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By Cheryl Conway
When 18-year old
Paige Cooper of
West Orange
learned that her good
friend’s white blood cellcount got higher she imme-
diately jumped into action.
The senior at Newark
Academy in Livingston
began a Go Fund Me Pageand started selling orange
wristbands to raise money
for 18-year old Jimmy Tier-
nan of West Orange who
has been fighting leukemiasince he was in the eighth
grade. Funds will be used to
help Tiernan and his family
pay for medical treatments.
As of press time, Team
Jimmy’s Go Fund Me Page
had raised $6,832 by 122
contributors in just 13 days.
Cooper began the online
fundraising campaign onFeb. 25 with a goal of
reaching $25K. For the
wristband sale, she had
started with an order of 200
bracelets that say “TeamJimmy” on one side and
“No one fights alone” on
the other side. That order
grew to 500 more in just
days with $1,500 raised.“I’ve known about his
leukemia since he was diag-
nosed,” says Cooper. “It
was dormant.” Recently,
Community Joins West Orange Student’s Fight Against Leukemiathough, his white blood
cells count got higher and
“things became more offi-
cial for a bone marrow
transplant. “I said I’d do
anything I can for you.”Friends with Tiernan
since middle school,
Cooper says “We’re very,
very close; he’s my best
friend. It’s a tangible way toshow him how much I care
about him. Jimmy has al-
ways been so happy go
lucky. I wanted to make
sure people are supportiveof him. He’s such a good
person.
“He’s always been here
for me as a friend; I wanted
to return the favor.”
In looking ahead,Cooper says she may plan a
Team Jimmy in Relay for
Life in May.
Tiernan, a senior at West
Orange High School, is sograteful for Cooper’s
friendship and all of the
support he has gotten from
contributors so far.
“I’m pretty thankful for
it,” Tiernan says. “I’mpretty thankful the commu-
nity is supporting me and
that I won’t be going
through this alone. It’ll help
with future medical costs,”as he will be required to
visit the doctor two to three
times a week after the trans-plant.
It was on Dec. 31, 2011when Tiernan was diag-
nosed with Chronic
Myeloid Leukemia during aroutine blood test over
Christmas break. “Theythought it was a mistake,”
he says. Since then he has
undergone six bone marrowbiopsies and was put on
medication, which he says
had stopped working. He
was put on another medica-
tion and that also stopped
being effective. Tiernan isscheduled for a bone mar-
row transplant at Hacken-
sack Medical Center at theend of March.
“I was matched with afew donors,” Tiernan says.
“The doctor chose one
today,” he told the West Or-ange News during the tele-
phone interview. He will berequired to undergo five
days of chemotherapy be-
fore the transplant and willnot be allowed to finish his
last year of high school at
WOHS.
“I can’t go to graduation
or prom,” he says. Although
disappointed, he says, “It’llbe worth it.” He is hoping
school work will be sent to
the hospital so he can grad-uate and make plans for col-
lege in the fall.Looking ahead, Tiernan
remains positive and says
“In a perfect world cancerwill be gone completely;
but there’s a slight chanceit’ll come back in the future.
I’m looking at it positively.
I know if it does, I gotthrough it once, I can do it
again.”
To purchase a Team
Jimmy wristband or donate
to the Go Fund Me Page,
contact Cooper through theGo Fund Me page at
https://www.gofundme.com
/fbqvrh38. Wristbands canalso be purchased for $5 at
Mark and Julie’s Ice Cream,476 Pleasant Valley Way,
West Orange.
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By Cheryl Conway
An 11-year old West Orange girl whoplanned on collecting 1,000 books
that feature black girls as the main
character has gone way beyond her goal
and plans to keep on collecting.
Marley Dias, a sixth grader at EdisonMiddle School in West Orange, loves to
read but when she realized that most of the
characters she was reading about were ei-
ther about white boys or dogs, she decided
she needed to do something to change that.Marley with the support and help of her
mother’s foundation-GrassROOTS of
Community Foundation in West Orange-began an initiative she titled, #1000Black-
GirlBooks Campaign.
No matter the genre, readers like to re-late to the characters they read in books.
“For every different race there is going
to be a different type of story told,” Marley
explains. “It’s not going to be the same;
they each have a different problem. We all
need to see ourselves in books.”
Marley took notice this year of the lackof books with black girls as the main char-
acter.
“I wanted more diversity in the books I
was reading,” says Marley who likes to
read everyday. She knew she wanted more“black girl books.” She says, “In school I
wasn’t reading them; they weren’t there at
all. I didn’t see them very often and I didn’t
see them in my class.”
That led Marley to starting her socialmedia campaign in Nov. 2015, with an orig-
inal plan to finish the collection Feb. 1 and
donate the books to an elementary and mid-dle school in Jamaica, West Indies, where
Marley’s mom was raised. When the need
to provide these books to even more com-munities was realized, Marley and her mom
decided to keep collecting.
“We reached our goal and recognized
the need to reach other communities so we
Photo by Andrea Cipriani Mecchi.
West Orange Sixth Grader Turns The PageToward Diverse Reading Through Book Campaign
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extended it,” says Janice Dias, Marley’s
mom. “We don’t see that’ll end; we see it’s
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port the health and well-being of women
and girls, says “There are very few books
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schools.”
Studies and reports conducted during a
two to three year period have shown that
there are “three percent of books that actu-
ally have black people as the main charac-ters,” says Janice.
Since starting her campaign, Marley wasfeatured on the Ellen DeGeneres Show on
Feb. 3. During the show Ellen awarded her
with a check for $10K right on the show.Marley donated the $10K to Grass-
ROOTS Community Foundation and Super
Girls Camp to assist with the movement
and continue her activations.
Since starting her campaign, she has alsobeen featured on The Charlie Rose Show,
CBS This Morning and The Nightly Show
with Larry Wilmore.
The widened publicity has helped Mar-
ley to collect 4,300 books as of press time.
Donations have come from social media,
schools, teachers, parents, friends and pub-
lishing companies. Janice had so far logged
in 700 independent titles.Those books have been donated to the
Henry C. Lea School in Philadelphia; 1,000
books to Speedway Academy in Newark;
and books most recently to St. Cloud Ele-mentary in West Orange, says Janice.
As far as future book drives, Marley
plans on having an annual book drive. No
dates have been confirmed at this time.
In the meantime, all new book donations
can be sent to GrassROOTS CommunityFoundation: 59 Main Street Suite 323 West
Orange, NJ 07052.Marley says she aspires to “be a maga-
zine editor of my own magazine. I like
being the boss.”She offers advice to others who would
like to implement change.
“Don't dwell on things that don't make
you happy,” says Marley. “Always look for-
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books is fun. Read everything! No matter
what age you are you can make a differ-
ence!”
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The West Orange High School DramaDepartment has announced that their
Spring Musical, “Aida,” will debuton March 31.
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On Feb. 11, six exchange students from the Hangzhou
Foreign Language School in China were formallywelcomed to West Orange High School for a one-
week visit accompanied by their teacher and chaperone Liang
Chen.In 2010, the Asia Society and Hanban, the Central Chinese
Education Committee selected the Chinese program of theWest Orange Public Schools as a member of the first cohort
of 20 Confucius Classrooms in the United States. The mission
of the Confucius Classroom is to serve as a Model Program
in Chinese instruction. This year, West Orange has more than
220 students enrolled in classes from level one through Ad-
vanced Placement in Chinese Language and Culture.In addition to the instruction of the language, Asia Society
and Hanban work to facilitate exchange opportunities through
the Partner School Program. This marks the sixth year that
West Orange High School has participated in this programwith a student exchange.
A welcome breakfast was held for visitors and host stu-
dents in the Tarnoff Café. They were greeted by district ad-
ministrators including Assistant Superintendent Dr. Donna
Rando, Assistant Principal Dr. Kimberly Mancarella, Athletic
Director Ron Bligh and World Language/ESL K-12 Depart-
ment Supervisor Mary Quiroz. WOHS Chinese teacher Ya- jing Li was also present, along with Dana Peart, WOHS
WOHS Hosts Visiting Chinese Exchange Students
French instructor.
Mancarella was presented with a silk scroll, a gift fromthe Asia Society and Hanban, decorated with a Chinese char-
acter noting, “good fortune.” Bligh presented the visitors with
gifts on behalf of the school district, including t-shirts, varsity
letters, and pins from the WOHS Athletic Department.The visiting students experienced a day in the life of an
American student as they shadowed their host students at the
high school for the entire day. That weekend, host families
and students participated in various activities that included
attending a basketball game, Valentine’s Day party, ice skat-
ing at Codey Arena, visiting Columbia and Princeton Uni-versities, and enjoying tourist sights in New York City. They
also spent a day visiting Washington, D.C.
During the 2014-2015, school year, 15 WOHS students
visited China during spring break. Besides touring Beijing,Suzhou, Hangzhou and Shanghai, they participated in activ-
ities on the beautiful Hangzhou Foreign Languages School
campus. WOHS students shadowed their host students in
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By Cara Connelly
The month of March has its perks.Daylight savings time means an
extra hour of daylight, spring is near
and the highlight of the month - SaintPatrick’s Day celebrations.
Every year on March 17, the Irish andthe Irish-at-heart across the globe observe
St. Patrick’s Day. What began as a religious
feast day for the patron saint of Ireland has
become an international festival celebrating
Irish culture with parades, dancing, special
foods and a whole lot of green.Saint Patrick’s Day, or the Feast of Saint
Patrick (Lá Fhéile Pádraig) is a cultural and
religious celebration held on March 17
since the early 17th century. It marks thetraditional death date of Saint Patrick (c.AD 385-461), the foremost patron saint of
Ireland. The day commemorates Saint
Patrick and the arrival of Christianity in Ire-
land and celebrates the heritage and culture
of the Irish in general.
Celebrations traditionally involve publicparades, festivals or ceilithe and wearing
green. Christians also attend church serv-
ices and Lenten restrictions on eating anddrinking alcohol are lifted for the day. This
seems to encourage and propagate the hol-
iday’s tradition of alcohol consumption.The Mayo Performing Arts Center is
hosting an event, Celtic Nights: Spirit of Freedom, a local event on Thurs., March
17, at 8 p.m., that combines story and songs
with traditional Irish music and dance. Ac-
cording to Ed Kirchdoerffer, general
manger, the troupe of nearly 15 entertainers
tell the story of Irish independence, honor-ing the struggle of people of fighting to gain
freedom and democracy through dancers,
singers and musicians. Kirchdoerffer prom-
ises a “fun, family show that will be educa-tional and entertaining and there will be noshortage of a Danny Boy sing-a-long.”
Tickets are $39 - $69. Tickets can be
purchased at www.mayoarts.org or call
973-539-8008.
Other community activities included the
Morris County Saint Patrick’s Day Paradein Morristown on March 12. The parade
Saint Patrick’s Day History And Local Celebrations Planned
boasts that it has more bands than the Rose
Bowl Parade. 70,000 spectators enjoy thisfamily friendly event that begins with pre-parade events at the Green at 10:30 a.m.
and the parade itself at noon at the corner
of South Street and James Street.
The Union County Saint Patrick’s Pa-
rade in Elizabeth began with a Mass at St.
Patrick’s Church at 10 a.m. on March 12.Activities for the whole family included a
kid’s zone on Stuyvesant Avenue and the
parade begins at 1 p.m. sharp.Local Irish Pubs, such as The Dublin
Pub, will offer their regular Irish fare
along with a few cultural specials and of
course, live Irish music. However one cel-
ebrate Saint Patrick’s Day with family and
friends, don’t forget to wear green, sing an
Irish tone, enjoy some corned beef andstay safe.
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dents to discuss teen interests such as sports,
study abroad and music. Students of bothschools enjoyed cooking and playing basket-
ball together. They also put on a concert inwhich they sang pop songs for each other.
WOHS students also received lessons on
Chinese folk songs and arts from the school
music and art teachers. On the weekend, each
student went home with a host student to ex-
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Feb. 18. WOHS Chinese language studentsplan to visit the Hangzhou Foreign Lan-
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pregnancy and the first three years of par-
enthood, such as parenting support, child
development education, financial literacy,and health and wellness.
When founded in 2011, the idea was that
no baby should have to go without life’s
basic needs.
Through partnerships with communityorganizations, schools, local governmentand others, Moms Helping Moms has col-
lected and distributed tens of thousands of
diapers, clothing, formula, nursing supplies,
and countless other baby essentials to hun-
dreds of families in New Jersey.President and Founder Bridget Cutler
started the organization “by accident” when
she began collecting excess baby things her
friends no longer needed. Cutler said, “I
had a large network of friends with babies.”
With an assortment of baby productsstored in her garage, Cutler began her or-
ganization. She said, “We’re like a food
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Six months ago Moms Helping Moms
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we would love to be open all the time, but
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Pictured from left, are Kate O'Conner, volunteer; Megan Deaton, secretary of board; and Bridget
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and in the spirit of all things smiles,
Dr. Ira Goldberg and his dental assis-
tant, Beth, are making rounds to multiple
schools in the community spreading thegood word about taking care of teeth.
Armed with a PowerPoint presentation
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does a mouse use for floss?” with the an-
swer being, “string cheese!”
“With sugar, diabetes, and obesity be-
coming rampant childhood problems, it’s
important that children become aware of
the choices around them and be armed with
information,” said Goldberg. “It was excit-ing to hear from a number of students that
they prefer fruit over candy.”
Beth said, “We see a number of mouth
injuries in the office due to sports, so we felt
it was important that both children and theirparents know that mouthguards are impor-
tant. “The children went home today with a
goody-bag that included an information
sheet to help parents know their options
with mouthguards. A boil-and-bite mouth-
guard is inexpensive, but doesn’t provide
proper protection. A properly fitting guardis really imperative.
“We’ve already received a number of
calls from patients inquiring about different
topics on the information sheet. Its excitingto see such interest and involvement from
the parents. As dentists, assistants, hygien-
ists, and administrators in the dental office,
we love it when parents get into Dental
Health Month, too! For this reason, we
made the information sheet available to the
public on our website.” The direct link is
http://www.morriscountydentist.com/pa-tient-education/.
Goldberg owns Morris County Dental
Associates, LLC, located at the Roxbury
Mall above the Bank Of America. He per-
forms general dentistry for the entire fam-
ily, and is extremely well known for his
cosmetic and implants services. To learnmore about the practice, visit his website at
MorrisCountyDentist.com or call the office
at 973-328-1225.
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By Cheryl Conway
H
andbags from Lucy’s Gift in Morris-town carry much more weight than
a wallet, checkbook, lipstick and
other miscellaneous items.With every purchase, customers carry on
their shoulders an effort to help children with
special needs and end violence. The pain of losing her husband five years ago lingers for
owner Marisa Spagnoletti of Morristown,
but six months ago she found a way to chan-
nel her loss by opening a non-profit boutique
to raise money for various charities such atthe P.G. Chambers School in Cedar Knolls.
Spagnoletti opened Lucy’s Gift bou-
tique in Morristown in Oct. 2015 and do-
nates 100 percent of the proceeds to honorher late husband Maurice Spagnoletti, a
prominent New Jersey banker tragicallykilled in June 2011, while working in San
Juan, Puerto Rico.
As the founder of Lucy’s Gift, as well as
the Maurice J. Spagnoletti Foundation
(MJSF), the former Florham Park widow hasmade it her mission to help children in need,
victims of crime and honor those who serve
and protect others.
Named after their 10-year old daughter,
Lucy, Spagnoletti says “Lucy’s Gift is ourgift back to the world. It’s just what I wanted
to do. It has grown beyond my dreams. I
don’t have a website or a Facebook page. I
have emails from people all over the coun-
try,” and plans to open a second boutique in
a “major retail strip mall.”With a background in sales marketing-
brand management, Spagnoletti had worked
as a marketing director for Crowe Horwath
accounting firm in New York for 13 years,
but when her husband was killed, her worldchanged.
Her business “started haphazardly” be-
cause of her husband’s death. It began from
helping a small charity and blossomed into
a non-profit business.
Maurice had been good friends with theirdaughter’s doctor, John Connor. It was
through that friendship that Maurice came to
support the Children of China Pediatric
Foundation (CCPF), a charity Dr. Connor
supports by performing free surgeries for or-phans.
“When my husband was murdered my
daughter was very sick,” explains Spagno-
letti. “The day after he was buried, we met
Dr. Connor in Morristown” to take care of
Lucy who has been faced with health issues.“Upon our return to NJ, Dr. Connor was
there and will always be there for us,” Spag-
noletti says. “I told Dr. Connor I would keep
my husband’s promise” as he labeled thedoctor their ‘hero.’
Instead of taking money for Lucy from
those who sent donations after her tragic
loss, Spagnoletti directed donations be sent
to the CCPF in her husband’s memory.
As donations increased, CCPF opened a
rehabilitation training program for chroni-cally disabled and post-surgical orphans in
his honor – the Maurice Journey of love sup-
port and hope J. Spagnoletti Rehabilitation
Program. After three years, when she got
back on her feet, Spagnoletti supported theseefforts by holding small handbag auctions.
In 2012, “I started doing handbag events;
women in large numbers started buying
handbags,” she says. By 2014, this grew to
a sold out crowd. This led to an annual eventin June, raising tens of thousands of dollars
for charity.
After setting enough money aside, Spag-
noletti decided to open Lucy’s Gift to sell
handbags on a regular basis for charity.
“My idea for selling handbags for charity
has exploded,” says Spagnoletti. “I put theseed money in for the boutique,” in hopes to
get money back to cover her salary and health
insurance. After that, all proceeds will go to-
ward helping others.“I don’t have wealth,” explains Spagno-
letti. “I created a business where all the net
profits will go to the foundation, which go to
our charities.”
Inside her boutique, Spagnoletti decorated
using pink, blue and purple hues. She ex-plains the pink represents children in need;
blue for the victims of crime; and purple forthe purple heart.
Through her foundation, MJSF has ex-
panded its charity to children with specialneeds at P.G. Chambers School in Cedar
Knolls to support children in need; is helping
victims of crime by supporting domestic vi-
olence and sexual assault safe houses such as
SAFE in Hunterdon; and aid charities thatsupport the Federal Bureau of Investigation,
whose agents – and families – “inspire
Marisa with their heroic efforts to protect us
domestically,” as explained in the MJSF mis-
sion statement.
“When you buy something, you want toknow where your money is going,” she ex-
Handbags For Charity Carry Mission To Help Children And End Violence
plains.
Spagnoletti selected P.G. Chambers as acharity recipient after meeting one of the
mothers who sends both of her kids who are
in wheelchairs to the school, which provides
the most comprehensive education and ther-
apy programs for children with disabilities.“We met by chance,” says Spagnoletti
about Annabella Rossi, the mother of the twostudents at P.G. Chambers. “At that moment
she was having a bad day; I was having a bad
day.”Out of the 35 volunteers at MJSF, Rossi
became her eighth volunteer.
“She started coming to my house; we be-
came friends.” Spagnoletti honored Rossi
in 2013 when she presented her with the
Maurice Spagnoletti Foundation CaregiverAward. “Annabella is a role model to me.”
Every year, Spagnoletti presents the care-
giver award to an individual, a teacher,
mother or nurse. In June 2015, she gave the
award to a woman named Tiffany who cre-ated a park for disabled children near the Jets
Training Facility. Tiffany’s daughter also at-
tends the P.G. Chambers School.
Lucy’s Gift specializes in mostly hand-
bags, and jewelry. Featured are 200 handbags
on display varying in color, price and func-tion, from popular name brands like Gucci,
authentic lines, fake leather to unheard labels.
Prices of bags range from $50 to $2,000.“Handbags are my life,” she says. “The
sky is the limit for us; we even carry men’swallets,” and bags for men. “Within two
months, we were able to triple our inventory.”
Customers can also find unique costume
jewelry pieces and accesories, ranging from$18 to $350, as well as distinct unique items
such as a wine tote, her number one seller
found in a Texas boutique.
“I travel the country and find really neat
boutiques,” she says, bringing back those rareitems, such as a little mirror that attaches to
an Iphone, to resell.“When you come to my boutique, every-
thing is sacred,” says Spagnoletti. “Our
dream is to bring luxury to all women. I grewup lower income; I didn’t have money to
spend. I always dreamed I’d be able to pro-
vide fashion to everyone.”
Instead of a bow or ribbon, every bag or
purchase is adorned with a barrette.
To her surprise, Spagnoletti’s mission istaking off. Concert-singer Naomi Miller, who
was singing in Italian on the streets in Mor-
ristown, attended her grand opening; Spag-
noletti has been getting emails of support
from around the country; and she recently ap-peared on the NBC Today Show with Al
Roker.
“After five years, I’m finding peace. My
husband was brutally assassinated. Honoring
him was my life mission. The FBI is still in-
vestigating the case,” she adds.A prominent banker for Doral Financial,
Maurice was shot and killed at the age of 57
by unknown assailants, June 15, 2011, whilesitting in his car in traffic on the highway.
Employed with the company for just oneyear, he had been assigned to work in Puerto
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Rico in Jan. 2011, says Spagnoletti.
“Justice is coming I believe that. The people who killed
my husband will be brought to justice. We seek justice for all.
Hope is something we have and something we have to workfor. Hope with positive action prevails. The men and women
I’ve come to know are beyond extraordinary; they are the real
heroes. ”
Part of Spagnoletti’s mission is to put an end to violence.
“My husband was everything to me,” says Spagnoletti.“You don’t heal from violence. It is prevention, awareness
and treatment that will lead to end violence. In my very small
way I’m going to make an impact. It’s my mission to end vi-
olence and I will. I want my husband’s memory honored.
Nothing brings my husband back; my daughter needed her
father.”
She says, “My husband died a hero.” To honor him, MJSFplans to award a $1,500 Future Hero scholarship to a junior
college student in need from Morris County who aspires a
career in preventing or stopping violence. Eric Mohberg,
whose fiancé was brutally murdered 26 years ago, joined herMJSF board and is helping her create the scholarship.
At last year’s annual Handbag Auction held in June at the
Hanover Manor in East Hanover, $30,000 was raised for the
charities. Participants paid $75 for all “you can eat,” dancing,
raffles, silent auction of handbags and other items, and pre-
sentations by charity organizations.
Through her mission, Spagnoletti has rechanneled her
anger to provide a healthy environment for her daughter. She
explains, “I can only focus on positive so she can grow upand be positive.”
“It’s amazing what could be done for the memory of one
hero. Through all of this I’m really finding peace. I was so
low and so sad, but now I’m back. If I’m working 24 hours a
day, it’s not work, it’s what I love to do. I know I never lethim down. I feel my husband smiling when I can do things
like this. I do my little part in helping them; every year I feel
like I’m doing more.”
On her boutique wall hangs a framed poem titled “Life
Does Not Frighten Me At All.” A girl that Spagnoletti met
one year ago at P.G. Chambers School read her that poem.
“Honestly they teach me more,” she says. Since then, Spag-noletti has adopted a class there and “I go and visit her. Noth-
ing frightens this little girl who has all these issues. I would
sell my life for her.”
Spagnoletti has come up with a program in which com-panies pay people to volunteer.
“Corporations can give not to the foundation, but to the
P.G. Chambers School. For that donation, we will train that
staff. Let’s get people to commit to volunteer work.”
As a way to market and add new revenue source for her
boutique, Spagnoletti recently started Lucy’s Gift Treasure
Chest, in which she provides non-profits, fair priced tricky
tray or auction items. Her idea came about after she gave a
handbag to a church who asked her for a tricky tray donation.Lucy’s Gift is open Tues. and Wed., 11 a.m. to 6 p.m.;
Thurs., Fri. and Sat., 11 a.m. to 7:30 p.m.; and Sun. 11 a.m.
to 4 p.m.
For more information, visit mauricejspagnoletti.com or
email marisa.spagnoletti@gmail.com.
Handbags For Charity...continued from previous page
New Jersey Blood Services, a division of New York
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Volunteers Needed
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Students looking to make a differencewhile enjoying time off from schoolcan take part in what has become
known as an alternative spring break. In-stead of cutting loose on the beach, stu-
dents can pick up a spackle bucket andpatch holes. Rather than hitting the slopes,they can hit some nails to put up sheetrockand improve housing alongside homeown-ers.
Morris Habitat for Humanity has build-ing projects in Morristown, Dover andBudd Lake. Others are beginning to getunder way as well, because this year Mor-ris Habitat is committed to completingnine projects before the end of 2016.Much of the effort at the active work sites
involves indoor work and there are warm-ing stations and hot drinks available. Mor-ris Habitat welcomes all volunteers, butthey’re hoping to encourage help from stu-dents on spring break!
If over 16 years of age, consider help-ing to make someone’s dream of home-ownership a reality. Get a group of friendstogether and make it an even more specialexperience.
There are thousands of families livingin inadequate or substandard housing inMorris County because they can’t affordthe area’s high prices. Morris Habitat isdedicated to building decent, affordable
housing with low-income families. Thosechosen by lottery to own a Habitat Housemust commit to at least 400 hours of “sweat equity” to help build their futurehome. So come on out to a constructionsite and build along with the family andother community members.
These alternative spring breaks allowstudents to serve communities in a mean-ingful way. They can travel, meet newpeople, and feel the satisfaction that comesfrom working to improve communities —
and lives. With or without experience,every volunteer hour brings the homescloser to being completed.
To volunteer, contact Stephanie Sayki,director of Volunteer Services, at 973-891-1934 ext. 103; or go to www.MorrisHabi-tat.org to sign up.
Students learn how to install trim as ahome build winds down for a new MorrisHabitat for Humanity Home.
About Morris Habitat for Humanity:Morris Habitat for Humanity is part of
a global, nonprofit housing organizationoperated on Christian principles by build-ing homes, communities and hope. Morris
Habitat is dedicated to eliminating sub-standard housing locally and worldwidethrough constructing, rehabilitating andpreserving homes; advocating for fair and just housing policies; and providing train-ing and access to resources to help fami-lies improve their living conditions.Habitat for Humanity was founded on theconviction that every man, woman andchild should live in dignity and safety, andthat decent shelter in decent communitiesshould be a matter of conscience and ac-
tion for all. Morris Habitat welcomes vol-unteers and supporters from allbackgrounds and serves people in need of decent housing regardless of race or reli-gion.
Since 1985 Morris Habitat has served400 households though home ownershipopportunities, home preservation, and in-ternational home building programs. Of these 62 home were home repair projects
and 74 new homes were built as well.Morris Habitat has set a goal of 12 housingstarts for 2016, completing 9 homes duringthe year. In addition, proceeds from theReStore, opened May 2007, have funded18 homes and diverted almost 5,100 tonsof useable material out of landfills. Lo-cated at 274 South Salem Street, Ran-dolph. Store hours: Tues. & Thur. 10 - 8p.m., Wed., Fri. & Sat. 10 - 6 p.m.
Students Invited To Spend Spring Break Building Houses
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