Archive for June, 2010
Register Now For Teen Pool Party
The Verona Recreation Department has named Dana Visentin to the newly created volunteer position of Teen Committee Coordinator and they are kicking off the committee’s work with a bang: Two teen pool parties on Monday, June 21. Here’s how it will work. The 5th and 6th graders from H.B. Whitehorne Middle School and Our Lady [...]
Junior Women’s Club Welcomes New Members And Officers
The Verona Junior Woman’s Club recently installed and welcomed its newest members and the 2010-2011 executive board. The board includes Sue Fenker-Warner, federation secretary; Stacy Theilmeier, recording secretary; Nanci Shorter, corresponding secretary; Doreen Arminio and Melissa Symczak, membership vice presidents; Robin Wallace, first vice president; and Joanna Breitenbach and Lisa Golebieski, co-presidents. The newly installed members [...]
Organic Farmers Need Your Help
The organic farmers who deliver to the Bloomfield/Montclair CSA and the Montclair Co-Op have maxed out their delivery space at those locations. But the farmers, who include John Krueger of Starbrite Farm and Ken Hoffman of Havenwood Farms, have long waiting lists of potential customers and they’d like another drop-off spot or two in our [...]
Daniel Pritchard Foundation Fundraiser
Daniel Pritchard’s birthday is coming up on June 12. But this year, as last, his family will be marking the day without the person they thought of as Verona’s Superman: Pritchard was murdered at the Sunoco gas station on Pompton Avenue on Feb. 22, 2009. The Pritchard family has decided to turn this year’s birthday [...]
Verona Cooks: Floyd Cardoz’ Rhubarb Chutney
Floyd Cardoz, the Verona resident who is the executive chef at Tabla restaurant in Manhattan, is adamant about cooking with the seasons. You might recall that, earlier this spring, he shared an asparagus recipe with the readers of MyVeronaNJ, and showed you how to cook it in our very first food video. So with the [...]
Judge Denies TCI’s Appeal In Bid To Expand
It’s been five years since The Children’s Institute, a school for special needs children on Sunset Avenue, filed its application with the Verona Zoning Board to expand its building and enrollment. And it’s been almost two years since the town board voted unanimously against that expansion and TCI filed an appeal in Essex County Superior [...]
It’s Football Time
The weather may be hot and sticky, but if you have a child who wants to be involved in football or cheerleading in the fall, you’ve got to get them signed up this week. The Verona Eagles 2010 Football and Cheerleading registration will be held on Thursday, June 3, from 6 to 7:30 p.m. and [...]
Speakers Needed For Career Day
This school year is not even over and the Verona High School Alumni Association is already planning an event for the next. The VHSAA will sponsor a Career Day for the senior class of Verona High School on Friday, October 22, and it is seeking alumni to speak at the event. Alumni participants will share [...]