Post Tagged with: "Brookdale Avenue School"
Daisies Plant Flowers
The first grade Daisy Troop 22736 of Brookdale Avenue School recently planted flowers in the flower pots outside of school to help celebrate spring. Pictured from left are Farrah Ruggirello, Lucy Hogan, Rose Arias, Wednesday Fischer, Nora Newman, Sarah Oquendo, Cassie Polanskyj, Emily Strlekar, Emily Carano, Meaghan Haughney and, in front, Emma Hogan.
Juniors Show Support For Schools
Melissa Symczak (left) and Jennifer Critchley (second from left) present a check on behalf of the Verona Junior Women’s Club to Mary Hipp and Donna Holland, co-presidents of the Brookdale Avenue SCA, following a successful fundraiser in January. The Juniors’ fund raising efforts also will benefit other local schools and organizations.
Where In Verona Was It?
Thirty-eight weeks is a long time to remember things. So, at the request of Jeff Shilling, we are publishing a list of all the “Where In Verona” locations since the contest began last summer. Take a trip down memory lane… Week 1: Hillcrest Farms Week 2: Town Hall Week 3: Towne Scoop Week 4: Famous [...]
Their Hearts Give Hope
In the beginning, it’s not much to look at and it’s not very big. Just a heart-shaped piece of pottery, about 4 inches across at its widest. But when painted and decorated by students at Brookdale and F.N. Brown elementary schools, this little ceramic will deliver a heart full of hope to people who need [...]
Buying A House Near Brookdale
Yes, a brook does run through it, down from the Montclair Golf Course and all the way into Verona Park. Brookdale has a lot of green space and not as many houses as other neighborhoods in Verona. Brookdale Avenue School has the fewest number of students of Verona’s four elementary schools (Laning, Forest and F.N. [...]
Brookdale Throws A Carnival
Brookdale Avenue School’s SCA will host the first annual “Brookdale Boardwalk Carnival” on October 16. The event, which will take place from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., will be on school grounds and will feature various game booths, pony rides, raffles, food and music. The carnival is free and is geared to children of all [...]
Back To Back-To-School Nights
There are a lot of events on the MyVeronaNJ calendar, especially in the Schools category. But you might want to put the six dates below on your home calendar immediately since they tend to cause a lot of confusion. They are the “Back To School” orientation nights at the public schools. Here are the dates [...]
Brookdale Bikes For Brain Research
Brookdale Avenue School students will be riding their bikes and scooters to school on Monday, June 21–and it’s all for a good cause. The kids will getting to school under their own power to raise money for Brains on Bikes. The charity was created by New Jersey native Anne Feeley, who was diagnosed with a [...]
Brookdale’s Pat DiStefano To Retire
I dial the number for Brookdale Avenue School and a familiar voice answers: “Brookdale Avenue School, Pat DiStefano.” The voice is so pleasant, so melodic, that you’d never guess that it’s probably the 50th time that day and the umpteenth time she’s uttered those words in her 23 years as the secretary at Brookdale Avenue [...]
House Snooping: 23 Mountainview
UPDATE: This house has been taken off the market. Charm is an over-used word. It’s lost so much punch that there’s a temptation to surround it with quotation marks–A House With “Charm”–except that that would bring out the grammar police at the The “Blog” of “Unnecessary” Quotation Marks (a funny read when you get the [...]