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Thanks to a local group of volunteers, more than 700

economically disadvantaged students will be walk-

ing into school next month with new school sup-plies, stylish clothes and more confidence.

The National Council of Jewish Women, Essex CountySection (NCJW/Essex) held its annual Back 2 School

Store (B2SS), Sun., Aug. 2, at B’Nai Shalom in West

Orange. Children in grades kindergarten through fourth

from Newark, East Orange and surrounding areas shopped

from 9:30 a.m. to 4 p.m.As advocates for women, children and families, the

B2SS has been an ideal program of the NCJW since it

began participating in 2009.

“This project fits in so well with our mission,” says

Lisa Blumert, director of communication for the NCJWEssex chapter. “We want them to have a better start; a

healthier start.”

Children who are economically disadvantaged tend to

start off school with a disadvantage if they do not have

Volunteers Help Disadvantaged Children ShopFor Free School Supplies And Clothes

proper supplies and even clothing to succeed.

“There are a lot of disadvantaged children in our back-

yard,” she says.

The B2SS has benefitted nearly 3,000 children and uti-lized more than 2,000 volunteers during the past seven

years. This year, 700 children with the aid of more than

400 volunteers, including one-on-one personal shoppers

were expected.

Hundreds of children from kindergarten through fifth

grade are identified annually by partner agencies andinvited to “shop” cost-free for new school supplies,

clothes, and personal care items in a department-store-

type setting with 4,000 square feet set up just for them.

Throughout the year, local individuals, families, and

businesses donate the brand new clothes and supplies.With financial contributions made, NCJW volunteers also

shop for brand-new clothes and supplies in major retail

stores.

With the assistance of NCJW volunteer “personal

shoppers,” each child is escortedthrough the store to select and try on clothing to create

an entire new outfit including a shirt, pants, sneakers,

socks, underwear, winter jacket, hat and gloves.

Volunteers also act as shoe fitters, staff private fitting

rooms and restock inventory.

In addition to the clothes, children are given a newbackpack which they fill with school supplies and person-

al care items.

The event is not open to the public as children are rec-

ognized by more than 30 local social service agencies as

needing additional financial support.“We partner with about 32 agencies,” says Blumert.

“They identify the children based on need and we sign

them up.”

While the children are shopping with their personal

shopper, parents do not go into the store, she adds. It is thegoal of the program to “empower these children to make

choices and go shopping,” says Blumert.

By shopping without a parent, children “gain confi-

dence and make some choices on what they want to wear

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tion dedicated to supporting pediatric cancerresearch. The fundraiser was hosted by

Garden State Good Cookies, the local chap-

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Sports Academy organized the fantastic

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sale, and Willow Lake Day Camp providedadditional funding.

Since 2010, the Garden State Good

Cookies has raised more than $110,000 tofund research for safer and more effective

treatments for pediatric cancer. In additionto large fundraising events, Garden State

Good Cookies continues to engage children

in baking playgroups, and hosts bake sales

on front lawns, at preschools and at elemen-

tary schools throughout Millburn and Short

Hills.The organization’s instantly recognizable

lawn signs, “Kids Helping Kids” grace the

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sit quietly with their parents. The Sukkot

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of these Jewish holidays. Each costs $10for member household; $30 for non-mem-

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Avariety of programs are being

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planning.

The Lake Hopatcong Foundation received $192,500toward the mortgage and restoration of the Lackawanna

Railroad Station at Landing, purchased by the non-profit

in November, estimating $450,000 would be needed to

pay off the loan and restore the building. About $150,000

was already raised toward that goal, according to DonnaMacalle-Holly, grant coordinator for the foundation.

The station is set to be used for meeting and display

space as well as providing roomier offices for the

Foundation, Board President Martin Kane said at the first

board meeting held there.

“We’re really glad the county had the confidence in usto award the grant this cycle,” Kane said, calling the old

station an “iconic structure.” He said restoration work

will begin by the end of summer. Structural problems with

the station will be addressed first.

In addition, the station is on the Morris Canal

Greenway.

The other grant recipients in Roxbury Township are in

the Ledgewood Historic District.

The King Homestead will receive $95,648 for founda-tion repair and repointing, siding restoration and floor

framing reinforcement. It is an 1881 Queen Anne style

residence constructed for the proprietor of the King Store,

a general store that served early Ledgewood. The store,

the King House and the Silas Riggs Saltbox house (whichwas moved during the construction of the former

Ledgewood Circle) are adjacent in the historic district.

Scott Fullerton of the Roxbury Rotary which has been

working on the buildings in the Ledgewood District for

about 20 years said the grant would be used for the frontporch. The porch is original to the house, he said. About

10 years ago the Rotary structurally supported the porchand replaced some spindles and rails, Fullerton said. He

said the paint on the porch floor is original.

The work on the porch will be done by Douglas Schul,

a painting contractor, at no charge. Matt Oras of the localSherwin-Williams store will donate the paint.

Fullerton said a lot of people from the township, Rotary

Club members and historical society volunteers, will help

with the project.

The Ledgewood Baptist Church, also on Main Street, is

receiving a grant to complete construction documents

relating to the reconstruction of the belfry. That grant is$12,400, according to the county’s press release. The

Gothic Revival church was built in 1917 by the Gallo

Brothers.The borough of Florham Park received a similar grant

in 2014 to prepare documents for reconstruction of the

roof of the Little Red School House, the borough’s sym-

bol. This year, Florham Park received $74,000 toward the

roof replacement, according to Patrick Dolan of the bor-

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one-room schoolhouse in a poor, rural area a far cry from

the Florham Park of today, it would have had a cedarshake roof. A replacement was put on at least 30 years

ago, Dolan said, and it is dry, brittle and cracked.

“We’re worried about leaks,” he said. The building isoperated as a museum by the Historical Society.

“The new roof should last 40 years,” he said, adding,

“there is huge variety of cedar shakes, the grain, how they

are prepared and pre-treated.” The roof will need occa-

sional maintenance, something that was neglected on theold roof, although the borough Department of Public

Works does generally does a good job maintaining the

municipally-owned site.

The historical society maintains its collections and thegarden club does plantings and Christmas decorations,Dolan said.

The schoolhouse is open once a month and on special

occasions.

“Our current mayor considers it his duty to maintain

the school,” Dolan said, noting the borough had to come

up with a 20 percent match.The schoolhouse is on the borough’s flag, police cars

and everything that says “Florham Park.”

“It ties to farming and our simple, rural roots,” Dolansaid. “It wasn’t remuddled, it has grass surrounding it in

an area with little green space.”

On the other side of the county, the Obadiah LaTouretteGrist and Saw Mill in Washington Township received

$52,000 to continue a long-term restoration project.

The mill is on Route 124 in the center of Long Valley’sNational Register Historic District. The money is to com-

plete a preservation plan update and construction docu-

ments. The documents relate to spillway arch repair, sid-

ing and window installation, exterior painting and com-

pletion of the flooring on the second and third floors.The county awarded a total of $3.5 million in grants

this year with others going to such county icons as the

Museum of Early Trades and Crafts in Madison.

Morristown received the most money, $900,087 spreadover 10 different projects, the county’s press releaserevealed. These were: Acorn Hall, Church of the

Assumption, Church of the Redeemer, Loyola Gate

House, Macculloch Hall, Morristown Community

Theater-two grants, Moses Estey House, South Street

Presbyterian Church and Willow Hall.

Other grants went to Denville, Harding, Kinnelon,Mine Hill, Mountain Lakes, Morris Township, Mt. Olive,

Netcong, Parsippany, Rockaway Borough and Wharton.

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The foundation is the brain child of Abby

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Basking Ridge and a resident of LongValley.

“I started the organization last summer,

which is when we received our 501 (c)(3)

nonprofit status,” Bauer said.

The foundation is still growing and mold-ing to the needs of the children residing in

shelters and temporary housing facilities in

Morristown, but the success stories areflooding in of kids who are now provided

with the opportunity to participate with their

peers in recreational sports programs.For Bauer, the start of the long yet

rewarding process of running a nonprofit

organization began while she was volunteer-

ing at Homeless Solutions, a homeless shel-

ter and low income housing program inMorristown.

“I’ve been kind of running a children'sprogram there since I was 12-years-old,”

Bauer said. “Two summers ago I was run-

ning my children’s program at the shelter

and we were making s’mores and playing

kickball with the kids at the shelter and this

10-year-old boy named Giovanniapproached me with his baseball glove and

asked if we could have a catch and so I said

sure. We threw the ball back and forth a few

times and I realized that he had a really great

arm and he could toss really well so I askedhim if he played on a little league team and

he said he wished he could.”

Later in the day, Giovanni’s mom

explained to Bauer that families at the shel-

ter couldn't afford to put their children onrecreational sports teams because they need-

ed to save money for rent and living expens-

es when they left the shelter.

“That kind of just resonated with me and

it really bothered me that he didn't have the

same opportunity to play sports that I hadand so many other children have, so I really

wanted to help kids like Giovanni to have

this opportunity which is why I started the

Local Teen Helps Kids Join Sports Teams, Asks Businesses To Contribute

Teams For Kids Foundation,” Bauer said.Bauer and the foundation distributed

their first grant of $2,500 to Homeless

Solutions in March. Teams For Kids then

gives the money to Homeless Solutions and

they allocate it to the needs of the familiesliving in the shelter.

“We have had some success stories so

far,” Bauer said. “I know for a fact that cur-

rently there are four kids signed up to play

sports who have utilized the funds for equip-ment and for team registration and things

like that, so the funds are constantly being

used.”

Included in the updates that Bauer

received from Homeless Solutions were sto-ries of a boy who was able to join a track

team and placed fifth at a meet, a boy who is

not only signed up for football in the fall but

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who already has his equipment ready and, according to

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was able to join her school’s track team because she was

able to purchase the required running shoes.

While the foundation is still in its early stages, there are alot of fundraisers happening right now, as well as planned

initiatives to happen in the near future.

Currently, there are two initiatives that the foundation is

running. The first one, Teaming up for Kids, uses donated

money to created ‘Team Up Kits.’ Inside of the kits isfundraising material and through a partnership with the

Morristown Recreational Department, they are being dis-

tributed to children on these teams who can raise money and

spread awareness.

The other initiative is called the Teams For Kids 2015

Corporate Challenge. Bauer and the foundations are asking

New Jersey businesses and corporations to get involved withthe Teams For Kids Foundation. The process is simple: an

employee registers the business online and picks a date

before Labor Day where all employees dress down or wear

their favorite sports jersey and donate five dollars to TeamsFor Kids. The money can be sent via mail to Teams For Kids

Foundation, Inc. at PO Box 33, Schooleys Mountain, NJ,

07870-0033, or submitted online. Participants can also take

a group photo of their "corporate team" and send it to Teams

For Kids Foundation so that they can share it on their

Facebook page, website, and blog.

Two future fundraising events include an in-store event in

September at Alex and Ani in Princeton where from 6 p.m.

to 8 p.m., 15 percent of all proceeds are being donated to the

foundation; and an event in October where the foundation ispartnering with Morris United Soccer. There will be a Teams

For Kids day with various activities for kids and many dif-

ferent ways to raise money for children in the community.

According to Bauer, it’s going to be hard to find a balance

between her senior year of high school and being the back-bone of this foundation but she’s willing to give it her all.

“It’s easy in the summer because I have a lot of free time

so it’s kind of my priority, but I know that during the school

year I’m going to have to find a way to balance it,” Bauer

said. “Even if it’s just kind of allocating an hour a night to

take care of emails or donations or things that need to get

done for the foundation. But I’m probably going to prioritizeschool.”

For Bauer, this foundation has turned out to be more than

she thought it would.

“It’s definitely much bigger than I imagined,” Bauer said.“It’s a huge part of my life and I’m just really proud of

everything we’ve accomplished.”

To register a business for Teams For Kids 2015 Corporate

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For the past two years the festival had

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This environmental festival is a

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cultural and natural resources.

“We continue to grow in size and

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Highlands Festival at Waterloo,” said

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coalition. “This festival aims to raise

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about how important our natural

resources are and in particular, to show-

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region.”

This rain-or-shine event is open topeople of all ages and features a range of

activities, including musical performanc-

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guided nature hikes. A full schedule of

events will be released soon. New also

this year is the ability to camp at

Waterloo during the festival.

Festivalgoers that wish to camp are high-ly encouraged to reserve in advance

online, due to the limited amount of

spaces available.

The Highlands Festival celebrates

Waterloo Village’s past glory as a

renowned musical performance venue,

enriched by its historic nature and the

wealth of musical talent in NJ and sur-

rounding areas. In keeping with the local-

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ed to perform in the festival: Atlanta

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The Coalition is thrilled to bring moremusic back to Waterloo and to continue

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Tickets are now available online.

Tickets purchased in advance are $15 for

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The NJ Highlands Coalition hosts the

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As a nonprofit organization in Boonton,

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The coalition serves 88 municipalities in

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