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VOLUME 55 / No. 3 Monroe Township, New Jersey March 2019 If you have diabetes, this workshop is for you By Mary Jane Brubaker simple changes to your diet Take control of your diabe- and how to incorporate safe tes by attending the free six- and effective exercise into week workshop series on your daily life. You will also Tuesdays beginning March meet others who are dealing 26 from 1 to 3:30 p.m. in the with the same issues and Gallery at the Clubhouse. you can support each other The key to controlling your as you learn the simple yet diabetes is through gaining a important steps you can take better understanding of the to control your diabetes. disease which, if left uncon- This workshops series is trolled, can lead to debilitating being offered as a commu- health problems. Managing nity service by the Rossmoor your blood glucose level or Community Church and is blood sugar, along with your being sponsored by Quality blood pressure and cholesterol Insights in partnership with are essential to maintaining the Centers for Medicare & quality of life while living with Medicaid Services. this serious disease. To register please call Jar- At this workshops series maine Williams at 732-955- you will learn how to make 8168. Your electricity bill just went up Korean-Americans celebrate the Lunar New Year with dinner and games. The name of By Carol De Haan years Monroe Township cre- the game above is “Youtt.” It did? ated its Community Energy Yes, the rate for one kilo- Aggregation program, which watt hour went from has lowered electricity costs Focus on: Korean American group $0.07946 on your December, to homeowners. Our current 2018 bill to $0.08663 on your contract with the low bidder, By Jean Houvener began to get together for Officially the group began January, 2019 bill. This is an South Jersey Energy, per- When Soonja Nam and her meals and to socialize at dif- this past August, and so it is increase of $0.00717 per mits that company to raise its husband Sin-U moved to ferent homes. the most recent of the groups kilowatt hour. rates under certain circum- Rossmoor two years ago, As it turned out, there are or clubs at Rossmoor. They stances. This is what hap- they wondered how they more Korean people at now have 28 members, and How much is this in dol- pened: would fit into the community Rossmoor than they had ex- generally meet at 5 p.m. on lars? South Jersey Energy uses and what activities to join. pected. Eventually the group the third Saturday of the In more practical terms, the government’s high volt- Both have been active in dif- grew larger than could fit in month in the Gallery or the this means that if you used, age transmission system to ferent groups, but they anyone’s home. Like other Maple Room. They meet on for example, 2,000 kilowatt bring electricity to us. In May missed having a supportive groups, they approached Saturdays in the evening hours at the December rate, 2018, the Federal Energy Korean American group to E&R about setting up a because many members of your bill would have been Regulatory Commission is- meet with. As they met other group and meeting at the the group are still working. $158.92. sued an order that resulted in residents from Korea, they Clubhouse. All the members came The same 2,000 kilowatt South Jersey Energy having originally from different towns hours at the January rate will to pay higher costs for using in Korea to the United States now cost you $173.26.* that federal transmission sys- School vote on the agenda - March 12 and all came from different What is the reason for tem. Under its contract with towns in the United States to By Linda Bozowski these options bears a large this? (Continued on page 2) The Monroe Township price tag, but the Board indi- (Continued on page 15) As you know, in recent Board of Education is once cates that this construction again asking residents to will see us through continu- participate in the school ex- ously expanding student en- pansion decision on the up- rollments over the next sev- coming ballot. Two different eral years. configurations are being of- The Board of Education fered: construction of an ad- has created a web page de- ditional middle school to be voted to the referendum is- used by sixth through eighth sues. The website is referen- graders or a combination of a [email protected] A new middle school and a link can also be easily found substantial addition to our by searching for Monroe existing high school. Each of (Continued on page 2)

Inside this issue

Bits & Pieces ...... 2 Musings and Memories 13 Bob’s Almanac ...... 9 RCAI Meetings ...... 2 Clubs ...... 16 Religion ...... 18 Culinary Corner ...... 15 Sports ...... 19 Health Care Center ..... 20 Transportation Tidbits ... 22 Landscaping ...... 20 Your Garden ...... 20 Students in the “Pathways to Production: Storytelling in South Africa” program wave Maintenance ...... 21 Snow Policy ...... 22 their joy and send a huge THANKS to Frank Nobile and to the Rossmoor Pickleball Players for sending them a gift of many new pairs of sneakers.

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School vote $100,000 assessed valua- $150,000 that cost amounts tion. So the owner, in Ross- to an increase of about $138 (Continued from page 1) moor, of a home valued at in the school portion of the Bits & Pieces Township, NJ Board of Edu- $150,000 would see an in- tax bill. At the risk of sound- Sue Ortiz cation. That presentation crease of about $75 in the ing like a TV commercial, provides a great deal of infor- school component of the that tax increase translates house. (I could write a mation that may be helpful to home’s tax bill. to less than 50 cents per I should follow the advice book.) our community’s voters. This day. of singer Bobby McFerrin – Will I have enough money article will present, briefly, Option two “Don’t worry, be happy!” to retire at an age where I some of the highlights from The second option being What can happen if the Because, I think I worry too can still enjoy life? Will my that more comprehensive proposed includes construc- referendum is voted down much over some things that house need major repairs in presentation. It is hoped that tion of the new middle school again are not my direct concern, the near future, and how voters will review and con- and expansion of our existing According to a publication but that do concern me. will I pay for them? The sider the data in advance of high school, which is pro- released by the Board of For example: Who is house is in good shape, but the voting on March 12. jected to see a student popu- Education last spring after bringing the snacks to the I will need new windows, lation in 2021 of 2,993 stu- the first referendum failed, if next Sisters in Crime- new siding, new vinyl floor- Option one dents. The current high the referendum is not passed Central Jersey writers’ ing, a new fence, and even- As noted above, the first school was built to accom- on this second voting oppor- meeting? I will probably tually a new roof. option, construction of an modate 1,800 students but tunity, the N.J. Department of bring something, because I I worry about falling down additional middle school, will the current enrollment is al- Education will step in. The do get hungry. But some- stairs, about broken glass, accommodate the 2021 pro- ready at 2,400 students. The State could nullify the failed one should have passed and about dingbat drivers. jection of nearly 2,100 stu- proposed addition would add referendums and order con- around a snack list at the (Fears, phobias, and foi- dents. The current middle space for about 1,000 addi- struction of facilities that January meeting. Who will bles.) I worry about that school building was designed tional students and would would be paid for by our local set up and clean up the smoky smell in the middle for 1,100 students, but 1,710 include 30 classrooms and taxpayers. These facilities kitchen, since no one of the night. It’s probably students are being taught multiple ancillary student may not necessarily be those stepped up to head hospi- someone’s wood stove, but there, using the existing spaces including labs, gym currently planned in terms of tality? (I am not doing it!) you never know, so I sniff space and portable trailer- space and a new cafeteria. classrooms and ancillary stu- Who’s going to take over around the house anyway. type buildings on the prop- This high school addition dent spaces. To quote this the VP position, since the Some of my medications erty. A 35-acre site owned by would ring in at about $71 document (Monroe Township current VP stepped down are produced overseas in a the Township would be used million. Combined with the School District Referendum abruptly. (I am not doing it!) country known for having for construction of a new middle school, the projected News), dated March 1, 2018, I worry about deadlines. cancer-causing substances building. The cost for this tax impact of this double of- “Decisions will be removed Will I have enough content in certain recalled drugs, option, middle school only, fering would increase the from the community by the for the next newsletter? dog food, and other prod- would be over $75 million school portion of our tax bills State.” (Thinking of giving that up, ucts. I worry about that. and is estimated to increase by about $92 per $100,000 but I worry about who will My personal point of view Why can’t we just make the school portion of property assessed valuation. Again, do it, if I don’t.) Same for As a former student of everything in the good ol’ taxes by about $49 per using an average of the website. I’d just like to Monroe Township schools be a member, for once, and US of A? I worry that I don’t back in the day when there concentrate on my writing. I get enough exercise. That were only two schools worry when things my “numbers” will be high. Mailing Addresses (Monroe #1 near Jamesburg (speakers, parties, field That the food I eat has too and Monroe #2 on Apple- trips, etc.) aren’t planned as much sugar, salt, carbs, If you are not receiving mail from Rossmoor, garth Road, which I attended they should be. (I am not and preservatives. That my your Mutual, or The Rossmoor News, it may be through eighth grade in the planner, so I shouldn’t shampoo and shower gel a matter of our not having your correct mailing 1961) I can say that I had a worry, should I? But I do.) contain sodium lauryl sul- address. Many residents, over the years, filed solid and complete education I worry that my “safe” fate. (Yes, I am a label “Winter Address” forms with Administration and and was well prepared to neighbors will move and reader.) attend Hightstown High failed to specify a return date. If you did not con- some undesirables will I worry about the state of School with town-raised stu- tact us when you returned, it might be possible move into the apartment the world. Why can’t we all dents from Cranbury, Hights- next door. Like the time just get along, for Pete’s that we still have an alternate or winter address town, and Roosevelt. Those in our system. members of a motorcycle sake? of us who grew up on farms gang moved in and chained One would think I’m one Please contact Resident Services manager, at or in small pseudo- 609-655-1000, to verify your address. their bikes to my fence. big worry wort, but, no, I’m neighborhoods held our own (Although, they turned out relatively happy. I have a and competed academically, to be some of the nicer ten- warm home, good friends, musically, and in sports. Our ants.) Or the time the loving family, my bills get Open RCAI Meetings in March current Monroe Township woman’s jealous ex threw a paid, I am healthy, and I’m Thursday, March 14, 9 a.m. students are still holding their fire bomb into her jalousie- learning not to worry about Standing Committee Meetings: own, and our district is rated windowed porch and set the the small stuff so much. Be- Maintenance Committee highly in New Jersey. apartment ablaze. I worried cause… Community Affairs Committee We need to remember that about my house. (That was “It is what it is.” Finance Committee all of us who have had chil- a legitimate worry.) I have B&P dren, grandchildren, nieces, no control over who the ab- “I never worry about ac- Thursday, March 21, 9 a.m. nephews, or children of sentee landlord selects as tion, but only inaction.” – Board of Governors Meeting friends received or do re- tenants. Will we get along? Winston Churchill (British All meetings are held in the Village Center ceive public education and Will I be able to park my car statesman, 1874-1965) have benefitted by other tax- in front of my house or have Meeting Room unless noted otherwise “Don’t worry about the payers sharing the cost. The to fight for a parking spot Please watch Channel 26 for any world coming to an end to- value of our school system because they have three changes or cancellations day. It is already tomorrow in and of our community’s chil- vehicles? Will they play Australia.” – Charles M. dren is worthy of our support. loud music or shine their Schulz (American cartoonist, backyard spotlight into my 1922-2000) bedroom so I can’t sleep? I have had some wacky, and “Worry is the stomach’s also some wonderful, worst poison.” – Alfred Nobel neighbors through the 50- (Swedish scientist, 1833- plus years I’ve lived in my 1896)

Electricity bill bill is higher than it had been previously.

News Board: considered as space permits. The Rossmoor News and Princeton (Continued from page 1) Joe Conti, Chair Unscheduled volunteer writers should Editorial Services (PES) are not liable for Monroe Township, South * The letter from South Carol De Haan contact Rossmoor News Chairman Joe any typographical or printing errors that Jersey Energy is permitted to Jersey Energy says the in- Myra Danon Conti about any article they wish to may appear, including in its display or pass along the increased crease will be to $.08661. My Bob Huber contribute. All copy and pictures are classified advertising, over the cost of the cost to the consumer. That is January bill says it is subject to editing and are accepted with Jean Houvener space of the advertisement. why your January electricity $.08663. My calculations are this understanding. The advertisements here are, to the best of based on $.08663. Anne Rotholz the publisher’s knowledge, accurate Linda Bozowski Letters to the Editor must be emailed to PES at representations of the products and Walter Gryskiewicz services offered. However, no [email protected] and clearly Editorial Assistants marked Rossmoor News. endorsements are intended or implied. The Rossmoor Alex Monaco Acceptance of all materials is at the Editorial Office: discretion of the publisher. Linda Monaco 2 Rossmoor Drive, News Deadline The Rossmoor News a monthly Monroe Twp., NJ 08831 Email display ads to: [email protected] periodical is mailed to every home Telephone: 732-761-8534 E-mail: is the 7th of within the Rossmoor community. News © 2019, PRINCETON EDITORIAL SERVICES, INC. [email protected] items are welcome. Appropriate news

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Getting to know our veterans By Chris Donahue

Each month, The Rossmoor News will feature the story of a resident who has served in the military.

Carlo J. Carunchio, third row, fourth from left, poses with his company at the U.S. Naval Training Center in Sampson, N.Y., Sept. 7, 1944.

By Chris Donahue ship he could see the faces When Carlo James Ca- of the pilots, or have to seek runchio enlisted in the Navy in shelter from the cold in a 1943 he got what he wanted -- freezer while working at a good food and a clean bed. He naval base. also did not have to dig Carunchio, who turns 93 trenches or take long hikes as on July 6, was born and soldiers did in other branches raised in Jersey City. of the military. When the Japanese What he did not expect bombed Pearl Harbor Dec. 7, was to see Japanese suicide 1941, an older brother, planes flying so close to his Dominic, who was in the Na- tional Guard, was assigned to guard planes at then- Fort Dix. Another brother, Michael, was also in the Mr. Carunchio in uniform. Army. Carunchio said Navy. They said, ‘You are he was inspired crazy. Wait until you are to enlist in the drafted.’ Navy by a friend “I said, ‘You don’t under- who kept extolling stand. I was so lonely for my its benefits, in- brothers because we used to cluding the food, sleep four in a bed.’” quarters and no Because there was no ship digging or march- ready, Carunchio worked at ing. The Pacific the Naval Training Center in Ocean was also a Sampson, N.Y., where he warmer place to completed boot camp. be than the Atlan- Finally, Carunchio, whose tic. main experience with the “I woke up one ocean was fishing from the Saturday morning shore, was assigned as a and told my seaman to the newly-built Mr. Carunchio poses at his home on friends I am going U.S.S. New Hanover, a supply New Haven Way. to enlist in the (Continued on page 4)

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From the Mayor

By Gerald W. Tamburro, Mayor of Monroe Township

I Support the Education Referendum on March 12 Strong communities are roe Township students and AA+ bond rating. built on solid foundations and why I will support the March The strength of our school there are few things more 12 Board of Education refer- district has a direct and posi- important than the quality of endum. tive impact on property val- our public schools. When I was a member of ues and the quality of life for It’s no coincidence that the Township Council, I all Monroe residents. The communities with top school helped secure the lands for investments we make today systems, like Monroe’s, per- the new Oak Tree Elemen- will allow us to continue our form very well in property tary School and the new community tradition of excel- value rankings. Monroe Township High lence, value and achieve- Like most of you, I am the School. These investments ment for generations to product of a successful pub- were critical for the success come. lic-school system. of our students and commu- Our parents and grandpar- Our parents, and their par- nity. ents voted for the referen- ents before them, made the Together with our partners dums that built our schools. decision to support new at the Board of Education, We should do the same and schools and there is no we have built these facilities support success for our stu- greater investment a commu- while still maintaining the dents and teachers alike. nity can make for its future second lowest overall tax I love this township and all success. rate in all of Middlesex of our residents. I hope you This is why I have always County; using very little of will join me in voting YES on worked hard to make sure our bonding capacity for a this referendum on March our community provides community of 43 square 12. those same benefits for Mon- miles and maintaining our

Our vets which he had experience with runchio was transferred with for years as a boy. 36 other sailors to Kagoshima, (Continued from page 3) “It never bothered me. I just Japan. His tasks included ship named after a county in liked being in the Navy. And shore patrol, retrieving sup- North Carolina. Assignments we were very patriotic,” he plies, and confiscating weap- were done by officers pointing said. ons, which were loaded on to groups of men as they When the New Hanover Japanese rowboats dumped stood in line, not by choice, arrived at Pearl Harbor 18 three miles out in the ocean. Carunchio said. days later, Carunchio and He also helped in the repa- As a deckhand, Carunchio some crew members went to triation of Japanese citizens was one of seven men se- the beach and rented surf- who had left for safer areas. lected to fire the ship’s 5-inch boards. Part of the process involved gun. The group trained in Vir- However, the stay lasted the citizens receiving medical ginia, and Carunchio was as- only a couple days. As part of check-ups. signed as the “hot-shell man,” the Amphibious Forces, Pa- Despite the fact that Ameri- which required him to wear cific Fleet, the New Hanover cans were on Japanese soil, long gloves to catch the shells began a round of cargo opera- Carunchio said he never when they were ejected. tions to the Solomons New sensed any animosity from the “The first shell I caught I Hebrides, and Ulitithi, all in citizens and some seemed raised it and it burned the skin preparation for the assault on “very apologetic” about the off my nose,” Carunchio said. Okinawa, where she arrived war. One man even invited He also remembers training April 10. Carunchio into his home to with sailors from the British You were a couple miles have some desert and saki. navy. away [from shore],” Carunchio “I learned a [Japanese] song Finally, the New Hanover said. “They said you could that the children were taught in got underway and passed walk from ship to ship there school. It’s supposed to be through the Panama Canal were so many [about 1,500]. about a girl running from Feb. 1, 1945. “It took 12 hours “We waited 13 days to school in the rain,” Carunchio to get through because there unload and the water got said after singing a couple were so many ships,” he said. rough at the time. We dam- verses in Japanese. Despite having lived all is life aged about six [landing] boats Despite all of the months at on land, Carunchio said get- trying to get them off on sea, Carunchio said Japanese ting used to being at seas was booms, which are swinging.” submarines were the only not a challenge. The only time During the next week of thing he feared, but he did not he got seasick was in a ty- cargo operations, her crew lose sleep over it. phoon in the Sea of Japan. He went to general quarters 30 “You were tired. You got up also did not mind bunking in times as Japanese air attacks at 6 [a.m.], did calisthenics, ate close quarters, something harassed the invasion. breakfast then worked for eight “We never fired a shot be- hours. You were in bed by 10 cause the planes flew so close or so after writing letters or to the water you would hit your playing cards,” he said. “It was own ships,” Carunchio said. “In a monotonous routine but you the meantime, you had Ameri- got used to it. You are sailing can planes chasing them so and you felt like you were on a the [anti-aircraft gunners] had cruise.” to worry about them.” Carunchio was discharged It was during attacks like from the Navy in May of 1946, that when Carunchio said he but went back to work at the saw the rising sun on the naval station at Sampson be- Japanese planes and the cause he needed a job. At faces of the pilots. times, the wind-chill tempera- Carunchio recalls how hel- ture fell below zero. “It was so mets saved the sailors from cold we used to go into the head injuries because shrap- freezer to get out of the cold,” nel from anti-aircraft guns he said. rained onto the decks during A knee injury ended his the attacks. work there in 1973. After Okinawa, the New “My pension was $2,200 a Hanover rendezvoused with year. I had a wife, two full 300 other ships in preparation grown daughters and a mort- for the invasion of Japan, but gage on a house in South the war ended before it was River,” Carunchio said. To needed. make ends meet, he began In his next assignment, Ca- (Continued on page 5)

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Sound Advice Norman J. Politziner, CFP®, CeFT® President of NJP Associates

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Our vets

(Continued from page 4) driving limousines for funerals. In 1977, he started his own limousine business, which he operated until 1986. “I enjoyed it,” he said. “I love to drive. I made 70 trips to Florida in 30 years. I drove to California twice, and to Texas. I still drive veterans to meetings.” Today, he dedicates his life to veterans. “Now, I want to give back. I love veterans. I belong to three different groups,” he said. “One thing I learned about living. It feels better to give than receive. It took me a lifetime to learn that because when I was growing up we had nothing. “The older you get the more you want to do but you can only do so much.”

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Quinoa – the answer to worldwide malnutrition? By Carol De Haan nous people of South America, Quinoa (pronounced keen- they also aimed to obliterate wa) is a humble seed that was native culture. Perceiving its once available only high in the importance to the local people, Andes, eventually in health the conquerors banned the food stores, and now you can cultivation of quinoa. A farmer buy it in most supermarkets. found to be growing it was Its reputation for nutritional decapitated on the spot. Need- excellence brought it to us on less to say, quinoa farming fell an amazing journey from hun- away to zero and was mostly dreds of years ago. forgotten for hundreds of Botanically related to spin- years. ach and the ancient grain In the modern world amaranth, quinoa gives us far In more recent times, local greater nutrition than tradi- cultivation began when quinoa tional grains like wheat, corn, plants were found growing in rice, and oats. Quinoa is rich in the wild. When its astonishing important minerals, contains nutritional value came to light, fiber and many B vitamins, by the 1970s, some scientists and – miracle of miracles – it and entrepreneurs in Colorado provides all 18 amino acids, made serious efforts to culti- meaning it has the protein vate and market this product. It value of meat or other animal is now being grown in several products. Vegans rejoice. states, in parts of Europe, and Quinoa’s history of course in South America. Indications are that wild qui- Quinoa prefers to grow in noa was used for livestock high altitudes, will tolerate poor feed as far back as 7,000 soil, and is not a fussy crop to years ago. The Incas domesti- grow although it requires man- cated varieties for human con- ual harvesting. It has been sumption almost 4,000 years selected for experimentation ago. It became their “mother by NASA for its Controlled grain,” a sacred crop whose Ecological Life Support Sys- seeds were sown only with tem for long-duration human golden instruments. space flight. When the conquistadores In your kitchen subdued many of the indige- Quinoa boils up faster than rice and at the same ratio: one cup of quinoa to two cups of water or broth. Cooked quinoa seeds are smaller than cooked rice grains, and a bit crunchier. Its mild flavor makes it ideal for stir-fry recipes, casseroles, soups, and virtually any other tasty dish. You can boil a quantity of quinoa, portion it into several zip-lock bags, freeze them, and have it ready to add to whatever you are cooking for dinner. In world population In the year 1800, there were fewer than a billion people on this planet. By 1980, that number was up to 4.4 billion. Right now, we are 7.7 billion people, and the United Nations projects 10 billion of us by 2100. How will we feed all those people? Will we continue to fish out the oceans and slaughter animals ad infinitum? Such a versatile and valu- able protein crop as quinoa could solve this huge problem. Quinoa might well prove to be the Inca’s gift to all of humanity.

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The Humor is on Me Now

By Gene Horan When, a while back, a no- table Rossmoor citizen, born and raised in the Emerald Isle, asked me to write a story about the Irish and Ire- land, I hesitated, being what Irish immigrants call a “narrowback,” one generation away from the old sod. What with St. Patrick’s Day approaching, when everybody is Irish, in the words of an old Irish song, I found that “The Humor is on Me Now” to write the story. I digress: If you don’t know that song, go on U-Tube and ask for the delightful version sung at the wedding party for On a jaunting car excursion around Killarney with my Maureen O’Hara and John new friends. Wayne in “The Quiet Man.” Then find an opportunity to terminal I said “Pop, you ing “When It’s Moonlight in watch the entire movie, know a lot of people.” He Mayo,” recalling their birth- filmed as it was in the beauti- replied: “I know everybody place with tears in their eyes. ful countryside not far from on Staten Island.” I said very So much for the Irish rela- the ancestral home where confidently, “I’ll bet you don’t tives I have known and my father was born. know that policeman walking loved; I have left little space up the bus ramp!” for my visits to the ancestral The man walked straight to homeland itself. My father my father, gave him a vigor- had often told me and my ous handshake, and said; brothers and sisters of life on “Hey Mike, how are you do- the farm in Ireland, our rela- ing?” A broad smile came tives there, and the beauty of across Dad’s face. County Mayo. I knew he had When his time came, the kissed the Blarney Stone so I extraordinary outpouring of took it all with just a grain of affection for him from so salt. many Staten Islanders re- Then one day, after read- called for me that day and ing an article in the New York the incident with the friendly Times suggesting a visit to cop. Ireland to see what agricul- He had his eccentricities. tural Europe was like “before Whenever driving the car, he it is too late,” I decided to go Michael Thomas Horan sang the same song: see for myself. “There’s a tear in your eye Dublin and I’m wondering why From the first day in Ire- An Irish-American family ‘cause it never should be land I was hooked and knew My father, Michael Thomas there at all,” every note off I would return again and Horan, came here when he key. It was many years be- again. In fact, I would be- was barely out of his teens. fore I realized that it was the come a tour guide for other World War I was on and he opening line for “When Irish members of the family visit- joined the Navy. He was sta- Eyes Are Smiling,” words he ing for the first time. tioned at the Great Lakes never got to. In Dublin, a few mischie- Training Station near Chi- I haven’t said much about vous Irishmen put me up to a cago where one day he met my mother, given the subject kind of hoax on one of their my mother, thus assuring my of this essay. (Her parents friends. There were no va- future. were Irish but she was very (Continued on page 8) He was, of course, the first much just American.) In addi- Irishman I ever knew and I tion to a strong faith (she loved him dearly because he prayed my four older broth- would take me on his lap and ers home safely from the rub my face against his battlefields of World War II), whiskers, knowing it would she brought to our home the made me laugh. great gift of music. In one of my earliest Irish parties memories, perhaps I was How can I describe the three or four, I was sitting at Irish parties in our home dur- the dining room table with all ing my childhood? For me, the family for Sunday dinner. all parties since have paled I must have misbehaved in comparison. It started with because my father, with a aunts, uncles and cousins twinkle in his eyes, sent me arriving early in the day for a out to the linden tree in front great feast. After dinner, all of the house to get a switch. repaired to the living room for Given the whiskers experi- singing and dancing. ence, I had no fear of what My mother at the piano, would happen to me. None- sometimes accompanied by theless, I came back with the an aunt on the Irish accor- tiniest twig you could ever dion, played American, Irish, imagine, at which everybody, Scottish and every other kind including me, burst into of song while we all sang laughter, as we often did, lustily. given my father’s sense of Then my father rolled up humor. the rug for Irish dancing: jigs, Portrait of an Irishman reels, hornpipes and more. Dad was an affable Irish- Our aunts would teach us man if ever there was one. children the “stack-of-barley,” He loved people and they the floor would bounce, and reciprocated. One day he the house would ring with was taking me to the rodeo music and laughter. at Madison Square Garden Then there was a second (we lived on Staten Island) round of eating. Late evening and I noticed how many peo- brought a regretful end when ple on the bus were saying my father would join his hello to him. brothers and sisters in sing- As we got off at the ferry

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The March Hare By Bob Huber English author, poet and As we prepare for spring mathematician, Charles Lut- (the vernal equinox will arrive widge Dodgson, writing under on March 20), there is one the pen name of Lewis Carroll, event that we are likely to wrote two delightful children’s overlook: the peculiar antics stories: “Through the Looking of the Lepus Europaeus, bet- Glass” and “Alice’s Adventures ter known as the European in Wonderland,” in which the Brown Hare. March Hare played a promi- For untold centuries our nent role, along with the Mad English cousins have ob- Hatter and the Dormouse at served the acrobatic she- an ongoing tea party. The sto- nanigans of the hare as it ries became immensely popu- responds to the call of ro- lar in America, and the terms mance. Beginning in March “mad as a March hare” and and continuing for several “harebrained” quickly found months, the animal will in- their way into the American dulge in the most bizarre be- lexicon. havior, running in circles, The European Brown Hare jumping and boxing with shows little resemblance to other hares in an effort to the fuzzy bunnies we see attract a mate. No wonder hopping around Rossmoor. It the locals thought the beastie is a much larger animal with had lost its marbles. long ears, more closely re- By the mid-16th century lated to our American West- these observations found ern jackrabbit. their way into English litera- And as for that boxing rou- ture with such comments as tine, naturalists have now “mad as a March hare” and decided that it’s not two “harebrained.” males fighting over a female, Since our American hares but a female fighting off the appear to be more sedate in unwanted attentions of an their courtship, the terms went amorous male. So much for relatively unnoticed here until romance. If he’s going to act the prominent 19th century so weird, we can’t blame her.

The Humor many delightful experiences with Irish warmth and humor (Continued from page 7) that I would experience over cant tables for lunch in the the years. hotel dining room and the It might be of interest for hostess approached several readers to know that it was gentlemen and asked if I just 100 years ago, on Jan. might join them. Indeed I 21, 1919, at a meeting in could and I was soon enjoy- Dublin’s Mansion House, that ing the banter of three young members of Sinn Féin not in and witty Dublin barristers jail declared themselves the (lawyers). first Dáil, the rightful ruling They wanted me to act like legislature of the nation. I had a lot of money to spend American-born Eamon De (well -- I was American!), visit Valera, their leader, was in a local real estate office and an English prison and unable ask for Senator Fitzsimmons, to attend. On Feb. 3, 1919, the owner. They said he he made a daring escape would surely give me a pass and was back in Dublin on to visit the Dáil-Eireann, the Feb. 20. Today the 29th Dáil Irish Parliament, and proba- sits in Dublin. bly buy me dinner. Killarney Unfortunately the Senator The next day I was off to was not in his office that day see Killarney, legendary for and I never got to see him or its beauty. On the train ex- the Dáil. cursion from Dublin, I found That was the first of many, friendship for the day with a vacationing English couple, a lovely Australian woman, and an English soldier on leave. They all loved Ireland. Alfie, the ruddy-faced soldier, always had a smile on his face: “I’ve never had such a good time in me life,” he said. “I went into an Irish pub. They were singing rebel songs and I stood up and sang “God Save the Queen.” They were a jovial bunch and what laughs we had!” The Old Homestead This was the highlight of my visit to Ireland as it would be for all future ones. I noticed a few TV antennas in the area, early signs of the coming modernity that The New York Times writer warned about, but not at my Uncle Pat and Aunt Mary’s farm. The old customs, like sitting before the turf fire for stories and conversation, the baking of Irish bread in a great iron pot over the open fire, and the greeting given (Continued on page 9)

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Bob’s Almanac By Bob Huber

Welcome to the messy with such notables as Alex- of events to keep you occu- month of March, the time ander Graham Bell pied. It would take this entire when winter and spring duke (3/5/1847), Michelangelo page to list them all, but it out for supremacy. Eventu- (3/6/1475) and Albert Ein- here’s a small sample. ally spring will win, but we stein (3/14/1879). March is: Adopt a Rescued are usually in for some weird Four American presidents Guinea Pig Month, National weather in the interim. were born this month: An- Nutrition Month, National In the ancient past, March drew Jackson #7 Women’s History Month, and was actually the first month of (3/15/1767), James Madison Optimism Month. the year, but Julius Caesar #4 (3/16/1751), Grover There are days and weeks tinkered with the calendar to Cleveland #22 (3/18/1937) devoted to cheerleading, Girl change all that. It was called and John Tyler #10 Scouts, pet sitters, procrasti- the Julian calendar. Then, in (3/29/1790). nation, owls, termites, folk 1582, Pope Gregory decided March may be dreary, but tales, spinach, turkey vul- to refine the calendar even there’s plenty to look forward tures, fanny packs, peanuts, more, and we wound up with to: daylight savings time ar- and Donald Duck. The list the Gregorian calendar, which rives on March 10. Remem- goes on and on, and, cer- put March in third place. It’s a ber to set your clocks ahead tainly do not forget Be Happy reasonably accurate calendar, one hour. There’s St. Pat- Day on March 3. so most countries use it today, rick’s Day on March 17, and So look on the bright side. including the U.S.A. spring will arrive on March God is in his heaven, and If you were born this 20. If that isn’t enough to baseball spring training is month, you are in good com- brighten your day, the March well underway. It’s good to pany. You share the month calendar is filled with all sorts be alive!

Casimir Pulaski - father of the American cavalry By Jean Houvener he was given the rank of General and Commander of The first Monday in March colonel of the cavalry. He the Horse. The new unit was is celebrated in many places, was viewed as a capable known as Pulaski’s Cavalry including Chicago and the commander, but he tended Legion, and was headquar- State of Illinois as Casimir to follow his own decisions tered in Baltimore. Often us- Pulaski Day. It is not certain rather than orders from his ing his own money, Pulaski whether Casimir Pulaski was superiors; sometimes this complained that the Con- born on March 4 or March 6 was successful, but other gress was slow to authorize of 1745. He was born into a times he alienated his superi- and pay for troops and noble family, the second son ors and suffered a defeat. By equipment, a complaint of Jozef Pulaski and 1772, he was viewed with Washington also made. Marianna Zelinski, in War- caution by the Bar Confed- The unit saw action at Little saw, Poland. eration. He was sentenced to Egg Harbor, where it suf- While he was well edu- death by the Poniatowski fered many casualties, and in cated as a boy, he began his courts in 1773. the Sullivan Expedition military career in 1762 as a He fled first to Turkey to against the Iroquois. He was page to Carl Christian Jo- fight on the side of the Otto- dissatisfied with these as- seph, Duke of Courland and man Turks during the Russo- signments and requested to third son of King Augustus III Turkish War, and then to be sent to the South. He ar- of Poland. This was a time of Paris, where he tried to join rived in Charleston. S.C., increasing influence in mili- the French army. In 1777 he when Gen. Benjamin Lincoln tary action by Russia. In met Ben Franklin and the was leading the bulk of his 1767 Pulaski and his father Marquis de Lafayette who forces toward Savannah, were actively involved in the recruited him to join the Ga., in order to retake it from Bar Confederation, an asso- American War of Independ- the British. British forces at- ciation of Polish noblemen ence. tacked Charleston, but sub- who were trying to reduce Having impressed Gen. sequently retreated, partly in Russian control over their George Washington, who response to actions taken land, the Polish-Lithuanian recommended to Congress there by Pulaski and others. Commonwealth. They that he be appointed to the By this time the British had viewed then King Stanislaw II army as an officer, his first decided to concentrate on Augustus Poniatowski, who action was at the Battle of holding the more profitable had succeeded Augustus III Brandywine, Sept. 11, 1777. South against the rebels and through machinations of At this battle, as the colonial leaving the recalcitrant rebel Russia, as a Russian puppet. army began to break and merchants of the North The young Casimir fought retreat, Washington ordered alone. in a number of battles Pulaski to round up as many Lincoln launched a siege against the Russian military, of the troops as he could to against Savannah, which many successful and others protect the retreat. He did (Continued on page 10) resulting in losses. By 1769, this and probably saved Washington from capture or death. The Humor He spent the winter of 1777-78 focused on forming (Continued from page 8) a proper cavalry, primarily by friends on entering the based in Trenton. Until that house, “God save all here,” time, most cavalry had been gave life to the Ireland of my used for reconnaissance. imagination. Gen. Anthony Wayne re- One warm and particularly quested his assistance at beautiful day I walked up the Burlington, N.J., where high hill on the side of the Wayne’s forces were forag- house to bathe in a brook at ing. When Pulaski’s 50 men the top, just as my father had arrived, the British Lt. Col. done as a boy. Thomas Stirling thought he I could see farms miles was facing a much larger across, some with thatched force, and retreated back to roofs; blue skies; the green- Pennsylvania. est-of-green fields; and low- Pulaski went to Yorktown, hanging white cumulus Va., where he convinced clouds. Gen. Horatio Gates to let him I experienced a sense of form a new unit of dragoons, profound peace and a feeling light infantry, and lancers. that I was, in spirit, at home Gates also requested Con- with all those good people gress appoint him Brigadier who came before me.

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Humorists are artists

By Bob Huber I am not one of those who a lawyer. You might want to note on in expressing opinions con- Be thankful we’re not get- your calendar that March is fine themselves to fact. ting all the government we’re Humorists are Artists Month, paying for. the month in which we ac- Will Rogers (1879 – 1935) Even if you’re on the right knowledge the distinction came into national promi- track, you’ll get run over if between comedians and hu- nence through vaudeville as you just sit there. morists. a rope trick artist. He once Good judgment comes A comedian performs jokes noted that sometimes the from experience, and a lot of with the intent of soliciting an silence on stage could be that comes from bad judg- immediate response, hopefully deafening, so he began talk- ment. laughter; whereas, a humorist ing about anything that came I don’t make jokes. I just holds up a mirror so that we to his mind while performing watch the government and see things from a different per- his act. Soon, people were report the facts. spective, often revealing the coming to hear his commen- Everything is funny as long absurdities in life. tary more than to watch him as it happens to somebody America is home to two twirl ropes. Further exposure else. outstanding icons of humor: as a motion picture actor and Mark Twain (Samuel L. a popular figure on the lec- No doubt, some of today’s Clemens) and Will Rogers, ture circuit branded Will as stand-up comics consider the cowboy philosopher. Nei- America’s favorite homespun themselves humorists and ther one had much formal philosopher. perhaps some of them are, education, but their under- Tragically, Will Rogers was but so much contemporary standing of the world around killed in an airplane accident humor has a sharp edge de- them was phenomenal. in 1935, but his commentary signed for shock value rather remains evergreen: than perspective on the hu- Mark Twain (1835–1910) Do the best you can and man condition. It would do lived on the brink of poverty don’t take life too serious. well for those who hope to early in his life, so he began People’s minds are raise humor to an art form to working at a young age, tak- changed through observation study the work of the Ameri- ing on many different jobs to and not through argument. can masters: Mark Twain keep food on the table, even- Make crime pay. Become and Will Rogers. tually becoming a journalist and lecturer. Here are just a few of his observations: Why does my new computer not When you find that you are on the side of the majority, have a DVD drive? it’s time to reform. Be careful about reading By Steve Gray DVDs capable of 4.7 giga- health books. You may die of To answer that question bytes and Blue-ray of 200 a misprint. let’s look at some of the stor- gigabytes, you only see Go to Heaven for the cli- age media of the past. CDs for music because mate, Hell for the company. Remember the 5¼ floppy they are large enough to Honesty is the best policy, drives? The original ones hold an album and are when there’s money in it. held 360k and the high- cheap. All you need in life is igno- density ones held 1.0-2MB. As we can see, the rance and confidence; then The 3½ high-density flop- smaller media slowly disap- success is assured. pies held a massive pears. 1.44MB. Imagine trying to Today we have hard work with those today. drives in multiple terabytes CDs were a major step so even Blue-ray of 200 forward holding 650 MB – gigabytes may be insuffi- larger than most hard cient, especially as the drives at the time. Now, younger set (the pre- having been superseded by Rossmoor set) prefers to stream content rather than buy a bunch of discs. The Pulaski rise of smaller and thinner computers is putting an end (Continued from page 9) to CD and DVD drives be- included Pulaski command- cause they take up too ing a joint force of French much room, increase the and American cavalry. While overall size and thickness trying to rally his forces, in- of the laptop or tablet, and cluding his French troops increase the cost. Even who were leaving the battle, desktops may not have built he was shot and succumbed in DVD drives or may have two days later to his wounds the light cheap ones made on Oct. 11, 1779, only 34 for laptops, assuming these years old. It is not confirmed drives will get little use. whether he was buried at You can also buy a large sea from the ship Wasp, flash drive (16 gigabytes or which was transporting him more) for less than the cost to medical care, or on land of an external DVD drive and near Savannah. have the added bonus of a In honor of Pulaski, Oct. 11 very small, very portable is the federal General Pu- drive that can be used over laski Memorial Day. In 1825, and over again. In the past Lafayette himself laid the few years sales of movies on cornerstone of a monument DVDs has declined greatly in to Pulaski in Savannah. Fort part due to services like Net- Pulaski, built in 1833 on flix and Hulu but also be- Cockspur Island near Savan- cause you can buy movies in nah, was named for him. Nu- digital format from stores like merous streets and towns iTunes and Amazon. After bear his name. In our area, all, we have these multi- the Pulaski Skyway crosses terabyte drives that we must the Passaic and Hackensack fill up with something. Rivers from Newark to Jer- Another very large factor sey City and the Pulaski in becoming DVD-driveless Bridge connects Long Island is that Microsoft is dropping City, Queens, and Green- free support for DVD play- point, Brooklyn. back. Consumers will either In both Poland and the have to hope the manufac- United States, he is remem- turer will include cheap bered as a man who fought (Continued on page 12) for freedom.

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th ing worn by this offering to It’s Barbie’s Birthday on the 9 be shareable among all Bar- By Linda Bozowski rines were sold. bies. By 2016 Mattel had Who would have thought There was disagreement expanded the Barbie line to that one of America’s most between parents and the include multiple skin tones, favorite and iconic toys would manufacturer about the ap- eye colors, and hairstyles. be celebrating her 60th birth- propriateness of Barbie’s One of Mattell’s objectives day on March 9? The Barbie figure. Many critics claimed was to present Barbie and its doll has been sold by Mattel that her extremely thin figure versions as self-sufficient over a billion times since her would encourage children and capable women. Barbie “birth” in 1959 and, despite a and young women to un- was presented as an airline modest reduction in sales, is dereat in order to achieve stewardess, a pilot, an engi- still going strong throughout that same somewhat emaci- neer, a dentist, rap musician, the world. Barbie’s creator/ ated look. Others felt that her presidential candidate, and mother Ruth Handler, wife of willowy 5’9” (in doll measure- other roles. Mattel co-founder Elliot, urged ment scale) height and her Barbie did not live in isola- her husband and his firm to calculated weight of 110 tion. She had an extended develop this product since she pounds was acceptable, al- family that included a sister, saw how much their daughter, though in later iterations Bar- cousins, and assorted Barbara, enjoyed playing with bie’s waist measurement ex- friends. The best known of paper dolls. Barbara often por- panded from 18” to a more her friends was her long time Rossmoor will now send robocalls trayed her paper doll friends reasonable size. Nevertheless, on-and-off again boyfriend as adults, so Mrs. Handler felt Barbie remained an equivalent Ken. It appears that Barbie to advise in case of bad weather or that she might enjoy a three- size 4, certainly a smaller size might also have enjoyed a emergencies limited relationship with G.I. dimensional replica. than most real people. There The Rossmoor administration will send automated robo- Joe, but that story has not Barbie was a knock-off, was also criticism of the gener- calls to residents’ telephones whenever it is necessary to been well publicized by Star with some modifications, of ous size of her bustline and advise about predicted snow storms, severe weather magazine. Barbie never mar- the German doll, Bild Lilli. her hair, skin tones, and facial warnings, or other emergencies. ried, although certainly she Bild Lilli was first sold in Ger- features. If you are not home to answer, a message will be left in would have made a lovely many in 1955 to adults, be- In 1967 Mattel introduced your voice mail or on your answering machine. bridal presentation. Since cause her appearance was a “Colored Francie” figure as Please be sure to check your phone or answering ma- she was so independent, she considered somewhat pro- the first African American chine. All necessary information will be included in the owned a house, multiple vocative. Children soon be- doll. However, her facial fea- message so you will not need to call the office in return. gan playing with the doll as tures were molded from the cars, and a boat. She also well, because they could same devices as the original enjoyed her pets. Among dress her up in separate out- Caucasian Barbies. The new them were cats, dogs, a fits. The Mattel version, doll was unsuccessful in the panda, a lion cub, and a ze- named Barbie after the Han- marketplace, since it did not bra. MONROE TWP. dler’s daughter, made her represent the appearance of Despite her controversy FIRE DISTRICT #3 debut at the International Toy African Americans. Altera- over the years, Barbie is still Fair on March 9, 1959 in a tions of facial features, hair a favorite collectible with AT YOUR SERVICE, black and white striped color and texture, and new over 100,000 avid followers. ANYTIME. swimsuit. Originally available names made the doll more If she decides to move into as a blond or brunette, she acceptable. The body shape our neighborhood, please www.mtfd3.com was marketed as a fashion was slightly different, but the treat her nicely. She doesn’t 609–409–2980 model. In her debut year, proportions permitted cloth- take her star status to heart. about 350,000 Barbie figu- And don’t forget her birthday

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A local Irish poet By Anne Rotholz As we were growing up in Ireland, our mother would frequently treat us by reciting a poem from her large and varied collection. I never asked how she came to know all these poems. I just assumed that she learned them from her mother. I was well aware of the fact that she was an avid reader. There was not a lot of reading material in rural Ireland at that time but I new that she would read anything she could get her hands on. She had a special affinity for our local poet, William butler Yeats. ture, Celtic traditions, and day. In 1923, he received Yeats grew up in County Irish language and literature. The Nobel Prize for Litera- Sligo about 30 miles from my He began writing plays ture. hometown in Mayo. He had around this time and became The poet was involved in been born in Dublin on June closely associated with the the founding of The Irish 13, 1865 of Protestant par- famous Irish playwrights in- Free State and he served as ents. His father was a fa- cluding Lady Gregory and a senator for two terms. mous Dublin artist. His Edward Martyn. Together Yeats died in France on mother came from a wealthy with them he founded the Jan. 28, 1939. He was buried Sligo merchant family named Irish Theatrical Society, in France but later, as he had Butler. After William was which later became The Ab- requested, his remains were born, the family moved back bey Theater. taken back to his beloved to Sligo. Yeats was considered one Sligo. He is buried in the of the greatest poets of the churchyard in Drumcliff, Yeats became obsessed th with the beauty and simplicity 20 century and a major liter- which lies just miles Away of rural Ireland and with its ary figure in the world of his from Inishfree. folklore and mythology. Much of his early poetry came from this period. Five ways drinking wine benefits He would have seen Inish- free, a small island in the your health middle of Lough Gill on a By Erin Medlicott blood clots that could lead to daily basis. Years later when We’ve all heard that a a stroke. Red wine, in par- he was in London, he wrote glass of wine here and there ticular, contains phenols one of his most beautiful and is good for you, but how ex- called resveratrol that have well-known poems, “The actly does it contribute to wide-reaching heart healthy Lake Isle of Inishfree.” getting healthy? New studies properties. He understood the feelings appear to be constantly of the ordinary people of Ire- 2. Drinking wine lowers backing up the health bene- cholesterol. land. He was sensitive to fits of wine. From living their history as we can see Red wine beats white wine longer to attacking cancer in the war on cholesterol, from his famine poem, “A cells, a little wine each day Ballad of Father Gilligan.” because its antioxidants are goes a long way when it beneficial in lowering the “The Stolen Child” shows his comes to health benefits. understanding of a people LDL, or the “bad” cholesterol, Types of red wine are cab- while simultaneously increas- who had not yet fully come to ernet sauvignon, merlot, pi- grips with pre-Christian Celtic ing HDL, or the “good” cho- not noir, malbec, syrah, zin- lesterol. Drinking red wine mythology. fandel, barbera. Examples of Yeats studied in Dublin may raise levels of good white wine are chardonnay, HDL by as much as 15%, and in London. At age 15, he chablis, sauvignon blanc, began to write poetry. At age research from Harvard Medi- semillion, moscato, pinot cal Center shows. 24, he had his first book of grigio, riesling. poems published. He wrote The Harvard study of age If you are wondering how 55+ women with high choles- hundreds of poems as well much wine you should drink, as plays and other literary terol found that 5 ounces per doctors recommend one day of red wine, for a testing pieces. glass per day. The average In the late 1890s in Dublin, period of six weeks, reduced amount in a glass of wine is LDL (“bad”) cholesterol con- he spearheaded The Irish considered to be five ounces, Literary Movement. Also centrations by 8% and infor either white or red wine. creased HDL (“good”) cho- known as the Celtic Twilight, Most wine drinkers agree this was a revival of Irish cul- lesterol concentrations by 17 white wines should be percent. served chilled; red wines should be served at room 3. Drinking wine reduces DVD drive temperature. the risk of cancer. Here are some of the ways In the battle against can- (Continued from page 10) drinking wine will improve cer, wine is on our side. The software, buy media center your health: risk of contracting devastat- software, or look for free ing diseases like colon can- playback software that is 1. Drinking wine reduces cer, prostate cancer and trustworthy. (Hint – the risk of heart disease. breast cancer can be re- download and use VLC Me- According to WebMd, a duced by drinking a glass of dia Player from study by researchers at Har- wine. How? The antioxidants www.videolan.org/VLC.) vard Medical School tested contained in both red and If you think this affects only the effects of red wine, to white wines combat free radi- Windows computers – guess see if it affected the health of cals, which are molecules in again. Apple does not sup- human blood vessels. What our bodies that allow cancer port the playback technology they found in their patients, to thrive. in Mac OS X and newer op- after three weeks of drinking Another Harvard Medical erating systems. a glass of red wine a day, School study showed men In conclusion, DVD drives was that blood flow in their age 62 and older, who drank will not disappear entirely in blood vessels had improved. an average of four to seven the near future but we will be Red wine also improved glasses of wine per week, seeing less and less of them. blood pressure. And in the were only half as likely to be External DVD drives will be lab, tests showed that red diagnosed with prostate can- around a bit longer but even wine can help prevent blood cer as those who did not those will eventually disap- clots. drink wine. In addition, the pear as newer and faster How does this work? Red study said red wine, much peripherals capable of han- wine acts as a natural blood (Continued on page 13) dling greater amounts of data thinner, breaking up any

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seemed to hit me hard. I ered his bed sothat he was The vet says Sam may Sam has what? knew he would not live too on his back; then the aide left have up to a year or even 18 without raising the bed back months. I doubt it, but one By Dierdre Thomson sure he is still alive. We much longer, but it seemed to a sitting position. My thing I do know, Sam will not I walk into my daughter’s know that eventually Sam as though I was reacting cousin aspirated and was be alone. He will continue to house. There he is, stretched will no longer be with us, but rather strongly. Then it hit drowning on the ingested love and trust his family to out on the hallway floor so I still it was a shock when my me. I lost a cousin a few food. As a result, he died take care of him, and all he have to carefully step over or daughter told me recently years ago to ALS. He had without anyone being there will continue to ask for is a around him. He is black with what the vet had shared with the type of ALS that moved with him – totally helpless. little attention and an ear rub. beautiful shiny fur. His eyes her and my son-in-law. Sam fairly quickly. He was trapped are closed; he doesn’t move, has the dog version of ALS, in his body, unable to move even when I talk to him. As amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. or speak. In fact, he had to soon as I bend down and rub The dog disease name if de- be kept raised in a sitting an ear, he immediately re- generative myelopathy (DM). position for quite some time acts and stands as quickly as The same mutation responsi- after being fed so that the he can. He starts to get up ble for dogs having DM is food would, through gravity, but his feet slip on the bare also what causes ALS in hu- work its way down to where it floor. Finally, after several mans. could be digested. Unfortu- false starts, he stands and Learning that Sam had DM nately, one day an aide low- leans against me, with his tail waging so fast it could easily be termed a lethal weapon. Musings and Memories His name is Sam and he By Betty Emmons has lived with my daughter’s family for 15 years. Sam is a By Betty Emmons on these things you will wonderful, loyal black Lab. Old Age - Hooray or Bah! surely end up an old fool He does have selective hear- What a challenge it is to missing the beauty of age, ing which has increased over get old. Mentally I feel young, wrinkles and all. the years, but he is still a so right there you know I Each day is a gift, and if loving pet. All he asks for is a have a problem. I still dream we are thankful, the wisdom little attention now and then, dreams as if I were 50 years of the past will allow us the and when he receives it, he younger. Dreams that will joys that now await us. Why acts like he is in heaven. never be. But they make me waste time remembering all Sam has been having health happy. To replace them with that used to be, like the good problems over the past few age-restricted thoughts old days that were probably years. He seems to be pri- would be a real mistake. not quite as wonderful as we marily molting. The vacuum People, in general now remember them. It is time to cleaner is busy cleaning up look at me as a forecast of pay attention to all that is at tufts of fur every day. When what is to come. Young peo- hand. If you are in a rocking Sam sneezes, he loses his ple treat me with care and chair, rock harder and if you balance and constantly respect, which is nice but are still ambulatory, do an slams his head on the floor. annoying because I want to old soft shoe when no one is He has growths around the run up the stairs like they do, looking. Make your own shoulder and mid-back ar- but know I can’t. I miss flirt- agenda. Enjoy people, smell eas, but he area by his hind ing and being flirted with. I flowers, and especially enjoy legs is so narrow now, it al- still like to look though and I the young folks because most looks skeletal. understand why it is a thing when you were their age, Many times when I visit, I of the past for most of us. you were probably too busy look carefully because Sam Wrinkles will never replace getting the most out of being does not seem to be breath- muscular men or cute and (young) and now you can ing. I have to touch him to be pretty girls, but if you dwell enjoy watching them grow. Let them help you and you will find the exuberance of Drinking wine of all Americans over 50 will youth and the complacency have weak bones by the of age blend and make your year 2025. heart sing. Being old can be (Continued from page 12) what we make of it. 5. Drinking wine reduces more than white wine, was All through life we have the risk of type 2 diabetes. “particularly protective had to make choices and A new study published in against advanced or aggres- now we must choose to be the Annals of Internal Medi- sive cancers.” happy, miserable, or some- cine shows a two-year long 4. Drinking wine helps to where in between. As for me, study of adults age 50+ with increase bone density. I want to be happy. It won’t diabetes improved their When we are over the age always be easy, but in the health by drinking a of 60, our bones get more long run, I hope someday to “moderate amount” of wine. brittle. Most of us know this be known as that nice old To test the influence of wine can be helped by taking cal- lady who makes others on people with diabetes, re- cium supplements. But did happy, speaks kindly, and searchers recruited 225 peo- you know that red wine has has a smile on her face for ple who already had elevated high levels of silicon, which is everyone. I don’t know if I blood sugar who agreed to great for keeping your bone can pull it off, but I’m sure follow a Mediterranean style density healthy? And that going to try. diet for two years. But here is reduces the chance of osteo- the interesting part. Every- porosis. one in the study was eating According to a study re- the same mix of foods, but cently published by the when it came to what to European Journal of Clinical drink, some began drinking Nutrition, red wine contrib- one glass of red wine per utes to stronger bone health day, some began drinking in older men, not just one glass of white wine per women. The researchers day and others drank mineral found links between im- water. proved bone mineral density What happened when the (BMD) and red wine con- study ended and the results sumption in men aged 50 to were published? The re- 80. searchers said, “having a Bone mineral density re- glass of wine with dinner can fers to the concentration of improve the cardiovascular minerals, like calcium, in health of people with Type 2 bones and is a measure of diabetes.” They also found bone strength. As BMD that compared to those par- goes down, the risk for de- ticipants who drank mineral veloping osteoporosis goes water with their dinner, all the up. According to the Sur- wine drinkers, both white and geon General’s last major red wine drinkers, benefitted study on bone health, 44 from lower blood sugar. million Americans over the So pour yourself a glass age of 50 currently suffer of wine today, and toast to from osteoporosis and half your good health.

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Who else is secretly concerned about her financial future?

By Diane England Lynch conducted in 2017 Supposedly, 61 percent of along with the business, Age women would rather talk Wave. Another interesting about their own death than thing they learned at that about money. When you time? The typical retirement consider, though, that about today costs between 42 percent of women fear $738,000 to $828,000; how- they’ll run out of money by ever, only nine percent of age 80, and the woman who women have even $300,000 just turned 55 can expect to in savings. When you con- live to 85.7 years of age, a sider this, as well as the fact 65-year-old to 86.7, a 75- that the average annual so- year-old to 88.6, and the 85- cial security payment is year-old to 92.3, wouldn’t $17,000, and many people you say such a conversation today do not have pensions seems necessary? Fortu- to rely upon as perhaps their nately, you’ll have such an parents did, many baby opportunity on March 21 at boomer women in particular 1:30 p.m. in the Ballroom (those born between 1946 when the Women’s Guild and 1964) should indeed welcomes Larry Cagliostro have money fears. and Fred Peters of the That all said, even if you Cagliostro/Peters Group as are living your retirement our speakers. This financial years alone without finan- advising team with Merrill cial concerns, you might Lynch will present “Women nonetheless have questions and Investing.” about how to best spend The statistic in this article’s your funds in retirement. first sentence actually comes After all, your relationship from a report that Merrill with money is likely linked to your personal values. And frankly, aren’t fulfilling some yet unmet goals as well as helping family or other loved ones at the top of your priorities list? If so, Larry and Fred should be able to answer questions you have in this area—if they didn’t already discuss them in their presentation, that is. So, are you wondering who Larry and Fred are? They’re the individuals to whom the Community Church entrusted their as- sets in 2017. Fred Peters also worked closely this past year with the finance committee, and he will continue to do so in 2019. We have found him to be extremely helpful as we change course from thinking and acting as the large church we once were to the small church we’ve become. But let’s get back to you. If you have concerns about your financial future, you’re certainly not alone. Perhaps some of your worries, however, will be alleviated by hearing this talk. After all, you can expect to learn some steps you can take to improve the outlook of your financial future. Of course, no matter what, there will be time for refreshments and fellowship after- wards. So please, put this date on your calendar now. You might discover talking about money is actually a good thing, don’t you imagine? WARNING Attention, Runners, Bike Riders and Pedestrians Be sure to wear reflective gear when out in the community at night.

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CULINARY CORNER By Sidna Mitchell

food trucks and buy some We went back to the cro- Try this creamy fresh vegetables and then go quet court and nearby little soup on a cool day back for more croquet. The cafe overlooking the gulf and By Sidna B. Mitchell guys didn’t like the food truck the golf course. The featured While in Venice, Fla., Ken idea but they did purchase soup was leek and potato and I often drive about 45 min- some fruit. that was so delicious. I’m utes south to Gasparilla Island I couldn’t resist the roasted used to making vichyssoise (Boca Grande). Recently we nuts and healthy vegetables (cold leek and potato soup) took two of our male croquet like cauliflower, leeks and for warm summer days but friends; Carl Kruse from Ross- snow peas. Although I decided to attempt a hot moor was one. bought the white cauliflower, soup for a chilly Florida My plan was to play a I was tempted to get the yel- day—59 degrees and sunny. game of six-wicket croquet, low and purple cauliflower Here’s my recipe for an head over to the farmers but there was not enough easy and hearty winter soup. market for lunch at one of the room in the refrigerator. Letter to the Editor Culinary Leek and Potato Soup Red hot transformer corner I called JCP&L to say the 2 cups diced potatoes 4 tablespoons of butter, transformer on my lawn, just 2 cups sliced leeks, only melted 15 feet from the house, has white part 4 cups of chicken broth been leaking oil for months. half and half salt and pepper to taste Recently the leakage increased. On Tuesday, Jan. Peel the potatoes and cut them into small pieces. Cook 29, two trucks with cranes on them in enough boiling, salted water to cover until tender. top pulled up and replaced Meantime, wash the leeks thoroughly, being sure to that transformer. remove all grit. Split and thinly slice them before sautéing Their spokesman said it in melted butter. was “just plain old.” He When the leeks are limp, add four cups of chicken broth thanked me for calling in the and simmer gently until the leeks are thoroughly tender. problem because, as he Drain the potatoes and put them and the leek mixture in said, “it might have been a blender. Quickly pulse to break down any large chunks ready to blow up.” Situated of potatoes and leeks but do not puree. only 10 feet from the carport, Season with salt and pepper to taste. that explosion would have Add enough half and half for a creamier soup. Return b e e n a m o m e n t o u s mixture to pot to thoroughly heat the soup before serving. neighborhood event. NOTE: If you can’t find or don’t have leeks, just substi- Next day another truck tute a mild onion, which is what I sometimes do. While this arrived and two men dug up is a wonderful soup for cool days, in the summer it can the oil-saturated soil; re- become vichyssoise if you puree it until smooth, refriger- placed it with clean soil. I ate until ready to serve and garnish with chopped chives. was impressed. I can be reached via e-mail at [email protected]. Therefore, if you have a transformer near your home, look at it from time to time. For anything unusual, call JCP&L at 1-888-544-4877. Korean American group You will undoubtedly find that they appreciate your call. (Continued from page 1) which was Feb. 5 in 2019, so Carol De Haan Rossmoor. They have had one theme of the gathering many different occupations, was the New Year. It also doctor, architect, pastor, and had elements for Valentine’s teacher, among others. Day. Other than husbands and When everyone had ar- wives, they did not know rived, the group sang their each other prior to moving group song and one of the here, but have become a members said a prayer for strong supportive group to the group. Then it was time celebrate together their Ko- for the dinner. The main rean heritage, language, and meal was brought by Sin-U food. from a caterer in Edison, The January meeting be- Sooratsang (King’s Dinner), gan early with the arrivals of and it was a feast fit for a members, some bringing king. food and others bringing sup- While conversations qui- plies for the refreshments eted during the enjoyment of and activities. Soonja, who the meal, conversation con- owned a flower shop and tinued throughout and picked who has taught flower ar- up as everyone moved on to ranging, brought beautiful dessert. The meeting ended small flower arrangements with a rousing game of Youtt that she had made to deco- (pictured). rate the tables. There were The group has formed to also sheets with puzzles enjoy each other’s company (some in Korean), games, and celebrate their Korean and songs (also in Korean). culture. They enjoy the As the members gathered, chance to relax, eat, social- the puzzles and games kept ize, have fun, and speak in everyone busy and conver- their native language. With sations flowed around the that in mind, if you are inter- table. Like the Chinese and ested in this group, please the Japanese, Koreans cele- contact Soonja Nam through brate the Lunar New Year, E&R.

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Clubs and Organizations Chorus elects officers, seeks new accompanist

By Alyce Owens however, stay in close touch group has been accompa- For 10 years, the members with the happenings of the nied by the talented, Kevin of The Chorus have been Rossmoor Chorus because Gunia, a piano/composition fortunate to have Eileen their daughter, Janet Wilson, major at Mason Gross Parker as their president. It is now the director of the School of the Arts, Rutgers was with heavy hearts that Chorus. University. With Kevin gradu- they learned back in Decem- The following people have ating in June, the Chorus will ber that Eileen and husband been named as Chorus offi- be looking for a new accom- Al, also a member of the cers for the 2019 season: panist. If you, or someone Chorus, would be moving to Alyce Owens, president; you know, might be inter- Monroe Village. The Parkers, Peggy Mankey, vice presi- ested in filling that position, known and loved by so many dent; Jim Wilson, treasurer; please contact Alyce Owens in Rossmoor, are now hap- Meryll Hansen, secretary; at 609-860-0866. pily settled in their new Joyce Cassidy, librarian; and The Chorus rehearses home, and, needless to say, Paula Saucier, assistant li- every Wednesday (except both have joined the Monroe brarian. during July and August) at 4 Village chorus. They will, For the past four years, the p.m. in the Meeting House; they sing at the Community Church on the third Sunday Dance Club to welcome DJ Erich of every month at 11 a.m. By Judy Perkus member/$10 per non- Recently the Chorus has be- On Saturday, March 30 at member check made out to come a musical ambassador 7 p.m., the Dance Club will the Rossmoor Dance Club to outside the Rossmoor com- wear green as they and Armen DeVivo at 409B Rox- munity by singing at Merwick their friends welcome DJ bury Lane by March 21. Care & Rehabilitation Center Erich. Singles, as well as If you haven’t yet renewed in Plainsboro, The Elms in couples, are always wel- your membership, please Cranbury and Monroe Village come. The Clubhouse Ball- send your 2019 Dance Club where they were delighted to room will be decorated for dues of $15 per couple, see Al and Eileen, as well as Saint Patrick’s Day. Des- $7.50 per person to Armen. another former Chorus mem- serts (sugar-free available), New members are always ber, Theo Sweeney, in the snacks, coffee, tea, and soda welcome. audience. will be served. Call Armen at 609-655- The chorus of 30 is always Send your $8 per paid-up 2175 for more information. looking for new members who love to sing. The ability to read music is helpful, but ROSSMOOR DANCE CLUB not essential, since Director March 30 Dance Janet often gives workshops in RESERVATION DEADLINE: March 21st her home to assist “non- Name: ______readers” in learning the music. If you are interested, why not Phone: ______come and just sit in on a 4 p.m. rehearsal any Wednes- Address: ______day at the Meeting House. PAID-UP Member(s): @$8 = $______

Non-member(s): @$10 = $______Emerald Society’s winter/spring 2019 ANNUAL DUES: $7.50 PER PERSON, $15 PER COUPLE activities Membership Dues: $______By Joan Avery The February meeting of TOTAL: $______the Emerald Society had the popular Duo Oops entertain- Please send check made out to ing the members. President the Rossmoor Dance Club to: Dan Jolly also arranged for a Armen DeVivo at 449B Roxbury Lane. 609-655-2175 visit from a representative or leave in an envelope in the Dance Club folder from the Fire Department, in the E & R Office who gave a presentation on safety at the March meeting. Gary Morton will entertain the members in April. Dan also arranged a trip to Doolan’s on March 11 for the Irish Fest, which includes a dinner and a show with Mike Byrne entertaining. March is a busy month and the March 14 Catholic Society Mass is always hosted by the Emer- ald Society. Please plan to attend. This year those who wanted to go to the Sights and Sounds Christmas Show with dinner at Good and Plenty in Lancaster, Pa., on Dec.10 signed up at the Feb- ruary meeting. The cost is $115 for the bus, dinner and the show and must be paid for at the March meeting. Very festive! Dan is looking into going to the Huntington Hills Theater in June. Dan announced that the Emerald Society donated $150 to the American Cancer Society and $150 to the Smile Train. See you at the March 27 meeting.

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mobile phones (over tradi- concerns. Of course, I doubt Computer Club tional telephone networks) that most of us are overly By Steve Gray are charged via a debit- concerned about resource or To Skype or not to Skype – based user account system bandwidth usage, so come to that is the question. Come to called Skype Credit. Some the meeting and learn how to our next Computer Club network administrators properly make use of a free meeting on March 18 at 10 have banned Skype on cor- program that can enhance a.m. and hear our own porate, government, home, our telephone calls. George Wilson’s take on how and education networks, Please note that this ses- to Skype, why to Skype and citing such reasons as inap- sion was rescheduled from hints on how to Skype best. propriate usage of re- January due to unforeseen For those who do not know, sources, excessive band- circumstances. See you at Skype was first released in width usage and security the meeting. 2003, acquired by Ebay in 2003, 65% then acquired by the Canadian Board of In- vestments in 2009 and Looking for a few good people bought out by Microsoft in The Computer Club needs a few people willing to com- May 2011. mit two hours per week to act as a monitor in our lab. No Skype allows users to experience necessary because we do give you training, if communicate over the Inter- needed. net by voice, using a micro- Are you willing to meet new people and help your phone, by video using a neighbors? Are you able to share your skills and learn webcam, and by instant new ones? Do you want to be part of the best computer messaging. Skype-to-Skype club in all the senior villages? calls to other users are free All it takes is a little commitment. Come to our next of charge, while calls to general meeting on March18 at 9:30 a.m. and talk to us. landline telephones and

Indian American Club presents meditation classes By Govinda Rajan pants experience simple but founder and president of Ev- The Indian American Club effective meditation tech- erest Consulting, LLC, has is pleased to offer classes in niques that can reduce written books “Art of Life” meditation to the residents of stress, calm your mind, and and “Mastering Life.” She Rossmoor. The first set of improve your quality of life. has many other areas of in- sessions was offered in The sessions in January terest, including awareness January and presented by taught meditation for stress and prevention of domestic resident Ritu Chopra. The and relaxation, for healing, violence. February and March classes and for awareness and mind- The Heartfulness Institute are being taught by the local fulness. offers its instructors free of members of the Heartfulness Ritu Chopra has practiced charge to teach people how Institute. (See meditation for many years to meditate in order to get in www.heartfulness.org web- and enjoys teaching others touch with their own center site for more information on the techniques of meditation, for peace and balance, and them). particularly using sound with to share that with others in Registration for the upcom- crystal bowls. She also is community. ing classes will be each Sun- day in March in the Gallery at 10:15 a.m.; class begins at 10:30 and lasts until 11:30. Italian American Club To sign up and for questions, By Tony Cardello Doolans in Spring Lake on email rossmoorin- March will bring three so- March 20 for their annual St. [email protected] or leave cial events to the club. Our Joseph Festival. We will be your information in the Indian annual Carnevale festival will going by car because this will American Club folder at the take place on March 5 from 6 not be a club social. The cost E&R office. to 10 p.m. at a cost of $30 will be $52.50 per person The February and March per person. It will be catered payable at the door by cash sessions will help partici- by City Streets, and enter- or check Daylight Saving tainment will be provided by Our next regular member- Singer and DJ Frank Renz. ship meeting will be March Republican Club The second and third 20 at 7 p.m. in the Ballroom. Time Begins on opens 2019 events will take place on the Bingo will be played on same day. For those inter- Thursday evening, March 14 By John N. Craven March 10 The Republican Club ested, we will be going to at 6:30 p.m. in the Ballroom. opened 2019 with a membership meeting on Feb. 12 in the Gallery. President Ron Haas welcomed the returning members and up- dated the group on local activities that had taken place during the off-season. The 2019 Club officers are Ron Haas, president; Sandy Salmieri, treasurer; and John Craven, secretary. The schedule of Club events for 2019 will be announced in the next edition of The Rossmoor News, including meeting dates, activities and a list of potential speakers. The Club will endeavor to invite local, state and federal candidates, or their representatives running for office to speak at future meetings, to attempt to create a dialogue between our community and the people who represent us at various levels. You are cordially invited to become a member (Continued on page 18)

18 MARCH 2019 The Rossmoor NEWS Players Pastimes Religious Organizations By Sue Archambault In lieu of the usual monthly Leading a more abundant life is theme of compelling film meeting, The Players’ ever- afternoon. Refreshments will popular Open Mic program be served. The Players will present By Gene Horan man Fulfillment, Culture, The this is substantial and should will take place on Sunday, “I have come that they may Human Predicament, The be broadly distributed.” March 17. The program will “Just Music,” our first musical have life, and have it more Path to a Humanly Fulfilling Though O’Neill has a run from 2 to 4 p.m. in the program, on Thursday, April 25 and Friday, April 26. Both abundantly.” John 10:10 Life, Personal Vocation, Con- Catholic perspective on the Gallery. Joe Conti will be our Writer-producer David temporary Issues of Human issues discussed in his film, emcee extraordinaire, as performances will be per- O’Neill will be on hand to Goods, and Moral Norms their relevance is of interest always. All are welcome to formed at 7 p.m. in the Meet- present and discuss his (norms seen as guides to a to a far wider audience than attend this very entertaining ing House. Further information about ticket purchases work, “Human Fulfillment,” a humanly-fulfilling life and not his co-religionists. Come and will be in next month’s Ross- reflection on what he and his see what you think. moor News. Auditions for associates learned from 15 The free showing, part of Republican Club “Just Music” will take place years of door-to-door evan- “I found this film the Catholic Society “Films opens 2019 on Monday, April 1, from 2 to gelization on Staten Island extremely impressive.” that Lift the Spirit” series, 4 p.m. and Tuesday, April 2, and Brooklyn. Russell Shaw will be on Friday, March 29, (Continued from page 17) from 7 to 9 p.m. Both audition They discovered that there Noted author and journalist at 1:30 p.m. in the Ballroom. of the Republican Club to dates will occur in the Meeting is a contemporary cultural Light refreshments will be discuss issues, share your Co-author of House. Please be prepared crisis of knowledge and “Fulfillment in Christ” available. All are most wel- views and make a positive with either a CD accompani- value in the religious and come. contribution to the political with theologian ment or sheet music for your spiritual lives of emerging Germain Grisez Please note that the pro- process. Join us at the next number if you want a piano adults and that the crisis iso- gram will be held in the Ball- meeting on June 9. accompaniment. lates humans from each room, not the usual Gallery other and from God. as “rules.”) location. Influenced by leading theo- If the reader thinks that this Rossmoor Community Church logians and scholars, they film is a dry, dull expose, he/ By Linda Klink concluded that moral relativ- she will be quickly disabused Mass in honor of  March 3 Communion Service at 11 a.m. ism is at the very core of the of that notion. The graphics St. Patrick to be  March 6 Ash Wednesday Service at 12:30 p.m. crisis. Formidable arguments are extremely well done,  March10 Church Service at 11 a.m. were presented in defense of sometimes even mind- celebrated  March 11 Deacons Meeting at 10 a.m. the human goods of mar- boggling. By Gene Horan  March 12 Finance Committee Meeting at 10 a.m. riage, family, and life, which Rev. John Chandler, long The annual Mass honor-  March 13 Worship Committee Meeting at 9:30 a.m. can be under attack in the involved in Catholic campus ing St. Patrick is being  March 14 Women’s Guild Board Meeting at 10 a.m. courts and legislative halls. ministry, commented, “The hosted by the Emerald So-  March 17 Church Service at 11 a.m. The film is an introduction video is excellent…most of ciety and will commemorate  March 18 Council Meeting at 10 a.m. to a proposed six-part pro- the material presented to deceased members. It is  March 21 Women’s Guild Meeting at 1:30 p.m. gram for evangelization: Hu- college students is pablum; set for Thursday, March 14, Larry Cagliostro & Fred Peters at 7 p.m. Father Lance Women and Investing McGrath will be the cele-  March 26 Library Committee Meeting at 1:30 p.m. brant.  March 31 Church Service at 11 a.m. As in past years, the Mass will be followed by Irish re- All meetings and services are in the Meeting House freshments and hospitality. with the exception of the Women’s Guild Meeting on In keeping with a popular March 21, which is in the Ballroom. Lenten tradition, starting on We are an ecumenical church where all are welcome Friday, March 8, and continu- to join and worship. ing on each of the Fridays during Lent, including Good Friday, the Rosary will be recited at 10 a.m. in the Dog- wood Room of the Club- house. All are welcome to attend. Other Catholic Society activities for March include  The Catholic Society Council meeting at 1:30 p.m. on Tuesday, March 12, in the Meeting House Parlor.  The Prayer Shawl ministry at 1:30 p.m. on Thursday, March 14, and Thursday, March 28, in the Clubhouse Craft Room.  The Chaplet of Divine Mercy on Tuesday, March 19, at 3 p.m. in the Clubhouse Dogwood Room.  St. James the Less Church is sponsoring a pilgrimage to historic Philadelphia to visit the Cathedral and Shrine of St. John Neu- mann, and other historic shrines, on Tuesday, April 2, at $40 per person. Call 732-521-0100. Lunch on your own at Reading Ter- minal Market.

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Jewish Congregation’s March events Recycle information from By Adrienne Brotman generation, or they have a and the Lay Reader will be Waste Management During the month of Purim party, which the Jew- Jeffrey Albom. The Oneg will No caps on glass bottles/containers in the recycle bin. March, the holiday of Purim ish Congregation will have be sponsored by the Tuils. On  No lids on plastic bottles. is celebrated by reading the on Sunday, March 24. It is March 22, the Torah Reader  Only #1, #2, and #5 plastic is acceptable in the recycle Megillah, also known as The also customary to dress up in will be Jeffrey Albom and the bin. Book of Esther. Around the costume, give gifts, and give Lay Reader will be Janet  Plastics numbered #3, #4, and #7, etc. must go in the year 357 B.C., in Persia, to charity. Goodstein. The Oneg will be household trash bin. which is now Iran, a wicked The Purim party will be in sponsored by the congrega- man named Haman wanted the Ballroom at 1 p.m. Pizza, tion.  Other plastic items as well as plastic bags, plastic wrap, shipping film, and Styrofoam go in the household trash to annihilate the Jewish salad, and Hamantaschen The congregation is plan- population. Little did he know will be served. You can even ning two game days, one on bin. Please, no plastic bags in the recycling bin. You can the Queen was a Jew. When make your own ice cream May 23, and a second one in use a plastic bag to dump your recyclables, but take the the King Ahasuerus learned sundae. We encourage eve- August. Details will be forth- plastic bag away with you. (Recycle it at the supermar- what Haman wanted to do to ryone to come dressed in coming. No doubt it will be ket.) his wife and her people, he costume. lots of fun. All Rossmoorites  Shredded paper cannot be recycled by Waste hung Haman and all his Sabbath Services will be on are welcome to join the good Management with their current equipment so put it in the sons. Along with hearing the Friday, March 8 and March 22, time. household trash bin. Megillah, many celebrated in the Meeting House at 7:15 New members are always  Aerosol cans must be empty and punctured before being Purim by having a carnival, p.m. On March 8, the Torah welcome. Contact Karen Sei- put into the recycle bin. especially for the younger Reader will be Norman Perkus den for information.

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9-Hole Golf new ROSSMOOR WOMEN’S 9-HOLE GOLF season By Mary Shine ASSOCIATION Spring is almost here – 2019 MEMBERSHIP RENEWAL and so is golf season. Yea! Hope all members will be Enclosed is my check in the amount of $60 to renew my membership for the 2019 golf season. returning and that we can also add new members this Name: ______year. Our first executive board Address: ______meeting will be held on Tues- Phone: ______day, March 6, in the Cedar Room at 11 a.m. On Tues- Email Address: ______day, April 2, we will hold our first membership meeting of Do you have a golf cart? Yes___ No___ the year in the Cedar Room Make checks payable to Women’s 9-Hole Golf Association. at 11 a.m. President Joyce Send to Mary Shine, 706A Old Nassau Road or drop in the Cassidy requests that all 9-holer slot of the box in the pro shop. members attend this very important meeting. Our first day of play will be aged. Details of membership Association, please contact Tuesday, April 9. Our open- in the golf club can be ob- Membership Chair Mary ing day luncheon will be held tained by contacting Ted or Shine (609-655-4518) mary- in the Cedar Room immedi- Ray at the golf pro-shop. For [email protected] or Presi- ately following play. If you more information on joining dent Joyce Cassidy (609-619- are unable to play but would the 9-Hole Women’s Golf 3618) [email protected]. like to attend the luncheon, a sign-up sheet will be in the pro-shop. Please mark your calen- dars for our second Annual “Meet & Greet” party to be held on Thursday, May 16, in By Ted Servis, the Cedar Room at 3 p.m. All in April. We still have plenty Rossmoor Golf Professional members are invited and of golf equipment in stock What’s going on at the Golf now if you need to buy a gift encouraged to attend. All Course? Spring is right new female residents will for someone or just want around the corner, and that something for yourself. receive invitations to this so- means it is time to start plan- cial event. The Pro Shop hours for the ning for the 2019 golf sea- month of March are Monday Our membership fee will son. remain $60 for the season. A 11 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Tues- The Pro Shop will start day through Sunday 8 a.m. membership renewal form is receiving new merchandise enclosed in this issue. (Continued on page 20) Please use this and return it with your check to Mary Shine or to the golf pro-shop Ladies’18-Hole Golf League by March 16. Full member- 2019 Membership Form. ship in the Golf Club is not Please return the membership form necessary, although encour- by April 1, 2019 or earlier.

Membership fee: ____ $75.00

Ladies 18-Hole golf Prospective members, please enclose a current league will start USGA handicap card or five Rossmoor scorecards attested by a league member and your check in the season in April above amount. (Maximum handicap – 40) By Arlene McBride Golf is a great sport. La- Name: ______dies leagues are a fun way to Address: ______play golf in a competitive format. Along with this article is Phone: ______a membership form for joining/renewing your member- GHIN #: ______ship in our Ladies 18-hole Email Address: ______league. Think about it and brush Please make checks payable to: up on your swing with some “Rossmoor Ladies’ 18-hole Golf League.” Send lessons by our golf pro staff. check with membership form to: Arlene P. McBride, 352A Hope to see you all out on Old Nassau Road, Monroe Township, NJ 08831, OR place the course soon. Spring is the check with membership form in the Ladies 18-Hole almost here. box in the Pro shop.

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HHEALTHEALTH CCAREARE CCENTERENTER NNEWSEWS YourYour GardenGarden

reach.  Wear boots with rough or By Mel Moss enough growing mix over the  Make sure the handrail is textured soles for traction. Starting from seed seed so they are barely cov- Falls  When you come back into sturdy and use it when Around March is the time ered, water and put the seed By Kaytie Olshefski, the house and take off your BSN, RN-BC going up and down stairs. to begin thinking of what an- tray in a warm (70-75 de- boots, wipe up the melted Falls happen and are cer-  Keep the stairs well lit and nuals to plant this spring. gree) location. If you are ice/snow off the floor tainly not planned. But the free from clutter. Most people will go to their sowing more than one vari- immediately. Tile or risk of falling for older adults  In the kitchen, keep all the favorite local garden center ety, keep them in separate linoleum will be slippery if increases with age and 75% items you usually use around mid-May and get trays because they might not you walk on that wet spot of falls occur within the within easy reach. their plants. But some peo- germinate at the same time. and cause you to fall. home. Studies have shown  If you must use a ple, mostly vegetable grow- Sun is not needed for ger- When you do not exercise, that women are at a greater stepstool, the stepstool ers, start at least some of mination but keep the pots in it leads to poor muscle tone risk than men are. Two-thirds should have a handrail and their plants from seed at their a warm location and moist. that leads to decreased of those who have experi- the step should be wide homes. In most cases, this is To help preserve the mois- strength, loss of flexibility, enced a fall will fall again enough for your foot. because they can’t find their ture, put the trays into a plas- and poor balance, which in within six months. Most falls  Avoid using floor polish or favorite tomato variety at any tic garbage bag or into Zip- turn may cause you to fall. do not result in serious injury, wax on the kitchen floor. If garden center in their area. lock storage bags. In four or Exercising regularly in- but psychologically people you spill anything on the Seed catalogues will carry a five days, start checking for creases muscle and bone might restrict their activities floor, wipe it up much wider selection of seed germination. As soon as it strength and improves bal- because of the fear of falling immediately, so that you varieties and buying seed is happens, get them out of the ance and flexibility. There again. Hip fractures that re- do not slip on the wet shiny the only way to get the de- plastic cover and into a are exercises to improve bal- sult from a fall may have a floor. sired variety. sunny window. ance, increase flexibility, and severe impact on a person’s We are not allowed to At this point, a lot of sun  Wear proper fitting make you stronger. Tai Chi independence and way of grow any vegetable plants will be needed. If all day sun supportive shoes with low and yoga are very good for living. It cannot be stressed here in Rossmoor, but start- is not possible, you might heels or rubber soles. balance. Chair exercises are enough the importance of ing some of the decorative need a grow light. Once Avoid wearing loose fitting another way to exercise. exercising regularly to pre- annuals could be fun. In again, keep the temperature slippers, especially scuffs Let’s not forget, walking is a vent falls and to improve seed catalogues you will find between 65 and 75 degrees. that slip off your feet. great exercise. one’s balance. varieties that you will not find Do not fertilize for at least  Avoid walking around in Besides being savvy and So, how can we decrease in garden centers. I have a the first month because the your socks or stockings, as knowing how to protect your- our chance of falling or even seed catalogue that has, for soil mix will provide all that is you will certainly slide on self from falls, you need to preventing falls from occur- example, over 200 different needed. As the weather smooth floor surfaces. be smart and wise about tak- ring? We need to empower petunia varieties, 80 varieties warms and the temperatures  Keep common pathways in ing good care of yourself. ourselves and be aware of of marigolds, and over 150 outdoors rise a bit, open the the house free from clutter. You are the most important how falls can happen. Here varieties of zinnias. No gar- window a bit to start the  Be especially careful if person in preventing falls are some suggestions to den center can offer a selec- hardening process. Be sure chairs have casters on from occurring. lower your odds of falling by tion like that. If in a seed to close the windows at them. The chair may roll  Have regular checkups keeping your home environ- catalogue, you find a variety night. By the mid to latter back as you go to sit down with your ophthalmologist. ment safe: that you have never seen in part of April, if the seedlings or get up from the chair. Cataracts, glaucoma, and  Watch where you are any garden, why not start the have developed at least two  Don’t rush to answer the other age-related eye stepping. seeds at home? sets of leaves, you can start to phone or answer the door. diseases may decrease To start seeds at home move them outdoors if the  Use good lighting to avoid Falls are more likely to your vision and cause you you will need several items. weather is mild and there is no tripping over objects. Use occur when you are in a to fall. nightlights in your If you don’t have them, you breeze. Bring them in well be- rush and not being careful.  Have annual physical bedroom, hall, and can find them at most local fore dark. In fact, at first they exams with your primary bathroom. garden centers. There are should be out for maybe an Here are tips if walking physician.  Don’t use scatter rugs. specially designed plastic hour or two. Then gradually outside in wintery weather.  Dizziness is a very increase the time outdoors.  Secure carpet edges with seed-starting trays with indi-  If there is a wet patch common side effect from Water the plants only when nonskid tape or tack them vidual cells to put the seeds ahead, be cautious, as it medication. Inform your they need it. Too much water down. may be black ice. in. Some people like to use physician about any side Jiffystrip pots, made of peat is as bad as not watering at  Don’t keep any electrical  If you cannot go around effects you may be moss pressed into a pot all. The soil should not be cords on the floor or run the area, tap your foot on experiencing. shape. Their advantage is constantly soggy. Watering them underneath a rug. the spot to determine if it is  If your walking is unsteady, when you plant your seed- should always be done in the  Have grab bars in the ice or if it is just wet. an assistive device such as lings in the ground, the root morning so the leaves will bathroom by the toilet and  When walking, keep your a cane or walker will help system suffers no damage. dry off before evening. Do in the shower/bathtub that hands out of your pockets to steady your gait and The roots grow right through not permanently keep the are strong enough to hold and allow them to swing as reduce your chance of the pot into the surrounding plants outside until at least your weight. you walk to help keep you falling. soil. the middle of May. Even with  Add nonskid mats or balanced.  Limit your alcohol intake as To plant the seed, fill the global warming, there is still appliqués to the bottom of  When walking on ice, keep it may interact with your pots with the growing mix a chance of frost into and the bathtub. your center of gravity over medications. and place two or three seeds possibly beyond the middle  When coming out of the your front leg. Walk like a Our next seminar in Saint in each cell. Then put just of May. shower, keep all your penguin. Peter’s lecture series will be towels and clothing within by Dr. Dinesh Singal from Cardio Metabolic Institute A Message from High Tech Rossmoor Resident and Director of the Cardiac Catheterization Lab at Saint Landscapes, Inc. Telephone Directory Peter’s University Hospital. He will be speaking on “How CHANGES & DELETIONS ONLY to Prevent and Reduce Heart By Jeff Voss cleaning will also start later  Winter pruning is wrapping this month into April. Please mail or bring this form to the Disease” on Monday, March 11, at 1 p.m. in the Maple up and will be finished by  The first fertilizer Rossmoor Community Association, Inc., end of month. Please tune Village Center, 128 Sussex Way, Monroe Twp., NJ 08831 Room of the Clubhouse. application will begin in to Channel 26 daily for March once spring clean- with any changes or deletions to your more information. name, address or telephone listing. ups are complete. This  Please call the East Gate application will consist of a Information as it now appears: Golf Course phone and leave a granular fertilizer with NAME: ______Highlights message with any crabgrass preventer using questions or concerns, an herbicide that provides ADDRESS: ______(Continued from page 19) 609-655-5134. season long crabgrass to 4:30 p.m., all hours sub-  Spring clean-ups have control. PHONE: ______ject to the weather. If there is started. The first operation  Please note everything is anything we can help you will be cleaning up gumballs. weather depending. Changes for the 2019-20 edition: with or any questions we can Edging of the beds and NAME: ______answer please give us a call at 609-655-3182. Thank you ADDRESS: ______and I wish everyone a healthy and happy 2019 golf 1 PHONE OR 1 CELL: ______season.

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A call to battle … for everyone MMAINTENANCEAINTENANCE DDEPARTMENTEPARTMENT are required in the same on smoke detector facts, locations. contact us at By Dave Salter Co-op (Including Mutual 4) Yellow Stake and Yellow  Larger homes will require www.MTFD3.com or check $45.00 plus tax Ribbon Procedure more smoke detectors. out the following web sites Servicing includes inspec- Many residents enjoy gar-  Smoke detectors are for more information: tion of system, checking dening and take pride in interconnected within www.fire.gov Freon levels and filter re- maintaining their own three- newer construction, www.NFPA.org placement (parts, blue mesh foot bedding areas. If you are allowing all detectors to www.burninstitute.org filter and Freon are not in- one of them, you need to activate when one goes www.sparky.org cluded in price). Note: This mark the bed so the land- off. www.befiresmart.com price is per unit, if you have scaping company (High  Detectors should be tested two units the price is doubled Tech) gets the word. This is once a month, and MONROE TWP. done with yellow stakes at changed when they are FIRE DISTRICT #3 Exterminating By Mike Daley the corners of the bed where If you are experiencing a outdated. AT YOUR SERVICE, they are visible from either In the event of a fire, there  Detectors should be problem with insects inside is NO TIME for mistakes and ANYTIME. direction. Additional stakes or outside of your manor mounted on the ceiling for are needed every six feet or errors. best performance. please call the Maintenance www.mtfd3.com so in between. The stakes Department. The exterminat- EVERY SECOND COUNTS.  The best detector is the mean nothing is to be ing company comes in every one that is mounted 609 – 409 – 2980 touched. Some people only Tuesday. Please keep a You and your family must correctly and is in working want to take care of a special sample so it can be identified stay prepared when fire order. bush or two themselves. If for correct treatment. strikes. Today’s fires burn You can survive a fire in you don’t want a bush almost 10 times faster than your home; detectors that pruned by the landscaper, Dryer Vents the fires experienced years are working and current in- please tie a yellow ribbon or Some dryer vents in Ross- ago, and create almost three crease a resident’s survival two on it where it is very visi- moor are vented into the attic times the energy with mod- potential significantly. Help ble. Yellow stakes and rib- please call our office for an ern high-energy fuel loads us help you. Be sure that all bons (and more detailed in- estimate to vent it to the out- within homes today. In 2018, detectors are working and structions on their use) are side. our state reported 62 fatal operational within your available at no charge in fires. No community is im- home. For more information mune to these facts. An oc- Maintenance and E&R. Alteration Requests cupant’s best chance for sur- If you are doing alterations vival is early warning and League of Women Voters urges all to A/C Servicing to your manor inside or out, rapid escape, which is why Spring will be arriving you need to pick up a work we strongly advocate instal- vote on upcoming school referendum soon. On April 1 we will start request permit from the lation of modern and working taking requests for air condi- Maintenance Department. By Glorious Moore $146.1 million. smoke detectors: tioner servicing. As soon as Please bring the contractor’s On March 12, Monroe The proposal to build is weather permits, we will ser- insurance certificate with  Smoke detectors give early Township residents will again driven by the fact that cur- vice on a first come first you. Contractors working in warning to the presence of be asked to cast their vote on rently enrollment in both serve basis. Our rate will re- Mutual 1, 2 and 3 must have a fire, allowing additional a referendum in which the school buildings exceeds main the same this year. the proper insurance. A list of escape time. Three of school district seeks authoriza- their functional capacity. Ac- Prices are: insurance requirements may every five home fire deaths tion to raise funds via the sale cording to data provided by Condo (except Mutual 4) be picked up in the Mainte- occur in homes without of bonds to finance building a the District, the current mid- $40.00 plus tax nance Department. working smoke detectors. new middle school. In addition, dle school is constructed to  The fatality rate for people the new referendum will in- serve 1100 students. Current in home fires was more clude a second option: also middle school enrollment, than twice as high in expanding the current high however, is 1710. To date, homes without working school. The referendum’s two the “overage” has been han- The Verona Quartet smoke detectors. questions or options will be: dled by repurposing existing  Dead batteries have been (1) build a new middle school space and utilizing 10 leased the cause for more than at a cost of $75.6 million dol- The Monroe Township Cultural Arts Commission trailers. It is expected that by and the Princeton Symphony Orchestra present 25% of all non-working lars; or (2) build a new middle 2021 enrollment will exceed smoke detectors. school and expand the high 2000 leading to the need to a Chamber Music series In collaboration with the  Smoke detectors have an school at a projected cost of (Continued on page 23) average life of Monroe Township Public Library approximately ten years. The Verona Quartet Combination CO/smoke Monday March 18, 1 pm. Monroe Township detectors have an average Library, 4 Municipal Plaza, Monroe Township life of only seven years. If Registration is not required. Free Admission. your detectors are beyond The performance starts at 1 p.m. and lasts this time span, they need to be replaced. approximately 1 hour.  Smoke detectors are Sponsored by the Monroe Township Cultural required within ten feet of Arts Commission, chaired by Maria C. Naumik, all sleeping areas and on with support from Mayor Gerald W. Tamburro every level of the home. and the Township Council and the Monroe Additionally, CO detectors Township Patrons of the Arts, Inc.

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Monroe Township Public Library ROSSMOOR COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION, INC. All events are open to the public. SNOW POLICY AND PROCEDURE www.monroetwplibrary.org POLICY moval staff/contractor on site will make GEN X 1989 Film and read. Light refreshments will When a snow or ice event occurs, it reasonable efforts to clear the road, Discussion be served. Register at the will be the objective of RCAI to make walkway and/or driveway in the area Sunday, March 3 at 1 p.m. Welcome Desk. reasonable efforts to ensure that the 17 where emergency personnel require Join us for a new Sunday Genealogy Club miles of roadways and 43 miles of access prior to or simultaneous with program where we shine a Wednesday, March 6 at sidewalks within Rossmoor are pass- emergency personnel arrival. It is incumbent upon each resident to spotlight on 1989, our anni- 1:30 p.m. Beginner and ex- able for motorists and pedestrians as be attentive to the surroundings and versary year. Join us for a perienced genealogists are soon as possible, in a safe and efficient In those instances where there is no exercise extra care for their safety film about the Soviet-Afghan welcome. Registration is not manner. The safety of Rossmoor resi- notification in advance, upon learning of when walking on exterior surfaces the emergency and/or arrival of emer- War, with a discussion and required. dents is the goal of this policy. during periods of inclement weather. If gency personnel, the snow removal it is absolutely necessary to drive dur- light refreshments to follow. Socrates Café PROCEDURE staff/contractor on site will make rea- ing a snow storm, please drive slowly The film is a drama based on Wednesday, March 6 at 7 When a storm is predicted, all equip- sonable efforts to clear the road, walk- and give snow removal vehicles the a Texas congressman Char- p.m. Socrates Café are gath- ment and supplies will be checked and way and/or driveway in the area where right of way. lie Wilson’s covert dealings erings around the world staff as well as the snow removal con- emergency personnel require access. in Afghanistan, where his where people from different tractor will be informed of the response If residents, their guests or employ- efforts to assist rebels in their backgrounds get together plan. Snow Removal Operations Concerns ees use an entrance other than the war with the Soviets have and exchange thoughtful Snowfall accumulations of up to two Maintenance Office 655-2121 front entrance walk and/or stoop lead- some unforeseen and long- ideas and experiences while inches are handled by pre-salting the Monday–Friday 8:30 a.m. – 12:00 noon ing to the main entrance door to their streets and carport lanes prior to the and 1:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m. reaching effects. Tom Hanks, embracing the central theme manor, it is the resident’s responsibility storm to try and prevent snow/ice from North Gate 655-1868 to remove the snow and treat the sec- Julia Roberts, and Philip of Socratizing; the idea that bonding to the surface. Salting of the After hours/evenings/weekends ondary walk and/or stoop for ice. Seymour Hoffman star. we learn more when we ask streets and carport lanes will continue North Gate personnel may take Rated R, 1h 42m Registra- questions along with others. as needed. Depending on weather messages for supervisory staff on site Snow removal is an arduous and tion is not required. Join us and pose questions, conditions and the forecast, typically, during a winter storm and snow/ice time-consuming task. Please be pa- Coupon Club listen to others, raise chal- no further action will take place. removal operations. tient. It is best for residents to stay in Monday, March 4 at 1:30 lenges and consider other Snowfall accumulations of more Residents are responsible to leave the safety of their manors. Typically, p.m. Clip, swap and trade alternatives. Monroe resident than two inches, typically, require the accurate and pertinent information. bus service and most activities are coupons. Discuss deals, Noreen Gumnic moderates. initiation of the full snow removal opera- cancelled during a snow/ice storm. For tions as follows: Snow Removal Operations Updates/ your safety, residents should not ap- share frugal tips and shop- Register at the Welcome 1. Pre-salting streets and carport lanes Cancellations/Bus Service proach active snow removal equipment. ping experiences. Bring a Desk. to prevent snow from bonding to the Channel 26 pair of scissors and your Current Events Discussion surface. Reasonable efforts will be made to PRIORITIES stash of non-expired cou- Group keep residents informed during a snow The safety of Rossmoor residents is pons. Registration is not re- Saturday, March 9 at 10:30 2. Plowing all main and secondary emergency, but it may not always be our priority. Supervisory RCAI person- quired. a.m. Enjoy a discussion streets (see list of streets under possible. nel are on site during snow removal The Great Courses: about global and domestic “Priorities”) continuously after an accu- operations to lead staff and the outside America’s Founding affairs. Light refreshments mulation of 2” or more or as required by RESIDENTS’ RESPONSIBILITY snow removal contractor to oversee It is imperative and the responsibil- Fathers provided. Register at the RCAI management. procedures and respond to emergen- ity of all residents to know and partici- Welcome Desk. cies. All main and secondary streets Tuesdays, March 5, 12, 3. Once the storm ends, separate pate in the procedure by moving vehi- and entrance gates will be plowed and 19 at 1 p.m. Professor Strange Things: A crews and separate equipment will cles to ensure proper and complete continuously to provide emergency Allen Guelzo, Gettysburg Cryptozoology Conference begin plowing lanes and carports; plow- snow removal from our streets, carport access. Sidewalks to the Club House College, in partnership with Saturday, March 9 at 1 ing perimeter and main sidewalks; lanes, and driveways. Vehicles should and Meeting House are continuously the Smithsonian, presents p.m. Cryptozoology is the plowing driveways and finally shoveling be parked in residents’ assigned car- cleared and the buildings remain open the men who shaped the science of cryptids: creatures of the main, front entrance walks and port spaces or garages. Second vehi- during snow/ice storms for residents U.S. Constitution, in this not discovered by science stoops leading to the main entrance cles or guests’ vehicles may be parked use in case of power outages and/or DVD lecture series. Each and unconfirmed from the doors of the manors. Secondary walks in the lower level of the Clubhouse loss of heat. parking lot. lecture uses one of the Foun- wider community. With a ros- and/or stoops on the sides or backs of Residents with medical conditions manors will not be shoveled or treated that require outside treatments such as, ter ranging from Sasquatch der’s principles and words, with ice melt. NOTE: Snow cannot be removed but not limited to, dialysis or chemother- as a basis to create a picture to zombies, skeptics con- and road salt or ice melt cannot be apy, must register with the Healthcare of the Americans who consider it a pseudoscience due In a typical snowstorm (2 to 6 inches of applied in the area where a vehicle is Center prior to a winter storm emer- tributed in forming the to the general lack of evi- accumulation), it takes approximately left on a street, carport lane, parking gency to guarantee access for these world’s oldest continuously dence for any of these crea- 12 hours once the storm ends to space on a carport lane or in a drive- appointments. operating instrument of gov- tures. Cryptozoology high- complete the full snow removal opera- way. Due to the nature of the size of Regular medical/dental appoint- ernment. lights the divide between the tion. In the event of a major snow event the Community, the miles of roads ments, going to work, grocery shop- March 5: John Jay’s scientific and pseudoscien- (6 inches or more) and/or icing condi- and carport lanes and the number of ping, filling prescriptions, leaving for driveways, the contractor cannot Treaty & John Adams’s Lib- tific methods. Beyond looking tions, it may require more time to com- vacation etc. are not considered priori- plete the full snow removal operation. return and remove the snow or apply ties and staff will not respond to such erty at it as a science, cryptozool- road salt or ice melt where a vehicle requests. March 12: Hector Saint ogy also preserves folklore, 4. Once the full snow removal opera- had been parked during the snow Residents that return to the Commu- John de Crevecoeur’s Ameri- history, and oral traditions. tion is complete, ice melt may be removal efforts. nity during a winter storm or during cans & Timothy Dwight’s Re- As a result, cryptozoology applied to perimeter and main side- storm removal efforts is not considered ligion not only reveals perceptions walks and the front entrances walks IT IS THE RESIDENTS RESPONSI- a priority. Safe access to a resident’s M a r c h 1 9 : J a m e s of the past, but also reveals and stoops leading to the main en- BILITY TO REMOVE SNOW FROM manor may not be possible. It is advis- McHenry’s Army & Thomas much about the present. At trance doors of the manors depending THE AREA WHERE THEIR OR THEIR able to check with the North Gate prior Jefferson’s Frustration this conference, our speak- on accumulations, ice conditions, GUEST’S VEHICLE WAS PARKED to returning to be sure snow removal AND TREAT THE AREA FOR ICE. Each session consists of ers will examine various ground and air temperatures and the efforts have been completed. forecast for the next 24 hours. Reason- two 30-minute DVD, followed cryptids from a number of able efforts will be made to maintain the by a brief discussion and perspectives ranging from perimeter and main sidewalks and the The following 26 main and secondary streets are cleared continu- light refreshments. Registra- popular fiction, cinema, and front entrances walks and stoops lead- traditional academic articles. ously after an accumulation of two or more inches or as required by tion is not required. ing to the main entrance doors of the RCAI management: Book Café Rutgers professor and folk- manors and driveways after each storm Stonaker Road (South Gate to Prospect Plains Road) Wednesday, March 6: Ses- lorist Angus Gillespie mod- and for the days to follow until the con- Gloucester Way Sharon Way Troy Way sion 1 at 11am for existing erates. Registration not re- ditions clear, but it is impossible to be Mayflower Way Sheldon Way Victoria Court group members. Session 2 quired. everywhere all the time. A full ice melt Mt. Vernon Road Spencer Way Waverly Way application takes approximately six at 1pm for new members. Artist’s Reception New Haven Way Springfield Way Windsor Way hours and is not effective in lower tem- Newport Way Sussex Way Yale Way Discuss books that you have Wednesday, March 13 peratures and without sunlight. Secon- (Continued on page 23) Old Nassau Road Sutton Way Yarborough Way dary walks and/or on the sides or backs Providence Way Terry Lane Yardley Way of manors will not be shoveled or Revere Way Thurman Lane treated with ice melt. Rossmoor Drive Tilton Way

TRANSPORTATION TIDBITS 5. Reasonable efforts will be made to The following 51 carport lanes are cleared when the snowfall rotate the snow plowing schedule of ceases: Important phone numbers: driveways and carport lanes each Amherst Lane Mystic Lane Roxbury Lane storm. Rossmoor Bus ...... 609-655-4401 Bradford Lane Nantucket Lane Salem Lane

Hours 10:00 -11:00 a.m. and 2:30 p.m.- 4:00 p.m. Concord Lane Narragansett Lane Sanford Lane Extreme caution should be used if Dorset Lane Nautilus Court Somerset Lane residents must use the walkways Monroe Township Transportation ...... 609-443-0511 Emerson Lane New Bedford Lane Stockton Lane during a storm and during the thaw/ Fairfield Lane Northfield Lane Stowe Lane freeze cycle that typically follows Middlesex County Glenwood Lane Norwich Lane Stratford Lane each storm until all the snow/ice has Area Transportation (MCAT) ...... 1-800-221-3520 Greenfield Lane Onset Lane Sturbridge Lane melted. Each resident should con- Hanover Lane Orrington Lane Sudbury Lane sider having a supply of ice melt or St. Peter’s University Hospital Lowell Lane Oxford Lane Sunset Circle grit for their personal use. Madison Lane Pelham Lane Thorton Lane On Time Transportation ...... 1-800-858-8463 Malden Lane Plymouth Lane Westfield Lane COMMUNICATION Manchester Lane Portland Lane Westport Lane All schedules are available outside the E&R office Fire/Police/First Aid Emergencies Marblehead Lane Prescott Lane Winchester Lane (near the copy machine) or via the Web at rcainj.com and 911 Meeting House Lane Putney Lane Wingate Court Upon notification of a pending fire, following the links Facilities, Clubhouse and Activities, Middlebury Lane Redding Lane Yorkshire Lane police or first aid emergency requiring and Bus Info. Milford Lane Rockport Lane Yorktown Lane emergency personnel, the snow re- Revised by the RCAI Board of Governors, September 2016

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LWV to calculate the tax impact on your property. Classified Advertising (Continued from page 21) The 2018 referendum to lease more trailers. The high fund building the middle school, built to house 1800, school at a projected cost of Miscellaneous/ For Rent now has an enrollment of $68 million was rejected by Transportation Miscellaneous/ 2400. It is expected that the voters in 2018. Clearly, how- AMERICAN CAB & LIMOU- Services CARPORT FOR RENT – Lo- high school may also need to ever, the problem of over- SINE – We’ll take you any- cation is Oxford Lane, Mutual begin to lease trailers for crowding in Monroe’s where. Reservations available. ALTERATIONS/SEWING 4C. Details call Jim at (609) classroom space in the near schools remains. Higher Credit cards accepted. (609) NEEDS – I can come to you. 409-0495. future. In the next 5 to 10 building costs and rising in- 529-6943. Joan (609) 655-4363. years, high school enrollment terest rates are driving up the is projected to reach 3000. In costs of potential solutions. NAT TRANSPORTATION – HAVE SCISSORS, WILL Real Estate a December 2018 letter to The anticipated costs of Monroe resident. All airports, TRAVEL – All hairdressing For Sale parents, Acting Superinten- building a new middle school shipyards, NYC and local. services. Will come to your dent Robert Goodall warned, is now seven million dollars Doctor and hospital visits. home. Licensed hairdresser. GEM OF A RANCH HOUSE. “The current overcrowding is higher than projected in (917) 657-5611. Call Georgianne (732) 985- Beautiful surroundings, large creating an environment of 2018, a costly delay.

8129. enclosed patio, picture window unproductive class sizes in Voter turnout for the 2018 LIMO GUY, INC. – Our 17th view of golf course, bright and core academic courses.” referendum was very low. year. We go to all airports. PET SITTERS (MONROE) – sunny all day, five-minute walk We must question whether Late model Lincoln Towncars. We encourage you to edu- for a day, a week, or up to a to all amenities. Furnished or the results truly reflected the Holds four passengers in total cate yourself about the pro- month. Our home or yours. unfurnished. By owner (609) will of the majority of town- comfort and style. SUV’s now posed projects. Financial True animal lovers. Barb (732) 409-2571. available with approximately data, site plans, and archi- ship residents. Voting is both 735-4243. tectural plans are available a right and a responsibility of $40 additional charge. $75 to CO-OP FOR SALE- 114 Old on the school districts refer- citizenship. On Election Day, Newark, $150 Philadelphia, Nassau Road, Monroe Town- $170 JFK airports. We go al- BRIDGE LESSONS – If you endum website http:// Tuesday, March 12, exercise have never played before or ship, NJ 08831. Call Ross- your right to let your voice be most anywhere 24/7. Call moor Sales office. r e f e r e n d u m . m o n r o e . k are rusty, beginner classes heard. Vote. (732) 452-9222. 12.nj.us. and intermediate (for more The anticipated tax impact The Monroe Township MARVIN’S CAR SERVICE – experienced) will begin in Feb- Help & Health on Township property own- League of Women Voters will Low rates. Airports, piers, ruary. Play the most popular ers for building only the new hold its next general meeting NYC, Philadelphia. Anywhere card game in the world taught Services middle school is $48.81 per on March 25 at 1:30 at the 24/7. Ride in Nstyle for less. by a professional instructor. $100,000 of assessed value; Monroe Township Municipal AT ANGEL TOUCH HOME (908) 812-6299. Groups or individual, in your and $92.76 per $100,000 of Courtroom. Joseph Slomian CARE we provide excellent clubhouse or mine. Please call assessed value if the new from the Monroe Township care for the elderly with li- CALL DOREEN – I’m back! (609) 655-3211. middle school is built and the Public Works Department will My new number is (609) 284- censed, insured and bonded speak about recycling. We thoroughly screened aides. high school expanded. Con- 4308. Thank you. COMPUTER REPAIR - RJF invite you to join us. We are a company that cares sult the referendum website Sales Company LLC. Is your for our patients and makes E X P E R I E N C E D L I M O computer running slow? It may DRIVER – NYC, airports, any- sure they are treated by the need a tune-up. Desktop and where. Former Clearbrook best. 24-hour care (living with Public Library Marjorie Celona in O. Henry laptop repair in your home. resident. Call John (732) 610- resident). Elderly companion- Prize Stories. Register at the Custom built computers. Virus 0703. ship. Call (609) 907-6059. (Continued from page 22) Welcome Desk. removal and protection. Mon- from 10 a.m. to 12 p.m. Re- International Film roe resident with over 20 years EXPERIENCED, CERTIFIED ception for gallery artist Dr. Sponsored by The Friends Home Improvement of computer experience. Free CAREGIVER – Companion, Indrani Choudhury will take of the Library. Thursday, cordless mouse with service. meal prep, laundry, driving. place in the Café. March 14 at 2 p.m. A 2001 & Services (732) 723-9537 or (732) 967- References available. Victoria Short Story Discussion British drama starring Mi- 3400. Please leave message, (609) 902-1136. THE PAINTER – 30+ years Group chael Caine and Helen Mir- all calls returned same day. experience, residential / Wednesday, March 13 at ren will be shown. A group of ANNA’S HOME CARE – Cer- commercial, Rossmoor resident. 11 a.m. Leah Wagner mod- old friends reminisce about tified professional caregiver is Free estimates. References TECH BUDDY – Simple step- erates a discussion about “A their lives over the years af- looking for live-in/live-out job in available. Call (908) 208-4062. by-step help with smart- Family” by Jamel Brinkley in ter the death of one of their Monroe Township. Experi- phones, computers and tab- enced, references. Driver’s Best American Short Stories crew. R, 1h 49m F & G HOME AND GARDEN lets. Large print solutions for license. Accepts long-term and “Counterblast” by There will be no charge for – Closet and garage organiza- low tech problems. Beginner to care insurance. Low prices. International Films in 2019 tion. Maximize your space, find Advanced. Patience and en- Private care option. Call Anna as a 30th Anniversary bonus what you want, park your car thusiasm included. Wireless at (609) 409-1600 or (908) 337 thanks to the generosity of or make room for more stuff. printers, Netflix, Amazon Alexa -7462. the Friends of the Library. Also, spring is just around the setup and training. Have Alexa Registration is not required. corner. Starting to book clean- remind you of your appoint- CAREGIVER – Rossmoor Tech Express ups, stone walls and edgings, ments, read audiobooks, resident. Errands, rides, more Friday, March 15 from 12 planting, mulch. Call (609) 235 more. $5 off setup. Free quote. Reasonable, reliable. Retired to 1 p.m. Drop-in with your -9717. (732) 589-4974. techbuddy- MSW. (609) 642-8514. electronic device to get per-

[email protected] sonalized help from a Librar- LEN’S REMODELING AND CARING ELDER CARE – We CONTRACTING SERVICES will help you with personal ian. Bring your charged and (formerly Len’s Handyman Tax/CPA care, household tasks and registered device and neces- Services). Doing repairs and outdoor errands. Free consul- sary passwords. Registration renovations in Monroe since Services tation. Reasonable rates. is not required. First come, 2003. Full-service home reno- Elizabeth (646) 413-0813. first served. vation company. Our beautiful CONCERNED / PUZZLED by Friday Afternoon Movies FOR ALL YOUR CBD kitchen and bath showroom in the new tax laws? I can ex- Friday, March 15 and 29 NEEDS. Monroe. Local. Call Englishtown displays every- plain. Taxes prepared in the at 2 p.m. Friday, March 15: Joel (845) 553-3757. thing you need under one roof. comfort of your home. Re- In the midst of a marital cri-

All interior renovations – kitch- becca Bergknoff, CPA (732) sis, a High Court judge must ens, bathrooms, flooring, 718-4359. House Cleaning decide if she should order a painting, plumbing, electric life-saving blood transfusion and handyman services. Free MICHAEL STILLER-MBA – INNA’S CLEANING SERVICE for a teen with cancer de- estimates. (732) 851-7555. 41 years of experience. Serv- – 21 years of experience. spite his family’s refusal to

ing senior communities. In- Good work. Call (609) 456- accept medical treatment for MIKE THE HANDYMAN – 8006. religious reasons. R, 1h 46m See my display ad in this edi- home appointments. (732) 718 Friday, March 29: Rachel tion. (732) 780-0468. -9050. Chu is happy to accompany T-K-S HOME IMPROVE- GREGORY TAX SERVICE – Did you know? her longtime boyfriend, Nick, MENTS – Full service contrac- In-home appointments, 30+ You can drop off cans of to his best friend’s wedding in tor. Kitchen, baths, base- years of experience. Fully unused paint every third Sat- Singapore. She’s also sur- ments, painting, tile and more. trained on tax law changes. urday of the month, between prised to learn that Nick’s fam- No job too big or small. Li- Reasonable fees. Concordia 8 and 11:30 a.m. ily is extremely wealthy and cense #13VH05970500. (609) resident. Jim Gregory (732) Just take the cans of leftover he’s considered one of the 259-2574. 236-4498. paint to the Monroe Township country’s most eligible bache- Recycling Center at 76 Gravel lors. Thrust into the spotlight, RELIABLE HANDYMAN Hill-Spotswood Road, where Rachel must now contend with SERVICES – Local resident. Wanted to Buy the staff is most helpful. jealous socialites, quirky rela- No job too small. All labor tives and something far, far BUYING & SELLING GUNS – If the paint has com- guaranteed. Call me to discuss pletely dried in the can, you worse — Nick’s disapproving – no obligation. Reasonable Call for pricing. (609) 558- 9509. Ask for David. Licensed can toss it in the household mother. PG-13, 2h 1m. Movies rates. Call (609) 409-7096 or are free. Registration is not (908) 385-5869. Firearms Dealer. trash bin. (NOT in the recycling bin.) required.

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