the public donated school supplies, backpacks and umbrellas with a total value of over $1,500.00.
Target also donated a $150.00 gift card to purchase supplies. New this year was a collection box at Boiling Springs Savings Bank in Lake Hiawatha. Bank Manager, Stephanie LiCausi (and WCPTH club member) stated that customers were very generous in supporting the school supply drive. Donations included six filled backpacks that were dropped off at the bank. For additional information on JBWS, email by clicking here.
For information on the Woman’s Club involvement with JBWS call Cathy Haney at (973) 335-9769.
