Section: Teens
Camp For Lacrosse And Soccer
The BIG5 Lax & Soccer Academy is now taking registrations for summer camp. The focus of the camp for beginners is to learn the basics of their respective sports and for the advanced players, to master their skills. The Montclair-based sports camp is offering four one-week sessions from June 25 to July 20, with no camp on July 4. The [...]
Autism Awareness: Reading List
April is Autism Awareness month but even as the month comes to a close, autism and autism spectrum disorders (ASD) will continue to be a part of our society. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Autism Speaks, one child in children is diagnosed with ASD. Gina Catania, principal of The Children’s Institute in [...]
Dream Dresses For Prom
Last summer, the girls of the Episcopal Church of the Holy Spirit went on a volunteer mission to an underprivileged area of western Virginia. They discovered there that the prom dresses hanging in their own closets never to be worn again might be “dream dresses” for high school girls in that region. So the Holy [...]
What Parents Need To Know About Teen Drugs, Alcohol
On Wednesday, June 29, the Verona Municipal Alliance Committee (VMAC) is sponsoring a presentation for parents about several dangerous substances that may be tempting their teens: bath salts, alcopops and bowling or pharming parties. Bath salts, which have nothing to do with the perfumed salts adults use when bathing, are a drug that is sold [...]
Last Call For Teen Pool Party Registration
The Teen Rec Committee will be hosting a free pool party for the middle school crowd on Monday June 20. (Rain date June 21.) The 5th and 6th grades will have the pool to themselves from 1 to 3 p.m. and the 7th and 8th grades will be from 4 to 6 p.m. There will [...]
Free Teen Pool Party
The Teen Rec Committee will be hosting a free pool party for the middle school crowd on Monday June 20. (Rain date June 21.) The 5th and 6th grades will have the pool to themselves from 1 to 3 p.m. and the 7th and 8th grades will be from 4 to 6 p.m. There will [...]
VMAC Cancels Teen Drug Presentation
The Verona Municipal Alliance Committee has just e-mailed us to say that tonight’s information session on a dangerous new teen drug known as bath salts has been canceled due to illness. VMAC does not yet have a new date for the presentation. Bath salts are a synthetic stimulant that has been banned in New Jersey [...]
VMAC Warns On New Teen Drug
Next Thursday, May 19, at 7 p.m., the Verona Municipal Alliance Committee is sponsoring a short presentation in the Verona Community Center’s Fireman’s Room for parents of high school and middle school students about the dangers of so-called bath salts. We’re not talking about the Epsom salts that your grandma used to throw in her [...]
Help For Eating Disorders
Verona resident Susan Maccia is putting her considerable energy into helping Verona families with an issue that has deeply affected hers: eating disorders. She would like you to know that, on Wednesday, May 4, from 7 to 9 p.m. the Parent, Family and Friends Network of the National Eating Disorders Association will be holding a [...]
Day Trip: The Harry Potter Exhibit
I recently had the pleasure of attending the Harry Potter exhibit at the Discovery Times Square Center in New York City. If you haven’t heard about it, this is an exhibit of the props and costumes that have been used in the Harry Potter films. To be completely honest here, I have only read one [...]