PARSIPPANY — A Nissan Sentra crashed into the Ruth’s Chris Restaurant, located inside the Parsippany Hilton, One Hilton Court, on Sunday evening, June 9, at approximately 7:30 p.m.
Two occupants were trapped in the vehicle and Parsippany Rescue and Recovery had to cut the car to remove the occupants. Reports at the scene indicate no serious injuries.
The vehicle was removed from the building by Eagle Towing.
Members of Parsippany Rescue and Recovery, Parsippany-Troy Hills Police Department, Parsippany-Troy Hills Volunteer Fire Department District 6 as well as Parsippany Volunteer Ambulance were on the scene.
Parsippany Building Department was in transit to the scene to determine the damage to the building.
Parsippany Focus will update this article as more information becomes available.
Inside the dining room at Ruth’s Chris at the Parsippany HiltonThe vehicle crashed inside the Ruth’s Chris at the Parsippany Hilton on Sunday eveningEagle Towing removed the vehicle from inside the building
HANOVER TOWNSHIP — Hanover Education Foundation’s Run for Health 5K and Walk was held on Saturday, June 8.
The weather was perfect for the event attended by over 500 runners and walkers.
Parsippany’s Wasay Noor, a junior at Parsippany Hills High School, came in Third Place with a time of 19:01.8, just under two minutes of the first place winner from Whippany Park High School.
Hanover Education Foundation's Run for Health
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First Place Winner James Troiano, Senior at Whippany Park High School
Julia D'Addozio, Freshman at Whippany Park High School song the National Anthem
This year’s First Place Male Winner is James Troiano, Senior at Whippany Park High School and the Female Winner is Rebecca Goffler, 25, from Whippany, representing Memorial Junior School.
Many awards were given out for the school with the largest team, which was Salem Drive School.
The top three male runners, ten and under, were Christopher Smith, Sawyer Smith and Victor Xavier. And the top three female runners, ten and under were Rebecca McClain, Lily Smith and Lilly Lopez-Tassan.
The Hanover Township Education Foundation’s mission is to enhance the high quality education of the Hanover Township K-12 public schools by funding innovative educational programs that foster excellence and have a lasting impact on students. Their efforts are achieved through fundraising, donations, and grant writing opportunities. They are a non-profit organization run by volunteers.
For more information on Hanover Township Education Foundation click here.
PARSIPPANY — Parsippany-Troy Hills Police Officers stopped by Three Brooklawn Drive for a quick drink of cold refreshing lemonade prepared by local children. The children will be donating the money raised to “Feeding America.”
The team earned about $150.00. They sold lemonade and ice pops for fifty cents and gumball for twenty-five cents. They worked from 11:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. They were visited by many friends, neighbors, local teachers, Parsippany Police Department, as well as Lake Parsippany Fire and Rescue came out to support the children.
For more than 35 years, Feeding America has responded to the hunger crisis in America by providing food to people in need through a nationwide network of food banks.
The concept of food banking was developed by John van Hengel in Phoenix, AZ in the late 1960s. Van Hengel, a retired businessman, had been volunteering at a soup kitchen trying to find food to serve the hungry. One day, he met a desperate mother who regularly rummaged through grocery store garbage bins to find food for her children. She suggested that there should be a place where, instead of being thrown out, discarded food could be stored for people to pick up—similar to the way “banks” store money for future use. With that, an industry was born.
Van Hengel established St. Mary’s Food Bank in Phoenix, AZ as the nation’s first food bank. In its initial year, van Hengel and his team of volunteers distributed 275,000 pounds of food to people in need. Word of the food bank’s success quickly spread, and states began to take note. By 1977, food banks had been established in 18 cities across the country.
As the number of food banks began to increase, van Hengel created a national organization for food banks and in 1979 he established Second Harvest, which was later called America’s Second Harvest the Nation’s Food Bank Network. In 2008, the network changed its name to Feeding America to better reflect the mission of the organization.
Today, Feeding America is the nation’s largest domestic hunger-relief organization—a powerful and efficient network of 200 food banks across the country. As food insecurity rates hold steady at the highest levels ever, the Feeding America network of food banks has risen to meet the need. We feed 46 million people at risk of hunger, including 12 million children and 7 million seniors. Learn more about how they get food to people in need in the “How We Work” section. Support Feeding America and help solve hunger. Donate. Volunteer. Advocate. Educate.
The local food bank sponsored by Feeding America is Community FoodBank of New Jersey, 31 Evans Terminal, Hillside.
MORRIS PLAINS — The Northwest Region of the New Jersey Association of Women Business Owners (NJAWBO) is hosting a Networking Lunch on Tuesday, June 25, from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. at Tiff’s Grill & Ale House, 231 Speedwell Avenue.
The speaker is NJAWBO member, Rafael Miranda, owner of LFC Consulting, Inc., Parsippany. His presentation, “Guard Your Data: If you Use a Computer, Tablet or Mobile Phone—Protect Yourself,” will cover five key topics, including protecting your data, everyday browsing habits, why Windows 10 was free, protecting your privacy, and pointers on buying a new computer.
Rafael Miranda is a computer consultant and owner of LFC Consulting, Inc., which he started in 1991. Computer support and technology is his lifelong career. Rafael’s specialty is sales, service, and support of computer hardware and software. He works on Windows and Apple OS, servers, laptops, networks, tablets, phones, and the occasional abacus. He graduated with a Mathematics BA, from William Paterson.
There will be plenty of time for 30-second intros, exchange of business cards, and getting to know business owners from the area. Advance registration by June 23 is $30.00 for NJAWBO members and $40.00 for non-members. Walk-in fee is $45.00 for all at the door. To register click here.
NJAWBO’s Northwest Region is generally comprised of business owners from Morris, Sussex, and Warren Counties. The region’s events are open to members and nonmembers from across the state. For more information about this event, contact Rosanna Imbriano at info@riconsultingllc.com.
Established in 1978, the New Jersey Association of Women Business Owners (NJAWBO) is the longest-standing, statewide organization of women business owners in New Jersey. Its primary objective is to encourage and support business ownership by women, provide a legislative voice for the interests of women-owned businesses, and offer leadership, professional development, and networking opportunities for business owners. Since 1978, NJAWBO has helped women achieve their business visions by providing them with the tools to develop and grow their enterprises.
MORRIS PLAINS — Chick-fil-A will be holding its grand opening on Thursday, June 13 at 6:30 a.m.
Chick-Fil-A will be officially open on Thursday, June 13
As part of their grand opening celebration 100 of the first arrivals to the restaurant’s grand opening will be awarded a prize cards good for a year’s worth of Chick-fil-A meals.
Registration for the wristbands starts at 5:00 a.m. on Thursday, June 13. The prize drawing will happen at 7:00 a.m. Qualified entrants must live in one of the select zip codes surrounding Morris Plains, must be a legal U.S resident age 18 or older and must produce valid photo identification from a government agency. For contest details and eligible Zip Codes click here.
Chick-Fil-A has selected Drew Blind as the local franchise owner of the chain’s Morris Plains restaurant and they are hiring of up to 125 new Team Members.
Drew, 34, grew up in East Hanover and currently resides in Morris Plains with his wife, Colleen and two daughters. He graduated Hanover Park High School and Lock Haven University. He was the former owner of Chick-Fil-A in the Garden State Plaza.
Blind is excited to return to his hometown where numerous family members reside and where his Chick-Fil-A career began. A Team Member at the chain’s location in Howell, Blind worked at Chick-Fil-A as a teen and during breaks while attending college at Lock Haven University in Pennsylvania.
The interior of Chick-Fil-A
After graduating with a degree in business management, Blind and his wife, Colleen, moved to South Carolina where he worked on the leadership team at a Charleston Chick-Fil-A restaurant until his wife’s career brought them back to Pennsylvania.
The new 4,700-square-foot Chick-Fil-A location will offer indoor seating for 102 and patio seating for 20 as well as a two-story playground for children. The interior will feature the chain’s heritage restaurant interior design that showcases handmade, authentic materials for a vintage-inspired interior, including subway tiles, large windows to let in natural light and a large gathering table made from reclaimed wood. A single drive-thru ordering lane will divide into two lanes for ordering to enhance the chain’s award-winning drive-thru service before merging back into a single lane for pickup.
Chick-Fil-A drive through lanes
Chick-Fil-A will open its doors to the public on Thursday, June 13 at 6:30 a.m. The new restaurant is located at 1711 Route 10 East, Briarcliff Commons Shopping Center, Morris Plains.
PARSIPPANY — Sedgefield Neighborhood Huge Garage Sale is be held on Saturday, June 8 from 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. Over 30 homes participating!
Household goods, furniture, tools, toys, clothes, outdoor equipment, YOU NAME IT.
Enter the neighborhood from Route 202 [Littleton Road] via Sedgefield Drive, Dartford Road, or Sherwood Road; or from Glacier Hills via Highland Court. Look for the balloons! MAPS will be available at the entrances.
In the last 50 years or so the “free market corporate power” has unleashed a pollution phenomena never before possible under human enterprises in the pursuit of convenience and profit motive. None of these decisions were democratically instituted but rather closed door corporate pursuits of profits by promoting unnecessary and wasteful products through the accelerated use of plastic and plastic types. No public advocacy or due diligence guarded the public against what is in reality hidden costs to consumers, cumulative impacts on the environment and the degrading of our common spaces and remaining natural places. The plastic bag is the tip of the plastic pollution iceberg; but it is a necessary first step in some long overdue reaction to the plastic pollution crisis.
Collective not Individual Problem
This man made self inflicted crisis and sin against life is part of a systemic culture of consumption for profit laissez faire nightmare. To argue that it is an individual problem of self-policing, rather than a social problem of the collective is naïve and only aids the polluter for profit. If individual responsibility was the answer, it obviously has failed, as has the various laws and ordinances of sanitation best practices, and littering. When a large corporation stamps its products with recycle symbols of the seven types of plastic it mocks the consumer, who lacks conscience discipline, and the alleged markets that wish to retrieve the waste product, that in the case of mass convenience consumptions is staggering. When we look around at the overall phenomena we see, there is no escape, and only denial of what we have done to our landscapes and waterways beyond reason. We must ponder how are the CEO’s of the corporate entities that allow this waste not ashamed or concerned with the situation created? The answer is simply, greed.
It now stands self-evident the only hope is good government’s curtailment and bans on the plastic waste products of convenience. Please explain why it is such a Herculean Task to require the common person to shop with a canvass bag(s)? If we cannot even make this simple social behavior change than we are a race of weaklings and thoughtless zombies.
If Corporations are people, they are thoughtless people
When corporations in the name of their stockholders let loose this senseless endeavor they showed corporations if people are irresponsible, uncaring, and purposely blind to the impacts they inflict on us all. The plastic bag element is exceptionally ridiculous because it is the most easy and likely humanly possible to remedy in short order. It has become some overdone form of kindness in its practice; even containers with handles or single items that can be carried are bagged automatically by cashiers, or store policy, which allows such overboard customer satisfaction.
Hidden Costs Passed on to you. Hidden costs in these convenient waste products; meaning the manufacturer evades and passes off to the taxpayer or sales prices. The costs of litter abatements or lack thereof, which degrade the quality of all of us, name one place where plastic debris cannot be found? You can’t! Finally a fact; recycling never worked, because it could not handle the massive amounts of materials, has finally been declared a failure overall. Locally here in Parsippany our tipping fees have increased due to the factors here mentioned. Big oil actually waste resources in plastic production, converting petroleum into plastic waste products rather than gasoline. (Americans use 100 billion plastic bags a year, which requires 12 million barrels of oil to manufacture. It only takes 14 bags for the equivalent of gas required to drive one mile.)
Not Political. Community not individual People whom may vote or voice against this plastic bag ban ordinance are favoring corporate power over the power of the local residents and taxpayers and apparently are not alarmed by the plastic pollution that abounds. The issue is not a politically divisive one, but one of necessity and sustainability and respect for life in general.
Support the local plastic ban; don’t fall for the plastic/petroleum industries hype of job loss and inconvenience for shoppers. To them it’s all about profits by any means necessary including continued pollution and instant waste. In a town like Parsippany it is imperative, these multi-billion dollar corporations, which evade taxes and benefit through rebates at the same time can well afford to care for their Homeland instead. It’s time that People put their community, Country and environment before their own selfish and in many, many cases, senseless convenience.
Never has our environments of earth been more transformed by human action in negative impacts and cumulative effects as the thoughtless, what amounts to crime against nature of senseless for profit convenient waste consumption.
TRENTON — Governor Phil Murphy signed S3078 into law, which will require DNA sample collection from individuals arrested for child pornography offenses.
“Protecting New Jersey’s children is of the utmost urgency, and this legislation will help ensure that child pornography offenses are treated with the same seriousness as other heinous crimes,” said Governor Murphy. “I thank law enforcement for their constant vigilance, and the bill sponsors for their leadership.”
The legislation was sponsored by Senators Linda Greenstein and Nicholas Sacco and Assembly members Yvonne Lopez, Eliana Pintor Marin, and Joannn Downey.
“A person arrested for possessing, distributing or producing child pornography is a clear threat to children,” said Assembly members Yvonne Lopez, Eliana Pintor Marin, and Joannn Downey. “We already have several provisions under current law to collect blood or biological samples from offenders arrested for crimes like sexual assault, criminal sexual contact, kidnapping, luring or enticing a child, and endangering the welfare of a child by engaging in sexual contact. It only makes sense to add child pornography arrests to the list. Most importantly, expanding our criminal database may help us catch future offenders and ensure they are brought to justice.”
“DNA samples are collected from offenders at the time of arrest for various crimes such as sexual assault, luring or enticing a child and endangering the welfare of a child by engaging in sexual conduct,” said Senator Linda Greenstein. “Crimes involving child pornography must have ramifications reflecting the predatory nature of these individuals’ actions. Our children are to be protected at all cost and when crimes are committed against them, we must have every possible avenue to pursue justice.”
MORRIS COUNTY — Churches and temples are some of the most historic and identifiable buildings in our communities. Efforts to save some of these structures for future generations have in the past been aided by money from historic preservation trust funds established by the counties where they are located.
A recent decision by the state Supreme Court, however, prevented the award of this trust fund money for historic preservation of twelve churches in Morris County.
Assemblyman Anthony Bucco has introduced a resolution (ACR235) proposing a constitutional amendment allowing the use of historic preservation trust fund money to continue to preserve these historic religious buildings.
“The proud places of worship that dot the state landscape have great historic significance to our towns and residents,” said Bucco (R-Morris). “Some of these structures played significant roles in our history. It is critically important to provide a mechanism for the counties to continue to provide funding from our historic preservation trust funds to preserve these historic structures. Without the ability to fund necessary repairs, we run the risk of losing these historic buildings forever, causing a negative impact on our communities.”
Bucco’s resolution is the first step in placing the constitutional amendment on the ballot. The amendment would require approval from the voters at a general election.
PARSIPPANY — Parsippany-Troy Hills Township depends on volunteers for its boards, committees, commissions and a variety of other activities. Please consider this letter of request to participate on the “Municipal Alliance Committee (MAC) of Parsippany-Troy Hills Township”. If you are interested in volunteering to serve on the “Municipal Alliance Committee (MAC) of Parsippany-Troy Hills Township”, please submit a Letter of Interest and resume in response to this request and submit to the Office of the Mayor.
OVERVIEW:
The Municipal Alliance Committee (MAC) has been active in Parsippany-Troy Hills Township for over thirty years. The Committee’s mission is prevent alcohol and drug abuse within the Parsippany community. In pursuit of this mission, the MAC committee members organize and coordinate the efforts of the public schools, police force, and other organizations to create a stronger community and healthier individual citizens, thereby reducing the likelihood of drug and alcohol abuse.
The governing body of Parsippany-Troy Hills Township must appoint a Municipal Alliance Committee (MAC), to which the Mayor will appoint municipal representatives. This committee brings together representatives from government agencies, public and nonpublic schools, health care organizations, law enforcement agencies, business and civic groups, parents, youth and the community at large. The MAC is responsible for overseeing the Strategic Prevention Framework process in our community (Parsippany- Troy Hills).
Citizen Leadership Form
I, _________________________________________________, hereby apply to perform public service on the Municipal Alliance Committee (MAC)of Parsippany-Troy Hills:
Personal Information (Not subject to public disclosure)* Name: _______________________________________________________________ Primary Phone Number: ______________________________________________________________ Address of Residence: ____________________________________________________________ Email address: ______________________________________________________________ Please submit letter of interest or resume to include the following information; education, prior volunteer experience, work related experience; or other civic involvement which could be of use to the Municipal Alliance Committee (MAC) listed above. The due date for all Applications is July 15, 2019.
Submit Your Application:
Mail to : Municipal Alliance Application
1001 Parsippany Boulevard Parsippany, New Jersey 07054
Email To: Jack Weinstein by clicking here.
Do you care about your kids? Your grandkids? Your health? Clean water? The Jersey Shore? Safe food? Human rights? Your backyard? If you answered “yes” to any of these, you should support a ban on plastic bags in Parsippany.
The detrimental effects of plastic bags are both local and global. Here in Parsippany, plastic bags clog our sewers and drainage systems, increasing the risk of flooding, and collect rainwater creating breeding grounds for mosquitoes. They litter our backyards, neighborhoods, and roadways, decreasing property values, undermining the beauty of where we live and play, and reinforcing our state’s reputation as “Dirty Jersey”. They cost our town thousands each year in equipment malfunctions when they get caught in our recycling facilities machines.
But the plastic problem goes much deeper than that. When littered or dumped in landfill the chemicals from plastic bags leach into soil and groundwater, contaminating our drinking water and the food grown on our agricultural land. When burned in an incinerator, plastic bags release toxic gases into the air we breathe, especially harming the neighborhoods near incineration plants like Newark. Even when plastic bags are “properly” disposed, they easily blow out of trash cans, off of trucks, and off of landfills making their way into waterways, which eventually lead to our reservoirs or the ocean. More and more reports of marine animals dying from plastic bag ingestion are emerging, which often look like prey such as jellyfish.
Despite all these concerns, many of the problems with plastic bags occur before a bag is even made. Plastic bags are made from petroleum byproduct, which means they require oil or natural gas. These resources are obtained through drilling (onshore or offshore) or fracking, both domestically and abroad. Large petroleum companies take land from indigenous peoples—without prior and informed consent—by force. Oil companies Chevron and Texaco for instance who sought to drill in the Ecuadorian Amazon rainforest killed the entire Tetetes and Sansahuari nation tribes to profit from their land. The pipelines required to transport the oil also cause deforestation and other land grabs from citizens and indigenous peoples, not to mention their tendency to leak oil and methane both onshore and offshore. With 12 fracking expansion projects already in negotiation in New Jersey, banning plastic bags would give fuel tycoons one less revenue stream from destroying our land.
Finally, the manufacture and transport of plastic bags emit carbon dioxide, the main driver of climate change. Climate change intensifies hurricanes (think Hurricane Sandy), jeopardizing where we work, live, and play. It also threatens biodiversity by shifting or eliminating viable habitat for millions of species, from the flowers planted in your backyard to the bees we depend on to pollinate the food we feed our families with.
The good news is that switching from disposable to reusable bags is an easy change that has a huge impact. Although cotton canvas bags are not recommended (cotton requires a lot of water and pesticides to produce), reusable non-woven polypropylene bags are lightweight, washable, durable, and reusable. The Department of Sanitation in New York City gives out these bags for free—including a drawstring and carabiner to wrap them small enough to fit in a purse or on a keychain.
A plastic bag is not worth the lives, health, and well-being of others. This luxury for us comes at the cost of billions, from our grandkids, to our neighbors, to the Sansahuari nation, to the Cuvier beaked whale thousands of miles away.
Please come to the Parsippany-Troy Hills Municipal Building on Tuesday, June 11 at 7:00 p.m. to support the ordinance for a plastic bag ban in Parsippany.
Robert Peluso, Chairman of Parsippany-Troy Hills Economic Development Advisory Committee presents Don Cantow, Vice President Global Sales, with a certificate welcoming Altium to Parsippany. Mayor Michael Soriano and Vice Chairman Frank Cahill looks on
PARSIPPANY — Currently Troop 72 and Crew 890 have over 30 members of the Order of the Arrow (OA). The OA is considered to be the honor society of scouting. One of the main purposes of the OA is to promote “cheerful service to others”. Recently the local lodge had a day of service, where five communities were selected as worksites. Members of the group worked to help restore and clear trails in Mountain Way Park in Parsippany, a site selected by OA members in their Troop.
Troop 72 added three new Ordeal members to the OA, and converted 2 members to the Brotherhood level. Pictured in the back row Andy Smith – Ordeal, Mirek Bondarowicz – Brotherhood, Dr. Frank Iannetta – Brotherhood, front row Justin Bondarowicz – Ordeal and Keith Nguyen – Ordeal. Photo by Kristopher Hawkins
There are three levels of membership in the OA, called honors, the first two are Ordeal and Brotherhood. Ordeal members are elected by members of a Troop or Crew, and attend a fellowship weekend as an Ordeal Candidate. Once thru that weekend they continue the journey to Brotherhood. To become a Brotherhood Honor member the scout or leader must continue in service for ten months, and fulfill the Brotherhood requirements.
The third and highest level is the Vigil Honor. After two years of service a Brotherhood member can be recognized with the Vigil Honor. An OA Lodge is limited to one person per 50 members registered to elevate to the Vigil Honor. Due to the high standards and service many Lodges recognize far less than what is allowed. The BSA Order of the Arrow page describes the Vigil Honor as follows.
The Vigil Honor is the highest honor that the Order of the Arrow can bestow upon its members for service to lodge, council, and Scouting. Membership cannot be won by a person’s conscious endeavors.
The Vigil Honor is a high mark of distinction and recognition reserved for those Arrowmen who, by reason of exceptional service, personal effort, and unselfish interest, have made distinguished contributions beyond the immediate responsibilities of their position of office to one or more of the following:
Lodge
Order of the Arrow
Scouting community
Scout Camp
All in the Family. Photo by Kristopher Hawkins
The members of Scouts BSA Troop 72 and Crew 890 are all members of the Scouting Family atmosphere at Saint Peter the Apostle Church in Parsippany. Keeping with that family theme, the four members elevated to the Vigil Honor at the recent OA fellowship weekend were guided by family. Each Vigil Honor member is guided thru the process by a current Vigil Honor member. The 2019 Vigil Honor members (standing) and their guides (Kneeling) are as follows left to right. Joshua Knowle with his father Ron Knowle (Vigil 2018), Jessica Iannetta with her fiancé Nick Corrente (Vigil 2015), Keith Hawkins Sr. with his son Keith Hawkins Jr. (Vigil 2018) and Matthew Sonzogni with his father Adam Sonzogni (Vigil 2017).
Scouts BSA Boy Troop 72 and Scouts BSA Girl Troop 72 serve the Youth of Parsippany and surrounding areas ages 11-17. Crew 890 serves youth ages 14-20. The mission of the Boy Scouts of America is to prepare young people to make ethical and moral choices over their lifetimes by instilling in them the values of the Scout Oath and Scout Law. Thru the mission, service, leadership and a strong outdoor program, the youth led Troops 72 and Crew 890 are preparing the leaders of tomorrow.
PARSIPPANY — This gentle and sweet boy is ready to find his forever home after being surrendered to a local shelter. His foster describes him as extremely friendly, happy, and affectionate!
Dwight is looking for a quiet home where he can get lots of attention and love. He would do fine living with another pup and children 10+.
If you’re looking for a happy guy, apply to adopt Dwight today!
If you are interested in adopting, please fill out an application by clicking here.
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MORRIS COUNTY — With 99.75% of Morris County reporting results, the unofficial results for Morris County Republican Surrogate is:
Heather Darling
9,630
40.63%
Michael Patrick Carroll
9,088
38.34%
Isabella Alfano
4,964
20.94%
Isabella Alfano, Parsippany, was a latecomer in the race, ran a negative campaign and split the votes of the Republican Ticket. Alfano was the favorite of the Morris County Republican Committee. Both Carroll and Darling are Attorneys while Alfano is unemployed. During the campaign, Alfano criticized Darling.
According to Alfano’s ELEC reports, she only had one contribution made by Dr. Louis Valori, for $400.00. Valori is the Chairman of the Parsippany Republican Committee and also the Corresponding Secretary of Morris County Republican Club.
Alfano hired a printer based in Wyoming. This is the same company that Dinsmore, Felegi and Winterfield for Freeholder hired. Emails and texts to Donald Dinsmore went unanswered regarding the consultant.
Editor’s Note: Why would a Parsippany politician use an out of state printer? Aren’t there any printers that can perform the same services here in Parsippany or even New Jersey? Obviously Alfano is trying to hide something in her ELEC filings. Checkmate Action Group, LLC., is listed with a Wyoming address, and was formed on January 28, 2019. (click here for official documentation). The address listed in Wyoming is also the address of a mail forwarding service, and a corporate registration service. Checkmate Action Group isn’t listed in a Google search, and there is no website for the company. Checkmateactiongroup.com was purchased on January 25, 2019, with a private registration, to hide ownership, and no website was ever built. Checkmate Action Group is not listed with the Better Business Bureau.
MORRIS COUNTY — With 99.75% of Morris County reporting results, unofficial results for the Morris County Freeholder race:
Kathy DeFillippo
14,918
Douglas Cabana
14,444
Thomas Mastrangelo
14,381
Catherine Winterfield
8,273
Donald S. Dinsmore
8,237
William J. Felegi
7,339
Editor’s Note: Updated Wednesday, June 5 at 12:06 a.m.
Cabana, Mastrangelo and DeFilippo will face off Democrat candidates Cara Parmigiani, Cary Amaro and David Timpanaro in the General Election in November.
PARSIPPANY — The Bingo Club at the Parsippany Community Center holds their “Annual Tricky Tray.” This year it was Friday, May 17, 2019.
Mayor Michael Soriano calling the numbers for the Tricky Tray
Each year they hold the fundraiser to support high school seniors with costs relating to college. This year they raised $2749.00 and were able to give two scholarships to graduating seniors at Parsippany High School and two scholarships to graduating seniors at Parsippany Hills High School $600 each.
PARSIPPANY — Lake Parsippany resident Avinash Kuna, 32, passed away on Saturday, June 1 during an accident on Lake Hopatcong. His body wasn’t recovered until Monday evening.
Avi, who turned 32 on May 28, went to Lake Hopatcong on Saturday morning with a group of his friends and co-workers and rented a pontoon boat to celebrate Avi’s birthday.
Approximately 10:00 a.m., Avinash got into the water and within no time started saying something is pulling him down and started screaming for help. He started flailing and was gasping for air. His friends tried to help him sending him additional life vests but unfortunately he couldn’t reach them. The situation got worse.
One of our friends (Jay) jumped into the water with a life vest but they had to pull him out since his vest came off too. Avinash started to drown in water. Everything happened so quickly. They were all terrified. Not knowing how to react, they called Bridge Marina and 911 for help.
Avi went down and that was the last they seen him. Due alot of weed in the lake and bad weather conditions, search was unsuccessful on Saturday. New Jersey State Police resumed the search around 9:00 a.m. Sunday with a dive team but did not locate Kuna, Sgt. Lawrence Peele said. The search ended at about 4:00 p.m. and again began Monday morning. The search was ending on Monday when the body was discovered at approximately 6:00 p.m. According to one of Avi’s friends, the body was found in almost the same area where he went down on Saturday.
State Police aviation, missing persons, and T.E.A.M.S. units led the search and used side scan sonar sub-surface detection equipment as part of their attempt to locate Kuna. A K9 unit joined the search on Monday.
Lake Hopatcong has 45 miles of shoreline and is located in parts of Morris and Sussex counties. It’s the largest freshwater lake in New Jersey and is open to swimming, boating, fishing, kayaking, sailing and water sports.
Avi was a Senior Systems Programmer for United Parcel Service working at their new facility on Upper Pond Road since September 2018. Avi has over seven years experience in IT which includes almost five years of developing and deploying internet / intranet web and client server based applications, almost two years of developing Android based experience, five years of experience in database design and management and three years of experience in delivering reliable and cost-effective software development solutions and consulting services to clients across many verticals.
Avi Kuna
Avi woke up everyday around 6:00 a.m. and headed to work at UPS; when he went home at night, he would work on his computer until the late hours each night. On the weekend, Avi, always kept busy with his friends. Camping, trips to the city or riding a paddle boat on Lake Parsippany. Avi definitely loved the outdoors.
Avi graduated with a Masters degree from New Mexico State University in 2016. He also received a Masters` degree from Andhra University with a Masters degree in Computer Science graduating in 2010.
Knowing about this incident, his mother has been hospitalized in India.
Once the body is released from the Medical Examiner’s office, the body will be flown back to his native country, India, for his family and well-wishers to see him for one last time and to perform last rituals.
There is a GoFundme page set up, click here for more information.
PARSIPPANY — The employees and management of Parsippany Hilton / Hampton Inn celebrated Hilton’s 100th Anniversary on Friday, May 31 at 1:00 p.m.
Joining in the celebration was Parsippany-Troy Hills Mayor Michael Soriano, Councilman Michael dePierro, Councilwoman Loretta Gragnani, Parsippany Area Chamber of Commerce President Robert Peluso, Executive Board Member Frank Cahill, Board members Ildiko Peluso and Nicolas Limanov and Hanover Committee Chairperson Barbara Freda.
Hilton, the world’s first global hotel company, celebrated its milestone 100th anniversary on May 31, in the midst of the most dynamic year in the company’s storied history. The hospitality brand that pioneered air-conditioned lobbies, in-room televisions, the computerized reservation system and even the now thrives in 113 countries and territories, with more than 5,600 properties and a new one opening every day.
Hilton 100 Anniversary Celebration
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Parsippany Area Chamber of Commerce Executive Board Member Frank Cahill, Mark Dickerson, Complex Director of Sales & Marketing, Parsippany Area Chamber of Commerce President Robert Peluso, Ozgen Cevik, General Manager
Parsippany-Troy Hills Councilwoman Loretta Gragnani, Councilman Michael dePierro, Mayor Michael Soriano, Hiltons Mark Dickerson and Ozgen Cevik, General Manager
It is a remarkable moment for a company that began in 1919, when Conrad Hilton purchased his first hotel in the tiny town of Cisco, Texas, to hosting over 3 billion guests, employed 10 million Team Members and contributed $1 trillion in economic impact.”
But the future looks even more exciting. With one of the industry’s fastest-growing pipelines across 17 distinctive brands, Hilton is doubling down to expand to more than 20 additional countries by 2020. There are already more than 2,300 hotels in Hilton’s construction pipeline, and one of every five hotel openings in the world is a Hilton.
Looking Back
Hilton’s legacy began on May 31, 1919, when New Mexico-born Conrad Hilton traveled to Texas with plans to buy a bank. While that deal fell through, Hilton’s pioneering spirit did not falter – he instead bought the hotel where he had been staying.
Through the times good and bad, Hilton continued adding new hotels to his collection. By the early 1950s, Hilton had established the first coast-to-coast hotel chain in the United States; opened his first hotel outside the continental U.S, the iconic Hilton Caribe in Puerto Rico; expanded overseas with the Hilton Istanbul, the first hotel built from the ground up in Europe after WWII; and became the first hotelier to appear on the cover of TIME magazine.
Soon, Hilton hotels would circle the globe, introducing and popularizing innovations that in many ways created the modern hospitality industry. This includes now customary amenities such as room service, a central reservation system, airport hotels and the well-loved mini-bar.
The Hilton / Hampton Parsippany is pleased to be in the Hilton family, and has the distinction as being the first dual-branded Hilton product in the world!
Hilton Parsippany and Hampton Parsippany are members of the Parsippany Area Chamber of Commerce.